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SMUGGLING.
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STORIES OF FIERCE CONFLICTS.
The picturesque story of contra- band is very entertainingly told by Lord Teignmouth and Mr. -Charles G Harper in "The Smugglers" (Palmer, 2 vols.. 426) Many old prints and pic tures accompany the authors'
THE EARL OF ATHLONE.
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL
OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE EIGHTH WONDER.
SENSATIONAL FIRE WALK-
ING IN FIJI.
One of the wonders of the
natives of the island of Benga, in world is the spectacle of the
the Fiji group, walking on fire. It has not yet been ascertained how these people can walk on the almost red hot stones, and escape
In connection with the recent arrival of the Earl of Athlone in Reuter message reporting. the South Africa, where he takes up the appointment of Governor General and Comander-in-Chief of the Union, in succession to Prince ilvely descriptions, which are Arthur _of_Connaught," 'whose supported by "secret and con-period of office has expired, it may any hurt at all.
fidential documents of the eigh
At this period (1688) Calais then lost to England-alone im- ported within two years 40,000 packs of wool from Kent and Sussex; and the Romney Marsh men not only sold their own wool In their Illicit manner, but bought other front un country, ten or twenty miles inland, and impudent
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PRECIOUS STONES PIC UP ON THE BEACH"
It is not generally known hit
teenth century" placed at. Lord be recalled that in May 1914, the Teignmouth's disposal by the King approved the appointment of
in the little steamer "Motusa” to Lord Athlone (then H.S.H. Prince Admiralty and since destroyed.
** sao iko Benga natives give an The earliest conflicts between Alexander of Teck)
Goreior-Genem) of Bamba athibition of fire walking. This A smugglers and the Government
succession the Duke of privilege is only available once ware concerned not 'with evading the high Customs duties on spirits, Connaught. When the war broke every three or four years, and tea, laces, and tobacco but with the out, however, the Duke of Con- when the opportunity offers is
The End of Jersey, whose death State's affort to prevent English naught patriotically consented toeagerly availed of. Hundreds of wool in the interests of the weave an extension of his term of office. natives were found waiting to
efficacy of camphor oil in a case of in his 51st year after a very briel When his extension teminated in welcome the visitors, who were
gas poisoning is recorded in the illness was announced, was, the gems are to be found in the ing industry from being taken out to16, Lord Athlone was on active carried ashore, and on reaching
current issue of the Lancet." eighth corl and succeeded.to of the kingdom.
The case was that of a girl who the title on the death of his natural state in England. service, and his Majesty was terra firma found the rara or
was restored to consciousness-in
1915. He
Amethysts of really fine quality was 1 pleased to excuse him from taking village square surrounded by neat
three minutes by an injection of
the old-established are plentiful in Somerset and Up the office of Governor-General, stails, quite like a civilised bazaar.
the oil. She had lain for several partner in Lord Athlone is the brother of It then appeared that the natives
After the reprieve of Ronald hours in an atmosphere of gas and banking firm of Child and Com Cornwall and in many parts of the Queen and of the Marquess of were really holding a bazaar to True, who on May 5 last year was was considered to be almost any, in Fleet-street, but the great Perthshire, Fife) and the Hebrides, almost interest of his life was racing, and says a Weekly Dispatch writer. Cambridge, being the third son of raise funds to build a school for sentenced to death, Lord Birken beyond recovery. Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess their children. After lunch the head, ther Lord Chancellor, The method seems to be entire he served for two periods as a ste-
Aquamarine can be collected in ward of the Jockey Club. of Teck, sister of the, late Duke of crowd started for the fire-walking appointed a Committee,, under ly new" said a London medical
Lord Jersey's family bas long and the Cairngor district of Scotland s Cambridge, who was for so long site, which was found to be quite Lord Justice Atkin, to consider authority, but it is just another distinguished associations with the which, by the way, is reputed Commander-in-Chief of the Army modern. In a small amphitheatre
instance of the way in which it. His great-cmndfather was the to be the most productive ground When the foreign demand for He is thus the King's brother-in-there was a hole some 12 or 14 whether any changes are desirable medical, science la discovering owner of Bay Middleton, winner of our wool fell off the smugglers law and also his second cousin. feet in diameter filled with large in the existing law, practice, and antidotes to the poleons and dis- the Derby in 1896. Other of his for the district contains opals, both turned their attention to imports. Born at Kensington Palace. on
At about this time it was estimat-April 14, 1874, he was sent to Etan stones. On top of the stones was procedure relating to criminal trials eases which affect the human body. I borgen won two more Derbys, and blue and green beryls, and garnets,
At present disease and blood ed by reliable authorities that and passed thence into Sandhurst. her a huge pile of kindling
poisons triumph in many cases the Two Themsand Guiness five h sides many such stones and firewood, which was set on 7.000.000lb. of tea were smuggled Having been gazetted to the 7th into the country annually, while Hussars, he joined his regiment in fire and burned vigorously. The the actual sales of the East India India in 1895. but it was soon hot ashes were carefully raked off Company, which enjoyed a mono-transferred to Natal and was with long poles, until not one ash poly, amounted to under employed in the Matabeleland remained.
very particular about this part. 6,000,000lb.
When all was ready there was a wild shout, and from some bushes, where they were hidden, "Matabele dashed" some eight or nine
ly shipped it off.
PRISON BROKEN OPEN.
The smugglers of Kent and Sussex were by far the most formidable of all the 'free traders'
operations. On one occasion the Prince rendered important service when Colonel Baden-Powell (as he then was) was attacking a strong position.
his โป
The natives seemed
in which the plea of insanity as defence is raised.
The Committee recommended that
a
times.
In England, and were not easily Campaign" Sir R. Baden-Powell natives, gay in their best gala or deprived of any power to resist. Know how and when to use it make the speech of the evening at
to be suppressed."
time it is committed.
alabaster, jasper, comelian, anyx, Just because we are as yet ignorant
The late earl, who registered his and sardonyx. of the counteracting specific
Cumberland, Donegal, and Wick- which would drive them from the Colours in 1904. as Lord Villiers,
was never so fortunate as to win a low yield sapphires, but not in blood and restore.the patient It should be recognised that, a
But we are progressing along classio rice. His two Derby, can sufficient quantities to make their person charged criminally with an lines of discovery which will be of didates. Greenback and Scamp, oursuit worth while except as a offence is irresponsible for his act Infinite valute to mankind. Cam- were defeated the former only by a hobby. when the act is committed under phor oil seems to be one of these, neck by Lembera. Scamp, how. The topaz is found in Comwall, an impulse which the prisoner was and the use of ammonia is another ever, tron the Gimerick Stakes in Scotland, and in the Mourne
Once we have the formula, and and gave his owner the right to Mountains in Ireland. by mental disease in substance
Probably the commonest of wrote that the Prince_nazar_mcke dress..
British gems is the garnet, which what now seems a miracle will the Gimcrack dinner in 1931. It may require legislation to bring became commonplace. Amid great excitement they this rule into effect.
Security, Freema, Coral, and may be gathered in most places in There was no end to the daring work to be done." Prince Alexan- went to the hot oven, for it could
spared himself where there was
"There are, of course, various Arion were other horses owned by England. Scotland. and Ireland of the "free traders..
On October 7, 1747, 60 armed der was among the first to go out have cooked an ox, so hot were Naghten's case should be main= |out of an advanced state of coma.ite for the Lincoln in 1919 but was precious stones. At Elio Bay in Save as above, the rules in Mc-other methods of bringing people Tord Jersey Arion started favour- where the soil is productive of smugglers broke open the Custom to the South African War, serving the stones. They gravely paced House at Poole and carried away with the Inniskilling Dragoons up round the stones, and then, ran
tained.
One of these is the wonderful defeated. Later, however, ho won Fifeshire, they can be picked up upwards of 4,000lb, weight of tea, to the surrender of Bloemfontein off, and, gathering armfula of Naghten case referred to was, that only performed in the last resort,dicen. Newbury Summer Cup, and locally as "Elle Rubies."
The rule laid down in the Mc-operation of heart massage. It is the Jubilee, the Newmarket Han- along the beach, and are known In the European war he served branches of green bushes, threw responsibility implies a know- as it means that the delicate the Liverpool Cu lately seized by the Swift,
throughout, being twice mentioned them on the stones, Immediately
The majority of the highly prized privateer...
KEEP RACING FREE.
gems owe their existence to a Later in the year the gaol latin dispatches and receiving the a dense smoke arose, and into this ledge that the act is wrong at the mechanism of life has to be laid
C.M.G. He was at one time head dashed the fire walkers." They
bare and gently manipulated by Lard Terrey devoted his Gim- mineral known as corundum, In Maldstone was broken open in the
of the British Mission with the squatted in the furnace, and sang evening by "twelve
| crack" speech on December 2, 1921, itself it is valueless, but in certala the direct contact of the surgeon's to discussion of various racing pro soils it gives birth to such stones NOT RESPONSIBLE. persons armed and disguised," who wound- Belgian Army, and G.S.O.I. In songs, while their relations all
hands. The Committee's report goes on was created Earl of around the circle chanted weirdly to state:
"There is more to be hoped forblems, and, in particular, the part as the diamond, ruby, sapphire. ed the goalers and rescued four 1917 he notorious smugglers.
Athlone, and Viscount Trematon to the beat of the native drums Where a person is found to be in the use of antidotes such as miguel. He confessed that twenty emerald, amethyst, hyacinth, and As late as 1828 a "determined in the peerage of the United King or lalis. Then the "are eaters" Irresponsible on the ground of camphor off, which by chemical vents no he had been very much in topaz,
Al flutter was caused in geri and blood-stained struggla" took dom, abandoning the titles of
maker," but since then he bad dealing circles a few years ago by place at Bo-Peep, between Hast- Serene Highness and Prince and again walked all over the bushes. Insanity, the verdict should be action, will neutralise poisons in favour of this "automatic book-
the name of Teck.
Even at this stage when a cloth that the accused did the art (or the system and restore life."
phanged his mind.
the discovery that diamonds could ings and Bexhill.
They could not, he said, have the be produced by the Introduction of Lord Athlone married in 1004 was held over the hot stones it made the omission) charged, but The smugglers drew up
pari-mutnel without inviting legislacorundum into a tube of radium.. regular line formation, and a des-Princess Alice, daughter of the crumpled into ashes in a flash, is not guilty on the ground that he
tion as a first alep, and without run. The fears of the diamond mer perate fight
The late Duke of Albany and cousin although held some 3ft. above the was insane, resulted.. smugglers
ning the risk. amounting almost to chants were however, dispelled fought with such both of King George and of the stones. It was a most impressive responsible, according to law, at
a certainty of State intervention as when it was found that the high determination and courage that Queen of the Netherlands. They sight, and not one soon to be the time. The existing statutory provision in this respect should
in sequel. Whatever they did, lot cost of manufacturing made the the Blockade men were repulsed have two children, Lady May forgotten.
be amended.
them try to keen meing free. He undertaking commercially impos and one. Quartermaster Collins, Cambridge, born in 1906, and was killed. In the first volley Viscount Trematon, born in 1907,
earnestly asked all who favoured the fired by the blockade an old
hot what it meant in initial legis. smuggler named Smithurst was
ation and after-administration. killed his body was found next with his "bat" still moming grasped in his hand, the stout staff almost hacked to pieces by the cutlasses and bayonets of the Blockade men.
in
The "bat" was the stout cak staff, about 6ft. long, which the smugglers carried..
A CONVICT'S SECRET.
OFFER TO RESTORE £40,000
DIAMOND NECKLACE.,
JEWEL ROBBER.
END OF A CAREER OF CRIME
SO EBiot to be
JOKE EXPLODED.
MARRIED LIFE LONGER.
CELIBATES WARNED.
ruri-matuelta satisfy themselves
sible.
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"The committee agrees that a per- son may be of unsound mind and "Marry if you wish to live long wet be criminally responsible. On is the advice tacitly conveyed by the other hand, that there are cases Sir Arthur Newsholme, formerly of mental disorder where the Im- Permanent Medical Officer to the
BETTING TAX COMMITTER. pulse to do a criminal, act recurs Local Government Board. In "The Last Derby Day Lord Jersey_en- with increasing force until it is in Elements of Vital Statistica."tertained the members of the Bet- A man who was shot at Besle fact uncontrollable,
"The question of the effect of tine Tax Committee at Epsom. He, while attempting to escape from
Therefore the committee thinks sex on mortality is closely related,
had already given evidence, before to the influence of the them that although the Tockey Club the police is said to have been the it should be made clear that the he says, author of extensive jewel rob law does recognise irresponsibilty inter-relation of
the sexes inconld take no official cognisance of A notorious convict now serving beries carried out last year in on the ground of insanity where the matrimony. The subject has long betting it would help in considering a sentence at Parkhurst prison, Isle of Wight, has made a dramatic London, Manchester, Birming-act was committed under an im- interested social statisticians, who how the law should be framed if UNPOPULAR COASTGUARDS, The strongest ally the smugglers claim for a reward amounting to ham, Glasgow, Hull, and other pulse which the prisoner was, by are not restrained from statistical had was the sympathy or, in some several thousands of pounds offer- English towns. He was identified mental disease, deprived of any study by the perennial joke that betting were legalised.
married life is not more prolonged the Drag at Oxford, was for several Lord Jersey, who was Master of cases, the fear of the countryed for the recovery of a £40,000 with the owner of a villa at power to resist.
than the celibate, but that it seems years a follower of the Bicester. sensational Berka, Thuringia, who called necklace stolen in people.
circumstances at the Savoy Hotel himself Walther Brachmann, and The Lord Chief Justice has longer"
Sir Arthur gives, a table showing Earlier in life be played polo with THE Steamabip A ishued a warning against' the
considerable succes. He was one three years ago, when Mrs. Mango, professed to be a merchant. ing says:
a wealthy Greek woman, was tak search of the house revealed large adoption of the recommendations a much longer life period for all of the very few man who have on much money at Monte Carlo, and
VAZIFORE” I was once asked by an in- ing part in the New Year's Eve quantities of jewels and gold and of the recent committee on Insanity ages among married men than among single men and widowers: habitant of a village near the sea festivities.
silver articles, evidently the among criminals.
Only those who have lived He declares that various factors credited with having made carrying. His Majesty's Mails will be' Now, after the lapse of three fruits of robberies, and further
€40.000 by one visit to the tables. whether I thought there was any
despatched from this port at Noos, harm in smuggling. Upon my years, the
convict, who has investigation showed that the among allenists appreciate the contribute to the longevity of
In 1908 he married Lady Cynthis on FRIDAY, the 29th February, repiving that I not only. thought several aliases, has announced to
owner of the villa had lived in extent to which the whole body is married men.
As a rulo," he says, "a married Needham, eldest daughter of the taking Cargo for the above Farts. permeated with the idea that every
Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, there was a great deal of harm in the officials
two sons and two daughters, and is ancceeded by his eldest son, ment will be conveyed by the Steamer count Grandison, who is 14.
A Sussex parson who, in 1815, wrote a pamphlet against smuggl
claimed.
coast necklace
tions of the Coastguard wers formed chiefly out of old bulks and other vessels condemned for sea-going purposes.
in
THE EFFECT....
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING 1930ED CONTINENTAL PORTS AND LONDON. FOR EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN AND
that the missing i England for some years before criminal is insane; and shouldman is in a more secure social third-Earl of Kilmarey. He leaves France and London (under arrange
return for
the
player and
When chanceable weather or exposure
proceeding to Bombay and there tüm shipped to the on-carrying Steamer Marseilles and London.
Hongkong, 20th February, 1924.
it but a great deal of sin. he ex-necklace is safe and intact and the war and had been interned they have the dual word in every position than the unmarried one Then the Lord have that he can show them where it there under the name of Harry case in which the plea of insanity is. and has, therefor a better eccamic mercy upon the county of Sussex, lies under lock and key. The Glove, After his return to this raised prisoners will hang or go and healthier environment.” for who is there that has not had a convict has offered, subject to country he is said to have formed free on a balance of scientific tub [of brandy}}" -
certain formalities," to release the an "International Burglary Compossibilities, says the Daily Mail. A Favourite Among Athletas So unpopular was the
the pany Limited." Beginning last Apart from homicidal manis,
The Goller, the foot bat PASAR tops #tabburn Bronokini Coughs 1: ::Parcals will be received at the Oiles. was amount of the reward offered by year, the gang got into England, which is a well-recognised form of the all man athlete kaw the value of to cold and wet results in bronchitise contents and value of all packager antil 5 P. the day before sailing, blockade that when, ft broken un..in 1831 the newly the insurance brokers, via Holland, and, taking up quar-sanity, the lust of slaying a Chamberlain's Pain Bem. If just the start at once wking Chamberlain'
are required." DE formed Constguardmen, officers after the loss of the necklace,ters at an hotel in London, where fellow-creature is comparatively thing fra rah down after a hard game Cough Hamad Ben osed for ever. Afty For further particular apply to and men alike found the greatest paid Mrs. Mango £38.140.
they posed as gentlemen of inde-rare among the mentally deranged and swalßugs ars cured in one benchial and inflasers coughs, stubborn
All soreness disappeare like magis and
yours and "trongly recommended for MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & 00., An amazing situation arises, but ifficulty in obtaining lodging it may be taken for granted that pendent means, planned a whole Compared with the urge towards third less time that, by any other wreat weakentre coughs and troublesome night
Agenta. self-destruction it is the claim of the convict will be series of daring robberies.
almost
coughs. Fold everywhere, . According, to
menty For Sale everywhore. German negligible, investigated so far as he is
papers, a jeweller in Bishopsgate willing to impart information.
In all forms of Insanity it is the was one of the chief sufferers repetition of a certain class of from their depredations, and lost acts which is the predominant fea so heavily that the companies ture. The megalomaniac peralsts: reward of £1,000 for information maniae continues to steal. with which he insured offered a in his pretensions, the klepto leading to the capture of the Why, then, should it be ade thieves, On his return to the vanced that an Individual, who Continent Brachmann was able commits a brutal murder, and who to deposit half a million gulden in has never at any other time shown n Dutch bank. The stolen goods a tendency to destroy life, is the found at the villa at Berka are automatic victim of a diseased said to have a value of 250,000, mentality?ything behind this Brachmann is said to have been
TOMBSTONE COPYRIGHT.
JUDGE REJECTS A SCULPTOR'S CLAIM.......
NOW THE VERY LIKENESS
OF HEALTH: Gratefat Father in Parak Tell: How His Little Fox. Was Helped By BABY'S OWN TABLETS. At Marylebone County Court
Whorever they are fried Baby's Own Charles Roy Swinstead, a decora Tables the 'anadis children's remedy tive artist, of North-road. Park-lane, Five litle ones help en prents antis W., sued R. Underwood and Sons, Laction. Kn D. LM. Haiff of
Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd monumental
Sculptors. West Ipoh Perak, F. M. B. wistes 2- Hampstead, N.W., for £20 dam- ages for infringing the copyright pabject to children's complainte anoh faultlessly. At his house the the law is there to see is main one mouths ao my little son was have spoken English and French loss of control-a control which fever, stomach ache prize, & I sought police arrested a man who called tained
of a tombstone design.
А
man of good education and to
tbehind
Is
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'seeing red ". beyond a sudden
Recently woriari was alleged
Mr. Swinstead said he designed medical idioo but all i no purpose himself Haussmann and Prozo be irresponsible for her acts
wing" tombstone for a Miss Then I tired Baby's Own Tablets and Dawkins who had it erected in they made a wonderful abangs My boyfessed to be a farmer. He denied because she had some Impairment Hampstead Cemetery Here has no complaints now, bas an excellent all knowledge of Brachmann's of her ductless glanda, Sta garded the design as unique and pen and is the very likeness of criminal activities,
he gave an undertaking to Miss
health
Parents owe it to that and to
Dawkins that it should not be re their Htle once always to have Baby's produced. Shortly afterwards it Own Tablets bandy in the house, for was found that a tombstone exactly these Tablets; easy to adminis ar be
The Government have authorised
similar in design had been erected cause they are plesrint to take, quickly, the appointment of an engineer to in the same cemetery about 20 reduce fever, rollare della, dispel con make a full
yards away with Messrs. Under then allay teething paies, endo
Eupationa |femedy | Fidigestion, abook plans and
wood's name on it visits colds and orpo, quiser the marrow and struction of a road
Judge Scully held that there was promote health giving shop. The
nothing to indicate the copyright expel worms
of Mr. Swinstead's design, "and Of chemiate, or pork from 'di gave judgment for Underwood and viel from Dr. Willame
The rule to MeNaghton's case; which is that followed in criminal trials, is that for a person to be irresponsible for an act; be must not have appreciated that he was doing wrong
This seems to be the only guide to Justice In our present know- |ledge" of "insanity, and the
version of the assize
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