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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2029, 19 September 1913, Page 3

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FROM THE FILES. £1,503,940. £225,000 DEATH DUTY ON THE ESTATE OF A LIBERAL MP. London, August 6. The inventory of the estate of the late Mr William McEwen, p,t one time Liberal member of Parliament for Central E -ioburgh, whose residence was iu 0 arles street, London, has been lodged in tne Commissory Office, Edinburgh. The estate is value! at £1,£03,940. T ;, e amount of duty paid was £225,678. During hig life Mr McEwan was a manificent benefactor of tne University of Edinburgh

A JUDGE IN PRISON. SIR T. BUOKNILL ON A PAINFUL INCIDENT OF CHILDHOOD. London, Aognst 8, Mr Justice Bucknill confessed yes. terriay that he rad been in prison. He top t' e story in a reminiscent speech to t f »e boys ft e Market Bos worth Grammar School T e Jcrge, havi g mentioned that his father was born at Market Boswort', sail his grandfather was called the "Game C icken," because he always wanted to fig't, and he was very small, an i nearly always won Bet. his grandfather made one mistake ia his life, and that was when he sent aim to prison. As a boy the Judge had wanderei in Bosworth Park, and gnt into the fan sof gipsies. He was put into Boswnrtn P isou by nis gran fat'er f"r an hour as punishment He >a 1 been invitad to go tc t e park to see the king of the gipsies, a tribe now disappearing, and f-und himself in the retinue of the gipsy king. A policeman took Hm to his grandfather, who c nveyed him to the lock np, but he was let out when he cried God manners, said fis Lords ip later, made the man, but shouW not make the man fastidious and artificial An over-man-nered man was like a over-dressed lady. (Lacgiter).