PART II.

CHRONICLE OF EVENTS

IN 1927.

JANUARY.

1. In the New Year's Honours List a Viscounty was bestowed on Sir James Craig [Viscount Craigavon, of Stormont, in the County Down], and on Baron Sumner, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary [Viscount Sumner, of Ibstone, in the County of Buckingham], and three Baronies were created. in favour of Sir George Hayter Chubb [Baron Hayter, of Chislehurst, in the County of Kent], Col. F. S. W. Cornwallis [Baron Cornwallis, of Linton, in the County of Kent], and Sir Charles Greenway [Baron Greenway, of Stanbridge Earls].

4. The Times announced that through the generosity of Mr. T. R. Partington, of Ipswich, Flat Ford Mill and Willy Lot's Cottage at East Bergholt in Suffolk, both of which are associated with the art of John Constable, would be presented to the nation.

5. A gift of 10,000 dollars was made to Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, by Mr. E. R. Peacock, a director of Baring Bros.

6. The Duke and Duchess of York commenced their voyage to Australasia. (See under June 27.)

7. Wireless telephonic service between London and New York was inaugurated at 1.45 P.M.

8. The Times announced two public gifts-one of 104,000l. to St. Thomas's Hospital from Mr. W. R. Morris, the motor-car manufacturer, and the other of 25,000l. to University College, Dundee, a bequest by the late William Gibson of Dundee.

10. Prague Castle was completely burnt.

15. The new section of the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris was opened by the President of the French Republic.

18. The Times reported an epidemic of influenza throughout the whole of Europe; 326 deaths from influenza occurred in London alone during the week ended January 15.

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18. The new Council House at Delhi was opened by the Viceroy.

A Chair of Music was founded in the University of Sheffield with the proceeds of a legacy of 16,000l. left to the University by the late Mrs. Rossiter Hoyle in memory of her husband.

19. The London Hospital received a gift of 25,000l. from Mr. Bernhard Baron for the purpose of endowing a pathological institute to bear the name of the donor.

20. The Venerable C. M. Blugden, Archdeacon of Coventry, was appointed Bishop of Peterborough.

21. Sir Andrew Duncan appointed Chairman of the Electricity Board.

22. The last performance at the Empire Theatre was given. The building is to be pulled down and a cinema will be erected on the site.

24. The University of Edinburgh received a gift of 74,000l. from the International Education Board, New York, one of the Rockefeller foundations.

26. The Times reported that at the Burma High Court in Rangoon the first Burmese woman barrister was enrolled a member of the Burmese bar.

27. A great gale swept over the country, the wind travelling at a speed of 102 miles an hour; many lives were lost and much damage done.

FEBRUARY.

2. A mail bag containing 10,000l. in treasury notes and other valuables was stolen from the night train from Cardiff to London.

9. The Chancellor of the Exchequer received from an anonymous donor five 1007. Victory Bonds with interest coupons attached.

Mr. S. J. Peploe was elected an Academician by the Royal Scottish Academy.

12. Mr. Frederick W. Thomas, of Trinity College, Cambridge, Librarian to the India Office, was appointed Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford.

14. Ten persons lost their lives and forty-eight were seriously injured in a railway collision near Hull.

Twelve persons lost their lives, fifty were injured, and about 1,000 houses were destroyed as the result of an earthquake shock in Dalmatia.

19. The Rochdale Observer completed 71 years of publication.

21. Mr. Thomas Cowan, a retired shipowner of Leith, presented 15,000l. to the University of Edinburgh to enable the scheme for providing a residential house to be carried out.

22. Lord Cowdray made a gift of 10,000l. to University College, London. 24. Mr. Oliver Hall, A.R.A., was elected a Royal Academician.

25. At the by-election in the Stourbridge Division of Worcestershire the Labour Party captured the seat from the Conservatives.

26. The Times announced that Lord Tennyson presented to the National Trust in memory of his father, the Poet Laureate, 155 acres of High Down, near Farringford, in the Isle of Wight.

28. The Thames valley was flooded, and large areas in the Midlands were also under water.

Whereas the highest rainfall for the last forty-four years for the month of February was only 2.07 inches, the rainfall for February, 1927, was 2.58 inches.

MARCH.

2. Mr. Charles Tate Regan was appointed Director of the Natural History Departments, British Museum.

3. The Times announced that the London Zoological Society had purchased from the Trustees of the Ashridge Estate a property of over 400 acres as a great zoological park.

An anonymous donor sent a Victory Bond for 500l., together with interest coupons, to the Treasury as a gift to the nation.

5. Mr. John Bell, M.A., Fellow, Tutor, and Dean of Queen's College, Oxford, was appointed High Master of St. Paul's School.

7. An earthquake occurred in the North Kyoto Prefecture in Japan; several small towns and villages were partly destroyed and over 2,000 people lost their lives.

11. The Transatlantic Telephone Service was extended to Cuba.

19. An anonymous donor made a gift of 100,000l. to the University of St. Andrews.

20. Bicentenary celebrations of the death of Isaac Newton were commenced at Grantham.

22. Mr. Robert Hugh Tennant was elected Chairman of the Westminster Bank.

Mr. J. P. Morgan gave the Neurological Institute of New York 200,000 dollars for research into the treatment of sleepy sickness.

23. The Times reported that the sum of 241,8331. raised by that paper as a National Police Fund was transferred to trustees of whom the Home Secretary is the Chairman.

24. At the Leith by-election the Liberals retained the seat, but by a small majority only.

An anonymous gift of 160,000l. was made to the Middlesex Hospital for the building of a nurses' hostel.

26. The Beethoven Centenary Festival began in Vienna.

28. The Goldsmiths' Company celebrated the 600th anniversary of its foundation.

-At the by-election in North Southwark Mr. E. A. Strauss (Liberal) gained the seat from the Labour Party.

APRIL.

2. Cambridge won the 79th University boat race by 2 lengths.

7. Mr. John Bridge Aspinall was elected City Remembrancer. 10. Summer time came into force at 2 A.M. (See under October 2.) 13. The Chancellor of the Exchequer received from an anonymous donor as a gift to the nation 1,000l. 4 per cent. war stock for cancellation.

15. Two civilian pilots of New York, Mr. Clarence Chamberlin and Mr. Bert Acosta, made a non-stop flight of 51 hours 11 minutes, and thereby set up a new world's record for duration of flight.

21. Mr. Henry Rushbury, engraver, and Mr. E. Guy Dawber, architect, were elected Associates of the Royal Academy.

The King and Queen visited Cardiff to open the National Welsh Museum.

23. The Times announced that Mr. George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, head of the Kodak Company, had given 300,000l. for the establishment of a dental, tonsil, and adenoid clinic in London, to be associated with the Royal Free Hospital.

Cardiff City beat the Arsenal in the final round of the Football Association Cup competition at Wembley Stadium by one goal to none.

28. The Chancellor of the Exchequer received from an anonymous donor as a gift to the nation 50l. 5 per cent. war loan for cancellation.

29. The Times announced that Mr. Frank Harrison, a resident of Boston, Lincolnshire, had made a gift of 20,000l. to the endowment fund of the Boston Hospital.

30. At the by-election for the Scottish Universities Mr. John Buchan retained the seat for the Conservative Party.