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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.

UNNAMED CHURCH.

Consecration After 60 Years.

It has just been discovered that the, little church at Mudeford in Christchurch parish (Hants), which for sixty years has been used solely for fishermen's services and 1 known locally as "the church with out a name," has never been con- secrated.

The Bishop of Winchester has therefore arranged to consecrats the church and It will be dedicated to All Saints.

of his

LORD BYRON.

Poet Who Might Have Been A King,

When Newstead Abbey, the early home of Lord Byron, the poet, was handed over

Nottingham

to the

THE FUTURE SHIPBUILDER.

Examining

Other

People's Methods.

into

THE

CHINA-MAIL.

PU YI'S BOGUS GOVERNMENT.

Repudiated By Nationalists.

SEDITIOUS INSTITUTION,

SCOTS GUARDS CHEERED.

End of 22 Miles Economy March.

REPEATED CHARGES.

Savage Bull Breaks Farmer's

Back.

When Stephon Barnwell, a 35- year-old farmer, of. Bedford, was

BOY "RAFFLES” USES REFORMATORY.

Nightly Burglaries.

Newcastle, October 7.

It has been discovered that, with the other boys of thẳ

the night at seven pim to rise ...... later, climb a 15ft. pipe to the ground, and set about his nefali- ous work. In the early morning he returned to the senou with his booty, and was ready to an- swer the roll-call.

He was found to be expipped with rubber-soled shoes, and in a prominent position insida his jacket was sewn i lubel hearing a false name.

The Homo Secreincy, bak

I am not thinking of his doni, for he contracted malaria la Sanisation and selling that have befriendly Powers and the National the battalion reached the barracks. patient the Bedford Hospital had ordered his removal to anotlict

a thing, and try to reveal to us by

institution..

UNLUCKY HOUSES.

A number of house and shop found by his twin brother and part-breaking offorces here have been The 2nd Battalion the Scots ner in a field three hours after traced to a boy,. "Raffles" with Corporation it was very fitting that Owing to recent events we are no

Guards were cheered by crowds out having his back broken by a bull, headquarters in a Northur bert M. Venizelos, the famous Greek, longer inclined to hold so rigidly to

Nanking, To-day.

side the Victoria Barracks when he gave a description of what hap land reformatory school. statesnian, should be present, for our old beliefs, and in all spheres

the greatest

Government in a statement to they arrived at Windsor on October pened. friend of He we have come to recognise Byron was

"The bull, he charged and charg which Greece had in the old days that much that wo considered de-the League states, "It is reported 6 at the end of their economy march |

the recent disturbances from Aldershot, undertaken to ed, and I could do nothing," Barn-school, he regularly retired för when Turkey misgoverned that initely settled and agreed is liable that

in Tientsin were created by save the expense of their railway well told his brother, "He threw wountry,

to be and in some cases has already

use of the fares.

me twenty or thirty yards along It was largely through his in-been-overthrown, even to the point rioters who made

Japanese Concession as a base for They finished the march shortly the ground. fluence that the Greeks were able to of principle,

"I tried to get up, but could not. Byron' secure their independence.

We must now, for many reasone, their preparations, and it is de-ufter 4.30 in the afternoon, looking

posed that the Emperor Pu Yi, of exceedingly fit, after 22 miles on o put his two legs in my JOHN GALSWORTHY AND HIS obtained money and munitions for look to the future in engineering the former Manchu dynasty, was the road. Lt. Col. E. C. Warner was stomach, and charged me repeated

POINT OF VIEW.

the Greek patriots, and was ap and shipbuilding. The entry

į kidnapped, escorted from the in command of the battalion, which ly. I have been trying to get a poluted their Commander-in-Chief. the Industry of competition on a

piece of paper and pencil from my He is a philosopher and a poet, He was even offered the crown of much larger scale than ever before Japanese Concession by Japanese was nearly 600 strong.

When they left Aldershot at nine pocket to tell you what happened. for the establishment of a bogus сливе us ta examine the a mystic poet, yet the most precise Greece when' the country should must

methods and ideas of our competi-government with himself as Emo'clock a heavy fog hung over the Do get rid of that bull." and systematir of realists. I write have gained its freedom.

At the inquest u yerdict of neet- The National Government country, but lifted as they went on. peror. tors. Previous customs, which have this last word without any idea of

Barn- already has declared through the The day was really an ideal one for dental death was returned. Unfortunately, Byron became a

led us to policies in production, or

League that the Governments of marching, and the rain held off until well was described as the bravest Inbelling him a belonging to

martyr to the cause of Greck free- school.

come conventions, must be re-

Battalion's "Pienic." ·

ever had. munner, but of the object

the swamps of the country and died examined if we are to emerge from Government and the people will art, determined by his own point of at the early age of 35.

not recognise any institution es Two short.halts were made in ad- our present chaos with our status

the five-minutes halt TRUTH ABOUT MUMMY WHEAT. vlew. It is that of all great artists

The Greeks had long been strug animpaired as an engineering and tablished in such fashion in Chin-dition to

ese territory. In the event of the every hour, and the battalion "pic- possessed by the desire to seize and

gling to throw off the galling shipbuilding nation. express complete reality, not only Turkish yoke when Byron was ask- In this heart searching, the ques government being confirmed, the Wood.

establishment of Pu Y's bogus nicked" for luncheon in Swinley A story comes from Canada that that which urdinary eyes perceive, ed to help, and he decided to assist, tion of educating our

a grain of wheat buried with King "Haunted houses may be future en- National Government will regard It speaks well for the physique of Tutankhamen in 1968 B.C. has found in most towns in the East, but the deeper.spiritual reality, the mystery of which haunts them, the not only with money and munitions, gincera and shipbuilders who will it as a sedifious institution and as

the battalion that not a single man grown into a plant on an Alberta, and even more common aro posts in years to power or the idea they divine be but to go to the country and him, hold, executive

come must not be neglected. It has an auxiliary of the Japanese Gov- fell out during the journey. They farm.

those regarded as unlucky. In ernment and all the actions of worc field service uniforms and Of course, such a thing is im- this category is one described bi neath the appearance of a being or sell fight for the Greeks.

from Leghorn with generally been considered in Great such a government will be repudi-carried their complete kit which possible. Scientists, after ex-n Bangkok paper,

on the and knowledge of engineers should and the entire responsibility for ably cheerful, and sang on the way wheat even 17 years old will not island of Cephalonia, where he be segregated In a watertight com- such actions laid upon the should-The pipers and drum and life bands germinate, and indeed 12 years work. Although inspired by a faith found the Grecks quarrelling among partment from those of the shipers of the Japanese Government." also enlivened the march at in the very mit during which

themselves and their affairs in a builder. Abroad, the tendency is -Reuter.

wheat seed keeps its life. and instinct with love and pity, it

rather to give a certain amount-

It is believed that this is the frat "All stories has all the calm, all the precise great muddle.

of mummy wheat "I was a fool," he wrote, "tó come and often a great deal of engineer-

time a Guards battalion has march-extracted from the tombs of Egypt, and deliberate serenity, of pure ob

here I must seeing training and later, in his life,

ed from Aldershot to Windsor since and supposed to be some thousands servation. No great English novel. here; but being

engineering responsibility to

the introduction of the railways. let of our times has shown an little what is to be done."

|of years old,' having grown, are From Cephalonia he went to Mis-shipbuilder and vice versa.

Before the battalion left Alder-utterly false," says Professor Hen- of himself in his books. We find

It may be argued that industry

Rugby, Yesterday. akin to Dickens' solonghi, and took into his pay at in them nothing

Figures issued by the Ministry of shot the colonel read a message from alow, the distinguished botanist. in a fearful' row and the lady who were to tends, to become more apecialised,

The so-called mummy wheat is outbursts of high spirits or emotion, body of .500 Grecks

fight for their country. They and that concentration upon one Labour to-night show a further de- the colonel of the regiment, Field-

wheat which has to George Eliot's discursive sermon.

than ever essential cline in the number of unemployed Marshal Lord Methuen, in which he always modern ising, to Meredith's fantasies, or to became mutinous, however; 150 out phase is more

This has its of over 20.000 since the previous expressed his warm appreciation of been rubbed in the Nile mud by the be officers, for complete success.

the battalion's patriotic offer.

Arabs to give it an ancient ap the lyric ardour, the sudden tension of the 500 wanted to

when Byron was laid essence of truth and the majority week-British Wireless Service.

pearance. It is then imposed on of energy, the lightning flashes of

bed A

be called of sickness of engineers will never

Mr. William H. Covert, K.Ç.. of tourista ris pretended dic Kipling. Nothing but a series of

had upon to have any complete know- to-day, whilst the naval architect

reasonable Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been apcovery in tombs. quiet little touches by an unerring through the privations he

suffered for the cause of Greece, ledge of shipbuilding, nor will naval should understand

of Louch, each

the pointed Lieutenant Governor amazingly expressive,

"patriots" broke

work of these

into his architects require to be well-trained amount

Nova Scotia, in succession to Mr. complementary to all the others.

chamber, brandishing their arms engineers. But in our education of engineer. helping to suggest the relation of a

the engineer and shipbuilder it The rapid development of propell- Frank Stanfield, who died recently, certain face, certain bodily habits, furiously, and demanded money.

"The courage with which the would, perhaps, be advisable to going machinery has rendered this says Reuter. a certain physiology. to certain rhythms of will, thought and feel-poet awed the men was truly sub- a little more deeply into the un- inter-working still more necessary, lime." said! an eyewitness. He specialised subjects, so that the and those who are responsible for future the syllabuses in engineering and quelled the mutiny, but his health average engineer of the got worse, and when he was urged should know more of the practice shipbuildig training colleges should

than he does give the matter consideration. to leave Greece he said, "No, I will of shipbuilding

as long as the stick by the cause cause exists."

Be salied

01 warfare, and landed

ance,...

Hence the general tone of his

their interpretation of that appear gunpowder and other implementa Britain that the functions, interestsated by the National Government weighs 581b-but they were remark-[haustive tests,

ing. When this degree of realisu- tlon. Is reached intuitive imagina tion can dispense with the plot of the novel. The creator of the Forsytes can use the painter's pri- villege and restrlet himself to the study of a figure.

As long as it is significant and Individual....a long as vitality is suggested alike in the colour of the eyes, the lustre er eclipse of the look, the pallor or flush of the com-

and

low

on

Soon afterwards the fever killed him, but the Inspiration of his help did much to enable the Greeks ultimately to win their freedom.

plexion, the energy, languor or se- OVER £10,000 FROM A WHALE.

renity of the expression, the indo- lence or the decision of the atti- tude, the artist is certain to interest us, especially when beneath these individual characteristics, a specific element is revealed, the mark of a particular culture, the parti pris of particular civilisation. Mr. Galsworthy- has written books which are not more collections of claborate portraits, but which tell

a

Fortune has come to three men discovery of a 70ft. through the whale dead on the shore near Dusky Sound, South Island. They carried away nearly a quarter of a ton of ambergris, the grey substance form- ed in the spermaceti whale which is used in the manufacture of per- fumery.

us all there is to know about con- This is understood

to be worth

temporary English types.-Andre over £10,000 and is probably one of Chevrillon, in "Three Studies in the largest finds of ambergris ever English Literature.”

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have found that

HAPPY ISLANDERS!

First the tenant, a clerk em-

ployed in a local firm who ap

is

peared to be of regular and in-

the

dustrious habits to judge from

·

the

The Isle of Man is not

to escape the icy A shopkeeper at Leicester wit-only island nessed a motor-car skid, mount the blast of Mr. Snowden's call for pavement, and kill his 8-year-old sacrifices.

Mr. Hubert Banner, the novel- daughter.

ist and authority on Maleya, who has just returned from that island, gives the tantalising information that there is no in- come tax there.

in delicacy of flavour and cool smoking

qualities

hree

CIGARETTES

Castles

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the hours, he spent over his gar den, embezzled certain funds and with his wife left for parts un- known. Next came a couple, ap- perently not long married, but there was a "triangle" resulting

skippeit with one not her hus band. The house being, as the home house agenta would say, an "eligible" one, was soon let again and a baby was born thera But about three months ago.

ono

day it passed out. The parents of the child prompt- ly departed and the premises are now vacant,

LONDON'S TOWN CLERK.

The Corporation of the City of for another London has extended year the period of service as Town Clerk of Sir James Bell, who, is above the retiring age.

Sir William Thomas said Sír James, had been a brilliant-kuccess

The only time such a tax page Town Clerk, and had earned the imposed was for one year in the respect and affection of everyone. most critical period of the War. The Lord Mayor also paid a high

He regards this as a tribute to compliment to Sir James, able British administration, for he says that in the neighbouring Dutch East Indies income tax has been levied for years past.

Mr. Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchuquer) informed Major G Davies (C, Yeovil) that pensions We can't all be Banners, un- were payahlo by statute to Earl fortunately and skip away to Nelson and Lord Seaton, Lord Nel Malaya or Java or some such | son, had already made a voluntáry equally delectable unharried contribution of £500 to the Ex places to escape from our weari- | chequer and proposed to make a some taxpaying pre-occupations. similar contribution next year. Lord -Newcastle (England) Sunday Seaton had suggested that his pên- Sun.

slon should be abated by 10 per cont. for the time being in view of the Abolition of military aircraft was present crisis. His Majesty's Góv. proposed by Viscount Cecil in aernment had gratefully accepted. speech at Rome,

theso contributions.

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