... Indian Currency Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir H. Babingtcon Smith, concluded their deliberations just time for the Christmas holidays, and the report will be pub. lished early in the new year. only Indian member, Mr. Dadibs Merwanji Dalai, left London ...

... CANON HODGSON. Canon William Hodgson, Vicar of Aston, Birmingham, who died on Christmas Day in the General Hospital, Birmingham, from injuries received in • bicycle accident, graduated at London University in 1883 and proceeding to Merton College, Oxford ...

... organised at the principal clubs, and a special performance held at the ; Royal Opera Rouse. ; Front the Gibraltar Chronicle.' Christmas feetivitice have been kept up in barracks and on the ships, the ;overtior,with Lady Smith Derrien, and . Admiral Tyrishitt ...

... on Christmas Eve. Others put the fact down to the coal crisis. In any case, nobody need waste a sigh on the restaurant keepers ; they have reaped a harvest, and every grain was, if not gold, at any rate, paper of high denomination, and Christmas Eve ...

... are, W. 1. The Bishop of Islington has been lying seriously ill since Christmas Eve at his home, 98, Clapton Common, E. Mr. Ernest Newton, R.A., who was operated upon on Christmas Day for appendicitis, is making satisfactory progress. The Monmouthshire ...

... players going home to spend Christmas, found a difficulty in raising representvtive elevens, the football witnessed in the strenuous holiday matches was remarkably good. The attendances at the games beat all previous Christmas records, as was expected, ...

... circumstance is that Lieutenant Boast, who was only twenty, parted here with his mother and father only last night. After the Christmas holidays they returned to Lancashire by the mail boat. They will now be obliged to come back by the next to identify their ...

... rily settled. Latest Fiume reports say that owing increased unemployment, free soup and.bread are distributed daily. On Christmas Day D’Annunzio made gift 25,000 francs the poor.—Exchange. ITALIANS DIVIDED. ...

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... Snow is an abomination except- the country,” says a gossip-writer. P,ut we don’t mind it on a Christmas card. Personally, we can’t enthuse about snow—it leaves us cold. The Coalition is not the only body that s teeling the effect of too many parties just ...

... THE KING'S 700 GUESTS. The King, for the eleventh year in succession, provided the Christmas tea to 700 poor men and women at the. Great Assembly Hall, Mile End-road, yesterday, ...

... THE CLUB CORNER. Father Christmas has been demobbed. * This is the last week of striking year, isn’t it? But we shall unable to remould the world .in the coming year our heart’s desire unless; the moulders become more amenable. lady in India has shot ...