The King had been pleased to give directions for, the appointment of Mr. Charles Greenidge, Magistrate in Trinidad, to be Chief Justice of British Honduras, Another rich gold deposit ie re-Binerald "dlatriet, Australia. The orted from Mount Cliford in, the
Jgold has been discovered in a mine Io abandoned thirty years ago.
In the House of Commons _on Feb. 26 Major Walton Elliot, financial secretary to the Treasury, in moving supplementary vote for extra exe enses included in the collection of the collection recentl te almost unparallel-of this or any Jother country and it was due to the of direct taxpayers and. iment that this The Colonial Secretary of Ber-mud, Mr. E. W. Evans, has been' selected for appointment as Colonial Secretary' of Mauritius in success sion to Sir Allan Grannum, Major Pannall, Acting Governor of Dartmoor prison, has been appointed Governor in succession to Mr. S. N. Roberts, who has been appointed to the vacant Governorship of Cardiff prison,"
An extension of the free lst under the new Imports Bill now be+ fore the House of Commons was inngunced by the Chancellor of Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlai in the House of Commons on Fel }23. 'The extension includes maize, earls, semi-precious stones, platinum, all animal hair, esparto grass, potash, ores of all' kinds, copper, foal, "coke and British-produced The Soviet Government announced that it nickel coins of kopecks together with the si ready in use.
London, Feb, 25—A party of 19 ""miners who worked. for fume "hours in great danger} to rescue a fellow miner were decorated with the Edward Medal by the King at to-day's private investiture in Buckingham Palac Wireless through Reuter, The Bishop of Winchester, Dr. Theodore "Woods, died on Feb. 27 after an illness lasting three months. "He was 59 years of age. The "deceased was appointed Bishop of Peterborough in 1916, becoming Bishop of Winchester ight years later, Cologne, loss Feb, 25.—A 19,000,000 marks "was shown in' the balance sheet of the German Steel Trust in a report sued to-day, although the total learnings were 150,000,000 marks. The Directors are proposing to recoup the loss from an 80,000,000 reserve fund.—Reuter.
Lakehurst, Feb, 22—The United States' airship Akron, the largest in the world, to-day')broke-loose from her moorings here Jand before she could be brought under control again, had scraped the ground badly. Her, rudder was, torn off and the fabric at the stern was ripped—Reuter, One of the pioneers of bacteriology in Bri the person of Sir Frederick Willia Andrewes, Emeritus professor of pi theology at the University of Linden, He received his education at Oxford and St, Bartholomew's hospital and later became pathologist at that hospital. In addition to his work at London University, Sir Frederick was Croonian lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians and Jat one time was a member of the Medical Research Council, The Netherlands Government on Feb, 22 took severe measures to check. Increasing unemployment. of, Euro: cane in the Netherlands East Me fies, These measures are connected with the admission of Netherlands subjects who are not. self-support ing. Those secking: work. but not pos sessing enough money to live on for few'months. will not be admitted totem they cannot prove they ha tions or that they are supported een appointed to properly paid pos
financially by family or friends, Owing to the alarming conditions breva in the coat inasstey, the Reich Cost Commissioner on Feb, 27 Reich (Coal Commissioner, to-day decided to reduce the coal imports into Germany by 80,000 tons during March and by the same amount in April. He stated that the dally cute put in the Ruhr district lad dropped From an average of 400,000 tons month in. 1920" to. 240,000 tons this" months " Duxing. the same. period the number of miners had decreased From 361,000 to 200,000, 'A member of the House of Cov mons on February 22" asked Walter Runciman, President Board of Trade, for statistics regard ing the export. of liquor to Amevien. Mr. Rumeiman told' the House that between 1920 and 1981, the exp from Great Britain, inclusive registered for shipment, the United States amounted to 3 000, ast year's exports amounted 161 proof gallons valued at $2,000,
5,547 gallons valued at $43,880, In the House of Commons on Fel 23 a question was raised concerning misleading tea labels implying that the product was of Empire origi whereas it was partly foreign= grown, The President of the Board Jof Trade, Inv, Walter Runciman, te= rhed that he was unable to recoins mend an order under the Merehan= ise Marks Act in the casa lof blended teas, owing to techs nical difficulties.' However, he added, the use of misleading labels was loft ence and the interested partie might prosecute,
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