THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15911, 3 November 1913, Page 5

THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

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LONDON, October 31. At the banquet which was tendered him by King Edward's Horse Colonel Robin declared that he was surprised to find the difficulties under which the regiment laboured owing to the lack of encouragement by some who talked loudly about building up the Empire.

• Professor Leppmann, in lecturing to the Child Student Society, stated that the word " mum " was an instinctive sound, and not an intentional call. Children of every nationality employed it after a time; in fact, they associated the word " mum'' with the arrival of their mother and the cessation of their distress.. Afterwards they used the word intelligently. The earliest sounds and vowel sounds were due to the tongue getting into the way of the breath.

While a labourer at ITythe was entering an hotel he banged the door. The handle pierced the casing and struck an electric wire, the shock killing him instantly. King George entertained at a Holborn restaurant 520 workmen, who were engaged in re-facing Buckingham Palace. This is a unique instance of a monarch's tribute to craft discipline and British workmanship.