From Our Own Correspondent, Edinburgh, July 12.
His Majesty the King will visit Edinburgh at the beginning of October, on his return from Balmoral, in order to unveil the Edward VII. Memorial at Holyrood. The memorial takes the form of ornamental gateways to the Palace, and a bronze statue of King Edward with a background of masonry.
The land of Scotland is rapidly changing hands. At the end of last year, it was calculated that one-quarter of the country north of the Cheviots had passed into new ownership since the the signing of the Armistice. Since then close upon half-a-million additional acres have been placed upon the market. This week it is announced that two large Scottish estates, jointly covering 55,000 acres, are also to' be sold. The breaking up of large estates has been one of the outstanding home economic features of the past four years. Many tens of thousands of acres. have passed from the ownership of the old landed gentry into the possession of a larger number of smaller proprietors: Indeed, one of the few gratifying results of these transactions is the great multiplication in the number of tenant owners. When great agricultural farms have been broken up, in most cases the tenant farmers have been given, and have embraced, the opportunity of acquiring their holdings.
Outstanding examples of this multiplication of farmer owners are to be found in the recent sales of the Hamilton and North Berwick estates. So keen was the anxiety of the tenants to acquire their holdings that most of the estates never came-into the market.
Lord Woolavingtoo—more easily recognized as Sir James Buchanan of distillery fame—is selling his Rosshire estate of Torridon. When he was recently raised to the Peerage it was expected that he would take his title from this property, and it occasioned surprise when he chose the name of his English estate. The fact that he wishes to get rid of Torridon explains why he did not take his title from its acres.
Wuisky versus Brer.
Porridge and whisky are credited with being two of the chief ingredients which have gone to the making of Scottish character. But Scotland seems to be in danger of losing this double distinction. Recently we were told that the Scots have deserted porridge, and now it is said that they are forswearing their national beverage. "Mountain dew"
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