The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-05
GROWN SUED FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT By the Imperial Cold Storage
 Company MEAT SUPPLY INVOLVED Scheme Is Put on Foot In London For Establishment of Travel Scholar ships to Be Open to American
 College Students.
By HERBERT TEMPLE.

Lonoon, December 4-(Special 1.-The supply of meat to the soldiers in South Africa during the Boar war was the sub ject of an action before the lord chief justice and a special jury the other day when the Imperial Cold Storage company, Limited, of London and Johannesburg sued the crown for a huge sum of money as damages for alleged breach of con tract.
 The attorney for the plaintiff explained that the transactions took place seven years ago and consequently 1t was diffi- cult to get all tho documents in the case while the government officials had de- cided that certain papers should not be disclosed.
 AS result of the guerilla warfare in tho latter stages of the campaign, large herds of cattle were captured, and tho contractors found that the army were the only people who had cattle for sale. Therefore, it was only natural that they should make terms for the purchase of these cattle. so that they could slaughter them and deliver them as dead meat to the army. That sale of live cattle by the army involved a sum of $1,0oo.000.
 It was alleged by the company that q great many of the cattle supplied to them were Infected with disease so much so that numbers died the day after they were delivered. Therefore, the company contended that they had a right to re- cover damages in respect to the infected cattle.
 From the beginning of the war accord ing to the plaintiffs attorney, the con- tract was in the hands of Dutch com pany. Lord Kitchener was not satisfied xxrff1 b. f.-or to<e 4. company secured the contract. This com pany was financed by several wealthy gentlemen, and these joined with South African group, including the DeBeers company, the Rt Hon. Cecil Rhodes and the South African Investment company, who gave the company the benefit of their business experience. The company was registered with a capital of 100000 sterling.
 Directly after lunch his lordship said he was quite satisfied that the case was too complicated for jury. "I shall spend ,the rest of my natural life in 1t; 1t looks so, at least.' added his iordship, amid laughter az ss
 The .attorney-generai agreed and the jury was discharged. The nearing was adjourned.
 There Is every reason to believe that the scheme inaugurated during the past summer for the introduction of travel into the curriculum of university men will be effectively carried out. It was decided that a certain number Of scholarships should be instituted. available in certain universities in the United States of Amer lea and Canada. the holders to be con- ducted on an educational pilgrimage to England.
 An executive committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Charles Elliott( vice chancellor of Sheffield) was formed, and also a central committee in London. Thanks largely to the practical support of the president of the movement, Lord Strathcona of Mount Royal. who com pines the chancellorships of Aberdeen and McGin and Montreal universities with his work as high commissioner of Canada, a central office has been established at Caxtoh house, Westminster What is now required is the money to provide the act ual scholarships, and for these funds public appeal will shortly be issued.
 It is pointed out that. although the scholarships proper will be reserved for undergraduates of the universities. who are already midway through their course, the provision of scholarships by no means defines the scope of the movement The bureau will afford facilities to all bona fide students. whether dons, scholars or commoners-the wish to gain practical insight into the work and life of other portions of the world.
 The traveling students will have tho ad- vantage of reduced rates, of the special information which the bureau win be able to afford, and of the privilege of be- ing brought as close as possible into con tact with the actual life of those coun- tries to which they go. whether persons. places or institutions.
 The arrangements for the other side of the Atlantic have bade good progress. There is to be a bureau in New York un- der the direction of an American score tary, where at either Montreal or To- ronto there will be representative of the central bureau, newly established in London which forms the headquarters of the movement, and the center gener- ally for the British empire.
 The method of election to the schol- arships, which 1t is purposed will number not less than 2S for each year of the ex- perimentai triennium, IA in the United Kingdom. 10 In the United States and four in Canada, will be on the lines of the Rhodes scholarships. The selected scholars will travel for 10 weeks during the long vacation through the respective countries
 An interesting development of the back to-the-land movement has just taken
 
 If has bean found that although the operation of the small holdings and all lotments act has resulted in consider able increase in the number of small holdings in England and Wales, the ben efits of the act have not been experi- enced fully, owing partly to the difficulty of providing adequate housing accommo- dations for the applicants. In order to overcome this difficulty, and at the same time to establish schools where small holders may be thoroughly trained, there has been formed a society known as May ford Tenants, Limited
 The first of the schools, of which it is intended to open one in each county, will he opened at Smallborouah. The farm is about five miles from the sea coast and ia within IS miles of Yarmouth On the south and west 1t adjoins for some dis tance the navigable canal connecting North Walsham and the Breads. The farm buildings are extensive--partly brick and tile. partly timber and thatch--- and consist of large barn and stock sheds.
 Every tenant on Mayford farm will be exnected to hold three $50 shares for avery acre rented. These he may acquire .,'i,g a deposit of s25 per share and the balance as arranged between him and his fellow memberes and it is intended that the fellow tenant members shall in
 fi,s .ay ultimately acquire the entire canital. so that the outside members may
 he dspensed with.