The Tenby Observer Weekly List of Visitors and Directory

Dean Burgon tells some fine stories of Oxford I life in his article on Provost Hawkins in the current Quarterly. For example, the Davison who wrote Davison on the Prophecy once came to Hawkins and cried, "I am a ruined man they have made me serve as Junior Treasurer. I know nothing of accounts, and am certain to make mistakes." Hawkins told him to put everything down and there would be no mistake. A year elapses. Davison again rushed to Hawkins. I told you so. I am a ruined man. My accounts are wrong by hundreds." "Let me see them," said Hawkins. He toted up the figures. "Added perfectly cor- rectly," he drily remarked, as Davison turned pale, "but you had no occasion to add in the date of the year." Whateley once talked at length to a rustic parson at dinner'. The parson thanked him for the pains lie had taken to instruct him. Not at all," said Whateley, "it's a very pleasant thing to have an anvil to beat out one's thoughts upon." Dean Biirgon has also some memories of the time when Oriel was in great contempt, "Why, those fellows drink tea Newman succeeded Whateley in his rooms at Oriel; and he found one of Whateley's herrings tied to a string at the window. Whateley used to have a herring every day for breakfast. As the days grow shorter the attendance at the Fisheries Exhibition grows larger. On Saturday it reached for an ordinary day a maximum of close upon 34,000 persons, and made a total of 94,664 for the week. Since the opening day the exhibition z, has been visited by 2,079,714 persons. The famous sixpenny fish dinner is as popular as ever, and the rush to the wicket, if anything, increases with the cold weather. As the leaves fall the Cockney's appetite rises; indeed a large number of people who are sufficiently endowed with the world's goods to know better, pay a shilling in order to lunch for sixpence. To obtain meat, lodging, and amusement for twelve hours for the sum of eighteenpence is a consideration for people who are not so well en- dowed, and therefore there has been daily a good deal of growling amongst those who have been crowded out from their mid-day meal by the fashionable lunchers. The marriage of the Lady Lucy Vaughan, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Lisburne and Mr Martin A. Silber, took place at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, on Wed- nesday. The bridegroom was attended by Mr Edmund Buckley as best man, and the bride by Lady Constance Vauglian (her sister), Miss Eugenie Silber (sister of the bridegroom), and five other bridesmaids. The bride wore a dress of white Ottoman silk and white satin petticoat, trimmed I. with lace and orange blossoms, and her tulle veil was fastened with diamonds. The bridesmaids were dressed alike in biscuit nun's veiling trimmed with crimson velvet, with hats to match, and each wore a gold horseshoe brooch set with pearls, with the initials of the bride and bridegroom in pearls and corals, the gift of the latter, who also gave them each a bouquet of roses. After the marriage ceremony, the Earl and Countess of Lisburne received the wedding party, upwards of seventy relations and friends, at Claridge's Hotel, for breakfast. About three o'clock the newly-married pair left for Folkestone, en route for Paris and the South of France. ——— The difficulty of obtaining a cab on the nights of big performances at theatres is well known to everyone. Even when ordered beforehand Cabby camiot always be depended on, especially if lie sees his way to an extra shilling from someone else. So disgusted is Mrs. Langtry with the treachery of cabmen that she has gone to a very large expense in obtaining a cab of her own. She has ordered a "Genuine Royal Hansom," furnished with all the latest improvements. It is to be shipped to the United States, where Mrs. Langtry intends using it throughout her professional tour. She will bring it back to this country, and the vehicle, with horse and driver, will travel with her to the different towns at which she may be playing. The author of Boycotting has been hoist with his own petard." The Land Reform Union having arranged a meeting for the 30th of October, invited Mr Michael Davitt to deliver a lecture on the occasion, Mr Davitt, nothing loth, acceded to the request made to him, and the promoters of the meeting forthwith drew up an elaborate bill, which they sent in some thousands to Mr Willing, the lessee of advertising hoardings in the Metropolis. They never doubted that the order to post the placards would be complied with, but it would seem that Mr Willing keeps an editor, and that the propaganda of the Land Reform Union is not favourably entertained by that gentleman. The bills were returned with an intimation that they could not be posted by that firm. The promoters of the meeting are getting disgusted, and talk of a civil action for damages against Mr Willing. It will, therefore, be interesting to watch the grounds on which an action for damages can be brought in a case like this. Should the meeting be a failure, 9 and result in pecuniary loss to those who originated it, and it can be shown that this was due to the fact that the affair was not sufficiently advertised, the promoters might have a claim against the advertising contractor. But this is by no means certain as "bill stickers do not, I believe, come within the provisions of the Public Companies Acts, or of those which regulate public carriers or breaches of contract. Although the lately published prophecy about impending Ministerial changes was little better than pure guesswork, it is the fact, I believe, that the Government will undergo considerable meta- morphosis in its personnel before next session. The retirement of Lord Selborne and his replacement by Lord Coleridge may be regarded as an accomplished fact. But Mr Courtney will certainly have to wait for Cabinet rank until that honour has fallen to Lord Rosebery. ——- "A safe and certain cure for wrinkles." This was the novelty displayed at a sale of work last week at a school in aid of the Children's Hospital, Sheffield. A selection of testimonials" were exhibited in support of the remedy. The purchaser was forbidden to open his packet till he got home, when he found he had become the happy possessor of a pair of garters, these being a cure for wrinkles (in stockings !). The burlesque testi- monials are really very funny, and profess to be given by Prince Leopold, Mr Gladstone, Mr Mundella, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, a well- known local editor, an equally well-known local alderman, the borough analyst, the Vicar of St. Matthew's, Dr. Sorby, the Rev. W. H. Dalliuger, and others.

SPECIAL AUTUMN SHOW. W. G. TURL, LONDON HOUSE, TENBY, Is now showing NEW GOODS in all Departments. FUR-LINED CLOAKS AND FUR CAPES, MANTLES, ULSTERS, MACKINTOSHES, 0iliB0S1 AND FANCY GOODS. The Latest Novelties of the Season at very Low Prices. A visit of Inspection is respectfully requested. W. G. TURL, LONDON HOUSE, TENBY.

DYNAMITE PLOT IN CANADA. The greatest excitement prevails throughout Quebec and the adjoining provinces owing to the startling announcement that the Canadian detec- tives have an unmistakeable clue to a dynamite plot to murder Lord Lansdowne upon his arrival. Immediately the fact was on Monday communi- cated to the Marquis of Lome, the Premier (Sir John Macdonald), and to the Hon. D. L. Macpherson, the newly -appointed Minister of the Interior, urgent summonses were sent out for a Cabinet Council, which met on Monday. An anxious discussion was held as to how to prevent the design which was known to be formed. All proceedings are, of course, veiled in the greatest secrecy, but there are indications that Ministers have far more than a merely vague hint of the danger. Though no names have transpired as yet in connection with the outrage, it is expected that numerous arrests will very soon be made..

DISTURBANCE IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. During the evening service in St. Paul's on Sun- day, and while the sermon was being preached by the Rev. W. C. Ingram, vicar of St. Matthew's, Leicester, a man in the congregation caused con- siderable disturbance by shouting and gesticulating wildly. He was at once seized by the police on duty, and conveyed to the police-station, eight constables being required for this duty owing to the violent resistance he offered. The preacher mean- while continued his sermon, thus averting any further excitement. The offender, when charged at the police-station, gave his name as Herbert P. E. Freund, but refused to give his address.

FRAUDS BY A BOROUGH ACCOUNTANT. On Saturday afternoon there was a special meeting of the town council of Wolverhampton, to determine upon the course to be taken with John Bryan, borough accountant, and assistant borough treasurer. An examination of Bryan's accounts back to 1879 had shown a deficiency of £1,300, and Bryan admitted the accuracy of the statement. An examination of his accounts prior to 1879 is being conducted, and some further deficiences have, it is alleged, been already traced. On Friday afternoon the general purposes committee of the corporation had resolved to discharge Bryan, who is 40 years of age, and has a salary of £ 350 per annum and they also determined, subject to the decision of the council, to prosecute him. On Saturday forenoon all the preliminaries to a prosecution, even to* the arranging with the stipendiary magistrate to attend the same night and remand Bryan were taken. When, however, the council met, it transpired that £ 1000 -sureties would be forthcoming, and that the costs of the prosecution would probably be more than the difference besween the sureties and the proved defalcations. The mayor, with the chairman of the finance committee, and other aldermen and coun- cillors, recommended that there should be no prosecution, leaving the punishment to be confined to dismissal. A minority charged the majority, who held this view, with compounding a felony, but a motion in favour of no prosecution was carried by 27 to 0, and three neutrals.

THU DUKE OF ARGYLL ON THE DELUGE. The Duke of Argyll delivered a lecture recently at Glasgow on "Geology and the Deluge." He said the common practice was to suppose that there had been a deluge, and then to ask for proofs. He would not theorise, but deal with geological facts. Till about twenty years ago he had been rather in doubt whether a deluge had really occurred. The fact that old sea levels could be clearly traced in the British Isles afforded no proof of a deluge. By the deluge was meant a sudden and transitory submer- gence of land, not such a permanent submergence as would lead to the sea forming a bed. He thought, however, that the huge boulders found on high Scotch mountains, the rocks and strata of which were entirely different, could only have been brought by immense glaciers, such as at present existed in the Arctic regions. In his opinion, the period which these boulders indicated was coinci- dent and connected with the deluge period. Again, the heaps of gravel found upon Snowdon, which was not a volcanic mountain, indicated that transi- tory and tumultuous waters had covered those heights. The first action of water was the washing away of fine earth, and the depositing of gravel. Similar masses of gravel were found at Macclesfield, and, indeed, all over the country. They were found at such a height above sea-level that the water at that height would have covered almost the whole of Europe. The duke expressed an opinion that there was a great submergence of land to the depth of at least 2,000 feet in Scotland, and that this catas- trophe was coincident with what was known as the deluge.

A fire has -broken out in Wardley Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The pit cannot be worked, and 600 men are thus thrown

I TELEGRAPH FRAUDS AT MANCHESTER. At Manchester, on Thursday, two men, named Hulme and Brittain, and two telegraph clerks, named Lamb and Garside, were charged on remand with offences under the Telegraph Act. The two first-named prisoners were members of a betting club, and engaged on the staff of a Manchester newspaper, which had a private wire to the tele- graph office. They entered into a conspiracy with the telegraph clerks, and were supplied with the names of winning racehorses while the public messages were delayed. Hulme and Brittain then backed the winning horses at the betting club, and the proceeds were divided. This practice has been carried on since July, and the conspirators had backed two or three winners every day. At last suspicion was aroused, the private wire tapped a message intercepted from" Toby" to "Judy," and the whole conspiracy discovered. Hulme and the two telegraph clerks pleaded guilty, and they were all committed for trial.

It is said that Dr. Benson will attempt a measure of legislation next year. As Primate he will intro- duce into the House of Lords a bill suspending those suspensions from operation and depriving those deprivations of force which Lord Penzonce has sent out againit the Ritualists. Thus ends, then, the struggle of a few clergy against the law. Law is beaten. The clergy have conquered.

LIST OF VISITORS. [Visitors are requested to leave their Navies at MASON'S LIBRARY, for insertion in this List.11 Ackland, Miss, London 19 Norton Avscough-Suiith, Rev. T., Mrs and Miss, Tenbury 2 Belmont Brooks, Mrs H. S. and child, Romford, Essex 36 Victoria street Broughten, Mr and Miss, St Clement's, Worcester 2 Castle square Broughten, Rev J K, St. Clement's, Worcester 2 Castle square Corbett, Mr and Mrs J, Black Alder .Falmouth house Cooke, Miss — 6 Esplanade Collins, Mrs Hutcheson and the Misses, Cubberk-y, near Ross] Herefordshire 3 Rock terrace Collis, Mrs, Stourbridge 2 Esplanade Dewing, Captain, R.E., Clifton 1 Gumoit Dalton, H W Esq and Mrs, Sydenham Worcester house Docking, Mr, Breinton, Herefordshire Stretton house Desborougli, Miss Agnes, Oxford 4 Rock terrace Drummond, Miss A 2 Belmont Dewin", Miss 1 St Catherine's terrace Dii>pie" Mr and Mrs, The Firs, Finchley, Middlesex Royal Gate House hotel Edwards, Sir M.. Bart., and Lady, London.The Baths Eades, Mr and Mrs, The Abbey, Evesham Cambrian houes Ellison, Miss, Cheltenham 2 Rock houses Evton the Misses, Walford Manor, near Shrewsbury J 3 Rock houses Gordon, Mrs and party, London 6 St Julian terracf- Goldingham. Miss B, Worcester Croft lodge Griffin, Miss, Uplands, near Wolverhampton Warren house Holt, the Misses, Liverpool. 7 Esplanade- Hughes, Mr and Mrs G Bilsborrow, London 6 Esplanade Holcombe, Miss A. E., Liverpool Beaufort house Holloway, Miss Edith, Stroud 19 Victoria street Hughes, Mr E W, Rhayader Campbell house Hughes, the Misses A and S M, Rhayader Campbell house Harrison, T. Ashton, Esq, Mrs and family, Thomson Cross, Stalybridge 35 Victoria street Harrison, Mrs C. R. 1 Belmont Harrison, Mr S. L. 1 Belmont Haynes, Mrs, Malvern Cumberland house James, Chas. Herbert, Esq, M.P., Mrs and Miss, Merthyr Tydfil 1 St Catherine's terrace King, Mr and Mrs, Hereford 2 Esplanade Lendrum, Mr and Mrs J. H. White Lion hotel Lashbrooke, Miss, London Charlton house Lewis, Mr and Mrs James, Streatham.Charlton house Lloyd, Mrs J. D., Court Henry, Carmarthenshire 8 Norton Lawrence, Mr and Mrs, Herefordshire 2 Esplanade Meyrick, Miss, Underdown, Pembroke 1 St Julian terrace Maden, Mr and Mrs Clough, Heywood, near Manchester London house Morris, Miss, Elmsdale, near Wolverhampton Warren house Maund, Mrs, Southampton Cumberland house Owen, Mrs and Miss, Withybush St Agatha's house Phelps, Miss, Swansea Newport house Phipps, Colonel, Mrs and family, St Giles' 1 Stanley place Parkin. Miss C M, Beckenham 1 Gunfort terrace Price, Mrs, Castle Piggin Milford house Price, Miss C, Lampeter Milford house Pardd, Mrs G. O. and family 3 St Julian terrace Stephens, Mrs and Miss, Rhayader Campbell house- Smith, Mrs Rutherford, Oxford 4 Rock terrace Squire, Mrs-and Miss 1 Glendower Shaw, Dr. and Mrs J. A., Egypt Old rectory Storehouse, Mrs, Newport, Mon 2 Bellevue Summers, Mrs Bowen 1 Kent houses •- Saunders, Mrs, Court Henry, Carmarthenshire & Notion Seacome, Rev. A. H., Mrs and family, Hay 2 St Julian terrace I Thomas, Mrs an Miss, Church Down, Gloucestershire I; Bellevue house Tarboltoo, Mrs J M and family, Harborne. near Bir- mingham S St Julian terrace