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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15033, 5 January 1911, Page 4

—Mr George L. MaeFarlane, K.C., ivfco has boon appointed one of tlio Senators of the College of Justice in Scotland, to iill the vacancy created by tho resignation of tlio late Lord Low, is n son of the late Lord Orinidalo. Ho was born in Edinburgh in 1851, and was admitted a mcniW o? thn Faculty of Advocates in 1878. Since lie became; a senior a large -amount of his lima lias l>2oll occupied in presiding at Local Government Hoard Mid Board ot Trade inquires in nil parts of Scotland. 111 July, ISO 9, lie was Appointed Sheriff of Fife and Kinross.

— Heligoland was ceded by on article in a , treaty in IS9O limiting tho boundaries oi Gorman r.ml English territory ia West A trie, to which it had as much relation as to the moon. It was thrown in liko a grocar'fi poiuul of tea. Tiyeuty years havo passed away. Heligoland is row a fortress pure and simpls, the Gibraltar of ih« North Sea, splendidly forlificd with guns carryinc 10 miles, rendering tho passage of a liostilo fllTet almost ir possible, and is tiiO keyatone of attack and defence against igg forces in any future wur t