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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 24 December 1910, Page 9

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LONDON SUMMARY. STAGE ROMANCE. London, November 11. Another stage romance has just conic to light, the hero and heroine being Mr. i-Yank .lay Gould, the "United _ States millionaire, who lnis been living in Scotland for some time, and Miss Edith Kelly, a pretty youujj actress, who was formerly a chorus girl at . the Gaiety. Efforts were made to keep the wedding a* secret, but sinco it is impossible to dispense with" written records, the news has now become public property. Tho •morriago took place before a sheriff at Edinburgh, on Octobcr 2[>. Mr. F. J. Gould, who has taken Abbotsford, the .historical residence of Sir "Waiter Scott, is identified- with several' 6f tlie great railway concerns of the "United States, and is l'indorstood to have inherited a largo portion of the Gould millions.

BRITISH LINER , LOST. News has come from TenerifTe to the. effect that the liner Kurdistan, which has been missing for "sorno time, foundered while on a voyage from Manchester to Bussorah, sixty miles off the Scilly Islands, on October 20. . Tho information was given by two sailors named Brown and Brag, tho only survivors of_ the disaster, who were landed at Tcnerifie hy the schooner Santa Ursula. They wove picked up by the' British ship Vincent, twenty-six hours. after . the Kurdistan went down, having spent' the interveningtime in an open boat. The remainder of the boat's crew were either washed .overboard or succumbed -to exhaustion before help arrived, and the -two surviving sailors, were in a critical condition. when rescued. They were transferred from- tho Vincent to the Santa Ursula on November 2. There were forty-nine people aboard the Kurdistan, including four ladies.

KINCr EDWARD MEMORIAL." - The general committee of the J House Fund for providing a King lidward memorial in London have come as yet to no definite decision as to the particular scheme to be adopted, but have unanimously agrerd that a statue of tha late King should be erected in some prominent position,in .the; metropolis. .."With regard to tho'main scheme the executive committee : have reduced the IG4 suggestions received to>-four, -as follow:—Viscount Esher's proposal for a historicalmuseum in London on-the lines of the Mnsce Carnavalet in Paris; Lord AveburyVschcmo for a central hall for London University; Lord Eversley's suggestion for providing a monumental chapel or annexe to Westminster Abbey; tlie acquisition of the Crystal Palace. Tho question of the main scheme has been referred back to the executive committee by the general committee for further consideration. . " \

NEW VICEROY'S DEPARTURE. Lord. Hardinge of Penshurst, the new Viceroy of India, nearly missed his train at Victoria .when ho .departed to - take up his appointment. . .Lord Hardingo._was. in the midst of his farewells when a bell clanged, and the constable on duty at the saloon door cried, "Train" just going. Take your feats, please.- Lady Ilardinge complied''withvthe.-request, but so busy was her hv.sbr.nd ;in faying good-, bye to those who surrounded 'liira that he apparently did hot 'hear, and tho train moved out.'..'A railway official blew a whistle for the driver to stop, and a station constable jumped on the footboard and attempted to apply one of the brakes attached to tho carriage. The train, however, gathered speed,-and had; moved

hnlf-w;iv out of the .station before it could lie pulled up. Lord Harding remained on the platform gazing after-it and joinins; in the amusement that the incident, canned. When the train came to a standstill lie hurried up the platform ami stepped into tlie carriage amid cheers.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT. . Asquith, who has been presented with the freedom of Glasgow, made,vin I acknowledging the honour, in that city iui interesting speech, in which ho said that wo were now fully alive to the need of open spaces,'of letting in the light, to the duty of purifying our air as well as our. water, and of avoidiug the concentration • of pomilation in small areas. Air. Asquith claimed that the standard of individual and corporate purity in municipal life was higher in Great Britain than iu any other country in ■ the world. This was largely due to the work of the State. He held that tho practical reconciliation of the. supreme and dominating .interest of the State with the free evolution of local autonomy was of the greatest achievements of the nineteenth century. By. wise and timely legislation the . State -lnd transferred the moribund'relics c-f .the old municipalities into living and growing organisms with governinrr bodies representative of,. and responsible to, tho real interests, the ney, - renuiremcnts, and the over-shifting needs and ambitions of-the locality.

; INCREASING TRADE. . The Board of Trade returns for October show an increase in the imports of nearly five and a half millions, and an increase in the exports of over three and a hal< millions compared with October of lastyear. The figures are as follow Oct. 1909. Oct.'l9lo. ■Imports ... £52,1)11,491 £38,047,427 Exports ... . £33,930,778 £37,691,232 Thus there was an increase of £5,105,936 in imports,' and one of £3,7G0.i5i iu exports. • i'or the ten months of the . year imports show an increase of £42,931,040, and exports one of £45,U00,184 as compared' with the same period of last year."

... AGE OP EMIGRANTS. . ■At a recent' meeting of. the • Central (TJnC'mplayed) Body "at the. Guildhall, a discussion took place on a recommendation by the Emigration Committee that the minimum age tor applicants of emigrants be fixed for the present at 17 years. 'Mr. Brinsloy -Harper said he had heard that a boy of 15 was too young to go abroad unless accompanied by a parent, but he thought the best age-was just after 'they had left- school, and Now Zealand was 'the most - suitable .country; :« the world for a lsoy to start in. It would be hard on a lad of 1C years and eleven' months to be refused his passage. . lib -> moved, as an amendment, that the age be reduced to 15, but the age was eventually fixed at IG.

INSPECTOR' DEW'S RETIREMENT. Chief Inspector Dew, the detectivo whose name is known all over the world through his connection with the Crippen case, lias tendered his resignation to Ihe Chief Commissioner, of Police. His resig- j nation has not come as a' surprise to the Department, as it was known before, lie took up the Crippen case that he intended shortly to resign, having completed his 23 years' service. When only 19 years old Mr. Dew was enrolled in the Metropolitan Police Force, and though now he is only -17 years -of age, ho has sjen practically more' service thaii any N other member, of-the force. .

EMPIRE TRIBUNAL. ! , The Judicial ..Committee of . the . Privy. Council—the'Supreme'Tribunal of Empire—have allowed the appeal pi the Standard Ideal Company from 'a",judgment of the Court .of King's' Bench for Quebec ! Riven - hi favour of the respondents,: the Standard Sanitary: Manufacturing '.Company, a -United States. corporation.' The ' respondent conmany, it'-appeared/ brought an* action against the Standard Ideal Company, a Canadian company, manufacturing articles for' the toilet, with works at' Port Hope..'. Ontario, on, -the. ground that, thev la a Ji Sv'd.r tlu!." %; r.Tllsi3i tips' trade'.mark, the word "Standard," which had been registered; in Canada, and was

passing off .its "goods .as the goods of the plaintiff company. The defendants deniod the charges, and alleged that the word "Standard" was in common use by manufacturers and dealers, and could not form tiie subject of a .valid or exclusive h-o.dc mark, it was. also .alleged that the plaintiffs were carrying oil business in Quebec ill contravention of an Act of the Quebec Legislature, and so were not entitled to protection from the Courts of that province.

PRINCES FOE THE DOMINIONS. In the course of an interesting address 011 the Imperial problem,., at the Royal Colonial Institute, the. Duke of ' Marlborough pointed out that in'the oversea States, the Governor-General, tiio representative of constitutional monarchy, was coming more and .more ,to assume a position which only a member of the Royal ■ Family-could adequately fill, and lie suggested with some confidence that it should gradually become the custom' to select the Governor-General 'of the groat. Dominions as far as possible from the.ranks of tile Princes of tho-Blood, aiid that appointments of this, character should immediately Ik div i vci frc:n party, politics.

562-1' Ji AE-OLD LAW SUIT. A law case which was begun in 1313, and was interrupted because Richard de Maundeville had to leave for the war in Franco, has just been resumed in the Chancery Court. The point at issue was the right to • hold a . market at Stowmarket, Suffolk,- and the suit was originally brought by. the Abbot of St. Osyth, Essex, in. the twenty-second year of Kciward 111, against Richard do Maundeville. According to the abbot, who claimed to be lord of tho manor, Richard had wrongfully, obtained the grant ,of the right to hold a market in Stowmarkct, and his-claim was "to. the'grave damage of the said-abbot." At the resumed hearing Mr. G. I\ Howard and Mr. C. N. Peddar, the modern . representative of Richard, asserted that Mr. G. A. Woodward, the modern representative of the abbot, had no right to set up a rival market.

. LOUD MAYOR'S SHOW. Sir T. Vezey Strong, has been "installed as the new Lord Mayor of London, in placo of Sir John Knill, whose terra of office has just expired... The Shakespeare pageant, which was the central feature of the Lord Mayor's show, provided scenes such as have not been witnessed in the city streets for many hundred years. There were four scenes:—The return of Henry V after Agincourt; Sir John Falstaff and his. companions returning from the "Blue Boar"; Edward V. roing to tho Tower, and Henry VIII and Woisey going: to the. trial of.Queen ICatherine. No fewer"' than 150 characters took part in these historic scenes. Mr. Philip, Can', secretary of the Shakespeare Memorial Committee, and honorary master of .the pageant, was r,t great trouble to acquire exact ropr-D----ductions of the.' armour, and-costumes of. tho periods. "In the evening; a great banquet was held Attlie Giiildhall,;at which,, beside the city authorities,"the Premier,; !■ the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Justice, and various foreign diplomatists in London were present.— "Standard of Empire."