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2,000 AWAIT "GIFTS" OF FREEDOM

Nearly 2,000 husbands and wives are waiting results of di- vorce petitions.

Owing to protracted hearings in which points arising out of the argued, little inroad has been

Dew divorce laws have been

made into the defended list.

These men

are engineers and they are looking, at a scale model of a 11kw. switchboard,"hoping to get a clue to the recent black-out in the Thames Valley around Kingston.

A public inquiry was opened at Kingston

and it was stated that the Home Office were “espe- cially interested" in the matter. In- terested parties were represented by counsel.

The black-out affected the whole area between-Walton and Rich- mond, and it was two days before the service was fully restored. Widespread dislocation of public services was caused. Hospitals car- ried on with emergency lighting- Shopkeepers did business by can- dlelight.

Mr. A. W. Forsdike, Kingston's Town Clerk, said the breakdown was caused by a workman earthing It a piece of live apparatus must not be assumed that the man was doing "anything other than working in the ordinary course of his work.".

The inquiry has been adjourned to a date not fixed.

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"METHODIST BISHOP” DEAD

The Rev. Charles Ensor Walters, general secretary of the London Methodist Mission for twenty-five years, and ex-president of the Me thodist Conference, died at his home at Wandsworth on the eve of his sixty-sixth birthday. He has been. described as "The Methodist, Bis- hop," and was responsible for church extension in London involv- ing £1,000,000,

QUEEN-MOTHER

SERVES POOR

Bel-

The Queen-Mother of the gians visited soup kitchens in- Brussels: (provided by the. Red Cross) und herself served soup to. the poor people.

COAL FROM THE KING

SAVED 66,000

Lifeboatmen have up to date rescued 66,000 persons from sex-: graves. The 66,000th 'was `res-· cued by the Stromness – 107k- neys) motor-lifeboat when it put out to the Grimsby trawler Rino: vin and helped save her crew of nineteen. The last thousand was put up in just over twenty-one months an average of forty- seven a month,

Great work.

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Way, down East A turban. wound around his head, teeth flashing through jet black beard, a sample of his stock held up for inspection, and the rest of his wares slung over his should ors--this Indian is *a typical Oriental carpet-seller. But, the East is the East End of London- in Petticout-Inno.

́SHIP NAMED WITH-BEER

British beer was used for the first time to name a ship at Green- ock, Clyde, at the launching of the 500-ton coastal tanker Aptity. The brow was Royal Ale, made by the Duke or Windsor (then, Prince of Wales) in 1982.

Warm Christmas greetings from, the King-were received by all poor folk over the age of sixty in Windsor, A. hundredweight of" coal was delivered at each home. and the recipients', gladly signed on the dotted line.