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SCOTTISH LETTER: GOOD NEWS FOR THE OLYDE.

TWO BATTLE SHIPS ORDERED.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Evisagnon, October 20th.

Good news has come to the Clyde,-very good news. Up to date, two battle erui sers have been ordered from the river as part of the new naval programme, and the distribution of it will mean £10,000 000 in wages alone during the The successful firms next three years.

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the GENERATION THE HERE'S THE PICTURE THAT LIMNS ON THE SCREENIN ALL ITS Are Messrs. John Brown & Co. Clyde- THROBBING CADENCES OF SILENT SONG THE VERY BREATH bank, and the Fairfield Shipbuilding and

These orders AND SOUL OF MOTHER-LOVE-MOTHER LOVE IN Engineering Co., Govan. mean that not only will there be a large amount of additional employment is BOUNDLESS, LOVING SACRIFICE AND BURNING INTENSITY OF these two shipyards, and in their engine and boiler shops, but also that there will EMOTION. IT'S A PICTURE THAT REACHES RIGHT DOWN TO be increased activity in all the subor- THE INNERMOST RECESSES OF YOUR HEART AND BRINGS FORTH dinate industries.in the steel and iron works, in the auxiliary machinery shops, A GLOWING RESPONSE THAT MAKES YOU RECONGNISE AND and in the thousand and ons trades FEEL THE POWER OF THE FORCE THAT RULES THE WORLD. which supply fittings for such large ves acls. The new ships will be super-Hoods, YOU'LL BE HAPPIER FOR HAVING SEEN IT. -bigger, faster, more powerful in every way, more heavily armed in short the The last word in naval architecture. placing "of these orders is the best news that has come to Clydeside for many long months.

REV. T. BAY

RETURNING TO CHINA.

The Rev. Thomas Bryson has left Edin. burgh, and is about to return to China and join some of the members of his family there. Surprise-has-been-express- ed by many of his friends that, at his advanced age, he should once more leave the quiet of the homeland for disturbed China, But, as he says. "I have spent most of my life in the Far East, and "It almost all my interests lie there.' must be said, also that Mr. Bryson is more youthful than many who are only half his age and few enjoy a happier temperament, or possess more energy and courage.

MR. BONAR LAW..

Mr. Bonat Law's constituents in Glas gow are greatly pleased to learn that he is in the best of health and spirits as the result of his prolonged rest," and that

he has evou been able to ret

don. He is folowing political events with lively interest, and looking forward to a resumption of his Parliamentary duties It is not, however, prob- next aresion.

able that he will in the near future re turn to Ministerial office, though his colleagues would welcome him ne a sage and experienced counciller with an un- equalled instinct for the feeling of the House of Commons.

PETROLEU DORING STOPPED.

The boring for petroleum, which has been going on for several years at West Calder, West Lothian, has ended in com- Within recent weeks the plete failure: prospects of success grew fainter, and the work has now been abandoned. HONOUR TO A VERNOR OF VIJI.

Sir Everard in-Thurn, K.CAM.G., K.B.E., CB, formerly Governor of Fiji, has had his service to Fijians dur- ing the war recognised by the presenta tion at Cockenzie House, near Edinburgh, of an illuminated address inclosed in a casket of inlaid Fiji woods of six kinda

no such piece of work has left Fiji before" The presentation was made by STORE the Hon. Henry Marks, C.B.E, who equipped and sent home the native La. bour Corps.

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W M. Crabble, the younger brother of the deccased, represented Scotland in athletica.

A PIONEER' IN TIR AND RUBBER

The death has taken place at "a" nurs

of Caigmobr, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, and ing home, Aberdeen, of Malcolm Duncan of Chanderiang, Penang, fourth son of the late Colonel Patrick Duacan, R.A At an early age he went to Australia, where he engaged in sheep farming, and from thence proceeded to the Federated. Malay States, where he was one of the pioneers in the tin and rubber industries..

A PAINTER OF THE HIGHLANDS.

The death has taken place at St. Andrews, of Mr. Peter Grabau, RA one of the greatest of our Highland the glens and the bens and the mooriands. landscapista. His first success was with Then Highland cattle appeared in his pictures; for a time he kept a herd of these picturesque denizens of the wild and studied them for art purposes. 1ESSES 1

At a meeting of Grand Committeo of the Graad Lodge of Scotland-Brigadier Afterwards he made equally painstaking He studied these LS. WATSON General B. Gordon Gilmour of Liberton studies of impressive cliffs, of the break- and Craigmiller presiding-it was uning sea at their bases, and the birds which animously agreed to recommend the Earl people their ledges. of Elgin for nomination as Grand Mas ter Mason of Scotland for the ensuing year in succession to the Earl of Eglin ton and Winton, who is unable to accept The Earl of office for another year. Elgin is Grand Master Depute. and also Provincial Master of Fife and Kinross. THE CUTTY SARK-

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.The Scottish tea clipper the Cutty Sark is to have a historian. Mr. Basil Lub- bock, Ferryside Cottage, Hamble, Hants, writes to the Glasgow press asking for dates, details, or anecotes about the famous vessel, the last of the tea clippers afloat.??

He

on the Caithness coast, at Hoy in the Orkneys, and at the Laland of Handa, off the Mainland of Sutherland- wild and dreary place, where sheep and sea- fowl were the only living things. used to spend days at a time in a boat off the island with a couple of stalwart boatmen, painting the cliffs, the birds, and the sea."

A CONTESTED PEERAGE,

The old, vexed problem of the Mon toith Peerage is to come before the Hous of Lords Committee on Privileges. The title has been dormant since 1884, the last Earl being murdered by his friend, James Stewart of Ardvorlich. a tragedy round which Scott wrote the "Legend of Mr. R. B. Cunninghame Gra Montrose.' ham will course, be brought into the case. If the Lommittee of the Lords were to recognise him as Earl of Menteith he would certainly look the part of a dis- tinguished aristocrat

This has elicited a letter from a tor- respondent of the Glasgow News, who says I saw the Cutty Sark in Cape town in 17. She is the Inst of the d Aberdeen wool and tea clippers left afloat. Taiping, Lancelot. Thermopylac, all have gone, but Cutty Sark remains. She is a-Portuguese now, and named Fer reira; but you can-still-see engraved on the brass of the steering wheel, and on itty Sark. Aberdeen." The the bell, Cutty low, with gold ear GK. Chesterton once asked." Who is

There is a well-known and well-authen ticated anecdote regarding the picture- It tells how Mrs. eque Scottish Red.

"That," re He also that fine-looking man?

plied her husband, is the Socialist. sometimes did 14 khots Cunninghame-Grahamn."

captain, a swarthy ings, told us he had been offered £200 for the hell, but had refused.

"What! ex-

said that the ship is a barguentine claimed the lady." Why, he looks like

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Mozambique Channel and they wore

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altering her rig when we were there. ShoNGAGEMENT.

was in a fitby condition. Pigs slept in

the fo'e'e'le, a monkey was tied to the A marriage has been aranged, and will taffrail, and doge sat on deck, mournfully shortly take place, between Mr. Robert scratching themselves. Poor old Cutty Bark! Sixty years ago she was the fastest ship upon the seas, and the pride of England's merchant service." THE LATË MË. G. K ́ORIEBIE

David Coath, of Messrs. Vickers (China), Ltd., second son of Mr. D. D. Coath, late of Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Anna Mary Douglas, only daughter of Dr.-and. Mr, G. Douglas Gray, British Legation, Peking, and granddaughter of Mr. E.

- At Blatchoyle Perthshire, George O. Gray, J.P., Edinburgh. Ernest Crabbie, a member of a family

HABRIACZE well-known in Scottish sport Thirty nine years of age, he was educated at At St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, Edinburgh Academy, was captain of the oo the 19th October, by the Rev. Pre- school feen, and afterwards was a not-pendary Leith Boyd, and the Rev. Dr.

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ing Scotland in the 1904 team against only son of Mr. and Mrs. Schaw Miller served in the war, joining up of 11, Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh, to 6 a trooper in the Border and Lothians Olive Elizabeth Montague Beart, of Horse, and then gained a commission in Mecja, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, the B.8.0., in which he rose to the formerly of Chins add Japan. Yank of Major. His older brother, Mr. Grange Parish Church. Edinburgh, E. Crabbie, advocate was a personality on the gist October, Rudolf Guthrie, both in Oxford University and Scottish second son of the Rev, A. Murdoch, Glass, football, representing is country several Aberdeenshire, 1ste of Ayr, to Flora, times in the International field Mrsldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

D. C. Macdonald, Perth: - Wontinued at food of neat column.)

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