DEATH OF CAPTAIN lloottus.—The War Office has notified the relatives of Captain Thomas Rogers, Indian Expeditionary Force (Transport and Supply), that that officer died in France on the 12th ult. of pneumonia. Captain Rogers, who lived at Small Heath, was a native of and enlist

A group of annuals which deserves to be better known and more often utilised in borders and on rotkeries are the geunis or avens. The flowers are very brightly coloured and produced in long succession, while the foliage is decidedly decorative. The filKst of the' group are varie

The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desire to draw the attention of owners of woodlands and others to the fact that some collieries still finding a difficulty in securing adequate supplies of pit-wood. In consequence of the situation created by the European war, supplies from

THE NORTH WARWICKSHIRE will meet on Wednesday, March 24th, at West wood Heath: Friday. March 26th, at Bird-in-hand. Each day at 12 o'clock. The ATHERSTONE HOVNIM will meet on Friday, March 190, at Lutterworth; Monday. March 22nd, at Shustoke Green; Wednesday. March 24th. at Thre

The usual monthly meeting of the Foleshill Parish Council was held in the Board Room at the Workhouse on Tuesday evening. Mr. H. Sutton presided, and the other members present were Messrs. T. Cox, J. Hence, J. J. Rogers, C. Walton, and A. E. Chaplin; with Mr. H. 0. Gutteridge (c

WORKMEN . B I)Vk'ELLINGS. The Public Works Loans Commissioners wrote, saying that the rate of interest at which they were at present enqmowered to grant loans under the Housing of the Working Classes Act was four per cent., whatever the period for the loan. It was stated, however

PROGRESS OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS. At the meeting of the Prince of Wales' War Fund on Monday it was stated that a sum of £7O or £75 a week is rgyuired for the supplemental grants made out of the Mayor's Fund. During the past week the fund has grown from £306 17s. 3d. to £362 6.5. 2d

A list of ninety-five motor-cycle part s s was read out in a charge of theft against a young man named Albert. Ivens, 39. Marlborough Road. He was alleged to have stolen them from the Coventry Premier. Ltd., the total value being £lO Ns. 3d. Mr. H. L. Nelson (Messrs. I'ridmore a

Noah Mellor, 56, Gosford Street. pleaded guilty to obstructing Cross Cheaping with a horse and lorry. P.c. Taylor stated the facts, and said the defendant was in a public-house, and remained there ten minutes after being warned. The (7bief Constable said that the worst feature o

hUtiAL Lire. A BIRD NOTE. - • ----• My correspondent who asks if there is such bird as a goldfinch-canary is quite right in his surmise, and although really good specimens of such a hybrid are not common several were shewn at the recent s 1101 V of the London and Provincial Orni