ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 146, 17 December 1913, Page 10

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Ist November. In the southern transept of St. Anne's Church, Eastbourne, a. bronze tablet has been unveiled by Commander Evans, R.N., to the memory of Captain Oates. Commander Evans said : "We are assembled in this place of worship to do homage to the ,memory of a gallant and brave gentleman, who willingly walked out of the tent and gave up his life in order that he might save his three companions beset with hardships. He went out to face death ; not the sort of deatli that men can easily meet in action, when in the enthusiasm of the moment one does not notice what one is doing, but a silent awful death in the cold blizzard/ AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND. When Mr. J. A. Greenwood bought tho estate of the late Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, Funtingdon"House, near Chichester,he was told an old legend that the colours of the 50th Regiment were buried in the garden, the idea being that they were disposed' of in this manner at the deatli of General Sir James Duff, who had been colonel of the regiment for many years, and had possession of the colours. Mr. Greenwood has been seventeen years in the house, and the other day, to his a-stonishment, the gardener told him that in the course of laying chalk under the tennis court to drain ithe had discovered the remains of tho colours. There was only about six inches of each pole with the brass ornament at the top; gilded tassels and cords, shreds of gold fringe and several letters embroidered in gold ; and finally some very small fragments of silk. General Duff died in 1839. THE NAVY AND STRIKES. The Admiralty has issued an order calling the attention of flag officers and commanders of ships to the necessity of avoiding any interference, direct or indirect, in labour troubles. Wfiile every assistance is to be given as before to time-expired men to obtain employment in civil life, care is to be taken that men should not be engaged in numbers at a time and in circumstances when there is a probability that their services are being engaged to replace men on strike. If officers find that an application made to them for time-expired men has that ulterior purpose they are to state that they may not intervene in such circunv stances. WOMEN AND SECRETS. The Daily Mail remarks that old fashioned administrators returning to Downing-street after a long absence would be shocked to discover tho extent to which female secretaries and clerks are now being used. Mr. Lloyd George has two women as confidential secretaries at the Treasury; Air. Asquith Ikib a female secretary, and bo has" the Chief Liberal Whip. Women are not eligiblo for Class I. of the Civil Service. If they do the same work as men their salaries are lower, and they are not borne on the Treasury list ; that is, they are quite personal appointments. But they are' generally credited with the power of keeping a secret.