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LORD OXFORD IN TEARS.

SCENE OF EMOTION? AT A FAREWELL MEETING.

WEEPING WOMEN,

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ORCHESTRA'S CYNICAL HUMOUR.

A rather bitter comedy was recently Lord Oxford and Asquith, who resigned | staged in the Albert Ball under the the leadership of the Liberal Party re- guise of a "beauty show," A Daily cently (as already stated by leuter), depress representative says that: Three was completely prostrated after his vale hundred girls came from, all parts of dictary speech to the Scottish LiberaLi England, and, hoping to be Mary Fick- Association

foras, took part, in the Albert Hall during the early sours of a Saturday morning in October, in one of the most pitiable spectacles ever staged in London.

The Countess and their daughter, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, burst into tears with him. The grief of the family spread along the platform. Viscount Grey wiped his eyes and many of the vast audience subhed in sympathy at the breaking of a nity-year-old link.

The meeting which had preserved a almost passivė dignity right to the end: broke down in a food of tears. Lord Uxford had carried through the last act of his abdication from the Liberal Party with surprising quoyancy. The poignant end came about 11 » sange way.

At four o'clock in the morning, when it was all over,, they filed out into the rainy street. Many were, there without their parents' knowledge. Some had bor. rowed clothes to go in Some were over- dressed in cheap finery. The ball and the procession had been a fiasco.

The Albert Hall was dismally empty and disillusionment came, even for the pro- moters. One man was duly informed, that he had lost £1,000. It was hoped to take 13,000 for tickets, but not much more than £500 was probably taken.

Lord Oxford was called on to reply to a resolution of affection and apprecia-. For what seemed hours these 300 giris ลวด he rose to speak, and the audience | bled round the area. The occupants of roge with him. Scotiand has her own one hox jeered loudly as some of the coma- legend of unreturning leaders Bonniepetitors paraded in front of the judges, rince Charlie enshrined it. The organ while an orchestra played times of all struck up the moving jut of "Will ye no sorta. come back again."' The audience Bang the words heartily without suspecting the narrowing effect on the veteran of seventy-hve years for whom time holds

zo 'return.

Lord Oxford's fortitude was conquered "I thank you by the Jacobean song. from the bottom of my heart," he mut- tered in broken accents, and sat down with tears coursing Lady Oxford bid her tears in her bouquet of roses, from which, the petals were already falling, and Lady Bonham-Carter

scbbed aloud.

on his features.

As one fat girl walked towards the five judges "Little Brown Jug "', was played, and, as she faced the three men. and two women whom she hoped would judge her "the most beautiful woman in England.” the music to which you sing the words

Ha Ha, Ha, He, He, He came from the jazz orchestra

God Bless the Prince of Wales" was played all through while twelve girls stood all in a row.

I have never seen anything so pitiful down as though proud of it in theme in my life. One girl, who wore her hair

shingled days, had come all the way from Political Obsequy.

Wales. Two young women informed me The demonstration was a political they had given up posts in the North of obsequy rather than a party meeting. England, a third, in her early teens, Melancholy music dulled all spirits bo- stood crying with her mother after abe fore Lord Oxford's entry, Rank upon had been rejected. Some of the girls sat rank of sad and sorrowful faces con- defiantly looking fosen up with rage, centrated on him as he rose to make his staring at nothing, for fear lest they specch. Cries of "Hush "' quelled sym-caught some one else's eyes. pathetic cheers as he bold's grasped the hettle of his resignation.

In one of the corridors, afterwards, three girls were crying together. One, who had nowhere to sleep, was offered shaker for the night by another disap pointed beauty.

His words, armed with a half-century of authority, fell with the inevitability of farewell. He envisaged the fature,

Neither of them would have been but his audience" thought of the past, and, without knowing which king to hail noticed in any omnibus. They, were just as his successor, they took part in aordinary girls of the kind you see in any tense drama which might be called "The theatre queue, or serving behind the

counter in any shop.. Passing of King Asquith." There was certainly something Arthurian in the sight of this seventy-five-year-old veteran declaring, with humility: "Men come and go."

..

Lady Oxford.

Lady Oxford accepted a bouquet of rosca and waved them vivaciously and almost triumphantly.

She tossed her head and drew a deep breath as Lord Oxford emphasised that it was his last address as leader: 8be fidgeted, she waved to members of the platform-behind her. She blew kisses cheerfully to delegates before her as ber husband set out to make his solemn way through his brief renunciation.

As the girl fically chosen, Miss Peggy Lamont, has been on the films before, the is in no sense a-“-discovery:""

FORTUNE ON BUTTERFLIES.

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IRRESPONSIBLE ENTOMOLOGIST'S

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When application was made at Guild- His mellifluous voice swept the hall-ford County Court for the discharge from plain matter of fact in tone, not seeking it was stated that the abilities amounted bankruptcy of hir. James John Joicey, to rouse emotion, and in part succeeding to more than £453,000, but had been re- in suppressing it.

Keep straight on," was his parting duced by the withdrawa of claims, pra- advice.

cipally by his mother, to £130,000.

So he ended, before his audience ex-ince his discharge four and a half years pected it..

Lady Vicles Bonham-Carter described her father as not an ill man and one who would never be an old man.

"If things had been different," she went ca, "if there had been real unity behind him, he could have carried on

No less than £105,013 was due to money- for many years giving devoted service to the Party, but as things are, under lenders, who, as the Official Receivers existing conditions, in the teeth of exist report showed, had received something ing odds, it is a risk and strain which: ke £100,000 in interest alone. he could not be asked to face and endure. We who love him best reluctantly believe that he is right in the course, he is taking to-night.

Mr. Hansell, for Mr. Joicey, said that

ago there had been no trouble apart from indebtedness to the mother. The large proportion of indebtedness was due to. money-leaders, who had got him inte their hands and preyed upon his not very robust intelligence.

One of the passages in Lord Oxford's speech was as follows:-

We hear a great deal in these days about the virtues and the necessity of unity Unity, I agree, is important; for effective and successful party working

it is essential, and I have worked for

"Perfectly Hopeless."

Judge Harington said be felt almost aghast at the statement in the bank- ruptcy report that this man could not live on £20,000 a year.. In the present case only 14. ed. had been paid. There had been no dishonesty, but hopeless extravagance. He suspended the dis charge for five years.

A Million Butterfiles. Mr. Joicey, who is 58, told a Daily

it in our party since long before many Mail reporter that his debts were in-

of my latter-day crities were born..

But if unity is to be more than a hollow and deceptive phrase it must be wholehearted and thoroughgoing, with- out qualifications, and without reserves Every resource moral, intellectual, material-must into the stock."!

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"I think I am right in saying," re- cently said Mr. W. J. Bondall, secretary of the Turf Guardian Society, that the majority of responsible bookmakers lose money during the jumping season."

curred before the war. He said:

All my money has been spent on my collection of butterflies and moths. have collectors working for me all over the world, and before the war I was spending from £10,000 to £12,000 a year in this direction. Then I went to money-lenders when I was tightly push- ed for ready cash, and the snow-ball of debts piled up to the total mentioned in court

I am still collecting Inatteries and moths and have already collected 15,000 this year. Last year I collected 17,000 specimens from all parts of the world. I suppose my collection, which has taken 36 years to get together, is worth more than £80,000. It contains · con- siderably more than 1,000,000 speci mena, one of which is worth £500.

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The work has been the ruling passion of my life, and although I am spending £7,000 to £8,000 a year I do -nob. think. am extravagant, as may re

searches and investigations will be of great value to the, nation

It is understood that Mr. Joicey in- tends to leave his collection to the British Mobeam at his death. The son of Major William Joicey, a wealthy coal-owner, he still has an intereas through his mother in the Lambton Collieries in Durham.

With regard to the duty to be paid on doubles and trebles," it is stated that the great majority of bookmakers bave decided to treat these transactions as one bet. The duty will in that case be payable on the aum actually wagered by the backer, and not on the sums which accimalate until the last horse has run.

Mr. Randall stated that if any ficial Mickey, a terrier, jumped into the of the Customs or Excise should take a grave at the funeral of its master, Mr. different, view the bookmaker concerned William Edwards, of Bodafon, near" er his society would take the matter to Conway, and lay on the coffin until a the High Court to get a ruling on what mourner descended a ladder and brought is really meant by the regulations.

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