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BRITISH EMPIRE CAMPAIGN AGAINST DIRE MALADY.

FORMER POPULAR ACTRESS ELECTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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GIFT OF £1,250,000 TO UNIVERSITY- COLLEGE.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

LONDON, Jane vthi ROYALTY AT UNIVERSITY COLLKOR.

This the King

visited

University Collen and Queen vision to the Sterical School, which has been erected as a result of the munificent gift to the institution by the Trustees of the Hockefeller Foundation. A few years ago

authorities, sat it is said-and the state

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cleverand facinating, and I am told that those | THE who helped her in the contest ab Berwick are confident that she will prove to be ani. acquisition in the House of Commons, TROOPING THE COLatin.

"Gold lace has a charm for the fair" The assertion of the Duke of Dunstable, of Patience" fame, is still trua in these

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hend of the Guards on the conclusion of the ceremony and let them off the Horse Guards Parade, and through the Mall.. person. One of the features of the occprion, so far as the spectators was concerned, was the very large number of Americans present, Some of them have been writing in the London papers stating that they have never HONGKONG CIGAR STORE, LTD PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE

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in the course of which he give excellent acount of the circumstances un- der which the grant was made to University College

.. It seems that the chief reason why this metient school was selected by the Rockefeller Trustees was becauses the Authorities there are trying to modernise medical education on the lines which have met with so much approval in the United States. The aim is to build

great teaching centre with whole-tine professors, Fin which the branches of medical science are co-related as parts of a whole. Ince the ordinary way, the the hands of Cialis in hospitals is in ironical commentary, surely, on the

who are not paid bub, look to their students to send them patients requiring specialist treatment in the future. At University College the specialists are not in private practice, and this met the views of the Trustees, as, also, the fact that in the famous schools in Gower Street there is a great hospital next door to the class-rooms, a fact that does not exist anywhere else in London..

seen anything so picturesque and splenilid as trooping the colour.

OUR LOKE BUMMER.

الله

A CASUAL VISIT.

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I am writing this article in the second week in June, with a bright fire burning a few feet away to keep the room warm, an 4 Flam- ing June" of the poeta. Sammer has so far failed to arrive. The sun has only been seen for a few hours at intervals weeks and weeks. Never within memory has there been such a cold and cheerless Spring May was a

east winds and senson of night frosts,

of frost were registered at the the so-called " Merry Month." of Summer garb, everyone

Instead is wearing winter-overcoats; and I am sorry for those who have come home from warm climates-from Hongkong, for instance--be- cause they feel the change acutely as they walk about under gray skies, and meet the icy Lists, straight from the North Pole, round the corners.

FORECASTING THE WESTHER.

Now.comes the most interesting part of the story. In 1918 the Trustees of the Rockefel ler Foundation made a tour of the medical schools of this country, and in the course of their peregrinations they called at University College quite unexpecteilly They were shown round by nimeuler of the stall, who had no idea that the American visitors had in in their power to endow the College beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. The Trustees found that their pet ideas were being carried out at University Col-instituted. A forecast for the night and the lege, and the outcome of the sun visit day can now be olitained by people i

was cheque for a million and quarter pounds sterling,

UNEMPLOYED OFFICERS,

It may be that the untimely frosts that have played bave with the fruit crops this i year have suggested it to the Meterological Office of the Air Ministry, but anyway, a scheme for forecasting the weather has been

in the country by ringing up any telephone-exchange in the evening after o'clock. There is no charge. This service should

be of considerable value to those who have a telephone in their homes, or have ensy access

to a public call-otice. People who are not on the telephone can have forecasts tele-

The fact that 7,000 ex-officers who served in the war remain on the registers of the Appointments Department is a matter that causes some surprise. Rightly congraphed at a fee of sixpence a week; or sidered, the statement is not only a revela telegrams will be sent giving notifications of tion of a problem, but it is a trageds. A the setting in of spells of fair settled weather very considerable nuruber of these ex-otlicers

or their break up, | The charge, again, is only are public school men. But apparently sixpence for each forecast. The boon this is there is no opening for them, no prospect of to farmers is obvions.

a career:

Admirable work has been done by those charged with the resettlement of ex soldiers. The figures available show that 1:1,000 have been placed in employment, and that speaks for itself. But there is, all the same, a great deal of leeway to make up, and it is plainly intimated that it will only be possible to complete the work if the public at large realise the urgency of the situation and sup; port the voluntary workers in an appeat

now, being unde,

BUISIDY FOR FARMERS

The farmers are to get a big sop from the State under the Agricultural ates Bill, which has passed the second reading and is therefore well on its way to the Statute Book it was strongly opposed by the Liberals and Labourites, but it met with hearty support from the Government side of the House Agriculture is passing through a period of acute depression, and to temper the wind of adversity to the shorn farasers they will only be called upon to pay one-

one-fourth of their

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made to discover what the malignant disense really is. At present aledical science is baffled. We have no means of knowing why there is

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in our midst, or how it originates, where it comes from. Medical men have been working on the problem for many years, But all they can tell us is that the disease has some sort of connection with tar paratin, arsenic, the gamma X-rays, and a certain worm which is parasitic the cockroach. They say that it body of one animal to another.

be transplanted from the CHIT

It is nor hereditary. There is reason to believe that it rarely, 'it ever, occurs within the Arctic Circle, and doctors state that to some extent can be controlled by one variety of the

Beyond that, all is darkness.

nothing

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rates. It was in vain that the Oppositioning practically

pointed out that steel, coal, cotton, and Jonny other industries have felt the pinch of de- gin cancer, we have no certain means pression yet nobody proposed to subsidise suppressing i it.

.not

Now the services of the best brains in the world are being invited to tackle the problem and endeavour to solve it. This is the nim of the British Empire Cancer

Campaign

them. The farmers never offered to share their enormous profits during the war with other folk; but they are quite willing to share their losses.

There has always been a certain ten of which a good deal will be hard derness for farmers. The rubicund sons of in the future. The British Red Cross the soil are the spoilt darlings of the Soc Legishitare. In 1858 the late Lord Chaplin port of the great effort. No doubt some Society Is leading its organisation in sup- carried a measure which relieved a agricultar- al land of half the rates, and an Exchequer not be long-io some quarter of the globe sometime-it is to be hoped it will where, grant of £1,300,000 per annum was made to now unsuspected the clue will be found-

•the V That subsidy has been HP.

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Now there is to be paid ever call on the Treasury, and in England and Wales £2,750,000 will be provided, which, in addition to the previous graut, will make £4,000,000 per annum. The farmers will pay -one-fourth of their rates; the taxinyer and the other ratepayers will have to contribute the rest. The obvious cominent is that thé, farmer is fortunate în having so many good friends in farliament.

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.

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TRADE AND DEFENCE.

MR BRUCE ON AUSTRALIAN STANDPOINT.

Mr. Bruce, in the course of a sprech unade in Melbourne, on May 25th, said the League of Nations was the hope of the futuro, hut the hour of its peaceful in- fuence had not yet struck.

We have become accustomed to the presence of women in Farliment, and the election of Mrs. Philipson in the Berwick bye-election has not aroused the satio traim was ready to accept her fair Defence was still nremssary, and Aus- amount of public" interest as fell to the share and undertake her due obligations share of Lady

Mrs. Wintring one of the Dominions forming the} when

Cominons. It is a curious fact that all Empire. She expected the others to do three women Members have got in as the same. As Defence concerned every successors to their husbands. Lady Astor part of the Empire, the responsibility was elected on the elevation of her husband should be shared by all, while on foreign to the Peerage in succession to his father policy the Expiry must speak with one Mrs. Wintringham's husband died and she voice. The difficulty was how the matter took his place; and now Mrs. Philipson could be satisfactorily settled. An Empire has been returned for the seat which her Parliament was outside practical politics. husband lost on petition

tion for an irregularity The national ideal of the Australians was daring the election contest.. In this case that they should be masters of their own it is again for the Government, as the destinies, and they would jealously guard new Member for Berwick is a Conservative, the iden of their self-governing status. while her husband is a Liberal.

The appointment of a resident Minister There was undoubtedly

uble Sirs...

deal of

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in London would not solve the question of candidaatly twoards

because she stood to win the would not be evolved on any written or. securing one foreign policy. The solution scat forfeited as the result

somo legal technicality. An election petition is the defined basis, but rather in the manner Bust certain way to lose a second election; and, spirit which bad characterized the e petitioners' side rarely does itself any development of the Empire. Imperialista

But the now woman

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