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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 6

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<f LONDON SUMMARY. TIIK OViT OF TI'PT.HS: London, December 8. Tlic House of L'.mls lias reversed ;i decision of the Scottish Court of Session ill fiivniir of the claim of the Walker trustees to exact fees from noblemen, b-iroii*. ami knights e.f t Jip I'nitcil Kingdom cm llieir receipt: of these dignities. Thi' claim was iiiiulo under a grant by a Scottish Kiiij,' jiiiinv ooiitiirios ago t<i his Tslicv (if tlu.. White Hod. The ol!ic:> of Vshor was openly bought ami sold a fin , ITflli, and eventually pa-.-rd to the Walker family, who devised it to a tiu-t for tho A-uttisli Kpiscopal Chinch. The claim of the trustees has be™ resisted in this country, bul , in Scotland they won 0:1 several occasion*. Tlii> lees and dues claimed to appertain to the office, arc, upon tho creation of ;i tlulin, .£2l IDs. Id., of a marquess .l! 18 (is. Bd., and so on, down to a knight .who was charged ,£3 (is. Sd. BIGGER DA DIES. The better education of mothers is bavins tlio effect of increasing the weight and height of newly-born ehiltlren, according to Dr. Ezekiel Boyrl. "The extraordinary increase in the size and weight of babies-in Marylcbone is out of all proportion to our gradual increase of stature," ho state?. "An average newlyborn infant used to weigh 6.81b., but I am now accustomed to babies weighing SJlb., which is about the average for tho last two years, Iho period during which I have noticed this strange phenomenon. Babies of 101b. or 121b., or almost double the old average weight, are not unusual." Dr. Boyd ascribes our increasing grWth to tho fact that modern whealcii flour "is much superior to the old mill-ground Hour, because the constant wearing away of the mill-stones introduced a considerible quantity of lime into old-style Hour. Lime brought about the prematura ossification of growing bones. END OF A MURDER HUXT. The hunt for the man Cooper, who murdered the well-known old showman "Lord" George Sanger in his house in East I'inehloy, has had a dramatic finish. Early in the morning shortly after tho tragedy a passenger in a city train on the great Northern Railway looked out of the window of his compartment and saw indistinctly through the fog the body of a man lying in the four-foot way beside the up line. The railway officials were informed, and accompanied by police a search was made, resulting in the discovery of Cooper's decapitated body. Tho fugitive, it seemed, had clambered up the embankment in the darkness and placed himself .under a passing train to avoid being taken alive by tho police.

MEMORIAL TO CANADIAN SOLDIER. The officers of tho Aldershot Command have provided a handsome memorial, which has been placed over tho grave in Aldershot Military Cemetery, of the young Canadian lieutenant, Roy Morris Gzowski, of the Queen's Own Rides, who died during the visit of that Canadian regiment to England.last year. The memorial has been designed by Mrs. G. 1 , . Watts, wilow of the Vamou-i Academician. It stands about 12ft. high, and is in terracotta. In the lower portion is represented the figure of the young soldier in the act of laying his sword upon an altar, and on one side is the following inscription: —"This memorial is erected by the officers of the Aldershot Command in honour of their Canadian comrade, in token of. (lie fellowship which binds England to Canada, and the soldiers of the Empire to one another."

MARQUIS'S TRAGIC DEATH. The >ixth Marquis of Watcrford has met with a tragic death by drowning on his Wcxford estate. The Marquis had been out hunting in the morning, and in the afternoon, after returning homo to his. residence at Cunvigliinore, he went to inspect a part of his estate'some tiro miles away, where some forestry experiments were being carried out. He then returned in the direction of the house, apparently taking the- short way by the river bank. The night was dark and foggy, and it is assumed that ho made a false step and fell into the stream, which was in flood owing to.the. laias. As ho did not return, search -parties were sent out, but the body was not iHscovered until tho following morning. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Tho late marquis was a. well-known sportsman, and was a nephew of ■ Lord Charles Beresford.

.£IO,OOO SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME. A determined effort to counteract the decline of the. apprenticeship system in London, by providing for local industries a steady now of young, able craftsmen, is now being made by the London County Council, (.-'or tiro or thrco years past trado scholarships have b?eri offered for competition amongst the sons of boim iide residents within the County of Ltindon. Winners of these scholarships have been provided with a sound and graduated technical instruction at various specially equipped centres.. So successful have these scholarships proved that a. scheme has been developed upon the same lines that surpasses in magnitude and comprehensiveness anything of its kind that hns yet been attempted in England. Mo fewer than 106 scholarships for boys and 250 scholarships for girls, aggregating in value about -£10,000, will bo awarded next spring to suitable candidates. Some of those scholarships cover two years' tuition and others three years. ONE''MILLION SIGNATURES. It is estimated that at least a million signatures have been affixed to the petitions against the servant tax, those on the protests forwarded to members of Parliament by the Insurance Tax Protest League alone numbering 761,525. The mass of correspondence delivered at the House has not been exceeded for many years, and, in addition, members have been inundated with Communications at their private residences. Altogether 3,'iO members have been approached.through the league. Tho movement against tho payment of the contributions provided for in the Insurance Bill has been supported by a large number of city clerks, and it is uoiv spreading to shop assistants and other classes affected. CHARGE OF MURDER. Frederick Seddori, living at Tollington Park, X., ha-s been arrested on a charge of murder. The charge arises out of circumstances revealed at the.- inquest at I'riern Barnet on Eliza Mary Harrow, an elderly spinster. Enteritis h.id been certified as the cause of death, but the coroner had ordered the exhumation of the body, it tho inquest,it was stated that, for several weeks preceding her death Miss Barrow had resided villi the ..Seddons. A friend who called (here to sre her was told that she was dead, and that her property had been loft lo Seddon. In the witness-box Seddon said tho doceased lady had mado over to him certain property froin_which she hhd. derived on income oi .£l7O a year. He in return allowed her an income for lifn of .-£3.25. per week. A post-mortem was held on the body after cihumation. SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND LICENSE. Judgment', hai bemi. delivered in thn lloujs of Lords in I lie case of Do Beers Consolidated .Mines (Limited) v. the |jrj|-i.-h South Africa Company, tho question for decision being whether the stipulations contained in two njrrecmrnls made between tho two companies were void in so far as they purported to entitle the appellants (the De Beers Company) to the grant by the respondents (the South Africa Company) of an exclusive license to work all the diainondiferous ground in the British Africa Company's territory after payment of all sums in pursuance of tile agreements. It was an appeal from an order of .the Court of Appeal amnniiie a judgment of Mr. Justice Swinfcn Eady sotting aside the ogrccment under which the solo right of mining for diamonds in Rhodesia was granted. The Do Beers appeal was allowed with costs against the respondents, both in the House of Lords and in the courts below. —"Standard of Empire."