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“Taternaitonal Horse Show Abandoned.

The directors of the Internation- al Horse Show announce that owing to the war it will not be possible to organize an. Inter- nato al Horse Show at Olympia in June next. In oongequence of the withdrawal by the railway companies of excursion and cheap fare facilities, and the probab'e dialacat'os of ordinary traffic, the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Agricultural Society have decided to abant n their annual summer show, which was to have been held at Cambridge in July.

Headmistress's Long Service. A General Court of the Gover- nors and subscribers of the Royal | Masonic. Institution for Girls was held recently at the Connaught| Rooms. Kingsway, Sir Edward Letchworth, who was in the chair, Banounced that Mias E. Hutchin- en, headmistress, bad tendered her resignation after 423 years' service. She was to receive £200' a year pension. Sir Thomas T. Buokaill, Provincial Grand Mater of Surrey, was elected treasurer. Four Pensioners in one Family.

Elizabeth Daskiņu, an, old-age pensioner, who was in her 103rd year, and three of whose children

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It was said that the night clothes the truth." "Attempt to Blow up a Bridge in worn by the prisoner had not been found, but Dot. Sgt.

Leon Goldmerätein, chairman The Tokyo papers state that on Sullivan himself, eaid that the

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Aeronautical Society of America, party of mounted bandits attemp below the prisoner's trousers, and

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while the seroplanes have made the South Manoburia Riilway. could possibly have been except "Mr. Silburn, no doubt this good in only one or two directions They were detected by a Japanese pyjamas; in I the house toy said has been a trial which has put in the European war, they have eentry, who gave the alarm, and that he saw at the Burlington you to grest pain and expense and proved to be invaluable. As a on the appearance of a Japanese Hotel after the fire the primas so on, and I feel and I hope I scouting mechine," he says, "the force the bandits and. It is which he placed on the bed ready feel justly--that the reaut bas aeroplane not only entirely dis

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A fire wbica occurred at the insured his things alo tly before practice of mine to do ac-that I transport of troops, which per motor care and tractors for the Stanley tobacco warehoɑs?, Liver- pool, wad ouguished, after tbs fire, therefore he set fire to the ought to express my entire con-mite the shift, in one night, of house. The jury would have to currence in the verdict of the some 50,000 men from one place causing damage roughly estimate from that fact whatever injury. I trust that the fact that to another forty miles distant, the ad at £40,000. Owing to the fcrence they considered themsel you had to undergo this trial will seroplane reconnaissance is the and S., Shanghai, pat oharacter of the goole stored in ves entitled to draw. As to the in future militate in no way only thing the building it was difficult for accused going to practise in the against your success.

that protects the firemen to precaud with their wettera district, the jury were not

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The fire gave them ab there to decide whether the ac jury for their service, and relieved of

His Lordship then thanked the surprised by auperior forcos the enemy, and one, opportunity of testing acneed was unreasonable or sket-them from further service for ten without a sufficient supply of air machine designed to dispel hy in his ideas as to how bis years.-N. C. Daily News.

scouts, feels the lack of them most smoke. War from the main business should be conducted.The drives a fan, which creates a Crown had to show more that

keenly.. draught sufficent to clear the air that it was a merely inconvenient for several garde round the thing to do. The Orown had to operator. The apparatus was show that it was a thing casting Berlin, April 15.-The Bourse Brilliant dashes bave been made, undoubtedly assial, but several of the firemen were overcome by who did it. A to the fact that the influence of peace ramoura, in no case has anything been grave suspicion upon the man this week has been operated under especially by British aviatore, but the density of the smoke.

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and intense stream on his atten-

Death of Mr. H, D. S. Parkhilltion for the house; while moving important newspaper article and decisive importance. A couple

We regret to announce the in, Silburn's answer at once was: without any diecoverable basis of of Zoppoline have been destroyed, hoor. Such a machine must be death of Mr. H. D. 8. Parkbill,o doubt a prudent man would fact or definite foundation. The a aubmarine base partly wrecked, either inherently stable, or have which took place at the General have done it. I am sorry, I am market became firmer and asteady an ammunition train blown up some stabilising device so Ba to Hospital Shanghai on May 19, Deceased, who was only thirty act a prudent man. I did not rise set in, which finally extended not much to show after seven relieve the pilat: of the constant eight years of age, will bo remem think of it." Bat it was not a even to such stooks as those of the months of war, bered as chief engineer of the question of prudence. It was a Hamburg-American Steamship"What is required now ie ation. On the other hand, however, Shinghai Firò Brigade, with the question of alleged villainy. Company, the North Gorman large machine, capable of, carry it is not necessary that the

On the point as to the Lloyd and other shipping com members of which he was very accused saying he would go home pantes and various concerns whose ing at least two men, fuel for machine be absolutely foolproof, popular. He left the Municipal

a journey of

of 500 miles as it will be always in the hands Cauncil to take up constructional to refit his surgery, those prospority depends on the return at 70 miles an hour, and, in of an export.

was evidence as to the excellence of peace. Inquiries made in the addition to that, about half a ton engineering and later was em- ployed by the Standard Oil Com. of his surgery and stock diplomatie world and in govern of useful load. It must be able to pany, being for some time in generally, and evidently accused mont circles brought to light frat s spred ranging from 40 to charge of their installation in hat the sooned would sacrifice the rumours, The boom was at miles an hour; the main require you have lost your appetite

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ill come two months ago, and had the practice which he bad bail tributed there to speculators and

to be removed to the hospital-up, bringing in something like the ruling passion for change and

43,000 a year in order to gain the lexcitement. O N. Daily News.

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