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THE HONGKONG · DAILY' LEESE, TUESDAY, MAY Sin, 1928.

STAPLE INN HALL SAVED.

DEATH-WATCH REETLE'S HAVOŲ REPAIRED.

Staple In Hall, which like Westmin. aber Hall, has been attacked by Yestobian tessellatium, the death watch beetle, has been saved only by great industry and patience. The long task of renovation and repair is now nearly over, and very soon this ancient building, standing in a sequestered corner of Old London, will be habitable again.

Staple Tan, leading away southward from

Holborn under the overhanging caves at the Tudor houses that face the end of Gray's fun-road, is at present lit- tered with miscellany of building materials, and timber and scaffolding still obscure the exterior of the Hall.

Inside the building are the benches and ladders of carpenters and joiners, and through the maze of poles and spars shine dimly many exquisite stained-glass windows bearing the arms and names of bygone Principals who once reigned in Staple Iun. But all this litter will soon be cleared away, and the ancient oak in wall mud roof and the brilliant blues and reds and Tellows in the heraldic devices n the windows will be revealed again in their original beauty.

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Staple Ion Hall is the property of the Prudential Assuranes Company, by whom it was acquired from the Ancients of Staple fun in 1884. The present tenants are the Institute of Actuaries. The Hall is by no means so old as the Inn. In the latter,

in the fourteenth

th rentury... the wool-staplers carried on their burian as: Last they appear to have been sent back to West- minster by Richard L, aut in 1378.it be came an Inn of Chancery. An oriel window in the Hall bears witness in one of its panels to the sojourn of the merchants in the Inn. The Stilliard House, or Staple House, was the ancient Custom House, and the mer chants of the steelyard, says Mr. Cato Worsfold, were so called from their trailing almost entirely by weight axl using the steelyard as their apparatus. At one time the fall was vested in Principal and eleven Ancicuta, and had its place in the legal

life of the Inns The roof of the Hall dates from 1581;

From inquiries made at the Estate Depart ment of the Prudential Assurance Company, it appears that the failure of a lintel over one of the windows of the Hall gave the first sign that decay. hard

in.

An investigation was made by Mr, Waterlionse, who consulted Professor Lefroy, whose work at Westminster Hal was recently described in the Times. These

dicovered experts soon

that the death watch beetle Bad

attacked the timbers. Some of the cavities that had been made by the insects were almost large enough tu contain a mau's body. The method used to destroy the boat of beetles and their eggs and larvae in the wood was similar to that Westminster Hall-namely, the forcing of a

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powerful insectide, containing solution of cedarwood uif, into the wood, after clearing away dust and decayed mutter. The surface of all old and new wood also was sprayed. In some cases steel reinforcements have had to be used to strengthen the impoverished oak.

The end of these activities will be that Staple Inn Hall will be preserved in its original beauty and another protected battle with Xetabism farellatums will have been

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LADY ASTOR'S DINNER PARTY.

A Labour member's wife, describing Lady Astor's dinner party at St. Jame Square, where members of the Labour party and their wives met the King and Queen, says when the King and Queen arrived the guests were divided into two lives to welcome them. Lady Astor took the King down one line and Lord Astor conducted the Queen along the other, and both the King and Queen shook hands. with all who were present

The guests were again divided into two

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After dinner, when the women withdrew to the drawing room, an armchair was placed by the fire for the Queen.

"Mrs. Dash is a Bolshevik, ma'am." said Lady Astor as she presented me.

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WORRIES OF POSTMASTEIL-GENERAL.

Troubles which afflict the Postmaster. General was described recently by. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who has just taken over that office, at a City of London Tradesmen's Club funchem at the Cannon. streat Hotel, Cannon-street, E..

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