Evening Express

1 KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED I Singular Tongwynlais Accident I During the dinner hour on Wednesday a fatality occurred under somewhat singular circumstances at Tongwynlais. A gang of men employed cm the new line of the Oardiff Railway Company were sitting down to dinner with their backs towards a number of stones, one of which weighed as much as 30cwt. As the men were sitting there an engine passed, and it is believed the step of the engine, or the tracks, or something else came in contact with one of the stones. At any rate, the stone rolled against the ganger, a man INWled Alexander .Linton, of Tail's W-àl. and killed him instantly. The man sitting next to Linton. Harry Humphreys, of Taff's Well, was seriously injured, and was taken to the Car- diff Infirnbary, where it was found ho had had a tMgh put out. It is foarod- he ml] be crippled for life.

"STRANGE BEER" DID.-IT. I As the result of his ejection from the Park Hotel, Pontypridd, Joseph Rowtley, a labourer, became very violent and aoted in a peculiar manner, and on Wednesday was charged. at too local police-court with being drunk and assaulting the police. According to Police-sergeant Kavanagh. the defendant resented his being interfered with, became very violent, threw himself on the ground, and then embedded his teeth in the officer's leg, and the assistance of civi- lians had to be requisitioned before defen- dant oould be conveyed to the palice-etation. "I had a drop of strange beer, and it came over me," was defendant's excuse, where- upon the Stipendiary rejoined that indul- gence in "strange beer" did not exonerate him from blame for biting the officer. A fine of lCB. was imposed for being drunk. and defendant was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour for assaulting Polioe-ser- geanfc Kavanagh.

RUINED BY RAIN. Fruit and flowers ha.ve been much damaged by the heavy rainstorms and strong winds of the last few weeks, and also by a plague i of insects. The bloom season in the Lincolnshire Pens is stated to have been the worst for some years, acres of flowers being so much in- jured that it was not considered worth while to gather them. The rain not only spotted the blooms, but also reduced the sales in the markets. Havoc has been wrought in the West Nor- folk, North Cambridgeshire, and South Lin- colnshire districts by caterpillars a.nd the red spider. In many instances, not only have the present season's orops been ruined, but! the prospects for next season's crops have been also spoiled. I There is little prospect of settled weather at present.

I SUFFRAGETTE CAMPAIGN I Quite two hundred ladies assembled at the Municipal Secondary School, Howard- i gardens, Oardiff. on Wednesday to hear addresses from lirs. Winton Evans (London),; Mies Pankhurst, and Miss Barrett. At the' close of the meeting the majority of those present signed a declaration form containing these words: "I aip desirous that women should vote in Parliamentary elections on the same terms as men."

CHINESE RISING I Bobbers numbering 200 have plundered j Chut-nul-Wu market town, three miles from. Wei-Chou. The freebeott-ra are holding Shud-ITow and Won-Lik, and there i. a rising; in the Cheung- Tan-Shan district, guarding Wei-Ohoo.

PUBLIC BATH3 FOR NEWPORT —— A number of sites at PHI, Newport, have been suggested for the erection of baths, via., the western anchorage of the transporter, brid. in Mill-parade: the old poHtation. i in Temple-street land at the western end of .Teddo-atreet, and Watch house-parade. The borough engineer's estimate for the erection of a building suitable for twelve Scandium viaji baths is £1.00. and six "Kane" baths £ 1,000 to £ 1,200. The matter is still In pro- gress.

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On Epsom Downs, J I LOCAL CONTRASTS. ——— Surrey is the most delightful of the! Home Counties; and, if you want to see how nice Surrey really can be, how alluring to the eye, how gratifying to all the senses generally, there are few better ways of accomplishing your purpose than by starting from Epsom of a fine Sunday morning, and marching up and across the Downs by the Grand Stand, where the Derby was run yesterday, down the vale past the spurmaker's mansion, then up the old Roman Road again, and then, creating the ridges, on to Box Hill. Once Box Hill is achieved there are many things that one may do, many paths to follow. But there is one special routetotake which, I think, is known to nobody on earth save my&elf and one other. That is an unmarked pathway through the forbidden and bosky cavorts i of the green-clad spurs, down past tho nest of the partridge and the bob-tailed rabbit's lair, to a point on the Dorking Road near Mickieham. 1 have never met a soul in my brave adventures through those interdicted glades, and I) have travelled them when the snow was on the ground and in the high noon of summer. Moreover, I have almost in- variably got lost or mislaid on such occa- sions, seldom emerging within half a mile of the point where I expected to leave the woods-finding mjjself "Little Switzerland," so-called, when I imagined I was near the Box Hill Station end, and vice versa. But the risk, the toes-np, was half the charm- that and the fascination of the unknown and the unknowable. There is an ineffable allurement in the quest oi adventure in unexplored and uncharted places that appeals to every well-consti- tuted human being of my sex. I There is the ever-present sense of grave physical peril, and the gratifying guerdon of self-conscious merit, which is its best reward. There is the eternal possibility of strenuous combat with man or monster, which keeps the nerves astrung. One knows not from what lurking shadow or at what fateful instant may pounce out the ferocious hare. In the distance it is impossible to be centain whether the muffled echo of the woods is the cry of some angered jay bird or the shriek of the imprisoned princess, imploring help in the defence of her sacred honour, ever menaced by some glabrous ogre. But these matters, though of xquiste inte- rest, are alien to the main point 1 have in mind. That is the noble end, the achieved reward—the Finis eoronat opus," as my classic friend of the Plough Hotel at Whitchurch-by-the-Pigs would put it—for him who has conquered Box Hill and its mysteries, and who returns once more to the normal level of beings terrestrial. For him—the woods being left behind —there are two great alternative courses worth the pursuing. One is to amble gently down the road towards Mickleham until he reaches the dear little inn beside the po lice-station, where he may obtain a pint or so of nectar, under the earthy name of beer (by the bottle or by the gallon); and then, pushing on another couple of miles or so, take dinner at the Swan Hotel, in Leather- head. The other course is to stop at the Mickleham Inn and get fed there. The latter course is not always feasible, because at the Mickleham house there is not always a fit and proper meal in process of being eaten at the moment of one's call. At Learfcherhead, however, there is always to be found a feast within the meaning of the Act-a spread of viands substantial, such as cold salmon, cold beef, cold ham, and cold pie, with salads of sorts, pickles, cheese fal-lals, and hot potatoee-wnich transforms the "twist" that one picks up in a ten miles' tramp over tie hillsides into a blessing void of all disguise whatsoever. Then does the way-worn pedestrian lay himself out to enjoy what gifts the gods bestow on those who are really good; then does he realise that virtue, capped with a square tuck-in and a tankard or two of Bass, comes near to being its own reward even on this aide of Heaven. And—seeing it is Sunday (and yet may go to bed as soon as ever you get back to London town or wherever else your home may be)—what is the matter witlk a glass or two of that fine old port with the cheese, end-Yes; we may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb when we are about it-& Chartreuse, vert (the monk's own brand), and may- hap, a small liqueur brandy or two, to help along with the smokes and the coffee. But what haa all this to do with South Wales, you ask? Nothing for the moment. But wait a while. In last Sunday's London papers it was pointed out that the London and Brighton line, rising to the demands of circumstance, had introduced a new departure in the shape of week-end and Sunday tickets at reduced fares, available for such bold adventurers as you or I, or, maybe, Lord Tomnoddy, who might like to walk over Box Hill—or any other hill or dale, for that matter-but who would return via some station nearer to, or further from the town than that at which they have detrained. The venture, we learn, was received with the well-merited apprecia- tion-of the respectable travelling public. It is positively regarded as a boon. In Cardiff, if I want to gdouf, -on such a Sabbath ramble, what am I to expect? Item 1: I am bound to starve and be thirst-driven wherever I go. There is no Swan Hotel at Leatherhead for me in Glamorganshire. Unless I carry a cask on my shoulder I can get no cooling draught of beer or stout with appropriate viands at the local equivalent of the Mickleham Inn. Item 2: I am threatened-in the event of the trams running at all—to be charged double fares if I want to travel to the edge of the town—the brink of the green field and the gate to the hills-on Sun- day. Such a charge, if I read the signs aright, is one of the projected means whereby Mr. Ellis, our tramway reformer, hopes to further enhance the popularity, profits, and general usefulness of the local trams. Item 3: Item 3 has nothing to do with the Box Hill side of the proposition at all. It will appeal to the other section of the community, the section which— rightly or wrongly, it matters not; but doubtless conscient-iously-regards it as sinful to find any pleasurable relaxation outside of prayer on the Lord's Day, and I whose mom bers, therefore, decide that no Cardiff trams should run until after Church hours on Sunday. I am at one with such good people in the theory that every working man should have one day off every week; though I do not regard it as essential for his physical or spiritual welfare that his holiday should be on the Sabbath. Here, however, is a point I have in mind. I know a pious lady who imagines that if she mioses going to her particular house of worship on Sunday morning she, ipso facto, adds another brick to her orm particular cell in the series which the author of all evil builds for every soul, on the off chance of raking it i-n Heaven has so afHicted this unfortunate lady, however, that it would kill her to walk a mile to church, much less to walk a jaile or more thither and the same distance back again. She cannot afford a motor-car or even a donkey cart. Every day except Sunday a. tramway would take her to and from,? her place of worship in ten minutes; but, thanks to the regard which the Cardiff Tramway establishment holds for the morning of the Sabbath, that un- fortunate lady feels herself carried on each succecding Sabbath precisely one week nearer to her doom. It sooms rather rough on her from a spiritual point of view.

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Fatal Fall Downstairs. a DYING DOMESTIC'S PLIGHT. I —— Woman and Constable Blamed by the Coroner. i The Cardiff coroner on Wednesday investi- gated the cause of the death of Sa,rah Jane Merchant, a widow, aged 52, who had been employed by Mrs. Maxy Barratry as a domestic servant in a lodging-house at 22, Bute-terrace. Mrs. Barratry told the coroner that the deceased womall fell down the stair.? on Mon- day night. Witness, was in one of the rooms, and on hearing a bumping noiae went into the passage, and found Mrs. Merchant lying at the bottom of the stairs in an uncon- scious condition and bleeding from wounds on the head. She was p!aced on two chairs In a room, and a lodger named DonovaJi went for a doctor. He came back about 4.30, and said he couLd not get cue. The Coroner: Well, what became of the woma.n ? Was she left lyin.g on the chair all night?—Yes, sir. Weil, that is very strange conduct-to leave a poor woman, etuun-ed, unconscious, and bleeding, lying on two chairs by herself aJl night. I suppose you went to bed?—Yes, sir. And she was fouud dead about 5.30 or six o'ciock next morning?—Yes, air. She had a bedroom?—Yes, sir. Well, why was she not put to bed?—I was waiting until the doctor came. Well, surely, it was not much for 7OU to have waited with h?r. Why did you not g? l yourself for a doctor?—I did not know where he lived. Was she drunk at the time of the accident? —Yes, sir. John Donovan, a lodger a.t Barratry's house, said several doctors refused to attend the woman. He asked Police-constable Tasker to visit the house, and in the course of his rounds the policeman did so. Poiice-consjtable Tasker eaid this was so, but he did not know at the time that it was the house where the accident happened. He eaw MTs. Barratry, however, but she did not say anything to him about the accident. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned. The Coroner in hiB remarks said that Police-constable Tasker and Mrs. Bar- ragry were to blame for not doing a.U they could for the woman.

"PECULIAR, FATTY TALLOWY ODOUR." A Doctor's Complaint. Correspondence was read on Wednesday at a meeting of the Ijlandaff and Dinas Powia j Rural District Council with reference to the complaints of the medical superintendent of the n?w Mental Hospital regarding the smoke from the M?Hngrrimt.h Tin-plate w:?--I,,e It was stated that there had been no abate- ment since the last meeting, and the medical superintendent reported that there was always a peculiar fatty, tallowy odour" from tibe works, which was most objection- able, especially to those who happened to be in the female patients' side of the building. Mr. W. Jones, Whitchurch, explained that the works employed some 600 men, and paid ¡ in wages at least £60,000 a yeair. The whole of the works had been reconstructed on a I modern basis within the last fifteen years, and the proof that there was no nudsanoo I was seen in the fact that new houses were being built all round the neighbourhood. The Chairman (Mr. R. Porrest) thought that the company should give them an assurance that what Mr. Jones had stated was true, and also that they were taking precaaztions to proteot the neig-iiboai-hood from any smoke nuisance. This was eventually agreed to.

BATTLE IMMINENT, I The- Persian Insurrection. I The Teherac correspondent of the New I York Herald states that a battie is immi- 11 nent between the loyal Persian troops and the insurgents under Prince Salar Ed Ii Dowleh. The latter's force numbers about 14,000 mem with six gums.

AUDIT CANNOT BE HELD. I At the araiual audit of the accounts of the Swansea Education Authority on Wednesday by Mr. Push Jones, district auditor of the Local Government Board, Mr. Hugh Bellingham appeared on behalf of the managers of the Church schools, and drew attention to the fact that the provi- sions of the Education Act of 1902 had not been complied with, in that the accounts had not been duly madejup and balanced for inspection by the ratepayers seven clear days before the audit. The officials of the authority had, however, rendered every assistance in producing books and vouchers. The managers of the Church schools, he said, were kept at arm's length and hampered in every way in obtaining information to which, 1\ as ratepayers, they were entitled. He also desired to know from the auditor whether something oould not be done to enable the ratepayers to ascertain, the receipts and pay. ments in respect of each school. Mr. Pugh Jones stated that he understood the reasons for the accounts not being balanced were in connection with the secon- dary education (Higher Grade School) accounts, but, under the circumstances, he intended adjouxjjing the audit in order that the statutory provisions might be complied with. Mr. Pugh Jones, asked by a pressman as to the penalty prescribed for the default of which the authority bad been guilty, said it was L5, but it usually applied to cases of wilful neglect, and he did not think this was I a case of that sort.

FAMINE IN CURATES The Ilev. H. F. Tracey, vicar of St. Saviour's Church, Dartmouth, thinks that curates will soon be as extinct as the dodo. Writing in the parish magazine, he de- scribes bis unsuccessful efforts to obtain one, and continues:- But, my experience is ondy the universal one. The idea that curates are as plentiful as blackberries is hopelessly wrong; in a few yeare they will be as extinct as the dodo. Possibly some may be stuffed and erhi- bitod in glass cases, but. there will be no live ones. "The truth is that the prospects of earn- ing a living in the ministry of the Church of England, a.fter you ha.ve ce-as-ed to be young, are very remote. AT.d as for the prcs.peot6 of being able to marry comfort-! ably and have enough to retire ca when old age comes on-well, coa,Pumping holds ou-ti far bet.ter prospects, provided you know how to save."

PRESIDENT'S LIFE IN DANGER I Advioes from Guatemala City state that tibe fate of the conspirators charged with having attempted the uasd^Bination of Presi- dent Cahit-ra in April last was deoided. yesterday by the Guatemalan Revision Court. Death sentences were poesed in the cases of twelve of the accused, whil&t two others, who were of Italian ilat*oii., were of Italian nationality, were senbenced to imprisonment foe fifteen years. Of those condemned to death eleven are natives and the twelfth a. Spaniard.

10,000 EMPTY HOUSES. It was agreed a.t a meeting of the Lc?da Corporation yesterday to e¡t a n?w block of tenements for t.he working cla,?sm. The pmpo"l was vi?orouely opposed on the?, ground that there were 10,X9 ("mpty houses in the oity, and that there waa, oon&equeaitly, no necessity for the erection of new tene- moiitH.

SWANSEA LETTER-BOX ROBBERY A letter-bos at 26, Castlc-stre«t, Swansea., has been found to have been furced and a number of letters, rorne containing cheques belonging to Mr. Sims, metal broker, stolen.

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Girl's Adventures. —— 0 ——. I STRUGGLE FOR AN HEIRESS. The romance of the young heiress who has been kidnapped several times by each of her parents in turn is carried a step further by information wth-ioh has just reached the Australasian World." The little heiress is Miss Muriel Dorothy Kndpc. She is eight years old, and when she comes of age site will inherit £ 40,000 and an interest in the wholsale grocery business of the late lion. James Service, who was Treasurer and Premier of Victoria for many years. The child's parents are separated, and for several yea.rs they have b-e,zi conten.ding for t.he possession of their daughter. First she was kidnapped by one, and then by the other. She has made four journeys between England and Australia, and the latest in- form.ation is that she is now in Vancouver w,ith her father, who kidnapped her in Lon- doa on January 23 last. The story of the little girl's adventures was told by Mrs. Knipe when, she was in London last January. Mr. and Mrs. Knipe and their dauglitor oa-me to London in December, 1904, but disagreements arose here, and in the fol-lowing month Mr. Knipe dis- appeared with the ohild. Mrs. Knipe remained in England aJmoc-t a, yea-r search- inl for them, and she took proceedings in tire Ifigh Court to re-gain on of her daughter. Before a decision. could be reached Mr. Knipe sailed for Melbourne with the child. Mrs. Knipe followed, and it was then agreed that she should have possession of the c.hi]{j as long as she remained in Melbourne. This situation continued for some time, mud I then, in October last, Mrs. Knipe Left Mel- bourne suddenly with the child, a.nd without letting her husband know where she was tcoiag. Siho declares that she brought the child to England to be educated. Muriel was sent to school at Worthing, and Mrs. Knipe took apartments across the road from the school, so tha.t she could watch her daughter coming and going. On January 23 Jast, however, Mr. Knipe, who had followed from Melbourne, drove up in a motor-car as the child was leaving school, seized her, and drove off. MT. Knipe and Muriel arrived in Melbourne on M.,vroh 6 leag?t,  on March 6 last, and Mrs. Knipe followed on April 4. Mr. Knipe and Muriel fled to Sydney and Brisbane, followed by Mrs. Knipe, who began legal proceedings against her husband. Before any papers could be served, how- ever, Mr. Knipe and Muriel disappeared, and Mrs. Knipe has since learned thart. they left for Vancouver on April 12. The Victorian police authorities have asked the assistance of the Vancouver authorities, but eo far there is no reoord of Mr. Knipe acd his daughter having been caught.

BLUE RIBBON OF THE TURF Bets Lost and Won on. the Race How much was lost apd won over the Derby? 1 In Tatteraaffl'e Ring at Epsom two tendaixg bookmafeOTB told a press representative yes- teinday that they estimated the amount for which Slieve Gailion was backed OlD the course as £ 130,000. "In support of Orby the ring has nob talren more than Z15,000, but it has been & bad race for us. There was a lot of money for Orby at the la&t moment." Mr. Croker is said to have won over jB30,000 with Orby, and numbers of Americans almost as much. In the ring it was stated thai the famous American bad 93,000 on his horse to win, 80 that Mr. Croker must have netted, with the stakes, a sum in the neighbourhood of £ 40,000, exclusive of bets before the race. As a contrast, it was stated that Mr. Horatio Bottomley, M.P., the owner of the outsider John Bull, had a-fiver on hfø facrae "forr look." Serveral CIOW bets weie lost wiiem SOero GaJlion came home third. On the Continent wagerittg was not so heavy as it has been for many Dorbys post. About £ 50,000 was staked in Hoilajod on the favourite, amd very little on Orby. Three Yeaals ago the total was nearer EXAOOD.

PONTYPRIDD EARTHQUAKE I The inhabitants of Pontypridd werestartled on Wednesday afternoon by what is thought to have been a seismic disturbance. Several people in Bcrw-road, at the one end of the town. and on the Graig at the other, speak to having experienced a shock. but it was in the neighbourhood of Berw-I road, that it was nroet distinctly felt, several people being frightened at the peculiar noise and the rattling ol crockery, Ac. Blasting operations at the Craig-yr-Hesg Quarries or an explosion were at first thought probable causes, but as there was no explosion or blasting operations, and as the shock (which was described as two bumps) was also felt by the workmen, the noise ia locally attributed to an earthquake. Inquiries show that the shock must have been confined to a very narrow limit, as nothing seems to have been felt in the surrounding districts of Abercynon, Ynyey- bwl, and the Rhondda. 'Frisco Shaken Again An earthquake shock lasting ten seconds occurred at San Francdsoo at 12-27 a.m. on Wed,d-),y The oscillations were in the direction of north to south. No damage was doue.-B,euter.

A RAILWAY VETERAN Mr. John Cooper, one of the oldest veterans of railway sendee, has just died at Darling- ton- Cooper, who was barn in the year of the Ba.ttle of Wa.terloo, commeuiced as a porter on the first public ra.il wa.y-the Stockton and Darlington line. Ae a. guard in the early railway days, his diuty was to ride on a. "diokie" on the roof of the rea,r carriage, so that he might be enabled to look along the whole length of the train. He eventtually became personal attendant to George Stephenson, manager of the &-at public railway, a post he held for many years. Cooper retired from railway service only four years ago, on a weekly petneion of 6a.. bat, having no other means or relatives, he became On inmate of Darlington Workhouse.

PERILS OF THE LIVE WIRE I Some employes of the Scarborough Har- bour Commissioners, with horses, were yes- terday afternoon taking a heavy crane from Lighthouse Pier to the East Pier, when the loug arm of the crane came into contact with a. live wire of the electric tramways. Two men, ncumed Marshall and Rumford, who touched the crane, suffered a severe shock and fell to the ground. It was a.t first believed they had been killed, but with medical aid they fully recovered. The horses had to be hastily cut from the traces. They, too, suffered ill effects, and had to be taken to their stables and receive veterinary atten- tion.

MUNICIPAL EMPLOYES The New-port Cbrparrution, having made inquiries as to the terms for insuring its employes asainft cl-aims under the Work- men's Compensation Acts, Employers liability and kindred Acts, and at common .]a.w, have been recommended by the finance committee to acoopit the tender of Messrs Adams and Mervill, for the Law, Car, and General Insurance Corporation (Limited), at 48. 3d. per cent., or an annual premium of JE180 2B. 6d., less 5 per cent. The amount of wages and salary specified was £ 86,000 per annum.

THE HAGUE PROGRAMME I The "Echo de Paris" to-day, dealing with the programme of the Hague Conference, says the first questions to be discussed win include; Defence of harbours by torpedoes. Transformation of a mercantile vessel into a warahip. Private property at eea and wuta-ality. Contraband, of war. Duties of neutrals and the stay of betH- gerent vessels in neutral waters.

CHAPELSTRUCKBY LIGHTNING A severe thunderstorm broke over Stafford. eliire Potteries yestarday afternoon, acoom. pauied by ha.i'l. The cemetery chapel spire at Ilartahill was struck by lightning, and a large portion -of the masonry tvais dislodged, leaving a gapLng hole eeveral feet in dimensions. A funeral prooesaion had just left the building, atnd a young lady was struck by falling masonry and injured. A jiouse at Lcwug'ton was Also struck, amd tihe inmates were much alarmed, but no one was injured.

THE REASON WHY. The currtint-Ioaf remains moist much longer tham the plain one, and Currant Bread that ic a day old is perfect for cut- ting. It is necessary that the fruit should be cut through in order that its full flavour may be enjoyed. That is why, in the case of this most wholesome and nutritious bread, children, as well as adults, should be (allowed, the luxury, of thin slices. e3154 I

An Inquiry Ordered. ——  ——— ALLEGED DISCREPANCY IN RATE j COLLECTlOJt; I Neath Matter to be Overhauled. A communication was received from the Local Government Board by the Neath Guardians on Wednesday, enclosing a special report of the auditor, Mr. Pughe Jones, with reference to a discrepancy of as. 4d. in connec- tion with the collection of rates a.t JVuch'aels- ton Higher. The auditor stated that Mr. W. L. David, collector, had collected two sums of ISfl. from t.wo rartepayers, and had entered two sums of 15s. 4d. in the rate-book. The reason given by the oollector for the difference of 6s. 4d. was that the houses had not been occupied the whoie of the time the rate was in effect, ana that he int-ended to return the difference to the ratepayers affected as soon, as he knew the amount to which they were entitled. The money had been refunded to the safid ratepayers, but not until the dis- crepancy had been discovered. The Chairman (Mr. H. Jones) It is a matter of two sums of 2s. 8d., but they have been refunded. The Clerk: And before thte inquiry was held. He collected the rate in full, and stated that the 2s. 8d. ,"q,8 irrecoverable, and the next time he was going round he repaid the money to the persons from whom be collected it. The suggestion is that he did not intend to repay them. Mr. Trick: And he did not do it until he was asked ? The Clerk: That- is eo. Mr. Low moved that the guardians take no action in the mat;ter-tbat they were eatlefied with the explanation of the collector. The Chairman said there had been a MttJo friction in this parish for some years. Mr. John Thomas said that whatever had happened in the past had nothing to do with this matter. Mr. E. S. Phillips pointed out that it was not a question of 2s. ad. or LI,MO. They had a great deal of revelations in the public press of late, and he thought the sooner this kind of tiling was overhauled and checked the better. He hoped the matter would be dealt with at once, and he supported the proposal. Mr. B. A. Griffiths supported the motion. Mr. Phillips: It is not a question of amount. It is a. question of principle. Mr. James Thomas said that if the., assis- tantoverseer had not look-ed at the books and found out the discrepancy the money would not have been refunded. An inquiry was necessary in the interests of fairplay all round. Mr. Trick strongly supported the amend- ment for the inquiry, and it was eventually unanimously agreed that the finance com- mittee should undertake this duty.

ASSIZE TRIALS AT BRECON I The BreoonsttxLre Assizes were hold,on Wed- neodbmy befo- the commissioner (Mir. H. Gordon Shee, Y-CJ. who was accompanied on the bench by Mr. Edward Davies, high- dheriff, and the Rev. Oamon Griffith, the high-sheriff's chaplain. Mr. WiEiam de Winton was foreman of the grand jury. Thomas Richard Pugh (16), a black- smith's apprentice, i-ndicted for criminally assaulting Matry Ellen Jones, a girl under the age of sixteen, at TaOgarth on March 17, was found not guilty and discharged.—The Hon. Herbert Bailey prosecuted, and Mr. I Ivor Bowen defended. William George Weale, Michael Sitton, and David Williams were indicted for stealing 45. 6d., the moneys of Mary Ann Price, in the parish of Vaynor, on April 23. David WilMaans did not aweat. and his recog- nisances were estreated. Weale pleaded guilty and Sitton not guilty.—Mr. Ivor Bo wen, who prosecuted, offered no evidence aga-inst Sitton, wtjp was discharged; but Weale, who had been convicted eleven times before, was sent to gaol for six months with hard labour. Rees Evans, a labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with haird labour far stealing a pony, value £7 JOB., the property of Thomas Harries.—Mr. Evam Williams defended. The Highsheriff entertained the grand jurors, members of the Bar, county officials, and a large number of personal friends to a reoberdhe hincheon at the Castle Hotel.

MR. HALDFTNE*S ARMY BILL. I The Hotzse of Commons again went into Committee on Mr. Haldane% Territorial and Reserve Faroes Bill on Wednesday. Numerous amendments were moved axul lost or withdrawn. Colonel HERBERT (R., Monmouthshire) moved one by which a man might undergo traiiiing "wfth his own or any other unit of the Regular or Territorial Forces." Mr. HOBHOUSE said this power waa already in the Bill, and the words, with which the Government sympathised, were unnecessary. Mr. ASHLEY (U., Blackpool) declared that if such an amendment were sympathetically received by the Government, there could be no harm in inserting it in the Bill. After further discussion, Mr. HOBHOTTSK, on behalf of the Secretary of State, agreed that this principle should be safeguarded. Golone1 Herbert then, by leave, withdrew his amendment.

ABSENCE OF ACTION A deputation of the Progressive party at Tokio on Wednesday waited on Viscount Hayashi, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affaire, and asked for an explanation of the Government's apparent inaction and want of efficiency in the presence of grave diplomatic questions, both with China and the United States. China is accused of obstructing: the advance- ment of Japanese interests in Manchuria. The deputation also called attention to the situation in San Francisco, and dwelt upon the necessity of peremptorily dealing with the question now, as otherwise frequent repetition of the acts complained of might endanger friendly relations. Viscount Hayashi's reply to the deputation has not been made known.-RL-utc-r.

THE CENTRAL WELSH BOARD I In the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr. REES (R., Montgomery) asked the Presi- dent of the Boa-rd of Education whether hie attention had been called to the resolutions passed by the representatives of 17,000 Weteh Calvinistio Methodists at Mold to call bis attention to the satisfactory manner in which the Central Welsh Board had carried on the duties of inspection and examination of intermediate schools, and to the de6ira- bility of strengthening the authority of the board by entrusting to it the entire inspec- tion of such schools. Mr. LOUGH (Secretary to the Beard of Edu- cation) replied: The relations between the Central Welsh Board and the Board of Educa- tion are receiving my careful consideration, but I am not yet in a position, to make any statement on the subject.

SCHOOL OF MINING. At an ordinary meeting- of the council of tihe University College of South Wales and Mommout-hehire held on Wednesday, the Earl of Plymouth presiding, Mr. J. Stephenson, B-Se., resigned hie position as assistant lecturer in physics on hie appointment as assistant to th3 Ea.rl of .Berkeley im his physical researches. It was resolved to grant certificates to Miss M. C. Griffiths, Mis., Owen Lewis, and Mr. D. D. Rowlands on the results of the examina- tions of the evening classes in the history of Wales and Weteh language and literature conducted during the session 1906-7. A scheme was adopted for the constitution of tho mining school, and it was resolved to appoint forthwith a professor of mining. The Alfred Sheen Prize in the school of anatomy was awarded to Mr. Thomas Beaton, and a diploma in civil engineering to Mr. Peter Erbin Williams.

NEW CHANNEL BOAT The fine new passenger stesm-er Barry, wlidoh has been built to the order of the Barry Railway Company, arrived at Barry Dock cm Wednesday after a satisfactory run from the Clydü. and was berthed in the basin for inspection. The steamer will run summer and winter to places on the other side of the Channel, and her first trri¡) will take place in a few days. The Barry has length on the water line of 225ft.. moulded breadth 26ft. 6iu., moulded dapth 9ft., and she has a speed of seventeen or eighteen knots. She has been fitted with compound diagonal engines, promenade and after decks, dining and main saloon, tea room, &c. She has a. red funnel with a whits band and black cap. She was the object of considerable interest at the dock on Wednesday.

ABERCARN INSPECTOR'S RESIGNATION A special mocUn? of the Monmouthshire Standing Joint Committee has t = ?sliire for next Wednesday to consider the cir- oumetanoee connected with the reaigme?Uon of I M-Inspector Groves, of Aberearn.

KING AND QUEEN TO VISIT CARDIFF. Opening of New Dock. We are authorised to state that the King and Queen propose to visit Bangor on Tuesday, July 9, for the purpose of laying the foundation-stone of the new permanent buildings of the University College of North Wales. On the following day their Majesties will cross from Holyhead to Kingstown in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert on a visit to Dublin, extending over the 10th and the 11th. At the conclusion of their visit to Dublin the King and Queen will pro- ceed to Cardiff, where his Majesty will declare open the new dock of the Cardiff Railway Company. Former Visits to Wales. I Few, but memorable, have been the visits previously paid by the King to Wales. The fit was when, in 1881, his Majesty, then Prince of Wales, acoomipanied by the Prin- cess of Wales, opened the dock at Swansea which bears his name. The RoyoJ pair travelled down from London by train, and after a short stay at Cardiff, occasioned by the overheating of an aehbox, they passed on to Pyle, where a diversion was made to Margam Abbey, where they were the guests for a short time of the late Mr. C. R. M. Talbot, M.P. The journey was then resumed to Swansea, where a stay was made att Singleton, Mr. H. H. Vivian being then host. Next day (Ootober 17) the Prince opened the dock, and subsequently a journey was made to the Mumbles on the road traan. The mayor (whom we now know as Lord GI-antawe) was raised to the knight- hood as Sir John Jones Jenkins. The next visit was to Aberystwyth and Cardiff in the summer of 1896, when the Prince, ag-ain accompanied by the PrineeSB, attended the University Oourt at the former place, and aJso attended the industrial exhibition at the latter. The Prince was installed Chancellor of the University of Wales on June 26, and it was for this pur- pose that the visit was paid. The Princess at the eaime time became an honorary graduate of the university in music, and the venerable Mir. Gladstone, who had but recently laid down the cares of strenuous statesmanship, was also made an honorary graduate. From Aberystwyth the journey was made by rail to Cardiff. The Cardiff Exhibition of that year, which was held in Cat hays Park, had been opened on May 2 by the mayor, the Barl of Plymouth (then Lord Windsor)* and on June 27 the Prince and Princess paid the buildings a. visit. The Prince was on the same occasion made an honorary freeman of the borough. The next visit. to the Principality was made in 1902, after the Coronation, when his Majesty and tho Queen v ere cruising round the ooaet on the Royal yacht. A stay was tnads off the coast -of Pembroke, and a journey made by jand in the Angle Peninsiala, including a visit to the Lambton family mansion. The vasii was, however, brief and informal. The next occasion was in 1904, when the King asnd Queen visited Swansea, and on July 20 inaugurated the King's Dock. On this occasion the mayor, Mr. Griffith Thomas, was knighted On the following day the King and Queen travelled by train to Rhayader to conduct the initial cere- monies ocranecited with the completion of the Birmingham watsr undertaking in the Ehun and Qiaerwen tributaries of the Wye.

'HULLO, WMAT'STHE MATTER?' I Explosion Frightens a Parrot. I When Mr. James GhAlvers, plumber, struck a match, to light the gas in his oil and hard- ware shop, Romford-road, Manor Park, yes- terdiay morning, a violent explosion occnrred. ) He was hurled across the couxuter, the windows blown, mto the street, and the shop I set on fire. All the members of the occupier's family, after securing as many personal belongings as possible, left the building safely. On recovoring from his momentary shook, Mr. Chivens himself had only just time to secure his cash-box a.nd ru&h into the street. Remembering, how over, that a dog, some camaries, and a parrot were upstairs, he dianted up to. their rescue, and was fortunatoe enough to save the animal and the smaller hirds. Owing; to the dense emoke, the parrot had to be left to its fate. As he hurriedly retreated, Mr. Chivers heard the bird call, "Hullo! what's the matter?" xvoiuotant to desert the poor parrot, he made another diesperate attempt to reach the cage, bnt, almost suffocated, he was beaten back, and g-ained the open. air as he was on the point of collapsing. A curious feature of the outbreak is that the fire insurance policy on the premises lapsed, through omission to pay the pre- miums, on the very day of the fire, and it is em2sidexed doubjful whether the insurance company will pay anything for damages. The shop was gutted, but the fire brigade saved the rest of the premises.

ALLEGED SMUGGLING. I At Skibbereen Court House yesterday Geanit M&dt (captain), Joseph Wa?igera (m?te), Dorris Pauert (cook), Gerrit Lemma, and John Toorsen (s?ajn?m) were charged on  remand., with having on board the ketch Oosmopodiate, 34 tons, Rotterdam, within the territorial limit, a. quantity of tobacco, con- trary to law. The ketch was alleged to have been dis- covered by his Majesty's gunboat Skipjack within one league of Cape Clear coast, oon- veying the tobacco in question. The commander of the Skipjack deposed that he boarded the Cosmopoliate, on board of which he found 3,5401b. of tobacco, 571b. cigarettes, some perfumes, E305 in Irish notes, also English gold and silver. A solicitor, instructod by the Dutch Con- sul, applied for an adjournment, so that evi- donca for the defence might be procured, as some thousands of pounds were involved. The application was opposed by the other side. An adjournment until Thursday week was granted, defendants being admitted to bail.

ORATOR IN THE DOCK, I So eloquent were the arguments of a pri- soner, Thomas Williams, who, together with another mlan, was Charged at Tower Bridge Police-court yesterday with acting as pedlar without a, licence, tha.t he obtained not only an acquittal but a present for himself and his companion besides. "There is no work to be got," he pleaded, "and you mustn't thieve and you mustn't sell. What is a man to do? Is he to starve or make an end of himself over one of the bridges ?" 51 r. Rose said th-a-t these were difficult questions, to which he oould give no satis- factory answer. After inquiries had been made he said he was rather impressed by Williams's eloquence, and directed that 5s. should be given to esch man from the poor- box to pay for their pedlars' certificates.

¡ £220 FOR A COIN I Some high prices were realised for old coins and medals at Sotheby's Rooms yester- day. For an exceptionally rare little gold piece of the reign of Henry VIII., the property of an Irish, antiquary, bidding rose to f,220, while one of the medals granted to offioers who commanded regiments at the Battle of Cullodren. fetched £ 102. An old seventeenth oenttiry prayer book, in pierced and engraved silver cover, chased wJth portraits of Charles 1. and Henrietta Maria, chamged hands for L180.

CHURCHYARD UNDER THE SEA I When the Coast Erc.ion Commissioners visited Walton-on-the-Naze yesterday they were shown a spot nort.h of the pier and about a mile from the shore which was for- merly a churchyard. A quarter of a century ago tho tombstones could be seen under the water at ebb tide, but the sea has further encroached, and even when the tide is extraordinarily low and the sea clear the old burying-ground is scarcely discernible now from the sea level. i

Herrings are so plentiful in the Moray I Flrt-h and are swimming so close in shore I that a strong wind blew many on the beach yeeterda<y;

Betrayed by a Friend. COUNTRY HOUSE INCIDENTS Unfaithful Wife Divorced. Deception and betrayal of an unsuspecting husband were set forth prominently in a story told to the Divorce Court by Mr. EiJ -,o Banlses, K.C., yesterday. The petitioner in an undefended case v- as Mr. Louis Aldolpbus Levick Carey, vao charged a former friend and intimate coiu. with robbing him of the affections of bis wife, Mrs. Mildred Alice Southern Can y, a brief report of which appeared in yester- day's Evening Express." Mr. Carey is a Devonshire man, and wl'a he married in 1897 he went to Eye at Hals''o-B House, in that county. ILLs wife wa" a 1" ly of considerable means There was some disagreempnt over i: rs. Carey's relations with a certain :n in 1899, but this difficulty was smoothed 0' cr. All went well until a Captain Edward Bin do a Wyld, an officer in the Miiitia, can; in 1903. to the neighbourhood where the Careys Lived for the "Training » lie made the acquaintance of Mr. ard Mrs. Carey, and joined the former in shoot/rig expeditions. Ho soon became a const, nt VKBitor at Halsdon House. Many of his vi- its were paid when M.r. Carey was awa,y. Iu in summer of 1905 Mr. Carey arranged to i ? with his wife at a seaside place, Woc'acor;i-c, and Captain Wyld was invited to be one of the party. The arraingeme-nt W:lS that '-he captai-n should travel to Woolacombe w;h } Mr. Carey a week after Mrs. Carey had up her residence in the holiday quarters. But when Mr. Carey arrived at Woo Li coir ha he found that Captain Wy!<l had In already st-aying in the houfc for a week, R 1Jd had accompanied Mrs. Carey on hcT jouri^y, The husband protested, and there wat a quarrel, as a result c.f which Mr. Carey kfö the borase. He had demanded that Captain Wyld should be told to go, and it was on the understanding that his demand would ba carried out that he departed from Woo la. combe. Story of Wife's Confession Captain Wyld continued to stay in the house. Up to this time M.r. Carey had not had n', least suspicion of his wife, b-ut he now remarkable accounts of what had taicu pJaoe. A servant (who gave evidence) had s-ren Captain Wyld go into Mrs. Carey's room ia the early morning a.t Halsdon Hoase to trke tea. with her. A lady wfoo had been a guest at Halsd.' a bad noticed, that While the other of the house-party were out shooting a Wyld and Mrs. Carey had remair.ed belli • <i and sat together in the smokiog-TCsni. To a witness whose evidence wts read on coanamssioti Mrs. Carey had m'a-d, a sion that she had; been unfaithful to her husband during a. visit to another hoose. After the petitioner, a tall, handsome mart, had given evidence, a decree nisi was pro. nouneed. The wife also bad filed a petition, but. this her counsel, Mr. Barnard, K.G, wrthdrev, explaining that he could not oDmbcvt husband's case.

CAMMELL, LAIRD & CO. Whilst it is announced, on the one hand, that at last Messrs. Cammell, Laird, and ( ha.ve entered into a verbal settlement with tie Earl of Jersey for the site of the propos« d works at Swansea, it is also known that at. a meeting between the harbour trust com- mittee and the representatives of Messrs'i. CammeLl on Wednesday at &wa.n differences were disclosed as to certain quo tions of haulage and shipping rates at C, e docks. It is understood that the principal point of difference is as to the shipping rate on irnu ores. The ores of the company, though in Spain, are to be shipped in the Medit- r- • ranean, and eo would be rated at 7d. per ton as against 5d. from Spain. The treso, also, whilst prepared to treat haulage fron imports in the oonsolidated rate, declines to deal with the haulage of exports in the saire way.

FLOWERS OR PETS? War baa broken out between the amateur gardeners and the oat and dog lovers of t19 Bedford Park district. The weapons employed by the gardeners consist mainly of poison, and the great mo- tality among the domestic pets has resulted in -BY complaints being made to the J()(.1.J police. The fact is," said a resident to a reporter yesterday, "that in the suburbs YOU'H' got to make your choice between a well-kep' garden with no cats and dogs, and cam an4 dogs with no garden worth speaking of."

WHAT HE DID SAY. Speaking at the West Indian Club banquet on Wednesday nigtht, Sir Robert Borif!. Premier of Newfoundland, regretted the incompleteness of the Blue-book report of the Conference on the issue covered in rec '1. rrl to the matter of the Blue-book caJkvl Private Proceedings." There was ro heated debate; but with the utmost delibera- tion he bad warned the Government that repetition of its action of last year w,Iri not only be regarded as most humiliating by the Colony, but would lead to a total dis- regard therein of the constituted authority.

HUSBAND FOUND HANGING Henry Strange, aged 54, an ostler employe* at the Blaenda.re Colliery, Pontypool, ane residing on the Cwmlicky Mountain. v. ,:i found on Wednesday evening hanging to it rope from the bannister at his house. M: s. Strange left home in the morning to go to Cwmbran, and on her return sbe found her husband's body suspended. She at once out it down and sent for assistance. Pol ice-sergeant Bladen arrived at the house and found i ¡ Co extinct. Strange had reoently been trcatfd by Dr. Jones for rheumaatism and pains m the head.

NOT SETTLED YET. The general manager of the Port Ta p. rJ Railway and Dock Cormpany, inters ;ewr:. with regard to a rumour that the detai;* of the scheme for the amalgam-ation of th< company with the Great Western Rail?.ac' company were complete, said this was root. The points in dispute still remained unsettled, and they would have to n> over for the consideration of the of the two companies.

DROWNED IN THE RHONDDA About half-past ten on Wednesday morn- ing a boy of five years, named Daniel Hard- ing, son of Lewis Harding, of Rowley-terrace, Mardy, met his death by drowning. In com- pany with other lads he went into a fieM near the river, the Rhondda Fechan, an.,1 by some means fell in. His companion., gave the alarm, and his body was found 10.; yards down the river.

KISSED 1,000 BABIES Mr. PeaJI, the mayor of Alton (Illinois), at a children's pic-nic kissed a thousand babit- s and young children, and then made a opeec'j. attacking doctors who declared that the ki«^> iDig of ba,bies spread disease.—Central Newt-.

TRAGIC COINCIDENCE Mr. Robert Howe, 71, a prominent member of the Penrith Board of Guardians, and fcr many years a member of the Penrith Urbar, Council, died on Thursday morning frorc, heart failure, and a few hours later his son, Mr. George Howe, 40, fell dead in t.he street. — ■ ■"If

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