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London Air-Mail Letter

The Royal Fag-Master: Elizabethan Hunt- ing-Box: Final Examinations For The Bar: Finger Print System Not In- fallible: Brangwyn's Panels For Wales: The Champagne Bottle: Rent In Horseshoes And Nails

Special Air Mail Service

THE BRITISH LEGATION Parliament Taking

Interest

It is satisfactory to find that Parliament is disposed to take a definite interest in the establish- ment of closer touch between the British Legation and the centre of Chinese affairs.». While there may be, as this journal has frequently pointed out, good reasons for re-.}- sisting immediate abandonment of Peking, there seems to be a clear case for giving the seat of the Minister's activities A location more in accord with the actualities of conditions here. If the asper- acknow-ities of Nanking-and perhaps

London, Nov. 1. George Bonner, formally AN ETON BID FOR HARROW

ledged the services. The reported offer of King Pra- BAR EXAMINATIONS. jadhipok of Siam of £2000 for the Seventy-one students of the Inna body of his recalcitrant Harrovian of Court passed the final examina cousin reminds me of a similar ex-tion for admission to the Bar held ample of his Majesty's lavishness in this term. Amongst them are four his youthful days.

At Etcu, where he was B and, later, a fag-master, he

was extremely popular. On one sċċa- sion he sent a fag to fetch his boots from the local bootmaker.

The fag returned in 20 minutes with the boots. They have been very well mended," said Prince Prajadhipok. "How much do I owe 1"

Seven-and-six," was the reply. The royal fag-master then pro duced a 25 note.

"Sorry," said the fag. "I can't change that'

The Prince shrug ged his shoulder. "Never mind," he said. You can keep the change."

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After this there was a keen de mand, to fug for the young › man who is now King of Siam. FAMOUS HUNTING BOX.

women:

Mrs Mary Turion, Inner Tem- ple.

Miss Mary Caroline Davies, Mid- dle Temple.

Miss Beng Tek Lim, Inner Tem- ple.

Miss Alice Raven, Lincoln's Inn. Twenty-six other women students passed in one or more of the spa rate subjects of examination, among them being Baroness Adda Von Bruemmer.

The Hon. David John Watson, son of Lord Thankerton, a Lord of Appeal-in-Ordinary, passed in the Elements of the Law of Contract and of the Law of Tort. Lord Hyde, the eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon, also passed this exam- ination.

The total number of students ex- amined in the various subjects was 890, and of those who passed 538. THE BRANGWYN PANELS GO

TO VALES.

Barleyhorpe Hall, which was ablaze yesterday, though the home of the Cottesmore Hounds, in that

So the Brangwyn panels, which it was the Lowther hunting-box, was not an old house. It was built the House of Lords rejected be in the Elizabethan style in 1849.

cause of their unsuitability to the But in more

prosperous days Neo-Gothic architecture there, are Lord Lonsdale used to entertain to find their home in the Assem- eivic there on a large scale, and there bly Hall of Swansea's new was general regret in the neigh, centre. Wales had another claim bouring township of Oakham when, ant for the honour, as Cardiff in 1927, the house was sold to Mr. wanted them for its City Hall. Mr. Brangwyn was born in Bruges; Kimble.

The Prince of Wales was a fre- but his father came fren Cardiff queat visitor to

from Cardigan Barleythorpe, and his mother which takes an admirable head-shire. quarters for hunting, not only with the Cottesmore but with the Quora, the Belvoir, Mr. Fernie's, and the Fitzwilliam also:

A QUAINT SURVIVAL

On one of these visits the Praice, I believe, duly submitted to the fine which Oakham imposes on any modarch, prince, duke. earl, or baron who drives through its streets. The tribute exacted takes the form of a horseshoe, which is bung in Oakham Castle."

The Prince'a, along with some 200 others, including one contributed by Queen Elizabeth, is fashioned in gold..

FINGER PRINTS.

There is certain to be a great deal of discussion in legal circles over Lord Clyde's contention that the finger print system is not infal- lible.

Lord Clyde, who is the Lord Justice General of Scotland and the President of the Court of Ses- sion, was hearing an appeal of a shopkeeper whose conviction rested almost entirely on a finger print,

The late Lord Ireagh paid £20,000 for the panels, and an offer have been of £40,000 is said to made from America for them. Several English municipalities, in- eluding, Birmingham, tried to get them, but the Iveagh trustees de- cided on the claims of Swansea.

The Cabinet is finding the task of remodelling the unemployment insurance scheme complex and dif- ficult.

الره

Ministers were deliberating on the problem yesterday. They are to return to it to-day.

Nobody will accuse them of un- due baste in the matter., The in- tention is to introduce the new bill in a formal manner on Nov. 7-the date when the House of Commons will reasse able.

TWELVE MONTHS AFTER

By a coincidence it was on this date last year that the final report of the Royal Commission, presided over by Judge Holman Gregory, E.C., was issued for publication,

The Government, therefore, will be producing their legislation pre- eisely twelve months after the Com mission's recommendations

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It has been laid down by the disclosed... Court of Criminal Appeal in Eng- In this case the Ministerial ma- land that. such evidence may Pechine bas obviously worked with accepted even though it be the sole very great deliberation. It is to be ground of identification,

hoped the result will justify the delny.

THE CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE.

The carliest case in Great Bri tain in which conviction was ob- tained from a jury on the evidence of finger prints alone, was in 1908. It was a Birmingham burglary in which the prints of several fingers were found on a champagne bottle. In that case, it may be observed, the jury accepted this evidence against the advice of the presiding judge,

The first case of the kind in the French courts also turned on marks on a champagne, bottle. RENT PAID TO THE KING-IN

A MODERNISED

CANAL

Revival In British

Canal Traffic

At the beginning of last century the British cañalf were bds” “And prosper ous. As a means of transport they HORSESHOES AND NAILS

had served a great purpose; but with the coming of the railways, their day The City of London Corporation seemed over. Some of them became to-day obtained the right to hold almost derelict, on others the familiar and occupy two valuable pieces of horse-drawn barges continued to ply, and for another year by sending but they seemed rather like persistent one of their officers to the Law relics of a bygone age. With the de Courts to chop faggots and to prevelopment of the internal combustion sent the King's Remembrancer engine and motor transport the canals with six horse-shoes and 61 nails were almost completely disregarded

for the use of the King." 11.

except as picturesque features of the landscape. The ceremony of paying these ancient quit rent services, has been continued for 700 years, and the services are rendered in respect of a farm near Bridgnorth, Shrop shire, and a piece of land in St. Clement Danes, originally a forge, but now the site of buildings..

Originally they were rendered to the Court of Exchequer, but the King's Remembrancer has offici- ated since 1859. Mr. A. F. I. Pick ford, the City solicitor, attended at the Law Courts to render them to-day bet

Now there is a revival of canal traffic. The internal combustion engine has not sealed the canals' final fate; it has given them a new lease of life. The canal-boat is becoming a motor-boat, and such is the belief in the future possibilities of the canals that one million pounds is now being spent on improving the greatest in the country, the Grand Union Canal Over fifty new locks are being built, many of them by the side of others which are more than one hundred years old: and Toads of be possible. For miles the canal banks up to one hundredtoms will soon

have been transformed"from rough, For the farm in Shropshire he fallers in boundaries to concrete walls, produced a new hatchet and hill-as smooth se the side of a swimming hook with which be out the faggots bath. Incidentally, the engineers have and for the forge he counted out noted with interest and some sur- the horseshoe and nails,

*prise how well the canal engineers of The King's Remembrancer, Sir the 18th century had done their job.

legitimate doubts regarding Ita permanent command of Chinese capital confidence--dreate hesita-1 tion there is no reason why the Chinese Government's own prac- tice should not be taken into ac-

'count and the residence of the British Minister be moved to

That

Shanghal. Hence he could keep in frequent and effective touch with Nanking and, to the greater reassurance of his own people, he would be able to obtain more readily that guidance to which Bir Miles Lampson, on more than one. occasion, has expressed himself as indebted. Sir Miles himself has paid more visits to Shanghal than any of his predecessors. straw shows the way of the wind. It is only fair to his succesor that a more determined support should be given in relief of disabilities which are likely to be more acutely felt in the future. Moreover it is exceedingly desirable that the Bri- tish comunity which has its main strength in Shanghai should be as- sisted in combatting the danger of uncertain leadership. The discus tion in the House of Lords appear-

ed happily to show a far keener

has

perception of the importance of Shanghai georgraphically arid economically-than

always been evident in the London press in the past. Shanghai, indeed, is not only a barometer of the state of China; it is essentially the nerve centre of China's financial and political development.

The Japanese example in this matter Is significant. To the presence of the Japanese Minister in Shanghai must be greatly attributed the ad- mirable solidarity which has, at times, been wanting in British ap proach to Sino-British relation- ships in past years.

Wn Shir Wing, who, it will be recalled was charged before the Chief Justice at the October Cri- minal Sessions with participation in-a robbery at 275 Des Voeux Road West, was before the Paisne Judge, Mr. Justice Lindsell, yesterday on the same charge. It will be recalled that at the former hearing before the Chief Justice, the jury failed to agree, and were discharged.

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