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PICTURES FOR THE NATION
Sir Edward Stern's Bequest
OLD MASTERS AND JAPANESE ART
(Special Air-Mall Service)
London, Aug. 23.
Famous pictures, Including many old masters, will eventually pass to the nation under the will of Sir Edward David. Stern, the well-known banker. Detalls issued on Saturday show that his estate has been sworn at £640,964, with net personality £586,415,
Sir Edward left to his wife for
life, with remainder to the Na-
tional Gallery:
The portrait of his first wife, Dame Constance Stern. by Sir Luke. Fildes, RA;
The portrait of the Hon. Miss Monckton, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; The picture of Mrs. Jordan as Hippolyta, by J. Hoppner, R.A.:
The picture of Mrs. Stewart, by Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.;
PROSECUTION
DISGRACE
Calcutta Judge in Army Officer's Case
Caloutta. Aug. 23. "Such patent torturing of the evidence by the Prosecution was unpardonable. Those who appear
must be ed for the Prosecution ninde to realise that it was no part of their duty to try by hook or by. crook to obtain a conviction, and it was the duty of the magistrate sternly to discountenance such met- hads, which were but a traversty of justice."
INDIAN COTTON FAIR TRIAL BUT CONFERENCE NOT HANGING
Lancashire's "Interest | Ex-President Machado
on Cuba's Intentions
JAPAN'S INVASION OF MARKETS
LONDON, Aug. 23..
MONTREAL, Sept. 3. Ex-President Gerardo Machado who arrived here from Nassau and is now heavily guarded in a hotel for fear he will be attacked by assassins. said to-night he would be willing to return to Cuba and stand trial if assured of his per- sonal safety.
A delegation of the Lancashire cotton trade will leave England for Bombay on Thursday to watch the the trade during interest of the coming negotiations between India and Japan.
Two sets of negotiations will be simultaneously. The carried on Government of India will meet an
It they really want to bring me official Japanese delegation in Sim-. la to discuss the future duties onto trial on the many charges that Japanese cotton, rayon and silk when the present Convention expires have been filed since I was forced' This was the comment made by
Justice Lort-William, who, on October 10. At the same time to leave the country, I will go:
However if they.. the textile representatives, of the back, he said. sitting with Mr. Justice Hender-two countries will discuss together son, acquitted Major. Robert Steu- the Indian market and the British merely want to shoot me I have no art Wauchope. O.B.E. of the In-colonial market in which India is intention of going any where near dian Army.
my" country until there is a change there."
Major Wauchope was sentenced by the Chief Presidency Magistrate to six months rigorous and a fine of Rs. 1,000 on a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of Rs
The picture of Kitty Fisher." by 3,000. F. Cotes, RA:
The picture of Admiral Thomp-Major son, by Gainsborough; and
All other his pictures at Carlton House-terrace.
facts.
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His lordship also observed that
Wauchope
convicted upon trumpery and irrelevant
"Lest I be tempted to use harsh Sir Edward also left his Japan-
in criticising the proce ese works of art, curios, ivories, words swords, &c., in his house at Carl-dure, added his lordship. "I will House-terrace. S.W., to his content myself only with saying wife for life, with remainder to the that this is neither the manner nor Victoria and Albert Museum. the spirit in which a prosecution ought to be conducted or a trial held under the British Crown."
ton
All of these are to be known and labelled as the "Sir Edward Stern Collections."
Reynolds and Hoppher Although the National" Gallery does not lack some of the finest pictures by Reynolds the Stern bequest of his famous rendering of that "Queen of Society'," the Hon. Mary Monektori, afterwards Countess of Cork, is a very wel- come addition.
PRINCE'S 'PLANE MAKES
FORCED LANDING
Pilot Escapes Unhart
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The Indian market has been an vaded during the last year or two
When the people are stirred up by vast quantities of cheap Japan- ase textiles at prices with which by a carefully prepared political neither the Lancashire nor the programme of hate, they will be. dian producer can compete, but the lieve anything," he added.
Senor Machado denied he em Indian Government has made it clear that, while protecting the imbezzled public funds but said his portant Indian cotton industry, service as President caused hint it will also have the duty during heavy personal lossses. the coming negotiations of consi- He said that with the temper of dering the interests of the con- the populace what it is, he would probably be executed after any These negotiations are to be fol-trial. lowed in the autumn by a much The ex-President has been kept more important meeting in Lon- informed of all developments in don between representatives of the
Cuba since the Sunday he fled from British and Japanese industries to his palace and escaped to Nassau deal with the question of the un- in aeroplane. He did not comment
in derselling of British
on the announcement to-day that. neutral markets, which has reduced his successor President Carios de super- the Lancashire textile trade to a Cespedes, had formed a parlous condition. In the last few cabinet similar to that in Washing years there has been an overwhelm-ton in an effort to bring Cuba out ing increase in Japanese imports in of the depression. United Petik, neutral countries, to the detriment of Lancashire, owing to the low prices made possible by the long hours worked in Japanese mills, low wages, and the depreciation of the yen.
goods
It was reported yesterday, that ar rangements were being made for the shipment of about 20,000 bales of Indian cotton to this country, to be spun and woven in Lancashire for re-export to India. This is an outcome of the conversations at Ot- tawa, as a result of which propos
THE RUSH BACK TO -SHANGHAI
.. SHIPS FULL OF RETURNING
HOLIDAY MAKERS
Painted in '1779, when she was a vivacious "blue-stocking" of 33 (as Boswell called her), the por- trait is on a big scale (93in. by 574in), and is one of the best pre- served full-lengths by Reynolds..
London. August 23. who found the lady a most en-
The Prince of Wales' new gaging sitter. She is shown seated
She Vickers-Viastra aeroplane made a on a stone bench in a park. holds her left forefinger to the forced landing last night near
Holiday-makers are returning corner of her attractive mouth, Redhill, Surrey, on returning from
als were made to set up an Anglo- in shoals to Shanghai' now that and seems to be making one of Le Bourget, to which airport the
en- Prince flew yesterday. The ma- Indian organisation to bring the August is over and the autumn those lively remarks which
chine was piloted by the Prince's Lancashire spinner into closer, weather is about to begin. Ships thanted Dr. Janson.
Her favourite colour was blue, pilot. Flight Lieutenant Edward touch with the Indian souces of from Japan and the northern and she is wearing a blue cloak Hedley Fielden, who escaped un-supply of raw cotton. Hitherto, parts of China are crammed with people who have over her muslin gown, with blue hurt. There were two passengers the Indian product, which amount sun-browned bows and sash. The portrait was in the 'plane-a ground engineered to nearly 7,000,000 bales in 1929-been spending enjoyable day free 30, has been nearly all retained for from the routine life of the city. painted for her father, Viscount and another flight Heutenant.
Flight Lieutenant Flelden decided the Indian will. Galway, and I remember the scene In the Sir Julian Goldsmid sale at to land near Redhill owing to low bad visibility. The Christie's on June 13, 1898, when clouds and it was bought at 7,500 gs for Sir weather was not suitable to fly on
to Croydon. Edward Stern.
The Hoppner portrait of that other dazzling Irishwoman, Mrs. all was winning Jordan. hearts on the stage when Mary Monckton was drawing the town to her receptions, will be a distinct gain to the national collections; as the painter is scantily represented at Trafalgar-square.
who
Raeburn's Mrs. Stewart This small canvas (30in. by 25in) was painted in 1791, and depicts the actress as "Hippolyta," in Colley Cibber's forgotten come dy. "She Would and She Would Not." sometimes called "The Kind Impostor. The part suited one of the most romping tom-boys ever seen on the stage; although in her masculine garb of white silk, high ostrich-feathered hat, eye-glass in hand, and swagger-sword on her hip, she had to preserve some aristocratic decorum at intervals.
For many years the portrait was in the Earl of Errol's family pos- "session, and joined the Stern col- lection about thirty years ago. It had caused the French critics to admire it greatly when shown in the Royal Pavilion at Paris in 1900. Sir Henry Irving possessed another version of the actress in this character.
The Raeburn rendering, too, of Mrs. Stewart of Dalguise is a very worthy example of the art of the
saw
According to reports from Nan- Mr. R. F. Dulstrode, chief inspec-king, the Soviet Government is tor of British Air Transport, who planning to establish e Consulate- Flight General in Nanking and have al- the landing. said Lieutenant Fielden chose a field ready requested the Chinese au which was being prepared as an thorities to find suitable premises. aerodrome by British Air Trans-When the Soviet Consulate opens port, Ltd. The surface of the in Nanking, there will be four of feld has not yet been levelled, and the machine, struck a farrow in landing. which was not visible owing to the poor light. The aero- plane slewed round, breaking a propeller, and came to rest on one wing tip and the undercarriage, a side of which was slightly damag- ed. The machine was only very slightly damaged, and can be re- paired in a couple of days.".
The Prince's machine left Le Bourget at the same time as Hera- cles, the giant Imperial Airways liner, and the two aeroplanes flew part of the way together. When the 'low cloud was struck Heracles made the rest of the journey above the cloud, Flight Lieutenant Fiel- den flying at a lower level.
The Prince of Wales, atter land- ingat Le Bourget, proceeded to Paris on his way to Biarritz.
COLONIAL SERVICE
"Scots Velazquez." It was shown The following appointments and
in the "Cent Portraits des
mes" exhibition, Paris, 1909.
Fem-promotions, in the Colonial Servicee
have been made by the Secretary of Hogarth used mischievously to State for the Colonies:
prefer Francis Cotes's art to that
of Reynolds, who numbered Kitty
Somaliland-Mr. H. W. Claxton,
Fisher among his sitters. Cotes's Sear. Asst. Treasurer to be Trea clever rendering of the lady will surer and Chief of Customs be, therefore, another very wel- come acquisition.
Gold Coast-Mr. T. W. Stephens, FRCS LECP., DTM and H.. M.O., Nyasaland, to M.O., Gold £60,000. For Pet Charity Coast; Mr. E.M, Berkley-Barton, Among the other bequests in the Asst. Storekeeper, Rly. Dept, to late Sir Edward Stern's will are Asst. Comma. of Police; Mr. T. A. gifts of 260,000 to the Jew's Deaf Brown to Crown Counsel; Mr. G. and Dumb Home, Nightingale-W. Staig, Senr. Dist. Stamr., to lane, 8.W., and £5,000 to Miss Asst. Traffic Supt." Harriett Davids, the head teacher.
Bir Edward always took a deep
Nigeria-Mr.J. Morton, Vety.
and practical interest in the work, Offf., Falkland Islands, to Vety. of the home. Miss Moseley, the Offr., Nigeria: Mr, H. W. Drake, Asst Dir., Cent. Offr, Colonial Au- secretary, said on Saturday:
"It was his pet charity. For dit Dept., to Auditor, Nigeria. thirteen years he was honorary
Mauritius.Mr. B. Stooke, treasurer. He had been on the
Dist. Offr., Kenya, to Asst. Trea committee for Afty years, and prealdent for the last thirty-four; surer, Mauritius. years. His generous bequest will enable us to carry out necessary extensions.
#Miss Harriett Davids has done most valuable work for the school.
inte 1917.
Tanganyika. Miss A Cowley late Nursing Sister, Hong Kong, to Nursing Bister, Tanganyika,
Gibraltar.Miss. E. M. Hall, to Nursing Sister,
them in this country, that in Tien- tsin the one opening here and the third, in Hankow...
while those left behind "have sizzled and baked in the Sun- scorched port.
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