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PARLIAMENTARY PARS
PARLIAMENTARY PARS 1; LETTERS AND DREADNOUGHTS. '.7 For weeks past Mr. McKenna, has had to undergo almost daily a fire of interrogatories with regard to the publication of "private and confidential" communications written to 1 c0 the First Sea Lord by Captain Bacon. These letters deal, of course, with service matters, and one of them contained a reference in terms not at all complimentary to Lieut. Bellairs, who, though he represents King's Lynn as a Liberal, is one of, the severest critics of the naval policy of the Government: Mr. Bellairs is apparently under the impres- sion that publication has been gi,ven to the letters in question by the Admiralty from motives of revenge. Mr. McKenna, how- ever, declares that only a few- copies of the letters were printed, and those only for pur- poses of convenient reference; that the por- tion referring., to Mr. Bellairs'ought to have beeli deleted, and that, he regrets this was not done; and, finally, that no copy of the letter or, letters ought to have gone; outside the Admiralty. THREE YEARS AGO. The question is, Who circulated the let- ters? There appears to be no doubt that copies have been seen by persons for whose eyes they were never intended. Captain Craig, the Unionist, member for East Down, who is a most persistant propoimder of 'ques- tions -and a thorn in the side of Mmifetfepsy hag seen one, he says, in which Captain Bacon struck a brother officer 'and i member of the House very hard. Mr. McKenna says, how- ever, that Captain Bacon did not report on his brother officers. But the question of who circulated the letters remains un- answered.. The whole thing, says Mr; McKenna, occurred three years ago, before he was at the Admiralty, and' Sir John F; Fisher's recollection of the matter is so dim .that he cannot be sure whether he sent the letter to anybody or not. Mr. Bellairs; is un- satisfied, and there is an idea that he may perhaps take further action.' A TERRIBLE TALE. .11 There have been plenty of stories of spies and conspiracies floating around lately, but the cake is taken by the statement which his been sent ush niie that there are 66,000 tinned Cerman s ldi rs in England, and that there in a cellar within a quarter of a mile of Charing-eross, 50,000 stands of Mauser rifles, and 7J millions of Mause] cart- ,2 ridges—that is 150 rounds per rifle. With ));;Îview'¡to -dragging this bogey into the ;light of day so that it might be killed by ridicule, a question upon it was put to 'Mr. Haldane, "whose reply is worth giving. He said: "My lion, friend has. done well in bringing before the House, this illustration of the. class of i alarmist statement to, w hichcredence is t6o often given by thoughtless persms..Toany joui- possessing even an elementarly. know- ledge of what mobilisation ( requirements 'mean the suggestion is a ludicrous one. Such ^statements tend to lower our reputation abroad for common-sense. My hon. friend lias done well in exposing this one to the ^ridicule which it merits." How MANY DREADNOUGHTS? Several newspapers have announced that 'the Government have already decided to lay down the fo ur, contingent Dreadnoughts during the current financial year, tnp$ making the" year's programme eight Dread- noughts. N<j< official aTlnouncemeilt to that 1 effect has been made, and in reply to a ques- tioii on, the subject the Prime Minister said f.hat ]iQ had nothing to add to previous state- ments. The position, so far as official infor- mation goes, is that the Government pro- posed in the Naval Estimates1 -to take1 power arrange preliminaries so that -the eoiistl*uc-' 1 tion of the extra ships should be' proceeded with in the event of need. The Press often gets hold of information which is correct though unofficial; but it is sometimes wrong, a recent notable instance beiilg the state- mentbv the "Times" that the Budget would contain no proposals for. the taxation of land; With regard to the extended naval pro- gramme, Mr. Asquith, gives,, ,tlie same answer as he did to a. question upon., the Times" announcement: "Anything, that, 1 may have appeared in the,, Press is nothing but eonjec- ture." THE NORFOLK HOLBEIN. The situation with regard to the sale of the Holbein picture, "The Duchess of Milan," is a little diverting. The Duke of Norfolk has disposed of it, and the purchasers are desirous of selling it to "the nation. for 472,000. Then appears a letter in the papers expressing doubt as to the Duke of Norfolk's power to sell. There are, it appears, some Arundel Acts of the reign of Charles I., under which the Howards had to make an in- ventory of heirlooms which were not, in any circumstances, to be sold aHroad. The Hol- bein, _it is said, ought to be in such ihven- Y, is "not> and if it is then the Duke of Norfolk is unable to dispose of more than his if- *n^rest *n it. This is a little matter ■which the Premier has promised to have in- vestigatedv ■ THE SHOE PINCHES. Members of the House of Commons were amongst the first to feel tile effects of, the Budget. The Kitchen Committee promptly1 ,clapped a penny 011 whisky; and another on cigars. Important affairs ofStatê like, this always compel the attention of meníbers and, accordingly, the Parlicinientjary atmos phere was highly electrical wlien a member rose in his place and wanted to know why nicilibers,had to pay more for their whisky. The answer of .Colonel, Lockwood, who re- plied in the absence ,of Sir „A-. Jacqby through illness, was a model of statesmanlike gravity and discr, tiprij Hie super-tax, ,h,e :said, had been put on with the idea 'of ineehng a dfeficit and a fallulg revenue, by taxing luxuries, and perhaps wl- ith the hope of increasing temperance by limiting the alcoholic expen- diture of hon. members. In order, however, t.. meet the wishes of lion, members,, and: in j c? °f an arduous Session, the Committee ere to, rennt id. leaving only an in- ease(j price of |d. per measure. Members J,, avoid paving the; odd |d.: by purchasj.- Si§, tVo p0rtions instead of one. There was a j.,§"h of relief when the gallant, colonel said was probably' "enough whisky, Irish and "Cot,h, to la$t this Sessi I THE WINE ofr THE COUNTRY." scotch and Trish members made a strong tack upon the whisky duty during fetfort ^age of the Budget resolutions. Str H. rtik, the staid member for Aberdeen and o-lasgow Umversities-, put in a strong objec- tion to the duty, of which he, said Scotland wowld pay half the total amount. Sir John Dewar also considered that Scotland would aave a grievance, while Mr. Balfour, a Scot though member for the Citv of London, de- clared that the Chancellor of the Exchequer "aa'd' been unfair to Scotland and Ireland, %nd jhat this system of raising money woulct not o u water! If only all the Scottish members -■■f ™ use;; and join; in isingingthat fine old Scottish song, "The Massacre of Mac- r ;?herson, wi_th its bagpipe chorus and em- phatic comminatory conclusion, "An' tarn ta whusky duty," it is possible that the heart ?f the Chancellor might be; softened; HOUSING AND TOWN-PLANNING. Fears have been expressed lately bad-, vocates of the Housing and Town-Plamnino- Bill that time would not be available this, on for propeeding with the measure. Those fears, hoivev 7", have been in some geasure allayed by the statement of the Premier that the Government hope to make Provision -for the further progress of the. Bill; the Finance Bill has been read a time soon after Whitsuntide. The government, said Mr. Asqiuth, certainly in- tend to press the measure through all its stages this Session.
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"INSURED- MR. CHURCHILL'S "MAGIC WORD." "If I had my way," said Mr. Winston Churchill in a speech at the Free, Trade Hall, Manchester, on Saturday, "I would write the word 'Insure' over the door of every cottage, because I am convinced that for saerifices which are inconceivably small and not beyond the reach of even the poorest man in regular work, men and women may be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them up for ever." He felt assured, indeed, that the future of democratic politics should be summed up in the single word "insurance." It was said that in adopting a policy of contributory insurance the Government had admitted that they were wrong in establishing old age pensions upon a non- contributory basis. Mr. Churchill said he maintained that that was not true. There was no inconsistency between a non-contributory system of oldt age pensions and a contributory system of insurance against unemployment, sickness, invalidity, or widowhood. The condi- tions were different. The fact that at seventy old age pensions were secured made a tremendous difference to every form of insurance. An actuary, whom he had asked to make calculations, said it was no ex- aggcrationi,to say that the rates of invalidity insurance to cover a man till he was seventy were in an any cases scarcely half what they would be tocovCT him till death. That wa's a prodigious fact, by the discovery of which people made gigantic fortunes. A FORTUNE FOR, JOHN BULL. Why, asked Mr. Churchill, should they not make this gigantic fortune for John Bull. This proposal meant that there was a new class of insurance business possible; that' the field of insurance was far more open to the poorest people than it was before. He believed it was well within their power before this Parliament was over to establish throughout the land a mighty system of national insurance, which would nourish in its bosom all the existing agencies and embrace in its scope all sorts and conditions of men.
PROFESSIONAL MARATHON*
PROFESSIONAL MARATHON* About 40,000 persons were at the Stadium on Saturday when, with Lord Lonsdale as referee, a professional athletic meeting was held. Chief interest centred in the Marathon race, O\CL the Olympic course, from Windsor t<? the Stadium.' A lap and about 250 yards of the track had to be covered by the competitors after entering the Stadium, in order to com- plete the distance of miles 586 yards. The result was a "triumph for England, as although J. Key wood, the- most fancied Britisher, who finished third in last year's race, broke down »t about fifteen mil^s, and the second favourite -on the English side, in A. Crudnigton, who last ye 1 h n lied fourth, trod on a stone, twisted hib i i' ] and had to retire, C. W. Gardiner, a mo b 1 oi a'find-'tithletic family, several of his brc thers being well known amateur runners, came to the resctie,! and, taking the lead soon after passing through Pinner, retained it to the- end. His. time was 21ft .o £ tenin. 23 l-5seo. Mxrot4 twenty men completed- the trying 9 journey under 3} hours The: names, of the first seven were as follow • C. W. G 1 ((Eng- land), 1; Hector Labry (France), 2; F. Iklorris (England), 3 j A. Nt veu (Belgium), .4 J4 Gun- trip Victor Snouck;(France), 6; and A. Johnson (England), 7. Most important of the events on the Stadium track wis the fifteen miles race. This was won by F. Millot (France) in lh. 32min,4:5 l-5seci At ten miles A. Aldridge (England) led Millot by nearly a lap,, but was shortly afterwards E-ffiized. with t.fuy»s^l9Dke^ £ ami-' vetdre<j,i leaving Millet to finish alone, >
TEACHERS AND MARRIAGE.
TEACHERS AND MARRIAGE. ¡ Ffr 1 1 ,<' r,i. --r The statement that the employment of mar- ried female teachers in London schools is to be curtailed is causing much consternation among the married teachers and those about to be married. In the hopes that the Council will not make a regulation, retrospective, many, rna rriages are being hurried on to take place during the summer holidays, especially those where, both bride and bridegroom are teachers. A very Jarge percentage of. female teachers in London are ardent SufTragists, and these particularly resent the probability of their occupation being lost should they venture, to marry.
EARL SUMMONED FOR TWOPENCE
EARL SUMMONED FOR TWOPENCE 'su ly" Lord De La ^nu as ummoned b'f a taxi- cahrqan at Westminster 011 Saturday for two- penc^His defende was: that the drive|- had', tajongejr way -th^n hfe iSieed hav« dohe. warf dismissed-, and Loijd De La Wtw^was? awar4fd £ 2 2s. costs. t A. witness said thttt- th4 combination' oif th4 time and distance arrangement sometimes oe-1 casiolied varying charges. "Well do I knpw it," said Mr. Franis who tried the ca«e.'iftOne .night it registers jRight|- penfie, no\ t ni^ht, over acitly the fiuvo route, I find it la. 2di" i }
,, CHINESE HAIR FOR U.S. LADIES.
CHINESE HAIR FOR U.S. LADIES. } In the year 1907, 06,133 pounds of humati hair were invoiced at Hong Kong for shipment to thf United States,, and ill 1908207,414 plounds wej-e declared for shipment. This hajr is .4 irio brought to Hong Kong fi?orti the interior, and th<jre cleaned and sorted 'according tc> length and quality. It is then patked antI, shlped to New ToVk. Tt is said that the hair can ;be so treat'^1 in New York ;<s to aiter its colour and texture, and. that it 's u^ed in making the 8_ r switches, curls 1 d L nds which aie f;i £ hioii- ablo in the United States at the present tijme.
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i Ijve-rpool Calitral Statioji of a' Manchester express Arthur J.Lews, of Chorl- ton-on-Medlock^. Manchester, was. found dead in a pool of blood in a first-class compartment with a revolver by his. side. Miss Mildred de Bock Porter, daughter, of the late Sir Alfred de.. Bock Porter, was knocked down 011 a field path near B-arnet by a seaman named George Wood, who was sentenced to two months' h.j»*-d labour- i Mr. C. E. Hobhouse, Financial- Secretary to the Treasury, stated in the House of Commons that negotiations were in progress for the pur- chase by the Government of the Thorney estate in the Eem country, from the Duke of Bedford. The .architect of Cologne Cathedral reports that tjie condition of the cathedral is in many Eespects exceedingly unsatisfactory. The main frame of the building is thoroughly sound, and its safety is not imperilled, but the costs, of the necessary repairs are estimated at several hundred thousand pounds.
IN -THE. PUBLIC EYE. .
IN -THE. PUBLIC EYE. IfovKi.isT on Fiction. There is no woman writer of fiction who stands higher in r public estimation to-day than Mrs. Humphry Ward, whose new novel on the theme of the American divorce laws is certain to attract a great deal of attention both in this country and in America. Mrs. Ward was born in Tasmania, and she was thirty years of age when her first book, "Nailly and Oily," was published. She sprang! into fame with "<cRobert Elsmere," which, appearing twenty-one years ago, had the good fortune to be reviewed, by Mr. Glad- stone;—:a circumstance which at once brought famd to the author. Mrs. Ward, it is; said, agrees with Mr. Carnegie that literature in the fdrm of fiction may sometimes be de- scribed as "the worst of all narcotics." o:— AN APOSTLE OF Empire. The real author of Empire Day is not Lord Meath, who has, however, done so much to bring about the remarkable development of the idea in recent years., Empire Day had its birth in Canada, where by 19QQ the celebration had become pretty general. Lord Meath saw the possibilities of a great annual Imperial celebration. and he secured the support and co-operation of the Colonial Prime Minis- ters who were in London for the Coronation and Imperial Conference in 1902. The idea, as everybody knows, was received with enthusiasm throughout the Empire, j Lord Meatb, who will be sixty-eight this year, is actively engaged in social and philanthropic work, and it is interesting to note that thinking imperially does not prevent,him from sparing some time for smaller affairs. Among his multitude of interests is that of the Metropolitan Public Garden Association, of which j he is Chairman. Londoners are much indebted to him for his work in that capacity. STAFF DIKKCTOR FO:i Ixdia. When Sir Q'Moore Creagh takes -over the Indian command he will have as his Chief-of- Staff Major-General Douglas Haig, O.V.O. C.B. General Haig, who is nearly forty-, eight, has been Director of Staff, Duties at the.War Office since 1907. It is twenty-four years since he -entered the Army, join- ing the 7th Hussars, He served in the Soudan, and was present at Atbara and Khartoum. In the South African War he did good service, and was with General French I during the Colesberg operations. His ser- vices earned for him a brevet colonelcy, while he was appointed, .an, saide-de-camp to the King,- and made a C.B. General Haig has held the posts of Inspector-General of Cavalry in India and of Director of Military Training at the War Office. o FRIENDS FROM GERMANY. "Nothing but good can come of such visits as these, and I am sure that our stay will help to strengthen the friendly feelings that tave grown up between the two peoples." So says Dr. Martin Kirschner, Chief Burgomaster of Berlin, and leader of the party of civic representatives of that city who are now enjoying British hospitality. To an i n t erviowc r D r. Kirschner said it was the dearest wish of the tGerhian people to be on friendly terms with this country. '"Three years) ago," he says, "I de- clared that I knew of no German of common- sense who entertained feelings of hostility towards England. lean only repeat' the same thing to-day, but with in- creased emphasis. The attempt's to sow discord between us "are nothing snore or a pfime againsi our common nnmanicy. We are surprised at what we see stated about our naval programme. Surely, no reasonable person ealil thihlt this is intended ia& a Jiienape to Great Britain^ Let me again assure you that Germany desires nothing but the closest political and com- mercial relations with the Empire ruled over by the noble uncle of our beloved Emperor." 0: •; •• > ¡ PoMTicAr. Pension RESIGNED. It is wot offceif th»t a pensioner, be he never so distinguished, renounces his pension. Sir; John Gorst, however, has set a patriotic example by relinquishiriiw the pensioH of £ 1,200 a year which he has held since 1902 as an ex-Minister of the Crown. Sir John êq- tered political life in 1866, as member for Cambridge. Two years later, however, he failed to secure re-election, but Chatham returned him in 1875, and he remained member for that consti- tuency until 1892.J From that time until the General Election he represented Cambridge University. He has been a member of many Con- servative Administra- tions, ana trom leys to 1902 was Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education. In recent years Sir John has not been on the best of terms with his party. o f THE CHIEF RABBI. Dr. Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi of the United Q«mgregatiortBUof !the B itiah- Etnpiro, mhoap pastoral jubilee is celebrated this nrcmth, was born in Hanover seventy years ago, of Rab- ,bin,ical family, which has .counted amongst its representatives many rabbis and learned men. Dr. Adler was trained at University College and the University of Prague, and he obtained the^degree of IDoctor of Philosophy at, Leipzic University. He is the second' son "of thp lato Chief Rabbi, and he was appointed Delegate Chief Rabbi in" 1879 in consequence of his father's increasing years. For twelve years he performed all the duties of the office, and in 1891 he was elected Chief Rabbi. Dr. Arler is much loved by his vast flock, and the congratula- tions upon his jubilee will be world-wide and sincere. 0 A Socialist Canon. It is a hard problem, but I intend to face it." So said Canon Hicks, of Lincoln Cathedral, at a I Labour mass meeting theother day. The. problem is how far Canon Hicks, as a Socialist, "and a follower of One who had not where to lay His i head, is justified in I living on unearned in I crement from the health which he happens to have inherited. Canon Hielcs, who is J ery popular in- Lincoln, is possessed of consider- able private wealth, and it is stated that tie in- tends to surrender the whole of it, to sell his I motor-car and his car. riage, and to live en- tirely upon his salary. His private meahs he I win devote to tne alleviation of the suffering I and want brought to his notice. Canon Hicks has been a Socialist for about five years, and he constantly preaches national ownership. I-, ..I 11
¡FRIENDS FROM GERMANY, .
FRIENDS FROM GERMANY, BERLIN COUNCILLORS' VISIT. The party of burgomasters and municipal councillors from Berlin who arrived in London on a week's visit spent Monday morning in sightseeing. In the afternoon | they visited Buckingham Palace by invita- tion of the King. They were received in the Throne Room. His Majesty, who was accom- j panied by the1- officers of the Royal, House- J hold, stood up to receive the guests, each } member of the party being introduced by j name. Addressing the visitors, his Majesty said: "Gentlemen, I am very glad to see you J here. I remember with pleasure my recent visit to Berlin, and tlie hearty'' arid friendly reception you gave me in your Rathliaus. I hope you will be pleased with your short stay j in London, and that the places you visit and the sights you see will not only "interest you, but will give you pleasure when you think of them afterwards. I sincerely hope you will hav'e pleasant recollections of .your visit, | Herr von Kuhlmann, of the German Em- Herr von Kuhlmann, of the German Em- bassy, thanked- t King. on behalf of the guests. His Majesty then intimated that the State Rooms of the Palace were open for the in, spection of the visitors, and after his with- i'draWal the Court servants conducted them through several of the rooms. The audience through several of the rooms. The audience lasted about ten minutes, and another quarter of an hour was spent in the apart- menf's. Guildhall Banquet. j. In the evening the visitors were enter- tained by the Lord Mayor and the members I of the Corporation at a banquet in the Guild- hall, Giving the health of the, visitors, the Lord i Mayor said he hoped they would take back I to Berlin pleasant recollections of London. In any event, they would, he felt sure, be able to appreciate the sincerity and the warmth of their welcome, and the earnest de- I sire of the people of London to be regarded ..as friends and allies in the promotion of that good feeling which ought to exist—and did exist—between the two cities and the two nations. "We' want to show yon," he concluded, "as you showed us in Berlin, that we are de- termined to join hands and hearts in the cul- tivation of all those amicable feelings and I tendencies which should exist in people of a common origin and having so much tliftt is precious in tradition to join us together." Dr., Kirschner,1 in acknowledging the com- pliment, asked how it was possible that iso- lated forces should disturb the relations of friendship which existed between th two peoples and the two rulers. The feeling of friendship was ( #ot. a „ passing, or ephemeral sentiment, but was based,.upon the kinship of the two peoples, and of their reigning houses, f He desired to say emphatically and sincerely that all Germany wished to work with the British people, for the common good. )
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SIR DONALD CURRIE'S WILL. I The late Sir Donald Currie, head of the I firm of Messrs. Donald Currie and Co., who died on April 13, aged eighty-threej left estate of the gross value of E2,377,052 7s. 5d., of which the net personality has been sworn j at £ 2,305,832 5s. 2d. > j He left a number of minor bequests anc| j annuities. The only reference i.n- the will t(f a )' charity is in regard to the Cathedral Church of Dunkeld. The will states that if he should f. not have completed negotiations for a small f endowment fund to increase the income of tJ1 present nad future incumbents of the church, his trustees are to pay .£800 for this purpose. wife, Dame Margaret Currie, lje lift £ 0,000 and ail liis wines and consumable storps, and personal, effects absolutely, a&d { also all his! houseliold 'and personal effects (ip.- j eluding his collection of paintings by Turner) for life, but with power to dispose of any, either by gift or sale. Those remainijjg in her possession at her death are to p^iss 'W his daughters. 1" Sir Donald left to his wife a life annuity of £ 12,000, and, subject to these bequests, t&e { residue of his property upon trust for his said three daughters and their issue in equal t shares. ;j J — -r j -WINDFALL FOR CHARITY. t The late Mr. Frederick Gorringe, draper f and silk mercer, chairman of Messrs. J Frederick Gorringe, Limited, left estate 10f the gross value of £ 617,627 6s. 8d. He left; a •! large number of bequests to employees, ser- vants, and others. The residue of the pro- i perty goes to his- wife for life, an,d on her .1 decease £ 5,000 is left to the Linen and Woollem Drapers' Institute, £ 5,000 to the ) Warehouseman, Clerks' and Drapers' j Schools, and £5,000 to the Bolingbroke Hos- I pital, Wandsworth- Common. The residue, which-will amount to about £ 400,000, is ,to be 1 divided equally between the Westminster Hospital, St. George's Hospital, the Sol- diers' 1 and Sailors' Families' Association (Officers' Branch), the Homes for Little Boys at Farninghan*, Kent, the Royal Agri- cultural Benevolent, Institution, St. John's Foundation School, Leatherhead, the Orphan Working School, Haverstock-hili, and Dr. Barnardo's Homes..
FIRE ATTACKED FROM HOTELS,-
FIRE ATTACKED FROM HOTELS, An alarming fire broke out on Monday in 1 Lhe premlsescof the Society for the Promo- tion of Christian Knowledge, at the corner of Northumberland-avenue and Scotland Yard. At one time the flames belched from the base- ment in such a manner that the Hotel Metro- e pole seemed to be in danger. About a dozen detachments of the L.C.C. Fire Brigade were called and eventually got the blaze under, using the new American spray gun. I I Hoses were passed through the Hotel Vic- toria and the Hotel Metropole to make a iirect attack on the fire. While additional I hose was being conveyed into the vestibule of the Hotel Victoria one of the pipes burst, and several ladies and ,gentlemen were drenched. while a portion of the hall was flooded to a depth of two or three inches. J
P.O SAVINGS BANK VICTIMISED..
P.O SAVINGS BANK VICTIMISED.. Thirty Liverpool post-office savings banks were on Monday victimised by a swindler whose methods suggest that he had been studying those alleged against ftDl S. Win&ell." A post-office savings bank depositor can withdraw sums up to a sovereign from any office in the kingdom on merely presenting his deposit book. It is stated that a man with a genuine account in London procurejd about thirty deposit books, copied entries in them from his genuine book, imitated the post-offices stamps, and, presenting them ^t different post-offices in Liverpool, obtained a sovereign from each. He is said to havpl used a number of taxicabs, dismissing each and engaging a fresh one after visits to two or three offices, in order to avoid suspicion.
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Seeing a woman throw herself into" the Thames from the Temple Steps Police-constable Richardson dived after her, and after a fifteen minutes' struggle against the tide brought her to a boat ana applied artificial respiration, which was successful. Cases containing thirty pineapples from Jamaica realised 30s. at Covent Garden, while sases of twelve from Cape Colony only brought s. Four spaniel puppies at Longford, near Coventry, are being mothered by a buS Orping- on hen, which breaks up the food with her beak I ind calls her family just as she would a brood )f chicks. :ji,. :f. -¿ C{ ¡>ç;, e
EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS.
EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS. THE MARCH OF THE CHILDREN. Empire Day on Monday was a brilliant sue- cess. In the schools, in public parks, in citic parlours, the observance was general all over the country, and, indeed, throughout thes Empire. For the first time a great .proces- J sion of school boys and girls took place in < London. Thousands lined the streets and cheered the young people as they marched to "[ Hyde Park, where the trooping of the colour I was followed by a march last-lord Roberts taking the saii-,ie. Special notice was directed to a gun's crew from Eton, and to the large number of mem- bers of the corps of Baden-Powell's boy scouts, who wore their workmanlike uniform. A contingent of boys dressed in naval cos- tume, who were dragging a small field gun, also came in for a popular ovation. Promi- nent places in the procession were also occu- pied by Lieutenant Barrett's London naval cadets and Dr. Barnardo's boys, who brought their band. Many boys' brigades from various parts of London were also repre- Isented, together with schoolboys from all quarters of the metropolis. The girls in the procession, for the most part, ivore white dresses. Many of them had their liair wreathed with flowers. Almost all carried flags. young girl, attired as "Britannia," oceu- | pied the place of honour at the head of the procession, and many of the other girls were dressed, to represent the natives from various portions of the Empire. j Among the other events held in the metro- polis to mark the day, was the unveiling in the Imperial International Exhibition at the 1 White City of a statue of the King. Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada, and one of the staunchest of Imperialists, performed the ceremony. j Celebrations in the provinces took the form of musterings of children in square or ¡ market place, parade of flags, A patriotic speeches by mayors or public officer, and the singing of the National Anthem. I The Colonies did not lag behind. Numer- ous patriotic speeches were delivered at public meetings in Australia, Canada,, and the 'I' larger Colonies, while the list of cablegrams shows that even in such remote places as the Seychelles Islands the- sentiment of Empire found spontaneous egression. u, ■'
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u, ■' MYSTERY OF MAJOR'S DEATH. I 'I At the opening of the inquiry as to the I' death of Major Robert Andrew Faulkner, a wealthy, hunting gentleman, whose funeral took place at Ilston-on-the-Hill, Leicester- shire, Mr. Boriskell, the coroner for the< dis- j triet, informed the jury that Dr. Willmms, ] of Billesdon, had attended the deceased ) gentleman for some time. During his illness, continued the coroner, the doctor was not satisfied symptoms, which were the result oft^^aie, as he had not pre- scribed that poison.^ An inquest in,as, therefore, necessary in I order to clear the matter up. There was a. ¡ certain .(.nt of n pfdop. and it would be 1 necessary; to adjourn tli§ '"inquiry to allow time" for a post-mortem examination and an j analysis, a in Tire' ihqu was ntcorclmglv adjourned, rAtlrCrg, Píftt: of tjie intestines was for- "Xvarded'to the Homo Office v f" j r In consequence of the re^hft'of the ex a mi- | ■natfoii the coffin was rebp^pefl7' by:, order of j 'tho Home Office., in the ^reSCTce' of two t'i&4ic.,Il- n-ten; fytdl the iffaolt of^ th viscera ) 'fb^wairde'd to the Home Gfiite foi 4alysis. I
BOXING CIIAM1 ION BEATEN.,…
BOXING CIIAM1 ION BEATEN. Sam Langford, the. neoro defeated "IrOll" j Hague, the English boxing champioti, in /ottr jpunds'on 31c nday iii" 'it at 'the ;'National Sporting Ck-b. The end e im< Suddenly, with a short, heavy, half-arm punch delivered full on the point. Hague entered thëKng irr:Zde"c4dedly better condition, thapt when.1 he. fought, Gunner Moir, and seemed full of confidence. Still, he carried superfluous weight, and as soon as he opened' out into a'-sparring'attitude his loose, self-evident swing was in lamentable contrast to-the Dolished nonchalant methods of l^ans- ford. In the fir--t round both men prayed-for the body. Hague, after being twice hit in the face in the second round, got a heavy right j on Longford's' face. Many heavy blows were j exchanged in the third round. Hague was I ,'0.'0^n^ anxious at the end. Langford upj>er- 1 cut Hague at the start of the fourth round, and Hague tut the negro's lip with a counter. But less than two" minutes had elapsed when Langford planted his deadly punch.
THE CASABLANCA INCIDENT.'
THE CASABLANCA INCIDENT. .The decision of the league. Coiurt of Arbi- tration in the dispute between France and Germany arising out of the arrest by the French authorities at Casablanca of de- serters from the Foreign Legion was delivered on Saturday afternoon The Court declares that the secretary of the Imperial German Consulate at Casa- blanca wrongly and through a grave and manifest error endeavoured tQ bring about the embarkation on board a German steam- ship of deserters from the French Foreign Legion who were not of German, nationality. The German Consul and the other agents of the Consulate were not responsible in this connection, but in signing the safe conduat which had been presented to him the Consul committed an unintentional error. The French military authorities were wrong in not respecting as far as possible the "defacto protection exercised on those deserters in the name of the German Consu- late apart from the duty of respecting the Consular protection.
PRISONER'S LEAP TO DEATH.
PRISONER'S LEAP TO DEATH. After a desperate struggle in the compart- ment of a train in which he was being taken from Bournemouth to Bristol on Saturday to ur answer a 'charge of burglary at his parents' house, a man named John Notley leapt on to the permanent way and was killed. The man was in charge of Detective-Ser- geant Clarke, and when the train was between Mangotsfield and Staple Hill, about four miles from Bristol, he suddenly fell on his captor, saying: "I will knock vour eye out! During the fierce struggle that ensued the prisoner managed to open 11 the door of the compartment and got out on the footboard, fighting desperately to make the officer let him go. With a violent wrench he broke away and fell headlong from the rushing train on to the track, where searchers: soon afterwards ,found his body.
RACE BETWEEN DIRIGIBLES. j'ii':"':";':';'',,\;
RACE BETWEEN DIRIGIBLES. j'ii' The two German military airships which are daily undertaking trips engaged on Saturday evening .in the first race of dirigible balloons ever held. At a quarter past'nve the Gross II. and Pirseval II., after preliminary manoeuvr- ov ing, were aligned over the Tegel rifle butts, and a race was decided on to test the comparative speeds, a stack of cl nine a s on the far side of the T^emptelhof pandc giound, about six miles distant, being taken as a turning point. Major Gross, the inventor of the Gross air- ship, acted as starter. The Gross II., under Major Sperling, got away first, while the? starfc. of the Parseval II., under Captain George, was delayed. The result was declared a dead heat, as both airships made the same time, naraely> fifteen minutes to the turn and fifteen back.
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Forty of the most famous horses in America, belonging to Judge Moore, have sailed for Eng- land for the Interriational Show at Olympia. They include such champions as Menella", IJady Seatqn, Berkeley Bantam, Phyllis, Radiant, Diplomat, and Debater. A clerk in a leading Glasgow house was de- puted to transfer thirty-three thousand pounds from one bank to another, and received the necessary vouchers. Although he had less than a hundred yards to walk the documents mysteri- ously disappeared, and the mysterv remains un- solved. It was reported to the Kent County Council that 2,176 acres in the county were found by the inspectors' to be infected with the American gooseberry mildew, and that local authorities have now the power to require the destruction of all bushes on infected premises on payment have now the power to require the destruction of all bushes on infected premises on payment of compensation. .< -M'
EPITOME OF NEWS. a
EPITOME OF NEWS. a An Admiralty wireless station at Ipswich it approaching completion. General Sir John French inspected the Isi Life Guards at Windsor. "Peace is a great thing to obtain, and it it so easily procurable."—Judge Willis. At a Battersea inquest a woman said she had never heard of the Poor Law. Mr. Haldane has given orders that the Yeo- manry be armed with the short rifle. M. Paul Tissandier, one of Mr. Wilbui Wright's pupils, made a flight at Pan., with a Wright aeroplane of 35i miles. 4 Two Brahmin students have been sentenced at Bombay to six months' imprisonment- foi illegally importing two pistols to Nasik from Gwalior. It was announced that a full company ol Territorials had been formed at Featherstone. Yorkshire, in three days. Forty men and a tug were required to rescue a motor-car which fell into the river at Dart- mouth. "A really good cup of tea is the best thing on earth," Judge "Willis declared at the Southwark County Court. The following advertisement appears in a Tar- nioutli newspaper "Can any person undertake to teach English in Y armollth? Battlements and finials of the great hall of Hampton Court Palace are being restored. Burglars have stolen a great quantity of jewellery from the shop of a Darlington pawn- broker. Messrs. l\IcKerrow's corn mills at Liverpool have been gutted by fire. Thousands of sacks of flour were destroyed. While trying to stop a. runaway pony and cart at Leicester Samuel Garrett was 'struck by of the shafts and killed. Mr. McKenna has promised a deputation that the advantages of the Tyne for naval docks shall be fully considered by the Admiraltv Board. Very few persons are capable of doing any- thing more than taking a subordinate part in business," Judge Willis asserted at Southwark. A Colchester labourer, whose son injured his eye while playing tipcat, was fined £ i and costs for neglecting to take the child to the hospital. 9 Lord Selbourne has satisfactorily adjusted the European and native appeals against the par- tition of Swaziland. The final survey will now proceed. It is stated in Italian parliamentary circles that the Naval Construction Bill will be amended to increase the effective strength of the warships to be laid down. As the result of a fight with another inmate of Medway Workboiw. Chatham, George Floyd was knocked clowp, it is alleged, and died shortly after. "In a matter of this kind I prefer the evi- dence of a policeman to that of a Cardinal," said the Irish Secretary in the House of Com- mons when questioned about boycotting. Mark Shawcross was remanded at Manchester, charged with the murder of Mrs. Ramsbottoms who was found strangled in a field at Gorton. "I understand that the only comfortable place in the New Bailey is the dock," said Mr. Carl Hentschel at the Court of Common Council, in a discussion as to the ventilating- of the build- ing. Stouppe Maginnis, the Belfast ex-rate col- lector, who was arrested at Manchester, has been further remanded on a charge of falsifying the Corporation books. ..Blink Bonny, belonging to .Mr. Thomas Glen- eross, took the first prize of £ 10 in the jumping fences event at Merthyr (Glamcrgan) May Day show and horse parade. For obtaining sums from £ 20 to E25 from women under pretence of giving them lucrative employment, John Russell, a builder, "was at Old Bailey sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. Lord Roberts has written to Ascot Post Office to thank the postmaster and staff for the excellent way they coped with the extra postal and telegraphic work necessitated by the cele- bration of his golden wedding. The entire fortune of the late Mr. H. H. Rogers, the oil magnate, is estimated at £ 12.000.000. He was insured for £ 22,000, which sum will be paid to his widow. A woman, returning from High Cross Camp, near Newport, Monmouth, discovered a man hanging from an oak tree bv the roadside. He was identified as Alfred Searles, a native of Bristol. Sixty thousand people were present in St. Peter's, Rome, for the canonisation of Clement Hoffbauer, a German of the Redemptionist Order, and Joseph Oriol, of the secular clergy of Barcelona. Opening a Tuberculosis Exhibition in Dublin, the Countess of Aberdeen said the mortality rate of tuberculcsis diseases in Ireland in 1908 was down one decimal point. Through one of the sheer-legs of a crane at the new electric lighting station at Westminster giving way, a man fell down the scaffolding in front of the building and fractured his skull. The estimated population of New South Wales at the end of March was 1,614,517, as com- pared with 1,605,003 at the end of 1908. The net imigration from the United Kingdom was 1,811. Mr. Justice Parker held that the term a slip- on coat" may be used by any maker. It was first used by a novelist early in the nineteenth century to denote a cloak worn in the High- lands. At the Mansion House Albert Price was sen- tenced to six months' hard labour for stealing a gold chain and coin, etc., valued at X10, from Mr. Henry King, president of the Newspaper Society, in Fleet-street. It was announced at the annual Miniature Bisley Rifle meeting at the Agricultural Hall that the only highest possible score recorded this year was made by a lady-Mrs. Bunney. Fire broke out at the garage of the General Motor Cab Company, Brixton-road. The out- break was kept in hand until the arrival ci the Fire Brigade by the appliances with which the building is equipped. At Christie's a set of four oval panels of old Gobelins, depicting subjects from the history of Henry IV., and panels of tapestry representing scenes from Dutch peasant life realised 1,500 guineas per set. A cockroach which had crawled into the high tension switch-gear caused a failure of the electric light supply in the Hoe district of Ply- mouth by diverting a current of 2,000 volts. The Army Council will shortly issue a scheme for encouraging the enlistment of telegraph messengers who have attained the age of six- teen and cannot be engaged permanently in1 the Post Office service. Lord Harrington stated at the annual dinner of Leicestershire keepers that poison had been laid down in several districts, with the result that a number of valuable hounds and foxes had been destroyed. The chauffeur of the First Lord of the Ad- miralty was fined X3 at Kingston for exceeding the speed limit. It was stated that Mr. McKenna paced the distance of the police trap when he was caught. Charged with having .left his horse and cart unattended in one of Darlington's chief streets, Ernest Almond stated that the horse became restive because it. mistook the policeman's bright buttons for lumps of sugar. m Rest was prescribed by a doctor at the Old Bailey for Daisy Marshal, a chorus girl, whc pleaded guilty of robbery from a boarding-house, and when about to be sentenced and fell violently to the floor of the dock. Sentence was therefore postponed. The committee of the New York Stock Ex- hange has adopted a new rule forbidding mem- bers to engage in transactions with members of the Consolidated Exchange, and also forbidding business with bucketshop firms.