1914-06-12 — Page 3

"GENERAL NEWS

The Cricket Ball Strike.

The oriokat ball makers on strike in Tonbridge and district! have rejected the latest settlement offer made by the masters, which wae that if the men would return at, onco, and work loyally until Aug. 29, the employers would pay the increased rate of wages from Aug. 31. The men, who ask that the increase should be paid immediately on, work being. resumed, are requesting another conference with the employers, to consider any evidence the om- ployers may care to offer with rogard, to present contracts which they are obliged to carry out at the old prices.

Wireless 100 Words a Min ute.

Mr. Hobhouse, the Postmaster. General, announced in the Com- mons in answer to Sir Godfrey Baring (L, Barnstaple) that a Buccessful demonstration of wire. less telegraphy at 100 words. a minute was recently given by the Marconi Company between. Chelmsford and Letterfrack (Gal. way.) It was proposed, he added, to adopt this method of working between a station which be wor about to establish near Stonehaven. and an existing Post Oflice station near Newcastle-on-Tyne, as stand-by in case of the interrup- tion of the overhead lines.

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N. LAZARUS.

The hearing of the interesting For the first time in the brief claim for £20 000 damages made history of living pictures one film, by the owner of a atud farm already famous, has received the against Major Eustace Loder, the Royal command. In the ball well-known breeder and owner of room of Buckingham Palace last race-horses, was resumed in the month before the King and King's Bench Division by Mr.

body's nerve force is diminished. Queen, the King and Queen of Justice Ridley and a special jury.

"The results of diminished to bear a portion Denmark, and the whole Court The plaintiff was Mr. Charles

do that, and, as his los ned friend Mr. Herbert Ponting diaplayed Matthew Prior, and he saed nerve forgo," writes Dr. Claude Major Loder had no agreed t his Antarotic series. A special Major Loder for damages alleged Wheeler in "Nervo Energy had said, he had viser bir

in Hot Climates" comprise screen was erected, and Mr. to have been sustained owing to headache, loss of sleep, indiges liability attaching to the defend alient that there w no legal Ponting lectured as he does daily the defendant sending to the

tion, easily-induced fatigue, dia- at the Philharmonic Hall. Mr. plaintiff's farm at Adetook, Bucks, inclination for bodily or mental ont. Having complet s'exonerat Ponting has now succeeded in a mare called Auspicious, which

ed Major Loder from he slightest exertion, loss of memory, and a obtaining for photography all the plaintiff asid, was suffering from lack of v gour in all physical imputation of improfety of any

pneumonia, thus acknowledgments which previous infectious

sort he (Mr. Campb) |) now res

he case bad ly were reserved for the drama, causing his stook to become

"To overcome this," he adds, pectfully said that painting, and literature, Ilis infected. The plaintiff alleged two food elements, protsin and bera settled on the me intimat As expert opticians, it is our business

ed. Antarotio photographs and filme breach of warranty which the have had as great & success as a defendant denied. Major Lader phosphorus, are vitally necessary His Lordebin sabe had noth. Our methods are simple, but a re founded popular play, being shown to was seriously ill, and unable to tinues:"A combination of pursing to add except to express han the soundest acientific pri noiples.

crowded houses daily.

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attend.

A Settlement.

functions.

in ample quantities." He c

Loder sad Mr. Noble Johnson had concealed something which it was their daty to reveal, Major Loder had made up his mind that under no conditions would be consider

question of settlement at all.

the

To Bear Part of the Loss,

Ophthalmde Optician"

to detect complicated defects of vialon.,

hi-WE DO NOT ADVISE GLASSES satisfaction that such a settlement UNLESS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL," had been come to in the case.

Bight tested under the personal supervision of H.Tobias. F. I. O., F. 8. M. (C.(Lond).

N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN.

Frozen Alpinist.

Hongkong.

A dispatch from Geneva to the Tol. 1292 · 10. D'Aguilar St. Petit Journal states that in a but in the Valais Alpe a young man

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protein with that form of phos How Germany Deals with

A long consultation took place phorus which normally exists in Hunger-Strikers. between the parties and their the body and nerves will be Describing in the "Magazine legal representatives immediately exactly what is needed in such for Criminal Jarisprudence" how His Lordship took his seat, and cases. Reasoning thus, Science Germany would deal with hun upon their return into court Mr. F. has produced the combination ger-striking anffragettes, Zeheim- E. Smith, K.O., M.P., who appeared demanded. It is known all ove rath Dr. Leppmann says that he for plaintiff, announced that the the civilised globe as Sanatogen. named Johann Winkley

The debilitated nerves and found frozen to death. has usually employed forcible parties had agreed to terms. He feeding through the nose between wished to say that every imputa- tissues take up Sanatogen as the letter, which he wrote some hours the third and fifth day of the tion made against the defendant parched earth drinke up water. before his death, he states that The gain achieved through it is he lost his way in the snow, refusal to eat, and has never and those who represented him, failed thereby to break the pri- which ho (Mr. Smith), speaking Permanent.

which was six feet deep. Daring Everyone who is run down by four days he had no food, and bad soner's resistance. One of the as an advocate on instructions, the heat should, therefore, take best means of handling a hunger hal made, was now unreservedly striker who has been accustomed withdrawn. He had advised his Sanatogen, for it will enable him lost part of his clothing. When

he was writing the letter his feet ROYAL WARRANT OF APPOINTMENT to very plain prison food is to eat client that in consequence of the to overcome its disabilities. in the coll some particularly up- evidence given by Major Loder on Chemists, in battles of two sizes!

Sanatogen oan be obtained of all we e already frost-bitton. petising morsel, as, for instance, commission in Ireland and the a pickled herring. A hunger- imperfect scientific knowledge strike is rarely accompanied by which existed in regard to the a refusal to driuk. Hence Ger-eilment in question, he might not man prison doctors usually removo succeed in establishing the fact all water, replacing it by milk. that the defendant knew of the If any hunger-atriker continued disease, and unless this were done to fast after several forcible feed- no liability could arise. inga he would suspect him or hor His client had accepted that of incipient lunacy, Cuffragettes advice, and Major Loder, recog. in Germany would apparently,nising that the two parties were therefore, not be released after there discussing the question of hunger-striking, but promptly who should bear the loss for removed for observation to a which, in the view of each, neither! lanatic asylum.

of them was responsible, had Dickens' Little Nell ? agreed to make a generous con- The death has occurred attribution to the plaintiff, in con- Stoke Newington of Mrs. Harriet nection with the serious loss that never from first to last had the Luoy Tice, who claimed to be the be sustained, and euch party original of Dickens' Little Nell in would pay his own costs.

Mr. J. H. Campbell, KC., M.P., the Old Curiosity Shop. Mrs. Tice was certainly born in the "Old for the defendant, said that in he should Curiosity Shop "in Compton-an ordinary cBS8

accepted his learned street, and was the daughter of have

statement without Mr. Pepperell, its proprietor, but friend's

Therefore, having thoroughly beyond these facts. there exists no adding anything. But having known proof that the lady sug-regard to the fact that Major Loder

vindicated hise own personal gested the character of Little had for many years hold a pro- charactor and honour, and that Hell to Dickens. Talking on the minent position on the turf and of Mr. Noble Johnson, Majox Bubject to a Star man Mr. Matz, had also, till his health failed, Loder had authorised him (Mr. of Messrs. Chapman and Hall, been in the high position of a and he editor of the "Dicken. Steward of the Jockey Club Campbell) to state that he had ian," said: "It is really quite position which he could not have considerable sympathy for Mr. Prior, who, from no fault of his pitiful the number of people who attained unless he had been a man

own, had suffered material loss, claim to be the originals of of personal honour and integrity and he thought that as between Dickens' characters. They give-ho wished to say something two innocent persons it would that author no credit for imagina- Daring all these years there had not be unreasonable for him and tion or invention. Personally, never been the slightest breath of would be a generous act for him I know of nothing which proves suspicion or suggestion against

that Mre. Tice's claim is justified. the defendant or against the

Another example occurs to me. management or the conduct by

But in the meantime, owing to the illness of the defendant, he had Ireland, and he had stated, in the olaarest and most empbatio his oath, that he way, on

been examined on commission in

slightest idea or suspicion that the mare Auspicious was infected. le had also cleared up all the matters as to the removal of the horses from the farms at Old Connell and Eyresfield to which Mr. Smith had referred in his opening.

Not very long ago there died in himself or his manager, Mr. Noble F you have lost your appetite the North of England a lady who Johnson, of his stad or his horses one of the big variety of claimed to be the original of In those circumstances it was dainty dishes at the ALEXAN Little Dorrit, and recently another plain that as long as the case fook DRA CAFE is sure to tempt ench claim came from a London the form of suggestion that Major you.

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