THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG . Saturday, July 31, 1926 _ A PAGE OF BRITISH NEWS FOR THE READERS OF THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 'SEPTUAGENARIANS MELBA'S FAREWELL | NOW GET PENSIONS mm ve corm 8] CONCERT STAGE ment at Blas kburn, when Hoey ol i were sudden) overwl : | One Hundred Thousand ot, accompanied by © Ten Thousand People Pay More British Residents with soot, accompanied by © OIE. i ipro~ 5} Artiste Great Benefit from July 2 Tribute ALIENS ALSO MY DARLING PUBLIC Receive Ten Shllings| press when a parrot unex- Dame Nellie Thanks Them Weekly Under Contri- pectedly poked its head from a Savosucossucesusacosasend | for Their Loyalty and butory Pensions Act TIARA BR RAN About 100,000 people additional «INF THOUSAND LAY present old age BeuSioners became | GOOOOCVOR0CRRD0L000G POLLY'S PHRASE WAS APPROPRIATE A BLACKBURN PARTY. Court Rules Expert F dence Must Be Hear: in Person DELAYS VOQYAGR Magnificent Yacht Liberty Waited fn Vain for Coal Under South Wales Runs in Shape of Basin SOME ACCIDENTS Absence of Timber on Sur- face Working Cause of plie of soot, exclaiming, "Well. Love weekly from | I'll be blowed." Provided with a cage now, Mme. Melba has said farewell to the fied" to dras concert world---as she had previously 2. : ry The Widows', Orphans', and Oid | 1} > Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1025, Polly readily answers t done to the operatic stage two weeks then came into operation for those of | ------ | The Fossdyke Canal which runs from Torksey to Bardney, between the Trent and the Wash, was built by the Romans. It is the oldest navigable canal in existence. Photograph shows Torksey Lock and the old Roman arch. TWENTY LONDONERS SEE SUNRISE FOR FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIVES Ramblers Make Ten Mile Walk Raising Tudor Ghosts W ho Obligingly Shrieked in Tower of Squerry's Court . After Singing of Dirge their melodies, and a sparrow hawk uncannily glided around alone. As the'¢lear sky freshened and its neutral eastern horizon gave place to cream, the trampers were in single line on Crockham-hill Common, eager- ly pressing their way through bracken, At 8 o'clock on a recent morning 20 young men and women members of the London C.H.A. Rambling Club tramped into Penshurst, a peaceful nook of Kentin astate of mental and physical breathlessness. They had walked ten miles across Shoulder LER snd dew-dripped, to country through the night and nearly a art a DE afeuing chorus of all of them had seen the sun rise for |{ 7% =" NE presently accompan- the first time in their lives. . There are few more thrilling ex- Aas Samous beauty sput was reached periences than a night walk treated In tim, a 20 Lond a mer a spirit of high adventure. This par- by rand 1 1. oners stood ti in ticular one, anticipated for months, 1 nary spectacle of a actually began at Westerham at 8 purple sun arising from a purple mist. a.m., when the ramblers, who had A Sap n Privy almost imperceptible been resting in armchairs in a private 2 ove 308 bb aint mauve disc, house, astonished four village police- 8 top 'Was cately tinged pink. men basking in the full moonlight by | GOLDEN GLORY filing into the street and disappearing | In 20 minutes it had changed to in mass down a dark alley. carmine, bright cherry red, vivid The trampers, as a prelude to great- |Orange, and, finally, as it majestly er exhilaration, proceeded south to|SWwept above the haze, to a golden raise the ghosts of Squerrys Court, |810ry impossible to gaze at. who, when humored on a moonlight | The ramblers passed on to Ide Hill, night by proper ritual and respect, [Saw the Weald bathed in early sun- years immediately before the date on which the pension hecame payable. The wife of an insured person is also entitled to the pension, providing she is 70 act was married before April Otherwise she will have to next Saturday 10 Si%e Be Sxpart Suds that is In to restore to | Houston liberty to. control QUAINT COURTROOM. Her Lobe, at She length of coal which exposed at or near the surface, 9 i Given half & dossn good miners: | which wes 'bequeathed to. her with & used to these "p '* seams, large quantities of coal are easily obtained. fortune of nearly 58.000.000, awited They will go down a considerabl depth with only a pick and shovel. They have no mechanical method of "'ralsing" the coal to the surface once they got down any distance. BURIED ALIVE. Two poor fellows were overwhelmed when several feet down recently. The sides caved in, and they were found in an upright position, as when they were caught, but, alas, dead. Two other colliers, at Pontycymmer, | 57 seeking coal for the children's soup kitchens, were also killed. In the middle of the program Mme. Melba sang those two arias with which she recently thrilled the opera audience --Verdl's exquisite 'Ave Maria' '(*"Otello'*) and '*Addio'" ("Boheme"). Then came anothef procession of flowers and trophies to the platform, one from the Australian cricketers. From one bouquet Mme. Melba ex- tracted a flower and gave it to the conductor (Sir Henry Wood) as a buttonhole. AULD LANG SYNE. At the close came, a speech from Dame Nellie: *'1 am sorry to go," she said, 'but I do not regret it, because you have been so loyal to me, my darling, sweet public, all these years. » "Sooty." previously----at the Albert Hall, Never has the great hall held a more wonderful audience, one which and over. | packed the hall from floor to ceiling. Is the second portion of the In the Royal box, as the King's Act to come into operation. The first, | guests, were the Australian cricketers, applying to widows and orphans, came In other boxes one saw many tiaras, into effect on January 4, and it was giving a gala atmosphere to the con- recently stated in the House of Com. y | cert, mous by Bir Kingsley Wood, Parlia- Ex-Inmate of W orkhouse/| Mme. Melba herself seemed in radiant mentary Secretary to the Minister of spirits as she came on to the platform Health, that 124.500 applications bad and Brother to Share for her first song, a queenly figure in been granted to widows, while 20.470 white, with head-dress and corsage were still under consideration Fortune Mterally blazing with magnificent dia- a Siual apilcation of the Act, mands. . a extends old age pensions to per. er solo was the familiar Mozart sons G5 years of age, does not come GOLDEN HOARD air "'L'amero sara constante," sung into operation until January 2, 1828. wih orchestral accompaniment {fie TWO YEARS RESIDENT ae on | Royal Albert Hall Oichestia, Mnder ,.Thase who now races the tanetiis Delicate Machine Used to) Sir Henry Wood) aad viola obilg uagenarians, eo | well as . and those living in Weigh Thousands of MOCK DISMAY. Northern who are insured Coins Beautifully the great singer gave it, under the National Health Insurance | with that finish and grace of style Sh ------------ wi way: particularly | Those who have hitherto received! Claimants to the fortune of Mias jhar1sYe ajways best icuiarly only a portion of the pension through | Clara Alice Jones, the Manchester re-| Ag the music ended a procession of being in receipt of a certain income, or | cluse whose estate was proved at| gitendants started for the platform have recelved no pension at all. are nearly £47,000, numbered a thousand. | with floral tributes of all shapes and now entitled to the full amount of 10s. | The successful applicants are two | giseg There is, however, a qualification | brothers named Higgins, one of whom, | Mme. Melba held up her hands in William Frederick, was until recently | mock dismay, but courageously insist an inmate of a Manchester workhouse, | oq on receiving each personally, al- while the other, Henry, lives in Lob-| though nearly overwhelmed by some don. They have established their|,f the largest. One, a beautiful wand kinship as first cousins. tipped with flowers, she waved trium- William Frederick is a bachelor, 65 phantly aloft, rus ot Be. Ha Wis at a It was announced that all the floral but a breakdown in health in 1008 Fito 0 be jo Snpetietely to SI. compelled him to seek refuge in the pensions became | workhouse. Recently, however, he in January the Ministry of | moved to comfortable lodgings. h was inundated with app.ica- "I'm very pleased," he confessed. "I look upon the money as a trust, and it will not change my mode of to pass t life." floes, and it is impossible to state at | wrIGHING HER GOLD. Miss Jones died in apparent poverty in a squalid house in Hulme, Man- chester; but stacks of gold coins were found hidden there, and amongst her possessions was a delicate machine for weighing gold coins. 'The small scale was worn thin with this stage what percentage of those entitled to the benefits have applied for them, . FOXHUNTING ON constant use, showing that, behind the privacy of her locked and barred dwelling, Miss Jones had been in the habit of weighing her hoard to as- . Supposed "Cat" Had Fatal : garden, "to CARDEN LAWN enchant for Chicken Feed Miles away from the nearest covert, in the back garden of a house in Loughborough road, Brixton, occupied Mr. and Mrs. C. E, Heath, there ive been two exciting fox hunts, Mrs. Heath was in a back room when she saw a "ginger-colored cat" on a rockery at the end of her Night after night #t ap- sometimes prowling about the wn and sometimes sitting on its haunches and howling. In the morn- ing ens were missed and feath- ers ori a nearby lawn. At last, Mr. Kearey, a neighbor, rised the "cat" on the lawn, and, amazement, found it was a fox. 'The fox dashed into a 4 garden, where a number of passers-by joined in the case. Hard pressed, it leapt into en area, where, amid great excitement, it was caught and handed to a coalman, who took it away in a sack! later another fox A few ap- A search was emerged from floor boards, The dog drove the fox into a cor- | 108d was effected. y pretty ani obviously young," said Mrs. Hi "How they came into the gar. den is a mystery.' BISHOP TRUSTEE ARIS e Pass Declining en Idyllic Village when a gentle- "Twenty. years the actual weight of gold. SCOTLAND YARD'S sented a problem for Scotland Yard to tackle recently. who lives in Roundwood road, Willes, den, and was employed as a messen- ger in a local office. zanne Jean Brittain, who lives on a farm at Hayes lane, Bromley. is only twelve nearly five feet in height, and is well developed. her brother, who is slightly. older than herself. Stratford House, in fourteen, a fair-haired bobbed girl with deep brown eyes, has peared. gre; young man, of Sibley Grove, East Ham Rachel 'Evans, of West Croydon, who is SOMNANBULST WD the psychological Plato Apollo? certaln if there were any deficiency in ------------------------ SEARCH FOR GIRLS Day from London Suburbs w Seven girls missing in one day pre- One girl is Elsie Baker Birehington, Another strange case is that of Su- She years of age, but is She has gone away with They have little money. Miss Lillian Lawrance, living in Chelsea. aged dlsap- She was smartly dressed in y. Sarah Bridget Dashwood, of Hay (26), a housekeeper, ewick road, Clapton. y married wo- Queen's road, twenty years BROKE WINDOWS * Kingston Magistrate *'Can any of your tlemen tell me and Socrates and Hercules and new stars in the mind at all if you will only say to love| - Solemn of a dirge around a Tudor tower 1 he woods led te- the appea of ghosts silhou- moonlight In a tea last heard leading National Anthem. LANDING STAGE SINKS THIRTEEN Unpleasant Eleven (members "Perhaps you will soon be idolising future. I do not ourselves: But we used to elbag'" i i At the end of her speech Mr, John Brownlee sang the first verse of 'Auld Lang Syne." turning round to the them, with the help of the orchestra, in singing the other verses. Then Sir Henry Wood, audience, led The sight and sound of an audience rsa 3 of over 10,000 thus greeting the great Seven Disapp:ared in One prima donna were most impressive, The audience itself next set the tune of "For he's a jolly good fellow," hich ended in the usual tumultuous cheers. Melba's voice was Finally, everyone in the Mme, Ending to others' Union Party from Manchester women and two children of a Mothers' Union party give shrieks free of charge. RAISED GHOSTS. ' etted aga window. Each ghost wore a rucksack and t echoed over the Weald. Shortly afterward the party emerged from a pine wood into an impressive silence of grey dawn. - The nightjars ceased their rattling, the nightingales EARL FLLIOES CENTENARIAN AUNT Passes Away When Ap- * proaching Her 105th Birthday DID WAR WORK Member of Family With) Remarkable Record for Longevity Miss Catherine Jellicoe, Bunt of Earl Jellicoe, has just passed away at her home in Portiland-terrace, Southamp- ropriately shrieks shine and blessed the National Trust who saved the view-point. Then down they tramped into Penshurst for reakfast--a mountain of rolls butter, two score of fried eggs and rashers, marmalade and gallons of Morning was passed In Penshurst Park and the afternoon by a walk through picturesque Chiddingstone to Hever. And there in the early evening, 24 hours after they had left Victoria, they took the train to home---well con- tent. MOSQUITO SONG 10 BE HEARD ON RADIO Lecturer from College of Pestology to Give Demonstration BUS CARRIERS Public Conveyances Male to Establish New Families ton, within a few weeks of her 105th | of birthday. Most of these accidents are caused by the absence of timber. All miners carinot take advantage of these outcrops. Mr. Cook, for instance, not be In would crop." He is a working a claim will arrange to work in two or three shifts. If there are three shifts, the night shift will act as watchers over the "outerop." If two, they will work six in each shift. Then some one must sell the coal-- a highly skilled job -- for the dis- posal of the outcrop bristles with dif- ficulties. x The colliery manager has his jealous eye on you all the time, while the mineral agent is also watching care- fully. The police are active, and pay occasional visits, It the commercial manager of the "of * issuccessfuland gets orders, the next difficulty is the delivery of the coal, and there are such. things as Emergency Regulations and Coal Orders to be avoided, Much coal is delivered by night, de- vigilance of of an appeal to a. higher tribunal, REPORT USELESS. The petition Lady Houston urged it on her husband's the miners' | cal Bet i i: i | | of: jek: HH 'i fie 4 5 AN i i i % 2 8 f g kid : ] i : 4 | | | ! | x : i ji { Bl Biel 28 Tt i i 8 Hats t 0 i git i i § § i | I l én il i 1 ih