The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. An aviation week m-xj be feeM at Dnnstall Park, Wolverhampton, is November. The Bank rate has. been advanced to 4 per cant. Next year's Army Pageant- will be held in the grounds of Fulkaoi Palace from June 20 to July 2. President Taft Ssas accepted Mr. Crane's resignation of his appointment as United States Minister to China. A schoolboy named Appewell, while cycling at Castlenatt, Barnes, wtis kncfckcd down and killed by a motor-Tan. Two hundred promineltt Young Turks are to make a tour through the priiitapal Austrian cities doing trade with Turkey. Glasgow Corporation have decided to adopt compulsory notification, of eoKsmuption for a period of three years. The King has appeared of a tablet to be erected in the 6uari!bVCemeteriE,s at Bayoun-e to commemorate his visit thpre on March 20. A child was treated in Stivers' Hospital, Dublin, who bad swallowed a niviuij-jr of beetles contained in a porter bottle. The Rev. F. B- Meyer has accepted the pastorate of Regent's Park Chapel, and will at once take up the dirties- It is proposed to connect tlw iS'tcenth century crypt at the Guildhall with the museum and open it to the public. The Norwegian steamer Bterk has sunk near Moldven, and it is reported that twelve lives were lost. Six Indies were among the competitors at the annual ploughing matches at Brightliugsea. Dr. Talbot, the Bishop of Soutbwark, is about to leave for India on a visit to soxae of the Eng- lish churches there. "It isn't fair," declared a prisoner at the Highgate Police-court> when. his biack past was raked up. Three leaders of the tm<?rn ployed were fined at Manchester for obsiriK'tion by putting them- selves at the head of 7<v0 tmeiii^loysd and attempting to march down Market-street. Mr. H. B. Irving' will giv« "A Maid of Honour" and The Bells every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon aA- the Queen's Theatre, London. A train filled with soldiers stopped on a alight incline on a smalt Swiss railway line, and half the regiment had to get. out and push behind before it could proceed. George Henry Brown. a ship's captain, was awarded 1:5 5s. damages at the Sunderland County Court for wrongful, detention by the police. Elizabeth Edwards was stated at a Lambeth inquest to have taken her life because she feared death from consumption. Lieutenant ShaeMefon has been received in audience by King Gitstftf of Sweden, who con- ferred upon him the Cross of Commander of the Second Class of the Order of the Pole Star. A carter named George Horwood, while walk- ing near Westbury, Bucks, was knocked down by a friend on a bicycle and kmd., In a case at West Ham it was stated that no fewer than 135 metal disc#, in. place of pennies, had been found during1 the past few weeks in a single automatic sweet machine. Applications for new licenses for twenty 1 skating rinks and sixteen "electrictheatres will be made at the London County Council licensing sessions on November 12.. The 2,150,000 tickets for the great French lottery, which is to be the taist lott-ery in France, have been enormously oversubscribed. At Rochester County-eoarfc the compensation payable to the widow and four dependent children by the employers of a foreman brick- layer named Bishop, who fell into a burning cement kiln, was recorded m £ 309. At the three great damson lair. at Market Drayton about 130 tons of fruit feasre changed hands. Lord Hugh Grosvecor has left Comberiaere Abbey on a big game shooting- expedition, and will be away until Chritffcmaa, A number of experienced tinplaie workmen have left Llanelly for Barcelona^ where they will be employed by a. Spanish tiaplate firm. Sir John Amory's staghoimds woand np a long hunt by runuiag two stags into the town of Tiverton. "Theatrical people never pay ank-m they are pressed," counsel asserted at tlhe Westminster Police-court. It is officially stated that a living meeting will take place at Liverpool early next year, possibly at Aintree liacecottrjse. An escaped lunatic from the Notts Asylum at Radcliffe is terrorissiug too inhabitants of the district. Glasgow Chamber of Commence is to consider a requisition for cheaper firat-clasa railway fares between Scotland and London. The Chelsea Pensioners' Bowling Club is to have its green relaid and other improvements carried out to the ground. The preliminary work is now being commenced. There are 12,341 parliamentary electors 1n Peckham, as against 14,943 last year, and 11,918 in North CamberWell, as against 13,980 in 1908. Alderman W. P. Spalding haa accepted the mayoralty of Cambridge far the tseeond year in succession. Two realistic portrait models of Dr. Cook and Commander Peary have just been added to the collection at Mdme. Tassand's. A man who was fined at, Willesden (-or drunkenness pleaded that when the moon, reached a certain quarter it made Itira act foolishly. An office in Feneharek-stmsfc, L-mdcm., was damaged by a gas explosion, and a woman was slightly injured. Sir Arthur Mitetett., K.C.B., has died a.t Edinburgh at the age of eigMy-four. He was a member of the English aad Irish I/aoftey Com- missions. Lady Canning, widow of Sir SmwiA Canning, has died at her reticfeactf> 1, IJØprdefti; London, W., in her 81st year- Two thousand four himcired- txmnds has been paid to the University of Oxford bv Dr. G. B. Longstaff (New College) for an aMitkretsi en- dowment to the Hope Department of Zoology. For going to the asdfdmwe of s wounded policeman, Mrs. R. H. Smith, of the PavemeEt, Walton-on-Thames, was pre* mted wstii a cheque for £ 3. Walter Harta JOIUUMB, of 60, Haymstrfafc, wø fined JE25 and costs for driving a motor-car in South Croydon at a sgecdi at tbirbj Jsiles aa hour.

OUR LONDON LETTER. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Probably nobody believed for a moment the rumour which was current in the City one day last week that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had either resigned office or was on the point of doing so. Nevertheless, it was considered important enough to be pub- lished in several papers. The story origi- nated on the Stock Exchange, and people are by this time very suspicious of rumours from such a' source. It was said also that Mr. Winston Churchill was going to sink or swim with Mr. Lloyd George. The idea was that these two bad boys of the Cabinet— which is the light in which some people re- gard them-had quarrelled with the "old gang" who objected to the tone of their speeches in the country, and were going to kick over the traces. Mr. Lloyd George was at the time taking a. brief rest on the Conti- nent from Budget worries, but it hardly needed his contradiction for the report to be dismissed as ridiculous. For good or ill, the Government are committed to the Budget, and Mr. Lloyd George is certainly not think- ing of resignation, and too much credence should not be ynaepd in the stories which are heard now and then of Cabinet dissensions with regard to the Chancellor and his Budget. There is a fierce battle raging at Bermond- sev, where the three parties, Unionist, Libe- ral, and Socialist are fighting grimly. It is to be regretted from the- point of view of ob- taining a decisive verdict upon the important issues now agitating the country that the contest is a three-cornered one. The Liberal candidate is, of course, for the Budget, and 60 is the Socialist, though he thinks it ought to go a great.deal further than it does. Un- less Mr. Dumphreys, the Tariff Reform candi- date, can secure, a majority of the votes cast, his return can hardly be considered an anti- E.id^ev victory. Boih Mr. Dumphreys and Dv. halter, the Socialist, are 'local men, and in this respect Mr. ilughca is no doubt at some disadvantage, though it is probable that many of the voters know him through his writings better than either of the others. Many people of the risen generation will feel it almost as a national disaster if the Crystal Palace ceases to exist as a show place and a centre of amusement. It has fallen on bad days, however, and an order for its com- pulsory "wilHling up has been made by the Courts. Fortunately, there is no need to assume that the end has come just yet. The winding up order, the Judge re- marked, would not prevent a scheme of re- construction 'being arranged; and it is sug- gested that the Palace may still be made a going concern. Everybody will hope so, for the Crystal Palace has a very real place in the affections of the multitude, though un- fortunately the means of getting to it from London are so extremely inconvenient that the multitude does not often care to under- take the journey. If only it had been at the end of a tube railway so that people could have got to it in about twenty minutes from the heart of London there would have been no trouble. Such a railway is shortly to be constructed, and it may be hoped that it will be completed in time to bring prosperous days back to the Crystal Palace. We are not a particularly emotional people in this country. We take our music, as most other things, calmly. We read of Conti- nental and American admirers of great pianists and violinists crowding round them at the conclusion of concerts, begging for "just one more pieee," and making pathetic requests for locks of hair, and so on; and we consider it all rather silly. But we have our own way of showing our enthusiasm when we hear fine playing, and if it is not so gushing as the other, it is less embarrassing for the performer, and at least quite as sincere. At Mr. Moriz Rosenthal's piano recital at Queen's Hall last week the audience did not rush at him with outstretched scissors, but they were remarkably enthusiastic, never- theless, and would not be satisfied until they had heard several extra pieces. And what wonderful playing it was! One would have sat amazed all the time at the stupendous technical facility of the player if that feel- ing had not been again and again submerged beneath the beauty and the soul of the music, and the latter, after all, is the great test of all music. The Moody-Manners Company has shown that it is possible to give good performances of opera while charging a reasonable price for admission, and the success which attended their recent season at the Lyric Theatre proved that there is a growing public ready to pay to hear opera so long as it can be brought within reach of their pockets. Now the Carl Rosa Company has started a season at Covent Garden of grand opera in English, and the price of the gallery is the democratic shilling. There is an excel- lent company of singers, too, though of course the great stars of the operatic firnui- ment will not be shining. Some well-known artists are appearing, and the orchestra and chorus are worthy of this famous Company's reputation. Important results are expected to follow the establishment of a radium factory in Limehouse, the foundation-stone of which has just been laid. Tins is the first company in the world to attempt the production of radium on a commercial basis, and it is ex- pected that, working on a secret process which Sir William Ramsay has discovered, fjie period of manufacture will be reduced from nine months to six or seven weeks. Only one other radium factory exists in the world, and that is in Austria. That country, however, has prohibited the export of the Rlement on account of its scarcity, and the total quantity which has been made available for scientific use throughout the world is estimated not to exceed a quarter «f a pound. It seems a small quantity,, but to the initiated an account of the marvels that quarter of a pound of radium could accom- plish would be simply incredible. Radium is present in a o bstance called pitchblende only in infinitesimal quantities, but it is so powerful that the workmen handling the ore have to wear heavy rubber gloves to protect their hands. The new factory will give a preference in the sale of the radium to British hospitals and scientists, and medical men have great hope that it may be em- ployed with beneficial results in many diseases. The report of the Central (Unemployed) Body for London affords some valuable in- formation as to the effect of the Unemployed Workmen Act. One of the principal benefits has been the provision of temporary work, which has enabled men to tide over a period of depression without either breaking up their homes or having recourse to the Poor Law. The opinion, however, is expressed that "the useleasncss of temporary relief works as an adequate and permanent remedy for unemployment becomes more and more evident." The work is not carried out in a satisfactory manner, and it does not attract the best type of unemployed. The deserving, strong, useful workmen out of employment are not reached by the Distress Committees, who only seem able to reach those of poor physique, or those unable or unwilling to work. The most successful and useful Trork done in London, says the report, has been the provision of adequate machinery for employ- ment exchanges and emigration. A. E. M.

GIRL STABS HER LOVER, At Cambridge, Lily Parsons, a servant, age, twaeity-three, pleaded guilty to the charge of wounding Harry Norfield, at Chesterton. For some time Parsons and-Norfield had been "keeping company," but about September 8 the engagement was, broken off. Two letters written to Lily were read, one from Norfield and one from Nor field's mother. Norfield wrote: ) "I write to tell you I will have nothing more to do with you, as you have been about with other fellows behind my back, and now you want to blame it on to me. You can go to law and so can 1. I want nothing more to do with you." Norfield's mother wrote saying that she would like the pleasure of horse-whipping the girL After Lily had replied to the letters, she walked over to Cambridge from Ely, a distance of about sixteen miles, and found Norfield work- ing on a field. When his back was turned she rushed up and stabbed him in the back with a small knife, exclaiming, "Now I have got my revenge." Fortunately, added counsel, the wound was not a very serious one. Lily had left a letter at home saying: } "Forgive me for what I am going to do. I have gone over to kill that fellow and myself also. What with the torture of him and his people I am drove nearly out of my mind. Look after my child The Lord takes him away from you. May God bless you all." She was teutenced to six calendar montha- hard labour.

THE BARON'S LINEN. In the City of London Court Messrs. Pronk Davis and Co., wholesale chemists, 22, Harp-" lane, London, sued Mrs. H. M. Goodgame, Verulam Laundry, Putney-bridge-road, for £ 1 15s. 6d. for soap, marking ink, and laundry requisites supplied. Defendant counter-claimed for .£19 15s. 6d. for damages caused to goods through using plaintiff's materials. The claim was practically admitted. Defen- dant's case was that the plaintiffs supplied her j with a black fluid mixture called "strip with which to remove stains and iron mould from soiled linen. She followed plaintiffs' directions, but the result was that all the clothes experi- mented upon were spoiled. I Baron Beauregard Gau, Putney, said he was annoyed at his goods being spoiled, and he de- ducted .£2 9s. ld. from one week's washing. ¡ For the defence to the counter-claim William I Shone, in the plaintiffs' service, said that the strip had been used for many years in removing stains and colours, and had given universal satisfaction. Judge Lumley Smith, K.C., found for the plaintiffs for £ 1 7s. 6d. on the claim, without costs, and for the defendant for < £ 19 15s. 6d. on the counter-claim, with costs on the higher scale.

PRINCE AND UNIVERSITIES. i ■ At Cardiff the new buildings for the Univer- sity of South Wales and Monmounthshire were I opened by the Earl of Plymouth. The buildings include the library, the gift of the Honourable Company of Drapers. The King sent a message wishing the college prosperity. The Prince of Wales, in a letter regretting his inability to be present as the Chancellor of the University, wrote: "Tlie imperative necessity for higher educa- tion and research is becoming more and more recognised. The University College of South Wales is destined to provide that want, and I confidently believe the people of South Wales, through whose patriotic generosity so much has already been accomplished, will, by their con- tinued sympathy and material support, net only extinguish the debt upon the new building, but secure the funds necessary for still further de- velopment."

BURGLAR GETS SIX YEARS. At the Central Criminal Court, Jas. Kemble, clerk, and Jas. Baxter, ostler, were indicted on several counts with burglary. One of the houses entered was that of Sir Hiram Maxim's "Rye- cotes," West Dulwich, aii(I property to the value of £21 was stolen. Kemble pleaded guilty and Baxter not guilty. The latter was ac- quitted. A detective-sergeant said that Kemble had been previously convicted of burglary. In 1907 he was shot in the arm by the occupier of a .house which he had entered. He was a man of good family, and had had every chance in life to earn an honest livelihood. He was, however, a persistent and expert burglar, and at the time I of his arrest property was found at his resi- dence which was the proceeds of several bur- glaries which had recently taken place in the South London suburbs. The Common Sergeant sentenced Kemble to | «ix years' penal servitude. |

A GOOD SCORE-22 OUT. In the King's Bench Division, the action ill which Mr. George Henry Hawthorne, a baker, sued the London Hygienic Institute, of Oxford- street, London, for damages for personal in- juries alleged to be due to negligence in the ex- traction of twenty-two teeth at one sitting, wao concluded. He was awarded £ 50 damages. Miss Edith Dorman, the lady "receptionist" at the institute at the time, said that she ad- vised Mr. Hawthorne not to have all his teeth- taken out at one sitting, but he said that he would, as he was in a perfectly healthy condi- tion. She heard no screaming at all. Mr. Hawthorne said that after the operation the dentist advised him to rinse his mouth with whisky. Dr. Lauzun-Brown said that there wa" nothing untoward in the use of alcohol as an antiseptic after such operations. The Good Samaritan used alcohol when he poured oil into the man's wound. Mr. Justice Bray: Would it be very bad for a man to drink a bottle of whisky after an ope- ration ?-A!cohol is used as a stimulant after nearly every painful operation likely to cause depression.

AN ACCUSING FINGER. Evidence of a remarkable clue to identifica- tion was given at Lambeth on Saturday, when James Herbert Walton, tailor, and Harry May, otherwise William Mitchell, tipster, were charged with attempting to pick pockets. A defective saw the prisoners amongst the crowd# around the tramcars at the Elephant and Castle, When at the police-station, May, whose hand was bandagad, asked, "How could I pick pocket with a baud like this? When irquiries were made, it was ascertained that May's arrest formed a sequel to a gruesome discovery. One day last month a constable patrolling a street in Clei ken well found a finger, With a ring ) it, sticking on a spike surmount- ing a The constable removed the finger, which was examined at Scotland Yard by ex- perts, who satisfied themselves that it belonged to the ripiit: band of a man'known to the police as "William Mitchell." Subsequently May ad- mitted that the finger was his, and explained thai it torn from his hand while he was prtthig over the gate. The prisn- ers were sentenced to twelve month?.7 L- "tl labour each. May left the dock protesting that he was innocent.

.Ai.- LUNATIC AT LARGE. The wild conduct of a, lunatic who had escaped from Morpcth A.syittm during Saturday night created great excitement in tiie mining village of C;i' c via-ton, I laad. Dressed in night attire, the lunatic seems to have lowered hmiseJf I by meanSt of bedclothes, and then walked four miles to Choppiigton. A diligent search was made by the asytant officers and police, and on Sunday morning hø was discovered hiding at Choppington Colliery. He then made off at top-speed along the colliery rows, flourishing a knife and shouting for 0 revolver. Terrified at the madman's conduct, the vil- lp.gers rush d into their houses, bolted the dOOfIJ aud fastened the windows. A constable went ill pursuit of the fugitive, who toUiC to tIle fields. The officer, however, g on the man and closed with him. A violent, struggle ensued,, but the lunatic was overpowered and was eon- veyed back to the asylum in a trap.

MESMERISED INTO MARRIAGE. An extraordinary story was told to the Faril- ham Guardians by the relieving officer about ft young woman named Milans, who said she wa# married while under the spell of mesiherism. The woman applied to the relieving ofncet for an order for the workhouse. She explained, he said, that her age was twenty-eight, and that- her husband, aged seventy-eight, was a knight of the Legion of Honour. $.- "He mesmerised me before the marriage/' she alleged, "and I was under the spell wheii the ceremony took place. When I woke up and found what had occurred, I left him imme- diately and tore up my marriage certificate." The relieving officer stated that the order bact been given to the woman, who, however, had not made use of it.

DELEGATE DIES IN LONDON. The Hon. J. H. Hofmeyr, one of the dele- gates to this country from Cape Colony in con- nection with the South African Union Bill, passed away at his flat in Whitehall-court oik Saturday morning, ang.ina pectoris being the cause of death. Mr. Hofmeyr was closely allied with Soutfr African politics, and was also well-known hi- England, and throughout Europe. Mr, Hofmeyr's body will be embalmed and sent to South Africa by the next mail. Mr. Hofmeyr was born in Cape Town in 184&, and entered the Cape Legislative Assembly as member for Stellenbosch in 1879. He has been called the Bismarck of South Africa.

I FORBID THE BANNS!" An unusual incident took place at Harlesdeil Parish Church on Sunday morning. After tho vicar had published the banns of marriage of two young people, the congregation was startled! to hear a man, in a loud voice pronounce tho words, "I forbid the banns." Asked what bi4 objection was. he said he was the father of tho prospective bridegroom, who was under age. He was invited to meet the vicar in the vestry, and he there proved that his son was only eighteen years of age, and he stated that he objected to him marrying a barmaid. The vicar held that the objection was a legal one. and the baiMis will not be called again at that church.

SUICIDE OF A BANKRUPT. John Marshall, 51, box manufacturer, who- should have appeared for his public examina- tien at Nottingham Bankruptcy-court, was found hanging from a bewn when the factory was en- tered. At the previous examination the Official Receiver stated that as Marshall had not lodged any statement of affaifs, application would be made to the judge for his committal for con- tempt of court. "The bankrupt's statements are altogether unreliable." the Official Receiver declared, "and my information is that his career has been one of eetravagance and proflgacyj and, I believe, even fraud." Whelk Mr. Marshall, senior, died four years ago, bank- rupt said he was entitled under the will tO 15,000. The Official Receiver was satisfied that- his share was much nearer E12,000, which, be- sides his present indebtedness, had been wlapiljl dieaipated.