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LOCAL AND OTHER NOTES. In the interests of the town, no less than of the Ro"al National Life boat Institution, it is desi- rable that a s arching inquiry should be held by the Local Committee into the causes that led to the failure of the life boat being launched on Sunday night last. It is deplorable that at any time when the services of the boat are required, anything even in the way of a hitch occurs in launching; but it is nothing less than a calamity that a scene such as occurred on the evening of Sunday should be possible. Here we have every possible appliance provided to make the launching successful, and yet total failure was the result. If the system under which the boat is controlled is found to be defective, let it be reformed; on the other hand, if as many suppose, the boat-house is not situated in the best position to ensure suc- cessful launching during the storms that most prevail on our shores, then without delay m"ans should be adopted to remedy this defect. The Society is rich, they spare no expense in providing everything requisite to ensure the noble objects they have in view being successfully carried out, and all they expect in return is that the work shall be well done. If local aid is needed to assist the Parent Society, I cannot believe the wealthy people of Tenby will refuse to contribute towards the cost of budding a house in such a position that failure to render help when help is needed would be an impossibility. I am not much of a sailor, but it struck me forcibly that there were too many masters, or rather no master at all, superintending the launch- ing of the boat; and I heard many inquiries as to why the rope provided for the purpose of hauling the boat through the surf was not attached to the boat at the proper time, that is before she was launched from the carriage. The neglect of this duty I believe to be the cause of the disaster which followed. Perhaps the addition of a few gentlemen who understand such matters on the committee would prove effective 3k Thanks to the Board ot Trade another means of rescue was at hand The rocket cart, containing the apparatus for saving life- from shipwreck, was speedily on its way to Lydstep Haven; for it must not be forgotten that for aught Tenby men knew, the vessel might have been upon the rocks at Lydstep at the same moment the frantic efforts %vere being made to get the life-boat afloat. Ar- rived on the spot, and observing the peril of the ship, the Rocket Brigade remained on duty all night, and during the early hours of Monday morning they had the satisfaction of rescuing seven of their fellow-creatures. It was a pleasure to ob- serve the perfect order maintained in the departure of the Brigade from the town, and to contrast it witl the undisciplined throng upon the South Beach » The question of lighting the town all the year round was again before the Town Council at their last meeting, but nothing definite was decided upon. Since the Council meeting the Com- mittee have met the representatives of the Gas Company, and the outcome of the consultation is that the Company refuse to light every night for the sum now paid, taking into consideration that in future they should commence to light the lamps half-an-hour later than at present It has now been decided to recommend that the lamps be extinguished at one o'clock, and by this means have the lamps lighted irrespective of moonlit nights. I feel sure it will be a source of interest to many of my readers to hear that Mr George Stone has been engaged by the management of the Gaiety Thea're in London for Mr David James's great part of Blueskin in the comic burletta "Jack Sheppard" He opens in London, and afterwards at Manchester, with a company on tour. The genuine success achieved by Mr Stone at Cardiff during the pantomime season attracted attention on the part of newspapers devoted to the in- terests of the profession; and there was a singular unanimity amongst the critics that sooner or later he would make his mark on the stage. It speaks well for Mr Stone that his abilities have attracted the notice of gentlemen high in the profession, and it must be no less a source of gratification to find himself playing a principal part in the same com- pany as Nellie Farren, and the artistic and highly accomplished actor Mr Fred Leslie. W The Hon. Secretary of the Tenby Football Club writes me with reference to the remarks I made last week on the match played between the Tenby and Narberth Clubs. He says the teams were respectively representatives of both towns, and not Tenby Juniors and Narberth 2nd XV." If that be so, then I shall' not cease to Urge that no further time be lost (if Tenby is to be classed amongst the towns possessing a football club) in getting a club started worthy of the place. Of course I cannot tell who consti- tuted the gentleman who wrote me hon. secretary, as I have no recollection of a meeting having been called and a committee formed to found a football club in Tenby. It would be interesting if the Dames of the committee were recorded. Tha Pall Mall Gazette has had an interview with the h largest beef dealer in the world." This is a Mr Lingham, one of the pioneers of the live cattle trade from America, who has often in a single )'par shipped to Europe 50,000 head. What Mr Lingham had to communicate is certainly not very comforting. There is a good deal of nonsense (be said) talked for political reasons about giving forking men three acres. Three acres—fifty acres -would starve the working man. He had better go to Canada if he has a land hunger; there he will be presented with 160 acres on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad—160 acres in Manitoba is better worth having than three acres ill Essex!" And his general feeling is thus ex- pressed—u The truth is, unless England modifies -U'O' -u_- her present free trade, position, the working classes had better emigrate, for here they will surely starve. lIow can they earn wages to buy cheap loaves when each industry is being undersold by foreign competitors?" These statements may be commended, to the notice of Mr Gladstone as bearing very strongly on the question of Free Trade. TATTLER.

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