ILLNESS OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 April 1907, Page 1

ILLNESS OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

V. ELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Cbijt Justice, Sir .Robert &u>ut, who has Uuin suffering from ptoiuan<e pjisoning, is sufficiently convalescent lo ud able iu take walking exercises.

Many cedars are ascribed with more or less certainty to the eiehteonth or the seventeenth century. Near Pope's villa at Twickenham, for 'instance, 'pays the "County Gentleman," there are .some fino old specimens, concerning 1 which tradition narrates .that they were grown froni cones sent to the poet by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. An earlier sowing than any of those h'ifcherto mentioned may be that of t'he line tree ion the lawn of the roctory of Childrey, in Berkshire, which is (believed to have been grown from a icons sown in 1646 by Dr. Pocock. Ithc first laudian Professor of Arabic in Oxfoud, who then held the living. Even supiposin-K that tradition errs as to the- precise year, theru can be little doubt that the Childrey is older than most of its afiwd contemporaries. and pertiaps tho oldest cod a r in England. Moreover, it still flourishes.