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GENERAL NEWS.

Boy Tram Conductors. Boy conductors will be placed on some of the London municipal trams as an experiment. Much opposition was expected from the union to which the carmen bo long, but when it was explained that the boys would only assist the regular conductors and that as far as possible they would be selected from the families of street car employees, no protest was raised. It is almost impos- sible for the conductor of a double deck tram to collect fares and watch his atops without neglect- ing one or the other and the boy assistants will be expected to relieve. the regular conductor of " part of his duties. The boys will bo tried out on the Teoloy Street

line which runs to Greenwich, one

of the most thickly populated districts of London.

The New Chinese Minister to Britain.

statesmen.

Mr. Alfred Zee, who, as already stated in the Telegraph, has been nominated Chinese Minister

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of the most brilliant and gifted among the younger Chinese He speaks English perfectly, and has a wide reputa tion for courtesy and uprightness. Mackerel Invade Eastbourne. Large shoale of mackerel came in-chore at Eastbourne recently and 3,700 were brought on to the besch in one draw of the net.

was a stray one..

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