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GENE AL NEWS.

The Caledon Holbein.. A consideres, judgment was delivered recently by Mr. Justice Joyce on so adjourned summons which raised the question to whom the proceeds of the sale of the late Eul of Caledon's Holbein portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Eser, belonged. The picture was sold by Lady Culedon for £30,000, which was in the hands of the Publie Trustee. His Lordsbip concidered the terms of; the late Lord Caledon's will, and said that, as the present peer might predecease he mother, it was impossible to say that he would be entitled to the chattels roferred to in the will, including the picture.

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Retirement of Mr. Gosse. A report from the Select Com- mittee on the House of Lorde clicee polished as a White Faper (No. 2-6) states that under the saporinustion rule Mr.; Edmund Gorse, C.B, the librarian of the House, and Mr. Symone- "Jaune, principal clark of its private Bill committees, retire during the present your. Gosse has held his post since STRATEGIC WATERWAYS, munity, who could not be per-

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1004. He had errred under the Board of Trade from 1875, and Totires on и pousion of £663 139. 41. It is propofol to appoint as his successor Mr. A. D. M. Batler, who has for 16 years been assistant librarian. Mr. Symons. Jenne, whose office ns cxaminer of Standing Orders does not come under the superannuation rule, is to receive a pension of £000.

Commissioner for South Africa.

Sir David Pioter de Villiers Graaff, Be, until recently Minie ter of Public Works, Posts, and Telegraphe in the Government of the Union of South Africa, and formerly Minister in the Cape of Good Hope Government, has Leen appointed High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa in London as from August 11, 1914

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12 Knutsford Terrico. the naval position of the United blockade hoing practicable at the Hoogkong Telegraph." States, synchronising as it does enstern end of the canal, and can Tho war epirit has already with the firet great inanifestation proceed by way of the Great begun to allegt rur fashione. One of the strategic importance of the Belt or the Sound, or both.. of the more dashing tradesmen of Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, adds through the Kattegat, round the the West End has devised a greatly in the general interest of Skaw, the extreme point of Jat. trical-ür the-red, white, and io subject. We are reminded land then by way of the Skager blue-in quite "wearable" pro- of another great cabal, of which Back to the North pes. It goe portions. A broad dark blue we are, thanks to the late Mr. without saying that our Admiral bang, a medium breast red band, James Knowles, Lrd Bacons will have fully provided for such and a narrow white band nl.field, and others, the price.pnt a movement, but in the event of tornate in pleasing mutation: A whole.

to the Okneys, a Firth Clyde competitor along the street pink

the Claiman and

Canal mout be a very valuabie his faith in the roment to kliski.American canals, which are There are in bis window khaki under the unrestricted control of aid to their interception and ties of knited silk, plain ilk ho netions owning them, our capture before they could do any and flowered Kilk; khakishirts in powers over the waterway joining both wool and cot on, and some the Eastern Seas to the Mediter- one would think, avoid Glasgow of a silk and cotton mixture ranean are limited. Vessels of and the Clyde itself, or rather Women's veils scen to for great all nations, whether armed of would leave them towards the end scope to the war enthusiast. One not, are allowed to pass through of its course to entirely commer voil has just one figuration in the it in times of war as in times of cial traffe, and would branch off centre of ech cheka tiny peace, and by a special intel to the open soa, reaching it, say, aeroplane. This pattern, no national convention in ia exemple. doubt, is the forerunner fed from blockade. Nevertheless, at or in the neighbourhood of Ardrossan, almost within gun- patterns cursing crossed swords, the strategie importance of the hot of Lamlash Bay, where the field telegraphs, machine guns, Suez Canal to the country, in the

feel so often nesembles, and and the rest. An effective golf broad sense of the term strategie, where the great trade raptea to jacket for women is mido ofis very considerable.

Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and khaki trimmed with a narrow Some ten years ago, when the Liverpool may be said to meet, " tricolour" edging. Khaki

Rosyth scheme was the subject of The canal, in f. c, would be a scarfs of both silk and wool are also to be bad trimmed in this a vast amount of discussion in short cut from the North Sea and naval and othor circles, a project the Baltic to the Atlantic, and for converting the present forth incidentally to the Irish Sea also. "Young Jellicoe." Mias Slight, Admiral Sir John Clyde Canal, which has been There is no doubt that on an early Jellice's old nurse, who lives at navigated by steam lighters, bal day the project will again be Southaiapton, has just celebrated os, since 1876 (it was built seriously considered, both in ite her eighty eighth birthday. She long before that date) into a ship strategical and commercial respect recalls many episodes of his canal, or if that should prove im and this time with a very con-

way.

harm.

The strategical canal would,

boyhood days and his absolute practicable, for the engiraction siderable chance of adoption... fearlessness. On one occasion of an entirely new work capable F. R. Hoath in the flobe.

Tobacco for Troops. The Press Bureau announce that the French Government have agre.

when he would persist in rurning of accommodating the largent across the street the threatened ships, was also keenly debated. to tell a policeman with the idea The proposal met with support of frightening him. Just then in many quarters. Its commer- constable came along, whoreupon al advantages, which are fairly young Jellicoe ran up to him and obvic, seeing that it provides a ed to admit free of import duty short and safe route from Norway delightedly exclaimod, What a

taining tobacco, cigare, and lot of pretty buttons you have," and the Baltic to leego, Bel- any pantal or other parcele on- child was fast, and liverpool, were fully eet cigaretice sent for the use of Sir John when a passionately fond of the sea, and forth, and etrang fforts were British troops at the front. No declared he would be a sailor.made to get the matter taken up declaration need therefore be in financial and trade eircles, particularly in Glasgow, on its made in this country before des- patoh, and the public may rest assured that their friends at the front will not be called upon to pay any duty" on receipt of the parcels.

and

Special Constables. Over 1,500 of the 2,000 men commercial merite alone; who have enrolled themselves as things went ED far as the contem special sonstables for the City of plated formation of a company, London paraded in the moat of and the meditated, if not the

Ta the case of large consigu the Tower on a recent Sunday actual, issue of a prospectus.

some well ments the War Office can strange morning, when they were inspect In naval circles ed by the Lord Mayor. A large known mon warmly supported the with the Board of Customs and crowd of spectators assembled on project. Admiral Sir Charles Exoies, on being notified of the Tower Hill. The march past took Campbell was one of its keenest necessary details, for permilling place to the tune of "The British champions, and read a paper on tobacco, etc., to be taken out of Grenadiere," played by the City the subject at the Royal bond in this country free of im Police Band. The Lord Mayor Institution, which attracted con- port duty. expressed his admiration of the siderable attention, sud was fine physique and soldierly bear afterwards reprinted in the ing of the corps, and hia United Service Magazine one of the big variety of appreciation of their i

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