The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
ENGLAND WILL HAVE POSTAL SAVING BANK Use System Now in Vogue
 in United States BIC ESTATE FOR SALE Sine Shipment of Peaches From the United States Reaches London
 Market - Lord Willoughby
 May Be Tory Leader
BIC ESTATE FOR SALE
By PAUL LAMBETH

By PAUL LAMBETH
 London. october 21.-(Special7-Ihe lh' eug1lration of the postal savings bank system in the United States gives peculiar interest on your side to the semi-eente9- nial celebration of the establishment oI ,ho system in Great Britain which occurs this year.
 It was in 1S6l that parliament preViueu for the establishment of the first postal savings bank in England. The act pro vided for the payment of 2l2 per cent in- terest on complete pounds deposited in sums of Is. or multiples of Is. The limit was $l5o in one year and Sfoo lh all cA- cept for friendly societies.
 In the course of time these limitations were devised In 1891 the maxim of ce- posits was increased to S1ooo, and two wears later the yearly limit was increased 10 Ss50. Other notable reforms included the introduction of annuity and insurance business. and the investment by deposi- tors in national funds. In 1895 1t was made possible for a depositor to "lIn- draw sums up to G1 on the spot without the delay of references to headquarters which is an inevitable drawback to the system. Facilities of withdrawal ny tel egraph and by return of post also met large demand, and today 12Q,oo persons year use the telegram method and l9,o5o the return of post
 There are close upon F. .00l, coo depositors in the postoffiee savings bank at me present time Between 1S1o-S0 the average amount of deposits remaining to ered'l d, the end of the year was $l35,0o0en ana the average balance S7s10. In 1909 tEe deposits amounted to S226,102,629, giving | an average to each depositor of Sllso' The withdrawals amounted to S226lO5'Zso'
 Interest credited to deposutors amount cd to S19 399 91O and the total standing to the credit of all accounts at the end Of 1 that year q909) was $S22, ,9SO325. Out or il 56S accounts, 3,491,273 at that time were dormant. the average amount Tn each being 54 cents. At the end of last year the total amount due to depositors had grown to SS44, 450000 irrespective or s125. GOO of government stock.
 There is something like s265ooo.oo0 tied i up in the royal courts of justice, but those who have been led to hope for huge fortunes from this fund are doomed to disappointment for out of the immense sum only a million sterling can be ciassed as unclaimed money.
 Fortunes are populary supposed 70 he | in chancerv awaiting claimants said an offiical in the supreme court pay office, | speaking of the published accounts "That, however. is a myth. The numoer of accounts on the books is over 36,000, and all of that total save 359a are work Ing accounts. through which money IS bengfpaid out to the people to whom It is due.
 Moreover much of the unclaimed money is hopelesslv uuclaimable through the working of time. We have some ac- counts on the books, for example. which l date from the formation of this office Tn lT20, and it is likely that the money to | which they refer was unclaimed even re- fore then. The account for the past years show that more money is being paid cut . each year than comes in. and the total | of the funds under the court is being ] gradually reduced. Twenty years ago the | total was between 77,000,00O and So,900.0o0 sterling.
 There arrived in London last week first consignment of 2000 cases of peaches from the Wenatehee valley, in the state of Washington. The peaches were packed . in ice cars attached to the mail train, and sent to New York, whence they were shipped for England. They were delivered at Covent Garden within 13 days from the date of dispatch, which constitutes a | "record" for American fruit Several | hundred cases were sold immediately on arrival. The fruit is large, well colored, | and of the free stone variety It arrived in good solid condition and was spendidly | packed No American peaches have pre- | viously been placed on the London mar ket, though peaches from Ontario. Can ada, have been imported for some time.
 i1 as into the market. This time it is a sale | by order of the trustees under the will of the late Sir Thomas BrOcklebanll, Bart ! involving an exceedingly valuable free hold agricultural and building estate, sit l uated in the parishes of Tranmore. Lower Bebington. Higher Bebngton, Poulton- cum-Spital. and the entire parish of storeton. Included in the estate are the well known Storeton stone quarres. Apart from the quarries the estate in- cludes a number of excellent farms. The biggest lot, however is Storeton Hall farm of 242 acres. This is a beautifully situated farm. with a romantic history at tached to it. This site embraces all that is left of Storeton Hall the home of the undivided race of Stanley, which now has its two branches, the Stanleys of Knows lev represented by the Earl of Derby) and the Stanleys of AlderleY whose nres- ent head is Lord Sheffield Storeton Hall was built about 1360 but only a small DOT ton remains standing and this is utilized as a farm building. Several ancient door ways and one pointed window of ecclesias- tical type are the most conspicuous fea- lures of such of the old hall as has sur yived the ravages of time and weather
 The estate, which comprises in all l5,s acres. will be offered by auction by Messrs. Bout, Son X Napues. at the Woodside hotel, Birlkenhead, on Thurs day and Friday next week.
 "Old Kitty Grayson, as she was called, who has just died at Brynn, near Wigan aged 9l, was supposed to be the last woman who worked in the mines of this country. When the act of parliament came into operation prohibiting women and girls. as well as boys under the age of 10 years from working below ground she was a young pit woman. In order to eyade the act she distinguished herself as a man. and continued to work in the mine for nearly F months. In consequence or her experience of collery life she was often called in to render service after mining disasters. Of her 13 children only