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1924

Strong opposition was voiced at a meet- ing of Edinburgh Town Council when a proposal was made to confer the Freedom of the City on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. I was carried, but there was a subst.u- tid minority-30 to 30, and did not vote.

Among the joint-stock companies re- gistered in Scotland this week in the Hopetoun Estate Development Company, a private (unlimited) company with a to carry on the business of ownership and development of landed estate and of movable property thereon. Hopstaan Estate is the property of the Marquis of Linlithgow.

Rose" lives even in these matter-ni-capital of £223,725. It has been formes fact days. The story unfolded in the "Bowes, Lyou legitimacy", claim_in the Confts of Session might almost have Iwon a page torn frin'a rouantic novel Fard Mugison granted the declaratr A few weeks ago reference was made to the fact that certain of the Scottish banks asked for in the undefended action in had under consideration the "lestion of which Constance Mary Lyon, an' Aber-providing the public with votes of SE en, shop assistant, sought to be sterling denomination similar in size to The the Government Treasury Notes. clared the eldest child of Hubyrt Ernestrat of these new notes has just maile Bowes Lyon. She claimed that, she was its appearance, the North of Scotland bgitimatisel bg the narriage contractie Bank note-neat and compact billet- anil, as regards details., in all respects Esulisequenrly to her birth between "Habert similar to the note at present being issard.

Ernest Bowes-Lyon "and the decocted thy this bank. Mary Agnes Hay Samaton or Bowen Lyon. This Seats girl, therefore, brought ap in humble eirgunstners, and parning her livelihood by selling newspapers over a shop counter, has established her claim to noble birth and a "lang pedigses She is regnised by law and right as danghter of one of Seatland ablest A new memorial stone erected by, thi noble families, whose line goes back many! Carlton Burns Club, Glasgow. at the Fontories whose history is inter grave of four daughters of Robert Burns woven prominently with the pattern of and Jane Armour in Mauchline Parish the history of our centry Her father Churchyard, Ayrshire, bag bean formally is a granism of the 19th Earl of Strath | unveiled.

remark more, and so is therefore a second cousin

"The divers who are surveying tim sunken German Fleet in Scapa Flow ros port that the Hindenweg below the sure face is intact, even to this hunks and officers quarters, and in the latter place the divers found strewn about numbers of champagne bottles.

Earl Balfour, was overbeard to

to the tuchess of York. - Mr. Lavors and the other day: do not know which Miss Smeaton, the father and mother, most to admir-Ramsay inclinald's Urst met at a Karlonah rafe staff danernek, the size of the Empire Exhibition. in Edinburgh, he being then an officer för Lård "Derby's' success_**

of the Black Watch nul sstationed at The late Alfred lowe Tait, maunger of Edinburgh, Castle, Remarkable pleas for the Chartered Bank of India, Australing setrery as to the child's identity were and China, Yokolama, a native of Sent- contained in letters, read by Counsel and has left £7,999. from her-end mather. In se „of these, written to Mrs. Collie, the girl's guard. ian, she said:- You are never to call her, by the name of Lyon, and never to Let her know that she has a mother except They had an irre yourself." gular" „marriag“. in Edinburgh, "ned afterwards a registrar office parringe in London... ALONSTE MON.”

The Prime Minister is taking a Short holiday at his honi The Hillocks. nasionanth. Not many months ago he came and went without attracting more attention than any other holiday maker from the South, except that. IN # notorious Socialist. he sometimes receiv! e doubtful sidelong glances. Now the Town Commeil meets him on the inilway! platform, the Provost (a gond Unionist) makes his speech of welcome, the whole town is befagged, and its inhabitants turn onto the last nu, woman, child

dog The only blur ante y cr is that Mr. Lig Fonduct, is still prohibited by the local golf elab, from playing over it course. His ans exponged from the roll of members some ja yours ago, and the locision of the chil se stands. Between Mr. Ramsay Mag- Donald and Mr. Lloyd George tere la n much in comiten, it they are deve-*|| loping at least on trait on a rallel Hints. At short intervals all through his career as Prime Minister. Me. George dashed down for spiritual refreshment to Urineieth, and became the centre of intimate and familiar wernes among his ain people" Mr. MacDonald gives us a similar performance, with Lossiemouth as its Setting. The intimate touches are even more numerous than those of The | Criccieth pilgrimages, and for the unlook- ing ation they are more intelligible. When Mr. Lloff George affowed himself on a particularly intimate footing with the ancient denizens of Criccieth he used the cryptic tongue of Wales. Mr. Man Donald drops into the Borie with a Hea are ye, Mrs. Stewart.", here anal a “Too' the wife," there, well within the compre- hansion of the ordinary English intel- ligener.

A Lossie Toon, he rally himself. he says la cana North, to sm the whin bushes in bloom and to hear the

yellow yarlin' sing.'!

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