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m PARLIAMENTARY PARS
m PARLIAMENTARY PARS THE BUDGET DEBATE. TAX AND SUPER-TAX. In introducing fh# 1906 Budget Mr. Asquith said: "In fjregard the income-tax, I do not hesitate to associate myself with the. declarations or more than one of my prede- cessors that an income-tax of a uniform rate of Is. in the pound in time of peace is impos- sible to justify. It is a burden on the trade of the country which in the long run affects not only profits,, but wages. It presses with excessive and peculiar severity on, that large class of the community with incomes from E700 to iE2,000 a year, who pay in addition their full shEkto-,of the taxation on articles of consumption. It tends to destroy, or at any rate to contract, the most readily available reserve On which the, Sti-te can draw in a sudden and- unforeseen emergency." THE AVRRAGE. RATE. It was only to be expected that when the House ofCommons came to deal with the income-tax proposals in this year's Budget, which fix the tax on unearned incomes at Is. 2d. in the pound, and impose a super-tax of.6d. on incomes oyer £ 5,000, that the above quotation from the Premier's speech should -be brought out. Mr. "Evelyn Cecil, "in quot- ing it, drew from Mr. Asquith the statement that he still, adherediitoftthosa rviejvrs: When, later on, he spoke in the debate, he argued that the tax is not really a shilling in the pfrtirid. The average rate for the year just past was 9 £ d. If raised to Is: 2d. with the ad- ditional abatements, the average -would be rather more than lOJd. Taking the super- tax also into consideration, the average rate in a full year was estimated to amount to llfd.) That, he thought, was an extremely moderate sum. HISTORY OF THE TAX. Tho, inicome-tax, the, Premier pointed out, was imposed, by Pitt as a war tax. It re- mained in abeyance from 1816 to 1842. It was revived by Sir Robert Peel, not for war pur- se8 at all, but for the purpose of recon- th^t tariff, "and it Vvvj^s retained by successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, some, with more" or less 'cheerful acquiescence, some, like Mr. Gladstone, who was- always an Opponent of the ^luctance." -Always regarded as ,a me^ly temporary expedient, ""it was never', brought ^to" anything like a condition of justice in ife ■- incidence, and although, said the; loremier, "I do not claim for myself when I was -,Chct,ncellor of the Exchequer that, I brought the income-tax into anythmg like an 9 ideal condition, I do claim that I removed some of the most glaring of its inequalities; apd anomalies by establishing a distinction ••between earned and unearned income. He ddtfecFtrf" I now look upon the income-tax, as a permanent part of the fiscal machinery of the country with aft" absolutely untroubled conscience." So there it is. "THE TAx ABROAri, As, to the. statement that the new imposo will drive capital abroad Mr. Asquith ex- pressed incredulity. France and Germany, t he declared, are even more unfavourably I placed with regard to the income-tax than this country. "In France, if the new income- tax law be adopted i ma ti With an. income of #4,t)00 a year will have to pay an income-tax of is., 5d. in the X- whereas an income, of > £ 4,000 in this country will "pay an income-tax of Is. 3d. If you go a step lower down in the earned income of' X3,000, it will only pay Is. When you get to the higher incomes a man who has, pay, £ 20,000 a year would pay on that sum in prance Is. 7d., which is practically the same sum as' -Will be payaoie Uftders the proposals of the 'Chancellor of the Exchequer. The possessor in Prussia of an income of £ 5^000 pjiys to the Stnte tind to the rnimieipaJity taxation amoufitiiig' t6' 2s!. in the pound,, oii the average, in thirty of the most important dties. Further additions to this will become due under the" Finance Law of the present year, and further additions still will be made if the schemes now under discussion are ^passed. Capital mtist bear ifw share of taxa- tion, was the Premier's argument, and, that being so,, jn "what other ways than those pro- posed in the Budget could the contribution be=4h&d&? X r AN EX-C H AXCEM-OK Mr. Austeh Chamberlain, who has himself had Budgeting experience, attacked thepro posals with vigour. His, opinion is that* the increase "6f the tax .in tirtije of peace, dts elasticity, so necessary in the event of war, will be destroyed. Mr. Chamberlain also ex- pressed, the fear that there will be a good deal, of evason of the tax, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may find out that there will be passive registers In finance &§ welL as jn education., Sir Charles Dilke, who followed Mr. Chamberlain, did not think;, that capital would be driven out of "i the country by the new imposts. • .■■■■■ It is security that counts in. the of capittil, he said, and compared to the question of security, these, proposals are trifles. lie argued that if direct taxation drove away capital it was; strange that there should be £ 400,000,000 of ,riish., Cap.i.tl invested ,i», Australia,, where, in addition to heavy taxation, ■ therp is a special tax on absentee investors. In the end the Government had a majority of 203 -in favour of the resolution. TKERltOHIALS SATISFACTORY STATEMENT; Lord Luoaa ma.de' a very satisfactory state- ment with regard to the Territorial Force in the House of Lords during the debate upon W motion ^by .the yeterap .Earl of Wemyss, •who asked their lordships to declare that, the Force as at present established is insufficient, an4 that; steps should be;taken to render, our ;land defences such that nation yould ever '"attempt in any form a" hostile landing on our 'shores." Lord Lucai said the Terri- torial Force bad improved in size and effi- ciency at an astonishing rate. The numbers ciency at an astonishing rate. The numbers had increased very largely. He thought the Iat -,t return was 254,000 men, which With officers would mean 263,000, very closely ap- proaching the numbers of the Yeomanry and Volunteers. The Force had reached a stan- dard of" efficiency greater than at first they <ekpected it would do: In the month of April, *f»ring which the tern of most of the year- Itloen expired, there was reason to believe ^at the total strength of the Force would !r<% but the-averse had been the case, the number of recruits > more than -couhter- the non-renewals—by some hun- dreds. A LETTER PROM "BOBS." In consequence of his golden wedding Lord Roberts was unable to be present to take partt in the debate, but the Earl of Wemyss was fortified with a letter, from the famous soldier,, in which he stated that the armed forces of the country are still as absolutely unfitted and unprepared for war as they were in, 18.99-1900, and that if the expeditionary force, or even the first, four divisions of it, were sent, abroad, we should be, at'the mercy of any invader who could land any number approaching to one hundred thousand men in this country. Lord Roberts wants an army of a million men for home defence, and is in favour- of compulsory military training, though not*: of compulsory service, so that there would be a large reserve for national emergency. A division was taken on the motion of Lord Wemyss, which was defeated 1 by four votes.
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An application ifrom the Mctfpeth Golf Club for the withdrawal of the municipal by-law pro- e hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on- the icommon was refused pending the calling of an extraordinary meeting of the club to discuss the (question. i By amalgamation and retrenchment in the public service the New Zealand Government has already effected a saying of £ 187,000. Changes are to bo made involving a total saving of S:250,000 per annum.. ° ) w
••»-5"''ix-i GIFT OF R15 000.
» 5"' x -i GIFT OF R15 000. The Goldsmiths' Company have intimated to the governing body of the Imperial College of Science and Technology their desire to contri- bute Y.50,000 towards the proposed extension of the department of engineering by the construc- tion of new lecture rooms, laboratories, and workshops—the whole engineering department of the Imperial College to be called "The City and Guilds College." Sir Walter Prideaux, the secretary of the Goldsmiths" Company, in intimating this gift to the Earl of Crewe, Chairmah Of the governing body of the Imperial College, says it is made in their sole corporate capacity irrespective of their support "of the City and Guilds Institute, to which body they hive been the largest con- tributors, and their subscriptions to which they do not propose to curtail. Lord Crewe at once replied gratefully ack- nowledging the munificent offer, and expressing the warmest appreciation of the further evi- dence of the company's interest in the promo- tion of the higher education. In a subsequent letter Lord Crewe informed Sir Walter Prideaux that the Goldsmiths' Com- pany's proposal had been placed before the governing body, when the following resolution was passed: "That the most cordial thanks of the govern- ing body of the Imperial College of Science7 and Technology be tendered-to the Worshipful Com- pany of Goldsmiths for their munificent gift of £ 50,000: .that the governing body of the Imperial College gratefully accept this generous offer."
TERRIBLE TRAIN DISASTER.
TERRIBLE TRAIN DISASTER. Five people were killed and eight injured- four severely-in a railway accident in Alsace- Lorraine. An express train which left Muel- hausen at 10 p.m. ran into a burning goods train near Heibsheim. It appears that the latter had left the rails, and that the boiler exploded. The flames, bursting from the engine, set fire to fche derailed trucks which were blocking the, adjacent line, so that the express dashed into a burning mass of wreckage. It fell over the embankment on to some marshy ground, and also caught,. Terrible scenes were witnessed. Two of the victims wer-q-lburnt alive, one of them being the official in charge of the in ail van, all the con- tents of which were destroyed. The majority of the passengers escaped, unhurt, but in scanty attire, as they were in--ttieir sleeping tyersths whf n tlje iona^lj.oceurred- Many lost' their bag- gage jin The drily. ]ba*ss<a'nger filled was a young lawyer named von Boetticher, a son of Bismarck's con- temporary, th<A' late Herr Karl Heinrich von Boettioher, at one time Secretary of State for the Interior, nnd vice-President of the Prussian j Ministry. The other four killed were railway officials. — ( II
THAT HAUNTING MELODY ;
THAT HAUNTING MELODY Mr. percival Frank Jones, of Birmingham, whose wife sued him for a divorce, complained in the Divorce Court that Mrs. Jones nagged; him, and particularly that she annoyed him by persisting in singing a song. He said that she had been in the habit of singing the song to a naval officer, to whose acquaintanceship with his wife.-he objected. "It was a sort of ',Little love, good-bye' thing," he said. "She would put a great deal of passion into it. The words of the thing I 'Oh, I shall be broken-hearted And my tears will flow, I i. If I should be ever parted From you and my old banjo.
LORD ROBERTS' GOLDEH* WEDDING.
LORD ROBERTS' GOLDEH* WEDDING. The fiftieth anniversary of the wedding at the parish church of Waterford of Lieutenant Fred- erick Sleigh Roberts, oc the Bengal artillery, and Miss Nora Bews, daughter of Captain Bews, of the 73rd foot, was celebrated at Epglemere, Ascot, on Monday. The young Artillery lieutenant of fifty years ago has achieved great fame and distinction. He is Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria, and Water- ford, P. C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C., K.G., D.C.L., LL.D., O.M., F M. He wears scars and medals innumerable, and not the least of his distinctions is the name Bobs," conferred upon him by the people of England in token of affec- tion for a great gentleman as well as admiration for a great soldier. Lady Roberts has never forgotten the duties and responsibilities of a soldier's wife. In India in the early days of the marriage her husband was hoping to be selected for duty* with the China expedition, but was passed over out of consideration of the fact that he was a newly married man. "I ain afraid," said Lady Roberts when Lord Clyde appealed to her sense of gratitude on this account, appealed to her sense of gratitude on this account, u that I cannot be very grateful to you for making my husband feel I am ruining his career by stand- ing in the way of his being sent on service." Afterwards, when her husband had advanced to high command, Lady Roberts devoted herself to the great work of Organising the service of trained Army nurses, which has since proved of inestimable value in India and in South Africa. Lord and Lady Roberts have had six children, Out the first three all died in infancy, and their only son was killed at Colenso, during the South African war, after winning the V.C., like his father, by conspicuous gallantry. In spite of Lord Roberts's desire that the celebration should be a quiet one, a brilliant ceremony of a semi-official character took place. While the distinguished couple and their family "were at breakfast at Englemere, Ascot, oh Monday, the band of the Irish Guards arrived, and played a favourite Irish air in the grounds. Lord Roberts greeted the visitors, and in the presence of a distin- guished company was heartily congratulated and presented on behalf of the regiment with a handsome gold cup. Other pleasing incidents followed. Two sergeants of the Royal Regiment of Artillery handed his lordship a sealed letter from the past and present officers of the regiment re- calling the interesting fact that in 1857 Lord Roberts was one of its lieutenants. The letter also contained an invitation to the Field- Marshal to, sttend the banquet to be given next mOllth by the regiment in his honour. Among other presentations made during the day to Lord and Lady Roberts was that of a piece of gold plate subscribed for by the servants at Englemere and a. basket of roses sent bv Sir Charles and Lady Ryan. A large number of congratulatory messages from all parts of the kingdom were also received.,
THREATEN^ WITH REYOLVER.
THREATEN^ WITH REYOLVER. At Bow-street on Saturday, Mrs. Angelina Fildes was remanded in custody charged with threatening to murder Mr. Henry Cum- 9 berland, a solicitor, of John-street, Bedford- row; and Constable McDonald, Mr. Cumberland said that about twenty ye ars,. Ag<), lie acted .for the trustees of a set- tlement in which Mrs. Fildes was interested, and, under their direction, paid her an al- lowance for about, two years. The matter passed out of his hands, and he had not seen Mrs. Fildes until after the trustees Tiad re- appointed him to act for them, aid she sailed by appointment at his "office: When she entered the office Mrs. Fildes demanded her husband's address, and when it was refused she 'get up from where she had b^en sitting, *retii4d' two or three Spaces, anil pointed a revolver at Mr. Cumberland, ex- claiming, "I a.m a, desperate woman, and am not going to leave until I get my husband's address. ,r ? He -called, -through- the telephone to his clerk's office, and asked, them to send for the police. A constable entered the office and made a rusn towards Mrs;. Fildes and seized" her ihand. At that;ynoment jthe revolver vexxt off, and thes iwllet ..entered the wall.. She was then arrested. J"' i iMg-.r"
LADY'S STRUGGLE WITEf ^RGLAR
LADY'S STRUGGLE WITEf ^RGLAR A Bristol»4^y -and ller servant had a plucky strtiggle with a btri'glnr on Sunday morntiigi"' ^Pfe-fitan entered 'No. J5, .Work- place, jjtpparen^ly from., Kouse ne3jt -.f}aoEA aaad,j gqt into tjie bedrpoig.. q £ Miss Williams, the occuj^ier.. When tnbr fiidy W6ke up airdnsa^v*him she ra»^ the bell'»vigorously for hei" sencant:andealIeil for help When fche servant arrived she found that the- bursar,"had attacked her mistress land was holaMg li6r down on the floor bv the thro t Uoth womeli., attacked -the man, Miss I Williams striking him on the head, with a hot-water can. At 1 he cried, "Let me go! I've had enough." < They relSseftffetheir hold, and the man, aftdr striking the servant on the head with one of his boots, which he had removed, snatched Miss Williams's purse and ran out, leaving1 his hat behind.
.MR. SWINBURNE'S WILL.!
MR. SWINBURNE'S WILL. ——R-—- -}■ Probate was on Monday granted of the will of Mr. Swinburne of "The Pines," Putney-hill, London, S. W. His estate has been valued by the sole executor, Mr. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, at £ 24,282 10s. 8d.' gross, including' personalty of the net value of 9 6 5s. 7d. The will, a short, typewritten document, dated February 3, 1904, reads as follows: I, Algernon Charles Swinburne, of "The Pines," Putney-hill, in" the" county of Surrey, Enquire, declare this to beniy last will. I devislc and: bequeath all my pro- J?Bry whatsoever and wheresoever, both real and personal, to Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton,' of "The Pines," Putney- hill,' aforesaid, and T appoint hifli to be the sole executor. It is interesting to recall that Lord. Tenny- son left £ 57,206, Robert Browning £ 18,775, and Matthew Arnold £ 1,040.
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"Four classes of society should be total ab- itainers--inebriates,. children, all the clergy, all mothers," the Bishop of Durham declared at the conference of the Mothers' Union at Church House, Westminster. At the; annual public performance of students of the Academy of Dramatic Art, Mr. Rupert Lumley was awarded Sir Squire and Lady Ban- croft s gold medal for the best dramatic per- formance. While examining the flowers in his garden the Rev. Thomas William Tomlin, rural dean of Cheadle, Staffs., suddenly fell down and ex- pired, two of his brothers-one exactly a year ago-having also died with equal suddenness.
SIGNALMAN'S ORDEAL.
SIGNALMAN'S ORDEAL. A signalman named Lines, employed la the signal-box near Soham Station, on the Great Eastern Railway, underwent an ordeal on Monday that was sufficient to try the strongest nerves. He had just signalled "Line j clear'' for the Ipswich express when, glancing towards the down line along which the express would pass in a few moments, he saw a little four-year-old girl named Doris Pryke, the daughter of the village butcher, j crossing the line. [ It was too late for him to stop the express, he could not reach the child in time to save her, and he realised that if he shouted to her she would be certain to stand still and look in his direction. 1 Slowly, the little girl entered the four-foot way, unconscious of the approaching train. j She was within inches of safety when the train flashed past. j Lines rushed to the spot and found the • little one lying by the side of the line, un- conscious, but alive. Her escape had been little short of miraculous. Only the front wheel guard had caught her uplifted leg, and I she had been hurled a dozen yards, alighting on a heap of litter. A doctor who was summoned discovered that not a bone had been broken, and that she was suffering from nothing worse than a i few bruises and scratches.
) WIFE IN FLAMES.
) WIFE IN FLAMES. < | An open verdict was returned at the in- | quest on Monday at Smallthorne, Stafford- ehire, on Sarah Ann Price, aged 51, who was fatally burned. Her husband, George Price, colliery labourer, is in custody charged with having caused her death by pouring paraffin i over her clothing and setting her on fire. The j couple lived together at Bradeley. Matilda Cox, a neighbour, said she heard deceased say to her husband before she died, "You have done it this time." The husband j replied, "It is not me, it's your bad deeds." William Cooper, another neighbour, said he saw the accused maid rush out of the | house with a coat which he threw over his. j wife, who was enveloped in flames. ] When arrested Price said: "I did not pour the oil on her. She threw a bottle of oil at me, hit the table leg, and broke the bottle. She struck a match upon the floor and put it on her bosom. She then shouted, George, j put it out.' I ran for an old jacket to put it round her, and she ran out into the yard and j screamed murder.' | The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from shock following burns, but there | was not sufficient evidence to show how these i had been caused. i
BAZAARS CONDEMNED.
BAZAARS CONDEMNED. A resolution strongly condemning tht system of bazaar trading as carried on by churches of all denominations, and calling on the clergy to use their influence to end it, was carried by a large majority at the annual conference of the Ironmongers' Fede- rated Association, held at Bournemouth on Monday. In moving the resolution Mr. Heathcote Meakin (Birmingham) said he had no objec- I tion to sales of work pure and simple, but bazaars usually ranged from goods supplied by manufacturers on sale or return to ¡those blackmailed from local tradesmen and often sold at cost or below by people comparatively ignorant of business principles.
THE POOR LAW, - -
THE POOR LAW, MIt. BURNS'S PROPOSAL, x Mr. John Burns, President of the Lec"r Government Board, in opening the Children's Infirmary at Carshakon on Saturday, made some remarkable references with regard to the work of his department and the administration of the Poor Law. He said while the Poor Law Commission had bpen pursuing its investigations he thought he could claim that the Local Government Board had been acting wisely on lines of which both the majority and the minority reports of that Commission approved. As to what the Govern- ment were going to do with the reports of that Commission, he could only say that something would be-done. Something must be done. Some- thing was already being done. He did, not know what Government—whether the present or the next, or the next but one he rather thought the next but one was the better way of putting it- would deal with this question. If Parliament really knew its business, it would remit both reports and the whole problem to the Local Government Board and the Home Office, or both in association, for them to take action whenever they thought it necessary. He would attach only one condition to that-that, in view of the carte blanche thus given, his de- partment should report what they had done every three months to Parliament for approval.
MOTORISTS' RIGHT TO THE ROADS
MOTORISTS' RIGHT TO THE ROADS A novel case "in which the question of the right of the motorist to the road was raised came before Mr. Lane, the West London magis- trate, when a young man named William Ewer- was summoned "for preventing Major A. D. Boden, 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade, of Borden Camp, Hants, from passing him on the high- wav." Major Boden stated that he was driving his motor-car along Kensington High-street, when, 8JI he was about to pa as a cart, the defendant, iwav." who was riding a bicycle, looked round on hearing the hooter sounded, and then deliber- ately rode out in front of his car. He continued to ride in front of the, car for about a mile and » half, and whenever he (witness) was eble to get his car in front, the defendant would seize a favourable opening in the traffic, push his way past the car, and, looking behind again, would Blacken speed and wait for the car to come up so as'-io^riew* his obstruction^ tactics. > Mr. Lane imposed a fine oVis., with,2s. costs. J- Z J —
PARDONS FOR SALE. I
PARDONS FOR SALE. I An extraordinary scandal has come to light in i Jparis. According to French law it is permis- sible, after a criminal case has gone through the Courts, to make an appeal for pardon through the Minister of Justice, and information recently reached the authorities that certain individuals "had been getting into ecommunica- tion with persons who had made such appeals, promising them to bring influence to bear in their favour in higjh quarters, in return for pecumary considerations. On the facts of the case being placed before him the Minister of Justice ordered a further investigatiqn to be made, with the result that An artillery captain connected with the perma- nent Court-martial in Paris wag brought before ftn examining magistrate and placed under arrest. I is stated that a "veritable agency" has been organised at the Ministry of Justice for obtaining remissions of sentences, and high officials are involved.
PORTER'S PROMPTITUDE.
PORTER'S PROMPTITUDE. At an inquest at Battersea on an elderly widow who slipped down some steps at Clapham Junction, it was stated that a young porter, finding her gasping for breath, forced her mouth open and withdrew some false teeth which had lodged in her,throat. The porter &aid he had passed examinations in first aid. Tihe Coroner remarked that he evidently knew what he was doing, and did it very well.
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It is expected that Servia, Canada. New Zealand, Rhodesia, and the South African Colonies-for the last time as separate Colonies—will be represented at Bisley this year. I A jack caught in a pond at Cullompton, Devon, was found to have swallowed a large rat. There are indications that the Somaliland Mullah's following is breaking up.
ATTACK ON A SWEETHEART.
ATTACK ON A SWEETHEART. Jealousy is stated to have been the cause of an alleged attempted murder in St. Luke's, when a young horsekeeper named Henry Martin twice stabbed his sweetheart, Aliee Rouse, with a pocket knife. He ran away, bnt was arrested, and the young woman was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The girl worked at Bridgeman's box factory in Graham-street, City-road, and was in Gal- way-street at the dinner-hour when Martin met her. Words ensued, and, pulling out a pocket knife, he stabbed her in the breast. As she turned to run away lie pursued her, and again Stabbed her in the neck, just under the ear. At the police-station Martin is said to have remarked "I hope she will die." He was charged with wounding her, with intent to murder, and was remanded in custody. The couple had arranged to get married at Whitsun, and Martin lately had been jealou3 :>f the attentions paid to the girl by a sailor.
DARING MIDNIGHT-OUTRAGE.
DARING MIDNIGHT-OUTRAGE. A daring outrage took place in Bloomsbury in the early hours of the morning—at the house of Mr. Davidge, the proprietor of a hosier's shop at the corner of Griffen-street and Museum-street. Mr. Davidge, who is sixty-five, had re-entered hia house after seeing some friends off the pre- mises shortly after midnight, when he found himself seized by three men. r "One of them blindfolded me by tying stiirie- thing round my head," said Mrl ]bavidge, ffan4 then they bound my ankles together with a piece of cord, took my gold watch and chain, and rifled my cash box." Ultimately the thieves locked Mr. Davidge into his bedroom, from which he was eventually rescued by a passing lamplighter.
BLIND. PASSENGERS. F?!
BLIND. PASSENGERS. F ? Dr. Fletcher Little has called the attention-or the Board of Trade to the subject of allowing blind passengers to travel on railways without a guide. j Mr. Gooday, the general manager of the Great Eastern Railway Company, replying to the Board of Trade in reference to one case brought to his notice, rays: "Surely no one can expect us to provide: attendants to safeguard any of our passengers, whether unfortunately, suffering from the infir- mity of :bli()r any other infirmity which prevents their taking care of themselves, and equally surely no one can expect us to allow a totally blind man to travel unprotected at the risk of his life." <
SEQUEL TO "JUNGLE" ACCIDENT,
SEQUEL TO "JUNGLE" ACCIDENT, An accident that happened in Bostock's Jungle last year at Earl's Court Exhibition re- sulted in £ 20 damages being awarded to Mar- garet Black, a child of five, who suedthrough her father, against Mr. Frank C. Bostock. It was alleged that she was placed on a pony by an attendant to go for a ride, but on start- ing she fell to the ground because the animal "suddenly stepped forward." The result was her arm was broken. The defence was that the child's father should have looked after her, and that a notice Was ex- hibited to the effect that the sports in the jungle being free the management accepted no res- ponsibility for accidents.
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Concealed under a heap of sacks in a milk cart, two detectives drove up to a house in Essex-street, Dublin, where they suspected that betting was being carried on. They dashed into the house and locked the,, doors. Some twenty people were within, and several escaped by jumping through windows and over walls. One man was severely cut on the hands and face. Posing as a window cleaner, a man about thirty years of age, wearing a. blue overall, has succeeded in robbing several London houses, He called at a house in Kennington-road and pleading poverty begged to be allowed to clean the windows, when he made off with some jewel- lery,
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE. GRIMSBY'S MSMBEB. The people of Grimsby hold their member, Sir George Doughty, in very high esteem, which is not .surprising considering that much of the prosperity of the fish metropolis is due to his exertions and enterprise. Their liking for him is so enthusiastic that it even appa- rently caused a change in their political con- victions -at any rate, they sent Sir George to, Parliament first as a Home Ruler, and when he crossed the House,, resigned his seat, and submitted himself to his constitu- ents, they sent him back again by, a largely increased majority. It seems that, Sir George may remain member for Grimsby as long as he cares about it. That he .keeps a Careful eye upon the interests of his constitu- ents is proved by his question to the First Lord of the Admiralty with regard, to the alleged visit of the German transports to the mouth of the Humrber. I o
A FRENOH COMPOSER.
A FRENOH COMPOSER. Leaving out Richard Strauss, no composer of the present day is more talked about than Claude Debussy, whose lyric-drama, Peildas et Meli- sande," is being played at Covent Garden for the first time in England. That work was first put on the stage in Paris in 1902, and at once brought its composer wide fame, though cer- tainly several of his compositions were al- ready fairly well-known to musicians. The list of his important workl- is not a long one. He pays more attention to quality than to quantity, and he has stated that it took him thirteen years to complete the score of Pelldas and, Meli- sande." I apt a slow worker," be says, "and cannot turn out an opera regularly every year, as some composers do." The famous Frenchman has never, he declares, been able to write, to order. ()i
BISHOP OF BUEKLEY.,
BISHOP OF BUEKLEY. The new Bishop Suffragan, of Burnley is the Rev. Henry Henn, M.A., Vicar of Bolton, and Hon. Canon of Manchester, who is recognised as one of the finest scholars in the diocese of Manchester. He was formerly a (scholar and Fellow of Trinity Hall. Five j years later he was ordained and became curate of Preston, Lancashire. In 1889 he went back to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and served as dean for six years. In 1895 he was invited to go back to Lancashire as vicar of St. Paul, Preston, and his next appointment was at Bolton. = Canon Henn, who is about fifty years, of ago, has always taken a keen interest in civic as well as religious affairs. :o,
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V MAC CAium MOR. The Duke of Argyll, who formally opens the great International Exhibition, is-the-head of the bouse and clan of Campbell, and is the bearer of the Gaelic title Mac Callum Mor, as was his great incestor Sir Colin Camp- Dell, who was knighted by Alexander III. of Scotland in 1280. That mighty chief was slain J by the Lord of Lorn, I but the two great houses were in time united by marriage. The Duke of Argyll, who is in his Sixty-fourth year, bore the title of the Marquis of Lorne until he, suc- ceeded his father in 1900, He has had a dia- tinguislietl career. He had some years experience as a member of the House of Commons, before he went to the riouse of Lorda, and forty years ago he was private,sec- retary to his father at the India Office. From 1878 to 1883,he,w.Governor:-General of Canada.
GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS. -.
GENTLEMEN-AT-ARMS. His Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms are celebrating their fourth centenary, for they were raised by Henry VIII. in 1509. At that time the corps was composed entirely of men who could show three generations of noblesse on their arms, j In these days, however, it > is composed of forty, four officers selected from the Army and Royal Marines, and only those officers winning distinc- tion in the service are j selected to fill the vacan- J cies. The Captain of this distinguished corps is appointed by the Govern- ment, and remains in office only so long as his party is in power. The present captain is Lorft Denman, who served in the South Arncan war as japtain commanding a squadron of Middlesex, Imperial Yeomanry. Lord Denman is in his thirty- ifth year. -:0:- -j
THE PASTOR OF WHITEFIELD'S.
THE PASTOR OF WHITEFIELD'S. The Rev. C. Silvester Horne, who has heen nominated as Chairman of the Congregation iil Union for next year, is the well-known pastor of White field's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court-road, London. He was born just over forty-four years ago, the son of a Congregation Minister, and the grandson of a leading Congregational layman. He owes much to Dr. Dale, of Birmingham, and Dr. Fairbairn, of Mansfield College, Oxford, where he studied theology. Mr. Silvester Hoi'ne was minister of Kensington Chapel from 1899 to 1903, and in 1902 was Chairman of the Lon- don Congregational Union. He describes him- self as an "impenitent Radical and advocafa of modern Puritanism," and his recreations, again on his own confession, are golfing, cycling, and agitating. I
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— :o —— < A VACANCY. IN EDINBUBGH. Sir Lewis McIver, who has resigned his séatCinr the House of Commons, has represented West Edinburgh as a Unionist since 1895. He is the eldest son of a former chief of the Madras Presidency Bank. Born in 1846, he was at the University of Bonn, and in 1868 entered the Madras Civil Service. During seventeen years he held some important posts, including those of Under- Secretary to the Government of Burma and, President of the Municipality of Ran- goon. In 1878 he Was called to the Bar, and in 1884 he, retired from the Indian Civil Service. In the following year he was elected as a Liberal for Torquay. Then came the Home Kule split, and standing as a Liberal Unionist m 1886, he waa beaten by a Conservative. His first attempt at Edinburgh was unsuccessful, for Mr. Herbert Paul beat him in 1892 in the southern division of the city.
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The Hampton-on-Thames District Council passed a resolution calling upon headmasters and headmistresses of schools to teach children to observe due care in stepping from the pave- ment into the roadway. While a man and his wife were asleep in Paris a kitten became entangled, with the tube running from the meter to the gas bracket in I their room, causing an escape of gas, which suffocated the man, his wife, and the kitten.
' "MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S RETURN.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S RETURN. Accompanied by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain arrived at Charing .Cross from the Continent at 5.35 on Monday after- aoon. Mr. Chamberlain, who wore a heavy "overcoat Mid a brown Alpine hat, with pince-nez in place of his customary monocle, looked stronger than when oe went abroad, being well bronzed and apparently in good spirits. Ho was assisted from the train by Mrs. Cham- berlain and a gentleman, and, with their assist- ance, walked to his carriage with less effort than when he returned from his former visit to the Continent. Mr. Neville' Chamberlain said that his father was decidedly stronger than when he went abroad.
POLITICAL SLANDER CASE.
POLITICAL SLANDER CASE. At Berks Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Jvstice Ridley and a special jury, a slander j action was brought by the "Berkshire Chronicle" Newspaper Company against Dr. j Abrani, the chairman of the Reading Conser- v-ative Association. Plaintiffs alleged that Dr. Abram, in a speech delivered at a political dinner, made grave reflections on j the conduct of their newspaper, and chal- I lenged Mr. Hedges, the chairman of the directors, to give the name of the writer of t certain articles, and to show that certain re- ports were not concocted entirely in the office of the "Berkshire Chronicle." The Newspaper Company alleged that this meant they had been guilty of a fraud upon the public. From the evidence it appeared that the "Berkshire Chronicle" had from time to time made damaging statements concerning I Mr. Johnstone, the prospective Conservative ¡ candidate for Reading, the Conservative I Association, and the defendant. His lordship supported the contention of defendant, that certain despatches from I Cornwall respecting Mr. Johnstone were con- I cocted, inasmuch as certain sentences which I would have altered their meaning had been omitted. The jury found for defendant, but stay of I execution was granted.
\CLIFF FATALITY.
CLIFF FATALITY. A cliff accident, resulting in the death of • lad named Harry Jackman, aged sixteen, has occurred at Swanage, on the Dorset coast. I Three bove, named John and Albert Witt and Harry Jackman* walked on Sunday afternoon to Dancing Ledge, about midway between Swanage and St. Albans Head. Pro- ceeding along the cliff pathway, they came to a. spot near Blackers Hole, and Jackman went to the cliff edge to search for gulls' j eggs..■ "• j In a few minutes he was lost to the view of the other lads, and then, to their horror, they heard loose stones rattling, a cry for e help, and a splash in the water, apparently causd, by a heavy body falling into the sea. The two boys ran for assistance to Anvil Point Lighthouse, two miles distant. A tele- phone message was dispatched from here to Swanage, but it was considered useless to get out the lifeboat. | Two men, George and William Dyke, set off in a small rowing boat, and, despite a ( heavy sea, reached the scene of the accident. Jackman's body, terribly bruised, was, found in 10ft. of water. He had fallen a distance of; 70ft., coming into contact with sharp rocks in the descent. I in the descent.
!CYCLING CUP STOLEN.
CYCLING CUP STOLEN. — e A handsome cycling cup was stolen from the window of the Rover Motor Company in I New Oxford-street by a gang on Monday afternoon. I j The cup was the Rover Challenge Cup, I which was presented to the Northern Cycling Club as one of the awards'in their race -from i London to Edinburgh and back. It was on exhibition in the Rover Company's windows, [ and, standing twelve inches high, looked very i tempting. Although silver-gilt, it is pos- sible that the thieves thought it was gold. About two o'clock, when fche manager, was at lunch, a well-dressed man came in and at lunch, a well-dressed man came in and told the assistant in charge that someone had been defacing the facia. The assistant went out to see, and at that moment another of the gang appears to have gone in by another entrance and appropriated the cup." A third confederate outside opened a newspaper in order to screen the tlhft Some detectives on the other side of the street had been watching the proceedings, caught the man with the newspaper and the man who had decoyed the assistant out to look at the facia, but the man with the cup got away.
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A man living in the Rue de Minime, in Paris, summoned the fire brigade to rescue him from an army of caterpillars which had invaded his | house from the neighbouring park. It was stated at the Willesden Police-court j that one street lamp had been broken 85 times, in a few months.
FEMALE HOOLIGANS.
FEMALE HOOLIGANS. "This is an institution for poor children, and not for female hooligans," said Mr. Burns, in rebuking a suffragette who inter- rupted his speech. When' a second interruption occurred the President of the Local Government Board said: "I ask you to show yourselves wiser than these vulgar creatures who have in- vaded this gathering. We can manage them; and if we can't the police will." Both women were turned out. Miss Christabel Pankhurst, addressing a meeting in Hyde Park on Sunday, said that Mr. Burns' calling their women "female hooligans" was like Satan rebuking sin, be- cause they must never forget that Mr. Burns had been far worse in his time than the most militant suffragette.
DEATH FOLLOWS INSULT.
DEATH FOLLOWS INSULT. The trial was concluded at Davos Platz on Saturday of First Lieutenant Bartumek, an officer belonging to the Hungarian infantry regiment quartered* at Gran, in Hungary, whc was charged with the Manslaughter of M. Jules Mulder, at Davos, on April 16 last. The accused was found guilty, with extenuating circum- stances, and was sentenced -to six months' im- prisonment. .) M. Mulder, who was a Dutch subject, and hac been living in London for the last twenty years, arrived at Davos on March 10 on a visit to his wife, and both he and Madame Mulder intended^ leaving on the afternoon of March 16. During luncheon that day M. Mulder thought he saw the Hungarian officer looking at his wife in ar offensive manner, and, losing his temper, spoke to him in insulting terms. Lieutenant Bartumek immediately demanded satisfaction, but M. Mulder refused to give it As M. and Mme. Mulder were leaving the room the officer drew a revolver and shot M. Mulder dead. He then went to the police-station and gjave himself up to the authorities.
MARRIED AT FOURTEEN.
MARRIED AT FOURTEEN. A sad story of an early marriage was told at Walsall Police-court on Monday, when a child wife appeared in support of a summons against her husband, William Bowen, a miner, for disobeying a maintenance order. She said she was married at fourteen, her husband being thirty-five. She was now seventeen, and- the mother of three children. In two months' she had only received seven shillings from her husband, although he could afford to get drunk two or three nights a week. The husband was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE.
FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE. George Brown, a collier, of New Conis- borough, Doncaster, driven to insanity by grief at the Joss of his wife and eleven months' unemployment, cut his throat on Sunday after attempting td murder his eight children. o The eldest girl, aged sixteen, was awak- ened in the night by a smell of gas, and found the taps in both the bedrooms turned on, while her father lay dead. One of her ffisters managed to open a window and call for help just in time to save the family.