South Wales Daily News

SOUTH WALES FINANCE. Cardiff Account Days, April 13th and 27th.) MONDAY. April 3rd, 1899. To-day being Bank Holiday there was ao business in the local market. THE COMING BOOM IN RHODESIA Importa.nt article dealing with the great oppor- tunities now offering in this country to investors, also particulars of the leading properties worth investing in. Will be sent post free. Address the Secretary, London and Paris Exchange, Limited. 34, Throgmorton-street, London. Tele- grams, Plenarily, London." Telephone No. 1,861, Avenue.

RATES OF EXCHANGE ON LONDON LONDON, Saturday Evening.—The following were the rates of exchange on London to-day Paris Cheques 25.21* I Antw'p short 25.27 to 25.31 3erlin Cheques 20.42 St. P't'rs'bg, 3 mths 93.85 Do. 8 days'sight 20.40J Madrid, sight. 32.12 Do. 3 months 20.28 1 Cn'st nt'n'pl',3mthsl09.35 Hamburg, sight. 20.4111 Lisbon 35Jg Frankfort, short 20.40 i Rome. 3 months .27.15 Vienna, sight 120.50 Barcelona 30.4E Amst'rd'm, Chequ's 12,125 Br'ss'ls C'q's 25.26 to 25.30 Amsterdam, short 12.12 t BUSINESS BONE. BRITISH STOCKS THURSDAY'S CLOSING. Consols Goschen's 2f Mny HOJg Do. do. Account 110. Do. 2J do. 103 £ Local Stock 110 Bank of England Stock 350 India 3j per Cent. 116 Do. 3 do 108 Metropolitan Con. p.c, 118 Do. do. 3 p.c. 112 India Rupee Paper 3ipc. 673 Ins. Canadian 4p.c.Jan.Jly 109 Ins. C.GoodHope 4 p.c. 1883 114 Ins. N. Zealand Con. 4 p.c. 116 Ins. New South Wales 120 Ins. Victoria 4 p.c. 1882-3-4 107$ Ins. South Australian 4 p.c 1104 ••• Ins Queensland 4 p.c 112 £ BRITISH RAILWAYS Brighton I-Lailway Ord 1861 I "'1. Do. Do. Deferred 180J' t. Caledonian Consolidated. 153 Do. Preferred Con. Ord.j 98# Do. Deferred Con. Ord.! 55 Chatham and Dover Ord. 26|! Chatham and Dover Ord. 26|! ¡ Do. Arbitn. Preference, 136 Do. Second I're/erencei 124 East London 82i Furness 79i Glasgow&S. WstrnPref Ord 81 Do. do. Def Ord 67 Great Eastern Ordinary 1278 Gt. Nthn. Prefd. Con. Ord.l 1224 Do. Defrd. Do. 66? Do. A's 64 Great Western 172 Great Central Pref. Ord .I 61 Do. Deferred Ordinary. 22 Hull and Barnsley 58i Lancashire and Yorkshire 1514 London and North-Wstrn: 202| London and South-Westam! 220J Lon. & Stn. Wstm. Defrd., 39* Metropolitan Consolidated; 127 Do. Land Stock 90 Do. District Ordinary 40 Do. Preferred 1124 Midland Preferred Ord. 83| Do. Deferred Ord. 92 North British Ord. Pref. 90i Do. Ordinary Deferred. 44f North-Eastern Ordinary. 183j North Staffordshire 128 Soutk-Eastem Ordinary 153 Do. Deferred 114J Taff Vale Act, 1889 81 AMERICAN RAILWAYS Atchison 22? Do. Preference. 63§ Central Pacific 55| Chicago, Milwaukee 1 ;i| Denver Ordinary 23J Do. Preferred 77 £ Brie Shares 14$ Do. 1st Preference 39| llinois Central. 1204 Louis and Nashville 6¡¡ Missouri, Kansas, & Texas 14J New York Central 146 New York Ontario 28§ oo' Norfolk Common 13i Do. Preference 68| North Pacific Pi ef 814 Pennsylvania Ordinary 69 Philadelphia and Reading I2J Do. First Preference 334 Southern Ry.Common Stck 13$ Do. Prefarred 53 Union Pacific 498 Do. do. Preference 83j Wabash Preference 24 Do. General Mortgage 37J1 OTHER RAILWAYS. Canadian Pacific 892 Grand TrunkOrdinary 8& Do. Guaranteed 38J .„ Do. First Preference 8l| Mo. Second Preference.) 57§ Do. Third Preference .j 213 Mexican Ordinary 24J Do. First Preference j 92^ Do. Second Preference 40 Lombards Ordinary [ 6 Mexican Ontl. 4 p.c. Bondsi 76J Do. First Income 118 Buenos A yresGt. Southern! J554 Buenos Ayres and Rosarioj 82§ Central Argentine 104 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Arthur Gainuess Ordinary 560 Allsopps Ordinary 145 Anglo-American Tel. Ord. 66J) Do. do. Pref 118"; JHrated 14JI Coats Ordinary 72 Cansett Iron 36 Canard Steamship, £ 20 pd. lljj Direct United States Cable 13§ Dublin Distillers l|j Eastman's 241 Ebbw Vale St. & I'n Co 6|! Hudson's Bay 234' Linotype Deterred 7§j Lipton Ordinary 57/ National Telephone 4jj Nitrate Railway Ord 9J| Pears' Soap Ordinary LJi Peninsular & Oriental Prf. 147jj Do. Deferred 239$ Salt Union Ordinary. 1 Suez Canal 148 FOREIGN STOCKS Argentine 188S 94$; Do. Funding 951 Do. 4J p.c. Sterling 76 Do. Treasury 76 Argentine Cedulas A 41JI Do. Cedulas B 4M( Do. Cedulas E 41} Buenos Avres Cedulas I .■ 64' D o. J-\ 6|; Brazilian, 1889 62jj| Bulgarian 6 p.c. 1333 95 Chilian, 1886 82 Do. 1892 38 Chinese Silver Loan 105 Do. 6 p.c. Gold Egyptian Unified 107?! Do 3^ perCent 10 Do ótate Domain 105 Do Daira -New lOi^i French 3Jper Cent. Rentes' 1C2|! Do. 3 "per Cent. Rentes 102 German 3 per C. 1891-2-3! 92 1. Greek, 1881 434* Do. 1884 434j Guatemala External Debt 26 j Honduras '7.i Hungarian 4 p.c. Gold 1&) j Italian 5 per Cent. Rentes; 931: Mexican 6 per Cent 1°21; Ottoman Bank Shares 12J Peru. Corp. Ordinary 2^ Do. Preference 9:1; j Paraguay 20. Portuguese 3 percent. 2vi Russian 4 p.c. Con 102^' Spanish 4 per Cent 59$: 'VurVish, 1834 lOl^: Do Ottoman Defence 105 Do. 2nd Group 46J; Do. 3rd Group 26ji Do. 4 th Group 22^j Transvaal Loan 5 per Cent: 106 i. Uruguay 34 per Cent. 47J j SOUTH AFRICAN MINES Angela «. 7& .„ ] Bantje .2- Barnato Consolidated 2Aj Bechuanaland bx bonanza Ill Brifcisli South Africa aj ••• BaSelsdoorn City and Suburban New. 63j Con. Gold Fields, Def 8|i Crownreet 72 — De Beers Diamonds ziwj Ourban-Roodepoorfc ?iai East Rand — Ferreiras ^|| ••• — Geeiong ,T*| ••• Geldenhuis Deep x Henderson Trast, E3t |j Henry Nourse ,jji Johauuesbatgcons. Invest 1i« Jubilee •/ampers |?3 — •vnights ^lerksdcrp ■ ••• Lianglaagte Estate -f — Do. Block B lx<* ilatabele Gold Reefs 'is — ilatabele Gold Reefs4 VIodderfoncein 10^ ••• Mozambique 2 £ j — sew Jagersfontein. 133 — ^ligeL 3J „ •« •••* — Oceana Land 1| Pioneer 153 Primrose —— 5 ,'i«nd Mines 423 — Handtontein 34 — T'.eitfontein 2J Rhodesia Exploration 7 .'UoiiesiaLimited l-fo "uisb«ry • —* — -iiietiSi li% **• snuaiet and Jack £ 5 New — South African Exploration; l.J; <ciJh .-Vfrican Gold Trust! <->-old | ••• Wemmera li — — V«Uutte £ 61 •« AUSTRALIAN Associated Gold 6| Bayley's United 4/9 Broken Hill Prop ".[[[I 2A Golden Horseshoe 28 Great Boulder New 26/6 Hampton Plains J 1^ Hannan's BrownhiU 8j Hannan's Oroya 1J Ivanhoe New 9^, Kalgurli 7^ Lady Loch 7/ Lady Shenton 24 Lake View Consols 13J Lake View South 1&\ Londonderry Lon. West AustraliaExpr. ft; North Kalgurli 3/4 Notrhern Territory 11-32| Peak Hill 7§! SonsofGwalia 2J [][ South Kalgurli 2j^ Westralian Market Trust. 7/ WestAustralianGroldFields; 2 .„ West Aust.Jt. Stk. Trust. 7/6 Went worth j London Globe Finance New! 18/6 MISCELLANEOUS Burma Ruby 6/61 Columbia 19/ Cape Copper Mine3_„ 4^ Haaraki i/j Kapanga 2/6 Le Roi v 5? Mason and Barry 3| *„ Mysore..Gold 5J Mysore GoldCFields; 6/6 !![ Montanas 8/3 j Mount Lyell 8 .[ Mount Lyell j 8 .[ Goregum Ordinary. 3|i Ri» Tinto Copper ..„ 404 Tharsis Copper.. 84 Waihi 5 41

LONDON MINING EXCHANGE fEXCHANGE TELEGBAPG CO.'S TELEGRAM. 1 THURSDAY'S CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH MINES. Bassett.Fully pd. 8/6 9/6 Polberro 1% Cam Brea & Tin't 5/0 6/0 West Kitty 9H 9% Dolcoath 21/0 22/0 Wheal Grenvillell% EaatPool&Agar.-lOft 10% Do. Kitty I l'A SOUTH AFRICAN MINES. Angelo VA 7^iLuipaards Vlei, N 2& Apex Mines 7 1% May Consolid'ted 5^ 5fg Bantjes (New) 2^ 2M Meyer&Charlton &}„ 6Ji Barrett 9/6 10/e Modder'teinNewlG% 10% Bonanza 4^2 4:}i New Bulfonteiu Bufielsdoorn 9/0 lO/OjNew Primrose 5Jg Bufielsdoorn 9/0 lO/OjNew Primrose 4 5!t: City & Sllb. (New) 6A £ ji!Nigel 3ft 318 Comet. 37£: 3%1 Do. Deep 2^g 2rlt Con. Bulfontein ..29ífj 30/6: Nth P..a.ndfontein 1% 16 Con. Deep Level.. 3% 4 Nourse Deep 6% 6% Crown Reef. 18 18^ Rose Deep 10 10% Do. Deep 14?^ 15% Pioneer 15^ J6 De Beers 27'/a 27^i|Porges R'df'nt'n 1% 2 Drietfontein 5h 5f^|Princess 2;. 2% Durb'n-Roodep't. S% 6S Xiandfontein 3; 3^ EastRand. 8 8%'Rand Mines 42% 'i2% Ferreira 233~j M iReitfontein New 2 2% Geldenhuis 8§« 8^ |Robins'n( £ 5 Sh) 10% 11% Do. Deep 10% 11 Do. Deep 12} £ 13 Do. Main ti N!RoodepoortDi:ell Glencairn 2ft 2ii.Salisbury New 3^ 5% George Goch 2% 2^|Sheba 1% Ginsberg (New) 356 3% Simmer & Jack. 6ft Goldfields Deep. Spes Bona. New fa ti Henry Nourse 9% 10 Stanhope Vz Heriot(New) 7^| 7^iSteyn Estate 2^3 2% Jagersfontein 13% 13% Transvaal Gold Jubilee.. 7% Mining Estate. 2% 2% Jumpers 6% 7 Unit'd Roodp'rte 5 5% Do. Deep SU 5} £ Van Ryn New 3^ 3H Kl'nfo'te n (Cntl.) 3 S^jVillage Mainreet 9^ 9ft Knight 6% 7%l Vogelstruis 1% 15'» Langlaagte i3A 4 VVemmer 12% 13^ Do. Block B }3 lfti Wolhuter ^5% 6% Do. Deep 3ya i%\ LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANIES. Do. Deep 39 3%1 LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANIES. Africn Explratnl2^ 12"<iiMatabele Gold.. 4}" 4% Anglo-French 3 4ft!Mozambique 2i 2f Bechuanal'ndEx Il-t: Ij'i;:New African 3M Barnato Consols. 2 Oceana Cons liB 1ft Char. B. S. Africa .3N:Orange FreeSli'te ■ Y» Con.Gol'tiel'aDef 8);, S^jPochefsfcroora 516 6i6 Exploration Co.. ljg 2Rhodesia Lim 1% I'A G'ldTr'st&I've?t$7a 'bk1 Do. Exploc 6Jg 7?g Henderson 111, 1ft TatiConcessions 1JJ lili Johannesburg Transv'lG'ldFl'ds 'i 2% Johannesburg Transv'lG'ldFl'ds 'i 2% Cons. Invest. 1% 2 United Rhodesia JJ Johannes b'gWat 1 1H Willoughby Con3 1% 2 LondonandParis ft fcj ZambesiExplo. 1% 1% Mash'la'dAgency 3% 3% AUSTRALIAN AND INDIAN MINES. Aladdin Lamp ft H Kalgurli South 2M 2% Asso. Gold;W. A. 6ft 6ft Lady Shenton 2ft 2ft Do Southern 5/0 6/0 Lake View Cons. 13% 13% Bellevue Props Y% ft Do. South 1ft 1ft Boulder Perse- (London & West veranee. sn sn Au. Explor BritishW'stralian 3% 4 Do. & Globe Fin 18/0 19/0 Brookman'sB'ld'r 2 Mount Lyell 7% 8>g Broken Hill Prop. 2% 2% „ Do. North 3ft 3ft Burbanks B Gift., lfg 2ft Mount Morgan 5)4 5% Champion Reef 4tií 5n Mysore 5ft 5i11 Day Dawn 12/b 13/6 „ Goldfields 6/0 7/0 „ P.C. 3/0 3/6 „ Reef 3/0 3/6 G'den H'se Shoe 27% 28M „ West 7/6 8/6 Golden Links. fi In „ Wynaad 6/0 6/6 Gr't Boulder New26/3 26/9 North Boulder H Do. Main Beef.. 1ft lf§ Northern Ter 1 1ft Hainanlt ly8 1M Nundydroog 3ft 3ft Hannans Brown Ooregum 354 Hill 8ft 8ft| „ Pref 4>s 4% Do. Gold Estate Y» MiPeak.HUl 7'^ 1% Do. Oroya. 1M IMIWentworth in Do. Props 6/9 7/> W. A. Gold Fields.l £ g 2ft Ivanhoe New 9;« 9% Do. Joint Stock 7/3 7/9 Kalgurli 7% 1% Waihi Gold. 5& 5ig Do. North MISCE LIj A NEOU S. Anaconda Copp'r 8% 9VCorom?„udel 1% 1% Ashanti G'ldfi'lds17;2 18%IJIason >te Barry. 3,54 4 Do. 10s paicU.6 17 Mountain Copper 6% 7% Brilliant Block ft ft'NamaquaCopper 3ft 3ft Do. St. George 3% 3M;; Bio Tinto 40^» 405^ Burmah Ruby. HI ,• Prefs. 6ft 6ft Campana C'ns'ls ft ft! Road Block 1 1% Cape Copper 4 4%JSfc. Jno. Del Rey 27/6 28/5 Copiapo 3 3^1

DAILY STOCK AND SHARE LIST 80PFUED BY MESSRS THACKERAY & CO. Stock and Share Brokers. 3. Dock Charabsrs, Cavfli RAILWAYS. Paid. Prices. Stock Barry Undivided 100 .265 270 100 Do. New, ZOO pm paid 100 261 266 Stock Do. 4 p.c. Preferred Ord.lCO .120 122 „ Do. Deferred Ordinary .100 .145 118 Brecon & Merthyr ..100 8 10 „ Cardiff 4 p.c. P'f'd Ord ICO .115 111 Great Western 100 .171 172 „ London & North-Western.100 .202 203xd „ Midland Pref. Cons. Ord .100 83% 84 „ Do. Deferred Cous. OrdlOO 91% 92 10 Port Talbot By. and Docks. 10 9 9% 10 llhou.& S.BayNos. 1/42,165. i0 4% 5 Stock Yinymney .100 .268 273 „ Do. 4 p.c. Preferred OrdlOO .120 122 Do. Deferred Ord .100 .155 157 o. Tafl Vale Divided Stock 100 SOU 80J4 PREFERENTIAL Stock Alex. Dk. & Ry. 4% p.c A l'f.100 .117 121xd Do. do. 4 p.c. B .100 .105 103 Barry By. 5 p.c. 1st Pref .100 .164 166 Do. Consolidated 4 p.c.100 .132 334 r'" Brecon & Mer. 1st Pref.1861 100 80 &5 Do. 2nd Pref. 1862.100 48 53 Cambrian, No. 1, 4 p.c.100 66 70 Do. No. 2, 4 p.c 100 30 33 Great Western, 5 p.c 100 .176 179 10 Port Talbot 4 p.c 8 8% 854 10 Rhon. & S. Bay 5 p.c. 1/38,535 10 1l8 11% 10 Do. New 10 li% 11% Stock Rhymney 4 p.c. Consold 100 .132 134 „ Tail Vale 4 p.c. Consold 100 .134 116 GUARANTEED OR LEASED .50 Aberdare 10 p.c. 50 .160 165 Stock Great Western, 5 p.c. guar.100 .177 180 Penarth 5% p.c 100 .176 1Y9 Vale of Glamorgan 100 .121 123 Do. Newissat 115.100 .120 122 RAILWAY AND .OTHERjDEBENT U iCK.S tock Alex. Dock & Ry. 4 p.c 100 .124 126 Barry Railway 3 p-c 100 10,3 1C5 Brecon & Merthyr A 4 p.c 100 .120 125 Do. B 4 p.c.100 .10?. 106 Cardiff Railway 3 p.c 100 .100 102 „ Cambrian A 4 p.c 100 130 132xd Do. B 4 p.c 100 .125 128xd Do. C 4 p.c 100 .116 118xd Do. D 4 p.c. non. cam.100 .101 103xd Great Western 4 do 100 .145 147 II Midland 2% per cent 100. 92 94 Mid-Wales A 4% per cent.100 .132 135 II Neath & Brecon 1st 100 .123 125 Do. A 1 J00 .113 115 Do. A 2 100 60 63xd Rhondda&Sw'nseaBay4 p.c.100 .123 125 Rhymney 4 ditto 100 .139 141 Taif Vale 3 p.c 100 .106 108 Vale of Glamorgan 3 p.c 100 .101 103 BANKS. 50 Capital and Counties. 10 39 40 60 London City & Midland 12% 53 54 10 Lonlont Proviacial 5 21 211 10 Do. New. 5 21 21% 50 Lloyds 3 32% 33% 50 Metro, of England & Wales 5 14J 15" 75 National Provincial 53 54 60 National Provincial .12 61 62 40 North & South Wales 10 35% 36 GAS 10 Aberdare 10 20 21xd Stock Bristol 5 p.c 100 12,5% 12672 Cardiff A 10 per cent™ 100 .240 45 Do. B 8 per .190 195 Do. C 7 per cent„ 100 .170 175 Do. D 5 per cent 100 .123 125 Do. 4% p.c. Pref.-Stock 100 .120 122 Newport A 10 per cent 100 .235 240 Do. B 7% p.c Stk & ShslOO .175 178 Do. C 7 per cent 100 .163 163 Swansea Cons. 5 per cent .100 .122 127 Do. 5 per cent New StklOO .123 127 GAS AND WATER; 10 Bridgend 10 10% 10xd 12 Pontypool (Max. 10 p.c.) 12 15% 16]ixd WATERWORKS. 25 Bristol 25 60% 61%xd 20 Do 20 45% 46%xd 0 Pontypridd 10 per ct. Ord*10 22 23 Do. 7 p.c. do. 10 15% 16 BREWERIES 10 Hancock 6 p.c. Prefd. Ordy. 10 13% 13% 10 do. Deferred Ordinary 10 14% 15% 10 do. 6 p.c. Pref 10 15 15 Stoek do. 4 p.c. Deben. StocklOO .110 113 10 Nells Ordinary 10 11% 12 10 do. 6 p.c. Pref 10 11 11% 10 Rhondda Valley 5 p.c. Pref. 10 10% loys Stock do. 431 Deb. !3tockl00 .106 108 COAL AND IRON 10 Albion Steam Colliery 10 11 11" 00 Do. 5 p.c. Deb.. red 100.102 104 10 Cambrian Col 6 p.c. com Pf. 10 .11 ll# 100 Do. 4% p.c. Deb.100 .103 105 10 D. Davis & Sons 10 8% 9% 10 Do. 6 p.c. cu Pref 10 10% 11 100 Do. 5 p.c. Deb., red.100 102 104 100 Do. 5 p.c. B Db. (1906) 100 102 104 23 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron,&Coal 20 6 6% 5 Great Western Ordinary 5 4% 5xd 5 Do. 10 P.C. cu Pref~< 5 ••• 9% 10 10 Insoles 6p.c. cu Pref 10 9% 9%xd 100 Do. do. 5p.c.DebslOO 99 101 5 International Coal 5 3% 4xd 100 Lockets Colliery 5 p.c. Dabs.100 99 101 100 Miller & Cory 5 p.c. Debs.100 99 101 10 Newport-Abercarn 10 8 9% 10 Do. Participating Pref, 10 97 934 5 North'sNavigation Colliery 5 4 43ixd 5 Do. 10 p.c. cu Pref. 5 7% 8xd 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deb 100 .102 104 10 Peurikyber Colliery 10 5% 6 10 Do. 5 to 73ipc. Pref. 10 831 8 100 PoweB Duffryn 6 p.c. Deb 100 .102 105 100 Do 5 p.c. Deb.100 .102 105 5 Rhymney Iron .5 ".323 Od 33s Od 5 Do. New 2%.credited 2%14s 6<1 Bs 6d 100 Do. 5 p.c. Mort. Debs.100 99 101 17 South Wales Colliery Ord. 17 9%, lO^xd 3 Do. 10 per cent. i're/B. 3 4% 4^xd 3 Do. N-w Pref. B 1% 2 2d ill Tredegar Iron ard Coal A. 736 2% 3 Stock Do. B .100, 35 37 MISCELLANEOUS 10 Barry Graving Dock 10 31 2im 10 Do. Newlasue6pmpd 10 21 21% 10 ghk 5 D.c. Preferea^ 10 11% 12 I Ben Evans and Co. Ord. 1 ..JL9s 6lt 20s 6d (Subject to Founders' Shares.) 1 Bland & Co 1 .15s 6d 36s 6d 10 Bl. and So. Wales Waggon 3 6 6!4 10 Bate Dry Dock 10 16% 17 10 Cardiff Channel Dry Docks 10 10 10% 100 Do. do. 5 pc Deb. 100 _104 106 Stock Cardiff Corporation 3%-p.c. 100 .113 116 5 Cardiff Empire 5 8% 9% 5 Do. 6 p.c- Pref. 5 5% 6 10 Cardiff Ice 10 11% 12xd 5 C diff & Penlrth Tramways 5 4 4% 0 Cardiff Junction Dry Dock 40 14 46xd 5 Cardiff Workmen's Cottage 25 40 42 1 English Crown Spelters 1. 35s 37s 20 Hill's Dry Dock 18 8% 9 1C Mercantile Pontoon Ord 10 17 17% 10 Milford Docks 10 10 Mordey Carney 9 14 14% 10 Do. do. 10 15% 16% 100 Do. 4% p.c. Deb. (1909) 103 .10-1 IG5 50 Mountstuart Dry DIe A & B 40 82 84 Ncwpt. Water JE1 Annuities 26% 2614 Stock Park Hall 4 p.c. Deb Stk 100.100 1G2 50 Panarth Shipbuilding 50 26 liSxd 10 Provincial Tramways 10 6% 7% 10 Do. 6 per cent. Pref 0 12 13 10 Spillers & Bakers Ordinary 9 15% 157 IC Do. 6 p.c. Pref. 10 13% I,, Y, x d 10 SpillersNephews Biscuit Co 9 5 6 1 Stranaghan& Stephens Stores 1 .lls Od 123 Od 1 Do. do. 6 p.c. Pref. 1 .16s 6d 17s 6d Stock Swansea Harbour 4 p.c. Stk.100 .112 114 10 Weaver and Co. Ord 10 11% 12 10 Do. 6 p.c. Pref. 10 lOIJi 11% 100 West.Ma.il4 p.c.Db1909j20 100 .104 106 10 Do. 5 p.c. cum Pref. 10 9% 10 Pref." when printed in Italics, indicates i/laafc the Shares are Preferential as to Capital as well as Dividend. Bank Rate reduced from 3% to 3 u.c. 2nd Feb. 1899.

SELLERS.— 50 Stranaghan Ord Shares, at lis 6d 5 Oakeley Slate Quarries Shares 50 Norths Ordinary Shares 10 Western Mail 5 p.c. Pref Shares 25 D. Davis & Sons 6 p.c Pref Shs.at IOH 10 Arrow Fuel £ 10 Shares. ig paid 5 D. Davis and Sons Ord Shares. at 8fi 10 & 15 Insoles Colliery 6 p.c. Pref Shs 90 Rhymney Iron Old Shares jE300 D. Davis and Sbns B 5 p.c. Deb, 103 £ 500 Barry New Stock 30 Rhondda & S. Bay New Prefs 30 Spillers & Bakers Ord Shs. at 15th 25 Nottingham Empire Shares, at 8% xd 100 Ben Evans Ordinary. at 20s ld f-500 Cambrian Colliery Deb, at 104% £ 584 Rhymney Undivided Stock 9200 Lockets Merthyr 5 p.c. Debentures 20 Barry Graving Dock Shares, at 21ft 5 Mountstnart Dry Dock Shares 50 Port Talbot Ry and Dock Pref, at 8:& 25 Mordey Carneys, ilO paid. Shares 20 Cardiff and Penarth Tram Shs, at 4% b V. B KS, 50 Norths Ord Shares. at jE4 5s xd £':oa Barry Deferred Stock 20 London & Prov Bits, at R21 6s 3d 10 &;i Bute Dry Dock Shares, at 16ti Albion & Powell Duffryn Deb. at 103 1500 Tredegar B Stock :<0 Provincial Tram Ord Shares 20 Newport Abercarn Col Ord & Prefs 30 Lockets Ordinary & Pref Shares 50 English Crown Spelter Shares 15 D. Davis & Sons Pref Shares, at 10% 50 Ben Evans Pref Shares 53 Port Talbot Preference, at 8% 30 Great Western Colliery B Shares E500 Bristol Water 7 p.c. Stock, at 159 THACKERAY AND CO., CARDIFF Telephones—P.O. 61. National 134 E. T. LYDDON AND CO., 122, BUTE-STREET, AND STOCK EXCHANGE, CARDIFF. 'J"¡rms-II Lyt1don. Cartliff." T'oh'a—P.O.. 63: Nat., 103 SELLERS.- £ 500 TaflC Vale Ord Stock, at £801Í R100 Swansea. Harbour Stock 25 Channel Dry Dock Ord, at 10% 30 Tredegar Iron A Shares, at 3 20 Barry Graving Ord Shares-wout bid S230 Barry Undivided Stock 10 Spillers Ord Shares "0 Nottingham Empire Shares, at £ 8% 10 Nells Brewery Pref Shares 30 Rhondda & S. Bay New, f P. 5 p.c. Pf 500 Rhymney Preferred Stock £ ;-0 Mid Wales A 4% p.c. Deb—bid wtd 100 Stranaghan & Stephens Pref Shares £ 200 Alexandra A Pref Stock 20 Cambrian Colliery Preference 10 Bute Dry Dock Shares, at X17 5 London & Prov Bank Shares, at £ 21 5 i-iarry Graving Dock Pref BUYERS. Channel Dry Dock Ord, at £ 9% 20 Tredegar Iron A Shares, at 59s jS500 Barry 4 p.c. Pref Stock, at £ 132% 1700 Barry Preferred Stock, at 120 100 Rhymney Iron Shares, at 32s 6d 1CO Jones Dickinson Ord Shares 15M Brecon & Merthyr B Db, at £ 103% 50 Norths Colliery Ord. at £ 4% 5 Port Talbot Graving Dock Shares 9500 Barry 5 p.c. J st Preference 25 Newport Abercarn Ord, at 9 910C Norths Colliery Debenture £ 100 Albion Colliery Debenture jESOO Brecon & Merthyr 1st Preference FLEMING S. AND J. G. THOMAS, STOCK EXCHANGE, AND 1, DOCK CHAMBERS, CARDIFF. T gramsFleming, Cardiff.' T'p's. Nat. 158, P.O. 133 THOS. F. PEARSON, STOCKBROKER 4, Dock Chambers (andStock Exchange), Cardiff. Telegraphic Address, "Gedge, Cardiff. Telephones—National. No. 139; P.O. No. 82 1093 "4 TREGERTHEN DUNN AND CO., 27. MOUNTSTUART SQUARE, CARDIFF, AND STOCK EXCHANGE. 1104 T'grama—"TREDCNN, CARDIFF." Nat No. 130, PfO, 331 j Æ ¡; J. W. COURTIS AND CO.. BANK BUILDINGS. ST. MARY-STREET, AND STOCK EXCHANGE, CARDIFF. 1106 Telcgrams-" Stocks, Cardiff." Telephories-Nat.. 551; P.O., 517. SELLERS.— £ 300 Rhymney Preferred Ordinary jEM3 Barry Ord Stock 100 Stranaghan & Stephens Pref Shares 25 Albion Colliery Shares 20 International Coal Shares RIOO Ely Brewery 5 p.c. Debenture I BU JTPRS. —Barry New Ord Stock 15 Insoles Pref Shares 1500 Taff Vale Ord Stock IS Chris. Thomas Bros. Prefs 10 Spillers & BaKers Pref Shares E,. B. SlillS & DAVID, STOCK & SHARE BROKERS, 59, MOUNTSTUART-SQ. & STOCK EXCHANGE. BUTE DOCKS. CARDIFF. 1114 T'g'ms." Shares." C'dff. T*p'nes, P.O. No. 51. Nat. 236 SELLERS. £ .-00 Rhymney Preferred Ord Stock 20 Tredega.r Iron A Shares, at i22 19s M 20 Nottingham Empire Shares, at 8% cd BUYERS. 100 Rhymney Iron Old Shares, at 32s 6d 1 London and Prov Bank Share £1000 Barry New Ord Stock, at 264% 11000 Barry Deferred Ord Stock 20 Tredegar Iron A Shares, at jE2 18s 9d Newport Aberearn Ord Shares £ 300 Barry Graving Dock Debenture Bwllia & Merthyr DareCol Def, at 5 CHARLES MASSY AND CO., 22 & 23, MOUNTSTJART-SQUARE AND STOCK EXCHANGE, CARDIFF. T'grams, Iii vesb." Caxdiff, T'phs'. Nat. 208.. P.O. 75 PERCY POWELL, STOCK & SHARE BROKER, 113, Bute-rd., and Stock Exchange. Cardiff T'lgrams." Purse, Cardiff." T'phones, P.O. 89. Nat 225 ERNEST SULLY AND CO, 118, BUTE-ST.. & STOCK EXCHANGE, CARDIFF. Te' egrams. Trust." Telephones :-P.O.. 7. Nat., 187 SELLERS —5) Newport AJbarcarn Ord, at 9 50 Rhymney Iron Old Shares, at 33s 6d BUYERS. Great Western Colliery A & B Shs 100 Rhymney Iron Old, at 32s 6d JE250 Barry Ry Deferred Stock 50 Newport Abercarn Ord, at 8% LIONEL E. TAYLOR & CO., 27, WEST BUTE-STREET,& STOCK EXCHANGE CARDIFF. 1152 T grams "Security. Cardiff." T'phns P.O., 113; Nat. 212 H. GODFREY, STOCKBROKER, 12, MOUNTSTUART-SQUARE, CARDIFF Telegrams—"Canoe," Cardiff. Telephones. Nat. No. 2?2. P.O.,No. 116. POWELL THOMAS & CO., 25. MOUNTST UART-SQUARE, & STOCK EXCHANGE, CAHDIFF. T'graphicAddress—" Consols." 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CARDIFF RECORDS. TO THE EDITOS. Sir,—As Dr. W. de Gray Birch has resumed his harmless trifling with my first volume, I ask your leave to continue my refutation of his objections. Many of the points Dr. Birch raises in his second letter have been fully dealt with in my reply to his first. Such are-the question of capital letters, panagio," Landavensis," &c. After a perusal of yoar correspondent's letter I 8.fI almost forced to the conclusion that he is either unable to read correctly the original charters, or too careless, and too anxious to attack my work, to do so. In no other way can I account for the unpardonable mistakes into which he falls in this his second criticism. Surely, if Dr. Birch is to set me right he must first of all quote the records correctly himself bat he does the reverse. For instance, he begins by finding fault with me for expanding (as he says) Glam' et Morgann' into Glamorgannie et Morgannle. But if Dr. Birch had looked at the fall-size photograph of this charter, with the eye of knowledge and of impartiality, he would have been able to see that the original is not Glam' et Morgann' but Glamorg' and Morgann' Dr. Birch would naturally expect this to stand for Glamor- gancie et Morgannoc." Well, perhaps. be would, but the question of interest to the public is not so much what Dr. Birch would expect," as what the records say. The names of Glamorgan and Morganwg are very variously spelt in the old charters; and the variations are distinguished by their approximating to, or departing from, the most ancient known form, which is Glamor- cant and Morcant." The forma Morgan- ncu and Morgannuc also occur in some documents, but are evidently composite and framed out of the older Morcant." In extending the abbreviated forms in the charters I have pro. ceeded on a consistent and logical plan. The double n in Glamorgann and Morgann stands for the ancient nt," and later nc but since those who wrote that form undoubtedly understood the pronunciation 11 Glamorgannia and Morgannia," 1 extend accordingly, and translate Glamorgan and Morgan." Where, however, the original charters have Glamorgant' et Morgant' or Glamorganc' et Morganc' I expind the words to Glamorgancia" and Morgancia," and translate Glamorgant and Morgant." This is the only logical system to follow. The charter of 1331 (No. III.) has 11 Glamorg' and Morgann' The no" in the last name shows that the words should be expanded to Glamorgannie et Morgannie, and translated Glamorgan and Morgan," as has been done by me. Dr. Birch's Glamorgancie and Morgannuc are both utterly wrong in this place. Morgann' could not possibly stand for Morgnnnae." Indeed the latter form nowhere occurs in the charters, unless we except the translation of the missing one of 1477. So much for Dr. Birch's learned emendations under this head. Dr. Birch says my deceteris" should be decetero." I am not sure about that. Either would be correct, and the word as abbreviated in the original might be either. The mark for the elided er makes it difficult to say whether the last letter is s or o," and Dr. Birch has not hitherto been so successful in his corrections as to induce me to pin my faith to his judgment in such a matter. I accept, however, his correction of marchan- die for marchandisie." The latter is the commoner form; it occurs in charter No. n. (see photo facing p. 28) and in No. V. (photo at p. 20). Marchandia is an unusual form, and the strength of the mark over the i led me to take it for a mark of abbreviation of the usual word. It is refreshing to find Dr. Birch make a real discovery. My critic thinks Mich'is ought to have been expanded into Michaelis." He is wrong again. No medieval scribe would ever have dreamt of writing Michaelis and I have not through- out my transcripts of the records done such a foolish thing as to write ae where the original scribe wrote or understood e It is this sort of un-medioval pedantry and lack of method which disfigures the work of Dr. Birch he will never let the original writer spell his words in his own way, but insists on improving them according to some unintelligible system of Burlington House. Dr. Birch next finds fault because I write at the end of charter No. III. Cetera desunt," and demands on what authority I say that there is more of this deed wanting. He goes on to remark that nothing can be wanting, as otherwise it would have appeared in the Inspexunus. He is begging the question. Charter No. III. concluded with a, testatum, of course, and this is the portion that is missing. Its omission from the Inspeximus is not very wonderful.; Your correspondent says that 11 liberatar should not have been translated freed," but delivered." This is a point of criticism on which there may be two opinions, and I am not concerned to object to his version. If Dr. Birch will kindly allow me to have views of my own in such matters I will thank him to let my word prevost stand. I consider it, rightly or wrongly, a better rendering of lJre- positiis thanV provost." In accordance with a valuable suggestion lately made to me by my friend Mr J. S. Corbett, however, I think I shall in future translate propositus by the good old English word reeve "—that is, of course, if Burlington House sees no objection. Dr. Birch executes another delighted war dance on my prostrate form when he comes to Charter No. Iv. because he finds that I have prinfed senescallum" for senescallo. Of course this is not an oversight. Dr. Birch knows quite well that it i3 purely due to ignorance of the elementary rules of grammar." If he really thinks, though, that I took I. senescallnm to be the ablative, how does he account for my getting the other words in the same sentence right ? This must puzzle him considerably. In Charter No. V. Dr. Birch scores a paltry triumph in my accidental omission of the sscond 1" in the word bussellum." He then says that I write Glamor- gett,,ciae in distinction to my extension of the same word in a different way in previous texts." Here be makes mistake within mistake. I do not write Glamorganciae," but Glamor- gancie," and I do so in accordance with the definite and rational system which I have con- sistently followed, as explained above. This system Dr. Birch would have done well to follow in his own work, and he would have followed it if he had known anything of Welsh philology. Dr. Birch is not imparting new know- ledge to me when he points out that gentiles homines does not mean what we nowadays mean by gentlemen." I have all through the Cardiff Records followed the system of adhering rigidly to the phraseology of the original documents, and preserving the Latin root-words (when the same exist in English) even though the root has undergone a change of meaning. As regards the case before us, moreover, I should like to say that "gentiles homines signifies the Welsh tribesmen—i.e., Welshmen enjoying the full privileges of their clan. These men were warriors, and claimed to be akin to their chief. Their full names consti- tuted a paternal pedigree of several genera- tions and, though they may not aJl have been bearers of cbat-armour, they certainly came pretty near to being gentlemen in a modern sense. Lr. Birch thinks he clears «p the whole matter by asking, Were they likely to be trading in victuals if they were gentle- men ?" He conveniently forgets that the Celts did not consider trade as derogating from noblesse, and that gentlemen who were m many cases little more than small farmers were very likely to trad3 in victuals. Tu connection with the names Glamorgan' ilichelis," Ac., I have already had occasion to remark that -Or Birch shows a strong desire to improve upon the original text of the charters. This is especially noticeable in his next para- graph. Charter N a. IV. says, as plainly as pen and ink can write it: Nisi fuerit cum predictis Burgensibus nostris lotant et escotant et infra Guldam libertatis ipsorum receptus." This I translate in the only possible way Unless they lot and scot with our aforesaid Burgesses and (he) be received in the Guild of their liberty." (The word fuerit I take to stand for it shall be that," understood.) This is unquestionably the only literal translation. But Dr. Birch is dis- pleased. Literal translations are not to his mind he prefers something more elegant, and more in accordance with the ideas prevailing at Burlington Honse. So he says that my translation is nonsense sheer and mere." (These Burlmgtonians are so polite!) He says that the words should be lotantibus et escotantibas then the mean- ing comes clear and grammar is not violated." Now, all this ia very fine and clever, but unfortu- nately the Records Committee of the Cardiff Corporation simply directed me to transcribe and translate the charters as they stand they left me no liberty to read into the3e documents ingenious interpretations of my own. Had they done so, I should have been warranted in applying to Bur- lington House for the interesting views of Dr. Birch. Even at the awful cost of violating grammar I had to put down the text of the mediaeval writer, all regardless of the superior knowledge which was afterwards to spread itself out in your correspondence column. No doubt the charter ought to run in the words of Dr. Birch but unfortunately it runs differently, and Dr. Birch must put up with errors which, however deplorable, it is 550 years too late to rectify. Any student desirous of ascertaining not what the- charters say but what they ought to have said may easily gratify his thirst for knowledge by going through the pages of Dr. Birch'a own edi- tion of them. Having dealt at considerable length in my former letter with charter V., I need not now do more than refer to Dr. Birch's amendment of Pulth-canau to 11 Pulth-oanaa.1, This is certainly an interesting point. As far as the original writing goes tne last letter in this place- name might be either u or n." Dr. Birch thinks it is n," and that the reference is to Pwll Cynan, between Neath and Swansea. He witheringly names me archivist in inverted commas, and denounces my ignorance. There is really no occasion for all this eloquence. Dr. Birch Dedd only tell us whether he means that twice a year, during a total period of 18 davs, no merchant was to sell any goods, from the Rhymney to Swansea, except at Cardiff Fair I If Dr. Birch will answer this question I will tell him where Pwll-Canau is. Dr. Birch evidently finds it necessary to make np for the weaknesses of his attack by spinning his indictment out to the greatest possible length] Hence he asks why I print full stops at the end of some sentences, and not at Çhe end of others." Also, Why begin a new sentence with a small letter ?" The answer is simple I follow the original document, which I am supposed to be copying accurately. Dr. Birch does not appear to think this a sufficient excuse. In comitatum nostrum (twice), in charter No. X., is an exact rendering of the original, if Dr. Birch will kindly accept so poor an apology. Unlike -Dr. Birch, medissval scribes sometimes fell into errors No doubt it was quite right of Dr. Birch to print (Cartae, Vol. II., p. 92) what he thinks this charter ought to have said but I am eDØØ4 to cply what xscQifa actually do my. Tour correspondent is right as to the omission of the words from chaxter No. fXU. This docu- ment could only be known from its recital in the subsequent charter, and the extracting was a process peculiarly liable to such an oversight. The other errors in this document are most of them to be placed to the account of the Eliza- bethan copyist, who had a special genius for blunders in Latin. (By the bye, Dr. Birch's own version of this charter is full of mistakes.) Even in the very act of reading me a lecture on the duty of accuracy Dr. Birch falls into a mistake of transcription. The original has not fidelitatem magnam intimumque amorem quern," as he says; the last word is quos. Dr. Birch may laugh at me for printing the "Amen" at the bottom of charter No. XIV. but I can assure him that if a clerk had written Beecham's Pills on the face of the document I should have considered it my duty to copy it- leaving others to appraise the critical value of the note. This fidelity to the verbum 8citptunt seems quite unintelligible to Dr. Birch. As to No. XV., it acts on Di. Birch like an electric shock to find that I composed a con. jectural version of a lost Latin charter. He describes it as an act of unparalleled audacity, and speaks of it almost with bated breath, as of some impioas outrage on all that Burlington House holds sacred. Again, I say, this thrilling eloquence is wasted. The Latin is acknowledged to be a con- jectural version, put in simply to maintain uni- formity. And Dr. Birch may at least be credited with knowing that to reconstruct a Latin legal document from a trustworthy English translation is a perfectly easy task. The phraseology is so stereotyped, in accordance with precedent, that one deed is like another save for the names and parcels." It is simply a question of common form." My Latin for charters XV. and XIX. is to all intents and purposes good and reliable. With all respect for Dr. Birch's superior attain. ments, power of/ordering and placing courts cannot be correctly Latinised otherwise than as I have rendered it. When Dr. Birch comes to charter XVII. he remarks, more in sorrow than in anger, that though it extends to but 12 lines yet even into this narrow space some astounding depar- tures from accuracy are to be recorded." He then proceeds to illustrate his point, but unfortunately contrives to cram into an equally small area quite as many mistakes as he charges me with. Thus he notes patentum as an error, though it is perfectly correct. Then he says predic- tum ought to be predictarum it certainly ought not, because it refers to, and therefore agrees with, the neuter accusative irrotulamen- tum." Finally, for an effective conclusion, Dr. Birch expatiates in a most facetious manner on what he is pleased to call a sphinx-like enigma —meaning thereby the words Egerton Sat' which I give as found at the foot of Elizabeth's charter. Dr. Birch has quite made up his mind that '• Sat' is my mistake for Cane' and treats us to some extremely interesting biographical particulars concerning the Chan- cellor in question. Bat all the time, instead of the archivist" it is Dr. Birch who makes ridiculous nonsense out of this official signature." For in spite of Dr. Birch's instructive homily, the fact remains that the words on the charter are not Egerton Cane' but Egerton Sat' and all we await now is your learned correspondent's explanation of the enigma. This is just one more example of Dr. Birch's preference of his own idea of what the charters ought to say over what they really do say. This letter is terribly iong, I know, but yet I have only dealt with such of Dr. Birch's blunders as occur in his letter to you. At a future time I must crave space to call attention to the numerous and flagrant errors which occur in his own work, and which deprive his criticisms of any force be- yond that of their acrimony.—I am, &c., JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS, Archivist to the Corporation of Cardiff. Cardiff, 30th March, 1899. fsome accidental typographical errors crept into the second letter of Mr Birch. For Pinckbeck read Pinchbeck; for desent read desunt; for literatur read liberatur for Prevosto read Prevosts for Provets read Prevots; for hunc read tunc; for lotaut read lotant'; for co'arn read co'am for comitata read comitata for rationabilter heshantur read rationabiliter testantur; for ommerodarum read omnimo- dorum for contentis read contenta for sant read sunt; and for potsntatem read potestatem. In his reply Mr Matthews recognises these as misprints.—ED.J

Registrar-Director.—There is no barrier. It is quite legal. Dyfriog.—Dr. Lynn Thomas. Judgment Summons (One in Trouble).—A tradesman may legally assign his debts to another person, who will have the same right to sue for their re- covery. under certain conditions, as the tradesman himself had. You must comply with the order of the Court. Compensation Act (Sub-Contractor).—The colliery proprietors, not the contractor, are liable in the first instance to pay comnensation, but they may recover the amount paid from the contractor, either under a special agreement to that effect. or it the contractor has been guilty of negligence contributing to the accident. Prieadly Society (X.Y.Z.).—Unless your rules specially authorise it, you cannot lend money to anyone on personal security. If your rules pro- vide for investments by way of mortgage, you may advance money in that manner to the person you mention. You should have enclosed a copy of the rUleà. Imprisonment for Debt (In Trouble).—The right of commitment is limited to a single imprisonment, not to exceed six weeks, for default of payment of a judgment debt; but each default is considered a fresh one where the order is for payment by instal- ments. Slander (Constant Reader).You should have stated the nature of the slander or libel, and whether you have suffered pecuniary damage in consequence thereof. If you consult a. solicitor, he may induce the slanderer to apologise or pay damages. Compensation (Mason).—Although the building was over 30 feet in height at the time of the accident you have no claim, for there was no construction or repair going on. Outside painting is not repair, neither is a ladder a scaffold. Vaccination (R. R.).—The child being over six months old you cannot claim a justice's certificate of con- scientious objection to vaccination.

WOOD-STREET CHAPEL CONTROVERSY. TO THE EDITOB. Sir,—I do not intend to be drawn into a news- paper discussion of church matters, with which the public have nothing to do, and will only say we have ample proof of the truth of my state- ments, supported by a large majority of the members. These aggrieved members, according to yonr report, contradict themselves. I can only say out of charity they could not have heard all that transpired at the large church meeting. One thing is certain, the division was taken and was very conclusive. Some of those who are now obstructing have been troubling the church for years. Why do they not find a home elsewhere and allow the church work to proceed in peace? You report at this private meeting thres deacons present. Why were not the other five invited ? These private sectional meetings are the bane of any church,—I am, &c W. SPURGEON.

SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. „ |Tu. Apl. 4 We. Apl, 5,Th. Apl.. 6 Port. Tmet Hgt. Tme.Hgt. Tme Hgt. h. m.jftin. h. m.jft.in.lh. m. ft.in. (p.m. 9 2 11127 5j I 48 29 7 Barry Dock. j 0^? 6 1 29^ 2| |^30 4 NewP°rt (p™; I ^27 2 27 10 ^30 0 SwaHSea (p.m. 0 1* 2 ? 2S23 11 1 M27 7 Port Talbot. ^5 10 ° «26 7, | 4| 28 3

WRECKS AND CASUALTIES. [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS FnOM I/I.OTD'8 AGLINTS-1 A Bremen telegram states that the German steamer Moewe, from Bremen for Hull, took fire in port, but the fire has since been extinguished. The goods in the after hold were damaged. The steamer Vigilant, of Liverpool, ran down the schooner Willing, from Dublin for Cardiff, with burnt ore, off Carmarthen Bay early on Sunday morning. The Vigilant landed the crew of the schooner at Milford Haven and afterwards proceeded for Liver- pool.

LIZARD SIGNAL STATION. The Lizard, Blonday.-Wind W., moderate. Weather fine. Sea smooth. Barometer, 30'18, rising. Passed East-C, ernian barque flying Q. G. L. W.; steamers Tuskar of Glasgow Rallns, of Cork Pansy, of Liver- pool Copenhagen, of Glasgow, from Baltimore for Hamburg; Osfcend trawler No. 45; Sheildrake, of Cork; steam t-rawier, Auguste. of Ostend Fred, of Liverpool; Ptarmigan, of Cork. Passed West— Jessamine, of Bideford one of Jack's steamers, of Lame Harbour; a. Clyde Company's steamer for Bel- fast one of J. Cory and Co.'s steamers steamers Woraley Hall, of Liverpool; Lynx, of Cardiff; Ling- field, of London; Roma, of Hamburg; City of Malaga, of Dublin; Burton, of Hull; Westernland, from Ant- werp for New York Pioneer, of Manchester Amiral Cecille, of Rouen Cambrian, of West Hartlepool; steam yacht Stella, of London a large three-masted yacht. for Madeira; Colbert, of Rooen; Eric, of Cardiff; James Cameron, of Sunderland.

—— LATEST MARKETS. CATTLE; Liverpool, Monday.-Beasts, 854; sheep, 3,259. Best beasts, 6d to 6Jd; second, 5Jd to 5|d hind, 4*d to 5Jd 1 best Scotch sheep, 8M other sorts, 6d to 7iaT There was an increase of 56 beasts and a" decrease of 294 sheep. Slow demand for all classes at about late rates. London, Monday.-The supply of beasts was a fair average; trade slow There was a short supply of sheep. The market for lambs met steady demand and ready sale. Beasts, 960. Beef, 2s 6d to 4s 8d. Sheep and lambs,45,330. Mutton. 3s 4d to 5al0d. Calves 53. Lamb, 6s 6d to 8s. Milch cows, £15 to 922 per head. Deptford Monday -To-day's supply of beasts con- sisted ot 1.620 from United States and 731 from South America; trade was slow at a decline of fully Id on Thursday's quotations; prices 3s 6d to 4s. Sheep nnmberea 3,313 from South America. Trade was firm and steady]; (^wtations 3s 4d to 3s 8d. Grimsby. Monday.—Thirty-six steamers and seven smacks landed good supplies. Iceland plaice plenti- ful moderate demand. Soles, Is 6d; turbot Is 4d brills. Is perib; plaice, 4s 7d; lemon soles, 8s 6d; whitches, be Rive haliibut, 10s 6d; dead, 8s per stone conger eels, 5s to 7s; lixe ling. 3s to 5s; dead, 2s to 4s live cod, 5s to 7s dead, 3s to 5s; live skate, 4s to 5s dead, 2s to 4s each; live dabs, 18s; dead, 14s; kit haddocks 18s per box.

GOING TO JERUSALEM.—Travelling has rrived at a high pitch of perfection in the German Emperor's visit to the JHoly Land! But still there »will be a lot of walking to do, and corns are :no respecter of persons. An absolute necessity in these travellingdays, in order to ensure.comfort for the feet, is Monday's "Viridine," the marveUons corn cure You should never travel without it, In bottles. Is post free, J. Monday, Chemist, High-street corn cure You should never travel without it, In bottles. Is post free, J. Monday, Chemist, High-street

SCIENCE AND HEALTH. By DR. ANDREW WILSON, F.R.S.E. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. I must confess to a strong admiration for the practical nature of the great nation that dwells under the insignia of the Bird of Freedom." Your American is a peison who is given to brush aside obstacles which in other countries would cause even ardent reformers to draw rein and con- sider their position. He may not attain the desire of his heart when all is said and done, but he makes a bold bid for success at least, and may often reach a modicum of improvement where men of other nationalities stand still in their despaic. Especially in the case of so-called social reforms does our American cousin figure promi- nently in respect of his desire for advance. If it is the liquor question, he cuts the Gordian knot by declaring for prohibition-wholesale interdict of the evil thing." His friends may sell it in the chemists' shops, and across the way in the next State you may get drunk as often and as cheaply as you will; but at least the story of Iowa, failure though prohibition there has proved, shows that in the matter of an attempt at thorough-paced reform the American will stop at nothing. I have been reading with glee that in a certain State of America they contemplate pass* ing a Bill to make tight-lacing a crime. This is an apt illustration of the American policy, which in its go-ahead nature says to itself, "This or that is undesirable what's the law for but to make us walk in the right way ? Therefore, let's appeal to the law." Charmingly simple, no doubt, is this idea, but unless I much mistake the charac- ter of the female mind (and temper) everywhere the simplicity of the idea is its only recommen- dation in the way of a probability of its chances of successful practice. TIGHT-LACING AND THE LAW. It almost sounds like a proposition made by Mr Mr W. S. Gilbert in one of his topsy-turvey plays when we find people seriously proposing to issue an edict to regulate the size of women's waists. Mind you, from the health point of view I am of opinion some such teaching is perfectly neces- sary, though it is not for the want of being well told about the harmful effects it induces that women still deform their chests. They should know, as well as the doctor, that the hamaii chest is broadest below, where the liver and other organs have to be sheltered, and that if they will persist in contracting the lower ribs they must displace the liver and stomach and limit the capacity of their lungs as well, to say nothing of other effects that medical men could describe. I am not arguing that any'and every woman with a neat. trim waist is tight-laced, but it is very obvious that a vast number do compress their bodies to an extent which is injurious, and suffer accordingly. But it is one thing to hope for the eradication of this habit, encouraged by every fashion-plate that one sees, by the teachings of health soience and the exercise of feminine com- mon-sense, and quite another thing to expect to put down tight-lacing, according to the American mode, by the law. I have no doubt the American woman will say in this case, with Bumble, that the law is a hass," and there will be "ructions" in the State which attempts to interfere with the liberty of the subject as represented by the size of the corset which that subject may elect to wear. AN IMPOSSIBLE REMEDY. I can see many practical difficulties, too, in the way of enforcing a statute such as that certain of oar American friends desire to be emblazoned in the book of the law. Who, for example, is to enforce the law ? AVould constables or female inspectors or a special sanitary corps be elected for the purpose ? And who is to determine the respective size of corset which each lady may wear with safety to herself and credit to the State ? These are only a few of the little things that occur to one on a brief preliminary consid- eration of the matter that there will be many rther difficulties which will loom ahead goes with- out my saying it. And as to fines and penalties, what is tojbe the adequate punishment for habitual offenders ? The revolt of women will be a very near event, it strikes me, when any such proposal is ever invoked. I do not envy the life of the mere married man if such an edict becomes law. The domestic thumb-screw and other modes of bring- ing pressure to bear on the male side will be re- morselessly applied in the days of tight-lacing re- form. I am glad I am not an American citizen with even the remote prospect of such an edict being seriously considered. MARRIAGE AND THE LAW. But there is another health reform which America is seriously contemplating, and one that seems to me to be much more practicable, and much more important than the last named idea. I read that the North Dakota Senate lately passed a Bill which requires all appplicants for marriage licences to be previously examined by a board of physicians, with the view of ascertain- ing their mental and physical fitness for entering the matrimonial state. The certificate handed to the happy man (I presume, of course, the lady will be required to pass a similar examination) will guarantee his freedom from consumption, scrofula, dipsomania, and insanity, so that there shall be no handi*g down of these and other hereditary ailments to the children of the marri- age. The existence of such ailments, I suppose, will constitute a barrier to the union of people in North Dakota. Then, they will skip over to another State to be married there, or they will take a little trip to Canada, or any other civilised country where hygienic opinion is not so far advanced, and return as duly married people. We ses practical difficulties here, as in the other case. Indeed, the position of the North Dakota young men and maidens would be that of oar own folk in the colonies and at home who marry their deceased wives' sisters. If Dakota chooses to say that no marriage can be legal or recog- nised which i3 not celebrated in that State, then everybody from the State who gets married else- where will be an alien in the matter of his domestic relations. I don't think Senator Creel of North Dakota has quite grasped the difficulties to which his little Bill will give rise. Love laughs at locksmiths," and sentiment will smile at sanitary science. It will only be when such a movement becomes national and universal that any hope of its successful application can possibly be entertained. HEREDITY AND MARRIAGE. And yet what more beneficent law, if law alone i;; the remedy for the evil, could be devised by thinking mankind ? If we think of the untold misery and pain inflicted upon innocent beings through unwise marriages, we may well stay to consider what remedy is feasible for the ameliora- tion of that ranch is nothing short of a national disgrace. Men and women marry regardless of all consequences in the way of heath and of the transmission of hereditary disease to their off- spring. The maim and the halt may marry and do marry consumptives enter into the bonds of holy matrimony scrofulous people, those with a marked history of insanity, and persons suffer- ing from other constitutional troubles all marry freely, without one thought being given to the consequences of such unions. It is a case this of human degeneration forced on and encouraged by the criminal ignorance, the carelessness, and the folly of mankind. Children are born only to die, and if they do survive we get a race of weaklings that in themselves constitute a parody on the natural and healthy humanity we ahonid own. That these things are true everybody knows, and yet the sacrifice of life and the evo- lution of disease and pain go on year by year unchecked. Contrast with this terrible careless- ness and apathy regarding the future of our race and the happiness of the married state—health being the foundation of all happiness—the great are wherewith men breed horses, cattle, sbeep, dogs, and even pigeons. There you have the principe of selection acted upon with success. The unfit are weeded out, and the race is to the strong. The breeder knows the effect of choosing unfit stock and vice versa, and he can predict, often with certainty, the results of the selection he is practising. If one-tenth part of the care which men bestow on the breeding of horses and cattle were lavished on their own matrimonial arrangements we should be saved an incalculable amount of misery, pain, and premature death. Bat it is not the law which, will remedy this terrible evil whereby the children's teeth are set on edge, and whereby the race is weakened throughout. There can be no exactness pre- scribed, nor indeed can we always guarantee a clean bill of health, even after a medical exami- na.tion. That which would operate in time is the cultivation of health knowledge, the arousing of the people to the necessity of health as the basis of all success in life-in a word, the national cultivation of health and its application to all phases of our social life. Meanwhile, intel- ligent individual effort may do much to counter- act the evils of unhealthy marriages. The parent ¡ who sacrifices his child in a marriage, the result of which can ouly mean the propagation of weak- ness and risk of death, is to all intents a criminal in a moral sense. No less is he or she a faithful citizen and a good parent who trains children to regard the preservation of their physical well- being as the bes(and highest possession whereof poor humanity can boast. A CURE FOR PNEUMONIA. It has been announced that a Dr Wassermann, of Berlin, has succeeded in discovering a cure for pneumonia, or inflammation of the langs-a very common and serious disease, I need hardly say. The new core is of the serum or anti-toxin order, that is to say, it is prepared with the anti- toxin which cures diphtheria by the action of the germ of the disease on the blood or tissues of an animal. In the case of the diphtheria anti-toxin, we find that the blood of a horse inoculated with the microbes of the dkcase develops the anti-toxin which is used to cure the disease in man. Dr. Wassermann, it is reported, has found that an anti-toxin can be similarly cultivated in the case of the germ of pneumonia, and the curious fact is noted that it is in the red marrow of the bones that the germs chiefly maltiply, and from this tissue the anti-toxin is prepared. It is also reported that this marrow, taken from the bones of a patient who had died ofj'pneumoniaand containing the germs of the disease, has been suc- cessfully used to cure mice which had been artifi- cially infected. Of course, this discovery is not complete. A very laborious course of research will be required to show whether or not Dr. Wassermann's researches are to lead to something definite in the way of a cure for the serious ail- ment in question. But his discovery at least proceeds on lines which have yielded good'result in the case of certain diseases (diphtheria, lock- jaw, and other ailments and there is nothing antecedently improbable in the idea that success, may attend thi3 latest piece of research in the direction of making germs fight themselves.

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