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GENERAL NEWS.

Mutiny Veteran to Rejoin. Ex-Colour-Sergeant Lune, aged 78, residing at Manor Park, who served in the Matiny, and has been passioned from the Army for 32 years, has received paper from the War Office asking if he is prepared to rejoin the Army as an ex-nos-commissioned officer, to drill recruite. He has replied expressing his willingness to do

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'Dr. Livingstone's Birthplace.

At a meeting of the Middle War District Committee of Lanark County Council a strong protest was made against the pro- posed demolition of the house at Low Blantyre which is generally believed to be the, birthplace of David Livingstone. The proper- ty has been acquired by Measry. Baird and C. (Limited), col-

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Admission of the City Sheriffs.

At the Guildhall last month Mr. Alderman Moore and the Rev. Ben:y T.Carte de Lafontaine, the new Sheriff of the City of London, were publicly admitted to office in saccession to Alder- man and Colon: 1 Sir John flom pbery and Sir Frederic Painter. The cut, o'ng Sheriff-of whom Sir John Humphery was in kh-ki

invested their successora with their robes and chaing of office. The new Under-Sheriffs are Mr. E. V. Huxtable and Mr. William Sparks.

Baptism of Lord Ipswich's Heir.

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United States, as much of this be able to speak the language of and in 1876 he formed a branoba year over the cost of operating trade a we can supply we can the country. Advertising must agitated) Mammi mamma! of that establishment in the City similar ship under a foreign have. This will give our manu-l also be in the language of the He's not the one!"

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