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Pamed throughout the Empire for his loving care of Canada's beaver, the valuable fur-banring animal which faced axtinction a short time ago at the hands of trappers, is Gray Owl, the Canadian government's official "keeper of the beaver." Not so famed, but no less adept, is Anah-An-Eo, or Mex, Grey Owl, who was responsible for turning Grey Owl from the destruction of beaver In his trapping, to their conservation. Anah-An-Eo, who is seen above with a beaver, is a full-blooded Ojibway Indian. Grey Owl's mother was an Apache Indian. His father was a Scot.

BLACK MAGIC

IN ENGLAND

WOMAN'S STRANGE

DELUSION

TAKES HER OWN LIFE

London.

Vith a woollen garment round her neck and another of silk clenched in her mouth, Miss Violet Marjorie Augusta Kennedy- Erskine (35), of Dun House, Mon- trose, was found dead in front of a gas fire in her room at the Em- press Club, Dover Street, London W. after she had retired on Christmas Night. The 'Empress' Club is an exclusive organisation for ladies.

At the Inquest Mrs. Alice Mar- Jarlo Kennedy Erskine, of the House of Dun, Montrose, Scotland, said her daughter was 37, and lived at home. She had recently been staying at Huntingdon Park with friends. She believed her daughter came to London on

a recont Saturday. She had a quite ordinary and normal temperament, but was highly strung. Her daughter, she said, did not suffer from delualone. She had recently been worried regarding a man whose name ̄she ̈did not want to mention, who was interested. In spirituallam. Her daughter had a great dislike for spiritualism and black magic. Her daughter had mot someone who dabbled in these things, and did not like it. She had an iden he was getting an in- fluence over her.

Mrs. Kennedy said she had a letter from her daughter a day or two ago, in which she said she could not come home for Christ- mas. "She added that she had Influenza, and that it made her feel ghastly." The letter was written from the Empress Club. There was no sign of depression in it.

Verdict: Suicide, from asphyxia and self-atrangulation, while of unsound mind,

NOTED ARTIST PASSES

ENGLAND WILL MISS MR. CECIL ALDIN

London. Mr. Cecil Aldin, the world famous dog artist, died in London on January 6, aged 64. He had boo in a nursing home for almost two months.

It was owing to ill-health that ho had spent the greater part of the last two years abroad. Ho and his wife decided to live in Majorca and he took with him his Avo famous dog modela"-an Irish wolfhound, a long-haired dachshund, a Sealyham, a bull terrier, and last, but not least, a species of terrier described "Just a dog". He was a lover of dogs and had a remarkable under- standing of their ways.

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Mr. Aldin was also well known for his water colour studioB

Ho wrote many books, one of the most recent being his reminiscen cer, Time Iwan Dead" A publisher stated The title of his autobiography. arose out of a joke against himself. He overheard a potential purchaser of an etching in a printshop asking the name of the artist, and when he was told it was Cecil Aldin, he exclaimed in tones of annoyance: "It's time he was dead!"

Filing of uit for divorce in

the United States by wealthy Clifford Warren Smith took his

wife, Claire Luco, musical comedy star, from London to New York in a hurry to in- quire as to what it is all about. On separation last year Smith' is nid to have settled $25,000 ■ year on Miss Luce plus agresitg there would be no divorce.

Lord Macmillan is named as the president of the Royal Com- mission established to investi- zate the artamenta bucinası ja Great Britain. Lord Macmillan is well known in the British dominions and servad as chair- miam of a Royal Commission which investigated banking in Canada at the request of the

British government.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WOMEN'S

DEBTS

MUST HUSBAND

SUFFER?

PROPOSED REFORM

London.

Important changes in the law relating to married women in England are recommended by the Law Rovlalon Committee in a re- port issued recently.

The Committee, which is presid- ed over by Lord Hanworth" (the Master of the Rolls) makes the Tecommendations in a fourth in- terim report.

It is proposed that a husband shall no longer be liable to be used or made responsible for his wife's ante-nuptial debts or contracts or wrongo, or for any wrongs com- mitted by his wife during marri- aga.

Another change in the law re! commended by the Committee is that the peculiar characteristica and consequences of the institution of the married woman's "separate property" shall be eliminated, so that in her ownership and enjoy- ment of her property she shall be in the same position as an un- married woman or man.

Further, it is proposd that with regard to her capacity to contract, to her right to sue, to her ability to be sued in any civil proceedings, whether in contract or tort or otherwise (including liability for costa) or to be made bankrupt, and to the enforcement of judgments against her, a married woman shall In all respects be in the same post- ilon as an unmarried wontan or a man, and that in any futuro settle ment it will be illegal to create a restraint upon anticipation.

JOINT LIABILITY

"We need hardly add," anys the Committee, "that nothing contain- ed in the repurt deals with ques Lions relating to the right to certain canes of a married woman to pledge her husband's credit or to act as her husband's agent, or to the case where husband and wife are jointly liable to be sued or jointly entitled to sue in the same circumstances as, say, two persons who are not jhusband and wife.

"If the institution of the married woman's separate property" be eliminated from the law. It will be necessary to amend Section 12 of the Married Woman's Property Act, 1882, by the omission of the word 'separate' where it occurs in the section. When amending the section it may be thought desirable to give to a husband similar rights in respect of his property to those given by the section (as amended) to a wife in respect of her proper- ty. There may also be those who think it desirable further to amend Section 12 by omitting the words 'except as aforesaid no husband br wife shall be entitled to sue the other for a tort. These two mat- ters, however, do not appear to ús to be within our terms of refer- ence, and therefore we have made no recommendations in regard to them.

AN INCOME-TAX POINT

"There lo one further matter to which we desire to call attention. If a married woman is to be placed In respect of her property and her. contractual liability in the same position as a femte sole, it is at least worthy of consideration whether the hardship which in some cases now falls upon a husband in respect of hla wife's Income should not be obviated by repealing the proviso to Rule 16 of the general rules under the Income-tax Act, 1918 (8 and 9, Geo. V., C. 50), whereby the profits' of a married woman living with her husband are deemed to be the 'profits' of the |.husband, and are assessed and

FRIDAY JANUARY

It was announced recently that H.-M. the King bad authorized

» medal to be-struck to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniverIKNY of his accession to the throne. The revarse will have the royal cipher with the Imperial crown, and the dates, May 6, 1910, and May 8, 1935. The medals will be slightly larger than half-a-crown, About 80,000 will be struck, it is understood, and given by the King As personal souvenirs to persone in the services, diplomats, civil servants and to others throughout the ampira. The obverss of the medal by Sir Cascombe John is shown above.

charged in his name, and not in the name of his wife or in the name of her trustee. But this, again, is a matter that does not full within the terms of our reference, and accordingly we refrain from making any substantive recommen- dation in regard to It."

EMPIRE ENGINEERING

London,

Sir Clement Hindley will presido over a meeting of the Royal Empire Other comments by the Commit Society to be held at the Hotel tee are:-"We think that the day Victorin on Tuesday, January 16, has now come when a married at 8.30 p.m., when addresses dent- woman should alone answer for her ing with the Pioneer Work of own abilities, whether in contract British Engineers Overseas will be or in tort, as if she were married."

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given by Mr. Ralph Freeman, who designed the Sydney Bridge, Mr. Julian Trition, who will give a "A married woman's liability description of some of the more under a judgment should be per- famous harbours and bridges of Honal, not merely proprietary. If the Empire, Brig.-General F. D. she incurs a debt, wo cannot sco Hammond, who will speak on Rail- why it should not be enforced way Development in the Colonies against her in the same way as it and Colonel Pollard-Lowsley on would be against anyone else." Irrigation in India.

Fireworks are the big thrill of New Year's in many places, and especially so for these young man who are commenting upon an attractive display,

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