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PRINCE HENRY, AND ROYAL HIGH `SCHOOL:
SEPTEMBER,
FOREIGN ORDERS LOST. BRITISH FIRMS – UNDERGUT BY GERMANS,
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firms tendering for the supply of steel goods, to the Siamese State Rail- EDINsunaн, July 20th,
ways 1 were German, and 10 British, and Prince Henry has made the acquain the latter found that although they quoted the lowest possible prices to bring work. tapen of Edinburgh, Scotland's ancient to Great Britain they were hopelessly capital. He received the hour of undercut by the German and Belgian eitizenship, but the real reason
of his tenderer
The contract was secured by the Ger visit was the opening of a recreation man äro Hartkort, who quoted 28,696, ground and pavilion for the pupils of the price only a little below that of several other German firms. The Belgian ten Royal High School. The school in threes were between £9,000 and £10,500. aldest in the city, and for over 300
years
the Prince's ancestors were closely con
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The lowest English tender was £13,30% and the highest £20,360
The German firms promised completion pected with it. Indeed his granfather of the work, on the average, within 18 was a pupil on its benches, and the weeks, while the time of the British
liams was within weeks. flector of the day here the. somewhat We do not wish to call 'Wolf," alarming nickname of "Las on Hardwrites the firm that forwards this list: o: the prices tendered, “but we are în- "Giving the Rector due credit for lined to the belief that if the serious eaming, this title, comharented the Prince, dess of foreign competition were really "I confess to a feeling that my grand-Appreciated by both masters and nien there would not be the constant p father's position was not an enviable teavals in the industries of our country, hut rather would they join hands in one."
exploiting every avenue to regain the prestige they once enjoyed da the cheapest and best producers.
ARTIZATS, KÉO AMATEUR GOLFERS,
At the Freedom of the City the Prince found no difficulty in making playful allusions to our local rivalries. This was expecially noticeable when he chaffed the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. As be
Tho vistory of Tum Dobson, the is now Freeman of the two cities the young greenkeeper, at Muirfield in the position seemed fraught with peril to one, amateur Scottish Golfing Championsup who like himself, preferred a tranquil will do good to the gaine. It is true that life. Hat I am comforted by the knew he will, in all probability, soon he lost to amateur golf, but his success is u ledge that another son of yours his con- fessed that he has a somewhat similar rent encouragement to what we still dual personality, and Ends it rather sometimes call the artisan class, though advantageous than otherwise. Sir Jamesa democratic game, like goll wipes out Barrie, whose exquisite genius has made all class distinctions. Last week we had every one of us profound believers in an ex-sergeant-major playing and beat- fairies has very definitely informed us that ng vice-admirat from the most ex his twin personalities of MarCohinichicisive of all golf clubs, Royal St. and "Jeens"get on exceedingly well George's, Sandwich, and that was typieni of we common platform on which all men together. So why should I experience any stood. Some may regret that the Scottish dinculty in maintaining friendly relatiess between my Edinburgh self and me Glas Amateur Championship should be used gow sell-between Princes Strel and as a lever to, any man's success in life, but no tone" who "watched the closing Sauchiehall Street!
Prince Henry is either a young man of stages of last week's Championship could bat admire the fine modest bearing of distinct capability or he was exceptionally the young man who won or grudge him well coached; at all events his points what help his great win will bring him. were well made. He gave us Robert Louis Dobson is of the type which has given Stevenson and Sir James Barrie, and Sectland her reputation as a nursery of tween Edinburgh and Glasgow which, like big, but he is stardily built, and the way references to the Aberdonian's thrifty te came through the test ake of tem- ways, always makes good copy."perament and of golf last week augura addition to giving us a little Stevenson well for his futura. and Barrie he might have given us a little Kipling More in sorrow than in anger,
Glasgow man will, in his most senten Professor Patrick Goddes, whosc hạng tious manner, tell you that East is East recently figured in the Civil Pensions and West is West, and never the twain Last, - nas just returned to England; } shall meet, Edinburgh and Glasgow being, hear, from Palestinę, His raiasion baa seemingly, much further apart than a mere been to Tel-nvis, the only town in the hour's railway journey. They have op-| world entirely Jewish, which has riscu parently, met in the Prince one who has, since the cessation of the war with re let us say, the culture of the East and the markable rapidity. The "Professor was bonhomie of the West. Like his eldest invited to this new township on the sarıd brother, he possesses a pretty wit. Shades | danes north to Jala" to advise as to of Edward the Peacemaker! It was funny townsplanning, new houses being co to hear the stripling Prince's halfpleted there during the past rauaths at regarding his grandfather and bis Royni wae rate of two a day. Even before his High School tutor,
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He is casily the best speaker of the ing under his inspiration were.arranging Royal princes. He rarely uses a nute, ma secondchool of archaeology aral has no trace of nervousness. It is only regional survey in France, to
which during the last few months that he has students inclined for such a holiday, ari taken say big part in public fldirs and invited,
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a. G. K Chesterton, one of the hou. graduates, a great preacher as well as a master of paradox and told this story therenaent. There was -Scottish minis-. ter who had been reading Mr. Chesterton, and he simply used a portion of the essay as the substance of his prayer, but he prefaced it with these remarkable worda
It looks as if the 1925 Budget, with its duties on silk, were to prove a boon to Scotland. As already stated in this letter, an order to secure the preference which is given to silk of British manu Paradoxical as it may seen unto Thee, facture and so keep their hold on theO.Lord--
| silk trade in this country, Continental
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Ark-fretary, in Dunfermline. That the There is little doubt with whom the Dunfermline venture is but the seed sympathies of Thomas Carlyle would have' from which a great new Scottish in- been in the Tennessee "Monkey Trisl,"'- dustry is likely to spring, is indented for the philosopher's hatred of what ne by Sir Samuel Chapman, MP who termed “the gorilla damnification of has been associated with that develop- | humanity " was intense Mr. Leonard [ment." "Negotiations for the purchase of } Huxley in his life of his father tells how, more factories în Edinburgh, Glasgow, I shortly before Carlyle's death, the scien- Paisley, and other towns in, the Southtist saw him walking slowly and alone and East of Scotland, are now on foot down the opposite side of the street, and, Scottish municipalities, we have no touched by his solitary appearance, Cross | doubt, will be all equally as wide-awake ed over and spoke to him. The old 1133 as Dundee which is pushing its claims looked up, and, merely remarking, before the Continental manufacturers You're Huxley, aren't you the man concerned-as to the desirability of do- who says we are all descended from. ing whatever they can to assist in the monkeys ?-went his way." establishment of a new industry in their midst especially in these times, when
A TALE OF A LOST CANARY the need and the desire for work are so clamant,
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graceful presentation has a precedent, however, for in 1709 a weaver wove seamless shirt for the King
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