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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

OVERHEAD RAILWAY DISASTER.

New York, June 26. The casualties in the Elevated Railway crash were eight killed and eighty-three injured, the dead Including seven women and girls.

The train plunged forty feet into the junction of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, Brooklyn, a congested retail shopping centre. People in motor care and pedestrians had miraculous escapes. The falling cars carried down countless electrical wires, from which blue Sames spluttered menacingly amid the tangled debris.

W. The screams of passengers pinioned under the cars, some of whom were transfixed with jagged pieces of the cars or cut with broken glass, were heard above the din of the shouts of spectators and the clanging of the gongs of the fire engines and ambulances. The street was quickly jammed, thousands of people hindering the rescue work so that it was nightfall before all the Injured were: removed to hospital,

The 'cause of the accident is uncertain, but it is thought to have been due to a defective rail-or a misplaced switch.

The motormith has been arrested and charged with homicide.

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BOXER'S DISABILITY,

London, June 26.

An eminent surgeon specialist after having examined Beckett's hand has certifiested that as will be unit for training to fight Car-. pentier on the 26th of July, but that a rest of at least three months is essential. Major Wilson, the promotor, threatens legal proceedings.

"LABOUR VOTES AGAINST COMMUNISM.

London, June 26.

At the labour party conference in London a resolution in, favour of affiliation with the communist party was defeated by a card vote

of 2,880,000 to 266,000.

FRANCE AND THE RHINELAND.

Paris, June 26. Another officizi denial of the Observer's story as regards Herr Dorten says that the latter was never subsidised by the French" Government.

NO APPEAL ALLOWED.

* London, June 26, ・・ The Court of Appeal has refused to grant Enever and Haynes leave to appeal against their convictions for the China House frhuds.

RUSSIAN REFUGEES,

Another. Batch for Shanghai

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Shanghai," Juno 26.

SEQUEL TO FLIGHT ATTEMPT.

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themselves in his career and made £1,000 A YEAR FOR YOUNG,

him an honorary member of their

club, often paying for his pracilae. AMBITION TO BECOME CHAMPION,

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in the Empire.

His ambition at that time was To Encourage Rifle Shooting to win "the hamateur billiarda The story of "Willie Smith, championship of England, but tho new billiarde champion, i be

An offer of mining securities was debarred from that yielding an sangal income of should be an encouragement to

and made 4 professional approximately £1,000 for the bumblest .even the

billiards in quite an accidental fashion. Fensouragement of amateur rifle player. He has only twice He had been invited to play a shooting among the young people entered for the professional exhibition game at Middles of the Empire from an officer billiards championship, and in brough, but could not afford to formerly in the South African Gach Oase has won it, the first pay his fare to that town, and Deferoa Force has been accepted tima in 1920 and again this year.because he accepted 108. towards by the Army Council.

Not many years ago Smith was his railway fare and expenses be a working man, angagad sa was declared a professional. linotype operator in a Darlington His decision fally newspaper office, writes a Daily abandon the linotype for the Shield competition, senior, and Chronicle correspondent.

green cloth was reached tanjunior, for boys over and under 15 His interest in billiarda, how-years ago, after a match with

Untila scheme has been decided upon, the revenue will be used to to finance the Imperial Challenge

ever, dates much further back. Georga Gray, at Stock on. Yaara of age respectively As a toy he was mad on the Gray gave him belf the game many thousands of haya compete

Thess competitions, in which w Rame, and though his parents start in a march of 9000 and annually, were founted in 1910. tried to check his passion for the Smith won by 6 points mire than by the presentdonor, and organis- game by locking up the balls the start conceded. After defeated by the National Riff Associa Chinese <ficisis abuard the gun. Major Wilfred Blake eued the belonging to the table at the ing Gray a second time the latter'stion as a measure tending towards- boat Yungchien have been waiting Aircraft Disposal Company for public-house kept by his f her father wanted to make a match Imperial defence all day at Wossung for the arrival alleged breach of contract under he broke the glass case, got the for £50, but Smith told him of the steamer Eldorado from agreement to supply four aero-balls, and started playing solo frankly that he had not 50, pence. The elder Gray wissetonished, Japan, which is reported to be plane which bad not been suppli-games. At that time he was 100 bringing

redrore rd, or alternately £500 to be paid sinell to reach the table, and had but encouraging. With practic

to stand on a box to make each and polish," he said, you will Russian refugees. Orders have in reapert thereof.

make a great player," and on that been issued that those he not per-

shot, mitted to land, but it is not dig.

opinion Smith decided to start on elneed what other mereures are

that career which hae mid: him the finest exponent of billiards in contemplated.

the country.

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Defendante contended it was a condition that plaintiff should. 15 He was only just turned 11 round the world. They bad only years old when he made his first sareed, to supply machines for break of over 100. Soon after £2,600 instead of the full price, that challenges were issued to | £8,050, because they expected play say boy of his own age, but His success is dua ta hard work publicity, and they counter-claim- nobody accepted the invitat on and an undaunted carage in a the full list price of the three At 14 years of age. he was fight against many od I coupled machinor supplied. They said of apprenticed to the trade of print with a passion for the game which the £2,000 they had received, ing, working first as a "case" £1,000 had been spent on re-con- band and subsequently as a ditioning the machines and linotype operator, but bis passion £1,600 paid to another Comping for the game held firm, anthe for a soaplane. Budete played at every opportunity, ..

never let him tire

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CHANTREY BEQUEST PURCHASE.

The President and Counell of

Summer Cup Contest. The result of the 4th round Summer Cup Competition, played at Foclipg was as follow:-R. Plaintiff gave evidence dying Sometimes those opportunities: Brues beat A. Lench, Maj. P. A. B. he bad guaranteed a world flight were few and far between. Often the Royal Academy bave pur- Johnstone bent. J. H. Heuro, Maj. and said he only agreed to make he culd not play because he had Cased under the terme of the T. Oakes beat Maj. C. P. F the attempt. He contended that no money to pay for a game.hantrey Bequeer the oil painting "The Road: winter morning" by Wurten and R. 1. "Moncrieff heat defendants had gaioed much Then the members of a local ral A. K. Mackenzie.

world publicity from that attemp" waymen's institute interested Mr. George Clausen, R

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A silver challenge shield, valus £100, a bronze replica, as well as silver and brorze commemorative medals and many money prizes, were last year again offered for competition under the Imperial Challenge Shield Competition by Lt-Cal: Raymond W. Fiannell, of South Africa.

ERBIDDEN FRUIT.

As Adam fell by an apple, so did Arthur Frost, a Southend school boy. Frost and a companion

proceeded to rifle the desks, Discovering what he believed to be an apple, young Frost took a bite and found it was soap. A detective made a plasticine cast of the boy's front tooth, and, after comparison, young Frost admit- fed, that be and another young a'er were "the offenders. Bath were fined.

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