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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SATURDAY, JANUARY 2L 19IL 11 THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE. CORRESPONDENCE. I BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. STAFFORDSHIUE PIT LADS' STRIKE. MR.

would enable mo to" satisfy the longings' of my beneficiaries by obtaining for them MIturn and increased stability of their capital." In conclusion, Mr. Stewart declared that his TwffJment 'would welcome the appointment settlors of co-trustees to act with nun especially if they were business men. Lh ou secure a useful lay criticism on the of-the Department, while allaying any ibat lt of some pre- aatory legislator swooping down on the funds illr. Hdl'pn i-ii STEWART EXPLAINS HIS DUTIES. THE.

HALLE CONCERTS. To the Editor of the 'Manchester Guardian. Sir, Mr. Kahane, in his letter published to At its present price the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica may be purchased at the rate of only 15io a volume of over a million and a half words. EXTRA POLICE POSTED AT THE COLLIERIES.

Strong reinforcements of police from the south of the county were yesterday drafted into North Staffordshire, as the piti lads' strike ha3 taken an unfavourable turn. The dispute began on Monday, when a number of lads at the Deep Pit, Hanley, the Racecourse fit, CHOICE OF INVESTMENTS. Mr C. J. Stewart, the Publio Trustee, ga-re an The fact that the weeklies and fortnightlies as yet to hand from across the Atlantio contain no censure upon the manners of British politicians during the recent campaign niav be interpreted as a sign that the British people have carried through an election to the satisfaction of their American cousins.

It was not so in tlie case of the election of January last. On that occasion they disapproved of the methods employed, and taxed John Bull with indulging in personalities and abusive speech and the baser asperities of controversy. Those oer of Commerce, in proposing a vote of thanks xo jjir. Stewart. Rifi -ht l-d -me Provision for a periodical examination of the Public Trustee accounts bv Hanley, and the Sneyd Colliery, Bur3lem, left "i uuLsiae ana disinterested horlv.

AA Oi course, for a moment siifnrast. fhnt tTii a-r onolo nf wares wU lsj wou.5 anything irregular, nHa nMlinn T.dftrad idle and the pits in question were rendered idle. ttu examination would satisfy the day, has called attention a state of affairs which cannot longer be neglected. To be eure, protests have been made, from time to time, but for lack of organisation have proved ineffectual. a -logically-thought-out and conclusive criticism has been launched, and it is for the Halle Concerts Society to reply to it.

Mr. Kahane has behind him a young and energetic Society which ia here to effect reform and progress generally in music; the Halle Concerts Society ia oldatabliehd and wealthy; the onus rests on the latter of showing that it does not suffer from a common ailment of the rich, inertia. Yours, Clement Du Babey. 309, Bury New Road, Higher Broughton, January 20. public mind.

Yesterday the dispute extended to the Bircherj-wood Colliery, Kidsgrove, which has also now Mr. P. Aflbwrvrt.li which was adopted heartily, said the appoint- been laid idle, over 2,000 men and boys being WIC iuuuc easea tne aeatn beds of many nervous possessors of filthv thrown 'Jt of work, and it is estimated that lucre." (Laughter.) fully 6,000 persons are now affected by the dis A correspondent, impressed with the extraordinary cheapness of tne Encyclopaedia Britannica, compares its present price of 1510 a volume with that of a six-shilling novel. A volume of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica contains over a million anld a half words, and, at the price of 1510, gives 8,000 words for a penny. At the discount price of 46, a six-shilling novel of about 100,000 words gives 2,000 words for a penny.

Word for word, therefore, the rate at which the new Encyclopaedia Britannica! may be purchased is one quarter of the rate charged for burrent fiction. CHILD IN THE BAR PARLOUR. pute. In the afternoon a laTge band of lad3 marched to the Blackball Colliery and tried to persuade the men and boys working on the night turn not to descend, but they were dispersed by the police. Sixty extra county police have been drafted into the district, and have addiess beforo the Manchester Chamber oi Commerce yesterday on the -work of his office.

Mr. W. T. Stubbs, President of the Chamber, took the chair. In introducing Mr.

Stewart, lie said the Publio Trustee Act came into operation on January 1, 1908. The result of the first year's -working was a deficit of 4,449, but at the end of 1909 there was a surplus of 244, and the accounts for the last year -would' show a larger surplus. In 1908 the value of the estates that passed through the hands of tho Trustee was in 1909 it increased to 4,073,900. Mr. Stew-art began his address by explaining that the Public Trustee, -whose office was created: by the Government, partly in consequence' of the increasing difficulty of finding private persons -willing and competent to act as trustees and partly because of the serious losses by fraud of private trustees, was a perpetual official guaranteed by the State to act C3 an executor under wills, old or new, as a trustee under will or settlements, old or new, find in other minor offices.

There were about 1,700 estates in hia hands, of the average value oi 6,500, making in. all over 11,000,000 of current trusts. In addition to this, nearly STOCKPORT LICENSEE'S APPEAL. A King's Bench Divisional Court veeterdav. As the lads' in the case of Russon v.

Dutton, granted an been Posted at various collieries attitude is so far from conciliatory, it is feared that the dispute may spread considerably. Mr. The comparison, doubtless, has a certain cogency, present price, the new Encyclopaedia Britannica is At its reproaches affected the hearer in two ways. Coming from a nation whom he had not! hitherto considered as superior to himself in political manners, they set him thinking of the old saying of Satan reproving sin; but, again, they gave him a genuine introspective pang, and he asked himself, "Am I just like other people after alL then And of course John Bull is just like other people. Every country has a conception of its own national character which, although valuable aa indicating the ideal at which it aims, has sometimes little enough relation to reality, and, given a political issue of first-rate importance, then John Bull, who is pleased to think himself always the perfect gentleman, can lose his temper in the heat of debate like any other body.

He was never any better, and perhaps he has been worse, than he was a year ago. Time has been when even members of the Upper House have lost their Olympic calm and dipped a little into the Slang Dictionary. They did so in the Cora Law times, and gave Douglas Jerrold his opportunity in Punch." Here is what Jerrold made of it: To swear like a lord is an old phrase to scold like a peer may, since the Corn Law debate tho Peers, be added to it. Lord Aeh-burton, for instance spoke of somt half-clexgy- CALld" Enoch Edwards, M.P., the president of the Miners' Federation, unsuccessfully endeavoured ordinarily" cheap, and the six-shilling novel naturally presents To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, The energetic manifesto of the Manchester Musical Society in your issue of this morning I hope, still further show tho Halle Concerts Society how great is the dissatisfaction felt by a very considerable proportion of their supporters.

However, it is distinctly reassuring thai, in Manchester, where the climate appears to exert a peculiarly deadening influence upon all matters of art, there can exist a society not only having the courage of its convictions privately, but determined to ex to effect a settlement yesterday, but negotia tions will be resumed to-day. ipeai irom the decision of the justices of Stockport, who convicted the appellant, the licensee of the Horse and Jockey Inn, Stockport, of an offence under the Children Act. It appeared that two police officers entered the inn, and in the bar parlour they found a girl of 18 years of age and a child of 10. There was no. drink about.

The elder girl explained that she had called for a skirt which Mrs. Russon was making for her and had brought the little girl with her. Mr3. Rusaon, the landlord 8 wife, carried on a dressmaking business, and had left the girls in the parlour while she retched the garment. The appellant said he did not know what had happened in the par THE MOTOR INDUSTRY.

THE MICHELIN COMPANY'S NEW press them publicly as well. Their attitude 1,200 testators had, volunteered the information that they liad put him into their wills and cannot be construed as in any way disloyal to the HallS Executive. Good wine needs no had given the probable value of their estates at a total of 34,000,000. Atf IMMENSE UNDERTAKING. bush, and the past achievements of the Halle lour, xne matristrates.

However, nrvnviprerl. Concerts are what make Manchester's musical The Lord Chief Justine paid Via pnuld nnt. In two years and a half therefore the office umn, or somt low person half-Dies enter, or had negotiated or undertaken a business, cur understand the prosecution. He did not think YouId 1)6 fair in the- present case to hold that simply because Mrs. Russon was the land- 1 nTVI a it-i mAn 1 .1 1.

1. i i history. But it is felt, and this feeling cannot be too strongly insisted upon, that a little more tolerance on the part of the Executive towards LONDON PREMISES. The casual visitor to the new buildings of the Michelin Tyre Company in Fulham Road, Kensington, which were opened yesterday, is chiefly struck by the automatic doors. As you step on the mat outside the door neatly divides in half of itself and as you step on the mat inside it closes again.

If this device becomes common what is going to happen to the doorkeeping industry? Over the corners of the building are piles of tyres lit from within by strange blue someone of that Thus, with his Lordshin. rent and prospective, of some 45,000,000. The not to be of High Church is to be of low Euuicmg; excellent orthodoxy! The Earl of Warwick. With his nnt.innci nf Orn-iiMitmtv. called the agitation of the Leasrue was expressly debarred by statute fer her" actionsnd in the circumstaneTthl from making profit, and it therefore adminis- appeal would be allowed and the conviction terel trusts at cost price.

The main fees were quashed. Justices Hamilton and Avory agreed, a fee on capital and a fee on income. An estate wa3 a second appeal by the licensee of 10,000 would pay a capital fee of 30-6s. I fSaulst a conviction for using indecent per oent-at the beginning of the trust, and a allged that when he was the Corn Laws (them is. of lights, and in the centre is a picture in stained course, Divine authority for the fact) being the especial work of Heaven, for the benefit of the landlords.

Earl Stanhope boldly denominated the Commons' majority as 'base Sycophants who. lik filthv Tfintil as frr Tlni-in further pital foa the same rate -the final Sned "TVt lowing that jovial person compact of 'TJ qion was whether -a certain word was ar advertisements, modern composers would be a most effectivo reply to those critics who consider the management too indissolubly wedded to the past. As for the contention that the performance of modern music ha3 had discouraging financial results, Mr. Kalian rebuts Mt. Broad-field's remarks by pointing out that the sporadic introduction of new composers into the Halle programme is wasted on a public educated only to the reception of traditional opinion, and therefore scarcely capable on a first hearing of forming an independent judgment Their critical faculty rusts through disuse.

The public cannot be educated in a moment. But meanwhile wo want some evidence of a really Bibendum." He is drinking, an act symbolic the present session we have frequently thought it a pity that a clause in the Police Aot that pumsnes -by a fine abusive language might be applied to costennongers but not to Peers and uicmoers oi jraniament. i.uues, aiw trouoio respect ot ttie estate, i VJ -itTTj. i -F a Otiicr estates would pay in proportion. The sa 3" lfUlef W0Ii Wai income fee was at the mte of 1 per cent.

ElwfEfi Sheia5Lthat by' Assunrfng tlvat tlio estate of 10,000 while- held cnfrn Jfw hft, in trust produced an income of 350 a year, the fgK ClUD cheshlro would (Laugh-department would keep back 1 out of every rfv, ti t- 100 paid, direct to toe beneficiaries for Uamfnt services in safeguarding providing, and aU Bo toto. aopwintang-annually for that income. These: Th rvw Once oonvinced that we are no better than of the way the tyres "drink" obstacles on the load without giving the passengers a shock. The premises, which are built on an island site which covers 22,000 squaro feet, form cer tainly one of tho most efficient and complete places of the kind in the country. One of the features is the touring offioe which opens from the large entrance hall.

Here the motorist will be able to get all the information necessary in otner nations, we can take a chastened pleasure in the reflection that we are not much worse. That is the conviction awakened by Vicomte de Vogue's book "Les Morte qui progressive policy on the (part of the Executive. should destroy the asser- aot be supported and allowed the appeal with tion tlxat the Publio Trustee was expensive. I costs. itself for comparison as a familiar type of the less expensive class of book.

The comparison is felt to be unsatisfactory, however, because it throws an immeasurable advantage, in respect of contents, into the scale of the Encyclopaedia Britannica an advantage beside which the very much lower rate of purchase may well seem a' minor matter. If the comparison be accommodated, however, to books which are deemed to have a more serious value, an even -greater advantage in price lies with the new Encyclopaedia Britannica. 21- is the standard price of a biography or book of travels, which, if it contains 200,000 words, gives Soo words for a penny. In this case, the rate of purchase is ten times that charged for the new Encyclopaedia Britannica. There is, indeed, but one satisfactory standard by which to measure the cheapness of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica at 1510 a volume, namety, the price of the 9th edition, which was 30-a volume.

True, the 9th edition was prepared, printed and sold volume by volume, at intervals of about 6 months, so that it may be. regarded as having, to a great extent, paid its way in the course of publication. Nevertheless, 30- a volume of S50 quarto pages was a very reasonable price for this splendid work, of which the total cost of preparation amounted to 00,000. At 30- a volume (which is to be its ultimate price), the new edition will be considerably cheaper, since the volume, in this case, contains from 950 to 1,000 pages, and the cost of preparation amounted to 230,000 before a single volume was printed for sale. For the time being, however, the new edition may be purchased at little more than half the price charged for the oth edition.

At 1510 a volume, indeed, the new edition will seem "extraordinarily" cheap, even if it be compared with the copies of the 9th edition sold by "The Times" in 1S98. These copies were only a reprinl, made 16 years after the mean date of original publication, when the cost of preparation and; of making the plates had already long been defrayed, and the rate charged for them was 133. a volume. The price was rightly considered a remarkable one in the annals of publishing but the Cambridge University Press may fairly claim to have gone further in asking but 210 more for a larger volume containing over 200,000 "words more) of an entirely ne-w work, charged with all the initial expenditure of 230,000. But if the present rate of 1510 a volume is an extraordinarily low figure, those who are acquainted with books may find even more impressive evidence of cheapness in the circumstance that the India paper impression1 costs but Is.

2d. a volume more than the ordinary paper impression. For purchasers We want a continuous effort comparable with Parlent, recently added to tho Collection i-or tno bituu leea mentioned tho dirHeultks that of Mis3 Horniman in regard to the modern and ills which brought about the necessity of a THE TRADE OF BRITAIN. Nelson. There one finds a scathing exposure of the seamy side of popular government in planning a tour, and it will be possible to have a detailed itinerary prepared to cover any journey.

Further on is a big repairing-room, and stores, where tyres are packed and despatched. In the basement the visitors yester A COMPARISON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. A return issued yesterday shows that the im day found a huge stock of tyres, sufficient, it was said, if placed in a pile to make a column France, and the author, seeking an explanation of the intensity of political hatreds in hia own country, and of why a body of men who, taken singly and outside the Palais Bourbon, are mono -lruMoe were removed, iiirthormore, tho Public Trustee was permanent, so that an estate which was placed in his hands was for pvor after saved the expiense of appointing new tmstoes. This was a real economy, for in the oase of in estate of 10,000 the legal costs of r.jtpointinjr a new trustee were about 30. It might bo asked whether the Public movement in drama.

This is the least that can be done, and as we in Manchester pride ourselves on being very practical people, let us in this matter live up to our reputation, and decide at once there is no other way. Yours, Bertram Pace. 127, Portland-street, Manchester, January 20. ports of the United Kingdom for the eleven about nineteen times higher than een times Higher tnan fat. 1'aui s.

There is a well-appointed garage and, on the genial and kindly generate an atmosphere of months ended 30 amounted to 515,460,000, the figures for other countries, feeling within its walls that is like a "bath Lnibiee was nusineseiiKe, numan, ana per As to the first matter, dilatorinesq where comp orison is possible, sonal. of hatred," finds it in heredity. The old and had no place in the department. United States, 297,035,000: Prance, feuds and animosities of their fathers awake in them the feud of serf against lord, of To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, I read with interest and satisfaction iiuguenot against Catholic, and of sansculotte Mr.

Kahane's letter in your to-day's issue concerning music in Manchester. It is In against aristocrat. We lend them our voice," says M. Giraud, "but it is only out deed high time for something drastio to be trivial to receive full attentioT'intil it ws ffO; and Belgium, 174,956,000. In the fettled.

Ho add that ho had already 0156 amount represents the value of had to dispose of several largo businesses and principal articles only. some small onea-a. wire rope mater's The exports (domestic) for the same period tho business of a stock jobber in the middle of ara miZZ -r, -I an account, ho having no partner, the practices i al6 Teturned follow Kingdom, rf several doctors, a chemist's, two tobacconists', United States, Ger-a butcher's, a costermonger'a, and a laundry, many, France, and As to being human and personal, secrecy was xini mn tho rule of the office, and the confidence so Belmia freely reposed in the Public Trustee bv alii voice that we lend them; by our mouth it first floor, roomy and well-ventilated offices. The advertising department is particularly important in a firm whose ingenious appeals to the publio are so well known. "The home of Bibendum" has a convenient position on one of the main exits from London.

Reinforced concrete floors and pillars with outside walls of brick constitute the main structure, and window frames, doors, and fittings of iron help to make the building fireproof throughout. There was a very large attendance at the opening ceremony, which was performed by Mr. E. Manville, chairman of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, who was accompanied by M. Paul Gambon, the French Ambassador.

M. Andre1 Michelin, in welcoming the guests, said that the automobile was born on tho Continent, but whereas there are only 60.000 cars fitted with pneumatio tyres on the Continent there are 100,000 in the United Kingdom. The Michelin Tyre Company, established in this country in 1904, was the first to done, and I hope that those in authority will take heed of the criticism offered by the is the dead who speak." It would seem that the Commissioner Secretary of the Manchester Musical Society appointed by tha Italian Government to ex He only touches upon question of what is amine the contents of the various national done, or rather left undone. It is, however, lioraries with a view to exhibits at the forbade a levity of gossip. But he; wwr -rttytvp tmtito e-Mdd sav without violation of Hia in nf WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF equally unsatisfactory to observe how things approaching exhibition at Turin have here and are done.

As far as possible it should be the secrecy that his experience ranged among all classes, from the letter asking him to act as an executor to tho aonlicant honourablv AGRICULTURE. At a meeting of the West Riding Chamber of aim of an organisation of the prominence of there made disagreeable discoveries that remotely remind one of the experience of Boc the Halle Concerts Society to engage for the caccio at Monte Cassino. They have come upon i nerformance of creat works exclusivelv artists desirous oi securing his savings for his little Agriculture at Wakefield yesterday it was re daughter, nine years old, adding, "I have no-nort-d that i i fit pneumatio tvres on racing cars, iney soon mrmnnent. euMi-Mo t'reu ucpuwiuou uaa interviewed me recpgrnsea tnai was noi buuicieai, iu niiio wto aTe vlI to their task, a practice which, and that it was necessary to manufacture here. it too unfortunately, often disregarded.

Another up to the' tragedy that 'was some-; County Council on the subject of regulations for fimcs hidden behind great riches. Of these the control of dogs between sunset and sunrise. M. Oambon coiurratulated M. Michelin.

and Isaid that ho had shown "our English friends" cases where valuable and beautiful books have been missing or soiled or mutilated, and sets of volumes carelessly dispersed and members irrecoverably lo3t. Even in such an institution as the Vittorio Emannuele Library at Rome there has been loss due to the incompetence matter for dissatisfaction is the insufficient rehearsing evident at many of the concerts, more on SUP: and the Council had reported that the Diseases iw. emiW be found enenrv. ability. foreseen, that many preferred to confide their of Animals Act Committee would apply to the and an -enterprising spirit.

These qualities 1 i ii a. otto not. alwavs recocrnisea in l'rencnmen. particularly in the case of the choral works. A are well aware that India paper is much more expensive than ordinary paper, j- ln.e WUIU an oraer empowering fnr thp motor indualrv.

which little public criticism of the Society cannot but hands of an impartial and. he honed and reckless disregard of duty of the staff, ana mar. copies 01 a dook pnncea upon inaia paper usually cost at the least 50 trust- them to make a regulation on tho subject. Mr. now extended throughout the world, was essen- K6V Bflllrhnnrl r.oi4 -flint- mi-nip -Pn i 11T1.

i i it ml- i 1 1 1, worthy official, rather than to leave the 3 per cent more tnau copies print2u upon ordinary book paper. Such facts, together with the recent complaints regarding the library at Madrid, make one have a healthy effect Yours, K. N. Seioe, 164, Meadow-street, Moss Side, January 20. rioX All l.J.

sheep-breeding owing aWd, well exemplifies the entente cordialer hardly ivrr Minvilln mentioned, in proof of the mentally contrast tho state of things in the iur. Moagson, spealting- on tine lown-plannmg interest shown by the Company otner Act, said that, amongist other things, the Act branches of sport, the British Michelin Cup. English-speaking world. In our own country fidelity and, he trusted, with a tolerant couimonscnso. mere was never a time when tho various wouiti lead to tno abolition of damp and con- which was recently competed tor tnis PRIXCIPLES AND POLICY IN country.

libraries of the land were better cared for, or sumption breeding houses, and Mr. Colliiigwood said that in his district it was impossible to PENSIONERS' WIVES AND POOR RELIEF. To (lie Editor if the Manchester Guardian. mannea oy aoier, more enterprising, and more build a house to let at less than 5s. 6d.

per week WHITE FISHING IN THE SOLWAY. Turning to tho principles and policy which zealous men, while in the case of America the should guide his department in the matter of "WO U.IU WOW i ir ri i i Sir, Mrs. Nevmson in hex criticism of the Old-age Pensions Act does less than justice to the present Government. The measure was system of distribution is almost elaborate enough to encourage a citizen in the belief that every time ho reads a novel he is doing the RENT AND ASSESSMENT. public a service.

Any undue elation, however, largely tentative and experimental, and cer on this score is chastened by the reflection that les3 than half a century ago instances of All this discussion of prices may have too material a sound 'in connection with a book which has the diguity and value of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica, a book which is the result of collaboration among the most distinguished authorities of our time. But, however highly the be rated, and however evident may be its value, the price at whicu it may be purchased must yet in the case of the majority of readers be a matter of very great consideration. And, certainly, by its publishers the uale of the new edition at a low price has been regarded as a very important part of their responsibility. The Cambridge University Press assumed control of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as of a book which deserved the widest possible distribution, and its cheapness is an essential factor in the undertaking. Moreover, as the days pass, the question of price becomes one to which the attention of intending subscribers must more and more direct itself.

For the present rates apply to orders received while the work is still in course of publication. The first 14 volumes are ready have, indeed, been delivered to a large number of early subscribers and the other 14 volumes of text are to follow immediately. There remains only the index (volume 29) to complete, and when that volume has been printed and delivered the present rates will be withdrawn, and the work! will be purchaseable only at a higher price. tain anomalies, to be afterwards rectified, were sure to occur. There is one discrepancy in the Act whicii appears to me an injustice to men, in that a husband otherwise eligible neglect as gross, perhaps, as any in Italy to day were to be found in the ca3a of cathedral is precluded from obtaining a pension if his iiniuiicin, jair.

iaiewan; saiauie iruoiic inisree hail all the freedom of a private trustee. Ho might ho restricted by an investment clause to tnisteo securities, or ho might be allowed to inwst according to his own discretion whether ir tnisteo securities or not. In all cases he would do hia i best for all parties Interested. Porno risk attached to every investment. Of late years gilt-edged securities had suffered as much as others, if not more.

Perhaps this was duo io a large increase of available investments with a better yield of income, and as pood, if not better, prospect of appreciation in vipital value before their. possibly also to the increased expqnditure of modern life, whether in tho shape Of taxation or motor-cars, which had led the capitalist to insist on a kmrer Tho Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate pointed out yesterday to a tenant who complained that his assessment for poor rate was higher than the rent actually paid, that it was the value of the house, and not the rent at which it was let, that determined the question of assessment If the premises were assessed at too high a figure, the proper course wa3 to appeal to the overseers against the ana couegiato libraries. It is Mr. Blades who tells us so, and two of the specimens he gives wife is in receipt of Poor Law relief, relief to are wortn quoting, in one case a broken Dane tho wife bein? reckoned as relief to the hus- uaiui. inaL iiie Act mas oeen an enormous had been so long left unrepaired that a tendril of ivy had crept in along the top of a tow of boon to many thousands of worthy old people is obvious, and the end is not yet.

It seems books. It served admirably as a duct during lumiiuia, wiui me result mat a row of book JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF SESSION. Litigation which has been before tho courts at Dumfries for the past eighteen months regarding the rights of those engaged in white fishing at Blackshaw in the Solwav has just been decided. The pursuers were the Duke of Buccleuch and Captain Campbell-Johnston, of Carn-salloch, as proprietors of salmon fishings in the upper reaches of the Nith, and they brought a test action against thirteen Carlaverock fishermen for the purpose of having them interdicted from using the paidle net on the ground that it was an engine which was destructive of salmon passing up the estuary. The fishermen declared that the nets were flounder nets, and that they had been exercising rights to fish for -white fish which had been enjoyed since the reign of Queen Anne.

They admitted that salmon sometimes got into the 'paidle net, but they declared that they wero always liberated. They held that if the interdict were granted as craved the effect would be to ruin the white fishing industry on the Solwav. which was at present the only means of livelihood of a large number of families. Sheriff Campion granted the interdicts and on appeal to the Court of Session the judgment has beeu confirmed with expenses against the fishermen. to me that we guardians who are brought into contact with the anomalies in the Act will be the least valuable of which would have been BOOKS RECEIVED.

I cheap at a hundred pounds was badly damaged. better employed in drawing the attention of in tne second case it was a broken skyligli wmcn am tne miscluet. ihcrtt was a book We have received the following books, From EdwarJ Arnold case below it, and the value of its contents SELECTIONS FROM UO.MUK. Killted, 4c. bjr W.

nennle. chiefly Caxtons and specimens of early English printing was sucn mat one of the volume" Edited bv 1 W. P. Lewis, M.A., auil C. H.

Bcoadbant, B.A. Ea.lMPLll'IED OV1U. A i'lrsi Latin Reader. By V. Wilton, ll.A.

Is. 6d. wmni ih nriUsh and Fowlsn Unitarian Association though saturated and stained and rotten, was the Government, by resolutions passed by our different boards of guardians, to these anomalies than by holding the Government up to ridicule, for after all it is this Liberal Govern, ment- that has mode this enormous step in social amelioration. The nation, with the Government, have recognised their obligations to succout the aged and deserving poor, and what follows is merely the dotting of i's and crossing of t's. Yours, January 20.

Robt. J. Matthews. soia. lor zuu.

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THE TM? TrvmVKCV rvaiDrmiAM letuni on hisi investment, thus reducing the. demand for and the value of first-class trustee st neks such a's Consols, English railway debenture and preference etocks. and the like. Tho field of modern investment having so enormously -widened the work of selection be-ftuiie jnoro complicated The department, dealing through many brokers, and having the of their expert assistance and ad-yiei. and also dealing wjth authorities of stand-iv! finance, politics, and commerce, had opportunities for full information.

tli did not wish to depreciate the magnificent "spa id and very often unthanked work by private trustees, but the mow experience ho had of the assistance rendered by special department and organisation the inore realised the disadvantages under which the private trustee necessarily suffered. He Moufrht that the principle of having investments widely distributed geographically, as well as commercially was worthy of serious attention. Xo statute had warned a trustee not to put all his eggs in one basket, and where "realisation could constantly supply accurate ha saw no reason why "the estate should not have the full benefit of it. THE WIDENING- OF THE AREA. With the opening up of the world in new Governments and in new commercial ventures it was beyond question that sound stocks, rtab'fl beyond all question as to their capital atv.

ptving a good -return of income, were to be in new countries- as well as in old. '-ocks in foreign railways would be found to eo.iir.aro very favourably with the old trustee ftivks of Erurlish Tailwavs as rejrards price, MAX'S BEDEMPTIOX OF Mii. An AOOies. By The Finance Committee of the Salford Board of Guardians yesterday discussed the question of additions to the staff of officials. Twice the Guardians have resolved to appoint four male assistant returning officers, one woman cross visitor, and case paper clerks for the introduction of that system which records the his- S.

D. B. The exports of cotton yarn to Holland for 1910. were as cam-' To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian pared with for December, 1R09. i cirTrmit -ht-i For the vear 1910- they were bur' Prlnit heartily to support Mr.

arainst for 1909. We have noted 1 Charles Stevenson's appeal for early and WlIBam Osier, is. net. From the "Economist" Office: THE NATIONAL EIFEilUTCKlS OU lllfc UilXtU EijfQpOal. XTeiaoo oy r- xiira- Prom Funk and Wagaalls Company: your suggestion.

I generous subscriptions towards the cost of a I.IOHT3 AND OJIADO ut ijli-Ij uj iiijs. It is not necessary that he should be British Section at. tb Tnto.ini tory of applicants for relief. Yesterday, how- 1 JKiiJJO WHOA. From Qlnn and a supporter oi me uoKrnn.

Exhibition to be held V- Tar, lever, objection was mad to tho HEM0IK3 OF BERTHA VOX STJTTJiEB. 21s. net. of an ETenuui ioie. aw wmuca.

From PhlllD Qreen: R. R. On or before die 13th day of De- It regTetted that ehould 1 ward of the proposals. Mr. Dobson said that oember.

(2) It is the canton of Bern, and i llavo oeen owiner to the reduction in tbe number of caaon is not very far from Sion. any difficulty in getting a Government grant of relief due to the removaVof the auTer J. Ince. Apply to the Free Trade Union, 'of the wnole required for an object in disqualification from the Old-age Pensions Act 8, Victoria-street. London, S.

V. which our country has had the honour of lead-! ina work of the offlcers was being reduced. fl -Rabn-es. Mr. Edwvn Holt contested ins the way.

to sav nothing of the nroof Rnb Mr. F. Townson, the clerk, said that about 30 CHEIST- THE BEGIN XIN OF DOGMA. By Professor Tr i n- I Vii 1 IV, trim 4 2b. twt.

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Manchester, A proposal that tbe matter should be deferred for three months was defeated, and the Committee finally agreed to appoint four male assistant relieving officers at 70 a year, rising to 100 by increments of 2. 10s. annually. The salary of the woman visitor was fixed at 70 annually, rising to 90, and the clerk was instructed to introduce the case paper system of records. fluctuation in" price, and security over-a long rnustrated.

s. tbe inforrnation you require. or Loans of foreign Governments "'d municipalities, where wars and -revolutions Wf infreouent. loans of colonial munici- iciiun-uuicus me worm cow oest to minimise the causes of disease and death, when on the other hand literally a thousand timea as much is squandered on Dreadnoughts and destroyers. Yours, Edward Netld.

Eccles, January 20. bV Brtr-aier General G. O. Jston O.BVlth Baerlein. The Little Blue-book is fcjoed Dy tbe League of Young Liberals, 447, and stocks guaranteed as to principal ad interest by the coSonies, magnificent offering bonds and were all T'-cwr competitors for consideration and POOR LAW AND PENSIONS.

Str.tnd, London, W.C inimnl BrothexV Bristol: HOW THSr ABE OBTAINED. 14 11. "Wo are unable to find the rsasaasr. iTmnt Llmlirf 5-idence. As to tm-stea securities, the Leeis Orn hon.

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J. W. Pearson, 47, Albert the Schiller-Anstalt, writes: With reference to IMbAXTLEN'S HISTORICAL OTODES. HTstuatt Jon. A.

S. 64 net. could not by giving an investment lt3 n.fjsing guarantee its stability, and it was "'Pen to question whether a list of investments seated bv the Lecislature in 1338 was neces-the best dosbiW list in 1911. The Legis- EFFECT IN SOUTH MANCHESTER UNION. At the meeting of the South Manchester Board of Guardians yesterday, it was reported that of the 431 persons ia receipt of out-door relief who had applied for old-age pensions 444 were JUevensnuime, I.

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6d. owic, on my per round on Wednesdays' and Saturdays, authority as honorary secretary of this Crab, -were -unable to satisfy the pensions ofBcera that after 1 6d per round all day on public; that I had absolutely no knowledge of thati they were over 70 years of age, and in some holidays. Season tiefceus: Gentlemen's, avail-; lattar vQ "vrv cases the fact that women gave their wrong are of.vEVGINO AND REFUSE DISPOSAL A HJLBd-TOWN SCAVEI -V Httgh S. WaUoru 3 s. 6d.

-stuTe indeed "had recently thrown a doubt "pea the fixity of its selections and had, subject to. certain conditions, provided that moneys arising from sales under the Irish Land Acts notwithstanding anything in a 6ettle-Bieat to the contrary, be invested in foreign 'jovemmentstoeksandinthe mortgages, bonds, aad debentures charged ipon the undertaking any -railway company in the. United States, vjytES OT TBI LAW OF FRIT ATE STREET By J. cent on Wednesdays and Saturdays) and after deciding upon the matter. J-IU3 S3 OOly to Tipm.

Six nai AecideA. tr rrmtin innirl Under mmc Bdletconder. 3s. 64 net vn auu Uvv MrCJgUkL IS JO IDS. Those who have full particulars of the book should not delay to use the form of application.

The reader who has not received a form of application with prospectus and specimen pages should write name and address below, tear; off this corner, affix to a postcard, or enclose in an unsealed envelope with Jd. stamp, and post at once to Xbe Cambridge Press, i p.m. on sukii uji, auu u. uay oa puouc state a i act, wiuxrat wisnmg to criticise either 1 the reueJ-ocoKS Because tney got more tnat way holidays, 10s. 6d.

ladies available all day, i nthi- I than -under the pensions scheme. Of the 5 rTO-ca amu 10s. 6d. inmatea of the Board's institutions over seventv. only 26 had taken their discharge.

The Clerk his Baurnter. imt caia aeuow tP0.etta Jf Hty D-amond. 6s. rt each. (Air.

uioomneiai eaia tnat lour married, women THE LATE DR. P. "MELLAND. Land Tbansfer Commission. It is understood that the final -re port 'of the Royal Com were receiving pensions, while their husbands were receivinc out-relief, and that Dr.

JHe Public Trustee of Ireland must first jgive consent, after satisfying himself that there a reasonable probability that tho invest-nient would, if realised on the death of. the tenant for life or the termination of the trust. Produce an amount not less than tho sum investor! mission on the Land Transfer Acts was signed. Toe South Manchester Board of Guardians -nJ iii be at an yesterday passed a resolution of condolence on Thursday ana wui De issued at an early relatives of the LCe Dr. MeUand.

The proposal to remove the diequaliScation -under the pensions scheme of men whose wives had Teeeived relief was gaining considerable support all over the country. 135, Fetter Lane, London, B.C. mm Straker Brothers: CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY GMaEF alsW TraHlo Boot By H. A. Graham.

2- Wilscn: THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REVIEW. CANADIAN. Ap-pcdlr'toVoLX wt8aen Ma Co QnciSCJtlCKHTTCKS' ALMANACK FOB 1911. prom Witherbr and Ojr HOW TO ATTRACT SiS Mtrtta Hi' lsfr r-TmIJVEBWOBTS: The fact," added Mr. Stewart, that the date.

Chairman (Mr. George Macfariane) eaid Dr. 1 Melland was apointed district medical officer A Renter telegram from oh the Caa- for Busholme and Moss Side under tho Chorl-pian, states that at 3 40 n. yesterday aa earth. ton Beard in mo, soon-after the tot begn- Name- vestments among "the class referred to which nave thn virtue it otoKiHv.

twins to warTaiit QBOTOTO CHILD EES ABE JTCCH BESEFTTED by little ATOBA Eefioed Beef Suet in bat milk (instead of Cod Unr Oil), or ta Suet Puddings and Baked Bsc grtrtrlfnia ASeatgUly par. Aik act frooes to ASOBA; me addition to the present list of trustee mevj.ii; -i i in its quake shock lasting five second wa felt ia the than practically the eldest official who had hem Address ana ii tne iiegiaiaima "yr Caneawp- eajmeoseoi msa use aoaacb meaxSB. 2m. 64 sat. Asnas Fry- wul ouivfl 1UI 1115 UIO i- Presented to the Publio Trustee of Ireuina,.