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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12500, 29 March 1909, Page 3

It was reported at a meeting of the London Education . Committee that 47,072 necessitous children were supplied with, meals in the elementary schools. in London.-. ~- " ■ -..';. ;■. . . „ "Any quahtity ? 6f /.large, ;• fat, "old, heavy hens wanted.'' '-* ; Once; .sent -. to . us and -you 'will keep' on pending.?' So ran'the~ advertisement' which- induced Mr- WilliaVnLyDaisey, of ißainsgate, -England, to %etid. fifty-eight:: fowls to an ; address; in Bishopgate," where. Henry Hudson and Jack Mijler had made arrangements for letters to be received in the name of Hudson - and Co". 'Miller and Hudson appeared at Sandwich Quarter .Sessions to ati- , swer r *-a charge ~of obtaining, the fowls by false pretences. 1 and "counsel stated . .that "about 270 ihead of, poultry h^d Been sent to the ■' prisoners, but .with - two exceptions hoTjody; had received a r penny in return; Hudson was sentence ed to fifteen months, and Miller to i four months imprisonment. i Messrs. Briggs arid -^olstenholwc, i architects; : qf ■ J^iverpobl-' '■. Jtnd .. Blackr ■■ burn, have 'been -commissioned' to draw plans : for -the: erection of big works at- Flint, for the manufacture .by a German firm of , a patent lustre ', silk. The: establishment of, this- factory isone of the fruits :of the i b^erations "of the 'ne w Patent Act, xequiring that articles ' must .be . manufactured in ~ England if they are to enjoy' the pro-; tection of her "patent laws.. The cost of thehuilding Js about^ £so,ooo, and ' the work will eventually give employment to about 1000 operatiyea.