NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

THE LOMBARDS. Lombard Street, the principal bank quarter of the City of London, takes its name from the “Lombards,” socalled Italian goldsmiths and moneylenders, who settled here in the beginning of the 12th century. They were then commonly called “Longbeards,” and the name of the thoroughfare was spelt indifferently Longbord and Langeberd A century or so later it had become corrupted into Langbourne —that is, “long brook”—and this misleading title is still retained for the ward in which it is situated. The Lombards bequeathed to the pawnbrokers their sign, the three golden balls: and the names of their principal coil,is—lire, denari—survive to this day in our familiar L. S’. D.

INTERESTING RECORDS OF KINGS In Old Palace Lane, Richmond, London, in an engraved mural ..memorial that i.s u veritable encyclopaedia in miniature of potted history. It records, amongst other facte, that on this site, extending eastward to the ancient Friary of Shelve. there formerly stood the 'Royal' Palace, first occupied by Henry I. in 11.2 b; that Edward 111. died here on June 21, 1.5/7; that the pa Luo was rebuilt by Henry VII., who died here on April 24, 1509; and that Queen Elizabeth died here on Aiarch 2} 1603. It may be added that Edward I. received here the nobles of Scotland in 1301. and that it was for a time the residence of Cardinal Wolsey, to whom it was lent by Henry VII. Barring the Tudor archway facing Richmond Green, very little now remains of the once stately pile. /

NOBLE RESCUE. Eive children of one, family aged from three to six/ had a narrow escape from drowning in Cambusban Lay, opposite Duno.ly Castle, near C) an. They bad waded out to a rook at low water, and while playing, were unaware of their danger until the incoming tide was within a few fet of them. The rock is entirely submerged at high tide. .Fortunately Donald McPherson, a carter employed by Charles Campbell, contractor, Aban, arrived on the scene for a load of sand. The cries of the children attracted bis attention, and no boat being near, lie rushed to the beach with bis horse and cart and wont to the. res. ne. The water was almost up to the horse’s, shoulders, but after a struggle be got the children into the cart and brought them safely ashore just in time, the rock being almost covered.