London, May 11.
'Mr, Duncan McNeill has decided to resum to the Far East to practise Jaw, He tells me, however, he going to Hongkong, not to" Shangfini, and expects: to' be out, there in July. He" was" in the" Thatched House Club to-day, not having been in London for a very long time, and Certainly does not look a day older than as his friends in Shanghai remember him before his retirement.
With Mr." MeNeill were Mr, Looker, formerly of Hongkong, and Mr. John MeNeill, in London for the first' time since his return Home. Other recent arrivals from the Far East were Captain K, M. J. Martin, and Mr, Ht. D. Billiard, the Statist fal secretary 9f the Customs.
Mr. R. Sehleo has been' going about saying goodbye to friends in London. He Jeaves for Shanghai by Siberia' to-morrow.
Theur that Str. N.S, Brown ha taken a house en'the Thames, from Windsor, for the summer.
The record 1 had ordered of Derek Middleton's singing has at last turn-edu, and if, and when it reaches the Bur Bast owners of gramophones should certainly get it. There are two songs ""Come unto Him! from the "Messiah," and "Where'er you "walk." "The latter will be the more Renerally "popular, "but both "are Jovely. 'Not only' is. the, voice. extra ordinarily "heautiful—in. fact 1 Tike it better than some of the boy's voices recently recorded, which were somewhat womanish—but the phrase ing is s0 fine. 'The lower notes are exceptionally attractly "The fact that Mr. Winston Chorchill could sit in London and broad east a talk throughout America last hight is of course one of the coni-mon-places of this miraculous age. More' noteworthy was it that he ihied the -question revitaliein ver. According. to the "Times report he said:
Mo believed thet something wrong. with the mone Tino "longer. nfforted producing. Gold, having ferriered and ho which only Egham benefits and for hich the rural districts round about Jdown'a pretty old red brick railway chief yt pulled
bridge, which could have been re-Jeonditioned for a few hundreds, and put up the most hideous reinforced conerete thing ever seen, costing at Toast £13,000. But every borough, Jcouncil in England does things like this; and, while we know our own men and can beard them in their homes, we can occasionally get things done—still more importantly, left, undone, This insane desire on the part of county authorities for telescoping Htwovor three areas in one leaves nts to the mercy of they Know not whom, multiplies buresu-Jerats, and increases rates—all in the Marne of economy. I see that the Surrey County Council has got away with the amalgamation of Esher, the Dittons, the Moleseys, Cobham and Stoke d'Abernon. I fam sorry for all these victims. But they should have organised as we fand—on_ the whole, fortunately, though with a sad lack of manners Your readers, should try to. get hold" of to-day's "Times" which contains an amazing double-page photograph. of the coast of France, Rtretching "a "considerable. distance inland, taken from above Dover with a telescopic lens, at a time when the French shore was practi-ally invisible to the eye, The: secret of this extraordinary feat is) explained as follows: the sean why weather ie bezaure Jewish or reddish, as towards sunrise for sunset, Red light indeed is. seat= Teas than, blue, "The. problem, therefore, has been how to "use. th Infra-red ino find. to exclude all the were which.
Placed bly dyed a front of the fen. riged piece of gelatin
rays alone $0" pen the and to carry" the image; and, the eye, the sensi infra-red light is invisible going. jungles of curr surely the fact Uhat silver Ail rank: or recognition, surely' the fact that the difference in price between silver" and gold was) greater:
than it had over been, ought to excite the concern" of world. statesmen.
Silver was "the money. of a billion human beings, and ought not treated with as Tittle regard as Hf it were 'n sack of potatoes. Silver had iva Jen the comrade and lly of hold. "Surely. we should do. well to Sonsider more enrefully. the part.
Shad to play in our world: housekeep-This recall to silver's needs is particularly welcome from one who, in. office, was by no. means uncriticised, but, out of it, gets more publicity than' any man in England. Last autumn' there was a champion for silver in everyday's paper. And the "International Finance. Gontmittee, from its meetings, advocated that something should be done to resuscitate silver and even suegest~ oda bargain between India and America, Since "Christmas Iver hho had little attention.
Probably the permanent officials of Whitehall, having been compelled fo confess. they were wrong about gold in 1925, Feel it would be too much to expect them to confess they were also us liable to. error. as ordinary folk, about silver in 1920 and. 126, Possibly "the Ottawa Conference and the desired Empire currency may be too strong for them.
"AS a purely personal matter, may 1 mention that the Minister Health has turned down the Surrey County Councils fiendish scheme for amalgamating Chertsey and Egham in a single borough? (I live in the Egham district), 'The Minister (bless him) dwells on "the com parative absence of community. Interest between these two areas' That is putting it mildly. Every man and woman in the Egham area had signed a protest to the Minister ~2gainst. the amalgamation. And believe that in Chertsey (with singular ill taste) they did the same.
We. are not always in love with our (Egham Council, It has a Ienack. "of launching' schemes by vay "with''a Telephoto" camera, and ances not possible in the ordinar
Whieets revealed which the ere can ce rious feature of the picture all foliage and grass appear covered with snow. The nis not stated, nor is any Possibility "of science overcoming this defect suggested. But the detail is really amazingly fine, The proprietors of Brooklands motor track which has seen so many thrills are in trouble, because of the high speeds now attainable, "The track was built for ears to lop at 120 at each fend is not steep enough, many cars jean cover 10 mp. would shoot over the bank, as indeed rly happened ten days' ago when Eyston and Lord Howe were fighting fiercely for the British Empire Trophy. Sit Malcolm Campbell brought out the "Blue Bird" that day for an exhibition, but of course had, comparatively, to crawl. No remedy has yet been decided.
Today Lord Wakefield's "Biss England 10 by Sir_Jobn Thornycroft, was launched at Hampton, on the 'Thames. She measures 35ft. long with a beam of 9ft. Gin, and from the photographs is very graceful. She goes to Lake Garda for her, first trials, and will try for] the D'Annunzio "trophy in' the regatta from May 22 to 29, Mr. Kaye Don will drive her, and hopes to beat Gar Wood's record.
It may perhaps be mentioned that the increase in traélic deaths in the metropolitan area—from 289 in the first quarter of last year is 314 in the same period this—is expected
happening all over the country. But "prove an index of what is for some unexplained reason official figures will not be available for another twelve-month. Unofficial Inquiries however bring Jurid re-EDS, Having beea busy about more strenuous affairs, I have not visited the British Museum Reading Room of {for some little time, 50 missed the week of spring cleaning, during
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