... was Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, and it was mainly owing to his energy and persistence that limited, and even- tually open, competition was substituted for patronage in public appointments. Of late the scope of the Civil Service Commission ...

... causing considerable commotion in the Royal borough. THE VALENTINE BAKER CASE.—MIss KOH Dickenson has, says the Central Noes, resettled, through Sir William Jenner, an autograph letter frees the Queen, expressing Her Majesty's feelings of grestagt sympathy ...