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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 8

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LONDON SUMMARY. ' AN AEROPLANE TRAGEDY. London,' Juno 17. A woman was killed, and three men wore injured, as the result of an aeroplane running amok'at the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Society's Agricultural. Show at Worcester. ,A display of aviation was to havo been a 'feature of tho show. An assistant of Mr. Clayton, the aviator, named Dartigan, attempted a. flight, unsuccessfully, and tho crowd believing he would not try again, swarmed over the course. Consequently when he started the machine again, not even the police could clear the course.' The aeroplane travelled 500 yards without rising, and then suddenly swerved into the crowd, which was too packed'to escape, and ploughed its way through tho. people until it. capsized. A woman named Pitt was struck heavily, by the propeller, and died shortly after from her injuries. Many had narrow escapes.

RESIGNATION OF FAMOUS "HEAD."

is announced that, acting on medical advice, Dr. Gray, : warden of Bradfield College, Berkshire, : has resigned his position—the resignation to take effect at tho end of the summer term. Dr. Gray, who has been headmaster of Bradfield for nearly thirty years, is well known as one of the ablest and most enthusiastic supporters of- tho public-schoolboy emigration movement.

NEW ROYAL FLAG. ' Although King Edward has been dead six weeks,, the Royal 'Standard is still flying over Buckingham Palace, where the Queen Mother is in residence: The reason is that as yet Queen Alexandra has no special flag; to remedy this defect the. King and the widowed Queen are' at. the' present considering a number of designs for the Queen Mother's speciaj flag.. A flag on which tho arms of England and Denmark are emblazoned has been suggested, and this tribute to her native country has greatly pleased.the Queen Mother. The flag, when finally approved by the King, will.be known.as the-"Queen Mother's flag," and will be flown wherever she is in residence.

.PROPOSED NEW MUSEUM. , ' The' question of building an Indian museum as a memorial to the late King was discussed at a recent meeting of the East India Association at Caxton Hall. Mr. C. E. D. Black suggested as suitable a site belonging to the; India Office on tho Surrey bank of the Thames,; next door to the new L.C..C. Hall) now under course of construction. Mr. ; ChisboJme, who hais prepared plans for the' proposed building; said that the estimated cost was from £600,000 to £700,000. Letters were read from Lord Roberts and Lord Curzon expressing approval.of the proposal. ; \ ..'.'■ . .. . ,

\ IMPERIAL MISSION. - An organisation to.be known as.tho Imperial "Mission was formed at a recent meeting of Oversea representatives held at the United' Empire Club, Piccadilly, and-presided over by Mr. H. Page Groft, M.P. A council composed of sections representing'each State was elected, and it was decided to carry oir throughout the summer- and. autumn a : vigorous-campaign for''"the- purpose .of <xlucatmg''thel!people''regarding tho 1 subjects,of Imperial. Pr.eferehco and Imperial defence. A large amount of financial support was guaranteed. Tho now- organisation'. will confine its work entirely' to the • questions of Imperial Preference and Imperial defence, and will have no connection with any political party.. The-temporary offices of the mission will be at tho United Empire Club. . ■:' AVEST END RAIDS.. A series of daring burglaries was iperpotrated in the heart of tho West End recently. More.than £1500 worth of jewellery was stolen from the Maddox Street premises of a large firm of jewellers—Messrs. Philip Antrbbus. The thieves hired an empty shop a few -doors away, and from there they- got into a corset warehouse directly below the floor occupied by the firm of jewellers. They effected an entrance into the premises by making;a hole in the ceiling of the .warehouse.. • Another re.markable raid was made by a gang of •burglars the same night at several ishops and offices in Now.Bond Street. They seem,-to have hidden in an empty building near by,, whence they started on an extensive tour of the adjoining prefnises. They netted goods! worth some £2000, besides effecting considerable damage to property.

EMPIRE TRIBUNAL. The Judicial.Committee of the Privy Council—the Supremo Tribunal of the Empire—have dismissed' the appeal of the English and American Shipping Company (Limited) from an order of the Supreme Court of Canada varying a decree of the local judge in Admiralty in Nova Scotia. The case was concerned with the award for salvago services rendered by the' steamer Mystic '(owned by the appellants) to tho steamship Nanna. While' assisting the Nanna near Chebucto Head, on the south-east coast of Nova the Mystic was considerably damaged, and the question which affected the salvage award was "whether this damage was caused by, negligence or lack of. seamanship'' on' the part of the'master of the Mystic. The Supreme Court's judgment, disallowing the cost of the Mystic's repairs, and so reducing the 25,000 dollars award of the local judge to 12,500 dollars, was upheld,'

NiS.AV. ■'• CIVIL SERVICE CASE." ' The Judicial iC'ommittee have dismissed the appeal of tho New South Wales Government in a case concerning the superannuation allowance to bo made to Mr. Macharg, a member of the New South Wales Civil. Service. The question at issue had reference to a period of the respondent's employment as temporary draftsman in the Crown Lands Department. Mr: Macharg claimed that-period as additional service, entitling him to an increase in allowance. The Government, however, resisted the claim, on the ground that, during 'that period' he was not a civil servant but only a person employed temporarily, and, as such, excluded by tho term "officer" in the Civil Service Act of 1884. -An appeal by the Mahant of tho temple of a Hindu deity at Bhadrak to recover certain properties in Jaipur,, alleged to bo dedicated to tho service of his god, was also dismissed.

. EX-PRESIDENT'S RA3IBLE. • Mr. Roosevelt, who sailed for the United States' last week, spent his last duy in England tramping through the Now Forest with Sir 'Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary. Tho two men arrived in the forest at-one o'clock, and' spent the afternoon and a good part of tie evening wandering about the country, finally arriving at a ISrockenhurst hotel about: nino o'clock,' soaked to the skin and very muddy. Mr. Roosovelt,. describing his ramble, said that "the walk through the New Forest was tho crowning pleasure of my three months in Europe. We zigzagged about and cut across country, and wandered into.

copses and thickets whero the songbirds . are. We did not worry about lunch. Wo had some sandwiches on tho hillside, and thoroughly enjoyed ,onrselvcs, I can tell you."

■ WRIT OP ENTENTE. A Divisional Court'has granted a tulo nisi calling on tho Attorney-General to show cause why the writ of entente issued by tho Treasury against Mrs. Emily Pridgeon should not bo set aside It will be remembered that the Treasury, putting into force an Act of Henry VII, seized Mrs. Pridgeon's goods for an alleged debt of £150 owing to ityuot by her, but for the late- Captain Frederick Field, who, as Mrs. Pridgeon states, had given her £300. There was no trial of the merits of the case at all,, and no evidence of any debt was given. Tho writ of entente was issued, and the sheriff's officer took up his quarters behind the counter of ,Mrs. Pridgeon's shop, and claimed a percentage of tho takings for the Treasury. The officer has now been forbidden to move or sell any of tho stock until the caso has been, heard.

A STRANGE STORY. A curious tale was told in tho Divorce Court when Mrs. Grace Naish asked for a judicial separation from her husband, Captain T. Naish, who formerly held a position.;in,Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the ground of, cruelty. Counsel for the plaintiff, stated that while in Canada the respondent produced books of a heavy scientific nature, and expected her to learn them, and had knocked her down and tried to strangle her. The petitioner said that her husband told her that she was to be his servant, and must work abjectly for him. Ho 'had said that a wife had no social status at all, and that he was her god, and that, "If I did not pray to God it did not matter; as long as I was obedient and pleased him it would corao to tho same thing." EMPIRE CENSUS. A census of the whole Empire, hero and overseas, is contemplated in connection with the Census Bill, which was. discussed initio House, of Commons and passed its second reading. Mr. John Burns, in moving, the second reading of tho measure, announced a number of new departures in addition to the fact that the Government are communicating with tho dominions overseas with a view to an Imperial census at the samo time. The Bill, for tho first time in the history of the English census, will make provision for obtaining information from marr;cd _ couples regarding the duration of their marriage, the number of their children, and other matters.

OVERSEA VISITORS." r Despito the gloom which has been cast over the London season by tho death of King, Edward VII, largo numbers of visitors from the oversea"Statc9 are daily arriving in tho metropolis. Inquiries made.this week at the leading hotels go to show that this year has seen a greater influx of visitors from the different parts of tho Empire, and from Canada and Australia in particular, 'than oven last year, when the Empire Press Conference attracted so many. The part played by . leading oversea people in tho London season is becoming increasingly .prominent, and a review of tho names of those present at tho more important and fashionable functions of tho year reveals tho fact that the oversea States were well represented at all of them.

LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE. ,Tho Lord Meath Empire Day Challenga Cup Ihter-all-Secondary Schools of the Empire, with tho five-guinea persona! prizfc offered by'the League of.tho Empire, has been won by Georgo Ballantino Holloran,,LaMartimerc College, Calcutta, India. \ The subject of the essay was ' 'Tho improvement ,of ' communication between, tho different parts of tho British Empire-; its political-and social .effect.". The Challenge Cup Intor-all-Primary Schools of tho Empire, with tho three-guinea personal prizo offered by the League of tho Empire, has been won by I'lorence E. Endean ; Kentish Town, C.E. School, Islip Street, London. Tho subject of tho essay was "The influence of tho different climates of tho Empire upon domestic and social life."—"Standard of Empire."