MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] BESTOWAL OF A PEERAGE. LONDON, Sept. <5. The Earl of Rosebery, the veteran British statesman, now 82 years of age, who was Prime Alinister in 1894-5, writing to “The Banker,” explains the circumstances of his bestowal of a peerage in 1895 on the banker, Sydney Stern, who subsequently liecame Wandsworth, in connection with which it had been suggested that Lord Rosebery’s memory should he jogged. Lord Rosebery says : “I anr willing to set Air Lloyd George a good example. Air Gladstone wrote to me saving that he had promised this honour on behalf of the Liberal party, and 1 gave it to save Air Gladstone’s honour. T never received a penny in return for giving the title. I hope Air Lloyd George can tell an equally simple story.”

“The Banker” adds ail anecdote of a merchant, grown wealthy during the war, who demanded a written guarantee. that he would receive a peerage if he subscribed to party funds. The party agent demanded a cheque for £109,000, and the merchant, with a brilliant inspiration, signed it with the name lie intended to adopt. His peerage was granted in record time as the cheque could not be cashed until his new name was gazetted.

SAW LOVER DROWNED

GIRL’S REQUEST TO RESCUER MISUN DESTOOD. LONDON. August 8. The story of how a rescuer misunderstood a girl’s mi!!•*«+ to save her lover was told at the inquest at Hereford yesterday on Geoffrey Ineson, Hereford bank clerk. He and Miss Parr, his fiancee, fell into the Wye, when they jumped to their feet on finding that the boat in which they were proceeding down the river was rapidly fiiling with water. Miss Parr said, that knowing the young man could not swim she shouted to a man on the hank to jump in and save him as she could get to the bank by herself. Her request was misunderstood. Instead of saving Air Ineson the man rescued her. As soon as they reached the bank she turned round and saw her friend disappear.

Her rescuer, Afr Samuel Davis, of Birmingham, said that it was not until he had brought Miss Parr safely to the bank that he understood that she had asked him to save her companion, whose body was not recovered until the following morning.

Tn returning a verdict of accidental death from drowning the jury complimented Air Davis on his bravery and also commended two young Hereford boys, named Bonner and Bevan, who had repeatedly dived into the river in an endeavour to recover the body.