IN THE PAPERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14039, 23 April 1920, Page 5

IN THE PAPERS.

; When the King was inspecting the veteran war motor-omnibus- recently at Buckinghain Palace irp rerharked that- it was the first iime he' had been in an. omnibus, though he had previously rid--1 den in a tramwa.y-cai-. His Majesty, was j no doubt referring to when, as Prince of. Wales, he rode to Tooting on London's first electric tramway-car on May 15. 1903. when he inaugurated the-sys-tem. .

Mr Henry Ford, of motor-car fame, makes a fresh bid for public, attention by the announcement that he has perfected, and proposes to manufacture; by thousands, a. new" gasoline-driven street tramway car, which for economy of operation cannot be beaten, and which he is willing to test-for speed by inviting competition with the fastest railway train running in the vicinity, of Detroit. The new car will run'on ordinary tramway .motors, developing .-from 75 to'lso hoise-poner, and will barn any tiling from the crudest oil to'the finest petrol or alcohol. •• ' '

It is announced that Prince.' ISnud, i second'son' of the King of Tfenrnarkj intends to.take part in the OlympicGames at Antwerp in August. He excels in high jumning and sprinting. An amusing story is told of the late Dr Warre wliejn he Was headmaster of, Eton. Among his pupils was Lord George Scott, who ;is ."last choice" for his' school'.'made 100 against Harrow'. Speaking of hiin, the late Mike Mit- ; - chell said*to Dr -Warre, "He's so good J can't teach him any tiling.'" "I can't teach him anything either." replied! Dr Warre, "though not for tile same reason." Lord >George subsequently ; nuide 101), again as last choice, fop Oxford against Cambridge, and-he .obtained the highest cricketing honors,flaying for the Gentlemen .against tile Players at Lord's; when the JoEijier won by five runs. Creditors met nt-.the London " ruput' Court -in; February uncjer the receiving order made on January I.sth against the Marouis of Queeiisberry. . who said at present he could make no proposal, and would consent- to an order adjudging him a bankrupt. The Official Receiver was handed a provisional statement of the affairs, showing liabilities £l63p and no assets, except a one-third interest in a 20 per cent, commission note relating to a deal in port wine. The Official Receiver said the debtor had stated that his wife undertook when they 'were married to settle on him £ISOO yea i;ly. but the settlement was never executed, and he afterwards went to professional money-lenders. He was now being.supported by relatives and friend's. The case was left in the hands of the Official Receiver. - ' Lady Scott-Gatty, widow of Sir A! - ' fred Scott-Gatty. Garter -King of Arms, lias had a line stained glass window placed in Welwyn Church in mem-, ory of -her husband and ' their son. Major Scott-Gattv. of the Herts Regiment. The window contains the figure of St. George, the patron saint of the Garter, and St. Alhan, the patron saint of the diocese, with the gorgeous coat worn by Garter King of Arms jn his official capacity.. There is also the coat of arms with the punning Italian motto. "T gatti . cadono senipre in picdi"—translated. "Cats always}'* fall on their feet." Singing angels recall the musical abilities of both Sir Alircd. who wrote and composed numerous songs, jtnd his son. English estate of the net value of £1.570,728 14s 3rl has been left by M. Henry Jacques Lebaudy, described as ot Westlmry. North Hempstead. Nassau, New U.S.A.. who was shot . by his wife and died on Novcmher 13 last intestate, brother of the "Emperor ol the Sahara." By registrar's order dated January 11 last, letters of administration of the property have been granted in London to Ernest Salisbury Suffern, public- aeeonni-int. of 135 Broadway. New York City. L'.S.A.. and Charles Boone Samuels, attorney a! law. of Riverside Drive.

New ork City. Although the amount is not tile largest intestacy figure which has passed through the English Probate- Records, there is little doubt that the estate as a whole const-itlites

a record in intestacies. Estate in Ent land of the net value of £730,053 IT 2d was left by Madame Marguerit Amereie I.eliaudy. ol 92 Rne d'Amstei dam. Paris. who died on Slay 3, 1917 widow of Jiile? Lebaudy. Init she dip posed of her property by will. Among the largest known intestacie recorded in the English calendars ar those of:—Mr James Coats, jun., o Ferguslie House, Paisley (died Marc 22. 1912). £1,923,204; Mr Robert Eat eliffc. of Nekton Park, Newton Solney Burton-on-Trent. (died on November 19 1912). £'964.994: Mr Henrv Thonja Coghlan. of 14 Hvde Park Garden: (died on November 24, 1892). £658. 839: Mr Charles Moss Cockle, of On •slow Square. S.W. (di<?d March 15 1903), £602.198; Mr John Shaw, o Ivirby Moorside. Vorks (died August 16 1911), £519,478; Mr John Henry That cher, of ol Queen's road. Oldham (diec February 2-3. 1918), £466.200; Alderman Sir Francis Hanson, of the city ol London, £416,180; Mr Charles Andrews. of Farnham. Surrey. £403,123. The death has occurred of Miss Maudf Millett. the actress, who made her first appearance in 1884 as Eva Webster in "The Private. Secretary." She appeared in many plays, her last engagement being in 1918 in "Dear Brutus," under Mr du management. She was the wife of Colonel 'Pennant, It oval Artillery-. ' - Mr F. N. Charrington, who at the age cf 20 renounced a fortune of a million and a quarter, to which he was heir, in order to devote himself to work among the |K)or of the East. End, celebrated, on the evening of February 3. his 70th birthday arid the jubilee of his 50 years' work at the Tower Hamlets Mission in the slums of the Mile End

road. The Bishop of London paid' a tribute- to Mr Oharrington's work. Mr Charrington said that the • great evil now was the cinema, which had slain tens of thousands where the publichouse had slain thousands, and which drew thousands every Sunday from the churches into "these dark places of sin and evil." _ t There is a. movement in Paris to restrict the publication of daily newspapers to six days a. \ve<?k, the same as in England. At a meeting of newspaper proprietors, at which 3GO journals were represented, a. committee was appointed to approach the Government with a view to prohibiting the sale of, journals of all kinds from Sunday at noon to noon on Monday. There is to be a referendum among the newspaper proprietors as to the advisability of increasing the cost of newspapers to the" public. ' Pay at the rate of from £ls to £'2s a. week is offered by Barimar Ltd., 10 Poland street, London, to first-class oxy-acetylc-ne welders, and the firm has vacancies .for practically as many men as it can find. " Lady Goorgixma Peel's recently published book of "Recollections" is full of anecdotes associated with famous names. Lord Brougham is said to liavo told a friend that when he died, if there were an after life, he would appear, and tell him so. "This he is said to have done." says Lady Georgiana. "appearing suddenly to his friend while he was in his bath. I remember a. great deal of talk about.it. It would

bo quite characteristic of Brougham to take his friend at such a .disadvan-

tage!" At Pembroke Lodge Dickens and Thackeray were frequent visitors. Dickens used to turn up sometimes "in a pink shirt-front, embroidered with white," and then would be suddenly seized with shyness, and slip away after dinner unseen. "" / Mr C. F. Cross, lecturing before the London Society of Arts, said that during the war the Scandinavians fed their cattle on papermakers' wood cellulose, and they found it had a. very high feeding value. . The Germans.'too, fed.their stock in a similar manner, and their experience was that cellulose had a heat value equal to starch. A memorial cross lias been erected ■over the grave- at Hat7-"ow "Weald of Captain W.Leefe-Robinson, V.C., who was the first airman to bring down a. Zeppelin in England, arid died as the result of. his treatment in Germany. ANALYSE COSTS. The smallest reduction per. mile means a big sum yearly. Keen business men realise this and buy tbe famous British-built "Dennis" ' motor lorry in oonsequehce. It is economically "operated, and requires fewest repairs. Cost of maintenance is therefore low. The New Zealand > ExoressCoy.. Ltc. , ,