BARONET'S TRAGIC DEATH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 19 May 1915, Page 3

BARONET'S TRAGIC DEATH.

While walking along Albemarle St., London, on March 13, Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton suddenly fell to the ground. He was at once taken in a eab to St. George's ■Hospital, where it was found that he was dead. Sir Bruce was in his eightieth year, and came of ancient lineage. One of his ancestors, Sir Alexander Steon, fought and fell at Flodden Field in 1513. The baronetcy dated from 1663, when Sir Walter Seton, who was M.P. for Linlithgowshire, was created baronet, no doubt by purchase, by the King. The dead baronet—the eighth of his line —entered the War Office as a clerk, and was private' secretary to many statesmen ■ now dead, including the Earl of Ripon (as long ago as 1859), the Earl of' Ndrtliferook, the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Devonshire, and Mr. Childers, a Liberal Minister for War years ago. LONDON BENTS; The enormous rise in London rents during the past five years is shown by statistics issued by the Board of Trade. Lord Allendale, who three years ago paid £1,112 a year for his. house in Piccadilly, now pays £1,650). and was fined £5,938 when his lease was renewed. The rent of the United Service Club, which until 1904 was £145, Is" now £3,830, and that of'Lloyd's Bank, at the corner of St. James' Street and King Street, is £3;00O a year. We must, however, go to New York to find the most highly rented tenant in the world—Mr. Murray Guggenheim, who pays £5,000 a year- for his residence at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Eighty-First Street. CURFEW FOR PHILADELPHIA. A curfew will be establi&jhed for children under fifteen, was the an r nouncement mad e recently by Gecfrge D. Porter, Director of Public; Safety in Philadelphia. Such children found in the streets after 11 o'clock wilt be kept in the House of Detention over night.. Parents will be called upon to explain the reason for the children being out. "Most of our crime," said Mr Porter, "may be attributed to< young men and women, and we are going to try to set the juvenile straight before •he reaches the age of fiftee®.*' NEW WAY OF WOOING. At Sacramento, Cal £larencjU Q. Waltz adopted a novel method of wooing w ( hen he impersonated Chief of Police Johnson over the telephone and called up the manager of a local department store, demanding the dismissal of Miss Henna .Summer, a clerk, who had bjroken off her engagement with him. On the statement of the pseudo chief that Miss ■ Summer was to be arrested, manager dismissed her. He was surprised to find later that he had not been talking to Chief Johnson. An investigation, resulted in the arrest of Waltz, who confessed that his purpose in securing Mis s Summer's dismissal was to fojrce her to marry him for support.