The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. The Queen has sent to tht" Orplian Working School and Alexindi-a Orphanage a gift of £ a to be expended in brightening the Christina.? celebrations. Military honours were accorded at the nine- ral of Miss Alice Woodham, of Emsworth, Hants, who was a member of the Red Gross Society of the Territorial Force. Having passed the night in woods at West Mailing, near Maidstone, two young prisoners, named" Crocker and Paton, who escaped from the Borstal Institution during a service in the chapel, were recaptured. The King has consented to becoma a patron of the Bath Club, at which several, members of his Majesty's family have been taught to j swim. | The "Petit Parisien" publishes a rumour that Italian troops have landed in Tripoli. The journal, however, considers such action im- probable.. j In the temporary absence of the magistrate's clerk at Kingston-on-Thames Police-court one of the Justices left his place on the Bench and undertook the d'.rk\s duties. j Two officers and the cook of a. British ship have lodged a complaint at Rouen of having been ill-treated by police, and the British Consul has been informed of the incident.. A bequest of '"her oilcloth in the hall of her residence "and all her door mats other than parlour door mats," with an annuity of £90, to her nephew, Henry Latham, apjvears in the will, just proved, of Miss Sarah Latham, of Edge-lane, Liverpool, who left estate of ■ £ 13,884. The Glasgow magistrates decided to present the freedom of the city to the Duke of Con- naught, who opens the Scottish Exhibition in Glasgow next May. j The French Government has thanked Hayling j lifeboat crew for their gallant rescue of the crew of the French barque Blanche, which was wrecked in the recent gale. Property worth £2,827 was left by Mr. Charles Phillips, who died at the Rowton Hous-s in Yauxhall, where. he had lived for several years, spending about 4d. daily on food. The paper mills of Messrs. Cooke and Nuttall, of Biaekrod, Lancashire, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at t]O.,Oofj. Over 200 persons are throv n out of employment. Guy's Hospital was fined 10s, and 2a, costs at Tower Bridge Police-court for having used armorial bearings without a license. The arms j were used on muses' certificates. Mr. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, j has arrived at h;8 brother's villa at Cannes. He is fast recovering from the effects of the opera- tion which he recently underwent for appen- dicitis. I During a boxing match at Liverpool between Jim Holland, of Liverpool, and Dick Knock, of London, the former was rendered unconscious by a blow and had to be removed to hospital. I Pianos in course of manufacture were burned and damage estimated at £ 12,000 was caused by a tire at a pianoforte factory in Northampton- street, Islington, belonging to Messrs. Dane- I mann and Co. A mutiny occurred at Brest oil board the I British steamer Thornaby. All the stokers and I engine-room hands refused to work. Three men j have been imprisoned for using threatening language. I A conspiracy against the Government of Buk- j hara, Central Asia, has been discovered, and in J a house-to-house search quantities of arms and ) ammunition have been seiz-ed. j Mr. William R. Travers, vice-president and general manager of th-e Farmers' Bank of Canada, which has suspended payment, has been arrested on a charge of making false re- < turns of the bank's finances. j The District and City and Sonth London j Railways will not require deposits on the issue of season tickets on andafLer January 1. This will not apply on the I)istr;ct Railway do- tickets available at London and South-Western [ stations. j From January 1 the salary of the chief con- | stable of Brighton, Mr. W. B. Gentle, is to be I increased by X50 to £ 650, with a further in- j crease of tlie same sum on January 1, 1912. The pension will be calculated on the basis of his present salary. j A great influx of English tourists to the boli- | r day resorts on Lake Geneva and in the Bernese j Cherland has begun. The hotels axe full. The j weather is fine and clear, and winter sports are J in full swing everywhere on the higher level*. I Twenty thousand men, women, and lads who i migrated from Donegal and Connanght last j year for the Scottish and English hay, corn, and j potato harvests saved out of a wage of from 2s. j to 4s. a day no less than X225,000, folly 410 I i head, says a Government report. j Noah Woolf, fifty-eight, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Andrew Simon, an inmai-e of the Home for Aged Christian Ilebre. s in Holloway-road, was executed at Pentonvilie I Prison. By taking tiles off the roof and making a hole through the ceiling a burglar robbed a I jeweller at Coventry of wortn Oi article- A seaman named Harry Oraz!e«*. charged with j the ti'iei'i, was committed for trial. [ A large number of Belfast police raided an > illicit distillery in the Ba!lymacarrett district ( and made a seizure which included a still, j worm, and other apparatus iu full working j order, and 324 gallons of whisky. I The constitution of the eonmnttee of Lloyd's j Register of Briti-h and foreign whipping is to be j altered, so as to provide for the direct represent*- tion of shipbuilders and enpnenrs en that bod, as I as of underwriters, and merchants ) as at prepent I The Duke and Duchess of Oomianjht and Princess Patricia arrived at La, Pal mas (Canary Islands) in splendid weather. An im- men-ie crowd gathered'. All the principal buildings were decorated. The ingredients of the Christmas dinner, savs the "Lancet," are in general of tb wholesome kind, and though there may be some increased demand upon the digestive organs, the elioerfulness of the occasion lightens this burden. Cash amoiiiitiiisr to £ 229 ami bank-notes, cheques, and postal orders worth 265 were stolen from Messrs. Oakesix-vfs, grocers aud I wine merchants, of Sloace-street, London, I whose premises are also used as a post office. ? Furs worth £ 50 have been stolen from the National Fur Company. Brompton-road, by a man | who took three fur coats to hi« temporary Sodg- ings to show his wife," and sent the porter who ) carried them hack for a fourth ecc.t. By the time the porter returned, the man—aud the three coats —had gone. I Floods in the Lincolnshire fens extended for miles, owing chiefly to the grer.t breach in the bank of the River Glen. At Cherisey Lock, on < the Thames, there' was twelve feet of water, i against a summer level of about. gix feet, and great tracts of land was still, flooded.

OUR LONDON LEiii-X U rt!.p n LL 1 j [From Our Special Correspondent.] The deep interest which the Queen takes In home industries is well-known, and her Majesty has given another indication of it in connection with the gowns she .will wear for the opening of Parliament, the Corona- tion, and the various Courts to be held during the coming year. These are all to be made in London, and the makers have re- ceived strict instructions that only British materials are to be used. All the work;, even to the embroideries, is to be done by British hands, and her Majesty has expressed a wish that all peeresses and other ladies appearing at the State ceremonies should follow her example, and so encourage home industries. I Numbers of people who have recently been taking politics very seriously indeed have found a good deal of amusement in Mr. Peiissier's treatment of vital Constitutional questions in his new revue at the Arharabra. He shows the Veto Bill being kicked back- wards and forwards between the two Houses of Parliament, and he autocratically decrees the end of party Government. Like Mr. Botfcomley, he is all for a "business Govern- ment." And* this is his new ,ir. Harry Lauder—Fir.vt Lord o' 8c;>' d; Sir Thomas Lipton-Home and Colon -,ui Secre- tary General Booth—War Secrelery; Mrs. and Miss Pankhurst—Home Rule; Secretary for India—Mr. Keir Hardie; Secretary ior the Education of the World—Mr. Ito( sevelt; First Lord of the Admiralty—The Kaiser; G eiieral Johii Bull. It is rumoured that there are to be some changes shortly in the real Cabinet; perhaps Mr. Asquith will take a hint or two from Mr. Pelissier. A rue-street is the new name the West- minster City Council recommend should be given to Charles-street, Long-acre, one of the five streets of the same jiame in Vv cai- rn inster. Dr. Augustine Arne was a famous musician in his day, and a contemporary of Handel, Hundreds of thousands of people have sung, shouted, and whistled his mutic who have never heard of him; for he was the composer of "Rule, Britannia," an air which Wagner considered typically British, and admired for its vigour and Handel must also have thought a good deal of it, for the "grand old robber" ieHtried the opening bars in his "Occasional Ora- torio," produced about a year after an opera of Arne's, in which "Rule, Britannia" was sung. Arne was born in King-street, Covent Garden, in 1710. He and Garrick were very good friends, and one day the musician invited the actor to his house to hear Miss Brent, a singer whom he had trained. Garrick agreed that the lady could sing, but said rather contemptuously, "You must remember that music is at best but pickle to my roa,st beef." "Well then, Davy," said the Doctor, "your beef shall be well pickled before you have done." Miss Brent made her appearance in the "'Beggans' Opera" at Covent Garden, and was such a success that Drury Lane had very poor houses, except on those nights when Garrick himself was play- ing. He was compelled to introduce operas to compete with the rival theatre. The dastardly outrage in the East End, which involved the deaths of three police- officers and the wounding of two others, has raided a. discussion upon the advisability of providing the police with firearms. People are writing to the papers and making seeches insisting that because these mur- ders have been committed in the East End of London, therefore the country should follow the example of other countries- and have an armed police force. That, however, would be going to the other extreme. There are evils attendant upon an armed police which nobody would desire to see introduced into this country, and which need not now -be dwelt upon. Everybody, however, will agree that in districts like Houndsditch, which have an evil reputation and are dangerous in the hours of darkness, the police on night duty, or at least on special service, might be given the extra protection which the possession of firearms would confer. It would be dangerous to go beyond that. This has been a disastrous season for turkeys. The mild and damp weather has proved their undoing, and thirty • thousand birds which were to have been offered up as roast sacrifices to the spirit of Christmas have gone. to an ignoble end, destroyed by the sanitary officials. It is consoling to our patriotism that the turkeys condemned were not of the British variety, but came over the seas, the greater number of them from Italy. Somebody has to stand a pretty con- siderable financial loss, but the buyers on this side are not hit so badiy as a r ood many people think. When arranging Cor a cargo of turkeys to be sent over, it is the practice to guarantee the sellers about two- pence-halfpenny in the pound, which is suffi- cient to pay the cost of packing, freightage, and so on. If the birds are in good condi- tion on arrival the full price is paid, but if not, as in this case, the greater part of the ioss is borne by the consignors. A remarkable demonstration of muscle manipulation was' given the other afternoon at the Hotel Cecil before a number of emi- nent medical men. The demonstrator is an Austrian Pole, named Nordini, who has given years to physical culture and the study of 'will power over physical action. He claims- to be able to control physical action by an act of will. To some extent he does so, making, for instance, the muscles of the upper arm rigid, while the lower arm remains relaxed. His efforts, however, 'to atop the action of the pulse and of the neart were scarcely so successful. In the endeavour Nordini made a powerful mus- cular effort, largely expanding the client. I Observation, however, shewed that. the heart, although very dull, beat con- f tinuousljr. Dr. Ewart, of forge's Hospital, explained that it was very possible that physicians who had made previ.ou» examination had been deceived as to Its action. Another extraordina.ry performance was to place himself face down- wards, clad in a leather helmet and suit, in a lairge box of sand, while something like a ton of sand was emptied over him. In this condition, practically buried alive, he re- mained for 8| minutes, 10 £ minutes having 4 71 elapsed from the time the helmet was put ŒL The remarkable part of this feat was that Nordini continued by abdominal mus- cular contraction to use over and over again the air he had previously inhaled. The sa,nd rose and fell with his breathing. It was a. most interesting exhibition. A. E. M. _1j-

SENTENCE CM ENGLISH SPIES. Sentences of four years' detention in a for- tress were on Thursday passed on Captain Trench and Lieutenant Brandon, the British officers charged with espionage in Germany. The Imperial Court at Leipzig was Crowded. Both afboers were in excellent spirits, and exhibited the self-possession which characterised their a.ttitude through- out the trial. The public and the Press were excluded while the court, considered the application of Mr. Oliver (the British Vice-Consul at Ham- burg) and Justizrat hchneider (who appeared OIl behalf of the British Embassy) to be present during the secret part of the pro- ceedings. On the public being readmitted to th<t court the speech for the prosecution was commenced. It was urged that the case was one of genuine spying, by which the safety of the G-ei'inan. JNoeth Sea had been seriously imperilled. Tke ace oiiiceis, under the guise' of olear" e takers, had made investigations, n <- u > > for the beiteiifc of the 1 a/v ""ft in the opinion of the j > ib.;y acting in the interests of the < h)t"lH. Service. This was J • by I that the Marine Baedeker IT J I I L information, and the natHal u« i#i i v -» that this book would nit t « iii the bauds of the -> )L\\1 they fiut. been engaged on ink!I 1 l." was pointed out i' > Uv for. the offence was :M:cu 'f/ '-onmeat, ;¡ tb., a,sk(--d ibe i t to eontoace both ti, sis. j ears' r .tion. tir. von Gordon, in his s,v-s 1 de- fence, urged th't the !>)l;xns had not com- pleted their oS'eriee, tlie-i tetiscd So 'sir vei diet, • which < 1 ri ■daWx! f in-; period of detDt1 t; '.roadv PT ID > ha lreluded in the s- e. --2h-

THRILLING rrnE rS. Twelve persons- women arid five men-,ha.d very irseabes from death at a burning? 1);: et 156, \vu;«<.cKa) el- roau, London. 1 ,rsl out r: early hours on the gr .n;i of ihe es, Wlrch were joiulv /ec by an eno ineer named i' u and a y na ".1 Plater Ten of the twelv.ho were asleep in the plaee ™ v of "Firc!" re- sounded thro v s i to the back windows. n vu > mildings, and thence to th- Two women. overlook-d, made their way to i front windows, and shrieked for a o I 'H- crowd .shouted, "Don't jump! I •" i c coming!" and just. in the r .< roi1 tlve horsed escape from the <" t lSast Sta- tion dashed up. ri he ..v vn got it into position against the b l Inutc^ng, and, amidst the cheers of t brought both the telTiHed w;l .v to the ground. The fire was not ex+h-gnisbefl until the premises had been practically de&t-royed.

A MEAN AND €0MSI0N ACTION, j It was stated at an ii ,T 4 011 Lilian Gertrude Johnson, daughter of a lighterman, who wr. ,:e«-i dentally knocked down by a that after the accident the two pass-. ,■>, >-1 s* to be a lady and a gentleman, failed to give assistance, but w&S.ked ¡¡.;vay without l>aving their fares. Mr. Coroner Trovifh-ock characterised their action as "very xacan, but iiitfortu- nately not very uncommon. When the accident occurred the taxi-cab j came from behind a van in Duke-street, Stamford-street, and was conveying the two passengers from Waterloo to Liverpool- street station. The jury returned a. verdict of "Acei- dental death."

EPIDEMIC OF ACCIDENTS. A number of serious accident cases were admitted to the Glasgow Royal and West-ern Infirmaries within two hour-, on Thursday. James Moore, a contractor, was stemming a shot in No. 1 Colliery, Newton, Lanarkshire, when it exploded, and he was terribly in- jured, part of his face being blown away. John Kilfeather, in the C-aat-lecary fireclay works, Stirlingshire, used a brick as a brake for waggons, when the brick broke, and he was fearfully crushed between the waggons and the wall. George Calegan, Partick, fell down the fcold of a vessel in Meadowside shipyard; a,iid was badly injured; and Patrick Coyne, ai bricklayer, was working at the Manse at Temple village, when the wall fell, and seriously injured him.

The Do oh ess of Marlborough visited the West Jja.i and the London Hospitals, and distributed gifts to 2o0 children. it; ts gnawing at some boxes of matches ea.nHed- a lire which did damage to the extent- of iiSOO at a Yarmouth grocer's shop. Representatives of the fcwenty-sjx City VVards has been elected to the Court of CoirnnoB. j eii for the enduing year. Mere "4 etiildren of the Dorking (Surrev) r.tarv s- h have this year gained eeitiii- ei; pj-'o/icieney in swimming. The funeral took place at Stonylrarst, near Preston, "fthe IVw. Josgph Walton, yoiaigest son of Mr. Justice Walton. i

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FIVE SHOTS AT POLICEMAN "e-> A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Another shooting' outrage in which an alleged burglar is stated to have tired five shots at policeman was reported in London on Monday, the scene of the affair being in the Borough. Fortunately no one was injured. At one o'clock on Monday morning Policd* constable George Baytrea.d was on duty in Great Bland-street, heard a whistle, and saw » diUl da|t out of a street erection, and make vjI as if pursued. The constable gave chase, but had not günø far, when, it is alleged, the man turned and fired a revolver at him, but luckily missed him. The constable maintained the pursuit, and gradually gained upon the man, who again turned and" fired, with no better aim. Two more shots were lired without harm being done, and the officer succeeded, in securing the mart by the coat and right wrist. "'The constable,, who had been shouting' for help, was now joined by a. plucky woman, Frances Wright, Great Bland-street, who got the policeman "e whistle, and rendered valuable assistance by striking the armed man in th face. The story vim told at Tower Bridge Police- court on Monday, when Charles Artniir (31), labourer, was charged with attempting to bur- glariously- enter the Virginia. Plant public- house, Great Dover-street, Borough, and further with attempting to murder the officer, and also with being in the unlawful posses- sion of hoime-breaking implements. IJoliee-eonstahlc Baytiead said Arthur struggled very violently when caught, aud managed to free his right- hand. "He pressed the muzzle of the revolver against my forehead and pulled the trigger," witness went 011. "There vvas a click, but no shot, as the revolver had. got -jammed. "The woman was still blowing my whistle, and a bine jacket then came up and helped to hold the man. Further assistance was ob- tained, and the man was overpowered and taken to the police station." Plowden: You seem to have had a most miraculous escape. I do not suppose anyone in the world has been fired at five times before and not been hit. Detective Cronk said the revolver was found in the street. It was a >nx-ebam)>ered ore. Four chambers had been discharged, and the fifth bullet had become jammed. Prisoner was remanded.

MINER'S DEATH PROPHECY. INQUEST ON COtLIEKY VICTIMS. Important evidence respecting the Hulton mine disaster was given at the resumed in- quest on Tuesday. One man said his son had gone home three mornings out of s 'r because of gas in the mine. Another witness, William Mason, said his son had complained many timen. The Coroner What has he said? Witness: He said they would all be blown rl), tnd it wollid I)Fc! a, "do" than the Mavpole disaster, Amos Ratcliffe said. Iii,5 son returned home1 on four mornings before the explosion because of gas. The widow of William Dawson said her hus- band had told her he was afraid to close liitf- eyes in case he should not .open them again. Another witness said his father went home fivo mornings in one week. In tire majority of cases, however, there appeared to have been aff complaint. Only a few of the bo'lic- now remain to lie brought up. In 253 <r e- identification biiit been established Tlio-e sciw<vining unidenti- fied are to be buried in a common grave in West Houghton Churchyard, and over the grave a monument is to be.erected. Latest contributions to the Mayor of fund for the relief of the victims' relatives in- clude £ 300 from Air, David Davies, M.P., and £ 105 from Sir Alfred Mond, M-P. The New Zealand Government {says Renter) has cabled £ ,00; The fund now totals £ 12,224-. About 50 victims of the disaster were in- terred on Tuesday in ihusv Hill and West- iioughton districts. H< *i >»» were buay from morning to night, and at intervals pro- Cessions of mourners followed the dead to the grave. Worlc suspended, shops- were closed, and all blinds were drawn. The sight of the fatherless children greatly affected the ouiobkers, and unutterably sad scenes wcre wittuessed.

WHOLESALE LOTTERY FRAUD. On a charge of selling tickets in a boguS" foreign lottery, Samuel Gobi-tern, a Russian, nineteen years old, was sentenced on Tuesday at the MarlV,t1'("t-fdl'.ce,t (m:t h, six months' hard labour, 1 by deport:;tion. It was said 1 there were u. > fewer than 200 cases aiid the fraud w< 8H() numeron* that advertise- ments had bt ted in H1> "Jewish Ex- press and the "Jewish Journal cautioning' the public. To induce people—chiefly tradesmen—to buy the tickets, he mentioned that one man had After his arrest he tried to bribe 1 Miierpreler and the police- c(,iistabl On Tuesdaj V* • '•cited that he had the lot- tery ticket bo< rint-ed, and said, "I was put, LLI) to this The magistrate described him as a. dcli1>er» ate and clever ]t r, who probablv came to this country 1 e he could find more people to swindle here than oil the Continent,"

DUG HIS OWN GRAVE. A telegram from Balling reports a fatal acci- dent of an extraordinary qbaraeWr that oe- curred at a place named Bonnicor.laii. A man named Patrick Greavy, forty years er age, went out with the intentien of burying a larg,e rock, which occupied a fe-w feet of his land. He did not return iit Ili,; usual hour, and his family went out to look for him. Thev dis- covered that the rock bad on hiIn and buried him in the hole wMeh he had made for the boulder. lie had actually dug his own grave, and some hours afterwards his mangled corpse was removed to bis home. Greavy leave,- a, wife and a family of four.

T'.n Loudon General Onmibn#> Company avn •decided to institute halfpenny on tu, rentes between H-arle'-deu .-Mi; rtJe-ro-ad., Mrs. Rene r\"kers, daughter of Mr. Davis.-n Da -'w Brixton,, died at-iici? parents' rosidciicc Lirosvenor-place.