LONDON SUMMARY

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 62, 14 March 1911, Page 6

LONDON SUMMARY

THE KNIGHTS OF THE EMPIRE

LONDON, Jan. 27. The Society of Knights Bachelor are negotiating for permanent headquarters in Clifford's Inn. Sir William Bull, who is intimately concerned in the negotiations, states that the Canadian knights are very keen on haying a habitation where the knights of the Empire can meet in the metropolis, and are equally keen .on having the whole thing settled in time for the Coronation. They undertake that if all the other Domicion's of the Empire will find half the money they will put down the other half in cash. "1 notice," said Sir William Bull, in an interview recently, "that a sum of £30,000 lias been mentioned as the necessary figure, but it is more than that. Sir Henry Pellat, our new president, is, of course, the wealthy Canadian. He is a Cecil Rhodes of Canada, a man with tremendously large ideas, who apparently intends to spend his money for the consolidation of the Empire." , .

wife, from whom he had.been separated for eighteen months. The accused was remanded for a we^k on bail. ,