"BURSTING UP" IN BRITAIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1914, Page 2

"BURSTING UP" IN BRITAIN.

"Half a million acres? Yes, certainly as much as that— probably a good deal more," said a representative of Messrs. Knight, Frank and Rutley, of the great English Estate Agency firm, when asked by a Daily Chronicle representative how much land they had for sale during the season which extends to August. "And that i applies only to auctions," he added; "it takes.no account of private sales. The estates which have been placed in our hands for disposal are practically all agricultural land in England and Scotland-^especially Scotland. They include a large area belonging to the Duke of Sutherland in the north, as well as Tittensor Chase, his Grace's Staffordshire estate. "Then there is the historical estate of Menzies, Perthshire, and the greater part of the properties of the Earl of Kintore in Aberdeenshire and Kinc&rdineehirc. "The reason for the sales? Well, I suppose some landowners prefer to {jut their capital into somethihg from which they hope to derive a larger and more secure income. On the other, there is no lack of buyers, and at very fair prices. The demand for agricultural land is particularly good, and it seems to 'be a favourite opportunity both for seller and purchaser."

One of the cases decided by the AngloAmerican Claims Arbitration Tribunal, which lately sat at Washington, was that of the illegal seizure of the British ship Lord Nelson by the American Navy as long ago as sth June, 1812, two weeks prior to the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain. The tribunal assessed damages of £1000 against the United States, with 93 yeawi' interest. At 5 per cent., the simple interest on £1000 for 93 years amounts to £4650, so that on this basis Great Bri' tain's total indemnity would be £5650. A telegram from Geneva states that by a. large majority, the State Council of Lucerne has decided to suppress the operations of British bookmakers in the canton, mid to forbid similar lotteries. The police have given the interested persons three months' notice to leave th* State. A similar measure is pending in Geneva, where thrro now remain only two or three of the "leading" British bookmakers. Most of the othiws have left the country, to open new branches m Germany or Italy. In future the dealings of bookmakers will be outside the law in Switzerland, and consequently persons who put forward claims arising out of the betting business will have no redress in the Swiss Courts. On important races the sweepstakes in Geneva and Lucerne alone have hitherto averaged between £100,000 and £150,000. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman says that "man has put an aura of myth and poetry about the home, but did you ever see a man who would stay there for any length of time?" It is our experience, states the San Francisco Argonaut, that men are much fonder than women of their homes. But is there no way to diminish the ravings of this vulgar termagant? .