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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 15

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LONDON SUMMARY. ANOTHER TERROR OF WAR. J AN AEEIAL TOEPEDO. An invention which promises to add yet another to tho many terrors of war has been made- by Mr. T. E. Raymond riiillips, a well-known Liverpool engineer. The machine, which takes tlio form of a model dirigible balloon, controlled from the earth by means of tho wireless transmission of olcclric power, ivas shown to a. small audience at tho London Hippodrome recently, when a demonstration of its remarkable powers was given. By pressing the different keys of tho transmitter the balloon was made to rise and fall, turn in any direction, or stop dead. By the same means electric light, with which the model was fitted up, was switched on and off, and, finally, by pressing a certain key, a little trap door iii a box hung amidships opened and a number of paper toys, representing bombs, fluttered down to the floor. Among those present was Xfr. Grahams White, the ■aviator. Tho invention is to bo offered to tho Government.

FATE OP CRYSTAL. PALACE. Jlr. 11. M. VTinoarls, tho assistant official receiver, declared at .a recent mertin» of- the shareholders and creditors of the Crystal Palace Company that unless a favourable scheme of reorganisation is brought forward tho famous pleasure resort will disappear before long. Sir. Wincarls said that tho failure was due, among other things, to tho following onuses-.—The cost of removal from Hyde Park and re-erection at Sydenham was j:i,500,00ll; the company lost JMo.OOO in litigation with α-iirm or refreshment contractors; frauds and forgeries perpetrated by a clerk cost .£28,000; a disastrous fire in IS6G, a great storm, and two landslides; difficulties with railway companies, and the competition for more accessible places of amusement. Mr. Hussey, the receiver for the debenture holders, said that they had entered into a verv advantageous agreement with the Festival of Empire directors, and they would have an added benefit from any surplus which might remain after all expenses had been paid.

A TASMANIAN PRESENTATION. A'n interesting little ceremony* took place recently at tlie offices of the vTnsmanian Clovermnent 'in' Victoria Street, ■ whero Dr. M'Call, tlln Agent-General for Tasmania, presented Police-constable Walter Lygo .with an inscribed gold watch. Som© time ago the constable, found a young Tasmailian sailor named George Johansdn in a state of utter destitution and.starving. Touched with pity, lie assisted the young man not only with .food but. also with money. When this kindly action came to the knowledge of Johansen's friends and relatives, who live on the West Coast of Tasmania, they immediately opened a subscription list for tho. purpose of providing the policeman with some mark, of their regard. - •' COST.OF EDUCATION. Tho total expenditure out of tho Parliamentary grant for education in England and Wales for/' the year 1908-9 reached ' the sum of J313,45i,117, an increase of .£212,000 over the previous year. The following were the principal figures as shown in tho annual Blue Book just issued £ Administration ' 197,195 Inspection 235,373 Elementary school grants 11,039.619 Teachers', pensions 113,031 Secondary school grants 305,-119 Pupil teachers' grants 199,»57 Technical sehoul grants (191,211 An interesting point to note is that no fewer than 7-iGL teachers, are earning less .than ,£SO a year; 7356 of thorn- are women. WATER RIGHTS IN B.C. , The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council—tho Supreme Tribunal of Empire—has granted tho Burrard Power Company and the Attorney-General for British Columbia special leave to appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada. The question at issue was whether Uin Government, of' British Columbia had the power to deal with water rights in resrect qf land that Government to the Dominion of Canada for tho purposes of tho Canadian Pacific Railway. The petitioners submitted that the Water Clauses Consolidation Act, 1597, confirmed tho law which had always existed in British Columbia to the effect that on a grant of Crown land the water rights did not pass to,the prante'e unless expressly named.. On 7, 190G, tho Water . Commissioners granted water rights to the Burrard Power. Company out of the Lillooct lakes and river and tributaries. The. Attorney-General of Canada then began proceedings against tho company, the Attorney-General for British Columbia being subsequently added as a defendant." Judgment was given for the plaintiff in the Exchequer Court, and that decision, was subsequently affirmed by the Supreme Court. ' ' ; LABOUR DAY. ' A gathering ill Hyde Park of 25,000 international Labour demonstrators, with probably 40,000 spectators, marked the' May Day celebrations in tho metropolis. The demonstration was of a much more imposing character than has ever been witnessed in England in previous years, and, from tho spectacular point of view, proved, infinitely more interesting to tho public than usual. Many nations were represented, and at least half a dozen languages wore spoken by the. people composing tho demonstration. About ouo hundred trade- unions took part, and there, was a large muster of the various 'branches of the Socialist movement. Swelling tho numbers vrero over 2000 children, drawn from about 45 Socialist Sunday schools and brought up from places as widely separated as Fulham and Croydon in 83 brakes. NEWFOUNDLAND TELEGRAPHS. The Judicial Committee have reserved judgment in an appeal brought by the Reid-Newfoundland Company from a judgment of tbe Supreiuej Court of Newfoundland. The respondents aro the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. In 19071 the. appellants, who aro the lessees of the Newfoundland railway system, erected along a section of their line from St. John's to Wbitbourne a telegraph line which they proposed to use in connection with the. working of their system. An action was then brought by the respondents, who contended that the Reid-Newfoundland Company were thereby infringing an agreement made between them and the 'Newfoundland Railway Company in IBSB. The Supremo Court ordered the appellants to remove the telegraph lino in question. It was from this decision, that the appeal was made. LORD' GLADSTONE'S DEPARTURE. Viscount Gladstone, first GovernorGeneral of South Africa, and Lady Gladstone have left for South Africa by the Royal 11 nil steamship Wnlmer Castle. They are taking out with them Miss ".Di'na" Tennant and Miss Dorothy Drew. They had a hearty send-olf at Waterloo, where there was a large gathering of friends on the platform. Lady Gladstone was presented with a bouquet of lilies of the valley by Lady Somerset French, wife of the Agent-General for Capo Colony, anil w:ith a bouquet of roses by Mrs. Russell, wife of the Acting AgeiivGenoral for Natal. There were also a number of Dutch residents in South Africa who aro at present in London. Lord Gladstone conversed with theso for some time in Dutch. _ At Southampton Lord Gladstone was wished "God-speed" by the, corporation and the local Chamber of Commerce.