WARFARE ■ Iff. KENSINGTON.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 11

WARFARE ■ Iff. KENSINGTON.

A-remarkable-battle is in progress in Edwardes Square Garden and the" adjacent property, Karl's Terrace; which together form one of the best:of Kensington's many open spaces. Some six yeara ago Earl's Terraco and the square garden were sold for building purposes to : the, Amalgamated Estates," Limited, by j Lord Kensington. This week-the -purchasers-thought-it was time to'take possession, and they forthwith locked the gates lead-, ing* into Earl' Terrace. The- Borough Council objected and removed the pad : locks. As soon /as. the council's, forces Lad -retired the. company .put up a barricade, which was pulled down the same evening by the. council. Once 'again the freeholders erected. a barricade, and once again it was pulled down.. Tlie .affaii promises to continue thus for a considerable'time. The same sort, of tiling i 9 V happening in Edwardes Square, where the tenants, on legal grounds, object to-the - closing «f the gardens. .

: ONCE SENTENCED TO; DEATH. ■■ At Hanipstead, Alice. Latimer, alia? Cooper, aged 46, was charged on a warrant with annoying persons in .Willow Road, Hanipstead Heath. A sergeant of police said that the woman had had>an extraordinary career. , She told him that she was sentenced to death at Sydney fpr murder committed on the high seas, and that the sentence had. been commuted to one of penal servitude for life. She had served fifteen years, and was liberated on license fpr five years, and then came to England. The magistrate advised the prisoner to try to'give.-up the lit'o she was leading, and sentenced her to a month's imprisonment,-.which, ho said, would give her further time for refection.