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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 3

Lord Chelmsford, who has been apnointed to succced Lord Hardinge as Viceroy of India, is a son of the famous so'dier, whom ho succeeded as third baron iu IAOS. He once declared that four msffiiitions had chiefly helped him as a public wan. These were Winchester Sciioot, jtfagdalen College, Oxford, tho Lonuon School Board, and tho London County Council.

While on his way to work at Waltham Abbey, Samuel Berry, a munition worker, caught by a sudden gust of wind, was blown into tho Itivcr Lee and drowned.

At a Holborn inquest on. David Ernest Eobi>ie, ngwl sixty-two, who died suddenly, it was stated that the heart weighed twenty-one ounces and the liver no le.iJ than ninety ounoca nearly double tho jiormal weight,

When the young wife of a soldier, i»hosi> total income amounted to 425. a Keek, wati found guilty, at Westminster, of neglecting her three children, and sentenced'"to six months' hard labour, i! was said that the Society for tlio Prevention of Cruelty to Children had received from Ihc husband of the accused, who was at tho front, a heartbroken letter begems thorn, to look after his children.

Many may have read with surprise the announcement that airangements are in progress for tho public funeral of Pope Leo XIII, who died some twelvo months ago. It is the curious custom for tho remains of a deceased Popo to be placed in a temporary resting-place—a niche over flie "oorway of tho choir chapel—until the death of his successor. : 'lhus Leo XIII's real and final funeral was not due until tne death of Pius X, a year ago, and has been further delayed, no doubt, on account of tho war.