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  2. LONDON LETTER

    The prospect of having to live laborious days—and possibly nights—faced members of Parliament when they reassembled at Westminster. The programme of ...

    Article : 209 words
  3. LEAVES FROM OLD FILES

    Sale of Barque.—The iron barque Ganymede (573 tons), built in 1868 at Sunderland, and owned until recently by Mr. W. S. Waterston, has been purchased by ...

    Article : 491 words
  4. A HISTORIC ADVENTURE

    The warship Calliope steaming from the harbour on the occasion of the hurricane at Samoa, on March 16, 1889. Mr. W. Nye, President of the Naval, Military and Veterans' Association, Newcastle, and the late Commander Glossop (H.M.A.S. Sydney) were among the junior members of the Calliope's crew at the time. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 53 words
  5. THE BIG EIGHT

    The governing body of the International Labour Office at Geneva has resolved that the eight States, members of the International Labour ...

    Article : 936 words
  6. 50 YEARS AGO

    Public Notice.—"Municipal District of Hamilton: Applications are invited from persons willing and competent to act and make valuation of all ratable property ...

    Article : 501 words
  7. DAMMING THE THAMES.

    Two schemes for damming the Thames are being considered by the Port of London Authority—one at Woolwich, costing about £3,000,000, and the other at ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. IMMENSE TASK.

    No Minister has ever before been confronted with such an immense Parliamentary undertaking as that which faces Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary of State for ...

    Article : 334 words
  9. SAMOAN STORM

    The illustration on this page is from the original painting of the warship Calliope, which, on the morning of March 16, 1889, escaped from the harbour at ...

    Article : 646 words
  10. Here and There

    "Why is cheese?" is the question that the research workers attached to the department of dairying of the University of British Columbia have set themselves ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. SILENCE AT THE BANK.

    For the first time it is claimed, a great building is arising in the City of London to complete silence. It is the new Bank of England, the steel skeleton ...

    Article : 598 words
  12. PLAYED 20 CHESS GAMES BLINDFOLD.

    The largest exhibition of simultaneous blindfold chess ever attempted in Great Britain took place recently at the Hampstead School for the Blind, London, when ...

    Article : 263 words
  13. STAMPS PRINTED BY NEWSPAPERS.

    Some of the most valuable stamps were printed by newspapers. Six stamps printed by the British Guiana "Official Gazette" are for sale now in London, ...

    Article : 217 words
  14. DR. KAGAWA

    Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, of Japan, who will be accorded a public reception in the Newcastle Town Hall by the Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. R. H. Christie) next ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 733 words
  15. ELECTRICITY

    Electricity is a difficult thing to explain. As Professor W. L. Bragg told his young audience at the Royal Institution in London, recently, electricity is not a thing ...

    Article : 500 words
  16. PRINCE AS A GARDENER.

    The Prince of Wales, whose talent as a composer has just been revealed, will become a Gardener—a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners—on March ...

    Article : 535 words
  17. SEALING VENTURE WHICH FAILED.

    The renaming by the British Admiralty of two small uninhabited islands some 20 miles from the lonely Tristan da Cunha recalls to the "Observer" the story ...

    Article : 231 words
  18. THEY KNEW LITTLE.

    At a moment when every paper in France carried columns about the Saar problem and developments in Germany, the Paris review "Vu" came out with a ...

    Article : 333 words
  19. A "TIMES" READER.

    A letter in "The Times," which celebrated its 150th anniversary on New Year's Day, signed "A Forty Years' Reader," tempted Mr. Guy Fleetwood ...

    Article : 301 words
  20. IMMENSE TASK

    Five months after her launching—an event which was outstanding among the occurrences of 1934—the 73,000 ton Queen Mary may seem to have passed from the ...

    Article : 368 words
  21. OUR 10,000,000 FAMILIES.

    For the first time in history a separate report on the census of housing in England and Wales was issued this week. Hitherto reports have been embodied in ...

    Article : 204 words
  22. A MOTOR TOUR SOUTH AND WEST

    It may be of interest to motorist who are thinking of making a tour south to know of our experiences on a tour outback. We left Newcastle on ...

    Article : 703 words
  23. LONDON'S "GREEN BELT."

    Londoners have given a warm Welcome to a scheme for a "green belt" of open spaces round London which the London County Council approved this week. The ...

    Article : 217 words
  24. SHANGHAI SKYSCRAPERS.

    Mr. A. J. L. Bailey, one of the Newcastle staff of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., who has returned from a business visit to the East, describes ...

    Article : 96 words
  25. NOVEL AIRCRAFT

    Large aeroplanes with small aeroplanes on their backs ready to jump off are to be tried out in Britain, with the aim of facilitating high-speed, heavily loaded, ocean air ...

    Article : 266 words
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