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SCOTTISH LETTER.

MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN ELECTED GLASGÓW'S NEW RECTOR:

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A SHILLING OF THE ISLKS.

In Gaelic the dateling is called An Airidh. Strictly speaking, it is the dery-

FIRST LORD DEFENDS THE ADMIRALTY

ing of the cattio to the hills, in the early REPLY TO ATTACKS ON NAVAL

summer, and remaining there with tasti When the during the warm montas, summer is over the cattle are again

COST.

Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

driven home to their respective town the admiralty, speaking is Colwyn Bay ships. It is the young women that usually of October 30th, detended the Govern EDINBURGH, November 29th.

accompany them to the sheling, becausement against recent criticisms, and the The students of Glasgow University they are better adapted to the work con- Admiralty against what he described as elected Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.Fnected with cows, such as milking and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, making of butter and cheese. At night to be their Lord Rector in succession to

the women shelter in little huts scatter- Lord Birkenhead. The other candidate ed here and there, on the moor. These were Mr. G. E. Chesteron (Liberal), and

"stream of ill-informed and mis- chievous attacks"

The Admiralty policy, he said, bad been to replace worn-ous ships-especial- Mr. Sidney Webb (Socialist). Mr. Chamurumer homes are constructed of turtly cruisere-and in order to do that they or of stone, becaus, unfortunately had undertaken to economise every bariain received 1.242 votes, Mr. Ches many of the islands are entirely wanting terton. 965; and Mr. Webb, 255. While in trees. A shiling house is as simple superfluity and every luxury. Mr. Chamberlain's total was less by 11 and unpretentious within as it is without than the combined vote of the opposition. for the women-folks only bring wito

But when we begin to economise,” he contiqued, we are at once confronted

Does it become Mr. Lloyd George

pro- and the Labour Party, who spoke gramme of four cruisers, which at any violently and voted against the

three years, to abase us for., throwing rate provides work for 12,000 men for men out of employment? If they had their way those 12,000 men would not be employed.

he bad a majority in each of the four Itnem such necessary utensus as they may by the critics: When we say we have not work enough to occupy men in six "nations" into which the electorate divided. It is no disrespect to Mr. Cham- require in the preparation of their food. herlain's rivals to say that he alone of course, they take with them milk dockyards, and can do the work in four, have pails and churns and sucn-like things, and so save the overhead administrative the three was supremely fitted

but ordinary acusehold furniture at a charges in two, we are violently attack- his name added to the illustrious roll of shueling is dispensed with. The seating

ed by Mr. Lloyd George and by the the Rectors of our University-a roll which, it may be recalled, contains under requirements, for example, are supplieu Labour Party on the iniquity of put- the date 1896 the name of the new Recy plank stretched between a couple ting men out of work

of large dat stones, while, meals are tor's famous father, the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. The controversy in the eaten at a readily improvised table. I Scottish Universities as to the relative is of peat, and is frequently laid on qualifications of statesman or literary the floor. It is never allowed to go out, man for the highest honour which it is for, when it is Bot needed for cooking in the power of the student community purposes, a few peats are placed on it, and it is left to smoulder quietly. There are to bestow is a familiar one, and one to which there is no universally acceptable no feather mattresses and pillows at a answer. The issue in each case depends shielding: the beds are of fragrant hea on the traditions and atmosphere of the thes and bracken, and sometimes of University concerned. In St. Andrew's, dried moss. During the day the maidens for instance, the Rector is generally elect of the shieling are engaged in making away across the ed on his literary qualifications. But in leather should wandering the ky Glasgow, as is where one has

"Their idle moments are occupied University situated in the midst of a great city and intimately connected both preparing wool or at the spinning with its manifold activities and interests wheel. These are the scenes from which and with the wider life of the community, many of our most beautiful melodies have the preference has, as a rule, been for emanated, for the Hebridean weavers the statesmen, and most often for the and spinners are wont to sing at their statesman who to his renown in the poli- work. tical or diplomatic field added grace and distinction of the man of culture.

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Where is the sense in a policy which forbids you to build shipe, but insists on your keeping your dockyarda fully manged with no work for the men to

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atseration having been made in the pay of scamen already enlisted.

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FOR CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, INDO- OHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLE- MENTS, MALAY STATES," NE

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THE DIRECTORY, covern the notable

Netherlands India to Siberis, in which events, ports and cities of the Far East, from

aropean reside.

Not only is the Directory as full and complete a it can be made, but cash Colony, case a FIOR, fully prefaced by DESORIE

Part or

carefully revised such year, the majority of which will serve as an accurate GO THE Tourist, giving every detail in connection with the phone, their Hirlary Topograptim in these Descriptions, consist

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bundred interesting artiolas, pasked. with facts concisely set out, and containing statistics of the Tians of each Country and port, would alone suffice to fila large volume.

The Book is printed from New Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in erery arrangement greatly facilitate reference.

Epsides the usual Alphabetical List of Thre the Directory gives the ULASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres.

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the Far East contains the names of orHT

The Admiralty, he said, had proposed to the Colwyn Committee substantia! economies, which would go far to meet the extra cost of the new construction. On the question of Admiralty staf Mr. Bridgeman said it should be pointed out that the figures included staff in the ports of the country. Before the war the staff at headquarters was 2,083, and at ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS is outports 3,757; now the figures were 3,359 and 6,143, a total of 6,502, but they were not told that this total com- pared. with 20,457 at the cices of the war, and the reductions were going on. NO DANGEROUS MAKESHIFTS.

In some cases the increase in staff was neccssury: before the war the Aumiralty was notoriously understaffed. If there hau been a proper Naval Staff many of the disasters in the war could not have occurred. They had now got & Naval

revert to the dangerous make-shifts of pre-war times.

20,000 FOREIGNERS, «

axes, is strictly Aphabetical Order, so that arranged, with the Initials as well as the Sur any name can be found instantly.

I gather that some of the largest of the Scottish landowner's are at the mo- ment having a rather tough time. Altor Kidnapping played a large part in the some years of heavy taxation, and the Rectorial battle. Quite a number of the realisation of such parts of their estates party leaders were seized and imprison- As were amenable to that treatment, they ed." The secretary of the Liberal stud- are now left with material which is often ents was kept in custody by the Con- burdened and from which the annual re servatives on the island of Inchmarnock turn is small. I believe there are owners in the Kyles of Bute, and another was

of large estates who do not in fact pay confined in a cottage at. Largs. The super-tax; the net income is below even Liberals, also, spared BO expense or that level, notwithstanding the scule of troub. They rented shooting lodge on

the property. On the other hand,' it is the moors ten miles from Aviemore, and hardly disputed that the farmers generally then incarcerated a prominent student on have been well protected, They con- -e Conservative side. Of course all the stantly complain, but some days ago there political parties tried to trace and release was concrete proof of the brisk bidding their leaders. One night, acting upon a lor certain classes of farms; in fact, in clue, the Conservatives searching for a arder to obtain them many of the appli lost comrade wakened up the entire cants were willing to go to prices well house-boat commanities of Balloch and beyond the present value. Moreover, in Luss on Loch Lomond. Almost at the spite of the fall in prices within recent same time a party of Liberals were sit times the number of bankruptcies among, ting in the gloom and the wet on Fairlie the farming community has been sur

They are "assisted by Pier awaiting the home-coming of the prisingly email. fishing boats; they suspected that one of the fact that few of them are farmers their friends was confined on board pure and simple:-1 gather from the in- ‡ Staff, and no one but a lunatic would re-caties consluded with the countries These students by the way were the subquiry that they nearly ali have/ other ject of grave suspicion by the local police. and subjected to severe cross-examina. tion. The youngsters finally went to awakened found that it had been moved sleep in a railway truck, and when they several miles along the railway.

ISLANDS CHEAP TU-DAY.

A

irons. in the fire.

A NEW TRAFFIC.

The mere decrease in numbers of ships and men would by itself Juecrease was reduction of staff, but that accompanied by an enormous increase in the complexity of mechanisms in ships, all requiring expert supervision. If they. had a smaller Fleet, they must aim at higher efficiency.

Taking the value of money as it was in 1914, their expenditure of £60,000,000 about this year

was equivalent to £37,000,000 pre-war, when the last pre war estimate was £51,000,000. The in-. crease in personnel was about 80 per cont., and they were doing their best to reduce it.

"I am sure Mr. Bridgeman con- cluded, you will agree that while every economy should be considered, it would be the beight of folly to make savings at the expense of the efficiency- of the Navy and at the risk of our very existence as a nation."

SAVED THRICE." WHISKY OF ENGLAND.

ball affairs of this enlightened ige must Those who are uninitiated in the foot be excused if they imagine that we are back in the days of the slave trade when they absorb the latest news of dealings The prices realised at the sale of the in footbull players. The popular pastime Leverhulme estates in Lewis and Harris of footer, however, has been so com- would be pronounced astonishing if one mercialised that no surprise is occasioned forgot the fact that the late owner offered among its followers when it is announced the islands as a gift to their inhabitants that such-and-such a player, has been and had the gift declined. Mr. Compton transferred to a certain club for £2,000 Mackenzie, the novelist, who seems su for £3,000. That wealth matters in foot have a taste for islands, bought the Shiant ball is obvious, from the fact that group, covering about 475 acres, for £500 Preston Club recently came to Scotland Another and much larger group, the Ber- and bought three players for a sum, we nera Islands, with 5,399 acres, fetched are credibly informed, whmust run near only $950. The deer forest of Andyour-the £9,000 mark. But what must be re- lie, extending to 61,850 acres, and includ-garded as the most remarkable transac ing & castle, a shooting lodge, and a hotel, tion if recent Scottish Soccer history has was sold for £2,000. The prices of other just been carried through by Rangers properties great in acreage were hardly of Glasgow and St. Johnstone of Perth. more impresive, and altogether there were That James Fleming should go to Ibrox apparently magnificent opportunities of comes as no surprise. Indeed, very cred- becoming a big landlord at an insigni- ble statements made about three weeks ficant price. But, as the local authorities ago indicated that he might have gone to The remarkable found when they went into the matter, it Glasgow before now. is an onerous business to own land in feature is that Rangers have given in Lewis. It is a case in the main of acquir exchange for the Perth leader three ing obligations to contribute to very sound men all of whom have had, First Unless there be heavy rates and taxes, for which the League experience. owner gets nothing but enjoyment of the something else behind the transaction pride of ownership. The islands formerly a sum of money, in other words-the belonged to the Seaforth Mackenzie's from Perth Saints have certainly grasped the which Mr. Compton Mackenzie is de better end of the stick Fleming, no scended, and it is said that he intends doubt, nas football ability, but he is to build house upon one of the Isles. hardly of the class which would suggest But be will scarcely leave his residence such & return as three good players.

The first occasion was when Mr. Lloyd on the Island of Jethon in the Channel

George connded to him that he was go Islands for so remote and barren a home...

ing to shut up the distilleries and en- There is also another circumstance which

lorce prohibition for the duration of renders the purchase of the islands in-

the war. Lord Stevenson, in reply, teresting. Mr. Mackenzie is a brother of

pointed out that, if that were done, Miss Fay Compton, the actress, who, it

Britain would be without anaesthetics, will be remembered, gave one of the most

alcohol for explosives, or yeast for moving of all her performances in Sir James Barrie's" Mary Rose. A mysteriis usually the crucial one of the borey bread, and that for the latter purpose the distilleries alone produced 17,000,000 ous ibland off the West Coast of Scotland It is a fascinating theory. A maR figures in the play-Barrie called it “The

alcohol, required. island that likes to he visited and Miss novelist once expounded similar views in gallons out of the 25,000,000 gallons of The second time was when the dis Compton gave to it an atmosphere of regard to the eighth year of marriage, other worldliness" which no one who saw but ha gave as facts and bgures and tilleries, despite the fact that they were in full blast, were unable fully to the play could ever forget. The Shiant statistics, culled from Divorce Court re- Islands, it may be added. figure promin-cords, is support of his contention. supply the munition factories, and Mr.

Why should the third day (more than Lloyd George wanted to ently in Hebridean folk lore; are a bit of Celtic fairy-land; and would he fitting any other) be the crucial one of a honey treasured stocks of old whisky, Lord moon-unless it be by some analogy to

Stevenson then suggested other sources scene for the origin of "Mary Rose,"

tertain fever, in which the paroxysms. HARRY, LAUDER NEW SONG.

recur on the third day? Yet we must of supply. not lightly reject the new theory. There may be something in it; and what a boon it would be to honey-moonera to know that on a particalar day they must go warily and look out for squalis "!

Sir Harry Lauder has got a new song since his tour in the East. It has a typical Lauder tune, and this is the chorus

When I'meet Mackay and Mackay meets

.*** me,

I treat Blackay and then Mackay treats

re :

HONEYMOON CRISES..

A barrister-at-law contributes following to a London paper :-

the

A celebrated woman novelist tells us, in her latest book, that," the third day

moon."

Lord Stevenson, managing director of John Walker & Sons, Ltd., the well-

and the the Army Council known distillers-who was £ member ot both and who has been President of ther Munitions Committee during the war, Council of the Wembley Exhibition- reveals that three times be saved the nation's whisky during war-time..

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Later, Mr. Lloyd George directed. the late Lord Milner to negotiate with me," he said, for the purchase of all the whisky in Bootland."

Lord Stevenson dryly added: "Those For my own part. I should say that negotiations were still proceeding when each day of a honeymoon is just as the war ended. I am now. marvelling crucial as another. It is a tims of how, the man who won the war could surprises of revelation, of mutual dis turn prohibitionist." covery (to use a legal phrase), of It's only when I meet Mackay that I sudden flashes lighting up dark places.

have one or two!

I like Mackay because Mackay's true.

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ANOTHER!!

In one of Maxwell's novels (I think it How often is it a time of disillusionment and disappointment, when people for the is The Rest Cure") a girl at the be There is always a new story about the Grat time throw off, the mask and behave ginning of her honeymoon in shocked and Aberdoalan. The latest concerns a native" naturally" and fairy palaces come horrified at her husband knocking an of the Granite City, who was discussium tumbling down about our heads. And argumentative porter down. It showed clothes with a friend "Oh, aye,' said above all, if people are wise, it is a time a new and brutal side to his character. be,

I've had thae troosera for ten years, of adaptation, of adjustment, of replac And that it typical of the honeymoon

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