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The Bessemer medal, which was founded in 1873 by Sir Henry Bes semer, is awarded annually for distinction in metallurgy. It was accepted by both Queen Victoria and King Edward.
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Tribute By Sir John Simon®
London, April 18. Lord Tyrrell's long and dia- tinguished oareer as British ́Am- bassador in Paris ends " to-day. He will return to London to-
MOTTOW.
Sir John Simon, in a telegram: to Lord Tyrrell says: "His Majesty's Government wish.me to express to you their sincere thanks for your manifold and in- valuable services. I should like to add an expression of my Own gratitude for all the advice and Headmaster of Harrow, was entitled assistance which you have afford- to the place of honouree
ed to me while I have been Secre- Mr. P. C. Vellacots, the headinas-tary of State. Your constant con- ter-elect of Harrow, will now be tribution in maintaining and fur eligible for the next dinner,
THE NEXT LORD MAYOR OF
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thering Anglo-French relations is deeply appreciated by your fellow- country-men ”-
Lord Tyrrell replied: "I deeply Sir Stephen City stock-appreciate the generous message broker, who is 75 years old, will be the next Lord Mayor of London.
The Lord Mayor,must be an al- derman of the City. Sir Stephen was elected alderman in 1927.
He must also have held the once of Sheriff. Sir Stephen was a City Sheriff as long ago 881922,
A City authority told the "Even- ing Standard” to-day: “It is cus- tomary to elect the senior alder- man to the civic chair. PARA
"Sir Stephen Killik became a Common Councillor 1908, He is now the senior alderman below the chair, and tits election to the office at Michaelmas is a foregone
Sir Robert Hadfield will now for the second time take part in a Ro- yal presentation of the Bessemer medal. He was president of the Iron and Steel Institute when King Edward received the medal | conclusion, although there is a case in 1906, and personally handed it to the Knig
BRITISH WOMEN ARTISTS HON. OURED
Three women, Vanessa Bell, Win,
on record in recent rears when the "i sailor' aldering" wil vant elected. -
"The fact that Sir Btephen Kll- lick" has had to walt 12 years be- tween holding the shrievalty and
from His Majesty's Government and beg you to sccept-for yourself and convey to your colleagues my gratitude for their appreciation of my services. I very much regret the decisión imposed upon me by my health to sever my official re- lations with you, which have al- ways aimed at the continuation and promotion of Anglo-French relations, so vital to the mainten- ance of the peace of the world."— British Wireless.
MAILS VIA SIBERIA
tred Nicholson, and Clare Leigh his election as Lord Mayor is due Matter Brought Up
ton, are included in the list of twenty-four contemporary British artists whose work has been select- ed to represent this country at the nineteenth International Art Exhibition which is to be held at Vanice from May to October, The selections have been made by a committee appointed under the chairmanship of Mr. J. B. Manson, director of the Tate Gallery, to
to a remarcable sequence of events
In Commons
For years the aldermanic candidate for the shrievalty was not elected, with the result that some aldermen, although senior
London, April 16. to Bir Stephen Küllik, were ineli-
Sir John Simon, Foreign Secre- gible to become Lord Mayor astary, replying to a series of Com- they had not held the once of mons questions concerning the Biberian mail route, gave an as-
that surance office of sheriff are not allowed to would be lost to promote the re- opportunities
of the "mail service canvass,,, but Common Councillors sumption
through Manchuria,
sheriff. “Aldermanic candidates for the
are.
advise the Department of Overseas Trade, which is responsible for or-
"Fam 1929 onwards, however, ganising British participation inį
As the matter involves political the aldermanic candidates has issues, however, he was forced to the Exhibition.
been successful every year, with the decline, for the present, to accept The British exhibit" consists of more than 200 examples of oll and result that Sir William Phene Neal, the suggestion that representa- water colours, engraving, and sculp-away and the present Lord Mayor, be transmitted via Manchuria and Sir Maurice Jenks, Sir Percy Green- tions be made to China that mails
Sir Charles Collett, stepped straight Dairen. from the office of sheriff to the civic chair.
ture.
£600 FOR THACKERAY'S- COM- MENT ON "JANE EYRE " Six hundred pounds was paid by Messrs. Maggs at Sothebys to-day for the famous letter by Thackeray to a publisher's reader in 1847 prais- log Jane Eyre."
Thackeray wrote: "Who the aut- hor can be I can't guess. I a wo=' man is a woman she knows her lauguage. Some of the love pass ages make me cry."
had
At that time "Jane Eyre been published by Charlotte Bronte under the name of Currer Bell TOTAL OF £30,000,000 FOR YEAR
ASSURED
A realsed surplus of at least £30,000,000 is assured when the.na. tional accounts are closed next Sa- turday. Last night's revenue re-. turns showed an excess of receipts over expenditure of more than £6,000,000, raising the excess of revenue to date to £28.138,400.
Income tax and surtax are now coming in slower, and the final week's collections may fall away, At the same time, over $23,000,000 has yet to be disbursed if the total estimated expenditure of £784,405,
.000 is to be reached:
Outstanding features of the posi tion are that stamp duty receipts are already ahead of the estimate by £1,300,000, while Customs and Exelse have brought in £8,871,000 and £5,218,000 more than anticip- ated for the full year,
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The nature of the British Reply to the recent Chinese Note in re-
"Nine members of the Court of gard to the Treaty of Tientsin. Aldermen, including Sir Stephen 1888, and the Commercial Treaty, gullk, are at present aligible to 1902, is now being considered in hold the office of Lord Mayor. This consultation with the departments is the largest number of eligible of the government concerned, and candidates for several years.”” pending the completion of such
Knighted in 1923, Sir Stephen consultation, it would be impos Kilk is the senior partner in a City sible for him to make any state- ber of the Stock Exchange Com- arm of stockbrokers and is a mem-ment, regarding its terms.-Reuter mittee. He is also a Thames Con- servator and a Past Master of the Fanmakers Company.
He is chairman of the Colombia Railway and Navigation Company, and has travelled widely both in North and South America.
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determination to develop greater. contact with other countries. The Rani Salba, his wife, will accom- pany him to London.
The decision is arousing interest Genera1 |In Calcutta, where the
is
well known and has many AN INTERNATIONAL CHAPEL
friends. Born in 1893 he was London has no international place educated in Nepal and joined the of worship, but attempts are now Nepalese Army at the age of 16, being made to establish the Royal being promoted General about two Chapel of the Savoy in that post years ago and. Commanding tion on its quiet site just off the General a few days ago on the busy western end of the Strand banishment from the capital of the chapel is admirably placed for ave high officials of third-class the conventence of tourists, and no rank. He is known as a sportsman doubt the chaplain's offer to supply and big-game hunter, and he overseas applicants with detals of accompanied the Prince of Wales the services will be widely appreci-oh his shoot at Thori ated. Scotland has some associa
tions with the historic graveyard, BIG TOM
The understudy to Big Ben for a number of the weather beaten. stones bear scarcely decipherable during that popular wireless time- northern names. These stones are keeper's two months on holiday now being removed in order that will be Big Tom, the ne-ton bell the graveyard may be converted which hangs in the south-west into a garden, and thus form a tower of St. Paul's Cathedral more adequate setting for the love-Those far-scattered millions: who y little chapel itself.
love listening to the reverberating boom of the Westminster giant may be somewhat disappointed
A LEGATION IN LONDON.
A NURSERY FOR HEADMASTERS 1. do not know what school has supplied the most headmasters, but during the last twenty years It 18 understood that Comman-with Big Tom, I was told by an Marlborough, although Rugby may ding General Bahadur Shum hero authority to-day, for the under- run it close, must be well on top. Jung Bahadur Rana, the eldest study has less than half the weight At any rate last year their was a son of Maharajah Sir Judha Shum of his principal, and consequently dinner, kept rather quiet at the Shere Jung, Prime Minister of is comparatively lacking in power. time, for Mariburians and Marl Nepal will shortlyleave for But he should make up in quality borough masters now headmasters." London at the head of a Nepalese what he lacks in quantity, for the rhe gathering Included the Biz- mission to confer, on behalf of the St. Paul's boll is generally regarded hop of Chester, formerly Headmas Prime Minister, a title on his as the best of all cathedral Bells ter of Repton, Mr. Frank Preston Britannic Majesty. S In this country for tonal quality Headmaster of Malvern, Mr. Bong-He will remain for some time Big Tom was recast over two cen-. hey, until recently Headmaster of as Minister In charge of the turies ago, and the name was Sherborne, and, I think, Dr. Nor-Nepalese Legation, which is about originally Big Tom. Possibly like. wood, who, as a former Headmas- to be established In London in many understudies, he will alt- ter of Marlborough, afterwards pursuance of the Prime Minister's mately make a great popular hit
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