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DECIMAL COINAGE.

Lord Swaything (L), whilst in favour "In a preface to the work she wrote of the sovereign standard. favoured the the following: "A well-known Irish- ollar unit, and would like to see the journalist has said that cura was the

DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF LORDS overign regarded as five dollars.

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Lord Balfour of Burleigh (U), in most tragic family he had ever heard opposing the Bill, and the Committee of This, think, is true.” over which be presidled, was practically

nimeus in considering that at the time of social and financial difficulties. through which woware pausing it would be extremely inexpedient to add to the financial confusion by introducing such

change.

out

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HOW BRITISH OFFICER "HELI> AUSTRIANS AT BAY.

others

In the House of Lords on June 7, Lord Southwark, L) moved the stenne reading of the oinage (Decimal System) Bill, which, he said, was Frained taniend the Coinage Act, 1950 and 1991, and to sanction a decimal system of ourage”

The Earl of Crawford (Lori Privy The principle of the Bill. had been Agreed to by the Association of Cham-Seal) thought great caution should be bers of Commerce of the Unitedinhserves in making any alterations in How the British ar:noured cara helperi Kingdom which represented some 100 the present system of currency. Be had Chuisbers of Commerce: by the Institute great respect, and he might almost say the Russians during their retreat from of Bankers, the Decimal Association. affertion, for the pound sterling upon Galicia in July and August 1917 is and many ther important bodies, which foundation our errancy shouldercaled in a recent "London Gazette" Nearly evers country cutside the be based, and he was of opinion that the British Empire employed sonic system sovereign would act be dethroned with announcement of the award of decors of decimal cuinage.

a tremendous struggle for its exist-tions and medals.

The record of Lieut. Commander Lord Leverholme, in moving the eace. les no particular virtue in rejection of the Bill, said it was purely decimalization in itself, and certainly no Walter Dorling Smiles, who receives a und, simply the Bill of the Institute of inherent sanctity, was attached to it bar to bis D.SO., is typical of several Bankers. As for the Chambers of Com- Personally be would be rather reluctant

to agree to

second reading of the Eill merce, they had been largely infenced te

reference to by the fact that the Institute of Bankers with a view to making it bad adopted and supported the Bill an inquiry to be set up. There was no He would like to know if bankers over-desire on the part of the Government He had an opportunity of express that this Bill should be considered by the obstruction, and succeeded in ing an opinion. He did not oppose the Committee to the exclusion of other principle of devinal coinage, Trade and Bills, and he therefore recommended that commerce had been seriously harapered it should be either withdrawn or post-fire by taking cover in the adjoining ditek and rushing out during lulls to by our present basin of coinage. But he' poned.

After some discussion a motion for the tear down wirs and andbags. Later to make the sovereign our unit adjournment of the debate was agreed to. on, during the retreat, be fought with propusett and divide it into a thousand parts.

characteristic courage until all his cars MINISTERIAL VISW

were lost in action, with the exception of a light armoured Ford. He then improvised an armoured car by taking" the armour of an old ear and concealing [it round a lorry. With this car and a heavy armoured car borrowed from another squadron, he kept the sunny at bay beyond the frontier in Austria for six hours, until all troops had cross-

SHOJIpped the method by which it was

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Lord Hylton (Lord in Waiting) said a feeling in favour of decimalizing the eur- rency had been growing daring the last few years. But his Majesty's Govern ment was not altogether prepared to accept the argument that this was the mist favourable time to introduce such change. In the opinion of the Trea sury, "for porposes of retail trade and the payment of wages, it was doubtful whether shillings and pence were not ernment could not support the Bill, but

· PARNELL'S 518TER DIES IN A WORKHOUSE.

THE FINAL TRAGEDY OF A

GIFTED FAMILY.

The death is announced of Mr. Emily Ricketts, the last of Charles Stewart

Parnell's three sisters..

She died in

When the roud to Brzezany, wa blocked in the attack of July 11 this officer called for volunteers to destroy

removing it in the face of the fiercest

ed the river. These cars passed over the river five minutes before the last bridge

auperior to decimal coinage, The Gov South Dublin Union Workhouse. A was blowu ap, and were the last things

Dublin Correspondent writer:-

if there was any general feeling in favoOT All three died tragically like their on wheels to leave Austrian territory... of appointing a joint. Committee of both great and famous brother-Fanny, the Houses to deal with it there would be youngest and, I believe, Parnell's no obstacle placed in the way.

Viscount Haldane (L) remarked that favourite, at a very early age in Boston

the present system of coinege was out in the early eighties. She wrote some

of fashion, and as to the unpopularity memorable poems, one of which

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of changes he thought the public took Shail mine eyes behold thy glory, O my to new things and assimilated them muen

country1. more rapidly than we had been in the habit of supposing

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Anna the oldest, and in the strength of her character and political convic tions the most gifted, once stopped Lord Spencer, when Viceroy, as be rodo thracgh Westmorland-street with This military staff, by seizing the bridle of his borne, to demand why he had evicted certain tepan: She was found mysteriously drowned in a pond oë laku. in England about a dozen years ago.

And now Mrs. Ricketts, to the autonishment of the public and of her immediate relatives, has passed away, although possessing ample means, in a poorbone. She had reached the grent ago of 80, and had been long in Wales with her daughter, Mrs. Delia Wright, zéo Dickinson, has

Sote years after the death of her first haband, Mr. Dickinson, this sister of Parnell married, Captain Cuthbert' Rickotts an officer who has been invalided out of the Army and is st Trezent in Australia. AANM Mr. Rickatta was the author of A Patrist Mistake" which contains ad interesting history of the Farnell family

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