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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1112, 27 April 1911, Page 8

Sir Edmund Constantino Phipps, the former British Minister at Brussels, died recently at Cannes. Aged ninety-three, Canon George F. Turner, who was formerly domestic chaplain to tho Duke of Cambridge, lias died at Bath. The Canadian Club of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has received a cablegram from the corporations of tho City of London announcing that it is sending a sculptured tablet for the Halifax Memorial Tower now under construction to commemorate the establishment of representative government in Nova Scotia 153 years ago, the first, to bo established in the over-seas Dominions. Tho corporation of Edinburgh has intimated that it will also send a tablet. Quite a score will be received in all from various parts of the British Empire. After having travelled 40,000 miles, the Besses o' th' Darn band reachcd Flymouth on March 1.1 from South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. They have been abroad nearly eighteen months during which time they have given 117 performances in South Africa, the same number in New Zealand, and 292 in Australia. He came home in the small hours of tho morning, and his loving spouse confronted him with wrath in her eye and a telegram in her lia.ml, saying: "Here, is news that has boon waiting for you sincc supper-time." He blinlccd, looked wise, and braced up against the luit-rack, feM through his pockets, murmuring, "I left my glasses in town." "Yes," she replied, with scathing irony, "but you brought the contents with you."