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The Han in the Street. Perhaps the ordinary man would give one of two reasons for the extraordinary iton-t-alkativeness of the Cardiff alder- men and councillors yesterday. The City Fathers actually finished their busi- new by lunch time, and it might well be said that this highly desirable state of affairs was due to the absentee Parlia- mentary candidatees or to the New Year's resolutions made by the members of the corporation not to talk so much as usual until they have passed safely through the tail of Halley's Comet. Poe- wbiv, t-here was a combination of these two reasons, and to them might be added that so much talking is going on in other places that the supply of gas is running rather short. Anyhow, it must be said i that the members did right merrily on at least two subjects. That of the tramways promised to be sufficient to keep all tied to their places for the rest of the day, only it was recognised in time that a better opportunity will present itself when the report of the first six months of increased fares comes up for considera- tion. The Park pony had a kick left in him sufficiently strong to need another reference or two before joining the majority, but the subject which gave the local legislators the most tongue practice was the fire station site. Only the ipproach of the luncheon hour and the soneequent calls of the inner-councillor :mt an end to the outward signs of ruffled ninds. To my mind, the most useful part of the debate on this never-ending subject was the contribution of Mr. C. F. San- ders, who reminded the council that, though they had two big piles of hand- some buildings on Oathays Park like the City-hall and the Law Courts, they had not yet a hall in keeping with the dignity of a large centre like Cardiff. Then, why not, he suggested with sound commori- setise, combine the erection of a large assembly hall with the new fire station ? By the time Cathays Park is filled with public buildings and monuments, the people of Cardiff will still be asking for a suitable place in which to house annual Mid National Eisteddfodau, to welcome fche big statesmen, explorers, &c., who yisat the Metropolis of Wales, and ever, it seems, they will have to fall back'upon «ther a temporary building-unsaie and ooetly—or the present inadequate halls. It may not be too late to suggest that the Territorial Army Association and the corporation might join hands in the erec- tion of sach a hall that could be used for drilling, the holding of public meet- ings and functions, and contain over and around the accommodation needed for the fire brigade. There may be obvious Objections to such a combination, but these are more than met by the require- ments of a great and self-respecting ity. The opportunity is not so lovely as k was when the City-hall was being weeded, but it may be a long time before better one arises. There was one item before the Cardiff Council which had special interest for Barry, the town of no municipal fire brigade. The Watch Committee had received a request from the Barry Council to allow the Cardiff brigade and motor fire engine to visit the seaside place for the purpose of making experiments as to the sufficiency of water at certain points in the district. This application was none the worse because at its root was the statement of the Barry authority that they are considering the desirability of purchasing a motor fire engine. The reqxieet was readily granted by the cor- poration yesterday, and it is to be hoped fcha* as the direct result of this interest- ing viflit by Superintendent Green and his merry men Barry will soon have its own efficient engine and brigade. If all this happeoe before a serious fire breaks out in the town or docks, the benighted town may ooostder it has come out of a very ridicakms position very luckily. No town oan afford, to ignore the dangerous possibilities of a large conflagration, and a community of the size of Barry is in a poartkm of positive and terrible danger until the omission under which the dis- trict now suffers is rectified by an up-to- date organisation. In the meantime the Barry Council will do weU to make all poeaihle haste in putting themselves and the town in a position of unques- tioned safety. Seven ladies of Cardiff yesterday received a "happy despatch" to durance wile at the quarter sessions. Hanging in age from 26 37 -mat should be the j Aow- of their woman hood--they recei vd ',59 months between them, wwc?h means OW MM time the city streets W1111 not be troubled by their presence. Five of these creatures had made 425 appear- ances in the local police-court, and their assembly in a bunch before the recorder was the result of the systematic way in which the city police and the magistrates have been combining to protect society against them. Each lady had previously undergone a sentence of three months' imprisonment. By this means they qualified as fit subjects to be committed as rogues and vagabonds. It does not seem a humane manner of treatment, but harsh measures have to be adopted with the incorrigible. It would seem t,hat even the police—one of the candidates for gaol was described as "a danger to the police"—are not safe from the fiend- like conduct of some of these creatures, and more than one officer could unfold I awesome tales of wounds received from hatpins and narrow escapes from very serious injury. The public are only safe when these pitiable creatures are behind the prison walls, and, though the neces- sity may be deplored, it is worth while calling attention to what is being done for the protection of the public. There can be no manner of doubt that England is very keen on beating Wales next Saturday, and the selection of the chosen fifteen yesterday was awaited with great anxiety in both countries. If the side had been made up on Saturday, as had been intended, the selectors might have acted in panic, and the Englishmen would have been beaten before the game commenced. As it is, there is the strongest hope in all quarters of the United Kingdom that the wearers of the rose will be able to return, if only for a time, to that supremacy which was-theirs before tihe strong clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire were tempted to form the Northern Union. It would do the game much good to turn the tables on Scot- land and England for a change. In this country it has been thought by many excellent judges of the game that England is scarcely ever represented by her best fifteen, which has generally been chosen on the disastrous system which overtook the Old Country in the recent test matches with Australia. Something of this was evidenced by the England side being smashed up by a Rest fifteen at Twickenham on Saturday. All good sportsmen hope that the moral then rammed home is fermenting in the breasts of the selectors, who must have trembled to think what would have happened if Wales could have bad the un- doing of that weak selection instead of "the Rest."

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ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN I PARIS, Monday. A short circuit in electric cables in the Clichy Quarter eaused the iron coverings of several sewer manholes in the Boulevard Haussman to be blown off this evening. Three persons were injured. Another short circuit caused the failure of the electric light in Quartier de I/Europe, a.nd the big ca.1s in tha.t district were lit up this evening by means of candles, lamps, and Chinese lant--rns.-Reuter.

EARL'S SON AS SAILOU. I — INTERESTING LIFE IX THE MER- CANTILE MARINE. Another instance of a son of the nobility "taking off his ooa.t," as the saying gees, to work, like the Earl of Hardwicke, is Lord Dalzeli and I-i.herton, son and heir of Earl Ca.Tnwa.th, a Scottish representative peer. It was stated some days ago that Lord Dalzeli and Liberton was an officer on a P. and 0. liner, and a press representative found that the peers son did actually serve for some time in that company's service as fourth officer. But that was not the beginning of his career in the mercantile marine. The future earl has related some of his experiences since he chose a seafaring life, and. as plain Mr. Ronald Dalzeli, shipped as a "rai(iciy" at the age of seventeen on the Marquarie, a four-rigged ship plying between London and Sydney. "Although ostensibly a midshipman," he said, "I was to all intents and purposes a seaman. I had the saiior'.s 'four hours on and four hours off" duty. The life was hard, and the food was rough, a.nd well do I re- member the joy with which we all looked forward to the occasions on whioh fresh meat took the place of salt pork. our usual food." i-ater. Lord Dalzeli served as an officer on a Houli-er beat trading to South America; then he traded to Morocco on cue of For- wod's vessels. and later he joined cne of Eider and Fyffs's boats in the banana trade. Scxt he entered the P. and O. service, and served as fourth cfiiaer on several of their liners, including the Simla, Oceana, Pera. Caledonia, and Oriental. "Pern.ups this part of my seafaring life," said Lord Dalzeli, "was the most interesting, consisting for the greater part of voyages to the East. "Although during the earlier part of sailor- ing life." comtinu?d Lord Dalzell. ('?'I often had occaaicn to v/ork 36 hours cr more at a stretch, I have never regretted going to sea, and should-doubtless have continued the life but for a family bereavement."

ALLEGED BANK FRAUDS. I EUDA-PESTH, Monday. In connection with the charge against two roan, Etienne Albrecht, an engineer, and Joseph Peter, a, fireman, who are at present in custody in England on a charge of being I in unlawful possesion of certain ph. >to- graphic glass plates for producing A ustro- Hungarian ba.nk notes, the police have issued a warrant against a third man on a charge of uttering forged Austro-Hungarian notes.— Reuter.

AVIATION MEETING AT LOS AXGELOS. NEW YORK, Monday. A dispatch from Los Angelos states that an enormous number of visitors have gathered there for the first aviation meeting under the auspices of the Aero Club of California, which commenced to-day. Sixteen European and American aeroplanes are in full readiness to participate in the contests, the competitors including Mr Glenn Curtiss and M. Paulhan. If the weather continues favourable Paulhan will attempt to fly over Sierras, which will make it necessary for him to attain a height of 4,03Gft.—Central News. 00--

SWANS i: A CHURCH SCHOOLS RE-OPENED. The re-modelled Oxford-street Church of England Schools, Swansea, over which such bitter contention has prevailed, were re- j opened without formality on Monday. The accommodation-is for 350 boys, 300 girls, and 210 infant?, rather less than before, but the playground .tcoc-mmodation has been greatly increased. There are seventeen classrooms, and there are new entrances from Dillwyn- street and Singleton-street. Mr. A. F. Eden, the zealous champion of the schools, was at the schools on Monday morning at the open- ing, and wished the youngsters "good luck."

CAUL) IFF COLLEGE PAST I STUDENTS. I ,irn-o tn-pual meeting of the Association of I Past Students of the University College,; Cardiff, was held in the new college build- ings, Oathays Park. Miss Helena Jonee, n.8c., of the Cardiff Intermediate School for GiTls. was elected president, and Mr. G. L. Davies. B A., was appelated to t -he vacancy on tihe executive committee. Mr. R. Stowe, B.A., was re-elected treasurer, and Miss Gladys Mullin, B.A., and Mr. Caleb Reee, M.A., were re-elected secretaries. Dr. W. Sheen continues to act as chairma-n of committee. Miss Helena, Jones and Mr. Stowe were elected to repres^r-t the association on the College Court of Governors. A scheme was adopted for the establishment of branch associations wherever five past students apply to the executive committee for that purpose. It was decided that the association should cease conduoting an appointments agency.

STORM WARNINGS. NEW YORK, Monday. The officf ials of the weather bureau, it is authoritatively stated, are at present engaged in making' the final arrangements for a per- fect system of cominunioatiug warnings of corning- storms to all steamers at soea whioh may be fitted with wireless a.pparatus.- Central News.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A COLLIER. A serious charge was preferred against WiWam Gnmthe. oolliar. 5, Charles-street, Tre- l herbert, at Ystrad on Monday, by Margai?et j Jenkins, aged 14. Prosecutrix admitted she had sometimes been taken for twenty. and her father stated that he had found his daughter several places, but she did not keep them, and had expressed a wish that she should be sent to a home. Mr. W. T. Davies, Porth, who appeared for the pri- soner, submitted that on the evidence a jury would not convict, his clieut being under the impression the girl was over sixteen, and on her own admission she had been taken to be older than she really was. Prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next assizes, bail being allowed.

UPON MY HEAD." One of the most amusing things said by Ijord Beaoonsfield was at the moment of his entry into public life at High Wycombe. As the two candidates stood side by side addressing the people, Mr. Disraeli's opponent, a county man of influence, said that he was "standing for the seat upon the constitu- tion of the county, upon the broad aores of his fathers, upon law, property, and order. "And what does Mr. Disraeli stand upon?" oried a farmer in the crowd. "I stand," said the future leader of his pa,rty, rising without a moment's hesitation, "upon my head." It was thought, by Mr. Disraeli, the smartest thing he ever Said

DISASTROUS EXPLOSIONS. About twenty boys were injured, moet of them slightly, by a gas explosion at the Glasgow School Board's truant school at Shettleston recently. A gas bracket in a store-room had broken, and when a boy named Matthew Reid went in with a light the?e waa a. severe explosion tha.t broke win- dows and blew down partitions. Reid ?id James M'Millan, who were in charge of the shoemaking department, were seriously injured. Pour people were burned by a gas explo- sion of 451, Mile End-road, London, an.d Grace Bullock, a servant, and an eight- months-old baby, Lionel Isaacs, were de- tained in hospital. The lower part of the house was rather badly damaged, most of the windows being shattered and the parti- tion walls blown down.

TIMING THE NEW OATH. I In the belief that the new method of administering the oath causes great incon- venience, Colonel Thornley, the coroner, at a Hull inquest recently decided to make fcn experiment to see how much time was occupied. The coroner's clerk and the reporters accordingly timed the twenty-three jurymen, the clerk using the coroner's stop- watch. The oath was ad-ministered indivi- dually to each juryman by the coroner, and the time for the prst few averaged one minute. With the succeeding jurymen the oath was administered more quickly, and it was found that the total time occupied was 17min. 46sec. The jury suggested that in future they should be sworn together in scotch form.

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"Acted as Housekeeper" NEWPORT WOMAN AND WI DOWER "It is an extremely painful case," said Mr. Harold Lloyd in the case at Newport on Mon- day of Henry Thos. Reed v. his wife, Mary Reed. The man was obarged a week ago with neglecting to pay his wife E25 arrears due under an (."del". of maintenance, and then an adjournment was granted to enable a summons to be issued at the instance of the husband calling upon his wife to show cause why the order should not be discharged on account of misconduct. The case against the wife was taken first. Mr. Ha.rold Lloyd, who appeared for the hus- band, said a separation order wao made on. March 10, 1905, the husband being- ordered .to pay 10s. per week and the wife to have the custody of the two ohildren-a boy now aged eighteen and a girl now aged thirteen. They had lived apart ever since. Twelve months ago statements were made to the hus- band, and he stopped payment to his wife, She went to keep house for a ma.n named George Cook, who first lived at Wharf-road and afterwards at 67, Albert-avenue. Both the boy and the girl would say that they had seen their mother and Cook in the bed- room together. The <'OU, Henry Thomas Reed. said at the house in Aitert-avenue there were only two bedrooms, which were occupied by five per- ms-hil3 mother, Cock, his sister. Cook's daughter, and himii. He had seen his mother in the room with Cook, and soon afterwards he (witness) left the house, and got another lodging. Alderman Mcrdey: Did you not throw the man out of the window?—No. The Clark: He is too small. Alderman Mordey: I should have done it. The Mayor (to witness): Were they asleep? --No, they were awake, but they pretended to be asleep. The Mayor: Did you call your mother's attention to what you had seen?—No. Mrs. Seed declared that her son's evidence was entirely false. Lily Reed, the daughter or the marriage, said she had been living with her married sister at Pontypridd. At Ohrietmas, 1903, she went down to visit her mother, who told h.e., to say that she slept with her mother. That was not true. She had seen her mother with Mr. Cook. The wife went into the witness-box, and said &he acted as housekeeper for George Cook, who paid her Is. 6d;x"r week, paid the rent, and provided some of the food. But nrovi-dtxi for herself and her son aid daughter out of her own earnings. She denied the allegations. "PARTLY MARRIED." George Cook, a. widower, aged 60, who said he was a brewery hand, also denied what had been alleged, and said he slept with Ali-s. Reed's son, but not always, as he sometimes slept in a chair downstairs or on the sofa. In cross-examination by M.r. Harold Lloyd, witness said that his former housekeeper had left him. Mr. Harold Lloyd: She made a complaint against sou?—We wore partly married. (Laughter.) Mr. Harold Lloyd: I suggest that you turned her out and took on with your new love, Mrs. Reed?—I didn't turn her out at all. And are you partly married to Mrs. Reed ?— Eo. The bench having retired, the Mayor said they had decided to discharge the oiHer. The Clerk: Now with rpgard to the arrears? Mr. Harold Lloyd: We admit the arrears, but this man is in an unfortunate position. He had information about his wife before the arrears began to accumulate, and thought that under the circumstances he was no longer liable But as he did not take proceed- ings until now the arrears have mounted up He (Mr Lloyd) suggested that the man should be ordered to pay by instalments. The Bench agreed, and ordered payment of 10s. per month. ¡

UNLUCKY HORSE SHOES The Llalldalf -magistratea on Monday (Colonel Henry Lewis presiding) imposed a fine of il and costs on Ann Roderick, licensee of the Three Horse Sihoes, Gabalfa, for permitting drunken- ness en Sunday, Jaau&ry 2. Police- conttablo Frederick Thomas spoke to visit- ing the house at 6.30 P.M. and finding a man, named Daniel Donovan, taere under the inHnenc? of drink. He drew the a?ttenucn of William Rcderick, defendant's husband, to the man's condition, and he promised to get him out at once. Forty minutes later witness «aw Donvan leave the Three Horse Shoes. He was then very drunk and u"iag improper language He was so violent that witness had to look him up. Later witness went to ;,I, rm Roddick that his wife (who was 111 in IV u?llbe reported. Roderick replied, "I hope you won't. It is nothing but trouble, and 01 my birthday, too." Addressing the bench for the defence, Mr. George David described the case as trivial. Mr. and Mro. Roderick, he afided, had had litigation with a relative, but terms had now been come to. one of which was that Roderick and his wife should leave the house. Arrangements had been made for a new tenant. The house was the property of the parties, and it would be a serious matter for them if there was conviction against it. espe- cially an opposition was offered to the renewa.l of the licence at the last licensing sessions. There would probably have not been any xa-oceedings had it not been for Donovan adopting an attitude of violent antipathy towards the police-officer.

HOME BROKEN UP Mrs. Lily Ro.a Collins, Olive-street, ap- plied to the Llandaff magistrates on Monday for am order of separation from her husband, Samuel Edgar Collins, of 67, Bertram-road. Hendon, London, a clerk, Qn the ground of his neglect to maintain her. Mrs. Collins, who was nicely attired, stated that her hus- band had been out of employment for several months while they resided at Llanishen, and in Januao-y of last year he went to London where he secured a berth Eventually he lObi. hi8 post, the homo was broken up, and, as he could not malintada her, she returned in October to her father's house in Cardiff. Since then she had only received 50s. from her h jsband, who was still out of work. He had been very violent towards her during last year, especially when in drink, and she waited up at nights for him "in fear of her life." One night he turned her out of the houso, and only re-admitted her when he believed a policeman was coming. Defendant did not appear, but he wrote asking that he might have the custody of the eldest child, aged ten. The Bench made an order on the defendant to contribute 91 per week, and; Mrs. Collins consenting, they gave the defen- 'dant the custody of the eldest ohild. )

"FAIRYLAND IN NATURE" I "Fairyland in Nature" was the title of a moet interesting lecture given on Monday evening at the Cory-hall, Cardiff, under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, by Mr. R. Keartou, F.Z.S., London. It was greatly appreciated by the large audience present. The lecture, which wae illustrated with splendid still and moving pictures, was most instructive, and showed a great insight into animal and bird life. The lecturer also remarked upon the great improvement in illustrating natural history. As illustrating his remarks, a view of a solan gooee taken from a wooden caricature of two centuries ago was thrown on the screen, and this was followed by a photo- graph of the game bird taken within the last few years," and which is admitted by compe- tent judges to be the beat of some 10,000 natural history photographs which have been taken during that time by the lecturer. I

NEW STANDARD BURNER I The Swansea Gaslight Oompany, the New- port (Monmouthshire) Gaa C'omveny. and the Aberdare and Aberavon Consumers" Gas Com- pany are, with forty-four other gas oow- panies, promoting bills in the next session of Parliament to provide for the adoption of the Metropolitan Argamd Burner No. 2 as a standard burner in substitution for the various burner3 now in use for the official testing of tlw illuminating power of gas sup. pliMl by them." The preambles of the Bills stale that the London gas referees. after oaieful experiment, have satisfied themselves that tho burner known as the Metropolitan Argand Burner No. 2 is the best known burner for the test- ing of the illuminating power of gas, and it has been proved tha't this burner gives a. fair an-d true result for all qualities of gas up to an illuminating power of twenty candies, which limit covers the statutory obligations of all gas companies. The Acts adopting this standard burner are to come into operation on the 1st of January, 1911.

EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION The oonference of the Workers' Educational Association, which was to be held on January 22, has been postponed to Saturday, February 5. The conference will be held at the University College, Cathays Park, when disoussion will take place on "Exemption from School," Uniformity of Bye-laws," Age or Standard." and Attendance at an Evening Class as One Condition." Discussion will also take place on the question of increasing the attendance at evening classes from among the children who are just leav- ing the primary schools and the provision of evening class instruction for adults.

l Canon Arthur Ootavius Hardy, rural dean of South lormpme and rector of Lydd, feae at tbe Ikxsatry, Lrdd,. MW dCOMAud T3.

An American's Visit -or- JEWELLERY MISSED ON DEPARTURE Three men-George Went worth (25), a hall porter employed at a house in Leinster- gardens, Bayswater; Frederick Wentworth (50), a butler, of Craven Hill-gardens; and Bertie George Smoker, a pantryman, also of Leinster-gardens-were charged at Maryle- .bone on Monday with being concerned together in stealing and receiving a diamond and pearl nag, two dia.mond scarf pins, and a. necklace, value £100, the property of Mr. J. Francis White, agentleman residing at The Rivercrest, Twenty-first Street, Washington- avenue, New York, who, until Saturday, was staying with his wife at a private hotel at 10 and 11, Leinster-gardens, Bayswa,ter. George Wentworth was also charged with stealing articles to the value of 25s. from the hotel, belonging to Amy Macbeth, the proprietress, and further with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting Ernest E. Hicks, a cabman, of 12, Bowman's-buiidings, Edgware-road. The first charge was a sequel to the last. It appeared that Mr. and Mrs. had been staying at 10 and 11, Leinster-gardens during their stay in England, and left for New York early on Saturday morning. The prisoner George Wentworth, who was enl- ployed at the hotel aa kitchen porter, assisted them to pack their luggage. Some time after their departure it seemed that Wentworth s brother Frederick pledged a diamond cluster pin for £3 10s. and a necklace for 10s. at different pawnbrokers in the vicinity of Edgware-road. The two brothers then engaged the cabman Hicks, and were driven about the various public-houses in the West End. By the time they were set down in Leinctel'-I place they were both drunk, and when ask?d for the fare it was said that they brutally assaulted the cabman. Frederick Wentworth ran away, but George V» entworth was after- wards arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. In tho meantime, Mrs. Macbeth, the pro- prietress of the hotel, had received, a tele- gram from Mr. and Mrs. White stating that on reae.11ing the boat they found that jewel- lery to the value of £9<) had been stolen from their bag. She informed the police shortly before the pin- soeer George WditAvorth was arret:t.eå, and on his being searched by Detective George a diamond pin and ring were found upon him, bot,h of which were identified by Mrs. Macbeth as MI. and Mrs. White's pro- perty. The police also found in George Wentworth's box several articles belonging to Mrs. Macbeth. While he was being detained at the police-station the other two prisoners called there to inquire about him, and were also detained and charged with having been concerned in the robbery. Smoker, it waa I said, was wearing one of Mr White's shirts. The accused were remanded.

TRADE OF SWANSEA A monthly mesting- of the Swansea Har- bour Trust was held on Monday, Sir Griffith Thoma.s (chairman) presiding. Mr. Glyn Price, in moving the adoption of the finance committee's report, said that the trade of the port for the past month was very satisfactory, showing an increase in the aggre- gate of 13,GOO tons. The improvement in the import trade was very marked, and reached 20,000 tone, or 30 per cent., the principal increases being in pig iron 6.CCG tons, pitch 2,600 tons, copper ore 1.900 tons, zinc ore 5,000 tons, iron ore 6,700 tons, and wood gooda 2.0CO tons. There was a decrease in grain of 4.700 tons, and in cement of 1,200 tons. In the exports coal and coke showed an increase of 3,000 tons, but patent fuel a decrease of 9,000 tons. The export-s of tin-plates and gal- vanised sheets were practically the same as in the corresponding month. The increase last month had further reduced the dec-rea.se on the year, which in the returns at present stood at 27,000 tons, and might possibly be lessened when the actual tonnages were ascertained. TURNING to the revenue, as they were a.ware, the interest on the capital of the new dock became for the first time a. charge against the revenue, and it was not to be anticipated that for some considerable time, at any rate, the increased earnings would be sufficient to cover the increased liability in the way of interest. Owing. how- ever, partly to the transference to capital of sums pronerly charged there-to. but debited to revenue during the previous of the y.er, which always o?curTed in D?em- J ber, and parity to 'ch.& bsttntill in the grc-M r?vestM of n\>war<^ scojGOv;, the net result was a surplus of ?2,458. The report was adopted.

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE I Laura Wi1;y (19\ housekeeper to Mr. Ben-I jamin Harris, collier, 44, Quc&n-strcet, Biaen- avon, is allied to have attempted to commit suicide by taking s?lts of lemon. The yo?ia? woman, it is stated, was depressed, and took the salts of lemon in a dry st.a.te whilst in the street, and then ran hoauo screaming. She appeared in great agony, and several neigh- bours went to her assistance. Police-constable Green was summoned, and administered an emetic. Dr. A. B. Avarne also attended the young woman, and she is now progressing favourably.

IRISII FIRE DISASTER I HUSBAND, WIFE, AND FOUR CHILDHEN DEAD. A fire was discovered to have broken out early on Monday morning in the house of David Fagan, lamplighter, Lisburn, Ireland. The police em ashed in the door with an axe. and a terrible sight presented itself. Mrs. Fagan and her four children, ranging from eight to two years, were found in a bedroom on the ground floor dead from suffocation. The father was missing, but when the fire waa extinguished his charred remains were found in the kitchen. Police-sergeant Torrens, who was on patrol duty, noticed smoke issuing from the house. Examining the place, be saw flames in the I kitchen. Hs smashed the window to alarm the inmates, and, getting no response, tried to force the front door, but this had to be smashed with a sledge hammer. Despite the dense volumes of smoke which poured forth, George Lowry and Alexander Carlisle, gasworks employes, dashed into the house. Near the door, as if he had been try- ing to escape, lay the body of the oldest boy. aged eight. In an adjoining room lay another child dead against the bed, while on the floor were the bodies of the mother and t.wo other children, aged four and two years respectively.. The fire was subdued in about three- quarters of an hour, and then the fireman discovered the charred body of i agan among the debris. Three lodgers escaped through a window in the rear of the house, just I avoiding suffocation. The fire has caused a consternation in the town. ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN CLAP- HAM RUINS. The eighth victim of the terrible fire at Messrs. Arding and Hobbs' drapery establish- ment at Olapham was recovered from the ruins on Monday. The body is identified as that of George Neighbour, a chef.

THE LATE COLONEL LEWIS I DEPUTY-REGISTRARJ TRIBUTE I AT MERTHYR. At the sitting of the Merthyr Bankruptcy- court on Monday Mr. Ellis Owen, Offtaial Efeoedver, addressing Mr. Deputy-registrar Jones, paid a feeling tribute to the late Colonel Lewis. Nowhere, he eaid, would his loss be felt more than in that court, over wfcich he had for so many years presided with such ability and dignity. Colonel Lewie was a man whom to know was to love. They oould always approach him, and be sure of obtaining a kindly hearing, and his advice was always at their dispoaal. He (Mr. Owen) was sure the gentlemen who practised in that court desired to associate themselves with him in tendering their sincere sym- pathy to the sorrowing members of the f?m.Uy and to the deputy-registrar who for suoh a long space of time had b<?n go closely a.?i?iated with the deceased gentleman. The Deputy-Registrar, who was much moved, said he felt the loss of Colonel Lewis so keenly that he could scarcely trust him. self to reply to the official receiver's very kind speech. It had been a terrible blow to him and to his relatives. especially as it had come so unexpectedly after his apparent progress towards recovery. lie knew the colonel from boyhood, and, having been a partner with him for 41 years, he could emph?-'me a.M that had ben eaid of his virwfss. The reap&ct paid to the coh-:n?i's memory at the funeral showed hew deeply everyone loved him. l?e felt bis loss more and more every day, and he thankbd th? O&OW receiver aM aU who hW ?xtoa??ed ?tM??HMP?t? 4

13,000 Jewel Theft DARING RAID IN LONDON Thieves broke into the premises of Messrs. Sa.qui and Lawrence, 54. Strand, early on Monday morning and carried away gold and diamonds to the value of over £ 3,000. It is believed that the burglars lowered themæl ves into the basement and broke into the premises through a barred window. Using a. keyhole saw, they cut away about two square feet of the office floor, a.nd so made an entrance into the shop. The safe was close at hand, and they appear to have spent some time in trying to force it open. A hole was drilled into the back of it, and an explosive having been inserted, an attempt was made to blow the wall of the safe away. The attempt failed, and the thieves then, apparently, made straight for the shop window. The one-half of its interior visible from the street they avoided, but stripped the other section. They took enough gold alberts, rings, broochee, and jewelled articles to fill a good-sized bag, and got away with- out being noticed. A number of tools" were left by the thieves in the shop, consist- ing of fine steel drills, thirty skeleton keys, a coil of light cable, and three heavy steel instruments. The robbery was discovered when the shop was opened at the usual hour on Monday morning, and so far the efforts of detectives to trace the thieves have been unavailing.

GERMAN EXPENDITURE A batch of diplomatic consular reports issued on Monday by the Foreign Office and the Board of Tra de included one of particu- lar interest just at this moment, "jz., :1.btnte- meat by Count do Salis, Councillor of his Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, with regard to the finances of the German Empire. For this year, states Count de Salis, the ordinary revenue is estimated at and the extraordinary revenue a.t £ 9,335,987. The esti- mated ordinary expenditure for the Army has increased to £ 38,421,534. a.s compared with for 1909. The extraordinary expendi- ture shows a very marked decrease, amount- ing to as compared with £ 2,041,308 for ISO). This expenditure was devoted axel usiveIz in each case to fortifications and to tbo building of strategic railways. Tho estimated ordinary naval expenditure has increased to £ i6.143,825, which compared with £ 14,197,828 for 1909, aud for 1903. The extraordinary expenditure on the Navy is estimated at £ 5,518,182 and the principal item in this expenditure is a con- tribution to the ordinary non-iieeurring expenditure for construction.

PENARTH MAN & GIRL CYCLIST Walter Hunter, of Penarth, hairdresser, was charged at Barry on Monday with assaulting Nellie Brown John (15), living with her parents at E'verard-etreet, Barry Dock. Mr. J. A. Hughes defended. The girl said that, when cycling at Barry Island on Sunday she met the defendant, who a&ked her to show him the way to Nell's Point, as he was a. stranger from Cardiff. She accordingly rode with him, and defendant sat down on the grass. He pulled her down, and although she struggled, she was uua-ble to free herself. A man came up and she ran to her bicycle. Hunter afterwards offered her sixpence to buy chocolates, and although she said she did not want hie money, she afterwards found iL in her coat pocket. Witness rode in search of a. policeman. The latter obtained his bicycle, a.nd they rode in search of the defen- dant, whom they saw on the Island-road. All three then returned to the police-station. Defendant denied that he ever saw the girl before he was arrested. He was committed to the assizes, bail being allowed.

DESERTED SEAMEN'S MONEY I William J. Randall, of Redcar, and master of the steamship Logwood, was summoned at Swansea on Mor,day by the Board of Trade for net delivering up three sums of money due to certain seamen, who had deserted. Defendant was fined 20s. and 15 15s. costs im the first case and ordered to pay the costs' in the two other cases. This is the first case of the kind brought under the Act of 1906. Under the old law the deserters* wages were forfeited, but under the Act of 1906 (as Mr. Guisburg explained) the maet-er bas certain duties in regard to the balance of wages due even to deserters. The master haxi to deliver to the superinten- dent of the mercantile marine the balance that would have been due and an account of the expense incurred ill providing a. substi- tute.

SWANSEA MAN'S SUICIDE I  Monday & respe? At Burslem, Staffs, on Monday a respect- a.bly-dr?s&d youn? man, named Thomas, belonging to Swansea, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. The evidence showed that the defendant catered the premises of the Chatterley Wbite- fuiid Colliery Company, Tunstall, early on Sunday mcrrningr and drank the contents of a bottle of laudanum. He had previously drank salts of lemon at Paddington, and he told the police that he should have hanged himself if he had had strength. The medical evidence showed tha.t Prisoner had suicidal tendencies and needed constant observation. Arrangements were made for his committal to Staffordshire Lunatic Asylum at Cheddle- ton.

A NEW ANIMAL I WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. A new animal has been discovered in British East Africa by the Smithsonian African Scientific Expedition, which, under the leadership of Mr. Roosevelt, has been in that region securing specimens of fauna and flora for the National Museum of this city since late last April This new animal, the first announcement of whose discovery was made at the Smithsonian Institute to-day, is a hitherto unknown species of otocyon. to which the officials of scientific organisation have given the specific name of vergatus. It is a email carnivorous animal closely resembling a fos.—Reuter.

SEQUEL TO FATAL FALL William Henry Wakefield, landlord of the Treharria Arms, Dukeetown, was summoned at Tredegar on Monday for permitting drunkenness, and with supplying a drunken person. Mr. R. Lyne, Newport, prosecuted and Mr. R. H. Spencer, Tredegar, defended.- It was alleged that two hawkers got very drunk in the house, and on the way home one of them-William Lyons-fell down and sustained injuries from which he died. A witness said that he and Lyons were drink- ing in the house from about twelve to 4.30 ¡ o'clock, and witness admitted that he could not drink any more. The Bench dismissed the case. I

CYANIED IN THE SOUP I PARIS, Monday. A corporal of the 8th Hussars is now in prison at Chalons on a charge of attempting to poison a whole squadron. He has written to the colonel commanding the regiment con- fessing that he put cyanide of potassium into the soup of the me68 in order to kill the troopers to whom he owed money, never thinking, he said, that other lives would inevitably be sacrificed. He took the idea from a similar poisoning case in Austria.— Reuter.

MAULED BY A LEOPARD I NEW YORK, Monday. A shocking incident was witnessed yester- day at Hubors' Museum, where Miss Pauline RusseJie, animal tamer, was putting three leopards through a performance. One of the animals, which had shown a sullen demeanour diuring the proceedings, suddenly turned and sprang upon the unfortunate woman. The attendants rushed in immediately, amd forced the leopaird to release its grip, but Miss Pauline Russelle was found to be so terribly mauled that her recovery is impossible.— Central News.

WYE BOATING TRAGEDY I Mr. Coroner Deakin held an inquiry at Tintern on Mionday afternoon touching the death of Joseph Hudson, whose deeud body was discovered in the River Wye below Tintern on Saturday afternoon. On Decem- ber 4 deceased and his son were drowned at Red-book in the presence of a number of people through the boat in which they were colliding against the railway bridge. A verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was recorded..

i SUBSCRIBERS T5 HOSPITAL The following annual subscriptions have been received at the Bank of England for King Edward's Hospital Fund for Lou-dorl.- Prince of Wales, £ 500; Princess of Wales, 50 guineas; Princess Victoria of Wales a.nd Princes Edward, Albert, Henry, George, and! John cf Waks, one guinea each. ——a—»■— mi

MINISTER'S FATAL FIT The Rev. Thomas Fletcher Minoher, for nineteen years preacher a.t the Reformed Episcopal Chur-ch at Leigh, Essex, was seized with a fit while preaching on Sunday and died shortly after reonoval home. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family.

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The Pet of the Family.1 DEAD DONKEY AT BARRY. A Barry Isla-nd pilot, na-med William Knight, for whom Mr. J. A. Hughes, solicitor, appeared, answered to a. turnmons at the local court on Monday, charging him with cruelty to a donkey. Austin Edward Beynon. Barry Island, paid that when going towards the Island Station on the morning of the 21st ult., he saw a young donkey lying on its back in a deep rut on t.he football field. Its four feet were straight in the air and "frozen az hard as poles." The barometer registered 22 degrees of frost on the previous night. Witness placed his coat over the animal, and rubbed it vigorously. It ulti- mately showed signs of life, kicked, and then died. The donkey appeared to be in pooj- condition, had a very short coat, and wa.s quite unfit to be out in such weather. The field was exposed, and the grass was only about an inch in length and lying flat with the frcst. Police-constable Arch said he had had a conversation with the defen- dant, who said he thought that he had been giving the donkey the wrong diet. Inspector Barrack, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Police-sergeant Toye also gave evidence. The defendant said the donkey wa.s a pet of the family, and had even been in the house. He had bought it for his little boy, but big lads had ridden the little animal. Witnes# had taken the greatest care of it, and had even fed it with luxuries. The animal was exceptionally tanus and witness would have housed it for the night bad there been the slightest indication of hard weather. The Bench dismissed the case, at the same time expressing the opinion that Mr. Beynon was quite right in his action, but probably did not know at the time the facts of the case. !E grr "• ■ ■

COUNTESS AS DESIGNER I I X-early a. thousand entries ara on view at the exhibition opened on Monday by the Arts and Crafts Society at the New Gallery, Lund'en. One of the most 1Jotahle of the exhibits is a bedstead made to a design by 'the Countess of Plymouth. For the purpose her ladyship hit upon, an idea that is at once quaint and attractive. The frame is in wo:d. but. iiiftead of depending t1pon ID21'8 outline for ornamental oiieeta, the pasts and ?Ars are tir? carved and then eolouTd. Waves and berries, relieved by tulips and other flowers, are the keynote of the whole. The posts are wreathed olosely with bands of leaves, and red berries are put in at fre- quent intervals. Tha crossbars a.re festoons of leaves and fitowers, bending from the sides and intertwining in the centre, all carved in the utmost detail and coloured carefully in natural tints. At the head a pair of birds form the chief items of the centrepiece, and an ewl (a.lg.:> painted in na,tural colours) stands at the top of each head-post. Amongst the other entries is a pair from Mr. R. Morten Nance, who is well known in art circles of South Walo??.. OU6 is a decora- tive IJ<2., OalwaTd Bound," and the other a painted screen, The King His Ship." In each case Mr. Nance has worked out the scheme with all his well-known vigour. Tihe ships are decked in old-world glory of canvas and colour, and the id-ea, of s-ailin-g before a spanking breeze is weU maintained. Mr. A. J Davies is represented by a ?Mr. A. elaborate designs for stained-glass cartoons. A lot of pretty art jewellery appears under the nasnes of Eirian E. Franois (cf Wrexham), C. A. Hughes, Frederick Hughes, and W. R. Ilu^lww; and Miss R. K. Evans sends two bsautifiTl samples of embroidery. Messrs..i W. Fincn and A. Grove hafe entered a, model tympanum for erect.ion over an entrance door, which bears the inscription1908. This church-room was presented to the parish by Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount Tredegar."

TOWN PLANNING PROBLEM ATr. John Willmot, speaking at a. meeting of members of the Surveyors Institution Lon- don. on Monday on the Housing and Town- pianning Aot of last year, said that it was to be hoped that district councils would not embark in any building 5c.hmes which 1 1 1 CA involved speculation with the ratepayers' money unless they were thoroughly satisfied that the schemes could be carried out with- out a cha-rge upon the rates. T'he powers ci enforcing the execution of the Act were very large, and the fact that they -could be set in motion by four householders of a district might leed to a number of unreasonable complaints being- made. The prohibition of the back-to-back houses was one which must commend itself to all surveyors. The ques- tion of the restriction on the height and- character of the buildings was also an impor- tant matter, and it would prevent the erec- tion of h1,gb tenement houses. The success of town-planning was largely dependent upon the relaxation of bye-laws relating to street construction, for, unless the cost of road making could be reduced, there appeared to be little prospect for the successful laying out of estates on town-planning lines. In many oases the expenditure that might reasonably be saved on read making would be sufficient to cover the value of land given up for open spaces and to meet any depre- ciation in the value of the building sites which might arise from a restriction being placed on the number of houses to be put up per acre.

BOXING NIGHT QUARREL I Thomas Morris, collier, 9, Tyisha-road, Celli, was at Ystrad on Monday charged with unlawfully wounding his brother, William Henry Morris, with whom he lodged. Pro- secutor, who looked very ill, was accommo- dated with a seat. The evidence, already given at previous hearings, was repeated, being briefly that on the 27th of December the brothers went home together, being then on friendly terms. Afterwards a quarrel took place and, going into the yard, prisoner, it was alleged, stabbed his brother in four places, jumped a wall, and got away, but was afterwards arrested in a field on the monntain side. In cross-examination by Mr. Herbert Samuel (who represented the prisoner) prosecutor admitted that he had been drinking during the day. Dr. Costello, having described the wounds, said his patient was progressing favourably, and in his opinion was now out of danger. Prisoner was committed to the quarter sessions on bail, reserving his defence.

I LATE MRS. E. CORBETT I The. will of the late Mrs. E. Gorbett, of Gogan Pill, widow of Mr. John Stuart Cor- bett, ha.s just been proved at the Llandaff Registry Office. Deceased appointed her two sons, Mx. John Stuart Oorbett, solicitor, Car- tdiff, and Mr. Edwin Wortley Montague Cor- Jbett, architect and surveyor, 3, Castle-street, Cardiff, as the executors and trustees. The gross value of her estate has been sworn as X4,851, net £ 1,784. She bequeathed the farm and hereditaments called Gartha, in the parishes of Ba.gu.id and Rettws, in the counties of Radhor and Salop, to her two eons, John Stuart Oorbett and Edwin Wortley Montague Oorbett, during the terms of their natural lives, and, with the excep- tion of a legacy of L100 to her oouein Henry Kempster, the residue to the children of her two sons and to the children of the late Mr. James Andrew Oorbett.

LATE MR. D. WILLIAMS, ROATH I Mr. Daniel Williams, 10, Howaa-d-terrtee, Cardiff, who died on November 3 at the Oar- diff Infirmary, and probate of whose will has been granted at the Llandaff District Regis-try, to his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Louisa Williams, who is the sole executrix, left estate of the gross value of zEI,506, with net personality £ 1,476. The deceased bequeathed the whole of his estate, with personal effects, to his widow in trust for his three daugh- ters, Louisa Martha, Edith Mary, and Gwladys Martha, to be equally divided between them on the death of the widow. Ui. J— L

KILLED BY A STONE A senealtiooal case eame before the Bantry magistrates on Monday, when a young man of the farming class, named Daniel McCarthy, was charged with killing an octogenarian named James M'Carthy. According to the prosecution, the two men were proceeding home from Bantry on the 23rd ult., when, it is alleged, the prisoner threw a stone at the old man, which resulted in his death. The facte of the case only recently oame to light. The accused was sent for trial at the Cork Assizes, bail being refused.

LATE MR. EDWARD TAYLORI Mr. Edwsrd Taylor, of Rosehili, Mumbles, formerly of Summerfleld-crescent, Birming- ham, postmaster of Swansea, who died on the 2nd of December, aged 64 years, left estate of the gross value of tl,75,3, with net personalty £ 1,599, and probate of his will, dated March 16. 1894, has been granted to his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Hannah Taylor, of Rosehili, to whom he left the whole of his estate absolutely.

I TRODDEN TO DEATH I N ODESSA, Monday. In the village of Sergiyevka, near Ufa, three Ijasohkirs were caught in the act of stealing a few primitive agricultural appliances from a barn. Three hundred peasants were immediately assembled to pa-ss judgment on the thiens. who were qmokly I condemned to death, and after having been ,i cruelly Ilo?u with cudgels w?r? liraJly trodWen to dot?h. No axmets ba-va be?D made.—Central N<?<

Two Men Overboard. EXCITINC TRIP OF A TRAWLER When the Milford trawler Reginald arrived in dock, the skipper (Peter Ebbersen) related that when fishing off the West Coast of Ire- land the warp parted, and the mate, Jchn Ribey, and the bo'sun, Frank Ribey (his father), were thrown overboard. The mate swam, but almost sank, when he was rescued by a rope. The bo'sun was saved by his boot being entangIod in the warp. The skipper was crushed between the warp and the side of the ship when attempting to rescue the bo'sun. The vessel returned to port imme- diately, the skipper and the mate being seriously hurt, and the bo'sun very slightly.

LADY'S LOST COMPLEXION The Boys and Girls' Aerial League is a branch of the Women's Aerial League, which holds that ide,als of patriotism are acquired gradually, and not suddenly, when a crisis arrives, and seeks to promote tile science of aviation in. and for the British Empire. The lecture-hail of the Society of Arts was crowded on Monday by boys and girls con- nected with the league to hear a lecture on "Airships. Balloons, and Flying Machines" by Mr. Erie Bruce, late secretary of the Aeronautical (Society of Great Britain. Lady O'Hagan presided. Mr. "Bruce referred to the success of M. Bleriot in his half-hour's flight across the English Channel, and said that if one airship could come across, there was no reason why hundreds, or even thousands, should not follow. Farm an had British blood in his veins, and, therefore, it could be said that we held the record for the longest distance travelled. Mr. Bruce passed on to describe free balloons, and related a story which he said was true. The other day a lady came to him and asked him if he could give her lodgings in a balloon. She said she had lost her complexion, and want ed to spend every night in the higher atmos- phere to bring it back again. He said to her, Madam, do you wish to be accommo- dated in a captive balloon or a free balloon?" and she replied, Not a free balloon; that would be too crowded. (Laughter.) I have an income, and I can afford a private one, and it would be so much mere cosy. I ha.ve only one fear, as I suffer from cold feet. Do you think they will get much colder up aloft." (Laughter.) The lecturer explained numerous models of airships, and said that though it was only possible for them to cope with a moderate wind, the progress we had made in recent years pro- mised that the wind difficulty would be gradu- ally removed. Now that airships could travel 100 miles it was ridiculous to regard thean any longer as toys.

WILLOWTOWN SCHOOL A new sahool was opened on Monday at Willowton, Ebbw Vale, for the Ebbw Vale Education Authority. The ceremony was performed by Mr. Thomas Richards, M.P. The school is situate at the west end of BryiLheulog-street, in the heart of a popnlous and rapidly increasing district. The schools. whioh axe in two blocks, consist of mixed and infa.nt departments. The exterior has a very pleasing effect, consisting of Psnnant dressed stone, with brick quoins and Forest of Dean stone dressing. The interior is up- to-date in every detail, and designed on the central hall principle, having class-rooms oa two sIdes. The accommodation of the mixed department is 340, and of the infants 320. with a further provision for 140 should the rooms now intended to be used as a manual and cookery centre be required for ordinary teaching, so that the total accommodation will be 800. Particular attention has been paid to the ventilation, which ia of the natural system, ha.ving fresh air inlets and copper domed ventilators. The rooms are large, lofty, well lighted, and perfectly heated, the lighting being electric. The furniture is oak, wax polished. The schools are described among the finest in the county of Monmouth. They were erected by Messrs Williams and Sons, New Tredegar, to plans prepared by Mr. Henry Waters. M.S.A., Bbhw Vale and Beaufort, the architect to the Ebbw Va.le Education Authority. The cost is approximately £ 16,000.

DOCTORS DISAGREE An inquiry was held by the deputy-coroner for the district (Mr. Harold T. Edwards) at Newbridge on Monday touching the death of William Musg-rove, 60 years of age, who resided at West View-cottages, Pentwyn- mawr, and who was employed at the Celynen Colliery. Mr. T. Kens-hole, Aberdare, repre- sented the colliery company Evidence was given to the effect that deceased went ho-me in a very weak state, ccraplaining of pains in tne head. Later he said he had a pain in the arm. Dr. Myles stated that he at first trea-ted him for influenza^ but afterwards he oame to the conclusion that he was suffering from blood-poisoning. Witness, together with four other doctors, had made a post-mortem examination, and they few;d a scratch on the back of deceased's wrist and a large gland on the left armpit, with swellings on his aide and chest. Death, in his opinion, was due to blood-poisoniug Dr. Bartlett, who was also present at the poet-mortem examination, said he was unable to say the cause of death was blood-poison- ing till he heard from the Physical Research Association The cause might have been exhaustion following influemsa. A verdict of eath from natural cauees, probably due to blood-poisoning," was returned, and a vote of sympathy passed with the family.

CONVEYANCE OF CYCLES The Cyclists Railway Bill, to be introduced into the House of Commons at the earliest opportunity, has just been published. It provides that every railway company shall afford all reasonable facilities and proper accommodation in passenger trains and boats for the conveyance of bicycles. If desired, it must be carried in the same train or boat as that in which its owner is travelling, and tickets for its conveyance are to be issued with the ordinary travelling ticket. The schedule of charges is as foilows:- Not exceeding 25 miles, 3d. 25 to 150 miles, 6d. Each additional 50 miles or part, 3d. For storage the charges will be, not exceeding two days 2d., and a penny a day afterwards. The Act has reference only to bicycles propelled by one rider only, and not by steam, electricity, or other mechanical power."

WELSHMEN IN PRISON Reference is ma-de at some length in the issue of the "Drych," the Welsh-American weekly newspaper, issued on the 30th of last month to the imprisonment at Newcastle, in the United States, cf twenty-four of the tin- plate workmen who arc on strike there. Most of them are Welshmen, and the offence for which they were committed to gaol for thirty days was that of trying to influence the non. Union men who have continued working to come out and make common cause with them in the effort to redress their grievances. One of the local ministers visited the prieon on a recent Sunday for the purpose of conducting a service i,n English. A striking scene occurred, the Welshmen breaking out into the singing of the well-known hymn, "Beth sydd i mi yn y bydd," to the late Dr. Joseph Parry's tune "Aberystwythi," and thus aston- ishing the minister, who did not understand the Welsh language.

ALDERMAN EVAN JONES'SWILL Alderman Evan Jones, of Clwydfa, Bala, a prominent Liberal and Nonconformist, who's, died on the 30th of November, aged 80 years, left estate of the gross value of E5,369, with net personalty iE2,106, and probate of his will, dated December 30, 1906, has been granted to his widow, Mrs. Harriet Jones, and his sons, Mr. Francis Evan Jones, of Portmadoc, timber merchant, and Mr. John j William Jones, of Glasfryn, Bala, timber merchant. The testator left his reeidenoe upon trust for his wife for life, and he left to her also a legacy of L-60 and an annuity of £ 60 for her life, and the residue of his eetate he left to his said two sona in equal shares.

SUFFRAGETTE AND HOSE PIPE At Manchester County-court on Monday judgment wae reserved in the case in whioh Miss Emily Wilding Davison, of the Women's Social and Political Union, sought to recover 4100 damages from certain visiting justioes at Strangeways Gaol in connection with the hoee-pipe incident. Miss Davison was a hunger striker, and barricaded her cell. The officials turned the hoee-pipe on her with a view to forcing her to remove the barricade. It waB contended this was an unjustifiable assault. For the defence it was urged tha.t the action of the gaol officials was humane and kind.

GERMAN ADMIRALS BERLIN, Monday. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" refers to the suggestions that noble birth is the best quali- fication for advancement to the highest poets in the Navy. It is a striking phenomenon' that since Prince Henry of Prussia has been at the head of the corps of naval officers all untitled officers fcave disappeared from the flag list. Among the five admirals in the German Navy there is not a single com- moner.—Reuter. ■ ■■ •

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I Explosion at a Mansion THE LYDNEY INQUEST ADJOURNED Mr. Allan Armit-age, deputy-coroner for the Forest of Dean, opened t.he inquiry on Mon- day evening into the cause of the death of Anne Pearce, who was fatally burned in the serious gas explosion at Lydney Park Mail- sion on the 30th of December. Sympathy having been expressed with all concerned, evidence was given by Frederick Hatter, a stable boy, and Dr. Thomas, after which the inquiry was adjourned for a month, in order that the others injured may be able to attend and give evidence. i—

MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTANTS A novel departure from the usual pro- gramme was instituted by the South Wales and Monmouthshire Society of the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants (Incorporated) at a. meeting held "at the Y.M.C.A., Cardiff, the meeting taking too form of a mock -finance committee of t.he "County Borough of Blanktown." The pre- sident, Mr. John Allcock, F.S.A.A., city treasurer and controller of Cardiff, occupied the chair, and the members assumed the dignified role of critical finance committee- men bent on "cutting down the estimates, as Mr. W. H. Wilson, of the borough treasurer's department, Newport, submitted the dra-ft estimates of the borough for the year 1525-1926"! These contained many departures from the orthodox lines and subtle mistakes, both cf calculation and principle, to draw out the younger members of the society. The subject. affecting, as it does, every finance department at this tirae c-f the year, i proved to be a particularly topical cue. Before commencing the proceedings Mr. Allcock referred, on behalf of the members, to the exceptional success cf the hon. eee rot.ary of the society, Mr. F. J. Alhan, A.C.I.S deputy accountant of Pontypridd, in taking first prize and first certificate in merit in. the finnJ examinLtion of the Society of Incor- porated Accountants, and Auditors. This success, with Mr. Alban's previous success in âJ7 in taking first prize a.nd first certifi- cate in the final exaiiina-t-ion of the Munici- pal Treasurers' Institute, created a record which had never previously been equalled, and which could not he surpassed. Hearty congratulations were extended to Mr. Alban. ilr. J Williams, Pontypridd, and Mr. A. H. Dunn, Newport, were also congratulated on pacing the primary eiavmir.ati'O.n cf the Municipal Treasurers' Institute.

SOCIALISM DENOUNCED I Addressing an audience en Monday evening Father Vaugnan warned his hearers against the plausible, but fatal, doctrine which defied the State while it reduced the man to slavery. The State existed for man and not man for the State. Were the State to usurp Socialistic dominion over man it would become nothing better than a bully, a. tyrant. the worst of slave-drivers. The func- tion of the State was rct to appropriate, but to protect the rights cf the individual. When it usurped an authority to which in equity it could lay no claim it.oommitted a gigantic eot of tyrannical robbary. That; wag Socialism. Were any Government to attempt to adopt the Socialistic creed and to act unoc its tenets the citizen v.ould cease to b? a man. He would not lie free to choose his ,e r!.2e to elloi)?e, hi! own occupation, he would not be free ts choose his own employer, he would not bE free to choose his own district, most prob- ably he would neither be free to choose hia own wife, nor to rear his own family, nor to dispose of his own time, nor to improve 3;'is own position, nor to enter upon any of those spheres of action and enterprise which develop talent and build up character. Instead of being a free-born Englishman, he would be?ome a slave-born tool of the State. It was the duty of every true lover of his country and of his religion to denounce in season and cut of season not only Socialism, but all Socialistic tendencies, as t-he menace to his home, to his country, and to ins 011ul"c,h. I{.e seemed to see the dark clouds of Socialism gathering for the destruction of their schools, and he could bear the ron of its not distant thunder.

RAID AFTER A FIRE Ystrad Police-court on Monday pre- sented the appearance of an ironmonger'3 shop, locks, bolts, and bars, together with candlesticks, spoons, ruaiklrils, handles, sardine openers, hatchets, saucepans, &c., being seen, the same having been stolen from the shop of Albert Hughes, which was destroyed by fire on Wednesday last at Ton Pentre. Arthur Evans, W. Gsorge Cousins, and Robert Jones, colliers, Gelli, and Ivor Davies, a collier boy, were charged with stealing the goods. From the evidence of Police-constable D. T. James it transpired that the shop had been boarded up on the night of the fire, but in the early hours of the following morning the premises were broken iuto and ransacked. The adult defendants were each fined £1. Ivor Davies pleaded that he saw other people appro- priating property, and thought he was not doing any harm. He was bound over. Alice Stephens, landlady of the two first-named defendants, was charged with receiving a portion of the goods, knowing them to have been stolen. The Bench took a lenient view in her case, and bound her over under the First Offenders Act.

SEQUEL TO A QUARREL At Bow-street on Monday Joseph Peter, an Hungarian, and Kelme Albrecht, a French civil engineer, was remanded on a charge of being feloniously in possession of photo- graphic glass plates fOr producing Austro. Hungarian bank notes. Peter was further charged with throwing corrosive aeid. on Albrecht, and the latter was charged with assaulting Peter with a bottle. The ui-isoneris. it was stated, lodged together in Bloomsbury-street, and on the 1st inst. quarrelled and fought. The police were sent for, and found Peter had disappeared, and Albrecht's head was bound up. Peter, however, was arrest-ed the same night. The police found in a portmanteau a fnU equipment for producing Austro-Hun- garian hundred kronen a,n(} fifty kronen bank notes. When arrested Albrecht gave up a written statement whioh, he said, he had prepared for the Public Prosecutor's in- formation, and declared the printing outfit belonged to Peter. The Magistrate said it was a meet impor- tant case, and careful inquiries were being made.

BALL AT FISHGUARD The first annual juvenile fancy dress ball in aid of the funds of the Pembrokeshire and Haverfordwest Infirmary took place in th4 recently-erected council schools, Fishguard, which had been tastefully decorated. The project had originated with Miss H. Forsyth Rees, by whom the arduous secretarial duties were discharged, Mr. Levi Evans, J.P. (chair- man of the urban cCuncil), acting as hon. treasurer, whilst the organisers were Mrs. Swete and the Misses Rees. There was a, large gathering of juveniles representative of both town and country, rich and poor, rubbing shoulders together with the greatest camaraderie, whilst considerable taste was displayed in the choice of costumes. Mr. Owen Gledhill, B.Se., proved a tactful M.C. Mr. Sydney J. Pitt acted as musical director, whilst a first-class entertainment was pro- vided by Mr. J. P. Lloyd, drawing-room entertainer, of Carmarthen.

JUMPED INTO THE RIVER." A Canton labourer named John Lewis (32), residing at 29, Grey-street, appeared on remand at Llandaff Police-court on Monday, charged with attempting to commit suicido. Police-cousta,ble Ernest Beresford deposed tha.t at a quarter to three on the afternoon of Sunday, January 2. he met the prisoner in Fair water-road, Fairwater. He was drip. ping wet from head to foot, and appeared very strange. Asked what he had been doing, Lewis replied, "I jumped into the river at Ely this afternoon and tried to commit sui- cide" Prisoner could give no account of himself, and witness took him to the police- station. In reply to the change Lewis said, I have nothing to say." It was stated that prisoner had been in the asylum suffering from melancholia, brought on by alcoholic excess. Prisoner's wife undertook to look after him well, and the Bench ordered him to be bound over in jE5 for six months.

I ODDFELLOWSJNSTITUTE At the annual meeting of the Newport Dis trict of Oddfellows a sub-committee wa* appointed to consider the question of estab lishing an Oddfellows' Institute for Newport Prov.D.G.M. G H Dunn (Rock of Hop, Lodge) was appointed G.M. for the year an4 P.G. F. Pickett (Western Valleys lodge) Poro" D.G.M.

I MISSING ABERTRIDWR GIRL FOUND. Neilio Preece (thirteen), of Abertridwr, wis had been missing from her home for BOm. days, bas been found in a house on thl Tram-road, Treforest.