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- some oak panelling and the grand-| tion of the magnificent Royal Vie- Open Schools for "would, to a large extent, provide | worth. ---- Fraudulent Oriental Mystic Eluded Police for 20 Years "A-HUNTING HE WOULD GO" Hz Staff of Five Typists to Carry On His Business--Posed as T "Zazra' 2 "As all-round sportsman of the best The Duke has answered every test-- At shooting, polo, tennis, he Has kept his end up manfully; He keenly shares 'the sports of kings,' upper air 'wings'-- d now, all fronting, He's proved his gkill at Lyon- - | | Watched by the police for twenty | yetirs, Arthur Drew Clifton, alias] "Zuzra," of Alexandra-road, St. Jolin"s Wood, was finally trapped inthis fortune-telling exploits by a Scotland Yard detective, who posed as an Oriental and adopted the uate of All Obed Khan. Unsuspecting, Clifton told "Alf Khan's" fortune. The result was described by counsel when Clifton In he's won his obstacles con- | i i i | ! hunting!" wad charged at Bow street as "a A of Fm ©. tion Sudden Good Fortune Is Cause of Suicide Clilton was fined £25 and £10 10s. | Sudden good fortune led to trag- costs. edy in a Httle village near Brain- Lived in Oriental Style It was stated that Clifton had tree;" Essex, where a wheelwright, been under the notice of the Police} for fortune-telling. Before the war he had a large flat in Bond street, lavishly furnished in the Oriental style, where he received his clients. | perty from his uncle, His income was enormous. The | dead in a pond. war upset his business, but he re- He was named Harry Butcher, turned after the Armistice and| forty, and he worked at Panfield. started afresh in Alexandra road. | He leaves a widow and seven chil- Clifton had carried on operations dren. The wheelwright's shop in the Colonies, particularly by! where he worked belonged to an means of cofrespondence with per-| uncle, who died in December. sons in Western Africa, Lagos and Among property which his uncle Nigeria among the native races, had left was some antique furni- who possibly were rather more gul-| ture, which Butcher had arranged lible 'than people in this country. | for the auctioneer to sell. There was no doubt Clifton was| When the time for the sale ap- making a very considerable profit| proached Butcher was seen walk- out of his calling. In one of the | ing across the fields, apparently | | was found rooms at his offices were no fewer | with the object of attending the | than five girl typists. " sale, but he di not get there, Inspector Draper said that Clif- Bod a' ton before the war carried on busi-| 207 in 4 oad his body ness in Bond street in the name of| Search was made, an 3 hoay "Zazra," and he was also known, Was found in a pond in a lonely as "Chief Mystic Hindoo School ot] wood near which he had been seen Protection." | walking. Frequent Complaints | there had been a marked change in| Scotland Yard had been frequent- | Butcher's manner since his uncle's | ly in correspondence about him|geath. He had talked constantly of with the Nigerian authorities, who | his dead relative. | had made great efforts to induce] A verdict of "Suicide during tem- | the authorities here to try and do| porary insanity" was returned. 80 ething ms him. | = Historic Home for | Another Mansion Honeymoon Retreat; Closed By Taxes T { | Ingestre Hall, near Stafford, the; A sensétion has been caused) ancestral home of the Earls of through the announcement that Shrewsbury and Talbot, is said to| Lord Armstrong of Cragside, Nor-| have been offered to the Duke of | thumberland, has gone to live in a| York and his future bride as a| 'Cottage.' tte J honeymoon" residence if not a per-| Lord Armstrong cam manent country seat, ? great fortune on the death of the] The Hall is a flne specimen first Baron Armstrong, who was the | mixed Elizabethian A ig inventor of the guns that bear his | domestic architecture standing up- name, and the founder of the fam- | oi" the slope of a declivity in an ous Elswick Works. extensive well-wooded park, water-| The present lord did not follow ed by the River Trent. ™ > ! his great uncle as a prince~in the The stabling, specially built by | engineering and scientific world, the late earl, accommodates 50! but inclined to the tastes of a coun- horses, and the kitchen garden cov-| try gentleman." ers seven acres. A feature of the Lord Armstrong was one of the interior of the mansion ts the hand- | men who made possible the erec- eur of the cellings in the various toria Hospital at Newcastle by giv- apartments, | ing a donation of £100,000. It is probable that Lord Arm- strong, like many other great land { lords, has felt the heavy burden of | taxation, and has found it advis- | able to close Cragside. Unemployed Youth | He 18 not going:to live in a cot- | tage as the term is generally under- To Qualify for Unemployment Dole | 5t00d. It is an ample country Boys and Girls Must Re, | houge In the grounds at Cragside, " School port at | once the residence of his agent, | and 1s known as '"The Cottage." Cragside is a charming' mansion tion Committee have adopted a pro- | I hg must 9 rounds Iescuw posal £5. Snemplojed. boys: and | great grandeur in the Northumber- . © 888 | )and hills. The first baron made it of fourteen and eighteen, should at-| a show place, and thousands of peo- tend school - during thelr out-of- | ple every year visit the grounds by work period in order to qualify for | his lordship's permission. This a ntais of Labor! privilege is still to be extended to the public, although his lordship proposed that 75 Pap cent. of the has closed the mahsion.~ cost, estimated at £18,000, should : be borne by the Exchequer and the Cragside is the fifth mansion 'in remainder by the local education the North-East to be closed in the aathority. | last few months. The others were, It was stated in the report that | Alnwick Castle by the Duke of Nor- provision should be made for ap-|thumberland, Brancepeth Castle by | proximately 5,000 students. | Lord Boyne, Seaham Hall by the Accommddation in the existing| Marquis of Londonderry, and Rav- voluntary day continuation schools | énsworth Castle by Lord Ravens London County Council Educa- for these students on the basis of segregated classes. It would, how- le ever, be necessary in some cases to bring into use certain Council pro-| COURT AT WINDSOR | having inherited considerable pro-| | | i _. "Don't Go Down the Mme, Daddy! ~ Evening News (London). | Can Turn Water A squith May Get | To Petrol Cheaply] High Legal Post | Addition of Certain Chemicals Pro-| Law Lordship, With Peerage and Germany Rewards Ireland Will Have a Monte Carlo Just as Soon as Peace is Restored. British Courage Which Saved German Ship's Passengers at Sea In recognition of the bravery as- sociated with the rescue by the Union-Castle Line Royal Mail steamer Kinfauns Castle of 365 passengers and crew of the steam- ship Hammonia, sunk off the coast of Spain on Sept. 9 last; the com- mittee of Lloyd's have awarded Lloyd's silver medal for saving life at.sea to Captain E. W. Day, of the Kinfauns Castle, and to Mr. A. Alderson, second officer, who took a prominent part in the rescue. The Union-Castle Line have fur- ther received, through the German Ambassador, gifts from the Ham- burg-Amerika Line for distribution "in recognition of the heroic and invaluable services rendered in res- cuing the passengers and crew of our steamship Hammonia," the Hamburg-Amerika Line, at the same time, expressing their "high admiration of the courageous quali- ties displayed by all the British sea- men who were on the scene of ac- tion when the Hammonia sank.' The gifts from ' the Hamburg- Amerika Line consisted of a valu- able timeplece and Zeiss binoculars for Captain Day; Zeiss binoculars and silver cigarette, cases for Mr. Le Brocg, chief officér, and Mr. C. A. McDonald, fourth officer; Zeiss binoculars, for Mr. E. E. Sprad- brow, first officer; Mr. A. Alder- son, second officer; Mr. P. A. Cook, third officer; Mr. W. G. Donald, { | Silver Watches for Orew of Ship | Killarney and Phoenix Park are Rivals as Irish May Invest Millions of Money in Is the new Irish "Monte Carlo" | to have as its setting romantic Kil- larney or Dublin? Probably the Irish capital will be the favored | 8pot. | A week before Michael Collins | ® Sites for Rnmense Schemes-- Scheme Run by Themselves appeared in the fleld, and this one had the synipathy of the Republi- can leaders. The interested parties - at Monaco were informed that Kil- larney not Dublin, was the ideal Spot for a casino, and that nobody died he wrote a letter to the Duke would want Free | to go to th of Leinster, who had sent a com-| capital when Hoy oud To a munication to the Irish leader in-| glorious surroundings of Killarney quiring whether. casinos would be| permitted by the new Irish Govern. | ment. In reply, Michael Collins] wrote that providing a sound! scheme was advanced which could | be effectively controlled by the Gov-| ernment, there would not be any | objections. | Following upon this the Duke of | Leinster got into touch with a gen- | tleman whose name was very prom- | inent in Monte Carlo some yeats| 480 as "The man who three times | broke the bank in one day," and | who took toll of the Monte Carlo bank to the tune of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds, He approached the Duc De Cazes, the well-known French racing aid tocrat, who is an owner of certain | shares in the company opérating the tables at 'Monte Carlo. The suggestion was to close the Monaco | resort during the summer season, | when the tables are run at a loss, | and open a casino in Dublin: as an | extension to the scene it was pro- posed to run a line of steamers from America to bring to Ireland | many wealthy people who | £6,000 is in Gift of Bonar Law ' would combine a trip to the Emer- | sixth engineer, who took charge. of ald Isle with an opportunity to play | boats; and for the three wireless and its lake and mountains. President Cosgrave cannot at the moment give assuramce-of the ne- cessary peace conditions, and, therefore, the idea of the Viceregal Lodge being turned into a Palace of Pleasure, where Chance may be wooed, is suspended. But neither can De Valera and the Republicans scheme is just as elusive. Millions Waiting But out of this deadlock has grown another idea. This is that the scheme should be put into op- eration without the help of the Monte Carlo company. It is well known that there are millions in the Irish banks walting investments --but lack of? the knowledge re- quired to run a casino scheme, con- demns it to failure. One thing is.certain, There will be an Irish Monte Carlo as soon as tranquillity. is - restored. Indeed, says an Irish writer, I can go so far as to say that already a staff famous underground school beneath the far-famed Monte Carlo casino. For it must be remembered that every croupier there is put through It was stated at the inquest that | Proved His Discovery Will Soon Be Settled -- | | Mr. E. J. L. Strong, of Sidmouth,| The Law Lordship made vacant | ctatms to have discovered a process by the elevation of Lord Cave to | by which water can be turned into|the Woolsack is in the absolute | the equivalent of petrol, and that| gift of Mr. Bonar Law, and may be | the spirit can be produced at 4d. offered to Mr. Asquith. It is worth a gallon, as compared with 2s., the £6,000 a year, and its holder be- present price of petrol; says Rey-| comes a peer for life, says the News nold's Newspaper correspondent. | of the World. . ~~ Mr. Strong is a well known mo-{| "Lord Asquith" torist, and has taken part in many odd. Incidentally; such an arrange- reliability competitions. | ment would solve the question of I. went to Sidmouth and asked | Liberal leadership in the House of Mr. Strong for a demonstration, but Commons. he respectfully declined, saying he| Mr. Asquith has been asked by had none of the ingredients with| both Governments to act as arbi- which he treated the water by him. | trator in a dispute between Grea: He admitted: that they could be Britain and Canada. During the obtained but it would not be policy ' war the Home Government paid out for him to get them locally, as he on account of the Dominion very might be giving himself away. | large sums of money, and the ques- Asked to explain the process, Mr. | tion is, "Should Canada repay these Strong said into half a gallon of amounts at the pre-war rate of ex- water he poured a pinkish powder | change or at the rate existing at that caused the water to effervesce, the times the payments were made, and then he poured in a fluid which | or at the present rate?" he carried in a phial. The treated Both. parties are anxious to get water then had the qualities of [this long-drawn-out business amic- petrol. ably settled, and the arbitrator's He claimed that it was equal to| decision will be final. Mr. As- petrol in every way, worked out at quith's political prominence since the same mileage, possessed the 1906, when he became Chancellor same pulling properties, and at the of the Exchequer, somewhat blurs end of a run did not cause any the public eye to the fact that be- more carbonization than petrol. | fore that date he was an outstand- He says he has already driven ing jurist, whose pre-eminence was his machine, a 7.9-h.p. Harley- unquestioned. Davidson, 4,000 miles on his fuel. | He could have become Lord Chancellor in Mr. Lloyd George's | Government, but that is another Propose Irish Line |" War Debts Being Settled . . | Of Atlantic Ships, Pre- Little publicity has been given in In the Dublin Senate, Senator Barrington proposed a resolution | | recently, that the Seaute Tequest | this country to the operations of the Government to appoint a joInt| po Alljed Clearing Office for ad- Commission from both Houses of | justing private claims of Allied and pnot more than seven members to German subjects against sack . ' other, but some idea o e magni. Teport. upon . the ht practical | othe of the business done may be means of establishing a regular | oo ¢hered from the extent of the line of transatlantic steamers be-| claims. tween Ireland and America with British creditors! presented a terminal port in the Free State, |claims amounting to sixty-three says the Belfast Telegraph. million pounds, of eh aaxtrs k four millions have been admitte ator Jathson secondeq and paid, while the German claims i Senator Bagwell sald that while against alleged British debtors ne millions, of he supported the idea underlying (nich Afteon millions have been the resolution, he could not vote| gettied for it, as he believed it would in- volve very laxge expenditure with problematical result. The goods trafic between Ireland and North America required no special fos- tering. Several lines were now| duces Petrol 4d. a Gallon--Has | would sound the Scots Indignant at operators--Mr. A. E. Hunter, Mr. R. BE. Roy, Mr. B. Bedford; while silver watches have been sent for roulette. Rival Overtures : But suddenly a rival syndicate | at least three years' training before | he is allowed a seat at the famous | tables. each of the sixty members of the crew of the Kinfauns Castle who manned the boats. Fife's Trade With United States A huge increase is reported in the official returns for the exports to America from the Fife Consular District, issued in Dunfermline for the year 1922. The approximate value of the exports for the year is £465,806, as compared with a total for 1921 of £244,111, an increase of £221,695. It. must pe remembered, how- ever, that although this appears to. be a phenomenal increase the fig- ures for 1921 showed a decrease of £220,458 as compared with 1920. During the last quarter of 1922] the total value of exports was £105,471, as compared with £104,-| 444 for the corresponding quarter of the previous year and £138,728 for the preceding quarter. at that speed!" "I can guarantee this tyre to do 7,000 miles, miss." *'Oh, yes, but I shouldn't dare travel ~--From the Passing Show. Garage Hand: Fair Motorist (recent owner) : The details for the year are:-- Linens, £341,918; cottons, £12,- 568; unions, £2,865; flax 'tow yarns, £2,241; golf goods, £26,784; 'jute burlap, £29,023; linoleum, £35,339; linoleum accessories, £923; union paddings, £5,709; wol- | lens, £7,772; antiques and relics, | £125; pigeons, £110 11s 8d;| pianos, £61 16s; waterproof cloth-| ing, £129; leather shoes, £48 14s; | miscellaneous, £203. p Youthful Baroness J 1 Quits Press for Law| Baroness Clifton intends reading for the Bar. For some time past | ist on a London dally paper, but | she has decided to abondon journal- | ism for the law. 1 Her ladyship celebrated her! twenty-second birthday recently, and when called she will be one of | the most interesting members of) the Bar. in the female line in default of male heirs, and the baroness would | be entitled to sit in the Lords if the | Rhondda decision is reversed. i Prince's Bride Will never applied to the Sovereign for | this authorization, and his wife re- she has been working as a journal-| tW0 gons of the marriage. The Barony of Clifton descends | | Royal couple, Is a pleasant house, | with an excellent | {| was the residence of the late Duke! Lord Kinnaird Was Be Duchess of York Famous Footballer White Lodge, Their Future Resi- Dies at Age of 76 After Long Years Devoted to Sport--Was Presi- dent of Y.M.C.A. dence, Was Queen Mary's Home | in Childhood i Royal Marriages Act Lord Kinnaird, the president of arry .into the Royal the Y.M.C.A., died from heart fail- share their husband's ure at his London residence in St. titles unless' the King authorizes it James's Square recently. by Order in Council, The late] He had been ill for some time, Duke of Cambridge, for instance, and the sudden death of Lady Kin- naird, also from heart failure, was a shock which in his weakened state was too great for him. Lord Kinnaird will always be re- | membered as one of the greatest footballers in the history of the Association game. He appeared in the winning team of the Associa- tion Cup no fewer than five times, thrice as a member of the famous Wanderers and twice as an Old | Etonlan. He played in nine Cup | finals, He was "capped" twice for | Scotland against England. He took an active part in the formation of the Football Association, and was one of the first committee men ap- pointed. He was made treasurer in 1887 and president in 1890. In an official handbook of the Association game published in Since t ladles wh Family do mained to the end of her life Mrs. Fitzgeorge--a name borne by the Normally speaking, therefore, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the bride of the Duke of York, would become Lady Elizabeth Windsor. This will not, in fact, happen, be- cause the King "will shortly Lold the necéssary Council, and Lady Elizabeth on marriage will become Duchess of York. . ' Queen Mary's Home White Lodge, Richmond Park, now occupied by Lord Farquhar, | which will be the home of the] garden, which | perties which were available, and in| The Court is to pass Easter at trading direct with Ireland, and hed would hazard a guess that if he approached them they would say that they were in a position to handle all the trafic that .offered. As to passengers, no one would! 2 Leverhulme's Title The Gaelic Society of Inverness at a meeting recently passed a re- solution expressing regret and dis- pprobation that Lord Leverhulme, | and Duchess of Teck, where Queen | Mary was brought up. Across the park from it lle the big houses-- | the only country houses near Lon-| don--on Kingston Hill, where Lord | Dunraven has a house which he sel- | Oldest V.C. Serves Queen Mother Still two cases to hire buildings previ-| Windsor Castle. Their Majesties ously used for compulsory day con-| will entertain a small family party, tinuation school! purposes. | including the Prince of Wales and 'The report was accepted and the | the Duke of York and Lady Eliza- scheme is to go through. | beth Bowes¥ yon. . \ t that th w | who last November was created a ant hat ey Jutticlent viscount, taking the title of "Vis- and North America, that would count Leverhulme of the Western make these proposed steamers pay isles," should have selected this in addition to othep disadvantgges | title. that there might 1t rel The resolution added that the so- were made the port in Ireland, the Clety believed that the assumption | present was hardly a time for the ©f the title arose out of thoughtless- establishing of a fast train service | D988, and that if Lord Leverhulme across Ireland. To fail now in an Dad realized that it was an en- endeavor of this kind would pre-|¢roachment on a royal and ancient : | . Isles." judice success in the future, and title, "Lord of the Isles," and an would tend also, in his opinion, to | offence to. Scottish sentiment, he discredit the Senate as a practical Would take steps to change it to . He, therefore, suggested the °De Which would be more in keep- postponement of action in favor of | ing with present-day civilization a venture of this kind. If times |and actual fact. improved, as they hoped they : would, then it might be considered. THE DUKE IN LONDON Senator Love spoke in support . of the fitness of Queenstown as a| The Duke of York is often seen D West End of Senator Sir John Purser support-| London with his equerry, Wing- ed the idea of the appointment of | Commander Greig. The Duke is a a commission to inquire into the -span | ainarily like his mother. So far matter. i he has fence as dog's owner (to butcher): "Hi! take your beastly meat away from 's eating the skewers!" ig : eT : ---From London Opinion. Senator Haughton supported the subject advorcated in the resolution, 3 but-thought it. would be premjature ! speechmaking. to appoint a commission at present. The motion was ultimate)y with. i drawn, the matter being ref to a committee. * - General Sir Dighton Probyn, the! oldest living recipient of the V.C., | and the oldest official at the Brit- ish Court, was the subject of hearty congratulations recently on the at- tainment of his ninetieth year. Not- withstanding his great age, Sir Dighton still acts as Comptroller in the Household of Queen Alexandra, as he did to the late King Edward, when Prince of Wales, in the far- oft seventies. It is officially announced that the King and Queen may pay a visit to Italy in the spring. Their Majes- ties have received a cordial invita- | Edward's reign White Lodge was beed| Cave--is the record of Sir John | accession of George IV. dom uses. When the Queen was a girl and | there were no motor cars, this little group of houses was a kind of so- clety by itself, and the Queen grew | up with Lord Dunraven"s daughter (now Lady Ardee) and other girls in the fielghborhood. During King occupied by Sir Frederick Treves, who bitterly complained about the grey squirrels which, escaping from the Zoo, have so multiplied that in| a few years they have not as.far| south as Dorking, and are steadily driving the red squirrel out of Soutlgrn England. LIVED IN FIVE RBIGNS To have lived a hundred years, and in five reigns, and to be the senior member of Lincoln's Inn, to which he was called. seven years before the birth of the present oc- cupant of the Woolsack--Lord Gardner Engleheart, K.C.B.,, who has recently joined the charmed circle of centenarians. He first saw the light three years after the x 1838, he was described as "'with- out exception the best player of the day, capable of taking any place in the field." Lord Kinnaird, who was seventy- six, was the son of the tenth Baron and Mary, daughter of Mr. W. H.- Hoare, The Grove, Mitcham, Sur- rey. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. From {1907-9 he held the post of Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland. He was a director of Barclays Bank. Lord Kinnaird is succeeded by his second son, the Hon. Kenneth Fitzgerald Kinnaird, who was born in 1880. His eldest son, the Hon. Douglas Arthur Kinnaird, and his third son, the Hon. Arthur Middle- ton Kinnaird, were killed in action during the war. ROYAL ORDER OF SUCCESSION "It may be of interest to nbte the order of succession to the Crown. First: comes the Prinee of Wales, then the Duke of York, Prince Henry, Prince George, and Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, follow- led by Princess Mary's son. Next Princess in order are the Royal, eldest sister of the King, and Prin- cess Arthuf of Connaught, and her | son, the little Earl of Macduff,