Evening Express

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L STREET ORDER. A problem that the Cardiff authorities seem always to shirk is the proper order- ing of the street traffic. As a matter of fact, our busier streets are more dangerous than those of London. The vast traffic of the Metropolis is worked on a system, and the police maintain splendid dis- cipline. In Cardiff there is neither system nor discipline, and at nights many a thoroughfare is sharply blocked by corner boys. On Saturday nights the state of Duke-street, for instance, is disgraceful. Then, again, horses and vehicles by the hundred are in charge of mere- lads, who drive like so many fiends, without taking the slightest notice of where they are going. The police make no attempt to deal with this nuisance. It is certainly high time the authorities turned over a new leaf.

The public is long-suffering—and short- iiieitioried-or it would long ago have got tired to death of the predictions that the Cardiff Infirmary is about going under. That there should be even a whisper of such a thing is not creditable, and the working classes in particular ought to see to it that the stigma of financial failure is removed for good and all from the doors of one of the worthiest institutions in Wales.

Two slight shocks of earthquake are reported from the neighbourhood of Cheadle, Cheshire. Some persons report that when driving they noticed a trifling upheaval of the roads. What we want to know now is, Who are these persons and where had they been? Many people-- after festive occasions, for instance—expe- rience a decided upheaval of the roads not caused by terrestrial convulsions.

Holyhead "coronated" on Tuesday. It was gaily decorated, there was a general holiday, an athletic meeting, a cycling carnival, with illuminations and fireworks for a wind up. But, as Holyhead delayed so long, couldn't it ha.ve managed to hold itself in till the actual Coronation ?

We read that the Mad Mullah (who bobs in and out of the papers like the Chinese question and the Colorado beetle) is killing his men in order to prevent desertion. A very good remedy. Dead men can't desert. The Mullah is evidently not half so mad as people believe him.

Mainly About People Lady Constance Hatch may be reckoned one of the handsomest young married women in tociety. She is the fifth and youngest daughter of the late Duke of Leeds, and is very tall, with a beautiful complexion. She comes of a very handsome stock. Her mother, the late Duchess of Leeds, was a daughter of a former Lord Rivers, whose family was remarkable for its beauty, but. alas! also for its delicacy. All the four tfrothera of the duchess died before attaining their twentieth year. The dnchees, whose mother was the eldest daughter of the first Lord Granville, had a very beautiful sister, ,wh3 became the first wife of Colonel Arbuth- not, of the 4th Hussars, but was killed by lightning a few weeks after her marriage while on her honeymoon. Lady Constance Hatch's third sister married a short time ago one of the sons of the late Lord Fitzwilliam. There is now only one unmarried. Lady Alexandra Godolphin-Oabome. The late Duchess of Leeds, as Marchioness of Carmar- | then. was, ifntil her husband succeeded to the dukedom, a Lady of the Bedchamber of the Princess of Waiell. but on attaining her high rank she had perforce to resign. Old Flink: I doubt if one man out of twenty can re-call to memory the language he used in proposing. Young Stewpid: Probably not. But the girl ean. Mine did. When the breach of promise suit came up she was able to repeat my pro- posal word for word. 1— It kas been reported that the Grand Duke Constantin Constantinowitch of Russia is ill, but this is not the case. He has, however, fallen into disgrace with the High Priest, Podjedonossxew, who rules Russia (says "Vanity Fair.") The Grand Duke. who is a liberal-minded Prince, with the greatest admiration for Tolstoi, has been unwearied in his efforts to have th. ban of excommunication removed from the count, and during tke absence of Podjedonosazew in Wiesbaden, his Imperial Highness, who has considerable influence with the Czar. had also persuaded his Maiesty to do this. But the friends of the High Priest n Russia found what was going on, and telegraphed to Podjedonosszew, who hurried back to St. Petersburg, and by his representations persuaded the Czar that it was impossible to remove the ban. Tolstoi remains excommunicated, and the Grand Duke Conetantin was advised to live for the present on his country estates, wkere he now is with his wife and children, the Mport being circulated that he is suffering irom by nervefi, Tke Grand Duke* wile, a

PUBLIC NOTICES. THE Sports" Express" CONTAINS FULL REPORTS OF LOCAL ATHLETIC MEETINGS, Latest Racing Returns, THE BARD'S" TURF GOSSIP AND SELECTIONS, MANNING'S ADVICE TO FOOT- RACERS. 'RIP'S' CRICKET CARICATURES GOLF SPECIALS. Gossip on Summer Sports, The Sports "Express' Is Printed on WHITE PAPER, and issued at 7.30 p.m. SATURDAY. (First Number Published May 17).

"FANCY RELIGIONS." What the Irish sergeant called "fancy reli- gions" are numerously reprepresented in Australia. There are hundreds of them in the census returns. There are Bryanitea, Glassltes, Reformers, Latitudinarians. Unsec- tariana, Social Christiana, Believers, Christa- deipliians, Second Adventist@. Seventh Day Adveniisls, Bible Echoes, Quietists, Ac. It is curious to find that mystical little sect of "Catholic Quakers" who called, themselves "Quietists'' still existing at the other aide of the world. Although they caused some com- motion in Europe during the seventeenth century, they are rarely heard of now outside the covers of theological dictionaries. Their founder, a Spanish priest named Molinos, was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and died in the dungeons of the Inquisition at Rome in December, 1697.

SCIENCE SUCCESSES AT BARRY. Further results to hand show that, in con- nection with the Barry Technical Instruction and Science and Art Classes, Oswald J. Morgan passed first claes advanced, and J. Bennett second class advanced in magnetism and electricity; and Oswald J. Morgan, first class, stage two, and David Jones, second class, stage three, in mathematics.

CORRECTED THE RECORDER. At Sheffield Quarter Sessions yesterday the Recorder (Judge Waddy) sentenced an old convict to three years' penal servitude for attempting to pick pockets.—The Prisoner: Beg pardon, sir. but it's only an attempt.- The Recorder: Yes, I know, and that is the sentence.—It was pointed out, however, that the court could not give penal servitude for an attempt to steal, and the Recorder altered the sentence to eighteen months' hard labour.

GOOD MISTRESS, GOOD DOG. The story of a double rescue from drowning, in which a young lady and a dog took part, comes from Stretfoid, near Manchester. Two boys who were bathing in a pond near the roadside yesterday got out of their depth and were in danger. The lady, who had a fine retriever with her, happened to be pawiug. and at once jumped into the water. She rescued one boy and the dog brought out the other.

ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE. Before Alderman David Jones and Mr. A. Duncan at Cardiff Police-court this morning Michael Henry Shields was convicted for an assault upon Police-constable David Griffiths, in Llandaff-road, on July 9. Prisoner was so obstreperous that Detective Victor Kelletthad to assist in restraining him and putting on the handbolts.—Fined 10s. and costs, or four- teen days. ■m in imKmrnmmBsmammegtmsmmem»smaBaasssf

BAROMETRICAL INDICATIONS. The followins are the readings 3ince five o'clock Iut evening, as given by the barometer in the vestibule of the "Evening Express," St. Miry-street, Cardiff, which ia above mean sea level. 5 p."i. Midn't. • m.m. A#»n. op.hi 30'{j 1 -j 29 ij j ]

WHAT IS THE JADE EYE?!

THE LONDON PRESS. Examples of Their Views To-day. BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM LEADING ARTICLES. School Boards Abolished. There was never a haatier plango in the dark than this. A single vote has destroyed all these popular bodies. With them the expe- rience they have accumulated and the inte- rest they have awakened are abolished, and their work consigned not gradually or cau- tiously after experiment and trial but whole- sale and at once to a new and untried) autho- rity.—"Morning Leader." The Coronation. Now that his Majesty, to the joy of all his subjects, is not only out of danger, but making such abnormally good progress towards ) recovery, it is only natural that speculation a3 to the date of the postponed Coronation should be keen and general. But the ten- dency exhibited in many quarters during the last few days to guess at the month, and even the week, is decidedly to be deprecated. It would be most unfortunate if the King re- ceived an impression that his people have set their hearts upon an early Coronation.— "Daily Express." hecemeal Alterations. The first Lord of the Treasury has already shown an extremely open mind in dealing with amendments to the Education Bill, and sometimes he does not appear to have fully measured the effect of the couceseions he has 'been in- duced to make, with the object of conciliating reasonable criticism, on the other provisions and on the general policy of the scheme. We are far from saying that it is not legitimate to run some risks in order to remove or abate friction, but that the difficulties of making progress are often increased, if they are sometimes lessened, by these unexpected changes is sufficiently obvious. That a last- ing settlement is promoted by piecemeal alterations is difficult to believe.—"Times." Battle of the Boilers. It would seem that we have embarked, and are about to embark with the new ships, on very costly experiments which may lead to pure loas.The question suggests itself whether it would not be better to fit the water-tube boilers that we mean to try into single vessels, and test tbem thoroughly before going farther. The difficulties of the Admi- ralty are great. It has to keep abreast of the advance of mechanical science, and must take some risk with every new invention. But must we take it with a number of ships at once? The performances of the cylindrical boiler are known, while those of the water- tube, in spite of its obvious advantages, are doubtful. If the other types also fail, as the Belleville has, we shali have incurred a heavy expenditure for no adequate result.— "Standard."

THE OPEN-AIR TREATMENT. Cardiff Lads Who Put It to the Te'-t. Six unkempt-looking lad?—Thomas Mahoney, sixteen; Joseph Coles. sixteen; Henry Curtis, fifteen; George Davies. sixteen; Godfrey Mahoney, sixteen; and Frederick Hill, fifteen- put the open-air treatment to the test, and were brought up at Cardiff Police-court to-day to render an RccGunt.Police-constable Charles Knight, in the early hoars of the morning, found them asleep on the feeder bank in East-terrace, having no visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good account of themselves. The officer said they were in the habit of sleeping out. Some said they were afraid to go home; others that they had no money. Godfrey Mahoney, however, bad a shilling, which be said he owed for "Expresses."—AddreMin& one of the lads, Alderman Jones asked Ifim when he washed his face last. and the urchin,' with a bland. sweet smile, replied, "This morning, øir. Alderman Jones: Your face has been innocent of soap for a long time. you dirty rascal. -Court-officer Davies: They have all been here before, except George Daviea. They have good homes, and give no end of trouble to their parents.-The Magistrates discharged Godfrey Mahoney, and the rest, on promising not to offend again, were likewise liberated.

NINE CHILDREN TURNED UP. A MarriAge in Which Each Party Gulls the Other. An order for maintenance was sought at Greenwich Police-court by Mrs. Lyes against her husband. J. H. Lyes, of Lee.—The com- plainant said that her husband told her to go out of his house or he would kick her out.— Mr. Armstrong, who appeared for the defen- dant, said be was ashamed to say that this marriage was his client's third venture. (Laughter.) Before marrying the present Mrs. Lyes she told him she had one child by her former marriage, but afterwards nine children turned up, having been in orphanages. There wag no doubt both parties gulled each other. Mrs. Lyc-s thought she had got hold of an old man with money, and she told him she had freehold property at Watford which brought her C.4 a week. Since the marriage. two years ago. the defendant had had several executions levied for debts belonging to husband No. 1—(laughter)—and, of course, he was not very cheerful.—The defendant said he did not turn his wife out; but, after an execution, advised her to take her goods away, which abe did. He was wil- ling that she should come hack-The com- plainant declined, however, and ths Magistrate refused to make an order. ij

"I HAVE HAD MY REVENGE." George Tighe. a prisoner in Knutsford Gaol, was charged at the police-court in that town yesterday with the attempted murder of a. fellow prisoner, named Ilalsall. The attack was made during the service in the prison chapel. Tighe suddenly striking Halsall in the back with a knife. He was about to repeat the blow, when the warders rushed upon him. Tighe had acted as stores' porter lately, and he had complained that Haisall ha.1 annoyed him. When charged,, Tighe remarked, "I have had my revenge." He was committed for trial.

PRISONER'S DRAMATIC SUICIDE. A startling occurrence is reported from Strangeways Gaol. Manchester. A man named Joseph Patrick M'Hale, who had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for assaulting a civilian and two police-officers, was taken to the gaol on Tuesday afternoon and placed on parade for inspection. Sud- denly he left the row in which he was stand- ing, and, running across the room, mounted a staircase and threw himself over an iron rail on to the flags below-a drop of twelve feet. He fell head foremost, and died almost imme- diately. He had attempted to take his life on three previous occasions.

GUERNSEY AND SUNDAY OPENING. Thn Guernsey States, or Legislative Assemblj', yesterday considered a proposal to allow country hotels to open on Sundays during the summer months for the benefit of visitors. The suggestion to open from one to five p.m. was lost by one vote.

ILLNESS OF DR. KELLY, BARRY. Dr. Kelly. of Avoca. Barry, is seriously ill, having been unconscious since Monday even- ing. Dr. Kelly, who served in the Franco- German War and the first Boer War, is held, in great respect at Barry. He is suffering from an affection of the heart,

CARDIFF INFIRMARY. i Institution Again in Want of Funds. CONTINUANCE OF SUNBEAM LEAGUE ADVOCATED. As reported in the Pink Edition of yeeter- day's Evening Express," l A meeting of the board of management of the Cardiff Infirmary was held on Wednesday, Mr. J. B. Ferrier in the chair. The Secretary presented his monthly state- ment, showing that the number of patients awaiting admission were as follows:—Medical and surgical, 76 man, 7 women, and 14 chil- dren; gynaecological, 79; ophthalmic, 26 men, 6 women, and 4 children—total 232. The patients in the house at present numbered 132, 3 and there were eleven empty beds. » The Secretary read the financial statement, which showed that the balance in hand (after 1 payment of billa passed that day) was £1.487. The Chairman said that the subscriptions received were now within £400 of the total s amount received last year. They had got through only about half of the year's working. t and if something were not done they would have a deficiency of over £3,000 at the end of t the year. Something must be done in order to carry on the institution efficiently for the remainder of the year. The canvassing com- mittee in the "hills" had been at work, and had done their utmost. He hoped that the or Cardiff canvassing committee would show as = much eagerness as the out of-town committees 1 had done. t Mr. T. M. Barlow wrote on behalf of the e Sunbeam League asking that Mrs. Waldron. Mrs. Swinez. and himself should be elected 1- as life vice-presidents of the infirmary, in ? accordance with a resolution passed at the 8 annual meeting of the league.—This was agreed to. e Mr. Barlow also intimated that the &n. e beam League would cease operations w'.th e the end of the current year. j The Chairman suggested that the Sunbeam League should be appealed to to continue its 8 operations. Looking at the finances of the i infirmary, he felt that they could not afford to lose the support and assistance of the 1 league. The fact that the canvassing com- mittee would probably be working need not interfere with the league. Mr. T. H. Stephens expressed agreement with the chairman's suggestion. tie could I see no reason why the league should not con- tiJ1ue to exist. Mr. J. W. Courtis explained that one rea?cn ) why the league was to be stopped was that a f large sum of money had been obtnnr> > through the assistance of the school teachers ( and the school children. That, however, was to be stopped, as the school contributions would come to the infirmary direct. Mr. Wilmot. speaking on behalf of the f school teachers, thought there waa no reason why the Sunbeam League house-to-house col- lection should not be carried on. Tt would not interfere with the work done by the schools, especially in some wards. It was decided that the chairman and secre- tary should confer with Dr. C. T. Vachell and Mr. Barlow on the < subject. THE HOUSEMAID S KNEE CASE. The medical board presented a. report, in which they said:—"That in reply to the reÎcreQce hack of the resolution of June 9 by the board of management, the medical board begs to re-affirm the expression of opinion therein contained." Several member wanted to know what this meant. Mr. I. Samuel: It is answered by Clause 9 of the house committee's report. The clause referred to was:—"(9) The report of the medical board, together with a letter from Dr. Rhys Griffiths, with reference to the case of Martha James was read. Resolved— That having regard to the facts stated in Dr. Rhys Griffiths' letter, and to the state- ment made to them by Dr. Evan Jones, the acting resident medical officer, this committee are of opinion that the case of Martha James ought not to have been admitted when there were other cases of equal, if not greater, urgency already on the books awaiting admission, and that this case should not have received priority 6ver the others." One or two members still aaked what this referred to. Mr. J. StanSeld: It refers to that case of housemaid's knee. Mr. J. W. Courtis. Oh. that haa been dealt with and settled quite enough now, I should think. DI, Lynn Thomas moved that the report should be adopted, and this was agreed to. CONTRIBUTION AND THANKS. Mr Geo. Burton. writing from Trealaw, en- closed cheque for £8. the second contribution II from the Llwynypia Honse Coal Colliery work- men, making a total of over £16 for the year. He wrote that after his visit to the infirmary he felt sad at finding the institution so much crippled through want of fnods, and expressed I the hope that the men of other collieries would contribute more. Mr. Edward England sent a receipt for £ 16 14s. 9d.. thus presenting the infirmary with goods supplied for several months past. Messrs. Richardeon and Co. wrote stating that, the receipts at the promenade concerts during Coronation week were £20 short of the limit fixed by Mr. Corbatt, and that there was no profit on the undertaking. They had decided, however, to send £5 5s. to the infir- mary. and enclosed cheque for that amount. Lieutenant-colonel T. Woods, writing from Llandaff, said:—" Thanks, I fear, are but too frequently expressed in a perfunctory form. I wish to convey my own to the medical and nursing staffs of the Cardiff Infirmary for the skill, care, and unremitting attention bestowed upon my servant, Annie Glanville, during the last fortnight, consequent upon aa operation which could not with equal facili- ties have been performed at home, in the more tangible way of doubling my annual subscription to the funds of so admirable an institution. With that view I trouble you with the enclosed cheque for an additional two guineas." On the Chairman'3 proposition, a hearty vote of thanks to the gentlemen named was passed.

THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL Date of Foundation-stone Laying by Lord Bute. To a meeting of the Cardiff Seamen's Hospital Committee on Wednesday night, the hon. secretary (Mr. J. L. Whentiey) read the follow- ing letter, dated by Sir W. T. Lewis, from 2Za. Queen Anne's-gate. Westminster, July 3:- "My Dear Sir,—With reference to your appli- cation on behalf of the committee of the Sea- men's Hospital. I have pleasure in informing you that I have submitted the same 10 the Marquess of Bute to-day, when his lordship was good enough to comply with the request that he should lay the fr»uiulntion stone of the new hospital now in oourse cf construction, provided the same can be arranged to be carried out during the first week in August next." Sir Thomas Morel (chairman of the com- mittee) was unable to be present at the meet- ing. and, although Mr. John Moore took the chair, it wac felt beat not to decide on any arrangements. These will be left in the hands of a sub-cominiltee, consisting of Sir Thomas Morel, Mr. Moore, Mr. E. W. M. Corbett. Alder- ( man David Jones, and Mr. Wlieatley. It was, however, intimated that thc ceremony will probably take place on Thursday, August 7, at nOOH. and afterwards the Marquess will be f invited to visit the Cardiff Exchange. r Another letter submitted to the meeting t was from Messrs. Richardson and Co.. of Car- ditr. who offered to hold a fete in Kophia ( Gardens on August Bank Ho1 ¡¡hy in dd of i the funds of the hospital. The committee, accepted this generous offer with thanks.

¡ THE PRESTEIGN SHOOTING I CASE. ] Jury Consider the Range Unsafe' (1 The adjourned inquest on the body of Nelly Briggs, who was shot dead by Volunteers at practice on Presteign shooting range, was concluded on Wednesday. I Sergeant Homer said he was one of the firing party. He was in charge of the volley firing, and saw ilome people on the hiB to the left of the target, but they were not in danger. He called Sergeaut Overs' attention to them. but he said they were out of danger. 1 Corporal Tudor corroborated, and said he < thought the people were 100 to 150 yards away j I to the left of the target. j Private E. H. Hamer was on the range all the time firing was going on. He saw some people on the hill on the left. They were about 200 yards to the left of the target. He ) did not see any other people. An old woman named Williams waB called. and said she was on the hill with others. She did not see anyone, but said the bullets came whizzing by her arm. She was a long way to the right of the target. In summing up, the Coroner considered the ] range a. dangerous one. and that it was ( impossible for anyone bemnd the belt of trees, to see the flag target or firing party. i The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental ( death." No blame was attached to the] sergeant-instructor, who took ordinary pre- ( cautions to see that the range was safe before firing. The jury added as' a rider that they considered the range unsafe both in front 1, j and behind the targets.

THE SLIDING SCALE. Mass Meeting of Colliers at Pontypool. MEN LIVING IN A FOOL'S PARADISE. Mr. T. Morgan, checkweigher at Tirpentwys Colliery. Pontypool, presided over a mass meeting of colliers from the surrounding dis- tricts at the Town-hall, Pontypool, last night. It was announced that Councillor T. Richards, general secretary to the South Wales Miners' Federation, who was to have spoken, was unable to be present; but Mr. Alfred Onions, treasurer to the Federation, addressed the meeting at some length. The next six months, he said, .would be an anxious time for the workmen of the South Wales coalfield. Con- sistently with the position they had taken up at the inauguration of the Federation, they had now given notice to terminate the sliding- scale agreement. Before the end of the present year. however, he hoped they would have entered into an agreement with the employers for the establishment of a minimum wage and a conciliation board. Some coal- owners, he was pleased to observe, were pre- pared to concede a minimum wage, but if the men found themselves forced into a struggle they must fight shoulder to shoulder, with ranks unbroken, until they had obtained what they asked for. Mr. J. Winstone, miners' agent for the Eastern Valleys district, speaking on the sliding-scale agreement, said that the miners of South Wales would soon be face to face with one of the most important labour struggles, and it was, therefore, imperative that every workman in the coalfield should take an active and intelligent interest in the negotiations which were to transpire during the next six months. His opinion was that the workmen had been living in a fool's para- dise, believing that competition was a good thing for them, and that it was best that wages should follow prices—even if they went down to the point of starvation; but they were now. to a great extent, discarding the doctrines of the old school of economists, and endeavouring to inaugurate the higher law that workmen had a right to live. The decision of the South Wales mineri to give the necessary six months' notice to ter- minate the sliding-scale (comments the "Daily Mail") is only one of many signs of the trouble between masters and men lurking in that district. South Wales has in the past been the scene of some of the bitterest and most distressful of our labour wars. Those who recall the great Bufferings of the strike there in the nineties may well hope for an avoidance of 'its recurrence. Yet during the past year there has been a willing- ness among the men to create unpleasantness in a hundred ways. The masters increased the tension by proceeding legally against men for stopping work without notice in jthe spring. A little spark may here fire a very great mine.

CARDIFF PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE A meeting of the public works committee of the Cardiff Corporation was held this morn- ing, Alderman J. Ramsdale presiding. The Chairman reported that, with the borough engineer, he had met the represents tives of owners of property in Beresford-road, Pearl-etreet, &c. They had agreed to further purchases of the property rights necessary to enable the corporation to carry on the improvement in this district. The terms agreed to were a considerable reduction upon the prices originally asked for by the owners. The Barry Urban District Council wrote asking whether any further communication could be made with reference to the applica- tion from the authority for permission to join in the new western sewer.—The Chairman pro- posed that the matter should be deferred until the borough engineer's return. Everyone seemed to want to join in the western sewer now.—^This was agreed to. Mr. Heitaman, on behalf of the billpoeting company, applied for permission to allow a number of advertieement show-cases to remain.—The Chairman, in the course of a subsequent discussion, said that Cardiff was becoming the talk of the country with refe- rence to this matter. The walls of the town were becoming hideous with posters. Every corner would soon be patched up with "this sort of stuff." The corporation had been fighting against it for a long time. He moved that the application should not be granted.— Alderman Carey asked whether it would not he better to have the show-cases rather thau the posters.—Mr. Veall pointed out that the cases projected over the highway, contrary to the statutes.—The chairman's proposal was agreed to.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS. The following is a list of the candidates who were awarded certificates at the examination held by the above society, at Cardiff, on July 1 and 2:—Pianoforte: Grade 4 (advanced), pass, Taliesin Jones and Florence Stocker; Grade 3. pass. Stella Fargher, Gwendoline Hambly. Eveline Jones, Winnifred M. Lam- bert. George F. Lewis, Nora M. Nicholas. Oscar Phillips, and Selena Wilce; Grade 2, pass, Jeanie M. Cunningham. Winifred N. Davies. Nellie Escott, Gertrude E.* Frank, and Robert L. Lewis; Grade 1. pass. Annie B. Dnnkley, Hilda Haden. David M. Hammond. Winifred James, Tudor John, and Edgar S. Meredith; Preparatory grade, honours, Gretta Davies, May Davies, and Madge Hughes; pass, May R0lmes. Arianwen Jones. William Morris, and Bessie Thomas. Violin: Grade 2, pass. Ethel M. Lloyd and Harold L. Noel; Grade 1. pass, Fred Down and Phillip Morgan. Organ: 3. pass, Mary A. M'Kinley; Grade 2, pass, Arthur Briscoe. The examiners were Mr. Arthur J. Page. F.R.C.O., of Nottingham, and Mr. James C. Marks, Mus.Doc. (Oxon). of Cork.

ITALIAN PEASANTS' IGNORANCE. An extraordinary case of gross ignorance combined with auperstitJon is reported, from a village near Messina, in Ficily. A family named Tossetti had a child who for years had suffered from scrofula, and other skin diseases. Three days ago a wandering gipsy called at the house, and said that he could cure the child if the parents would follow out his instiuctione. The parents agreed', and forth- with a goat was killed, the poor child being compelled to drink a cupful of the animal's blood and was encased in the skin of the animal for three hours. After this prayers were offered up to the Virgin, the gipsy show- in? the parents a sandal, which he. declared to have belonged to the Virgin. The child died yesterday after suffering excruciating agonies, and an inquiry has been opened into the circumstances of the case by the local authorities.

DIED WHilE BATHING. 'A young man. bathing in the lake at Vic- toria Park, London, yesterday morning, was observed by some of the other bathers to be in trouble. He was brought to the shore, and life was found to be extinct. Heart disease was, it is supposed, the cause of his death. The body. which has not up to the present been identified, lies in the Hackney Mortuary; awaiting the inquest.

TREDEGAR WORKMEN'S LIBRARY The committee of the Tredegar Workmen's Library and Institute, which at present is supported by weekly contributions by the workmen, are about to approach Mr. Carnegie for the gift of a sum of money with the object of erecting a library for the town. The present building, the Temperance-hall, is held on sufferance from a public company.

WHERE IS THE JADE EYE ?

FIRES AT BARRY. —— Shop Ablaze in Holton Road. TWO HOUSES GUTTED AT CAOOXTON A further cry of fire was raised at Barry Dock early this morning, Acting-sergeant Phillips receiving information that the pre- mises occupied by Mr. Erne3t Thorning. hair- dresser and tobacconist, Holton-road, Barry Dock, were on fire. On proceeding to the scene of the outbreak the police found the sitting-room well ablaze, and, after playing upon the fire with the extinguishing appliances for about half an hour. succeeded in putting out the same. Thorning, who occupies the bedroom immediately above the room in which the outbreak occurred, escaped through the window. The whole of the furniture, Ac., in the room was destroyed. Soon after the police had returned from the Holton-road fire, a. telephone message was received of another outbreak at Palmerstown, Cadoxton. The police staff from the Barry Dock Station, under the charge of Deputy- chief-constable Giddings and Inspector Morris, were quickly on the scene, and found that Police-sergeant Davies, of Cadoxton, and his men had succeeded in getting the fire, whioh had broken out iu the house of George Henry Musgrave, 16, Palmers-street, well under control. Both this house and the unoccupied house adjoining were completely gutted.

THE KING'S ILLNESS. To-day's Bulletin. The following bulletin was issued this morning: — "Buckingham Palace, 10.0 a.m.— The King's condition continues to be satisfactory." With reference to the report that his Majesty will go aboard the Royal yacht early next week, that date may appear to some people to be too early to be true. Such, how- ever, is the present intention. When moved from the Palace hia Majesty will probably use an ambulance chair similar to that which was employed when his knee was injured. The contrivance is such that an invalid may be transferred to any distance in reason without being materially shaken or required to move at all from a recumbent position. The Coronation. Inquiries made by Renter's Agency lead to the belief that if the Coronation takes place during August most of the Colonial Premiers will remain. Sir Albert Hime, the Natal Premier, will have to leave England in Sep- tember in order to reach Pietermaritzburg in time for the opening of the special aeeaion of the Natal Parliament in October. Palace Sentry Under Arrest. In consequence of the theft of a bulletin board from outside Buckingham Palace during the firat week of the King's illness (says the London "Sun"), the sentry on guard at the spot is a prisoner, and is about to be tried by district court-martial. Date of Postponed Ceremony. We are enabled to announce, on high autho- rity (says "To-Day"), that the dato of the Coronation has been provisionally fixed for Thursday, October 2. The Queen's invitation to the Danish envoys to return to London at the end of SepLember, and the announcement that the Indian and Colonial troops are to be retained in London until further notice. tend to confirm this statement. It is quite probable that the news will be officially con- tradicted; nevertheless, as it haa come from one of the leading members of the Cabinet, and is known to some of the City authorities, we believe it to be authentic. Medical Journal's Comment. The "British Medical Journal" says that the progress which the King haa made during the past week has been everything that could be desired, and has been even more rapid than it seemed reasonable to anticipate. The wound is graduating well, the matter formed is diminishing in quantity, but the wound is still deep. and must be dressed from the bottom, so as to ensure sound healing. His Majesty has regained strength almost com- pletely. although still confined to his bed or couch by the wound, and is able to take the restricted diet suitable to the period of convalescence with good appetite. His medical attendants are quite satisfied that his Majesty's constitution is thoroughly sound. His Majesty will leave Buckingham Palace for a change of air shortiy, and the date of the Coronation will be announced almost imme- diately.

BOWS BADLY STOVE IN. Steamer Strikes the Rocks off Ninnet Head. The steamship Trebia, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Barry, entered the Roath Basin, Cardiff, on this morning's tide, with her bows badly stove in. She had struck the rocks off Ninnet Head during last night.

VOLUNTEER REGULATIONS AND SHOOTING MEN. I A Serious Difficulty at Carmarthen. Corporal Andrews, of the Carmarthen Detachment uf the 1st Volunteer Battalion Welsh Regiment, and one of the beet shots in the battalion, has been debarred from attending the Bialey Meeting under extraor- dinary circumstances. He wished to go to the Bialey Meeting at his own expense, and, in accordance with the usual custom, he for- warded his entrance fees for the different competitions to the adjutant. The latter. however, returned the fees, and thus debarred Andrews from attending Bisley, because he (Andrews) was unable to attend, as well, the annual c-iuip of the battalion at Salisbury Plain. Moreover, Corporal Andrews's name has been struck off the rolls of the battalion for the same reason. Andrews has stated that the adjutant (Captain John) refused to for- ward the cheque to the Bisley authorities un- Ie8s he gave au undertaking 10 god under canvas WIlÜ LIlt) bfutuuoii, and this Andrews was unable to ùo "or business reasons. The matter haB occasioned considerable feel- iug a-mon&st Volunteers in Carmarthen, who consider that Corporal Andrews, who has served for many years in the battalion and would become eutitJpd to the long service decoration at the end of the year, has been very hardiy dealt with. Our Haverfordwest correspondent on Wed- nesday saw Captain Young, the adjutant. Captain Young said:—"The conditions of efficiency have been altered considerably, and one of the chief points is that Volunteers must attend camp. and for that reason we have been obliged to strike off a large number, as may be gathered from the fact that while last year the strength of the battalion was 1.196, on the let of July this year it was 958. A large proportion of the difference in these figures is made up of men who have been struck off owiug to their being unable to comply with the new conditions of efficiency. Unless a certain percentage of the men of the battalion go into camp the battalion loges the camp grant covering the railway expenses, daily pay, rations, and other expenditure. It would mean the loss of £ 1,000- to the batta- lion. The percentage is calculated from last year's strength. The annual inspection also cannot take place in camp, unless we have a certain percentage of our men there. Corporal Andrews is. therefore, only one of many who have been struck off, He is a very Did Volunteer, but. ho does not come to camp fts a rule, and non-commissioned officers are badly wanted in camp. His is not a single case, but he happened to want to go to Bisley. which he cannot do now because he is not a serving Volunteer. I told his officer that unless Andrews would undertake to come to camp ho would be struck off. He knew exactly what was required by the new condi- tions; everything was fully explained, to him. ( and he had full notice of what would ( happen." i LJUJS J

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BOERS' WAR LOSSES. Their Total in the Field AND THE NUMBER OF KILLED IN ACTION. Pretoria, Tuesday.—According to an estimate compiled by the Red Cross Identity Depot, which has fulfiUed the functions of the casualty office for the Boer forces, the total losses of the latter during the war were 3,700 killed or died of wounds in action and 32,000 prisoners of war, of whom 700 died. The total Boer force which has been in the field from first to last was about 75,000.—Press Associa- tion.

Told in Tabloids Mr. Herbert B. Cory's hunter "Gendarme" sustained an unlooked-for defeat at the Royal Show at Carlisle. The American Army Department, following the example of the British military autho- rities, has decided to adopt an olive drab serge for the service Uniform of the Army. The London Wall Exchange of the National Telephone, which is practically the most impor- tant in the Metropolis, was on Wednesday evening almost entirely destroyed by fire. Nearly half the members of the Ohatham Assessment Committee resigned yesterday because the majority refused to take the wet rents paid by tenants of tied public-houses into account in fixing assessments for rating purposes. The Primrose League fete, in connection with the Ely Habitation, which was to have taken place on Wednesday, the 23rd inst. at Wenvoe Castle, has been postponed owing to thÐinability of Colonel Wyndham-Quin, M.P., to attend on that date. At a meeting of the Pontypridd Ratepayers' Association on Wednesday evening, with Mr. John Evans in the chair, a resolution was passed to ask the Taff Vale Railway Company to improve the approach to the Pontypridd Station. It has been decided to hold the tea and festivities at Christchurch, which were post- poned on account of the King's illness, on Tuesday, July 22. The tea will be held in the Coldra Park, the residence of Mr. F. L. Davies, the donor. Lord Cheylesmore died this morning at his London residence. The deceased peeer con- tested Macclesfield thrice in the Conservative interest. The deceased was unmarried, and is succeeded by his Ibrother, Colonel the Hon. H. F. Eaton. At a meeting of the Rumney School Board. held this week, Mr. Arthur L. Howell, of Cole- brook, Cadoxton-Barry, the registrar of births and deaths for the Penarth district and school attendance officer to the Cardiff Union, was appointed to the vacant poat of attendance officer. The Great Western Railway Company, in response to representations made to them as to the non-stoppage of the 8.55 a.m. train from Caerleon to Newport, have altered the time of the new. train from Pontypool Road to New-, port from 8.15 to 8.20 a.m. The train will now leave Caerleon at 8.46 a.m., instead of 8.40. The house committee of the Newport and County Hospital having inquired: into the non-admiasion of Frank Smith, a sailor, who died at the workhouse hospital two hours later, have passed a resolution declaring that no blame attaches to the house surgeon, as Rule 81 precludes the admitting an insane person, but that later circumstances showed that he had made an error of judgment. bI

McRTHYR SUICIDE EPIDEMIC. A Commercial Traveller Shoots Himself. Between eleven and twelve o'clock last night William Griffith Reynolds, commercial traveller, of 15, George-street, Grange- town, Merthyr. shot himself through the right temple whilst sitting in a chair in the back kitchen of his house imme- diately after his wife and daughter had gone upstairs to bed. Dr. Biddle was at once called in. but deceased was quite dead. Police-constable Bowen, upon proceeding to the house after receiving information of the occurrence, found the deceased, clutching in the right hand a six-chambered revolver. which had contained three cartridges, two of which had been discharged, while a third remained unfired. Deceased was a man of unusual tendencies, for some few years ago he attempted to cut his throat, and only on Friday last he threatened to take his life. This is the fifth or sixth case of suicide which has happened in the Merthyr District during the last couple of months.

CARDIFF AND THE MARQUESS OF BUTE'S MAJORITY, His Lordship Invited to a Mayoral Dinner. J An addition haa been made to the pro- gramme arranged for the festivities to be held at Cardiff next month to celebrate Lord Bute's majority. The Mayor of Cardiff (Mr. F. J. Beavan) has invited the Marquess of Bute to attend a banquet that he will give in his lord- ship's honour at the Town-hall on the evening of Thursday, August 7. His worship's invita- tion will be extended to the house party at Cardiff Castle. We learn that the noble marquess has accepted the invitation.

GOOD TEMPLARS CONGRESS. Impressive Gathering in the Swedish Capital, The Good Templars' Congreaa, after sitting at Copenhagen, held a session on Tuesday in the Theatre Royal, Stockholm, in the presence of several members of the Swedish Royal Family. Four thousand delegates were present, representing 600.000 members, all over the world. From England there were 61 dele-1 gates, among them the veteran Joseph M^lin?,! who was referred to as the grandfather of the movement. On Sunday there will be an im- posing demonstration ;n the streets of Stock- holm, 20.MO Good Templars marching in pro- cession through the streets. One of the features of the gathering is the presence of an African chief from Basutoland.

WOUNDED BRITISH GUNNER. Gonerous Gifts from Japanese Notables. An intimation was received at Sheerness to- day that Prince Komatan, the Japanese Coro- nation Envoy, had generously sent £50 for Gunner Evans. of the Royal Artillery, who lost both hands in an accident. during the firing of a salute at Chatham on the arrival of the Prince. Rear-Admiral Tjuin, command- ing the Japanese squadron at Sheerness, also sent £10 for Gunner Evans. who has a wife and child.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE BENCH. Mr. Anton Bertram, the newly-appointed attorney-general of the Bahamas, was con- cerned as counsel in a case before Judge Owen in the Cardiff County-court to-day. When he rose his honour took the opportunity to remark, "I congratulate you on the appoint- ment you have received, and I hope you will be very happy and successful."—Mr. Bertram: Thank you, your hooour." [

PRINCE CHARGED. Pf A Startling London Case. VISITOR FOR THE CORONATION Implicated With Three Other Men. SENSATIONAL DEFENCE PROMISED. Prince Francis Joseph of Braganza, a. lieu- tenant in the Austrian Army, is the name of the distinguished foreign visitor for the Coronation who has been arrested in London on a discreditable charge. He again appeared at Southwark Police-court yesterday to answer the allegation. A model of good grooming, elegant in manner and appearance, the youthful scion of a royal house, as he sat at the side of the dock apart from his fellows, the principal defendant was the very antithesis of the men who are his associates in the charge. Their names are William Gerry, 24, a book. I THE PRINCE OF BRAGANZA. maker's clerk, who, on Mr. Muskett's opening statement, appears to have acted as agent in the transactions; Charles Sherman, a news- boy, seventeen years old; and Henry Chandler, who resides in the house at Stamford-street. Mr. Muskett prosecuted, while Sir Edward Clarke and Mr. Gill came down from the High Court, where they are both engaged in the same case, to defend the Prince. Mr. Muakett said that the charge would not be of Such a Grave Character as was at first intended. The proceedings would be under Section 2 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. Counsel then described how it was that the Prince came to make such peculiar acquaintances as the prisoners in the dock. The youths, Sherman and Chandler, he said, a few days before June 24 had taken up their quarters at a house in Duke-street, which lccds off Stamford-street. Their room was taken for them by the prisoner Gerry, who also came to live in the house. Soon after they came to Duke-street their landlord, whose wife keeps a small chandler's shop, had his attention called to the fact that Chandler and Sherman were talking on the opposite side of the road to a well-dressed gentleman. This gentleman turned out to be The Prince of Braga1 za. Ultimately they succeeded in inducing the Prince to come into the house. When the landlord asked Gerry what it all meant, the latter. who was not with the other prisoners, said, "Don't do anything, guv'nor; I will give yon anything if you will let me go." He then took to his heels, and was pursued, caught, and given into custody by Mr. Burbage, the landlord. The other youths were also arrested. The Prince, when this happened, said that he had given one of the youths JB2. and this sum was found on Chandler. On the way to the station Gerry said: "I'll take the blame on myself; I don't want to see these lads get into trouble." The Prince said: "I can't help it." Evidence was given to the effect that Gerry, after the lads came to Duke-street, drove up in a hansom cab, and it was also told how Sherman and Chandler were Followed to the House. by the Prince, who at first went away. The two youtha came out again, however, and fetched the Prince in. They had previously asked whether "their frienda had come." The prisoners were overheard to say-the one to the other-that "they had got to go through with it to-night." It was also described to the court how the landlord, with the help of a neighbour, made a hole in the door of the room occupied by Chandler and Sherman. This was done when the latter went out to find the Prince after he turned away from the house. Mr. Burbage afterwards looked through this hole. Two necessary witnesses, it was explained to the magistrate, had refused to come to the court, and an order was made for them to attend. Sir Edward Clarke, who cross-examined the witnespes at length, said that he wished the case to be gone into fully as soon as possible. Sensational developments are promised. The deforce, it is said, will be of a startling character.

CARDIFF WOMEN'S QUARREL A Midnight Incident in Bute Terrace. Jans Pearce, nineteen, appeared at Cardiff Police-court to-day, with her face badly cut and bruised, to answer a charge of wounding Bridget Collins on the face with a knife in Bute-terrace, with intent. Both girls have been living at 24. Mary Ann-atreet.—Complainant said there had been no xirevious quarrel, and the attack, she alleged, was unprovoked.- Prisoner, on the other hand, demurred to this. Complainant was always "on to her." She could not live for her. and only the other <lilY she hit her with a frying-pan.—The caae complainant brought before the court was that shortly after midnight she was walking along Bute-terrace, and saw prisoner fighting with a man. Accused suddenly turned upon liee itzid slabbed her. and, throwing away the knife, went into her house in Mary Ann- street—Prisoner alleged that Complainant scratched her face, and sustained the injury by falling on the kerbstone or on a piece of glass.—Dr. J. J. Buist negatived that theory, and said the wound was clean cut. 2Jin. long and three-eights of an inch deep. and must have been caused by some sharp instrument. -The Bench sent the case to the Swansea Assiies.

HIRING A BICYCLE. This afternoon at Cardiff Police-court John Home, nineteen, of Tongwynlais, was charged on remand with fraudulently converting to his own use a bicycle of which he had been made the bailee, and which was valued at JE2 10s. Prisoner was arrested at Pontypridd by Detective Price. The facts were that on the 17th of June accused went to the shop of Joseph. Freedman, cycle agent, of 168, Castle- road, and hired a bicycle for four hours in Ihc- name of Daniel or David Thomas, and he never returned. Instead he sold the bicycle at Pontypridd for 30a. to Herbert Elielia Allen, it collier.—The lad had lived respectably up to the present, and he was bound over under the First Offenders Act.

THE LIVING OF CAOOXTON-BARRY. We understand that there is a probability of the vacant living of Cadoxton-Barry being offered to the Rev. Mr. Green, V.A., vicar of Aberdare, but no definite announcement has yet been made.

WHOSE IS THE JADE EYE P

Cschfarf's" Comments. f m With a good deal of unexpected spar? time. the Colonial visitors for the Corona- tion seem to be favouring the provinces with much attention, but up to the present time none of the official represen- tatives of our Dominions across the 8ez have found their way to South Wales although there is every reason to desire the cultivation of a better understanding between our various Colonies and the Principality. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's very kindly letter concerning the Welsh immi- grants to Canada has made him a persona grata here, but his name stood in high favour here before the publication of that letter. I would say he is predisposed to pay a visit to South Wales. The administrative conditions are similar to what they are in Canada, where people of differing races and tongues abide in har- mony together. Surely, there would be commercial advantages also in his knowing local conditions at first hand. The same remark applies to other Colonial Premiers also; but there is not enough time to invite a great number here, and most of them have already made engagements which will occupy the whole of their time until they return to their own people. In Birmingham and Manchester the authorities have shown themselves to be very wideawake by securing a number of visits from Colonial Premiers and other distinguished visitors, and in the capital of the Midlands the visit of the Abyssinian Plenipotentiary on Tuesday almost assumed the dimensions of a Royal pro- gress. The visit to the Birmingham Small Arms Works can reasonably be described as having been planned with an eye tc business, but it was a characteristically Oriental failing, for the Prince to me was more interested in the Lord Mayor's chair of office and in the corporation maces tliar he appeared to be in small arms and their ammunition, or even in the exhibition practice at clay pigeons shot into the ait from traps. Coming from a country wher< game is plentiful, I would not be surprised to find that the Prince regarded the destruction of clay pigeons as an unneces- sary waste of objects of art, and intended to impress him with our indifference to the value of potters' ware. Perhaps Ras Makunan will write a book when he returns home which may surprise his hosts as to the impressions made upon the mind of their timid guest by the shooting of clay pigeons and the show of corpora- tion art treasures. The number of British subjects who bear 1 any other colour than white are bewilder- ing, and the uninitiated in the definition of the blends of colour between white and black are at a loss how to describe them. In London the troops that came from different parts of the world with the intention of assisting at the Coronatior are the despair of the reporters, on that account. Expert advice has been sought and this is the result: — The child of a white father and a negrc mother is a mulatto. The child of a white father and an Indiax mother is a mestizo. The child of an Indian father and a negrc mother is a chino. The child of a negro father and an Indian mother is a zambo. The child of a white father and a mulatto mother is a quadroon. The child of a white father and a. mestizc mother ia a Creole. The child of a negro father and a mulatto mother is a cubra. The child of an Indian father and a. mestizo mother ia a mestizo-claro-often handsome. A mulatto is coffee-coloured a mestizo is ruddy gold; a chino is dirty red a zambo is dirty brown. Quadroons and Creoles are some-times beautiful. When there are so many fellow-subjects who are of the different shades of colour I have just described, it is well we should know how to distinguish them. The" Shipping World" calls attention to the manner in which the Patent Act of 1883 has been tinkered on seven or eight different occa- sions, but in neither instance has thero been any attempt made to reduce the exorbitantly high charges made for grant- ing a British patent. In this country fourteen years of so-called protection costs £99; in America a patent which will stand in any court of law and runs for seventeen years costs only £7, In Germany the total charges are higher than in this country, but in return for them the inventor is granted a patent which not only srives him an absolute title to his invention, but is at the same time prima facie evidence of its novelty and utility, no German patent being granted for an invention that lacks utility as well as novelty. There is a Patent Law Amend- ment Bill before Parliament now, but it only deals with the rare accident of twe inventors having discovered novelties oj close resemblance, and the licensing 0' patents to others than the inventor when he is disinclined to use them himsel: —an odd procedure which frequently happens when an inventor wishes tc force a sale of his patent at a hig}- price. The great need of inventors of small articles is a cheaper registra- tion fee, and such other encouragements as will enable them to put their inventions upon the market without having to seek the aid of speculators in inventions, whe too often get the lion's share of the finan- cial benefit of the inventor's brainwork This is the great want of our artisans just now. and its attainment should be made easy by a Government measure. If the news that the postponed Coro- nation is to take place during the nex< Bank Holiday week is trustworthy, thert will be another clashing of events if Cardiff, and the celebration of the Marquess of Bute's coming of age will after all, be held at the same time as the Coronation. Neither event will bt worthily held on one and the same day, and, inasmuch as the first week in August is a summer holiday week, it would be wet! to divide it in two, and make the Wed. nesday and Thursday the time of rejoicing over the more local event. The London tradesmen are raising a cry against a multiplication of events which dislocate trade in the manner the first Coronation preparations did, and they suggest that tho Sunday before or the Sunday after a, one-day celebration of the Coronation should be regarded as a thanksgiving day for the King's recovery. This cry of the tradesmen implies what the public are dow to believe, viz., that festivities do not help trade. A stoppage of work iecreases the spending power of the people, and trade is never better than when everybody is at work. Cardiff is poorer through the death of Mr. John Fergusson. He was a most inde- fatigable worker in every movement with which he was associated. His most pro- ninent services were given to the tem- perance movement, and he was one of the stalwarts of Good Templarism, but he was J 1 man of very wide information, and kept ,n touch with everything relating to his native Scotland. He was one of the few North Britons in Cardiff known tc ne who cultivated the Gaelic tongue. Efaving lived many years in Welsh-speak- ng districts, he could converse freely in that tongue. He had been unwell 'or the last two years, but very few of his icquaintances were prepared to hear of his amented death, for there was a time when lC could be regarded as one of the most •obust figures in the town. He was a node! citizen, for his interest in every nunicipal enterprise was live and disinte- rested, and we can ill afford to lose such nen.

Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, has remained true to the religion in which she was brought up, and is one of the very few Princesses married to Russian Grand Dukes who has not been converted to the orthodox Greek Church. Some doubt having arisen as to the actual birthplace of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes, steps nre being taken to settle the matter for good and all. It will be remembered that Mr. Rhodes was the son of a rector of Bishop's Stortford, and it was assumed, accordingly, that he was born at the rectory at that place. It appears that when the "Empire builder" came into the world the Bishop's Stortford rectory was in course of such extensive repair or re-construction that the Rhodes family was not residing in it, but in a white brick house of moderate dimensions hard by. This house was owned by a lady named Jervis, residing at or near Brighton; and an order has been given to a Bishop's Stortford firm to insert a plate in one of the walls recording the now well-authenticated fact that the great South African was born in this tempo- rary abode of his family. Miss Ada Crossley, the charming ccntralto, who was the leading spirit in organising the Australian Coronation concert for the enter- tainment of the East-end poor in the People's Palace, spent her early years in Gippsland. the extensive south-eastern province of Victoria, where the tallest trees in the world are to be seen. When she was in her teen3, Miss Crossley had to ride long distances through the bush to get her music lessons. When she moved into Melbourne she soon made her mark on the concert platform, and was appointed principal contralto in her church choir. Mis'! Crossley was very nervous about trying her fortune in London, and resorted to the expedient of tossing a coin in the air. If it came down "head," she would go to London; if otherwise, she would remain in Melbourne. Fortunately for herself, as well as for English music-lovers, the fateful coin did its duty nobly, and directed Miss Crossley to cross the equator in a hopeful and con- fident spirit. The Tearful Wife: I am going to go right down to the river and drown myself! The Brutal Husband: All right, my dear; start at once, if you really want to. The Tearful Wife: It's raining now, and it would spoil my new dress; but I'm going just as soon as it stops. Yea see if I don't! A pretty story about the King, when Prince of Wales, is being told by a gentleman who was witness to one of the many instances of our Sovereign's kindness of heart. When quite a young man the Prince was staying at the Hotel Cavour, Ifilan. and. like all the other visitors, purchased flowers from a little lame girl, ten years old, wko used to sell them in front of the hotel. The Prince was not satisfied with pitying the child. He sent her to an eminent surgeon to sea if anything could be done to cure her lameness, and left sufficient money to enable the surgeon to carry out his cure. When the Prince returned to Milan he was rewarded by finding the little girl able to walk with very little difficulty.