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JULY

DEATH OF KARL WHO OWNED A CAB BUSINESS

Lord Shrewsbury and his Famous Hansomus,

The Inheritor of

It would be hard to say to whom the world and the Britsh} The Empire Statesmen assemEmpire aws a deeper obligation bled round the Council table in an to the Right Honourable

- a romantic career of the peer London are thus described by Jan Christian Smuts, Prime

age has been brought to a older Mr. J. Saxon Milla:

Minister of the Union of South by the death of the Earl of Africa. The world owes Larels Shrewsbury and Talbot, at the to General Smuts its one great I think I had better begin, he hope, the League of Nations; and age of 60.

His chief claim to distinction writes, with the youngest of the on the British Empire he has was his invention of the famous visiting Premiers, who happens recently conferred an inestimables T. hansome, the first cabe with to represent the oldest Dominion, boon in the grouping into one rubber tyres to be put on the Newfoundland. The Hazoorable great party of the British, and

a be smooth Richard Anderson Squires, K. C..moderate Dutch elements in streets of Loxion.

running and noiselessness of the just over 40 years of [South Africa.

daw vehicles quickly gained for nge, and has held the dual

General Smuts believes in the them a great popularity." posis of Prime Minister and Langue of Nations, and he must, Colonial Secretary since he won therefore, beliers in the British weslib, the earl was able to his victory at the polls in Noram- Empire, which he has defined_az dabble in basinean mors ar ber 1919. He is a native Now the only league of nations that less as a hobby, and one of his foundlander, having been born has ever aristed.”

enterprises was the provision at Harbour Grace, the second! Scholar, soldier, statesman; can of a large fleet of hansoms for largest town in the island. He the Empire bare a more attrao-the metropolis. was educated at Dalhousie Untive or romantic figure? iversity. Halifax, Nova Scotia, seems to have stepped` down

CORONATS ON CARS, where he took the degree of from some historic canvas of the

Far from being ashamed, ak a LL.B.

sixteenth or seventeenth century, peer of this incursion into His political career began in Yst Smuts is truly a "man. of business, be displayed a soronet 1909. when he was elected to the times, perhaps even a little on his cabs, and later introduced the House of Assembly for the ahead of his times in political the bassom into Paris, Brusnals district of Trinity. He climbed thought and aspiration.

and Milan. the range of political promotion

In 1933 matering, then in its pretty fast. By profession he is

infancy, attracted kia attention. ✔ lawyer practising at the New- India will henceforth be re-and he devoted a great deal of foundland Bar, and was a law presented at the Empire Cabinet anergy and m、ney to further the partner of Lord Morris when the and Conference by native Ind industry. He started a factory at Iatter was Prime Minister of and she has little difficulty in Nothing-hill for the manufacture Newfoundland.

finding worthy delegates. To of French cars, and in the first Mr. Squires has bad a large this Cabinet comes as represen-year completed 50.

He was a great all-round sports- legislative experience. Els is re-tative of the gorgeous Indian markable for intellectual vigoar princedoms his Highness the mao, and after he had passed the and industry, and is filled with G.CLE. Cutch is big penin- and a keen shot. For many years Mabarao of Culch, G.C.S.1. age of 50 was a fine polo player patriotio ambition forte progress and advancement of his country.sula about the size of Wales, in he was a regular follower of the He should have a long and ser- Presidency. It is quite a little active part in boxing and fencing. Bombay Cheshire hounds, and took an

world by itself. with a strong From his youth he was fond of national consciousness. The coaching and for several seasons Mr. Squires then, will be the Mabarao is always among his drove the Greyhound coach from boy of the Cabinet. Bat the own folk, having been to Eng. But on to Alton Towers, bis seat

the first near Stoke-on-Trent.

He was the central figure, in hen, Premier of Canada, is only Victorian Jubilee six years older, having been He is brother-in-law of the the early 'eighties, of a society [born in 1874 From Toronto kabarajah

B kaner, who divorce sensation. Shortly after University young Meighan step-atrended the War Cabinets and is coming into the title at the age af ped westwards, and started prae- now well known in this country, 17, he made the sequaintance of tire at the Manitoba Bar, at The Maharao will be heartily Mr. Mundy, and paid visits to the latter's home at Shipley Hall, in little town 60 miles west of Win-welcome.

Yorkshire.

viceable career before him.

CANADA.

INDIA

the north of the

of

•

nipeg, called Portage la Prairie, For the rest of India come Mr. which constituency he bas repre- Srinivasa Sastri, lieutenant and SOCIETY ROMANCE. sented in the House of Commons successor of the late Mr. G. K.

There'Lord Shrewsbury, then at Oltawa since 1908. Hr. Gokbali, fafluential among Indian 20, mes Mr. Mundy's young wife, Meigben, accordingly, is the firs: moderates and a joint-shaper of and several months later she left Westerner or prairie

the recent "Dyarchal reforms. her home, and ran away with the become Prime Minister of the Mr. Sastri is a high type of Indian young earl. Her husband. Dominion.

culture, and speaks and writes divorced her, and in 1882 she be-

KJ hi English as familiarly

came Countess of Shrewsbury and mother tongue.

Talbot.

man to

The Empire may thank God for the high character, wisdom, and

For several years the couple | lived happily, but a disagreement

His first-class fighting abilities came out over the question of reciprocity with the United States, which be brilliantly opposed, and that of a direct ability of the men who are to sprang up, and they separated.

the contribution to

decide its destinies at the cooung This led to a lawsuit, the countess Imperial

Cabinet and the subsequent con-claiming the use of Alton Towers as brilliantly

[stimtional conference.

and £1,000 a year from her hos- band.

| Navy, which be

supported.

So great was his power fa debate and so wide his politica}} - -

During the case, which she prob.

number of curious

experience that Mr. Meigben ACTION OVER STEEL BARS incidents were related. When in

I was obviously the n an to succeed Sir Robert Forden when the latter retired in July of last year: Ele is not very well known in this country.

NEW ZEALAND.

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July 1902 she and her daughter, Lady Viola, arrived at the Towers, they were refused admis- sion by a housemaid, who said

In an action in the U. S. Court she had had orders to admit His spare and ascetic figure and for China at Shanghai on the nobody. The door was hanged certain look of having been born 27th ult. Mr. H. D. Rodger, for to in the countess's face, but ber tired seem to belie that lust for the plaintiffs, Measra Gonddaughter forced it open. battle and work which is Arthur Price & Co, diade an application SCRAMBLE THROUGH A WINDOW. Meighen's unquestioned attribute. for a claim of $30,000 from

To obtain even the most ordin- He will be an object of much defendants the Trans-Pacific Corary utensils, the two Indies bad interfat and curiosity at this poration, under a letter of guerauto break open locks and cup- year's meetings and festivities. tee dated October 27, 1920. boards, and Lady Viola had to The application WAS based,

dig potatoes from the garden. Oo vaid counsel, oa # affidavit, The genial and massy" sena copy of which was served on had to scramble through the another occasion the daughter | blance of the Right Honourable defendants. It was sigued for by window in order to admit her JUST received large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality dario Minister of New Zealand, is now President and Oriental-mar-ager

William Ferguson Massey. Prime Mr. O. B. Gainsborough (vice. mother. Hot Weather: (2) LACTOSE (Milk Bugar) for sweetening the food quite familiar in the Old Country of defendant firm) as having been lived at Akon Towers, and the INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes A most interesting career, and received by him. Defendants bad Earl at his other seat Ingestre of Infan's and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-McGRATH FLUII

no que peculiar to the British declared that they did not wish JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA the age of 14 in 1870, he settled to leave the issue to be decided most of his wealth from coal Bugs, Fica and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and Empire, he had. Emigrating at to defend the action and desired Hall, which is only 20 miles away.

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Afterwards Lady Shrewsbury

Lord Shrewsbury, who, derived

brains and character and hard Upon the name of the defend-mines, was Land High Steward work rapidly became a leader of ants having been called three of Ireland, and the premier earl he British community in that times by the Court Marshal and of England and Ireland. He is succeeded by his grandson. their failing to answer, Mr. C. R. Viscount Ingestre, who was born How he brouwht his countes Tichenor, manager of the import in 1914. The child's father, and into the Great War to the last and export department of plain-the earl's only son, died in 1913. man and the last shilling' is altiff firm, stated that there had matter of glorious remembrance.] been a deal in steel bars

in 1915 be formed one of those from the United States. When Coalition Governments which the transport arrived together MAIL-CARRYING FLIGHT. have been such a feature of our with the invoices it was discover. home and Empire polities in late ed that the Trans-Pacific Corpora years. Mr. Massey will betion had "ebipped the short ton." heartily greeted by countless It was impossible to dispose of admirers in this country.

AUSTRALIA.

An August Stant.

the consignment unless defend- Under the auspices of the ants made up the weight. This Japanese Imperial Aviation. they said they could not do. Association, another mail-carry-

Mr. Hughes, Mr. John Ball,"

The Judge The steel was ship-Fire fight will be made on Mr. John Bull, Mr. Hugbes" ned to you ?--Yea. We accepted August 20th. The planes would be quite a needless the drafts, but not the goode. We will carry mail. from Tokyo to formality. The Right Honourable merely acted for other firms in a Morioka, a distance of about William Morris Hughes is almost financial capacity. We opened 1,030 kilometr as well known under Charles's the credit for another concern. In The aviators who take part in Wein a under the Southern reply to another question by bia the flight will drap cards at Cross. Nobody doubted which Honour sa to whom the bars now Utsunomiys, Koriyama, "Sendai side Mr. Hughes backed when belonged, witness said they were and other towns en roule is the war began. How he smote in the hands of the Trans-Pacific specified by the Association. and slew the Germanic dragon in Corporation. Pisinting had never The winners of the competition his island continent is a record accepted any part of the shipment. will receive Yen 10,000, Yen 8,000, for all time.

Mr. W. J. Gande, partner of Yen 7,000 and Yen 5,000 res And as for his speeches, his plaintiff firms said that the bank pectivaly. tributes to the Australian heroes had made repeated demands for About six vivilian svjaldre of the war, they have passed into the settlement of the drafts, and expected to participate, In the the literature of the war'a d into that plaintifs would be obliged to fight. All of them are in posses the school-books of his country.pay them.

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