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SCOTTISH LETTER.

SIR ROBERT HORNE AND POLITICS.

[PROM OUR OWN CORRKAYOŃDIST.)

EDINBRUG, May 16th. The appointment of Sir Robert Horne as Director of the Suez Canal Company may be accepted as a further indication that he is forsaking the path that leads back to Cabinet offer, It is an honourable uk much coveted position which, in the ex Chancellor's se, has

attained! through the instrumentality of the British shipowners, who have thus pail a high tribute to the business rapacity of the member of the Hillhead Division of Glasgow. Already he is a Director of Baldwin's, It which he joined when Mr. Stanley Baldwin

JEN. Chancellor of the supersede hin chequer. At one tin

understood that Sir Robert would beesane Julge of the Scottish Court of Session, at his recent moves suggest other interests and a dither ent goal. The legal Parliament House of Efistourgh is now hull down on his horizon,

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DIFFICULTY OF SECURING UNFOR MITY IN LAW AND PRACTICE,

The Timers in a lending article on May 19th said;--

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A typical instance of the difficulty of wearing uniformity in the laws and practices of nations engaged in vermiræ. is provided by recent efforts to fud basis for the unification of certain rules waing to bills of lading. The ndraet nge of such aniformity need to demon. [stration; but the difficulty of securing general agreement is usually very great, a camiot be attained without sacether. Bills of lading, it may be ex- plained for the non-technical reader, are documents between shippers and ship owners setting out the fact that grows have been shipped and the terms on which they are to be carried and delivered, Hitherto various forms of hits of lading - have been in use in different trades, but Scottish Liberal and Labour members, at The Hague Con ferner, in Septemler hoki, a meeting to discuss Home Rule for ¦ 1921, the Introntional Law Association, Scotland, and it was agrest to invite the adopted rules that had been agreed upon Whips of the four parties-Vaimmisty, by the Maritime Law Committer for a National Liberal, Indepenilent Liberal, and standardized bill of lading. This route Inlar to nominate two members each to was largely brought about by the tact for a deputation to interview Mr. Bonar and kill of Sir Henry Bake, who pre- Law on his return. la the event of the sided, subsequently, at the Intentional | Prime Minister, declining to introduce & Conference on Maritime Law, bold at

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Secttish Convention re of whom represented the British Govern. presentative of all the public bodies in the ment-ananimously agreed to recommend Poantry to consider the project and faune dir respective Casernments to adopt as scheme. It may be taken as a certainty the basis of a convention a draft for the that the Lalxuries and their Liberal allies unification of certain rules relating to will receive no support from the other two

bills of lading" and the Lord Chancellor parties.

has now introduced a measure with that object

SCOTTISH HOME KCLE.

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THE GLAM RACK-CUP.”

The rule and necessarily ja the nature clear that as amendment of them by of a compromise, anch, that being so, it is

hat the object in view. It has ut bentes any of the countries concerned would de suggested that

bulk

Cargoes,

An interesting ceremony which WILS Glamis Castle for the ruly observed at homecoming of a bride is the passing of the Grace Lup, a great benker in the form of a rampant lan which in ancient Linies

shell about a quart and a half and was be minde; but consulerable controversy !!11 alteration shoul expectes! to be drained by each k

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tu has arisen in regard retainer. Happily for the Duke of his bride, the interior cup of the beaker

which certains present Mom difficulty, was subsequently reduced to the proportions particularly in the case of coal. Iar that Of a wine-glass by later Earls of Strath- trade, for instance, it has been the castin more. Ti vessel is first sipped by the bride and then passed to her husband, who drains it. The Grace-Cup" is afterwards refilled for each of the company prosent. FARL'S BANGĦTER AND PITMAN'S HON,

wept the colliery wrights provision- Aly, and subsequently to make any ad justmecula, found gingessary. The w rules contain a praviston that the enrrier shall issue to the shipper a bill of lading; showing the mumber of packages or piers, for the "quantity, or weight. the case many be, as "furnished in writing by the shipper, while another clauso stipulates that any agreement to

relieve the carrier from Habilny otherwise than as provided by the rules shall be all a void. Coal exporters have taken the view thist any departure from the custom of their trade is impracticable, and at a number of important meetings this week the question of amending the messary to overcome the difficulty without altering the rules has been discussed. Any altera tion of the rules at this stage would ob- riously throw the

The Roman Catholic Church of Shotts, Lanarkshire, was the scene of a romantic ent when the daughter of na Earl was niarried to wireless operator in the employ of the P. and O. Shipping Company, The parties were Lady Pleasance Elizabeth Rous, eldest daughter of the thin! Earl of who has been Governor of Stradbroke Victoria, Australia since 1920, and Mr. Owen 'Kenna, son of Mr. and Mrs. M'heana, Main Street, Shouts. The beide groom's father is at present employed as a waggoner at the Eaton Colliery, Shutts, auf bis son, prior to becoming a wire- less

operator, also worked in the mines It is understand that Mr. Kenna and his brile first met on board ship while voyaging between Australia and Lady Pleasance set sail from the Common-hupe, a means of overcoming the difficulty! wealth to visit a friend of her parents who can be found, an important slep has been long resident in fadia Ste

have been taken towards standardization, travelled best class,

Dough it will remain for other countries frequent meetings with Mr. M'Kenna whose duties took him to follow the example of the British

nuels into contact with the passengers, foverament is giving statutory authority culminated, it is stated, in her

accompanying

to the new rules. It would be deplorable her sweetheart to his parents

if any disagreement at the eleventh hour Shotts. There resided for the twenty-

wenty should jeopardize the work of years. one, dny necessary secure residential qualifications under Scottish Law, Larg Pleasance who is 24 years of agey is a young larly of attractive appearance. Her husband the same age. The bride was received in- to the Roman Catholic Church.

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whole problem back other hand, if, as there wens reason to into the melting pot race more. On the

will!

Another of Bram's tales about Lucas tamed on the choier of gold embroidered cloth for stage costumes. Samples were placed on the backs of chairs on the Lyceum stage, and Facas,

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ME. KOREKT HARRIS OF THE L AND A.

The runner-up in the golf Championship, Mr. Harris, is well known

ker me dependent choice of what golfers. He belongs to Dan lee, and graduat they considered the most effective cloth for ed in the Carnoustie School of golfers, the purpose in view. When they came to who have given so many professionals to compare note they found that the game in Amerien. He is now 41, and particular cloth was the unsuimous choice. Father shipped into the background after it was a cheap sacking dipped in gold War His return to competitive fame paint by the property master. Its value is one of the most interesting things we was about 3. per y ut poki that was As against 15/- per have had in

for some time. He won yard for the real the unofficial

cottish Championship, as the in the

row. Yet neither Lucas, Dandes Telegraph Cap was called, 21 years Irving nor Stoker knew any of the prices

are in the competitive ago, his roles in past Amateur Champion when they mode their pick: The singe ships include runner-up to Mr. Hilton in lights made the faked cloth bright and 1918 at St ย

when Mr. John Ball ineffective. won, and in the

sight in 1910, Since the war he has won the St. George's Cup at Sandwich--that was three years ago- and he captained the official British team in America last year, though illness kept him out of the international match itself.

DEAL AND SCOTTISH COURSES,

ni Sci-finalist in 1907, effective and the real cloth duli

DIVOTS FROM DEAL-AND OTHER PLACES,

and

My Lords, super-golfers, and others my golf is of the style of the sergent of infan try who, asked his opinion of the game, re- i-plied "It seas to nie to be hockey at the

hult."-Lori Desborough.

Golf at Deal is an exotic, an affair of

The story of golf was really a most ex rich men froto London, in which the fisher.traordinary one. Here was a game which men and the local people have very little as eagerly and persistently played by his interst in Scotland the game is native Scuts countrymen just scrow the Border and everyone golfs, from the workman to and which was for centuries legislated the country magnate, The course of the against by the Scottish Parliament on the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, on which ground that it prevented Scutsmen from the Amateur Championship was played learning archery to fight the English.-- gives scope for hitting, but it cannot be Ear! Balfour. classed along with Prestwick or St. Andrews. American independence began with a tes The lay-out is good, many of the holes are shot into Boston Harbour. It was also not

นม an attractive character, but the grass on without significance that our of the most the fairways and greens is rough in texture. famous American battlefields was known as

putting swards have not that velvet Banker's Hill Sir John Simon1 wrface which delighted competitors at TURIFTY GENEROSITY. Preswick last year. On the fairways are

The

shaggy portions in the dips, where a well-

You may father this tale on to Aberdeen Not

er Fife, but both centres can plead

hit ball may find a very different lie. Other parts are hard, with more weess than Guilty". A farmer to whom a friend had grass for covering, and pock-inarked with done a good turn decided that some re- little cuppy hollows in which the balls cognition was due, and extenied and in- find refuge and smirk deliance' at the brassie.vitation to come awɛ Up? the Black Bull Scotland's courses need not fear comand hae a drink." Arriving there he re parison with Deal or Sandwich.

Rorted to the usual formula, "Whit wall yo hael The answar was "Beer." Ho half-a-pint for his friend, who

SEYMOUR LUCAS . A.

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No, oh, no," came the

In obituary references to the late Sey-wmarked "Are ye no gaun to haze a half- mour Lucas, R.A., there is no mention of

pint for yersel 17 one phase of his activities. He was as- sotinted with Mr. Bram Stoker as artistic rerly, Iljist tak n moothful not o' adviser to Sir Henry Irving, and had not a yours."

to do with

successful presenta MAERIAL. tion of plays at the old Lyceum. la a lecture delivered in Glasgow many years Park, London, on the 9th inst., William At Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Hyde ago Brum told how Lucas onco devoted his energies to the designing of boots for Terrace, Hyde Park, youngest son of the late Campbell, the Cotswold, Queensborough Royalist Cavaliers. No one seemed to be Commander and Mrs. Samuel M'Cavin, of able to produce the proper article until Hillhead, Glasgow, to Constance Mary, Lucas came along, ordered an ancient relic Wood Lawn, Lytham, only daughter of the to be purchased, and had it cut in two for late William Eccles, solicitos, of Liverpool the purpose of discovering how it was made and Southport-Far Eastern papers

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