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MOST APPROPRIATE.--"Gunner J. C. ROCKETT promoted to rank of Chief
Gunner in the Queen's Navy." Of course, quite right to send up a
Rockett. Only got to present him with a house at Gunnersbury and the
thing is complete.
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[Illustration: A COMPLIMENT.
_Proud Mother_ (_to irritable Old Gentleman, whose beard her little
Boy is pulling out by the roots_). "LITTLE _DARLING!_ IT'S NOT OFTEN
HE TAKES SO KINDLY TO STRANGERS!"]
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"A DIVIDED DUTY."
["What we fail to perceive, at least to any adequate extent,
in the pleadings of the spokesman of the Lancashire Cotton
Trade, is a recognition of the paramount importance, even from
a commercial point of view, of the Imperial interests that
depend on the just and liberal government of India."--_The
Times._]