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NOTICES.

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FOREST FIRES.

|9000 DEESIDE ACRES LAID

WASTE.

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920.

EARL SENT FOR TRIAL,

NAKED AND A

BEGGAR"

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STARVATION PENSIONS.

OPEN LETTER TO STRAITS GOVERNOR.

After four days' fighting a buge

The Earl of Clanearty is to take The following letter to His fire on Glentanar Forest, Deeside, his trial at the Central Criminal | Excellency Sir Arthur Henderson was got under control late after a Court.

[Young, G. C. M. G., Governor of terriär struggle, engaged in bự Mr. Chester Jones, the Bow-Straits Settlements, appears în over 600 volunteers, including a street magistrate, recently com- [John Bells -- platoon of Gordon Highlanders mitted his lordship on fire Excellency,--You are also the from Aberdeen.

summonses for offences against High Commissioner of the Then the danger was not over, the Bankruptcy Act and six for Federated Malay States, and it) hat the outbreak was confined to obtaining goods and money by is in that capacity you receive Borland Hill, near the mansion means of cheques which were this letter. A great deal of Įhouse, and a few isolated patches afterwards dishonoured. He dissatisfaction is expressed in [of under-growth, which occasion-allowed bail in £1,000..

the States with the administra- ally burst into flames.

At a previous heating Mr.rion and distribution of the During the forenoon a large | Cecil Hayes, defending, secured | Widown and Orphans Fund number of bripers from the an adjournment for the product-of the Malay Government service. -urrounding country under Lordion of a

of trus: Notwithstanding that the Fund Glentanar, concentrated their accounts in regard to the Clan-is contributed largely by a deduc-

Knockee Hill, and carty estates, and his

Cross-tion from each officer's salary, despite a freshening south-easter-examination was now directed to and that it is now swollen to Is wind. which once again these

dimensions admitting of justice if threatened the entire forest, the Mr. Thomas Crozier, solicitor, Dot of generosity, starvation outbreak was kept in check. of Dublin, and who at one time, pensions are paid. --One case is The back-firing polies on the time acted for Lord Clancarty illustrated to me that of a left flank of the fire and a and bad also been a trustee of the widow whose husband died of Į fortunate change in the direction estate, though he now Gilled malaria, leaving four children. on the wind were responsible for neither office, admitted that he with another expectant, who has the saving of the pine-clad bill off had returned. a number of his now been notified tha: she has Craigendinnie and Aboyne village. lordship's cheques, marked "Notteen granted a pension of £3 3s.

Many dear driven from the hill-¦ funds."

a mouth! Will yon have the have returned from saneruary In December 1917 he returned goodness inquire into the near Glastacar and disappeatedļa ebeque of Lord (lancarts's formatter y is the undamaged northern | £2,10%, and in the same month. section of the forests.

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Lord Glentanan, who is up-rosts by direction of the trustees. preciative of the loyal help from | As agent for the Clancarty estates hundreds of workers, stated that he (witness) received a commis- the helpers from Aboyne, realising|sion of 5 per cent on the reats. the danger, were really helping Mr. liages: Did you think you

had a better, claim to the £100! than he had to the £2 1017

to save their own homes.

west.

called

The magistrate: I refuse to admit that question..

AKT-OR AGRICULTURE?

One of Lord Clancarty's

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GENERAL NEWS.

SKELETON IS HIGHLAND PEAT MOSS.

About nine thousand acres have been destroyed by the fire.

BEAUTY SPOT SACRIFIC

While engaged in peat catting at Quintfall, Lyth, Caithness, on Lord Glentanar upon to come to rapid and far.

Sinclair, Bark, the employees of the estate of Sir John R. G. reaching decisions. One of the the Hon. Greville Le Poer Treach. 1. David Oliphant, farmer, ex- most important of these was who was now 17 years of agebamed the tody of a man. It when he determined to save the was a beneficiare under the trust. popolar summer resort of Aboyne Witness agreed that the trustees was reduced to the state of a by sacrificing the coted deer refused to pay certain liabilities skeleton, but was fully clothed in forest and fine plantations on incurred by the boy for board, tunic, treeches, and stockings,

while what would appear to be aļ Craigendinnie Hill, which over-lodging and medical attendance, looks the village on tre south-because he had left the college in pair of light shippers or brogues which he was placed at Brighton Fere laid across the body. The The fire was seen to be ap- and had taken the law into his clothes were in a wonderful state of preservation. and the whole proaching, and within an hour or own bands. 50 would have reached the bill The boy wanted to have rooms covered with a plaid of blanket. All was of a khaki and then, bis Lordship concluded, in London to enable him to fellow there would have been little hope artistic pursuits, said Mr. Crozier, colour, which, no doubt, was due of saving the village or its sur bus the trustees warted him to go at a depth of about 216 feet from to the surrounding ross, and was rounding handsome mansion-io for agricultural studies. houses on the south bank of the Mr. Hayes: They would not the surface. In the pockets were river Dee. Though the river is give him a chance to become an about the size of a halfpenny. found a number of copper coins. more than a hundred yards wide eminent senlptor or a second bearing on one side the figures of a: most places, there is a con-Gainsborough ?

William and Mary, and on the siderable amoon! of timberį The Magistrate: They might! close to the water's lap, and retort that it was not a good thing other the Scottish thistle, and the when the flames in her places for a bop of 17 to be in room in dates ranging from 1677 to 1679. had been rising into the ale for London.

Judging from these dates the hundreds of feet, and sparks bad!

Mr. Crozier added that the body must have lain in its lonely been Flown for considerable object of the settlement made in rave for at least 200 years. further the risk was great.

1906 was to preserve the life Galions of paraffin pour et nuver estate for the benefi: Di the heather and brushwood, and Lord Gancarry and his family the app iration of lighted torches and for that purpose the trustees at the proper plures desited, soon were given absolute discretion Bill. (says the political correspon hath the desired effect of burning tey or withhold the incom- us the portion of the hill, which, they pleaser. when the roaring mass of flame reached it from further west.

*SURVIVAL OF THE FITIENT."

TRIAL BY JURY IN IRELABD.

The Cabinet Committee are

considering a new clause which

is to be added to the Home Rule

dent of the Daily Mail) to provide for the suspension of its operation in any part of Ireland if an attempt is made to set up an Irish Republic. This is in accordance with Mr. Long's statement in the House. The Government also are considering the suspension of trial; jury in Ireland in order to

would and nching more to con- In further cross-examination sume. To visitors and others Mr. Hages suggested that Lord who look upon Caigendinne as Clancarly bad been graduals

of the beauty spots of stripped of his property. Aboyne, the sight of the buring When he first werd into pour of the bill must have seemed office in 1890 he was the owner rexations, and their only con of the fee simple. When he came solation was that it might be the again in 1905 he had oely a life for more easy, but have not yet means of saving the popular interest: and the last time he was reached a decision. The Times The Government have Highland glen walk known as so to put in, turned out naked and abe Funzle.

LORD GLENFASAR'S ORDER.

make the conviction of malefac-

TESSIS TEAM OF M.P.3.

beggar. whilst you and Lore decided to introduce a Bill for Francis Herrer lone of the setting up a judicial tribunal in trusters on the legal estate andreland to decide whether there "Draw the men hack and fire make it an act of race to provides sufficient evidence to warrant uphill from the valley," was Lord him and his boy with money for the detention ofsuspected persons. filentanar's command, when his board and ledging. Since 1926) An Irish judge will preside. important decision bad been who do you think has made more arrived. For many # day. money out of the estate, you or M.Ps who play tennis have doubtless, it will be told to future Lord Clancarty" generations bow his Lordship

Mr. Crozier: I have earned banded themselves together for saved Aboyne. As it was, the whatever I have had, and if be the purpose of selecting a House experiment was risky, depending had not got into so much trouble of Commons team capable of almost wholly on the wind keep I should not have earned so much accepting challenges from clubs in the neighbourhood of London. ing steady in the direction from Mr. Hayes: I quite agree-sur-The Selection Committee consists which it was blowing when the rival of the fittest. Brains will of Mr. Leonard Lyle, Capt. Jack

always triomph in this world. Ganzodi

Wimbledon (both Lord Glentanar endeavoured

Counsel submitted no case had to arrange for as many relays of been made out, but, as stated the players), Mr. Harold Smith (a fre fighters as possible, so that a magistrate committed the Earl county player), and Major Blair. portion of the men might have a

Trials are being arranged for | about 20 M.P. players in the mach-needed rest, but all were!

bape of discovering exceptional]

order was given.

for trial.

evidently keen on doing all they would be ineffective in such a talent. Before the war legislators possibly could to get a mastery over the fire. His Lordship also conflagration.

SHOOTING LODGE SAVED.

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had a lawo tennis competition confined to Westminster, but the issued the following statement

creation of a House of Commons through the representatives of the Other two devastating forest lawn tennis team is an entirely Press:"I have visited every fires have broken out on the new development. Two or three part of the burning area, and am Mackintosh of Mackintosh estate of the most prominent men in amazer at the extraordinarily at Moyball, near Inverness, and the House are known to be heroic efforts which have been on the estate of Mr. Grant, of enthusiasts. made to cope with the conflagra-Rothiemurchus, at Aviemore. lion.**

Workers, including many women,

WOMEN AUCTIONEERS. PUTILE APPEAL TO ABERDEEN. Rothiemurchus where a little fore the assaults of Eve. Women Another barrier has fallen, be- have been fighting the flames at Something like an S. O. 8. village threatened with can now be legally admitted to message reached Firemaster destruction, and the shooting the Auctionsers and Estate Inkster, of Aberdeen City Fire lodge of Draintoul had a mira Agents Institute, hitherto the Brigade, imploring him to send culous escape. - apsk

exclusive and lucrative presDET E any spare fire engine or fire-fight- The fire swept through the of men. It may, of course, ba ing material to assist in extin-wooded parts on each side of the premature to think that women guishing Glentanar forest fire. lawn like a roaring furnace, will immediately invade the pro Lord Provost Meff and others moping up a summer house and fession in considerable uumbers. were consulted, but it was decided racing up the grassy lawn to Nevertheless, man's hitherto un- that it would be weakening the within thirty yards of the lodge challenged supremacy may some city's fire protection, and no It was only by the catremicuh đáy: be al loust in danger of appliances could be sent, while exort of

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