The Cardiff Times

FEARS OF A REBELLION. Melbourne, Monday.—The Sydney correspon- dent of the Age says the Chinese Reform Party in that city have received a private telegram from China suggesting that the death of the Emperor was due to foul play. Members of the party express apprehension of rebellious outbreaks m consequence of dynastic changes. —Renter. Peking in Blue. Pekfug, Sunday.—It was announced officially that the Dowager Empress died at 2 o'clock this afternoon. An edict published this morning f laces Prince Pu Yi on the throne, and the oreign Legation have been notified of his ac- cession. The Legations are guarded by troops. Thsw have been no disorders. The foreign troops herp have taken measures to safeguard their respective countrymen. The British Legation guard has been increased by the arrival of 50 of 2nd Cameron Highlanders from TieDtsin- Reuter. Peking, Sunday. -The city has already as- mimed its garb of mourning for the late Em- peror and the Dowager Empress. All red ooiour has everywhere been eliminated, and blue (the colour of mourning) substituted. The natives, usually unemotional, have been profoundly im- pressed by the demise of the powerful Empress. At the Palace elaborate rites are being ob. served, and a flood of edicts is being issued. Mourning for a period of three years has been decreed. The deathbed observances of 3,000 years ago marked the passing of the Emperor and Em- press. Both died alone and unattended, though in the centre of a circle of abject spectators, who remained a rod away, unable to approach owing to the sacredness of the persons of their Majesties. It is believed the Emperor received no medical care whatsoever. The Government announce the Empress during a lucid interval on Friday received Prince Ching, and approved edicts declaring Princo Pu Yi heir presumptive, and Prince Chun Regent. This is discredited, but it is believed she has successfully established the Manchu regime free from obstacle, and the opinion is expressed here that the solution found for the difficulty which necessarily con- fronted the Government is the best that could possibly have been demised.—Press. Association Foreign Special. Royal Death-Bed Decrees. Peking. Monday.—The valedictory decree of the Empress-Dowager published in the official Gazette last night refers to the decree which she issued in 1906 preparing for the grant of a constitution, and to the proclamation this year of the date when it will be granted. In the valedictory decree of the Emperor pub- lished on the previous evening reference is also made to the necessity of preparing diligently for a constitution and carrying out measures of reform ordained in each year, so that after nine years a constitution may be proclaimed. Both utterances willpowerfullystrengthen the move- ment towards constitutional reform in China. The suggestion is scouted thai jn the case of either the Emperor or Dowager-Empress death was due to other than natural causes. Since her birthday the Empress had been ailing, and the excitement of the last few days before the death ,of the Emperor brought about about a collapse from which she died.— Times." per Press Association. A Pen Picture. The story that the late Dowager Empress was by birth a Cantonese slave girl is as groundless as the assertion that her maternal grandfather was a European. Purity of Manchu descent is a condition of eligibility for selection for the Imperial harem, and she was the daughter of a military official, into whose family she was born in 1834. One event marking the approach of three- score years and ten, in itself illustrative of the growth of Occidental ideas in China, was the painting of a memorial porliraitof the Empress Dowager, subsequently exhibited at the St. Louia Exposition, by Miss Katharine Carl, an American artist, who took advantage of this exceptionally favourable opportunity to draw a pen picture of the sitter ;— A perfectly proportioned figure, with head well set upon her shoulders, and a fine presence; really beautiful hands, daintily small, and high- bred in shape a symmetrical, well-formed head, with a good development above the rather large ears; jet black hair, smoothly parted over a fine, broad brow delicate, well- arched eyebrows brilliant black eyes, set perfectly straight in the head a high nose of the type the Chinese call noble," broad between the eyes and on a line with the fore- head an upper lip of great firmness a rather large but beautiful mouth, with mobile red lipa, which, when parted over her firm, white teeth, give her smile a rare charm a strong chin, but not of exaggerated firmness, and with no marks of obstinacy. Had I not known that she was nearing her 69th year, I should have thought her a well-preserved woman of forty. Female Bluebeard. If ambition was the mainspring of this lady's public acts and power, the only god she wor- shipped, she was not by any means insensible to other emotions, and her cult had room for lesser idols. Once she had the reins of govern- ment in her own hands she felt that her baser appetites were no longer restrained by motives of prudence, and her code of morals knew none other. In judging a. woman like Tse Si it would be unfair to employ European standards of conduct. Still, even in heathen ethics there are degrees and limits, and the Chmese par- venue outran them all. She was wont to select her favourites from among the crowds of stu- dents who flocked to Peking from all cornera of the vast Empire to pass the four examinations which should throw open to them the portals of fortune and favour, but which for these chosen ones opened only the gates of death. She treated all these temporary husbands as Bluebeard dealt with his wives. As soon as ,she was tired of one, he passed from the pres- enceof his.Imperial mistress into the hands of the executioner, and was at once succeeded by another.

Miss Hasiam, of Ash ton -on>RibbIe, has pre- sented Preston with a new park 45 acres in ex- tent. She stipulates that a large portion of the park shall be reserved for quiet recreaticai apart feam^uneflk'

Kaiser and Mr Kruger. STORY OF FAMOUS TELEGRAM. Berlin, Saturday.—The Munich Allege- meine Zeitung," in an article described as sent in from diplomatic circles, says shortly before the Jameson Raid the late Count Hatzfeldt, then German Ambassador in London, was charged by his Government to ask Mr Cham- berlain whether he was aware what was the nature of -the events which Mr Rhodes and his adherents were preparing in South Africa. Mr Chamberlain replied that Mr Rodes's bellicose intentions were not unknown to him, but that he had no actual grounds to j ustify him in stating his suspicions in the House of Commons. Moreover, Parliament, in view of Mr Rhodes's great popularity, would scornfully reject any precautionary measures which the Colonial Minister might propose. Almost simultaneously with the despatch to Berlin of Count Haltzfeldt's report of Mr Chamberlain's answer, the first news of the Jameson Raid reached Europe. J The important political deliberations between the Emperor William and his principal adviser, to which other Ministers were also admitted. resulted in the despatch by the Emperor of his well-known telegram to Mr Kruger, which was not, as hitherto assumed, done extempore, but with the full assent of the Chancellor. The telegram, says the Allegemeine Zeitung," had a threefold object. Firstly, it was intended to satisfy the sense of justice of wide circles in Germany which were up in arms at the violation of international law. Secondly, it was to be a kind of test for the attitude of all the other Great Powers in the event of Ger- many and Great Britain coming into collision, diplomatically, in South- W est Africa; and, thirdly, it might have given the British Gov- ernment an opportunity to take official steps against Mr Rhodes and his company. This threefold object was fully approved also by Prince Bismarck.—Reuter. Kaiser Returning to Berlin. Donaueschingen (Baden), Sunday.—General Count Von Huelsen Haeseler, Adjutant- General to the Emperor, had an apoplectic seizure yesterday evening, and died imme- diately. In consequence of the Count's death the Emperor has abandoned his intention of going to Kiel, where he was to have received Prince Buelow in audience to-morrow. The Emperor will proceed this morning to Berlin, Returning to Donaueschingen this evening. Berlin (Later).—The Emperor has informed Prince Von Buelow that owing to the change in his plans caused by the death of Count Von Huelsen Haeseler the audience which had been arranged to take place on board the battleship Deutsch- land at Kiel to-morrow must be abandoned. His Majesty will remain at Donaueschingen until to-morrow evening, and will then return direct to Berlin, where he will arrive on Tues- day morning. It is generally expected that Prince Von Buelow will then have the audience which everybody here is awaiting with intense excitement.—Reuter.

A TRAGEDY OF THE ALPS. Sion. Monday.—The bodies of the three Swiss tourists who lost their lives on the Haut de Cry were found in the following circumstances. Two volunteer search parties started up the mountain on Saturday morning from the east and west side respectively. They met at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, not far from the sum- mit, above a couloir with an almost vertical drop. The first column then saw the body of M. Mueller hanging on a rock, while 150 yards lower down were the bodies of MM. Guex and Jouvenat, face downwards in the snow. It is believed that the accident happened in the fol- lowing way. The party had crossed an ex- tremely difficult and dangerous passage to the north, and were roped together. M. Mueller, who was leading, must have slipped and dragged his two companions with him into the almost perpendicular couloir. The body of M. Mueller was caught on the rock where it was found. His companions must have been thrown over him. Then the rope broke, and they were hurled to death 150 yards lower. Arrangements are being made with all posai ble speed to recover the bodies before a fall of snow buries them out of sight until spring; but the work will be extremely difficult, the place where the bodies lie being almost inaccessible. -Reuter.

WRIT NAILED TO MAST. In the Admiralty Division on Monday Mr L. Batten, on behalf of the Official Solicitor, moved the President to commit to prison, or to grant leave to attach for alleged contempt of court, Captain Edgar Edward Lees, late R.N., and managing director of the Whitehead Tor- pedo Company, Ltd., Portland Mr W. F. Dodd, the works manager; and Captain C. W. E. Read, master of the tug Queen. Counsel stated that on September 7th last the Italian barque SalinarStanford Was brought into Portland by salvors, and in the salvage proceedings which were instituted was arrested by the Admiralty marshal and left in charge of an officer of the court, the writ being nailed to the mast. In these circumstances on November 3rd the tug Queen, in command of Captain Read, and under the orders of the other two respondents, removed the barque to another position so that she may not be in the range of certain torpedo testa. Captain Lees and Mr Dodd in the witness box both stated that when they gave orders for th^removal of the vessel they were unaware she was under arrest, and counsel on their be- half now apologised for what occurred. His Lordship, giving judgment, said he thought that the justice of the case would be met and the sense of the court indicated, by dismissing the motion as against Captain Lees and Mr Dodd on their undertaking to recoup the collectors of the Custom the expense they had been put to in putting the barque into position approved by the harbour master, and by ordering Captain Read to pay x the costs of the motion.

£3,200 FOR OCEAN SALVAGE., On Monday in the Admiralty Court the Presi- dent (Sir Gorell Barnes), sitting with Trinity Masters, had before him an action brought by the owners, master, and crew of the steamship Ganges to obtain salvage remuneration in respect of services rendered to the steamship Malvern, the cargo and freight, in the Atlantic Ocean on August 4th. The Ganges, while on a voyage from Newport to Buenos Ayres with a cargo of coal, fell in with the Malvern flying signals of distress in about lat. 21-05 N. and long. 23-42 W. It appeared that the Malvern, when on a voyage from Rosario to Newport with a cargo of grain, had eight days Earlier broken down owing to breakages in the valve gears of her engines. The Ganges took the Malvern in tow, and eventually on August 9th brought her safely to Las Palmaa, the distance covered being 638 miles. Defendants, while admitting services, pleaded that they consisted of an easy ocean towage. The value of the salved property was t27,957. His Lordship awarded the plaintiffs £3,200. giving £2,500 to the owners of the Ganges, JE250 to her master, and £450 to the crew.

QUEST FOR SUNDAY DRINKS. At Carmarthen Petty Sessions on Saturday Thomas Gravelle, Tynewydd, Mynyddygarreg, was fined 15s David Jones, Newcastle House* Bontnewydd, Kidwelly, 20s; David Rees, Sardis, Trimsaran, 20s Henry Lewis, Dder- wen Cottage, Mynyddygarreg, 15s and David Jones, Drynllwyn Cottage, Mynyddgareg, 15s, for contravening the Sunday Closing Act. De- fendants were found in the kitchen of the Joiners' Anns, Llansaint, at 12.20 on Sunday afternoon, the 1st inst. The capture was re- ported by Police-constable Richards, of Ferry- side, and, according to the evidence, he and Police-constahit Davies. of KidweUy, sur- prised the defendants while they were dis- cussing a half gallon of beer." When ques- tioned by the policemen as to where they slept the previous night, David Jones, one of the defendants, said, The truth will stand we all slept at the Chemical Inn, Kidwelly, last night.' AH five defendants then signed an admission in the presence of the two con- stables. Supt. J ones told the Bench he had received numerous complaints about defen- dants roaming about the country in gangs on Sundays and endeavouring to obtain drinks at public-houses. Some of the men had been in trouble before. Gravelle was identified by P.C. Richards as the man who had given him a wrong name and address in the village of Llandefeilog, where, on the 7th of August last, he found him drunk and creating a disturb- ance. For this offence, Gravelle was fined 10B and costs.

INTHEACTOFTURNINGHIM OUT At Bridgend on Saturday Wm. Thomas, land- lord of the Nanthir Hotel, Blaengarw, was sum- maned for permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises. P.C. Senior said that on the previous Saturday night he found three men drunk on the premises. Mr David Llewellyn, solicitor, who defended, admitted that two of the men were more or less under the influence of drink, but one was in a room which was in semi-darkness and could not be observed from the bar, and he had only been in that room two minutes, while the other man had only just come into the passage when the police arrived, and the landlord was in the act of turning Kim out. The case was dismissed.

MAil BAG IN A SWANSEA STREET. On Saturday morning some mystery pre- vailed for a time over a report of a mail bag having been picked up in Little Wind street, Swansea. It appears that the bag, which con- tained parcels, was found in the middle of the road by a constable, at 5.30 in the morning, and though the postal authorities arereticentit would seem that the trolley in which this and other bags are conveyed, left the Post Office in charge of only the driver, instead of, as is customary, two men, and that while the vehicle was passing through Little Wind-street to the station, the bag in question must have dropped off unnoticed. This street is little frequented at so early an hour, and the bag lay on the road an hour and a half before the officer LflecKedUfc, „

—• = ———————— I REASONS WHY. -u_ THE ARCHBISHOP I am very glad to see that you Scottish boys have such exceptional educational advantages. You are more fortunate than your English school-fellows. Why is it 1 SCOTTISH BOY (TOMMY SHAW): Well, your Grace, we in Scotland know the value of education, and we have had no religious difficulty to interfere with it. ) Cartoon by Sir F. C. Gould. Published by arrangement with the Westminster Gazette,

AFTER WIFE LEFT HIM. HUSBAND CHARGED WITH BIGAMY. At Aberavon on Monday Wm. Edward Saun- ders, collier, Ystrad-row, Ystrad Rhondda, a native of Aberavon, was charged with bigamy by feloniously marrying Florence Emily Howells, 't his wife, Elizabeth M. Saunders, being then alive. Mr L M. Thomas appeared for the de- fendant. Sergeant Davies said. he arrested de- fendant at Cwmavon. Defendant replied, It is quite true." Witness secured the certificate of defendant's marriage with Elizabeth Minny Kiff at Neath Registry Office on July 21st, 1894 John Saunders, Woodland-row, Cwmavon,. defendant's father, said there were two boys of the marriage. Defendant had been separated from his wife for about eight years. Louisa Brown, Bridge House, Port Talbot, said defendant was married to her sister, Minnie, who left him effeht years ago, when they were living at Llewellyn's Quay, Port Talbot. Her sister eloped with a man who lived next door. Witness believed they all lived together at Maesteg. Four years ago defendant went to witness's house while Minnie was there and begged her to return to him. She refused, and replied that she was very well suited as she was. She believed defendant and his wife lived happily during the time they were together. Witness's family had turned against Minnie because she had disgraced them." Florence Emily Howells (24), of Robert- street, Pentre, Rhondda, said she had known defendant for over 12 months, when he went to lodge at her parents' house. He stated that he was single. They kept company a fortnight after he went to lodge with them, and under a promise of marriage she was seduced. She told him of her conditionLand he replied, Very well, I will marry you. That was my intention. They were married on April 4th last at Ponty- pridd Registry Office. A child was born soon after the marriage, and a fortnight afterwards she heard thatdefendantwas already a married man, tod asked him if that was so. He replied that he "had no wife but her. Witness had recently summoned Lim at Ystrad Police Court for persistent cruelty, but the case wasad- journed for a month. Cross-examined, witness admitted that she had two children previously. Witness further admitted that she had had one child previously by a married man, but he had promised to marry her and had failed. She denied that she was told he was a married man. Defendant was committed to the Assizes and refused bail, as Florence Howells objected. Defendant, she alleged, had been to Pentre last week and threatilhed to do for her, and she was therefore afraid of her life.

WHAT OUR ROADS COST. The annual expenditure on the roads of the United Kingdom is £ 18,464,379, according to a report by Mr Rees Jeftreys, secretary of the Roads Improvement Association, which gives the figtires for the year 1905-6. Of the total, £16,MOJ,82 was spent in England and Wales. This is believed to be the first time that the I kingdom's yearly expenditure on roads has been shown. The total mileage of roads in England and Wales is 149,759, and the various highway authorities number 1,896. authorities number 1,896.

STABBED IN HIS SHOP. I MURDER OF LONDON MONEY CHANGER At Bow-street on Monday the young man, who gave the name of Jas. McDonald, was fur- ther charged with the wilful murder of Mr Schlitte, of the firm of Messrs Cartmell and Schlitte, foreign bankers and money changers, Shaftesbury-avenue. There are further charges against him. of .maliciously wounding a man named Carter, and a policeman. Prisoner, who atill looked ill, was provided with a seat in the dock. Evidence as to the scene in Mr Schlitte's office, and accused's chase and capture having been given, Mr William King, part proprietor of King's Revolver and Rifle Range, Oxenden- street, Haymarket, said he recognised the prisoner as having visited his range about two or three times a week for the last three months for the purpose of practising revolver shooting. On November6th (the dayprior to the tragedy) Prisoner purchased a revolver and cartridges from witness. After the luncheon adjournment Mr Jones, for the defence, said he had received a message that accused was suffering great pain in his head, and was not well enough to be brought into court. '<<. The Magistrate thereupon ordered accused to be medically examined, and temporarily ad- journed the Court.

BUTCHERAS BOOKMAKER. At Ystrad ^Rhondda on Monday John Galla- gher, butcher, Ystrad-road, Pentre, was charged with street betting at Cwmparc. Mr Hugh Jones, barrister, defended. 1 P.S. Harris spoke to watching defendant for a couple of hours. He was driving a horse and cart and selling meat to women. Witness saw several men approach him. Upon being arrested Gallagher remarked, It is a fair cop; I did take one slip on Wise HJIason for the Liverpool Cup to- morrow." Defendant thereupon produced the slip from his trousers poefcet and handed it to witness, saying, So help my God, it is the only one I have taken." Whilst witness was talking to defendant, several men came up and asked defendant for tips, and he charged one of them with the offence. In defendant's butchering day book were found the names of five horses, some of which had won and lost recent races. Mr Jones submitted that there had been no loitering in law, as defendant's sole object was not street betting. The Stipendiary decided otherwise and fined defendant jE20, as he had been recently con- victed of a similar offence. Walter Bailey, described as a collier, of Ystrad, was fined JE10 for loitering for the purpose of street betting at Ystrad. P.S. Baker proved the case.

CHORAL FESTIVAL AT MOUNTAIN ASH The annual festival of the Choral Union of the Deanery of Aberdare was held on Monday evening at St. Margaret's Church, Mountain Ash. The massed -choir numbered 500, and it was ably conducted by Mr W. H. Webb, mem- ber of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Edward Morgan, vicar of Trevethin, Pontypool.

TREMBLING IN THE BALANCE. V-iV'Sk-v. LORD LANSDDWN'E I"m afraid I sùa'n't help him much if 1 cut the rope. CadUXOX, by &U JF,; Ptrfflfeflied wifch the WretrntrreW Gazebo

I BARRY ROADS DEAOLOOK, Street Names Annoy Members. At the Barry District Council on Monday evening Councillor W. J. Williams, J.P. pre- siding, the question of the completion of the long unfinished road from Barry to Cadoxton, known as Gladstone-road, came up. The clerk (MrT. B. TordofE) explained that some years ago the Council attempted to complete the road, under the Private Street Works Act, but the Local Government Board after holding an inquiry took the view that no street had been actually formed on the land, and therefore they were unable to sanction the loan. In order to avoid the difficulty, an attempt was nvde to carry the work out by an agreement partly under the Public Health Act, whereby the land could be given them to make the road, and partly underthe Local Act in order to make the agreement binding on successive owners, to recover the cost of works as the land was built upon. Counsel's opinion, however, was not favourable on the latter point. The Council would now have to make a fresh start. Rev. Ben Evans asked who named the Barry- streets. Dr. O'Donnell The owno-a of the pro- perty ? Rev. Ben Evans Have we nothing to do with it? Councillor Lee No the owners of the land. Rev. Ben Evans objected to the name of the cross street between Maesycwm-etreet and Woodland-road. "I do not want to get the idea of war continually before me," he said, it is called Glencoe- street. May I ask the Council to change the name T" (Laughter.) Councillor Fowler: I ^should call it" Kensit- street." I The Clerk said that at present the Council had no power to change the name of the street, but the Public Health Amendment Act 1907 would, when adopted, give them the power. Laying Out the Parks. A rescission of the mofcion to consider the lay- ing out of Barry parks six montha hence was carried, and the mover (Councillor J. A. Mana- ton) then proposed the Public Works Oom- mittee's recommendation, that RomLUy Park be laid out at the cost of £ 2,000, and Victoria Park at a cost of £4!XX). This, he said, would provide work for 40 or 50 unemployed for four months during the winter. It was decided to consider the question a week hence, and that in. the meantime sanction for a loan be applied for^ to the Local Government Board. Unemployed Conference. On the motion of Councillor J. A. Manaton a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with the conference in London on December 5th and 6th on the unemployed problem, con- vened by the Right to Work National Council, and the Barry District Council's regret they were not legally in a position *to send delegates to the conference.

CARDIFF WOMEN LIBERALS. SpiritMl Free Trade Addresses. The annual ward meetings of the Cardiff Women's Liberal Association commenced on Monday, when the members of the Cathays and Park Wards met at the Liberal Institute, Mrs Geo. Seccombe presiding. The officers of the Oathays Ward elected were Miss Beatrice Cory, president; Mrs Llewelyn, vice-president; and Mrs Chiv-era, hem. secretary. Mrs Lovell, Mrs Llewelyn, and Mrs Chhrers were elected representatives to the executive. Mrs Geo. Seccombe was elected president of the Park Ward, Mrs H. Williams, vice-president; and Miss O. Williams, hon. secretary. Mrs Sec- combe, Mrs and Miss Williams were elected representatives to the executive. At the public meeting which followed, pre- sided over by Mrs Seccombe, a stirring address on Free Trade was delivered bv Mrs Lloyd Atkinson, of Penarth, who dwelt upon. the struggle for Free Trade from 1815 to 1846, and said that after burying Protection in that bitter fight they were not going to let it come back and put the clock back sixty years. Mrs Atkinson then drew vivid pictures of the tiard life led by the poor people in protected France and Germany, and contrasted their lot with that of those living in Free Trade Eng- land. Miss Edith S. Robinson. of the Women's Free Trade Union, followed, and she described the struggle commenced by Mr Chamberlain for Protection, which had resulted in the Decisive Victory at the last General Election. They thought then that they had settled the question, but they had to fight the battle over again only under another name. Let them not forget that under Protection in England the poor rate was 20s in the t. Were they going back to those days and seethe people starving in the streets ? Past events and arithmetic proved that Free Trade was justified in Ehgland. The only people who would be benefited by Protection were the landowners. Miss Atkinson then went on to refute the arguments of Tariff Reformers. and to point out that Free Trade had made England not only the richest country in the world, but the country with the least number of unemployed and the country which rendered financial assistance in times of distress to pro- tected Germany and America. She argued that the advent of Protection would mean far less work in the long run, for people would have less money to spend on clothing and luxuries, and consequently less work would be turned out, and the result would naturally mean more unemployment, higher rates and higher rents. During the evening a capital musical pro- gramme arranged by Mrs Chivers was gone through, and at the close a vote of thanks to the speakers was passed on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mrs LoveiL

—^« FELL OVER A BUCKET. The Cardiff Coroner (Mr Yorath) held an in- quest on Monday on Katherine McDonagh (76), who died at the Workhouse Infirmary. It appeared that the deceased had,until a year ago, resided with her daughter-in-law at 4, Charles-street, Aberavon. She left because the poor law authorities reiused to continue relief unless she resided at Cardiff. She went to the Ely Workhouse, where she fell cragr a bucket whilst washing her foot on March 5th, and fractured her thigh. She was removed to the Workhouse Infirmary, where she died on Wed- nesday evening last. Dr. Price stated that death *as Uue t6 senile decay, accelerated by shock following the accident. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was re- turned.

WOMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. The Hull police are investigating a singular affair which occurred Fit Vict6ria Dock late on Saturday night. A man and woman were seen by a watchman and a dock gatemarr to walk behind a stack of bricks near the basin, and a few minrtes later the man was observed to run away. The two dock employees hurried to the spot, and on making a search discovered the body of the woman in the water, and brought it ashore. Artificial respiration was tried, but without avail. The woman was- I about 40 years of age, and was grasping a I train ticket in her hand. So far no clue has

¡ Suffragettes. DEMONSTRATION FIASCO. The threat of the militant suffragists to besiege Holloway Gaol was far from carried out, the demonstration" which actually took place turning out to be an exceedingly tame affair. A curious public were there in thousands the police were there in hundreds prepared to defend the prison against attack, but the suffragists in appreciable numbers were con- spicuous by their absence. In spite of bands and banners, it was an unimposing procession which set out from Kingsway at half-past 3 in a drizzly rain. A waggonette containing the leaders of the Women's Social and Political Union, a larger conveyance in which were 10 suffragists attired as prisoners, and a straggling line of some 150 women marchers, and a couple of brass bands made up the procession. Generally there was an entire absence of evidences of sympathy with the demonstrators. Where vocal hostility was not shown the atti- tude of onlookers was one of amusement or indifference. Groans and jeers greeted the demonstrators all the way. The prison gates were guarded by a double cordon of police. About 200 yards from the prison gates the processionists' course was diverted by the police, and it worked its way round the back of the grim walls. Encircling the gaol, the procession emerged into Parkhurst-road, the band striking up the stirring strains of the Marseillaise." Wildly waving the tri-coloured standard of the Union, Mrs Drummond called for three cheers for Mrs Pankhurst, and yelled out the words, We protest against her treatment in prison." The response was an outburst of groans and hisses. Waving handkerchiefs ana cheering like children on an excursion, the women in prison garb came in for a good deal of derisive attention. From any point of view the affair could hardly be described as a success. Wild Scenes at Bristol. In pursuance of their declared policy of harassing every unfortunate Cabinet- Minister on every possible occasion, the women suffra- gists on Saturday demonstrated at Bristol. It was a lady in the top gallery who began the disturbance by screaming, When are you going to give us the vote ? She was hauled out of the hall without mercy by half a dozen persons. TWo minutes later a woman in the same part of the building was hysterically calling for the vote. She was removed without much ceremony, and Mr Birrell was about to resume his address when another woman rose, and, gesticulating wildly, demanded that the suffrage should be extended to the ladies. A body of stewards and others surrounded her, and, hoisting her on their shoulders, rushed her out. The chairman appealed to the stewards and others not to use any unnecessary violence. This suggestion was met with cries of Non- sense I" and We ought to be violent I" Tie a dish-clout round theirmouths!" and other ex- pressions indicating that it was intended not to be too gentle with the interrupters. Mr Birrell, after a time, again essayed to speak, but he had not gone far when there was uproar. This time near the top side gallery a suffragist was pulled from a front seat, forced over the heads of ladies and others who had been seated close to her, and pushed to the exit. Mr Birrell was talking about offending publi- cans being sent to prison. That's where you're sending the women," came the rejoinder in a shrill voice, from the other side of the hall. Hubbub once more reigned supreme, and the lady was ejected. Shortly afterwards there was another interrupter, who in a really mild voice asked for the vote. She was pushed outside, and then quiet was obtained.

Lady Stanley's Will. A ROMANTIC STORY. In the Probate Court on Monday the suit of Lord Stanley of Alderley versus Lane Fox Pitt, which had reference to the testamentary dispositions of the late Lady Stanley of Alderley, came on for hearing. Mr Priestley, on behalf of Lord Stanley of Alderley, said he propounded a will of the late Lady Stanley of Alderley, dated October 26th, which she made at Geneva, in accordance with Swiss law. Plaintiff was the heir of his brother, the late Baron, and under the will in question the testatrix gave her property, which was in Switzerland and this country, to her husband and his heirs. Defendant, Mr Lane-Fox-Pitt, had propounded a will of 1869, under which he was universal legatee, and he had alleged in regard to the other will incapacity. It was dis- covered that testatrix had property in Spain and had made a will there in October, 1892, in the name of Dona Serafino Fernandez Fumes, by which she revoked all previous Spanish wills and left her Spanish property to the fourth generation from her nephew. Deceased married in Spain in 1851, her husband dying in 1870, and four years later she married Lord Stanley of Alderley. A compromise had been arrived at between the parties by which the Court was asked to pronounce for the 1891 will and to ignore the Spanish will. The Court waø also asked to make declaration that Tabia Lady of Alderley was the same person as Dona Serafino Fernan- dez Fumes. The property in Spain amounted to about f$J,C1:1J, and the property in Switzer- land and England was of about the same amount. Formal evidence having been caDed judg- ment was entered for the 1891 will, and the declaration asked for was made.

INDIAN JUDGE AND WIFE. The Divorce Court on Saturday restqped the hearing of the petition of Mrs Louie Venugopat Chetti for a judicial separation from Mr Ven- ugopal Chetti, an Indian district judge, because of an alleged desertion. Mr Barnard, K.C. for respondent, submitted that desertion was not made out. Petitioner, he asserted, had assented to respondent bving in India, knowing that it was impossible that they should live together there. There was no letter in which she had ever asked him to take her home. The correspondence showed that all petitioner wanted was a settlement. He asked the Court to say the marriage was not valid, but if it were, there was no desertion. Mr Leslie de Gruyther, on the same side, said this was a question of greater importance than the mere determination of matrimonial rights, because there was a tendency for the natives of India to come to this country to contract marri- ages,and the judgment of hisLordship must de- termine not only the question of this particular marriage, but the validity of all marriages so contracted. Counsel was proceeding to argue against the legality of such a marriage, when the President said he must be bound by the decision of Lord Hannen, who had held that where one of the parties to the contract was domiciled in Eng- land the marriage here was a good one. In the course of further discussion his Lord- ship said the court must protect English sub- jects in regard to such marriages as the one in question. His Lordship reserved judgment.

MONASTIC SCANDALS. St. 4 Petersburg, Sunday.—Several recent occurrences have directed attention once more to grave scandals in certain of the leading monasteries. Although a decree was issued in 1905 closing all monastic prisons it is now dis- regarded and these places of confinement according to the statements of visitors are beyond description horrible. At the monastery of New Athos, near Sokuum on the Black Sea, one of the best known institutions of the kind in the country, the offence of disobedience is punished by incarceration in an underground dungeon where there is no furniture of any kind and only a damp stone floor to lie upon. Tho-e are no windows and no light, and the only food supplied is bread and water. The terror inspired by confinement in this place is so great that a numbei| of monks have hanged themselves after experiencing it for only one day.—Central News.

THE ESSEX BABY FARM. The inquest concerning the death of Doris Winifred Radcliffc, aged two years, who died in the Queen's Hospital, Hackney-road, con- cluded on Saturday at Bethnal Green. The jury found that the deceased died from blood poisoning, the result of natural causes. They were further of opinion that Miss Wills, Mrs Thurley and Dr. Roberts might each respec- tively have taken more care of the deceased child thm, the farm was an unsuitable place for children, and that Miss Wills was not justi- fled in taking the house without applying to the Epping Union Guardians for registration. |

VEHICLES IN COLLISION. While driving a trap to Trefofest on Monday evening Mr J. R. Thomas and Mr J. J..Brans, of Llantwit Fardre, met with a somewhat serious accident. A horse and cart collided with the conveyance near the Woodlands the shafts of the vehicles were smashed, and the occupants of the trap were thrown heavily on to the road. Mr Evans escaped with slight in- juries, but Mr Thomas was extensively bruised abodt the face, and had to be conveyed to a house at Treforest, where he was attended to by Dr. Morgan Bees, of Pontypridd.

LATE ALDERMAN DAVID JONES. At a meeting of the Aid. David Jones Me- morial Committee at Cardiff on Monday, Sir W. Crossman presiding, it was decided, on the motion of Aid. Renwick, to adopt the recom- mendations of the sub-committee, that Mr Memfield (Fulhamj, who,, had been recommen- ded by Mr Goscomb John, be asked to execute a bust with pedestal, etc., of the late alderman at a cost of JE100, to include fixing, etc. and that Mr Parker Hagarty, of Cardiff, be asked to paint aportran. m oils of the late alderman, 50in. by 40in., the same sixe as. the portrait of .11 the late Aid. Fulton, now in possession of the Corporation, at a cost of £ 60, to include fixing, etc. A small sub-committee was-appointed tQ

BRISTOL DISCOVERIES. THREE MEN AND A WOMAN CHARGEBL Mr Milner Jones (deputy stipendiary) saf; specially at Cardiff on Saturday to further in- vestigate two charges of housebreaking and one of theft preferred against Walter Harries (23). Joseph Burroughs (22), Francis W. Carter, and Elizabeth Jane Denmead. The two latter, who are associated in the conduct of a marine store business at Red Cross-street, Bristol, were defended by Mr Watson, BristoL On the preceding day a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Evan Hughes, St. Andrew's-crescent, Cardiff, and stealing clothing, linen, trinkets, and jewellery of the total value of JS53 17s 6d had been heard, and on Saturday the evidence was first given in relation to a charge of breaking into the dwelling-house ofx John Richard Thomas, Cathedral-road, and stealing a quan- tity of silver articles, cutlery, clothes, ete., of the total value of X43 4s. i Mr Thomas gave evidence as to leaving his house securely locked on leaving for a holiday on September 24th, coming back on October 2nd. As a result of a communication he found the house had been entered, and the articles named in the charge taken. A number of the articles were produced and identified by wit- ness as his property. Detective-sergeant Kellett described how the house had been entered. The parties had climbed from the yard of an unoccupied house into that at the back of Mr Thomas's residence, climbed on to a window sill and up a pipe to the bathroom. They ransacked drawers and threw articles about. A constable of the Bristol force described going to the house occupied by Denmead and Carter and finding in the chimney between the grate and the brick work a silver rose bowl with a number of smaller silver articles inside it. To Detective-Sergeant Dicks, who charged him, Carter said," I have nothing to say. I had nothing to do with stealing or receiving." None of the other prisoners said anything when charged. Burroughs was discharged in reference to the Cathedral-road housebreaking charge, the magistrate saying there was no evidence to connect him with it. Harries was committed f or trial at the Assizes on the two house- breaking charges, Burroughs upon one of them, and Carter and Denmead were com- mitted on a charge of receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen. They pleaded not guilty and reserved their defence. There was a further charge of stealing a Japanese basket containing clothing to the value of E3 from the Great Western Railway Station, but the Deputy-Sitpendiary said he would not hear that, informing the police they could proceed with it at the Assizes if they wished by giving notice to the prisoners.

CARDIFF & WHITCHURCH CASES Some time between Saturday night and Sun- day morning the shop of Mr L. Finsburg, pawnbroker, Penarth road, Cardiff, was forcibly entered, and several watches, rings, and about E2 10s in money stolen. Entrance to the shop was effected by way of a back window. The Cardiff police have in custody a man charged with stealing a bridle with brass fittings, and they want the owner to.come for- ward. A mild sensation was caused at Whitchurch on Sunday evening by a daring burglary effected at 41, Philog, WhitchurclL The occupants, Mr and Miy Lloyd, had 'left home for church at 6.30. At 7.30 a neighbour, Mrs Thomas, noticed a light in the front room, and communicated at the next door, with the result that Mr McKenzie and his son sought to investigate the matter. Seeing two men going upstairs with a lighted candle in the house of Mr Lloyd, Mrs Thomas knocked at the door. Immediately the light was ex- tinguished, and the men descended to the ground floor, and left the house by the hack. Mr McKenzie gave information to the police, and about an hour afterwards two men, believed to be brothers named Guy, from Upper Boat, were arrested after an exciting chase by Sergeant Bennett, of the LiandafF police, near the Llandaff Station. Mr Lloyd informed our representative that a number of articles were missing, including a silver watch, a pair of opera glasses, a brooch, two silver sppons, and between ES and £4 in money: The manner of entry remains a mystery, as the house was left securely locked up. Curiously enough, a house which was entered a short time ago, was similarly situated, being a corner house, j*nd, in fact, opposite the one now entered.. Accused in Court James Guy and George Guy, brothers, aboot 20 years of age, living at Upper Boat, were charged before the Llandaff magistrates on Mon- day with breaking and entering the dwelling- house of Mr Lloyd ,The Philog, Whitchurch. and stealing a pair of opera glasses, one silver watch, two brooches, four spoons, one police whistle, with £3 4s in money, and a lady's silk tie on November 15th. Prisoners were arrested by Police-Sergeant Bennet and P.C. Bignell on Sunday night. All the articles, except one brooch and the silk tie, were found on James Guy. < On the application of Superintendent Morris prisoners were remanded for a week.

Neyland's New Industry. ICE FACTORY AND FISH MARKET Opening Yesterday. ( The new ice factory and fish market at Ney- land were formally opened on Monday by Lady Philipps, of Picton Castle, and Mrs Kingsford, of Pembroke Dock, respectively. The ice factory, which is situated at Barnlake Point, has a complete installation of electric light, and is fitted with the most modern labour- saving "appliances, altogether suited in every way to meet the requirements of a modern fishing port. The new building is a red brick structure. It is built of the best material on a rock foundation, the work of construction having been carried out by Messrs Davies and Griffiths, Tenby. The plant which has been installed renders the factory one of the most up- to-date, and is capable of an output of 35 tons per day. Its storage capacity is 740 tons of ice, so that for at least 12 months a regular sapphf of ice to the trawlers trading to the port is assured. Each trawler takes 10 or 12 tons of ice each voyage. The fish market is a spacious building, capable of enlargement as the neces- sities of the port demand it. In order to enable trawlers to discharge their catches at anT state of the tide the company has constructed offerro concrete A Jetty 180ft. Long and 60ft. wide. The ice and water for the trawlers will be conveyed to the vessels ovee this jetty. The discharging appliances consist of hydraulic francs supplied by the railway company. The charges at Neyland port com- pare most favourably with those at other fish- ing ports in the kingdom. J On Monday the ice factory and fish market were opened in the presence of a large and representative assembly, and lying alongside the market were two trawlers, which had just arrived with cargoes which realised -993 and the Apley JE81. Amongst those present were Sir Charles and Lady Philipps, Sir Owen Scour- field, Rear-Admiral and Mrs Kingsford, the Hon. Frederick T. Allsopp, Mr Harry E. E. Philipps and Miss Philipps (PictonCastle),Col. Frederick C. Meyrick, CB- Capt, Enoch Davies, Mr C W. Rees Stokes, Mrs Bromfield, the Mayors of Haverfordwest and Tenby, Dr. George Griffith, Mr S. B. Sketch Mr G. EL D. Birt (Milford Haven), the chairman and members of the Neyland Urban District Council, the officers of the Welsh Regiment and of the R.G.A., Defensible Barracks, Pembroke Dock, Canon Iioyd, Cressboroogh, Archdeacon Williams, etc. Genesis of Neyland Industry. After a short prayer had been said by Arch- deacon Williams, Sir Charles Philipps recalled the reasons which had brought into, existence the Neyland fishing industry. Neyland, he said, had been hard hit by reason of the dis- charges from the dockyard and the removal of the Irish traffic to Fishguard. He denied that the new industry would have an in- jurious effect on Milford, contending that there was room in that magnificent harbour for two fishing ports Neyland and Milford combined would not equal Grimsby. Lady Philipps then unveiled the tablet at the ice factory, and on the motion of the Hon. Herbert Allsopp, seconded by Captain Enoch Davies, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to her Ladyship. Afterwards Mrs Kingsford, wife of Rear- Admiral T. Kingsford, unveiled the tablet in the fish market. She enumerated the advan. tages which Neyland possessed, and these. together with the energy of the chairman of the directors (Sir Charles Philipps), would, she believed, ensure the success of the undertaking. Colonel Meyrick proposed, and Mr H. E. K. Philipps seconded a vote of thanks to Mrs Kingsford, both expressing regret that Rear- Admiral and Mrs Kingsford would shortly be leaving Pembroke Dock.—^ In the fvening there was a torchlight pm- cession through the streets and a banquetai the South Wales Hotel.

CHILDREN NE6LEQTED/ At Haverfordwest Petty Sessions on Mon- day Isabella Mann, of St. Thomas- green, waa summoned for neglecting her three children, aged eight, five, and three. Mr John, solicitor, Carmarthen, prosecuted on behalf of the N.S.P.C.C. Defendant pleaded guilty to neglect but not to cruelty. Inspector Thomas Jones, of Carmarthen, said he had paid several visits to the defendant's house, and found the children in a shocking condition. They were verminous, and the state of the bedrooms was disgraceful. The youngest child was, in his opinion, insufficiently fed. On one occasion he found the woman in a state of delirium tremens. The children were how in the Workhouse. The defendant's husband stated that his wife had lately t&keh to ârink, and he had been away from home. She was now, however, thoroughly repentant, and he promised that the chitdrpA would be better loolted after ii future. The Bench imposed a fine of jE3, including