The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1910-06-25 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE AGE OF PRETENCE. Sophistication has been carried to a fine art in these daya in nearly every business. In dress goods modern developments in spinning, weaving, finishing and dyeing, have g,ven us in -jadeite variety of fabrics, which are delightful in appearance; but very many of them are not what -they pretend to be. Many of the silk and cotton mixtures, beautifully got up, are nothing more than "mercerised' cottons.. -Pure linen" is, frequently. a Mixture of cotton and linen. flannel that is sold as .all wool, is commonly fifty per cent. cotton. Silk is *sighted with metal °tides, sometimes to the extent of 80 Or: 90 per cent-., and ,cotton and linen goods are largely adulterated with -china clay. Most goods nowadays are made to sell, regardless how they wear, but therels one protection for livers, awl that is to insist upon having the goods fully described in an invoice. If a draper 'describes flannel-as all wool; -when if it half cotton, be can be prosecuted, and if .he aeJi. it. for.idait it is the purchaser knows what she is. hiving.  Thq, profit for the past year on the Hull Corporation water undertaking was tnore than £37,000, and £12,000 is to be allocated to the relief of. the rates.  Mr. Lloyd-Ueorge received, on Tuesday, a Scottish deputation with reference to the allocation of land values duties, and in reply said that the whole question of local taxation had got to be sifted to the bottom. lle adva.Nl local authorities to study the problem of broadening the basis o Lich taxation.  Al the Hertford Assizes, on Tuesday, Frederick George Beeton, at one time 'employed 86 a Great Northern Railway goods clerk, indicted for the murder of the female child of a single young woman named Rose Young, at Letchworth. was found not guilty. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for wrongful burial of the body.  S • •  A Privy Connell was held at St. James's Palace oh Tuesday. The King declared hill pleasure to appoint Earl Beauchamp Lord President of Council, and his lordship thereupon took the oath of office and his place at the board. His Majesty afterwards held a small investiture, and conferred several Albert and Edward medals in recognition of bravery. _ _  A negro Denied Leonard Johnson, charged with murdering a white woman, was burned at the stake by a mob at Rusk, Texas, on Monday. The sheriff and deputies were overpowered by a mob of over.a hundred white people, while taking their prisoner to gaol. The crowd seized the negro, who confessed to the murder under torture. He was then tied to a stake, brushwood was piled high above his head, and a torch was applied. As the. flames darted up the mob cheered.  . S •  Death has just brought to light at Eufield an astowiding story of an elderly WOMall sho for 25 year successfully masqueraded as a loan. She was known as Harry Lloyd, and lived with a daughter.  General Sir lan S. M. Hamilton, 'C.C.S., bas been appointed General Commander-in. Chief in the Mediterranean and Inspector. General ol the Oversee Forces.  • The King has been pleased to order lettero. patent to be passed for creating H.E.H. the Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.  Count Zeppelin and a dozen other persons sailed on the niaiden voyage of the dirigible Zeppelin