NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 133, 14 September 1910, Page 5

NEWS BY MAIL.

IMPERIAL EXHIBITION IN LONDON.

-n , London, July 29. Ike schema outlined by Sir Pietw Stewart-Bam for a great Imperial Ex- ' hibition to be held in London, has been received with warm approval not only in this country but also oversea. Mr! Chamberlain, the Earl of Selborne, Mr, Cluuehill, Lord Strathcona, High Com* nussioner for Canada, Sir George Reid, "«gh Commissioner for Australia, and Lo one boely are amongst those whq e already taken an interest in it, and jJi it success. As the intention is to JV tl ! ( ' greatest exhibition that has mi been held in this or any other counon will 0 !! 8 >rable an;oUat of P re Par a" If, ! ,,!C ® 88ar y- The idea at preis thai it should take place in 1914 ±°> c V viU be two-fold-(l) to show exactly what can be and is being propire and fa? 1 f UfaetUred within tl * ferencel L, prepai ' e the wa r for conlerences foi c i oS er unity amongst tha commercial, agricultural, shipping educational and other interests FffpSS of the King's Dominions. F SUFFRAGIST PROCESSION. Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa took Dart i» a procession of 20,000 owmen, who 4th ed£ ? ay ' ng a ? d banners flying, march, fro ? P rocessi ons, converjrine 1 , east to west, to Hyde SJPB Saturday. It was the third and largest of the new order of "peaceful" de2S stialion organised by suffragists and < * purpose was to ask for fadS s f 0 ? the passage of the Conciliation Bill dur- "> 0 the present session. Mrs Druminond, ruling astride a big charger was general of the forces." ' * VON VELTHEIM'S SENTENCE. ' vpTm H? me Se i cretar y as reduced to 15 • he sentence of 20 years' penal servitude passed upon Franz vonVeltheim at the Old Bailey in 1908. It will • be remembered that von Velthehn waa tound guilty of demanding £ 10,000 with menaces from Mr. Sotomon 'XS el, the South African financier. While rg von Veltheim shot dead Mr Woolf Joel, brother of Mr. 6. J*. Joel, but was acquitted of the murder charge as he succeeded in proving to the satisfaction the jury that hi was shot at first. BATTLE FOR A SQUARE. The famous fight for Edwardes Square. Kensington, mentioned in a recent issue of the Standard of Empire, came before the Law Courts, when Mr. Justice W arrtngton held that the Garden Committee were entitled to the exclusive care, management, and regulation of the square so as to preserve its use for the resident householders, from whom the committee are selected. An injunction was granted restraining J. E. Allen, Mr. G. J.. Allen, and th • Amalgamated Lstates (Limited) from locking and keeping locked the .gates or interfering \wth the committee in the exercise of their powers. It was intimated that there would be an appeal. TERRORISM IN THE EAST END. An astonishing story of terrorism in the East End was related at the Old Bailey when Edward Sanbrook was sentenced to six years' penal servitude for robbery with violence. There were a number of witnesses, but they were 80 frightened by Sanbrook's associates that only a youth of 18, named Berry, dared to come forward and give evidence. Berry's parents were terrorised into turning him out of his home, and the lad's life, according to the police, has been in danger since Sanbrook's arrest. The prisoner was sentenced on a charge of stealing £29 from Frederick Mallett, whom he and two other men drugged and knocked down. It was stated that Sanbrook had been sentenced seven times for highway robbery. Berry, who has an excellent character, will receive a reward of £2O, and will emigrate to escape the attentions of the East End terrorists. COLONEL SENTENCED. At the Central Criminal Court Frederick Pilcher, a lieutenant-colonel in the Territorial Force, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for uttering a forged Will purporting to .bo that of hit cousin, Miss Mary Lilian Kerferd, who died leaving £20,000. It appeared that after the lady's aeatn Pilcher obtained possession of her keys, dealt vitn her property as if it belonged to him, and wrote to the next-of-kin telling him that Miss Kerferd had made him sole heir and executor. Later he obtained pro> the course of the case prisoner pleaded bate of a will leaving all to him. .In guilty to uttering the forged will, but denied the forgery. It was stated that he had spent £SOOO of the £26,000 left by his cousin. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. A Blue-book, just issued, contains an interesting report on the general progress of the British Museum in 1909. From this it appears that there has been an extraordinary decline in the number of visitors to the great national collection of treasures in Bloomsbury, the total number of persons admitted to view the general collection in Bloomsbury last year being 703,836, as compared with 954,551 in 1904. The additions to the museum included the elaborately painted coffin and the mummy of a priestess of Amen-Ra, dating from about 850 8.., a large collection of Wedgwood ware, 06 books printed before 15(3, and a manuscript copy of Edward Fitrgeiald's translation of the "Rubalyat," written and decorated by William Mor? ris.—Standard of Empire.