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OUR LONDON LETTER. THE ROYAL ENGAGEMENT POPULAR IN ENGLAND. GLASGOW RENT STRIKE SPREADING TO OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS. [FROM OUR OTK CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, January 19th,
THI ROYAL ENGAGWINT.
Everyone is plased-with the Duke of York's engagement, but some of the new papers do not seem to rate the intelligence of readers high by pretending to know all about it. Thy would have one believa that the Prince has pressed his unit with extreme ardour, and that he was refused by the lady of his choice on two or thres occasions before de finally consented to become his wife. How do they knowi
But there is not much doubt that the brideelelect, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kingburns,
The House of Lords' decision mads non enre of the Rent Act, for, af course, it As the intention of Parlament that landlords should get more rent, and it is manifestly unfair and unjust that tenants should be able to get out of paying over Fa mere technicality in the Act duro entirely. to bad drafting. Fresh legislation" is imperative
FAMOUS LONDON BANT.
There is real romance behind some of the sedate-looking old business houses, in the City of London, and is as only, now and then that the world in general bo comes aware of it. This week, for in- stance, Hosars Hoare's, famous bank in Fleet Street celebrated the 280th,
ATH
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
SANDAKAN.
BALLINA
STRAITS & CALCUTTA KOBE
BANGKOK
MANILA. RANGKOK SHANGHAI vis TIENTSEN
BANGKOK VE SWATOW HAIPRONG via HOLBOW SHANGEN SWATOW TIENTSIK BTRAHN & CALCUTTA
very of its foundation. Many people in love with the ancient and the pictures CALOU que visited the preaiises, near Temple Bar, anit the Lord Mayor sent congratulations. Samuel Pepys, the immortal diarist, was a customer as Hoare's bank, and his account is to be seen, in one of the ledgers, yellow with ago, which fill the walls in an NHANGHAI WER upper room. The record shows that Pepys deposited £200 in 1880, which, of course,
There are many curious traditions con- nected with the old bank. For 250 years
TO ALTERATION.
*MAUSANG * "KUTSANG "
HOSANT
BHING" Saturday, ANG."
Monday,
2nd Feb,
2nd Feb, Sp.
3rd Tab. pim. 24th Lab, 10am. 25th” Feb, 10am. 36th Feb Noon. 281b Fab Noon 17th Feb. 10 m
Feb 10a.m. NOOE IN MAY
5th Mar., p.m.
Penang p
-Thia, Live Aborda
spiar sailinga àà Cabuh. Pozna kd Singapore ; returning from Calcutta steamers prooted via Benita the Hopy Yout to Jagke, poor donally calling af Shanghai. All teamers bara "aroellagh, passenger apodmmodation, Etsed WNY Kiectele fübi kom dana and carry a fully-qualifed
approximately precy turns, dayi Shanghal, sometimes saling sa Swabaw. Through tiakili an bs, shesined Horthes and Yangi LANT :-4 weekly service.
Liaised with Mania by vessala with good senger accommodation, willings facing both port every FridNYA....
TAM
Tilugar krand from, Sandalia by
4,000 #beater RHINRANG HENDER, MAUBAXG” both ricamera excellent passenger serommalušicon... Cargo Įtaken of through Bills of Lading for Kudai Femalion. Labuan, Tawas and Jabad Datuf. Hongkong and Tientos, calling as Welhairding 03 kics, LINK-a regular service i no from Kich is grovimber botworn
via Eustow, by Ens sleamers fited with up-to-dais panenger LIDE -8, weekly persies is provided between Hangteng and Bangkok,
a very charming and typically English was a long time after the last entry in his girl. To be accurate, I suppose I ought Diary, and it is of interest to note that MANILA to say she is Scollis rather than English he overdrew his account by £13 so that
HArgond L Another historical as she belongs to one of the oldest families it never balanced. North of the Twed. But they have great personage who banked there was Oliver BORNEO possessions in Ergland, and it is in Eng Cromwell. Tish Society that they have always held-n foremost place. Lord Strathmore, who is the fourteenth Earl, succeeded to the title in 1904, and was successively in the Life one of the partners has always slept on Guards and in ste of the Battalions of the premises, and has unlocked the doors TIMETRIN the Black Watch His wife, Lady: Eliza-of the bank every morning at nine o'clock. beth's mother, a daughter of Rev. From the time of Sir Richard Hoare, Lord BANGKOK
Mayor of London in. 1711, oldest son has, Charles William Cavendish-Bentinck, a succeeded eldest son in unbroken succes grandson of the lord Duty of Portland.
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon has never aon at the head of the firm. That is a chain of direct continnity that many. The been before the public, except perhaps as
equal. a commander of a company of Girl Royal dynasties cannot Guides near her home at Glamis Castle partners take Juncheon together every day (pronounced lawns) six miles from a beautiful room over the bank, the Forlar. I doubt whether her name has furniture of which was specially made by Chippendale for the apartment; and on appeared in the English Press except the walls are sixteen family portraita one occasion when she was one of the beginning with the original Sir Richard bridesmaids of Princess Mary. She Hoare. The clerks in the bank still mac twenty-three yeals of age, small, dark, vivacious in miner, and is, like the Duke, very fond of dancing.
THE DUKE OF YO
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quill pens; and in the garden at the back is the firm's ow well going down 400 fest to the green sand under the London clay.
TRA METROPOLITAN.""
Like his elder brother, the Duke of
Another anniversary of a very different York was at Oborne for part of his kind has also been celebrated this week; | education. He was popular there and the Metropolitan Railway having cele went by the kname of "Sprata? brated its 80th anniversary. After Osborne is became a midshipman Metropolitan was the first of all the On H.M.S. Cumberland. About a month
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after the Great War started he under London underground railways; indeed, it went a very scris operation for appeadi-was the first of the kind in the world. its individuality. citis, and ais repvery was slow. But the Throughout the sixty years it has been
inaintain ablo to Battle of Jutland found him a sub There is working agreement with other lieutenant on the flagship, the fran Duke, systems, but it is not under the "Traffic AEDRE: CENTRAL Nr. 115 where he was commended for his services Combine" which has absorbed the Tuba and was promoted full fieutenant. Aa.at school, so in the Navy, the Duke of York Railways and cvatrols the buses, was popular with everybody with whom he came into contact. On duty be was a disciplinarias, but otherwise his attitude was always on the lines "I am os of you."
The first section of the line was only 3 miles long, "extending from Bishop's Road, Paddington, to Parringdon Street. But extensions made as the years went by took The Metropolitan" into the open A Bouverir and the daylight of the suburbs, and the 33 miles have grown to 93. booklet which I have received tells the story; and it also contains some quaint ilustrations" One picture shows Mr. Gladstone wearing a very tall hat with
Perhaps the Duke's casy style is best illustrated by story which is being told in the London clubs. When he was with the Grand Fleet he was a regular customer to the shop-ship, Horadino, which was fitted out as a foating stores. He was known as "Mr. Johnson" to his men and Mrs. Gladstone in an open truck on the as Johnson" to his follow officers. One first trial trip.-H.B. of the jokes on boarding the Borodino at Scapa Flow was to give his orders in pantomime with his hands in his pockets and whistling. This was becauso manager once aid to him jestingly, when there was somthing of a rush at a buaY TASK OF LAYING AN 1,800 MILES time, "Now, Johnson, no pillering; whilst all the time till you're out of the shop, and keep your hands in your pockets till yea'ro asked to pay. While you are whistling you can't eat anything, and you can't pinch anything with your hands in your pockets."
the
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"EXTENSION.
The longest cable in the world, which already measures 6,000 miles, is to be extended by more than 1,800 miles. The task will keep many hundreds of workmen The young and careless Naval officer employed in Britain for several months. of that tile has wettled down into aAt Greenwich 1,500 men will benefit. They rather eriousminded man with a very are employees of the Telegraph Construc genuine interes in social and economiction and Maintenance Co., who have' problems of the day.
been given the contract by the Pacific Cable Board.
THE RENT,STRIKE.
The reat strike which started in Glas-
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The making of uuch a" cable is highly The copper conductor gow is steadily spreading southwards skilled work through the Midlands. Before long, which carries the signalling current is unless some decisive step is taken by the insulated with gutta percha, which is: Government, it will doubtless extend all then sheathed with Iran and steel warts Average over the Kingdom. The primary cause for protection, the final covering boing of all the trouble was the carelessness or of tarred jute as a protection for the iron negligance of landlords to read the Rent and steel wires. Not only the cably mak Act of 1920 wlligently, or to employers at Greenwich will benefit, therefore, advisers who could. This Act, which was for in the North the supply of the enor designed to protect tenants from eviction mous amount of material required will and extortionato rents during the housing load to considerable employment shortage, pomitted landlords to raise rents above the pro-war level by a care- It is expected that the actual construo fully-regulated and stipulated amount.
tion of the cable will take about four One clause stated by implication that months, after which it will be sent out to notice to quit must be given before reat the Pacifo, in two portions one for s was raised, but many property-owners- umitted to serve this notice on their 640 miles line from Sydney to Southport, tenants. The towards the end of last near Brisbane, and the other for a 1,320 miles' line from Auckland, New Zealand, year somebody noticed the omission, and to Sava, in the Fiji Islands For the a test case was tande of it in the Courts. main part, the cable is to be about an inch It was eventually carried to, the House of Lorde, where the final decision was in thickness, but at the shore ends the
thickness is about three inches. giron against the landlords. Since then cables have to be laid by August next. scorts of thousands of tenants have either
It will be a notable load that the com- demanded that the amount of the increas
The
ed roat they have paid, since 1990 should pany's ship Colonia will carry in May or bo refunded to them, or they have refused June next, for the two cables will be to pay any it at all, and declare that stowed on board ready for "paying out" they will continue to sit rent free till on the bed of the ocean.
Each cable will be all in one pieco when the total surplus rent has been liquidated. it leaves Britain coiled into large water- A ̈DIFFICULT PROBLESC."
About 190,000 houses are affected in tight tanks, which communicato, The Glasgow alote, I hear that nearly all yeight of the cables will probably bo about five thousand tons, The Colonia is laadlords in Birmingham omitted to give their tenants the technical notice to quit, now lying in a London 'dock, having com In other English cities a similar statepleted a similar ich across the Indian
21 Ocean of things exas. The position of property. It is because of the greatly increased owners who depend upon rents for an income can well be imagined. Some of demand or communications that the new them are almost destitute Naturally cables are being laid. there is a great deal of feeling over the whole busines; and in the circumstances nobody will be surprised to hear that the In his examination in bankruptcy at extremists of a political complexion are Guildford, Surrey, recently, Major the trying to turn the situation to account. Hon. Francis William White Iately s The landlordiare represented as predatory trainer of racehorses at Tunmore, West villians who have tried to rob the poor Horsley, Surrey, told the Deputy Official tonants while houses were at a premium. Receiver that in 1915 he bought 57,000 This line is proded to be useful in the Russian roubles for £5,000 To-day Commhiniste game of promoting the 97,000.000 roubles went to the English olgas war.
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