The latest development in the) controversy over the Scottish National War Memorial proposed to be erected in Edinburgh Castle is an official statement by the First Commissioner of Works, in which it is said that no scheme was sanctioned by the late Government, and the question hae not been considered by the present Government. The Earl of Rosebery has intervened in a letter to the press in which he says that if the Memorial Committee, with the Duke of Atholl at its head, "are 50 attached to the present jelly mould design," it should be transferred to the Colton Hill, where it would not conflict with any historical associations. His Lordship has always been a master of telling sen-and this latest one about the "jelly mould" will not be allowed to die.
The Duke of Atholl announces that the donor of the £50,000 gift to the funds of the Scottish National War Memorial is Mr. Alexander Park Lyle, chairman of the Lyle Shipping Ca., Glasgow. Mr. Lyle was born at Greenock in 1849, and for three years was Provost of the burgh. He carried on and greatly increased the shipowning business which his grandfather had started, and converted the fleet of sailing shipe into one of steamers.
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