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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17630, 21 May 1919, Page 6

T , , c£cn b° done these days in the British Isles, by land or sea, without the potent intervention of one of the Geddes brethren says a writer in the Morning wSJi, G^ ant ' whi <* consoled true believers in the business faith during the dark days of the war, " Brainy is Eric and Auckland is his brother," is heard again now as the brethren, to the blare of press trumpets, march to take over roads canals, railways, and docks. The Australian soldier may be excused who, being shown among the sights of Edinburgh, the church where Jenny Geddes threw a stool at a iirrJ' ars ? n ' s "■ bead, inquired innocently, Was she Sir Eric Geddes's sister?" The Marquis of INorth&mpton has given the tenants of his estates at Callineton DC 12 months' notice (writes a Daily Chronicle correspondent). He has decided to sell all his property and interests 111 the district—firstly, because landowning- on <1 sccll© is now very gfcnsrally felt to be a monopoly, and is consequently unpopular; and, secondly, because it is doubtful what the attitude of the present or future Governments will be towards large landlords, whereas the small owners seem to be assured of Government support. Lord _ Settrington, who came homo recently after a long time in Germany as a prisoner of war, has been as near death as any man. During the latter part of his captivity he was fairly well treated- But about a month after his capture he was led out with some brother officers of the Guards to be shot "as an example',' and the_ poor fellows were actually lined up against a wall to receive the bullets. In the nick of time, quite after the fashion of romantic melodrama, a reprieve arrived It hivd been "worked" by an exalted and ratner dccent prince, who remembered hospitality at Goodwood in the good old days. — Philology teaches us that names were not born outright, but. were the outcome of more or iess slow growth, and it is said that "Hallo!" comes from the fact that the people of Camwood Forest, Leicestershire. \vhoii thry ciosirod to hail a person in the distance, called out "Iliilloun I"'—a survival of the times when one cried to another Wolf n ! A loup 1" (meaning "Wolf!