BLIND GIRLS’ WONDERFUL WORK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 3

BLIND GIRLS’ WONDERFUL WORK.

Speaking at the opening of an exhibition of flowers made by blind and cripple girls at the Royal Albert Institute, Windsor, the Rev. the Hon. E. Lyttelt ton, Headmaster of Eton, said that in 3 ’ fair and open competition these blind | and crippled English girls, handicapped so seriously as they were, had beaten i the Japanese at the Anglo-Japanese ex--3 hibition last year, winning first prize . for making flowers. The Japanese were placed on the highest pinnacle in re- [ gard to all sorts of handicraft, and it , was a source of the liveliest satisfaction to find that England could hold . her own against them, i £8,000,000 SPENT YEARLY IN FOXHUNTING. The Earl of Lonsdale made a strong plea for fox-hunting at a dinner in the Victoria Hall, Oakham. “I shall always do all in my power for the farming interests,” Lord Lonsdale said, “and especially for an interest which is really a natonal one—fox-hunting. There are 229 packs of hounds in thcUnited Kingdom, with over 9000 couples of hounds. The yearly maintenance of these comes to over £050,000. Now that must be an advantage to somebody. There are over 226,000 hunters in the United Kingdom, and their value returned last year was over £12,000,000, and the annual cost of maintenance £8,000.000.” BURGLAR’S CRY FOR HELP. The account of a burglar’s desperate adventure was tokl at Northamptonshire Quarter Sessions. The prisoner, Henry McCalrnont, an old convict, broke into Weedon (Northamptonshire) Post Office by making a hole in the roof, hut his clothing became entangled, and as he was in danger of being strangled he had to cry out for help and was caught. He was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. ANTI-MORMON PROTEST. Following up the efforts to combat the Mormon movement in the Liverpool district—which have already resulted in the closing of one meeting hall in Bootle—a number of anti-Mormons attended the Mormon Hall in Argvll Street, Birkenhead. After frenuent interruptions the police were called in, but they declined to interfere unless a specified charge of brawling was made against the interrupters. The Mormon elders refused to lodge such a charge and the police left.

Some nOnO people attended an openair anti-Mormon meeting outside the meeting hall.