"THE TIMES."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 7

"THE TIMES."

RECONSTRUCTED ON THE OLD LINES.

SAME EDITORIAL. CONTROL,

NO SHARES OFFERED. BY TELEGRAPH—TRESS ASSOCIATION— COFYKHmT (Rec. March 17, 8.30 p.m.)..' London, March 17. Justico Sir Thomas Warrington, of the High , Court, has: sanctioned the formation of a company to take over "Tho Times." Mr. Walter Trill continuo to be Chairman of Directors, and Mr. Moberloy Bell will continue as manager. The. rest of the directors will be—Messrs. Buckle, Chirol, an d Monypenny, leading members of tho present staff of "The Times.".

No slinres,aro offered to the public, and thoro will bo no change in the political and editorial direction of the paper, which will be conducted by the same staff l on tho independent lines hitherto pursued.

Tho " Chronicle" suggests • that Lord Rothschild and Lord. Northcliffe (Sir Alfred Harmsworth, newspaper proprietor) have provided the bulk of " The Times" capital. The "Chronicle", states that tho goodwill is valued at £320,000, withdut plant 'and freehold' premises. : ' Tho';" Daily. Mail" states that the capital of "Tho Time's" Company is £750,000. !, A DISTINGUISHED STAFF. At first it was stated that.Mr.'C. A. Pearson ;was to be tho business force of the reconstructed '"Times." 'According to the above cablegrams, if any outside newspaper interest has . got . in-, it is that of Mr. Pearson's rival, Lord Northcliffe (Sir Alfred Harmsworth). .

' ' Mr. Georgo . Enrle Buckle, born in 1854,- has been editor of "The Times" since February, 18S4! Ho entered "The Times" office on the editorial staff in 1880.' He''had a distinguished university career. •. ■■■,•■ . Mr. Valentino Chirol, director of the Foreign department of "Tho Times," was,born in 1852. ■He was educated chiefly in France and Germany,: and holds the, degree . of. .Bachelier-es-lettres of' the University of Paris. \ From 1872 to 1876 he wa6 a clerk in the Foreign Office." He has travelled extensively in European and Asiatic Turkey,, Egypt, Persia, ,ond the Far East, as-well. as in the United States and the: British'colonies, and resided for somo years in Berlin as correspondent ofTho Times." .In 1899 lie succeeded Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace as director of tho Foreign Department of " The Times." • His publications include "'Twixt Greek and Turk," "Tho Far Eastern Question," and The Middlo Eastern ''Question."- . "-: •••', , Mr. William Flavello Monypenny, bom in 1866, .was assistant editor of "The . Times" from 1891 to 1890. Ho was appointed editor t of-the, "Johannesburg Star", in February, 1899, and, on the outbreak of war in. tho same year, obtained a commission'-in tho .Imperial Light Horse, and served .with thiit regiment through tho,siege of Lndysmith. .From June,-1900, to April ;1901, ho. served on tho staff of tho Military ' Governor of . Johannesburg' as Director of Civil' Supplies. On, the revival of tho, " Johannesburg: Star in, 1902,,ho;resumed the editorship, which ,ho resigned in 1903. , a Times'' is so great' a national institution- (says the .."Spectator") . that it : is sincerely to be hoped that old traditions will be "maintained. This is specially important in tho matter of foreign policy.: No other paper 'has tho prestigo which belongs to 'Tho Times' in handling foreign affairs, and it is also'not too much to 'eay that no paper has ever handled them Trith a greater, sense of tho. public , interests., Foreign countries . and foreign statesmen look, hnd rightly look,' to 'Tho ',Timcs '■ 'for; a just and impartial statement, of their affairs, and for" the, reproduction of tho best publio ; opinion in England upon: Another great tradition of' 'Tho Times' has been somewhat obscured ofMate—tho tradition .that '.Tho Timor,' should ois.cupy a 'Loft-Centr'6' position ,'and 'reflect-tho' opinion, not of- tho Olortreet men, or tho most up-to-dato: men;, or .-.the yiiiost pushing men iii, ike country,.but of the 'Left-Centro' men;in all departments national life/* ■ '