BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 19517, 17 May 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

THE ARMSTRONG CASE APPEAL DISMISSED (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright) (jfigtralian and N.Z. Cable Association) ! LONDON, May 15. Herbert Armstrong's appeal against settle of death for poisoning his wife by administration of arsenic was. dismissed. 4 feature of the appeal was Sir Henry jgrt.l? Bennett’s wonderful advocacy on of the prisoner. He even surpassed p brilliant feat at the original trial. Dur g the appeal, Sir H. Curtis Bennett for Ih’ree days without get. and despite frequent inpuptions in the form of incisive questions e m the Bench, never lost his grip of the bject. quoting dates and instances withit effort. The feat is worthy of te highest traditions of the English bar. FURTHER APPEAL SOUGHT LONDON, May 15. (Received May 16, 5.5 p.m.) ■ Armstrong is applying to the Attorneyfl General for the necessary certificate peril mittinc him to appeal to the House of | Lords. J The appeal was based justly, on the alI Ration that Mr Justice Darling had imgoperly admitted evidence regarding the alleged attempted murder of Martin, allhough Armstrong vas not tried on that [barge. and secondly on Mr Justice DarJng’g misdirection tc the jury. The Appellate Judges’ rejection was unanimous. PROPERTY LAW. IMPORTANT amending LEGISLATION. LONDON, May 16. (Received May 16, 8.52 p.m.) The House of Commons read the second Inne the Law of Property Bill The Solicitor-General described it as the rggeet Bill ever introduced into the House. It facilitates and cheapened dealings in land, simplified conveyancing, assimilated real property to personal, and placed Topen on the same footing as men in regard to succession in case of intestacy. He paid I tribute to the great skill of the Lord Chancellor, owing tc which the Bill was accepted by the law societies and others jc’.ere-'' ; A DICKEN’S MANUSCRIPT. ■ SOLD TO AN AMERICAN. (Reuter’s Telegram). LONDON, May 15. At the Baroness Burdett-Coutta'a sale of .job the manuscript of Dickens’s ‘‘Haunted Man,” with an autog>«ph presentation in- - ration to Miss Buniett-Coutte, was sold io an American named Rosenback for 13700.