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Nows hasroached London fron Two of the ancient southern castles of. Great Britain the Argentina of a mysterious Povodnoy Castle and Porchoster vendetta against a British mis Castle-have recently boon given alonary, Mr. Thomas Stacey, and by their owners to the nation. his family. The case is engaging The Commissioners of Works the attention of the British Minis- have been entrusted with the ter Buenos Ayres. administration and care of those Mr. and Mrs. Stacey havo beon historio fortrossos, and operations in the Argentino 12 years, and for the preservation of the their four childron wore born A friend told a Duly structure of Pevensey Castle are there. already in progress. Work of a Chronicle representative that Mr. similar character will be begun Stacey had previously been throa shortly at Porchester.

tened, and efforts had been made Pevensey Castle is the gift of on more than ono occasion to burn the Duke of Devonshire, in whose down his house,

"Ho is not by any means; a family the ownership of the ca tle has been vested for nearly 200 nervy man," stated Mr. Stacey's yours. Mr. C. R. Peers, the friend, and I can only Chief Inspector of the Ancient conclude by the tenor of lotter which has just Monuments Department of the the Office of works, in discussing reached me that he has been in the charactor and history of the great peril. In this he says

"I received an anonymous let- castle, said that the sito was probably occupied in prohisteric tor to appear at a lonely apot at times, but the first definite 12 o'clock at night, failing which levidence of occupation was to be my two boys, mentioned by name, seen in the great ring of Roman Norman and Harold, would be walls and towers which enclosed murdered and my house burned The news sproad 'like' an area of about nine acros. Two down. sides of the fortress'still stood to wildfire, and everyone was afraid a very considerable height. After of themselves.

the Norman Conquest, when Things got to such a pitch that William was inaking his conquest I had to wire to the British Min-j Hocuro, ho placed Robert de istor at Buonos Ayres. When Mortain, Earl of Morton, in the news wont round that I had charge of Pevensey as one of the been murdered the people clapped koys of the kingdom. Robert, their hands and whistled for joy. however, after the Conquoror's But the Lord delivered as he has death, supported the cause of delivered, doth deliver, and will

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against William Rufus, and, as a "The police still stand in front result, was besieged with Odo, of my house at night. You can Bishop of Bayeux, in Pevensey understand, dear friend, what a Castle in 1088. It is quite possible shook it has been to my wife. We that some of the herring-bono are not yet out of danger until masonry of one of the Roman the tool used is caught." bastións is a relic of repairs affect- "A DANGEROUS LIFE."... ed at this timó, after the damage 'Mr. Stacoy added that he had which the siege must have taken his wife away, meantime caused.

leaving his children in the care Mr. Poere wont on to explain of some American missionaries. "It must have been' terrible for the greater part of the buildings Mrs. Stacey, who is nearly blind," dated from the 13th century, but said the friend. They have led chore had been uncovered theja very difficult and at times, remains of the keep of 11th- dangerous life among the pooplo contury date, which was of a of the underworld and in primitiva curious and unusual plan, and parts of the country.. notable as being, with London and Colchester, one of the earliest of the Norman buildings in this country.

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"Mr. Stacey is a member of Plymouth Brethren community, and was sent out by them. He does not receive recognised pay. Referring to Porchiestor Castle, mont, and has largely subsisted Mr. Poors pointed out that the on presents sent from friends at analogies between Pevensey and home.

Porchester Castle were fairly, "He was home on furlough two cluse. Porchester retained the years ago, his frat furlough since great four-square enclosure, sur-going to the Argentine, and spent rounded by its Roman walls and all his holiday in lecturing and bastions, in one angle of which preaching. He is a wonderful was the Norman castle. The speaker site was more imposing than that of Pevensey by reason of the great 12th-century keep which towered above the Roman walls. and was visible as a landmark

from all the surrounding district, A standing as it did at the end of the tidal water of Portsmouth Harbour,

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Vionna by thio suicide of Baro, Philipp Haas- Apart from the gift of Pevensey Telchen, a prominent figure in Castle to the nation, it is under- Vienna society. Just before stood that the Duke of Devonshire shooting himself in the heart with has also handed over to the public gun he posted some short latters the largo chulk figure cat in and an original poem f four lines outline on the side of the Sussex to several journals, informing them of his suicide, and explain- Downs, and

the 48 "Wilmington Giant" or "Longing that the cause of it was his Man." With this has been wretched state of ill-health. The presented the remains of the old envelopes bore stamps now out of Benedictine priory. The Sussex use, from which it is obvious that Archaelogical Society have under he had intended to take his lifo taken the maintenance of these some time ago. antiquities.

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Undoubtedly. another reason for his suicide was his disgust with the state of things created by the breakdown of the Monarchy. Although still a rich man when! he died, the Baron was obsessed by the idea of becoming so poor that he would die of starvation. A'sum of 430.000 has bean ro- and started a system of eccentric ceived by St. Hugh's College, economy. During the period of Oxford (one of the women's col-collapse and the aftermath of the logos), under the will of Mies war he was afraid of being plun- Mary Gray Alion, who died last dered by Comminists and work. August.

men's councils,and hung loaded. The college officials declared guns along the walls of his rooms that they knew nothing at all in readiness for invaders. Up to about Miss Allen. They did not his last moment the guns had tol know whore she bad lived nor be left in that position; but the where she died.

irony of things willed it that he The following obituary notice, should, use his own gun against however, appeared in the Times himsjölf of Angust 21.-

He was the son of a leading in- "On August 15, at Bolton Percy,dustrial figure of the weaving Argyle road, Boscombe, Mary branch, but had little sympathy Gray, only daughtor of the late with his father's business. A John Allen, Esq., of Edenmore, short time after the latter's death Londonderry."

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Miss Morden was a prominent He was one of the first men hero bonefactress of St. Hugh's. to ride a bloyle and drive a motor After payment of dutios about car. Numerous stories were told 427,000 of tho£86,000 will be of his hunting adventures; he available for the colloge.

glorified the huntor's life in un The debt resulting from build-amateurish play in which he him- With ing operations has been quidat-self took the chief role.. ed during the last few years, and his long blonde beard. he was the new position oreated by the rather impressive figure and re- bequest will be the subject of an presented the ideal of the hunting announcement by the council. type in his country.

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