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MONDAY, AUGUST

THE COAL CRISIS.

THE NEXT PHASE,"

1926.

WASTED LIVES.

LORD DEWAR ON NATIONAL IDIOSYNCRASIES.

Rugby, July 31, Rugby, July 31,

The 'next phase in the coal dia- Lord Dewar, as the host at a din- An earthquake which was felt pute will be the holding of local nor at the Piccadilly Motel to the in the Channel Islands yesterday delegate conferences of minera members of the South Affilan afternoon was of some severity, during the coming week, to decide bowling team, entertained his Houses in Saint Heller and ether for or against ratification of the guests with another of his opigren- places rocked for several seconds, proposals for settlement drawn up matical speeches.

Besidca the and a tidal wave was formed by the executive in confunction South African bowlers and their wives, the leading membera of the round the coasts. The tremor with the Church leaders. enused considerable alarm in Jer-

As already stated, the Nationn! English Bowling Association were 'soy, Guernsey and Alderney. Delegate Conference, sitting in among the guests, and Sir Thomas Goods fell from the shelves of London yesterday, referred those Lipton and Major Isidore Salmon, shops, while in houses pictures proposals to the districts and M.P. were also present. and ornaments were shaken from recommended their neteptance.

The labour correspondent of the their places on to the floor.

The walls of many large build-Times says that assuming that the Inga were cracked and Saint proposals are endorsed in the Saviour's steeple of the Presby-districts, the executive will be terian Church is leaning out of authorised to negotiate with the position. Several high chimneys as a basis. In this connexion he fell and damaze to windows and cites comment on yesterday's con-

ference, made cutives, who said one of the exe

greenhouses was general. The tidal wave did no damage, but its approach greatly startled bathers. who made a wild scramble for

safety.

Slight earth tremors were felt on the French side of the Channel

The delegates scussed the proposals as though they repre- sented the conditions of peace that could be had for the asking, whereas we know the Government

Lord Dewar said that most men did not wake up to find themselves famous; they usually dreamed they were famous, then woke up. But the members of the South African bowling team who woke up to flnil, themselves renowned, could not have been asleep.

born.

He had visited Africa more times than he could remember-long be He landed at Cape Town, and be fore any lady present was remarked that it was a fine day. A well-intentioned, benevolent gentle- man brushed elbows with him and

at Saint Malo, Granville, Vennes will not accept them, and we can said, Young man, it is only those

of the Channel at Bournemouth and elsewhere in Hampshire and Dorsetshire. British Wireless

SOCIETY. SENSATION.

RECTOR'S WIDOW OUT ON BAIL.

Point Pleasant, N. J., July 1. "there On the ground that

was no great presumption of guilt,"

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guess that the owners certainly will not.".

The correspondent said that the executive itself has no lusions on the subject. It has already considered what steps it will take when it has obtained authority to proceed. The present inten- tion is not to go' elthar, to the Government or to the owners, but to appeal again to the Church lenders to prepare the way for negotiations. The executive" at- taches great importance to what it believes to be the affect on public opinion of its continued associa

| ball applied for at Chief Justicetion with the Church leatiors.

Gummeres's summer residence on behalf of Mrs: Edward Hall has been granted in two sureties of $7,500 each-Renter's American

Service.

WHEAT GAMBLING.

is a fine day in South Africa." talk about the weather. Every day Here we wasted three years of our lives talking about the weather, and ing "Hello" through the telephone, we wasted one year of our lives say. and one year waiting for the correct number.

their lives telling stories against Scotsmen wasted three years of themselves; Englishmen wasted three years of their lives listening years of their lives trying to find to Jewa; Americans wilsted three out where their fellow-citizens gat

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their drink from; a Frenchman Apart from this aspect of the wasted three years of his life rais- situation, there has been a frosting his hat and deciding which development in the publication of should go through the doorway new terms of employment offered first; a donkey wasted three years to the miners of Leicestershire, of its short life braying; a good- Mrs. Half Is charged with the The miners are offered rates of looking woman wasted three years murder of her husband (who was wages based" on the aight hour day of her life looking in a mirror; and Roctor of St. John's, New Brunswhich, it is admitted, must make a plain-looking woman wasted three wick), and a choir girl

an appeal to them.

years of her life looking in a There was ΑΠ expectation mirror. yesterday among the delegates from other Midland areas that fresh

HOW TO JUDGE A MAN. proposals would be made to them "He would like to confine his within a short time, and there are specch to the ladies, but he was not prominent miners' leaders whe proficient on that theme, because recognise that if those terms are when a bachelor flattered himself on the lines that rumour speaks of, he knew women, he flattered him- the Federation may have to con- self. He would confide to them sider before very long the advisa that he had never had any particu- bility of allowing certain districts far shrinking from. the fair to resume work and the making sex; in fact, he had at all times. of a levy on employed miners in venerated and had thrown bouquets aid of the unemployed.-Britial of forget-me-nots at the beloved Wireless.

shrine of the petticoat-a garment he was credibly informed was not obsolete.

NEW RECORD IN PRICE.

Chicago, August 1. There were very lively scenes in the wheat pit, when a flood of orders to meet the big shortago at the end of the month carried prices of July wheat up, ever éleven cents a bushel to 15814 cents, a new high record for the season-Itenter's American Ser-

vica.

POISON LIQUOR,

GERMAN ORIGIN INDICATED.

Toronto, July 31.

PAN-ASIA.

A CHINESE ATTACK ON IMPERIALISM:

attending.

Tokyo, August 1. The Pan-Asiatic Congress open- Ten men have been arrested on ed this afternoon at Nagasaki charges of manslaughter in con- with fifty delegates from Japan, nexion, with the deaths in Ontario China, India and the Philippines as the result of poisonous bootleg liquor.

Police investigations indicate that the liquor is of German origin and was introduced into Canada via Buffalo. Reuter.

HURRICANE.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE,

New York, July 31. The well-known Florida seaside resorts of Miami and Palm Beach have been extensively damaged by the destruction of piers, Venetian canals, and other attraction as the result of the Bahamas burri- cane-Renter's American Service.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Except for a Chinese delegate who attacked Britain's imperialiam, the speeches did not contain any- thing but generalities, urging the Asiatic races to protect their own interests.-Reuter.

COBHAM'S FLIGHT.

DEPARTURE FROM SINGAPORE.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Singapore, July 31. Alan Cobham left, early this afternoon for Muntck,

All women liked bargains, but they would never have it suggested that they were wearing a bargain. Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

When the coal strike was settled" there would assuredly arise a new prosperity for British made goods. In the past we used to look to the. future; to-day we looked to the tax duties. To them that hath, cometh collector and to-morrow's death the Revenue officer. Providence giveth and the tax collector taketh away. But when that prosperity which was coming arrived our e- cutcheon would be a rampant, joy- ous tax-payer, and not a weeping

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