DAJLY MEMORANDA—Tuesday, May 22nd. AUCTIONS. W. E. Simes and Co., at 164 Kilmore street, 1 p.m.—Furniture, etc. McKenzi© and Co., in their . Rcomj, 1.80 p.m.—Furniture, etc. Jones, McCrostie Co., Ltd., at 142 Armagh street, 12 noon—Furniture, eto. -' MoKenrie and Willis,- in their Rooms, 1 p.m.—Furniture, etc.
The Earl of Kimberley, more familiarly "Kim," who is championing the cause of the Norfolk farm labourer, has a way of Jus own (writes a London correspondent). Contemptuous of convention, fiery-tempered, golden-heart-ed, this septuagenarian peer once taught a, Doacher a lesson. "So I've got you," no shouted, as he came upon him. '"Ave you?" said the poacher. "You've got to take me," Lord Kimberley thereupon struck a bargain. It was to be a fight, man to man, the poacher to win one guinea and free pheasants, the earl to win the magistrates for the ■ poacher next morning. The earl von and the poacher went to gaol. But here's where the golden part comes in. While the poacher did his three months his family was kept,by the earl. < These days the earl is careering about the country in the very racketyist old Ford in England: He is determined that tie men shall
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17769, 22 May 1923, Page 13
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