GENERAL NEWS.
A Shipowner's Estate,
Mr. Robt. Woodliffe Simpson, of Ingleside, Eaglescliffe, ship owner, shipbroker and marchant, loft estate valued at £109,342 13 3d, with net personalty $105,104 119 91. Amonget numerous bequests to individuals and institutions he left $200 to the Port of Hull Society's Sailors' and Orphans' Homes. The balk of his property he left to his wife and family.
Wits as Conscientious Objector. A woman who accompanied her husband at a recent meeting of the Hall Tribunal said she was s conscientious objector, and whe` would not have her husband back if he killed a man. She added that her husband could not fight. The chairman asked the man to speak for himesli, and be replied that he never could fight. The case was adjourned for the man to reply to the usual printed questions put to objectors.
Mothers' Work for the State.
One of the grounde on which a wife appealed to Middlesex -Tribunal recently against the withdrawal of ber husband's exemption was that she herself bad done service to the State as the mother of eix obildren. She also said her health was weak. The local tribunal had held that the husband had not complied with their order to obtain work of national importance. The appeal tribunal, however, decided that the exemption should con. tinus.
800 Per Cent. Profiteering. What the magistrate at the Bouth-Western Police Court recently described sa colossal ́profits" seem to have been made by the Oriental Candle Company, of Wandsworth. With the manager, the company W68 obarged with selling saper phosphate of lime, used by Allotment-holders, at a price which worked out at £56 per ton. whereas the maximum was 26 148. Profiteering was, said pro- secuting counsel, indulged in to the extent of 800 per cent. The explanation cffered was that there had been great difficulty in ob- taining a copy of the Order con- taining the price. A fine of $20 and 10 guiness costs was imposed.
"Her Last Chance." Engaged in 1911, Misa Agues Lilian Russell, of White Hart lane, Barnes, yesterday brought an sation for breach of promise against Mr, Erie Porleriona Bratsali, of South Esling. The lady eaid in the witness box that she was 44 on St. George's Day, and her counsel described it as her last chance." The banes were pat op in 1911, but just before the marriage was about to take place the defendent said that the coal strike was interfering| with business, and she agreed to wait. In 1914 they were quite friendly, Counsel: What else happened in 1914? Mr. Justice Lawrenon: War broke out, (Laughter.) The jary awarded. the plaintiff £150 damages.
How Ex-Premer's Son Won His Third D.S.O.
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Vladivostok.
As indicative of the changed
The official record of the exploit state of affairs in Vladivostok s for which a second bar to the telegram recently handed in at D.S.O. was awarded to Brigadier that port arrived in Shangbai the General (the Acting-Commander same day," thing which our RN.V.B) Arthar Melland As-correspondent has not experienced qaith is published in a supple for over a year paef, anys 6 ment to the Gazelle and is Shanghai contemporary. 28 follows: For conepicuous Lord Rothermere's Gallant Son. gallantry and devotion to duty! The King had arranged to during two days' operations. He hand to Lord Bathermere recently went through a heavy barrage the Military Oross won by his late qud made & eaccessful re- gallant son, Captain St. George
connaimance of an advanced Harmeworth. His lordship Was position. Later, in bright moon- unable, however, to attend the light, he reconnoitred Bom Privy Council, at which be war buildings which were report-
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