The Rhos Herald

mTOME OF NEWS, [ i Orphan Stamp, a fine bull, was sold for < £ 346 I at the Royal Dublin Society's spring- show. I Mrs. McDonnell, of Hulme, whose husband died a few days ago, gave' birth to all beys, at Manchester. I "It was not intended that there should be any -worry in tins "oilei, said Judge WilEs, nt the I Woolwich County-court, "and there would not be if people would obey a few rules." Arundel town councillors have passed a reso- lution protesting against the severe fines in- flicted by local magistrates on motorists, which are said'to be injuring the trade of the town. The Princess of Wales visited the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia with two of her sons and Princess Mary, and was not recognised for 11- some time. Woolwich town councillors have decided either to close the municipal milk depot or hand it over to a private firm. Mr. Davison Dalziel, M.P., recently enter- tained to dinner at the House of Commons forty-two members of his executive committee at jirixton. It is proposed to erect in Edinburgh a statue of Mr. John B"yd Dunlop, the inventor of the pneumatic tyre. A couple named Bernets have celebrated the I seventy-fifth anniversary of their marriage at Lai bach, Austria. I An infant on whom an inquest was held at I Marylebone was killed by a fall of sixteen inches from a basket. Ninetv thousand two hundred and ninety CTiminai cases were tried in Paris last year— j an increase of 1,134 compared with the num- ber duripg 1908. A wife who obtained a separation order at. the King?ton Police-court declared she had sup- ported her husband for twenty-three years. The ,£1.000,GOO in gold brought from New York by the Mauretama was taken through the street of London to the Bank of England in ordinary railway vans. During the inquest on Eric Vickncll, aged nine, who was knocked down and iataxlv in- jured in Uxbridge-ro?d, Scittliall, by a taxknl), the jury found that- death was due to tin: culp- able negligence of the driver, James Coisev, who was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant. As the result of an alleged blow, following an altercation in the gailerv of the "Victoria Picture Hail, at York, Herbert Vause, aged sixteen, has lost his life. The body of a woman, name unknown, which had been in the water for about six weeks, was found in the River Lea, opposite the Boat House Farm, Low-er Clapton. According to the report of the Chief Con- stable of Glasgow, 14,167 persons were appre- hended for drunkenness last year, which is a deciease of nearly 2,500 over the previous year, The will of the late Mr. James Clark has been lot: god in the Paisley County-court, and shows a net"estate of considerably over half a million pounds. The testator, who was one of the original members df the Paisley thread manu- facturing firm of Messrs. Clark, died on March 6th, Of 18,255 Surrey school children inspected 13.382 had one or more visibly decayed teeth, stated Dr. Jones, in his annual report to Surrey Education Committee. Colonel Cardwell and Mr. Stapley having re- signed the joint mastership .of the Eastbourne Hunt, the Duke of Devonshire has promised to bUY the hounds and hunt the country at his own sxnense. For keeping a gallon of petroleum in a can tnstead of in pint bottles, according to London County Council regulations, a hairdresser named Masters, Stafford-street, W., was at Marl- borough-street fined 20s. and 23s. costs. Tickets for the two imperial theatres at Vienna are to be put on sale at all post-offices, to obviate the abuse by which private box- offices buy up all available seats and sell them again at exorbitant prices. Private Weutworth, an eye-witness of the Light Brigade charge and for a time one of the sentries of Miss Florence Nightingale's quarters, has been buried at Lincoln, a bearer party and bugler being sent by the Lincolnshire Regiment depot. ¡ Mr. Sydney Buxton, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, has received a deputation of the Executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain in order to hear their views on the question of amending the regulations under the Miners' Eight Hours Act. Delivering coals to Lord Rosebery, a car- man was stopped by an L.C.C. coal officer in Fann-street, when it was discovered that there were onlv 18cwt. of coal on the van instead of a ton. He admitted that he "dropped" the other two cwts. at his own house, and at Marlborough-street Police-court was fined 40s. Mr. Lewis F. Day, who was a pioneer of the arts and crafts movement and a prominent writer and lecturer on applied art, is dead. Burglars stole a large quantity of jewellery from the residence of Mr. P. Wilson Raffan, MP., at Newbridge, Monmouthshire. "Gold printer on socks," is the trade of a man against whom a receiving order in bank- ruptcy appears in the "London Gazette." Condemned to death for the murder of Mr. Jackson, the collector of Nasik, Kanhere and his two accomplices were executed at Bombay. j Two old-age pensioners, named Peter Feeney, widower, and Bridget McDonagh, widow, have just been married in Gurteen (Sligo) Roman Catholic Church. j M. Isolsky, the Russian Foreign Minister, II' will very shortly resign his post and be ap- pointed Ambassodor in Rome. News received at Aden states that the Somali Mullah is boasting that he has driven the British out of the healthy fertile districts to the desert coast, for which he has no use. The House of Commons, by 242 votes to 150 refused Captain Graig (Ulster Unionist) per- mission to introduce a Bill providing for the official recognition of May 24 as Empire Day. The Antarctic expedition which is being orga- nised by Captain R. F. Scott will leave Eng- land early in June next, which is several weeks earlier than had been previously arranged. Estate valued at X416,180 has been left by Alderman Sir F. Stanhope Hanson, bead of the firm of Messrs. S. Hanson and Company, nhole- sale grocers, who died intestate. Letters of administration have been granted to his widow. HBoys are desperately knowing at the pre- sent time," remarked Judge Bacon at Bloom*- bury County-court. The ninth Dreadnought, the battleship Col- lingwood, was commissioned at Devonport for active service with the First Division of Che j Home Fleet. ( Miss Mary MacArthur stated at the annual meting of the Women's Trade-Union League that they had now a total affiliated member- abi- ftf ahnnf. 18fi ftOfl WnmAn-

OUR LONDON LETTER. i | [From Our Special Correspondent."} We hear a. good deal of talk of revolutions ind political crises and outbursts of popular feelings in these days, but for real enthu- j siasm there is nothing like a football match, What may happen to th-2 Budget and the House of Lords are matters of small concern in comparison with the re important question whether a ccrtnin team will win a certain cup or not. That fifty thousand j people should feel so strongly about the matter as to stay o"t of their beds for sixty hours or so, travel hundreds of miles, and endure manifold discomforts in order to watch twenty-two athletes kickh-g a ball about for ninety minutes is something that j would hqve our gr-?at-grand- fathers. These are the real enthusiasts, and they bear witness to the Londoner each year j on Cup Final day how strong a hold football has upon the affections of the North and the Midlands. j Some superior people are inclined to be contemptuous of this enthusiasm for looking on at football matches, which is, of course, j not confined to the Midlands and the North. IIow much better for all those thousands, j they say, if they played football instead of | seeing others play it. It would be better for them, certainly but there are worse ways of spending a, Saturday afternoon, and football is at, any rate a healthy and wholesome en- t'ertainment. If otily cricket attracted in like measure there would be no anxiety about the finances of county clubs; but cricket, unfor- j tuuately, lacks the excitement and sensation of football, and makes little or no appeal to the great Saturday afternoon public. I Mr. Haldane astride a rocking-horse on the Terrace of the House of Commons would have been a sight for Suffragettes, and for one brief moment membeas hoped that the portl" Secretary for War would accede to the request that he should give a practical de- monstration of the method by which cavalry- men are now being taught to ride. It was not to be, however. Mr. Haldane was very willing to tell the House how it was done, but be drew the line at doing it himself. So ¡ members had to be content with the picture which imagination drew, and they evidently I found that amusing. The rocking-horses' have been introduced out of a tender regard for the nerves and the bodies of recruits pass- ing through the preliminary stages of horse- manship. They are warranted quiet to ride and they are free from the playful habits of "bucking," kicking, or grinding their riders' limbs against the walls of the riding-school. There has been a good deal of jeering about these fiery, untamed steeds, but it is claimed that they are capable of being used to very good purpose. Times have never been as good as they used to be; we are always being told that nobody has any money nowadays. The events of the past few weeks, however, have told a different tale. The wonderful boom in rubber has given the country a bad at- tack of the get-rich-quickly disease. A few I people have made fortunes, City clerks have doubled and trebled their savings, and I now comes along the great British public, eager to make pots of money. Companies are being promoted every day, and shares to the value of many millions are taken up in a few hours. After them come more com- panies and more shares, and the problem is how to promote a sufficient number of com- panies to satisfy the public demand. In the early days of the boom everybody was say- ing that people were speculating with their I unpaid income-tax; but now, with the tax- ¡ collector abroad again, they are speculating more than ever. Company promoters are reaping a golden harvest, and I hope the public will not get a rude awakening from their dreams of profits. It is, of course, rubber that has done it. Nothing like leather is an out-of-date pro- verb in these days there is nothing like rubber. They are telling interesting little stories in the City of how money has been made of clerks who until recently were hard put to it to save a few pounds out of their salaries, and are now possessed of modest fortunes, and of brokers who were almost on their last legs and now have "money to burn." Hoping to secure a small allotment of shares, some speculators have applied for many more than they could really do with, and have found themselves, to their dismay, saddled with the whole. But it was all right. The shares went up I and up, and the lucky speculators made a very nice little profit. Those are the kind of stories of which you may hear scores in the City. Many of them are to be taken with a very big grain of salt, and thoughtful people are asking what and when the end will be. I An interesting development in the work of the Labour Exchanges has been foreshadowed by the Secretary of the Board of Education. A Bill which is to be introduced "if circum- stances permit" will provide for the estab- lishment of local committees, who, in con. nection with schools and Labour Exchanges, will watch over the careers of children when they leave school. The employment to which the children are put on first beginning their wage-earning lives is of the utmost import- ance. Well-chosen, it is the beginning of < process which will make them independent, self-reliant citizens; and a melancholy drift- ing into the ranks of the unemployable. All students of industrial conditions know and realise the seriousness of this aspect of the problem, and will welcome the intimatiom that a serious attempt is to be made to deal with it. Other matters will be included in the Bill, such as the abolition of half-time, the regulation of street-trading, and an ex- tended system of continuation schools, an" the avowed object of the Board of Education is to see that children on leaving school are helped to make a fair start in life. Mr. Graharae-White did not accomplish j the fest which he set out to perform on 6 Saturday, but he secured a very remarkable i triumph, nevertheless. That he did not reach I Manchester in the twenty-four hours, and' so j obtain the reward of a £ 10,000 prize, seema J to have been more a matter of bad luck than anything else. Xo doubt, for a 'long time to come, aviators will have to contend against accidents, of the kind which defeated Mr. Grabame-White, but the young Englishman has given a pra cfteal demonstration of the possibility of flight such as had not been previously witnessed in this country. There I had been flights round ,èH'.l round an aero- drome, but this was a straight Sight, almost "as the crow files," taking things as they ca.me, and overcoming both natural and artificial obstacles. There is legitimate matter for satisfaction in the fact that Mr. Grabame-White is Mi Englishman. Up to now the modest successes of the home-grown aviator have been completely outshone by the dazzling performances of the brilliant Frenchmen. We may pat ourselves on the back now, however, for here is an English flying-man worthy to rank with the very foremost of his kind. A. E.. M.

INGENIOUS THIEF TRAP. An ingeniously devised burglar trap was the cause of George Smith being sentenced to three months' hard labour at the London Guildhall Police-court on a. charge of attempted theft at the Manchester Hotel, Aldersgate- j Mr. T. Hanscombe, the manager of the hotel invented the trap because many rob- beries had occurred at the hotel recently. "I prepared a number of rooms," he informed au interviewer. "To the door of each a catch releasing an electric bell was.fitted. The bells only sounded in the rooms on the ground Sow, so that the burglar had no warning that the alarm was given. "A number of overcoats were hung on the walls, and in the pockets of these coate nsh- hooks were concealed. "Nothing hapjpened for three weeks; then cl early one morning the bells downstairs rang violently. The porters rushed up, and found George Smith struggling to release his hand from an overcoat pocket.

ORGAN. GRINDING LAW. William Aliens, a street musician, was charged at Westminster with persistently play- ing an organ to the annoyance of Sir Aubrey Ed. Dean Paul, Bart., after being requested to desist. Prosecutor, residing at Chelsea, stated that as he had-illness in his house, he requested prisoner to desist playing at the back of his residence, but prisoner refused. Mr. Horace Smith: Did you tell him to go because of illness in the house? Witness: No, I did not mention the illness. The Magistrate: You are bound, under the section of the Act, to give the reason for order- ing an organ-grinder away. Addressing the prisoner, the magistrate said that he would certainly have fined him if the prosecutor had mentioned the word illness. As it was, defendant escaped, and must be dis- charged, but be had better be very careful in future. Prisoner was discharged.

CHAIRMANSHIP TOSSED FOR. t At the first meeting of the newly elected parish council for Parkeston and Ramsey (Essex), two chairmen were proposed, and the voting was equal. Various suggestions were made for getting out of the d^dlock, and at proposal that the two eandidatos should "toes for it" met with most favour, the understand- ing being that the gentleman who lost should be chairman next year. The two members agreed to this novel proposition, retired from the room, and sent a coin spinning. Upon their return Mr. Brooks said that he would with- draw, and JIll. J. W. Braund was then declared elected, Mr. Brooks being unanimously eJn&ctefl vice-chairman.

STRUGGLE WITH A MADMAN. The story of a struggle with a morphine maniac was told at Lewisham on Saturday at the inqucet on the body of George Ame- mann, 28, who had died by taking poison. At Forest Hilt he and a German woman, Paula Winekler, occupied a furnished room. It was stated that they same from Germany four months ago, and that Arnemann used to contribute to publications. Paula WinckW said Amemann hrd been ill for a month and had no money. He had been taking iriorphhu and for three days had been absent-minded. Once he tried to strangle her. On Ttonrs* morning she told him she was going to a 1 c -«e in Stanstead- road Forst Hi!l (a bal er's, v. here they had previously lodged), to get fwne food. When she retu:««i ho e (I 'awing." He had Dot had any food for eight being too ill. He toltl he" their must hke poison together and threw her on the bed. but she escaped to the hoisse i« Stan-stead-road. He followed her. The struggle. jsewmYin^ to further evi- dence, was renewed in The house, whr-iv .Arnemann, on till" woman being froTr* him. took poison an'1 ('lj,,l. J Dr. Hot-field Arne- cr "Inn had W-ciw Tmmtallv derang^-d by I morphia..for The jury gave a -r<i;"V of ■" ^nkide [luring tJorary mental ("H""1T'(,'1t, .—————«<.—————-

'1I">\>J' .». ,.¡t.1I Mr. Haldane states that the War dfioe bad to purchase last year two motor-lorries from a foreign firm, as no English firm was able to execute the order by the required daAe6 He could not pledge himself not to make purchase* abroad for experimental purposes. Excessive smoking was stated at a Holbora inquest to have caused the (death of ifelico Coneglio, an Italian teacher, aged 60, whose habit it was to smoke two ounces of tobacco a dav. S LADIES ■ BLUICHXRD'S I I API0L t? STEEL MLLSI ■ with 16-p«ge eipltmftirj BWUrtMi Twitimoni»I» ■ 9 Hoid by aU Chimin t* ar pott frtc from 7 a Leslie iartmlldg Cannot be Beaten THE S ss s!M!s SM s g 'NEPTUNE' tt j, P-eos ^| AND THE I 'BRITISH' _P Stylo Pens. f=4 17 Absolutely Reliable. Best British Milke. Pj PRICES FROM 1/6 up to 10/6, Z 14 Carat Gold Nibs. Q;) We stock them. Call and see one. E-1 R. Mills & Sons HERALD OFFICE, RHOS. PURE SUSSEX GROUND OATS, 8/9 per cwG SUSSEX FATTENING MEAL, 8/- per cwt. DRY FEED, 10/- per cwt. 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ALDRTDOE'S.—Kigh-rljMss Jobmaster's Stock.-On account of extending their motor hire department, Messrs, Harrods, Ltd., have arranged to Sell by Auction, without I reserve, their entire stock of 1)<; V. rv Superior Harness Horses (mostly r; and 6 years old. 15.3 to 16.2t eA,r fiilly selected and thorn"lJIy.e:ttllone.t. Al»« 75 Fashionable Carriages, many equal to new, 50 Set* of Harness, and Stable Sundries, fte., belonrrine- to their livery department, at White Horse Yard, I Bromptmi road, 8.W., oil Thiii-s^av, April 14, at 11 .PQ. The attention of buyers is tpeeiall v drawn to thi unusually excel- lent stock, ready for the London season.—Catalogues of the Auctioneers, W. & S. Freeman, Aldridge's, St. Martin's lame, London. EXTRAORDINARY VALTTK.-24 Cabinet and 12 Photo Postcards, 9/8 lot. Half quantity 5/ Send Photo (returned,- Twigger, Photographer, Warwick. 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