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Famed throughout the Empire for his loving care of Canada's' beaver, the valuable fur-bearing animal which faced extinction a short time ago at the bands of trappers. in Gray Owl, the Canadian gorarament's official "keeper of the beavar." Not so famed, but no less adapt, is Anah-Au-En, or Mrs. Grey Ow!, who was responsible for turning Gray Owl from the destruction of beaver in his trapping, to their conservation, Anah-Au-Es, who la sann above with a beaver, is a full-blooded Ojibway Indlag. 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.

With a woollen garment round her neck and another of silk elenched 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- jorlo. Kennedy Erskine, of the House of Dun, Montrose, Scotland, sald her daughter was 37. and lived at home. She had recently been staying at Huntingdon Park with friends. She belloved her daughter came to London on a recent Saturday. She had a quite ordinary and normal temperamont, but was highly strung. Her daughter, she said, did not suffer from deiuslore. She had recently been-worried--regarding ---- man- whose name she did not want to mention, who was Interested in spiritualiam. Her daughter had a great dislike for spirituallam and black magic. Her daughter had met someone who dabbled in those things, and did not like it. She had an idea ko was getting an in- fluence over her.

Mrs. Kennedy said she had a letter from her daughter a day or two age, 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 asphyxin and self-strangulation, 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 been ill in a nursing home for almost two months.

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

Mr. Aldin was also well known for his water colour studies,

He wrote many books, one of the most recent being his reminiscen- coa, Time I was Dead". A publisher atated "The title of his autoblography arose out of a joke against himself. He overheard a potential purchaser of an etching In a printshop asking the nume of the artist, and when he was told it war Coeli Aldin, he exclaimed in tones of annoyance: "It's time he swas dead!”.

Filing of sult for divorce in

the United States by wealthy Clifford Warren Smith took his wife. Claire Luce, musical comedy star, from London to New York in hurry to ig. quire to what it is all about. On asparation last year Smith is said to have settled $25,000 year on Miss Luce plus ugracing there would be no divorce.

Lord Macmillan is named as the president of the Royal Com- mission established to investi- "gate the armaments business in Great Britain. Lord Macmillan is well known in the British dominions and served as chair. man of Royal Commission which investigated banking in Canada at the request, of the

British government.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY.

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 Revision Committee in a re- port Issued recently.

The Committee, which is presid ed over. by Lord Haaworthi (the Master of the Rolls) makes the recommendations 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 wrongs, or for any wrongs com- mitted by his wife during marri age.

Another change in the law re- commended by the Committee is that the peculiar characteristics 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.

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Further, it is proposd that with regard to her capacity to contract, to her right to sue, to her ability to be sued in sny 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- tlon as an unmarried woman or a man, and that in any future settle- ment it will be illegal to create a restraint upon anticipation.

JOINT LIABILITY

"We need hardly add," saya the Committee, "that nothing contain- ed in the report deals with ques- tions relating to the right to certain cases 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 husband 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 or wife, shall be entitled to sue the other for a tort. These two mat- ters, however, do not appear to us to be within our terms of refer- ence, and therefore wo have mado no recommendations in regard to them.

AN INCOME-TAX POINT

"There is 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

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worthy of consideration whether the hardship which in some cases now falls upon à husband in respect of his 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 BBBЄIBed and

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It was announced recently that H. M, the King bad authorized a medal to be struck to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the throne. The revorso will have the royal cipher with the imperial crown, and the dates, May 6, 1910, and May 6, 1935. The madala will be slightly larger than half-a-crown. About 88,000 will be struck, It is understood, and given by the King as personal souvenirs to parsons in the servicns, diplomata, civil servants and to others throughout the empire. The obverse of the medal by Sir Goscombe 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 fali 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 preside 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 Victoria on Tuesday, January 16, has now come when a married at 8.30 p.m., when addresses deal- woman should alone answer for hering with the Pioneer Work of own liabilities, whether in contract (British Engineers Overseas will be or in tort, as if she were not given by Mr. Ralph Freeman, who married,"

designed the Sydney Bridge, Mr. Julian Tritton, who will give-a "A married woman's liability description some of the more ́under a judgment should be per- famous harbours and bridges of sonal, not merely proprietary, If the Empire, Brig. General F. D. 'she incurs a' debt, we cannot see 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 espacially so for these young men who are commenting upon an attractive display..

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