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By the irony of fate a man who for many years had been a staunch teetotaler has met his death by drowning in a vat of beer.
The victim is James Canham, 41, of 108, Farnan-avenue, Walthamstow, employed in East-end brewery. He was engaged yesterday in keeping down the froth on a vat of fermenting stout, standing on a ladder for this purpose.
Is all well with the meridian of Greenwich? The Astronomer Royal answered the question rather vaguely at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory yesterday. His visitors included some of the greatest scientists in the land, and he had to pick his words.
He expressed general satisfaction with the report of the experts upon the relations between the Observatory and the neighbouring electrical generation station of the County Council. He trusted that if the recommendations were strictly carried out the work of the Observatory would not be seriously interfered with. At the same time he confessed that further experience when the generating station was completed and in full work might modify his view.
