The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. < The King witnessed a performance of Mr. R. C. Carton's farce "Mr. Preedy and the Countess at the Criterion Theatre. Archdeacon Wright, of 'Manchester, has beey elected Archbishop of Sydney by the Synod, subject to the confirmation of the New South Wales Bishops. Tom Bowling was the name of a naval petty ocer who was summoned at the South-Western Police-court. The summons was dismissed. In order not to jeopardise her old-age pen- sion, the Yarmouth magistrates fined a woman, ag.^d seventy, £ 5 for theft, instead of sending her to prison. John Cresvick, who escaped from custody in Rhodesia, and tramped two thousand miles across Africa, was ordered at Bow-street to be taken back to South Africa. "Wireless apparatus has been installed at Lloyd's station at the North Foreland and within a few days messages will be transmitted from the station to steamers. A horse attached to a cart plunged into the river Lea and was drowned. Two workmen narrowly escaped a similar fate. At D-r-vonshire House a drawing-room meet- ing was held in support of Trinity College {Cambridge) Mission carried on in Camberwell. William Henry Neale, of Redhlll, was fined 2s. 6d. for giving a child under five years of age beer. He pleaded ignorance of the law. For making a false declaration in connection with the Old Age Pension Act, Thomas Bullas was at Bury St. Edmunds sentenced to three months' hard labo-ui. A meeting of the Court of Governors of Man- chester University decided to confer on Mrs. Sidney Webb the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature. In the action brought by Count Boni de Castellane against his divorced wife, formerly Miss Anna Gould, and now Princess de Sagan, the French Court of Appeal has decided that the Princess shall retain the custody of the chil- dren. For King Edward's visit to Birmingham on July 7, when he will open the new University buildings, a special lift is to be constructed at the Council House to save his Majesty the exer- tion of mounting the steps. The two Canadian schoolboy marksmen who are in England as the Imperial guests of the London County Council schoolboy marksmen were received by the Chairman of the Council. Willesden Guardians report that during the half-year just ended a profit of £ 100 17s. 8d. has been made on the garden account, vegetables having been grown for the various institutions instead of purchasing them. President Taft has sent a message to Congress renewing the recommendation of President Roosevelt that an appropriation be voted to enable the United States to take part in the Brussels Exhibition next year. It was stated at a meeting of the Lambeth Council that the borough lost X40,000 last year on empty property, and that 75 per cent. of the houses in Stamford-street were closed. A system of illumination in which thirty-four miles of electric cables and decorative lamps of an aggregate of 1,500,000 candle power are used, was inaugurated at the Shepherd's-bush Exhibition. The King and the Prince of Wales have accepted copies of Mr. John Foster Fraser's most recent book, "Quaint Subjects of the King," which deals with the lesser-known tribes in distant parts of the Empire. Thirteen public executions in consequence of the Turkish revolution of April 13 were carried out in Stambul and Beshik Fash. Now that the Union of South Africa is at hand, Dr. Jameson has decided to retire from public life. The Archbishop of York /(Dr. Lang) and Mr. Justice Hamilton were elected honorary Fel- lows of Magdalen College, Oxford. Mr. Carnegie has offered, and the French Government has accepted, a gift of 9200,000 to establish a Peace Heroes Fund in France. The body of Chief-stoker James Clarke, of H.M.S. Hasty, has been recovered from the water of Felixstowe dock. Mr. Thomas Mellaid Reade, the well-known geologist, died at Blundellsands, Liverpool, aged 76 years. ) In Dublin fines amounting to 990 were inn- posed on four men for using premises for bet- ting purposes. Four hands in distress oR a fishing boat were saved off Stromriess by the new motor lifeboat John A. Hay." While making for Lowestoft Harbour, the smack Majestic was driven high and dry ashore on the south beach. More than 130 applications have been re- ceived for the vacant living of St. Andrew, Norwich. Mrs. Sarah Hickleton, of Wheatacre All Saints, has just attained the age of 105 years. The cancelling of a contract by telephone was upheld by the Clerkenwell County-court judge. ) Mr. Charles E. Musgrave has been appointed secretary of the London Chamber of Com- merce. Major-General Willoughby Stanley Clarke, late of the Indian Army, died at Bournemouth. "Difficulty in elocution is no bar to success on the stage at present," counsel declared at the London Sessions. The National Gallery was visited by 637.304 persons and the Tate Gallery by 2|4,683 per- eons on free days last year. Running on to the line at Swansea Quay Parade to see some Yeomanry pass, an errand' boy named Willie Jewell was knocked down and killed. Damage estimated at 950,000 was caused by a fire at Salisbury. The premises of Messrs. H. Williamson and Son, clock makers, were com- pletely gutted. Of the total of :C5,W7 resulting from the Women's Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, £4,300 was taken at the stall" and JE300 in the entertainments. According to Sir Henry Geary, who made the statement at a meeting of the Farnham Board, of Guardians, there are probably 200,000 ex- soldiers on the rates. Five of the members of Lieutenant Shackle- ton's Antarctic expedition reached London on board the Paparoo. Lieutenant Shackleton will arrive later. The Catholicos of All the Armenians is going to St. Petersburg from Turkey, to ask the Rus- ,sian Government to take the Turkish Armen- ians under its protection. Miss Bell, a traveller and authorem, has been robbed ot her horses and baggage fey Kurds at Mtdiyad, south-east of Biarbeki, ia Asiatic Turkey.,

OUR LONDON LETTER. [Irom Our Special Correspondent.} Personal matters always excite a tre- akondous amount of interest in the House of Commons, and while it is often impossible to e-t a good attendance for the discussion of some important if dull affair of State, a per- sonal affair in which a Minister or a high official is concerned always commands a good house and the keenest attention. Nothing m recent sessions has caused so much commo- tion as what are now called the Bacon letters, being letters which ought to have been confidential and which were written by Captain Bacon to Sir John Fisher at the Admiralty. Everybody knows now that some of these letters were printed for con- venience of reference, and that, unfortu- nately, they contained remarks about a member of Parliament which had better have been left unprinted. That fact, and the circulation of two or three copies of the letters is the cause of all the trouble, and of all the questions and excitement in the House of Commons. Though the questions are fired off At Mr. McKenna, the First Lord of the Admiralty, it is pretty well-known that the attack is not being directed against him at all. Indeed, i: has had nothing to do with the whole thing, for the letters were written three years ago, before he was appointed to the Admiralty. The real object of attack is the First Sea Lord, Sir John Fisher. It is a pity that any copies of the letters should have found their way outside the Admiralty, but pity 'tis, 'tis true, and a nice fuss they have caused. Mr. McKenna defended Sir John Fisher with warmth, declaring that tke attack was doing great injustice to a great Sea Lord, who has had the unreserved confi- dence of four First Lords of the Admiralty. He appealed to the House not to be misled I into censuring in the slightest degree a man who had given the very best service to the public that any man could give. The appeal and explanation apparently had their effect, for no resolution on the matter was put for- ward. The very thin stuff of which moat scare stories are composed is shown once again by the truth about that remarkable state- ment concerning a cellar full of rifles near Charing-cross, which no doubt caused some worthy people considerable alarm. It appears that the arms do exist after all, and that they are stored in the sub-basement of a bank near the Law Courts. So far the story is true. But to proceed. The arms—modern rifles—were bought from our own Govern- ment, and it is stated that Lord Roberts himself is not unaware of the matter. Dread- ful, isn't it? Only the further announcement is made that the weapons, instead of being stored there until the army of German waiters is ready to rise and capture London, are really the property of the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, and that they are going to be converted into miniature rifles to be used by young men in learning to defend "an Englishman's home." And so we breathe again. I Londoners will have an opportunity this season of seeing something of Britain's naval 1 strength, for the vessels taking part in the North Sea operations next month will after- wards anchor in the Thames. Some will be at Southend, and others will take berths higher up, the line extending right away up to the Houses of Parliament. It will be an imposing display of our sea-fighting power, such as has certainly never been seen in London, and there can be no doubt that the decision of the Admiralty will be very popular. London pays a good deal towards the. maintenance of the Navy, and it is right that she should see something of the ships. True, the old Buz- zard is always with us, but she is about as like an up-to-date fighting ship as a Thames tug is like the Mauretania. If the fortune of the late Mr. Charles Morrison is anything like the amount at which it has been estimated, the share of the Exchequer in death duties will be greater than Mr. Lloyd George's estimate of a year's yield from this source. Various guesses have been made as to the wealth of this re- markable man, ranging from about five millions up to fifteen millions. If the world does not know its greatest men it rather plumed itself upon knowing all its richest, yet Mr. Morrison, reckoned, by a few who knew him intimately, to be the richest man in this rich city, was absolutely unknown outside a small circle. Quietly, unostenta- tiously, ever since the last century was fairly young, he went on making money. He has I seen many men rise from obscurity to fame, from poverty to affluence, and he must have seen many of them sink back again. He went on, one supposes, getting richer and more rich, making little noise in the world, going to the City in the morning, Working, eating his modest lunch, working again, and going back to his home and his books. A life less exciting and eventful than that of a City clerk on a couple of pounds a week. Are there any more like him, one wonders, left in this great city? It is a hard world for the taxi-cab driver as well as for the hansom cabby. The latter is rapidly losing his living altogether, and the former is being taught that he is not to look upon his fares as lawful prey to be dealt with as he wills. The taximeter put a stop once for all to the haphazard payments in vogue when the hansom had the streets to itself, when the cabman charged pretty much what he chose, and used language more for- cible than polite if he did not get what he Asked. But even the taximeter may err, as lfcbs been proved. Recent regulations, how- ever, have done something to correct the ten- dency. But though the horse-cab is going, the tricks of cabmen go on for ever. It is an goingi dency. But though the horse-cab is going, the tricks of cabmen go on for ever. It is an old dodge to drive a passenger, ignorant of 1 Hi Beilhbourhood, over half the town wk" 4te place he wants is just round the qorn-ar. A taxi-cab driver who sued & fzr-a IV rfrhet day for twopence found out that the law ex- pects him to drive to the desired pLy tiie shortest route. If he does not do so, i Ãis passenger knows it, he does the extra tJ, St*" nothing. There is talk of an increase in the number common law judges. We are a litigious J ,f--Ie, and the judges at prEsent. on the bench fere unable, to keep up with their work. The judicial profession appears to be about the o--ly one just now in which there are no un- employed. This in spite of the fact, as stated by the Attorney-General the other day, that the judges work overtime, or, at least, do a great deal of judicial work out of judicial hours. Notwithstanding all their efforts a huge number of oases are still await- ing hearing, and unless at least three new judges are appointed the number will go on growing. This would mean, of course, a heavy addition to the already large salary list. It has been suggested that salaries should be lowered, but many eminent bar- risters even under present conditions make large pecuniary sacrifices on leaving the Bar for the Bench, and the best of them would decline to become judges if the suggestion were carried out. A. E. M.

BANKER'S SUICIDE A verdict of "Suicide while temporarily I ksane" was returned at the inquiry at Leamington on Monday into the death of Mr. Dennis Edwin Samuel, a prominent London banker, who was killed on the rail- way line on Sunday. It was stated that Mr. Samuel had been suffering from depression caused by an attack of influenza. I Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., Under-Secrc- tary for Home Affairs, younger brother of Mr. Edwin Samuel, was present at the in- quest, which was held by Mr. E. F. Hadow, deputy-coroner for Central Warwickshire. Mr. Abraham Lazarus, of Palace-court, London, father-in-law of the dead man, said that Mr. Samuel was in good health until March, when a severe attack of influenza at Monte Carlo left him depressed. He was told by the family doctor and a specialist that nothing was wrong, and that he was merely run down. On Sunday morning he got up early, and said, he was going for a walk. His wife wished to go with him, but he declared it wa,s too early. "He had no troubles in the I' world except imaginary ones," Mr. Lazarus concluded. John Brunsdon, the engine-driver, said the train was travelling at about twelve miles an hour entering Leamington Station. Re saw Mr. Samuel, whom he took to be one of the station officials, walking slowly along the platform. Suddenly he threw his hat on the platform and jumped on the line in front of the engine. The jury passed a vote of sympathy with the family. ) • SDFFRAGETIES AND PREMIER

In spite of elaborate precautions, three Suffragettes followed Mr. Asquith to Clovelly, and sat opposite him in church on Sunday. They caught him outside, accom- panied him to Clovelly Court, and demanded an interview. I Sunday. They caught him outside, accom- panied him to Clovelly Court, and demanded an interview. I The Premier said, "It is very wrong of you to question me after church," and urged them to go away. Subsequently the door of the Court was shut in the women's faces. On Monday morning Mr. Asquith was playing on the private links; the Suffragettes tried to hide behind the bushes, but were discovered and sent away, followed by the police. They climbed down the cliffs to out- wit them, and arrived on the course when Mr. Asquith was playing golf. The police whistled for assistance. The Suffragettes went in different directions. While one oecu- pied the attention of the police the other two ran towards Mr. Asquith, pursued by the poliae. They took hold of Mr. Asquith's arm. Mr. Asquith said to the police, "Take these women away; I refuse to speak to them." The Suffragettes called out, "Receive our deputation of June 29th. Don't be such a coward," and so on. The police took their names and addresses.

ZEPPELIN'S RECORD FLIGHT. I After having covered a distance of about ôl o miles in 38 hours, and having reached Iwithin 75 miles of home, the airship Zeppelin II. collided with a tree at Goppingen, in Wurtemberg, shortly before noon on Mon- day, and was brought to the ground for repairs. The damage is of rather a serious character. The voyage thus interrupted has, of I course, broken all records, especially that made by the Zeppelin IV. before its destruc- tion last August-a journey of about 280 miles along the Rhine route. Leaving Friedrichsliafen, on Lake Con- stance, at 9.45 p.m. on Saturday, the Count and his crew of eight men sailed north-north- eastward through Western Bavaria, Upper Franconia, and Thuringia, reaching Leipzig on Sunday evening. The Kaiser and a large party of the garrison and poulation of Berlin were in waiting for the airship's arrival, but at Bitterfeld it was decided to turn home- ward. & rather more westerly course was taken on the homeward journey, and Schweinfurt and Wiirzburg were passed in the early hours of Monday morning. Stuttgart was reached som after 9 a.m., and the airship was then turned south-eastward, and met with its accident soon after 11 o'clock. The Zeppelin It. was patched up at Goppia- gen, and slowly resumed her journey to Fried- richshafen, on Lake Constance, but again had to descend near Schemmerberg. A curious correspondence has taken place be- tween the Kaiser and Count Zeppelin, indicating that a forged telegram had been sent to Berlir, in the distinguished aeronaut's name, calling out the balloon corps and announcing that the airship would shortly arrive in Berlin. Count Zeppelin hopes to pay his respects to the Kaiser in Berlin in about six weeks' tim4. when the airship will probably be fit for anotber long journey.

t a meeting of Faruham Board of Gaarcfiftnfr it was stated that the War Office, when notified of the large percentage of old soldiers In tho workhouse, stated that they could make no further provision from the Artny funds. It was rwdved that the Local Government Boai4 j < tatrftld beasied how many ex-soldiers there Are i b .1 the unions at present.

BALW,ONISTS' ADVENTURES. Csptaia Bidmead, a parachutist, of cion, should have made a descent at Nortfl* ampton on Monday, but he was last see* disappearing into the clouds under bj* balloon, his parachute having fallen, to ground. Thousands of people, including CIptall.9 Bidmead's wife, were present, to witness the performance. The balloon had only risen few feet when the parachute fell, but Cap* tain Bidmead held on to the ring under hl balloon and wrs quickly 0d out Of sight. Later it was staled that Captain J3idinea» descended safeh. Mr. A. M. 6; 1".1 on his first cr> T i^oofl, which he desc i on h;8 i He left B I raootf with two co I,). 5 < 'i d Sittingbourne 1 J1 ? about 8,000ft n\f 1 buj after two hou1' < c -mo d tilt the trail-rope 0 t wajj thrown out, aua i .oj an v "Jt waif made to land ne" '<. The wind sw b;J. to sea, and as all ■ L'; s Mie twC aeionauts coatø, luncheon basket;, d :,t3 fott.s u chain" pagne. This serJ i n1 again, and aftcf three hours, hearer" a dog bar! they deso cended to find then;seivts in a field about ten miles from Orfi.cnd. Mr. Arthur Seymour intends to attempt w fly across the Channel in a Voisin aeroplanf* Maior Hill, son of Lord Arthur Hill, if superintending the, arrangements, and the mof'boat Bellissinia is to follow the aeroo plane. The Bellissima is said to be thØ fastest motor-boa v afloat.

STRANGE BIGAMY CHARGE. An extraordinary case came before M Paul Taylor at the Marylebone Police-court on Monday. In the dock was a young wo malt of 25 years, named Alice Maud King, or Bar- well, a cook, who was charged with marrying George Ernest Barwell, a milkman, at St, Thomas's Church, Kensal Town, on January 1, 1907, her lawful husband, James Kingf I being then and now alive. King, who is 62 years of age, was also before the court charged with aiding and abetting her in coull mitting the offence. It was stated that on June 17, 1903, tbØ accused was married at St. Pancras Registry Office. About two years later the young woman made the acquaintance of GeorgO Barwell, a milkman, and according to Bar- well she represented herself as a widow, After a courtship he married her in the pre- sence of several of her relatives. About three months -ago, however, he discovered that she had already been married to thØ man King. As a matter of fact, he said, King was present at the church when thØ ceremony took place. The female prisoner caused a sensation when she explained that her companion ill the dock, her supposed husband, was in facf. her uncle, and that he went through thØ form of marriage with her in order to sav* her reputation. King said he married thtf woman to give her an honourable name aft-elf she had been betrayed by another. He kneW it was not legal to marry his sis*r's child. Mr. Paul Taylor, on learning that therØ was no reason to disbelieve that the accused were uncle and niece, said they < came withiis the prohibited degree and were incapable of marrying. The charge would therefore b* dismissed.

DEATH OF LABOUR PREMIER. Mr. Thomas Price, the Labour Premier of South Australia, died in Adelaide on Mon- day. He had been in ill-health since hílJ return to Australia after his visit to England last year. Mr. Price was a man of the people. Her was born in Denbighshire in 1852, but grevf up in Liverpool, where he derived his educa- tion from a penny school and night classes. He was by profession a stonemason. At the age of twenty-five he fell ill from lung trouble, which necessitated a change ol climate. He emigrated to Australia with hilf wife, and worked as a navvy in Adelaide. It was one of his boasts that he helped to bui1" the Parliament House in which he afterwardø sat as Premier. It was not until 1891 that he took seriously to politics. Two years later he was electeit a member of the South Australian Parlia- ment. He was appointed leader of the Soutlfr Australian Labour Party in 1901, and be;. came Premier in 1905. Mr. Price was a strong advocate and sup- porter of the Australian Federation, and hil, death will be a serious loss to Commonwealth* politics.

EXCITING RIVER SCENE. A party of three Londoners were boating at East Molesey on the Mole, a tributary of the Thames, on Monday, when in some way they were upset in sixteen feet of water. The accident occurred opposite the river- side lawn of the King's Arms Hotel, and » young man naJmed William Barnes, of Mort" lake, who saw the three occupants struggling in the water, dived in, and first rescuea Alfred Channon, an elderly man of Richard- street, Islington, who had become entangled in the river weeds. Returning Barnes held up Mrs. Marifc Roberts, aged 20, until Constables Thomas and Taylor, who had been attracted to the spot by hearing cries for help, plunged iø the meter and assisted in bringing her ashore. The third occupant of the boat, a twelv# ?'«ar old girl named Sophie Greesch, of Sand- ands-street, Holborn, who learnt swimming at iclsool, was able to swim ashore.

PLEASURE STEAMER IN COLLISION Passengers from Margate by the General Bteam Navigation Company's steamer Eagle had an jewiting experience on Tuesday eveningp their steamer coming into collision with tllv fishing smack Keur off the Girdler Lightship. Tne smack was sunk, but the crew of fouf hands, including a lad, were saved and taken boaro tne Eagle, which arrived at Tilbury 7.15 p.m., when the rescued men, amongst whoa* was Jchn Warner, the owner of the-siiiae-k. wevio sent *o Vieir homes at Whitstablc.

Sarvmaned at vv estminster County-court fo^ a debt incurred in dinners at the Hotel C-ecilf a man without dependants, who was said to b# was Jchn Warner, tbe owner of the smack, sent *o Vieir homes at Whitstablc. Sarvmaned at vv estminster County-court fo^ a debt incurred in dinners at the Hotel Cecil* a man without dependants, who was said to b<* earning £ 250 a year, was committed for seveJ* days, tlie warrant to be suspended as long 90 be ptgp £ 2 a month.