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extra-hazardou Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whenes Delivery may be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Woods have left the Godowns, He spoke at the opening of aand all Goods remaining undelivered bazaar to raise £1,500 for the main after 20th November, 1928, will be
aubject to rent. tenance of the house at Jedburgh in which Queen Marry itved for must be presented to short time.
The house, was purchased recent-1028, or they will not be
"What we need in Australia ta in Lengue of Patriots, who. Irres- A fantasy of how ho rode through pective of party, will bind them the old Border town of Jedburgh selves together to people and de- (Roxburghshire) to speak to the velop this great and growing shades of Mary Queen of Scots was land. If any advance is to unfolded by Sir James Barrio to a be made in the populating of Aus-crowded audience in the Town Hall, tralia, above the present slow Jedburgh, recently. rate, that advance must come from Australia, and it will only come when development precedes settlement. Times of financial and trade depression, such as we are now passing through in Aua- tralia are not helping matters, and, unless the unforeseen haply by Mr. F. 8. Oliver, of Edgeraton, pens, we may look for a further who gave it to Jedburgh condition closing of the door."
ally upon the £1,500 being raised These statements are made by for its maintenance. Among the Rold WIS an Oriental the Rev. T. St. J. P. Puglie, Into articles Hon. Director of. Migrailon, vase sent by the Queen and Church Army, and Hon, Canon of bedspread and teacloth sent by Brisbane, in "The Problem of Princess Mary, Migration and Unemployment"- a report on a visit this year to Australin.
of Scots came to Jedburgh, and for It was in 1666 that Mary Queen several weeks aho lay in the old Australia, Canon Pughe states, Manor House seriously ill with is facing a great funnelal depres-fever contracted during a long ride sion, and those in authority are to succour the Earl of Bothwell, who proparing for bad times. This is had been wounded in a Border largely due to overborrowing. skirmish. "Possibly one of the main cauяOн of the present crisis," he adda, "is the ever-increasing high rate of
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a darkened eye of the castle in | PACIFIC SERVICE response to a light across the loch, a signal that friends were near.
"I dared to flash my lantern, and,
"Jacobite Gathering." "Before I begin," said Sir James, tariff and increase of wages and opening the bazaar, "may I ask you almost immediately, a lamp, shone cost of living. This is largely to make sure that all the doors are for a moment in a turret window, due to compulsary arbitration....locked? We want no Government turned in the lock, the door opened Without a sound; the celebratod koy The Court more often than not
sples in here. However innocent raises the wages, and the our intention, there is no denying softly and I found myself in the ployer retaliatea by getting the that this meeting for the preserva-presence of Mn of Scots. tarif raised to lower the increasedtion of the house of Mary Queen of the night but a mother will forget "She was, but a moving part of cost of production. Sa within Scots has many of the marks of a her child, and rivers flow uphill be-
the vicious circle there is an eyer-Stowart rising. Increasing cast of production and Hying....The hurricane is blaw- ing an hard there is the danger of n suash,"
Call for a Part of Peace. Canon Parhe suggests that if an honourable truce can be made with Labour, whereby capital and industry are not in a continual state of unrest, British Industrial firms suitable to Australia, might be induced to start there.
Declaring that "the yellow band of the East is knocking at our back door," he urges that an Advance policy for Australia should include research and de- velopment, work; the awakening of individual consciousness among | Australians as to the necessity of an advance policy of develop ment; widening of vision and opening of more doors to settle ent: publicity work in certain countries for the introduction of anitahle industries and capitalists, and wide extensions of the system,
I
fore a Scotsman is unable to re- "Quite possibly, to-morrow's cognise that face and form.
"Inside, went, on one knee to her newa-sheets may bear startling Beadlines Extraordinary Jacobite and abe extended her pretty hand. Gathering at Jedburgh-The Town I called her My Liege may caves for me, but it was Council involved-J. M. Barrie cs-mean capes lo France-F. S. Oliver or worth it. rested at Edgerston."
"I said there was one question I craved to ask of her-ivere the "How strange if Mr. Oliver, who Casket Letters genuine? You will has done such manful deeds for be glad to know that the auswer Queen Mary's House-ah, don't was in the negative. So, after the cheer him, it may be remembered lapse of centuries our grentest Scot- against you at the trials-howtish case is closed.
as the result of this strange if,
"She said she must see the meeting, he were to end his daya Bazaar-you know how hasty she confined in a dungeon in that very was and put her hands in mine in house. Nevertheless, we must re-that confiding way which is either member in this connexion that the the best or the worst thing in wo- inventor of the guillotine himself man (she was dressed in black vel- vet with a white ruft about her neck perished by it."
Stating tut the house was chiefly and a white veil flying). And so historical because Queen Mary rush. We can here-by the longest route, ed to it, woman-like, to visit a sick the clapped her hands and exclaim- "When she saw the lovely stalls, friend, Sir James asked: "What laed: Whoever buys at my bazaar I the vital difference between, the will always have a leaning to him.' Scoț and his friendly brother?"
"A Foolish Thing."
"Of course," he replied," it hun "Then I did a foolish thing. I of nomination of approved set-to do with Mary Queen of Scots. A asked her whether she would like to Scat, wherever he may be, has al-
tlera.
no
Mar might be done if or ways at least one moment, of the buy some little article herself, and ganised labour were more gener-day when he leans against theat that she began to fade away
to the ous towards the British worker, rest object and thinks about her, sure proof that she was more ready to find means of 11 That is our romantic secret, at last Frenchwoman, but Scotch
(core. divulged.
"Ah, great Queen Bess, that ling him in rather than refusing "There are," ho him admission.
"In England, they had a conten-famous chop at Fotheringay-the declares, "men in England-like porary Queen, a far greater than third back-has not silenced Mary Lloyd George or J. H. Thomas Mary, though I am not going to ad-Stewart. Rather has it decreed who could go to Australia and vertise her by mentioning her that she live on alluringly and And enter into conference with Labour name." and bring abant'an honorable pact of peace."
"My Llege."
new servants,
"We see the charming, dangerous Sie James then fold the story of creature, even now, after more than his night ride.
three hundred years, sailing away from us, unt into the past, but into the future, in the barmue of her. sister's contrivance--her royal white ruff conechlinge the rim of red-her hazel eyes sparkling, her form disdainfully melting-to our imagination, winged, though it may be the raven's wing--mocking al our attempts to solve her-Scotia's proud-fated, starry mistress."
Referring to the restrictions on would be settlers, he says, "It might be said that Australia
"A call irresistible was drawing House exists not to accept but
me to Queen Mary's house. I stood to reject applications." He does not blame Australia House, but benendo the glamorous pile and not urges that more discretion should one of its many windows showed a be given to the authorities at that glean. centre as to the acceptance of applicants,
"And yet--I remembered, from our beloved Sir Walter's pages, how at
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