The Rhos Herald

I EPITOME OF NEWS. Irreparable damage has been clone to the out- lying grain in Scotland by recent rains. A piece of ground a mile square has been laid cut; at Brcokiaads as a11 aeroplane starting ground. Mt aUe" 1 k 11, solicitor, is to he the •r-ew vi«iTr"> of J r < An to the Stroud public library for j the lo 1 of b nu«, ga vü her age as 100. I ¡ One thnusmå, -miners have struck work at the Cliiton Col lit-ry, No t tingham. Snow cover#' the higher summits of the Gram- plans. ¡ Two boys have < 5 ed the Philanthropic I School, RedhiH. i The death. »j u jiieed, from Malvern, of the Rev. H. J, (jff-i, for many year's t'icar of Bees ton, noor Leedi- J I The Piljarm < i ft1; L if am, which is touring in the Ufi <. d L at tit » 01 > of St. George, at PhiL.ck.Jphja, by 13 \< o ail. I There «,J d I • > i damsons I at Market D- or" I> Fiji, about £ J0 tons tie ttu t uc-mg on «uc. The {k:th is h i < 1 of the Itey. John diaries 1 > > was 5()illB veius house master of v. | y ad At Brighton t flif f i 1, a grocer, was fined 1.0s. fur < > n, bottle of stout- to an m- toxicated pti A hernn" t* two heads sets of fins was Grimshyby a dii) ter. "lie ii <o var* Saturd. v >; v«l lan- gaace/' i i>aii oi a Ti,>on/i..r at the Ipswich Js 1 The Hev. i V. John hr;sd-ectcd Master of Cathamie College, C-toi't > r,\ ■ A league of scouts on. the liJHêt; 6ru,wn up by Sir A has just been organised in Toronto. David Ca-mpbel! was fined 7s, 6d. at the Lam- beth Polite-court ioi disturbing a political meet- ing. Several sharp shocks of earthquake were felt at Bait Lake Ciiy recently, and also in Bouthern Idaho. Mr. Silas K. Hacking, the wd1-k:<"Jvrn nove. list, is recommended far adoption »s t«;« Liberal candidate for Co,{>uocr. in suec«--t»i'uJ to Mr. Mason. Tvelve million. Manila cigars have been re- fused free entry to New York by the Customs n-Tt+Horitiefc because they were btoi:i<?'flf via Hongkong, where tliey lay in bond, instead of coming direct to the United States.. Joseph, Swir has died at Hazel Grove, Ch-shire, in his 1 year. Up to » uty- ninth birthday in August he en.jo all his faculties, and i d several mik's a. day, de- clii-ting to travel by electric car,, which lie said went too fast.. For stabbing Henry 'llioiapson in the left I arm with a fiaed bayonet, Walter Bontield, of Thornton Heath, T-ss at Croydon, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. I Told by a boxer at Lambeth County Court that he had earned JH3 in; three tights, Judge Emden said: "That is very good for a fight. Nor so good as it used to he in old days, though, eh? More like then." Mr. James CanH, the venerable perish clerk of St. Coiumb Minor, has died at the age of 103. He was received by the Prince and Prin- cess of Wales during their recent tour through the Duchy of Cornwall. Mr. Came was the oldest parish clerk in England. At a sitting of the Irish Presbyteritm Church general assembly in Belfast, the i -r. Dr. Smith, M.A., of Blairgowrie, waa appointed Professor of Theology in Magee CoHegs, in sue- cession to the hue Dr. Petticrew, A motion to pest pone the election was defeated by 583 votes to 172. Chartered to oarry tackle and men to erect bridges in Patagonia, the steamer JEieigate has just left the South-West India. Docks for Gallegos, Patagcaia, and will be the first steamer of any nationality to enter that port. The Admiralty has selected a number of officers to take "part in theoretical and experi- mental aeronautic work, but it has made it known that no officers of the engineering branch will be chosen, Of the 5,361 Chinese in the Transvaal on September 7 two died during September and 2,1.55 were discharged for repartisition, leaving, 3,204 in the ecumtry on September 30. Sir Gerard Lowther. the British Ambassador in Constantinople, accompanied by Mr.. Fitz- maurice,, Chief Dragoman of the Embassy, have partook of the Ramazan meal at the residence of the Sheik-ul-Jjslani, an unprecedented event. The death ag occurred, at "Nottingham of Mr. Thomas Hill, J.P., aged '86, manager for many years off Messrs. T. and R. Morley, hosiery manufacturers, ami chairman of the Netting- ham "Daily Mxpreas Company. English letters for the East and West Band, the Northern Transvaal, Delagoa Bay, Portu- guese East Airiea., and for Pretoria were j destroyed in the burning of a. post office van at Bloemfontein. A deputation of unemploy,ed -v)ied the Marylebone Borough Council to abolish the u&e of machine, road sweepers in times of dis- tress. The council promised to consider the question. At the annua! general meeting of the Surrey Rugby Union,, Mr. II. J. Barclay, of the Sutton Club, was elected president, and the officers of the Union were re-appointed. It was decided to discontinue the competition for the Couuiy Cap. It is proposed to make a eircus at the junc- tion of York-place and Marylebone-road, and Lord Port,m.,ui has promised the Marylebone Borough Council to give £ 100 towards the cost. At London Sessions, William George Long, dealer, Amies Elizabeth Long, and James William Cowling were. acquitted of the charge of stealing sheets and qralts belonging to the Great Northern Central Hospital. Miss Florence Smithson, who was for some days absent from the east of I The Arcadians at the Shaftmbnry Theatre owing to a severe injucy to her eye sustained during a, recent per- formance, has now resumed her pbu>* as Sombra. Mr. Gladstone has ordemd that the mummi- fied bodies discovered,«t Stamford an the sight of a fifteenth eeniary Black Friary, said to be the remains of Josua of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prinoe, should be restored to its origi- nal leaden coffin and reinterred in coraiecrated ground. With a criminal record dating back to 1858, and including three terms of seven years* penal servitude, a white-haired old man, Benjamin Phillips, age 79, was sentenced at the London Sessions to three years' penal servitude for theft. Dr. G. B. Tinnier, of Half Moonstreet,, Picca- dilly, was fined at Kingston for exceeding the speed limit in hie motor-car At Walton, although he pleaded he wao huriying to see patient.

OUR LONDON LETTER. -0- [From Our Special Correspondent.'} Mr. Asquith's visit to the King at BaI- /noral, taken in conjunction with the visits of Lord Rosebery and the Earl of C&vrc r has given rise to a fine crop of rumours. In <»t «i » of some assurances that it means 110tJ!:np: particular, there can be very little it iii" that the Premier's visit had some (o with tCs political crisis. But d j announcement has been mails, or ir "• be made. The Premier returni'd visit and went to spend a week-end country, and it is slated that no me< • y oi I lie Cabinet will take place this week. "i'ht- rIou.se of Conm.ons has been given a wcok'b holiday, and the members are as grateful as sclioolbovs for an inicxpeeted var. It. is a breathing-space before the final struggle which is to decide many things. V\ hat action the Lords may take upon the Budget when it does get to them is k- own no more definitely than it was a week ago. If the course has been decided upon, Peers are keeping their secret well; but it is mr » than likely that they will wait to mrd i their minds until they got the Bill i' i's fijuil form. All the same, however, the vc which urge rejection seem to be not quite so numerous and -insistent as they were, a <.» impartial student of political affairs perhaps venture the prophecy that the <• will accept the Budget, however reli rather then take a' c-ourse which wo ti In- volve the financial affairs of the CM 1 confusion and precipitate a conflict n the in and the Commons. There is sb 'e talk of their coneentiag to pass the ,v i„ i » Bill only on condition that the Co*ei, t t shrdl dissolve Parliament and appeal to tHe country at an early date. It is scarcely UkWy that such a condition would be accept a to the Government, as it would be an a'! e LJgment of the right of the Peers to <" < 'e the time of dissolution. Much as the t • t ,j- meut dee-ire the Budget to become law, they are not anxious to get it on those terms. Dictated by the Peers or by the Govern- ment, however, everybody's mind is made xvp that the dissolution will take place before long, and that the General Election will come early in the new year. Many mei-.b«Ao of Parliament who have scorned delighU, nnft lived laborious days in this most protracted and arduous of sessions have had enough of Parliament for good and all, and are looki ;g forward to freedom from political cares in the future. Many others are preparing to face their constituents and to appeal for their suffrages once more. Whatever the. result of the General Election may be, there, will certainly be many new faces in the Hext House of Commons. Meanwhile, here in Lon- don, there is to be a sort of preliminary skirmish. The death of the Liberal meir-bc-r for Bermondsey necessitates a by-election. It is a constituency which has been fickle in its political loves, returning now a Conservative, now a Liberal—to one thing constant never. Much may be learned from Bermondsey, though the prospect of a three-cornered fight renders the issue uncertain. Every student of Shakespeare is, of course, interested in the controversy which is taking place as to the site of the old Globe Play- house in Southwark, where so many of the master's plays were produced. The Shake- speare Reading Society has, at any rate, made up its mind: that the long-accepted site is the correct one, and its bronze tablet has been fixed on the wall there, and unveiled by Sir Herbert Tree, who is prepared to main- tain against all "comers that it is in its proper place. The first Globe Playhouse, though it looms so large in dramatic history, had an existence of only fourteen years, at the end of which time it was destroyed by fire. It was a dramatic ending, too. The disaster occurred during a performance of "King Henry VIII." Let Sir Henry Wotton describe it. He says: "King Henry making a mask at Cardinal Woisey's house, and certain cannonf3 being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff where- with one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein nothing did perish but wood and -straw, and a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, which would, perhaps, have broiled him if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottled Ale." It seems peculiarly fitting that the tablet marking the site should be affixed to the wall of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins' brewery. Here is a novel and interesting scheme which Mr. W. T. Stead has devised to make people talk to one another. We are pro- verbially a stiff and unsociable race, and do not speak to people as a rule without the preliminary of some sort of introduction. Mr. Stead's scheme will change all that. In connection with the Round-About Club, of which he is president, he is inaugurating a system of flag-signalling. Members who aro willing to speak to, er to be spoken to, by strangers, will wear a couple of little flags to show that they are available for conversa- tion. A series of informal tea-parties will begin the fun, and very soon flag conversa- tions will be a. regular thing at the Eustace Miles Restaurant, and. there will be many a feast of reason and flow of soul. over nuts and fruit salad. The wearers of the flags will not be entirely without defence. If they are bored by persons who want to do all the talking and to tell long stories with no particular point to them, they may remove the flags and the other man will stop at once. It is like this: While the flags fly the j oonversation will roeeed unflaggingly, and when they axe furled the conversation will flag. As was to be expected, there has been a rush of applications for posts in connection with the new system of Labour Exchanges. The number of officials required is some- where about eight hundred, and it is stated that there are eight thousand applicants. Some of the appointments are valuable, and some dissatisfaction has been expressed that they are not to be filled by competition. As permanent head and director of the Labour Exchange Department, Mr. W. H. Beveridge has been appointed. Mr. Beveridge has been connected with the Central (Unemployed) Body, and he has I made a special study of the work of Labour Exchanges, upon which he has written ex- haustively in one of the most valuable and interesting books yet published dealing with the problem of unemployment. It is a pity that the two first aviation meetings to be held in this country should clash in the matter of dates, and so have given rise to an unpleasant situation. The Aero Club, for good reason, doubtless, has refused to recognise the Doncaster meeting, having already given official sanction to Blackpool. This means, of course, that any of its members who may fly at Doncaster will be subjected to penalties of some kind. The position is complicated by the declaration of a vice-president of the French Aero Club that any such penalties will not be sanc- tioned by the International Federation, and I that the English club has no right to put its interdict upon the Doncaster meeting. The chief sufferer under these circumstances at present is Mr. Cody, who intends to take part at Doncaster, and had hoped to accom- plish his projected flight from London to Manchester before the meeting began. His batch of misfortunes, however, prevented that, and he has declared for Doncaster first aiid Manchester next, whatever the Aero Club may have to sa.y about it. A. E. M. I

MONEY FOR SUFFRAGETTES. X-50,000 CAMPAIGN FUND. A mass meeting of "Suffragettes" was held in the Albert Hall, with the twofold obj-ect of I bidding farewell to Mrs. Pankhurst, who leaves shortly for an American tour, and of protesting against the forcible feeding of women in prison. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence presided, and Mrs. Pankhurst and Miss Christabel Pankhurst were greeted with loud cheering. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence moved the following resolution: "This meeting expresses its pro- found indignation at the recent disgraceful de- velopment of the Government's policy of coer- cion towards women, and warns the Govern- ment that the repression will rouse women into more determined rebellion, while only the con- cession of the vote to duly qualified women will bring this struggle to an end." In moving the resolution Mrs. Lawrence said the movement was a. crusade, and the purpose was not to save a sacred tomb from desecration, but to save' the living temple, the body and soul of woman, from the desecration of sex domination. Mre. Pankhurst said that women were now in prison for doing in a minor degree what many politicians had done without punishment. During the evening the special campaign fund was raised from E48,584 to £ 50,600. A gentle- man from the audience asked to be allowed to give E250 as a protest against the action of the Government with regard to women.

GREAT LONDON FIRE. £ 60,000 DAMAGES. Damage, which is estimated at L60,000, was caused by a disastrous fire which broke out at night in Great Guildford-street, Southwark, London, in one of the immense warehouses used for the storage of hops by Messrs. W. H. and H. Le May, the well-known hop merchants. The fire was so serious that a "brigade call" was given, and 28 steamers and escapes, with 150 men were on the scene before six o'clock. From floor to floor the flames spread with won- derful rapidity. Two firemen, playing on the fir,e from extension ladders, were badly burned by an outrush of flame and had to receive medical attention. Notwithstanding the thousands of gallons of water which each minute poured from the hose- pipes, the fire ate its way through the heart of the twin warehouses. Just before seven the roof collapsed, somewhat smothering the flames and checking their progress. By half-past eight the flames were under and almost conquered. After then, however, came an exciting inci- dent. The front of the buildings, five stories high, stood blackened and fire weakened. Fire- men were working directly below it. Suddenly Lieutenant Sladen snatched from an assistant a megaphone. A glance upward showed the front wall of I one warehouse, over 20 yards long, falling. The whole seemed to hang for an appreciable ¡ moment in the air and fell, an avalanche of broken masonry and twisted iron, with a grind- ing roar, completely blocking the strectway. Lieutenant Sladen himself and Colonel Fox, chief of the salvage corps, had narrow escapes.

A MESSAGE TO THE HEART. On Saturday the death of Major John Charles Massy Wheeler, of the 84th Punjabi Regiment, who died in hospital when about to undergo an operation, was the subject of an inquiry at West- minster. Dr. Herbert Schwarleib, senior anaesthetist at University College Hospital, deposed that he administered chloroform to Major Wheeler by Jlinker's method. The major had 30 drops of chloroform—not enough to ana-sthetise a baby— when he vomited and respiration stopped. Witness thought death was due to reflex syncope. Witness explaine.d that the heart might have a sudden message from the brain to stop, but if it were a I healthy organ it would start beating again. While i the deceased was a man who might have gone through an exciting battle without effect, he was in such & condition that.if he saw something in the street which horrified him it might have a la al effect on him. A verdict of Accidental death was returned.

( After an examination of Lord Hill's column, Mr. W. Larkins, the London steeplejack, finds that it has been struck by lightning. The statue has one shoulder knocked off and the chest and ojm leg shattered. There was no lightning con- ductor, but one is now to be fixed. The statue is made of cement, and is 16ft. high on a summit of llMt. column.

I AVIATION RIOTS. ¡ i On Sunday at Juvisy, some fourteen miles from Paris, where an aviation meeting is being held, serious rioting took place in consequence of the breakdown of the railway service between. the aviation grounds and Paris. It is estimated that 200,000 persons visited the aerodrome at Juvisy, and owing to a slight accident and the bad organisation of the train service, the trains were considerably delayed. I At noon the coupling of a train broke at a considerable distance from a station. It was impossible to repair the damage at once, and the passenger*. i .ue train, wrecked the en- gine, smashed 11 n >71 1 ini v the cushioi-ts of the t ) en the 1 e. At Juvisy an c"c.wd v/hc were <1n- able to return to 1 i in 1 the n and came into col ti i t o > w .o had been .sent to ] ircier. Blows with l d sticks were freely ex- changed, and some 3011s were trampled upon in the confusion. Visitors who Icir. raris after ore o'clock never got. to Juvisy at an, while about fifty thousand persons v h. The fc- ••• swul vehh-i.^r traffic on the road Jiivi.->y and I'avU ai: Sun- day's meeting is v-.tr.lcd to have canned numerous accidents. A woman is sa;d to have been run ever by three- motor-cars in wi; srver&i persons are re;;c;ri:od crath :d to de- h in too crowds. _u"e:or.lI,J;<

LEAGUE V. I !.A Y i! ON. Speaking ftt n lunch bel'o- th--» E r/and v. Ireland Inter-L:-nr;u-c at '-nrn un Saturday, M". J. J. E< eth-y.. nt of the FoolbsT League,, nr 'd for a. speedy lemthr'tisu* of ':e 'IJ.. ■siw -,n the, 'Players' U* inn a?- 1K-- F. 0- <' 1 bnt. ;■■■ Lie 1 1 T C 1.J d 1 1 ':h' :vi/u d ,.¡3- Union F' "v 'i. P 1 he 'i.(-hi' w.-m ■ b c cs he d 1 d > t 1 Th i th Fotitball A. ton ">i I 1 it3- c1 -c;i ,A '/u-o. V T I..1 'j'. 1; e j: th; Lv:~pia d .e fa' •- li:- { '1 '1 be.;) aii ot ? 7.- ciation be v/> ov •■■■■■ to the aiay-.v* n g <■. ii. y o'i >■ viit-iat. c; v;c! ■" rde L,r: v:: u. •" if; ''do T-b».yers t 'd tcey 'v'' e Li saying th >1 L '• h'-d Lcr.gue cl '■ '■ ..d

K1.LLKO B Y b;' i: H. T-ie e-IeetrocMtjoii cf h • •» e-vly jeetdi'ih'd L.5Y is. id. 1: .v ,1 Rye was ai C C ■ ;>- eerdi Court on Monday, 'f h- -deee: J5cc:;ye Your in d .„ it clip, in df <.<' i!c ji's n- t- wire sidl w«xt h;jdut, > I't i '.cN K. 11- 1 it B) f' -:i t at of UST>"r.isi^n wires At •> VMe'st <1 te dcoaased he vd/ic d l.-M-d- .u;ii ;t a girder CKrryiijg the iivo ;t; u.c .a".eased (au/shed th-? ladder aad vv • ih the> girder. He gej aear to 0 e "it ■ w;tre-ss saw him put hid hnnd "-■! iv e .:d:ately a flame a-foot lore:; *d:.ot a J i fell the ground. Dr. Albert. Gc-san. r Peck- ham. said that tJB r- 1 i vd wrist wero charred and seaered '< n l ru. failing the head was fractured iI. •» i»>v 0!0 of the legs, the backboia nLe: 1!" windoire were completely burned away. Dentil was due shock from electrocution.. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

THOUGHTLESS CRUELTY. Addressing the men's meeting at White- field's, London, on Sunday, Mr. T. W. Dob- son, M.P., dealt with some of the evil wrought by want of thought. There were ladies who admired astrachan and wore aigrettes without thinking of the cruelty that was exercised before they could be ob- tained. Another evil that was due to want; of thought aggravated by an inordinate lust of gold and by selfishness was sweating, People who received a card of hooks and etesi in a draper's shop instead of the farthing change often wondered how those articles could be produced so cheaply. This was why: The worker must stitch up 46,656 hookgf and eyes to earn Is. Hd., and earned a shil- ling a day, with the help of children, whcp were hustled out of bed at six in the morning to work two and a-half hours before they went to school, and had to resume in that evening from four o'clock till eight.

ALL-ENGLISH MONOPLANE. Mr. George A. Barnes, a motor engineer, of Lewisham, and formerly a prominent motor" cycle rider in England and on the Continent, has for some months been engaged in the con- struction of a monoplane 011 some marsh ground in the neighbourhood of Abbey Wood, neat London. On Monday a trial was made. The machine left the ground, and a circuit of about one and three-quarter miles was made, lasting about two and a half minutes. On coming down to earth a sudden current of wind trltea the rear of the machine up, and the front eam. in contact with the bank of a ditch. Mr. Barnes was able to retain his seat, but as the monoplane was travelling at about forty miles an hour, the shock sprained his left wrist. He was at once released from his posi- tion, and it was then foynd that the woodwork wag completely wrecked. Mr. Barnes claim. to be the first to have flown in an all-Englfslt machine.

INCREASE IN POOli LAW RELIEF An official return issued on Monday s,"Ioivo that the total expenditure by Boards of Guar- dians for poor relief during the half-year ended last Lady Day was £ 7,516,itk>, the iücreastJ being 9219, as compared with the cone- sponding period of the previous irqpr. The report says that. the increased expendi- ture may be attributed to the depression which prevailed in trade conditions, and in several cases the guardians found it necessary to open labour yards. In Stockton the expenditure increased by 120. per cent., and in Middlesbrough and Cockermouth by 40 per cent. The average rate total expenditure per heat# of the population was 2s. Old.