SEAT ety cee Lis meat effete, rear risen Se" ote sih ite i me cee? rote eat tetloa A farmer named Chalmers, near Alton, got £100 damages out of six men, who were alleged to have decoyed him to a remote spot, tied and gagged him, driven him 17 miles from home, poured beer over him, and lett him to walk home again. His offence was " killing foxes. It may be remembered that Ruddigore, condemned by the family curse to commit a daily crime, offered as one example that he had shot a fox. This was passed by his ancestors as, 'a crime, but they did not commit the wicked waste of pouring good beer over him—at 8d a bottle.
Chalmers had a long tale of slaughtered chickens, turkeys and lambs. He took it to the local hunt [but could get no satisfaction. Accordingly he took it out of the foxes instead, admitted in court that he had poisoned them, and is said one time to have had 28 brushes.
The judge, addressing the jury took up this matter of poisoning with feeling, and said that most people would agree that a person who con-{fessed that he poisoned animals was, indeed, an objectionable man—the chief defence, by the way, against Chalmers, of the defendants. How-fever, he had been assaulted and was entitled to damages.
was brought out in evidence that while" Chalmers" assailants were carrying him off, they sang.
Said Farmer Giles to Farmer Brown, Don't let this fox live in this town. For I have gun or two, 'That will teton him' gown Hence ety ater Lord Buckmaster championship Tiere ow es wee hae Int ptiethans, Sore fee name "pros race lia "ehh Sand ung Here ittenteny Tmatule wi Betas fay Wasa Shoe ewe a all he oes pels wth Be" a aes idence, at Ee eer haloes 'The actual record, Just published, of the Government's slum learance campaign is unhappy reading for fis opponents. frat year of the! eumpalgn, up' to. September 30. 1 15 080 new houses were. built and 1 further 10,01 were begun.
AAs against this, only 11,608 houses were built in three. years under the Housing Act of 1990, 'The number of houses demolished or closed in. the one' year under review was 18,197, against, 10,45. three years under the old Act.
"These results are far more satistactory''than anyone, even the Government, had expected. "It only remains to be seen whether the Gov-fernment. will succeed. in advertising them' properly. They "really. ought set up a Ministty of Lord Spe present the Opposition and frites generally have it all" their "Yet how much more might be done Ju this way by existing organizations Speaking at the Primrose." League annual dinner, Lord Hailsham said ihe" was growing tired of the. cons nual excuse for reduced Nationalist majorities at by-elections, that eons servative voters were apathetic. Why such institutions as the Primrose Keagve allow them fo become apathe-
London "newspapers with enormous Lord Hailsham said, some four
reulations which they were" always increasing by coupons, elt of sim lar devices, and there were iwo even Ing papers also with immenes evea one "All of ther made it thee Duriness to"aiacie and oppose me Government. "They decried it ach cements and sometimes, Me. "was Straid they even misrepresented what me Goverment was aolag' or whet Miniaters could not be expected to Kina "er "ategation 'Tennyson is alleged to have been the author of these spirited lines. Tt fg true that Tennyson had a house the Isle of Wight. That, perhaps. 4s the nearest ever got to this chant of Chalmers' chivyyers.
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