The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. lfre. Matthews, of Regent-road, Oadby, near Leicester has given birtii to triplets, ail boys. The Prince and Princess of Wales have been to see "The House of Teinpcrley at the Adelphi Theatre. An old Bristol group of Adonis, and Cupid, lOins. high, realised £18!J at Chnstie's. A slight fire was earned at the Wallace Collection by the-fusing of electric wires. At Sotheby's a large altar candlestick, a relic of the Martinique eruption, was sold for five guineas. Eight men were injured at Pumpherston Oil Works, Mid Lothian, by the collapse of scaffolding. Lord Derby is having a cric., It pitch pre- pared at a cost of £ 1,000 for the benefit, of the servants on his estate at Covvorth Park. Sun- ningdale. "Do you think we get more tiuthful as we get older?" asked Mr. Rose at Tower Bridge Court when a. witness eaid he believed a man because of his age. Towards the cost of removing jving's College H,fir,itl to t;1 London £ yU0 has r- ccived from the trustees of the late IÁlJd Grim- thrrpe's Chanty Fund, and also a second dona- tion of 100 guineas from the trustees of the late Robert William The Second Sea Lord. Vice-Admiral Sir F. Bri,ig.-Yr.rn. has «• rived at Dover to holfl an inquiry concerning certain matters connected with the naval harbour. During the absence of the oecupicos thieves broke it. a flat in Upper Marviebone-st: eet, W., and got awav with a quantity of jew«\:ery S.;h"- dress.-«i. Four storks which were marked aad liberated by an 0:-rtiihühgjc" « -loietv in Pr¡¡ja have eaptuied and < ,\anmicd in the TraasvaaJL They had down about 5.600 miles. To become h«:iorary curate to tisoon, (JanoD E. L. (>c;ige. the Rev. J. Fk*»xn (.,<df-c. for- merly rector of Coeton, AS,Iton Mowlray. has removed to Gravesend, where his son is rector. As he was driving a specialist to St. Thorn r a* Hospital, where an urgent operation had to be performed, a chauffeur, who had excec-ded tie1 speed limit at Kingston-on-Thames, wa« allowed to go on payment of costs. A denial is given to the story recently pub- lished that the Crown Prince of Germany had been ordered by the Kaiser two tlaye detention in his palace. 1 Mr. Frank Glenirtor. the manager t the London Pavilion, was accepted as sursty at Bow-street for Mrs. Pansy Egg* a, wbo i« better known as "La Miio," and who, with her husband and Percy Holland Xaflton, i8 charged with conspiring to defraud a Brook- atreet jeweller of £ 8,000 worth of jewel*. A small river steamer, the Richard Paul, which only draws four feet of water, has left Dover with an English crew on perilous 0 voyage across the Atlantic to Brsmt It is almoat impossible for a respectable person to go into Hyde Park after øunt. H said Mr. Paul Taylor at the Marlborough- street Police-court. "Certainly it is sufflst for respectable man." A Munich girl named Hilda Mele&ner ia bringing an action for breach of promise against her sweetheart, who refuses to marry her because she has adopted the -"Uwbau- fashion of dressing her hair- It was stated during the Home Office inquiry into the Liverpool riota that the solicitors on both sides were being threatened, both per- sonally and by letter, every day, aDd that riot- ing had been renewed on the previous night. '"Vulgar conversation between servants is not a justification for disimaissal,- Judge Willis re- marked at the Souihwark County-court, --but when it is used in & contemptuous manner towards an employer, it josiiftas lust ia dis- missing his servants." The London Operatic and Dramatic Soeiety has produced a new comic opera at the Cripple- gate Theatre, with the title "Tbe Superior Sex." After three amusing attttx the problem which of the sexes is superior remainaunsolved. The libretto is by Mr. H. D. Banning, and the composer is Mr. J. H. Kaundel". Legislation dealing with the milk StAkki PIy should be uniform and universal in jts appli- cation, and that, pending such legislation. no further powers should be given to any l^eal authority, was the gist of a resolution pato.d at a meeting of the executive of the Tube; eu- I logist Committee. With the Archbishop of Wrotmiuster as I president and the Roman Catholic bishops ø1 I England and Wales as viee-presidents, a per- manent committee has been forstwsd of repre- sentatives of various Roman CathoVie societKf* in England and Wales to arrange for a yearly National Roman Catholie Congress in this country. This year's congress will meet ia Leeds from July 29 to August; I or 2. Among bequ-sota left by Captain Thomas: A. Maberley, of Cuckfield, to his nephew, is a large Bible in three volumes, eostsining family records since 1708. In the course of a case at-,tho Old Baia detective stated that a key with which a door at Teddington was opened would unlock half the doors in the district. Elections for a Primate of Australia &a!fe resulted in a tie, the Archbishop of Sydney and the Archbishop of Brisbane having secured eight votes each. The Sicilian players, who were ft gw»t at- traction at the Shaftesbury Theatre two vears ago, are to appear t- six weeks at the Lyrifi Tneatre. General Booth, who is, ia his eighfy-fimfc year, will be absent on a preaching tour in Holland and Germany uLtil the atemd wesek in March. All female prisoners between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three are to be treated specially as "juvenile adult" prisoner* with, certain privileges by new wileme Of -the Home Office. To measure 515ft. long, G2f¡. broad, and 66tft. deep, a passenger steamer with accom- modation for 1,750 passengers, has bemc ordered by the Anchor Line. of Glasgow, from Messrs. D. W. Henderson and Co., of Partiek. By wireless the British cruiser Andnmoed* reports to Gibraltar that Percy 8t. Luke Chappell, a first-class boy, has been washed overboard in a heavy sea Mid drowasdL All efforts to save him were fruitless. "As a protest against the Socialistk pro- posals which are being brought Jormunl at the Labour Party's conference at KfewjWa* tradesman of the town has cent 900 rtiiflmgi to the Anti-Socialist Union, 60, V During a fog off St. Catherine's Point, IaJe of Wight, the English steamer S&. Bede is reported to have collided with. steamer Mercator, which became maetrJoggpd^ sevara iw-vcnt to tar 1111F I L

I OUR LONDON IETrrIn. 1 „p, i [From Our Special Oornpondent.) Trie Town k, i'-H of that excitement which ahvays accompanics the reassembling of Pu^-iament, Li-d this ti ne the excitement is ¡ the ivio.ve intense ki it is a new Parlia- ment which is asset •> ? and the political feky is dark with all sores of sigus and {x>rt«nte. The interest which the people are taking- in the busim is abundantly evi- denced by the crowds of people who <gather at)-o-at the Houses of Parliament and in the vicinity of Downin^-street. Important meet- ing's of the Cabinet have been taking1 place during the past few days, and Ministers have been going backwards and forward. to "No. 10 veiy busily. At these times there is nobody interesting to "the man in the street" than a Cabinet Minister, and he gaz-s his till upon men who carry on their shoulders the cares of State and the burden of office. "The man in the street" is some-J tinier a little disappointed to find that in appearance they are much like other men. For the benefit of those who were not watching arrivals and departures in Down- ing-street, the popular journals have gone in for columns of description, making up in their abundance of personal detail for their almost complete absence of political infor- mation. As newspapers cater for the tasks of their readers it is to be supposed that I people are intel: ly anxious to be informed exactly whether Min inters walked or drove, whether those who drove were in private cars or taxi cabs, whether their brows were furrowed with care, or if they smiled and carried themselves with a jaunty air. Who knows, after all, whether these things may aot have a bearing on the political situa- tion ? What significance may not attach to (the fact that Mr. Lulu Harcourt was smok- ing a. cigarette, "eneaf;ed in a large amber mouthpiece?" Then there was Mr. Haldane, -smoking a large cigar, and Lord Loreburn was doing the same. It looks as though two members of the Cabinet were in agreement on one point, at any rate. 1 No Minister ■ seems to have gone to Downing-street plift- ing a short black clay. That would have been something worth recording. It will be interesting to see what the London public will think of Mr. Rostand's play "Chantecler" if it is ever brought over here. Already the idea has been talked about, and it is possible that we may yet see the extraordinary collection of human poultry strutting about the stage of a j London theatre. Unfortunately, the play must inevitably suffer in a translation, and it would lose most of ite beauty and bril- I liance. Still, the spectacle of our leading actors and actresses made up as barndoor fowls would be a bit of an attraction. M. Rostand should be a proud man. He has not only written a play which has set two Continents talking, but he has inaugurated a new fashion in millinery. Some hats and toques—whatever they may be—suggested by "Chantecler" have already arrived in London., though as yet not many people have 1 seen them. Whether they will become the I fashion over here remains to be seen. Con- sidering the vagaries fashion plays, and the I extraordinary hats which have been worn, I should not be surprised one day to meet a lady with a hen and a family of chickens on j her head. One of the hats which have been j Seen in Regent-street does suggest a hen on i the nest, and that is only the beginning. The next thing, perhaps, will be a peacock with a tail in full glory. One fears that the dinner which is to be given to descendants of "the greater Eng- lish poets" by the Poetry Recital Society will be a. dull affair. Genius is not heredi- I tary, and it seldom happens that the son of a great man is himself great, He is more I often a very ordinary sort of being, and as I a rule the son of a poet is a very practical I person, entirely unable to appreciate his I father's poetry. There are exceptions, of course. Lord Crewe, for instance, who is to take the chair at the banquet, is the son of a poet, and -is indeed a poet himself, though it is in another kind of career that he has won distinction. The same may be said of Lord Tennyson, and .that reminds me of a story. When the present holder of the title was born, bis poet father asked a friend's advice as to what name should be given to the youngster. "Why not name, him after yourself?" was the suggestion. "What if he should be a fool?" remarked Tennyson. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, if he should be included among "the greater English poets," has quite the most distinguished descendants of them all, for a duke and two inarquises elaim descent from him. Long a source of embarrassment to the JBattersea Town Council, the famous "Brown Dog" fountain is at last to be re- moved. The memorial, which was erected as A protest against vivisection, has long been a cause of offence to medical students, whose hostile .demonstrations a few months .ago will be remembered. To guard the M Brown Dog" against their attentions, it is etated, has cost Battersea 9,700 per annum, special policemen having been told off to protect it. The Town Council has come to the conclusion that the luxury is much too expensive, and by forty-one votes to, four 11M decided that the "Brown Dog" must go. I From what I know of medical students, I fancy they will rather regret the decision, i Truly we live in a hustling age. The countryman wiio comes to town only occa- sionally is even yet somewhat nervous of the tube railways, and cannot conquer that queer feeling which oomes over him whec. he descends into the bowels .of the earth, and takes a swift journey underground, to come to the surface again miles away. But there is to be more hustling yet. The lifts are to travel faster. On the Piccadilly Tube ihev now £ 0 up and down at the rate of ISO I t feet per minute, and it is proposed to accelerate them to 300 feet per n This, it is :inlec1, will mean -n sarin;; of twenty sccoiKiS to the man whe, jusc n.i.'w.og one lift. has to wait for th-i n«x!" T iafc twenty seconds may just get hisa down. b-'Iow in time to cr.teh the train i>? iv:stf. Then, there is 11130 proposal to mstal moving staires c>, so 'that he may have a resz g.)iiig upstairs. Soon • there wi 1 be no necessity for the Londoner io at all, and in the course a a few generations legs will have disappeared f,U:;i1) disuse. The Symphony Concert at Queen's Hail on Saturday was not by an ,;jioans the least in- teresting of the series, though near" r every in the programme was more or less familiar. In response to numerous requests, Cesar Franek's Symphony was repeated. The desire for another hearing was a ivell-, deserved tribute to a magnificent work, and to the superb performance which Mr. Wood gave of it at the previous concert. There was one novelty on Saturday afternoon in a "Romance for strings, by Sibelius. The play- ing of Herr Emil Sauer was vastly appre- ciated by the audience. The brilliant pianist was heard in the "Emperor" Con- certo of Beethoven, and the G minor Con- t certo or Mendelssohn. It was in the latter composition that his remarkable powers as a pianist were most manifest. A. E. M.

BOILER TUBE EXPLOSION. An explosion of a boiler tube on board H.M.S. Fisgard, training-ship for boy aitificers at Portsmouth, occurred cn Friday, resulting in. serious injury to lne persons in the stoke- hold. The water-tube of the Belleville boiler, used to generate steam for the use of the electric lighting and driving installation,, burst without warning while a working party was in the stokehold, and the place was immediately en- veloped in scalding steam. Those who were nearest the furnace door fared the worst, but those farthest away at ON'C prepared to rescue their injured comrades and drag them out for removal to the sick bay. The worst case-, were those of William H. Williams, suffering from severe scalds about the body; George Bridgen, pensioner, chief engine-room artificer, scalds on the sums and body; and George Harper, boy artificer, scalds on the arms and face. These three were given first-aid treatment aboard and removed to Haslftr Hospital in a steam pinnace. The two others injured by the escaping steam w- re Benjamin Smith, lending stoker, scalded on the hands, and George Moody, chief stoker, hands I .rrd neck scalded. Both remain in the sick bay aboard the Fisgard. Fortunately the door of the-furnace did not blow off, and consequently the live coals were not projected into the stokehold, otherwise the injuries sustained would have been far more serious, and there would inevitably have been loss of life.

—1 ——- COLLISION IN CLEAR WEATHER. I The captain and sixteen men of the SweJioM i# ttn-ier Knar, from King's Lynn to, Gothen- burg, which sank in collision with the London steamer Armourer, bound for the Thames, were landed at Yarmouth. The weather was stated to be fine and clear at the time of the collision. The Armourer struck the Enar on the port side, and she foundered twenty minutes later. The crew took to the two lifeboats which the vessel carried, and were picked up by the Armourer, which herself was damaged about the starboard bow. While in their boats, the Enar's crew saw their vessel go down, stern first. They lost all their effects. The Enar had 1,100 tons of coal aboard.

THAMES DROWNING MYSTERY. The body of a well-dressed woman about fifty years of age has been recovered from the I Thames near Cleopatra's Needle. A silver-mounted and ivory-handled umbrella was clasped in one of the hands, and on the body were found a gold keyless watch and a long gold chain, a gold wedding-ring and a keeper, a gold brooch with a brown stone, a silyer charm with "George and Dragon" medallions, and a silver-mounted purse con- taining about £ 2. The watch had stopped at three o'clock. The body was identified in the evening by some friends, who explained that the woman had been married twice, and that her first married name was Vassis.

DENTISTS AND ANESTHETICS. A report has been received by the council of the Royal College of Surgeons from a special committee, which has be a appointed to con- eider, certain proposals for legislation on the subject of minsestheties. The committee report that they have taken into consideration the caitclusionia adopted by the General Medical Council in reference to the Bill which wae introduced in the House of Commons in June last, and recommend the college council to concur with these conclu- sions, wtth the exception of that relating to the administration of anaesthetics by duly qualified dental practitioners. The committee state that, having regard to the fact that the services of a medical practitioner, with special experience in the administration of anaesthe- tics, and equipped with the necessary appli- ances, are often not available, they believe that it is not to the advantage of the, public, or of the medical profession, that dentists should be debarred from administering nitrous oxide gas, and the other anaesthetics to be specified in the Act as employable by them, for operations performed by duly qualified medical practitioners. The counci of the Royal College approved, and adopted the committee's report.

COFFINS WASHED FROM GRAVES.. The ancient burial ground at Belhaven, on the East Lothiaa coast, in which there is a large number of stone coffins, has lately been placed in jeopardy, owing to the close proximity of the sea. At high tide the graveyard is par- tially encircled by water, and during the recent stormr a number of these stone coffins were laid bare bv the aotion of the sea. In more than one instance bodies have been discovered on the beach. It is feared that in the course of Ume the churchyard will be washed amtf.

BRIGHTO INTERVIEW. An unexpected development took place m the political situation on Saturday, when Mr. Asquilh travelled down to Brighton and had an interview with ill, King. The Premier left Victoria by the ten o'clock Brighton express, and was unaccom- panied. n", arrival at Brighton he was met by Cap^aia. -Seymour Forlescue, one of the Hingis Equerries, and "with him motored, to King's: Ha dons. Hove. The King had just returned from his morning walk in the gardens opposite the house of his host, Mr. Arthur Srssoon, and the Premier's interview with him lasted from 11.30 to 12.25. On leaving Mr. Asquith took a stroll on the promenade, ard returned to King's Carders trv> minutes laAer. His second visit to his Majesty lasted only about five minutes. The Premier caught the 1.20 express to London, Victoria being reached at 2.25.

MURDERED SWEETHEART. Found guilty of murdering his aweethear6 Annie Covell, at her parents' house at Florence-terrace, Ealing, George Henry Perry, aged 27, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey. Perry, on leaving the Army two years ago, went to live with the Covells. On January 8 the murdered girl acted as a bridesmaid to a friend, but- Perry was not invited to the wedding, and this imide him angry. On the following Monday Mrs. Qovell saw Perry come into the house, and immediately after- wards she heard her daughter scream in tlio breakfast-room. Rushing downstairs, Mrs. Covell found Perry cutting her daughter'^ throat. Perry then stabbed her twice and. remarked, "Now it is finished." The defence was that at the time that he* committed the crime Perry was not sane. After sentence of death luod been passed* Perry appeared to be unconcerned, and aIJ he left the dock nodded to some friends afr the back of the court.

THE CABINET IN COUNCIL. MINISTERIAL PLANS. Meetings of toe Cabinet were liekl at 10, Downing-street. «<;« Thursday and fr day. The arrival <»f Mi-'i-i -rs yas by crowd-of si><h,H,rs. The proceedings on Friday were somewhat longer than on the previous c'av. The Prime Xliulsv-er go to Brighton to see the King on F<sday, as had beeoi ex- pected in semi; utun-In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs* AH¡ n irh went out for a motor drive. They r"vr-v.-d to Down;ng-«troet at about 4.0û, iu woe evening they dined out. In the afternoon Mr. Churchill visited Mr. Lloyd George at 1.1, Downing-strcet, and It<!y were joined by Sir Edward Grey. Mr. lial- danc, Viscount Mersey, Mr. MKenna, Colonel Seely. alid others, including Mr. A. IT. D. Aciand. a former Minister of Educa- tion. Mr. As:"iui,t?i was not present at this gathering. There was throughout the day Or frequent exchange of Ministerial visits in the various Government Departments. During the dltyML'. Pease, the defeatedl Chief Liberal Whin, paid visits to the Pre- mier's official resideuce and the Chief office. i It is authoritatively stuped that a Bill limiting the veto of the House of Lords will be announced as the chicf legislative work of the rear. The Budget, however, will be the first business after the Address has been voted, and, if nothing happc to thwart Ministerial plans, it. will be, sent to the Lords, without discussion, by a single iution, LIBERAL WHIP'S WARNING. Mr. John M. Fuller, M.P., one of the Gov- ernment Whips, speaking at Trowbridge 011 Saturday night, said he was free to admit that in the last three davs difficulties had arisen which made it quite possible that tho House of Cornuvms would reject the Budgets He urged tlieui to keep their weajxflu# sharp and their powder dry. They did not know what was immediately in store for them, as there never had been a time wh4!1I the two great parties of the State had beeit so eaually balanced in the House of Commo as at the present day. They might have to fight another election on am is6-ue of supreme* importance to the democracy of the country before many months were over. CABINET CHANGES. The following changes in the Ministry were officially announced on Monday night: Home Secretary Mr. Churchill. President Board of Trade. Mr. Buxton. Chancellor of Duchy. Mr. J. A. Pease. Postmaster-General Mr. H. Samuel. Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip), The Master of Elibajik, M.P. None of these changes, except the finding of a seat for Mr. Pea-se, who was defeated in the General Election, will involve a by-election. I The office of Patronage Secretary is in the dis- I possl of the Comnrissioners of the Treasury, and is not, therefore an office of profit under the Crown, while the other appointments, except that of Mr. Pease, are merely transfers from one office of profit to another. The appointments complete the Cabinet leaving the tfeider-Secretary ships to be filled up after the meeting of Parliament. LABOUR PARTY'S POSITION. Mr. Keir Hardie, speaking at Mountain Ash, South Wales, on Monday night, said he held to his prediction that there will not be another election for two years. The elections had cost a great deal of money. He believedf the Conservative party had spent £ 500,009 out of the party exchequer. The Liberal party also had spent a. considerable sum. Those parties must find it difficult, rich though their supporters must be, to get to- gether another sum like that in such a short ,3 space. For financial reasons also he did not think the Irish party wanted an election. So the probabilities were that some kipd of understanding would be patched up whereby this Parliament would be allowed to drag ittt existence on sufferance for perhaps two Sessions. At the present time his own opinion was that the Labour party would support the Government in any course it might take in connection with the Budget or the House of Lords. But one thing they would try to do. When the House of Lords ca.mc before the Commons they would onoe x more give the country a lead by demanding, that the House of Lords itself should bØ swept away. s-