ENGLISH NEWS.
A WEEK'S EVENTS. LONDON, Oct. 28. LEFT OF SIX HUNDRED. Thirteen of tho twenty-eight fiur, vivors of tho Charts < } * the Lignt Brigade at Balaclava kept tho f' ~ sixth anniversary of that event by a •>inner at the Hoi born Restaurant. hi response to a telegraphic iiKsssago trom tho assembly tho following telegram was received from tho King-: "Iho King and Queen thank survivors of tho Balaklava Light Brigade charge for their k:nd message, and trust that those who are celebrating that event of undying fame will enjoy a happy anniversary." The chair was taken by Lord Cardigan, who is the nephew of the Lord Cardigan who commanded the Light Brigade in the charge on the Russian guns. NATIONAL SERVICE.
Lord Curzon made a remarkable speech at Hanloy the other day in ndvocacv of tho National Service League "ideal of "every man a soldier.' He said: "Under the present system many noble fellows are ready to deiond their hearths and homes as .well as those of the idlers and skulkers. not the spirit that is wanting, but the conditions. I advocate compulsory service for homo defence—that - every young man physically sound- should be liable during a few year® of- early life •to' bo called for serv:co_.iii the Territorial Army ; for purposes of homo defence. I believe that ; compulsory training would throw a real shaft of light on tho darkness of the submerged classes—that ifc would in many, cases be a strong help to lift t.he downtrodden from' tho mire, and that/ the men who took part lVould emerge better citizens and finer mien." A MISSING BARONET.
In the Probato C6urt leave has been granted to presume the death of Sir Claude Robert Campbell, the fourth baronet. It was .stated that Sir Claude dissiupated what money-he-was entitled -to early.'.in life, and :in 1898 lie left London on board tho sailing ship Sutherlandshiro, as an ordinary seaman. In 1899 —when his father, according to Burke, . is "supposed to have died" —ha succeeded to tho title, but rejoined. ; .the Sutherlandshiro. The ship was wrecked off Sumatra on July 25th, .1900, and .Sir : Claude and an apprentice volunteered to swim ashore and get assistance. According to- tho affidavits of the ship's master and the apprentice Sir Claude was drovned, and his body- was ywashed ashora. Within tho last week or so a docu-. ment had been received by the solicitors, saying l, Alive and -well. —C. R. Campbell, ISAO/'OQ," hut this was not in Sir Claude's handwriting. 'NEW THAMES: BRIDGE. The City Corporation have adopted tho report of the Bridge House Estates Committee rooommending the reconstruction of Soui&wark Bridge at a cost of* £261,000, and the building ot a now bridge, to be called St. P&ul's Bridge, at ' a cost ,of £1,616,933.'. ISXr. W. H. Thomas, the chairman of the committee, in moving the adoption of the report, 6aid tho Institute _of British Architects had -suggested that the northern approach of the bridge slwuld open immediately; opposite the dome of St..Paul's Cathedral,, but that proposal, if carried out, would involve the corporation in an additional outlay of one million sterh'ng. Tlie coqioration will now proceed with. in Parliament to carry out the scheme. JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION. ' Th« Japan-B.riiisli Exhibition closes to-morrow and in a : fewdays many of the exhibits .will ha"ve /been removed! and packed Tor transport back to Japan. A number, will, however, be left "in England as inenien-; of the i exhibition*. The mod-el of tKe m^ussolcum^ofthe .second Tokugawa Shogun has been presented to the King, and Prince Arthur of Connaught has accepted the Japanese model sommer-house exhibited, by the Forestry Department of the Land of the Rising Sunv f The model of the historic ana beautiful ; Kyoto .Gate is to bo .reerected'in Kew Gardens, and a number of other interesting exhibits have been accepted by various Government departments. ' CORNISH SOCIETY SCANDAL. At,.the Bodmin Assizes Mrs Hugh .Willyanti, who comes of a prominent. Cornish family, was;sentenced to three years' penal servitude on a charge of forging a series of promissory'notes in the name of' her husba-nd's uiicle. Sir. Brydgcs Willyams. A sum of £II,OOO in all. was involved in tiiese promissory notes, which were - made payable; to Mrs. Willyams, and two for a total of £4OO were discounted for her by a London firm of moneylenders.. Captain Willyams, who was charged with having, conjointly with his wife 1 , forged and littered a v promissory. note for £2OOO, was found Not'.Guiltyy amid the applause of the court. ~
CORNISH TRAGEDY. On Jamas Hamilton Nicholas, a medical student, being placed in the dock at the Cornwall Assizes at Bodmin, charged with the murder of his father, Major : James Hamilton Nicholas, at Kingsand, Cornwall, on August 18, counsel 'for, the defence applied that the court should first inquire into the state of the accused's mind. This was done, and Dr.. Wolferstan, medical officer of Plymouth Prison, said the accused was of unsound mind, and not responsible for his actions. Only the previous evening he had made ah attack upon tho officer in charge ox him at the prison. Counsel stated that the. accused had been in a lunatic asylum in Auckland, New Zealand, and had attempted suicide there. Nicholas was removed in custody until the King's pleasure shall be known. . PREMIER AND STUDENTS. Extraordinary ficenes were witnessed at Aberdeen University when ilr. Asquith, the Premier, who attended as Rector to give an address, received an uproarious welcome'from the students. Ht* address was punctuated with snatches of song, shouts, and general uproar. At one point a divinity student dressed as & Suffragette unfurled : a banner, and, mounting on his chair, used a rattle_ and a small pipe to make ; noises of the most excruciating char- : acter. It was at_ the finish., however, that the most exciting scene occurred, j Some of the under-graduates had pro- . vided a landau in which they designed ! to haul their Rector to the house of the Principal for luncheon. Tlio vehicle, however, was boarded by a mob of youths and drawn so loaded round the quadrangle. Eventually -rh© front wheels became locked, and the carriage turned on its side. Then it was turned wheels upwards and smashed to splinters. INSANITY AND DIVORCE. Should insanity be a ground for divorce is the question that has been engaging the attention of the Royal Commission on Divorce, which has just resumed its sittings. Medical experts were strongly in favour of granting divorce in cases of incurable insanity. The general opinion was expressed by Dr. Robert Jones, lecturer on . mental diseases, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who pointed out that insanity deprived a sufferer of his liberty, of his civil rights, social, financial, political, and I even of domestic rights", and a person married to a lunatic was for all practical and legal £urj#ies ©anied to. a
dead ppr??sn. Tho rontvjiel was ovAM by «loath, otui .should similarly, and for tho snnio reason, i>£ ended bv confirmed insanity. years ftlmuld tho possibility of curable insanity. KMJ'IRE TRADE MARK. Lord Avoburv presided over a canfoiciico utum&Al by representatives or tho London iiiiu ocher chambers ot commerce and tlw British _ Empire League, and also a number of leading City' uieu, to cruisiitcr ilio establish-n-f nii i-r a British Empire trade mark. 'i his aim hns boon pla.vn on a business looting 'by the "Krister ot Bnts.i MaJiuracturere (Ltd.), which ancludca on its 'council herd StTathooua (XLigU Commissioner i'wi' C:u:adrt.i. Sir Richard Solomon (fcligh Commissioner for South Africa), Hon. A. Kirkpatrmk (AgontGenrrat for South Australia), tlio Hon. J. H. Turner (A gent-General for British Columbia), and representatives of many trados. It- bos mad© application to tlio Hoard of Trado for the registrar tion of a standardisation mark . for British goods. The aims '»f the company .are, briefly, to protect the interests of British. manufacturers and merchants, to induce Governments of British Oversea Dominions to grant, protection for tho company's mark or marks, and to extend inter-Imperial trade relations by enrolling 'as members or subscribers the manufacturers and producers of such Dominions as are willing to give reciprocal protection for the company's mark or;marks.
NIGHTINGALE MEMORIAL. . 'National support is asked for tho fund to bo raised -to tlie, memory of the late Miss Nightiugalo, to rendex* pecuniary assistance to aged nurees or those incapacitated through ill-health from continuing their nursing career. It is not generally known that there are yet tour survivors, who accompanied- Miss Nightingale to tho Crimea. One of these women- is in tho workhouse, through ijio fault of her own j there are who entered the calling when it seemed to hold out littio prospect of adequate payment, but whose tarly and devoted services are reflected in standards of modern nursing, whilo many of those now advancing in.years will stand very near .this perilous position unless-they can. be provided for. .Even at middle age, it is.pointed out, there are few- appointments open to nurses who have spent their time in public , service. A nurse's career is necessarily short, as the public demand the services: of a young and up-to-date woman.. .
THOUSANDS PENNILESS. ' Many thousands of tiu'ifty people who mvei.tod their savings in tho Chjtring Cross Bank .-■• ar- practically penniless; owing to the suspension of payment by the hank. . A Depositors' Protection Committee has been formed, which'is'iiow busy investigating claims which have . been put in, by .hundreds. .So mo. of . the ca&?s hafo .come before the committee are mcst pitiful,' as tlio maionty of depositors were elderly . aiid poor people, attracted by . the high rate of interest, effered by the bank.- Here are a few iD<ytauce3:'—A paralysed old woman had £7OO in the bank, and was living on the interest.-at 10 per cent.; two. old sisters, both deaf-and nearly blind, had £6OO in the bank, and were living on the interest; a widow had £365 deposited, sand lived on- the interest; £2OO was deposited by an elderly working :itiari,Vwho. is/now almost, penniless. These are .but a few ; . of. tho instances. A relief fund is being established.
THE SURVIVOR OF NAVAItINO. Naval Pensioner Henry Cox, the last survivor of the battle of Navarino, interviewed ' recently .by a "Daily News" representative, told some of his most interesting recollections of the days of old. Piraies and slave dealers he had come across often, and he remembered well an exciting .time he had had with, a bloodthirsty gang of pirates off Nova. Scotia* VI had joined the naval schooner Fair Rosalind, and one diiy we gave chase for many miles to these fellows,. who had captured a British barquo. . When we got up to them the crew of fifteen had mutinied. The mutineers ■ liit the' first mate oyer the head with a belaying pin and; threw him into - the water. They brought up tlio captain from below by shouting, 'Man overboard,' and ho was served the samo . way. The sliip's carpenter's throat was cut, and in the end only six of the crow were alive. Wo inado these prisoners, and took them to Halifax, where four of them were hung." CAPE TO CAIRO DASH.
The leaders of the daring dash by motor car from the Cape to_ Cairo— Mr. Bentley and Captain R. N. Kelsey .--will leave England for South Africa on the steamship-Kiiifauns .Castle on November 12. Lord Gladstone will give them an official, reception _ <it Capetown, which they wtII reach on December 2. All the arrangements for tile expedition ... .are - now well in hand. The petrol; of which, it is expected, nearly 7000 gallons will be needed, and other supplies'have already been shipped. ' ; Assistance has ' been promised irom* Colonial Office, and the : ' South African, German, Belgian, Esyptpian, and Sudan authorities. A bioscope, operator and a .journalist will accompapny : Mr. Bentley and .Captain Kelsey in their bold enterprise. 'i.vDEADLIER' TORPEDOES. A new invention which, it is claimed, will increase enormously the effective-' ness of torpedo warfare,'was tested in the great ijasin. at Birkenhead the other day. : By the. new plan torpedoes will pierce the nets hung round warships as a 'protection, by means of a new and . highly powerful explosive, instead of by the cutter with whioh they aro at present fitted. ' Indeed, if the new invention is approved, these nets will bo rendered obsolete. During the test a torpedo cut clean through a net placed some distance away. Tho inventor of the new device is Mr G. S. Hazlehurst, ex-Mayor of Birkenhead.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14390, 4 January 1911, Page 2
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