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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5

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, LONDON SUMMARY. 210,000 BRITONS FOR THE DOMINIONS. London, January 20. A Government return showing tho cr« cess o£ outward passengers over inward, enables the first estimate to be made of Ilia extent of emigration from Great Britain last year. Tlio great feature is that 134,000 went to Canada, 50,000 to Australia, mid 49,200 to the United States. Tho ln-t nninijor is less by a third than the number (if British emigrant's who went (o tho United States in 1910. The following are the chief figures:— Emigrants to— 1911. Inc. or Dec. Cuuudu 131,000 ... Inc. 19,000 Australia ... 56,000 ... Inc. 31,0011 New Zealand 9,-iOO ... Lie. 2,100 South Africa 7,400 ... Dec. 900 ■ United Slates <t'J,OOO ... Dee. 24,000 In all. Great Britain lost 201,000 cirtzens (luring tho year, nu increase- of 28,000, mid 2111,000, on increase of 52,000, went to the oversea Dominions. At the lioyul Colonial Institute on January 17 Mi , . Arthur llncker, Special Commissi«iM!v for Immigration, snid thstt Cnna<la was trying to get .151,000 7icwcomers (his year. The man .who went to Canada, by the -very fact of his being interested in and knowing two countries, and being directly up ugainst big'propositions, was u bigger Hum than the one who remained in Britain was or could ever hope to be, and in the interests of the reputation of Britain it was imperative that that man should be. sent out with far inori knowledge of the past and present of the country lie left than Hie average emigrant possessed.

SELF-MADE MEN. Interesting statistics relating to tht number of self-made men among the employers in the cotton industry of Lancashire were given in n paper by Professor S. J. Chapman and Mr. F. J. Martinis read at a meeting of tho Royal Slatirtiral Society at the rooms of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Tin paper recorded the results of an investigation made by circular and by direct inquiry. Returns received from a number of manufacturers showed that soiu» 80 per cent of those willing to give information had begun life as operatives or clerks. A direct investigation mado in a well-known manufacturing town showed that some 00 per cent of the headr, of private manufacturing businesses r;v;ed their position to their own efforts and that they had begun life in the lower economic ranks. The. investigation bein;; extended to spinning, of 65 director* of cotton mills approached by letter returns were received from 45, of whom 33 were self-made men. A spinning district was visited and n direct investigation there showed that 13 per cent of the. managing directors, 42 per cent of thn mills managers, and 07 per cant of thfl nssistant managers came from workingclass (families or families with incomen about the same as those earned by the operative classes.

DOCTOR'S .£150,000 BEQUEST. Dr. Lee, who died at Hull on January 13. left .I'IM.OOO for the purpose of proriding almshouses at Hull, and a further Jc'MW for other charitable objects in. (he town. Mr. Henry Lambert, one of the executors, explaining the bequest, stated that Dr. recently purchased four and a half acres of lund'im tho outskirts of Hull, for the purpose of erectin)? almshouses, to be called Leo's Rest Houses. In his will directions are given for the erection and equipment of almshouses on this land. In the selection of inmates preference is to be given to those who havo Iwcn in. better circumstances but who, through misfortune and sickness, have been reduced to poverty or comparative poverty. Each single . inmate is to receive 10s. weekly, and each married couple 12s. Cd. Directions are also given for the appointment of a, medical officer and resident carctakere. Dr. Lee. who was eighty-six years of age, was a bachelor nnd had no relatives. Under his parents' will he had benefited as a young man, and being a hard worker, devoted to his profession, and of simple tastes, his wealth accumulated. KING GEORGE'S GIFT TO THE "ZOO." Keepers will leave the London Zoological Gardens shortly to take charge of the. Xepalese collection of, animals which wer» recently presented to tho King, and will be exhibited at the "Zoo." They includo:— A baby elephant. A bear. A rhinoceros calf, 2 single-horned sheep. A tiger. A young yak. A tiger cub. 17 deer. A leopard. A snow leopard. ' Tho cost of bringing the collection to' England is being borne by the Duke of Uedferd, who generously defrayed (he expense in 1900 of bringing to England a number of animals, then presented by Die Maharajah of Nepal. Tending the arrival of the interesting additions to the Zoo, tho question of accommodation will bt considered by the society. "Tho Gardens," eaid Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, ",aru already very crowded, but if the society is to havo further accommodation it would have to come out of Regent's l'ark, and the demand for." that would have Iβ como from tho public outside. Tho nnimals which aro coming from India cannot arrive for some months, and it is too early to tay how we shall house them at ' present."

KING'S REMEMBRANCER. The Lord Chief Justicc has appointed Hi 1 . Leonard \V. Kershaw, Into Assistant Registrar to the Court of Criminal Appeal, (o bo King's Coroner mid Attorney and Muster of the Croivn Oflicc in th» place of Sir James Mellor, retired, nnd Mr. Thomas Dalton Lawrance, barrister-at-laiv (sou of, • Mr. Justics Lawrance), to be Assistant Registrar of tho Court of Criminal Appeal. By 'this appointment Mr. Kershaw becomes tho chief official in tlm ccntral office of the Supremo Court, a post worth .£ISOO a year. The appointment also carries with it the position of King's Remembrancer, for which the salary is JiliOO a year. Tho Master of the Crown Oflico has chiefly to do .with tho formalities connected with criminal cases on appeal, with matters that como up for appeal from county courts, and with mattiers dealt with in the Divisional Court. The offico of King's Remembrancer is of great antiquity. He still assists at certain ceremonial functions—relics of the former importance, of tho office—snch as the nomination of sheriffs, the swear-ing-in of tho Lord Mayor of London, nnd the acknowledgments' of homage for Crown lands. He also administers th» oaths to High Court Judges when tliejlirst take their seatsiupon tho Bench. DECAY OF MANNERS. The Rev. li. S. de Convey Laft'an, vector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, preaching on "Manners," said in Britain wo had never been a people, perhaps, with a very high conception of what manners should Ik-. in an omnibus the other day lie sa>r one of a party of foreigners raise Ills hat to tho conductor. Two English penplo said to each other, "What fools these foreigners are!" A great many people argued that it was u good thing forms of politeness were becoming obsolete. In the days of the motor, Iho typewriter, and the telegraph we had no timo for such things. The ysal reason why politeness had decayed was that people did not waul to b« bothered. 10,247,100 WORK DAYS LOST. The "Board of Trade Labour Gazette" shows that the average trade union unemployment of 1911 was 3 per cent., tho lowest sinco 1900, when it was 2.5. In 1910 it was -t.7, and in 100!) 7.7. Tho number of people involved in disputes was the highest ever recorded. In SGI disputes 9111,050 workers wero involved and 10,217.100 working days were Io«t. This is about one day per head of tho industrial population. Wages increased for 825,201 workers by .£25,927 a week, twice the incrcaso of 1910. On balance since 1900, however, thero is a decrease of nbout ,CGG,OOO n week, 1 NEXT CHIEF RABBI. A. conference of delegates from Jewish synagogues in England was held on Simd'«y (January 11) in London, to consider (he procedurc in connection with the election of a successor to Ihe Into Dr. Adlor, Chief Itnbbi, The> proceedings were private. The actual election will not talte place for tome time.