1918-08-13 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A Bomb Accident.

The Bombay Chronicle reports an sccident which happened early in Jane on the foreshore of thej -village of Javen near Bandra, ten miles from Bombay. ^A„mine having drifted to the shore, two Obristisa inhabitants of the village near by were moved by curiosity to examine it with the result that there was a terrific explosion which blew the pair to atoms. An enormous crater was; mada in the ground. Auntber mine drifted ashore at Kelvivear Mahim.

"Cannot Build Roads. Conscientious objectors do not build good roade, declares the Auditor General. Experta pareed

he same opinion upon the efforts

of the gang of idealiete whom

Baskin enlisted to build his

Hinoksey road, It

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magaifioeat illustration of the

dignity of labour that the Oxford

Professor and his undergradustes should turn to picking, shovelling; and carting stoner.

Lord:

Milner is recalled as one of ́ Roskin's marries, and Ocari Wilde boasted he had wheeled the master's own barrow. Bat

the resultsat road as a road, re- ceived scathing condemnation from civil engineers,„,

A Honkey “ Nút

An enormon ohimpanzee in evening dress strolled into the Knickerbocker Hotel at the dinner-hour recently. The animal behaved decorously, tocording to the Canadian Press correspond.; ent's picturesque report of the affair, and attrasted no particular sttention untils woman noticed its face. She screamed and many other women joined in the oborus, The driver of a police van, which was burriedly summoned, aleo csught B glimpes of the monkey's face, and clared he was through for the night. Volunteers accompanied the animal to the station bat on the way the chimpanzee eneezed and screamed, and the volunteers fell off the van. At the station a

fainted matron

when the prisoner" jumped on a deek, lesped to a radiator, and sat there contentedly. Eventually the keeper was discovered, and charged with disorderly conduct. He said his charge escaped from an exbibition while he was at dinner.

Captain W, H. Hardy Ruas Amuck.

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Back Amalgamation.

The British Government has sanctioned Д amalgamation i whereby Lloyds Bank taken over the Capital and Counties Baok and acquires contral of the National Bank of Scotland ans Grezed by a statement from the the National and River Plate American naval authorities that Bank. The original "proposal there was no record of his having included the National Bank d served in the United States Navy, India, bat this combine ie not Captain W.H. Hardy, survivor of sanctioned.

the Perry expedition, ren amok

at bis home at Portand, Oregon, on 27th July, and engaged in a

gun fight with cfficers for more

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A Report Dealed." The Bome correspondeat of the London Daily News reports that before long Japan will oper argonaut of the sess, jest diplomatic relations with the returned from a triumphant Vatican. There have been similai visit to Japan where he met His Majesty the Emperor and amours before this, hat accord- ing to the Asahi the Japanest

where for mouths be bad numer authorities fiatly deny the report, ous honoure bespedfapon him, adding that there is no likelihoor WBB not eabdued until be fell to of diplomatic relations with thi the floor of his barricaded room, Vatican being opened. wesk and bleeding profaeely from

self-inflicted revolver wound

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