A TAX ON TITLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11495, 30 January 1903, Page 4

A TAX ON TITLES.

That myctariou* entity, tbt-'jjMHHI College, w :n <ho thick of *n dwpube with the Treaspay oa of fees (writes th* Leaden cf a M&lbc-ura-e paper). .' Wh*j>*j! Queen Victoria, l&ado liipri Knight if ibe Garter, «fcf **P rM that, the Tre**ury admission to hie iortiihip'i Oα ii» Herald*' OoHeig* pweimKMK lnll ior r.«irfy £1000 the en the point of making varkn» drarge* et th* oolkge tlccb it Teasers to t^g; y^gt^^^^^H ■orbliant. It that* wi«?> tbe fak subject* the «MjMf meotiaiedy coofnatted wa4» of dhargce before he can or which htm bew> Mm. When Or. J[*^ss^^H

ftton vw not met hy the Treasury, *sd TIT™ tVtBfP them«elvee the otßoere of the °1 !ftiue9 have wfrained from placing Lord 1 iSSrte'e achievements over hi# Garter - B. Gewrge'e Chapel, Windsor. The • «3le» cootendft that tJie claims are kgitithough «ho duik« are undoubtedly Further, that if their tariff Jβ i Jobe revised, they ougkv to.have due \ Mtk». Th© charges of the college to it .rtWie de«riDg a. patent of arms arc no f* 2Jfl n»t*eT. Thi-y uwially ewer £100 Sf!lso Thfse are favourite figure* at Ac Herald* , College. When, for instance, «ac C Knoilys. tlie Qucea"s eecxetary, and of tlie newly-made Baroa Knollys, ZJ? givin the right of precedence over fates daius'hter, Ikt he* nmomntel to filOO. When the Mr W. H. Oraiond, . viL-C. ci Vict :>iii, the owner of large cattle rurw in Australia, obtained the right to bear arms. Feme nix years ago, he paid o «er £100 to the Iki-ah**' College. I uw b» beautiful emblnz'Timjent, which wae for what seemed like, a litt.:e joke ■ jp tjjc part of the Herald*, for it bore "a fcofloA. at gaze"—not. graze!