ENGLISH NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14393, 7 January 1911, Page 6

ENGLISH NEWS.

EVENTS OF A WEEK. LONDON, NQT.'II. STAGE ROMANCE. Anotliur stage romajico lias just eonie lo light, .the hero and heroine being Mr'.-Prank Jay Gould, the -United States millionaire,who has !)et.'ii Jiving in Scotland .for.-some time, and Miss Edith Kelly, a pretty younji actress, who was formerly'a'chorus "girl at--tie Gaiety. Efforts were made to the wedding a • secret,. but since it-is impossible to dispense with written records, the news lias now become punlie property. The marriage took place before a sheriff at Edinburgh, on October 29th. Mr I>\ Jay Gould, wlvo has taken Abbotsford, the historical residence of Sir Walter Scott, is identified with several. <rt the great railway concerns of the .tJnited States, and is understood to have -inlieriteti a largo portion of the Gould millions. BRITISH LINKR LOST. News has come-from Teneriffe to the effect that the' liner Kurdistan, which has been missing for some time, foundered while on.a voyage from Manchester to Hussnvah. sixty miles oil tho Seilly Islands on October 20th. 'llio information wa r > given by two sailors n.niKxl Hi on il and Bra;;, the only .survivors of tho disaster who were landed at Tenerilfo by the schooner Santa Ursula. They wi re picked up by tho British shin Vincent twenty-six hours after the Kurdistan went down, having spent the intervening time in an open .boat. The remainder of ' tho boat's crew were either washed overboard or succumbed -to exhaustion before help arrived, and-tho.-two surviving sailors were in a critical condition when rescued. They - were transferred from the Vincent to the Santa Ursula on November 2. There were forty-nine people aboard tho Kurdistan, including four ladies. KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. Tho general committee of the Mansion House Fund for providing a King Edward memorial in London. have come as yet to no definite decision as to the particular scheme to be. adopted, but have unanimously' agreed that a statue of the Into. King . should be erected in some prominent position in the metropolis. With regard to the main scheme tho executive committee liavo reduced the 104. suggestions received to four, '"as follows:—Viscount Esher's proposal for a ' historical museum in London on the lines of the Museo Carnavalet in Paris; Lord Avehury's scheme for a central hall for London University; Lord- Eversley's suggestion for providing, a monumental chapel or annexe to Westminster Abbey; the acquisition of the Crystal Palace. The question of the main scheme has been; referred hack to the. executive committee by the ;;en'.\ml committee for further .consideration. AGE OF EMIGRANTS. At a recent meeting of the Central (Unemployed) Body at the Guildhall, .a discussion took place on a recommendation by the Emigration Committee that tise minimum age . for applicants of emigration be fixed for the x>resent at 17 years. Mr. Harper said he had heard that a hoy of 15 was too young to go abroad unless accompanied by a parent, but he thought the best age was just after they had left school, and New Zealand was the piost suitable country in tile world for a boy to start in. It would-bo hard on a J?d of 16 years and eleven months to he refused his passage. Ho moved as an amendment, that the age .bo reduced to 15, but the age was eventually fixed at 16. "INSPECTOR DEW'S RETIREMENT, .

Chief Inspector Dew, tho detective 'whos3 name is known all over the world through his connection with the Crippen case, has tendered his resignation to the Chief Commissioner of Police. His resignation has not come as a surprise to the department, as it was known before he t-oOlc up the Crippen case that ho intended shortly to resign, having completed his 29 years' service.; "When only 19 years old Mr. Dew was enrolled in the Metropolitan Police Force, and though now he is only 47 years of age, he has seen practicaliv more service than any other member of the force. Mr Dew was one of the detectives, investigating the Jack the Ripper crimes. . Among the people he arrested recently are Conrad Harms, the bank swindler, ''Harry the Valet " the expert jewel thief, who stolo £20.000 worth of jewels from the Duchess of Sutherland, and Miss Robinson and Miss Hamilton, witnesses in the Druce case. PRINCES FOR THE DOMINIONS. In the course "of an interesting address on the Imperial problem, at the Royal Colonial Institution, the Duke of: Marlborough pointed out that in the Oversea State; the .Governor-General, the representative of constitutional monarchy, was coining mora, and juore to assume a position which only a member of the Royal Family could adequately fill, a:nd .he suggested with s.-ime confidence thai it should gradual] - become the custom to select the Governors-General of the. great Dominions as far as possible from' the ranks of the Princes of the Blood, and that appointments of this character should immediately he divorced from party politics. 562-YEAR-OLD LAWSUIT. A law case which was begun in 1348, and was interrupted because Richard de Maundeville "had to leave for' tho war in Franco, has just been resumed lin the Chancery Court. The point at issue was the right to hold a market ut Stowmarkot, Suffolk, and the siut was originally brought by ths Abbot of St. Osvth. Essex, in the .twßnty-secbnd year of Edward 11T., against Richard tie Maundeville. According to the abbot, who claimed to be lord of the manor, Richard had wrongfully obtained the grant of the right to ho'.d I a market in Stowniarket, and his claim was "to the grave damage of the said I abbot." At the resumed hearing Mr G. F. Howard and Sir C. N. Peddar, j the modern representatives of Richard, 1 asserted that Mr G: A. Wocdward, the ' modern representative of the ahbot, | had no right to' set up a rival market. LORD MAYOR'S SHOW. Sir T. Veze.v-' Strong has been installed as the new Lord Mnvor of Loudon, in place of Sir John Ivnill, whose term of office has just expired. The Shakespeare pageant., which was the central feature of the Lord Mayor's show, provided KBnes such as have .not been witnessed in the C;ty streets for many hundred years. There were four scenes:—The return of Henry V. after Agineourt; Sir "John Falstaff aud his companions returning from the "Blue Boar" ; Edward V. going to the Tower, find Hojir.v VIII. and Wolsey going to tlie trial of Onsen Kat'ierine. No fewer than 150 characters took liai-t in these historic scenes. Mr Philip Carr, secretary of the Shakespeare Memorial Committee, and honorary master of the pageant, was at great'trouble to acquire exact reproductions of the armour and costumes if the periods. In evening a great 'banouet was held at the Guildhall, at which, beside the City authorities, the Premier, the Archbishop, of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Justice, and various foreign diplomatists in London were-present.