The Rhos Herald

j EPITOME OF NEWS. A sum of £ 20,000 is needed to repair Canter- bury Cathedral. Preparations are being made at Wembley Park for aeroplane trials. Prebendary T. Peacey, vicar of Hove, Brigh- ton, for thirty years, has just died. A board of censorship for moving pictures has been formed in New York. The body of a woman was washed ashore off the West Pier, Brighton. An ice-cream vendor named Delvecehio, who, it is alleged, was shot by his son, died in Glas- gow. Dr. Alexander Ramsey, who has been the editor of the "Banffshire Journal" since 1847, died at Banff. » The Brighton Town Council has decided to maintain the municipal orchestra at its present strength of forty performers. According to the "British Australasian," Victoria's expenditure at the Franco-British Exhibition amounted to £ 18,000. The Home Secretary announces that 67 luna- tics have escaped from asylums this year. A beaker of water, and nothing else, was found on a raft which the Greenock ship Port Crawford passed near the Azores. According to an American Consular report, English is gradually becoming the international language of commerce in China. French concessions for a railway in Abys- sinia. have been cancelled by the Emperor Mene- lik. A plaintiff in Westminster County-court named Schumann, called a witness named Schubert. Judge Smith stated at Walsall County-court that he smoked practically all through the day, and that "twist" was a beautiful tobacco. A new agreement superseding the modus vivendi between the Transvaal and Mozambique was signed at Pretoria. Mr. Sealey Clarke, a member of a well-known firm of London publishers, suddenly fell down in his office and expired. For lack of skill in the extractiono,t his teeth, a. Cardiff tramway-car conductor was awarded S60 damages against a dentist. Among the members of a committee which the Treasury has appointed to consider the claims of Scottish Universities to additional State assistance in Miss Haldane. The Port of London Authority decided to serve a notice upon the Millwall Dock Equip- ment Company to acquire their undertaking twelve months hence. At Yarmouth corn market Norfolk and Suffolk wheat sold at 40s. a quarter—the highest price since the Spanish-American war. Traffic between Doncaster and Hull on the North-Eastern Railway was suspended in conse- quence of an engine becoming derailed at Goole. At the wedding of a bombardier of the Royal Field Artillery at Colchester the wedding car- riage was drawn by six horses ridden by artil- lerymen. Gustav Myaron, a sailor, who was arrested in St. George's-street, London, E., for being in- toxicated, had two £ 50 notes and sixteen sove- reigns in his pockets. "To the man who has not the money to pay, the smallest debt is liable to assume immense weight," Judge Willis remarked at the South- wark County-court. The following advertisement appears in a Belgian newspaper "A young man, good for nothing, but submissive, requires situation. Not afraid of harsh treatment." The Swedish Royal Academy of Science has conferred its gold medal upon Mr. Edison for his inventions in connection with the phono- graph. The Hong Kong Legislative Council has voted a sum of 11,613 dollars as compensation to licensees affected by the closing of the opium divans. William George Gribble, country manager of the London and County Banking Company, died near Waterloo station shortly after leaving the head office in Lombard-street. A significant feature of the report of the Blyth harbourmaster is that practically three out of every four ships arriving at that port trade under foreign flags. Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast, and the railway connecting it with Berber and Khartum wera formally opened by the Khedive. Mr. W. M. Campbell, Governor of the Bank of England since 1907, was elected chairman of i the West India Committee. Mr. Bernard Shaw's Salvation Army comedy, "Major Barbara," has been produced with suc- cess at the German People's Theatre at Vienna. The Mayor of Wolverhampton, Councillor E. L. Culwick, died after a' long illness, having only once occupied the civic chair since his election in November. M. Rene Doumic, literary and dramatic critic to the "Revue des Deux-Mondes," and. M. Jean Aicard, the poet, have been elected members of the French Academy. It was stated at the inquest on William E. Brett, a Eoiherhithe youth, that he cycled down Point-hill, Greenwich, at thirty miles an I' hour and dashed into a wall at the bottom. The Court of Common Council appointed a committee to arrange for the forthcoming visit to London of members of the Berlin munici- pality. I' While left alone for a few minutes, the two- year-old son of Joseph Bolton, a carrier, of i Shilton, Nuneaton, fell into a washtub, and I was drowned. Owing to the sexton being out for the day with the key of the vestry room in his pocket, the annual vestry meeting at St. Nicholas, I Rochester, was held on the doorstep. During the past half-year there was a loss to the Lambeth rates of C30,000, the equivalent to a fourpenny rate, in consequence of the large number of empty houses in the borough. I Members of the Bishops Stortford Rifle Club have been unable to shoot for three months in consequence of the hall in which they practise having been let for roller skating. It was stated at the meeting of the East Suffolk Education Committee that 500 fruit trees in the school gardens had been grafted by children, and a grant was made for the pur- chase of additional fruit stocks. On the application of the Theatrical Managers' Association, Mr. Marsham, at Bow- street, granted summonses against the manage- ment of the Hippodrome and the Coliseum for performing stage-plays without a licence. Charged with embezzling the moneys of the Third Royal Liver Benefit Building Society, Southwark, Alfred Bennett, the ex-secretary, was committed for trial at Tower Bridge It tr¡.s alleged that the defalcations totalled .,840.

OUR LONDON LETTER. I fjFr&n Our Special Correspondent,} London County Council has even yet not Atished with the Thames steamboats, whh have had such an unfortunate career, ami have caused as much talk as if they had t beel", a fleet of Dreadnoughts. Ever since tha service of boats up and down the river 1 was stopped there has been a bitter contro- veray as to what is to be done with the steamers. Some of the members of the Moderate majority want to seU the 1 boats, I while others are doubtful, and all the Pro- gressives, of course, want them to run again, even though it be at a loss. Meanwhile the boats are laid up and are deteriorating in value so that it will probably be difficult to find a purchaser for them. The loss, if the boats were put on again, would only amount to about a farthing in the pound on the rates, which seems hardly worth all the fuss which has been made. Whatever opinion the ratepayers may hold there can be. no doubt that a cheap service of steamers on the Thames was highly appreciated by visitors. It afforded an opportunity of seeing London in what was to them an unfamiliar aspect, and it is surely a fascinating panorama such as can hardly be enjoyed anywhere else in the world. Ratepayers might grumble if it were decided to start the boats again this year, but a great many provinical and foreign visitors would be delighted. Some time ago it was announced that the King would take an opportunity to present colours to all the battalions of the Terri- torial Force, and to those units which have recruited to within seventy-five per cent. of their full strength. It was assumed that the presentation to the London Territorials would take place in Hyde Park, where seve- ral great reviews of the Volunteer force have been witnessed in past years. It seems, how- ever, from the speech which Mr. Haldane de- livered at Kensington last week that the cere- mony is to take place at Windsor Castle on June 19. To an interviewer Mr. Haldane said that he had heard nothing of the rumoured great review, and therefore it is probably nothing more than a rumour. It will, of course, be quite impossible for the Territorials to assemble at Windsor in full strength, and the presentation will be made to detachments chosen to receive the colours. Chief among the fashionable weddings which are to be celebrated in town this month will be that of Lord Dalmeny, M.P., Lord Rosebery's heir, to Miss Dorothy Grosvenor, younger daughter of Lord Henry Grosvenor, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, on Thursday, the 15th inst. It is to be a brilliant cere- mony." Lord Dalnneny, besides having a famous statesman for father, has won some fame of his own. He has not made, much stir in the political world, and has, indeed, recently announced his intention of -not seek- ing re-election when this Parliament ends. His reputation has been won in other fields, for he is a fine cricketer, and captained Surrey for a brief period. The bride, too, bears a great name, and their wedding will be the event of the season, as the bride- groom's father's was a good many years ago. It was in connection with that event that Browning, who was not a little proud of his mastery of out-of-the-way rhymes, was chal- lenged to "throw off" something, bringing in rhymes to the names of the bride and the bridegroom. He was equal to the occasion, and this was his achievement: "Venus, sea-froth's child, Playing Old Gooseberry, Married Lord Rosebery To Hannah de Rothschild." There is something rather pathetic about the idea, a club composed of people who are deter- mined to be cheerful. There is such a club in New York, where there are many other pathetic things. The members have a smile as their motto, and they are going to flaunt their grim cheerfulness in the faces of all New Yorkers in the form of a pin, a. brooch, or » ring. How they are going to get a smile in a ring is not explained. They call them- selves the Optimists' Club, and nobody who cannot smile as if he meant it while paying the entrance fee will he eligible for member- ship. They had a dinner the other night, and Mr. Taft, who is, of course, the champion smiler of America, and of the world, sent a message to the effect that "people who read and talk only pessimistically will never achieve success." It is the optimists who rule the world. But there are smiles, and smiles—"a man may smile, and smile, and be a villain At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark." One hopes that it may not be so in America. It is desired that the memorial to the late Duke of Devonshire shall have a national character, and with that object in view a very influential committee has been formed; and subscriptions are invited. The memorial is to take the form of a statue of the duke, to be erected at the junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall, a site having been given by the City Council of Westminster. The execution of the statue has been en- | trusted to Mr. Herbert Hampton. In the event of a greater amount being subscribed than is required for the statue, the balance will be devoted to some educational object J which is known to have had the late duke's | approval. I Talking about statues, I am reminded that the noble effigy of King Richard, which stands outside, the House of Lords, has re- | cently undergone a spring cleaning. This is I one of the finest equestrian statues in j London, and the great mail-clad figure with | upraised sword invariably attracts the atten- J tion of visitors to the Houses of Parliament. j They walk all round it, scanning the base fo? f an inscription, and finding none. A good | many of them never know whom it repre- !■ seuts. If one wants to know it is a good thing to ask a policeman, as I did when 1 first saw it. "That's Richard Casur de IAon," he answered, and his French accent was de- lightful. "Fifty times a day," he added, "people ask me who it is. I wish they'd hang ot label round his blooming neck! Omnibus companies are not taking kindly to the proposed new regulations which arc to be issued by the Commissioner of Police, urxd ;• which no new motor-'buses are to be "Licei sed if they exceed three and a half tona in weight and have a capacity for carrying twe" .iy-six persons. "The vehicles at present in !.S3 weigh about a ton more than this, and car; about thirty-four passengers. The oStoials of the companies say that the new typ; of vehicle will cost nearly as much to run. while, as they will carry fewer passen- gers. the receipts will be materially lessened. cotild, of course, nm faster, and so more journeys, but that would necessi- t a raising of the speed limit, which is haidly likely. The present ugly, lumbering tjw of 'bus is a noisy nuisance, and cer- tainly some modifications are called for. A. E. M

SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENTS. A motor-car in which Mr. and Mrs. Fred Terry (Miss Julia Neilson) and their daugh- ter were going from Blackheath to Shooter's Hill on Sunday collided with a motor-cycle and side carriage driven by a Mr. Frank Barton. Mr. Barton was thrown heavily, and was picked up unconscious. A boy who was in the side carriage escaped with a shak- ing, and Mr. and Mrs. Terry and their daughter were not hurt. Two taxicabs collided at Bristol on Satur- day. James Edbrooke, the driver of one of them, afterwards died from the injuries he received. i Emily Griffiths, a cook, was run over by a motor car in Upper Northgate street, Chester, on Saturday evening, and waa so severely injured that she died on Sunday. A motor-car belonging to a Mr- William Callendar broke down in Nottingham. Seve- ral persons offered their assistance, and while some of them were pushing tlTe disabled car along there was a loud explosion, and the car burst into flames. The chauffeur, Francis Perrons, the two passengers, Mr. Joseph Herbert and Mr. John Monks, and three per- sons who were helping—Mr. John Webbe, Mr. Albert Roland, and a boy named Mark Godfrey, were all badly burned.

NEW MOTOR TERROR. A drastic new police regulation for London will require at an early date that all public carriages propelled by mechanical means to be fitted with an automatic device to give audible warning of excess of speed. The device must be so made and attached that it can be scaled and cannot be tampered with. The audible warning must be loud and con- tinuous so long as the statutory speed is being exceeded. The Police Commissioner has decided to take this course in consequence of the frequency of the reports of excessive speeds of motor omnibuses and motor-cabs and consequent danger to the public and damage to property. This piece of news has caused a commotion among motor proprietors and drivers in London. The regulation is aimed principally at the taxicab, which when. fitted with the new apparatus will begin to hoot automati- cally the moment the speedometer registers more than twenty miles an hour.

i. — j SCHOOL SPORTS DANGER. Dr. L. Mackenzie, J.P., the medical officer of Blundell's School, Tiverton, 'Devonshire, stated at the distribution of sports prizes OIl Saturday that thirty-one of the medical officers of public schools who had been ap- proached reported that they had never heard of any damage to heart or lungs through, over-exertion in school races or other forms of athletic exercise. Seven, on the other hand, reported that they had seen some, but admitted that that damage had been done to boys who were not medically examined, before they ran. Nineteen of twenty of the doctors who ex- amine Freshmen at Oxford and Cambridge said that they had not heard of any case of heart-strain among the hundreds of young men examined by them which could be at- tributed to the effects of school games or exercises.

MARATHON DERBY. The Marathon Derby race in New York for a purse of E2,000 was easily won on Saturday by Henri St. Yves, a Frenchman, who has been employed in London as a. waiter at the Monico Restaurant. Despite the wet and gloomy weather over 40,000 per- sons were present at the polo ground to wit- ness the race. Dorando came second and Hayes third. Shrubb, the Englishman, col- lapsed at the twenty-fifth mile. The winner, who is only twenty years old, ran the race in 2h. 40m. 50 3-5s. Longboat gave up in the twentieth mile. The contest of Shrubb and St. Yves for the lead was one of the best ever seen in the States. For mile after mile Shrubb stuck to first place, only a yard separating him from the Frenchman. At, the nineteenth mile Yves sprinted nearly a lap ahead. Thenceforth the issue of the race was not in doubt.

CORONER STOPS A FUNERAL. Some strange evidence was given at a coroner's inquest at Lambeth on Saturday I about the death of Elizabeth Jane Russell, thirty-three, a boarding-house keeper, of Clapham-road. In consequence of certain statements on the eve of the funeral the woman's body was taken from the mortuary for post-mortem examination. The husband, Mr. George Henry Russell, a chemist, said the deceased begged for some morphia, but as she was not in pain witness only pretended to give her some, mixing up a little ginger and magnesia. The coroner said it was obvious that the case must last a considerable time, and the inquiry was accordingly adjourned.

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CHARGE AGAINST RECTOR'S WIFE A formal verdict of "Not guilty" was re- turned at Maidstone Assizes on Monday in the case of Mrs. Frances Gedge, tire wife of the rector" Gravesend, who was charged with libelling the Rev. Herbert John Martin at Chatham. Mr. F. Low, K.C., for the prosecution, rw- called the facts that a true bill was found aft the last assizes, and the case was adjourned to this assize on the Judge's suggestion, ill order to see if anything could be don. between the parties to obviate the trial. A, course had been taken which made it Uti", necessary for the prosecution to continue. Mrn. Gedge was discharged. ro J'd from thc- mediaeval custom which com- a bride to dance at her wedding with anyone who aeked her. « Most of the churches in Naples have threat or four cats attached to them. The cate anft kept for the purpose of catching the mice which invest all the ancient Neapolitan buildings. The animal* may often be -Pen walking about among, the congregation, or stretched before the altars.. OJ A tvpical Pouth Africa" household described" lvv Olive Sehreiner had an English father, » half Dutch mother with a French name, a Scotch gov,i,,rne,-r-. a Zu'u cook, a Hottentot hoii-semaid, and a Kaffir table boy, while the little girl who, waited at table was a Basuto. « < Many a girl has broken off hep en,agetnent, to a fellow because of his past, and many another because of his presents'-—to some other girl. » A feather brush is preferable to a cloth for diluting gilt picture frames, as the cloth weart and deadens the gilt. » By covering the bottom of a bureau or cir fomer with a sheet of tm or zinc protection* from mi-a ic secured. i