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tt WmMJ gail SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, T908. The" WEEKLY MIIL ispublM en Fridays and Saturdays, and can be obtained fr-m your local newsagent. If you f-d any difficulty in obtaining tke peper, please comimmieate with the Manager, Weekly Mail Offices, Cardiff. The Weekly Mail" will be sent hy pod on payment of a subscription in adtwwe on the fallovnng terms;- s. d. One Qumrter 1 Half Year 3 3 One Year 6 6 ==== n FOGGY FOOTBALL. Football in the fog is a game to be heard, not seen. It is an uncanny experience for spectators of an interna- tional Rugby match to gaze into a thick, all-shadowing fog, trusting to the shouts of those who happened to be within seeing distance for a moment to indicate whether or not a score had been made, and having to judge the whereabouts of the play by the dim figure of the touch- line judge groping his way up and down the field. This was the experience that befell close upon thirty thousand specta- tors at Bristol last Saturday. It was impossible to follow the game closely for the simple reason that the players were never in view for more than three or four consecutive minutes. They flitted in and out of the fog, dim red and white shapes çhasing a ball that was generally invisible to the spectators-except when bounced on their heads and that the players could only follow by instinct. More often than not the game was a mere shadow pantomime or completely invisible. But enough inci- dent came mysteriously out of the region of things unseen and swept into the region of things seen to justify the hp/w we,W c,ritics' that the match E <^n S A an^ EnSlamI was one of the greatest that have ever been played. n^kTWledre ca,n only intensify the thi i J Y c the f°g that made but Ivp fPaI t?e game invisible; ;i^IerJ £ eature. that was seen, the thT Phi sconn2- the frequency of the cheers, the running up and down Slai ? lot of the visible touch of tit nU SUifSt °f a11' the opinions davi £ 7fS' aI1 10 6how that Satur- thJ ATialigreat in every6ense of £ the greater, then, must few Cw±/Tn to Wales for her victory. Wales has never scored so many points in a match against England, oS ^+nSG ^g^ered against her nLf ^3/ oes indlcate a little weak- H^+ +T +e ncev .^e important fact is k a w^xT111?11 on Saturday 1a,^Q°ta|attacking side. But more wonderful if anything, was the improve- WVlL ? t En?hsh ,t«am on any that t85 P against for many years Tr^' i dash, cleverness of indi- laual effort, and sportsmanlike deter- ^m^1°\I1?nt t<y Sive in till the end, we ub whether England has ever pro- duced such a'team. It only wants the nnesse that comes with combination to make this team perfect. Evidently, the English Rugby Union have at last learned the lesson of the reverses they have sustained at the hands of the w i aii'^ this means that Wales will have to look to her laurels in JnfLijj" %TT /<0r long years Wales suttered defeat in devastating, humiliat- ng dosos. Then, also for long years, England suffered in the same way. On Saturday, for the first time, Wales drew ahead in the total of victories to her credit. Now that the English Rugby umon seem to be waking up to the reasons for it, Wales will be hard put to it to maintain that lead. A word should be said in praise of a Bristol crowd. Many of those who watched the game came, of course, from Wiles; manv again, from distant parts of England; but the majority were Bristolians, accustomed to the Association code The complacent humour with which they put up with the vagaries of the fog, and the splendid impartiality they showed in applauding such good play as they were fortunate to see, deserve at least a passing appreciation. 4- A DaftCerou8 Precedent. ^S!!?1?1?8 \nr its entirety the judgment of the late Mr. Justice Kekewich the &ofthe Rolls and two other 'Lord Tenbv have found that the .Corporation were within their Dereo/fmi +>? -exclud.inS a particular j meetings whose report irTrtP ,Was distasteful to support of Zlght °f legal opinion in support ot the course taken oresnm- Tenbv°niR advi°6 th« town-clerk of due & oppressive that we think if due to that official to acknowledge his acumen m discerning the legality of a point so apparently .ridiculous. But the ridiculous and, indeed, dangerous nature of the law. if this really is the intolerable that a pubhc body should enjoy, much lees exercise, the right of excluding particu- lar reporters from their meetings. Verv few public bodies would care to exercise such a right, even if they were aware of bl?t ,one has done so, and although the whole circumstances were a ridiculous little exhibition of Bumble pride, the Tenby Council has established a precedent fraught with the greatest' danger to the community. It is open now, it seems, for any public body to exclude an outspoken critic from its deliberations. That is an unhealthy to change Parliament ought -+-- Public Officials and Private Practice. At the last meeting of the Cardiff Hoh+W^Hosp5al Committee a matter was Sntio?aSSTv? °Ve-+ W1°h requires more attention than it appears to have received. We refer to the permission given the medical superintendent totake in hand a certain amount of private practice. Though the extent of the private practice allowed seems to be limited to consultations in mental cases it is a question of principle worth dis- cussing whether the holder of a public office should be allowed to practice privately at all. If we are not mistaken, the London County Council allow none of their officials to take private practice and where the official is well paid it should be made a universal rule that he should devote his whole time to his public duties. Reasons of public import- ance and interest may be urged in favour of allowing a mental expert so distinguished as Dr. Goodall to take up limited private practice; but reasons may also be urged equally in the public interest against allowing him to act in consultations as suggested. The matter needs to be discussed by the committee from this point of view. And, again, it is no+. as if there were a great scarcity of doctors in the land. But the great pnmapte involved is whether a public official Should be allowed to enter into private practice at all. + A Terrible Mistake. In the face of the strong official evidence submitted in support of that irTZi trVw w« decided tha-t the fatal explosion at Dinas Main Colliery was caused by firing a shot, which ignited the ooal dust. T%em was a conflict of evidence at the inquest, the management stoutly denying that the shot had been fired. The witnesses for the Home Office, however, produced evidence—such, for instance, as the dis- covery of traces of gunpowder in the hole that had beeoi drilled-which could not be ignored. In a matter involving the sacrifice of human life it is much to be regretted that the criroumsbacces of the fatality leave room for contention as to its cause. If, however, there was shot- firing in the mme on that fatal day, as the jury say there was, it would seem that some terrible mistake has been made SOlnewbere-a nustftke in regard to which further inrwtigartion should be made.
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LONDON LETTER. ♦ A COLUMN OF INTEREST TO ALL OUR READERS. LONDON, Thursday It was not only incongruous, but irreverent, that at a time when guns were banging, bells ringing, and flags flying in celebration of the King's accession to the Throne his Majesty, at the head of his family, was quietly attending the memorial service for his illustrious mother at Progmore. It was an adaptation from the French, "The King is dead; long live the King." The! Royal Family was the smallest that has' assembled on such an occasion. Noneof the families of the Duke of Connaught, the Princess Royal, or the Princess Beatrice were there. Princess Louise, with the Duke of Argyll and the Prince and Princess of Wales were the principal members of the family present besides the King. The service was of a quite simple and devotional character. It was carried out in accordance with the King's directions, while Queen Alex- andra was responsible for the selection of the hymns. After the service there was a family luncheon at the Castle, and the remainder of the day was spent quietly. REHEARSING A PROCESSION. All the King's horses and all the King's men were able to get through the rehearsal for the pageant at the opening of Parliament next Wednesday. The same horses and men who will appear in the actual procession took part in the rehearsal, but without their State trappings and uniform. Instead of the State carriages, breaks, loaded up to the weight of the carriages they respec- tively represented, were used. The cortege went through the taking up and setting down at Buckingham Palace and the House of Lords, and went over the route at the same pace and in the same order as will be observed next week. The police who will be on duty at the most important points were in their places, and rehearsed their parts with the rest. But there is one number not in the programme which it was impossible to rehearse. That is the dreaded outbreak of the suffragettes. It is thought that they may take advan- tage of Leap Year to attempt to pop the question to the King himself. Against this unknown danger the authorities are only able to provide by doubling the number of police who will be on duty along the route and holding strong detachments in .reserve. DEATH OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL Sir John Lawson Walton's death was so far unexpected that he had arranged to give a dinner-party at his town house in Great Cumberland-place on Friday night. He had come up from Bournemouth only a week before in the full enjoyment of health. On Friday morning he took a chill: the dinner had to be put off, and, afrer a sad night spent in wrestling with double pneu- monia, he passed away at noon. Sir John was a good lawyer, a kind-hearted man, and a gentleman by instinct. We all looked forward to the time when he would adorn the bench as one of its highest dignitaries. Sir William Rob- son, the Solicitor-General, will become Attorney-General, and it is possible that Mr. S. T. Evans will succeed him as Solicitor-General, but Mr. Rufus Isaacs has many friends at Court, and the claims of both are now being vigorously canvassed. HIS VARIED EXPERIENCE. The late Attorney-General won his spurs at the Hardwick Club, the famous debating society at the Bar. He then created a reputation which he was able to sustain amply when briefs flowed in on him. He was called in 1877, made a Bencher in 1897, and Attorney-General in 1906. The son of a Wesleyan mission- ary, who afterwards became president of the Conference, Sir John inherited a calm and equable temperament, a melli- fluous voice, and a manner which abso- lutely disarmed hostility. Sir John had a varied experience when he entered Parliament in 1892. He was first put up as candidate for Batter- sea, but withdrew, and transferred his affections to Central Leeds. Repulsed there, he sought consolation in South Leeds when Dr. Playfair, immediately after the change of Government, was made a peer. Sir John got in for South Leeds, and kept his seat there through three contests. At the last general election the Conservatives appear to have lost some two thousand four hun- dred votes to a Labour candidate, and were in a rather bad position. At the previous election, however, when it was a straight fight, the Conservative was only* 238 votes behind. So that, after all, South Leeds is anybody's seat. STAR CHAMBER REPORT. Frantic efforts are being made to get the report of the Dublin Star Chamber Commission into the hands of the King before Parliament meets. It is said that the unusual course of telegraphing the report will be adopted. As this can only save one day, it is evidence of the desperate fight the Irish Government is making against time for some reason which is not suffered to appear. Until the King has considered the report nothing can be done. As-far as it deals with the Order of St. Patrick, the King is the only authority. No one can dis- miss Sir Arthur Vicars except his Majesty. It is not certain that the matter can be brought before Parlia- ment unless on a motion for the adjourn- ment or in Committee of Supply. But we may take it for certain that the King will see justice executed, and that he will not permib wrong to be done unto one person in order to screen another. EPISCOPAL CHARIOTS. The Bishop of London, who once suggested that the best way to keep within his income was to shut up the Palace, keep an office in town, live in the suburbs, and go about in a motor, is about to fulfil part of his programme. It is true that the bishop explained the impossibility of giving up the Palace, because it is required for the entertain- ment of the clergy and others. Apostolic bishop as he is, he is given to hospi- tality, but there is nothing to prevent him starting the motor-car, and it is reported that ho will set one up in the spring, and put down the carriage horses, which have done more work, perhaps, than any other carriage horses in London. Motoring as a means of assisting episcopal labour waff first started by the Bishop of St. Albans in the beautiful car which the people of New- castle of their great love and respect presented to him when he was translated from Newcastle to St. Albans. Since then a number of bishops have gone in for motoring. The last I have heard of is the Bishop of Truro, whose people are going to present him with a car. SALUTARY MOTORING. Is it true that motoring is good for consumption ? ^Incidentally, it has come out that a cnauffeur who got into trouble about his speed was a young man of good family who had been educated at a public school, and had taken to motoring because he was con- sumptive. Presumably, also, because he was poor; otherwise he would have been riding about in a car of his own instead of driving other people. The open-air life is, undoubtedly, the best for consumptive patients, and there may be something in the exhilaration of rapid movement which tunes up the affected organisms. On this point I have a personal experience. The worst cold I ever had was cured by a three days' drive. Bronchial catarrh had been with me nearly all the winter, and I had coughed through fog and damp, with alleviations when there was frost and snow. It began to look like a cough that had come to stay. An opportunity was offered me of a three days journey over a distance of nearly two hundrc l poles in an open carriage. It was March- and high, dry, cold east wind** prevailed. When I started people looked upon me as a moral suicide. But the first day I ate a good lunch the first time for months, the cough ceased, and when the three days were over I and when the three days were over I was better than ever I had been.
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CARDIFF DOCKSMAN. + TO PAY zE120 TO DINAS POWIS LADY, Mr. A. T. Williams, the under-sheriff, Fat with a jury at Neath on Thursday to assess damages in an interesting breach of promise case. The plaintiff was Miss Magdalena Margaret Henn. of Laurel Cottage, Dinas Powis, and the defendant Mr. Robert Idris Holly, of Bonvilstone, who recently held a, responsible position in a Cardiff shipping firm. Mr. Ivor Bowen (instructed by Mr. H. Mor- gan Reee, solicitor, Cardiff) was for the plain- tiff, and Mr. George David for the defendant In opening the case, Mr. Bowen aaid that all the jury had to do was to say how much money the plaintiff was entitled to. She was a young lady over 30 years of age, and she lived with her widowed mother. The defen- dant was engaged at the Bute Docks, and the parties had known each other all their lives. The engagement was entered upon thirteen years ago and broken off without any warning. In July last the defendant wrote: — BREAKING IT OFF. Bonvilstone, Tuesday Evening. My Dear Madling,-It is with much regret that I am unable to come down to Dinas Powis to-morrow evening, and, further, to say that owing to the position in which I am placed, to oontinue my attentions to you. I cannot say how sorry I feel, but exist- ing circumstances control the situation. You have every good wish from me for the future, and I hope it may be a bright one for you.-Yours very sincerely, IDRIS. Proceeding, Mr. Bowen said he was going to ask the jury to award reasonable damages. This was a case in which, he was sorry to say, the defendant had acted very badly. He had led her to believe that he would marry; only to jilt her and to ruin her matrimonial prospects. Thus was the plaintiff forced to seek the remedy which the law gave her. The mws M. M. HENN ("Weekly Matt" photo only reason which the defendant gave for his cruel conduct was "altered circum- stances." Mr. Bowen was about to read cer- tain correspondence prior to the promise of 1900, when Mr. George David objected, stating they were not admissible. The Under-sheriff said he did not think they were material. Mr. Bowen, continuing, said that a sum of money had been offered by the defendant, but it had been refused. Such an act was consummate ooolness on the part of the defendant.. A further discussion took place respecting the admission of certain letters, and the Under-sheriff said that if they bore on the question of damages they were admissible. The correspondence started in September, 1895 An engagement ring was given at Christmas, 1900. "I AM LONGING." On the 28th of March, 1900, he wrote, I am longing for another kiss, and am longing to have you close to press me. This is the best port of my life- I shall never get tired of it." "It is astonishing," remarked Mr. Bowen, "how quickly he forgot the PrOmlise and grew tired." Laughter.) ( Mr. Bowen then proceeded to read a letter written by the defendant on the 12th of December, 1903. The defendant -ote:- I am honestly siok of being tied down like this every Sunday. You know how happy we shall be when we are together. Love seems a lasting and never breaking link of happiness. Mr. Bowen observed that it was not so in this case. Continuing, learned counsel read another letter which explained that:- Sundays are like ordinary business days. I am happy, however, in the knowledge that our love is as solid as a grajiite rock, as that gives me contentment of mind. With fond love, from your darling boy, I IDRIS. Then Mr. Bowen produced another letter, from which he read: Well, my darling, I send love from your own darling boy. I am anxiously looking forward to Thursday. On March 25, 1904, proceeded counsel, defen- dant again wrote, addressing his letter to MY OWN LOVE, LENA." and again three days later he wrote stating that this great love was a part of his life, and that he would never get tired of it; but, commented Mr. Bowen, he got tired very eoon In yet another letter defendant gave his ideal of happiness, for he wrote ■. — With two people joined together to the same love and the same temperament, then earthly love is bestowed. With united love to Ma and with love to you, darling, your own BOB. Counsel added that plaintiff received a lot of other letters, which she had not pre- served. But there was one letter that had a direct bearing upon the financial position of the defendant. In January, 1906, defen- JtB. R. IDBIS HOLLY I dant wrote stating that he was going to start running a steam-boat, but prior to this he had written saying that, through the death of one of the partners of the firm of Christie, his employers, and the conse- quent cessation of the firm, he would in future have to live on half his salary. In this letter defendant said;- I have a good deal to bear more than you have. Positions are not so easily snapped up. I am placed in a disastrous position. As to deceiving you, you are entirely wrong. Mr. Bowen stopped here to remark, "How on earth he could say that passes my cam- prehension, but" (he added)"to be perfectly fair, defendant had lost his position at Messrs. Christie's, but he got another one, and it was dear that he had some money, because he had really formed a project of starting a steamer. This was in January, and a month after he was engaged to Miss Harm. The project came to nothing, but it showed that defendant had money at that time." Mr. George David: TSere is not the slightest evidence that a penny of defendant's money was 90img into the concern. The company waa to be formed by public subscription. Mr. Bowen: Anyhow, defendant wrote, "No doubt they will say, '.úuoky girl'; I can say the same, "Lucky boy.' (Laughter.) And he said in another communication, that he was going to give up the station walks, and was aoiag to drive every morning. So," added Mr. Bowen, "You can see that he was already, in his mind. A PROSPEROUS MAN AT THE DOCKS." Plaintiff, an attractive-looking young lady, bore oat her counsel's opening statement, and was not shaken in cross-examination. Mr. George David: Did he tell you in March of last year tbPt he had: lost his situation ?—Yes. Did he not become more and more depressed in consequence of having no work to do? No. I mean between then and June?—No. I thought he was going on with his own busi- ness. and he never told me anything to the oontrary. Defesndant told the oourt. he broke off the engagement because his circumstances were so changed that he could not afford to keep a wife. He had had no regular work since he lost his position at Christie's, "and," he added, "there is no other girl." Cross-examined by Mr. Bowen •. You pro- mised to be true until, death?—But the air- cumsitances have changed. Mr. Bowen: But you are not dead yet, you know? (Laughter.) You have said so in your letters that you would be, you know, but you haven't. Now, did you fix the date of the marriage ?—No. You said you would marry her in about twelve months?—No. I don't think she under- stood all that I said to her. You didn't care much what you told the poor girl, did you?—No. Mr. Bowen: I thought that. Defendant: I did not mean that. Mr. Bowen: Now, what about this steam- ship project. You were going to put some money into it?—No, I had no money to do so. What do you think of your conduct? You said you would be true titl death. You said her love was like a granite rock and so on. And you have been keeping this girl on for thirteen years?-The engagement was in 1900. Mr. :Bö.en: Oh, but you walked out with her yfc««i« before that, and led her to believe you were going to marry her. Re-examined: His salary at Messrs. Chris- tie's was £ 150 a year for the last three years. Out of that he hto maintain his mother and to pay doctors bills, for he had been in very bad health. Mr. David., in addressing the jury, said tha,t the public were going to be invited to subscribe to the share capital of the steamer. Defendant was unable to keep his promise because his altered circum- stances procluded his doing so. Mr. Ivor Bowen, in addressing the jury, sa,id that the plaintiff had been very badly treated. She had been kept hoping on by the defendant, who had, as they well knew now, for it was admitted, deceived her. He asked for such reasonable damages as would make some reparation to the plaintiff and not impoverish the defendant. RESULT. The jury Awarded X120 damages.
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TERRORIST IN SABLES. BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN'S DRAMATIC ARREST, Three leaders of the Russian Terrorist movement, whose names are still withheld by the police for reasons connected with an attempt to seize other members of the same organisation, were arrested at Munich. The circumstances of the capture are pecu- liar, and the story bears a resemblance to one of Sherlock Holmes's adventures. A beautiful young Russian lady, aged 23, most elegantly dressed, wearing costly sables and gorgeous jewels, and presenting the appearance of a distinguished personage of high rank, entered the exchange to cash a Russian 500-rouble ( £ 50) bank-note. The cashier, on examining the note, found its number registered on the police list with instructions to arrest anyone who presented it. The lady was asked to take a seat for a moment. Immediately afterwards a detec- tive who had been summoned appeared, and the young woman was arrested. At this moment she attempted to swallow a slip of paper, but the detective, who had been watch- ing her closely, seized, her throat and compelled her by pressure to disgorge the paper. It was found to bear writing in the Russian 'language, and was taken to the Russian Legation. It was found to announce the arrival of two accomplices of the roman by express train from Paris. The police, accompanied by an official of the Legation, awaited the two Russians at the station and arrested them as they stepped out of a first-class compartment. It was subsequently discovered (says the "Daily Express" Berlin correspondent) that the two men and the woman are all leaders of a most dangerous group of revolutionists who have perpetrated ma.ny deeds of violence. The bank-note which the woman tried to change was one stolen from the Russian Imperial Bank at Tiflis, in the Caucasus, several months ago. Money brought from St. Petersburg for the Tiflis branch of the Imperial Bank was being conveyed in wagons from the station to the bank under an escort of Cossacks and mounted police, when suddenly eight bombs were thrown at the little procession, and twelve people were killed and 50 injured. In the ensuing confusion the revolutionists seized over £ 30,000 and escaped with the booty. The papers found on the two Russians arrested at the station, led to tble artest of two mocre revolutionists at the Qare du Nord Paris, who were aJso found in possession, of money stolen on the same occasion at Tiflis.
LOVE IN THE ORCHARD.
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LOVE IN THE ORCHARD. HONEYMOON TRIP TO CARDIFF ABANDONED. In an action, claiming damages for alleged breach of promise of marriage at Somerset Assizes recently the plaintiff was Beatrice Musgrove, of Stilbrook Farm, Five- head, near Taunton. and the defendant was Sidney Musgrove, of Meare Green W«-t Hatch, near Taunton am' The parties, counsel said w,™ name. The young woman age at the time, and the man was 37 plaintiff and defendant had vt V each other for fifteen or known Tl° August. 1906, defendant's flth!fn yeaf:In ill, and plaintiff, by leave of parents, went to stey at house, where he lived with defendant6 that she- might assist dSJJ? Parenta> so during his father's illness mot £ er she had been there puKi J went into the garden an^ defendant apples, and during JLJ? f.ck "p her if she would fike fJ1?11 her life at his father's h Gpen<i dant's) wife. She a* rflaso-ns whir ™ P°mted out various not suitable a'rna8e between them was she had W, among which was that adopted ocmai Cor,feePonding with another a soldier T' ..named Fred Gannicott. on wv w „Indxa- and that they were IFISASKFT^BUT ENFFAEEF- £ pp?^Sth^f e thought she would be «u*te rVn tiL c 1hlm' aQd they agreed to marry. v y after this they discussed the of the honeymoon, and the plaintiff she would like to go to Cardiff, as that was tne place where her parents came from. the 12th of September, 1906, she went nome, and he afterwards gave her money to buy an engagement ring, as he did not know n^ach about jewellery. She got the ring, after some demur, and he put it on the third finger of her left band. Her adopted father and mother accepted him as her future husband. Evidence wtas given by the plaintiff, the adopted daugbter of Edwin and Emily Mus- grove, and by Emily Musgrove. Sidney MusgTOTe. the defendant, gave evi- dence on his own behalf. He said he worked for his father, who paid him 2s. 6d. a week, and found him in food and clothes. He had no land of his own, anSl had never told plain- tiff that he hjtd Eloo saved, or that he owned two pieces of land. He had never promised to marry her, but he admitted there had been familiarities between them. The jury found that there had been a breach oi promise, and assessed the danwugea at M50. TTin lordamp gave judgment accordingly.
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MID-DEVON ELECTION. UNIONISTS GAIN A SEAT. The result was declared on Saturday, as fouowig: Capt. Morrison Bell XO.) 5,191 Mr. 0. R. Buxton (L.) 4,632 Conservative majority —i 569 PREVIOUS RESUUTS. 1895. j 1904. The Bight Hon. C. Mr. H. T. Etc, K.C. Seale-Hayne (B.) 4,3301 (R.) 5>t*4 Mr. J. A. Nix (U.) 3,976 General Sir R. Harri- son (U.) 3,558 Radical majorky.. 404 —— 1900. Radical majority.. 1,47s The Rig-lit HOB. O. 1906. Sotto-BLtyne (I.) 4,487 Mr. H. T. Eve, K.C. Mr. J. A. Nix (U.) 3,716 (R.) 5,079 Captain E. F. Morri- Radical majority.. 771, eon-Bell (U.) 3.7W 1 Radical majority.. 1,283 =
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BOARD OF TRADE AUDITOR. BETHESDA MAN APPOINTED. Mr. Lloyd George, in his capacity as Pre- sident of the Board of Trade, has appointed Mr. W. J. Parry, Coetmor Ball, Bethesda, aa official auditor under the Electric lagbitang Acts of 1882 and 1888. Mr. Parry's district includes the greater part of North Wales, and extends as far as Llandrindod Wells. Mr. Parry, who is a chartered accountant and one of the oldest members and a Fellow of the association, is one of the beet-known public men in the Principality
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JUDGE OWEN COMPLAINS OF A COLD COURT. His Honour Judge Owen held his monthly court at Monmouth on Tuesday, and when he came on the bench he remarked that the court was as cold as an ice-house.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL 4 CHATTY ITEMS ABOUT MEN AND MATTERS. Memorial to Lord Kelvin. The Belfast citizens at a public meeting on Tuesday decided to erect a memorial to the late Lord Kelvin. A Chapel Centenary. Horeb Congregational Church, Builth Wells, Breconshire, celebrates its centenary next September. It was founded by the Rev. David Williams. New Admiral for Devonport. It is officially announced that Rear-admiral Charles Henry Cress has been selected to succeed Vice-admiral Charles James Barlow as superintendent of Devonport Dockyard. M.P.'s Wedding. Mr. W Johnson, M P. for the Nuneaton Division of Warwickshire, was married by special licence at St. Andrew's, Leicester, on Moi day to Mrs. Anne Copson, of that town. The Rev. F. B. Feist (vicar) officiated. New Dean of Carlisle. It is announced that the King has approved of the appointment of the Rev. Canon Wm. Barker. rector of St. Marylebone, London, to the Deanery of Carlisle, in succession to Dr. C. S. Ridgway. Bishop-elect of Chichester. Duke's Daughter Married. The wedding took place on Tuesday at Da.l- keith of Lady Cwnat-ance Scott, daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Hon. Douglas Halybusto-n Cairns. The jewellery worn by the bride included presents from the Queen and the Duke of Buccleuch. Died at His Post. A Great Northern Railway signalman named Edward Woods died in his box early on Saturday mornin.g. He had passed a train and then blocked the line, dying at his post after this act of duty. He was 52 years of age. H.M.S. Victory. It is announced that there were 36,609 visitors to his Majesty's ship Victory last year, of whom 7.979 visited Nelson's flagship in July and 11,830 in August. The record vear wa.s 1906, when the visitors numbered 42,590. Ecclesiastical Appointments. The Bishop of St. David's bas appointed the Rev Cajion Camber-Williams (vicar of Lam- peter) to be rural dean of the Deanery of Lac. peter, and the Rev. Prebendary Iorwerth Grey Lloyd (vioir of Slobcch) to be dean of the Deanery of Dungleddy. Diamond Rings for Seagulls. While the Mayor of Derby was feeding the seagulls on the Avon at Bath, where he has been staying, two diamond rings slipped from his fingers into the water, and. though the river has been dredged at the spot, all efforts to find them have failed. Sir John Williams and tho Cardiff College. The Carmarthenshire County Council on Wednesday appointed Sir John Williams, Bart., M.D., The Plas, Llanstephan, a repre- sentative on the court of governors of the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, in the place of the! late Sir Lewis Morris. Ex-M.P.'s Death. Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., died on Monday at his residence, Maristow, near Plymouth, aged 90. Deceased, who was a well-known Conservative in the West of England, sat as M.P. for Westbury from 1857 to 1868, and for South Devon from 1868 to 1885. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from 1874 to 1880. Transatlantic Traffic. The simple statement that close on 3,000,000 passengers were ferried across the Atlantic last year is more suggestive than is many a solid volume. The number is, we believe, a record one for any sea; but whether that be the case or no, it is a practical demon- stration that Europe and America are ooming closer and closer together. Suowic as Noah's Ark. ) The Suevic sailed on Saturday from Liverpool for Australia, this being her first ^oyage since the new bow was fitted to her foUowing the disaster off the Cornish coast last March. She is taking out an interesting collection of elands, antelopes, swans, tapirs, and other specimens for presentation to the zoological societies at Perth, Melbourne. and Sydney. Heir to Title and Fortune. A lawyer has just arrived in New York from San Francisco seeking the where- abouts of the family of the late Mr. Wil- liam Inglis. It is understood the eldest son, a child of about five years, is heir to the title and fortune of Sir Malcolm Inglis, of Dublin. Shortly after the death of Mr. William Inglis in San Francisco the family started east- ward, and all traces of their whereabouts have since been lost. Teetotal" Port. Dr- Wynn Westoott referred a.t. as inaoeet on Saturday to the popular ide& that port wine was a teetotal beverage. In fact, he said. the majority of port wines sold Îl1 this country were amongst the most fiery of iiquons, and contained a Larger proportion of alcohol than any other wines. This idea probably arose because at one time port was the wine used at Communion. £52,000 a Year! Mr. Harry Lauder has told the "American First Nighter," who is making a round of the English theatres and writing his impres- sions of them for the "New York Herald," that Mr. Erlanger offered him £1.000 a week for a year to remain in New York. "Yon can imagine how hard that was to refuse," Mr. Lauder is quoted as saying; "but no fear, I am going back again. That money has not got away from me yet." Glasgow Honours Great Men. The freedom of the city of Glasgow wae oo Tuesday conferred on Lord lythaw who served in the Crimea; Lord Lister, discoverer of the antiseptic treatment in surgery, and jilx Cameron Corbett, M.P., who the citizens a park and estate at Loohgoilhead. Lord Lister, through illness, had the honour conferred in his absence. Six hundred citizens were entertained at luncheon to meet the new burgesses. "The Ship" at Greenwich. The Ship Hotel, one of the moet famous of London s riverside inns, closed its doors on Saturday night. In the days when Greenwich was a fashionable riverside resort its name was known all over the world. The Ministerial whitebait dinners, instituted by Pitt, were held at the old inn until some ten years ago, and the judges of the High Court used to meet there at a fish dinner once a year. A Precious Elixir. Mr. Eustace Miles, the well-known expo- nent of hygiene and the simple life," announced at the exhibition of winter foods a.nd drinks at the "Tribune" office on Tues- day that the most precious medicine in this country is the water that vegetables have been boiled in. The best time to take the elixir is when getting intol bed at night. At the same time he stated that the best specific for a cold is hot honey and lemon juice, which should also be quaffed at bedtime. Wedding Under Water. The bride and bridegroom who are to be married under water at the- Hippodrome hay been selected, Mid the ceremony has been fixed for the 20th of February. As it was intimated that a Christian wed- ding would not be legal, one of the two Mahommedan couples who applied has been chosen. The bridegroom is Captain Sarll, who until a month ago was serving with the B^rench field force in Morocco. The bride is an English girl of nineteen. Clever Centenarian Dead. Another centenarian has died—Mrs. Ann Oolwell, of Brighton. Mrs. Oolwell had lived with two daughters at Brighton for fifty years. Till forced to take to her bed some three years ago. she, without the aid of spectacles, and with the aid of a wooden frame, did splendid silk raised flower work with her left hand, having lost the use of the other hand. She retained her faculties till the last. Her sister died three years ago at Hen don, aged 94. Ranji" Back in Sussex. Negotiations have been concluded whereby the Jam of Nawanagar, Prince Ranjit- sinhji, will become the tenant for the next twelve months of Shillinglee Park, Pet. worth, the Sussex seat of Earl Winterton. M.P., better known as Viscount Tornour. His Highness, in addition to occupa-tion of the TmansMMi. acquires the shooting rights over the estate, and will have opportunities for cricket practice on the well-kept private cricket ground. Engagements. The engagement is announced between Norman Haliburton Hume, I.M.S., second son of G. H. Hume. M.D., L.R.C.8.E., D.C.L., and Mrs. Hume. of Newoastle-on- Tyne, and Mary Augusta .(Molly), seoond daughter of John Bacon Fowler oaid Mrs. Fowler, of Orynant, Tunbridge Wells, and g-and-daughter of the late Capel Miers, J.P., D.L., of Peterstone Court, Breconshire. The engagement is also announced between John Charles Hill Fowler, I.C.S., second son of John Bacon Fowler and Mrs. Fowler. of Orynant, Tun bridge Wells, and Frances Hope, eldest daughter of the Rev. Frank E. Middleton, of Blackheath, and grand-daughter of the Late Rev. Martin Johnstone, R.N. Hale at 108. Probably the oldest of King Edward's sub- jects is to be found in Elham Workhouse, Folkestone, in the person of George Keel, who has reached his one hundred and eighth year. In a letter received on Siinday by a rela- tive living at Sandwich it is stated that the aged inmate's health is good, that he can see to read, and that he could walk six miles easily if allowed to do so. His only failing is deafness, otherwise his faculties are unim- paired. Keel was born at Manton Marl- borough in 1800. At the age of eighteen he was seat out on to the downs to mind sheep, and he followed the occranetion of & shep- herd until he reached the ripe age of 95, when he gave tip that employment. For several yeara afterwards, however, he sup- ported himself by doing gardening work. Keel was married at Twerton Church, Bath, in 1830. and hi- wife died in 1892.
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WEEK BY WEEK. +—~ LIGHTER SIDE OF CURRENT EVENTS. A woman went into a Rhymney VaJley post-offioe on Saturday and offered some eggs in lieu of sixpence for sending a telegram. Mr. Owen Edwards has published in. "Cymru" a, list of Welsh railway stations from which the best views are to be seen. Singularly enough, he has omitted—Landore. The grandmother of the celebrated American preacher, the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was a native of Tregaron, in Cardiganshire. The fine old bridge at Llanrwst has been subjected to so much heavy traffic of late years that it shows signs of collapse. It WAAl built as far back as 1635, and is said to be the work of Inigo Jones. Like many other eminent lawyers, Sir Lawson Walton always read his briefs in bed. He used to start at five o'clock in the morning, and worked on till eight o clock. When he had his breakfast. A Rhonada policeman told the magistrates at Ystrad on Monday that the difference between a man who is very drunk and a man who is staggering drunk is that the former "keeps half the pavement" and tha othør more than the whole pavement." Carnarvon can stand pretty tough political fare, but the free library committee draws the line at Socialistic literature. The members have decided that they will not permit the Clarion to enter the reading- room. Mr. Lloyd George has established a record on the Nice golf links. He did the seven- teenth hole, which measures 110 yards, in one stroke. This is believed to be the first time a hole has been accomplished in one at Nice. From what railway stations in Wales can the best views be seen? In this month's Cymru Mr. 0. M. Edwards mentions Llall- gollen and Swansea Bay. From these he says that river, mountain, and sea are seen at their best. Just before Saturday's international com- menced at Bristol Percy Bush gave a perplexing piece of advice to the Welsh captain. "If you win the toss," he whispered to A. F. Harding, play with the fog in the first half!" Charles Williams, the founder of Williams's School at Caerloon, was an intimate friend of Grinley Gibbons, the wood carver. lie made Gibbons one of the trustees of his will, and left money under the personal charge of the artist for the poor of St. Paul's. London. A Liverpool Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel is evidently determined to be right up-to-date, and includes a limerick" com" petition in an eisteddfod organised under its auspices. The Goleuad," the organ of. the Corph. gives llymrigwst" as the Cymrio equivalent for limerick." One of the biggest cases in which Sir Lawson Walton was engaged before he became Attorney-General was the arbitration between Messrs. Geen and Linton, of New- port, and the Tredegar Dry Dock Company. In connection with this case Sir Lawson Walton visited Newport to inspect the dock. The ambidextrous man fades into insigni- ficance alongside an energetic mercantile official at Newport. At a, recent presentation he was described as "im to his knees in cash- books and ledgers, paying out cash with both hands, and signing seamen's advance notes with the other." For some years the late Mrs. Richardes, Bryneithyn, near Aberystwyth; was church- warden of Llanychaiarn Church, and so was the late Marchioness of Londonderry at Machynlleth. M.rs. Anwyl, o'f Penpompren, has been for years warden of the church at Talybont, where she has given a site for a new permanent church. The much-needed railing for the Henry Richard statue at Tregaron, which has just been completed, is due to the initiative of Mr. John Rowland, Mr. Lloyd George's private secretary, and to the generosity of Mr. D. A. Thomas, who found the money-£40. It is a, very handsome railing, too. Mr. Row*- land, by the way, is a native of Tregardu. Musical culture is not a recent growth in Wales. The first musical society at the University of Oxford was founded in 1650 by a little" group of Welshmen. They met in the house of Will Ellis, the organist of St. John's College, and included Thomas James, of Magdalen, who played the lute; Will James, the dancing master; Charles Griffiths, the violinist; and John Jenkyns, called the mriirrour and wonder of his age," the oompcser of theeeventeenth century- Wales leads In the matter of providing training colleges for teachers. .huri- tics are ercouraged by the Governme#* to provide these institutions, >u hw «The Cost of which now contr; u:eg the greater pa.rt of the necessary funds. Arrangements were finally completed on Saturday whereby the County Councils of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire take over the Normal College for men students at Bangor. The institution will henceforth be managed by a joint committee of the two county councils. Present-day politics are killing indepen- dence. It is rare nowadays to find any examples of the sturdy independence which characterised the old City cam panics. During t.he Commonwealth the hoadmastexship of Monmouth Grammar School fell vacant, amd Oliver Cromwell requested the Haber- dashers' Company to appoint Walter Cradock. of Cardiff, to the post. But the company, whilst tlianking the Lord Protector for hie kindly interference," declined to give the post to Walter Cradock, and elected their own candidate. An old Welsh farmer has scored off an unpregressive parish council in North Wales. The old gentleman found a gipsy relic on his farm, in the form of a dead donkey, and he wrote to his parish council requesting them to make arrangements for the interment of the deceased. Their reply was to the effect that they would not think of depriving him of the honour. But all was not yet over. He courteously sent them a counterblast, to the effect that he had taken action in the first instance under the assumption that it was the Welsh custom for the nearest rela- tives to bury the dead. Sir John Owen, the Welsh Royalist, is an interesting figure in the history of the great Civil War. He was tried, with Lord Capel and others, after the execution of Charles and was condemned to death. On being sen- tenced he bowed low to the court and returned thanks, saying, It is a great honour for a poor Welsh gentleman to die in such noble company." While great efforts were made to save the lives of the others, nc one thought of the poor Welshman till Colonel Hutchinson, moved with pity, rose in the House to defend the friendless stranger. Hie speech was seconded by Ireton, who pleaded so eloquently that Sir John Owen's life was saved by a majority of only five votes. "Of all the Ministerial lodgments," says a weekly contemporary in an article on "Where Cabinet, Ministers Make History," that of Mr. Lloyd George is the oddest. The Board of Trade offiare an entangle- ment of our great riverside mansions under the shadow of the Stuart Courts, and include what remains of old Cromwell House and the wine-cellar of Kin It Charles II. Hard by is where Anne dwelt in troublous luxury; and there is, haply, in Mr. Lloyd George's private room the very chamber where the Lord Protector prayed and grizzled. Indeed, it would not be wonderful if our modern missioner of commercial and industrial peace were to meet on his official stairs the wraiths of Oliver Cromwell and of Queen Anne walking arm-in-arm to peejj at this new Whitehall." A contemporary asks: "Where was Thomai Jones, the poet-preacher, born?" Accord. ing to one correspondent, it was somewhere in the neighbourhood of Llandrindod Wells, within sight of Shaky Bridge." Another cor. resipondent (a Llanelly gentleman) says: "When I visited Rhayader lately I was told that the cottage in which he first eaw the light stood on the site now occupied by the Fleece Temperance and Commercial Hotel in that town." Thomas Jones's friend, Dr. John Thomas, in a biographical sketch in Hanes Eglwysi Annibynol Cymru," also says that he was born at Rhayader, and gives the date of his birth as July 17. 1819. Oar Rhayader correspondent adds that a few years a.go there were several old nativea of the town of Rhayader who claimed to be intimately acquainted with the poet- preacher, who, in the homely language of the district, was known as Thomas Jones the Fleece. Mr. T. Axtemus Jones, the counsel for the defence in the remarkable Franz von Velt- heim blackmail case, has had a very varied career. He is a young Welshman, born at Denbigh in 1872. His father was a quarry. man. P.T.O." says tha.t when young Jones was eleveh years old he left school to assist his father in the quarry. After a few months at the quarry he received an appointment with Smith and Sons on Denbigh Station. During his stay^ at the bookstall he learnt short- hand, and at the age of fifteen he entered the office of the Denbigh Free, Press." He remained there for three years, and then left to become a reporter on a Herefordshire local paper, of which he afterwards became editor. In 1895 he went to London as London correspondent of a provincial paper. and two years later he joined the Parlia- mentary staff of the Daily Telegraph." In 1901 he wes called to the Bar, and joined the North Wales Circuit. Since then he haa figured in a number of important cases, among which were the Lord Penrhyn libel ccuse and West Harm test case. He is an advanced Radical in politics, and a frequent ■|we¥rr under the auspices of the EigRty Ofeab and Free Trade Union. J