The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1907-11-16 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  The German Emperor and Empress landed at Portsmouth on Monday, their entry to the harbour being delayed by fog, which also obscured the naval pageant of welcome. Accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Imperial visitors proceeded to Windsor, where they were welcomed by the King and Queen, whose guests they are at Windsor Castle. ••c • 4  Of the 326 Lord Mayors and Mayors elected in England and Wales for the ensuing year, 148 are Conservatives, 23 Liberal Unionints, 137 Liberals. 3 Labour Tepresentaitives, 2 Independent Liberals, and 4 Independents, while in 9 oases the polities are not stated. In the 28 London boroughs there are 22 Conservative and Liberal Unionist Mayors, three Liberals, and three Independents.  • • it *  Lord !mains oomnritted suicide on Saturday by throwing himself from the window of a hotel in Paris during a neurasthenic attack. He was a representative peer for Ireland, and was born in 1843. He is succeeded by his son, the Hon. John E. D. Browne.  • • IR *  The 88th anniversary of the birthday of King Edwards was celebrated on Saturday in all parts of the Empire, and in most foreign countries where British representatives are placed. His Majesty entertained members of the Royal Family and numerous guests at Sandringham, when he received from the hands of Sir Richard Solomon the gift of the famous Cullinen diamond from the people of the Transvaal. In a message to the colony the King accepts the diamond as "a token of the loyalty and attachment of the people of the Transvaal to his throne and person."  • • • •  Lord Ohesham, while hunting with the Pytahley Hounds near NOrthaMptollion Saturday, was thrown from his horse and killed. He was in his 57th yelp-, and served with distinction with the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War. He is succeeded by his only eon, the Hon. John Compton Cavendish.  * It •  Mr. John Murray, of the well-known London publishing house, with his brother, Mr. Hallam Murray, has iesued a writ for damages for libel against Mr. Walter and the other proprietors of the "Times" newspaper. The action i 6 based on two letters, signed " Artifex," which appeared in the "Times," following the publication by Mr. Murray of "The Lettere of Queen Victoria."  • • • •  Captain Saunders, D. 5.0., was granted a divorce on Monday by Mr. Justice Bargrave Doane. The Earl of Roselyn was the co-respondent.  • • * •  In the King'. Bench Division on Tuesday the hearing concluded of the case in which Charles E. Bond, iron moulder, of Leicester, eued his late employere (Messrs. Ashwell and Nesbitt, engineers) and the Leicester Dietrict Engineers Employers' Association for damages, alleging a eonspiracy to prevent him obtaining employment by' any other Arm. On the jury's finding judgment was entered for the defendants with amts.  • • a  Dr. Fraser, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has accepted the newly-oreated Chair of Social Anthropology in the University of Liverpool.  Sir Lewis Morris, the eminewt Walsh poet and educationist, died on Tuesday morning at Carmarthen, in his 75th year.  Enthusiastic eeenes on Wednesday marked the State visit of the German Emperor and Empress to London. At the Guild Hall the Kaiser received an address enclosed in a gold casket on behalf of the City of London, and in replying to the toast of his health made an important speech on peace. His Majesty stated that the main prop and base for the peace of the world was the maintenance of good relations between our two countries, and he should strengthen them as far as lay In his power.  President Roosevelt has come into conflict with the religious bodiei; owing to his defence of the omission of the inscription In God we Trust" from the gew American gold coinage. 1:e holds that to stamp the motto on the coinage is to lower its application to terms of barter and to bring it into (Ignger of being made a subject for jests.  • • • •  Speaking at Briatol on Wednesday night the Premier said the Lords' veto mast be limited. He ridiculed the Socialist bogey. Propprty VIM, he said, in no danger so long as the spirit was abroad, and,the conscience of the nation was vigilant, to see that a curb was put upon the arrogance of wealth,  • • • •  In the Divorce Division on Wednesday, Dr. William Pitt Palmer, of Babbicombe, Devon, was awarded a decree nisi and £2,000 damages on the ground of his wife's misconduct with Major Charles Barchard. There was no defence.  • • • •  The Registrar-General reports the annual rate of mortality last week in 76 great towns of ngland and Wales averaged 14.6 per thousand. The rate in Birkenhead was 12, and in Liverpool 20. • • • •  Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman was seized with sudden illness at Bristol during Wednesday night, and was advised by his medical attendants to keep to his bed on Thursday. The Premier, however, is now much better.