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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 6

A srnm of .£2IOO to provide a monument to tho late Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man in "Westminster Abbey is 6et apart in this year's Civil Service estimates. The provision of such a memorial waa approved by both Houses of Parliament two years ago. Tho Queen, with "Princess Victoria, t©eentlv paid a surprise visit to the JapaaBriti'sli Exhibition which is being pre pared at Shepherd's Bush, and made a tour of inspection lasting about an hour and u half. The Japanese head eardenei was presented to the Queen, who complimented( him on his work. By three to two, tie Law Lords aJ the Houso of Lords decided that where. a workman, suffering from an aaeunsm in so advanced a state of disease that it lmtrht have burst ,at any time, rup. turcd"the aneurism while tightening s nut' with a spanner and died, his family could claim compensation as for an accidont under the Act of 1906, Lord Shaw, one of tho dissenting lords, pointed out tho serious effect of this decision in debarring from employment persons wliose ■ condition of health waa precarious, and thereby making ther hard lot still harder.