NEWS AND NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1911, Page 12

NEWS AND NOTES-

[The following items of intelligence ha.v« been, selected from files received by the latest mail.] Tile break-up of ducal estates goes on apace. Amongst the properties recently sold were pA-tt of the Duke of Bedford's Devonshire catatee, consisting of 4760 acres, producing about £3000 a year, every lot changing hande at Launcestoft for a, total of £90.000. The tenants in many cases acquired their holdings, the Devon County Council being among the purchasers. Tho Duke of Bedford offered loans at 4 per cent, to tenants, buying lots of a value ot not lees than £450. Part of tho Compton. Castle Estate, in Somerset, comprising 1147 acres, and producing an annual rental of £1743, was offered at Selborne in lots, t and realised £14,483, gome 0/ the principal lots being reserved for private sale. Pprtions of Lord Londeeborotigh's estates *eali*d at Selby over £36,000. Nineteen out of twenty-five lots ill the JDuke of Bedford's Maulden. Eetate, Beds., realised" over JSI6,*OOO at Bedford, • In his annual report Dr. Herbert Williams, Medical Qfficei? of Health, for the Port of London, -refers to the diecavery that ths forequarters of frozen, meat arriving from Australia contained parasitic worms known ' a3 epiroptera reticulata. The quantity of froiieh beef arriving from, Australia last year far exceeded- all previous records $ consequently the inspection of every_ forequarter, with a view to the detection of the parasite, involved much additional labour. From 80 to 100 per dent, were affected in this way. In two cargoes from Audtralia 61 io 70 per cent.' of the hindquarters also Were affected with the same parasite. The worm is said to be incapable of deVeloping within the human body, but .there- can be no question that it is unfit for human food. - The .French Minister of Labour (M. Boncdur) declared in tha .Chamber of Deputies that whd'n once ,15,000,000 Workers' had conformed to the la.w, and had realised that they Miei'e directly 1 interested in the development of the country's prosperity, the influence of th© Jtevoltitiotiaries would be gone. Up to {lie 13th of June, 1911, 1,576,000 work ens out* of & total riliiflbeJ? of 4,620,000 whom the Insurance Law was designed to benefit, had conformed to its provisions. He appealed to the House nofc to be disheartened by the apparent failure to enforce the law at the' outset, sine© even in Germany, with a highly disciplined population.', only 4,600,000 out- of a. total number of 15,(JOOjOOQ workers availed themselves of the Insurance *Law when it fiffit'.came into force twenty years ago. Amendments, especially for reducing, the pension ag& arid for insuring against death and' invalidity, might in course of time be introduced, bub he desired to. state at cmc<? that the principlft of triple contributions on the part of th© worker, the employer, and the State would have j to remain untouched. ! General Bofcha, in a conversation with fteuter's "fipresentative, said that the native question was a difficult problem to which every South Affie&ft statesman must give bis mogfc careful consideration, but it was solely a South African matter, and it would be solved by South Africans. The natives as 1 a whole wef p a law-abiding people, /They paid their ta*e» without demur, and were assisting the (Government in cattle disease, administration. If the two -white races exercised common-sense and cooperated in the tight way, there was absolutely nothing ! to fear. "I am no believer," General Botha added, "in what has been called the native peril. The Union is their friend flolitioatty and 1 economically, an<t bo long aa tiiQf receive, An they will, fair and equitable treatment, 1 seo' ho native danger in South Africa." The 'Bishop ot Manchester, addressing a large gathering of clergy and laity of the Preston Rural Deanery regarding Ins scheme for securing a living wage for the clergy of his diocese, said he wished to put charity out 6f tho question Th* minimum wage for a clergyman with five years' service should be £180 per annum, ten years £200, and fifteen years £260, while those who had served the Chui'Cd until attaining the age of sixty-five years ehould receive a retiring pension of £200 per annum. They should do away with. mulfcifciidinoufl agencies for assisting poor clergy, and out of one central fund they, shoufd make provision for their retirement when too old to work, insurance of their lives for the benefit of then families, and insurance of educational benefits for their children. Mr. Frank Lascellea conducted' a party 01 pressmen round the grounds where the Pageant of London waa performed. To organise and train 16,000 voluntary performers to acquit themselves creditably, 6000 at a time, on a pastoral stage 16 acres in extent, is a- task which only a real master of assemblies could venture upon. The company was taken through stacks of properties-— weapons of all ages, golden thrones, maypoles, floral festoons, artificial floWer-beds, regal-tents, carts of many periods, triumphal cars, and Sedan chairs/ In addition to scores of vehicles, tnade only fou the occasion, were, to be seen fifteen State coaches, most ot' them ducal carriages 01 a- century or so ago, but one whicn belonged to Queen Victoria, and another to Hapdleon til. Altogether, .700 wprkme.ii Were constantly employed as scene-shifters, property men, supers, armourers, ostlers, shoeing smiths, wardrobe keepers, animal attendants, and so forth. At the end of this personally conducted tour ifc was easy to accept the official estimate that from first to last some , had been spent upon this the most "ambitious and important pageant ever devised. Presiding ■at the annual meeting of the Coal Smoke Abatement' Society, Sir W. B. Richmond, R. A., alludjed to the tncreaise of sunshine, consequent to* a great extent upon the suppression of the smoke nuisance. He spoke of the objections the society held to the Act of Parliament, which prohibited "black" sthoke only, and said that the agitation Would be continued, with a yiew to the deletion of the offending word. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw said that Che secrets of health and cleanliness were a clean at'ttiosphore and .-clean clothes. "Then," concluded the Socialistic author, "you #ilt liv© as you do in the country, where you never wash at all, except a«) a sort of social ceremony to prove that you are well brought up." A conference of Jewish ministers was concluded in London on the 14th June. .Dealing with "The Proteins of Anglicination, the Itev.'S- Levy (London) said there were two and a half million*, or one-foim.i of tho Jewish population of tile World, aflxioud to make their homes in flngiiah-Rpenkfog country and enjoy /oligious freedom. Yiddish was. he aafef. a waning language in England. At the recent census it wad found to be quite unnecessary to institute a house-to-hotiFf visitation to help their foreign brethren to fill up their forms. , fn ten years tliey would have to minister to congregations who bad" been taught in EtiglLxli sdioolfi. and wbovo bent of niiml was Kngiish. I3ven in Russia the fountain of Yiddish was beginning to dry at its dotiroe. Tho religion of .the Jew I must be the- only mark of difference from his neighbour. The Ecv. Isaac Phillip (Portsmouth) suggested* that 301110 of mo \\q\\ lodo members of their lomiiiimily shmtid gtv& up their motor cars mid spend thp money on the education vf Jewish ehildfjti. " '

At a meeting of the Glamorgan County Finance Committee, held at Cardiff, it was reported by the county accountant that the cost of the police service and the payment of damages arising out of the strike riots in the Khondda Valley would amount to £28,0()0. This includes the cost of the police under liabilities recognised by the county. The committee expressed its intention of applying to tho Local Government Board for a loan, as the charge would fall heavily upon the rates. It was stated that in one cayse a man suffering damage hid in a pit-top wliile his family were smuggled out of the district. In another a foreman Was imprisoned in. hk workshop, and was unable to get out to pro* test against the damage committed by the rioters. Several claims were disallowed on the ground of gross exaggeration, In on© case it was resolved to prosecute a claimant who, it was alleged, had suffered the damage complained of before the riots occurred. Everyone who has visited Seville, in Spain (writes the London Times correspondent), will remember the Roman aqueduct which runs from what was the Gate of Carmona in the Roman walls of the city (pulled down during the ; second half of the last ceittiiry) right away to Alcala de Guadaira, a picturesque hill-town with a huge Arabic castle, which 'every artist who visits Seville' goes to see and to sketch. If the and the Town Council of Seville have their way. the visitor and the artist will soon have looked their last on the I'Canos de Carmc-na," as the aqueduct is called; tile pure unfailing' stream, which has run for so"me ' 2000 years througn channels, made ' before Christ was born, will henceforth be conveyed through a ca'st'iran pipe into the (fountains which furnish drinking water for the poor _and ripple musically' in the patios of the rich'j and a row of villas afld warehou&ss will replace the beautiful _af cades designed in the time ' of Julius Caesar anij renovated under the rule of the Alm<jha;des more than seven centuries ago. Achbishop Bourns consecrated a Roman Catholic Motor Mission Chattel, which is about to start from Brottdesbury upon a mission to East Anglia, where leather Bernard Vaughan will give a series of lecture's extending over a week. Father Vaughan said that tho motor chapel w'a* &n ' example of tho way the .Church pressed into its service anything of commercial utility or artis,tic value. He- hoped that in the course of a year or so they would be Well established with an aeroplane mission to spread the ' Catholic faith into the atte^l most parts of the earth. The mission van will be in charge of Father Herbert Vaughan, D.C. and Father ttop fate, t>t Saffron Walden, wi|l combine "with bis other duties that of driver •when, th.6 chapel is travelling from town to town. Heti? Ddminicus, Chief Burgomaster of Sehoneberg ( (Berlin), who has been one of the movihg spirits in the development of labour exchanges in Germany, and was j responsible for the organisation .at Strass. ] bufg of unemployment ' insurance of the t Ghent type, regards the JfSnglish National Insurance; Bill with admiration, 1 and. even with enyy. He hopes tlnit the /English example "jVill provide a stimulus not indeed for the production of a Ger- 1 ma\n scheme of Imperial unemployment insurance, but' for the organisation of the uniform system of ( labour exchanges wllieh German opiftif)n' considers t,o fae ; the necessary foundation of urteraploynaent insurance legislation. Thfi following enthusiastio telegram has been addressed from Potsdam by the German Emperor" to the' Governor of East Prussia:— "According to a report from London, from Major yon Holzing, A.D.C., out of the four first horses in the International Competition fot riding horses de luxe three East Prussian horses pf the remounts have won the second, the third, and the fpurth prizes. (The only horse put in front of them wa« 4 20,0Q0 mark horse , belonging to the millionaire Wynans. The victory of the East Prussians has been won in a fight against absolutely everything 4 in the way of flfle horses that • money can buy. Prussian horse-breeding has thereby secttred a splendid international success, which was hardly foreseen by anybody, and has at one blow established it£ position, in the world. Fr&m a very full heart I express to the breeders of the Province of East Prussia my most cordial* congratulations upon this victory, and my Royal thanks, Let them continue steadily on their well* tried course, and then,- with God's help, further 6acce&*es will not be lacking. You are to publish this telegram throughout the whole province." The American millionaire, Mr, Wynans, on being interviewed, at the Olympic, said: — "Tho Kaiser must have referred to six horses rolled into one. 1 never remember paying £100 foi- Brwi2ewing. It was less than that."' > At a largely attended conference of dairy farmery, held in. Reading, principal Dunstan,' of the South-eastern Agricultural College, Wye, insisted on tho eesentia-l importance ofmilk records. He strongly ijrged that dairy famiere should never be led into advocating the use of preservatives in milk, a& they not only acted ac a cloak to dirt and dirty management, but. if allowed to be used, they opened the door for un* restricted competition. He deprecated the undue use of .concentrated .foods. Mr. J.O. Adams, of the Irish Agricultural Organisation, pointed out how milk records had led _to a jjubstantidl rise id average yields in several dairying countries, especially on the Continent. A mo'coi omnibus, ( containing thirty members of a thfttttrical company, was travelling from London to Tonbridge to take part in theatricals at the Tonbridgo Cricket Week Festival, wheii, in going down a dangerous hill fust beyond Sevenoaks, the driver lost control owing to the fcittke drum becoming clogged, The omnibus gained considerable impetusj and near the bottom of tne hill met a traction fengino. ' To. avoid crashing into it, the driver turned into a i hedge and ran down a short, steep Dank, missing a large fir tree by only a few inches. The top part of Lhe omnibus became detached from the chassis and turned over. The members of the company were thrown out and several were severely cut by broken* glass, The conductor was also badly cut. * A portion of th« aiirleiit Foise Way, which was the Roman road between E*etef and Lincoln, is being modernised, and about half the cost will be provided by Mr. Lloyd George's recently-created National' Road Board* The operations extend 'otfer a length ,of *ix miles, beginfling at to fjlado called Six Hills, about twelve miles south of Nottingham, and 445 ft above ?ea level. The Fosse (th& people who iive near it never add the word wny or road) is 30yds wide between tho ditcher, but only a small por« t{oh il* ttt6 <-«fttf6 say, 12ft or iSffc, was paVed, and the snrfacp of the road was only v<n'y slightly convex. The ancient paving consists of dark brown sandstone boulders. Wofn smooth by water on all sides, about 4!n thick on the average, and from 2in to lOin long, 'fhe lypfeal botlldef fa only about the size of a man's doubled fists. There is one layer of these, pWced tog<Aher father loosely on the underlying coil, and made level by a. sprinkling of small, smooth flint gra-vel. A few fragments of coarse, red -pottery and some iron Jittrsm'sito*, mule-shoes land bullock9IIOCB havo been observed amongnt tho old paving that has been taken tip, but he finds of importance hays' been mad».