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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 3

"Picture a cleah-shayeu, alort-looking man ,in the forties'walking to the front bench,'with I lioad thrust slightly . fohvord : from well- ■ squared shoulders, carrying the . benevolent look of ■ the inquiring schoolmaster," says tha ' "Mail," describing-Mr. lleginald M'Kenna, the First Lord of, the Admiralty. "Quick, short steps add to the pedantic effect, and as thougii to piny the part.in earnest h« generally has a book'or a bundle of papora under his arm. Thero is ; decision even in thfl, short,' quick way ho takes his seat .and W* bolt, upright pose as he. waits tho occasion ; 'to speaK. The First i Lord sits erect, rather prim, very dot-crmined, with a steady mildness in liis eye, hut, nevertheless, • always. ready for emergency. As a Minister ho Has come to disguise his feelingß by a contain, smoothness" of manner, but the smoothness is only skin-deep. Mr. M'Kenna will riovor get rid of the fighting instincts Ho : \raa , educated at King's College, London, and - thenwent to 'Trinity ..Hnll, Cambridgo, whoro ho plrcmptly distinguished himself." The "Manchester Guardian" says.:—Ho Rev. Dr. Maclaren will not loavo Manchestor until June, when Ire proposes to go to .. Carr Bridge, Scotland, whore ho will stay for about four months. Ho will rivo/up liis house in Manchester, when ho leaves tho city in Juno, but nothing has been settled upon other than; his . Scottish visit. Dr. Maclaren, wo ore .sure, will not. bo allowed to leave tho city without receiving an acknowledgment of 'the splpiidid Service ho • has. rendered to tho bost cansos in. Manchester. Peter Anderson, a cooper, employed, at tlx Anglo-American Oil Works, Purfloot, was working twenty yards from a stowHsntting machine, when tho wheel, which was rcvolv-. inc 800 _ times a minuto, flow t»-.j)iocoa ailtf killod him. •