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,J.'"'''"-—— PARLIAMENTARY…
,J. "-—— PARLIAMENTARY PARS Ii INCREMENT VALUES DUTY. THE LIBERAL "CAVE." The fight, on the Budget is proceeding witb great spirit, but with exceeding slowness. A Parliamentary week of discussion has pushec through the Committee the first six lines of th first Clause, which read: "Subject to the pro visions of this part of this Act there shall b charged, levied, and paid on the increment value of any land a duty called increment value duty, at the rate of one pound for every full fiv* pounds of that value, and the duty, or a propor- tionate part thereof shall become due." Thert will be a speeding up presently, no doubt, but it is evident that the Opposition intend to fight the Bill stubbornly, clause by clause, and almos. word by word. TWENTY YEARS AFTER. One of the numerous amendments moved wher the House proceeded to deal with the sub-sec- tions of Clause I. was a proposal that the incre ment duty in the case of any transfer or sale oi land, or the grant of a lease, the iiieremeiitdut3 should not become due until after the 29th da) of April, 1930. The mover of the amendment declared that the postponement was necessarj in order to insure the vendor being able to show his title clear to the land. Mr. Lloyd George declined at once to accept this amendment. tht adoption of which would have made the Bill one to raise revenue not next year, or the year after, but in 1930. Even Captain Pretyman's assur- ance that by waiting he would get a large sum in increment instead of a lot of small sums failed to move the Chancellor of the Exchequer. DIFFICULTIES OF WORKING. Sir Edward Carson referred to the apprehen- sion among those concerned with the transfer of land as to what would happen under the Bill. Mr. Lloyd George admitted, he said, that incre- ment duty could not be assessed in relation to any transfer before the commencement of the Act, and unless all transfers were stopped for a considerable time after the passing, the Act would really be unworkable. Supposing a man proceeded to sell a house the day after the Act passed, the transaction must be delayed till several operations had taken place. He must get the original site valued, he must come to terms with the Commissioners over it, and, if he could not, he must appeal to the referee, and if any question of law arose, which was not improb- able, he might have to go to the Court of Appeal. Wiien that was done, the purchaser would not take the conveyance till he was satis- fied with regard to the increment duty. In the meantime, was the whole business to be hung up? Without a clear and definite statement, those engaged in this kind of business could not see how to carry on their business. MR. LLOYD GEORGE EXPLAINS. Mr. Lloyd George paid Sir Edward Carson the compliment of admitting the practical nature of the point, which, he said, was one the Government must face. Assuming that the Bill came into operation on November 1, and that on that day there was a transaction for the sale of land, the increment duty would also come into operation on that day. But there would be no site value fixed, which was necessary before they could arrive at the increment. What would happen would be that there would be no incre- ment value. Site value did not begin until after the Bill had passed therefore there could be no increment tax. The site value not having been fixed, it would be impossible for the Com- missioners to charge increment. Particulars would be sent to the Commissioners, who would stamp the document with a denoting stamp, indicating that full particulars had been given. If there had been very considerable increment in the meantime there would be no difficulty in I the Commissioners giving a denoting stamp, which would make the document an absolute title-deed without the necessity of .& further stamp. It was only proposed to charge the increment duty in cases in which the contract for sale was entered into after the passing of the Bill. If that was not clear, he would be pleased to insert words making it so. "TRIED IN GERMANY." Mr. Balfour declared that the effect of the Government's proposals was to make it expen- sive, disagreeable, and risky for an existing owner to part with his land to a willing pur- chaser. He did not understand how the Govern- ment could justify a proposal which hampered every transaction in land in order to extract a small portion of the value of the land trans- ferred. Sir William Robson, the Attorney- General, who followed Mr. Balfour, did not anticipate any serious difficulties. It was always the case, he said, when novelties were introduced that all sorts of possibilities were imagined. In this case, however, the Government had the experience of Germany to guide them. Nearly 350 municipalities in the Fatherland, he said, had adopted or were adopting the same system. There were cries of dissent at this, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain threw in the remark that the position in Germany is quite different. Lord Robert Cecil, too, declared that nothing like this Bill had ever been tried in Germany, where the case was vastly different, and raised none of the difficulties of this valuation. Whenever the Government got into any difficulty, said Lord Robert in derision, they 'considered that it was an all-sufficient reply to say that the Act had been tried in Germany and there was no diffi- culty there. A "CAVE AMENDMENT. There was a good deal of discussion upon an amendment to limit the operation of the tax to land only by omitting the words "or any interest in the land." By means of the closure and a majority of 163, this was rejected, and then came an interesting amendment moved by Sir J. Dickson-Poynder, the leader of the "cave of Liberals who object to certain of the Government proposals for taxation of land. There are several Ministerialists of weight and influence in the "cave/* and though their num- ber is not sufficient to make them a serious menace to the Government, they are sufficiently strong to make themselves rather disagreeable if they wish to do so. Sir J. Dickson-Poynder is one of the members who crossed from the Conservative to the Liberal side of the House in the closing years of the last Parliament. His was to confine the increment duty to the original granting of a lease of land, either agricultural or non-urban, when it is converted fol- building purposes. He endorsed the prin- eiple of an increment tax, but only where agri- cultural land had increased in value by being converted into building land. This amendment Nv' as also lost. »
EXCITING ATLANTIC RACE.
EXCITING ATLANTIC RACE. An exciting ocean race from New York to the English Channel occurred between the Red St"ar!*HSier' Lapland and the "Ha'm'-JtJlug- American liner Amerika, which arrived at Plymouth on Sunday. In company with seven other liners they left New York on Saturday of last week, all of them being bound-for Europe. The Amerika left the pier--at New- YorK exactly one hour ahead of the; Lapland, and when three thousand miles had been steamed the shipS" were still in sight of -e'3eh other, ,On Saturday night they passed Eddy- stone Lighthouse .within an hour and a hall of one another.
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Designed to carry a line from vessels at sea the Jnge aerial torpedo, which is driven, by a small turbine, was demonstrated before Admiralty officials at Portsmouth, the torpedoes carrying the line in spite of a high wind to the objective with great accuracy at ranges of 300 to 350 yards. At Sutton Heath Colliery, Lancashire, two men named Hugh Jones, of Park, and J. Jones, of Croppers-hilij St. Helens, were killed while en- gaged in deepening an old shaft. They wers strip- ping.off the old brickwork from the side of the j shaft when the stage upou which they were work- ing collapsed, and they fell sixty yards to the p bottom of the shaft. There is ten feet of water at the bottom.
WELSH COAL CRISIS.
WELSH COAL CRISIS. SITUATION VERY GRAVE. A special conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation was held at Cardiff on Monday, and the situation is regarded as even more grave than previously, a stoppage being regarded as almost inevitable. Mr. Wm. Abraham, M.P., who presided over the conference, said though things looked dark, he thought a way could be found of solving the difficulty, but if there was a rupture it was a mistake to suppose it would be of short dura- tion. It would possibly be one of the longest and severest struggles in history. The following resolution was passed "That this conference, while desiring industrial peace in the South Wales coalfield, cannot accept the coalowners' proposal re the method of working collieries, and in accepting the proposal of the workmen's representatives for a settlement of this question has gone as far as can reasonably be expected in order to find a solution of the difficulties; and it is further resolved that should South Wales coalowners lock their work- men out at the end of this month the delegates to the Miners' Federation of Great Britain Con- ference in London be instructed to apply for the putting in operation of Rule 20 at the earliest possible date." Rule 20 states that if any district is attacked upon the wages question a stoppage shall take place throughout the country. i.
* UNLUCKY EXPEDITION.
UNLUCKY EXPEDITION. Mr. Walter Wellman, who has been long pre- paring for an airship dash to the North Pole, seems to experience little else but ill-luck. News has reached him that his great balloon shed on Dane's Island, Spitzbergen, has been destroyed in a storm, and that a member of the expedi- tion, who was passing the winter on the island, perished in an accident. As the repair of the shed will take considerable tinie, the chances of Mr. Wellman making the attempt this year to reach the Pole in his balloon are considerably diminished. The member of the expedition who has lost his life was M. Knud Johnson. He went with another watchman, M. Paul Bjoervig, to hunt in the pack-ice, fell through a crevasse into the sea, and disappeared. The balloon shed was carried away in a strong south-west gale, which began on Christmas Day, 1908, and lasted eight days. It destroyed the air-ship shed in a single gust. Mr. Wellman and Air. Vaniman say that this disaster means a delay of four or five weeks, and that it is uncertain whether. it will be practicable to finish the new shed in time for the balloon to make the voyage this summer.
ARECTOR'SCAT.
ARECTOR'SCAT. At Ongar on Saturday, the Rev. 'William Phelp, Rector of Shelley, was bound over to keep the peace on a charge of assaulting a gamekeeper in the employ oi Mr. Galloway, of Shelley Hall. Complainant's case was that defendant met him in the road and accused him of., kill- ing his cats. He waved his walking-stick over complainant's head, and threatened to smash his skull. Defendant admitted using strong language, but denied threatening to hit complainant. He declared that he was determined to punish the persons responsible for the poisoning of his pets, and added that every effort had been made by the people at Shelley Hall to turn the people against him and so drive him from the parish, but he was not going. The annoyances, he alleged, included sacri- lege at the church, trampling on his surplice, and pouring water into the stove, Mr. Galloway denied the allegations made against him, and the Bench agreed that they were unfounded.
BOY'S.ÔOSTLY FIIEAK.I
BOY'S.ÔOSTLY FIIEAK. At the Surrey Assizes at Guildford on Saturday, Percy Hawkins, a pupil at the Farnham Grammar School, was indicted for maliciously setting fire to the heath, furze, and gorse on the Fox Hills, in the occupation of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, pn April 11. .> The statement of the prosecution' waS- 'that- the prisoner, with his brother and another feoy of fourteen, went, on Sunday, April 11, jfco a part of the Fox Hills near Ash, and in the presence of "his companions stooped down, lighted a match, and deliberately set jBre to the undergrowth. He held the match to the furze until it was alight, and began to burn. A wind sprang up, and the fire spread with great rapidity. Prisoner apparently tried to put the fire out, and, finding he bould not do so, he and his companions ran kway. The fire spreading on all sides, the North Camp Fire {brigade was summoned, and whfifi it arrived hundreds of people Joined in the difficult task of extinguishing, the flames, but the fire bufcned from two until six o'clock before their efforts were success- ful, and in that time an iijfimensfe amouht of- damage was done. ,,(, No fewer than 2,000 trees were destroyed, 'I and the total damage was estimated roughly to amount to £ 500, though it would probably be found to be more than that. The jury intimated that they were of opinion that it was more of a school boy's freak than anything else, and that they were all in favour of, a verdict of "Not guilty." Without hearing the defence, the jury re- turned a verdict to that effect, and the pri- soner was, discharged.
IMPERIAL DEFENCE CONFERENCE
IMPERIAL DEFENCE CONFERENCE It has been definitely decided that the first sitting of the subsidiary Imperial Conference1 on the Naval Defence of the Empire will takeipliice p e at the Colonial Office on July 28. Although the principal subject under discus- sion at the Conference will be navaF defence, other matters-closely allied to the defence of nee the Empire will probably be considered. These matters are already being considered by a sub- committee of the Defence Committee, whose report will shortly be submitted to a full moot- ing of the Defence Committee.
A PILE FROM PILLS.
A PILE FROM PILLS. f Mr. Henry 'Driver-Holloway,. of Willersley, ParkhiTl Rise, Croydon, and of 78, New Oxford- street, W. proprietor of ihe busin-éss. of "Thomas Holloway," the well-known on dor of pills' atid who assumed the additional name of Hollow -iv on the death of- Mr. Thomas Holloway, the founder of the business, left £ 42,681. Mr. Thomas Hollowav, who in 1883, left a personal estate of more than- half a million. It (is estimated-that, his giffor .public objects amounted to at least
A PERILOUS SEA ADVENTURE.
A PERILOUS SEA ADVENTURE. ¡ A London clerk named Jefferies \vas picked up by a cargo boat four miles off Littlehampton on Monday afternoon after an exciting experi- ence. lie left Bognor in a small boat, and by acci- dent lost both oars. A choppy sea half filled the boat with water, and in a drenched condition Jefferies drifted for eight hours, when he was sighted by the boat which effected his rescue.
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The London Education Committee has decided to establish a tailoring school for boys at the Regent-street Polytechnic. Mr. Wade, the Prime Minister for New South Wales, announces that he will nearly double the. vote for immigration purposes in the coming year. Detective Inspector Ferris fell heavily in'court at the Old Bailey and injured his head so severely that he had to be removed to the hospital.
, IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE. INHERITANCE OF CHARACTER. One of the most interesting of the new knights is Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S., D.C.L., the famous scientist. He is in his 88th year, and his long life has covered a wonder- ful range of activity in the fields of geo- graphy, meteorology, and anthropology. He explored Damaraland and Ovampoland, in South-West Africa, now German colonies, nearly sixty years ago, and has been respon- sible for a vast output of writings on scientific subjects. He is perhaps best known to the public as a great authority on fin- ger-prints as a means of identification. He describes his recreation as "sunshine, quiet, and wholesome food," which perhaps ac- counts for the advanced age to which he has attained. Many years ago he laid down a law of ancestral inheritance, asserting that we in- herit one-fourth of our character from each parent, one eighth from each grandparent, one sixteenth from each great-grandparent, and so backwards.
: o : CHANCELLOR OF THB DUCHY.
o CHANCELLOR OF THB DUCHY. At thirty-nine years of age Mr. Herbert Samuel has been appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet. Mr. Samuel, who is a Jew, has earned his promotion, for he has been one of the most conspicuous successes among Ministers. tie nas been Under Secretary at the Home Office since 1906, and he is looked upon as a future Liberal Home Secretary. Mr. Samuel was born in 1870, and he was elected to the House of Commons at a by-election in the Cleveland Division of Yorkshire in 1902 by a majority of over two thousand. AttheGeneral 1 Election he was returned unopposed. It was under- j stood that when the last j reorganisation of the Ministry took place Mr. Samuel might have had higher rank, but he preferred to remain at the ) Home Office until the Children's Bill had been passed. His successful conduct of that measura was a notable achievement.
: o: IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
o: IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Though not a politician, a soldier, or a sailor, there is no man who has a better right to speak on the subject of Imperial defence than Viscount Esher, who gave an address upon that matter at the final meeting of the Imperial Press Conference. He has taken the keenest interest in the Territorial Army, and he has been a member of the Council of Imperial Defence since 1905. He was a member of the Royal Commission of 1 Inquiry into the South African War, and was Chairman of the War Office Reconstitu- tion Committee in 1901. Lord Esher was born in 1852, and much of his experience of public affairs was gained as private secre- tary to the late Duke of Devonshire, who was then Marquis of Hartington. Lord Esher enjoys the friendship of the King, and he edited, with Mr. A. C. Benson, the letters of Queen Victoria.
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o UNDER-SECRETARY FOR INDIA. The Master of Elibank, M.P., who has been appointed to succeed Mr. Buchanan as Under- Secretary for India, is the same age as Mr. Samuel. He is the eldest son of Lord Elibank of Darnhall, Peebleshire. He gained considerable experience of public affairs as secretary to Colonial Secretaries and Under Secretaries during the last Liberal Government. A f t-e r several unsuccessful at- tempts to enter Parlia- ment he was elected in 1900 for Midlothian, but made way for Lord Dal- meny at the General Election, since when he has sat for Peebles and Selkirk. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman made him Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, and he has been one of the Government Whips, his special duty being to keep the Scottish mem- bers up to the mark.
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o: t HONOUR FOR THE STAGE. Since the death of Sir Henry Irving Mr. Beer- jbohm Tree has been the recognised head of the [theatrical profession, and his inclusion in the list |of new Knights is a well-merited honour. Mr. Tree is the son of a London merchant, and was born is the son of a London merchant, and was born something over fifty-five years ago. He was intended for a business career, but he showed early a distinct taste for the stage. To gain I experience he joined ama- teur dramatic clubs, and I speedily learned the rudi- ments of his profession. When just twenty-three he first trod the boards as a professional, and since that time his career has been one of remarkable success. Rather more than twenty years ago he went into management. His ten years at the Hay- j market Theatre make a memorable chapter in the ^history of the English stage, but his record at His Majesty's is even more remarkable. Mr. Tree has founded an Academy of Dramatic Art. • o A DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIAN. Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D., who is raised from the rank of knight (conferred on him in 1886) to be a baronet, is one of our most dis- ) tinguished medical men. Born at Liverpool in 1840, he had a brilliant career at Edinburgh University and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and i took the M.D. degree at the Scottish capital in j 1863. For a year or two he was an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy, but then came to London, where his abilities soon established him in a large practice. He was honorary physician to the King when Prince of Wales, has been treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians since 1884, and was formerly president of the Clinical Society. He is consulting physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, senior physician to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, and medi-' cal referee to the Treasury, and has had many honours conferred upon him.
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o: ,SIR "TOBY, M.P." i, | There are several representatives of journalism In the list of honours, one of them being Mr. Henry W. Lucy, M.P., who is perhaps better known as "Toby, M.P." of "Punch." Mr. Lucy is sixty-four years of age, and is a native of Crosby, near Liver- pool. He was very young when the scribbling fever first attacked him, and by the time he was fourteen he had written a novel. Newspapers had a strong attraction for him, and he became at last a journalist in real earnest, passing rich on thirty shillings a week at Shrewsbury, Later on he spent some time in Paris and came back to conquer London. It is as a Parliamentary journalist that he has made his fame, and he is the best-known of all the members of the Fourth Estate who sit in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons. He hob-nobs with Premiers, past and present, and Cabinet Ministers are his familiar friends.
TREASURE-HOUSE OPENED. .
TREASURE-HOUSE OPENED. SPEECH BY THE KING. There was a brilliant ceremony at South Kensington on Saturday, when the new Vic- toria and Albert Museum, the foundation stone of which was laid by Queen Victoria ten years ago, was opened by the King and Queen in State. The new building has cost £ 1,000,000. An address was presented to the King by the President of the Board of Education, and his Majesty, in reply, said it was a great pleasure to him to open that magnificent buHding, containing the museum which bore the names of his beloved parents, and was de- voted to an object which they both had greatly at heart—the encouragement of the applied and industrial arts. No effort would be wanting on his part, and on the part of the Queen, to testify to the equal interest which they felt in the museum, and to the high value which they placed upon it, both as a source of pleasure to the public and as a storehouse of masterpieces worthy of the study of designers and manufacturers. He learned with great satisfaction that the addition which had been made to the space available for the display of the treasures had enabled a systematic rearrangement of the collections to be carried out. The placing of an expert staff in charge of each section of the museum would have the double advantage of maintaining and de- veloping the more scientific arrangement which had now become possible, and also of t bringing about a more accurate knowledge of the history and beauty of the individual J exhibits, and of their educational value. The museum owed much to the munificence of private persons. It must be extremely- gratifying to them that their gifts to the ¡ nation would now be housed and displayed in I a manner more worthy of the liberality which has prompted them. His Majesty trusted I also that the sight of these beautiful collec- tions in their new and dignified surround- ings may influence many others to give freely i of their best for the benefit of the nation and j the enhancement of the prestige of this great museum. The King knighted Mr. Cecil Smith, the director, and appointed Sir Aston Webb, the director, and appointed Sir Aston Webb, the architect, Companion of the Bath.
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—— BRUTAL BURGLARS Two men who committed a midnight biirglarl at Bilston, and brutally clubbed the occupants of the house, Miss Hannah Cole and her maid, were each sentenced to seven years' penal servi- tude at Staffordshire Assizes. J It appeared that Miss Cole and her com- j panion, who slept together, were aroused at 1 a.m. They saw a light beneath the doorway, and immediately the prisoners, Percy Waugh and William Hill, entered the room. Miss Cole screamed, and was struck on the head with a heavy instrument, the blow being .repeated when she shouted a second time. Her maid was also attacked. The prisoners, who were of the same age-twenty-three years- were described as the associates of thieves.
"CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS."…
"CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS." The Liverpool stipendiary magistrate has ex- pressed his opinion in strong terms of the notorious riots which took place a few days ago between rival religious factions in the city. He bound two women over, and said "The city has been disgraced by the action of untutored savages who call themselves Chris- tians of one form or another. It would be a slander on the wild beasts of the field to assume that they could act worse than some of these people have, acted. To my mind they have abso- lutely disgraced the fair name of the city of Liverpool, and, what is very much worse, they have cast a reflection upon all" forms of the Christian religion in regard to its operations on the actions of men and women which it will take a long time to efface."
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-——————————— ELEVEN CASES OF BERI-BERI. The Norwegian barque Lalla Rookh has put into Newport (Mon.) Harbour after a voyage from French Guiana, during which eleven of the crew of thirteen were struck down with beri-beri, a deadly disease generally found in :tropical countries. ( The carpenter died on the voyage, and at one Iperiod only six men—four of them suffering I from the sickness—were able to help in work- I ing the ship. Both the captain and the mate were taken ill. i At Newport six of the crew were taken on shore to the isolation hospital. Special precau- tions are being taken by the town medical offi- i cers to prevent the disease spreading.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. On Monday afternoon and evening a succes- sion of fierce thunderstorms passed over the Cheshire district. A house in Northwich was struck, part of the chimney being dismantled, and the bricks crashed through the roof into the bedroom beneath. The yard of a foundry was also struck. A flash-like flame passed j through tlio moulding shop, slightly gT&zitig one of the occupants. No damage was to the building. An unusually severe thunderstorm was experi- enced in Dumbartonshire on Sunday night, and two farm horses were struck by lightning and killed outright. At the end of the week a young man was struck by lightning at Rosneath, but he. is expected to recover. c' At six o'clock on Monday evening curious weather conditions prevailed. The height of the barometer over the whole of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland did not at that hour vary a tenth of an inch. A year frequently j passes without such a uniformity- of pressure. | Stockholm was on Monday evening the warmest city in Western Europe, registering 73 degrees, compared with 72 at Lisbon, 63 in Paris, and 61 in London.
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION SUED.
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION SUED. At Grimsby Police-court on Monday a case of considerable importance to assurance companies and policy holders was heard. j Joseph Herriott, marine engineer, claimed Z, £ 8 from the British Mutual Assurance Associa- j tion, being- eight weeks' sick pay at £ 1 per week. His annual premium was 12s., and he contended j that the rules allowed him £ 1 per week for 26 weeks. He contracted influenza and partially re- covered, and then had a relapse. The Association, in defence, relied upon Rule 18, which they submitted stated there must be complete incapacitation and confine- ment, and applicant had no claim, because it was proved that he fully recovered and had been out each day. i The Stipendiary Magistrate said he could not accept the company's interpretation of the rules, because according to them a sick patient could not even be moved on to a verandah for fresh j air. He gave Herriott a. verdict for the full amount claimed, and also ordered the Associa- tion to pay costs.
MILLIONAIRE KILLED.
MILLIONAIRE KILLED. Just before the start of a motor road race at St. Petersburg on Monday, M. Vetchinin, a St. Petersburg millionaire, thirty years of age, who was testing a car with a chauffeur, took a sharp j curve at full speed near a bridge over the river Shosha, and dashed into the wooden rail of the bridge. j The car fell 14ft. into the water and dis- j appeared. Both the occupants were killed. The j bodies have been recovered. j Mmt1. Vetchinin, the dead man's wife, belongs J to one of the first noble houses of Russia, I having been a Princess Golitzin before her ( marriage.
SIXTY-TWO HOURS ASLEEP.
SIXTY-TWO HOURS ASLEEP. A child at Bristol was awakened with diffi- culty on Monday after 62 hours' sleeping and fasting. Mrs. Sparrow put her little girl, aged two years; to bed on Friday night. On the following morning all efforts to rouse her were futile. All Saturday passed without any sign of I movement on the part of the child. On Sunday ¡ morning the father took the child to the Royal Infirmary, where efforts to awaken her were unsuccessful. A couple of powders were administered on Monday morning, and at last the little one opened her eyes. She seemed none the worse for the long sleep and fast.
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■■■" The Queen has sent tlO to the York County Hospital for the fund to endow a bed there in memory of the late Canon Fleming, who was a canon of York Minster. It wTas announces at the annual conference of the United Kingdom Pilots' Association that the Board of Trade had agreed to appoint a committee of inquiry into matters of pilotage. Almshouses erected at Farnham, Hants, under the provisions of the will of the late Sir Randal Cremer, M.P., have been opened. t
- BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. GERMAN FIGHTING SHIPS. Special interest centres in this year's issue of Jane's Fighting Ships (Sampson Low, Marston & Co.,) because, in addition to furnishing details of the world's war vessels, it pays very particular attention to the German Navy, on which all eyes are now turned. Nearly all the photographs given of important German ships have been taken within the last few months, and they show the remarkable new rig now fitted to German ships. A special effort has been made to secure plans of new ships, including the latest "Dreadnoughts." In practically every case these plans are given from the official models and are approximately accurate. The inspection was naturally hasty, consequently minor details are necessarily approximate only but main details are vouched for. The armaments given for all the new German ships differ from any hitherto published, but no effort has been spared to arrive a; the correct armaments. Another very remarkable feature of the new German ships is also recorded.
AUSTRALIA'S REAL ROMANCE.
AUSTRALIA'S REAL ROMANCE. Those who hold the rather common opinion that Australia is more or less a sandy desert, whose in- habitants as a whole are only worthy of notice in their capacity as sportsmen, should read the article in the Jujy Cassell's Magazine" entitled "The Land of the Golden Fleece." from the pen of Mr. F. S. Hartnell. The author gives a vivid account of the fluke," as it were, by which Australia came to be British territory, how explorer after explorer came to the shores of this vast virgin continent, without realis- r ing the tremendous prize that lay within their grasp. He tells how, within a few months of Torres' passing through the straits that now bear his name, a Dutch vessel sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria, and its crew were certainly the first white men to land on Australia's shores and how Tasman, in 1642 "discovered a beautiful island which he named after his patron, Van Diemen's Land," and how, nearly fifty years later, the English navigator Dampier, was forced by his men to turn buccaneer upon the high seas, and eventually landed on the shores of what is now Western Australia, he and his crew of scoundrels being the first Englishmen to set foot on the con- tinent. The subsequent discoveries of Captain Cook, and other travellers, and the story of the hardships and privations of the early settlers equals in interest the most exciting of adventure stories.
THE ATHLETIC GIRL.
THE ATHLETIC GIRL. In an article on The Athletic Girl" in the July number of "The Girl's Realm" "A Physician" writes: Every now and again the question as to the wisdom of allowing girls to go in for athletics comes up for discussion. Ridiculous statements are nwde in all seriousness by quite intelligent people about the" hardening" influence of sport upon girls, and the girl keen on games is said to be in danger of becoming unwomanly. There is no real basis for such an idea. So long as athletics er-a practised in moderation, and at the proper time, they improve girls in every way. From the health point of veiw, outdoor exerci&e is essential, the enthusiasm which a love of games arouses in a girl provides an interesting and healthful hobby, whilst sport teaches girls as well as boys judgment* patience, and fair play. r v v.. V
MEN WHO MAKE THE NAVY.
MEN WHO MAKE THE NAVY. The Ven. Archdeacon Harris, D. D., late Chap- lain of the Fleet, in an interveiw in the Julv number of the Quiver," says that the bluejacket has altered greatly in his character since he first knew him. We no longer get the west-country and country- bred lads that were the backbone of the Navy. The majority now come from the big towns. They have their good points, but I hardly think that the exchange has been all for the better. The town- bred lads are intellectually smarter than their pre- decessors, and indeed they have to be, for every sailor nowadays has to be-more than something of a mechanician. But, on the other hand, thev have neither the physique nor the stamina of the naval seaman of say thirty years ago. And they are often lacking also in moral stamina.
THE MAKING OF A SOCIALIST.
THE MAKING OF A SOCIALIST. An interesting article on Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wells at Home," by Sarah A. Tooliy, is a feature of this month's "Woman at Home." The author states that Mr. Wells admits he uses his experiences in his book, and especially ii his serious novels of real life. In Love and Mr. Lewi sham the author depicts Student life at the School of Science and indicates the forces which were shaping his career. Like Mr. Lewisham he lived a hard and active life on a guinea a week in London, and it was at this period that he became a Socialist. The red tie which he bought to celebrate the occasion was an outward and visible sign of much inward and spiritual development. The vivid contrast of London's rich and London's poor set the mind of the raw country youth considering. There were the gaunt and hungry children and the starving loungers outside a soup-kitchen on the one hand, and a street or two farther away a blazing array of crowded shops, gay equipages, and the careless devotees of fashion. Hte had an instinctive feeling that human beingg should not be happy while others near them were wretched, and the gay glitter of prosperity touched him with a sense of crime. He read Progress and Poverty, and some casual numbers of a Socialist organ, was confirmed in his new faith, and made his debut with a lecture on Socialism at the College Debating Society. Henceforth his manhood was dedicatee to the cult.
A PRIVATE MAJOR-GENERAL.
A PRIVATE MAJOR-GENERAL. In the early days of volunteering. Sir John Hay Macdonald tells us in his book Fifty Years of it. The Experiences of a Volunteer of 1859" (Black- wood,) men of rank and position were to be found in the ranks. Sir John tells a good story of one of them. There was a retired Army officer living near the Borders who joined the ranks of the Volunteer corps of his district as an example to others. It happened that at that time the assistant inspector of the district was a little and a rather pompous and patronising individual. Riding down the ranks at inspecton on one occasion he saw a private with a row of medals on his breast He drew up his horse in front of him. and then occurred the follow- ing colloquy; Haw, my good man, you have seen some service ?" Yes, sir." "Crimea? Mutiny, ch Yes, sir." Haw, and did you get your sergeant's stripes, eh ?" No, sir." "You were a private on your discharge, were you ?" No, sir." "Well"—rather testilv-" what was your rank when you left the service ?" A major-general, sir." The little man collapsed speechless, and giving a gulp, rode on.
THE BIBLE ANALYSED.
THE BIBLE ANALYSED. The Rev. F.B. Meyer, in a reference to Dr. Camp- oell Morgan's admirable work, "The Analysed Bible," says, This work contains the essence of years of study. I have been repeatedly asked for something of this kind, and these volumes will find their way to the shelves of thousands of young men and women, local preachers and ministers." A new volume of the The Book of Job" :3s. 6d. net) has just been published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton. Dr. Morgan's skill as an expositor is well-known, and his analyses are clear a.nd illuminating. Bib, e students will find the book wonderfully helpful.
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A bank holiday is to be declared in Birmingham on the occasion of the King's visit to that citv on July 7. 'J At a juvenile festival at Bournemouth, some 8j000 children were entertained at tea.
,I BRIDE IN THE DOCK,I
BRIDE IN THE DOCK, I A young bride, Maud Reid, aged 22, of good appearance, wept in the dock at Northampton when she was charged with stealing jewellery and clothing to the value of C2. She was married only a fortnight ago, and her husband evidently underwent a sad disillu- eionment as the police related the story of her previous convictionsi of .which fee was hitherto ignorant. After hearing them he refused to have any. thing more to do with her. The magistrates tried to bring about a recon- ciliation in their private room, but failed, whereupon the mayor said they had no alterna- tive but to imprison Mrs. Reid for a month. Prisoner looked appealingly to her husband, but he made no response, and she was removed Bobhing bitterly.
,——! STOCKBROKERS TRAGIC DEATH.1
—— STOCKBROKERS TRAGIC DEATH. Mr. Harold Gurney, a member of the London Stock Exchange, committed suicide by shoot- ing himself at his residence, Fairlawn, The Avenue, Bushey, Herts. The tragic discovery was made by one of the maids, Mr. Gurney being found lying across the bed, partly dressed, dead. Part of his head was blown away, and a double-barrelled rifle, with one chamber discharged, was lying at his feet. Mr. Gurney, who was forty-seven years of age, and well known in the district as a genial, good-natured gentleman, had for some time been in delicate health, while two months ago to the day his wife died.
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At the inquest on Thomas J. McKinny, whose body was found in the Thames at Staines, it was stated that he had wagered he would dive off the bridge. j Sentence of death was passed at Cornwall Assizes on Sarah Elizabeth Visic-k for killing her I' baby, but the judge intimated that it would not be carried out. Nine Italian workmen have been killed and five seriously injured in the collapse of a portion of the new Bruggwald tunnel, near Constance. Mr. Beerbohm Tree's offer to give two matinee representations of the Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar to students and pupils of London schools and training colleges at His Majesty's Theatre on July 5 and 6 has been accepted by the Education Committee of the London County Coun- cil. Tried for a second time for the murder of M. Remy, the Paris stockbroker, the butler Renard was again found guilty at Versailles, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life and to pay 10d. damages (the amount claimed) to the widow. After working for Messrs. Heathcoat and Co., lace manufacturers, of Tiverton, for seventy-one years, Mr. William Huxtable has retired. Liverpool taxicab drivers are striking in conse- quence of a notice requiring each man to pay 5s. 8d. daily for petrol, insurance, and clothing. I At Daventry Frank Stratford, a woodman of Preston Capes, was committed for trial charged ? with the murder of his son Frank, aged 11, "on June 10. .¡ :J.. =.. :¿;'l'<: #4
"D. S. WINDELL."
"D. S. WINDELL." AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. At the Old Bailey on Saturday the trial ended of Francis Reginald King, an ex- cashier of the London and South-Western Bank, who pleaded not guilty, and Bernard Isaac Robert, alias "D. S. Windeil/ who pleaded guilty. The jury found King guilty, and he was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Robert, or "D. S. Windell," was sent to hard labour for eighteen months. King is aged twenty-mine and Robert twenty-three, and it will be remembered that they were indicted for obtaining by false pre- tences the sum of < £ 290 at each of several branches of the L. and S.W. Bank, with in- tent to defraud. They were also charged with forgery. Mr. George Elliott, K.C., after speaking on behalf of Robert, read a statement which had been written by him to his solicitor, por- tions of which were as follows: "When the scheme was suggested to me I did not look upon it as a serious suggestion at all, and dismissed it laughingly. But it was broached again and again, and being somewhat romantically disposed I listened to the details like a novelist may consider the details of a plot which ultimately he will j employ in some shape of form in his pro- ¡ jected novel. ¡ "Then what I can only describe as a curious psychological process ^fcook place. Instead of the plot remaining imaginary I became very excited with the prospect of making it a reality, with myself the hero of j one of the most daring and ingenious schemes of modern times. I lived on in a dream. "I see myself standing in St. Paul's Cathe- dral, admiring intensely Holman's picture of I Christ knocking at a door. I must have I stood there for upwards of an hour and a j half. That must have been one or two days before the fraud; at any rate, it was between Sunday and Wednesday. There is only one other interval that I remember—the evening of Tuesday, September the 22nd. I went to a lecture on Buddhism, a kind of private meet- ing, I think, in the Holborn Restaurant, by a European Buddhist monk. "All this to my mind now is very hazy and confused, as if I saw somebody else do it, although I recollect perfectly going round to the different banks. However, I could not for the world remember the order in which I went, and it puzzles me to find that I alighted actually at eight of them. To me it seems only two or three." Having stated that on the same afternoon he left for Paris, Robert's statement con- tinued "I thought it delightful to have so much money at my disposal. I gave heaps of it away te various poor people more particularly to a friend of mine who lived in Brussels, and who was very ill and i in penury. Had the money at my disposal at the time been my own I consider I could hardly have made better use of it from a philanthropic point of view." The statement referred to the writer being apprenticed to a German draper, and con- cluded thus: "My love of the adventurous made me join a friend in going along the South Coast through Devonshire and Corn- wall last summer (1908) playing the guitar and minstrelling, busking,' as it is com- monly called, and I did not return to London until the 8th or 9th September, about a fort- night before the London and South-Western Bank affair."