I in the course of their liquidation, the liquidators received shares A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman and OPENING OF THE NEW HARROD STORE IN BUENOS AIRES. HARROD'S new Store in Buenos Aires was opened on March 31, and cables have been received giving particulars of the success of the inauguration in connection with this new South American enterprise, in which a large number of shareholders in this country are interested. It would seem that the City of Buenos Aires has been en fête with the event, which was characterised on Monday, March 30, by a great Charity Fête, lasting from two o'clock until eight, and attended by the principal members of Buenos Aires society, the Lord Mayor, and many Ministers of State. For the purpose of the fête forty-two leading society ladies acted as saleswomen, and the municipality rose to the occasion by undertaking the whole of the decorations of the Store, which presented a most picturesque appearance. The municipal band performed during the opening ceremonies. The building, when complete, will be one of the finest Stores in the world. At present only the ground and first floor are opened; the second and third floors are expected to be ready in September next. The present building has been carried out in record time. Excavations were only started on August 8 last, and 15,000 yards of earth were taken out in the two following months. A large staff of workmen have been engaged night and day on the building, which has a frontage of 172 feet by 180 feet deep. Each floor is of this size, without any divisional walls, making it the largest-spaced departmental Store in South America. The ceiling decorations are in Louis XIV and Louis XV designs, and extremely elaborate. The fixtures and fittings are mahogany inlaid with sandalwood and exquisitely carved. 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The interval has hung heavily upon the depleted ranks of the Coalition, deprived for the time being of the support and stimulus of the opposing Irish sections. Mr. Asquith's visit to his constituents has done nothing to assuage the chronic irritability which has afflicted him since he realised that the game was up. His temper proved unequal to Mr. Amery's searching questions throwing new light upon the Curragh episode. As in fhe Marconi affair, the truth has had to be dragged out of Ministers by dogged persistence. There are many revelations to come, and Unionist members like Mr. Amery have no intention of letting the pogrom plot slip into oblivion until these have been exhausted. FIRST GLANCE AT NEW BOOKS Englander. Canada's indignation is followed by the equal indignation of Australia, and the statement in which Mr. Miller, the Commonwealth Minister for Defence, has of Mr. Churchill must have made that right honourable longexplained the naval policy of Australia and condemned that shoreman, feel very uncomfortable indeed. There is no need to discuss whether independent fleets or financial contribution to one Imperial Fleet is the better way of safeguarding a scattered Empire, for it is quite obvious there is no worse way than that adopted by the present Government. As Mr. Miller points out, the Commonwealth embarks upon a policy advised by the Imperial Government five years ago, and will not depart from it because Mr. Churchill has other views. Obviously if the British Empire went wobbling about with Mr. Churchill it would wobble to pieces in a decade.. Ir will be remembered that in the eagerness of his desire to injure some one, no matter whom, Mr. George, in one of his attacks upon landowners generally, gave everyone ALL the members of the present Government have now, the impression that the owner of the Cathcart site, near we believe, gone through the pangs of acute personal ex-Glasgow, was the Duke of Montrose. planation. But of all the explanations that have had to be rendered none perhaps has been quite so prolonged as that of Colonel Seely, who, even now that he is again as much his own master as any Parliamentary supporter of this Administration can ever hope to be, continues to explain and explain. According to his story, as told in instalments to his Derbyshire constituents, if ever there was a victim of circumstances he is the man, and the worst of it is, according to his version of the affair, there really were no circumstances to speak of, so that he is really a perfectly innocent Jonah, thrown ruthlessly overboard, when the storm was only in a teacup and a toy teacup at that. One cannot help feeling just a little sorry for the jettisoned gentleman, and can only hope he will have better luck next time. We regret however that we are quite unable to accept his explanations of the plot that failed, though we note with gratification that he has nothing but praise for the Army so recently under his control. "The Army," he told his constituents at Draycott, "all through my period of office has remained steady. In other words, it was put to the supreme test and did not fail. FOR a semi-Imperialist Mr. Churchill is singularly unhappy in his relations with the self-governing Dominions. Indeed he seems to be no more able to grasp the Imperial problem than is Mr. Harcourt or any other extreme Little The pro perty in question, which Mr. George assured his hearers was sold at an exorbitant price to the local school board, really belonged to Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. As a commentary on this malicious attack by Mr. George, a correspondent of the Morning Post calls attention to the respect in which Sir John is held by his fellow-citizens of Glasgow, as demonstrated in the speech made by the Lord Provost when thanking Sir John for his latest benefaction to the city. Had we space we should like to reproduce all the speeches made on the occasion of the presentation in question, the largest of several donations of land for the recreation of the poor of Glasgow. And this is the man whom Mr. George, who never gave anything to the poor but his blessing and a poll-tax, has the audacity to rebuke! MR. WEDGWOOD's attacks upon the paltry Imperial loan to be granted to the East African Protectorates were precisely what one would expect from that eccentric political-economist. Especially crude were his attacks upon Nyasaland, and his argument that, because Englishmen have risked their fortunes, and in many instances their lives, in that dependency, and because any assistance from Imperial funds towards the development of the country would be sure to benefit these men, such assistance should not be granted, is altogether worthy of the mean Little-England spirit. Mr. |