Tut funeral service for the late Mr.
Harold Porter, C.M.G, will take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Bubbling Well Cemetery chapel.
A RESENT of North London who is not nearly as proud as she might be were she inclined to give herself airs is Mrs. Alois Hitler. She is an Irishwoman who became sister-in-law of the Fuhrer and she has a son in the mid-twenties, Masor-Genera, H., J, Huddleston, just appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, was known as "the strong man of the Sudan." Having risen from the ranks and made good, he is a strict disciplinarian, but the broadest-minded dispenser of muliany jusuce it would be possible to find, Amona the treasures acquired by Mr. Hearst that have never been seen in America, and are now to be sold, are six of the biggest rooms from Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, together with their contents. These were secured by the American millionaire when a mansion came into the market owing to the fact that the Palace had rather casually been built over valuable coalfields.
Dr, Ma Ying-chu, noted economist and member of the Legislative- Yuan, delivered a lecture on Chinese national currency at a dinner reception, held in his honour by the Bankers' Association in Chungking on April 6, states a dispatch to the "Sin Wan Pao," Dr, Ma's conclusion, says the message, was that legal tender notes will not suffer any depreciation as a result of the currency manoeuvres of the "Federated Reserve Bank" in North China, Tue life of Lord Sanderson, who recently resigned from the Labour Farty, is an illustration of what can be done by determination to overcome a serious disability. He was born practically blind. After a long and fruitless struggle to save his sight, he once wrote: "I said Damn my eyes!" and decided to let them go hang." He learnt to play croquet, tennis, and even cricket, passed his examinations at Oxford by employing an amanuensis, and for nine years was principal of Ruskin College. His Peerage was conferred on him in 1930 în recognition of his services to the cause of workers' education.
Tur arrest of Mr. Richard Whitney on a charge of grand larceny has shocked the City almost as much as it shocked Wall Street, for his unusually tall, handsome figure, faultlessly dressed in English clothes, is well known in London. Although he is only 50 he has for many years been a leader of New York society. He once rowed in the Harvard boat, was Master of the exclusive Essex Foxhounds, and presided over the Hunts Committee of the American National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, At the age of 42 he became President of the New York Stock Exchange—the youngest president ever elected. He was formerly a close friend of President Roosevelt, but about two years ago a coalness developed between them owing to the President's financial policy.
Cart Stanhope, who becomes the new leader of the House of Lords, probably owes his promotion to the efficiency with which he has carried out his work as President of Board of Education, Nothing been too much trouble for him has attended teachers' gatherings the most remote plac: visits to schools have indicated his desire to know exactly what was going on; It is no secret that he has been amazed at the type of work being done, and his admiration for it is reflected in the unexpected increase in the Education Estimates. One of his subsidiary titles is Viscount Stanhope of Mahon, This place is in the Balearic Isles, now so much in the news, and comes from the fact that James Stanhope, in the. carly eighteenth century, greatly distinguished himself as a military leader there, Lawyers generally are delighted over the appointment of Lord Maugham to the post of Lord Chancellor This is because polities has had little to do with it, and legal eminence everything. It has been a tradition that when the Lord Chancellorship or the Lord Chief Justic ship fell vacant, the Attorn eral should have the firs:
Lord Sankey was appointed without any experience of the House of Commons at all, buy he had been an eminent judge, The case of Lord Hailsham was even more unusual, He was appointed, Attorney-General before he was even a member of the House of Commons, and found a seat, because the Prime Minister of the day wanted the best lawyer he could dind, Acconpinc to the late Lord Long, no one did more to contribute to the Allies' victory during the war than Lord Cadman, chief author of the outspoken report on civil aviation In 1917 Lord Long, then Colonial Secretary, called him in to advise on the securing of oil supplies, and in later years Lord Long wrote that without his services all the men, all the munitions, and all the food in the world would have been of little avail. Lord Cadman's most spectacular achievement was building the 1,500- mile pipe-line from Irak to Tripoli at a cost of £10,000,000. He now controls the £5,000,000 concern that administers it, and that, too, is his own creation. Among his many distinctions is that of a Turkish pasha, which entitles him to four wives. He once told an audience in the Potteries, where he was born, that this particular-aspect of his title was not very popular in the family circle!
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