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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 7

Tho Lord Mayor of London has a salary of £10,1)00 a year—twice as much as tho I'rimo Minister of Great Britain receives, and tho same sum as tho United States pay their Presidont. As a fact, a year's ollico as Lord Mayor of London costs a mail, roughly, £17,000 over and above his honorarium. Mr. Seymour Hicks writes in & jocular voin to tho "Daily Exproas" with respect to the number of ladies of his company who have married into the peerage or becomo tho wives of millionaires, Ho proposes that every lady in England who want's to becomo an actress should write and send her picture to the "Daily Express," and ho, with a comI mittee, will pick out twenty-four of tho loveliest facos to bo published in the •' Daily Express." From these the readers of that papor aro to pick out the twolvo prettiest. Ho promises to give the four who got most votes a threo-yiars' engagement at £5 a weak, to tho second four a similar engagement at £4 a ncek, and to the last four £3 a week This involves an outlay of £7200 ou his part. He will teach them their business, and givo them a ohanco of adding fresh blood to the House of Lords,