THE TEESDALE MERCURY—WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1910.

THOUGHTFu^ The German Emperor is profoundly! feeling that 1 have the sympatuy of my* INTERESTING ITEMS. OTHER MEN'S MINDS. (affected, and the universal feeling in Ger-r future subjects, who will mourn with me •many is that the King's death removes Eng-I for their beloved sovereign, whose own may turn luufc. a Hand's most skilful diplomat. One paperl happiness was found in sharing and pro­ r v ••d*',n has supplied a bull mastif Don't help the man who won't help liim-l THE KING IS DEAD. Isays that His Majesty did more for Great! moting theirs.. I have lost not only a father s love, but the affectionate and inti­ >j*^ , ulty for duty at Gibraltar. I self.—ME. ROOSEVELT. {Britain's safety and prestige in nine years! dm r !than had been done in the previous sixty. mate relations of a dear friend and BUT preservec «i, ' ba»« h*cn ',8Ue^ by tao Army Coun-I It warn* aw% 7*0 The Kaiser's personal message of con-| adviser. No less confident am I in the v ^"tcer* to wear white cap covers. | and ridiriilou,, CASTE. fdolence? was sent direct to Buckingham! universal loving sympathy which is the » same tolerant1A*^ East nam Pensions Committee havfl The separation of castes in London ISJ THE WORLD IN MOURNING. lTalr.ce, and not through the Embassy. assured to my dearest mother in her over­ •realm* through -n old-.'i; pension to a coloured man| carried very far. Hundreds and thousands oil President Fallieres telegraphed to Kincfl whelming grief. Standing here a little more than nine Hae w tK>iigb.t lKirn of slave parents in Barbados. well-to-do people never meet with anyone who! [George his personal condolences and those of! years ago, our beloved King declared that p melon* from South Africa havel is not of the same class as themselves.—THI| [the French Government and people. oU as long as there was breath in his body I'IK 6d each, and East Beurre years! "RAPT. CBBWZ. President Taft telegraphed as follows to| or he would work for the good and ameliora­ , j,p, of fifteen, at Co vent Garden." [Queen Alexandra: 3RTUNITY. RAPID COURSE OF ILLNESS. tion of his people. I am sure that the) ,-rp<'"' Assizes Bernard Riley was sen I THE POLITICAL GAME. I. offer your Majesty and your son, his! opinion of the whole nation will be that •ty nerds to be J^. t fZtta years' penal servitude for throw I illustrious successor, the most profound! this declaration bus been fully carried I of principle. It I never can understand why it is thought n*j**4 sympathy of the people and Government! •ience, a chance ef ^ auric acid on two young women and a| i necessary in our political controversies to It is with profound grief that the news ol out. seven. The Archbishop of Canterbury paid a of the United States, whose hearts go out! social position, of adopt the method of clogging- all the path- the death of the King has been received by To endeavour to follow in his footsteps, second visit, and left at about 7.45. The Arch-' to their British kinsmen in their national*: »» not pas* muater*'* pukes, of Retford, has been arrested! Iways of knowledge, and muddying all the a loving and loyal people. His Majesty and at the same time to uphold the con­ 9 D11,!a e or Borings of controversy.—Ma. A. J. BALPOUB bishop returned to the Palace at 9 o'clock bereavement. To this I add the expres-f stitutional government of those realms, Ooincicnce ia % m "time '" '' ' a man for whosel passed away at Buckingham Palace at 11.45 1 During the interval he addressed a meeting of , rrant has been issued and to whom| sion to your Majesty and the new King ofI wiU be the earnest object of my life. I insurance policy t on Friday night. The cause of death was the Christian Social Union, at which he asked Igt striking likci my own personal sympathy, and my ap-| am deeply sensible of the very heavy an attack of bronchitis, which was aggra­ for prayers for the Sovereign, "hanging be-' vated by heart symptoms. The disease ran preciation of those high qualities which! responsibilities which have fallen upon alips which were found hidden! FATAL SENSE OF HUMOUR. tween life and death." the most of life, a rapid course. No public announcement made the life of the late King so potent anl me. I know that I can rely upon Parlia­ leaves of a family Bible were pro-! I have always thought that the lack ol A special messenger was sent to the Home influence toward peace and justice among! ment and upon the people of these islands py day, K the Sunderland Police-court during! humour was one of the secrets of Mr. Glad­ of his Majesty's illness was made until Secretary, Mr. Churchill, who was in camp in' Thursday night, and the firet news of it re­ the nations. and of my dominions beyond the seas for briny thee baok ptg of a betting case. stone's success, and I am perfectly sure that Dorsetshire, to demand his attendance. The' ipt away, ceived by the public was on the appearance their help in the discharge of these too keen a possession of it is one of the draw. Duchess of Albany left at 7.30, and Prince President Taft also sent a message to King r word unsaid, litor wrote to the. Westminster County! of the newspapers next morning, when his arduous duties, and for their prayers that I backs to Lord Rosebery's success.—MB Henry of Battenberg arrived. About a quar­ George V., renewing the condolences of the lore shall last, •^I am now with Mr. Stride, who died! Majesty had been confined to his room for American Government and people upon the God will grant me strength and guidance. OWIK SEAMAN. ter to nine the Bishop of Ripon, who is Clerk' I am encouraged by the knowledge that I ever grind member. I have lost the use of my| two days. of the Closet, left the Palace accompanied by death, and conveying to his Majesty ater that has passed. 1 h»vt> to be wheeled about.'' Although some weeks ago there were dis­ heartiest good wishes for the prosperity of^ have in my dear wife one who will be a a lady. The Duke of Fife left shortly after­ constant helpmate in every endeavour for I" the hody of an unknown man, who! THE PROBLEM. quieting rumours as to the state of the his reign. wards. our people's good. Civilisation! is face to face with an ex- King's health, reassuring news had been |>a dead, was being removed from Vie-I At this time it was stated unofficially that General Botha, the Prime Minister of the do anything except Itremely awkward and ugly interrogation! afterwards published, and his Majesty had Kri, Hsndsworth, a five-year-old boy.l the King's condition was very grave, and Transvaal, has made a statement recalling I and to lead a good „ [when a man comes forward and professes! returned from his annual spring holiday on showed no signs of improvement. 15j,|ney Davies was so terrified by the| his presentation to the King when, with [*>.—Biahop Creightos. I himself able and willing to work, and when! the Continent apparently in good health. He At ten o'clock one of the police inspectors "THE UNWRITTEN LAW." lit he fainted and died from shock. at once resumed his duties both in State and Generals Delarey and De Wet, he visited lit is clear that there is no work that can be: announced to the crowd that no farther Europe, their hearts still sore at the loss of Lv the latest introduction to our restau- social affairs, and even up to the day of his I found immediately or conveniently for him.l bulletin would be issued that night, and IET WORK. fi!.- hens is the wallaby, a sort of] [death received several eminent persons in their independence. I—MB. WINSTON CHCXCHLLL, M.P. that the King's condition was "about the ACTION AGAINST MR. HALL CAINE Dmsday Book, upon a,' s writer in "Food and Cookerfl audience. same." This information was given on the The welcome we received from his late linually recording U\ • Catering World" states. "Those whol The grave news om Friday morning at once authority of Sir James Reid, who was asked Majesty was euch. as only a great man with a noble heart could have accorded to his I often as a new lwii«l the unknown assure me that the) MODERN BUCCANEERS. plunged the nation into the deepest anxiety, if any later statement could be made for In the King's Bench, Mr. Montagu Vivian y and the progress of the illness as shown by recent enemies. We felt deeply impressed, Leyeaux, theatrical manager, sued Mr. Hall old one disappears, ViJesh >• ery nice." All the picturesque figures of old time are! the benefit of the hundreds of watchers. It the bulletins during the day was followed by and, with softer feelings, we were con­ Caine, the author, for breach of contract to •inated characters," IvtUtgliam Stock Exchange has beenl [extinct—the troubadour, the inquisitor, and! was added that, except in the event of very a growing gloom and uneasiness, relieved vinced that the Sovereign of the nation to grant himself and Mr. Derwent Hall Caine the are the high nobijih! grave developments, no medical statement [the buccaneer. It is the privilege of thei now and then by gleams of hope caused by which henceforth we should belong we sole and exclusive right of producing a play. the Public Domau'' Ljon musical festival will take place at] [journalist in different capacities and in dif- of any kind would be made before the issus > the filtering through of rumours which bore could look upon as a sincere friend. I feel Ij shall aever queetion of a morning bulletin at eleven o'clock. Mr. Hall Caine's defence was that his health laiall in the spring of next year. [ ferent ways to try to represent and reproduoeS a more favourable look. These, however, deeply that we have lost not only our Sove­ •Mr, therefore, that Many hundreds of people lingered in the had not enabled him to complete the play, and Tin deaths registered in Barnes and| I all those dead and gone characters.—EABL orj were unofficial, and the morning bulletin— reign, but a great personal friend, and said that the agreement was subject to the im­ up their minds to bs vicinity of the Palace to a late hour waiting Lf (population 32,000) for last week in- CBEWE. issued shortly after eleven o'clock, but not the Dutch South Africans do not feel less plied condition that his health allowed him tc [about them, or within 1 to see whether any further bulletin would Rjnje of persons aged from 78 to 88, audi posted on the gate of Buckingham Palace profoundly than their fellow-British sub­ finish it. bnotive in what they j be issued, but on being assured that no 0 E under one year. till more than an hour later—showed that jects their great national loss. [of men, which i ». WHAT LIFE IS. further news was available most of them At the first day's hearing Mr. Lush, K.C.. a . p. and 0. liner Oceana, which has tie case was serious indeed. This bulletin »; that ther should ba I If a man would escape all responsibility he] left. for Mr. Leveaux, said that the contract related jit Plymouth stopped in the MeUiterra- was as follows: KING EDWARD'S LAST WORDS. to a play at first entitled "Home, Sweet Home," ly at work, each i8 must place himself wholly outside of the re-j THE LAST BULLETIN. -. supply provisions to an Italian barqueI At the sitting of the Italian Chamber at or "Jan the Icelander," and subsequently of effects, aad W, lationa of life; for life " is responsibility.— The King has passed a comparatively The last bulletin, recording officially the ^ had run short. which the Premier expressed the sympathy altered to "The Unwritten Law." care of itself ] I MB. J. G EIEH HIBBEN. quiet night, but the symptoms have not death of the King, was as follows: improved, and his Majesty's condition at the Italian nation, the Marquis di San A contract was entered into under which Mr. I jfiieal inspector of Berwick schoolsl 6 May, 1910. 11.50 p.m. Griuliano (Minister for Foreign Affairs), re- Hall Caine was to deliver to the managers, Mr. Bat » lH of perfect teeth is most rare gives rise to the gravest anxiety. THE ONLY WAT. (Signed) His Majesty the King breathed his last alled his personal friendship with His Leveaux and Mr. Derwent Hall Caine, the sole |ct children. The toothbrush appeared Majesty when he was recently Ambassador exclusive rights of production thereof for the IS OF PARADISE, F. Laking, M.D. at 11.45 p.m. in the presence of her ntt Foreign to many of them. There ia only one method by which in London. The Minister added: "His United Kingdom (exclusive of London, where of each vice, Majesty Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Restaurant, in St. Mary Axe, one! I friendly society can honestly and properly be.1 J. Reid, M-D. Majesty's last words were, 'I have done my it was to be produced by Sir Herbert Tree), of Paradise, Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal and erl employees was discovered lying on! managed, and that is where the majority who I Douglas Powell, M.D. duty.' "The first words he spoke to some of Ireland, Channel Islands, "and the Isle of Man, er's chief desire, are blessed with long life and little sickness I Bertrand Dawson, M.D. the Duke of Fife, Princess Victoria, and .1. suffering from poison she had taken, .princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. his" intimate friends on ascending the for five years from January 1, 1909, the con­ ng the stones of Ore. [pay into a common fund.—MB.' EDWARD! St. Clair Thomson, M.D, Throne, expressed, in familiar and sporting sideration being that the managers agreed to wrote the Law; ailion has improved at the hospital, (Signed) BOUBNB. DISTINGUISHED CALLERS. language, the same idea: 'I will play the pay to the author 5 per cent, on the gross in seal and awe, stater, named William Thomas Bagley,| Francis Laking, M.D. Among tho visitors to the Palace were the! game.' He was as good as his word." weekly receipts up to .£200, 7J per cent, above of Binia'a beat. \ %u found drowned at Dorney, neari James Reid, M.D. A VISION OF HAPPINESS. ^Archbishop of Canterbury—who waited ia F .£200 and up to .£400, and 10 per cent, above iHis mercy-seat. J. in » stream 18in. deep. A verdict of] R. Douglas Powell, M.D. If we were all scrupulously fair, if we were] .the Palace for the morning bulletin, and con-j JE4O0. ristiana ' tell me why t; ironed" was returned at the inquest. J. Bertrand Dawson, M.D. I always strictly candid, if we were always] I versed, after its issue, with the Prince of J It is understood that the Archbishop of KING GEORGE PROCLAIMED. Mr. Derwent Hall Caine was to have £10 a our altars high! L>i: to be drunk by the police, a man, I mindful of that most tiresome and vexatious] iWales—the American and Russian Ambas-I With the customary ancient and pic­ week and one-third of the profits, and Mr. (if unconscious in Piccadilly, was kept Canterbury also was present during the — n I truth that there are two sides to almost every] [sadors, the Belgian Minister, Lord Kit-I last moments, and that his Majesty passed turesque ceremonial, the Proclamation of his Leveaux, who was to finance the tour, was to r several hours, and was then removed [questioni, if we were careful to regard un-l .chener, and Mr. John Burns. Majesty King George V. was made at nine receive the remaining two-thirds. arourv, where he subsequently died away quite peacefully and quietly. News of bold our bit of ground. . [verified quotation in debate or a rather] ) The Prince of Wales spent the whole rnorn-B his "death was promptly telegraphed, to all o'clock on Monday morning in London and The essence of the contract, said Mr. Lush, psMsl fit. was that Mr. Hall Caine agreed to hand over to see to it, by the bJ [stretched representation of our opponents*^ ing at the Pa', ce, and, like the Queen and* members of the royal family not in atten- most of the great provincial centres. the full manuscript of the play bv November whole kingdom is not |JJ ilinister for Foreign Affairs will lease as a mortal sin, what would become of4 In London the Proclamation was made 1, 1908. The contract did not sa"y that Mr. made in oar potiti Berlin towards the end of the month I politics? There would be no politics.—LOED^ first at St. James's Palace, and afterwards •.he Kaiser, and to return the recent I MOBLST. Hall Caine was going to write a play, but des­ the procession of Heralds journeyed to the cribed him as "the author." feme of Dr. von BethmannTIollweg,! Royal Exchange, calling om the way at In the witness-box on the following day Mr. IGE OP VIEW. nil Chancellor. Charing Cross, Temple Bar, and Wood- WHERE WE EXCEL. Hall Caine explained how a couple of motoring Lltr. Dr. G. H. Walpole, rector of Lam- street. The Proclamation was read at all the views at forty as ws 1 No country outside the British Empire hasjjj mishaps had had such a disastrous effect on his 1 Is* unaimously elected Bishop of Edin- have been stupefied for places mentioned. The route of the proces­ nerves that he was compelled to go away to St. third meeting of the clerical and I yet attained the degree of excellence thatu, nd take rank, not at I prevails among us to-day in respect both ofg3 sion was lined by troops. Moritz to recuperate. an 11 n teachable brat •if the diocese. [the material and of the training and accom-| The Proclamation, read by Norroy King- When the case was resumed on Thursday, the wixer. It is as if a 1 iWlVivc letters and postcards were pro- Iplishment of our nurses.—SIB DYCE DTJCK- at-Arms, was in these terms: Mr. Hall Caine, recalled, said that after the to India, from the port] linidenee in the Sheriff's Court at IWOBTH. Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to rising of the Court on Wednesday a communica­ ing brought a chart of k'Va Miss Daisy Gamblin recovered call to His mercy our late Sovereign Lord tion was made to him, to his gTeat surprise, at his first setting isttth of promise from Edgar Venn, King Edward the Seventh of Blessed and that a copyright performance of his play had use no other for the wh DECLINED WITH CONTEMPT. Glorious Memory, by whose Decease the taken place in the North ten years ago. He It would only heighten confusion to bring" Imperial Crowni of the United Kingdom of had taken the greatest pains to find out what iVanderbilt has opened his third [representatives of the Dominions into the? •M, starting in his coach, the I Great Britain and Ireland is solely and happened at that time, and had come across I House of Commons. And if it is impractic-g -1 in> famous team of greys, from I rightfully come to the High and Mighty an entry in "The Stage " cyclopasdia which ran FROM CRITICISM. iria for Brighton on a ncw| able to bring them into the House of Com-™ Prince George; We, therefore, Lords as follows: '"Jan the Icelander,' or 'Home, ettcr to help others to . F.psom. Dorking, and Horsham. mons they would certainly say "Thank yom Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, Sweet Home ' (the former title of the play), d. 'ban it is to criticise tin for nothing" if wo were to offer them a few! being here assisted with those of his late (drama), 2 A. (3 acts), H.K., W. Hartlepool; [lir lias approved the appointment of I c themselves; they are seats in the House of Lords.—LORD MILNEB. Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of Grand; November 24th, 1900; copvright per­ you. The way to bring ah •'Stair to be Lord High Comniis- other Principal Gentlemen of Quality, with formance." Mr. Hall Caine said the initials I helpful condition of • r-entir.jj liis Majesty at the general! the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of "H.K." were supposed to be an abbreviation of ' 1 accompanying desire !the Church of Scotland. JEKYLL AND HYDE. London, do now hereby with one Voice and his name. (Laughter.) He added that he to show by our lrfl : British military officers are] It is no isolated phenomenon of the twen­ Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and wished to apologise sincerely to the Court for proclaim, -That the High and Mighty jr way, while resolutely 1 Mi Lorraine battlefields of 1870. tieth century to imd together the highest not having remembered this when he was in the Prince George is now, by the Death of our ring it on others. It w»*| '»C!mreli Missionary Society's Equip-1 [ideals and the most contemptible meanness. witness-box the previous dav. •Tto a Christian man, wool -RKV. E. ALDOM FRENCH. ( late Sovereign of Happy Memory, become n anonymous donor has promised I our only lawful and rightful Liege Lord, Subsequently it was announced that an amic­ then, one who had known »t Jihn Kennaway announced at thel able and satisfactory settlement had been ar­ '"He never told me ti»*| George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, P*«iiig in Queen's Hall. rived at between the parties. a, but I always came a" A CLEAN MILK CAMPAIGN. * King of the United Kingdom of Great ation with him wan-ing • »i Berlin tramway accident, Count I We should set about a national campaign j Britain and Ireland and its Dominions be­ 1 would do this for oto M ^>it: on a 1 -Liberal member of th«| Ito see that the people get clean milk, to show? yond the Sea, Defender of the Faith, Em­ to criticism, and incars RIM left a fortune of £3,600,000. [how necessary it is that it should be clean,3 peror of India: To whom we do acknow. WHALE ISLAND TREASURE HUNT. ledge all Faith and Constant Obedience, our lives. [ lay Frick, the millionaire art! [and what an advantage it would be to the % xm York, has purchased from thel with all hearty and humble Affection, be­ Whale Island, the famous naval gunnery I milk trade if it were clean. — DB seeching God, by Whom Kings and Queens .Prince Tarnowsky the famous! I CHRISTOPHER ADDISON, M.P. school at Portsmouth, has been the scene of a do reigni, to bless the Royal Prince George treasure hunt. PATIENCE. of Rembrandt, with long life and happy years to reign _ny hands and wait,- fjfe'.nmont College, near Windsor, It will be remembered that the men con­ THE GOSPEL FOR THE HEATHEN. over us. victed of the robbery from the cruiser Indomit­ I wind, or tide, or Yv''l Mayor, who was educated ]d 'gainst time or fate, It is now openly stated that Christianity able were arrested on the island. The stolen V Mayoress invited the boys tol Having finished the recital, Norroy King- bank notes were recovered, but the sum of pwu shall come to me. I has been touched by the spirit of the age—• BStday's holiday as her guests at| at-Arms called in a loud voice, "God Save £2,000 in gold was not, and there always has I that it is melting away as a spent force, and the King," there was a blast of the trumpets e, I make delays, I that as such it must make way for something been an idea that it was concealed somewhere 1 and the band played the National Anthem. lils this eager pace, eggs exported from Russia I else. Fifty years ago our fathers had to de-V •n the island. •he eternal ways, , • 9 D60 were shipped from Riga, At Temple Bar the Lord Mayor, with the I fend the preaching of the Gospel to thej, Sheriffs and Aldermen, awaited the Heralds. A sentry saw a mysterious stranger grubbing Imine shall know my Wm '"" -it Britain took 725.333,760, [heathen; to-day it is no longer a question as3J at a hole on the shore and asked him what he t:ii of the Russo-British Chamber | The ceremony began with a challenge from [by night or day, [to whether it is right or wrong to send the pother members of the Royal Family, saw his dance, to foreign Courts, and to various was about. "Digging for worms," replied the • *t St. Petersburg. the City Marshal, who, when Rouge Dragon seek are seeking me; I Gospel to all nations, but whether we have a* Majesty for a brief space. It was, however, Ministers of the Crown entitled to receive appeared, called out, "Halt! Who goes man. The sentry ordered him away, and it rive my bark astray, , "val of General Baden-Powelll fully recognised by all concerned that it is such communications. there ? " then fla.shed through his mind that there was [Gospel to send.—LIEUT.-COL. J. BAENSLEY. something suspicious about the affair, so he be tide of destin>y. y»y Scouts will enact the soene desirable to give all possible quiet and re­ All the King's own children, it will be Receiving the reply—the visitors are the reported the matter. _ I stand aloae? ' • a to the Army Pageant at pose, and his Majesty's Royal relatives did seen, were present at the bedside with the King's Heralds—the "City Marshal informed Ijov the coming years',-. •depicting the dedication of the AN APOLOGY TO THE UNIVERSE. not attempt any prolonged stay in his room. exception of the Queen of Norway. The the Lord Mayor of their presence and of The authorities came to the conclusion that Ireap where it has sow«r •mice of the race in peace and If we want a decent and virtuous popula­ Prince Christian walked to the" Palace in the four physicians signing the bulletin were their wish to enter the City. This being the mysterious stranger bad some clue to the spot where the 6tolen gold was hidden and tion—which we have not at present—we shall morning to make personal inquiries, and re­ also in the death chamber. granted the Pursuivant-in-Chief approached |up its fruit of tears. was searching for it. The police were com­ Ihave to pay for it. But, after all, the expense peated the visit later in the day. Princess The Queen and the other members of the the Lord Mayor and handed to him the Pro­ ) mightly to the sky, - loiv.rsity is to confer honoraryI municated with, and the treasure hunt began, I will not be so great as the expense of the pre-J Christian also called: and at lunch time the family had been constantly going to and clamation in due form. Jre unto the sea; I , '• 'i Solborne, Mr. Lowther (the| but though they searched every likely spot no 1 [sent svstem. We ought to make up ourL Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal, and from the sick-room, but for some consider­ |space, nor deep, not nig t,, Chief Baron Palles, Sir E. gold was found, and the hunt was temporarily 50 |minds,~ since we are going to spend money on*| e Du^e °* File called and remained. The able time before his death the King was not own away f^^ags* P ". Sir Oliver Lodge. Pro- MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. abandoned. kin. and Professor Sir Walter! I the people, that it shall be spent sensibly, fact that they and the Prince of Wales all conscious of their presence. He was lying and that we will try to keep people in effi- joined the Queen and Princess Victoria at The death of the Sovereign is of itself luncheon seemed to indicate some relaxation in a comatose state, from which he had a stated at Highgate that! [ciency and health. This is a matter which summons to Parliament, and members ol , which mast, alw»y» [should be thought over carefully. For two in the tension. slight rally between nine and ten o'clock, both Houses met on Saturday afternoon to The battleship Exmouth has sailed from and cannot fiad . / U« itJ:'.'''"'ter of skating rinks, and had! after which, it is stated, there was no return B I centuries past the main object of the English At one o'clock it was stated that it had not swear allegiance to the new Sovereign. The Portsmouth for Malta, flying the flag of Ad­ " "t money. to consciousness. will never have [people has been to avoid thinking. They like been necessary for the doctors again to see the cards bearing the words of the oath were miral Sir Edmund Poe, the new Commander-in- •w illustrated weekly news-1 King, although some of their number had re­ Shortly after midnight the various mem r [a mani who will get on the platform and tell printed; and the name of King George had Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. 1, j!' ' in Rome, contains articles | |thera that they will muddle through. The mained in close attendance. Court officials bers of the royal family not resident in the already officially taken the place of King •Saa, French, English, and Ger- Henry Ernest Rowe, an inspector of local [fact of the matter is that we do not muddle announced at two o'clock that so far as could Palace took their departure. Edward's. LYE PURPOSE. At 5.30 on Saturday morning the official taxation, was discovered at Bletchworth by the [through. This country is really at the pre- be judged the King was a shade better. Sir In the Commons there was the difficulty river drenched to the skin. He was charged man he might b^v* Jji| i>. 1ra,n,,tl Herbert Leverington was! Francis Laking, who had been in constant at­ proclamation of his Majesty's death was ur |seut time in a deplorable and appalling condi­ that both the Speaker and Deputy - Speaker MT some worthy P f^ tfvff nung up on the bulletin board at Bucking with attempting suicide, but the case was dis­ i9 ' *i "ests on the railway line at I tendance, drove out during the afternoon in a were absent. The Assistant Deputy Ser- land successful that ^ tion. I publicly apologise to the universe for ham Palace by a policeman. missed. '"Jcked down by a train and | |tiving in it.—MB. G. BERNARD SHAW. motor-car, and this circumstance was looked ji ant-at-Arms brought the mace into the at random, pu'T^^ust ^ upon as a favourable omen. Later, however, it At one o'clock a letter from the Home It its chief engineer, Mr. D. Kenedy, the Chamber and laid it on the table. Pacific liner Oravia possesses not onlv a com­ lays that an artist of was understood that there was danger of Secretary to the Lord Mayor was delivered ie the finished P^'JLldi' L *• the Royal United Service In- The Home Secretary was present on the petent officer but an etcher and paiuter for ,t further complications arising out of the original at the Mansion House, informing his lord­ th |in i ,'','"'d the Chesney Gold Medal I WORK FOR LABOUR EXCHANGES. Treasury Bench. With hiin were several whom Mr. T. T. Somerscale6, the seascape (artist. Thus » ?_fsbed » bronchial trouble. ship of the death of the King, and request­ I must see the life fi»£» Tj k^T**ghton in consideration of his| Some of the difficulties of seasonable Ministers. According to precedent, the sib artist, promises a great future. . .. :'"al literature. [fluctuations of trade might be obviated by a ing him to give instructions for the tolling lich he wishes to atU » tk SIX O'CLOCK BULLETIN. of the great bell of St. Paul's Cathedral. A snice of the Speaker and the Deputv-S]»cakei n [careful organisation of those trades, so that In order to show the unity among Labour Jon aimlessly »» °gr «2f y by fraud from about fifty! Then appeared the six o'clock bulletin, which few minutes later the bell sent out its mes­ was announced by Sir Courtenay llbert. t!i< [a very large proportion of workers should get men within the Empire, 'Canadian trado Imc blotch of colour 4 -' several old-age pensioners/1 created consternation. Few were prepared for sage of grief. Chief Clerk, when the mace h;.d been placed [constant employment all the year round. The on the table. unionists have offered the British Labour Party i turn out a PlctuJi imp' ''tfd that he was an Inland | so grave a statement. It ran : to provide funds for the election and niaiu- ;;| [instruments for this are the labour ex. it ig with pensions, William! THE CITY'S SYMPATHY. Mr. Churchill thereupon rose and moved |by wild and dream? ^ pwbj |changes. The crux of the difficulty is in deal- "The King's symptoms have become worse tencanc of a member of Parliament. aged thirty, was at I In reply to the Prince of Wales's telegram the adjournment. The mace Mis then ie L> a svmphony. . lir,r during the day, and his Majesty's condiiton The sentence approved by headquarters on st ling with the under-employment of the casual announcing his father's death, the Lord moved. '»t to penal servitude for! is now critical, Rifleman Penston, of the Royal Irish Rifles, the It and ij a "*"*t& & [labouring class. An employer who wants a Mayor of London sent the following mes­ In the House of Lords th? proceeding* develop an cttecu ^ [casual labourer should be compelled to take "F. Laking, M.D. well-known Army goal-keeper who was court- ment sages : took the usual course. Thee were 111 »rkers know well " cDd » ie .'i'",' Board order the| "J. Reid, M.D. r I him up at the labour exchanges and nowhere bishops present, but the Lord Chan cello: martialled at Dover on a charge of striking his a>Ir T conception ofl l"^ v ^ • the Motor Union, and To Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, s0 lelse.—ME. SIDNET WEBB "R. Douglas Powell, M.D. read the prayers, and immediately took tlx superior officer, is fifty-six days' imprisonment, . it:ss beginning *""fil al Hz^^Mtt':t tj», "'-eiatio"'nation araree empoweredempowered,, durdur-- Buckingham Palace. fina n "Bertrand Dawson, M.D." following oath: of which twenty-one days are remitted. 'lhe : The City of London hears with profound Lie effort from the f i,v ; '"'f«s, to issue to motorists For some time before the issue of the state­ charge was the sequel to the loss by the Irish Irk is valueless. « ^ i ""•g passes and to grant I emotion that God has called to Himself I swear by Almighty' God that I will be 0 1 ;..:"r-iiin A GLORIOUS PAST. ment the crowds in front of the Palace had Rifles of the Army Cup semi-final at Chelsea, fcng, if they are to" ^rW **? M'H'u to fitness of cars| been steadily increasing. The Prince of Wales your august husband and our most graci­ faithful and bear true allegiance to i\\- and allegations that Penston sold ihe match. dr'tic Whatever may be its defects, whatever ous and beloved King, and desires to lay Majesty King George, his heirs and sue ^or benefit t^wortJ k> 've had remained at the Palace, but the Princess ickoned on by vers. J may be said against it at the present time, at your feet its loyal devotion and deep cessors, according to law. It was stated at the London Bankruptcy- had left some time before the bulletin was court that Mr. Sydney Gross, a company seciv- E. Higlcy- litlle boy [the House of Lords has had an ancient and sympathy, praying that His loving hand Some fifty or sixty peers then took the sami U fell into a water| posted It was noticed that her face bore tarv. lost JE2.04I) on horse races, and lost an I an honourable career.—LORD BAUOUB O» traces of tears and great agitation. Prince may bless and comfort you and those that oath, and walked to the woolsack to shake . . . ' M,»s Colliery having! I BURLEIGH. are so dear to you in this your hour of hands formally with the Lord Chancellor. additional £ 1,500—all he posses-ed—by en­ u Francis of Teck, Prince and Princess Chris­ „ over the f^jt^ ' men an(j poyg nave r6.l deavouring to retrieve his losses at baccarat. tian, and the Princess Louise (Duchess of need and sorrow. note do great . j KING GEORGE'S FIRST COUNCIL. a A NATION OF SAILORS. Argyll) had also taken their departure, having Mr. Edward J. George, who has played the I suffer »^ rf,ers, *V 1 ; To the Prince of Wales. The new King delivered his first speech as ogo r CJ' ^'"r^H * 'tal, is proceeding! In spite of all foreign competition we are presumably been made acquainted with the art of Jaikes in "The Silver King " 0.000 times Iheroes, pn»l°»°l%«ver I tender to your Royal Highness an ex­ Sovereign at St. James's Palace on Saiur Xatal e recep I the greatest nation of sailors in the world. I unfavourable turn which his Majesty's illness Suring the past twenty-six years, has cele­ later part shall ^ pression of most true sympathy and con­ day, where the Lords of the Privy Council t R»r*cr* ^i brated his seventieth "birthday by signing a any I am not now going to enter into controversial had taken. hour when m ,, gr«»*- dolence from the citizens of London. May assembled in response to an urgent sum [questions about Dreadnoughts or competition As the evening wore on the gravest alarm was oontrnct to appear in the part for another long Mil. and the small B 1 l I tai Daw God in His loving mercy comfort you and mons to sign the Proclamation of the new SC],", ,' ^V, ' " 0 es fell a short period. ?""' plane. The machine I with Germany, but I will say we are still the felt, and almost every piece of news received the Princess. The prayers of the nation • :",'l*-]i. ' etkpIflui ,.^1 rwm . 1 • Monarch. While a man named Holdaway was walking thA r- n,t:iinl [greatest carriers of the world.—THE BISHOP was, unhappily, evidence that the nation must a, 1,,,. ; are with you, and they keenly share your Having signed the usual Proclamation under the trees at the Grove, West Place. trjRAG^«\ I or LONDON. be prepared for the worst. The series of sorrows. 01 confirming in their office and appointments Chichester, he was attacked by am owl, which ou1 Bailc arrivals at and departures from the Palace i by deep » ^ mL ''''^tL ? y ^ was stated I those who had been serving the late King flew at him and dug its talons in his cheek. It ai b y fraud which began early in the evening added still REMARKABLE TRIBUTES. tbl darkest ski**; iVsl. I'd , - had been NOT FAIR PLAY. at the time of his death, his Majesty said: was found that au owlet had fallen out of a a ,ottle further to the general feeling of alarm. The whole world is mourning for King Ed that no to-nio"**, ii, - Best in one of the trees. , The law insists upon our doing what the Prince Christian left the Palace after the ward, and giving expression to its admira­ My heart is too full for me to address mt, of worse s^rpri* P eet at IV, 'H ?;„ Eurslem a child Ifirst Adam in us always dons not want to do public announcement had been made. Sir W. S. tion and love for a Monarch who was the you to-day in more than a few words. It Owing to the difficulty of getting together a Isadness N,!™.1" front of a steam-| I The law pauses nice strong wire fences round Robson, the Attorney-General, and Lord Cole­ most illustrious ruler of his time. Messages is my sorrowful duty to announce to you Birmingham choir for "week-day festivals, it ladness . | ^'an over it. I the arena of human progress and contest, the death of my dearly-loved father the fGod is wise. ridge arrived soon after. The Attorney-General of condolence were on Saturday and Sunday as decided recently to form a clerical choir, ee.,,,,1 "ivue-teda t..o. con- I lays dowm rules, stretches ropes, and draws came in response to an urgent!*summons. Th« pouring into London from every country and King. In this irreparable loas which has and 011 Ascension Day a choir, consisting of ton8e • chalk lines for human toes, and then creates Princess of Wales, who had left the Palace so suddenly fallen upon me and upon the twenty-two clergymen, 6ang the Communion, Astl p "'ative candidate, Sovereign in Europe; and from every part at the next general! • tho lawyer to influence the decision of the durinp the afternoon, returned at a quarter to of the Empire. > whole Empire, I am comforted by the service to plaiu chant, at the pro-cathedral. I umpire.-^-SiB GILBERT PARKER, M.P.