GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16799, 29 May 1926, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

MAYOR’S PROTEST. The Mayor of Folkestone, Alderman Bishop, left the chair at a recent meeting of the Town Council as a protest against a letter from Councillor Barfoot, and asked the Council to consider the matter. Councillor Barfoot had read a letter he had sent to the Mayor dealing with the sewer outfall scheme. One sentence read: “No report of the proceedings appeared in the Press, for reasons probably well known to you, the Mayor.” Alderman Bishop, replying, said that he had not tried to nobble, bribe, or ask the Press to do anything. He must have liis character cleared. After discussion during the Mayor’s absence, Councillor Barfoot said that he unreservedly withdrew his remark. THE WORKERS’ Y.C. The London Gazette announces that the King has awarded the Edward Medal to Alfred Welding, for jumping into a vat of . scalding acid at the works of the High Speed Alloys, Ltd., Widnes, Lancashire, last October, to i the rescue of a youth named Harper,

who had fallen into it and was in danger of being immersed; and to George Locke, employed by Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., for saving the life of a fellow-worker named Dowser, who had fallen, striking hia head on a girder, while at work on the re-bnilding of premises in Oxford Street, W. Locke leapt from one girder to another and held Dowser until help arrived. The Edward Medal is awarded for saving or attempting to save life in connection with industrial undertakings. gave up his fortune. Sir Henry Lunn, before leaving New York for Canada, referring to the surrender of all his property, except £SOO a year and expenses, “for the sake of humanity,” explained: “I have done this because I wanted people to know when I went around lecturing and preaching that I had finished with money-making. I have come over here not to earn dollars; I have come with a message, and that message is to bring the churches into line with a united front to outlaw war.” Sir Henry Lunn has asked the Very Rev. W. J. Margeston, Provost of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, to form an incorporated society to administer his fortune for the promotion of unity and concord among the nations, but liafl is to be placed temporarily in trust for the benefit of members of his family. ORDERS FOR BRITAIN. The South African Railways have ordered from Messrs. Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., Gorton Foundry, Manchester, for delivery by the end of next July (states Modern Transport), 10 “Garratt” patent locomotives of 136 tons each.