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SCOTTISH LETTER.
EMIGRATION FROM THE HEBRIDES.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }
Oxford boathouse, and abtained permission to carry her off to his ancestral home in Perthshire, where with the aid of his brother, Sir Robert Menzies, and half a dozen gillies le attempted to avigate, her on the treacherous waters of Loch Bannoch. After the whole crew had narrowly exped EDINBURG, March 28th. drowning by her foundering in a sudden Emigration from the Western Islands of storm, the historic old last way tagged Scotland is not conducted in the manner ashore and slang from the "net of a heat which we associate with the Highland house by the lakeside, where she ainei Clearances of the past. The men and wo-until 1913, when she was restored to Oxford. men who take part do not now feel that they HINA'R STABLE CIVILMATION. are going into exile; Lochaber no more" pipe and sung!
but it does not leave the Professor J. W. Gregory, Glasgow Univer- hearers
heary with sadness. The first party sity, spoke to the members of fasgow of emigrants this season, 100 men and 100 Rotary Club at their weekly Junchen un women on their way from the Hebrides to Some Problems of Western Chan Pr Ontario by a C... Ener for instance will fessor Gregory described the journey of ex- rocrive a cheerful send-off Indeed the em ploration through Chinese Tibet undertake barkation will be made the occasion of a by himself and his sou last year, and said public made bewellthy rentleman, upoficially Imances and administration was forcibly
ceremony. Arrangements are being that the
present chactic
of interested in the migration scheme, for brought home to them. Councillor Mr Fraser, of Stornoway, and was largely due to the breakdown of the That condition leading citizen in the port town, not central government and to the fact that the yet and inspect the places in which there vichy governments had had to concon-
the to accompany emigrants to provincial
Ontario.
military police at certain are to settle, and report their information states and
strategic centres, leaving large purts of the an impressions to the people
country at the mercy of brigines and rebels Hebrides. The scheme is being carried out The
on farms.
the
und
in conjunction with the Overseas Settlement country was suffering from inefficiency Committee, and employment is assured for seemed to him, but its ultimate recovery to him quite certain. The inklus each emigrant on his or her arrival, Steps
patrious peasants went on with their work are to be taken to settle parties and relatives indifferent to the perplexities of Pekin and in same distincta in the same On this all the cig tits will to settled which the otheduals were very largely drawn.
province of the in
of the
the class
Intleed he was not at all sure that Chinein civilisation would not outlast the extern system. It had already outlived many Western civilisations, and might outlast our or
While we were
watching the progress of disorder on the Continent of Europe which threatened ultimately, to ruin an eggar Britain Chian was quietly going on, secure in the strength of its industrious people and based on the most stable civilisation the world had ever known.
A ROYAL SPOT CHRISTENING CUP.
A magnificent christening cup has been presented to Princess Mary's son by the members and their wives of the 2nd Batta lion Royal Scots, of which regiment Princess | Mary-is Colonel-in-Chief.
ALUMP IN SCOTTISH RECRUITING.
SCOTTISH LEGAL HUMOUR
Lord Dunedin, who before he became Lord of Appeal was Lord Justice-General and President of the Court of Session in Scotland, has been telling some stories about old-time Scottish lawyers
18 administration of law in Scotlang of the
"The time was when bad trule and un- employaient meant a boom in Aring, recruit- ing In these days we have changed all that. During last weak there were less than calistments in the whole of the Scottish command. What is the reason for this state of matters! Some say that the men who served in the war feel that they have had more than enough of military life. That is less than half the truth The real in tion is that suen are deterred from enlisting the "dole," which in so many ways bas changed the complexion of our social life. It has kept women from domestic service, and it makes many of the men prefer demoralising idleness to a useful, vigorous, and healthful life in the King's uniform. RELICS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTH.
by
4 ill
that during the Commonwealth Cromwell turned out the Judges of the Court of Ses sion, and replaced them by English, Judges, inequantel with the laws of seating. When the Scottish Judges resumed their of them questioned an advocule as to how scata on the Bunch in Restoration day's one the English Judges hard conductest them elves, and the lawyer replied that they ind declared, What a pack of loons, I can Reted justly, whereupon the Scottish Judge never see a friend or relation in the wrong,"
Sir Bruce Seton and Dr. Walter Seton performed a public service in securing for Scotland the Penicuik relics of Mary. Queen of Scots when they were exposed for Referring to the early days when appeals public sale in London. They are of the from the Court of Session were first taken
family to which Mary Seaton, one of to the English House of Lords, Lord Dune the Queen's Maries, balanged. Their Madin said that the Scottish advocates and jesties the King and Quete, the Prince of the English Judges frequently differed over Wales, the Duke of York, the Marquis of the Scots did not always get the worst of it. pronunciation, and in their treasured stories Bute, and other generous persons, including On one occasion during an appeal concert-
eatlemen who offered £1,000, made affective action possible. The ing water eaten the beottian lawyer pr
nounced the word of principal relies were the property
**water
in Northern N. Clerk, Penicuik-who authorised fashion, whereupon the Lord Chancelier of the auctioneer to announce through the England asked Do you spell water with Dowager Lady Clerk that he was partito *t's?” **
"No, my Lord," replied the
an anonymous
ligh
abie
these treasured relies in consequence of
brottish advocate, but we spell" manners taxation. The relics were indiscat: Ch two 176.” inasmuch as they came into the fa, Sly
of the vendor early in the seventecatiALANESE VERSALS FROM THE CLYDE: century, having been given by the Queen to, Cillies Mowbray, one of the ladies-in-waiting present at her execution.
WELL-KNOWN SCOTTISH SPONTANAN,
a deadweight carrying capacity of 10,000
tons.
It is now officially announced that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have placed orders for two motor ships with West of Scotland firms. One of the vessels will be built by The death has occurred at his residence, other by Mosers. Lithgows (Limited), Port- Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Govan, and the Nether Auchendrane, near Ayr, of Mr. James Glasgow. The engines for the formor will Walker. He was the son of the late Mr. be built of the Burmeister and Wain type, Archibald Walker, Glasgow, and was educat-and those for the latter of the Sulzer type. el at Lorette and at Trinity College, The vessels are to be 430 ft. in length, with Oxford. Whilst at Loretto he laid the foundation of a career noted in both cricket and Rugby. He was later a a member of the Oxford lifteen, and he played for Scotland AN ACCUEISHOP NOVELIST, twice in the Internationale, once against England
Wales
The Archbishop of York, who oficiated Walker
was a notal cricketar, and whilst at the christening of Princess Mary's baby, playing for Oxford, where he got his "Blue," is the ron of the late Principal of Aber he scored against Cambridge in 1883, deen University, and spent his early years 5 and $1. On many occasions be played at Glasgow University. He is believed for the MC.C. In 1880 Mr. Walker to be the only Archbishop who has ever scored 85 rane against the Australian tea the Forty-five
written a novel. wrote a romance, of which was visiting Scotland, playing
for a
*The Young tenna of the Clydesdale Cricket Club. Es Clanroy, which was published in 1892. also captained Middlesex in cricket.
Possibly he has regretted this plange, for In golf, Mr. Walker was almost equally suc. the novel does not appear in the reference cessful, and he was captain of the Prestwick book lists of his publications, all those Golf
Club. Recently he presentend to the mentioned are on religious subjects Royal and Ancient Golf Club ailver cup for annual competition between the represents. tive teams of Scottish and English golfers While he was resident in London he devoter his leisure from legal work to goff at Wimbledon. Rowing also had its attraction for him, and in this purauit he was highly accomplished, gaining a place in his College
boat.
RUGBY IN THE TROPICA.
A VERY BAD DZET.
He led
The annual balance sheet of Aberdeen's Premier Golf Club contains what has long cial record It is a liability of 28. 178. Gd been regarded as a blot on the club's finan which has been carried forward
year after year, and cannot be got rid of. It is a sum due you to gentlemen who lent money to the club in the days of its heavy initial
Aberdeen, and cannot be traced. As it
The Rugby Interasional in Edinburgh left ture, and who, in the interval, have has raised a number of side questions in the is well known that only one circumstance Scottish Press. For instance a correspon- can prevent an Aberdonian from receiving dent writes asking whether Rugby Football money due to him, regarding these two men was regularly played in any place nearer the worst is feared. the Equater than Madras. "The ave temperature of the town. 91 degrees
Falir and in the bitterest night of winter the. thermometer, to show what can be done, slumps to
level respectable hothors about the
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of
in this country. And yet there is
is quite a round of tournaments That, of course, and October
In Septible on baked soil of an or
on the sandy links-like turf
is only of the dinary fol
st
Trould be murder to players." There came this prompt reply-As a for- mer resident of 30 years in Leylon, I can tell him that the is played regularly at Colombo from July to October by Euro peans, Colombo is roughly 7 degrees north of the Equator, whereis Madras is over 13 degrees north, a difference of fally degrees. A third correspondent thereupon de- manded- What about Singapore and the Federated Malay States?"
| AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL GOLF,
A correspondent in a Scottish newspaper puts forward what he considers to be quite reasonable proposal with regard to ama- tour international golf. He asks Why should it be Britain 1. America! Why not introduce a triangular contest, and let Scotland, the home of golf, bave a chance." Ho contends that we can put in the field a team of players, able to bold their own with the best, and who would not. go under without making a fight of it.
A FAMOUS OXFORD BOAT.
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The boat in which Oxford won the first Inter Varsity race, in 1829, for long found a home in Scotland. Mr. Fletcher Menzies, an ald blue, found her lying derelict in an,
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