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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1908, Page 3

The first local authority in England to start municipal golf links was (says "Fry's Magazine") Bournemouth. Ihe charge there" is Is a round. Last year the receipts were » £2793. Nottingham has also some fine municipal links which are paying well. Sheffield has just baen considering a scheme for its own links, and the Brighton Corporation has the formation of golf courses on its list of municipal undertakings. At Edinburgh a charge of 2d only is made, although the town links are among the finest in the country. In Scotland, indeed, the provision and management of golf links is a very ordinary and important point of Municipal economy, and some ot the burghs have made the facilities for the game so cheap that it has now become the most popular pastime. If he needed a retreat from the jaws of the Socialistic dragon, the German Emperor would not ' have far to seek. He possesses already 53 castles, in addition to 85 farms, some of which would make by no mea^s insecure fortresses were it necessary to turn them to such purpose. Ap Skillington, a small village near Grantham (hing.l, there resides a Mrs Hannah Bursuali, who married at 23, enjoyed ,60 years of married life, and bore 14 childwren. Her descendants now number close on 100. Her faculties are marvelolusly well ' preserved, and she has a wonderfully retentive /memory. In the summer of 1905 Mrs Bursuali was delighted with a 22-mile ride in a motor car through the kindness of the then mayor. On that auspicious occasion she had tea with the mayoress at that lady's own house. This is a memory that is dearly cherished. Needlework and knitting are favourite occupations of Mrs Bursuali— and without the aid of glasses. She even takes digging exercise in the garden in the early morning. Hr health, indeed, is remarkably good, and she is as iactive as many people decades her junior. One of- her most valued possessions is a letter 1 received from the King on her 101 st birthday. Last month Mrs Bursuali attained her 104 th year. i The possession of "an income of 30s a week, or. in the case of a married couple, of ios a week, debars a.person otherwise qualified, from receiving Mr Asquith's proposed old age pension in Great Britain. It is estimated that thero are in England and Wales 58,000 persons in receipt of pensions from friendly societies or trade anions; and Mr Asquith has been urged to exempt persons in receipt of meh grants from the. income-limit disqualification. The friendly societies urge that the -disqualification will discourage thrift, and thus militate against their essential principles, riio*" would sooner get a higher pension, or get it sooner, by means of a contributory scheme. On the other hand, the Labour leaders are against i contributing basis, and claim a universal pension. Out of 2,116,000 persons over the age of 65 years in the United' Kingdom, Mr Asquith 's scheme attempts to reach only 500,000.