ENDOWING THE EXILE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 291, 6 December 1920, Page 4

ENDOWING THE EXILE.

ilxiled monarchs generally manage u> live in luxury. Stevenson's Prince Florizol. uf "The New Arabian X'ghts," had to keep a cigar shop when hie subjects kicked him out for not attending to his business, but in real life he would prjbably have left with a well-stuffed suit case, or have fallen back on large investments in Eii'glis'h Consols. The Empress' Eugenic left an estate of two millions.' The King oi Portugal may not be wealthy, but he ha« not had to turn his! hand to work. Now the ex-Emperori William had prospects of being a wealthy exile. He claims 1,000,000,000 marks; from Prussia, and it i« said that if his bill is fully met he will be considerably better off than when he was on the j throne. Tiiiri is quite understandable; he will be spared the enormous expense of I maintaining an expensive court an.l dozens of residences and castles in vari-' ous parts of Germany. The Prussian Diet is now considering a proposal to endow him with between i>so 003 000 and 300,000.000 marks, which would be worth from £12,000,000 to £15,000,000 in < English money at normal rates of ex- ] change, or one million with the dc-1 precinted mark. It is no wonder that the ' attention of the Reparations Commis- | sion has been drawn to the matter. The ! spectacle of the Kaiser enjoying in exile great riches presented to him by a country that protests it cannot pay the j reparations bills of the Allies, would be; repugnant to the world. There is also 1 , the possibility that some of this wealth would be used in plotting to get himself or his family back on the throne.' On the other hand, it is por-sible thati the Kaiser may overreach himself. After i the Framo-German war, wlien France, was staggering under the indemnity imposed by Germany, the Orleans family,' claimants to the French throne, made ti:e mistake of demanding and acefpting from France a large amount of money, representing family property. It is said that in granting the demand the French Government acted with the deliberate intention of making the claimants unpopular with the French people. At any rate tire acceptance of the money had that effect; perhaps no other action of the Orleaniet princes did so much to kill any future chance of restoration. The Kaiser may find if he accepts all he can get that he will disgust hks former subjects. But this ie a side iseue. It is dearly the 'business of the Allies to watch* this. endowment of the criminal exile. j

Although by decision of the General Assembly the Rev, George Budd, who has been appointed to the position of superintendent of home missions, does not sever his connection with St. Paul'?, Devonport, till the 31st January, he stated last night that lie would only occupy the pulpit for three more Sundays. He had taken over his new duties, which demanded his closest attention, and during January the Rev. D. Mclvor, of Waverley, would have charge of the church. He said he would be spared the ordeal of saying frood-hyc to hi l * congregation, for ho and liis family would still continue to live in Devonport, to which they had all become much attached and where they had so many friends. In connection with the notion taken by the Soldiers Mothers' League to have propor care assured for soldiers' graves at Waikumctc. the Hon. G. J. Anderson has alfio written stating that .the matter will re,-e:ve due attention. Moils are due by the Niagara and Mahcno, which arrived in port to-day. ; The former steamer brings 314 bags of Canadian and U.S.A. mail, while the Maheno li.ih 200 bags from Australia, including 134 from the United Kingdom and 5 from the East. Both mails arrived too late for delivery to-day, but will be I distributed tomorrow morning. To-mor-row the Marama sails from Wellington for San Francisco, and from tho J Southern port also !i mail will lie di»- | patched for Australia on Thursday by the j Manuka, which has been fixed to sail at ! 5 p.m. for Sydney. ' The fire brigade were culled out to burning gorsc in Beach Koa"d at 10.43 this morning, but, t!w> outbreak was suppressed before the fire-njrh'.erfi arrived at their destination. They were alsoi out at f> o'clock hiHt evening to a firo in! a two-storeyed house in Napier Lane, off Napier street. The top front room was gutted, and the lower tfront room was damaged by ilire. The content* «'(Te :n- \ sured for .01 (M) in tho South British I Iflice. Some excitement was caused in Khyber .Pass Koad at noon yesterday when a motor car hood caught fir? —apparently from a spark. Fortunately the occupants were able to beat it out before the ! outbreak went beyond the hood. The Minister of Public Works (the: Hon. J. G. Coates) left this morning on a i I visit to the southern portion of his i\ler- i I torate, and is to return to Auckland on I Wcdnesdav night. Yesterday afternoon Ihe spent at Takapuna, being ni'covn- ' panied over the borough by the Mayor '(Mr. W. Blumfii'ld) and councillors. Among works of especial interest to the. , borough that the Minister made himself I familiar with were the Takapuna wharf land Waiau bridge. The Public Works entimatew this year made provision for j both works. It is intended to recoil- | struct the wharf, making the end at the | I point which suffered most in the pale. I ; Here suitable berthage accommodation will be provided for launches. The Waiau bridge is to be proceeded with, and a commission will apportion the cost among the ridings concerned. Only five cases of pneumonic-influenza were reported to the Auckland District Health OftVcr for the week ending at noon to-day, re--1 ducing the previous week's total) • 'by one case. The notifications were as follows:-One at Waiuku. Pollok, Owhango. Morrinsville. and Thames. There was a surprised motorman in Queen Stree-t 'this morning just about nine o'clock. He had left the stop at : the corner of Queen and Customs Streets, and was apparently swinging J the car on to the higher speeds when there was a report, and the control box, I the half-barrel looking arrangement on 1 the platform through which the current is regulated to the tuotors, 'burst into flame and gave off dense clouds of smoke. It burnt itself out in a few seconds, but s-till continued to smoke for some time. The car toeing thus disabled another tram car came up behind and pushed the lame duck up the street out of the way. The motorman apparently escaped with a big surprise. As he was j necessarily standing alongside the i control box when it blew out it is sur- I prising he was not severely 'burned. < Speaking at St. Paul's, Devonport, last; 'night the Rev. George Budd said that the j outstanding feature of the recent PresI hyterian Assembly meetings in Welling- i ton was tile nctivp part taken by t he j younger members of the Assembly, whose j influence and direction were everywhere i in evidence. At the Auckland City Mission last evening, the Rev. Jasper Calder an- i nounced tfhat the Mission social i arranged for Tuesday next had been post- j poned till the following Tuesday, so as i not to clash with the Bishop's reception. ! llt was decided also to send a wireless j message of greeting to the Bishop on j board the s.s. Port Xapier. I "Another sensational wave" of price; cutting has swept over t'.io country, leav-l J ing many commodities cheaper than a! I month ago, states John Dunn. Son and I Co., of Ne/w York, under date of Oct.-her 1 4. The circular explain*, however, that! prices of food have changed little to the ! consumer, while fuel and rents continual Ito advance. Textile goods, coltnn, wool' land silk fell very decidedly, as well as; hides and leather. ' ; An area of 337 acres of alluvial flats on' the Mangoni'i and VTairoa Ruer* has| 'been purchased from Mr. ,T. Jones; I (through the agency of Mr. Forbes Eidy) , by the Government at £4."> per acre for a returned soldier settlement. I Children are often most amusing when most serious, and Miss Louise ' Mack has found this out in her lectures Ito children which has delivered all over New Zcalrnd under the auspices of the Education Board. The lecture often becomes a talk. When speaking of Germany in her travel talk she asked i her email auditors: -, Can you give mc !tbe name of the Emperor of Germany?" I '■•Mγ. Massey," promptly responded one 'small patriotic youngster. On another occasion she asked the small audience: I "Cau you tell mc who won the war?" lUp went a hand from a wistful little girl in the front benches. "Well, my) dear, who was it?" "My brother,' , , proudly responded the fragile child. i \ A meeting was held at Ralclutha onj '.Saturday to consider a proposal to ll"goj the Government to secure the services r.f Sir Thomas Mackenzie as Trade C'wn- ■ missioner for Xew Zealand in England. ilt was decided to urge the Government Ito act conjointly with farmers' union.-.! trade associations, and chambers of I commerce in securing Sir Thomas Mac- ; kenzie's services as trade commissioner. "Milkmaid." a purebred Ayrshire cow belonging to Mr. A. Hansen, of Danne- j virke, which has been under semi-official I test for a period of 3(>;> days, yielded ' 12,8861b milk and 600.211b of butterfat, beating the previous Ayrshire records by 91b. A bricklayer in London is reported to have laid 38,000 bricks in IS days. a:i average of l-ofto a day. The work was of excellent quality. It ha-s been frequently claimed that 350 bricks a day ie a reasonable amount to lay. Sir Erio Creddes CM/.nieter of Transport), with a. relative, claims to have buiJt .a. garden wall in six days, averaging [more thwi LOOO bricks a day.