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BRITISH GOVERNMENT, WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
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Far Savings Certificates
Value 5 years
after purchas6
£500
Purchase Price
£387.10 0 15%. Od.
FABE OF INCOME TAX.
For arore 13s. 8d. Tent now £1 "will be paid in 5 years' time
aquivalent. to 5 par gent, nomi pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.
Anyone, whatever his or her com may be. can buy War. Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 500 £1 Certificates in all or their equivalent.
Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fail any time, with An addition after the first year.
"TIRMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1) A Cartificate entitles the purchasNT to recrivs £1 for each tớ% fi un the fifth anniversary of the slate of purchase, "free of income tax in respect of the accumu lated interest
(2) A Certificate is not zansferable except by permission of the Postmuster. General a fee of 1s, will be.Charges in respect of each transferee, In the event of death, the same rules will be applied as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits (3) On written application (on a form obtainable at any Post Office) being made to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, or part thereof in multiples of 15%, itd.. will be repaid at any time, with an sddition of 3d. for each 15s. 6d. on the first
anniversary of the chate of
purchase and with a further addition of Id. per 13% 6 for ach month thereafter.
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(4) No person may hold more than 500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent.
The £1 Certificatex (purchase price 18. 6) are issued in book form. The Certificates for E12 (purchase price, El- Es) and £9 (purchase price £19 7x63.) are issued withous books. The $1, £12 and £25 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banks."
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GENERAL POST Orficz, Losnoy,
June, 1916,
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certlicates, see the other side.).
Examples of Investment in
War Savings Certificates
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9. LI 91
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alue after
1 years:
4 yours.
5 janu
418 15-
443 15-
468 15 —
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157 10
251- B
67 10
78 15 --
177 10 -
88 15 -- 266 5
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300
200
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2 18 3
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MONARCHS WHO MARRIED
ENGLISH WIVES.
General Sat suggestion that our are Kings should seek their Brides" 'within the Britisiz · Empire has been Irenaived in some quarters as though if Even moderate
verged on herees, opinion has taken the line that the union ut the Sovereign with a subject would serate complications, political and social which emight be súbversive of the settled order of things.
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Both views are apparently based on the
greal granddaughter of the eldest sor of John and Katharine that Henry VII. texted his blood-claim to the throne.
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However, the redirect instance of a kingly upion with an English subject is that of Edward IV. Elizabeth Woodville was of undistinguished birth and a widow, ret, although the marriage caused scandal at the time, the law of succession was held in such reverence that the astute Henry Tudor took the precaution to make the first daughter his wife. Richard III. also chosz, an English ennsart, Anne of Warwick, who had previously been exposed to Edward, son of Henry VI.. and bis brother Clarence ninrried anniber daughter the kintmaker, Henry VIII's matrimonial ventures belongs to popular history; suffer it to say that he wedded four of his lady subjects. The
LORD MAYOR LOSES LIBEL ACTION.
VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT WITH
COSTS.
A libal action brought by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Dann, against Mr D. S. Mackay, secretary and general manager of the Greenwich Inlaid Linoleum Co., Ltd, ended with a verdict for the defendant with costs.
The action was heard before Me Justice Darling and a special jury.
assimption that work a marriage would doubt thrown upon the legitimacy of tris matter to the core solicitor,
be a departure from tradition. So far Lom this being the case, there are merous precedents to support the polies, writpų ME. Edate Oliver,
Only" since the passing of the Royal Marriage Art in 1772 has it become the mile for Kings to wed with Royalty.
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daughter Elizabeth did not prevent her succeeding in her order of precedence.
QUEENS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT.
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Coming to more recent times, the one notable instalice to be recorded is that of James Duke of York and Anne Hyde. Although death terasute the union some years before James, ascended the
WAS
sent some
Counsel stated, in opening the case, that Sir William had claimed a fee of 200 guineas for professional services rendered as a surveyer to the linoleum company, of which he is a director. In submitting the
defendant, it notes suggesting that Sir Willian st tempted to browbeat another dire who objected to a payment a directors director nt of the 200 that a scene at a and guineas,
arranged," possibly with meeting was the object of delaying the return of 700, the balance of £1,000 cheque which Bir William hari received to pay the company's insurance premiums.
alleged that this amounted on himself, and now claimed
to
say the rule, because the Act itself does throne both daughters bort of it became jery found that the matters com-
"not preclude a wider choice: it merely Queens in their own right, two nd the prohibits members of the Royal Family conditions upon which William of Orange drying before the age of twenty-five. was offered the English Crown being without the King's consent under the that his wife Mary 13. should he joint Great Seal, or after that age withousovereign, and that if they had an issue.
the Crown should pass to the year's notice to the Privy Council, and sister, Aane. whose claim, moreover, the art of Parliament. And the and that of any children, she might leave. measure, movoset, Was specially intros was put before that, of Williain's possible need to check the foolish connubiat children by a second marriage. t entanglements of George the Third's brother."
"Hence weber, phat this limitation upon Regal marriages is at most conditional apon the will of Parliament, and dates back less than a century and a half M.-The Investment may be any Prior to that enactmeist our Kings studied „muhiple of 15%, 6d, up to 1887 10.
REGAL
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RECORDS
ACCORDEON SOLOS.
Lady Mary Ramsay. Highland Fling
Scottish Medley
6053 North of tho
Grampians
Our first two Hanoverian Kings were married before they arrived in England to supplant the Stuarts, and unturally they bad chosen German brides George I had long before divorced and imprisoned his luckless spouse for alleged infidelity, and the Prince of Wales had been sympathies continued to mould the mat Endedick for tine years. German their own. inclinations or interests in mouial taste of their descendants until choosing their consorts, and there is no the Royal Marriage Act and the Acces instance of the offspring of Royal blood in Onth left little choice between s being excluded from the succession analliance. As it is the wish of the nation bride from Germany and a morganatig account of the inferiority of the maternal to discard all things Teutonic, I may decat. Indre-et-show, even associate myself with General Smuts in illegitimacy did not debar the descendants the respectful hope that our future ruleta of princes from the throne.
will elect to follow the examples of their earlier forbears which I have quoted rather than those of their later pre-
INSTANCES FROM RISTORY. History is so rich in instances that I dedessóri (Heel) hull select-saly the more conspicuous to illustrate the point of this article. The instance of Edward the Black Prince in (Strathspey) omitted. Because the captions may claim
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THE 1328.
Char Din Engbah lady he welded had Royal blood in her veins. But I sball faelade the case of John of Gaunt and Katharine Bunford as the mas remark able illustration of the indifference of the
the blood Hoyal bus fowed. The
English people to the channels through CURE for
children of this union were legitimated
the price of their father shepher. Bichard II., but were expressly crcluded fromthe accession. Novertheless it was on the strength of his mother being.
the statements were true: that Mr Mac- plained of did not constitute a libel; that kay believed he ought to send all the facts to the firm's solicitor, so that he might give his opinion correctly; and tast the defendant was not actuated by malice.
Mr John Harton, now chairman the com
of company said he asked the defend- ant to take notes, but did not recollect telling him to put thear before the solicitor. Cross-examined, he did not think that Sir William Treloar or Sir William Duas tried to browbeat him. Of course he did not think the plaintif wanted the balance of the £1,000 rbeque for his own use. Her merely thought it
irregular.
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After his lordship, had entered judg ment for the defendant with costs on verdict given above, counsel for the
plaintiff mid that if the statement made Mackay that he made no dishonnumble in the box the previous day by Mr
charge against Sir Wiliam Dung bad | been made before, the action would never have been brought
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