THE ISLE OF MAN.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10632, 17 April 1900, Page 5

THE ISLE OF MAN.

In spite of its small size, the Isle of Man Menu to have been an exceptionally progressive country. It was stated at the meeting of the Canterbury Manx Association yesterday, that a complete House of Representatives was in full working order •ome 200 yea-rs before the English House of Cfemnvons was 'established. Public schools had been established! on the Island liy the Phoenicians, in the dark ages, and members of the royal houses of England, Scotland, and Ireland were regularly educated at these schools. Trial by jury was a recognised institution Hong before it was •dopted in England, and female suffrage was the rule before New Zealand was discovered. Tlie ancient laws and publio records were 'taken away by the Danes, and 4hey are still supposed to he in Denmark lit the present day.

THE QUEEN'S CHOCOLATE BOX. The Rev. W. Dunkley, minor Canon of Cauristchurch Cathedral, received by the last mail from South Africa one nf the Queen's boxes of chocolate, which hau :>ecn received by his eon, Mr W. Dunkley, who is serving with the Dnke of Edinburgh's Volunteers An interesting circum_tanee in connection with the Queen's gift is insmtion-d. in the Home pin«rn:-~-"An army surgeon, informs fu „|f X* «* Mariteburg correspondent of __?_'• y ) that a case haa come tinder his notice in which the Queen's present to her troops saved the owner's life The box of chocolate was carried in the soldier's _3_J8 C S\ v it and wnoedded itself m the chocolate. Otherwise it would have entered the man's spleen. This box is being forwardSed to the Queen by Major Daly, the senior medical "officer at Ksteourt. The man was subsequentl--wEf 1 - 1 _? *_ tho tmt > and h™» °»»ng to tats fact that the case came under my informer's notice. The injured man is Pri. tate Humphreys, 2nd Lancashire." /