The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
SCANDAL IN ENGLISH RUGBY FOOTBALL Holland to Arouse South
 African Trade TO INITIATE AMERICA Supreme Court of Appeal Probably Will Be Established Soon-Public
 Record Office Improvements
 Are Being Planned
TO INITIATE AMERICA

London, October 19-English Rugby football is faced with scandal which may lead to a wider breach in the Eng fish Rugby union as that which caused the formation of the Northern union in the sos.
 Rugby is ostensibly purely amateur game in England in distinction to the association game which is played large ly by professional teams
 Recently the Northern union adherents invaded Deyonshire and attempted to re- cruit players from the existing Rugby clubs. This campaign led to the exposure of the fact that many of the Devonshire, players were receiving compensation for time lost from work in addition to their expenses while playing with their teams. This practice is open among the teams of the Northern union, which has re- vised the Rugby rules until the form it plays is so strenuous that professional players are necessary for a successful team.
 Some of the Devonshire players who have been suspended for negotiating with the Northern union invaders state that the payment for lost time is general in the Rugby union, and they declare that Lfhey will expose the system at the in vestigation which has been ordered by the governing committee of the union. The scandal comes at a particularly inopportune time. as the South African Springboks have just commenced tour of the British Isles as the guests of the Rugby union. England Is particularly anxious to present an unbroken front to the invaders in order to wipe out the unbroken series of defeats which the last South African team inflicted on the English fifteens several years ago. Dur ing that tour the South Africans suf- fered only one reverse and that was at the hands of the Scottish union. The present invaders declare that they will return home with a clean score and they are determined to show the Scots that their victory was a fluke. British manufacturers are to be walk ened from their lethargy in regard to the opportunities of trade in South Africa by Sir Sothern Holland who has just ar- rived from that colony.
 He is of opinion that they might learn some useful lessons from American man ufacturers of tools for skilled work men
 These tools" he says, "sell readily in South Africa in spite of their price; being higher, in many cases, than that
  well designed and we'll made' To give British manufacturers prac- tical object lesson in the sort of foreign competition they meet in South Africa the Board of Trade recently obtained, at considerable expense, sample collection of foreign hardware and tools In gen. eral demand there. And American tools occupied a conspicuous place in the col- lection.
 A supreme court of appeal for the British empire is probably shortly to be established From speeches he has made recently it is believed that the Lord
 Chancellor is to introduce during the present session of parliament bill es- ta blishing a judicial committee of the privy council as the highest court to which may be carried a suit from any part of the imperial dominions.
 Lord Haldane has decided that such a measure will command the support of the dominions as well as the United King dom.
 Two selected judges will be added to the Lords of Appeal. and there will then be six law lords devoting their whole time to sitting in two courts.
 The conditions and method of appeal from different parts of the empire will be suited as far as practicable to the local requirements, as complete uniform ity in these respects is not attainable at present.
 A plan for making the British public record office more efficient and useful has been recommended In the report of the royal commission on public records. It recognizes that the office has done much excellent work in recent years. but declares that it has not been generously supported.
 It is understood that the commission has been greatly assisted by the evidence and experience of American students, who do much work in the public record office.
 First of all the commission contends that the documents, to be of use to stu dents, must be made more accessible and must be placed in charge of scholars Accessibility, however. does not Imply centralization, and the commission recom- mends that local documents should be kept in the localities where they orig mate. It recommends that these branch record offices. wherever possible, should be placed near good reference library and in the neighborhood of university.
 The great territorial establishments in- volved in the transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi have been completed by the creation of an imperial reservation comprising the city of Delhi and the district west of the river Jumna, The reservation, although considerably smaller than the average of Indian prov
 nces, is larger than originally planned
 The reservation has an area of 429 square miles and the police post serves an area of 12S square miles of hills, bring ing the total to 557 square miles. The population of this area according to the last census is 392 GOO. of whom close upon 2s3,o0o are within the municipal limits of Delhi All of the central government of fees will be located in Delhi by the be- ginning of the new year