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The Very Idea!

It was getting on towards the end of the term, and the class mas- tor was impressing on his boys the necessity for extra work to prepare for the final examination.

"The examination papers aro now at the printer's," he said. "Has anyone a question to ask?"

Silence.

Suddenly a voice from back row inquired-Who's the printery

He turned the old pump handle

'round,

And made it squeak and

sigh,

And then he found that he was'

not

Alone in being dry.

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BOATSWAIN KILLED ON

A.P.C. STEAMER,

FATAL RESULT OF QUARREL

BETWEEN RUSSIANS.

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FREEDOM FOR PRISONERS?

RESULT OF CANADIAN DECISION.

Following the release of a Chi- of Quebec's Constantine Voizehovitch appear nese on a decision ed at the Provisional Court at Highest Court that no trial can be: commenced before one judge and Shanghal on Saturday morning continued before another, there is last, before Judge Zin.. charged with having killed his superior, considerable speculation in Que- Philipovitch, a boatswain on board bec prisons over the possibility of the A. P. C. str. Chin Kwang, on a wholesalo release of prisonera. Friday afternoon at 2.45 o'clock.

Accused was unrepresented. in

Dt-Sgt. White, who was charge of the case, told the Court that, from his inquiries, it appear- ed that deceased had instructed apeused to assist him in

Under the Canadian system c cused persons are arrainged before any convenient Magistrate and re- manded for eight daye.

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Almost invariably, the hearing of the remand occurs before an- other judge. certnin

This is now held to be illegal, work aboard ship. The latter re-

of conviction fused: Both got into an argument, and thousands Where and, according to witness, accused throughout the province of Quebec

pushed deceased, whereupon the alone are affected.

Chinese, Mr. Justice other slapped him. The affair beIn the case of Yep Tan, the re- came a fight, It is than alleged leased that accused rushed to his cabin, Bruneun stated definitely that all secured a knife and returned to such convictions are null, and it Deuth was al would appear that a wholesale de- atab the boatswain.

livery of prisoners might follow most instantaneous.

this pronouncement.

Willesden magistrate: can the sums be served on your husband? Wife: Well, I don't know where he lives now, but he has a monomark.

Staffordshire woman of her hus hand de la sixty-two, but I have found that he is flirting with another woman. He is worse than one of them shricks in the dessert

Italian bandits and Chinese dope ends, on being told that legal technicalities might effect their immediate releage, threw down their tools and besieged the war ders asking for news.

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Mr. Moore, thief engineer, said that he was not present at the beginning of the brawl, nor had he seen the actual murder, but he did see accused draw knife from Cook applying for a summons at the other's body. Willesden: Mistress was splendid Voizchovitch pleaded guilty to

The President of the Court of and quite friendly, but master took the charge, but said that he was a dislike to me and prodded ment variance with some of the evi- King's Bench: Mr. Justice Wil- The Court will son, declares that he considers. with a toasting fork..

dence as stated, appoial counsel and accused will ap-Mr. Justice Bruneau's argument irrefutable, and he deplored the Midland woman: I was fightingpear again later.

consequent release of so many with a lady who is a great friend

criminals. of mine.

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Naval man summoned at Kings- ton, for alleged assault: only wanted to strafe him

Dozens of relatives of prisoners Mr. One of the most unusual busi- Chairman at Kingston: How are nesses in the world, that of sell-are besieging the office of you living? Rate defaulter: ring the correct time to watch Tanner, M.A., K.C., who, secured fortunately, on my friends. makers, still is carried on in Lon-the release of Yep Tan, and extra don by the daughter of the man help na been employed to cover

the habeas corpus proceedings. At that who founded it in 1831. time, the Royal Astronomer sug-! gested to a friend that people who SAME HANDWRITING. needed the exact time ought to be

NOT COUNTED.· Recently a Rumanian girl, Irma willing to pay for it. The friend SIGNATURES TO PETITIONS Mikaly, who claimed compensation followed the suggestion and soon

Interesting disclosures of a num- for the loss of both legs in a rail-lad all the London watchmakers way accident near Orad in IP23, as customers. At his death, hia was awarded about £2,000 by the wife took over the business, and ber of signatures to public peti

courts:

now the daughter makes 2500

watch at

nace a

But the direction of railways in year by setting her Rumania is in the hands of the Greenwich Observatory and then State, and there was no hurry to visiting her 50 clients pay. The girl's lawyers, therefore, week. accompanied by police and a bailiff, went to the booking oflee at Orad Station armed with the lasta judg ment of the Court of Appeal and invited the booking clerk to pay on the spot.

He refused, locked the safe, and indignantly left the office with the keys in his pocket.

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1.Who invented suspension brid-

gus?

2. What is the origin of the street

named Piccadilly? 3.Where was the first museum?.

4. Who introduced the waltz to

England, and when?

5. When were lords-lieutenant of

counties instituted?

0-Who was granted the first life-

boat patent?

7-When was the term "Great"

Britain" first 'used?

8-What is the origin of the word

"enlica"?

0.-Which is the oldest English

"EMPLOYEES ARE LOYAL."

Cavite, May 29. One petition, signed, by inhabit-

Admiral Sumner, D. W. Kittelle, ants of London and other places, and presented by Rear-Admiral commander of the naval forces in of this issue.

the Fond occupies too large a part in Beamish, M.P., prays the House the Philippine Islands, confirmed Associated Press the majority of people's lives-that a full impartial and public to-day

inquiry, be made into financial reports that certain radicale had Sybil Thorndike.

The building of houses for sale in principles and policy, and their proposed and discussed a plot to no palliative for the housing situa-effect upon prices, taxation, and destroy the Cavite arsenal and to unemployment. The total number otherwise obstruct military ge Lion-Mr. F. A. Broad, M. P.

If there hath been no ad em-of signatures appended was 27,011,vernment activities, He declared Thereupon the lawyers sent for a locksmith and ordered him toployers there would have been no but the Committee state that they that there was small possibility rade anions-Judge Drysdale have not reported to the House of such designs succeeding for break open the safe. It was a dif

this total number, as they are of several reasons.

The Admiral frankly discussed. opinion that some of the sizua- ficult task that lasted until late at Woodcock, K.G. night, but at its end the bail T

Officials of the Royal Society fortures are in the game handwriting, the situation, believing that the secured anch more than the amount the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-which is contrary to the rules of best interests of all are to be:

fthe judgment,

Next morning the girl was hand-mals sometimes receive odd re-the House. The signatures in served by truthful publicity. He Recently the wife of a question, therefore, were not coun- also stated that he had no desire to be sensational but that naval ed her rightful share, and the rest quests. of the money was deporited at the gentleman of sporting proclivities ted.

A similar thing was found when authorities are aware that certain wrote to ask if something could not Jocal Treasury.

10 the Philippines The lawyers state that their vio-be done to prevent the "scratching the Committee examined a petition emissarios of the Soviet govern- lent method of securing their of horses." She was sure it must hearing 37,603 signatures, Fray- ment came.

Among client's money is in full accord with be very painful, “because my husing the House that the community from China with the object of

band." wrote she, is often quite of Spiritualists may be accorded spreading, their doctrine local laws..

pse-I have heard him groan in that recognition which other re-the Filipinos. This he said, was bis sleep-about horses being ligious bodies, seets, and deno for the purpose of weakening the sovereignty of the United States When a very old man in an out-scratched."

minations obtain.",

In the case of another petition, in these islands, particularly, in- of-the-way village saw his first motor-car dashing up the street, he "Last night, at two o'clock in the presented by Commander Ken-sofar as it would aid the Soviet

Irishman, worthy, "asking that vivisection cause. p might be prohibited by law, only wid 33 signatures of the 15,286 numes of persons accompanying the poli- cause the remaining 15,253 signa- tures were written on sheets of paper not hended by the prayer of the petition.

said, "The horses must 'a' bin goin' a good speed when they got loose from that carriage."

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Most of our ill-health is caused by our folly.--Mr. J. Ellis Barker!

I know wint poverty is as well as anybody, The Archbishop of Wales.

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the morning," said

when

walkin' WAS and down the Bure me bare feet on the cilclath, wid a crying child on aich arm. tion, were accepted. This was be couldn't help but remember that toy father wanted me ta be a priest, but I thought I knew better than he lid."

YESTERDAY'S PARADE AT HAPPY VALLEY.

The Royal Salute of 21 guns at yesterday morning's parado at Happy Valley to celebrate the King's Birthday was fired by the Royal Navy and our top picture shows the guns and teams in readiness. In the lower pieture, men of the Royal Navy are seen marching past the Saluting BRse, H.E. the Governor taking the salute. (Photo: Mee Cheung).

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Hand of Soviet.

Admiral Kittelle referred to cer- tain documents found in the Soviet embussy at Peking saying! you would be astonished over some of those disclosures." He did not reveal their nature as he said he was not in a position to do so, but intimated that some of them bore important relations to the situation in the Philippines.

Watching the Radicals, Referring to the situation at the navy yard, the Admiral said that, about 2,600 Filipinos are employ ed at Cavite by the navy in civilian capacities.. Certain em-] ployees have kept the Admiral in- formed as to the doings of the Legionarios, who are unquestion- ably readical,

golf club?

10Who is the "Father of HIE

tory"?

11-What was the Council of the

North?

12. Who originated the phrase,

"Damn with faint praise"?

13. Who invented British naval

uniform?

14. Which is the oldest Oxford

college? 16-What was the Saxon shore?

POET'S CORNER.

STORY WITH A MORAL, The only hat that suited him- (Or so he fancied)-had a brim of quite enormous size. The crown Was lofty, and a dirty brown. He held an unimportant post At the Home Office, but his boast Was, "One day I shall get promo-

tion"-

A rather optimistic notion,

And one his chief would never share. Daily he toiled on humbly there, Until-ah, cruel, hapless day! He heard a secretary say. "Promote a man with such a hat!' Good Lord! We really can't do

that!"

Then in despair he cut his throat, Leaving a tactful little note, Saying, "Here lies a man whose

brim

Was his undoing; pity him." And Smith, who wears a beastly

bowler,

Has risen to be Birth Controller.

that

Emissaries from China visitad Legionarios who, at one meeting, proposed the arsenal activities. Admiral Kittelle notified all mem- the bers of the Legionarios in

must navy's employ that they leave the government service or quit the Legionarios. He said Kittelle said, of course, it made that every member resigned his no difference in his attitude to membership in the Legionarios ward the Legionarios. Aguinaldo and gave personal pledge of loyal was still safe, Pilipinos wore ty to the American government, closely watched and added hence none of these had any-there was no chance of them de- other thing to do with the destructive stroying the arsenal or designs.

government property because of told Admiral Kittelle

the the location of much of the muni Filipinos at the yards that no options, material being held secret, position to the government or 10 and also because the government the governor general would be is prepared for any such moves. tolerated, and that no politicos I want to say that the Filipinos would be allowed to dietate to the working for the government are most loyal, kindly and indus- some trious," the Admiral stated, "and the Admiral there is little chance of any of sald, "why not follow Aguinaldo.them attempting disloyal acts." ETorts made yesterday to ob He is a good Filipino, an excel-

certain statements from lent citizen and loyal to the Ameri-tain

Legionarios were unavailing as can flag."..

The Admiral further stated that their members either declined curtain Legionários had sent to talk or said they were no longer word that if any Filipinos were connected with the organization. discharged because of allegiance It was learned, however, that there to the Legionarios, Aguinaldo are a vast number of Chinese na- would be kidnapped. This creat-dionalists who are members of the ed quite a stir at the time, but order-Manilla Bulletin.

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