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In the city of Kaoru, on the Bank, on demand ... 1/11 3/16 Grand Canal, north of Yangchow, | Bank, 30 days' sight there lived a Mrs. Wang, the wife Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 of a tanner who had a brother, a Credita. 4 months' bonze in a Buddhist temple, not far from her home. This brother, though he had retired from the dusty world, occasionally paid his On Paris sister a visit. On one occasion he On demand was accompanied by a brother Credits, .4 honze, whose clerical name was sight "Gold Youth." This priest (ap-

On Berlin- cording to the Chinese Press) no On demand sooner saw his friend's sister than On New York- he fell violently in love with her, On demand but, as she had a husband, there Credits, 60 days' sight 481⁄2 was no prospect of the romance On Bombay- coming to fruition. As is well-Wire known. the female is the deadlier On demand

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The unsuspecting husband agreed and the wife set out to seek her

fortune in this city. had made secret arrangements with the priest and he, dressed like a layman, accompanied her. They reated part of a house in Nammatou and Hved happily as husband and wife. Unfortunately, the weather being uncomfortably hot, the quondam priest shaved bis head on which, like Samsun's the hair had begun to sprout again. The landlord of the house saw the marks of the priest's initiation, which had been burned into his skull, and, taking the couple for dissolute persons, or- dered them to leave his house. The priest contended that they paid the rent regularly and it was none of the landlord's business whether he were lay or cleric.

A policeman was called and was on the point of taking them off to the station when the wo- The following are the resulta man's brother, the other priest. (supplied by Mr. J. E. Anderson, turned up.

As he was prepared local acting secretary) of the. to vouch that all was right, in Theory Examination held at the spite of the tell-tale brand on her University of Hong Kong on May psendo-husband's head, the quar-25, 1929.

rol was patched up, but there is. likely to be a sequel to the story when the real husband learns of his wife's perfidy.

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"Fantasia on 17th Century Music"

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The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. "Caprice Viennois" (Kreisler), "Gipsy Airs" (Sarasate),

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KENT'S OLDEST MAN MEMORIES OF LONDON NINETY YEARS AGO

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Mr. John Edward Taylor, Kant's oldest man, has died in Farn- borough Hospital at the age of 105. Will Bay & His Orchestra. United States at the beginning of He had lived under five sovereigns. 1928 amounted to $874,526,000. His home was at Hillside, Green according to the industrial depart-Street Green, near Farnborough.

of the Canadian National

Comedy Sketch by

"The Two Imps", "Dancer of Seville",

Sir Dan Godfrey and the ment

Bournemouh Municipal

Railways.

Orchestra.

"Serenade Melancoliqua",

Violin Solo....Naoum Blinder "My Mother's Eyes", "Long Ago", Organ Solo,

Quentin M. MacLean "Toreador Et Andalouse", "Milenka, Serenade",

Jean Lefsen & His Orchestra. "Melody in F" "The Royal Pageart",

Xylophone Duet

His wife died about eighteen months ago soon after her 103rd birthday. They were the oldest Roads in Jasper Park, Alberta. married couple in England and had. are paved with Athabaska tarbean married sixty-eight years. sanda, taken from the banks of the Athabaska river near

Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Minaki Lodge is a summer resort in northern Ontario, situated on a Farious Barnardo Musical wide arm of the Winnipeg river. It

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word, "On the Beach at Bangaloo".

bing "beautiful country," "Sing Ho For the Days of Drink- Mount Edith Cavell, 11,033 feet

ing

Norman Long high, Jasper Park, Alberta, was "Moment Musical" (Schubert), "Serenade" (Moszkowski),

formerly known as Mount Geikie

J. H. Squire Celeste Octat.ut was renamed after the war in "Cavalleria Rusticana, Prelude, honour of Nurse Edith Cavell who

Circolo Mandolimistico Giuseppa died succouring soldiers. "The Na Moen",

Verdi of Leghorn. *

Diet: Gene Gerrard. Dolores

Farris & Chorus

10.30 pm-Close Down

Mr. Taylor was a carpenter and worked twelve hours a day until he was over seventy. He helped tu crect the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. He recalled a day' when the old Duke of Wellington, riding away from Apsley House, shook hands with the workmen, of whom he was one.

He remembered London when it was lighted with smoky oil lamps, when the police wore top hats, and white "ducks," and when the night watchmen cried out the hours and the weather, and also remembered seeing men in the stocks at Cam- berwell.

With the erection of the new

His recipe for long life was hard. Canadian National Railways termin- work, exercise, tresh air and a con- al in Montreal, that city will have tented mind, and he always enjoy- one of the largest terminals on the ed a smoke and a stimulant.

Caught in a conveying machine continent. at Shipton-on-Cherwell cement

works, George Betterby, an 1928 was the largest year in the engineer's fitter, was fatally in- fishing industry of British Columbia jured

excerting the years 1918 and 1926.

The Royal Marices, at Plymouth celebrated the annivensary of the capture of Gibraltar in 1704 by Sir George Rooke.

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