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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 815, 12 May 1910, Page 6

A very unusual civil action at Birmingham Assizes was one brought by a limited company ag'iinst its former managing director for damages for breach of duty. Ihe company carried on ithe business bf grocers, and the managing director had startod shops and registered another company to compete -with it in all the towns where it did business. The company got n verdict for «CSOO.

Scone: Interior of church. Architect (who has como down about the "restora tion")-"Good deal of dry.rot in these pows. Garrulous pew-opener—"Yes, sir But it ain't notbink to what there, is in Hie pilpit."

The Russian Duma, which had not been heard of for some time, recently came into notice again through the change of Presidents, brought about owing to prolonged disorders in the Assembly. M. Hominkoff, tho Into President, said ho stood it as Ion" as he could, but was forced at last to resign He considered that disorderly scenes were organised from high quarters and in creased by the contemptuous behaviour of certain Ministers. The most opprobrious charges were made, as for instance that the higher educational establishments of Russia were hotbeds of depravity, which elicited irfdiguant denials and equally opprobrious epithets from the other side. The new Presidemt, M. Guchkoff, was elected by. 221 to .68.