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LONDON, May, 21.
A medical bulletin states that Mr. Bonar Law
LIGHTER CUT ADRIFT.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
BRIRA, May 21,
Trankie, which necessitated the summoning of underwent a slight operation to his throat this morarmed force arose as the outcome of a protest by the ning, otherwise his condition is unchanged.
LATER.
Mr. Bonar Law's operation, which was ex- plorative," was designed to give ease to the pressure on the throat muscles caused by the continuous pain during the past few days.
FRANCE'S REGRETS.
PARIS, May 210 M. Poincare, the French Fremier, has telegraph- ed to Mr. Bonar Law saying France deeply regrets
townspeople against an attempt on behalf of the Banco ile Beira to ship £60,000 worth of silver to Delagoa Bay,
The townspeople affirmed that the ultimate de- stination was India and asserted the action was detrimental to the country's interests.
They cut the ropes of the waiting lighter which then went aground.
[Beira is an important Portuguese East African. port. Delagoa Bay is another Portuguese harbour bis resignation, in South Eastern Africa,] France does not
forget that despite
the difference of
TROUBLE ALL OVER.
BEIRA, May 21. The silver has now been despatched without
methods the two incident...
countries have been
following the last few months in the execution of the treaty, Mr. Bonar Law has contributed all his strength to maintaining intact the alliance necces sary to the tran- quillity of the world, and is grateful to him for having so well understood France's will with regard to repara- tions and having so loyally recognised France's constant pacific inten- tions.
The telegram concludes with the warmest wishes for Mr. Bonar Law's prompt and complete
recovery.
runs..
HOME CRICKET.
LATEST - RESULTS.
LONDON, May 21. Worcester beat Essex by au innings and elevan
Kent beat Hampshire by an innings and 26 runs. In the first innings the Hants players Kennedy and Mead made 101 and 50, respectively. The Kent player Woolley made 80.
Cambridge University beat the West Indies by nine wickets. The University player Claude, Ashton made 92.
WOMEN'S TEMPERS.
ANGELS AND FIENDS.
MR.-JUSTICE SWIFT ON LOVE. LAW.
SOCIALIST CONGRESS. ·
REVIVING THE INTERNATIONALE.
BRITISH LABOUR ATTENDS.
LONDON, May 22,
Some thousands of delegates, including a big German representation, Mr. Arthur Henderson,, Mr. Thomas and other British LabourLeaders, are attend- ing a Socialist congress at Hamburg, the primary object of which is to revive. the Internationale on a pre-war basis,
The Bolsheviks were not represented. The Vienna Internationale, which has been
two and a half Internationale ". described as a decided by 99 to 6 votes to unite with the Second- Internationale.
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald was not able to attend.
PLAYING FOR TIME.
SOVIETS LATEST MOVE,
RIGA, May 215-
The Sovici Government appears to be endeav- oaring to gain time this way while-gradually evolving more round-about methods for resuming Eastern propaganda."
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[An earlier cable stated that the majority of the commissars are of the opinion that Great Britain will agree to a compromise on the other questions If the Soviet desists from Eastem propaganda. They consider that a break would be. disastrous and are, therefore, disposed to discontinue this propaganda, though they still deny the evidence as to its authenticity.]
QUEEN VICTORIA'S READING.
"It has also been said she threw. another man over because he took a drink. If a woman discovers that a man drinks she is entitled to break her engagement with him, HER FAVOURITE AUTHORS not simply because she dislikes drink, but because a man is unfit to be engaged to a girl who does not know that he drinks."
Mr. Justice Swift said he thought Mr. Rhodes really had no case to. go to the jury, but he would let the Jury decide the matter..
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An article contributed to the new
The hearing was concluded in
number of the Quarterly Review by Lord Erale deals with Victorian mail week of the action for
Memoirs and Memories. He gives damages for breach of promise of
a list of Queen Victoria's favourite After counsel had addressed the authors sent to him by her in 1896: marriage brought by Miss Dorothy
jury, Mr. Justice Swift, in his sum-
Among English writers her Lydia Betteridge, of Woodlanding up, said the jury had nothing terrace, Old Charlton, Kent, against to do with the views of some peo-favourite dramatist and poets were Mr. Cecil Henry Rhodes, of Wick-ple who thought breach of promise Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Tenny- hara-lane, Plumstead, S.E. The actions should be abolished and son,
and Adelaide Procter. The breach was admitted, but Mr. that there should be a "close" time Rhodes pleaded that Miss Bette-should be on trial to make each those to which she was specially uotil engagement, when people hymns of Bonar and Faber, were |ridge had insulted his mother, and other's acquaintance:
that was justification for his A promise to marry was a legal attached. Her favourite novelists
action. Referring to the plea of justification Mr. Justice Swift said Mr Rhodes would have to show more than that his sweetheart sometimes displayed bad temper. Supposing a man said: "I like a girl of mild temperament who will acknowledge me as lord and master and bow down to my every wish, while I have become engaged to a woman who has a mind of her own and wants me to bow down to her wishes. Could he get out of paying damages there when he broke the engagement off? Mr. Enness (for Mr. Rhodes): A farthing.
Mr. Justice Swift: Why a forth ing? If the young lady had idiosyncrasies. he did not like he should have thought of that before he became engaged to her, (Laughter.) ARTIS
a
contract, It was not enough for Mr. Rhodes to say that the young woman did not come up to his expectations. Nobody who was engaged to be married ever did come up to expectations.
BLIND LOVE: Love was proverbially blind! (Laughter.) Members of the jury probably knew what it was to be engaged to an angel and then later find that she was only a woman after all. (Laughter.)
were all women-Jane Austen; Charlotte Bronte, Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Craik, George Elliot, and 7. The list is Edna Lyall old fashioned. Its range is restrict ed and even seems to have been arrested,HAN
In the Victorian age wouten seem to have spent comparatively little on their dress,
Georgiana Russell had her dress A little earlier than 1855 Lady
allowance, ralsed to £100 a year, Mr. Justice Swift continued: As the daughter of a Prime Minis "Everybody's wife is, of course, ter and Foreign Minister she had to the most angelle tempered person incet members of the corps that exists, but everybody has diplomatique, who were much more neighbours who have wives whose smartly dressed than most English tempers are the tempers of perfect women, the Austrians being fiends, (Laughter.) Yet you would particularly, distinguished for not say that those wives were unfit beautiful clothes
a formatrimony. The mere fact that There is a story of an incident a woman has a temper does not wich befell Lord Ernie at a lawn render her unfit for matrimony or tennis party in England given to TRAVEL BACK. TO EVE.
half the population of this country the Crown Princess Frederick of would never have been born. Germany okay Continuing, Mr. Justice Swift Half the mothers of this country. I wore a straw hat on which was said the first instance given of are women who at times can dis the red, black, and yellow ribbon Miss Betteridge's exhibition of play a good deal of temper. It is of the Zingari Suddenly the jand temper was when Mr. Rhodes not sufficient that the girl should Prince's equerry came up to promised to take her out and did have a temper there must be said. The colours which you are
evidence of such bad temper that wearing are thote of the From the time of Eve, said she was shown to have a character advanced Socialist club in the judge, "I doubt whether there and tempe ment that rendered If they have similar me
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