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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 4

. Canada is Great Britain's source for cheese, supplying 1,698.847 cwt during 1907, out of a grand total of 2,372,233 cwt, imported from all the s other countries. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking in the House of Commons on the .East Indian Loans Bill, complained that nai tive gentlemen were' insulted while - travelling on Indian railways by bee ing refused permission to -go in the . same compartments with Europeans. ' Mr Granville Bantock, ,who has J recently succeeded Sir Edward Edgar 1 in the Chair of Music in Birmingham ' University is one of the most origr inal of living -British- musicians, ana ■ he has earned for himself the title ' .of "the' British Wagner,", .Origin r 3 ally r Mrl Bantock, was 'intended, for b the Indian civil .service, but. winning i the Macfarre'n Scholarship for com--3 position at the Eoyal Academy of , Music in 1889, he determined thence- , forth to devote his. life to his ber loved art." .He made a tour of the world- as the conductor of one of Mr ' George . Edwards' gaiety companies, , and later on he became musical dir- , hater of all forms of self-advertise- ' In "1900 he was appointed -principal of the Birmingham School of Music, '. since when;' he -has composed . some 3 of his finest works. . Mr -Bantock is ' of a retiring disposition, and is a ' hatter of all forms O/fself advertisement. In private life he is noted , for his grpat genialit.y and, except for his music has -few interests in, life save chess and Japanese colour prints, etc. ' Rocently the London "Times" printed a letter from Mr W. Scoresby Itoutledge, . a distinguished Oxford man interested in sport and scientific research, recently resident in the i Kenya Province of British East Afric a, on the demoralisation of native women by British officials. Briefly l put, his charges come to this: that , the Acting, District Commissioner at . Nyeri caused two native girls about . thirteen years. of age to be procured, i as his mistresses, and- that, on an ■ enquiry being held by Judge Barth at ! tho instruction of the Governor last j March, it was established that one of the girls was unwilling, and i the otlief had been removed from tho protection of a native policeman, who strongly resented the action of ,thp commissioner. As a result the incriminated official has lost one year s seniority, and "will not be put in L charge of a district for two years: while another official 1 against whom " similar charges were preferred hap been severely admonished. Such punishments were utterly insufficient.