Scores of motor accidents cone nue; 80 per cent. befall motors cyclists. Every day there-is a toll of dead. Moreover, in a census taken by the Ministry of Transport of 100 road accidents, 87 were proved to have been avoidable, In an examination of 70 recent fatal ac~ dent, in which 20 cars and 40 motor-eyeies were involved, it was found that the majority were the result of avoidable collisions at crossroads and road bends. The sung tion is that the police should give up trapping on safe roads and con~ centrate on bringing reckless drivers jand riders to book. Sometimes thera ere more tragic occurrences, An eight-years-old girl was knocked down and killed in Barnabury-road, Islington, N. by a motor-ear contain ing four' men. After the accident, the girl was taken to a doctor's in the lear, which was later found abandoned outside the house, the four men hav. ing vanished. -'Then ear had been stolen, and was later claimed by its owner, Subsequently, all four thieves were arrested.
There are other curious mishaps, Eight persons were injured in serious collision between the London County Council ferry boat Squires and the American steamer Goahom Gounty off Woolwich on Tuesday. evening. The ferry boat, which was packed with workpeople from the factories at North Woolwich, had just drawn alongside the South Pier to discharge its land of passengers and vehicles when the Goahoma County crashed into it, hurling the messengers in all directions. The impact was a heavy one, and the forty bent was sandwiched between the steamer and the pier. on to the The port side of the Squires was badly damaged by cent. act with the pier, while the face of the pier was stripped and the paving of the approach road was forced up in roveral places, Social Festivities wed worthy of note that! despite the Coal Strike the nation Jeoes on very much the same as usual, ana in London you would hardly, know there was a strike at all.
Social life has been particularly, brilliant this year and the King holds hie last two Courts this month and ives his Garden Party on Thursday, July 22. Indeed, if we are now having hard times, the personal of moat people does not seem to show, Sin Frederick Lugard presided at 1 sectional meeting of the Empire versity Congress, which opened jon July 19, when the question of fen Imperial policy in education was iseussed, Lieut.-Colonel Siz Mate thew Nathan, also a former Govers nor of Ienglkong, occupied the chair on July 19 during a discussion on '"Statual Recognition of Examination. and of Time Spent in Study Else where." Great interest was taken in the Congress. Most of the univers sities in the Dominions and India sent four representatives, and in rome cases even more, AMAaaDALEN College, Oxford, where Prince Chichibu (one of the sons of the Emperor of Japan) goes into residence in October, has during the long presidency of Sir Herbert 'Warren become the favoured college for Royal undergraduates of all nations, headed by the Prince off Wales.' Prince Chichibu, it is said, will occupy the set of rooms jutting lout over Addison's Walk and overs ooking a picturesque backwater of, the Cher, regarded as the mose beautiful rooms in Oxford's loveliest colleges. They were occupied in the "seventies by Oscar Wilde, who dow corated them with the blue ching which he expressed the fervid hope that te might "live up to."
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