NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 14

NEWS AND NOTES.

f ‘Vanity Igr* has a cartoon of Mr P. F. Warner; captain of the M.C.(3. team for Just 30 'years hgp, our; contemporary, he j youngest eon of that West Indian statesman •who steered Trinidad, through. the trying times that followed the abolition of slavery. “Ho has played? m more countries than any other cricketer. Jinpluding the West Indies, Canada, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and •America. His father was privileged to be at Harrow and Eton; but- himself has been content with Rugby (where he played in the eleven for four years), and as an Oriel man, who enjoyed the distinction of being twice run out in the * Varsity match. Since then he has been called to the Bar, but he still, plays cricket. Ho likes criticism,, he can play a losing game very well, he is probably the keenest cricketer living, and he', can keep friends with liis men. <7:. * * * ' ■ Ui -

Viscount Hayashi, the' Japanese Minister in London, who is just now having so anxious a time, owes his presence '■•in England! to-day to his acquaintance with the English tongue. As a matter of fact he would not be alive at all but for the mastery over the language which lie. attained over 30 years ago. He was her© in London as a boy Student when the great revolution in Japan- broke out to be the means of making the Japan the world knows toclay. Young Hayashi, supplies failing, made the best of .his way back to. his fatherland, and there threw in. bis lot with the party making war upon the Emperor. Happily for the fate of Japan he was on the losing side. But it alllooked black enough for the youngster mb .the time. He was an occupant of ~a huge wooden cage expecting to be summoned forth to execution as a rebel. He was summoned, but. to a. different lot from that antidiputed. The Emperor determined to send emissaries forth to bring back tidings as to how the nations ordered their affairs in other lands. And men who could speak the language of England! and her colonies and of Ameri-ca-'were few dnd far between. So the Viscount, a 3 he was afterwards to be-

come, returned to E'ugland and gathered together men from the industrial centres to teach the natives how they do things in the west. When next he came hack it was in a diplomatic capacity. Ho' left to fill a still more important one, and eventually, six years ago, was sent as Minister to Russia. There he remained until, reaching the height of his ambition, he once more set up. his standard in'London —this time as Minister.

Prince Henry, of Prussia, in spite of bis supposed yearning for the Regency of Brunswick, is to take up the important command of the Baltic naval station, and will be safe for some time from the shoals and! quicksands - of statesmanship. He has combined the

role of the bluff sailor with that of the diplomat more than once. He confesses that he was hardly successful upon one memorable occasion. It was prior to -his visit in. the capacity of tlhe "mailed fist”‘to China. He called upon the Dowager Empress of China, and' was greeted, as were the rest of her callers, with “merely a wink.” In his choicest phrases the Prince endeavoured to make himself gracious. The Empress was not to he impressed. "There was no coldness in her. manner,” Prince Henry has said, "only sublime stolidity on bei* pale features and her half-closed _ eyes. She seemed to be listening with her eyes rather than with her ears.” In America - last year he was not wholly successful. He'had!, the temerity to shake hands -with a negress, and to be “too tired” to carry out one of the million items of which his programme consisted. So some Americans doubt to-day, in spite of his Royal rank, whether he is quite the right sort of person that a plastic, conformable prince in the hands of an enterprising Yankee should be. * * *

Lord! Chelmsford has had a long experience of Court and camps. In the Crimea, in the Lidia Mutiny, -in the Zulu war and the Abyssinian he was - through a multitude of historic engage - ments. While the son was taking—and giving—hard knocks on the battlefield, the father was occupying the wool- , sack. But it was as Fred Thesiger, the dashing soldier, not as the son of the - Lord Chancellor, that the Lord Ghelms- -, ford of to-day won his way to General’s . rank. Lord Roberts hats good! reason ip remember Lord Chelmsford in India, • • for personal reasons, as well as for the >; gotod work that his junior did. It was after he had said adieu to Lord Chelmsford that the Commander-in-Chief came ■within an inch of death. In the course if a terrific thunderstorm, a great firefell hurled just past Lis head knocked “down a couple of his native attendants, and exploded at bis feet. -r, .' • * •

Lord Carrington, too. lias interesting reminiscences to exchange with the General. One of the most exciting cases in which the late Lord Chelmsford ever figured was that' which had Lord Carrington as defendant, charged with assault. Tlie editor of a scurrilous peri--cdical published impertinent remarks nibout Lord Carrington, and was sound-

ly horsewhipped by the latter. During the trial at Marlborough street there occurred an unparalleled scene in the court. It became known that Lord Carrington’s side had impounded ‘'net brought into court documents intended for publication by the plaintiff which contained the foulest slanders on menibens of the Royal Family. An attempt was made to get these from, the man in whose possession they were. A free fight resulted. The police closed the doors of the court-, and the rival sides thumped and punched and kicked each other until it looked as if murder must result. The Lord Chancellor, who was in the case. was . roughly handled in the melee, and persons bearing the most exalted names an society took a hand in the fight. Lord Carrington leaped the rails of the dock and flung aside the men who- were furnishing a realistic exhibition of the manner in which to garrot-9 a man who sticks to a strongbox full of incriin)ina.t.ing documents. For 15 minutes the battle lasted, and then there followed arrests wholesale. Lord Chelmsford has been in few hotter corners than that in which liis father found himself that day.

A mechanical contrivance in the nature of a cash register for recording votes at elections has been devised, and ■is now in General use in the United States. It -is not. only a great convenience to voters, but saves the cost of ballot papers and poll clerk, and also secures remarkable accuracy and celerity in producing aggregate returns. It provides for all kinds of voting by the simple pressure o-f knobs (says ‘’The Daily Telegraph’’). As the votes are recorded they are simultaneously added up, and at the close of a poll the machine has only to be opened by the returning officer to reveal the exact totals. At the San Francisco elections, when many thousands of ratepayers voted, the result was declared seven minutes after the poll closed. * # #

A French botanist, in tlie course of his explorations a few weeks ago ’in the sandy plains of the French Congo, discovered a plant, the hark of tlie many radiating roots of which contained a large quantity of fibrouis rubber. At- the time scarcely any attention was paid to the discovery; but-, owing to the present scarcity of rubber and its high commercial value, which is in reality so prohibitive as to prevent a very wide employment cf the substance, attempts are being made in England to turn this "new discovery, to commercial use. The plant also thrives profusely in Northern Nigeria, and it is these forests which are to be exploited. A sample of the plant lias been analysed in London, bw the botanical; authorities of Kew Gardens, and these investigations show that the rubber exists in the roots m sufficiently large quantities to warrant development.

The entrance of the United States with positive aims into the sphere of general diplomacy is probably on the whole the most important- event of the beginning of the Twentieth Century. "Morning Post.”

Colonial and foreign apples are arriving in England this year in unprecedented quantities. Last week no fewer than 250,000 bushels arrived in our ports. We are grateful to our friends, but we would very much rather have grown our own.—''Belfast Evening Telegraph.” » * *

If Mr William O’Brien, M.P., had given up political life five years ago, before he started the United Irish League, he would have preserved his health, saved his money, and have confered a conspicuous benefit on his country. For without his fiery eloquence and without his financial: assistance, the League would never have come into existence, and Ireland,- under the fostering care of a Unionist Government. . would, have been left free, in peace and quietness, to work out her own happiness and prosperity.—'‘lrish Times.” ■ * * *

A! bad or inefficient workman is always an' expensive one however little he may apparently cost. This is especially -the case in the Army.—' Broad Arrow.” \

With the facilities of railway comr munication that now prevail there are anomalies and inconveniences connected with the (Legal) Circuits that have become intolerable, and cry aloud for reform.—" Pall Mall Gazette.” * * • ..,/© *

If the submarine fulfils anticipations,

if under real- war conditions it can repeat successes obtained 1 under simulated war conditions, the terrors and losses occasioned by the use of this weapon will paralyse the imagination, and may drive the heavier ships from the narrow seas. —Mr Archibald S. Hurd, in the “Nineteenth, Century.”

With American Imperialism we are in firm political sympathy, but it is impossible to conceal the fact that commercially we have been and are destined to be the losers by it, and that in the absence of any effective retaliatory stroke it now rests with the sugar and tobacco growers in the United States to decide whether our profitable trade with. Cuba is or is not to pass into American' hands. —“Morning Post.”

Prominent as Lord Rowton was at one time in the world of political life, owing to bis close association with Lord BeaoonSfield, it is probable that- half of those who knew and benefited by the '‘Rowton Houses” knew little of thenr

founder beyond his name. ... It marks a modesty in the man that was not the least attractive of his .distinguished qualities. But Lord Rowton, has a further claim to public honour and esteem. It may be said that lie bridged the gulf which too often divides the rich from the poor, the exalted from the humble. He was one of the most cultivated and brilliant members of a society remarkable both for culture and brilliancy; yet he chose that his best lvoi'k in the world should be done for the benefit of poor men, with whom he had no tie® but those of generous humanity.—“ Daily Mail.”

Sir Frederick Darley (says “M.A.P.”), after a fine display of his judicial penetration and peculiarly wide knowledge of affairs in his place on the War Commission, is returning to Sydney to resume liis dual: position a® LieutenantGovernor and Chief Justice ot New South Wales. It is just half a century since the distinguished Irishman Avent out on the Munster Circuit from Dublin, but the attractions of Australia Aver© very much in the air after the gold discoveries of the fifties, and he set out for Sydney to try his fortune. His great natural talents soon brought that to his grasp, and after a highly honourable and successful career at the Bar and in the Legislature he became Chief Justice of his adopted colony 17 years ago. Sir Frederick has long been the idol of the Australians, and he could have been anything ho liked there, but he preferred the quiet of the Bench. Ahvays a strong laAvyer he ha® made a great Judge, and his conduct of affairs when lie lia® been called upon to take charge at Government House has been marked by a tone of dignity and distinction of which New -South Wales has aIAA r ays been quite proud

Lord George Hamilton ; the man least talked about among the recently resigned Ministers, had a much more interesting experience in resignations a few years ago, when he represented a constituency for barely time enough to make a speech to his supporters. He has the record for the shortest term of representation, perhaps, since elections first began. The circumstances under which Lord George achieved this record were not unlike those of the present day. Lord George had been appointed Secretary for India at a time when changes were imminent.. and had resigned and been re-elected in consequence. The new secretary was re-elect-ed without opposition at 12 o’clock, and within three hours the dissolution was announced, so that the election became void before the successful candidate had had time to reach the House of Commons. Another of the late Ministers, oddly enough, had a similar experience. Mr Ritchie once represented Croydon for the week-end.* He had with him as a colleague in the Cabinet at the time another M.P. who fought and won two elections twice in one week—a remarkable contrast to the case of the member who once held a seat without a single election for only five years short of half a century. When at last the member was called upon to fight for his title he won it against the present Duke of Devonshire.

Lord George Hamilton is one of the statesmen of our day who held important offices under Disraeli, and he still remembers how he had bo face the criticism of a permanent secretory, Who exclaimed when Dim-aeh made Igvd ©sting to recap the incident in oon-

nection Avith the stand Lord George felt called to make against the Lancers in India. Lord George has achieved another record, perhaps, during liis Secretaryeliip for India. There are not many Ministers, at any rate, avlio have been able to appoint three bishops in one year. The ex-Secretary a?as called upon in one year to fill the sees of Calcutta Madras and Bombay.

Mr George Meredith, the celebrated writer, in his beautiful home on Box Hill, Avill miss being able to resort to the chalet in which most of liis Avriting has been done. He has ahvays been a believer in the necessity of having a special place in Avhich to Avrite. At a time Avlien the Carlyle controversy isso> much in the air, it is of interest to recall the fact that Mrs Carlyle read George Meredith’s “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel” to her husband. The Sage of Chelsea at once expressed a strong de®ire to meet the Avriter. Mr Merednhs visit to 'Obeyne-row tv as a fortunate one, lie finding Gariyie in a gracious moo'll, and thus being able to spend a very interesting and pleasant afternoon with. him.

King 13dward VII. has two Emperors in hi® army, and both are Field-Mar-ishals. One, the Emperor of Austria, received! his commission recently, but the other, the German Emperor, ha® been a British soldier for over tAvo years, his baton being a birthday present from his Royal uncle on January 27, 1901, during "his sad sojourn in England at the time of Queen Victoria’s death. Ini addition to being a Field-Marshal in the army, the Kaiser is an Admiral of the fleet in the British navy, an honorary post conferred on him by Queen Victoria 14 years ago.

From a trustworthy source the Rome correspondent of the “Telegraph” learns that the Pope has expressed his intention to open negotiations:—of course, unofficially—with the Italian Government relative to the basis of a passible modus vivendi betAveen Church and State, Avith a view to putting an end to the fruitless conflict which has existed between them for over 30 years. His Holiness has been induced to take this course partly by his- personal convictions, but to some extent also by reasons connected AVUtli his health. He is auxlious to be in a position enabling him to leave the Vatican, as he has ailAvays been accustomed to an open-air/ life. Before taking this step,- Avhicli Avould appear to all the Catholic world as a concession to the Kingdom of Italy, the Pope deslires to ascertain the possibility of obtaining some concession of benefit to the Papacy Avhich Avould render his action justifiable.

General tSir Archibald Hunter, to whose head a pistol was, metaphorically, clapped by Rear-Admiral Lambton, was known as "the Sirdar’s fighting General” during the last Soudan campaign, and, of course, played a very conspicuous part in the South African war. When a public reception, was proposed in his honour after the latter Avar was declared closed, he modestly refused it. "It is only right,” he said, "that I should decline to receive any form of demonstration, as so many of my comrades have been killed.” The son of a Scots merchant, hei was born in London, but reared in the land of hie ancestor's, where he was famous in his youth as a sportsman. He is 47, and a soldier after Lord Kitchener’s own heart in that he is not married. With many chivalrous acts he is credited. One tribute to Ms kindly nature comes from so unexpected a quarter as Mis Delarey’s hook on the war, in which the wife of the gallant Boer leader tells with feeling of General Hunteris kindness in restoring to her the horse which her son had ridden prior to bis death ini battle.

Rear-Admiral Lambton has generally been spoken of as the "handy man” ever since his big naval guns first pointed their long noses at the Boeris besieging the little town over which Sir George White had control. Contemporary writings spoke well of his men’s shooting; "histories” of the war have been uneqivocally laudatory. A German critic declared that the Boers imagined that they had "commandeered the Almighty” for the war. Sir Conan Doyle in his history of the war, regarded the presence of the then Captain Lambton with Mis bdg guns as an example of historical luck, as a happy chance, and as a merciful interposition to save the British! from disaster; and explicitly describes the good work of the 4.7’s in keeping down the fire of the heavy Boer scuue*

Lord Goschen must have watched the •V.‘ late dual l>etw©eiji these two famous interest. Admiral Lambton iis his intimate friend. It ‘ was to Lord the dashing . hanjdy the Powerful newly arrived in-^, South Africa: “I wish jto 'Heaven.- that. I' were not an ofiioov • 1 should very much prefer to be a private, in: the Northumberland Fusiliers, lighting at the front, than Captain of ifie Powerful', rolling ih St. Simon’s Bay, doing nothing.” * * *

The ex-Empresa Eugenie lives at her Farnborough borne a quiet, retired life. Mass every morning, and a pilgrimage to the tombs of her husband and son who He there, followed by a-drive when the weather permit®, claim the greater part of the daylight. The widowed ecs-Em-press believes it is her destinv to attain a great age, and does nothing mi mi cat to the fulfilment of her belief. Those'' who remember the Empress a® she was, speak highly of the grace and tact that distinguished her. Undisputed queen >of fashion,, who gave the pattern even to the English court, she was greatly liked, and aamirecL by the foreign re--prespntatiives for her graceful manner and the skill with which she managed the various Ambassadors. “How did you like General Dix and —— she was asked by the American Ambassador. “1 liked General I>ix very much,” she said, ignoring the question as to the other. ‘‘Yes, but——•?” “I liked General D.x very much,” she repeateq, and. that , was *“« The life of the Empress was saved In a_ miraculous fashion by a stroke of The midb was raging round the Tuileries, seeking her. The 'doors were barred and they were seeking to break in by the windows. L)e Lesseps (flung wide the doors and gave the mob admission. While they vrere pouring through the corridors, he drew the Empress away by a back passage, and after a thrilling hour or so she got away from Paris.

The suggestion that London theatres should relax their rules in the matter -of evening dress will probably meet with opposition in some quarters, since there is no point in regard to which oertain managers are more touch v than this matter of having a smart and'dr-essy audience. Oin the Oontinent and in America evening dress is almost invariably optional in all parts of +he house. Only in London has it oomo to be regarded as obligatory. \

• Tt is said that the late Lord Lonsdale -had the family weakness for gold and jewellery, but bad a verv oirelees. off- 1 hand way of making ibis purchase® sometimes. Once he asked to see some rings in a jeweller’s shop where he was quite a stranger. The Shopman set a case before him and kept a sharp eye on the customer, whom he had set down in his own mind as a “doubtful.” Lord Lonsdale calmly gathered up a handful of the fLnestrtgems in the colleotiotn, and put them in his pocket, “Ah, those will do nicely,” he said. “You can send in youn* account.” And walking out of the shop, he drove away with them before the jeweller could recover bis breath. The latten* called a policeman.. “I’ve been, robbed in broad daylight,” he said, “by a horsey looking fel lew that’s jurt driven off in a yellow carriage.” “Don’t be a stupid,” replied the constable: “that’s Lord Lonsdale. You could se® him the shop at cent per cent profit, and he wouldn’t know you’d overcharged him.” The jeweller took the hint—and got his money.

The dh airman of the London Aerated Bhtead Company having stated that marriages among A.B.C. girls show a marked increase, the young ladies employed by other firms are complaining that they do not find the acquisition oef a husband quite as easy as A. 8.0.

• - # * * According to “he Journal,” Paris ccmfcumed 485 asses last year. Certainly a marked improvement has been noticed in the attitude of their press towards England.

■A.- TBto usually accepted hypothesis of magnetic storms is that they are an outcome of disturbances which occur, mat ion our earth, but in the sun. The comvuMuons in the sum’s upper layers that are connected with the spots which our telescopes show upon its surface appear to be inevitably associated with some wash and fair-reaching electrical disturbances. Theso .disturbances give rise to vibrations in the ether—like the Hertzian waves which Mr Marconi and " his feUow-workers utilise for the purposes of wireless telegraphy—and per- '■ baps also-;'as Sir Oliver Lodge has just suggested, to those still obscure radian fcions which are being anxiously studied in our laboratories under the name of ' Oathode rays. It does ruot much matter • which explanation we assume; the fact is- well established V that disturbances an the surface, as shown by our: telescopes and - spectroscopes, usually coincide in point of time-with the display; of auroras in our, atmosphere, as #effl as With th f e > more subtle phenomena an electric W 'Since tvpatienily studying the °j~*y vibrations of the magnWwW neediest ih 4hb -Paris Observatory i their cyodioal changes 1 were often interfered with by sudden and violent jer kings, apparently irro-

gular and without an obvious cause. He no weed, after a time, that the metre violent of these disturbances were usually concurrent with auroral displays.

Mr Ballington Booth tells a story or a woman who stood up at a Salivation Army meeting to testify to her conversion, and who with great eagerness denounced her former ways. “I was very foolish and vain,” slhe said; “worldly pleasures, and especially the fashions, were my only thought. I was fond of silks, satins, jewellery, ribbons and laces. But, my friends, I found they were dragging me down to perdition, so I gave them. al : l to my sister I”

Bismarck ornce said that while he did not know a single German Minster who would make a passable journalist, he could lay his hands on several journalists who would make (highly successful Minsters. Uncle Bam appears to cultivate the assistance of represenitatives abroad possessing the journalistic instinct. Every working diay of the year tihe 'Commerce and Labour department of the Government publishes from its office at Washington a paimphlet containing the gist of consular reports from all parts of the world. These reports are marvels of information and suggestion. The Aemrioan consul sees desirable information for his Government in what would be a good paragraph for the ideal news gatherer. Every item of invention, of data ‘affecting trade, science, health throughout the civilised world, is thus brought straight to the attention of the American manufacturer and merchant, whose workshop and warehouse become an epitome of the world’s knowledge. The result is that from pretty well every European country missions Like those promoted by Mr Mosely are either on theirkway to America, nr already there;-', to see how Uncle Sam “does these “ things. ”

It is more interesting than surprising to be told that the reason why ladies do not more frequently remove their hats in theatres is that many of them wear wigs. Even the most innocent bachelor can hardly look in a hair dorsser’s window without suspecting something .of the kind.. But there is nothing ne<w or alarming in it. There are in the British Museum wigs that were worn by women of ancient Egypt. We see representations of wigs in .Assyrian sculpture. Mode© and Persians, t (Greeks and Romans wore themt They faibused the denunioation of the early of the CShuroh. Sit Bernard said, 3 : **j&he woman who wears a wig commits mortal sin.’ 1 When the executor “lifted the head, of Mary Queen of Scots by the hair to show to the spectators it fell from his hands, owing to the

hair being false. In fact the wearing of other people’s hair in addition, to her own seems to be one of woman’s primal and ineradicable instincts.

* * * As a consequence off recent revalutiona a movement is on foot in the boot trade to institute the registration of standard marks for hoots. It is suggested there shall be three to designate the various qualities:—“Nothing like leather,” “Something like leather” and “Leather.” The movement is being anxiously watched by the paper trade.

The original edition of Mr Mor&ey’s Life of Gladstone —ran edition of 20,000 ■—.was exhausted in the first seven days. A second printing of 20,000 was immediately ordered, not a moment too soon. The sale has been at the rate of 500 a day—an absolute record in biography. The work is the property af the Gladstone family nob of the publishers.

* * * From Cairo—As Golfers on the Ghezira course know, crows are a sort of moving hazard on the island links. Flaying to the eighth hole recently a well-known knight of the niblick made a fine drive. Imagine his disgust when, getting to within about 30 yards of his ball, a crow swooped down uipon it, and carried it off towards the hole. Both golfer and caddie broke into a run after the thief, hurtling maledictions after him in the choicest Arabic, which evidently met with the desired effect, os the ball was dropped on the green near the hole instead of being carried off to his “house,” ais the caddie put it. Needless to remark, the golfer holed the putt. As the hole is one of' the longest on the course, and a good bogey- “five,” his opponent was “more than ; a little sick.”

The pending .retirement of the record room keeper to the L.C.O. recalls the fact _ that although , the council, as a public authority, has been in existence as such for only a few years, it nevertheless has records that extend back for centuries. In the old days the streets and the drainage system of London. were controlled by seven or eight separate Sewer Commissions. These bodies (except that affecting the city) were subsequently amalgamated, under the title of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and that again was superseded by the London County Council. All these .respective bodies necessarily acquired a large number of documents, but no department was specially created to deal with them until the time of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Ne-oessaa-ily, considering the character ofthe work undertaken by the predecessors of the London Counity. Council, the i documents referred almost entirely to

street matters -and drainage systems. These, however, have increased in value, and now they are looked upon as being of absorbing historical interest. In some of the old documents (says “The City Press”) the signature of Sir Christopher Wren may be seen, and in this connection it is interesting to note that Wren was himself an ancient Commissioner of Sewers.

Excellent progress -has been made in the work of completing the Wellington Memorial, a.nd it is hoped that a tablet will be fixed on the monument to record exactly what has been done. Of Stevens, a writer in ‘The Art Journal” says:—Painter, scalp tor, architect, engineer, musician, and poet—all these, like many of his Renaissance prototype©, was Alfred Stevens. Born in 1818, his aptitude for artistic design was early visible, even in attempts to copy the quaint conceptions of his father, who was a signpainter. Among tiho designs that first attracted the future artist were the ornamented title pages of sundry old books of his father’s. He next progressed to portrait sketching, and thence to portrait painting. Nor did he discard the sister art of music; the violin, for which he had a good ear, being his favourite instrument, until the art wherein he was®

to attain celebrity absorbed all other pursuits.

. Few people are aware that there are in England railway stations reserved for private persons who own or rent them, and upon whose platforms nio ordinary passengers tread; yet, according to an article in ‘The Railway Magazine,” there are a number erf such stations. The Duke of Sutherland, as is well-known, owns a large proportion of the north of Scotland, and his famous seat of Dumrobia Castle in that district has its station for the Duke and his household, called after the castle “Dunrobin.” Then there is the Isle of Wight, which belongs to Sir John S. B. Simeon, the station in connection with Avon Castle, and that of the Earl of Warwick at Easton Lodge, while Mrs Ballantyne Dykes has had built for her own use and enjoyment a picturesque station about three miles from Cockermouth. The Elarl of Lonsdale, who- is the great territorial feudal lord of the district of Cumberland, that stretches about Penrith and Askhaan, ha© a. private agreement with the railway authorities in virtue of which, for certain concessions made with regard to building the station, the land it stands bn, etc., he, his family, and guests have a right to have any train stopped at any required times at Lbwtheir Station, whether, such trains are expresses or not and whether■ they may bo timed to stop near or far from. Lowther Station, . ' -