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CHARGE AGAINST A VICAR. I The Rev. James McCann, D.D., vicar of All Saints', Jersey, was on Saturday sentenced by the Royal Court to forty-eight hours' imprison- ment without hard labour and fined £ 20 for performing a marriage without a special license, and in an unauthorised place, in June last year, and also for having made a falee entry in the register, and) for making use of a fictitious name as that of a witness. Dr. McCann, who is seventy-five years of age, and a native of Belfast, has held ecclesiastical appointments at St. Paul's, Iluddersfield, St. Peter's, Brockley, and St. Cuthboert'B, Birmingham. On June 25 Henry William Samson and Harriet Noel were married by Dr. McCann at hie private residence outside the ecclesiastical district for which the license was given by the Dean of Jersey. Dr. McCann next day gave the contracting parties a certificate in which the names Walter Noel and Zelie Christine Godfrey appeared as witnesses, whereas in the register of All Saints' the name Zelie Christine Godfrey alone appeared. The vicar further entered in the register that the marriage occurred at All Saints'. The offences were in violation of Articles 58 and 60 of the law on the registration of births, marriages and deaths passed by the States in 1871.

SCENE IN A DEATH CHAMBER. J Extraordinary scenes occurred on Sunday morning in the death chamber of the late Don Jesus Zenil, Mexican Minister to Austria. The remains had been laid out in the apartments he had occupied, which were being prepared by a number of workmen for the final ceremonies. While the workmen were dressing the apart- ment aTrnroprrately as a. mortuary chamber, a series of blinding flaehee issued from the electric lighting apparatus with whidh the room was fitted. Instantly the whole salon burst into flame, and at great danger to their own lives the workmen managed to rescue the coffin containing the body. The flames rapidly spread until the whole block of buildings was imperilled. Several persons in the house, mostly women, became panic-stricken, and were aibout to jump from the fourth floor window when the fire brigade arrived and rescued them with ladders. The apartments of the late Minister, with nearly all their costly furniture, tapestries, and pictures, were consumed by the fire, and three firemen were seriously injured.

Seeing a woman named Annie Tonetti, an Italian, aged thirty-six, jump into the Thames from the Embankment, at midnight, Mr. Henry Cecil, a copper magnate, sprang into the water and succeeded in rescuing her. "I have not had much experience of hospitals," said Lord Lathom in opening a hospital bazaar at Blackpool, "ibut if hospital nurses generally are like those gathered, here, I would say when ill. 'I will go to the hospital at once. A woman, sixty-five years old, residing at Clarendon-park, Leicester, has just cut three new teeth. A woman is suing for divorce at Chicago because her husband compelled her to get up at two o'clook in the morning and play the nia,no.

[ MIKADO AND HTS FLEET. I Having received the formal report of Admiral Togo on Sunday, the Emperor of Japan arrived at Yokohama at nine o'clock on Monday morning to hold the naval review. The British Squadron and the American battleship Wisconsin occupied flanking stations. Among the warships present were the Peresviet, the Poltava, the Nicolai I., the General Admiral Apraxiri, and the Admiral Seniavin, together with 12 auxiliary cruisers, in- cluding three captured from the Russians; 28 destroyers, including the Biedovy and the Reshitelni, and 77 torpedo-boats and five sab- marines. The vessels were drawn up in six lines. The Asama, with the Emperor on board, led by the Yaeyama, and escorted by the Natsuta, Chi- haya, and N anshu Maru, passed down the front of the first line, which was headed by the Shikishima. When the end of the line, which was taken up by the Nicolai, was reached, the Asama. headed due north, and then proceeded in a westerly direction, entering the space between the second and third lines. Admiral Togo was at his Majesty's side during the review, at the conclusion of which an Imperial audienoe was granted to the British and American officers on board the Asama. Besides the thouoand s witnessing the review from the ships, all the available coigns of vantage on the coast of the bay were occupiad by a dense line of eager spectators. After the review his Majesty expressed his satisfaction, and returned afterwards to Tokio, accompanied by the Crown Prince and the Princes of the Imperial House. The demons- tration was national in character, and everywhere the utmost enthusiasm was displayed. The shores of Tokio Bay were lined with spectators. At night the warships were illuminated, and there was a display of fireworks.

I WORRY-KILLING GOLF. Golf has been a great godsend to the middle- aged man, the British Medical Journal" argues. If a man plays his best at golf he keeps his eye on the ball if he is thinking about his business worries, he foozles, and become annoyed, even to strong language, and his business worries pass from his mind, being overshadowed and blotted out by the insistence of the present shame in losing his match.

"A NEW LONDON." Commenting on the report of the Advisory Board to the London Traffic Commissioners, the "Engineer" says: Prosperous cities have always been overcrowded. The report ignores the ten- dencies of humanity. Grouping seems to be inseparable from our nature. A new London on the most improved principles is springing up about the Strand. It is simply a town of theatres. All the principal theatres and music-halls of the metropolis stand on a few acres of land. When they empty at night the streets of the neighbour- hood are for the time being congested."

LONDON'S REMOVALS. One very interesting sidelight on London life has been revealed by the preparations now in active progress for the forthcoming by-election at Hamp- stead. This is the extraordinary migration which takes place in the course of only a year or two. The last Parliamentary election was in 1902, and it is now found that no fewer than 2,500 electors have removed, a number that represents over 20 per cent. of the electorate.

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I FOREST OF DWARF TREES. I With dwarf trees in Japan the world is familiar. But they only illustrate how nature can be subordinated to the artificial under the human will. A vegetation dwarfed by nature was unknown until recently. A German ex. plorer, however, is stated to have really dis- covered, near the South-West coast of Africa, a forest of dwarf trees, about six miles in extent. The forest stands on a plateau about 500 feet above sea level, and is at all times exposed to the ocean winds. The trunks of these trees de- velop to a circumference of about 4t feet, but never to a greater height than 24 inches.- They bear a tuft of long horizontal leaves, and these give the impression, from a distance, of tables standing side by side as far as, the eye can reach.

FRANCE AND HORSE-BREEDING. In France, the breeding of bloodistock is now watched over with great solicitude. The blood- stock section of the permanent Commission on Horse-breeding, held a meeting t3ie other day, at which several questions of interest to the breeders of blood horses were considered. One of these was that of rates charged for carrying such animals on railways. But a matter still inore important was that of increasing the funds availalble for the subvention of breeding blood- stock, and it was decided to make an effort for having the whole of the profits fro-m the national racecourses handed over for this purpose.

A fisherman named Booty has captured a shark at Sizewell Gap which measured 9ft. 3in. in length, 3ft. in girth, and 4ft. llin. from tip to tail. Mrs. Holland, the wife of Mr. Thomas Holland, Crane, Cefn Mawr, near Ruabon, has given birth to triplets, two daughters and a son. The mother and infants are doing well. A diamond merchant assured the Shoreditch County-court judge that he never kept books, that hl business was over 9100,0,00 annually, and that he "could walk into Hatton-garden now and get credit for £ 25,000." STOP THAT COUGH. THE QUICKEST AND SIMPLEST remedy-let alone its cheap- ness-is KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. One alone relieves coughs, asthma, and bronchitis. As a Cough Remedy they are simply unrivalled. Sold everywhere in tins, 13^d._ each; free for stamps. Thomas Keating, Chemist, London*

BRITISH OltFICERS- RELEASED. 1 BRIGAND'S TERMS. The two captive British officers, Captain Jrowther and Lieutenant Hatton, have oeea released and taiien to Tangier, the Moorish authorities giving up Valienie and four Moora imprisoned at fetuau in exchange. The Moorish delegate being unable to come to an. understanding with V alieiito's brother as to the conditions of release of the two British, officers, negotiations were for a time inter- rupted. Tne brigandclaimcd. first the deliverance of his brother, after which he would discuss the conditions under which he would grant the liberty of the officers. The Imperial commissary returned to Tangier on the British warship Pathfinder, bringing back Valiente ae prisoner. After a consulta- tion between the British charge d'affaires, the Spanish Minister and the Moorish Minister, the Shereef of Wazzan left Tangier on board the Pathfinder to negotiate again with the bandit for the immediate release of the officers. People at Tangier were anxious, but they trusted that the intervention of a personage of such prestige would be successful, and their hopes have not been disappointed. In an interview the Shereef of Wazzan stated that there was no difficulty in exchanging the prisoners. No indemnity was asked for, and no conditions were imposed. Everything was, he said, plain sailing. Great praise is due to the Shereef, who is always ready to intervene and do hie best to arrange matters of this sort at great personal inconvenience. The officer* state that they were well treated.

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DODGING THE OFFERTORY. I The vicar of Braintree, Ee&ex, writing to his parishioners, on the subject of collections in church, says:—"The conclusion to be gathered is that there is a prevailing meanness in pass- ing the .bag and plate, and in dodging the offertory by giving the, smallest coins of the realm while many whose well-to-do appearance makes them shrink from putting in coppers, provide themselves beforehand with threepenny pieces, which silver pieces are more numerously found in counting up a isovere-ign's worth of silver from an offertory bag or plate than on any other occasion on which silver coins brought together. It makes no matter to those who have previously prepared their three-penny bit, or their halfpenny or penny, how just the claim the church has on them, or how burning and eloquent the appeal of the preacher for the- cause in hand—the smallest coin has been, chosen beforehand, and finds its inevitable and stealthy way into the plate or bag.

Tragedies and disasters. Walter Wigglesworth, aged thirty-five, a cloth finisher, of Puclsey, Wú,8 thrown from his bicycle while descending a hill at Bramley on Sunday, afternoon, and was killed. Mrs. Mary Gould, who sustained serious injuries through being crushed by a carriage conveying several members of the Paris Council after the opening of Kingsway, died at King's College Hospital on S-aturday morning. The docapitat-e-cl body of Mr. Bowman Smith, a. prominent Reading townsman, was found on Saturday morning on the Great Western Rail- way in the Sonning cutting. George Robinson, employed at Hoyla.nd Silk- stone Colliery, died at Beckett Hospital on Saturday as a result of internal injuries received while working at the pit bottom. John Carpenter, of Portsmouth, was attend- ing a meeting at Southeea Wesleyan Church, of which he was steward, when he was over- come with faintness, and died shortly after Teaching home. Verdicts of "Accidental death" were returned at Woolwich on Saturday, at the inquests on two women, one of whom had been knocked down by a cart, while the other had been suffocated while sleeping on a. heap of burning fori eke. ( Accidents. Getting beyond the control of the driver, a motor-car dashed into the window of a tobac- eoniato chop at Morecambe on Saturday, and Mies Boardl.cyand Miss Scott, two of the five occupants were severely injured. Owing to the derailment of a goods train on the Midland Railway at Aeton West, the line was blocked from 10.30 on Saturday night till 3.30 on Sunday morning, and much inconveni- ence was expe-rieiiced by passengers for Acton, Xew, and Richmond, who could not proceed further than Willesden-green. Cases Told in the Courts. Earl Russell was fined £10 at Guildford on Saturday for driving a motor-car at more than twenty miles an hour. This was his lordship's second conviction, and he ga.ve notice of appeal. 'In consequence of the non-arrival of a jury- man at the. Carmarthen Quarter Sessions on Saturday, the cases remaining for trial had to be adjourned to the January sessions. "She is the greatest drunkard in Maryle- bone," said Mr. Plowden on Saturday, in send- ing Sarah Collins, aged seventy-eight, to prison for a month. "It should be a criminal offence for mothers to dreas children in flannelette," said the Dover coroner at an inquest on a child who had been burnt to death while wearing this material. James Saunderg, a labourer with a bad record, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at the Middlesex Sessions on Saturday for stealing 5d. from a railway automatic sweet machine. A Camberwell laundrymwn named Price was sentenced to five years' penal servitude at the Old Bailey for the attempted murder of his wife. Mr. Justice Jelf said the prisoner had escaped trial for murder by "a hair's-breadth." A remarkable story of alleged attempted blackmail waa told at Greenwich by Mrs. Lewis, the wife of a Royal Mint artificer living at Brockley. Two men, who were remanded, are said to have demanded C200 for their silence regarding misconduct which they alleged the woman's husband had been guilty of. A remarkable charge of vitriol throwing was Ðrought at Bow-street against a, Somerset House clerk. It was alleged that the vitriol wa-s thrown through a. skylight upon a. fellow clerk. Commercial and Industrial. Dr. W. H. Solf, Governor of Samoa, who reached London on Sunday, stated that Chinese labour lias proved successful in the colony. A syndicate has offered to lease from the London County Council the whole of the sur- plus land in connection with the Westminster improvement scheme with a view of erecting handsome buildings at a cost of two and a half millions. An official table, quoted by Sir Howard Vin- cent, shows that in 1904 British workmen lost over £ 31,000,000, owing to the importation of foreign manufactured goods. The net profit of the Carlton Hotel Ltd., for the year ending August 31 last was £ 56,798. A dividend of 10 per cent. per annum is recom- mended by the directors, who report that the building and decoration of the new Ritz Hotel are making satisfactory progress and t'hat it will be completed and ready to open for business for the season of 1906. From July 1 to September 30, 1905, tie London County Council have registered 954 motor-cars and 371 motor-cycles and issued 2951 drivers' licenses. During the whole period of the operation of the Motor-car Acts the Council have registered no fewer than 8059 motor-cars <and 4808 motor-cycles and have granted 22,549 aic.ens.es. Social. "1 Tn",r¡ <11 c arfl io 10A fCfclHTfVlr «+. fTia Ro'l!1 .Mint for distribution to the crew of the Renown after the return of the Prince and Princess of "Wales from India in the spring. Brockley's Carnegie library was formally opened by the Mayor of Lewieham on Satur- day. It cost £ 4500, the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Herr Kubelik made his last appearance in London at the Crystal Palace on Saturday Hbefore starting on his two years' tour round the ,world. After a widowhood extending over fifty years, Lady Katherine Adams died on Saturday at -Ai-,ety, Warwickshire. She was married in 1843 to Major-General H. W. Adams, who was killed II:1It Inkerman. In honour of his memory his widow was made a "K.C.B.'s Dame," this entitling her Ito the prefix "Lady." A dinner service of pure gold has been manu- factured by a Sheffield firm for an Indian rajah. it will be used on the occasion of his entertaining the Prince and Princess of Wales during their *visit to India. It is of eighteen-carat gold, and "weighs over 4000oz. To devote themselves for at least one hour a week to some branch of religious work other than attending church services, a band of young men, to be known, as "The Young Men's Brigade of iService," is shortly to be started by the Rev. Dr. JPaton in Nottingham. Before a public meeting at the Dublin Man- sion House on Thursday next a propcsal will 3be made to erect on the battlefield a Celtic cross ;m a memorial to the Irish Brigade who took part in the battle of Fontenoy, near Touraai, Prance, on May 11, 1745. • Wor!d of Sport. The Mayor of West Ham and several alder- men and councillors of West and East Ham took •part in a swimming gala at the public baths, Plait;tow, on Saturday. They competed in a a-ice which was won by the Mayor of West Ham, 'who is close upon fifty years of age. At a hare drive on the Wiltshire Downs, near devizes, over 500 hares were killed. Music and the Drama. Twenty-four survivors of the famous charge 0 of the Light Brigade at Balaclava mustered on .the stage at the Alhambra on Saturday after- Doon. when Mrs. Cl,ement Scott recited Tennyson s stirring poem at the annual matinee in aid of the survivors. Sir Henry Iving's career, said Canon Duck- worth, preaching at Westminster Abbey on Sunday, had left a deep mark for good, and it tWas folly to ignore the immense power of the stage, which was the teacher of millions. Mme. Patti appeared as the principal vocalist at a concert at Cardiii on Saturday, which was given in aid of the city's infirmary, and which arealised nearly Arrangements are bing made for introducing Mr. H. B. Irving to the American stage with a view to perpetuating the name and popularity of his father. Saturday night witnessed the closing per- formance of the ballet, "Excelsior," at the Lyceum Music Hall. Military and Novol. With a view to securing suitaible military in- structors the Chinese Government has decided on sending a number of officers and cadets to Europe ,to learn modern army methods. The UnitedStrutes cruiser Colorado, at target practice with her 6-in. breech-loading gun, maue fortv hits with forty shots, at a range of 3500yd. The record has never been equalled by any war- siiin in the world. Commander Phillipps, of H.M. Battleship Victorious, use been accidentally killed while directing salvage operations in Tetuan Bay. Rear-Admiral Henderson inspected the Royal Naval Volunteers on board H.M.S. Buzzard and at the drill hall in Lambeth. Owing to the cost of education, the 'boys of the Royal Seamen and Marines' Orphan School are to be transferred from Portsmouth to the home at Swanky (Kent). The Naval Exhibition at Earl's-court was closed on Saturday after a successful season. Next year an Austrian exhibition will be held in the grounds, and a subsidy of P,25,000 for its upkeep has been given by the Austrian Govern- ment. From Lands. A man attacked a Hungarian deputy on Satur- day in Budapest with an iron uar and killed him. He said the victim had worsted him in a lawsuit. President Loubet left Paris on Sunday on his official tour in Spain and Portugal whicn will occupy a week. The German Minister at the Vatican has ar- ranged for the Emperor William to visit the Pope next spring. A combined diplomatic protest is to be made to the Sultan with regard to financial control in Macedonia, to be followed, if necessary, by a naval demonstration. At least twenty persona have been drowned and twenty-three vessels lost as the result of a terrific gale which has owept over the Great Lakes (U.S.A.) General. Known and catalogued as "Tippling Tommy," on account of his liking for bear, a donkey was sold under distraint at Blackburn for £ 2 10s. An Englishwoman, Mrs. Robinson, who emigrated from Berwick to Australia in her vouch haa just died, aged ninety-four, a,t Sydney, leaving 112 descendants. In pursuance of an old custom, the market tolls at Chardi have just been sold by auction during the running down of a sand-glass. The tolls were knocked down to the present lessee for £ 60 for the year. William Brown, who for half a century had held the office of grave-digger and sexton at Ashby, Leicestershire, died on Saturday, at the age of seventy-four. Graat indignation is expressed at the brutal cruelties practised on Sunday mornings during rabbit coursing by roughs on a piece of waste land on the banks of the Lea near Clapton. No trace has been found of Miss Grocott, the seventeen-year-old girl who has vanished from her home at New Barnet. A strange letterhoo been received from her by her parents asking them not to worry, but no address is given. It is sifcated that gun-running John Grafton, which was wrecked and blown up off the Finnish coast, had 35,000 rifles and 7,500,000 rounds of ammunition on board, The largest graving dock in the United Kingdom was opened on Saturday, at Southampton, by the Marquis of Winchester, who christened'it "Trafalgar." The High Sheriff has fixed November 7 as the date of the execution of William Butier, who was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for the murder of Mary Allen, at Marylebone. Dying on his ninety-first birthday, Mr. Charles Kelly, K.C., formerly County Court Judge of Clare, was buried at Abbey Knockmoy, Co. Galway, on Saturday. Mc. Charles Hide, described as the most famous lifeboatman on the Sussex coast, died at his residence at Eastbourne on Saturday at the age of fifty-six. Established three years ago in the interests of the Conservative Party, "the Leicester Even- ing News" ceased publication on Saturday. Found at Bristol travelling alone in the express from London, a dimunitive, pale-faced boy was remanded by the magistrates for inquiries. The wanderer gave his name as Gorge Stevens, aged eight, and his address as Royal-road, Exmouth. Undaunted by previous failures, Mr. Edgar Wilson, of Pimlieo, announces that he will shortly make another trial from the top of the Watkin Tower with the flying apparatus he has been building for some weeks past at Wemblev Park. "Those who affected to believe that the Irish Party were about to acquiesce in the shelving of Home Rule," said Mr. J. Redmond, M.P., at Loughrea, on Sunday, "were living in a fool's paradise."

TOGO'S T±U U Mir'Jl. I 0 HIS RECEPTION IN TOKIO. Admiral Togo on Sunday made ma formal puuuo entry into 'loiuo to report to Lilra jumper or uie return of the fleet noiu war. lid was met- by tne Ministers, geiuM-'iuu, acuiiir<t_s, and members ox the uipiomuLic 1Jüuy, ACCOAU- pii meet uf ^i-umirais ii.ataoA.a, uewa, and Aa,uui- xaura ami their staffs, Admiral 'xogo, at wuw>e I luiiposa-i live imperial carnages \>iêl'e placea, uiuve through cheering crowed to the paiac«, wnere Lilu ^mperor leoeived Aamirax xogos xeport, and tneu warmly praised me service^ or aaunraib, oiheers, and men. Au iokio was OUE in tne streets, and the nring ot saiiitcli and tHe playing ox bands conHjineu. to make tne day a memorauie one. in connection with the visit of the British squadron the Emperor ilab conferred upon Admiral Sir Gerard Noel the Order of Hie itiiing Sun (First Class). Ail the captains oi tne squadron receive the Third Class of the iiising Sun the commanders the Third. Class oi the Sacred Treasure; the nag lieutenants the Fourth Class of the Sacred Treasure; and the fleet paymaster the Fourth Class of the iiising bun. The garden party given by Baron Sonoda in honour of Admiral Sir Gerard Noel was a great success. A number of prominent bankers and business men gave an entertainment at Tokio on Satur- day evening at the Kabuki Theatre in honour of the British China Squadron. An attractive feature was a "New Alliance" dance, performed by a young geisha, who held a Rising Sun in one hand and a Union Jack in the other.

An interesting swimming contest will take place at the Plaistow Bathe. The contestants will be three councillors for the boroughs of West Ham, East Ham, Ilford, and Leyton. The mayor of West Ham, Alderman Byford, will be one of the representatives of that borough. The strikes in Buenos Ayres are gradually dv- ing oui. Activity in the port is again almost at its normal level. Sorento, Illinois, hats been swept by a cyc- lone. Up to the present four persons are known to have ibeen killed. Seven bookmakers were each fined P,10 and costs at West Ham for street-betting. Not one of the defendants took the trouble to appear. At Chester Dairy Show, the championship gold medal was awarded to Mr. J. Williams, of Nantwich, whose cheese realised 120s. per owt. in the market.

WOMAN RAGGED AND 11 ROBBED. I REMARKABLE STORY. I A remarkable story of a woman having been bound, gagged, and robbed, has been told to the Cheshire police. The victim is Mrs. Bertha Done, a young married woman, of Hatton, a village near Warrington. She says that between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night she was rocking her baby to sleep in the kitchen, the door of which was open, when she was suddenly struck on the faoe and knocked to the floor. Then she was knelt upon, blindfolded, and two strange men tied her hands behind her. She screamed "Oh, my baby!" and one of the men replied, It's money we want, not your baby." Mrs. Done alleges that the men then threatened to murder her if she was not quiet and afterwards gagged her with her own handkerchief. They searched her and took her purse, which fortunately contained Is. 4d. only. Soon afterwards two of Mrs. Done's friends who were passing the house were attracted by hearing moans. They entered and found Mrs. Done in an exhausted condition and at once ^liberated her. The assailants must have made a hasty retreat for nothing was missing from the house. The police have made extensive inquiries but cannot throw any light upon the matter up to the present.

ACCIDENT TO MR. GEO. MEREDITH. Mr. George Meredith has met with a furious accident. The distinguished author was being assisted to a chair in his sitting-room on Friday morning by his valet, when he slipped and broke two bones of his left leg. Perfectly calm and even cheerful, in spite of the great pain, Mr. Meredith was at once placed in a position which would admit of the least possible strain on the injured limb. In the meantime Dr. Hearnden was sum- moned. He at once relieved all apprehension by announcing that the fracture was a simple one, and not dangerous. At his suggestion the patient was left where he was with a view to minimising the pain. Considering Mr. Meredith's age-he is seventy- six-the accident is serious, but his good spirits under misfortune give every promise of a speedy recovery. It is reassuring to learn that the distinguished novelist, apart from the enforced inaction, is now suffering but little inconvenience. The sympathetic letters from hundreds of friends, and the cheery visits of a few privileged neigh- bours. go far to chase away monotony. Besides, he still has his books within call.

LABOUR MEMBERS' PAY. It is stated that an extraordinary crisis ia threatening the Labour representation movement by the action taken by the Registrar-General of Friendly Societies, who has just refused to give his sanction to a rule submitted to him by the Railway Clerks' Trade Union, which proposed to authorise the use of a portion of the union funds for purposes connected with Parliamentary repre- sentation of Labour. The Registrar's predecessor 'had given a number of decisions in favour of the adoption of similar rules, and nearly all the large trade unions have had them approved. The funds of trade unions have been used for the purpose of paying salaries to members who secured seats in Parliament for very many years, and also for paying their election expenses. Many thousands of pounds have been spent by the Miners' Unions in this way, and no question has ever been raised before of its legality. The new Registrar-General, in declining to follow the procedure set by his pre- decessor, gives no reason for his action other than that if the expenditure of trade union funds on such an object be legal the mere fact that there is or is not a rule dealing with the matter will make no difference. He will not, however, give any countenance to the expenditure of trade union funds on any such object. The Railway Clerks are appealing to the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress."

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Daniel Ctonin was sent to gaol for six months at Uublin for obtaining money from servant girls, to whom he represented himself as Dillon, the jockey." He told them he had won any amount of money for their masters by backing horses, and that he would also win them money if they entrusted him with their bets. Henry Shave, a Pimlico cabman, aged sixty- three, after the receipt of a summons charging him with having been drunk, told his wife he was innocent, and expressed a wish to die. He afterwards committed suicide by throwing him- self from a balcony. It was important to note, said Coroner Troutbeck, at the inquest, that the autopsy showed that Shave was not addicted to drink. The question, "When is a drain a sewer?" has so puzzed the Manchester Corporation that in its new Parliamentary Bill it is urging: the House of Commons to define clearly the meaning of the two words. Mr. Carnegie has promised to give £500 to- wards the cost of a new organ to be erected in' the parish church of All Saints, Leighton Buzzard. This is the second organ in the town to the cost of which he has munificently contributed. Cutting shop blinds was the agreeable recrea- tion of a man sentenced at Bristol. In one street no less than 50 blinds fell victims to his knife; and he naa performed like feats before, and been imprisoned for them.

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I LADIES AND TIPPING. r i "Ladies themselves do not realise how the vrvrn "n nr' snirif. PJ'VV.u..¡, u UA..t"'[-.IA..Uõ "'l"JI..L']I.:J lI.I.J .r#'A.V" J..J.t'v and comfort of club life," emyo tne "Gentle- woman." "If every lady in a club would give the small sum of 56. towards the servants' Christ- mas fund, and resolutely set their facee in one combined effort to prevent all 'tipping,' the tone of their clubs would be improved and the en- joyment of cluib life enhanced." "The eervants themselves are degraded by the injudicious sys- tem of underhand 'tipping.' A club should "as far as possible resemble a comfortable home, where eervice is liberally rewarded and ren- dered courteously in return."

I At a meeting of the Eastern Sea. Fisheries Committee at Spalding the inspector reported that great dama,ge is being: done to shellfish by the millions of starfish which infest the waters. A country grocer who was delivering goods at a farm near Berwick, found James Reay, one of the labourers, who lived alone burned to death in his house with his head in the fire.

y g A GRAND OLD REMEDY. Splen<lld Cure. WORTH writing for to-day. H a COLE'S FAMILY OINTMENT. B N !_■ 60 Years' Reputation. H WONDERFUL for ECZEMA, Eg 22 M\ Sores, Scrofula, Swellings, Erup. ■ Mm'- '■ tions. BLOOD POISONING, H Sore Throat.^and^ALL SKIN | and WRITE TO-DAY ■ ? NAME TH13 PAIPPEER. H orPost Fret-with Testimonialsfrom H SSt JUST T&Y IT. COLE'S SYIIDICATE, Reading.

Four horses were burned to death at a fire in Wellington-place, Edward-street, Deptford. Up-to-date van robbers, it was stated at Wor- ship-street, wear aprons, carry notebooks, and have pencils stuck behind their ears, in order to disarm the suspicions of the police. Large numbers of men are, seeking work at the Garden City, Letchworth, with the result that North Herts Guardians are faced with a. serious problem. Casuals at Hitchin are already thrice as numerous as usual.

St. Cuthbert's Church, Carlisle, is to have a movable pulpit on low wheels, run by an elec- tric current. Movable pulpits have already been tried with success at Stockwell and Cheltenham. Finding her escape cut off by a fire a young woman in Lucas-street, Commercial-road, Lon- don, jumped from a top-floor window on io a. covered van which drew up underneath. She was uniniured.

TURKEY'S CHALLENGE TO EUEQPE. In its Note to Baron von Calice, Austro-Hun- garian Ambassador to Constantinople, on the sub- ject of foreign financial control in Macedonia, the Porte, observes that it sees with regret the pres- ence a.t Uskub of foreign officials who are interfer- ing with the domestic affairs of the country, in spite of the repeatedly-expressed views of the Porte on the question of international control. The Porte holds that the functions of the Austrian and Russian civil agents being clearly defined, the association of these agents with the delegates of other Powers overpasses the limits of their duties, and cannot be tolerated. In conclu- nion, the Porte appeals to the Ambassadors of the Powers, in their spirit of justice, to put an end to the present state of things, which, it asserts, con- stitutes a violation of its rights and interests. This peremptory communication has produced considerable surprise in diplomatic circles, and a contrast is drawn between its significance and the conviction which has prevailed in German circles for some days that the Porte will in the end yield to the demands of the Powers. Accordingly, the communication is regarded as a challenge flung in the face of Europe, which is calculated to dispel all doubts, should any remain as to the real atti- tude of the Porte, and to convince those Powers which are even now hesitating that unless effective measures are taken to break down Turkish oppo- sition the scheme of the Powers is doomed to re- main a dead letter.

BEST FOR HEALTH AND DIGESTION. I RECIPE EOR MAKING GOOD WHOLEMEAI BREAD, FAR BETTER THAN WHITE. GROUND IN A COFFEE MILL. I should like to bear testimony to the good results of eating wholemeal bread. A friend recommended it to my husband, who suffered terribly with indigestion. He is now quite free from that complaint. We grind our own wheat in a coffee mill, and this is how we make our wholemeal bread. Take six large tablespoonfuls of wholemeal flour, four of good white flour, a pinch of salt, and two heaped-up teaspoonfuls of Borwick's baking powder. Mix well together with milk into a smooth dough, not too stiff. Do not handle it more than necessary. This can be made either into a batch cake or baked in a tin. I find it best to put it in bottom shelf of oven and finish at top. The oven should be hot, and the bread put in as soon as made. Flour bottom of baking tin; do not grease it. I paid 4.s. for one bushel of wheat.— "HOUSEWIFE." J

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