The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. The King has become Patron of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London. I Earthquake vibrations lasting 24m. are re- f ported by the Georgetown University at Wash- ington. Five quarters of the business part of the city of Marrakesh (Morocco) have been destroyed by fire. Far-away New Guinea is to be linked with Australia by means of wireless telegraphy. Entries at the show of the Peking Palace Dog Association numbered 384-a, record for ss()e the breed. Last year 23.277 tons of potatoes were ex- ported from the department of Finisterre to England. Morning gathered strawberries were sold at Covent Garden at 51bs. for 3d. It is probable that, the British Association will be invited to hold its 1913 conference in f Australia. According to the latest reports from Somali sources the Mullah is not dead, but ill. On a charge of embezzling his employers' piotie,. Francis Tindle, ex-president of the Hull Rugby Football Club, has been arrested. The Dartford local council intends to erect a town hall at a cost of £ 8,000. The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs has decided to ask for the extradition of Porter Charlton, leaving it with the United States Government to accede or refuse. The Prime Minister has appointed Mr. Maurice Bonham Carter to be. one of his private secretaries. A police-eon stable named Frederick Dyer was convicted at the Old Bailey of bigamy, and was bound over. An inmate of the Willesdeo. Workhouse has received a letter from Queen Alexandra in ack- { Howledgment of some verses which he sent to her Majesty. | With cyanide of potassium in his pocket, a man, aged about seventy-five years, was !'<n*nd ) dead at Woodham Fer.ris Smtion on the (I resit, j Eastern Railway. An order was made at Greenwich ag:mist rbe authorities of St. Nicholas' Church, Deptiord. to remedy the defects which rendered the church a dangerous structure. b j During coaling operations on the cruiser In- I vincible at Spithead, a derrick fell and struck Able Seaman W. H. Brice on the back with such force as to cause instantaneous death, James and William Anders, father and son, were killed by a fall of roof in the Clyde Col- lieries at Carmyle, near Glasgow. Mr. H. E. Dale has been appointed secre- tary and Lord Basil Temple Blackwood and Mr. G. Haw, F.S.S., assistant-secretaries of the Development Commissioners. Mr. Justice Jelf has had a fall, from which he sustained a severe shock, and it is unlikely that he will be able to resume hiil duties at the Law Courts during the present term. Bad whisky and methylated spirits are just the same, said a witness in the Westminster coroner's court. j Mr. James Jones, of Leehlade Manor, Glou- cester, Lord of the Manor of Leehlade, has left estate of the gross value of £ 348,056. Abôut £ 22,000, making a total for two days of £ 74,000, was realised at a sale at Devizes of portions of the Erlestoke estate. Of forty lots offered ten were withdrawn. The Kaiser's yacht Meteor at Kiel won the handicap race for schooners from Eckcrn- forde to Kiel. The King has approved the appointment of the Earl of Chesterfield to be Lord Steward in the place of Earl Beauchamp, who has been appointed Lord President of the Council. Two well-sinkers named Ernest Fawcatt and George Hymas were suffocated by carbonic acid gas while at work at Whfhinoor, near Leeds. Both the St. Pancras and the Wandsworth Borough Councils have refused to pass a resolu- tion in favour of the Daylight Saving Bill. I While Frank Pimm was alighting from a ) moving train at West Green Station he fell between the footboard and the platform and was killed. A national celebration to commemorate the sixtieth year of the restoration of the Roman Catholic heirarchy in England was held at Westminster Cathedral, and was attended by the Lord Mayor. II Mr. Churchill has appointed a committee, with Mr. R. C. Lehmann, M.P., as chairman, to inquire into the conditions under which alien immigrants are inspected and held for the pur- pose of appeal in the Port of London. The Home Secretary stated in the House of Commons that he had under consideration the I question of legislation having for its object the I reduction of the number of persons committed I to prison for debt in default, of paying fines. Four anglers caught 78 tench, weighing 701 bs., in a few hours at the Woodlands Pool, Bedworth, Warwickshire. Boy Scouts of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. visited the cruiser Eclipse by invitation of Captain Blackett, and were allowed to shoot with aiming tubes fixed to the guns. Miss Mary Ryan, M.A., has been appointed, after an open competition, to the professorship of Romance Languages at Queen's College, Cork. For assaulting Joseph Edwards, an aged in- mate of the Greenwich Workhouse, George Doorian. an attendant, was a,t Greenwich Police-court fined 20s. and 2s. costs. Among exhibits for the prize distribution at University College was a demonstration of wireless telegraphic communication between University College and King's College. Supposed to have been blown over the cliff at Black Rock, near Brighton, a woman, whose clothing is marked "Cooper," lies in a pre- carious condition in Sussex. County Hospital, Brighton. Running past the firemen into the hay and corn warehouse of Mr. Kwidrick Hay at Red- dall Hill, Staffs., a cat went to its kittens, with which, when the fire was put out, it was found dead. h, Robert Warrand Carlyle, of the Indian Civil Service, has been appointed a member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India in succession to Mr. John Millar, who is about to retire. As the Post Office motor-mail service has proved so successful, the nightly service from Birmingham is to be extended to Bath, Man- chester, and London. Vans will be larger, carrying a maximum load of two tons. A House of Commons Committee has ap- proved of the London County Council's scheme for licensing employment agencies. There is so great a shortage of meat in the United States that 600 carcases of frozen mut- ton have been sent from Liverpool to New York.

OUR LONDON LETTER. ] [ From Our Special Correspondent.] j Startling rumours were flying about the other day that the Conference between leaders of parties "on the Constitutional question" had come to an untimely end, and that after these few weeks of peace. Liberals and Unionists, to say nothing of Labour men and Nationalists, were going to fly at one another's throats again. Such a hasty conclusion of the Council of Compro- mise could only have meant that the dele- gates had found it impossible to come to any basis of agreement, and saw no reason for prolonging the agony. But all is not over yet. What passes behind the door where the Conference meets no man knoweth, but, the outside world is informed every now and again that another meeting has teken place. While the Conference lives there is hope; but meanwhile the rank and file of mem bens, waiting outside and know- ing nothing, are full of fearfulness. On both sides there is anxiety lest the Party leaders should give away something which j their foHowers consider important. j I We are getting used to Parliament sitting in the autumn nowadays, and the Premier's I announcement of an adjournment at the end of July or beginning of August until November caused little surprise in the peculiar circumstances of the political posi- tion. The announcement has given satisfac- tion to Ministerialists who objected to the Conference going on and on for months while the House of Commons was not sitting, and members could not therefore ask questions about it. Though it must be admitted that even when Parliament is I sitting the questioners do not manage to draw blood. An autumn sitting, they think, will, enable them to maintain control of the situation, and to re-opcu a struggle on the Constitutional question in the event. of the Conference having broken down completely by that time. j The contrast between '.the- "introduction) of J the Budget this year and that of last year Wc's most marked. Though the secrets of the measure were well kept there was a pretty confident idea that it would contain nothing novel, and there was consequently a total j lack of that interest and excitement asso- ciated with the remarkable Budget of last year. A measure which provides for a national expenditure of close upon two hun- died millions scarcely deserves, perhaps, to be called humdrum, but nowadays it tabes j something more than mere hugeness to arouse the House of Commons. The central figure of the occasion had an easier task to perform. I Listening to the lively speech which only lasted an hour and a, half, it was impossible to help recalling that ofla.st year, when Mr. Lloyd George spoke for nearly live hours, his halting manner and faltering voice plainly showing that he had underestimated the magnitude of the task he had set himself. ¡ This time, instead of coming forward with I-proposals which he knew would arouse fierce I antagonism, he had simply to say that things would remain as they were, and his jaunty, j cheerful manner said that he was not sorry j it was so. I According to the Islington Medical Officer, Londoners who live in the Buburbs or still further out are killing themselves by the rush to town in the morning and the rush home again at night. Lire in town, he says, and take life in a leisurely fashion, He says that suburbanites always wait until tile last minute for catching a train, and nearly always have to run for it, and a long course of this sort of thing causes premature death from heart disease, apoplexy, or paralysis. If we who live in the suburbs escape death for a time, we are etill not of much account, what with the wear and tear of the circulatory and nervous systems caused by all this rushing about. There is something—perhaps a good doal-iii the j medical officer's arguments, and it- would be unkind to suggest that he and the Islington Borough Council are naturally interested in persuading people to come back to Islington instead of liTing in the outer suburbs. Most residents in the suburbs think that the ad- vantages of such residence outweigh the dis- advantages, and probably the people who are foolish enough to run ior the trains would weaken their hearts by rushing for 'buses or tramcars if they lived closer in. Buckingham Palace has the unenviable distinction of being one of the ugliest Royal residences in Europe, and many people who during ..the last few months have seen it for II the fir sit time have expressed astonishment j that such a dingy, barrack-like house should j be the home of the British Monarch in his Imperial city. Every now and then an appeal is made for something to be done in the direction of making it the stately and beautiful palace it ought to be, and it is now suggested that a new Buckingham Palace would be an appropriate Coronation gift from the nation to King George. The best side of the building is the side which most people have never seen. It is nothing much to boast about, but it is far and away better than the front. Standing in a splendid I position the facade of the Palace presents about as melancholy and depressing a piece of architecture as oould possibly be I imagined, and when the new Victoria Memorial is completed and revealed in all its grace and beauty, the Palaoe will appear by comparison even more deplorable than it does at present. We have not grudged huge sums of money in recent years for the beautifying of Whitehall by erecting new and imposing palaces for the great depart- meats of government, and it is urged by those who are agitating for a new Bucking- haai Palace that the nation ought to pro- vide a more fitting habitation for the Monarchy, the greatest institution of all. It is suggested that we might very well spend a million or more upon it. .■■ It was a pity that Crosby Hall, that finoe old fifteenth century palace, which stood until less than three years ago in Bishops- gate,, should have hadl to be pulled down to make room for a bank. Banks are necessary institutions, and old- houses are not, but many people would, have been glad if the effort made to preserve this particular one had been sneccssluL It must be said, how- ever, that it was not aniil Crosby Hall was about to be demolished that Londoners showed any special veneration for it. They never thought of protesting when it was used as a restaurant, and probably it might have been put to basor uses without causing any great indignation. When its approaching demolition was announced, however, imme- diately an • agitation was begun for regaining it in its original position. Sufficient money was not forthcoifringr, and Crosby Hall had to come down. But the greatest care was taken sf the materials which had gone to its build- ing, and Crosby Hall has now risen again at Chelsea, where it stands on the site of the garden of Sir Thomas More, one of the dis- tinguished men who lived in Crosby HaUl when it stood in the City. A. E. M.

CRIPPLED TORPEDOES. Two torpcdr) bouts were concerned in mis- haps whico tirrc, oei II.M.S. Hebe at Shetrnrs-s with her bow d:nr.ig»<s. cruised through a collision in the N' >< N-a with. the steam- ship Majestic.. collision ociinied near the spot off the btupwash. lightship, where the disaster to submarine ClI happened last year. The damage received by the Hebe extends from the deck of the forecastle to the keel. and will prevent her taking any part in the naval ma-noeurtes*. The shock of the collision caused the electric t-earchlights on the gunboat to go out. She steamed into Sheerness Harbour with hex bows oa both sides covered with eùHísínn mats. The torpedo gunboat Sharpshooter arrived at PemhrokeHoek on Saturday afternoon, having st slowly to port in a very leaky condition. She had been nccompanying the submarine B3 from Devonport to Milford Haven, and 41 miles from St..Ann's Head sent a wireless mes- sage that she was leaking badly.

HUSBAND SEVERELY CENSURED. At an inquest at East Moiesey on Satur- day concerning the death of a woman na wed Lovisa Reading, who committed suicide by drowning in, the. Thame?, the husband, Benjamin Reading, a, powerfully- built labourer, was severely censured by the coroner. Accocding to the evidence, the husband to maintain his wife and four children, and the latter were placed in the c '10 workhouse, while the mother t'jok a eitus- t-iun. Site left the IÙaceml her husband promising to provide a but he failed to do so, and t-hewonlàn went into lodgings. She was nuwd, and her body was after- wards recovered front the Thames. Addressing Reading, the coroner said he belonged to a. class, not of thhe unemployed, but the unemployable., He would leave the court with the knowledge that he was morally responsible for his wile's death.

FATHER MURDERS HIS FAMILY. At Ballydrmn, Swmeford, Co. Mayo, a terribl crime has lweit, committed, & man named John Moore attacking his four children with a hatchet. Three are dead, and the fourth remmins iv a. critical condition. Just before the crime Moore sent his eldest son to a neighbour with a message, and on his return the lad found the hou¡;.(,: barricaded. Looking through the window, IK- IW his father attack- in the children, and al,tzl,(,,i,igli the country for miles round has been se-tr h 1 i ierc is no trace of him. It is believed that he baA committed suicide by drowning. Two year's ago Moor# wife complained that the man ]lad tried to ber, but M her story was not corroborated the magistrates took no action. Five weeks avjo the woman left her home for America, realising fchafc her life was in imminent peril.

A SHOPMATES SACRIFICE. A sueces-ftil, case of skin grafting has oc- curred in Bath Hospital. Stanley Hardy, aged fifteen, was injured by a machine, and it was found impossible to heal the wound on his arm except by grafting. Three of hig shopmates volunteered for operafii^n. and Sidney Coleman, aged seventeen, was selected. After being anaesthetised for an hour and a half, sufficient skin was removed from him and grafted on to Hardy's arm. The prUi«>t»t. is making excellent;, progress, and will leav< ;r? a day or two com- pletely cured. Coleman r< >stained sixteen ,Iayo in hospital, and was rllVi-barged quite well..

A THRILLING VOYAGE. Eleven days overdue, the Austrian Lloyd liner, with five English people among her passengers,' arrived at Bombay on Saturday after perilous experiences. She was due oil Ji: ne 21, and six vessels, including two B; icish cruisers, weni in weareh of her. The passengers tell thrilling narratives of -• the voyage. The propeller shaft snapped on June 16, when the vessel was 400 :,j, out from Ad em, and awnings were in Us-i'd as sails, and' tiOO miles had been ,tÎ \1 when the stealer Lowther Range was sighted. ATer six days of hetroic efforts, ia awful w, ailier. during which the "I»owtiter Raiiigc's s.H-ond engiueer w k i(,(I and several others ol her crew were iujinvd, a .steel hawser, was attached to the Trieste, and the towing of the disabled ship began. Mean w h ilc.- provisions were becoming scarce on board the.THste, and the cargo had. to be broached, macaroni and raisins being consumed. The sea throughout was terrific, and the hawser snapped. .:> Close to Bombay the tow-tope again broke, and the Trieste was only brought in by the most strenuous efforts.

While a railway porter named Dailies was crossing the line at Newmarket he was knocked down by an engine and fatally injured. Workmen have discovered a quantity of fif- teenth century pottery and stained glass under an old lecture-room at St. Mary's Court, Cam- bridge..

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LONDOK, 8JL DATING HTAMP. 6»tampg ally ilate, month or year, I/# —A. Melk«5»am, Wilts. > Garniot be Beaten THE I 'NEPTUNE' Fountain Pens JAHD THS 'BRITISH' o Stylo Pens. Abtolntely Reliable, g Kent British Make. p3 P« £ CK« FROM l/e ap to 10/6. Z 14 .CMt Gold Nibs. CD We stock them. Call and see one. E-I R. M'ills & Sons CiERALO OFFlCli, RIIOS.