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[NO'.? rm:w pvr.LI.~r.En.] SHORT STORIES BY WORLD-FAMOUS AUTHORS. A Modem Timon, A SKETCH FROM LIFE. BY HAMILTON AIDE. Author of Passages from the Life of a Lady," "Carr of Carriyon," Poet and Peer," &c. In looking back to the many strange characters I have met in my intercourse with men of all tries, during a diversified journey through '*fe, I can recall none mors singular than the per- $on I shall name Sigismund, whoso acquaintance I Made in Cairo, lorn" years ago. In what this shigularity consisted, and how it fashioned his career, will be apparent when I transcribe por- tions of conversation which I had with him Occasionally during the short time we were together. But, in order that -those who are at ,ict trouble to read these pages may form some lecture of the man, physically, I will describe the effect he woduced upon me thf) first tiiriH we ifiet. It \va,s in a low cafe, where I had been drawn fioui the street by curiosity to watch—rather than listen to-a recitation, half-song-, naif-poem, Accompanied by » monstrous twanging and scraping of "instruments, the chief performer being a humorous fellow, whose 1 acini expres- I!lrm f.nJ gestures evinced a dramatic Rapacity which had its reward in the 'o'.v gurgle of laughter, and the frequent *pi>lau-w wherewith his narrative was greeted, fe It was a curious sight—that nwss of tarbouches nnd turbans, with the upturned olive faces beneath them, the diir. light from a single oil latllp fla-hing now and again on their white teeth and v,1e:tmmg eyes the fiery end., of the Cigarettes each man held between his lip", burn- lilg hke so many stars through the thick atmos- phere of the room. There wits but one European (at least, I took him fer such) in the place, and he sat beside mo. He was a fair man, inclining to redness his hair closely cropped, his mous- tache long and bushy his face otherwise clean shaved. In rejxj.se, his fiue profile and stone-blue eyep—which, I found later, became like blue diamonds when he was exoitrd-Iiis curious bitter-sweet smile, exploding into a thunderous If-ligh, now and again, impressed me greatly, An(i reminded me of a certain portrait by Titian, in the Pitti Palace, full of wonderful possibilities —a portrait that has always a reused my cnriosity. 'What manner of man was this ? Evidently he Understood every word that fell from the Arab tale-teller, and enjoyed it. Presently he drew a Pencil from his and some letters, on the "ack of one of which he began hu.riedly to sketch the head and action of the performer. In doing this, ray eye caught the word "Esquire" tlh the letter. It confirmed my suspicion as to i the owner's nationality. The first part of the tale ended-jusfc then—or it trlay have been one short tale, complete and the Applause was succeeded by a lull. borne went out, but I saw my neighbour had no intention of moving. I turned to him and sa. d You follow this Arabic story perfectly, sir Is it amusing ? j He looked me full in the face and replied, It Nothing daunted, I said Would you mind telling me what it is all about?" "You would probably not understand, if I did. "here are things which none but an Eastern—or Onfl who is almost an Eastern, can comprehend." His tone was less churlish than his words, or I Suppose this would have shut me up. He had thrown away the end of his cisrarette, and dreav Gut his oase as he spoke. Lo it was empty. "May I offer you one?" I held out my own Sase. "They are very good. I comprehend a cigarette, if I cannot Arab wit." Again he looked at me, astonished, but less boldly. The thirst for tobacco was strong- stronger even than his desire to repulse an obtrusive stranger. He took the cigarette, and thiinkedme. "Y'>u are not like most of your countrymen," aesaid, with the first gleam of a smile he bad Vouchsafed me." exterior staircase in an angle of the court, and Sigismund drew a key from lib pocket aDd opened it. The room we entered was small, and iu strange confusion. The bed was strewn with papers; MfeS, in every stage of decomposition. The fio jr was covered with them; one of the two tables in the room was thickly piled with tbeio. and with volume. in Persian and Arabic. On tho other tables were pipes, tobacco, a small mirror, some sheets of music, and his toilet arrangements, which were of the simplest de- scription. A bath was in one corner of the room, and some open portmanteaux, into which, as there was no wardrobe, his clothes were pitched. In another corner was some sort of guitar or mandolin. Several pencil sketches of figures were pinned aga,inst the wall; and upon a shelf above the bed was a row of flasks and phials, of every shape and size, all corked, and all labelled. I waa not long left in donbt as to their contents. He filled a pipe and offered it to me. At the same moment, the doorway, through which the moonlight poured, was suddenly darkened by the form of an Arab, in a dark bournous. His gleaming, olive face peered in, with a salutation, and a few rapid words passed between tho two— as it seemed to me, answers on the Arab's part to Ssgismnnd's questions. The Arab indulged freely in pantomime. He raised the paltn of his right hand, cup-like, to receive his cheek, which he inclined into it. Ho imposed the other hand alternately upon his brow, and his stomach anr, Sigisnmnd appeared satisfied. He took down I two phials from the shelf, poured out a measured quantity from each, and handed a glass to the Ulan, who with a profound salaam disappeared. So t hese fellows come to you for medicine, do they ?' I said. "Yn". I am a doctor. At least, I took out my diploma years ago, and used to puta people out of their pain one wry or another, for a guinsa, as easily as tho rest of them." Have you qube given up your profession ?" I only practre on these poor devils. They I have faith in rro and so—they are generally benefited." Then what you said just now was not true?" Very likely. I03,n lie as well as another-to support my views. But what do you mean ?" You do give something to others. You don't live wholly for yourself." 1 ooh This is only selfishness- nothing else. I like doing it. It gives me no trouble, and it amuses me. They tell one another I am a magician, and before I've been in a place a week my door is besieged. But let us drop this. Tell me if this sherb»rt isn't prine-juqt such sniff as inspired Hafiz and Oiner." He filied me a glass, and I rlrank it off. I should have preferred old port or sound claret but for those who like a luscious wine it was, no doubt, excellent. Then I said "Toll me, if you do not mind, what yon are writing—for you evidently are engaged on some big work V' Only my journal—big enough in one sense- my journal all over the world in places where no other European has ever set foot." "That must be mtcrFsiing. And of all the countries you have seen you prefer Egypt V" And Persia, Like Moore's sunflower (not the real one, by the bye), my face is now turned resolutely to the God in the East. I don't trouble the West much." When do you mean to publish your journal ?" Never." Never ? What is the use cf transcribing it, then, as I see ycu are doing)" "If I live to be eighty, imbecile abovo and paralysed below, it may amuse me to live my wanderings ever again. So it must be clearly written out. But why publish ? What good would it do to me ? Fame ?—I despise it. Money? —I have enough. No, I'm too wise to encounter unnecessary worries. I have attained to the Upper Calm of my Persian poets, where the gusts and currents of ambition and vain desire are unknown." Hum Whether your poets, with their eat- and-drink-for-to-morrow you die philosophy, floated superior to these currents, who shall say 1 One thing is clear. They were not so transcen- dent as to refuse to give to the world what they wrote—or you would not be the fooliaher for them, as I think you are." We both daughed. "Perhaps that is what the world would be if I published. The over- stock of foolish books shall not be increased by Hie." We talked on for nearly an hour, and then I left him, for my sumptuous Shepherd's sleek The Aral indnl(/r,3 frselp in Pantomime. J 41 Our countrymen, surely ? You are English I belong to no country." "How is that?" ^1 am more at home on the banks of the ^Tigris than on the Mississippi, or the Thames. I "ate politics, white ties, and smaH talk. I travel VLII the year round, but abjure European cities ftud the haunts of fashionable folk. live Illlnong the people. I am of the people, wherever may be." "Up to a certain point I can understand this," replied. "But do you never feel the want of ^ngenial companionship ?" Never. People bore me—how they bore me '— ^ith their platitudes and their conventionalities. and F.'rdusi are companionship enough ,pr me. I prefer them to Martin JFarquhar Upper." I laughed. "It is easy to see you do not tnove with the age. The reign of platitude is tast-the, reign of paradox, of lawjes ness, has egun. Everything is acceptable new, but the accepted." f "N ew-fangled philosophies have no interest for he replied, carelessly. "Orner Kayam 48 forestalled them all." Por'.onal contact with humanity is better tbl\n constantly poring over the utteiances of e Wisest man that ever lived-even Shak peare, has more fl.sh and blood m him than all yot. old Persians." You are beating'the air, like the preachers," "e returned, with a smile. "I have plenty cf COntact with humanity—only it is-, not of your I don't want to hear, second-hand, what modern peddlars offer for sale as new; still ess do I care to listen to the false enthusiasm?, nd explosive rubbish your travelling spinsters and unspeakable widows pour out to me, when e(('neet at tahlc d'hotes." 11 give you up table d'hotcs. But i- ahi /pieties there are men, aye, and woi en, ioo, •no will give you—"I hesitated. New lamps for old ?" Here he laughed, for "6 first time si see he had conversed. "Well I Prefer the old. Mine, hke Aladdin's, has a Uagical power the new don't possess. All these People, who have so little changed in thousands years—I never tire of studying them. Their .1 Peltry, their written wisdom, interest me as else does." Shall I tell you what I believe to be the secret '.this? You have mastered their tongues, ^"ich comparatively few Europeans know. Ex- cise me, if I say that vanity has something to do it, You feel as if you had a prescriptive ??8bt to their wisdom and poetry, and you exalt '• Value of them as we are apt to do things mehare an exclusive possession." "erhaps a shade of annoyance crossed his face Ut it was gone in a moment, as he said— I care tor no man's opinion; therefore, how can vanity have anything to say to it? I tell I J°U that in America and Europe everything has "^n said that can be said it is all like a sue ed $;»»go, I find more juice and flavour in these ■Easterns than in all the Westerns put together, ^hose fashions of thinking change like their c'othes. Mahommetans are the only true Conser- Natives." Th .y are conservative of prejudice and i apacity," I said, hotly, "but if they were Udowed with every virtue under the sun that ,°uld not affect my argument. You must live, ^ttially alone, among people with whom—say v^at you will—you can have but little in common, 'hat good can you do them, or they you 1 We not put here to live for ourselves alone, or—" <i T I don't subscribe to that." he interrupted. live for myself — a purely selfish life, find it perfectly satisfactory. I want othing from any man neither do I give— the miserable coin I carc nothing about. at which I do care abou-, my society, I am not ^iffalof," *par the story-teller took up his parable again, lny new acquaintance turned towards him, j gave the same amu«ed attention to the narra- ev c he had previously done. When it was finished, 6m there was a general exodus, showing that the tertainment for the evening was over, I said, j stepped into the moonlit street, and I offered Ui another cigarette, Are you staying at Shep- h«rd's Hotel ?" Heaven forbid 11 am at an obscure Arab cara- ^ansaryjn the old quarter of Cairo." Then, sud- j?.n'y» Do you care to come and smoke a narg- 1 e there, before you turn in ?" y.A t £ |ke it he generally mowed down every th'lr0|'ean w't'1 whom he came in contact, and "G was amused, as well as amazed, to find a ry twig among the pliant grass, resisting his ta?r"^U' scVthe. Not otherwise was this invita- i ',0ri explicable. I accepted it cordially, for he terested me; and we walked on, for the best £ ™r,t of a mile, conversing till we reached a low envvay, under which wo jiassed, and I found th in a large square court, surrounded on A sides by a narrow bidcony. Two or three t»!t- w.ore seated on some matting, smoking and Bid f* bright moonlight which fell on the Bv the court where they sat, casting a black at ?w slantwise from the other side. A door "Sell "n there, through which I saw the red- low flare of a lamp^ We mounted the wooden j pastures, where no sick Arabs penetrtted -the dormi tories of the sheep (which he fleeced so closely); those poor "urci'is de Panurge blink- ing at the Pyramids, in flocks, day after day, and lWfbyillg their little chorus of correct approval. What a contrast to this racy anr wron^-headed Sigismund Vie became great friends; in siting d ily during my stay in Cairo. It often struck ne as odd that we should suit each e ther, oar ideas on nearly tll subjects of import eing bametrieally opposed. Perhaps it was on this .-ecuunt that 1111 interested me. Self-proclaimed egoists rarely interest anyone but it required no great dis- cernment to see that his egoism was only a thin crust, which, do what we wo dd to harden it, round him. might easily he p erced through, when occasion demanded. H» o tea made ice angry by his contempt, for accidental civilisation. Alas poor fellow I cannot neip thinking now that had he seen more of it, he might have been saved from c'nn mating a fatal error. I used to .i, ti!,it if the D N,il hiiii.-elf xvitli a fez on his head, :¡ip;i"mund would g-reet him warmly. Me, however, without a fsz, I am happy to remember, he always seemed glad to see. Though we wrangled ovfir the gra it problems of life, there were many things we had in common. In the flower-fields of music and poetry, tho breath of ihe same KWc- t herbs appealed to each, and we knew, in interchanging thoughts, that we felt the beauty of eoiour and form in much the same way. Besides an uuusual capacity with his pencil 1",1" seizing character and delineating action, he sang with great spirit and feelinst snatches of song fiom all lands, which he had picked up, im. pi-ovising an accompaniment on the guitar; and, though untaught, he was never wrong in 1118 harmonies. Like everything he did, his singing was original; not to be confounded with the ordinary baritone warbling of drawing-rooms. You were not bonnd to like aU that wild out- landish music, with its sLmnge intervals and progressions, but certainly you had never heard it before. I found great pleasuro in listening to him, and in listening with him to such music Its the cnf¿-3 and public bands afforded, where his taste and discrimination seemed to me first-rate since it always agreed with mine On one of these occasions—it was my last evening in Cairo for some weeks as I was going up to Wadi-Halfa the next day—we had dined together and had repaired to one of the best music- halls, where a special entertainment was an- nounced. The grea.t attraction to most of the men present was the dancing of a young woman, said to be Circassian, and supposed to be bean-iftil. At least, so the effigies of a female, wherewith the walls had been placarded for some days, were meant to lead you to believe. This houri wal clothed, apparently, III nothing but sequins, and had eyes like spoonsful of black enrrant jelly. She was represented as poised upon her toes, with tambourine in her uplifted arms. Like all the rest of the world, we were curious to see how fat the artist had drawn upon his imagination for this picture. Our little table with coffee was in the front row. A tolerable orchestra, and some rather excru- ciating French singing ocoupied the first part of the evening. Then came the interlude—what was looked to as the gem of the evening, and just before which performance the hall became crowdeds La belle Fatima stepped forward to dance her solo. I was agreeably surprised. Without all the henna, pearl powder, and rouge, the girl would have bean an attractive creature. Slio was splendidly built, and moved well. Her attire, though per- mitting a great deal to be seen through clouds of epangleo gauze, was not as indecent as many present had been led to hope. That the sequins played a prominent part in it, I am not prepared to deny. But, besides the spaugled gauze which descended to her ankles (laden, as her arms were, with glittering bangles), she held a sleezy, gold- woven scarf, which she wound round her body as she danced, then like lightning unwound and enveloped herself from heacl to foot in it. But it was not dancing it was a swift gliding move- ment-a quivering of the whole spangled frame as that of a serpent, with a wonderful interlacing of the arms, and twinkling of the feet, as she struck her tambourine, now and again-volup. tuous, but never indelicate in suggestion with. out the offence, and with infinitely more grace than the contortions of thegnwaze girls I had seen. The manner in which she fluupr her lithe body backwards, inflating the gold threaded scarf, like a nautilus she.l behind her, was memorable, and recalled to me a pose of a. well- known dancer, whom she had certainly never seen. In one of these strange gyrations, which brought her close to the footjight of the raised stage, and consequently almost within an arm's length of us, by some meana or other her glitter- ing gauzes caught fire, and in an instant the girl was enveloped in flame. The whole hall rose with a roar of horror but one man alone acted with prompitude. No one at the side-wings had the courage or the presence of mind to come to the assistance ot the poor terrified creature, who ran shrieking to and fro, literally a piJJar of §$& But Sigismund, with one bound, had cleared the footlights, and flinging his heavy Inverness cape over her, flung her to the ground. The flames weie extinguished; in another minute it would have been too late to save her. He lifted the poor scorched body in his arms, like a child, and carried her off the stage, amid the plaudits of the spectators. I ran round behind, and joined him. He told the manager that he was a surgeon, and would attend to the girl. An old woman, who may have been her mother, for aught I know, and at all events played the part, ran in and out, wring- ing her hands and bellowing, till Sigismund sternly ordered her to hold her peace, cr leave the rocm, I, myself, remained in the adjoining one while the girl was being examined and her wounds tended. She was terribly burnt about the legs aiid body, but her fact. and arms were spared. She was quite tranquil, only half con- scious, I believe, from prostration. When he had administered some stimulant, and wrapped her from head to foot in cotton wool, Sigismund said she might be removed to her own dwelling. I helped him in the transit. Wo carried her in blankets to the squalid room, hard by, which was La Belle Fatima's temporary home, and then, finding I could be ft no further use, and that Sigismund meant to remain with his patient all night, I left him. The next morning I ran in to bid him good-bye. He bad never left the girl's bedside, but locked less anxious than he had done the previous night. 1 don't, fear for her life," ho said. She wor> i die-but I doubt if she will ever be able to dance again. Her legs are so fearfully burnt there will probably be a contraction of seme cf the sinews. A pity—isn't it ?" Poor creature But your own ha.nds are badly burnt, I see." Oh That's nothing. And I don't depend cn my hands, you see—she does, upon her legs." He laughed lightly, as if he cared nothing. I would not take the taste of that characteristic speech out of my mouth. And so, with a hand laid on each of his shoulders, since my hand might not grasp his, We. parted. The pity of it. I have never seen him since. He was often in my thoughts during the two months I was absent from Cairo, and the first thing I did, on mv return, was to go in search of him. My disappointment was great to icarn at caravansary that he had left Cairo; more they could not tell me. I was resolved to discover, ic possible, where he had gone, and why smcs he had given me to understand he would remain here some weeks longer. I bethought me of his patient, the poor burnt ballerina; it was possible she might know what had become of him. But on applying at her room, I fcund that she, also, had departed with her mother; still suffering and lame, they told me, but able to crawl about with a stick. I was giving it up in despair, not un- mixed with resentment at his treatment of me, when, on going to my banker's, a letter was placed in my hands, the superscription on which I at once lecognisexl as being Sigismund's, I forgot money, and everything etae I sat down in the office, and read the following :— Farewell, my friend. Circumstances over which I have no control, as your penny-a-liners say, are driving me forth with my wallet on my back, once more, to the land of the lily and the rose. I would wait to shake your hand—one of the few I ever wish to shake again, but this dancing girl and her mother must be at Teheran j by a certain date and I go with them. The girl can't walk yet, you see, and depends on me. I had a spaniel once, who broke his leg—and it amused me to nurse it. It was only a selfish gratification, devoid of real benevolence, but the dog, not discriminating between motives, became devoted to me. I put on sackcloth when it died. So mav it chance to be with the girl—who knows ? Allah is great May you prosper till we meet again, wheresoever that may be. SIGISMUND." THE END. NEXT WEEK— EREVIO'S STORY. By Mns F. S'f. CLAIR GRIMWOOD, Author of "My Life in Manipur," The Power of an Eye," &c., &c.
TYPHUS FEVER A r CARDIFF.
TYPHUS FEVER A r CARDIFF. Complaint Against the Corporation. At the u^ual meeting of the Cardiff Board of bruaraians, held under the presidency of Dr. Fa Bf, on Saturday, the Rev. Father Burler explained that he had a rather important matter to bring before the board with regaid to a fresh outbreak of typhus fever in the district of Cardiff over which he had charge. He had thought the fever was at an end when he himself recovered from an attack, and he had been under the impres- sion that all necessary precautions had been taken against ít. Unfortunately there had been a. fresh outbreak at North William-street, off Tvndall-street, ano one death had occurred the previous night. He thought it was a matter which concerned this board. He felt that the board had done all it could in the matter, and he 'hoi'ght the fault lay with the corporation or its h~a!th committee. He had personally attended the case which had ended fatally the previous night, and had to point out that there was 110 provision made at the present moment for isola- ting either these typhus cases or cases of any other infectious disease. The Cardiff Corporation iad been tinkering at this matter for the last ten years, and the previous day he had taken upon himself to telegraph to the Home Secretary --tating tho condition of Cardiff in this respect, anj he now wished to leave the matter in their hands entirely. The CHAIKMAN said he had himself received certain information on the matter, and thought some inquiry should be made into it by the hospital committee. Father Butler's statements wero to some extent a little antagonistic to the in- formation he had received, and he thought, there- fore, that before they discussed the matter all the circumstnnct's should be thoroughly inquired into. He would be exceedingly sorry that the corporation should be exposed to any animadversion unless that 3.mmadversion was a proper one. Mr F. J. BEAVAN said he didn't quite under- stand what Father Butler was asking for. The CHAIRMAN He complains that the corpo- ration have not provided the means for isolating cases. Mr F. J. BBAVAN I should Hke to know what .his board has got to do with that. Father BnTLER I thought this board would nave something to do with it seeing that it is a parish case. Mr BEAVAN I don't think it is fair for this board or any other public body to reflect even in the slightest degree upon another public body until the whole of the facts are known. Dr. Walford, he thought, might have an answer, and a veiy satisfactory answer, to the whole question; in fact, this matter had been before the hospital committee again and again. The CHAIRMAN said he had every reason to believe that there was not the slightest blame attaohing to Dr. Walford, and as that gentleman'* name had been mentioned, he thought tlusshould be thoroughly understood. Neither did he think there was any blame to be attached to the cor- poration. if his own information was correct, though it might strengthen the hands of the corporation by representing the necessity for providing means of isolation. Mr BEAVAN We have a sanatorium at great cost and wo are building another. Father BUTLKR said he believed that everything that could be done had been done by Dr. Walford and his assistants. His complaint was against the Cardiff Corporation and he impugned them. (Cries of "Order, order.") Mr BEAVAN I cannot sit down and hear the Cardiff Corporation reflects upon by a body with which it has nothing to do. The CHAIRMAN There may be circumstanoes we desire to represent to the corporation in an informal manner, but it is not our duty to reflect upon any other board or the duty of any other board to reflect upon the board of guardians. Father BUTLKR: I bow to your ruling, sir, completely. This closed the discussion.
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ELECTRIC LIGHTING AT NEWPORT. Cost ef InstallationS Professor Robinson, of King's College, has been called in to advise the Newport Corporation as to lighting the thoroughfares by electricity. The cost of the installation in the six principal streets in the centre of the town is estimated to be £30,560; and the annual cost of maintenance would be £5,650. For this sum 4.500 lamps of 16-candle powei could be provided. The lighting station and engines would be erected on corpora- tion land at Friar's Fields, and the low tension continuous current system on the three-wire principle is recommended. High-street, Com- mercial-street, Commercial-road, Llanarth-street, Dock-street, and Baneswell-road would form the first area dealt with Gold tops. Stow Park, and Caerau Park the second area and Maindee and the east side of the river generally the third in order of time and expected requirements.
- A WOOD ON FIRE AT PONTYPRIDD.…
A WOOD ON FIRE AT PONTYPRIDD. Shortly after one o'clock on Monday Mr T. W. L. Glaves, the local agent at Pontypridd of Mr W. Thompson Crawshay, of Cyfarthfa, discovered that the plantation above his house, on the breast of the Graig-yr-hesg, near Ponty- pridd, was ablaze. The ferns and under- wood were as dry as tmder, and the conflagration spread with such alarming rapidity that it was feared that the extensive wood all round Craig-yr-hesg was doflmed to destruction. Mr Glaves at once secured assistance, and 50 men, including workmen from Mr McKay's quarry close by and the officials of the Taff Vale Railway, were soon engaged in an attempt to extinguish the outbreak. It was speedily found, however, that the fire, fanned as it was by a strong breeze, was too fierce to be extinguished, and the efforts of the party were directed to an effort to isolate it. Several acres of two-year-old larches have been consumed.
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DEATH FROM MISADVENTURE. An inquest was held in London on Saturday on the body of EmmaGodfrey, Park-terrace, Regent's Park, widow of a dentist, who died on Tuesday. Tho evidence showed that being in pains she asked her son, who is insane, to pour some laudunum on sugar, and he gave her too much, causing death. A verdict of "Death from misadventure" was returned.
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TITHE WAR IN CARDIGANSHIRE.
TITHE WAR IN CARDIGANSHIRE. A Bailiff Seriously Maltreated. On Friday week the county-court bailiff, Mr Robert Lewis, left Newcastle Emlyn, and paid a visit to Penbryn parish to recover tithes due to the vicar. He was accompanied by County Coun. cillor J. Powell and threo police-constables. Amongst other places visited ho called at Pentan Farm, occupied by Mr David Griffiths. On leaving the conveyance, he spoke to Mr Griffiths" respecting the amount due, and afterwards walked along the road without making any effort to enter the land. Whilst thus proceeding along followed by a crowd of about 10) in number, a young man suddenly rushed behind him and dealt him a severe blow with a heavy stick on the back of his head. P.C. David Jones (9) took held of the bailiff's assailant, and detained him unt11 he was identified by the constable of the district. The bailiff then returned to the brake without uttering a word, and no sooner took to his seat than another young parson struck him repeatedly with a large stick, until he fell down on the bot- tom of the vehicle, blood running freelv down his neck. The polico did all within their power to protect him from the crowd, Police-constables 26 and 22 trying to avert the blows with their hands. Polic;»-constable 9 took hold of the assailant, and begged tho crowd to desist from doing further injury. In the mean- tune the driver was urged to gallop away as fast as possible, leaving the constable and the crowd behind. Huge stones and timber were found across the highway, but were removed by P.C. 26, thus enabling the horses to pass. Several stones were thrown by the crowd after the con- veyance, but luckily the occupants succeeded in getting away before the crowd again came up. On th3 wa.y to Newcastle-Emlyn the bailiff be- came unconscious, and was helped to his lodgings by two constables. Dr. Powell, Adpar, was called, and attended to his injuries. On Saturday Superintendent D. Williams and four constables proceeded to Penbryn. having in their possession warrants for the apprehension of two men who are alleged to have assaulted Robert I Lewis, the bailiff, at Penbryn on Friday. At a place called Aberbedw P.C.'s 9 and 22 were ordered to go to Pen'aii Farm, while Supt. Williams and P.C. 26 went to Pantyroliaid. As soon as they reached the places horns were blown, and immediately about 30 persons assembled. After a considerable delay the two consta.bles succeeded in coaxing Wat-kin Griffiths (Penlan) to surrender himself quietly, and he followed the officers to Aberbedw, where they met the superintendent, who failed to find his man. However, four or five farmers volunteered to go to Pantyroliaid, and in about an hour John Thomas made his appearance, and both were then formally apprehended and taken to Newcastle Emlyn, At 3 p.m., at the Lamb Inn, Adpar, both prisoners were brought before Mr C. H. L. Fi-zwilliams and Dr. Lloyd, when P.C.'s 9 and 26 gave evidence to justify a remand. The complainant was too in to attend. Both were remanded until Saturday I next at Penrhiwpal, themselves in JBSO each and two sureties of £25 each. We are given to understand that the case is in the Public Prose- cutor's hands.
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SERIOUS FIRE IN CARDIFF. On Sunday night a. fire broke out in the timber yard of Mr Valentine Trayea, Collingdon-road, Cardiff, and the flames were not extinguished until a large amount of damage had been done. The cause of the outbreak is unknown, and as no work was being dona there during the day the occurrence is all the more remarkable. The fire was discovered, a few minutes before 12, by Bute Docks Constable Keat, who wad on duty at the West Dock. and the alarm was quickly given at the Dock Police Station. In I a few minutes the members of the tire brigade, under the command of Superinten- dent O'Gorman, arrived upon the scene, and a plentiful supply of water being obtainable from the hydrants in the vicinity of the yard, three powerful streams were brought to bear npon thr. flames. The yard of Messrs Valentine Trayes and Co. is situate on both sides of the Colht.gdon. road, the larger portion of the stock of timber being in that portion which lies between the road and the Taff vale Railway. Happdy, it was in I the side lying next the West Bute Doek that the fire occurred, aud it was practically confined to the I one large stack in which it originated. Owing to the manner in which the timber—which consisted of sawn deals—were stacked the wind had free jjlay through the pile, while at the same time the utmust difficulty was experienced in getting at the actual seat of the fire with the jots of water. It was feared at one time that the adjoining stacks would catch, but happily this was pre- vented. At 12.40, the information was conveyed to the Central Police Station, and in a few minutes the steam fire-engine Fire yueen, and a body of firemen, under the direction of Engineer Geen, were on their way to the conflagration. Th& engine was stationed on the quay of the West Dock, and two steady and powerful streams were soon brought to play on the fire from this source. A little later the Bute Docks water-boat arrived from the top of the dock, and two further jets were pumped orr the rapidly-consuming pile. The chief difficulties in the work of extinction were the dense volumes of suffocating smoke, which were driven by an easterly wind in the firemen's faces, and the failure, of the water to reach the core of flame in the centre ot the stack. The members of the two brigades worked with the utmost energy and zeal, the members of the borough force being under the command of Mr W. Mackenzie, the head constable, and, although there was such a vast amount of timber all round, and clouds of sparks were carried in every direction, a spread was prevented. Shortly after the flames had got a firm hold of the pile the timber in the two railway trucks that were standing on the rails in Collingdon-road was found to be burning. The trucks were quickly moved, however, and unloaded, so that the damage in this direction was comparatively trifling. The stack continued to burn for some hours despite the enormous quantity of water poured upon it; but as the flames were gradually got under the pile was pulled down, and so completely extinguished. The amount of damage has not as yet been ascer- tained, but we understand that the loss is covered by insurance. j
TRAGIC AFFAIR ATCARMARTHEN
TRAGIC AFFAIR ATCARMARTHEN Death at a Railway Station. A young man named Short, belonging to Newcastle-on-Tyne, who was employed as a coppersmith's apprentice with Messrs Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., on H.M.S. Cambrian, at Pem- broke Dockyard, died at Carmarthen railway station on Friday evening white on bis way from Pembroke Dock to Newcastle. He appears to have been under medical treatment for- con- sumption for a considerable time past, and about three weeks ago was sent away from Newcastle for a change of air. He followed his work on the Cambrian until the beginning of last week, when his strength failed him, and he continued to get worse until Wednesday last, when Dr. Saunders, who was attending him localIj" expressed the opinion that death was imminent. His friend3 were accordingly telegraphed for. The following day his mother arrived at Pembroke Dock, and, after seeing her son, determined to take him back to Newcastle forthwith. On Friday Mrs Short and her son left Pembroke Dock, but the strength of the latter was insufficient, for hun to complett the journey, and he died as stated. On receiving the news Mr T. M. Everitt, Messrs Hawthorn's local representative, forthwith despatched one ot his men to Carmarthen to assist the grief-stricken mother in making the funeral arrangements. An inquest was held at the Junction on Saturday evening, and a verdict of "Death from natural causes" was returned.
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RAILWAY FATALITY AT PONTYPRIDD. About half-past 11 on Saturday evening a young man named David Thomas, a haulier, re- siding at Lake-street, Ferndale, met his death by being run over by a passenger train at the Pontypridd railway station. It appears that Thomas, together with several others, had been attending his brother's wedding at Cardiff. While the engine driver, Richard Stradling, was oiling some parts of the engine he noticed blood and flesh upon the wheels, and further search showed tha.t a man, who was afterwards identified as David Thomas, had been run over. The body was found lying between the rails the left leg having been severed. The line of rails for several yards along were besmeared with blood. On the body was found two Taff Vale Railway tickets, one from Pontypridd to Ferndale and the other from Cardiff to Llandaff. Deceased was iden- tified on Sunday at the Union mortuary, where che hody had been conveyed by Sergeant Mac- aonald, P.C. German, and other constables, and by his brother-in-law, David Da vies, Femdale.
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ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE NEAR PONTYPOOL. At the Pontvpool Police-court on Saturday— before Dr. A. Davies (in the chair), Mr W. L. Pratt, and Mr L. Llewelyn—Thomas Collins, an Army pensioner, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat at Griffiths- town on the 20th April.—He pleaded guilty-—A fellow-lodger named Addis, who slept with the prisoner, deposed to bemg awakened by prisoner's struggles and finding that he had cut :is throat, the bedclothes being covered with blood.—P.C. Wilson said that when taken into custody prisoner said he did not know what induced him to do such a. thing.—Superintendent James said prisoner had been drinking heavily prior to the commission of the offence.— Prisoner was remanded to thework- house for a week in order that the state of his mind might be reported upon.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A SKELETON.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF A SKELETON. A remarkable find of the skeleton of a man was made on Saturday in the rhododpndron gardens at Bidston HiH. Birkenhead, the property of Mr R. C. Vyner, the well-known racehorse owner The skH!ev.1I was barely covered by leaves, and notwithstanding the fact that the gardens are much frequented by the public and picnic parties it had apparently lam undisturbed under th, rhododendron bushes for many years. The clothing and skeleton crumbled to dust when removed.
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THE COLLECTION OF TITHES IN…
THE COLLECTION OF TITHES IN WALES. A Singular Point Decided. In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, on Saturday—before Mr Justice Day a.nd Mr Justice Bruce, sitting as a. Divisional Court—judgment was given in the cases of in re the Tithe Act, 1891, and in re an application by Jones against Potts, and in re the same against Cooke, argued before their lordships 10 days ago. Mr Danckwertz appeared for the plaintiff, while Mr Colt Williams represented the defen- dant Potts, and Mr S. T. Evans, M.P., was counsel for the defendant Cooke. These were appeals by the Rev. Hugh William Jones, rector of L'.anferres, Denbighshire, against u decision of his Honour Judge Sir Horatio Lloyd at the Ruthin County Court, under the Tithe Act, 1891. The plaintiff sought to recover £ 30, the balance of tithe rent charge due from land belonging to the defendants. The original defendant in the first action was Mr Henry John Potts, a.nd he pleaded that he had a right t., deduct this amount for rates dU8 on the tithe rent charge, and which the tenants ofthaiand had paid, and he had allowed to them. For the rector it was argued that as the raw s accrued due before the passing of the Act of 1891, the tenants had no rifjht to pay the rates, as the whole machinery tor the recovery cf tithe was alt-'red by the Act of 1891. The county-court judge, however, held that the rates Were properly deducted and gave judgment for the defendants; the ructcr appealed. Since the judgment in the county-court, Mr A. J. Potts had died, and his brother, Mr Alderman Potts, had succeeded to the property. The registrar of the Ruthm County-court had joined him as a defendant for the purposes of this appeal. Mr Justice Bruce now delivered the judgment of the court. He said in this case the owner of the tithe rent charge clamed payment of the tithe rent charge due in Juiy. 1892, amounting to J385 4s 2d. He had received £55 4s 2d. and the dispute arose in respect cf the balance cf £3:), which the defendant, Potts, who was the owner of the land out of which the tithe rent charge issued, claimed to deduct in respect of rates which had been paid by the occupier of the pro- perty. There had been some difficulty In the court gathering when these rates accrued due, but it was admitted that thoy became due some timo prior to the 26th March, 1891. on which day the Tithe Act of 1891 came into operation. For some reason, which was unexplained, the rates re- mained unpaid by the occupiers and no proceed- ings were taken to enforce payment under the Tithe Acts of 1836 and 1837 until June, 1892, when seme notices were served upon the occupiers. These notices seemed to ha ve bt-on in accordance with the provisions of Section 8 of the Tithe Act of 1837. The broad question which the court had now to decide was whether the new procedure for the enforcement of the tithe rent charge intro- duced into the Act of 1891 was to be construed as subject to the machinery of the older Acts. The court thought it was intended, under the Act of 1891, to introduce an entirely new procedure for the recovery of tithe rent charge, and, indeed, to create a new liability on the owner of the land, and it was not possible to apply the cider proce- dure to the new Act, except in cases where the new Act expressly affirmed and incorporated any of the provisions of the old Acts. The new Act made the tithe rent charge recoverable from tho owner, and there was no provision enabling the owner to deduct rates which might have become due on the rent charge, and which had been allowed to fall into arrears before the passing of that Act. On the 9th of June. 1892, when notices were served on the occupiers, even if these notices had com- plied with section 8 of the Act of 1837, the pro. visions of that section had ceased to be operative at the time. The service of the notice and the subsequent payment of the rates by the occupier could not. the court thought, operate to entitle the occupier or the present defendants to deduct the amount of the rates. It was contended that the provisions of the Interpretation Act of 1889 kept alive, in regard to the Tithe Act of 1891, ail existing rights with regard to the recovery of rates due on tithe rent charge. The court, however, doubted if the Interpretation Act could be read into the Tithe Act so as to override the special provisions in the Act of 1891. But even if this could be done, the court did not think that tho Interpretion Act provided for the present case. Under the old law there was no right on the part of occupier- to deduct rates from the tithe until certain events had happened, and in the present case, unt 1 notices were given and some steps taken to enforce payment of the rates by the occupier, there could not be even an ineohate right on the part of the occupier to deduct rates that had been paid for the landlord or anyone else. No notice was given and no steps taken to demand the rates frcm the occupier until after the passing of the Act of 1891, and there Were no existing rights to be preserved. On the construction of the Act of Parliament the conclusion the com t had come to was that it was the intention of the Legislature to create an entirely new procedure for the re- covery of tithe rent-charge, and that it was never intended to work the old and the new machinery together. In the opinion of the court, therefore, the decision of thp lcarnnd county-court judge WRS wrong, the appeal must be allowed, and an order nlade for the recovery of the £ 30. Mr Celt Williams asked if their lordships had considered the point whether Mr Algernon Potts was properly joined as a respondent by the registrar of the county-court ? Mr Justice Day said it was too late to raise that question now. Mr Algernon Potts ought to have appealed to set aside the order of the registrar. Leave was granted to both defendants to appeal on payment into court of the amount due and then giving- security for costs.
WHY RUSSIA BOUGHT FRENCH COAL.
WHY RUSSIA BOUGHT FRENCH COAL. Interesting details have now been published of the negotiations which led to the Russian Govern- ment purchasing in France from the Societes de Lens, de Courneres, and de Vicoigne-Nosux, about a fouri h part of the coal requirements of the Navy for the present year, a proceeding which took British colliery owners, who have hitherto had practically a monopoly of the supply of coal to the Czar's Marine, rather by surprise. It apppars that the Compagnie de Vicoigne-Noeux, influenced by the extremely friendly relations existing between France and Russia, first con- ceived the idea of opening a market in the last- named country for French coal and it communi- cated with the, Russian Ambassador in' Pans, Baron Mohrenheim. The Vicuigne-No?ux concern then united with the other two colliery proprietors mentioned in having the matter discussed m Sf. Petersburg, whither mdeed Idon". PaulSchneider, representing the allied firms, betook himself, and where he eventnal1.v succeeded In extracting a promise from the Muscovite Government that it would test the fuel offered. A comparative trial thereupon, it is said, took place at Cronstadt with samples of French. Newcastle, and Cardiff coal, the result of which was a complete success" for the Gallic mineral, which was then ordered to the extent we have indicated. It is ¡ furthermore reported that several St. Petersburg manufacturers have followed the example of the naval authorities, and have commissioned im- portant quantities of 'h", French combustible. Naturally our coalmining friends across the Channel are elated with their most recent stroke of business, whilst the word jubilant ex- presses but mildiy the condition of the good people of Dunkirk, whence the greater part of the fuel will be shipped. An important steam- ship firm of this port has already, it is stated, inaugurated a new and regular maritime service between Dunkirk and Russia, in view of the fresh influx of trade to the old haven.—Iron.
A CARDIFF STABSING CASE.
A CARDIFF STABSING CASE. Arrested After Two Years. At the Cardiff Boroug • Police-court on Mon- day--Dr. Paine and Dr. Treharne 011 the bench — \Vm. Farrell (25) was brought up 011 a warrant issued two years ago charged with feloniously stabbing Patrick Brian, with intent to do him grievous boddy harm, on the J8th May, 1891.—Prosecutor, who seemed very loth to proceed with the charge, stated that on the day named he was at the Clive Hotel, Castle- road, in ccompany with tl.0 prisoner. They both imbibed freely, and became somewhat elevated," when they quarrelled and fought together. In the altercation Brian received a stab in the breast, which necessitated his detention in the infirmary for a fortnight.—The case was remanded for a week in order tha.t wituesse3 may be obtained.
.. A SALVATION ARMY LOVE TRAGEDY.
A SALVATION ARMY LOVE TRAGEDY. A Central News telegram from New York reports that a terrible tragedy occurred on Satur- day morning at Spokaue, resulting in the death of two local officers of the Salvation Army. For some time past Lieutenant Daniel Hoskins has been unsuccessfully pressing his suit upon Miss Ida Bennett, a charming young" captain" m the army. On Saturday he made a final offer of marriage, and, upon being again refused, he drew a revolver, shot the girl dead, and then blew out his own brains with the same weapon.
NOT A PROTESTANT, BUT A LAMPLIGHTER.
NOT A PROTESTANT, BUT A LAMPLIGHTER. One of the members of the school board men- tioned, during the last debate on religion in which that body engaged, that some doubt pre- vailed in the minds of the managers respecting the creed of a boy whom they thought to be a Jew, but were net quite certain on the subject. So they called the lad before them, and asked, in the usual courteously circumlocutory manner for which the school board is renowned, Is your fatht.r a Christian ?" No," replied the scholar. Is h" a Jew No." Is he a Catholic ?'' "No." Is he a Protestant V" "No." "Then what is he ?" Tho boy looked all his questioners with astonishment, and replied simply, He is a. lamplighter." What is faith without works?
MR GLADSTONE'S VIGOUR.
MR GLADSTONE'S VIGOUR. —*— One secret of Gladstone's tireless activity and youthful vigour is suggested by the following illustration given by the great statesman not long ago :—" There was once a road leading out of London on which more horses died than on any other, and inquiry revealed the fact that it was perfectly level. Consequently, the amma.ls in travelling over it used only one set) of muscles."
THE EIGHT HOURS5 BILL.
THE EIGHT HOURS5 BILL. DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK. Significant Speech by Mr John Burns. A g-rf-at hbcm demonstration, 111 favour of tha legal eight houts' day, was held 011 Sunday after' noon in Hyde Park, when there was ate enormous attendance. The weather was alL that could be desired for an outo door gatherings and the proceedings wer*, of a most orderly ciiaracter. The demonstration was organised by the legal Eight Honrs' Demon- stration Committee, and was supported by the. chief labour organisations of the Metropolis, mosv of which sent their banners and bands, A huge procession was formed on the Thames Embankment-, and starting at two- o'clock proceeded by way of Oxford street tj the Marble Arch entrance to the park. Twelve platforms wero ranged in straight lint, from the Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner, ané1 among the speakers were Mr John Bonis. M.P., Mr Naoroji, M.P., Mr Saunders, M,P., and Mi- Ben Tillett. Mr BURXS, who spoke from the principal plat- form, sad this was the best organised., mos* orderly, and largest legal eight hours' day demonstration he had ever witnessed 111 London, Now for the fourth year 111 succession London'# labour had" hung its banners on itt outer walls," and battalions, regiments and brigades of London industry had marched from north, south, tast and weal to send a messace to the cultured and idle rIch. that their masters, governors, and future rulers were educating themselves for the day when th« rule of the majority "should put uptn the Statu** Book that improvement iu things industrial fof which the workers had ■men striving too long. This parademeantthatthwlisccntented workers ot This parademeantthatthwlisccntented workers ot London were determined, fty Parliamentary means, to distribute over the whole community of werkerr leisure, Jpieasure, clothes and food, and reason able working time. It was tho duty of the Legislature to interfere when voluntary effort had been unsuccessful. The upper and middle classes were only anxious to preserve their vested interests in so far as they had thrown private enterprise overboard and used the State in the interest of the classes ut against the democracy, who would now use th& same weapon for the extinction cf the privileged classes. The eight hours' movement was a phase in the history of industrial democracy. It had been recognised in the Colonies and America, and in aU European countries. Fear of revolution had given to the workers the amelioration of their industrial laws. In Great Britain the movement in the past twelve months had made relatively greater progress with bad trade than it would have d'-ne if tr*d« had been better. They wanted a legal oip-ht hours' day to steady work, to make industry permanent, and to make more regularly that which was now intermittent, casual, and precarious. The ever- worked would be reiieved by givingtlie workiess an opportunity of reducing over-worked men's toils. To those who advocated obtaining an eight hctiraf day by Trade Unions, he replied that Trado Unions had enough to do in revolutionising the technical and industrial couditions of the worker. He deprecated strikes as a means of obtaining an eight hours' day. Strikes, to succeed when under- taken, now iavolved such large masses of workers that they ceased to become labour conflicts they became social and political movements, and ought to be transferred from the floor of the Trades Union lodge to that of tho Icgislativa assembly. To Trade Unionists he said throw up the strike weapon, because now it was Munted let the fight between capital and labour be fought on the floor of the House of Commons." The law to-day wa,s nothing more nor less than the auxiliary of capitalists all the world over. They must alter that by improving their representation in Parliament. London, for the past five years, had pioneered the working class movement of the civilised world. They had before them a stronger, hotter, and bolder' fight in the near future. That fight, he believed, would result in their obtaining a legal fig-ht hours' day as a palliati measure to modify the harshness of landlordism and capitalism. A resolution was passed at all platforms, call- ing upon all members of Parliamerr- and Govern- ment to support. the Eight Hours' Bill. A demonstration, organised bv the London Trades Council, was simultaneously held in the park. There were 12 platforms, and a resolution calling upon the Government to introduce an Eight Hours Bill was adopted. Another of the speakers said the movement had greatly progressed in consequence of the second reading of the Miners'Bill. That demonstration meant a rising against the system that sent workers to the hospital or to premature graves for want of work. (Cheers.) Their commercial system gave to the few only. It was an oiganised conspiracy of land capital and profit. (Cheers.) Machinery was nowadays the ciown of thorns on the Labour Christ, who was crucified between two thieves, capital and landlordism. (Cheers.) The entire open space of the park was crowded by demonstrators, the general impression being that the present was even more numerous thaw last year's gathermg. Collections were made fo the Hull strikers.
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THE DUKE OF ARGYLL AND MR GLADSTONE. The Duke of Argyll was on Thursday presented with the freedom of the burgh of Paislty. HIt grace said he regarded .ind accepted the rcsctutiou. of the town council to confer this tumour en him as a purely non-political vote. His opinion was that it was best, to a. great extent, to be inde- pendent of party. Moreover, he lhd held strongly to the doctrine that politics ought nofc to interiors with the friendships of private life or with the courtesies of public life, or with tin acknowledgment of public merit in any form. It was 40 years exactly since he was lirat associated with Mr Gladstone as a member of thw samfc Government- In private life;, much a. lie di{'«ref from him at prt-sent, they were a-, good friends at ever. The duke told an anecdote to illustrate, this. I was going once," ha said, to cali on a lady in London, and when the door was earned and the servant announced my name, I saw the lady advancing to the door with a, look of abst>- lute consternation on her face. I could not. con- ceive what had happened, and thought I had entered her room at some inconvenient moment, but on looking over her shoulder I perceived Mr and Mir. Gladstone sitting at the tea tabL., and she evidently thought that there would t3& sem* great explosion when we met. Site was greatly gratified when nothing of the kind occurred, and we enjoyed a cup of tea as greatly as we had evef done in our lives."
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ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN IN LONDON. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Henry of Batten berg, and attended by the ladies and gentle- men of the Court, left Windsor at a quarter-past 11 on Monday morninK by It special train on the Gre\t Western Railway for P;iddingt-on en reutft to Buckingham Palace, where her Majesty will reside until Wednesday. The Queen returns to Windsor after the ceremony of the opening of the Imperial Institute. The Queen, on arriving at Paddington, drove in an open carriage to the palace by way of Hyd* Park and Constitution Hill, accompanied by an escort of Life Guards, and was loudly cheered at various points along the route. The Queen, who appeared in excellent health, drove out in the afternoon. Tho Prince of Wales, accompanied by Sir Francis KnoUys, visited the Imperial Institllt8 on Monday to see that all the arrangements art completed for the inaugural ceremony.
DUKE OF YORK'S BETROTHAL.
DUKE OF YORK'S BETROTHAL. The Press Association says it is now rumoured that the marriage of the Duke of York to Princeae Victoria of Teek will take place at the end of Juit in London, possibly in the private chapel 0& Buckingham Palace, where the Duke's eldest sist«r was married to the Duke of Fife. Work- men have been for some time engaged in re- decorating the building. The general public wili have ample opportunity of seeing the Royai couple, as they will go m State through Londog. after the ceremony. The Princess of Wales can- not return for another fortnight, and the detaiU of the arrangements Win be subject to ben approval. The Duchess of Teck and the Princes* May drove on Monday from White Lodge fcc- Marlborough House.
A MAN WITH THREE WIVES.
A MAN WITH THREE WIVES. Henry Montagu Martyn (34), civil engineer, oi Mercer's-road, Tufnell-park, Holioway, wat charged on remand, at North LondonPoiice-couri on Saturday, with feloniously intermarrying Emily Bidaie, bis lawful wife being then and now alive.—Mr Colbeck prosecuted for the Treasury, and Mr C. V. Young defended.—The case against the j>risoner was that he married, in 1880, Ruth Sanders, at Burton-on-Trent. lie took her te the Trawwaal, and left her thereand went to Arne. rica. At Port Oram, New Jersey, he married Jennie Henrich, and brought her to England, and when living with her at Notting-hill he married Miss Biddle, a schoolmistress of Holloway, and for a time lived alternately at two homes—one at Notting-hill and the other at Holloway. Proof had previously been given that the first wife ill now alive and keeping a school in the Transvaal, and that the prisoner, whilst living with the two ladies already named, had received money from her.—Evidence having been given, the prisoner was committed for trial on both charges, and thIS bail fixed at £ 200.—Miss Henrioh came back to the witness-box and told the magistrate that sha was entirely destitute cf money. All her valu- ables and money had gone, and she was dependent uppn the charity of the people who had allowed her to stay in their house. Mr Lauf gave her a few pounds from the poor box, a«d't:c'd her that no doubt somebody would help her back tc America when she was at liberty to f{O,
POWELL-DUFFRYN SHIPMENTS.
POWELL-DUFFRYN SHIPMENTS. The Powell-Duffryn Colliery Company raise and send away nearly two million tons of coal per annum. When, three or four years since, the directors determined to divert the major portion of the shipments to Cardiff, something like 200.000 tons per annum continued to be exported from Newport. By the return to the former practice of making Newport the principal place of export, the Usk port will get between 800,000 and 900,000 tons per annum; the other million tons goiug inland or to other ports. The comple- tion of the extension of the Alexandra Dock and the erection of coal-hoists has had an important bearing in the reconsideration of the matter by the directors of the company.
The" Field Ciub" at Cardiff.…
The" Field Ciub" at Cardiff. OPEN-AIR DRINKING RESORT. Remarkable Sunday Doings at Grangetswn. [BT OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] On Sunday morning I paid a visit to the "Marl Pit Hotel," Grangetown, Cardiff. There n,a, no difficulty in finding the spot: any cabman in the town would have driven me straight there without any further description, but I preferred to walk. The route lay through the Penarth- road and Clive-street, the latter thoroughfare promising to become a very iiandscme promenade when its ample width is shaded by the rapidly- growing trees planted on both sidos. It ends abruptly, another road crossing it at right angles, whilst the boundary is formed by a high railing, beyond which stretches a. rough piece of land ending m the West Mud, whilst a bridle-path leads by the side cf the Taff Vale Railway to tho Windsor Slipway, distant about half-a-inile. Some short distance from the railing there aro irregular excavations averaging about 8ft. in dF,pth, and extending over an acre or so. In a semi-circular bend ot this hollow I found the "Marl Pit Hotel" in full swing. Some seventy men wero seated crescent-sbapo in two rows, the centie being occupied by the chairman of the gathering, who answered to the name of "Jemmy." He occupied an elevated position on a 4Va-gallon cask of double X beer (empty), and en the ground in front cf hun was stretched a torn copy of Saturday's Echo. Near him was another cask, which was on tap, a man natued "Bill," a humorous, red-whiskered, and, as it transpired, strictly law-abiding character, acting as drawer. When he bad filled a tin decanter, which would hold about a quart, he started at one end of the crescent and gave a gill glassful to each man, who either drank it, or passed the liquor on to his neighbour. When the decanter was empty "Bill obtained a fresh supply, and continued his round until the two thirsty rows had bean refreshed. This process was repeated every few minutes, and the business was perfectly fair. No one obtained beer out of his turn, and he might then either drink or refuse, as his fancy dictated. Meanwhile the chairman kept informing the company concerning the progress of an informal collection which was taking place at his feet, the spread-out Echo being the receptacle of pennies and sixpences. There was absolutely no solicit- ing for money. A man might pay or not as he chose. Those who contributed threw their money into the paper, and "Jemmy" would shout, "Now then, geutlemen, weigh in for another bal"l. Two and six, two and nine, three bob- only eighteenpence more and we ring the bell. Here we are-look out, Harry, there's a sixpence rolled under your foot—four and six. Waiter, another four an' half, please. This is a jolly sight better game than tramping to Rumney." A volunteer would take the money and start for the wholesale beerhouse in Clive-street, vvhencehe would return with another small cask to replace the one emptied. I estimated the rate of consumption to be about one 4%, gallon barrel to every twenty minutes. The civility of the crowd was no less remarkable than their determination to obey what they conceived to be the law, and to avoid creating a nuisance or a scandal. When any person approached the edge of the marl pit he was at once good humouredly invited to descend and when he bad complied a glass of beer was handed him. In my case an offer was made to re-fill the glagf, as I was presumably thirsty after a long walk; but, to my mind, one glass of that beer was more than enough for anyone who really valued a good draught of the national beverage. I sat down on the outer horn of the circle, lit my pipe like the rest, and watched events with a curious eye. "Bill" came to ins twice again in my turn with the decanter and glass and on the third occasion, although I had steadily refused the beverage after the first trial, I offered him a shilling to add to the collection sujjervised by the chairman. This was an unconscious infraeticnof the rules of the "roughly-constituted but genuine club," as Mr T. W. Lewis styled it in his famous judgment. With Spartan virtue the red-whiskered one smilingly indicated the tattered Echo, and told me that I must personally deposit the inonev there, as there were no collecting agents. This is none of your bogus .concerns, you see," he explained. Them jiays as likes, and we all drink square," The congre- gation was respectable enough in the ordinary sense of the word. There were no loafera or corner-boys present so far as could be dis- cerned. Most certainly the great majority of the men were of the working class-masons, fitters, engineers, a few sailors, &c. — and by their f-umtnary treat- ment of a few urchins who ventured to the edge of the "liotel," it was evident that they did not wish to set the juveniles a bad example. For the same reason they did not like to be over- looked from the surface, as the congregation of a crowd in that locality might be disagreeable to the occupants of the adjoining houses. About 12.30 o'clock a party of well-dressed people came from ths town, and were promptly greeted with enthusiasm. Bill stated that he was 'ighly complimented by their presence," land "Jemmy" cried, "This way, gents— sinoking-rooin on the right, library straight ahead." The new-comers, who certainly had the appearance of having walked straight from church or chapel to the marl pit, did not refuso the beer, and expressed their sympathy with this unusual method of demonstrating the working man's right to a drink when he wants one. The conversation among the assembled crowd woa quite of the ordinary gossiping nature. One man near me discussed Mr Clayton's cricket score with obvious admiration, he having made out that the young Harrovian had scored a run a minute during a. four-hours' innings. Another ipoke with much appreciation of Lurd Windsor's kindness in allowing them to use the marl pit for their Sunday gathering. U His lordship believes in the working man having his glass of beer like anybody else," he said, "and when they wanted him to jirosecnte us for being here Lord Windsor said, No, I'm Well, it doesn't matter what Lord Windsor said, or how he said it, but he is supposed to have expressed his determina- tion not to interfere with the men so long as they behaved themselves. The members of the County Club will be somewhat surprised to hear the following synopsis of their rules, as given for my benefit, by a pittite whom I questioned upon the constitution of the Marl Club. "We do the same as the Westgate Club," he explained. This did not suffice, so he further elucidated. "You see, when a gent wishes to give another gent a drink he takes him into the County Club, and they open a bottle of cham- pagne between em. But he don't pay for it. Every now and then they have a tot up and find out how much is wanting, and they divide the expense among the members, each man paying according to his means. Lord Windsor will give £ 500—what's £ 500 to a man like him ?— and the others pay what they can afford." "Are there no annual subscriptions or monthly accounts ?" I inquired. "No it's just as I tell you." "Then I supp >se if a man wished to booze at the others' expense he could do so ?' Oh, they don't have none of theui sort there. The members takes care what kind of folk they eleot." Which remark was unanswerable. I have little to say that will give more adequate idea of the form and manner of the Marl Pit Hotel." If questioned on the point I should positively deny that the men I saw on Sunday were idlers, or blackguards, or scoundrels of sorts. They were working men pure and simple, with a flavour of strong language, and stronger tobacco, but undeniable wage-earners. One man, indeed, indicated his position as head of the family by carrying in his arms a very pretty and well, dressed baby, The only way you can stop Us from getting a glass of beer is to shut up the brewers," observed one of the orowd. Pooh," said another, we'll make it home then, as people did long ago." On Sunday I saw another al fresco beerhouse, which was of more limited accommodation, being situ- ated at a much further distance (near the Windsor Slipway) from the wholesale establishment than was the "Marl Pit Hotel." Therefore, it was no slight task in a hot sun to carry a cask over the intervening ground. In constitution and practice it in no way differed from its more thriving neigh- bour. There were several policemen about the locality, but they, ot course, were powerless in view of the decision of the stipendiary magis- trate. The wholesale house in Clive-street bore the following legend "F. Smith, licensed dealer in ale. Beer and porter stores. Family supplied with smaH casks. Light hauling done." Smith might have added, c. Four-in-hand driver through Acts ot parliament. A his Marl Pit Club or notei is a deoidedly original idea. Columbus planned his voyage to America in a cell, Uaiiteo perfected his globe in a aungeon. Why should not some Grangetown Solomon settle the Licensing Law in an excavation Vigorous Speech by Canon Thompson. On Monday evening a conference of ladies and I gentlemen interested in the work of feeding the hungry and destitute children of Cardiff was held in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, at Cardiff. The Rev. Canon Thompson, M,A.. presided, and in the course of his introductory remaiks referred to the remarkable fact that Mr G. Percy Thomas had fed over 13,000 children during the winter at a cost of 33 4d per head. an achieve- ment which should certainly prove of interest to the students and professors of economic science in their schools and colleges He felt very strongly that the greatest foe of childhood in the land was not so much the natural depravity or brutality of the human heart, but it was drink. (Applause.) He had been greatly pained and ashamed to read what was taking place Sunday after Sunday in what was a fresh development of the unlawful, un- manly, aud un-English resistance to the statutory law af the land. He referred to those disgraceful exhibitions—for so they were— which took place down at Grangetown—(hear, hear)—the exhibition which was called the Hotel de Marl. He couid not, and did not believe that the men who met there met really to gratify what would be a bestial desire for drink. Ho was inclined to think that what really accounted for that singular phenomenon was a sort of idea that the liberty and freedom of the British working man had been unduly inter- fered with, and they had hit upon this ingenious and moat unworthy device to show their objec- tion to a. law which had been passed. If that be the case they need not be hopeless, and he would appeal to thoso men, many of whom must be fathers, and say, If not for your home's sake if not for the sake of obeying the law, which is equally binding upon the rich and the poor if not for the sake of your own manhood and respectability, then for the sake of your children have nothing to do with such exhibitions." He thought they might fairly ask the Press of the town to help them, as they wero always willing to do. Ho would appeal to tho Press, not so much as a clergyman or a temperance reformer, but as a citizen—believing that they were equally with themselves desirjus of pro- moting the well-being of the entire community— to put the weight of their influence in the other scale, and prevent as soon as possible what they mnst all think and feel was nothing less than an insult and outrage upon the whole community. (Hear bear) He had no objection whatever to working men and working women enjoying themselves in what was not a strictly religious way upon the one day of the weulc they had abuudant leisure and rest. Nor did he see why the British working man should not have his glass of beer if he wanted it. tut he thought that matters had now come to such a point that all members of the community, whether religious people cr not, whether teetotal- ers or temperance reformers or not, should really feet themselves bound, for the sake of the common good order and welfare of the community in which they were placed, for the sake of their common manhood and the brotherly feelings which ought to exist, to utter a protest against such proceedings as he had mentioned. (Hear, hear.) Mr LEWIS WILLIAMS wished to say how fully he sympathised with Canon Thompson's remarks with regard to the Sunday drinking at Grange- town. There was one thing they might do at once. They might ask the watoh committee to test the legality of their stipendiary's decision in the matter. He did not wish to criticise that decision, because he had the highest opinion of the motives which actuated the Stipendiary, and of his ability and great sincerity. But the decision must be tested forthwith. If that was the law, then thfey must have it remedied. (Applause.) He concluded by moving a resolution relative to the Sunday drinking at Grangetown in the terms of his speech. Mr ROBKRTS-JONES seconded the resolution, whioh was carried. Dr. Holder being the only dissentient.
- OUTRAGE ON AN. OLD MAN.
OUTRAGE ON AN. OLD MAN. Two Penarth Men in Custody. Before Colonel Guthrie, the only presiding justice at Penarth Police-court on Monday, two brothers, named Alf. and Chris. lbll. 5, Dock. road, appeared in ens tody charged with feloniously wounding with intent to do him griev- ous bodily harm, an old nuiu named James Dando, a coal trimmer, residing at 17, James-street. The prosecutor attended with his face highly disfigured, and his head en. veloped 10 bandages. Owing to the severe ill- treatment he had received he was aHowed a seat in the dock. On Sunday morning, between two and three o'clock, he was sleeping in the front room downstairs at his house, when he was awakened by the smashing of his. window, and shortly afterwards he observed a man's head pushed through the hole, He addressed the intruder by asking what was his business there; but he got a jumble of a reply which he could not understand. His wife proceeded to open the door, and he went to the kitchen for a stIck. Prisoner took the stick from the old man's grasp, and followed him to the kitchen, where he was maltrea.ted so badly that he was rendered insensible. The shirt which complainant wore at the time was produced, and it was saturated in blood. Sergeant Sansom and Constable Tucker were patrolling a street close by, and being attracted by cries of Murder!' they at cnce hastened to the scene and found the old man lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen, with Alf. Hill striking him unmercifully, but Chris was m the doorway with a huge-looking stick in his hands. Aftor the jxibce had safely lodged the accused at the police-station, complainant, who was bleeding profusely, was taken to Dr. Rees's surgory, He had a wound an inch and a half long over the left ear, winch penetrated to the bone, and he had another wound a quarter of an inch long under the eye, m additIon to bruises on tho head. It appeared that an artery m do- ceased's head was cut, and, if it bad not been for the promptitude of Dr. Rees, it .vas quite possi. ble prosecutor would have bled to death.— Prisoners were committed to the quarter-sessions, bail being allowed, themselves in £50 each, and two sureties in £ 25.—Mr Alex. Morris, solicitor, defended.
SAD FATALITY AT TREORKY.
SAD FATALITY AT TREORKY. Oa Monday afternoon Mr Rhys, ooroner, held an inquest at the Stag Hotel, on the child ot Mr Austin, bookseller, which ibed on Thursday evening from the effects of burns, under circum- stancea reported.—It appeared from the evidence of Mrs Austin that the little boy. 31h years of age, had got into a crate containing some willow shavings, which was close by the kitchen at the rear of the shop. Her other boy noticed smoke rising up in volumes near the kitchen, and ran from the road into the house and told her. She immediately went out of the kitchen, and dis- covered her child in the burning crate. She thrust her arm into the fire to try to pull him out, but failed. Mr Horton, greengrocer, re- siding within a feiv yards of the shop, happened to be near the spot at the tune, and noticing smoke issuing from the premises, and hearing the cries of the mother, he leaped over the boundary wall and pulled the little boy out of the fire. J)r. Wright, Treorky, was immediately sent for, and ha administered opiates to alleviate the agonies of the little sufferer. A verdict of "Death hy misadventure was returned.—The remains were interred at Treorky Cemetery 011 Monday afternoon, the Rev. W. Morris, Treorky, officiating.
- THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD.
THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. Erecting the Pavilion. The executive committee of the National Eisteddfod of 1893 was held on Monday evening at the Vestry-ball, Pontypridd, Mr David Leyshon presiding. It was decided that in future the committee should meet every Monday even- ;l1g at 6.30. A sjiecial meeting of the guarantors was arranged to be called to consider whether refreshment booths should be allowed on the eis- teddfod ground. The members of the advertising committee were asked to continue in office, and a committee of seven gentlemen was appointed to arrange for the registration of l°dging.liouses and railway facilities. It was reported that a large number of Belgians were busy erecting the iron framework of the pavi- lion, under the superintendence of Messrs Fish- burne Bros.. the contractors. Complaint was made that the Belgians were working on Sundays, and the secretary (Mr D. E. Phillips) was asked to write to the contractors suggesting that Sunday work should, if possible, be discontinued.—Dr. Thomas, Bridgend, was appointed co-adjudicator, with Dr. Alfred Evans in ambulance subjects.
APPOINTMENT OF MAGIS. TRATES.
APPOINTMENT OF MAGIS. TRATES. At the evening sitting of the House of Com- mons on Friday. Sir Charles Dilke brought forward his amendment declaring tt expedient that the appointment of county magistrates should no longer be made by the Lords Chancellor of Great Britain and Irelwid for the time being only on the recommendation of the Lords- Lieutenant. In the course of the debate Mr Asquith said that the Lord Chancellor did not feol justified in setting aside the present practice without an unequivocal declaration from the House of Commons on the subject. The Govern- ment trusted that the House would respond to that appeal. Mr Balfour opposed the amendment, which on a division was carried by 293 votes to 240—a majority of 53.
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THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WAKEFIELD. The adjourned inquest on the three men killed hy the explosion at Walton Colliery, near Wake- field, on Monday, was held on Friday. It was stated that the duty cf Phelps, one of the decea-ed, was to examine the mine before tho other men went down, but whether he did so on the Monday is net known. No gas had besn met with before the explosion or noticed since. Naked lights were used. One man got out of the pit alive, but did not liva long the other two were dead when found. A verdict of accidentally killed was returned.
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ILORD BUTE'S MAYORALTY.
LORD BUTE'S MAYORALTY. Presentation of an Address. On Monday, at a meetmg of Cardiff Town Council-presided over by the Mayor (Councillor W. E. Vaughan)—the Maquis of Bute was pre- sented with an illuminated address iu commemor- ation of his mayoralty during the year 1890-91. TheTown Clerk (MrJ.L. Wheatley) read thereso- lution of the council of date November 9th, 1891, recording their sincere and cordial thanks to his lordship for the admirable and efficient manner in which lie had fulfilled the duties of the office, the manifold and faithful services he had rendered, his recepeion of the British Association, and the tact and geniality with which bo had pre- sided over the deliberations of the council. The resolution was beautifully engrossed en vellum, signed by the then mayor (Alderman T. Rees) and the town clerk. The MAYOR, in making the presentation, said it gave the council great pleasure to see his lord- ship in the council chamber once more. (Applause.) The event re-called to them the time when he was unanimously eleefced m<tyor of that important borough, a position he had graciously accepted and faithfully filled, to the satisfaction of every burgess in the town— (applause)—and now they had to convey to him their heartfelt thanks and he might also express the hope that his lordship might occupy the popition again some time in the future. (Ap- plause.) His lordship had enormous interests In Cardiff, and the corporation felt at tim^s under painful obligation in asking for certain things at his hands, but it must be remembered that the corporation, as representatives of the town, were n >t asking thoso things for huaselvea, but for the good cf the town at large. (H«ar, hear.) And he ventured to say that what bene- fited the town would be of benefit to Lord Bute. Their interests were all one, and what the corporation wished to do was to promote the welfare of th., town, and make it, as his lordship desired itto be, the best port and borough in the kingdom. (Applause.) They appreciated the services rendered by his lordship during his year of office, and were not unmindful of his generous gifts, particularly the fine portrait of himself, a gift which would always be looked upon with esteem and regard. They also highly appreciated the gift of the loving cup, which would always be treasured by the corporation. They also wished to express their high regard and esteem for the kindness and urbanity of Lady Bute; and he could assure the marquis that no people could bo more attached to him and Lady Bute and family than the people of Cardiff. (Applause.) All they wanted was that his lord. sh p and family nrght be more amongst the inhabitants of the town. (Hear, hear.) Lord BUTE, on rising to acknowledge the gift, was received with hearty applause. He said Your worship, aldermen, and gentlemen, I need not say that I thank you most sincerely for this, as well as for the many other tokens of kindness which I have received at your hands. Those who knew me when I had the honour of occupying the place which your worship at pre- sent holds, know how anxious I was to conform my own conduct upon the model of my pre- decessors in the mayoral chair. (Hear, hear.) Certainly the present occasion can form no ex- ception to that rule. When I had the pleasure myself, upon one cr two occasions, of performing this ceremony, tho recipient desired to acknow- ledge how much he felt indebted, for any usefulness he had been privileged to do, to the courtesy, kindness, and considera- hon, the help and the support which he had received at the hands of this council. That is the acknowledgment which I also desire now to make, with the most grateful appreciation, as I look back upon a year of my life the memory of which gives me peculiar pleasure. (Loud ap- plause.) His Lordship retired from the council chamber amid renewed applause. The vote of thanks to Lord Bute is executed upon a sheet of fine vellum, measuring 22 by 16 inches. The text of the vote, including the dato of the meeting, the names of the aldermen rnd councillors present, with the copies of the resolu- tions, occupies the centre cf the vellum, and is done, for the must part, in Old English black letter, with painted leading lines, and illuminated and decorated capitals. The space which con- tains the lettering is arranged m elliptical shape, and the spandrels thus formed at each corner have been filled with ornamental forms cf floral design with int<'l'l>\cing!'3. These have been painted upon a background of rich blue colour, with great care and attention to minute detail. Between this and the limits of the actual text, the vellum has been whollycovered with a 010 ely- painted diaper. Spaces in this diaper have been reserved for vignettes, the Castle front, Town-hall, and the Free Library being being thus introduced. In the oval space at the uppHr part of the diaper have been placed, side by side, the arms of the county borough and those of Lord Bute, with their mottoes, and sur- mounted by the mural crown. The work has been artistically executed by Mr James Tilley, of Penarth.
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LICENSING OFFENCE AT NEWPORT. At Newport; Borough Police-court on Monday— before Messrs J. W. Jones, H. A. Huzzey, and T. Goldsworthy, magistrates — George Windsor, landlord of the Maindee Hotel, Chepstow-road, was summoned for permitting drunkenness cn his licensed premises. v Mr A. A. Newman, town clerk, ajjpeared to prosecute, and Mr L. H. Hornby, solicitor, represented the defendant. Mr Newman, in his opening statement, said that on Monday, the 24th April, two men, named Elijah Crumb and Daniel Beavan, went into the hotel about seven o'clock and remained there drinking rum for ibout two hours. On coining out it was seen that both men were drunk. Daniel Beavan, bricklayer, .44, Gordon-street, stated that he went to the Maindee Hote) about half-past six on the morning in question. He had three glasses of rum and water in the house. Witness left about half-past nine, and when opposite the Carpenters' Arms he felt something come over him, and fell down. He bad about six other falls before arrriving home, and by the latter falls he bruised and wounded his face.—In answer to Mr Hornhy, witness said that he left the house abuut quarter past eight. He was not drunk when he left the house.—Elijah Crumb also stated that he was drinking in the housefromaboutbalf-pastsixuntil 10 o'clock. In answer to Mr Hornby, witness also said that he was sober when he left the house, and it was not until he was some distance from the house that he felt something come over him. —Dr. Lewis stated that he was called to attend Beavan on the 24th ult. about 10 o'clock. Beavan was then drunk, and had a wound on his noso about two inches long.— Mr Hornby contended that there was no evidence as to the men being drunk on the premises. The magistrates' clerk advised the bench that there was a case to answer. Mr Hornby then called the defendant, who stated that the men t'.ft his house sober about quarter past eight on the morning in question. The men had been working at Castletown, and asked witness to drive them to their work.and witness .ent out and put the pony in the trap. The men afterwards changed their minds and went home.—Miss Windsor, the daughter of the landlord, also stated that the men were not drunk when they left the house. Wit- ness drew them a quart of beer, which was shared by Beavan and Crumb and two other men. —Charles Mitchell, who was also in the house at the time, stated that the men were sober when they left the hon«e. In answer to Mr Newman, witness said that he entered the house with Beavan mid Crumb, and did not leave until sometime after they had gone. He had three glasses of whisky and shared the quart of beer with the other men. The drink had no effect upon him.—Tiie Bench retired to consider the case, and on coining into court the Chairman announced that the magistrates found that drunkenness did take place in the house, and fined the defendant 20s, including costs. Beavan and Crumb, for being drunk on the premises at the time, were fined 5^ each.
--CREDITORS' MEETINGS AT CARDIFF.
CREDITORS' MEETINGS AT CARDIFF. RE JOHN GRIFFITHS, WHITCHURCH.—A meet- ing of the creditors ot John Griffiths, of Waun- treoda Shop. Whitchurch, was held at the effiee of Mr T. H. Stephens, official receiver, on Monday. The debtor's statement of affairs showed gross liabilities B215 Is lid expected to rank, £206 la lid deficiency, J6171 16, 3d. The receiving order was made on the 21st of April this year, and debtor alleges that his causes of failure are bad debts, insufficiency of capital, and slackness in trade. No resolution I was passed, and Mr T. II. Stephens remains trustee. RE JABEZ ROUTH, of 71, Arran-street, and JOSEPH ROUTH, of 10, Anglesea-street, Cardiff, boot dealers —A meeting of creditors was held on Monday at the omceofthe official receiver, Queen- street. The receiving order was made on the 15th of April, and the gross liabilities are stated to be £1,271 5s lid, of which JB1,269 33 lid is expected to rank, and the deficiency is set down as £852 15s 9d. The causes of failure are alleged to be depression in trade, strikes, stoppage of iron and steel works, and ivid debts.—No resolution was passed, and the official receiver remains trustee.
TESTIMONY TO VACCINATION.
TESTIMONY TO VACCINATION. Extraordinary Effeot at Swansea. At a meeting of the Swansea Rural Sanitary Authority, held on Monday, Dr. Griffiths re- ported that measles and scarlet fever prevailed in the district of Llandilo-Talybont—Dr. E. Rice Morgan reported four cases of typhoid fever at Llangyfelach. In a footnote he said It may interest you to know how powerful in many cases is the effect of vaccination. The infant of a woman, reported as suffering from small-pox, last month was vaccinated on the third day after the disease showed itself on the mother. It was taken by the mother to the infectious hospital, and remained with her the whole time, but I am glad to say has escaped absolutely from any sign of small-pox."
SWINDLING A MONEY-LENDER.
SWINDLING A MONEY-LENDER. At theCentraICriminat Court. London, onMon- day. Henry B. Leicester, London, manager to Mr Townend, money-lender, carrying on business in various parts of the country, was sentencod to seven years' penal servitude for forging and utter- ing a promissory note for J6300. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner's defalcations amounted to £4,200, and that his actions had caused witness to spend j31,000 in htigation.
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