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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 4

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LONDON SUMMARY. UMPIRE WIRELESS CJRCCIT. London, October 20. II is stated that the negotiations al present being conducted between the Colo niai Office and the Marconi ('oinpiiiiy pro viding for a scheme to encircle tin- Em pi re with wireless telegraphy .ire, almost completed. To IjogiH with, half a draei new stations will be creeled, ami tjcfori thi! schemo is completed many- other: will bo added. It is hoped to have tin system in lull operation wilhiii a. year Tho greatest distance between any lw< stations will bo between two and threi thousand miles, but the route lo bo fol lowed in the wireless circuit is « matte: yet to bo determined by the Government ALL-BRITISH GOODS, The success of (he JVIJ-UritisTT Shoppinj Week organised last March by the Unioi .lack Industries League was such thu arrangements are now being mado to it peat the experiment next spring on "Na tionnl Lines," and to extend the scopi of the enterprise. Uis now suggests that, twelvo (Treat industrial centres shal bo selected in Great Britain, and tlin at well in turn a trade exhibition, laslini from eight lo ten days, bo hold eacl month of the year. British goods nr now represented at international cxhibi tious, but it is felt that Britain want an organised, systematic display of good of British origin in (he commercia centrcs of the world. Such a schem is put forward by the All-British Indus tries Association in a proposal for per inanent exhibitions of British tamplcs a all such centres. X 55.000 CONCERT- HALL. A magnificent new concert hall, to sea 1701) people, estimated to cost .£65,000, am to bo erected on a site within a. couple o hundred yards of Piccadilly Circus, is th latest London musical enterprise. On of the originators of the schenio state that the hall will contain an organ cost ing .£II,OOO. "Our idea," he states, "i to make sacred organ recitals a featur of our programme, and we are convince) that this will appeal to the music-lovin public. All tho concerts the promoter organise will bo of a high-class and r< fined character, and the best-known ai lists and conductors will be engaged. W hope to get tho license for a cafe chan taut, so that we inny conduct it on Pari sian lines,. with free orchestra concert in tho open air in the summer." Iti hoped to complete tho hall with in twelve months. MILLION-TEAR-OLD MAN. Researches.'made by Dr. W. Alle: Sturge, the president of the Prehistori Society of East Anglia, arq stated to g to provo (hat the Drift man was flout ishing from a million to 700,000 year ago. A small committee of geologist has been appointed by tho British Assc ciation to consider the subject.. .Di Sturge has acquired somo thousands o the commoner types of Neolithic flint iin plemcnts, scrapers, fabricators, .and . s forth, that had been collected from sov eral places in north-west. Suffolk.' Dut mg the. last half-century, largo number of very fino implements of all kinds hav been found in tho neighbourhood of Ick lingham. . The contention is that n> solution but that of ico action seems t explain the widespread scratching « humanly-flaked flints, which is a. ver; staggering phenomenon. To admit tha a glacial period has occurred since liuinai implements of Neolithic type wero form ed is to revolutionise all the views oi glacial geology. - . . , FORTUNE. FOR AN EARL. ■ The late Caroline Countess of. Seafiel has left .estates producing- an,'.annua revenue of some <£80,000 in trust for th Earls of Seaiield. Lady Seafield was th widow of the. seventh carl, and her son lan Charles, the eighth carl, who diei without an heir, left tho estates to her He was succeeded in 1881 by his uncle who died in ISSS, and tho title passed t his son. then resident in New Zealand The tenth earl died'six months later, ani was succeeded by his son, now tho holde of tho iti tie.' .Tho prcsent'.eavl,.. wlio iva married in 1898, has ono daughter, am the heir-presumptive is his brother, win lives in Nov; Zealand. The estates-.-.! the death of the eighth earl were oncuui bered by a debt of .£BOO,OOO. Lady Sea field's will, according to "The Times,' states that she desires the _ trustees i apply the whole free surplus income fron the estates—after ordinary expenses hav been met and provision for' the. earl'imiid —to paying oft tho heritable .deli's. After wards the .estates are to bo entailed' oi the holders, of. the title. .' !...' '.£151,000,000 IN ■ R ATES. Tho annual local, taxation'returns fo England and Wales show that the sum received in tho year 1908-!) by tho loca authorities in England and Wales fron all sources except loans total (< .£121,052,531. The amounts obtained fron each of the principal sources of receip are: Public rates, X6l.273.43SExchequer .grants (including local taxation duties) .C 21,355,732; . gas, water, and electric ligh supply undertakings, and tramways an< light railway undertakings, .£23,1118,014 other sources, .£15,101,700. ".The ninoun received from public rates, in 1901-2 wa X 46,438,761, and in 1907-8 was .£59,027,577 A NOVEL BRIDGE. . : ." A novel jjridge over thu River Tees a Middlesbrough has been opened by Princi Arthur of C'onuaught. This bridge, whicJ is of the transporter type, has beei constructed so as to prevent there beini auy interference with (he iin and t'owi steam traffic. The bridge consists o two sots of piers, comprising stool tower, upon concrete foundations, one on eitlie: bank of the river, connected by a pai: of open lattice typo girders of 570 ft. span Tho undersides ot' these girders arc lGOft above high water. The girders on thi; lower flange carry each two lines of rails and are placed at a distance of 35ft. fron centre to centre. Upon tho rails there i supported a travelling platform, from which, by means of steel ropes, a car ii suspended. This car is fitted at each sidf with passenger cabins, and the centre i: devoted to u "roadway" capable of ac commodatiug 500 to 600 people and sij vehicles. As the upper platform is haulec by means of an endless rone across the 'high lovel girders, tho car is taken acros: the river between the landing stages.' PENSIONS FOR ACTORS. As the result of tho' Corouation gala performance held at His Majesty's Theatre oil June 27, a net stun of J.'4o's( was realised. The King, has approved ol the suggestion made by Sir Herbert Tree, and supported by the committee oi actors responsible for the performance, that, this sum be handed over to form a fund to be called tho King George Pension Fund. Tho object of this fund will be to grant a pension for litetimo to certain. actors. whose work, service, and needs cntitlo thorn to bo so nominated. It is hoped that this sum mav form the nucleus of a great fund which will commemorate the King's gracious recognition of tho stago on t.ho occasion of his Coronation. It will bo remembered that at tho Coronation gala over 300 of the'leading performers appeared before a brilliant gathering, whioh included tho King and Queen, membcjs of (he Roval i'amilj" the foreign royal and other 'Coronation guests, and the leaders of English society. RUNAWAY TRAIN. More than thirty runaway goods wagolis dashed into a stationary goods train at Bromley. Kent, on October 17. A dozen trucks were smashed lo matchwood, and great blocks of stone were torn from (he platform and flung in all directions. The runaway wagons wero part of a train which broke in two near Bickley. 'ITio lino has a considerable down gradient, and tho detached carriages were sooa racing along in pursuit of the front part.of tho train. The. driver and fireman, woro ignorant of what hnd happened, hut Ihe signalman at Bickley diverted (he runaways on to another line. The runaway wagons, however, dashed at 40 miles .111 hoiir into a goods train standing at the pl-itform at Bromley South Station. Fortunately. the driver, fireman, and guard of this train we.ro all in the goods yard at Iho lime.—'"Staada.nl of Empire.'' -