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PEBSOHUl
Sister Beatrix Myrtle Mitclicll left'
liv tito express last night for three
months' holiday nt ti seaside resort. .
Mr. G. .T. Cowie, South Australian
manager for Dalgety and Co., arrived
this morning and will visit several out-
back stations before returning to Ade- I
laide ou Thursday.
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Mr. AV. G. Hooper, principal of the
College of Divine »Science, Bourne-
mouth, Kngland, arrived in Adelaide
I rom Melbourne on Sunday. He is ac-
companied by Mr. W. A. C. Allen, and
is on a lee tining tour of Australia ami
Canada.
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Dr. K. W. Morris, who for tho past
six yeai-s has l»een chief medical officer
al, Australia House, landon, returned'
to South Australia'on Sundny by tho
mail steamer Orsova. Dr. Morris
stated that- he intended to remain par
mnnentlv in »South Australia.
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Dr. Earle Page (the Acting Prime
Minister). Mr. W. C. Hill (Minister
of Work» and Railways), and Senator
(J. F. Pearce will leave Melbourne to-
day for Oodnadatta, where Dr. Page
will turn the first sod of the narrow
gauge railway extension to Alice
Springs.
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A cable message from London says
that Colonel John Theodore- Cuthbert
Mooro-Hrnbaiton, who has been Parlia-
mentary Secretary for the Ministry of
Transport, since November, 1024,^ and
who is a pioneer motorist, and aviator,
lins resigned his olhYc in thc Baldwin
Administration in order to become
elia irma n of a company.
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Dr. Karlo Page, tho Acting Prime
Minister, has received a radiogram
from Naples io the effect that- Sir
Novillo Howse, Minister for Defence,
who is on board the mail steamer Ot-
ranto cu route to Australia, is suffer-
ing from pneumonia, and that he is in
a serious condition.
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Alderman P. V. Stokes, lately Lord
Mayor of Sydney, was on Satmrday
night tendered a dinner by snpporters
and friends in Sydney, and presented
with an illuminated address. Mr.
Stokes, in shanking those present for
the gift, said the- prosperity of Sydney
warranted large progressive expendi-
ture on works such ns the Bunnerong
power house and resumptions. , He had
noticed with pleasure tho presence of
so manv bookmakers, whom he had
always found lo be the most honorable
of men and good "sports."
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Serious alarm has been caused by thc
condition of Mrs. Harrington Lees,
wife of the Archbishop of Melbourne,
who is nt presen» crinuslv Jil (savs a
Melbourne message in the "Register").
Mrs Lees has been in ill-health for
some time, but a serious development
a few days Ago concerned her medical
advisor to such an extent that it was
found necessary to recall tlie nreh
hishon from Tasmania, where, he was
spending n> short holiday. Special pray-
ers for her recoverv were offered at
all services at St. Paul's Cathedral on
, Sunday.
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