The Archive · 1903

The Moat Farm Mystery

The extent of popular interest Moat Farm My the out-of.

Essex in order to see the hous moat. Nothing has been id the search for possible Holland has been abandoned. the trial of Dougal for tory slowly, and there ly some fou of his advocate that evidence is admitted which has no direct bearing on the charge, the pur po i being to elicit informa ti throw a light on Miss Holland's mysterious disappearance Probate Court has, by the way, already allowed her death to be presunied for the purposes of the will. At present even the evidence of forgery against the prisoner is not very strong, for although Miss Holland's de e presumed for probate Purpoves, a criminal Court would require direct evidence to show that she was dead when the cheques purporting to be weir.

y her were signed. The into mystery increases with the di in solving it.

Ireland and the Land Pay.

Bill It would seem that the Goverament will not hav very cary time before it es Work after the recess. The London Education Bill is arcus start of protest, Purchase Bill 2 rise to ation:

Id opted a rosel Trish race in various parts of Indeed it would: ap: under the John Redmond, when been passed, to ide the attitude to be adopted towards the measure in subsequent stag and possibly when they find that insist on ts will only tend to wreck the Hill they will agree to accept it in something like its present for The London Education But. the London Edu view to mudergo great alteratis pass, but there is proposes that the Kd London should commit but would consist of 97 members, onl: would be directly elected by from its own body. Int would differ from every other provincial borah or count council Points in every ease mittee. Then the metropolitan borough—"xlorilied vestries," as the Poot" calls them—are not only valiers of the ce, but thenetves to have:

share of control over the board.

hois in their respective districts, are Ito ad dismiss the teachers, and to select the sites for new schools, "Most Conservati ced that the horouzh ho deprived of powers point members of th itter. In the lotte of the Committe hits 38, But as to London must, on Authority of course of all ion of the Bill is ional progress, being satisfactorily amended."

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