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iri-' > ,{ "4 Ii' !¡ \'Mi" > FPi'^ :w NEWS. to. .¡..Ú \<' t _¥- Grants of been nsiwJe out of ••••; kit. (i.? i'j, .ifI Wellington, New 4, for England, ing by way of <„ « /id Ar-onea. Driving i 200 h.p. Bt'itz motor-car .at Dayton, .t- !'>nda, Mr. 'ildrielel covered a mile in 27 1t8 seconds. This constitutes a- record. Count yon Aehrentha]. Aiistro-H'Hng'sriaji Foreign Minister, was received in a long audi- ence Dv the Emperor Frmicis Joseph, th-e Austro-Russian rapprochement being discussed. Both the Bulgarian and Servian Crown Princes are shortly to visit St. Petersburg. There are rumours of a, marriage between one 37 0 of the Princes aua a Russian Grand D rich-ess. The Queen, the Princess of Wales, Princess Louise, aDd Princess Henry of Ðttenberg: have promised to help the Fan Makers' Company, an old London Livery Guild, with a proposed historical fan section at the Japan-British Exhibition. Torpedo-boat No. 4 had her bows bent in collision outside Portsmouth Harbour with the ketch Fortis, of Chichester. The horse of a hansom cab fell,down the shaft of a sewer being repaired itt the Hayinarket. The animal was pulled out in a few minutes withcut injury. The Fairfield Company, Glasgow;, and John Brown, Limited, Clydebank, have each uooked one of the cruiser-battleships for the New Zealand and Australian navies. At Leeds Edwin Rhodes., indict-ed for the wilful murder of his wife at Sheffield, WitS found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced t-o five years' penal servitude. The death is reported of Commodore Andreas Peter Hovgaard, commander of the royal yacht Dannebrog, and known as an Aix-tie explorer. The seam trawler St. Lawrence, of South Shields, has arrived at Stromn, atfd reports having experienced tremendous iseafi. Two hands, William McIntyre and Henry Reiti. va re lost. After 62 years aa rector of "VV hitchurcji (probably the longest tenure of a i • ik- fice in the country), the Rov. PrebendM." W jq. Henry Egerton, M.A., has died in his ninety- eighth year. At an inqueet at Morriston, near Swansea, on Charles Powell, who, it is alleged, died shortly after receiving a blow from his son James, tlwi jury returned a verdict of Manela.«^iiter»" and the eon was committed for trial. The Bishop of St. Asaph autiounec-d at a meeting of the Royal Alexandra H()spit:. L Rhyl, that the whole of the buildings, et«iing EO,000, would be completed in the anttinni, and that the Queen would be asked to jxM iorjn the opening ceremony. The oldest Austrian statesman has IY.ll"d away in the person of Baron Jowef AlexaiKi<-r von Helfert, a life member of the Upper House of the Reichsrath and a noted historian. U¡U;;I"Hl von Helfert was in his ninetieth year. Letters from Fez state that the DQIW, of Tovar, who was attached to the latsf, Span n Embassy at the Moroccan Court, has pre&cj.1 i-d Muley Hafid with a live lion and Ho»e*s. an« 1.4 case of gold-mounted revolvers. A was delighted with the giffei. Submitted for eaie at the Mart, Tokeni^w-ft- yard, the late Mr. Alfred Beit's hoose, 26. Park- lane, was stated to have an annual ground rental, payable to the Duke of Westminster, of EI,150, which is Is. 6d. per foot. The property was withdrawn at £ 44,600. Free-wheeling down a steep hill in the Wtgtoa district of Cumberland, a cyclist crushed ilAta a six-barred gate aNd broke every bar, completely feurnhhiug his machine, but escaped being killed. '1 he death is announced from Melbourne af the Hon. Thomas Skene. a tormet- member of the House of Kepresentutives, and ehairmao at the board of the Colouial B*uk ot Ausfcralottta. At the London Sessions George Weaterfoy pleaded guilty to having stolen rings, a brooch, and a necklace, value £ 2.j(J, from the altop ot a Bays- water jeweller, and was sentenced to 2L moniks' list-d labour. Re-elected chairman of Huntingdonshire County Council, the Earl of Ssixlvrteh said that he could only accept if they included his nsmse Edward Montagu as well am his title, since in these days of revolution one did not know what might happen within the year. Tiff ani-cvwi- mont was made. Ten stowaways arrived at Plymouth 00 the White Star liner Afric, seven fearing transferred at sea from the outward-bound liner Georgic. Earl Compton, against whom three previous convictions were proved, was fined costs at Kingston-on-Thames for exceeding tize. motor-car speed limit, and his licence w", endorsed. Applications from scholars for ho fewer ifi:sn 300 twig6 for nature study have been refused b\ I the Parks Committee of the Middsosbrmsgh Council on the ground that if this kind of thing continued there would be no trees left i the parks. The Princess Royal and the Duke: of Fife, with the two Princesses, have arrived at C(1rO from Upper Egypt, and are living im beard their dahabeeah. At his residence at Chew Cou in Somenwt. Mr. Axby, a well-known 6IJOrtsman, maf. fostn/i shot. Asked at Bow County-court if a man was drunk, a witness in a case replied; Welt, they don't consider they are drunk until they lie down and pull the mud over them for a blanket." Mr. Haldane stated that the Territorial Balloon Company was not yet equipped for mobilisation, and that the future of the regular balloon company was at present under consideration. To combat the fraudulent marking of SowigB- made goods as British, it was decided at meeting of manufacturers held at the Hotel Metropole to form an association to be ealfedi the Register of British Manufacturers. A motor-car dashed into a ftac-k of near Monmouth, killing six ewes and six lawbs. At the request of Mr. Redmond, Mr EL Ft. O'Kelly will st,:<nd as the Nationalist eaad for West Wicklow. At Bristol the wedding of Sidney C-ulverwtAl., ad 23, to Mary Cole, aged 61, atI < crowd of girls, who indulged in good b u mwixv?!# chaff, and gave the couple a warm send-ofi. Lord Erskine was seized with faintneas ia tlH House of Lords while Lord Cuntois was s .easting!, and slipped from his seat. He speedily recovered, and wa.s able to proceed home tot hijt carriage; In a shrubbery attached to the While Htmse, Plasbot-grove, East Ham, the dead body of a boy about two or three weeks o14 with the head nearly severed from the trunk, was tawl wrapped in browti fiapar. ¡

m1 L0KD1K LETTER. i.) n 0 -1 r There t-~ be little -doubt thst a very f:-w vci'hs v.'ill e.ic conn,try '1 tLc throes of :a;otlier General LITiiis v/fts the concbasicn drav-rn fro::e the action of 1 tli-3 Govefnraetit a, week or two ago with reg'ard to Supply, and the belief is strengthened by the remarkable e."tivit:y which has been nolicenTe diiriaj t«o lait day or two -at the oi'ricc of the chief Government Whip. It is pretty c-ertaiui that the contest, be it soon or late, will be even fiercer than the last, in spite of statements that by an arrangement many seats held by a substantial maioritv on one side or-tiie other would be rhewed to re- main unchallenged. A semi-official communi- cation from the Government Whips office dis- poss of those statements. Every seat held by all op^xment, it is declared, will be fought. The Home Count'es, where the Government lost so many seats in January, are marked out for a determined attack, and an energetic campaign ini favour of the Budget and the abolition of the veto of the House of Lords is to be gunimmediately. An amusing example of the red tape asso- c £ ?.ted with official procedure is to be found in a White Paper which has been submitted to Parliament. It deals with all excess of ex- penditure on the grant for the National Gallery, and Parliament has to vote the sum of one p'imd to balance the account. So that the business may be transacted decently and in order this four-page White P,,]"er has been printed, and in cumbersome official phraM- ology the necessity for the vote is explained at great length. The Committee of Public Accounts have had the matter under their serious consideration, and report that they "see no objection to this sum being provided for by an Excess Vote. But that is not all. There is a second White Paper called a "Statement of Excess." which deals wholly and < xcessively with this highly important sovereign, in three official pages; and the published "Votes and Proceedings" of the House of Commons; contain another reference to the matter. The most amusing part of the business is that the cost of printing the White Papers and secdng copies to the persons entitled to receive such documents must have greatly exceeded the sum which has caused all the trouble. The hopelessly ignorant and inferior per- son who is unable to appreciate the work of artists and sculptors of centuries ago at a higher value than that of men nearer our own time may possibly be getting a little quiet enjoyment out of the story of the won- derful adventures of the Flora bust which a grteat German expert bought in this country in the belief that it wa.s a genuine work of the great Leonardo da Vinci. U He gave thou- sands of pounds for it, and people raved about its wonderful beauty. Then came along an English expert, who declared that the wax bust was not a Leonardo at all, but the work of Richard Lucas, an English sculptor of the mid-Victorian era-that period in which, if we are to believe the superior person, nothing artistic was born in this country. The English expert told what he said was the history of the bust, and among other details, said that Lucas was in the hnbit of using as a foundation for similar busts old articles of clothing. Then an examination was made of the bust by the Germans, who sat round with anxious faces, waiting to see if the btitit did actually contain a pair of mid-Victorian trousers or anything of that kind. What actually was found was an early Victorian bed-quilt. Certainly Leonardo could not have put that in, but the Ger- mans, unwilling to give in, said that the quilt had been used in repairing the bust. Now comes the news that the wax of part of the bust has been analysed and found to con- tain spermaceti, a substance unknown before 1700, by which time Leonardo had been dead nearly two hundred years. This again may have been introduced into the mateiial of the bust by the repairers, says the German ex- pert and his supporters. And so it goes on. Not until the whole bust has been tested can positive proof of the modernity of the work of art be obtained, but the evidence up to date will be enough for most people. What is most curious is that the bust, though worth thousands of pounds as a work of Leonardo da. Vinci, who died nearly four hundred years ago, would be a thing of little account to the artistic and superior person if it were proved to be the work of Richard Lucas, who died not very long since. Yet it is the same bust. "There has to be something stirring up to the last moment of my administration." said Mr. Roosevelt, when, the elements produced a'blizzard to mark the close of the strenuous President's term of office. Mr. Roosevelt has itoade things stir since in Africa, having shot goodness knows how many head of game. The American papers have bien publishing estrfcoons depicting the joy of the animals at the mighty hunter's departure. The lion anc,e- more breathes freely, and the hyena la-ufdhc again. Things were still "stirring" on his journey to the coast, and we are in- formed that the ex-Presielent'r, party were favoured with a "truly remarkable series of jairages." Mr. Roosevelt, :8 expected to ar- rive in London on May 16th or 17th. It seems very likely that things may be "stirring" (here abeut that time, and perhaps his visit may coincide with a general election. At :any rate, he will be the lion of the season. Shoals of invitations are pouring in upon cl bim, for all social London is desirous of en- I terta-ining him. Mr. Thoittae Beecham, whose opera season at Covent Garden has been so remarkably successful, has no faith in the idea of a per- manent national opera house, of which so much was heard some time ago. The whole Idle*, be MY-, "is preposterous, futile eod idiotic." Tie e k:^ "Car! yors' c:e>e I! re 'e su>/p "tting oa Enslhh oper«tie fUid C n vou see the rn.lep.ayer coat to Certainly it there; e j" e etforf: üf i;rr ■h;ati;>n. Lou-;hv-v■ ie 'wc-d served in the neifter of opera in the.ee days < that advocates of a national opera- house would have a d'faculty in making out a good case. Mr. Ihe.eh-\ra has only just concluded one season, and he IUHI arranged another for j the summer, and still another of three months for the autumn atCovent Garden. Then the big Covent Garden season is clo.se upon us, and later h the year the Moody- Manners conrpany will be giving us grand I opera in English. It i,; very different state j of things from that which prevailed only two or three years ago, and opera-lovers have j very little to complain about. Mr. Beeclianfs success has proved what was hilherto re- garded as somen hat doubtful—that there is j a large public whi h is willing to take an in- telligent and paying interest in opera when it is well done. It is largely a matter of busi- ness, after all. The demand having been proved, the supply will follow as a. matter of I course. A. E. M.

WEAK MINDED GIRL'S FRAUD. I A girl of nineteen, Madge Champion, who obtained a cheque-book from the Bayswater branch of the London City and Midland Bank by stating that she was "the Hon. Vera Coulston and had an appointment there with her guardian and solicitor for the purpose of opening an account, was bound over on Mon- day at the Marylebone Court. Sixteen cheques from the book had been used. A medical certificate was read from a meda- cal officer stating that, although unable to say she was insane, he was of opinion that she was "weak-minded, unstable, extremely hys- terical, easily influenced, and ought, to be under supervision." It was stated that arrangements had been made with the tangly solicitor, to take up the cheques, although the family were very poor, arid could ill afford to do it. They, of course, knew nothing about her doings, but wee anxious that no oue should be out of pocket as a result. Mr. PFul Taylor remarked that she had committed a verv r(n1ii"1':1"\Je (0nnYle1.cial fi.iii(l. alid, but for the doctor's report and her tender age he would certainly have sent her for trial.

BARRACKS TRAGEDY. I A verdict of "Pnieide" wr* returned on Ratur dnv hv the coroner"* ill'" that inquired irtotbt death of Sergeant ^tepheii (Jiif]it(;«, of the '2no Northumberland Fusilier*a .tmfire of Hammer sn irb. who ivo. found v i'h n '.iife b .Ilef through the h'-Mft. at, the If derabad Barracks, Colchester, on Friday. t l)r ( iowes the r> gi niental surgeon, said the. deceased, a f-t, otig nil" in good health, was nub- jeet to i ervt us <*e,.i es'h'ti. «h?ii he would fancy I tiiHt h>* wa- Kuffpi iu«-ft osti varioiiK ilinemen I Mi«» Vntx'l t ;rc>.t.. flint's sweethe«rt,' stated tf at about Christmte txt-t sugge* cd that bf wlionhl re!.•;>«<" he- from bi-t premise <it mar- ring- SifaiiM* vin^iil *• he refused, and a! I er- ward* m- -:od if she had released him he would j have ;.hot !,i.c.lf, The fallowing Iftter found upon the deceased j wasiend > Mv dear mother and dad—the. best in the world — forgive me for what I am about to do, | and comfort yon all. I aiu going mitd by ¡ inches. C.<xl bless May the orly girl I ever loved, and find bee a true him) and. —Y<ftir broken h< as tid Stepher. it.- a good soldier, a tine athlete, and a credit to the .regiiueutu I

INFERIOR ELDEST SONS. Writing in the "Times," Sir Francis Gal- ton, F.R.S., the distinguished scientist, points out that the principle of primogeniture, by which the first-born sons succeed to their fathers' places in the House of Lords, is not in accord with the, principles of the science of heredity. "The claims of heredity would be best satis- fied," says Sir Francis, "if all the sons of pfsers were equally eligible to the peerage, and a selection made among tlietn, late re- searches having shown that the eldest born are, as a rule, inferior in natural gifts to the younger born in a small but significant de- gree." I Some support to a similar theory was given recently in a lecture on heredity at Bedford College by Mrs. Whetham. "Often we find that poets are the first born of a family," she said. "The men with real, solid ability are fierhaps more frequently found among the ater members of the family.

A trap accident which occurred through the horse bolting in the Neath Valley on Sunday resulted in the death of Mrs. Lewis, one of the injured ladieg. George Dew, commission agent, was remanded on bail at Bow-street, charged with being con- cerned in using a house in Buckingham street for the purpose of football betting business. (Mr. Jainei Waugh, .M.Alf,headmaster of the Cunlift Intermediate School, died after under- goit.g an operation for cancer. Deceased wiuiwel] known in the scholastic profession.

THE ETE^ -J- '• ■■■ v The mye-te-v c e eTee'i v,-c:eeaTe ioe-e i g. 1, t.,t a- v -,e;,e].ve<>. T:e.: -a. 1 a..a arnards e: t !i diy<o\ery oi: ,e e. v.e>aa; .1.{;'¡.\¡, ih threw hev.vv' e,e Ite sea aiUr o p:>si.- :Ig I¡m;¿ of ,.e .a: 1.' b-otr 1 ii a.. to 0, li i 1 ti v. tie eh. dearly slKrv.p ;jav> the i 4 i ee el: 1- es,- hand* i l-e e;" ti-c leleee >• 11 a' ,f at: e.ea e.,n:iiii:e a h.rg ej.i vh.e- tion from Swuioarr-e. v i signed 1 tli-t, words. "I fh-' T ¡" j, letter from Victor, ia ai.i" the vr a' -a-!>r: e a e:' ant The roan?; "ennan eat-r e. ;;e had read and "e -.a,a I .1 writing the note hy the ceincinelbi-e \\a e. 1 a- mains only the eternal of tire eternal night." )

WORKHOr: a taken pin-a; P '• w-- >• a fa. «• of tlle Nv<)I" -I lian<i,- d Allegations made hy ere of the mii.-e.M arasunt tile Til, t '"d J- I. required by the brin ;\n ae' ian !• i a". 1, ,1. T- Li Us w' to l would be dispensed with.' As the apn it of master n." is a joint on. .i r, e-5 office also became vacant. The .1.. ordinate members of the sif afF of l 'h w • k- house and infiino"- •: "t arrived at r^eevitly at a r «,,e; ing of d;ItDS, shire. The staff were notified, he-e n:- h -if> they would have an opportunity of re-lkppoiutln.t. -o-—

SUSPECTED CHYLD MUP^ri, The body of a child, a: ed apparently i- 'n.it two years, was dh"-n erecl or, M'lvtl a t. e.«- noon iii one of of disposal works of j T^-vdford Urban D shriek Council at South Wood hel d. A strong mspiv ••• •• ior-i p]rv aroused by the aj)peai ;>nce of t' h^dv, A-hu b is severelv muij •• bodv. and. it is stated, the h«nd- s?vtr«d from the w-'«;' A map na -■! Bra-hey em]doyed at the wot1!? found the b<-dy.. «• d rrr" vae ately rlaced in the hands of the nedic.i. who are at g i 'f,) rc- a i- .1.. A doctor who (.1],1 o}Jin'(I" that (k.Üh hii o('cun..c1 not ](¡¡L-{ lJf¡'Ue the discovery.

AFTER TWELVE YEARS. A twelve years' p arch for a mvi'e i- i-sl- g mother has junt a stranpe ending at Not- tingham. Fourteen years 1,-c -<),I of Emma Den- r-nn. a wi !-nv, r.ra- d bv fv n-i •nts,: b';t after two years he began searching tor hi# mother. On Monday he saw il,c newspap'jra ar ic- eoii"t -of a'' innu-"1'- •> "')f;, n "111, nf Not- till f,)rll ,i Tri. friead, who broke ir-fo the honse. Death had taken nlace,. aecordir;g to the medical evidence, from a C)t son asked the 1),e. rn, I of the iiohef to s- the body, and thl1 id-en'i "r;1 has long-lost mv-eh-.r.

CANAL MYSTERY. With a fur boa tied tightly round her neck, the liodv of a girl named! Ruth Brctonner, who .had lK-en misf,i..g :► r.Kinl h. has l-ee i di 'covered in the Aire and Calder Canal at Barnsley. h»der her left eye was a curious wouhd enia-ed by a stick, about an inch and a half of in the face. The girl, who was about 16 years of age, was sent on February 21 upon an errand by her mother, and was not seen afterwards. Adding to the mystery of the affair is the fact that. so far as is known, she had no sweetheart, and that nothing had occurred at homa to cause her any trouble.

CLIFF-TOP TRAGEDY. James Miller Clark, of Wilson Mansions, Glasgow, was found with a bullet wound in his head at Tel scorn be .Cliff, Rottingdean. He was clasping a s x-cbambered revolver. At the inquest on Monday night it was stated that some time ago Mr. Clark met with a bad motor-car accident, which wag likely to effect his mental condition. Hiw brother had learned that afternoon that there had been some financial trouble. A verdict of "Suicide during temporary iu- sanity was returned.

STRENGTH OF THE ARMY. The general anr.\ln I report issued by the War Office on the British army for the year ended September SO 1,ast shows that the total strength of the army, including all ranks and all branches, stood at 746,1^6 on O^ber 1 last, whereas the establishment was 807.982. the dif- ference beine almost entirelv accounted for bv the fact that the Territorial force at that date was 43.049 beln", the establishment, and the spec'alsreserve 20.710 below. The number of recruits who wined the regular armv during the year wa« 33.837. the decrease of 3.338 as compared with the p-eceding twelve months being attributed to faWer r^n't* heing required to maintain the army at its establish- ments. Although 30 per ('It .of the recruits who pre- sented themselves for enlistment were rejected after medical ion, the quality of re- cruits tor the regular army,, according to ex- pert opinion, is improving. The men enlisted la-d year were above the average in physique, education, and character. Defective teeth causes the rejection of a grow- ing proportion of those who offer themselves from all parts of the country.

A return specifying the acreage of Crown lands tn Great Britain shows the distribution to be as follows England 1088UH acres, which are the absolute property of the Crown, and 83,4.>6 a1 subject to commonable rights; Valis, 12.871 ICrown audSI,654 commonable: Scotland, 21 Crown.