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WEST MONiyiOUTH. MR T. RICHARDS AT EBBW VALE. Stirring Sptech.—Tribute tothe Premier. On Tuesday Mr Thomas Richards,the Liberal candidate, addessed-a crrowded meeting at the Workmen's Hall, Ebbw Vale. Councillor Alf. Jones presided, and was supported on the platform by Mr and Mrs T. Richards, Mr Aubrey Roberts (Aberdare), Revs. T. Tudor, T. Rees, E, Price, W. Ward, Messrs W. Vyce (miners' agent, E. Davies, J. Williams (Cwm), (Victoria), J. Barber, Mr T. Hughes (Liberal agent), J. Williams, Mr T. EL Stephens. After Mr Alf. Jones had opened the proceedings the audience sang The Land Song." Mr Aubrey Roberts Aber- dare, and Alderman Morrell, Merthyr, addressed the meeting. Mr T. Richards, who came in for a hearty reception, said that the Budget was the immediate cause of the elec- tion. He was there to face the people who had sent him to Parliament, and to assert that the Budget was the most equitable means of raising revenue for the reforms enacted that any Chancellor had ever intro- duced. They must remember that the late Government had paid off Tory debt to the ex- tent of £40,000,000. They had also taken 41 millions off the necessities of the people. The house had to be cleaned, and they had striking evidence that it was being done when Mr Lloyd George was at the Board of Trade. It was not so much the Budget, but the fact was that the Government had been going too fast, and in this respect he was afraid that their enthusiasm for the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been the innocent cause of their overlooking the great statesman who was at their head—Mr Asquith. (Cheers.) Let him fay that not even during Mr Gladstone's time did they have a leader who was more in acccard with the aspirations and wishes of the people. fteferring to the legislation passed, and in par-* icular to the Eight Hours Act, h; said, there would be no going back on that measure, but rather had the time come when they should agitate for a further reduction of hours. A resolution of confidence in Mr Richards was passed with acclamation. Mr T. Richards received a great reception at the New Tredegar Workmten's Hall. ^IrW. Scammell presided. A rote of confidence in the candidate was unanimously carried.

WELSH CONSTITUENCIES. Nominations and Pollings. Constituency. Nomination. Polling. January. January. Swansea District. Fri. 14th. Mon. 17th. Swansea Fri. 14th. Mon. 17th. Cardiff Sat. 15th. Wed. 19th. Carmarthen Boroughs Sat. 15th. Wed. 19th. Merthvr. Fri. 14th. Wed. 19th Monmouth Boroughs Sat. 15th. Wed. 19th. Carmarthenshire East Sat. 15th. Thurs. 20th Pembrokeshire. Sat. 15th. Fri. 21st. North Monmouth. Mon. 17th. Fri. 21st. Rhondda. Mon. 17th. Fri. 21st. South Monmouth. Mon. 17th. Fri. 21st. Carmarthenshire West Tues.18th. Sat. 22nd. East Glamorgan Mon. 17th. Mon. 24th. Mid-Glamorgan Tucs.18th. Tues. 25th. Soutti Ganiorgan Mon.l7th. Tues. 25th. West Monmouth. Tues. 18th. Tues. 25tli. Cardiganshire — Thurs. 27 th Qowec • Sat. 15th. Thurs. jl7tli

SOLICITOR-GENERAL TELLING SPEECH AT CARDIFF. REMARKABLETNTHUSIASM. The entihusiasm prevailing in the ranks of Liberalism in Cardiff was strikingly demon- strated on Tuesday at the meeting in the Park Hall, Cardiff, in support of the candidature of Mr D. A. Thomas. A quarter tof an hour after the opening of the doors the building was packed, and as hundreds still struggled to gain admission, the doors had to be closed and stoutly guarded. The splendid spirit of the vast audience was revealed by the lusty singing of political songs during the period prior to the beginning of the meeting. The favourite song, rendered with great zest, was For it's a jolly good Budget." Mr D. A. Thomas was unable, owing to the, indisposition to which we have already referred, to be present. The chair was occu-' pied by the Hon. Ivor Guest, who was sup- ported by most of the leading Liberals of the city and district. The chairman) who was enthusiastically received, said he was proud to < take even a small part in the election now in progress. (Cheers.) They all very much regretted, he added, the absence of their candidate, Mr D. A. Thomas—(cheers)—from whom he had received a letter, which he read to the meeting as follows:— Dear Mr Guest,—Will you kindly convey to the meeting to-night my very great regret that I am not able to be with you ? It is most annoying to get laid up at this juncture, but I feel convinced that my friends in Cardiff will, under the circumstances, redouble their efforts—(cheers)—in support of the vital issues involved in the present crisis. In a postscript Mr Thomas added:—" I hope to be able to return to the fray on Thursday." (Cheers.) An interesting ceremony then took place. Alderman F. J.Beavan.on behalf of the Cardiff Liberal Association, presenting to the Hon. Ivor Guest an address recording the associa- tion's thanks for his splendid services. This part of the meeting is reported in another column. SIR S. T. EVANS'S SPEECH. The Solicitor-General, who was received with great and prolonged cheering, said 1;hat Par- liaments might come and Parliaments might go, but the Lords went on for ever. (Laughter.) Since Saturday last, however, thefe had come a change because by the spirit of the Constitu- tion to which at present they were bowing the Lords had no right to interfere when once a dissolution had been created. (" Pity.") Perhaps it was a pity, for the Peers had re- cently added very much to the gaiety of the political discussion, though the exact influence which they exerted on the electorate not even they themselves could estimate. Be that as it might, the time of the singing of the birds had come to an end, and the voice of the turtle was no longer heard in the land. (Laughter.) Why were the Peers debarred from engaging in the General Election ? It was not because they were not fit. Some of them were even plat- form orators. There were grades among them just as among members of the other House. In fact, they were very much like ordinary mortals in most respects. (Laughter.) The reason was that the House of Commons ought to be elected and ought to reflect the opinions of the general masses of the electors of this country, and the question to be decided by this election was whether or not the govern- ment of this country was to be carried on by the representative House, or whether the other House was to have co-ordinated juris- diction with the House which the people elected. f Main Issues. The speaker urged the electors not to permit their attentions to be drawn from the two main issues they had to decide-viz., first, what is to be in future the position of the House of Lords with regard particularly to the ques- tion of taxation and generally its relation to the people's House, and in the next place, what was to be their answer on the question of the Budget? The House of Lords could not put on a penny of taxation, and it could not reduce a penny of taxation, and how could it have authority to do away with the whole of taxa- tion? (A Voice: "They have none.") Of course the Lords said they were merely hang- ing the Budget up, but everybody knew better. Their statement of reference to the people was a shallow sham. (Cheers.) The Budget was dead. (" No, no.") I did not say it would not rise again," wittily returned the speaker, amid loud and prolonged cheering. Proceed- ing, he emphasised that they were now fight- ing once and for all for the control of all Budgets for all time. (Cheers.) The taxes in the Budget were between man and man—fair, just, moderate, and even low. (Cheers.) The principle of the Budget was • for unto whomsoever much is given, from him shall much be required— —(loud cheers)—" and to whom men have committed much, from them will they ask more." (Renewed cheers.) The Budget did not impose a tax on food and raiment, or any of the necessaries of life. (Cheers.) Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking the previous night, said food was already taxed in this country. It was true tea, coffee, cocoa, and one or two minor articles, such as sugar, were taxed, but they were only taxed for the purpose of raising revenue, and they were goods which were not produced in this country, and the whole of the duty levied went to the Exchequer. (Cheers.) But tie circumstance that they contributed some millions of money by these Customs duties was no reason why they should have further duties put upon them. (Cheers.) Liberals Reduced TapceS. In their opinion the duties were already too high. When the Liberals came into power in 1906, they took away practically five millions of money in reduction of the tea and sugar duties. (Cheers.) Proceeding to show the justice of the licence duties in the Budget, he said there was not a single licensed house, in- cluding the palatial hotels, which paid a higher duty than 24s a week for its monopoly. Was anyone unreasonable enough to say that was sufficient to exact for the monopoly, when so much was required for the country ? (" No.") Going on to speak of the land clauses in the Budget, he said he did not at Briton Ferry I refer to any particular landlord. He stated in his speech, which had not been correctly reported in a contemporary, that he conveyed no reference to the local landlord. The Budget did not take a square yard of land from the landowners. Tbe duties were got from the value added to the land by reason of the enterprise and expenditure of money ahd strength of the community. (Cheers.) Had the land been fairly valued during the past 50 years it would be easy to take duties from tea, sugar, and many other commodities. (Cheers.) Free Trade and Shipping. He proceeded to deal with the effect of Free Trade on the shipping industry, pointing out that some Protectionist countries had adopted a Free Trade policy in regard to shipping. In 1900 the net tonnage of merchant shipping in the United Kingdom was 9,304,000 tons in Germany it was 1,941,000 tons, and in the United States 826,694 tons. In 1908, the latest date at which figures were obtainable, the net tonnage was as follows United Kingdom 11^541,000 tons, Germany 2,800,000 tons, and the United States 940,000 tons. The total gross tonnage of British vessels in 1908 and 1909, according to the latest register, was 17,318,000 tons as against 23,000,000 the whole of the ton- nage of the rest of the world. (Cheers.) When the days of Protection were coming to an end in this country America was very nearly equal to us in shipping tonnage. Some said she was onr equal. From the adoption of Free Trade in this country they found British shipping advancing by leaps and bounds, until it had now twelve times the tonnage possessed by the United States, whiph was going back. Why 1 i Because iron and steel were protected in America, and it was very expensive to build iron and steel ships. In this country, on the other hand, trades were left absolutely fpee, and iron and steel were allowed to come in. from all quarters. Consequently, we were able to build ships much more cheaply than any other nation, and that was why we were ahead of the rest of the world in shipping. (Cheers.) Councillor William Jenkins, in moving a resolution approving the candidature of Mr D. A. Thomas illustrated the latter's sympathy with the working classes by declaring that he was instrumental with the late Sir Edward Reed in securing the elimination from a Bute Docks Bill of a clause inimical to Labour. (Cheers.) Mr Sam Bennett seconded, and the resolu- tion was carried unanimously and with great enthusiasm. Mrs D. A. Thomas returned thanks on behalf of her husband. A vote of thaiiks to the chairman concluded a magnificent meeting.

AUTOMATIC TYPEWRITER. A remarkable combination of the phono- graph and the typewriter has been patented by Professor Peter Christoph, of Czcrnovitz University. This machine claims to, solve the problem of completely automatic writing from dictation. By the use of two telephones the vibrations of the membrane ot a micro- phone are transformed into movements of an interpreter and a contact plate, which com- bine to form a particular curve for each sound. Bv following this curve an electric contact is formed by a pointer with the corresponding key of the typewriter, which thereupon prints the letter. Apparently the machine would only write in phonetic spelling.

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GENERAL ELECTION. < South Wales Candidates. EAST CARMARTHENSHIRE. CAN DI DATES-M r Abel Thomas, K.C.(L). Mr Mervyn LI. Peel (C.). Electorate, 1910—12,268 Mr ABEL THOMAS, K.C., the Liberal candi- date. (Photo, by Lafayette.) Mr MERVYN LLOYD PEEL, the Conserva- tive candidate. (Photo, by Elliott and Fry.) I

WEST CARMARTHENSHIRE. ELECTORATE, 1910-11,192. CANDIDATES-Mr J. Lloyd Morgan, K.C. (L.). Mr J. W. Jones-Cremlyn (C.). J Mr JOHN LLOYD MORGAN, the Liberal Candidate. (Photo, by Bassano.) Mr J. W. JONES-CREMLYN, the Conservative Candidate.

Pembrokeshire Assizes. A PAIR OF WHITE GLOVES. The Pembrokeshire Winter Assizes were held at Haverfordwest on Wednesday before Lord Coleridge. There was no criminal business, and his Lordship was presented with a pair of white gloves by the High Sheriff (Mr Herbert J. Allen). v Addressing the grand jury, his Lordship con- gratulated them on the absence of serious crime. Slander Action. In the case of Davies v. Davies, Mr Marlsv Samson, who appeared for the defendant, said that the action was for damages for slander. The solicitors for the parties, in view of the fact that the plaintiff was absent, had agreed not to proceed with the case. He asked for judgment for .costs, which was entered, Will Bait. The case of Bowen v. Bowen was men- tioned. It was a case in which the plaintiff sought to prove a will. The defendant was a sister of the plaintiff, Mr Bowen. The Judge, with the consent of the parties, pronounced for the will. Settled. It was announced that the case of James v. Peacock had been settled. Right of Way Case. Mr Bowen Davies, who appeared for the plaintiff in the case of Barham v. Griffiths, .applied that the case should be adjourned. The question involved, he added, was whether or not there was a right of way over certain roadways on the Llanstinan estate. Ulti- mately the case was adjourned until the 28th instant.

FARMER AND HIS PURSE. ROBBED BY PONTYPRIDD WOMEN P The story of the visit of a retired farmer to Pontypridd, how he got into the company of two women, stood them drinks, and is alleged to have lost £20, was told to the Pontypridd bench on Wedesday, when Marv Ann Davies. Kingsland-terrace, Treforest, was charged with stealing the sum named from the person of avid Davies, Taff's Well. prosecutor spoke to meeting the defendant and another woman in an hotel, to standing them two two's of whisky at their request, to accompanying them to two other public- houses and'again paying for ,drinks, and later to visiting the house of the defendant. When leaving to catch his train, he said. the women ran after him, defendant making an improper suggestion, and while the other woman held his arm Davies was alleged to have iput her band in his pocket and taken the purse of gold. They then ran back to the house, and witness fol- lowed, but the door WAS locked. He said he heard them counting the money in the house. Defendant, who wept bitterly and pleaded not guilty, was remanded for a week, her hus- band becoming surety for her. A warrant was issued for the arrest of the other woman.

7 VALE FARMERS. Surety to Keep the Peace. At Barry on Monday a summons for alleged threats was heard, in which Edward Rowland, of Walterstone Farm, Llancarfan,was the com- plainant, and John Organza neighbouring farmer, was the defendant. Complainant said that on Saturday week he met defendant, who asked him to clean out a ditch. Upon witness saying that he had done all he intended doing, defendant used bad language, and said that he would kill him one night. The next day he again threatened witness as he was returning with his wife from chapel. Defendant, who denied the threats, was bound over in dElO to keep the peace for six months. vK

PONTYPRIDD AEROPLANE. The Aero of on Tuesday published a de- scription of the aeroplane invented by Mr J. T. Davies, of Pontypridd, which it describes as novel." The additional comment is that the design has possibilities," and should be worth carrying out. The invention is said to consist of two main horizontal or supporting planes, made in sections, consisting of central planes and wings convex in form, and of a uniform length and width, and a uniform interspace between the two, with the ends gradually inclined upwards and rounded. Below these is placed a platform or car of a uniform length and width, and suspended by a number of inclined planes running at an angle of 40 degrees from the sides of the car to the under-surface of the supporting planes, and I held in position by a number of steel flanged tubes made secure to the supporting planes and car. The inclined planes are convex in form, and of a uniform length and width, and placed so as to leave an interspace between each plane. The front or cutting edges of each plane run in line one with the other, but are elevated above the rear edge of each plane, thus giving each set of inclined planes a uniform elevating inclination. Each set of the inclined planes forms a V -shaped box kite, which tends to gravitate the force of air current passing between them upwards and under the central supporting planes, thus giving the aeroplane a uniform lifting power independent of the wings. Discussing his invention with our London representative, Mr Davies said that with his aeroplane sudden and violent con- cussion with the earth on alighting, such as had led to several fatal accidents lately, would be impossible.

Orchestral Concert at Cardiff. I SIR C. V. STANFORD CONDUCTS HIS "IRISH RHAPSODY." Presentation to Mr Angle, On Wednesday in the Park Hall, Cardiff, Mr Arthur Angle gave his fifth concert to a large and appreciative audience. The orchestra consisted mainly of his own pupils and local musicians, numbering over 70 players, Miss Edith Leigh being principal violin. The first item of the programme was a Gipsy Dance (Michiels), played with the characteristic Hungarian abandon. Then followed German's Welsh Rhapsody," SIR CH ARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (who conducted his Irish Rhapsody "). the test piece chosen at the Albert Hall Eisteddfod, and the orchestra played it with consummate skill. The work of the strings and the wood wind was surprisingly dainty and sweet with excellent tone and certainty of phrasing. The interpretation was admirable in every respect, the various Welsh airs being brought out with telling effect., Rapturous applause followed. Mendelssohn's overture. Fingal's Cave," a beautiful descrip- tive work, was admirably performed, and Sir G. V. Stanford took the baton and ccndBcted his Irish Rhapsody." The work would test the capacity of the most skilled orchestra, and Mr Angle's performers came through the ordeal admirably. Other items were the much-played overture 1812 Rachmaninoff's Prelude (excellently rendered), and Schubert's symphony Finale." The vocalist was Miss Florence Schmidt, who sang Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani," two songs of Grieg, and Berlioz's King of Thule," with obbligato for viola by Mr A. taigie. Miss Schmidt possesses a voice of sweet quality and roundness of tone, and gained an encore for her Grieg songs. Miss Edith Leigh accompanied with taste on a Bluthner grand piano (sup- plied by Messrs R. J. Heath and Sons). When Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was re- called at the close of the performance of his Irish Rhapsody, he made a speech, charac- terised by Irish wit, which he based on a sen- tence in the Notes of the South Wales Echo," referring to the concert and his visit. He had been asked, he said, by the orchestra to pre- sent to Mr Angle an address and a gold watch with expressions of their appreciation of his work. There were conditions with the gift, one of which was that he was to keep the orchestra going, and improving! (Applause.) He understood the work of training the orchestra was done for love, and he (Sir Charles) could assure them that already their performance would compare favourably with the finest orchestras in thecountry. (Applause,) Mr Angle, in acknowledging the gift, referred to his twenty years' work in Cardiff and South Wales, and said he felt rewarded if his efforts to advance orchestral work in Wales were appreciated. (Applause.)

OBITUARY. REV. C. W LAMPORT, CARDIFF. By the death of the Rev. C. W. Lamport, of Cardiff, which occurred on Tuesday, a well known and somewhat remarkable personality has passed away. The deceased came to Cardiff from Spalding about 30 years ago, and carried on a mission, first in Craddock-street, Canton, and afterwards in Eldon-road. He was not ao ordained clergyman of the Church of England, but he was a professed Protestant, and about 10 years ago he built, chiefly at his own expense and partly by means of subscriptions, a church in Wells-street, where he conducted services on Church of England lines, but as a Low Churchman, he being strongly opposed to Ritualism. The Church was originally called Christ Church, and afterwards St. Cadoc's, and the deceased himself used to call it an Extra- parochial Church," he not being recognised as a clergyman of the diocese of Llandaff. He sodght no stipend, and his administrations in the locality of his church were very acceptable. The time came when Mr Lamport could no longer bear the financial strain of conducting the church, and the buildings were purchased for the Established Church, and now and for some years St. Cadoc's has been under the charge of the Rev. J. Baker, vicar of St. Catherine's, Canton. Mr Lamport was elected a member of the Cardiff Board of Guardians as an Independent and sat for six years. The deceased, who was 68 years of age, leaves a widow and one son, the latter being in the employ of the Great Eastern Railway Company at Spalding. MRS JANE DAVIES, DOWLAIS. The death is announced of Mrs Jane Davies, Blanche-street, Dowlais. She was the relict of Mr John Davies, Dowlais, the well-known Volunteer marksman, and a member of the Welsh Twenty. WELL-KNOWN WELSH CYCLIST. The death is announced of Mr Griffith Elias, a native of Ammanford, who sailed for the United States six weeks ago. He was a well- known South Wales racing cyclist. AN OLD CARDIFFIAN. A remarkable instance of the vicissitudes of fortune is furnished by the death of Mr Sam Maggs, a well-known Cardiffian. The deceased, who was born in Bristol, was 67 years of age. For some time he and his wife held official positions in the Cardiff Workhouse. During recent years he acted as waiter at various public functions and officers' mess in the city. Ill-health, however, farced him on Christmas Day again to enter the Workhouse, this time as an inmate, and he died in the hospital there on Monday last.

SCENES ON CARDIFF STEAMER. Negro Seamen Revolt. At Belfast on Wednesday, J. Skcete, fire- man, on the Cardiff steamship Snowdon, was charged on five summonses at the instance of Evan Lewis Taylor, master of the steamer, with disobedience to lawful commands at Falmouth and on the high seas last week. According to the evidence of the captain and JohnThos. Jones, chief engineer, defendant becamelnsubordinate on the run from Monte Video to Falmouth, and when something went wrong with the vessel's propeller in mid-ocean defendant not only refused to do work allotted to him, but prevailed on eight other negro seamen to disobey orders. The same thing occurred on the voyage from Falmouth to Bel- fast, defendant's wilful act as fireman reducing the steam pressure until the vessel came almost to a dead stop and began to drift helplessly. Defendant and five other negroes swore the captain kicked defendant and treated him like a dog. Rebutting evidence given by Fred Holmen, second officer; and Fred Major, boats- wain, was, however, produced to show that defendant went on the bridge and began to cheek the captain who only pushed him down the bridge ladder. In cross-feamination it was elicited defendant had been convicted for similar misconduct at Port Albert, New- foundland. Twelve weeks' imprisonment was ordered.

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Crime in Cardiff. HEAD CONSTABLE'S REPORT. Watch Committee and New Fire Station. The Head Constable (Mr W. McKenzie) pre- sented his annual report to the Cardiff Watch Committee on Wednesday, Coun. J. T. Richards presiding. The number of persons tried upon indictment during the year was 278 of these 242 were sent to prison and 36 were released on bail. This was a decrease of one, as compared with the previous year. There were 22 cases of robbery with violence, as compared with 36 the previous year 23 of housebreaking, compared with 11 29 of shop-breaking, compared with 34 5 cases of rape, compared with 1 1 of in- decent assault, compared with 4. The number of cases tried summarily was 6,252, a decrease i.of 442. The number of cases of brothel keep- ing was 71, compared with 79 of betting 32, compared with 7 of simple drunkenness 296, compared with 339; of aggravated drunkenness '237, compared with 259; of permitting drunken- ness 4, compared with 5 of selling drink to children 1, compared with 8 of unlicensed sale of drink 32, compared with 34 of illegally dealing in intoxicating liquor 46, compared with 34; other liquor law offences 20, compared with 17 prostitution 508, compared with 627 living on prostitutes' earnings 25, compared with 14 males abetting prostitution 90. compared with 122. During the year 11 licensed houses were closed upon payment of compensation, and one licence was refused. The.number of prisoners conveyed to gaol was 2,242, being a decrease of 58. the number of bpys and girls trading in the street is respec- tively 388 and 8. j During the year 358 boys and 213 girls were foijnd wandering in the streets and restored to friends, and 7,300 doors, win- dows, &c.. were found open or insecure at night by the police. There were 3,183 houses left temporarily unoccupied and were specially watched by the police. The Head Constable re- quests that the practice of notifying him when houses are left temporarily unoccupied shall be continued. Those having grievances of any kind that may be remedied by the police are also requested to communicate with the Head Constable or with any of the district police stations. The Head Constable's report upon the fire brigade showed the total number of fire "alarms received was 128, one being outside the boun- dary 23 were chimney fires. 100 were small fires, and five were of a more or less serious nature; and one called for special comment- that at Messrs Arnott and Sons', oil mer- chants, Dumballs-road. This fire illustrated in the strongest possible manner the necessity for the acquisition of a fire float. Replying to the Chairman, the Head Con- stable said that the number of prosecutions for brothel keeping was 71. and convictions. 56. The number of prosecutions for drunkenness was 533, and convictions 148. Probably the chief reason for the discrepancy between the prosecutions and convictions in the matter of drunkenness was that it was the practice ofthe Bench to caution first offenders. The Chairman thought this discrepancy was discouraging to the police. The deputations who occasionally came before the committee to urge greater energy in prosecutions ought to attend before the magistrates. The Head Constable said themagistrateshad now adopted the practice of treating some prostitutes as rogues and vagabonds, and of sending them to Quarter Sessions for sentence. He considered that persistence in this direction would have the effect of considerably reducing the number of prostitutes. Several members expressed the opinion that the repoit was a favourable one, and it was adopted. Other Business. ',Amongst the promotions made by the com- mittee was that of Sergeant Arthur Wheeler to inspector. The committee then considered the estimates for the ensuing year. The increase was £1.785 over the estimate for the previous year. Of this £ 1,690 was due to the augmentation of the force consequent upon the adoption of one day rest in seven for members of the force. The estimates were adopted. The New Fire Station. The committee then considered the resolution of the Council that the new fire station should be erected in Cathays Park, but that the cost should not exceed £ 15,000. The Head Constable said he could not reduce his requirements below those set out in the plans. Those requirements only met the present needs, to say nothing of the future. Alderman Hughes was strongly of opinion the Council would have to alter its resolu- tion. Alderman Bird suggested they should first see what designs they could get answering their requirements for £ 15,000.. The Chairman said the head constable received £ 100 a year for quarters, and he was prepared to relinquish that if quarters were found for him in the new building. He did not think the plans would have to be altered much to provide him with quarters. Alderman Bird was not enamoured of this idea, considering it would add to their difti- culties. Finally it was decided that Mr Harpur should prepare conditions for competitive designs.

LENDING MONEY IN THE NAVY. Admiralty Prosecution. A remarkable case of money-lending was heard at the Central Criminal Court on Wednes- day. when Oliver A. Parker, a moneylender, surrendered to an indictment charging him with forging a paper in writing purporting to be a request for payment by Leading Stoker Alfred Page, on H.M.S. Shannon, of money, and signed C. Henderson, on behalf of the Admiralty." Prosecuting counsel said Page borrowed f.3 from Parker, and fell into arrears with the interest, which was at the rate of ii, ls a month. Defendant threatened Page to communicate with the Admiralty, and finally sent a letter, purporting to be written on official Admiralty paper, telling Page to settle without delay. As a result Page sent another guinea, but afterwards communicated with the chaplain of the ship, who told the captain, and the latter communicated with the Admiralty. The latter regarded the matter as so grave that they instituted the present proceedings. Page in the box said he was always willing to meet his liabilities. Defendant's counsel argued that defendant had not been guilty of any criminal offence. All he had done was to attempt to bring pres- sure to bear upon Stoker Page. The jury, after long deliberation, found de- fendant had no intent to defraud, and ac- quitted him. The prosecution then intimated defendant would be proceeded against upon a second charge of common law forgery. The case was accordingly put back, defendant being allowed bail.

KIDNAPPER SENTENCED. Tbe Canning Town Affair. At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday Frederick George Beeton, aged 29, a clerk, of Letchworth, Herts., pleaded guilty to kid- napping Phoebe Frances Lock, aged seven months, at Canning Town. Mr Forrest Fulton, for the prosecution, said prisoner was a married man and had had relations with a young woman named Rose Young. After the birth of a child, prisoner took the infant to a public-house in Euston- road, and handed it, with £ 5, to a woman who gave the name of Jefferies, and said she came from Canning Town. In December the woman Young became anxious about the child, and prisoner went to find it. At Canning Town he saw Dorothy Lock, aged 12, who was wheeling a perambulator in which was' the child who was the subject of, the charge. He gave the girl money to buy fruit, and-while she was absent he went. off with the baby, whom he took to Rose Young. She had doubts as to whether the child was hers, and ultimately decided that it was not. On December 12th she went with the prisoner and the child to Aldgate, and from there prisoner sent her to Canning Town to return the baby to its parents. Prisoner's arrest followed. Mr Metcalf. for the defence, said prisoner took the chttd in the honest belief that it was Rose Young's, and immediately the mistake was discovered the child was restored. Judge Lumlev Smith sentenced prisoner to thrge months' imprisonment in 'the second division, remarking that he had been guilty of a very wicked act, which caused untold anxiety and suffering to the parents of the child Lock.

Royal Proclamation. WRITS-ISSUED. Parliament was dissolved on Monday by Royal proclamation, and writs have "been issued for the election of a new House of Com- mons to meet at Westminster on Tuesday, February 15th. The Dissolution Council was held at Bucking- ham Palace at 3.30, and was attended by Viscount Wolverhampton, Earl of Crewe, Viscount Althorp and Lord Pentland, together with Sir Almeric Fitzroy (Clerk to the Council). The proceedings were brief and formal and a few minutes sufficed for the proclamation to receive the Royal signature. The text of the document, as published in a supplement to the London Gazette," is as follows :— By the King.—A Proclamation dissolv- ing the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another.—Edward R. and I. Whereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council. to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to Saturday, the 15th day of January instant, we do for that end pub- lish this our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accord- ingly, and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said Saturday, the 15th day of January instant. And we, being desirous and resolved as soon as may be to meet our people and to have their advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all our loving subjects our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parlia- ment, and do hereby further declare that, with the advice of our Privy Council, we have given order that our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain and our Chancellor of Ireland do re- spectively upon notice thereof forthwith issue out writa in due form and according to law for calling a new Parliament. And we do hereby also by this out Royal Proclamation under our Great Seal of our United Kingdom require writs forth- with to be issued accordingly by our said Chancellors respectively for causing the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons who are to serve in the said Parliament to be duly returned to and give their attend- ance in our said Parliament on Tuesda.y, the 15th day of February next, which writs are to be returnable in due course of law. Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace this 10th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and in the ninth year of our reign.—God save the King. The Royal Proclamation was conveyed by the Privy Conncil's senior messenger to the officer of the Council in Whitehall, whence the order for the issue of the writs was forwarded to the office of the clerk to the Crown at the House of Lords. There, under the superin- tendence of Sir Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, clerk to the Crown, the writs had been pre- pared in readiness, and needed only the affixing of the seal. • In all 534 writs were dealt with at the Crown Office, and of these 88 were delivered by hand in London and in the country constituencies adjoining, the remainder being sent by special messenger to the General Post Office for despatch by registered post. The first writ to reach its destination in London was received by the returning officer for Westminster at 4.20, and the last was that for West Ham. In no case were the writs received early enough for returnnig officers to make arrangements for polling on Friday, the late hour at which the Privy Council met being fixed in order to place practically all parts of the country on an equality with regard to the fixing of the dates for nominations and polling. The writs for elections in Ireland do not pass through the Crown Office in Westminster, but are issued from the Lord Lieutenant's office in Dublin. By a second proclamation signed by his Majesty steps were ordered to be taken for the election and the summoning of sixteen repre- sentative Peers of Scotland, and there were further orders in Council dissolving convoca- tions of Canterbury and York, and ordering writs for electing new members, the writs being returnable or Tuesday, February 22nd.

Mr Asquith's Address. THE ISSUES FOCUSSED. Tory Pretensions and Freedom. Mr Asquith's address to the electors of East Fife was issued on Monday at 10, Downing- street, and it is as follows :— Gentlemen,—I ask you for a renewal of the confidence with which on six previous occa- sions you have honoured me. Never during the long connection between us as constituency and member have issues as grave been sub- mitted to you for your decision. Four years ago the country gave an emphatic verdict in favour of the maintenance of Free Trade. Since then we have passed through times both of enlarging and of slackening industry, and our fiscal system has stood the test of both. During the last 13 months a further strain has been cast upon it. A large addition had to be found to the provision for national de- fences—an addition due to the paramount necessity of keeping our Navy equal to all the demands that may be made upon it and superior to all the dangers to which from any quarter our Empire may be exposed. At the same time the grant of old age pensions and the prospect of further and fuller develop- ments of a policy of social reform involved the State in liabilities actual and contingent which could only be satisfied by a substantial in- crease. To meet both these classes of requirements within the limits of Free Trade finance by an equitable distribution of the burdens among the different classes and interests in the com- munity it apportioned the new taxes between luxuries, superfluities and monopolies, leaving the necessaries of -life untouched. The Budget was freely and exhaustively discussed in the House of Commons and in the end it received the approval of an overwhelming majority of the representatives of the people. The sup- porters of what is called Tariff Reform sa.w in passing such a Budget into law the" death warrant of their schemes. They accordingly mustered and set in motion the formidable interests and influences which they can com- mand either- as followers or as allies, with the result that the House of Lords in defiance of the counsels of the wisest and coolest heads of the Tory party, rejected the whole provision which the Commons had made for the finance of the year. This is a proceeding without precedent in our history, a wanton breach of the setHed practice of the Constitution, and an assumption on the part of the non-representative House of a power to control taxation which has been repudiated in the past by Tory as emphatically as by Liberal statesmen. Constitution Violated. In a sentence the House of Lords has violated the Constitution in order to save from a mortal blow the cause of Tariff Reform. If you care either for Free Trade which has made our country prosperous or for popular Govern- ment which has made it free, now is the time to assert your devotion, for in this contest the fortunes of both are at stake. There is before you a larger issue still. The claim of the House of Lords to control finance is novel and a mere usurpation. But the experience of the Parlia- ment which has to-day been dissolved shows that the possession of an unlimited veto by a partisan second Chamber is an insuperable obstacle to democratic legislation. The will of the people, however, clearly and emphatically expressed, is always liable to be rendered inoperative. Given a Tory majority in the House of Commons the House of Lords interposes no check upon legislative innovations of the most violent and unexpected kind, as we saw in the case of the Education Act of 1902 and the Licensing Bill of 1904. On the other hand a Liberal majority in the House of Commons, as has been demonstrated during the last four years, is under existing conditions impotent to place on the Statute Book the very measure which it was sent to Westminster to carry into law. It is absurd to speak of this system as though it secured 'to us any of the advantages of a second Chamber in the sense in which that term is understood and practically interpreted in every other democratic country. The limitation of the veto is the first and most urgent step to be taken, for it is the condition precedent to the attainment of the great legislative reforms which our party has at heart and which I laid before my fellow Liberals in a recent speech at the Albert Hall. I appeal to you in this momentous crisis with confidence for the support which during twenty years you have never withdrawn from me.—Your faithful servant, H. B, Asquith.

SIR 8. T. EVANS. The Solicitor-General at Chester.—Up to the end of the election the minds of the people should be concentrated upon two great issues, the House of Lords and the reasonableness of the Budget. It was in the interest of the country that the power of the Lords to veto legislation should be curbed and curtailed, and it was very necessary for the country to decide once and for all, and to say hands off on any question which affected taxation. People had seen throngh the insidious pretence of the Lords who, in throwing out the Budget, said they wanted the country to give their decision on it. BLIND CANDIDATE. Mr Walker King, the' Liberal candidate for the Wellington Division of Somerset, has the misfortune to b afilicted with total blindness. His affliction is hereditary. His father, a well- known West of England rector, was blind, and so was his sister, Miss Alice King, who has earned fame as a writer of serial stories. In early childhood Mr King's eyesight was defec- tive. and when only a young man—he is now 45—he was stricken with permanent blindness. His constant companion and invaluable help- meet is his wife, whom he married about three years ago.

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