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GENERAL NEWS.

-Sie D. Haig Asad The "Comrades."

- Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was the first to be enrolled st honorary lits comrade of the Comraden of the Great War.. Ei gift of 10 miness to the moyS

· ment" was personally handed by him to Captain Tower, the blind V.D., obairman of the comrades, at the front,

Canard Liner Destroyed

by Firs

The steamer Viloria in reported. by Lloyd's to have grounded. *She afterwards took firs; and is considered a constructive -total loss. The Valeria was a steamer -of- 5,865 tons, · built by Russell and Co. in 1915 as: the Den of Airlie, and belonged to

·Cunard Company,

Londen Chair of Philosopky, At a recent meeting of the Senate of the University of Lon don Dr. Herbert Wildon Carr wis appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University, King's Collage, Professor Carr, who is an old student and Fallow of King's College, has been”: president "of the Aristotelian Socisty since 1915, and in 1912 he received the honorary degree of D. Litt. from the University of Durham, He is aathor of many important

·works on philosophy, in partion. Iar "The Philosophy of Change" and "The Philosophy of Benedette Croce,

Disabled Officers on the Laad.

Mr. and Mrs. George Pickard, of Combe Court, Obiddingfald," near Hazlemere, have shown their | sympathy with the Imperial As scoistion for Assisting Disabled Officers by placing at its disposal | for the duration of the war en old-fashioned homestead "called "Noddings," with a well-stocked garden and orchard. Already a number of disabled efficere are în reaïdenos, and are being trained in every phase of farm life, to fit them for positions as estate agents | and bailiffs or as landbolders. Mr. and Mrs. Pinokarð are zubscrib- ing towards the upkeep. - The place combines the advantages of a convalescent home and a train- ing contre, as it is situsted in & healthy neighbourhood and on s large model farm conducted on mientific principles.

Empire Worker are to cost the same pries. A further increase in the prics of fashion publications is taking place. Our Home goes up from 2d. to 3d. Lady's World and Lady's World Fancy Work from 41. to 8d.; Home Essbions, 3d. to: 441; and 'Lesob's essmaker, 3d, to 4d. The price of the Bucks Herald end that of the Backs Free Press will be rais ed from 2d, to 32.

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Dearer Newspapers. The prices of a number of news >papers and periodicale have been increased. Among the daily news papers the Yorkabire Post is 24. instead of 141. With regard to weekly publications, Comic Cata costs li. instead of ld. and the Peany Pictorial 24. instead of 1. The prices of Answers, Home Onat, and the Home Companion are raised from lid. to 24. The Family Herald is 2d. instead of 1d. and the Yorkshire Weekly Post and the British Citisen and was feared that other deaths were! London Teachers' Salaries.

still unreported. Probably 150 At the mesung of the Educa- estimate placed on persons were injured, and a rough tion. Committee of the London

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County Council a report from the damage at $1,000,000,

Teaching Staff Sub-Committee in A list of the floted com regard to salaries was approved. manities, with the number of proposed that the minimum deathe, follows:

eslaria prescribed by the Board Nashus, In, three; Plainfield, of Education minuta be paid in Ia., one; New Hampton, Is, three; he case of teachers whose pre- Calmar, Is., four; Tenlon, IL, ent sale rate and war bonus two Frankiin, Ill., three; Elmira, combined are less than the Ill., 4wo.

new prescribed minimum rates,

that Hundreds of bonses and farm and

such rétes ahell Thomas Gray's Birthplace, The Bits of the house in Cora- buildings were blown down, and be regarded (1) as advances to- hill where Thomas Gray, the live stock was killed in many warde spy new coale which may anthor of "An Elegy in a Country localities. The fall force of altimately be adopted; (2) BA Church-yard," was born, on the

to current market rates. They are tornado appeared December 26, 1716, has been have strack at Hayville, Is a follow-Untrained certificat marked by a bronze tablet, which and expended its" forse Fra anviled recently by Sir Princeton. In Illinois, its great Herbert Warren, President of est force appeared to have begur Magdalen College, Oxford, form weet of Jacksonville, and to bave 3, 590; uncertifiosted tes erly Professor of Poetry in the continued eastward to beyond ebere, mistresses £65; teachers University. The loud rattle of Dentur.

engaged in a "supply" capacity: the City's traffic was hardly The advices received from the certificated, mastere, 9. 31. a arrested for a moment when lows distrios said the fall force working day, mistresses 8. 4d.; from the parish church of the tornado was felt for a disabbert ficated, mistresses 6, a of St. Michael a little procession tance of about twenty five mile working day. An instragrion, emerged, in which were the Lord between Mayville and Princeton, a given to the Teaching 84# Mayor, attended by Sword-bearer and its greatest width was abon: Sub Committee to bring up a and Maca bearer, and Mr. two miles.

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