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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 68, 13 December 1907, Page 2

L ' ■ _ ,!■ . After travelling from Damaraland, South, i West Africa, to Russia and thence to Fhiliii delphia, to visit his mother, whom he had I not soon for twenty-five years, Charles Laiig- ; trv was killed by a train whoa withm tea 1 minutes' walk of his mother's house. 1 Tho ltov. 11. T. Lowo, Rector of Purleigh, 1 Essex, in searching the records of the parish, 1 has discovered that Goorge Washington was ! a descendant of a Purleigh clergyman, tho Her. Lawrence Washington, who was Hector j from 1633 to 1643. A Department of Economic Biology has boen formed at Bristol University College with a view to placing the resources of scientific knowledge and resoaroh at tho disposal, of farmers, fruit growers, and thoso ongaged in llshories in the western countics. Householders at King's Lynn are paying Is. 3d. por hundredweight for coal. Ihe quality of coal is brought from the mid» land colliorios by rail, shipped at Lynn, and oxported to tho Continent, where it is sold at lid. per English hundredwoight. The Westminster City Council resolved to inform Gonoral Sir Albort Williams that thej rogrotted they could not pay any portion ol the £51 incurred in removing an arc lamp in Whitehall in connection with the erection of tho Duke of Cambridge's statuo. If England, France, Gormany, and tho I United States would agree to prohibit all I war loans to Governments that nad refused - arbitrations, that instrnmont would becomo ■ tho Magna Churta of the peace of the world, —"Review of Reviews."