The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. j A pushball match cm boreeback was one of tilts feniupes of Tiverton Carnival. i Judge Bacon, the coanty court judge, ceie- brated his sereniT-eighth birthday the other day. I Owing to the lowneffs of nin'f Exe difr, euliy is experienced in working th:1 turbines at Tiverton lace factory-an uiupfcceueiuv.-U cxper.- i eaee in Gerober. The iiner Foona arrived at Livorjx)ol from China with a cargo of thousands of carcases of frozen pigs, ducks, fowls, and snipe. A consignment of giant pears cultivated under glass at Worthing reached Covenfc Garden and were sold IVr nineyenee each. In response to a suggestion made by Sir Francis J5eli«, British Ambassador in Paris, the accepted an lioner&ry membership j of the llg Club of France. ( Tow. the Welsh National Fund to erect co'L'iiV-. a sanatoria as a memorial to the late £ 149.SI9, about half the sum i»i.ue-. by the promoters, has been sub- scribed. Si;:j-t-9 eoniTjctitons eng-aged ta the ladiea' aennai i hing cocipctitions at Deal, the prize- winner i- )r the heaviest weight of fish beiug Mrs. Chancellor with 21b. A f«# Jays ago an extensive theft of je«r«Uerjf was Tfe| rtecl frcm the Hotel Cecil, and the Heotlao-' Yard authorities are now engaged in investigating a somewhat similar affair at another Strand hotel, LI,00 worrh of jewellery, etc., having been stolen from a Mr. SeMienger. At Derweritbaktrh, near Newea»tle. a throe inonfhw old baby wm fnuod alone in A lane, ftnd invest\KritioB, led to the discovery of a young women's body on the railway. The head hai boon severed and the left arm cut off near the elbow. Messrs. Redmond, Devlin, and Doyle ad- dressed a rTlas meeting in Philadelphia, and wre enthusiastieallv greeted. Contributions amounting to were showered on to the stage by the audience. ilir-, Wickliant took his monoplane to Sv in- gr. U- Down*. eMt of D^rcr. to be firted 111 resdi- it: ss for the Channel flight. Cultnore. bijiiane is at the samp place, has bevjt delnyed oViing te» the lata arrival of hi« engine. Nearly 1.000 hands were rendered idle through the strike of pit lads at one of the large Not- tinghamshire collieries ia the Kirk by district. The cauKe was a grievance against a deputy. The municipal authorities of Berlin gave a reception in the Raihan* in honour of the mem- ber*of the foort-h international congrees on the care of the feeble-minded. Cfcniie» Henry Haskctt, a greengrocer, was remanded at Portsmouth on a charge of the ) manslaughter of ilart-ild Clover, the eon of a Portsmouth magistrate. It ifi alleged t'iat j Haskett wan driving a van while drunk, and came into collision with Clover, who was on a motor-bicycle. Mr. and Mrs. James Robinson, who live in the little hamlet of Sheeplane, near Woburn. cele- ) biated the..seventy-first auniTerwiTT of their wedding. They were born in the poris'i the year after Waterloo, and have lived there their lives. On an. application being made at the 1. antes P>>!iee-eo>trt for a isummoiis for sirw8e,vihe magis- trate stated that on one occasion he had to de- cide whether it was abuse (or a man to eall a Jew j a Christian. A poster who was discharged with a warning at Aelon on a charge of begging asked if he i would be allowed expenses. "I have lost a day wort by coming here." he said. The summons against two labourerB fined at Croydon was for beirq ill the unlawful. popsei?- sion nf "one engine, to wit, a ferret," and using the said "engine for taking gatne. The Pharmaceutical Society soe4 Miss Lower, assistant to a th.q' at Lewen, in the county- court to recover n pe-iaHy of .£5. on the gror'id ti nt the sold inseet cide though not a person 1 licensed to aell powonm. The judge gave a ver- dicf for the amount clflimed with costs. At the Court of Co report, C<>«Reil a vote of thawks? was ac^evded to V- J 'Pierpont Morsran for his donation to the li^Viall Library of a copy of the catalogue of his collection of jewels and precions 'W<)r of art. Mr..1, R. Brough I said the intrinsic valfie was over 1,000 ueam. Application has been made to the Local Government Board by the Cainberwell Board of Guardians for permission to provide a .1Z for a woman pauper, aged tlt irt,T-Aixw. at a cost of 31s. 9d. Mr. Oliver, British Vice-Co-ntul At Hamburg, who was attacked by negro witJt a hammer, is recovering. The injuries were painful but not alarming. The negro was an American named Shetield. It is officially annonrrred that the interna) ional question between Britain and France with re- gard to the Indian Savarkar. who eeeaped from custody at Marseilkfi and was recaptured, is to be submitted to arlbitratim. The reoord nm ef £2,214 is available for the Actors' Orphanage Fond as the revidt of the re. cetit theatrical garden party. Mr. Ednnnct Morphy, eonnty-eonrt judge of Mayo, has died at Grey stones, eo. Wicklow, where he had been in residence during I k. summer months. Mr. McKinnsn Wood, Under-Secretary of State for Pereign Affairs, figured as »-witness in the Aberdeen Sheriff's Court when his chauffeur Was fined 23 for driving his ear recklessly and rnnnJng into a Mock of sheep, killing one and crippling nine others. It WM reported to the coroner for Narth-Etmt London that Elsie Augusta OIM, aged nine, had died m the Metropolitan Hospital in consequence of injuries received by being ruft over by a motor-omnibus. Tie Duke of Coictaught has become president of tie Soeisty of Friends of Foreigners in Dis- tress in ssecession to the King. The Duke's god- father, the great Duke of Wellington, was the society's first president. The extensive cotton mills of Msesrs. Wright, Turner, and Co., in Cobileyt-str"t, Pendleton, Ma nchester, has bHJt, destroyed by fire. Hnn- dvedn of workpeople were compelled to mal-o a hurried exit. The police reported at the Marylebone Police- court that during the put three months He fewer than 40 thefts from peraaatbulater* in Edgware-road had been reported to them. Among the tenants of Iiondon Co<nSty Ceuucil dwellings are no fewer than tweiuty-fonr elergy- inen. according to an official return of the Housing of the Working Classes Committee. Major-General Henry IVrrick Fitzhugh ha* died at Hassocks, illl his eighty-fonr year. He served in the Crimean campaign, for which he received a medal and clasp. TV* Court of Common Council elected the Rev "P ilbvaham Dan son Ward, M.A., senior curate of lR ixton Parish Chareh, se vicar of St. Oswald's, ■¥u)l»ani.

OUR, LONDON LETTER. fprrmi Our Special Correppoadent.1 All the indications a-fo in favour of the permanencc of the new order in Portugal. A. Jec-ree of exile has been promulgate* against the Roynl Family, and it seems pro- babl", that King ;\hllUd and Queen Amelie will make their home in England, as several other dethroned and exiled Sovereigns have done before them. The Empress Eugenie is the best-known example. As a matter of courtcsv she h&fl always been accorded her title in this country, and so, no doubt, will King M:«::?• el and (jueen Amelie. They will rank as -rM:r aiid in o..urt circle, yt ro members of ou: own iii'.y.j..j :) considered almost certain t!s; %.■ a' hist, the Royal htd a refuge at tVuc« _No: r -u, --rshim- home of i'»e Dikh < brother of Queen Amelia, ;;1" h; exile. Wood Nortaa 1J near though not particu- larly l»rj»- i-: 'd'itc-'tful place. It came into the r>r.ni' present owner on the dentil >■ ■ 1 gr-jjat uncle, the Due 7.-),n of the King Louia faitlppe, *ac; "to England after his Tiu.-ugji thsj :x^3C- Revolution ctunt suddenly at •• ':s shadow has been a IV caft. — Family, it is well kno* a, iinaneial prepara- tions *<><■ the cr <Aiiich hlM now fallen upon Urn. Th,.>jh not so wealthy as some Royal Houses iit ■•V^rope they are possessed of lar^s fcrt:.T.c^, a,nd some time ago took the- precaution ty have substantial sume in- vefst^'d outsiide their own country. This ex«rr'ple has been followed by many of the nobility of Portugal. A considerable por- tion of Queen A r.oeUe'f; fortune has been in- vested in Pari»f, and during the last month or so a good deal more has been sent to London. "In connection with the changes caused by the appointment of the Law Officers of the Crown, there will lie two by-elections, d which that in WalUmrslow, the division represented by Mr. Simon, the uew Solici- tor-General, i, liVely to be the more ÎII- teresting. Mr. Simon's majority in January last was 2,105. The number looks large, but is not really eo, considering' the size of the constituency, which is one of the biggest in tbe country, and has nearly forty thousand electors. The majority at the last election was very much less thaft when the Liberals won the teat four years previously, and the Unionists are hoping that this time it may disappear altogether. The most intfresting feature in the election is the fact that Mr. Osborne, in whose favonr the Courts pro- nounced the famous Osborne judgment, is an elector in the division, and that it was as secretary of the Walthamstow Branch 4,f the Amalgamated Society of Railway Ser- vants that he brought the action. As a member of the Government, Mr. Simon's attitude with regard to the position created by the judgment is important, and the Labour Party, which is strong in the division, has the power to make things dis- agreeable for the Solicitor-General if he de- clines to agree to the reversal of the judg- ment. The new Paul' Cross, which is to be !I dedicated on October 31, is a very different structure from that which was destroyed by order of the Long Parliament in 1643. The old Cross was resdly an open-air pulpit, octagonal in shape, with a leaden roof, above which rose a cross. Mr. Blomtield, the architect to whom was entrusted the designing of a monument in accordance with the terms of the will of the late Mr. H. C. Richards, K.C., M.P., has made a raised platform-, with a baluster wall, in Portland stone and black marble. From this rises a column, on which is a bronze statue of St. Paul. The total height of the monument is fifty-two feet. The new Paul's Cross is not likely to be the centre of such exciting scenes as the old. There was a cross there so long ago as 1191, and prob- ably before. In that year William Fitz- Osbert "delivered an inflammatory address" there, "arguing against the divinity of the Crown." It was net until 1285 that sermons were preached regularly at Paul's Cross. Afterwards it continued to be used for ecclesiastical purpose*, which included the "penances" of heretics and the burning of unorthodox books. Jaue Shore did penance there in 1483, and in 1521 Cardinal Wolsey listened to a sermon preached at the Pope's command against Luther, many of whoM books were burned during the service. One of the historic scenes «t the Cross was the thanksgiving service in 1588 for the defeat of the Spanish Armada, which was attended by Queen Elizabeth. His Honour JudZ" Bacon, during his ex- perience an a Cownty-court judge, has seen many weird things in femiliine fashions, and in consequence of having to adjudicate so fre- quently between dressmakers and milliners and their customers, is by way of being an authority on the subject. It takes something out of the ordinary to shake him out of his usual good-humoured tolerance of fashion freaks. Kewever, the umbrella hat has done it. A lady defendant appeared at his court at tieomebury the other day in a hat which might have served instead of the spreading ehsstnut tree to shelter the village smithy. I want to see your eyes whan you give evi- dence," said the judge. "Please raise yenr veil." The lady raised her veil, and the tude,e then suggested that the should tip her tat up a hit to afford hita a view of her face. "Oh," said the lady, "I cannot do that un- lest I take it off." But that could not be allowed, of course, and the judge said: "Tkame hate are perfectly ridiculous." The difficulty was got over by the lady tilting her hat to one side so that the judge could act her face. When one remembers that I woman is never happy ankss n-er naL ss on f straight, one realises the tragedy of the affair. We are, it appears, to have an army or a navy of the air. That, d least, is believed to be the meaning of the announcement that the Balloon School at Farnborongh is to be extended. It is stated that. in the Arin-v Esti- mates for next year a large sum will bo set aside for the Farnborough depot, which is to be made a school, a training-groufid, an ex- perimental station, and a practical home of flight for the British Army. Experienced officers, who have studied the problems of flight in this and other countries, are to be in charge of the school, and a thorough course of instruction will t, i'«-miniated, embracing the use of air-machines in warfare, and the most effective way of del eating the opera- tions of simitar machines in the hands of an enemy. Only the he;1' 1 -:v. ^rtnient has I yet boeu appointed, iC-rally agreed that Major Sir- A. I' ss an admir- ( able choice for the r "3 undeniable I that in experimenting' al machines 1 for war purposes, Gr i has hitherto been content to lag a > behind some othel: countries. Possi r Office took a good deal of convin the practica- I bility of such macliii :utest move is 1 taken as an indication ..Mention of the I I Government to make >- at time. All 1 wars will begin wit! ;nest o)f the air," said Colonel Cai -her day, and air," said Colonel Cai > -her day, and there is a good deal 1 r thonght in bjp: further remark th,ult may be to I make war so dreadful # usually to make for peace. Â. E. M. I

LEGAL CHANGES. I An official announcement vatz made oa Friday JJight of three new legal appoist- mente. They are a.s follows:— Sir William onowdon R-obynn to be a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, in elHt: of Lord Collins. who..lias resigned. Sir Rufus Isaacs, K.C., ]%.I. P., to be Attorney-Geneva:. Mr. John AMrr-brook Simon, K.C.. M.P., j to be Solicitor-General. These appoint n;cut* receded above in- volve two by-elowlions. Sir William Rob- son's elevation to the Bcrich leaves vacant his seat in South fchieltX which consti- tuency he has represent *d in the Liberal interests since 18Hú. The polling at the General Election was an follows:— Sir W. Robson. (I.) £ ),0fl<) R. Vaughan WiJlia;ns (Cj 4,854 Liberal majority 4,236 Mr. Vaughan William# will I)c the Conservative candidate. Mr. Simon will be re- election at Walthamstow. The polling there at the General Election was as loilowt, — Mr. J. A. Simon (L) 17,72fj Mr. J. S. Johnson (C) 15.531. Liberal majority 2,1.95 Mr. Simon has represented the division since The promotion of Sir Isaacs does not create a vacancy for Reading, he having already held an "office of pront. under the Crown.

TWO MILE MAN HUNT. A thrilling man-hunt over I wo miles of country was desc>vbed at: on Fri- day, when Frederick Fisher, aged twenty, of the 101st Battery Royal Field Artillery, Woolwich, was sent to prison for one tnontn, and bis brother, Edward Jo1,b Fisher, aged tweuty-Lhree, for three months, for assault- ing the police. Frederick w«s accused also of The two men were arrested in the street on suspicion of being deserter#, but when wearing the station they made a dash for liberty. Several officers and a crowd gave chase. Police co nsi able N»ris caught the elder prisoner, who dealt the officer a terrific blow. The other man!: after fchoutirg Stand back!" struck the constable with a heavy cudgel. Both prisoners alraim made off. followed by a constable on a bicycle, and another iu a baker's cart. The prisoners led the police a merry dance for nearly two aiiler,, dashing through gar- dens and a disused ekalk quarry, up the pre- cipitous sides of which the runaways, police, and civilians scrambled. Prisoners then run through some private grounds where a party were playing tennis. The players dropped their rackets and joined in the hunt. Continuing the dash for liberty, five brothers then ran for over a mile along the London and South-Western Railway embank- ment, chased by the excited crowd. The younger prisoner, alter a severe struggle, wal arrested in a garden. The other niam ran on. but was overtaken on the main Aldershot road. He surrendered, remarking, All right. The game is up. I am finished. I have given yon a good TU. for your money."

SAVED FROM TBJ SEA. The members of the Institution of Muni- cipal Engineers held their atimial meeting at Eastbourwe at the Town Hall. In his inaugural addrjrtSf, A. E. Prescwtt urged the members to ig-ke a lead- ing' part in carrving out thi "Town Planning Act. d In the course of the proceeding* he ex- pressed disappointment at the fact that De- thing had been heavd of late coiicermng the Roval Commission on Ctiast Erosion. He considered that in small localities where the "Ifh wa* making imoads some Government aid should be foithcomin^. At Eastbourne, lie added, the groynes were at right angles to the shore and tfcs prevailing winds, and they had produced good results. Seven or eight years ago the sea continually washed over the carriage way on the 'Royal-parade, but now a bure bank. of shingle had been formed and the high-water mark had been thrust back to the extent of 12()ft. -40>

"1. shall certainly not waste the boy's money by putting it jnto- a business," said Judge Pwylvi, at Shoreditch County-court,, to a woman who applied for the pay merit of part of a sum swarded to ker son a* compensation for as accident.

MARRIED WOMAN MURDERED. Two tragedies in London came to light ext Monday, the one at Kensal Rise, where a mar- •vjd woman was found murdered, and the other ■~P the foreign quarter of Soho, where aifr Italian restaurant hand was found fataHy Stabbed. The Konaal Rise case occurred at a houmo In Earlsmead-road, where a barber* named Smith and his wife had lived. On Saturday corning the husband was seen to leave the bouse at half-past eight, and he haa not been. seen since. Later the landlord called as usual for the rent, but got no answer to Lia knock. On Monday he again failed to get an inswer. Mr. Jones, who lived in the upper flat, went to the back garden and loo; tiwvagh the kitchen window. He i. thought was the body of a vronVsv., ,'(,Twi(,<.ited with the landlord, Wj." q" 1 fame and the house 'vas entered i:r o hojv of Mrs. Harriet Litey Smith v/as ?ouna vi kitchen floor wiiii j" ,0a,1, the head being almost hcvc; A ul. d-stnined razor was a few i<. •" c >• »• v. Dr. Robertson, the i' > surgeon, who was I fc: -rl t gashes ;n the woman's throat. -scd thM opinion that they could no > Pell self- inflicted. The man Smith, who h i "o^ed for ten weeks past at a liaij v • » shop ill Harrow-road, left work .1 "n Friday afternoon. His conuiict la in every way satisfactory, tlu-re '.va • account for his absence. The i ft' lived very happily, though the <d was re- garded by neighbours as h accentrie^ The two were married in rt-u iiury or thie year. The police are searching for the missiejf husband. ITALIAN FATALLY STABBED. Throughout Monday police officers under Detective-Ins pec tor Fowler and Dctective-ser- geant Smith, of Vine-atreet, were engaged vainly searching the Italian colonies in Louden for au alleged murderer, lu a block of fiats between the Shaftesbury Theatre and the Hippodrome an Italian ;'i aid to have stabbed a fellow-country mar. to (telitil aud then sought safety in flight. The tragedy occurred at Newport buildings. Little Newport-street. W.C., where apartments were occupied by an Italian cook named Roec* arid his family, who had as lodgers two other Italians, FJdtirado Casteilo and Carlo' Glands Both the lodgerx were "iu[»lvoed in West-end restaurants, and occupied the same bedroom, Tbe disappears»ce of iiouie money led to llJ1 pleasantness between the couple, aad early on Monday morning Glauda, on re'timing home, requested the landlord to eject Castello, demand which was refused. Glauda then went to his bedroom, and after a quarrel with Ca. tello he hurriedly left the house. Soon after- wards Rocea heard groa»-», and found Castello on the floor of the bedroom stabbed in several places in the chest and abdomen. A doctor was seat for, but death took place before his arrival.

j 4STARVED TO DEATH. At an inquest on Monday on John Palmeif Mason, age was found dead in his room in Mahehestef-street, King's CroBS, a verdict wat4 returned that death was due te chronic starvation.. It was stated that the deceased, who was well educated, and had tallt himself Latin and Greek, fell out of work in June. Bernard Mason, who forced the door of deceased's room and found the body on the floor, said he met the deceased about a month ago, when he said he was very low down." He had no means, but was a very careful man," added the witnes,*?, and one who would prefer starvation to charity, especially poor- law relief." ''Extremely reserved," "very independent, and eccetifrie were characteristics attributed tc the deceased. j The medical evidence was that the man had been dea.d several days when found.

I CHOIR BOY BURGLARS. Before the R.igate Be-tela, -em S tu I three bove. 'Leslie Hawkins, Arthur Buck- land, it-inti George Hatch were charged with breaking and entering the Nuffield Rectory, the residence of the Rev. G. Hartwell Jones. Hawkins and Bnckland were- id embers of the Tillage choir, and Hatch had also been a chorister. The rector wafc attending a Royal Com- mission iu Wales, when the gardener dis- covered that the rectory had been broken into. The police +1, ht)", "lfl they admitted tkey had visited the rectory, aatl had helped themselves to biscuits, fruit-, and tobacco. The rector asked the Bench to deal leniently with the hoys, and said he regarded the affair as an escapade. He thought they had been Jed astray by reading the history of 10 notable pirates. The defendants were admonished, and bound over to he of good behaviour.

CUTTING A BEAR'S CLAWS. Charges oF cruelty under the Wild Ani- ntals in Captivity I'rofeetioM Aet, agairist George Henry Maun, -of lâwton-road, Crotich- end, who was accused of cruelty to a bear, were dismissed at Wood Green. Defendant waft fornherly keeper of the lalt at the Alexandra Palace nuenagerie, and it was stated that lie tioot the animal up aiii cut its claws with a mallet and ckisel. cruelty alleged wa* that in #ts instances h. cut n'ghi. into the se«sit-tve part awl causeii much "bleeding. The animal must have suffered great.. paiu, counsel, becaus# when the last claw had bee« eut Of it was found to be dead. Defendant #aid be had t'efo keey>«!' of the •niinals at Alexandra Palace, for 9 years, and itad neves had a ivmplaint of cruelty before. Other witnesses, including a rat- erinary surgeon and Lord Ceorgo Sanger, declared that the mallei and chisel method of cutting the clawa was the most effective. Defendant had invited iwo lady niemberg of the R.S.P.C.A. to witness the operation. The magistrates decided, that, if there ..e- an error of judgwienfc, rher-fe was no wanton stuelty. The decision was greeted with applause.

Death by .misadvehtHrs was the verdict in the case of William Hooper, aged forty-eight, retired sol icivor. Wesr Kalinj;. M'ho (114uti in the Great "Northern tfospitaj wbiU undergoihg ,,11- operation on a cawcerotw jrowtb in the throats Death was due to t.fce tpreakia c of the growth on the air pawaga ac^eletated by chloroform.