NEWS BY MAIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 214, 19 December 1910, Page 8

NEWS BY MAIL

"CROWNS GOING OUT OF FASHION/' ASTOUNDING SPEECH BY A RADICAL M.P.

Plymouth. October 22. Mr. H. F. Luttrell, Radical M.P. for Tavistock, made an extraordinary speech at Plymouth on Wednesday evening, the following report of which appears in the Western Morning News of Thursday:— He thought crowns, like tall hats, were going out of fashion. It was true they were smooth when brushed the rightway, but they were easily ruffled. They required a lot of attention. They were inconvenient —he was speaking of tall hats—and costly. They were only .suited for the black-coated community. They were not suited to the everyday life —not suited to a working-class community —top hats, let them remember. Now she would go baok to the crown. ,He found we were asked to spend a great I deal upon our Court —a Court very closejly connected with the Crown, and they j might have remarked that a few months lago he found himself voting against the ; Government upon the loss which the | people of this country were being put |to on account of making provision for the courtiers and "courtlets." He found that to the small fry—relai tives of the Crown —brothers and sens—- | the Government were proposing to make 'grants which 'he thought far in excess of 'what they ought to be. He ventured to | point out to the Front Bench that it ill i became them to make these proposals. [But he was beaten, and so the country ' had be-;n put to this extra expense, i If anyone wanted to make the Court in this country unpopular the very best ' thing they could do would be to make these huge demands upon the public for the maintenance of the Court. Possibly if top hats were going at halfprice people would not mind so much wearing them, but if they were going to :be so very expensive they might say, l 'l 'will wear out my old top hat, but will not buy another."

AVIATOR'S TRAGIC DEATH. KILLED IN SIGHT OF HIS WIFE AFTER A LONG FLIGHT. ' Paris, October 26. M. Blanchard, a young aviator, was killed at Issv-les-Moulineaux to-day under particularly tragic circumstances. In company with MM. Poillet, Bregi and Bielevuccie, all of whom had taken part in the aviation meeting at Bourges, M. Blanchard left the aerodrome' at that town at 7.30 this morning with the intention of flying to Issy-les-Moulineauv. The day was perfect for flying, and three of the pilots passed over Orleans at 9 o'clock, M. Piolett having taken a different route. M. Bregi landed at Issy at ll."20, and ten minutes later M. Blancihard's Bleriot monoplane came in sight of the spectators assembled on the drill ground, among whom was his young wife, to whom 'he had recently been married. M. Blanchard was flying at an altitude of about 500 yards, and was steadily approaching the ground. When at a height of fifty .yards the aeroplane suddenly'dropped "like a stone. The pilot was seen to stand up as if to leap out, but the rate of descent was too rapid. He was instantly killed, his body being terribly crushed under the wrecked machine. It is believed that M. Blanchard found himself travelling at too great a speed, tafter cutting off his ignition, to descend

without risking a violent shock, and had tried to rise, but the movement, made too suddenly, broke one of the wires and a wing of the aeroplane collapsed.