Weekly News. — 1892-01-28 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ONE POUND NOTES.  The Saturday Retire', commenting upon the meeting held at the London Chamber of Commerce to discuss Mr. (ioachen's currency proposals, thinks that the speeches were, on the whole, rather barren of reasoning, though proportionately rich in round assertions. Mr. Brodie Hoare's little dramatic fable was moderately ingenious, but was not conclusive. He took a sovereign from one pocket and, putting it in another, said, "Lo, I am no richer than I was before." But the journal is not aware that Mr. Goschen has argued that the adoption of his plan would make the country richer. He has only said that it would make it easier to form a metallic reserve. The question is whether any substantial good would be gained by accumulating treasure, and leaving its work in the transactions of th market to be done by its astral body in the form of notes. It cannot be said that the discussion in the meeting was of a kind to prove that the practice of commerce enables the commercial man to get a particularly good grip of principles. The Saturday Review entertains a doubt whether the members of the Chamber of Commerce have any clear idea of the use of that increase of the metallic reserve for which they voted unanimously. An explanation of their dislike to Mr. Gosehen's scheme may be most confidently sought, partly in an instinctive dislike to innovations and changes in habits (a most excellent feeling in its way), partly in the fact that business men have recovered from the s-vere scare into which they were thrown by the Baring crisis, and are ceasing to find so much comfort as they did in the mystic- phrase "metallic reserve," and most of all in the opposition of the banks, which fornsee that onepound nob s would cause them not a little trouble, and that the obligation to keep a larger gold reserve would diminis;i their profits. But, whatever the motives for the opposition to the scheme may he, the opposition is there, and it may well be strong enough to make the introduction of Mr. Goscheu's acheme into Parliament impossible.  "I think she is a two-faced creature,- said one or the girls indignantly. " Oh, no, r turned Miss Cordial, "if she had two faces she would never use this one."  Antony's polite reply: " Go, Antony—go yonder where your hews await you," asid Cleopatra. "No, thank." replied the lioman. "I'd rather stay with my liestess. Ethel (fanciful): I wonder what he did with the kisses he stole from me?" Maud: "I fancy iw gave them to the maid as he waa going out through the hall."  BUXOM OF MIL HMIS WEBSTItav • ' Mr. Hume Webster. the well-known home breeder, and a member of the firm of Hume Webster, Bore, and Co., chartered accountants, Abchurch-lane, committed suicide by shooting himself at Marden on Saturday. Mr. Webster by no means confined himself to the ordinary run of an accountant's business. He embarked in many commercial schtmes of very diverse character and various fortune, Prom the worries of these he sought relief by re iring occasionally to his farms at Marden Park, about two miles from Caterham, where he had a large horse-breeding establishment. On Thu-sday afternoon Mr. Webster arrived at Marden from London, very calm in manner, but rather dejected in spirits. He complained that he was suffering from a cold in his throat and chest, and told his hou ek,eeper that no caller was to be informed of his arrival, as he wished to spend the evening quietly, and would go to bed early in order to try and rid himself of the cold. Next morning he was up and about the homestead early. He , talked with his farm bail if about the felling of a tree, and with his head groom about his horses. These persons noticed that his manner was rather different from what it was in•ually, and thy subsequently recalled the fact that one hand was kept continually in his overcoat pocket,as if grasping something. Having sent the head groom ior the carpenter, he did not wait for the man to arrive, but set off towards the hill beyond the valley in which the stables are situate. The head gre em and carpenter did not follow, as they conclimed that Mr. Webster had gone to the Hill Farm, where he had other thoroughbred stables. This was about half-past 9in the morning. Some time, afters; arde the lead groom heard three shots fired in the wood on the hill.' but this caused hint no surprise, because Mr. Webster bad given a neighbouling farmer liberty to shoot rabbits there, and this farmer frequently availed himself Lei the privilege. Mr. Webster was never known to handle firearms. About half-past 11 o'clock a cl?,rir arrived, Nvahting to see Mr. Webster, and some of the men about the place began to search for him. He was not found at the Hill Farm. and could not be seen anywhere in the neighly— hood. The grooms and workmen thereupon cut.. eeiced a thorough search of the wood. At last a boy, peering through some underwo.,d, saw Mr. Webster's body. A shout brought °Ale/. 1111.11 to the spot, and then, having penetrated the teu,hes, the men found that Mr. Webster was lying dead and quite cold, with a revolver in his hand. A surgeon having been 5. zit for, the body was slung in a blauket and carried down the hill to the farmhouse.  Mr. Webster was in his 48th year, having been born in Scotland in 1844. He was a son of the late Mr. Robert Webster, of her Majesty's Customs, Montrose. He was educated at Montrose Academy, and commenced life in a Scotch bank; but came to London in 1868, and had for many years been engaged in accountancy and financial business in the City, being a member of the firm of Hume Webster, Hoare, and Co., chartered accountants, of Abchurch-lane. ft. w e a inAgistrate for Surrey, a Fellow of the Institut • of Catered Accountants, a Fellow of the Statistical and also of the Royal Geographical Societies, and a member of the Cobden Club, and was the owner of the well-k-own breeding studs of thoroughbred horses and Suffolk horses, and of a breeding herd of Highland cattle at Marden Deer Park. Mr. Webster, who married in 1885, Clare, d,ugliter of the late Sir Edmund Stephen Harrison, C. 8., deputy clerk of the Privy Council, leaves a widow and fami'  The inquest was held at Marden Deer Park on Monday afternoon by Mr. W. Morrison, coroner for the Croydon division of Surrey. The deceased, it was stated, had complained of general depression, and had sulered from influenza. The success of the Ormon, ,• movement depended largely on him. and that n on his mind. The jury found that the decea.sed ....militated suicide whilst temporarily insane.