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IWELSH ECHOES FROM : LONDON.…
I WELSH ECHOES FROM LONDON. ■*V— — By Our Special Correspondent. LITERARY. XV WALES AT THR FOLK-I.ORK COXGKKSS. Wales had a fairly good show at the Folk-lore °°ngress. Two of the presidents of the sections contributed largely to the study of the science ? folk-lore in connection with the Principality— r,sfer to Mr E. Sidney Hartland, formerly of ^vansea, and to Professor John Rhys, of xtord. Mr Hartland, who now occupies the Ðost of Registrar of the County-court at Glou- ter, is the son of a. Welsh Nonconformist ninister. He takes immense interest in folk- e, and probably knows as much about the t e]sh -tilde of it as any Welshman living, Pro- es-or Rhys alone excepted. Not very long- ago e contvibntcd an admirable paper to the Qymmrodor on the "Physicians of Myddfai," he is the author of an excellent work the scientific aspect of folk lore. 8 opening address as president of the Folk-Tale ectlon, was altogether admirable, and his point IIf View is, to my mind, thoroughly worthy. He trlade candid confession that his interest in the j*lence of folk-lore would come to nought unless he believed that the traditions, alike of our fathers nd of the other nations of the world, contained, 4tld flight be made to yield up to the diligent "nquirer, information of the utmost value concern- rig. the primitive beliefs and practices of mankind. )f as the Athenceum points out, is a confession faItu that can be understood and appreciated, 'd Mr Hartland's clear enunciation of the prin- lples upon which it was founded cannot be "ndervalued. Professor Rhys, who presided the mythological, discussed brilliantly nd happily the history of mythology nJ its relation to language and race. The pro- esSOr s address was brimful of information and fruitful in suggestion. Wales again figured the conversazione which the members of the ngress held at the hall of the Mercers' Com- Pany iu Cheapside. We had neither mumming P ays nor feasten cakes to produce, but we put in appearance with harp and melody. Miss j*wenllian Williams piesided at the former Mr dward Owen and Miss Katie Thomas (winner the two soprano prizes at the Swansea isteddvod, who has recently joined the Royal cademy of Music) interpreted the latter. CELTIC TALKS. h But although we thus made a fairly good. s ow at the Congress, Wales does not take Very high position in the world of folk- Joseph Jacobs, the editor of l' Folk-Lore," to whose English Fairy ales" I referred last year, has just rven us a collection of Celtic Tales (D. Nutt). n the preface he points out that Ireland began to Collect hor folk-tales almost as early as any \1ntry in Europe, and Croker (her first collector) *3 found a whole school of successors in Carleton, ^nffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Jtlyde. °°tland had the great name of Campbell, and still efficient followers in MacDougall, Jaclnnes, Carmichael, Macleod, and Campbell of Tiree. Gal la nt little Wales, he adds, has no atne to rank alongside these, and he suggests at the Eisteddvod might remove the inferiority y offering prizes for the collection of Welsh ° k-tales. (As a matter of fact it may be stated ftt the Eisteddvod has already done as much, though not with any very substantial result.) a his notes and references Mr Jacobs takes careto JjJention Professor Rhys's collection of Welsh Fairy In the early volume3of "YCymmrodor,"and ll't Sikes' garnering in "British Goblins," ether with the scattered anecdotes, fables, and tales that may be found in the t Mabinogion, tha Tolo MSS., the "Greal," and he "Cambrian Quarterly (1830-31) but on the he is not at all satisfied with his" find tI in d' e Welsh field. He has, however, made one I,very which Welshmen will regard with 1J(ed feelings. He believes that ho has settled the origin of the legend of Beddgelert, and alas "ds that in its present form it is not yet quite a hntury old There was a man who killed a ound (y (jut a kiddodd ei vilgi) at some remote J>eriod, but it was Edward Jones (Bardd y renhill) who applied (in a note in the second edition of his "Musical Relicks") the general legend to the dog Cylart, and located it at Bedd- Relert. The truth must be told though the heavens fall still it saddens one when telling in- volves, as in this instance, a destroyal. Jacobs'tale of "Both is a para- phrase on the well-known poem of the Hon. W. Spencer, "Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the greyhound," first printed privately as a broad- sheet in 1800. The other Welsh tales in the book Delude the "Shepherd of Myddfai," "The Brewery of Egg- 8talls." The author dedicates his book to his fr'ieiid, "Alfred Nutt," to whose wide knowledge 111 all branches of Celtic Folk-Lore he acknow- ledges his indebtedness. It seems strange, but it ) none the less true. that the study of Celtic literature is attracting to itself some of the brightest minds of England and the Continent. ould that there were a corresponding desire to faster its intricacies, and to possess its charm *Daontrst the people of our own country. JOTTINGS. Mr Ellis J. Griffith, who went on a tour to Persia last July, has boen suffering at Teheran from a severe attack of fever. Fortunately he a.s carefully and tenderly nursed at the American legation, and is now happily recovering. The Jrnag-inatin correspondent who not long ago ap- ])ûÎllte(( h Griffith "legal adviser to the Shah (If Persia at a comfortable salary," has recently been settling the legal adviser's" matrimonial affairs. There is an elasticity of imagination this correspondent's paragraphing that *>mply charms the unsophisticated. It is probable that Mr Griffith will return to England before tnl1,ny months are over, and notwithstanding the attractions of Teheran, resume his place and at least, I learn on very good authority that the Liberals of Everton have not Siven up the expectation that he will 1iht their battle at the coming election. It will be remembered that some months ago Professor Rhys delivered a series of lectures in Scotland on the Early Ethnology of the British Isles." They were published in the "Scottish Review," a somewhat inaccessible periodical which only occasionally finds its way down South. I am informed that a few copies of the lectures have been struck off in pamphlet form. If so, there should be a run on them. I hear that the Marquess of Bute, who, with the Marchioness, will attend the Mayor's ball a.t the Mansion House on Thursday night, is giving dinner earlier in the evening, at which the Lord Mayor-elect (Air Alderman Evans) is Principal guest.
RIGHT OF WAY AT NEWPORT.
RIGHT OF WAY AT NEWPORT. The Crowbar Brigade at Work. An unusual, incident took place on the east side of the river Usk on Wednesday afternoon, when the Newport Corporation officials, acting m pur- suance of a resolution of the civic fathers at their taeeting on the, previous day, asserted. pubhc right to the footway on the side of the river by removing the rails and galvanized-iron fencing which had been erected across the greater portion of he said footway. Messrs Graham, Son, and Hitchcox, the agents to the owner of the land, leased a piece of ground, near Messrs Ponsford's sawmills, to the proprietors of the Block Paving Company, and by the beginning of the present weak the ground had been nearly enclosed. The matter was discussed at Tuesday's Meeting of the Town Council, and the lessees were given 24 hours' notice to remove that portion of the enclosure which was erected on the foot- way. This was not done, and at four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, when the notice had ex- pired, the Town Clerk, the Borough Surveyor, and the Assistant Surveyor, with a crowbar brigade. proceeded to the spot and demolished the corner Of the fencing which crossed the footway at the South end. A wooden building, arected on the footpath, and the whole line of enclosure on the tiver face, also on the footpath, were left for a future demonstration should what took place on- Wednesday not prove efficacious. It is only fair to say that. Messrs Graham have offered to con- struct a diversion of the footpath by placing a portion of it on the foreshore.
ALLEGED MALIClOUjTPROSECU-TION…
ALLEGED MALIClOUjTPROSECU- TION AT NEWPORT. At Newport County-court on Thursday, tilt action, Tomlins v. Blake, was before his lionow Judge Owen. It was a claim by plaintiff, t harness maker, for J350 for malicious prosecutiot on the part of the defendant, who is a cab pro prietor. The plaintiff lent defendant a pair reins, and failed to get them returned. Sutt sequently he went to defendant's yard, and, seeing the reins in a brake, said thev were bit property, and took them away. Defendant obtained a summons against plaintiff for stealinf the reins, but the case was not heard owing to mistake on defendant's part as to the hour at which the court sat. After hearing Mr Vachelt who was for the defendant, his Honour Baui plaintiff was perfectly justified, under the circum- stances, in bringing the action. He hope< defendant would not again rush into a prosecu- tion of his neighbours with so little reason. He gave judgment for plaintiff for h. and costs 08 the understanding that the charges against plaintiff were fully withdrawn.
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AN EDITOR'S WilL. Probate duty has been paid on £55,455 lis 3d #8 the value of the personal estate of Mr Thomas Blackburn Baines, late of St. Ann's-hill, Burley, Hear Leeds, formerly editor of the Leeds Mercury, who died on the 3rd of August last, aged 59. He was the eldest son of the late Sir Edward Baines, proprietor of the Leeds Mercury. His will bears date the 4th of October, 1890, and the executors are his nephews, Mr Edward Baines and Mr Herbert Stanhope Baines. The testator bequeaths his books, pictures, plate, furniture, and household effects, horses and carriages and £1,000 to his sister, Miss Florence Baines, and he devises all his real estate and bequeaths the residue of his personal estate as to one-eighth thereof in trust for her, as to one-eighth in trust for his sister, Mrs Jane Eleanor Crossley and her children, as to one-fourth in trust for his sister, Mrs Ann Catherine Conder, and her children, anet as to one-half to the executors of the will of his late brother, John William, to be held upon the trusts created by Mr J. W. Baines's will.
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THE NATIONAL EISTEDDVOD OF…
THE NATIONAL EISTEDDVOD OF WALES. The General Secretary's reply to Dafydd Morganwg. We have received the following from the General Secretary to the Swansea National Eisteddvod Eisteddvod Offices, Swansea, 14th October, 1891. DEAR SIR,—I crave a. small space in this week's issue of the Cardiff Times to reply to Dafydd Morganwg's letter of the 3rd inst. I will say at the outset that he is quite wel- come to all the satisfaction he finds in what he calls my "condescension in taking notice of his few remarks." It was intended that he should, and my position is still the same, viz.. that if he had not been a paid official of my committee I would, in all probability, not have taken any notice of them. By the way, it is a curious form of reasoning, is it not, to assume that because I am only a gwas cyflog myself," his remarks as a "paid official" do not command greater attention from the public than those of ordinary irresponsible critics ? What has my position in the matter to do with the fat that he as a "paid official" ought to know more of what really happened at our meet- ings than he seems to do ? But his reasoning all through is a perplexity to me. Between giving me credit or otherwise for what I never said, and lecturing me upon the assump- tion that I am this or that I am not that, it is hardly a wonder that I am a hit perplexed. Because he is not aware that I am a member of either the National Eisteddvod Association or the Gorsedd, he jumps to the conclusion that 1 am not. Surely I am not supposed to advertise the fact! He should have looked before he leaped. To save him further inconvenience, how- ever, I would advise him to apply to Mr Vincent Evans with regard to the former, and he will find that I havo been a member of his Association for several years now, and, what is more, I have regularly paid my subscriptions. I am no honorary member through being connected with some other association. With regard to the Gorsedd, not having been singled out by the Gods for one of the highly favoured possessors of the Awen. and not being blessed by the fates with a superfluity of earthly possessions, I would not, I fear be an eligible candidate, and, strange to say, I am not at all anxious to become a member, the more so now perhaps owing to my experience of the unfair way it treated the national gathering this year by countenancing two largo provincial eisteddvodau in North Wales in the same month, a fact which tended to militate seriously against the success of our meetings. I am credited with the sentiment that "it is a national disgrace that the national institution has no house of its own." Now, what I said was that it would be so were Dafydd Morganwg's figures correct. But thereby hangs a tale. There was no mis- taking my views as to that part of his letter, I should think He now states that he did not go into manylion in his first letter. Does he consider the re-erecting and, taking down, and conveyance to and fro as mere matters of detail, and the lectures, concerts, etc., as the important features of the undertaking ? If so, there is small wonder indeed that he should, as he states, have referred to this matter before. He will have to do so often again, I fanoy, unless he can show more business capacity than this. Now I come to Dafydd Morganwg's "flourish of trumpets," I presume, viz., his accusation that I was his informant that the Swansea Eistedd- vod Committee had used Thursday's tickets for Wednesday's meetings." This is a pretty bold statement, looked at from any point of. view, bnt I am not quite scared by it, coupled though it is with that over-hackneyed old couplet, A Wado hyn," &c., because, in the first place, the accusa- tion is not true; and in the second place, I have pretty good circumstantial evidence to prove my case. Firstly, Wednesday was a very wet day, and, therefore, it was extremely unlikely that I should cross Victoria Park bareheaded, as he suggests. Of course, I did nothing of the kind. I was so little inside the pavilion on any day that I always had my hat about me, and, if only crossing from one side to the other, I simply removed it from my head to my hand. If, therefore, he made a mistake in one thing it is reasonable to suppose that he did in another. Then, again, all the tickets were packed at the Eisteddvod offica up in the town beforehand in parcels each day separately, and the supply for one day only was brought down to the pavilion on the day of issue. Therefore it was almost im- possible for me to have stated Thursday," knowing that I should have to send up to the office specially for the tickets of that day. Be- sides the state of excitement that my friend Dafydd Morganwg was in most of the time he was present owing to the peculiar dislike he entertained towards our door helpers is another item in my favour, that he, and not I, must have been mistaken. His suggestion that I could not see my instruc- tions earned out everywhere deserves very little attention. If all our men were rogues, as ho assumes, and needed constant attention, I would deserve very little encouragement if I did not select the crucial point (the entrance gates) as a place where I should not fail to be present the greater part of my time. With regard to the reference Dafydd Morganwg makes to his inability to understand a portion of my letter other than that no tickets were used, I fail to see in that casH why he should persist in wasting so much time over the argument of the tickets. Or does "payment for admission" mean that there necessarily must not be tickets ? If so, it is new to me but then there are so many new things to me in my friend's letter. There were tickets used, and a good check kept. I regret the necessity for this correspondence, but it was not of my seeking.—I am, &c., WM. JAMES.
CARDIGANSHIRE POLICE FORCE.
CARDIGANSHIRE POLICE FORCE. The Allegations against Chief Constable Evans At the last meeting of the Standing Joint Committee for Cardiganshire, Mr Willis Bund said he had received a letter saying that P.C. J ones (18) had been ordered to attend at Aberyst- wyth Police Station, examined and cross-examined at great length, and badgered to qualify his evi- dence, and that when he stuck to it in the witness-box in the case of pound breach at Lam- peter he received notice on the same day of removal from Llanilar to Llechryd. A committee appointed to enquire into the matter sat at Aberystwyth on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr John James, chairman of the committee. P. C.'s Thomas Jones and Griffiths. Mr Super- intendent Lloyd, Mr Davies, jun. (Cwrtmawr), Mr D. C. Roberts, and Mr Arthur Hughes were called.from whose statements it appeared that Mr Davies got his cousin, Mr D. C. Roberts, a member of the Joint Standing Committee, to introduce him to the Chief Constable; that Mr Davies said he wanted to take a statement from the men as to what occurred' at tithe sales, and that the Chief Constable informed Mr Snpt. Lloyd, who said that Griffiths was coming to town on the following Monday, and that Thomas Jones should attend. A letter was then sent by Mr Lloyd to P.C. Jones to attend, and he forwarded a similar request to P.C. Griffiths. The officers attended on Monday, were seen in the Chief Constable's office, and in his Eresence their statements taken and written down by Mr Davies. Both officers denied that they were cross-examined at great length or that they were badgered, nor were they asked to sign their statements. Mr Davies explained, in reply to Mr Willis Bund, that he was an amateur. Mr Hughes, he alleged, had delayed to give the defendant notice 0 of trial until the last day. Accordingly, Mr Ifor Evans, of Cardigan, was unable personally to get the officer's statements, and he (Davies), being a frieud and a neighbour, went and got the statements, which he subsequently handed over to Mr Evans, who, in turn, handed it to the barrister, Mr S. T. Evans, M.P.—Lengthened inquiry was held whether the Chief Constable had given notice of removal to the offices in consequence of the evidence they gave in Lam- peter Court. The evidence was clear to the enact that the notices were issued and posted rn, • e cas? was ca^ed on at Lampeter.—The Chairman said he had seen them a fortnight before, and the Chief Constable indignantly and most emphaticall denied that the notices were served in consequence of the evi- dence.—-During the inquiry, which lasted several -??u«V?,-r^were many passages of arms between Mr Willis Bund and the Rev J. M. Griffiths on at vrr^i- e' an<^ Messrs Peter Jones and Mr C. ■I' 011 other, the latter contending that Mr Picton Evans's letter to Mr Willis Bund did not bear out his statement at the joint committee held last week.
U LUCKY SWEETS."
U LUCKY SWEETS." Fresh complaints are heard of the evil prac- tICe of tempting children with what are known as lucky sweets, which is said to be carried on 10 an extensiva way in Manchester and sur- rounding towns. The children buy these sweets, not to eat, but in the hope of finding a threepenny piece in one of them. '« Over and over again, says one correspondent, have I seen a young child buy a chwsolate mine or a turnover, break it open, and, finding no coin inside the sweet, throw it away in disgust, and then speculate again and again, with the same result." On one occaSIon the same gentleman saw a little girl buy 12 of these so-called halfpenny lucky sweets, not to eat, because she threw them all away m his presence on finding they con- tained no coin. It is said that young children get so infatuated with these sweets that they have been known to steal money from their parents to buy them. I/1*5 P0 ^e ln Hull, Grimsby, Birken- head, and Birmingham have prosecuted many confectioners for oairying on this trade, and fines have been inflicted but as yet the efforts to suppress it have apparently produced very little effect.
IMPROVEMENTS AT~PENARTH ItDOCK.
IMPROVEMENTS AT~PENARTH It DOCK. The Taff Vale Railway directors have under very serious consideration the advisability of raising the height of three or four of their tips at Penarth Dock, in order to remove the cause of delay which now frequently occurs at spring tides in loading large boats, more especially boats of the well-deck type. The satisfactory condition of business at Penarth during the past few weeks en- courages the directorate to make expenditure in adapting their property to the more efficient con- duct of trade, and there can be no question but that the change now contemplated will be of con- siderable value to vessels gent into the dock.
SERiOUS LOSSES AND DAMAGE.
SERiOUS LOSSES AND DAMAGE. Telegraphic Communication I Interrupted. A furious gale prevailed in the Bristol Channel on Tuesday, and a considerable amount of damage was done to shipping lying in the vicinity of Cardiff and Penarth. The wind was from the south-west, and was accompanied with almost incessant rain- The notification of the approaching depression was only received at about 10 o'clock in the morning, when directions were received at the Pier-head for the hoisting of the storm signals, and by 11 o'clock the full force of the gale was experienced. It will thus be seen that the gale was almost abreast of the warning. Between 12 and 2 the wind was at its full height, and was severely felt by the vessels at anchor in Penarth Roads. During the afternoon tide a number of small coasting vessels, for the most part schooners, were driven ashore 011 the East Mud, and they were left high and dry at the ebb. At one time as many as 10 craft of the kind indicated were to be seen, from the Roath Dock entrance, fringing the shingly part of the beach. Several of these were more or less seriously damaged. The Press Association says :—The full extent of the gale, which commenced on Tuesday night and continued on Wednesday, cannot yet be ascer- tained in consequence of the delay in telegraphic communication with various parts of the country. The storm was so severe in the English Channel on Wednesday that some of the Channel steamers did not leave port. With the exception of the sinking of two boats at Greenock, causing six deatha,the gale does not, according to information so far received, seem to have been attended with such loss of life as might have been expected. Great damage was caused at Brighton by the storm. When it was at its .highest a large por- tion of the huge structure which was being erected for Col. Cody's Wild West Show was destroyed. On Tuesday afternoon, just after Batty's circus troupe had commenced their performace at Birr, before a crowded audience of school children, a perfect cyclone of wind struck the tent, which gradually, as the poles became loosened under the strain, heeled over. A scene of panic en- sued, and a mad rush was made for the various exits. Several adults amongst the audience cut their way out through the canvas. As the storm increased in fury the whole marquee collapsed, and the seats, poles, &c., were scattered over the ground. Several children were injured more or less seriously, but so far as can be ascertained at present no lives were lost. A fierce south-westerly wind was blowing in the Irish Channel on Tuesday The Mary Jane, of Bangor, had her head gear carried away, and as she was leaking badly and appeared to be in a dangerous position the lifeboat Thomas Fielden was launched and went out to her. The master with his wife and son were taken off, and the lifeboat was again making for the land when several fearful seas broke on board in succession, threatening momentarily to swamp her. The crew were for the time in great peril, and their I escape was little short of miraculous. The Thomas Fielden is, however, a splendid sea boat, and she brought her living freight safely to land. The harbour of refuge was filled with shipping. The steamer Shasi, bound from Liverpool to China, parted her cable and ran foul of the Trinity steamer Stella and other shipping, doing serious damage. A Child Killed. For several hours on Tuesday a furious gale was raging at Wotton-under-Edge. A large number of fine trees were blown down, including three in the grounds of Mrs Adey at the lower part of the town. In Dr Simmon's field the chestnut trees have large limbs snapped off. All around the district the fields are covered with the wreckage of trees. At the Falcon Hotel the front part of the roof has seven large holes in it owing to the slates being blown out. At Bournstream, at the residence of Mr H. Perrett, the chimney pots were blown off, smashing the conservatory and destroying the plants; and there are nine large trees down in the immediate vicinity. At Nind trees are down, and, sad to relate, at Char- field Hill a tree was blown down, killing a child named Taylor, 10 years old, who was passing. At Kilcot and Hilesley there are large numbers of trees down, the lanes in some places being im- passable. From Alderley to Wortley there are several trees down, and others have the large branches torn off. At Newark Park some of the large trees are snapped off short, and at Symond's Hall the far-famed beech is down. This tree was a noted landmark, standing on the highest point of land in the county, and was of great age and size. In the gardens great destruction has been caused, many valuable trees, owing to the sodden condition of the ground, being torn up by the roots. The late pears and apples are nearly all stripped from the trees and rendered useless for keeping purposes. The wind was accompanied by soaking showers of rain. Extraordinary Incidents at Gloucester. The. full force of Tuesday's gale was ex- perienced in Gloucester, and between one and two o'clock it was positively dangerous to be abroad. The dying leaves were whirled off the trees in clouds; trees themselves were dismembered, snapped off like pipe stems, or torn up bodily from the roots slates and chimney pots were hurled to the ground, hoardings and fences were laid low; glass and lamps were smashed fires were blown out of the grates, and more than one person was blown clean off his legs. Telegraphic communication with the outer world, except Newport, was completely suspended, either through wires being down or having trees blown against them. The one o'clock train from Sharpness to Gloucester was some hours on the road, by reason ofra tree being blown across the line, and having to pull up till the obstruction was removed. In various parts of the city up- rooted elm and lime trees, some of noble piopor- tions, fell across roadways, blocking them effec- tually, and smashing walls and tearing up fences and granolithic pavement at their bases. In one case a man was seriously injured by a falling branch, which struck him in the back; in another a tree fell across a house in Clifton-road and smashed the windows, dislodged corner stones, scattered the brick- work of a chimney, and wrecked an outhouse. Three of a group of four elms in Theresa street successively succumbed to the force of the hurri- cane, and one of them lodged on top of an adjacent house, the roof being smashed in, and the gable end shattered One might go on specifying trees which had been blown down, but some idea of the wind's strength in the district may be gathered from the fact that on one estate alone just outside the city 40 trees were laid low. Men were soon at work with axes to clear away the obstruction. At the docks timber stacks were blown over without number. In about an hour the gale had done its worst, and the wind gradually moderated. Exciting Scene at Douglas. On Tuesday a storm raged in Douglas and round the coast and did considerable damage both to shipping and inland. It is a long time since a gale of such violence visited Douglas. A man was blown down in the street and had to be taken to the hospital. Owing to the heavy rain all the rivers were swollen and tracts of land sub merged. The sea ran high and washed over the pier and breakwater. About half- past four intelligence reached Douglas of the wreck of the schooner Peveril, of Peel, off Laxey. The vessel left vVhitehavenin the morning bound for Peel with a cargo ot coal. She encountered the full fury of the gale, and was driven ashore on Laxey beach. The persons on board were the cap- tain and crew of four men. A violent sea was run- ning on the beach where the vessel was stranded, and two of the crew with lifebelts on them jumped overboard and were rescued with great difficulty. Afterwards a lifebuoy was floated to the shore from the vessel, and the other two men were hauled on shore. The vessel is likely to become a total wreck. She is owned by Mr Daniel Sheard, of Fountain-street, Peel. Great excitement was caused in Douglas last night when signals were sent up from the rocket station about eight o'clock, indicating that a vessel was in distress in Douglas Bay. The vessel had sent up a flare which attracted attention. Thousands of persons flocked to the promenade. The rocket corps were out in five mmutes, and the Thomas Rose, coxwain J. Kelly, was launched in nine minutes, the Civil Service No. 1 being quickly put off. In a, short time the latter boat rescued the crew. The vessel proved to be the Progress, of Castle- town, 77 tons, master, John Clucas. The crew were Richard Corlett, Thomas Hodgson, and Edward Clucas, who were exhausted on landing, having experienced severe weather. The vessel was laden with coal and salt, and was bound from Runcorn to Douglas. On land- ing the crew there was great cheering from the immense crowd. Both lifeboats behaved gallantly. The schooner was left at anchor about a mile from the shore, and unless she drags it is expected that she will be saved. Telegraphic communication was restored with Liverpool about half-past nine o'clock. The Gale in the English Channel. DOVER, Wednesday Morning. A fearful storm of wind and rain has been experienced iu the Channel during the night, the force of the wind, which was from the south, being calculated to have been quite as great as that of the blizzard which occurred in the eary part of the year. The Channel traffic has been greatly interrupted. The Ostend boat was not able to get alongside the pier last night and therefore put to sea again, and she has not since been heard of. She has no passengers on board, and is supposed to have gone to seek shelter on some other part of the coast. The I Calais boat did not leave Dover until just before midnight owiug to the violence of tho storm, and the Club boat crossing last night experienced a fearful passage. The pas. sengers report that the seas ran mountains high in the Channel; the strong wind and current drove the vessel down off the Foreland, but she subsequently reached the pier in safety. The force of the gale was so great that the Admiralty Pier was enveloped in sheets of water. There was no abating of the storm, the fury of which lasted nntil nine o'clock this morning, when it dropped slightly. Great damage has been done on the Admiralty Pier, the whole of the works in connection with the pier extension, which have been there two or three years, and have withstood all previous gales, have been completely washed away. Tiles and slates are lying about ( the streets in all directions. An alarming accident occurred at a house near the pier, a family having a miraculous escape. A woman named Cooke, wife of a railway porter, was in bed with her two children when she was startled by a loud crash on the roof, and immediately afterwards was buried with a quantity of bricks and mortar. She succeeded in extricating her two children aud getting on the landing she only just reached it when there was a second crash, and the whole of a huge stack of chimneys fell through the roof into the room, driving the bed into a. room below. The woman and her children were buried in the dust, and were greatly terrified, although they miraculously escaped serious injury. Thousands of Acres of Land Submerged. The river Parrett and its tributaries over- flowed on Sunday, flooding thousands of acres of land in Somersetshire, and drowning numbers of cattle and sheep. Hundreds of hayricks in fields adjoining the river are under water, and the Great Western branch line between Yeovil and Durston is in many places submerged The valley of the Parrett looked on Monday morning like a great lake. The rain, which had fallen almost continually for three days, ceased yesterday morning. A Langport correspondent writes as follows :—The river Parrett has been swollen to its utmost limit by the recent heavy rains, and the force of the stream has been so great as tomakeagapinthebankbetween the Aller Moors and the river. The water is rushing through this gap. and thousands of acres of moorland re already submerged. The roar of the water can be heard for quite two miles. A large num- ber of men were at work on Saturday and Sunday making ineffectual attempts to stop the water by forcing timber into the gap. Several of the roads in the neighbourhood are inundated, and at Long Load the Yeo has overflowed its banks, and covered the road to the depth of three feet. Several of the houses at the lower end of the town are flooded.
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THE GAUTTNSOUTHT WALES. r Cardiff. A schooner, which trades between Newport and Cardiff with coal, was almost completely des- troyed. She "sucked" on the East Mud. and when at about three o'clock the tide came up it washed completely over her. The crew, four in number, took to the rigging, but there was no danger, and the men might have gone ashore in their own boat or got off on the mud at the ebb had they remained. However, they kept in the rigging for a time, and Mr Neate, of the Board of Trade office, received information of the fact. He, accompanied by Captain Pomeroy, the dock-master, and one or two others, proceeded to the assistance of the vessel in Mr Edmund Handcock's tug Briton, but just before the tug reached them the men were brought ashore in a boat belonging to another vessel. Several other vessels were damaged in the west mud, two beyond the possibility of repair. They included a trow, that traded between Cardiff and Gloucester, the crew of which took to their own boat and landed on the Windsor Slipway. A valuable yacht owned by Mr Harris, of the Flat Holm, was also driven ashore by the gale on the west mud. and smashed up completely. At about one o'clock a serious accident, result- ing from the gale. occurred at the corner of South William-street and James-street, Docks. A chim- ney stack rising above the arched roof of a portion of the premises of Mr JohnDavies, baker and pro- vision dealer, was blown down, and falling upon the roof, it caused the whole thing to collapse. Slates, rafters, and woodwork generally came with an awful crash into the bedroom immediately under, which had been occupied the previous night by Mr Davies himself. So great was the weight of the falling brickwork that it smashed up an iron bedstead in the room, broke through the floor, and precipitated a quantity of debris into a store-room under the sleeping apartment. Telephone wires carried up to the chimney had something to do with its fall. Owing to the violence of the gale telegraph and telephone wires were blown down in all parts of the town, and as a natural result communication by these means was completely cut off. In Howard-gardens, North-road, and other parts large trees were blown down, and for a time vehicular traffic was interrupted by them. About six o'clock the gale began to abate, and by nine o'clock or thereabouts, although rain fell at intervals, the wind had died away to merely a fresh breeze. The heavy gale which swept over this district and wrought such havoc on Tuesday continued throughout the greater part of Wednesday with undiminished violence. Happily, however it was not accompanied by such incessant and drenching rain as on the previous day, and there were long intervals when the sun shone brilliantly. Although for a time on Tuesday night the wind abated somewhat early in the small hours on Wednesday, it again rose, and by three o'clock was blowing with almost the force of a hurricane. There were slight lulls now and then, but about mid- day, and from then up to tide time (between four and five o'clock) the force of the wind was such that pedestrians could with,difficulty make head- way against it, and a long list of cases in which damage of a trifling character had been caused could be furnished, roofs, chimney-pots, railings of a light character, etc., suffering most severely. At the Docks there were no serious casualties reported, but the schooners which got aground on the East Mud the previous day suffered severely, several of them bumping hard as the tide rose, while the one that was coal-laden, and from which the crew were rescued on Tuesday evening, broke up with the force of wind and wave. The damage done to small sailing craft on the West Mud was also completed yesterday, when those that had been driven aground in awkward positions and on bad ground strained hard and parted their timbers. Cases were reported ;rom Penarth Roads of vessels dragging from their moorings, but as none of them were reported as being in distress, it is presumed they were able to bring up with second anchors, and so ride out the gale. There was very little business at the three docks, inward bounders appearing to fight shy of making their way, under such circumstances, up the narrow entrance channel, which is all too ticklish even in fair weather. No sailing vessels left the West Dock, and the only steamer that went out was the Thames. Twosteamersentered the basin on the afternoon tide. their names being the Cornelia, of West Hartlepool, and the Adam Smith, of Dundee, which had a cargo of deals and a deck load. She came into the dock with a heavy list to port. The East Basin was full of steamers raady for sea, but their captains or agents decided that they should remain where they were until the cale had spent itself. Consequently the only vessel that left that dock was the Glasgow trader Avon. The Cork Steamship Company's steamer Upupa, from Newport, was the only fresh arrival in the East Basin. The outgoing and inward vessels at the Roath Dock were equally few. The direction of the wind, as on Tuesday, was about west- south-west. So cold was the weather throughout the day and so overcast the sky at times that there were prognostications of snow in some quarters. Happily such weather prophets proved wrong in their prognostications. As night advanced the wind subsided, though for some hours an all too fresh breeze continued. By ten o'clock, however, the sky was clear, and prior to then the moon- now nearly at the full— had been shining brightly. The streets in town dried UD rapidly with the sharp crisp wind, and the aspect of affairs generally was very favour- able long before midnight. In the course of a conversation on Thursday afternoon with Mr Spiridion, of Duke-street, Cardiff, one of our representatives ascertained that the baragraph, or self-registering barometer, showed "the glass to be r:smg" on Thursday afternoon in a strikingly novel manner. During the week the diagram made by the instrument has been of an extremely jerky" character, but about four o'clock on Thursday a sharp upward tendency was observed, the line continuing almost perfectly horizontal— a. feature not hitherto observed in all Mr Spiridion's experience. The reporter asked if there were any means of ascertaining accurately the velocity of the wind, and was much astonished to find from the reply that there was no effective wind gauge in the town, not even at the Dock or Pilotage Offices. Of the wind vane at the pilots' headquarters, Mr Spiridion spoke in high praise. As to the usefulness of the proper wind-gauge there could be no doubt, and he stated his intention of seriously considering the question of erecting one over his shop. Barry. On Tuesday a most terrific gale swept over Barry, accompa.nied by frequent showers of rain. In the early morning a dead calm prevailed, and there was not the least sign of the coming storm. The wmd-whlch, though very light, had veered all round the compass in a very shoit time—began about nine o'clock to freshen, and this continued very rapidly, till by one o'clock it was blowing a perfect hurricane. About 12 o'clock the dredger David Davies was obliged to put into the dock tor shelter, and she was quickly followed by several pilot boats that had been riding very heavily inside the breakwaters. At this time the seas were making clean breaches over the breakwaters, they being continually washed from end to end. The embankment between the east breakwater and the pierhead was badly damaged, a breach being made about 40 feet long. The steamer Rosemorran, which left the dock on the early morning tide and anchored in the Roads to await the arrival of a new second engineer, was, about 11 o'clock, compelled to heave up her anchor and steam away to the southward in the teeth of the gale. She returned to her anchorage about four o'clock in the afternoon. At the same time the 8.S. New Guinea, having drifted very near the Breakwater, was compelled to run to Penarth Roads. Two other steamers which arrived in the Roads later for Barry, also pro- ceeded direct to Penarth Roads. The wind and sea afterwards decreased. During one of the heavy squalls a rigger, when standing near the Graving Dock, was blown in. Fortunately, the dock was full of water at the time, otherwise he would probably have baen killed. As is was, he was quickly drawn out, appearing none the worse for his ducking. There was no damage to vessels in the dock. No such weather has been experi- enced since the dock has been opened. Early on Wednesday morning the wind rose considerably, and in a short time was again blowing a gale from the west. No vessels came in or went out of the dock on the morning tide. A hobbling cutter, owned by Mr E. James, a Barry boatman, parted her chain in the entrance, and went ashore on the cross breakwater, where she was considerably knocked about on the afternoon's flood tide. About three o'clock in the afternoon she was got off, but immediately sank, and she now lies to tlio west- ward of the dock entnuice. At the height of the gale in the morning several Cardiff and Barry pilot cutters drove ashore in the West Harbour, on the embankment forming the road between East Barry and the Island at the west end of the dock. The names of the owners are D. Davies, J, Hubbard, and R. S. Reid, Car- diff pilots, and J. Dyer, T. Jones, W. Paterson, and A. Sanders, Barry pilots. Davies'. Hubbard's, and Dyer's boats were assisted off in the afternoon by the tug New Stour, but the others remained fast. They will, however, probably be got off to-day (Thursday). A cutter yacht, owned by Mr R. T. Duncan and others, of Barrv, also went ashore at the same spot, and still remains. None of the cutters appear to have sustained any material damage. Two steamera docked at Barry on the afternoon's tide, although it was blowing very hard at the time; nothing, however, sailed. When darkness set in there were anchored in the Roads the s.s. Rose Marian and the s.s. Wynnstay, the former of which left Barry Dock on Tuesday morning in ballast for Montreal. Newport. The gale began to make itself felt at Newport shortly after twelve o'clock fit noon, and raged for nearly three hours. At its greatest intensity, about two o'clock, it resembled a hurricane. Newport civic fathers, drawling over puns, and getting out the ora rotundo in the course of a three hours' sitting, received early intimation from the clacking of the roof ventilators that something was amiss. The streets were deserted they soon became dangerous from the falling slates, chimney pots, and other fragments loosely left by the ingenious builder and his army of assistants. Soon the branches of trees began to give way those in St. Woolos Church- yard were damaged seriously, and the loss to fruit growers and others must be an added misfortune to the lists of ills already long. The telephone service between Newport and Cardiff soon broke down the telegraph system followed, and Newport was isolated com- pletely, the racing fraternity being the first to become aware of the magnitude of the disaster. In the Monmouthshire Hill district the force of the gale was more seriously felt, and one gentleman who had travelled down from Blaenavon to Newport said he feared at one juncture that the carriages would leave the metals Fleur-de-lis. On Tuesday very severe weather was experi- enced here and in and around the neighbouring districts. Rain fell in torrents for the most part of the day until the brooks and the Rumney river were heavily flooded and overflowed the banks. The public roads were flooded in many parts so that pedestrians had to wade through water nearly up to their knees. Throughout the most part of Tuesday night the gale that had raged during the day continued to blow quite a hurricane, and on Wednesday the wind at times was very rou^h and boisterous, and heavy showers of rain and hailstones fell. Loud peals of thunder, with vivid flashes of forked and sheet lightning, were experienced during some parts of the day on Wednesday. The brooks of the district are gorged with the floods of water, and the flood in the river Rumney has overflowed its banks in many places. A deal of damage to tall trees has been done in and around the district. Monmouth. A gale of exceptional seventy swept over Mon- mouth and district on Tuesday, causing much damage to houses and other property. About three o'clock in the afternoon a large barge board from the top of the Banell Inn, Agincourt-square, was blown off, and fell with terrific force, a gen- tleman who was passing at the time narrowly escaping injury. Numerous slates, tiles, and chim- uey-pots were blown off the houses while some of the roads in the district are impassable through trees being blown down by the wind. A waggon belonging to the Mayor (Mr W. Hall) was standing outside the farmhouse on one of his farms on the Rockfield-road, when a large tree was blown across it and smashed it. Fortunately the horses had been taken out a few minutes previously. The gale is considered the most serious and destructive that has visited the district for many years. Penarth. The gale whtch swept over Penarth on Tuesday was most terrific, reaching its height about noon. The dock was comparatively sheltered by the bank on its south side. The large four-masted ship Albyn had her foretopgallant mast aud all the gear attached carried away. A small smack went ashore on the pitching between the Chain Ferry and the Victoria Wharf, and the smack Sea. Flower, owned by a man named Mauat, after dragging her moorings for some time, grounded on the West Mud, being quickly swamped by the heavy seas that broke oyer her. At high water her mast is completely submerged. In the town there is no serious daniatre caused. A consider- able number of slates were blown off the houses. A large tree was blown down near the railway crossnig, falling across the pathway leading to the West Cottages. Another tree was blown down in Plymouth-road. Swansea. A severe gale continued to blow through- out Monday night and Tuesday in Swansea. Considerable damage was done to property, but fortunately no injury to the per- son is reported. In Heathfield-street a chimney fell with a. tremendous crash, and some children, who were passing on their way to school, had a narrow escape, the bricks and debris falling in front of them. In Wind- street two large plate-glass windows were blown 111, one in the shop of Mr Biddle, confectioner, ielegraphic communication is considerably impeded. The telphone wires have been no severely dealt with, and a large staff of men are eengaged putting the system in full working order. Large numbers of people congregated on the pier to watch the arrival of incoming craft, and huge waves s.vept over the extension. The steamship Marion, which was coming into port., altered her course and again put out to sea in consequence of the sea running so high near the west pier. A terrific storm prevailed at Swansea on Wed- nesday. In the neighbourhood there are heavy floods. Windows and rcofs have suffered severely, and the greatest inconvenience has been felt in consequence of a partial dislocation of the telegraph service. In many parts trees have been blown down and greatly impeded traffic. Many of the public lamps have also been damaged. At Oiydach an old oak tree which grew near a dweilmg-house at Craigcefn Pare fell with a crash on the roof, and the whole building collapsed. At Foxhole and Upper Bank the floods have done some damage, and because of the fear of further inconvenience many of the Occupants of the houses stayed up all night. Gower. A severe gale from the south-east, veering to the south-west, swept over Gower on Tuesday. A heavy sea raged along the coast. At Port Eynon the yacht Stella foundered and sank at her moor- ings. The smack Kuthering parted her stern moorings, and the crew hoisted a signal of dis- t-ss. Preparations was being made to get out the lifeboat when it was found that the vessel was holding to hor bow chains, and the signal was taken in. The gale abated towards the evening, but ca.me on again during the night, and at the time of writing (noon, Wednesday) a heavy gale is still raging from the south-west, with a fright- ul sea in the Channel. New Tredegar. The heavy downfall of ram on Tuesday, with a drIvmg wind, culminated in the raging of one of the most terrific storms that ever visited this dis- trict, which continued throughout the whole of iuesday night, and only abated a little before noon on Wednesday. On Wednesday there were VIVld flashes of lightning with heavy peals of thunder., Happily, with the exception of the blowmg down of the large window in the east St. Margaret's Church, and some slight injury to the communion table and front railing, no serious damage was done. Dowlais. A f if RA?ED with terrific force at Dowlais. At about two o clock on Tuesday afternoon a part of the roof of the Star Inn fell in, and almast immediately afterwards one of the chimneys fell jpto the same room as the debris of the roof. A little boy aged five years was buried under the bricks and mortar, but was fortunately extricated alive, although very seriously injured. One of the men who tried to save him was also severely injured. Two large windows in the shop of the Dowlais Drapery Company were blown in, and several smaller accidents occurred at the same time. The gale increased in violence about mid- night, and on Wednesday morning it was found that very considerable damage had been done. Two windows in Wesley Chapel had been blown n and several houses partially unroofed. Haverfordwest. A storm of great violence prevailed in this district throughout Tuesday. The wind blew a perfect hurricane, and considerable damage was caused to house and other property. Towards evening the storm abated somewhat, but rose again towards midnight, when it blew with in- creased violence. About two o'clock a very loud peal of thunder was heard, accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning. During the last few days the hRS been tremendous, and the river Oleddau has risen to an astonishing extent, with the result that all the low-lying land is completely submerged. It is a really pitiable sight to see the V{wrain0^m*: com scattered about the fields in all directions, and which is now damaged to such an extent as to render it absolutely useless. Ferryside. A gale sprang up here on Tuesday afternoon, and lt raged with tremendous severity, but slightly abated towards evening. On Wednesday mrD1ng the wind at times was terribly fierce, with heavy peals of thunder and lightning. Some damage has been done to tho boats, many of which have been blown loose from their moorings, and two or three were sunk. Haggards and many of the houses have felt the force of the storm. Carcases of sheep are seen on the sand below St Ishmael Church, supposed to be the property of Towyu Farm, and which must have been carried; away by the high wind and strong tide. A Feat of Seamanship. A Brixham correspondent telegraphs :—The Swedish barque Stella, of and from Gothenburg • mu de Janeiro, with a cargo of deals, arrived in lorbay on Thursday iu a pitiable plight. She was waterlogged, her decks had been clean swept, her salls blown away, and she was- short of provi- sions. Furthermore, she had been cut down by collision two feet below the water-line, and the fact that she should have succeeded in reaching Torbay affords ample testimony to the pluck MUT Per3everance I>f her officers and crew. *be captain reported that on Tuesday, when off Ushant, the Stella was run into by the steamer Iberia, of Glasgow. The captain of the Iberia ottered to take off the Stella's crew, but the captain of the latter refused to desert his ship, and made for the English coast. Terrific weather prevailed in the Channel. Heavy seas swept the Seella's deck, and she laboured heavily. The crew were exhausted by hard work and insufficient food, but the vessel was kept on her course until Thursday morning, when the steamer Vulture fell in with her off Start Point and guided her into Torbay.
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I FUNERAL OF MR W. H. SMITH. I at Hambleden. Mr W. H. Smith was buried on Saturday after- noon at Hambleden, near Henley. The hearse containing the body left Walmer Castle at nine o'clock in the morning. The coffin was placed in a car with glass panels, through which could be seen the few wreaths which were placed mside the car. Only one or two beautiful floral tributes were placed at the head and foot and sides of the coffin, while a beautiful wreath of immortelles from the Queen and one from the Prince and Princess of Wales were placed on the top. Tho coffin was at once transferred into the van of the special train which had reached Walmer some time previously. All the business premises at Walmer were practically closed, and the blinds of the private houses drawn. A large number of people assembled in the pre- cincts of the castle and at the railway station. The foggy overcast weather cleared, and the sun broke through after the hearse left the castle. The special train was made up of one saloon for the family, one first class and second class carriage, and a luggage van, large quantities of personal luggage beinpr brought up to the station. Mrs Smith, accompanied by Mr Fred Smith, Mrs Codrington, and Miss Smith arrived at 10.32, and was conducted by her son, Mr Fred Smith, direct to the saloon carriage, which the remainder of the party at once entered. The train steamed slowly out of the station at 10.35. Her Majesty's wreath bore the following inscription A mark of sincere regard and gratitude for devoted ser- vices to his Sovereign and country, from Victoria, R.I." The signature was in her Majesty's hand- writing. W reaths were also sent by Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice. The train arrived arrived at Henley at 1.50, and the coffin, still covered with wreaths, was removed to a hearse for conveyance to the churchyard. There were nine mourning coaches. Outside the station a crowd had assembled, and the streets were lined by numerous persons, who reverently I' uncovered as the procession passed. The cortex proceeded through the towii to St Mary's Church, Hambleden, which was reached about 2.30 o'clock. The church, which seats 500 people, was crowded. The church, which seats 500 people, was crowded. The clergy and the choir of St Paul's, Kiii?hf-- bridge, occupied the chancel. The Rev North Pinder, M.A., rector of Greys, near Henley, an intimate friend of Mr Smith's, and the Rev C. M, Wetherall, MA., rector of Hambleden, officiated. At the close of the first portion of the service the coffin was borne to the new cemetery, about a quarter of a mile distant. There are as yet but few memorial stones in this sequestered corner, and near the hedge which separates the cemetery from the roadway was the newly-made and open grave, lined with fresh cut flowers and Virginia creeper. The scene was affecting by its air of true sym- plicity, and near at hand TO the tomb of a baby granddaughter of the deceased, bright with newly-gathered blooms, and marked by a cross of white marble. Rain continued to fall heavily while the solemn ceremony at the grave was pro- ceeding, but the little cemetery was filled with mourners and spectators. The coffin, which was of panelled polished oak with heavy brass furniture, bore the following simple inscription on a brass plate :—William Henry Smith, born June 24, 1825, died Oct. 6, 1891." Service at Westminster Abbey. A knell, deep-toned and doleful, rang from the Abbey Tower at half-past one on Saturday after- noon, and at that moment the various doors were opened to admit the great crowd of persons who, notwithstanding the heavy ram, had assem- bled. The sombre, dimly-lit interior was soon filled, almost every available seat being accupied. The statesmen, members of the Diplomatic Corps, members of Parliament, personal friends of the deceased, and others who had special tickets, occupied pla-ces in the choir. Among the early arrivals were Mr Schomber Macdonald (private secretary to Lord Salisbury), Mr Akers Douglas, and Mr Middleton (chief of the Central Conser- vative Association). They were followed by Lord Cranborne (representing his father, Lord Salis- bury), Lord Hartington. Sir Henry James, Sir William Harcourt, Mr John Morley, Sir George Trevelyan, Mr Childers, Mr Mundella, Sir John Colomb, and many other members of Parliament. Sir Henry Ponsonby, who represented the Queon, was accompanied by the Earl of Radnor, who represented the Royal Household. The Prince of Wales was represented by Lord Suffield, and the Duke of Edinburgh by Colonel Colville. Sir Michael Biddulph represented Princo Henry of Battenberg. The Cabinet Ministers present were Lord Georee Hamilton, Lord Cranbrook, Lord Knutsford. Sir M. Hicks- Beach, the Duke of Rutland, Mr Balfour, Mr Stanhope, Mr Goschen, and Lord Cadogau. Tho foreign ambassadors were also present. The choir entered the nave at two o'clock precisely, chanting the opening- sentences of the Burial Service. The Dean of Westminster, Dr Bradley, read the lesson. The anthem was Gregory Smith's "Comes at vimes a stillness as of even." It was sung to Sir Herbert Oakeley's music. Canon Duckworth, the canon in residence, read the collects for the dead. The congregational hymn was "Now the labourers task is Now the battle day is past." This was impressively rendered by the whole of the great congregation, led by the choir, The Dean thon pronounced the Benediction. As the choir filed out Dr Bridge played Handel's "Dead March" in Saul upon the great organ. On Saturday afternoon a memorial service in honour of the late Mr W. H. Smith was held in Portsea Parish Church, towards the building of which the deceased gave £23,000. The congrega- tion numbered 1,500, and the Chaplain-General was among the clergy officiating. Canon Jacobf, the vicar, gave a touching address.
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BURGLARY AT YNYSYBWL. The Arrest of a Cardiff Man. At the Pontypridd police-court on Wednesday, Robert Pugh, of Cardiff, was charged with bur- glariously entering the Windsor Hotel, belonging to Mr Beith, Ynysybwl, and stealing therefrom £120 on September 19th last.—Mr W. C. Matthews, Pontypridd, prosecuted.—Mr William Russel Beith, mechanical and mining engineer, I deposed that he lived at the hotel, but did not manage the business. After stop tap on Satur- day night, the occasion In question, he and his wife wer tto the neighbouring village and returned I home ajout one o'clock on Sunday morning. He had acash-box upstairs containing J350 in sovereigns and £20 in half-sovereigns and a bowl and a bag ,i containing about £50 in silver. Before going out he had carefully examined ail the I doors and found them barred all right, but he did not examine the window fastenings. About six o'clock on Sunday morning he heard the* >arking of a strange dog in the house. He wen downstairs and discovered a dog shut up in e bar He then went into the kitchen, where to his surprise, he perceived on the table his cash box open, and some of the papers which he had put in it peeping out between the half closed lid. All the gold and silver were missing the bowl was there, empty, but the bag had been stolen. About 10s in silver and coppers had also bsen purloined from the bar drawer. He subsequently discovered footmarks on the window-sill of the commercial- room, and the window fastenings were open. An ornamental clock in a glass case in that room had toppled over, and the case was broken. Opposite to the window of the bed- room where the cash-box was kept was an eleva- tion, from which a person could see what was going on in the room. The blinds had not been drawn down that evening.—William Northern, a collier, residing m the locality, identified the prisoner whom, he said, he saw near the hotel on the night in question. The man asked witness if Mr Beith was at home, and he replied he thought not.-It was stated that 18 half-sovereigns were found upon the prisoner when he was arrested.— The case was adjourned for a week.
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MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT MACHEN. A-Collier Found Dead on the Railway. Shortly before nine a.m. on Thursday, the driver of the down passenger train from Ponty- pridd to Newport perceived the body of a man lying in the four foot, between Machen and Caerphilly. The train was stopped, and the I body, which was that of a respectably-dressed man, just past middle-age, was picked up and con- veyed to Machen, where it was identified as that of Henry Gabb, 52, collier, of Waterloo. The only marks of violence on the body were bruises on the back of the head and on the forehead. The silver watch and gold chain of the deceased were missing, and the only money found on the body was 1 %d, whereas the deceased was known to usually carry a considerable sum. Gabb was well known in the district, for in addition to working underground he was the agent to a watch company. Ho had been to Pontypridd and to Caerphilly, aud then, as is supposed, proceeded to walk home along the railway, when he was knocked down by the last down passenger train from Caerphilly. The position of the body and the nature of the injuries, together with the facts that the watch, chain, and money are missing, have given rise to a suspicion of foul play in the neighbourhood. Deceased leaves a widow and five children a sixth child lies dead in the house. A curious thing is that the deceased was returning after obtaining the death certificate when he himself met bis death.
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-r. THE DE COBAIN CASE. The Press Association telegraphs as follows :— "The solicitors of Mr Richard Jewell, one of the witnesses examined in the proceedings at Belfast police-court on September 16th, have called our I attention to an error which appeared in the report of the evidence given by Mr Dudgeon, and which I would appear to convey an undeserved imputa- tion on Mr Jewell. Mr Dudgeon is reported to have stated that Air Jewell was engaged because he was a man of bad character, whereas as a matter of fact no such statement was made with reference to Mr Jewell by Mr Dudgeon or any other person. The reporter, owing to confusion and noise in court, appears to have omitted or dropped a question aud answer, hence the mis- take. We deeply regret having circulated the erroneous report, for which we are assured there is not the slightest foundation."
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RAPHAEL'S ALMANAC for 1892.—The contents of this publication ought to amuse everyone from a ploughman to an anti-vivisectionist. We find Weather Predictions." An Every-day Guide." A copious supply of tables for I Farmers and others. "Birthday Information," which should make some of Raphael's readers 1 tremble for their future. The Chapter of Horrors," page 33, is particularly unpleasant reading, and should raise a blush of aoaate oa: every cheek.
- THE RECENT COLLIERY EXPLOSION…
THE RECENT COLLIERY EX- PLOSION AT CAERPHILLY. The Principle of Agency Tested. At Caerphilly petty sessions on Thursday, Mr William GalJoway, agent for the Llanbradach Colliery, and Mr Stephen Wilson, the manager, were summoned for breaches of the Mines Regulation Act in connection with the recent explosion. The r^agistrates present were :—Mr H. T. Williams (chairman), Dr J. Llewelyn, Mr F. Evans, Mr H. Anthony, and Captain Morgan Lindsay. Sir W. T. Lewis and Mr Cornelius Lundie were also present. Mr Galloway was proceeded against under three distinct sections of the Act, namely, under the 21st section, dealing with the daily supervision of mines, again under the 4th, general rule aeal- ing with the inspection of mines before each shift, and thirdly under the 10th general rule dealing with safety lamps. The summonses against Mr Stephen Wilson were taken out under the 4th and the 10th general rules. The prosecution was instituted bv the Treasury on behalf of Mr Joseph S. Martin, Inspector of Mines. Mr Parr, of the firm of Messrs Osborne. Ward, and Vassal, of Bristol, prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury, and Mr Abel Thomas (in- structed by Messrs Ingledew, Ince, and Vachell, of Cardiff) defended. Mr Parr, in opening the proceedings, said he appeared on behalf of the Inspector of Mines, by the direction of the Secretary of State. The pro- ceedings were taken under the Coal Mines Act of 1887, and the charges against Galloway were against him in his capacity as agent of the mine. It was contended, he said, that Galloway was not the agent within the meaning of the section. Mr Abel Thomas, here interrupting, remarked that at the Coroner's inquest the defendant had said he was not a duly appointed agent, but in law (though there might fjs some little doubt about it) Mr Thomas contended he really was the agent, Under these circumstances the defendant had acted under his advice and the advice of the solicitors who instructed him, and now admitted his agency. Mr Parr: That will shorten the case very con- siderably, fori was about to bring evidence to prove conclusively that he was the agent, and it would, therefore, now be only necessary to prove that offences under the Act had been committed. The proceedings were taken under sub-section 2 of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, which provides that an inspection should be made prior to the commencement of any shift, and that the inspec- tion should be made with a locked safety lamp, except in places where no gas had been found for at least 12 months previous, which was not the case here. At this juncture Mr Parr and Mr Abel Thomas retired to the magistrates' room for consultation, and after a few minutes they returned into court, and Mr Abel Thomas, addressing the Bench, said, With your worships' permission and I am sure you will grant it in this case—we have agreed to a determination of the whole matter in this way. We have agreed that Mr Galloway should plead guilty to a technical offeuce under the charge which is now made against him. There was a technical offence undoubtedly, and in my opinion it was a technical offence only. I do not think, and I am sure. as many of you know Mr Galloway, it is not likely to have been more than that. When you have a gentleman like him, and considering the position he holds in the scientific world, it is not likely that it would be anything beyond that, and I am glad to say the learned solicitor for the prosecution agrees with me that it is a technical offence. Technically, he was the agent, and I am sure you gentlemen will be pleased to hear also that we are both agreed that it had nothing whatever to do with the un- fortunate death of poor W. H. Smith, whom we have all heard of as being the man who was killed in the explosion. It had really absolutely nothing to do with that, and I suggest to your worships, under the circumstances, that, after what you have heard from the learned solicitor, who agrees with me, it would be a proper course to take that you should under the ciicum- stances consider it was a technical offence, and being the first of its nature that has been brought I against anyone in Mr Galloway's position in South Wales, you will under the circumstances say that the justice of the case will be met without imposing any penalty at all. With regard to the other charges I think the learned solicitor will withdraw them all. This was the only one in which the defendants were technically liable, and under the circum- stances I think you will say the justice of the case will be met by Mr Galloway admitting the technical offence without imposing any penalty upan him." Mr Parr, in response, said The object of these proceedings on the part of the Government Inspector has been to show aud emphasise the fact those gentlemen in the position of Mr Galloway — those gentlemen whom we call agents," and who are recponsible as such— that thoy cannot avoid their responsibility by turning round and saying, after giving certain instructions and having the mints carried on under their supervision, that they are not respon- sible under the Act as agents. This agency has œen admitted before vour worships to-day, and that is practica'iy all we wanted, and for which these proceedings were taken. Therefore, having cained this main point, this great ques- tion of principle, which it is desirable should go far and wide throughout this dis- trict, We come down to the small offence with which Mr Galloway is charged. This is merely a side issue, and it was taken under the rule for the purpose of raising distinctly that I question of agency, and that ha\ ing been settled, the Government inspector is practically satisfied. With regard to the unfortunate death referred to, the learned counsel was quite right. Had the requirements of the Act been thoroughly com- plied with, the cause of the explosion might not I have beeu discovered in time to save the life of this poor man. The poor man might have been killed notwithstanding. Therefore the offence becomes a technical one, and under these circumstances I am quite pre- pared, and Mr Martin is quite prepared, to leave the matter entirely in your hands. Mr Galloway has pleaded guilty, and a conviction follows this. That being so we are satisfied. If you think it is a case in which no penalty should be imposed, I shall not quarrel with your decision, or if you think a nominal penalty should be inflicted, I have nothing to say against it. With regard to the other charges, there being a conviction in this case with your worships' per- mission, the other two charges against MJ Gallo- way will be withdrawn. As regards Mr '• ilson, the manager, I should like to say that at the time of the occurrence he was absent, and had been absent for a week previously, and therefore it was with regret that information was laid against him, and it is, therefore, with great pleasure that I am instructed that with your worships' permission we will withdraw the two charges against him. The Chairmain, after a short consultation with his brother magistrates, said, We are glad you have settled this matter between yon and with regard to Mr Galloway, we shall have pleasure in fining him a shilling only." Mr Parr said he did not ask for costs, and the I other summonses were withdrawn.
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..y-- DEATH OF A CHINESE STATES- MAN. A Romantic Career. The mail which has jus; arrived from China bring news of the death of Chang Yao, the Governor of Shantung province, and one of the highest officials in the empire. He held one of the three independent governorships in China, and was within reach of a viceroyalty. It was anticipated that when Li Hung Chang's present high office became vacant Chang Yao would have been appointed to it. He ÍB described as an exceptionally good governor, as officials go in China; he was absolutely clean-handed in pecuniary matters, and although he was authorised to spend enormous sums on the embankments of the Yellow River, no accusation of improper dealing with the money was ever brought against him. Only a few months ago he was one of the few officials selected for special honours by the Emperor. He was an entirely uneducated man, and is said not to have been able either to read or write, and he was one of the few military men who have reached high civil office. The origin of his successful career reads like an extract from the Arabian Nights." He was very poor, but of enormous strength, and one day, seeing a very old man thrown down in the street and being cruelly beaten, he raised a small sack of rice which he had in his hand, and, bringing it down on the assailant's head, broke his neck. He fled into the Chekiang province and successfully eluded justice. Thence he went into Honan, to the city of Krusze, at a time when that province was ravaged by bandits. He soon became I the leader of all the roughs of the place, and when the city was invaded by the rebels, the local governor called on the people to help him and promised his daughter in marriage to any man who would save the city. Chang, with 500 of his ruffians, undertook to guard the city gates, and was successful in repelling the rebel attacks I until Imperial reinforcements came up, when the rebels, placed between two fires, were utterly routed. The day after the victory, the tale runs, Chang married the governor's daughter, and re- ceived a mandarin's button of the sixth rank from the famous Shen Pao-Shen, the liuperialist leader, whose banner he followed with his band. Later on he became governor of the city in which he had been an outcast and which he had saved. He was gradually promoted to be vice-governor of the province of Honan, when a disas ter hap- pened to him. A Hanlan graduate asked him for I a ioan of about £75. But Chang never had money and could not lend it, whereupon the gradu- ate, regarding this as an insult, indited a crafty I memorial to the throne, saying that, while Chang wa.s a splendid soldier, he could not read a word, and was therefore not fit to be a civil official. He was thereupon made a general and sent off in I a military capacity into the wiids of Mongolia, I, where he remained for years, until he was re- called to command the troops in Pekiu, when it was thought the French might attempt a descent on North China during the recent war. Then, when the Yellow River inundations took place, he was appointed Governor of Shantung to repair th'e breaches. Although millions passed through his hands he was so poor that when new year came round, with its inevitable expenses, he was forced to send out boxes of his own and his wife's clothing, by a back door of his yamen at Chinan, to the pawnbrokers to get the necessary money. He would observe that he was born poor ana poor he would die if his children were like him .they would make their living if not, so much the worse for them. The people of Shan- tung. by a play on Ins name, called him Chang the Blue Skyr because of his purity and his loving kindness towards the poor. It is said. however, that his treatment of Europeans, especially of the missionaries in his capital city, Chinan Fu, left much to be desired.
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THE POLICE COURTS.! -+- At Newport on Monday — before Messrs H. J. Parnall and G. Hoskins, magistrates— Georcre White, a navvy, who has been em- ployed at the Alexandra Dock extension pleaded guilty to entering the shop of Mr Charles Brunt, butcher, Alexandra-road, and stealing 37%lbs, of beef from the block. White, when the prosecutor's assistant was absent from the shop on Friday evening, entered and wrapped th" meat in his handkerchief, took it away. and hid it in a railway truck in Robert- street. When apprehended he denied all know- ledge of ths beef.—Mr Brunt said that prisoner met with an accident recently and was in the Infirmary for some time. Since coming out of the Infirmary he had been drinking.- -The magis trates, in consideration of prosecutor not wishing to press the charge, sentenced prisoner to one month's imprisonment only.—T. Maine, a navvy, was charged with assaulting his wife. P.C. Hamer visited the house of prisoner in Caual-parade, and found the woman lying on the bed bleeding from a severe wound on the right temple. The officer stopped the bleeding, bound up the wound, and afterwards took the woman to the Infirmary, where the wound was dressed, and the doctor said she had received a severe shock. The wife now appeared and said that she did not wish to say anything against her husband. who had been a good husband to her. She had two small children, thej'oungest only four weeks old, and she had no one to support them if he went to prison. Asked what her husband did she said he kicked her, but she was sure it was aa accident.—The Bench, in consideration of the wife's pleading, fined defendant only 10s 6d, and bound him over to keep the peace.—Henry Neville was charged with assaulting the manager and ward of the Model Lodging-house. On Sunday afternoon a party from the Young Men's Christian Association went to the lodging- house for the purpose of holding a religious ser- vice the prisoner was present, and after the ID.1någ-er had told the mén that if any of them objected to the service they could go into another room, prisoner persisted in keojjing his hat on and smoking. Grove, the warder, then wept to him and asked him to behave properly, when prisoner struck him. The manager came in and attempted to turn him cut, and the prisoner struck him a heavy blow under the ear, felling him to the ground. When arrested prisoner said he was a Catholic, and was not going to listen to their religion, and he now added that the manager came and told the men that they were to put out their pipes and take off their hats. This the prisoner objected to, as the room was the smoking and reading-room. Prisoner seemed a highly- intelligent man, and the Bench expressed surprise that he should be in such a position. Prisoner now expressed his regret for what had happened, and the Bench let the defendant off with the small penalty of 2s 6d. At Penarth police-court on Monday—before "Mr James Ware and Colonel Guthrie—George Knill was charged with indecently assaulting a young woman named Emma Ward, a domestic servant, on Saturday, the 10th inst. Mr W. Lloyd Meyrick. solicitor, Cardiff, appeared to prosecute. The complainant stated that on Saturday night she met the prisoner, and be asked her to go for a walk. She consented, but said she could not be long, as she was only out on an errand. She had only been in Barry a fort- night, during which time she had previously walked out with the prisoner on two separate occasions. After proceeding some distance she said she must return, whereupon he committed the assault complained of. She screamed and fainted away. Her skirt was torn off and her hat and her dress were damaged.—P.C. Smith deposed to hearing screams on the night in ques- tion. Hurrying to the spot he discovered com- plainant in a fainting condition leaning against the wall. The prisoner was standing close by, holding her with his right hand. Prisoner appeared to be somewhat under the influence of drink.—In answer to the charge by the Magis- trates' Clerk, prisoner said, '.1 met wIth Miss Ward and went for a walk with her. I should not have insulted her if I had been sober. I bad never done so before."—Prisoner was then committed to take his trial at the quarter sessions. Bail was allowed, himself in £50 and two sureties in £25 each. At Cardiff police-court on Tuesday, H. McEvoy (21)w¡1.c;charged witha1inwearingappa.rel value 71"6d, the property of Sarah Jane Vmey, on the 12th inst. He was also charged with obtaining food, lodgings, and money to the amount of £1 from S. J. Viney between the 5th and the 12th inst., and further with obtaining food, lodgings, and money to the amount of 15s from Eupbemia Pope between the 9th and the 12th inst., 111 both cases by false pretences.—The evidence given by Mrs Viney, of 62, Crwys-road, and Mr- Pope, of 59, Richard-street, was very similar. In each case the prisoner was said to have repre- sented himself as a cattle dealer trading with his brother. He had offered to pay for his lodging in advancc, but in a day or two complained that he had run short and, saying he expected a cheque from a Mr Jones, a lawyer, had obtained the loan of a shillings.— One of the landladies stated that she had arranged to charge him 33 6d a week for his apartments, and said that through his non-arrival at nights she had spent 15s on meat which could no all be used by the family. He had exhibited certain letters, which he stated had been written by the Rev. Mr Henderson, and which he purported contained promises to pay for his lodgings.—P.C. 31 (Charles Lake), who arrested him, found some of the property stolen from Mrs Viney's, at 59, Richard-street, and some of the clothing on the prisoner.—In reply to all the charges prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed to take his trial at the quarter sessions. At Cardiff on Tuesday. J. Wilson was charged in custody on remand with wilfully damag- ing a pane 01 plate-glass, value £8, in the window of 9, C:.rolme-street, the property of Mr Louis Barnett, on the 10th inst. This case was adjourned from Monday fcr the attendance of Mr Montague Barnett, who had given him in cus- tody. The depositions taken on the previous hearing showed that prisoner had met a youth named White on Saturday night, and after pitching a tale" as to being hard up and compelled to sell his jewellery, offered to sell him his diamond ring. Then, in order to prove its genuineness, he drew it across Mr Barnett's window, the stone scratching the glass. Mr Barnett, junr., who was in the office, rushed out and gave the prisoner into custody.—Prisoner denied that be had done any damage, and said that if the window was scratched it had been done sincehehad been in custody.—MrBarnettestimated the damage as slight, as the pane would not need to be replaced. He would not, he said, have given the prisoner into custody but that he had heard of and seen similar damage to plate-glass windows all over the town.—Prisoner was fined 10s damage and 5s costs, sentenced as an alterna- tive to fourteen days' imprisonment. At the Newport police-court on Wednesday— before Messrs R. G. Cullum and J. W. Jones, magistrates—three tradesmen were proceeded against for selling bread otherwise than by weight. Thomas George, assistant inspector of weights and measures, purchased a loaf from the shop of Mr John Davies, West-street. The loaf was handed to him without being weighed, and when tested afterwards was found to be 3oz. short. Mr Davies now stated that wit- ness asked for a 3d loaf. A number of customers objected to take the piece of bread that might be over. WThenever customers asked for a half- quartern loaf the bread was always weighed. The Bench fined defendant 20s.—Mr Thomas Henry, 71, Commerc.al-street, also received a visit from the Assistant Inspector, who obtained a loaf without the necessary weighing preliminary. This loaf on being tested was two ounces short, and the Bench imposed a similar penalty.- Mr Richard Richards, grocer, Arcade, was visited on Saturday last, as the inspector ad- mitted, when the shop was full of customers, and purchased a half-quartern loaf, which was not weighed, and it was iound to be two ounces under weight. — Mr Frank Lewis, solicitor, now stated that the inspector did not give defendant an opportunity to weigh the loaf, as he took it from thebinhioiseif, and did nothanditover to defendant, but placed the money on the coun- ter and immediately left the shop. The Bench said that they could not make a distinction, and fined defendant 20s and costs. At Merthyr on Wednesday—before Mr W. M. North and Mr W. Smyth—Frank Powell was charged with stealing a pair of boots, the pro- perty of Mr George Oliver, Victoria-street, Merthyr, on Monday night,—Mr David Jones, the manager, said the man took the pair of boots produced (thev were worth 5s lid) from a rail inside the shop door.—Prisoner said he was drunk, and had no recollection of the occurrence. —He was fined 4C3, or in default one month's im- prisonment. — Winifrid Cahill, a woman who lives apart from her husband, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes belonging to Evan Thomas, Pontmorlais, of the value of 18s, on the 10th inst. Prosecutor went to the Rainbow Inn, where a bundle consisting of a new suit of olothes was talceu from under his arm by boys. The suit was suljsequently pledged at Mr Siedle's by prisoner, wno, when arrested by Sergeant Thorney on Monday, said another woman gave the clothes to her to pledge. She was fined 40s, or in default one month's imprisonment.—Catherine Walters, Gwen Morgan, and Janet M'Leod, girls, were charged with stealing 41bs of beef and a flannel apron, worth 14s, the property of Caleb Davies, Pontmorlais; a cotton apron, worth 6%d. the property of Mrs Margaret Davies, Temple of Fashion; and a pair of gloves, worth Is 6d, the property of Mr J. Jones, Manchester House. Catherine Walters was sent to gaol for six weeks with hard labour for each offence, the terms, however, to run concurrently. Morgan was fined 12s 6d or in default 14 days' imprisonment for the first-named offence, and 2s 6d for each of the other offences. was cautioned and discharged.—A further charge against the girls of breaking into a shop and stealing therefrom a a cake worth 8d, the property of T. J. Rice, was withdrawn. At Cardiff police-court yesterday,H. Thompson, a respectably-dressed youth, was brought before Dr Paine and Mr Peter Price, charged by Detec- tive Roddy with being a suspected person, an associate of convicted thieves, and loitering in Wellington and Pembroke-terraces on the night of the 14th inst.—Mr Frank Williams defended. —The officer stated that he knew the prisoner well as a member of a gang of thieves who generally visited the town whenever there was a race meeting in the district. On the night in question he saw the prisoner with a number of bad characters near the site of the old barracks, loitering for hours. When he was observed, one of them said, "Look out, there's that —— Roddy." They at once scat- tered. Witness gave chase, and arrested pri- soner.—Mr Williams called no evidence, but stated that Thompson was a bookmaker. and that the reason for his running was because he suddenly found that it was past midnight, and he was anxious to get home.—In reply to cross-examination, Roddy said that be was oositive that the man was an associate ot thieves, and verv bad ones, too. His pal," on his last visit to Cardiff, was now undergoing five years' penal servitude, and be was a companion of a man who was a member of the notorious High Rip" gang of Liverpool, and who had received the lash. The magistrates committed prisoner to prison for one month with hard labour. While being banded over to the custody of the officers for conveyance to Cardiff gaol, Thompson threatened to do for Roddy before he left the town. saying that if he "failed to get at bun him- self the work would be done."
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LICENSING MATTERS* CLOSING OF A PUBLIC-HOUSK AT BASSALKG. The Thre? Horse Shoes public-house, Py* Corner, Bassaleg, the house which the licensing magistrates at their recent annual sessions decided was not needed by a locality already pretty well dowered, stopped tap and put up its shutters for the last tim« on Saturday evening. The gay and festive spirits of the neighbourhood, lamenting, as they explained, that their source of enjoyment was. by an irres- ponsible magistracy, being ruthlessly extinguished, assembled in strength and demonstrated. They provided themselves with a nun.l>er of railway fog-signals, and dropping these outside the pre- mises in the road, threw heavy stones on them with the view of causing a noise. This amusement proceeded for some time; the police at first saw in 18 only harmiess fun. But the fun increased, was kept going from 10 to 11.50 p.m., and the supply of fog signals seemed illimitable. Sergeant Pask began to reason out the fog- signal suppiy. It must be the Grea.t Western Railway Company's property whick was being squandered. At 10.30 the ¡;ôrgeó1.ut cautioned the groups generally at a more advanced hour he abridged the liberty of two of the men, and found on one a full packet of a dozen of Kynoch's patented three-capped articles. Then he went to inquire of the signal-box man, who had custody of such things, how oe came to let the mtn ha.v4! them, and lie said he did not give four dozen, as alleged, but a dozen and a half, and that, too, on the representation that they were for the station master at Bassaleg. At Newport county poliee-ofiice- before Mr E. Grove—one of the ringleader* on Monday, who gave the name of George Latherup (surety the descendant of a perruquier !), and described himself as a labourer, of Bassaleg, was charged with steaimg six dozen signals, the property of the Great Western Rail way, and was remanded until Saturday. The police had picked up exploded caoes and "Jive" signals which hau not gone off, and produced the whole incriminating lot. POLICE RAID OK REFRESHMENT HOUSES. At Cardiff pjlice-court on Monday—before Mi T. W. Lewis, Stipendiary—.j. Curney was sum- moned for selling beer without a licence, on Sun- àay, September 27th, at his pl'ojlJ1¡.e,a licensed eating-house, 50. Bute-street. The house was watched by on entering, found a couple of men drinking beer, for which they said they had paid 6d per glass. A large number of full and empty beer and stout bottles were there.—Defendant at first stated that he was unaware of the trafficking, but even- tually pleaded guiity. Inspector Heyw..rd proved a conviction for a similar ofi'ence in 1890. -Defendant was fined £10 and costs, or a month's imprisonment in default of distress. Elizabeth Clements, landlady ot n licensed re- freshment house at 61, Bute-str eet, was summoned for selling beer without authorny on the same Sunday.—P.C.Ambrose Mitchell stated that ha went into the house shortly alter noon on the27th. He saw two men sitting down with boitles con- taining beer in front of them. Witness, who wa» in plain clothes, asked for two bottles oi beer and a battle of lemonade, and was supplied with them. He paid the girl who brought tne be-r 7d. One of the trier, he afterwards found to be lodger.—Mr Morgan Rees submitted that there was no case, as Mrs Clements was W) seen by the officer.—The Stipendiary said that it seemed so to him at first, but his opinion was quite altered when he found that defendant was the holder ut a wine license, for on hcensed premises the act ota servant was binding on the lirineipa:. -Mr Kw* contended that thIs only applied to house" where beer was allowed.—Mrs Clements WM then sworn tc tender evidence in her own defence. She stated sbe had g-iven her servants instructions to "11]1- ply food, coffee etc., and not beer, except to hf-r boarders with their meals.—By the Stipendiary She charged her lodgers 23-< and 24s per week. She did not take in common boarders.The Stipendiary said that Mrs Clements had conoiu- sivelv proved the case against herself. He did not know of any hotel, bowevei liberal the. scale, where boarders were given their beer. She had evidently charged for it in the 23s. It that sort of thing were allowed to continue a man could go into an unlicensed house and ask for bread and cheese and beer, for which he would b¡ charged. say, Is. Then if the police fuuud beer-drinking u. the premises the occupier could say, Oh, I charged only for the bread and cheese, the beer I gave away." Defendant was shown to have been summoned for illicitly selling beer ou tw", previous OCC3.SlOn". and Inspector } leyw3rd proved Ii conviction at that court, when she was tilled £ 5 and costs.—The Stipendiary imposed a line £20 and costs, or an alternative of a muoth imprisonment ILLICIT REERSKLLlfG At C HWIt" At Cardiff police-court on Tuesday Mr T. W. Lewis had before him a number of cases ot illicit beer-selling on Sundays. 111 one case, tbaa agamst William Morgan, of 9, Habershon-street, defendant did not appear, and a warrant was issued for his apprehenslOn. -On the evidence of PC. Gouge, Mary Hogan, 7, Ruperra-street, was fined jB5 and costs, or in default a month's imprisonment. — Win. Knight, who was repre- sented by Mr A. F. Hill, and who pleaded guilty, was fined £10 and costs, or a month, a previou* conviction being established. — James Heine pleaded guiity to a similar offence, and it being nis first appearance he was fined 40s and costs. —A case brought by P.C. Ayres against Jamea Sampson, of 15. Habershon-street, was dismissed owing to the insufficiency of the evidence, the Stipendiary saying that the case was one rightly brought to court, as there were several suspicioue circumstances connected with it. AtCardiff police-court on Wednesday— before Mr T. W. Lewis and Dr Paine—W. Morgan, 54, was charged on a warrant with selling beer without a licence, at No. 9, Habershon-street, on the 4th inst. No defence was offered, and the defendant was fined £3 and costs, or. in default of distress, I ordered to be imprisoned for one month. IMPORTANT CASK AT PONTYPRIDD. At the Pontypridd poiico-court on Wednesday —before Mr Ignatius Williams and Mr Anthony —Mr Barnhouse, landlord of the Taft Vale pub- lic-house, Pontypridd, was summoned for keeping his house open on Sunday. Mr Phillips, Pontypridd, who defended, Ie- marked at the outset that it was necessary he should explain to the Bench the circumstances of the case before the police officer, who had sum- moned the defendant, gave his evidence. About a month ago three men, who were bona-tide travellers, were in the defendant's house, and it was complained by the police constable, who visited the premises on the Sunday morning is question, that they had remained there too long. The men were sober. The Stipendiary If a man goes :nto » public- house who so far as the limit of miles is con- cerned is a bona-fide traveller and remains there long, I think that would be a sufficient ground for the landlord to call upon him to prove why he is there. Mr Philli; You have discussed that qnestioa with me before, and I contend now, as I have done on previous occasions, that a bona-fide traveller has a perfect right legally to remain in < public-house all day on Sunday. I The Stipendiary There is no doubt about that. However, landlords are in rather a technical post* tion, but if they encourage people to sit in theii houses they run considerable risk. It 's clear that persons a.re not bona-fide travellers if they remain all day in a public-house drinking all the time. Mr Phillips J Rdmit the landlords would then be responsible. The Stipendiary That is our decision. Mr Phillips 'If a landlord makes aU reason- able inquiries and prohibits men getting drunJr in his house, then I maintain the law touch him. The Stipendiary If he inquires and satieties himself. Mr Phillips: The only allegation against the defendant is that he allowed the men, who were bona fide travellers, to remain too long in bit house. The men were not drunk. The Stipendiary I think the polioe should '¡ keep a record of these things. P.C. Edwards deposed that on Sunday, about 10.20 a.m., on September 17th, he visited the defendant's house, and saw three men there drinking. They were bona-fide travellers, and were "nnddlinc sober." Two hours later, be again visited the public-house, and found tb same men still there drinking. He requested them to leave, and they went out. They were fined on the previous 1lVednesday because they failed to prove that they were bona-tide travellers, though they had travelled beyond she radius of three miles that morning. The Stipendiary remarked that the men had, according to the evidence, been drinking in the II bouse for two hours before the landlord mate inquiries as to their business in the district. The Bench thought the defendant had not taken ell the reasonable precaution which themagistratettMMt a right to expect from him in order to thoroughly investigate the matter, and, therefore, they had agreed an offence had been committed. Defendant was mulcted in the costs only.
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