ABOUT PEOPLE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE.

THE' BRITISH PREMIER'S FIRST SPEECH. "Twenty-two years ago I was a listener in the Gallery of the House'of. Commons when Mr. Asquith made hi? maiden speech," writes "Historicus" in the "Methodist Times." "Mr. Gladstone.; had. spoken earlier in the evening, and Mr; -Chamberlain was expected, to reply to hini about ten o'clock. ■ Just about ten the opportunity came, but Mr. Chamberlain did not e ,;,.tatead, a young man rose behind .the Pron 'll Opposition Bench. The .House wns 5r and a visible tnrill of disappointment ran': over it- and h^ m }° raove ; toward the doors. But they stopped before they got there! This young man could speak. I won<fer ifany tLv tho Breat deb * ter who " they_had come tc hear was destined never to be Prime Minister, of this Empire,' but that the Toumr man who'was addressing the House for time was, twenty-one years-after-wards, to fill the highest office: in, the realmf' Master: Asquith's Ball. - \rl'^fi^ d r y8 7 llcil ,? ob^ rt Buchanan iived iri q-oor neighbour, and the poet's'principal garden fnTbaiTtt? 11 1 f^^ a"«rnoon was. throw" 3 Kf -«i bal at J '? un K Masto Asquith r*vH- • ?lt - lv misdirected energy,'- savs Mr a Sn X °. a bnsht y oun ff face appear above the garden wall what time the bari wal SclZ a . voice wwld exclaim,; Tlease, will yon give me my baU ?' .The heionwl if K VI! Ora P S ■W»«' M » fl till "The Times" to Lord; Rosebery.V'" ■ ■ ."Having taken so prominent a' part in avrakemn gj public, opinion- to. the gravity ofthe new, deparure embodied in-the BuLet Lord Bosebery is bound not to take his hl n d from the plough, but •to do all that : in him hesv to give effect, to the convicUons' he has so forcibly. expressed, at the cost of opposing some old comrades," writes "The Times " Alter so decisive it. is hardly open to, him to'plead retirement from political me. He is entitled to preserve the cross- ■ Tγ? 0 ;. m ? nd, F d the cross-bench attl'ud«-;, These," indeed;" are'-the very things S e fl.S e -* Wnnt?3r i: Wants a > a "iticar moment, so that ; it may be argued that no man is so aeeplv engaged as the. . poUtician w\ a s tiT t"P arl i ;in , d , eali ?S with, questions which by./his own able showing transcend all partisan "considerations." ■■'■~ ; : ' A Great Multiplier of News. ~\; \ ■'■[.■■'■' .', - Mr. Eobert Boe, the head of. the well-known irm of printing-press makers; has died in ? ?i n- m irom tlle monk laboriously copyine .out the; Gospels or the • lives of the saints with many a fanciful capital > lettor inwoven with vine leaves, to the modern printing-press reeling off ita thousands of copies at break-' neck speed is'a long stride," urites the ..byemiig, Standard." ' "Largely, instrumental in helping the art of printing to attain its .perfection' in point of speed ■ was Mr. Robert; Hoe. The,growth of' the rotary print-ing-press, has been "on; the same lines as many other inventions. .The son-in-law of a ■ leicestershire farmer leaves the usual rut of a vil.lage oarpen-ter'e trade to invent a'small hand-' press. A. young relative succeeds him, takes up the sacred torch, arid invents the rotarv press. .Sir. Eobert Hoe' in his turn, by unremitting diligence, brings the machine to : its present perfection. In' doing so he has helped to bring fresh. colour, fresh interests into millions of dull, humdrum lives. .More- than this, he has. .perfeoted one :-.'df.'those 'Swift i.shuttles.-of-.an Empire's'loom That bind' us mam\to main;'" .■ '• . ■■-..■.-.• ■ . A/Heroof. Ltieknow. ' ■ ;'•'■ ;' ■ -'Major-General- .Cook',' was the only 'survivor of the original ;Lucknpw garrison present at the annual' dinner . iri. ' commemoration ,of the .entry^Lnto Lucknow. of :the force under Generals Havelock'and. Outram,' Crn.September r .25, 1857.. Colonel Pearson, in' proposing 'the tpast, of .The Original-Garrison ,'pf Lucknow," said that theheroes which' composed' it were' for months : encircled by • a foe whose trenches were,within fifteen'■ yards of them, and whose batteries were .only fifty, yards off. ; In addition to'the'anxiety'-of'keeping out the enemy they were greatly burdened by the women.arid children, and their many wounded comrades • who -were under,their, care. -~- The food supiplies were .alw at such'.-a low ebb that when final rel.ki came the last meat ratiori had;been .distributed, and there.was. pnlj.sufficient wheat" in store to J allow of a-rational:..lMi'.a.da'&for three days to eaph fighting man. As a perpetual memory of the glorious defence.'which'; was then made, the British flag now flew'night and ; day over the Residenoy, that 'being the,'only spot in our world-wide Empire where the flag was not hauled down at .sunset;: .;..