The Abergavenny Mail

SPORTS AND PASTIMES. r Once again England has proved successful 5n the ladies' International golf matches, and consequently retains the shield presented for the competition by Mr. T. H. Miller, vice-presi- dent of the Ladies' Golf Union. The tourna- ment was held on the Hunstant-on course, and during the two days over which it ex- tended the representatives of each country played 27 matches. Of these England won 22, Scotland 16. Ireland 12, and Wales 4. The English team won all three of their rmatchee and the Welsh none. On Saturday iEngland beat Wales by 9 matches to nil, and Scotland beat Ireland by 5 matches to 4. Last year the Amateur 'Rowing Associa- tion received a letter from the Melbourne, Victoria, and New South Wales Rowing Associations expressing a desire for a repre- sentative English crew to visit Australia, and -offerIng to defray the expenses of the crew to Australia and back. The A.R.A. Com- mittee replied that, whilst they appreciated the generous nature of the offer, they could not consider as amateurs those whose ex- penses were paid by any club or country other than their own. Mr. Bruce Logan, the -vice-captain of the Thames R.C., took the ma-tte-r up and selected a crew to visit Aus- tralia with expenses found on this side. How- ever, the visit has had to be cancelled for •this vear. several members of the crew being finable to make the journey owing to 4examinations in September. The committer of r-anagement of Henley 'Royal Regatta have made an agreement with -the American Rowing Association by which clubs affiliated to that association will be able •to enter at Henley. It is understood that this year the Union Boat Club, Boston, will enter for the Grand Challenge Cup, and the Barge Club, Philadelphia, for the Stewards Chal- lenge Cup. A splendid race took place on Saturday at Cambridge in the final of the University pairs for the Magdalene Silver Oars. The com- petitors were the brothers G. L. and D. I. Day, of Lady Margaret, who on the previous 4dav had beaten A. Swann, Trinity Hall, and K: G. Garnett. First Trinity, in a very close finish, and E. F. H. King and W. E. Caudrey, Cas. The conditions were not favourable, a strong wind impeding the competitors and a shower of rain falling. Mr. C. E. V. Buxton, the president, who had charge of the arrance- ments. got the men off to an even start. The Caius pair, with the advantage of the first station, soon began to obtain a lead. and gain- ing aJl the way to Ditton were two lengths up at the Plough. Entering the straight of the I^ong Reach, the Days steadily reduced their disadvantage with a great spurt, and in the last 100 yards got the lead and won by three- quarters of a length. Time, 8min. 14sec. In the Leys School Bathe, on Satur(lav, Cambridge University beat the Hon. Artillery > Company Swimming Club by two events to one. For Cambridge F. Resleure. the Aus- tralian swimmer, secured the 100 yards tscrabch race easily in 63 1-5seos. and also -won the quarter-mile in 6mins. 17seos. R. E. Herring (L.A. C.), who is generally regarded as one of the most promising young, athletes of the day, won five events at the Battersea Polytechnic sports at Herne Hill on Saturday. He secured the 100 yards from scratch 'in 10 3-5sec., a limited 100 yards from scratch ui 10 l-5sec., the 120 yards hurdles, from twelve yards behind scratch, in 20sec., the 220 yards championship in 25sec., and the long jump with 18ft. 6in. There was an interesting mateh on the course of the Orpington Golf Club on Satur- day to celebrate the formal opening of the new links. In the morning Harry Vardon (South Herts) met James Braid (Walton Heath) with a view to establishing a record, while the afternoon proceedings consisted of a four-ball match between the two famous amateurs Mr. H. H. Hilton (Royal Liverpool) and Mr. Robert Harris (Harewood-Dcwn) and the two professionals. The golf in the morning was played in a strong wind. but in spite of this Vardon and Braid exhibited excellent form. Braid was out in 35, Vardon taking one stroke more. For the homeward journey each man -took thirty-five. Vardon's putting being ex- tremely good, 'but Braid ultimately won by -one stroke, and his score of 70 constitutes a record for the green. Braid and Vardon con- ceded Mr. Harris and Mr. Hilton an allow- ance 6f 2 holes in the four-ball match, which -the professionals -won by one up. The French National Committee of Sports -met on Saturday to discuss the purposes, says the 'Paris correspondent of the Times. to which M. Basil Zaliaroff's gift of £ 20,000 for 'the development of athletics in France should 1be devoted. A sum of E12.000 will be spent in preparation 'for the next Olympic, Games. and the remaining E8,000 will be used in furtbeeitig in a general way the Olympic cause. The £ 12,000 has been distributed as follows: Athletics, swimming, lawn-tennis, «nd football, £ 5,000; gymnastic,, C484) row- ing, £ "460; boxing, £ 460; wrestling, £ 360; fencing, £ 920; shooting, £ 1,240; hunting, £240 -riding and polo, £ 860; yachting, £ 1.0>30; archery, £ 180; bicycling, Z740. The french 'Government grant will amount to £ 6,000. The managers -Of Bombardier 'Wells and Colin Bell, the Australian who made such a food display against Jeanette, have, says the &-porting 'Life., arranged with Mr. 'C. 'B. Cochran for a contest which Mr. Cochran jjr-oposes to stage in London, prdbably be- tween) June 15th and June 30th, for a purse o" £ 2,Q00. Fred Welsh has accepted an tfffer made by Mr. ^Cochran to meet Willie 'Ritchie 5u London during the summer, and Harry Pollak, Welsh's nianager, cables to say that EiteJiie -will probably also accept. It is pro- posed to hold the contest between Sam 'Lang ford and Gunboat Smith for a purse Of £ 3,500. This match would presumably be subsemjeirt to the one which is expected to take pl-aee in Loncion 'between Carpeufier :and Gunboat Smith for a purse of £ 5,000 given iby Dick Bjitrgc. It WI authoritatively stated that tfhere will be no further contests between whites and blacks iu England or Wales, and it is ex- pected that official confirmation to that effect will be promulgated within the next few days. The fimt annual match at the throe arms between the Salle Verbrugge of Antwerp and Bertrand's School of Arms, London, for whioh Colonel Cyril Matthey has offered i, challenge shield, has -b,!en held in London. The Salle Verbrugge won 'by two events to one. With the foil and the epee the Salle Verbrugge won easily; indeed, in the epee match the team was composed entirely of fencers who have gained world-wide fame in international tournaments. In the sabres. however, Bertrand's team was composed of fencers of international reputation, and they von by one point. At one time they had all easy victory in sight, for they held the sub- stantial lead of seven to one half-way through the match. Professor Verbrugge and Professor F. McPherson acted alter- nately as president of the jury. An experiment is about to be tried in Lon- fl-wi which should prove of great interest to tiic thousands of tennis enthusiasts through- out the world. Most people are aware that rubber plays an important part in all kinds of sports. In golf, football, cricket, rowing, and, in fflet, in connection with almost every athletic recreation indulged in by both sexes at the present day, rubber is in evidence. Up 10 WiW, however, a rubber tennin court has licver been seen. Such a court will be con- structed next month at the Royal Agricul- tural Hall, Islington, during the period of the International Rubber and Allied Industries Exhibition. The rubber used will be planta- tion rubber. This will give the experts a further opportunity of testing the durability and usefulness of this kind of rubber as com- pared with the Brazilian product. The court is being made by a British firm, the material U68d will be British-grown plantation rubber, and the workmen employed will be British workmen. Interesting tournaments are being arranged, and some of the best professionals and amateur players will be seen.

When "ted to pay his bilt in a Bordeaux restaurant a customer named Emile Lafort produced a revolver and shot the landlord dead. He then fired at the landlord's wife and her sister, both of whom are fatally wounded. Afterwards he surrendered to the police.

WORK AND WORKERS. I The special telegraph staffs of the Post Office have a grievance as well as the sorting clerks. They brought forward their com- plaints some weeks ago. A meeting of the staff which is located in Manchester has been held to consider what action might be taken to obtain redress. These telegraphists are em- ployed mainly to travel to the various places in their district when special events, such as big political meetings, cricket and football matches, or race meetings, make it necessary to supplement the local post office staffs by men who are accustomed to deal with a rush of work. These special staffs consist of men of wide experience and proved ability, and it has been the custom up to the present to make an allowance of 6d. an hour when employed on travelling duty, to cover the expenses of board and lodgings, or refreshments when the duty does not extend beyond a day. It has been proposed to reduce this allowance to 4d. an hour. The telegraphists naturally point out that, having regard to the increased cost of living, the 6d. allowance is only sufficient to enable them to live decently when away from home. The proposal to reduce the amount is likely to be strongly opposed, says the Man- chester Guardian, and it is said that in some centres men are asking to be taken off the special duty list. on the ground that they will be out of pocket if the revised allowance comes into operation- No doubt the protest will be effectual. Notice has been posted at the Alice Colliery, near Maryport, to terminate all con- tracts in the Statey seam at the expiration of fourteen days. This will throw sixty men and boys idle. The owners had approached the men for a reduction of 4d. per ton, which the men had refused to concede on the ground that it was much too large. The closing of collieries and seams in the last few months has thrown over 300 men out of work in the Maryport district, and there has been an exodus into otrcoal-mining districts. Five hundred women and children, hunger marchers from all parts of South London, shivering in the north-east wind, were pro- vided with food on Saturday evening for the week-end. They were the wives and children of the men involved in the London building trade dispute, and they walked miles through sunless streets to "Brixton for loaves and pro visions supplied through the agency of the South London Women and Children Fund, at headquarters there. The Licensed Vehicle Workers' Benevolent Society some time ago began dispensing necessities to these stricken families, and when unable to cope alone with the acute distress broadened the basis of ap- peal by forming the Women and Children's Fund. Five hundred parcels of provisions and 1,000 loaves were divided among 500 families. Only South London homes have been aided so far, and these exceed 1,000 in number. It is computed that there are 4,000 labourers' families in London suffering dire want, and the ultimate aim is to provide food for every starving family. Mr. J. H.. Thomas, M.P., speaking at a meeting of railwaymen at Newport (Mon.), on Sunday night, declared his belief that 1914 was going to be a year which would revolu- tionise the position of railwaymen. With re- ference to the meetings of the Transport Workers, Miners, and the Railwaymen's Union, he said they had come to the conclu- sion that they were wasting each other's money and energy by independent strikes, and they had arrived at an agreement. It meant that the full power Of those three bodies would be so concentrated that, instead of the miners having a dispute in March and throwing the railwaymen out, the railway- men having a dispute in November and throwing the miners out, they would try to arrange for their disputes and agreements to commence and end at the same time. There were within the limits of that agreement won- derful possibilities. It did not mean that they as a union were committed to the sym- pathetic strike., because if once that policy were adopted railway men would always be out, but the power to strike was the one weapon which enabled them to meet the capitalists OH equal terms. A speaker at a Southampton Labour meet- ing suggested that if, as some employers as- serted, a man was too old to work because his hair was turning grey, he was also too old to pay rent, rates, and taxes, and ought to have nn Old-Age Pension without question .as to age or means. Mr. Hughes, of Messrs. -Hughes Bolckow Company, battleship breakers, speaking at a gathering of North-country commercial men on board the battleship Renown at Blytli, said that when foreigners bought an obsolete ship they paid what wages they liked in break- ing her up. English firms were under contract to pay trade union rates of wages. The Re- nown was the only battleship purchased by a British firm at the recent Portsmouth sale. Four others went aboard, and with them £ 25,000 in wages. The Admiralty ought to stipulate that all ships must be dismantled in England, and thus cause money to be distri- buted amongst workmen at home. In that case English firms noW not iear :any com- petition. Following an increase g.raiited by Messrs. Vickers to the engineers employed at the Bar- row Island shipyard of Is. per .week, with a further Is. in October next, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers has been dealing with other employers of engineers in Barrow, with the result that six large firms have agreed to grant increases as follows: Fitters from 36s. to 38s., turners 37s. to 39s., machine men ;33s. to 35s. per week. A grant of Is. per week has just been granted, and the second lis. advance will be given ooa ilke first pay- iday in October next. 'By Provisional Orders, confirmed last -Sessioii by Parliament, the application of the Trade Boards Act was extended to certain additional trades, including sugar confec- tionery and food preserving. Regulations made by the Board of Trade, after consulting 'persons affected, provide for the establish- ment in Great Britain and Ireland of Trade Boards for sugar confectionery and food pre- serving. In accordance with the regulations, a Trade Board was recently established for this trade in Great Britain, and the Board of Trade now announce that they have formed a separate Trade Board for the trade in ques- tion in Ireland, consisting of three members (persons unconnected with the trade) ap- pointed by the Board of Trade, together with nine repr* sentatives of employers and nine representatives of workers. The principal duty of the Trade Board will be to fix the minimum rates of wages wliicTi may be paid to work- people in the trade in Ireland. The Board of Trade, it is notified in the London (iazette, propose to make a special order extending the provisions of the unem- ployment section of the National Insurance Act to workmen in the trade of. repairing works of construction other than roads and the permanent-way of railways, subject to a modification also to the trade of saw-milling, including machine woodwork, whether car- ried on in connection with any insured trade or not. The term of office of the Lace Finishing Trade Board, established on September 6th, 1910, having expired, the Board of Trade have made regulations with respect to the constitution and proceedings of a Trade Board for machine-made lace and net finish- ing, other than the finishing of the product of plain net machines, but including the finishing of hair nets, veilings, and quillings, whether made on plain net or other machines. In accordance with the above regulations, a Trade Board has been estab- lished for the period of three years commenc- ing May 14th, 1914, and thereafter until dis- solved by order of the Board of Trade. The Trade Board consists of three members (per- sons unconnected with the trade) appointed by the Board of Trade, together with eight representatives of employers and eight repre' sentatives of workers.

AN UNFAIR HANDICAP. NATIONAL EXPENDITURE UNDFR 1 PRESENT FREE TRADE GOVERNMENT. § 1914-15 £ 210.500,D00 a 1906-07 £ 149,600,110 INCREASE fi 60,900,000 [ I .> -(\. I,. f 0 -===- JOCKEY BULL:—What, put more on my tnount when you've nearly broken his back already Why don't you put some handicap on the other horse so that we can run fair ?

[ MARKETS. LONDON CORN, MONDAY.—ENGLISH WHEAT. -The market was firmer, in sympathy with foreign samples. Supplies remain small. White milling lots ranged exceptionally up to 36s. 6d., and Reds up to 35s. 6d. per qr. FOREIG WHKATS.—Trade was very firm, owing to ppot- scarcity, and quotations were 6d. to Is. higher on the week: No. 1 Northerns, 37s. 3d.; No. 2 ditto, 36s. 9d. ex ship; Plate, 36s. 3d. ex ship; Russian, 34s. upwards; Aus- tralian, 38s. 6d. landed. MAIZE.—There was only a moderate demand, but conditions remained firm, with an upward tendency in values, owing to restricted sup- plies: Plate, 26s. 3d. to 26s. 6d. landed. OATS.—Most samples were held for 3d. to 6d. advance on the week, though the inquiry was not particularly active: Plates, 15s. 6d. Danu- bians, 15s. 9d.: Germans. 17s. 9d. upwards; Canadians, 18s. 9d. upwards landed. BAKTEY. Grinding and feeding barleys showed marked firmness, and were dearer on the week Odessa, 21s. 3d. to 21s. 6d. landed. Malting samples were h(,I(i for full rates, the cheaper sorts being assis^d bv the upward tendency of feedine lots: English, 27s. to 34s.; Smyrna, 29s. to 33s.: Ouchak and Anatolian, 29r>. to Hune»rinn and Bohemian. 34s. 6d. to 42s. Brewing- C;iliforn;nn, 30s. to 32Ai. 6d.; Oregon. 29s. to 33s. p-r 4481b. BEAXS AND PFAs.Tliere was a fair trade at steady rates. LONDON FLOFR. MONDAY.—Th»' market s howed distinct firmness, in sympathy with wheat, but only a moderate trade was reported. Prices on the w.k were rather dearer: Eng- lish Town-made Patents. 28s. 6d. to 31s. 6d. ditto Country-made. 2. 6d. to 26s. 6d.: Ameri- can Patents. 27s. 6d. to 30s. 6d.; ditto Bakers', 23s. to 26s. per sack. LONDON CATTLE. MOVDAY.—Beast entries on to-day's market numbPrpd 680, a decrease of 160 conipnred with ljrst. Monday. Despite the contraction in offerings, trade remained slow at arourtd recent rates. Fine bullocks, however, wore fairly steadv: Scotch. 5s. to 5s. 2d.: Devons, 5s. to 5s. 9d.: Norfolks. 4s. 8d. to 5s. Shorthorns. 4s. 8d. to 5s. Fat slaughtering COwo and bulls met a quiet sale, the former ran-ng from 3". jod. to 4s.: exceptionally, 4s. 2d. aid the la+f»r from 3s. 6d. to 3s. lOd. prr"t.onnllv. 4. Twentv milch cows offered, am' the ouota^'on for the best was X22 10s. eneh. Four thonlInd five hundred and ten nenned in the market, P decrease of 1 211 Trade ruled steadv II" follows: Best j), 5s pj to 6. best half-bred*. F:k 2d. to p; tH "t Down ewes. 4s. to 40 id. DAwn 7* 6<1. to 8s. per stone. Five calved {lffn,1 trorle was toO 6mall to quote. TOVDON MFVT, MOVDAV —Trp.de quiet: supples moderate: Beef. 4s. tM.. to 4s.: Scotch, 4s. ?d. 5s Ahindquarters, Ss. 6d. to •*<- F'1,v'ieh 4s, lOri, to 5c. ?/d mpi. 10d. to 4s. 2d. Scotch ewes, 3s. tod to 4s 2f1 t,rp. te New Zea- land. 9s. to Is T Fnrrl;c|li #5S 4<1 to 7. 7.er»]j>nd. 3= 8-1 to 4s. Veal, 4s. 8d to Rs. Pork. 4-. to -Is. 8d. per stone. LONDOV pnTA Tn. M()n4V-Tra.t" pried slow f, {II;T" Sllpn!s. 1IS follows: Lincoln*, 75" t" 80«. Kinc ^waHs. to "p"t and F,x, "fls to 7*K: BlfeMarids. 60< to 65". per ton: New C-nqrioe and ^eneriff^s. ]2s. up- wards per cwt. Gnerpcevs. 2d. per lb. LONDON7 PROVISIONS. MONDAY.— Butter steadv: Danish. 110s. to ]14s. Normandy. 90s. to IIEN. Irish, 100s. to 114,. New Zealand, 100s. to 114s. Australian, 90s. to lOSs.: Rus- sian. 94s. to 100s. per rwt Pheese steadv: rrtl1:Jc1:"n. 64s. to 70s.: Tinteh. 60s. to 74s. ner cwt. Bacon unsteadv: Irish. rota. to 76s.: Con- tinental. fin". to 74s. per eWf. Hams ouiet: American. 66s. to 81s. per cwt. Eggs s low. BP \R>FORD WOOL. MONDAY. There in praeticRllv no response in this market to the lead piven bv rmv wool -'n Iiondon, and to-day there is a good d"al of trembling about as to the pa-ticit v <,f bxi- in merinoes or cross-bred tops. T>—V~«t, however, were firm; but it i" most d'fficnU to g-nt. full advances. Paw wool appears to dominate the situation. EncHsh are selling steadily at fairly satisfactory rates.

Ur; J)eyt, a young Paris surgeon who was to be married a few days hence, bu died through cutting his hand during an operation and contracting blood-poisoning. H, CycliIJts have proved a most useful addi- tion to the police force and have helped to reduce the amount of crime," says the head constable of Liverpool, Mr. F Caidwell, in his annual report. By means of forged postal orders a gang of criminals have obtained £ 20,000 within the past month from the French Post Office, says a corresDondent. »

AGRICULTURAL NOTES. I BY A PRACTICAL FARMER. SHEEP-SHEARING BY MACHINE. Sheep-shearing by hand is work that callt- for exceptional skill and care to be done weli and quickly; and while a really clever hand- shearer can turn out sheep to perfection, there is no doubt that machine-shearing if best with operators of moderate experience and ability, especially where large numbers of sheep have to be dealt with. With small flockls hand-shearing i8 likely to be practised for many years to come; but the shearing- machine is rapidly winning favour on all the larger sheep farms, especially now that thE use of portable oil-engines is becoming common. The engine, even if of low power, ean be em- ployed to drive a number of machines, and thus save the need of a second man or boy for each machine. It is this fact that two hands are required which has prevented many sheep farmers from .abandoning the old method, even though labour is actually saved in the long run. Several makes of machines are now on the market, and these have been tested as thoroughly as any machine needs to be before it is adopted in ordinary practice. To say that a machine secures a greater quantity of wool may be true where the comparison is made with second or third-rate hand-shear- ing but it cannot be denied that the best hand-shearing is all too rare, and slovenly work is seen in most markets. The question of wounds and bruises is one that has to be taken into consideration when comparing the hand and machine processes. Some shearers are able to shear all day long and hardly leave a mark upon the sheep, while others inflict a great amount of damage which not iufre- quently results in the loss of some valuable animals. Some makers of shearing-machines are willing to allow a free trial, and flock- roasters who have hitherto had no experience of machine-shearing would be well advised at least to make the experiment. 9 4D0 I MILK UNDER SEAL. Continued reference in the Press and on public platforms to the question of pure milk is undoubtedly making sections of the con- suming public nervous about the sources of their supplies. There is probably a consider- able number of people who are willing to pay a higher price than usual for milk which they can feel sure has been drawn and handled under strictly hygienic conditions. It is likely to prove a good deal more satisfactory if these people's requirements are met by pri- vate effort than if hampering State regula- tions Are brought into operation, and are en- forced with all the unpleasantness of officialism. As the outcome of three years' careful pre- paration, a set of rules regarding the selling of milk have been issued by the Pure Food and Health Society of Great Britain which are well worthy at least of consideration. They deal in great detail with the whole question of milk supply, various sections being concerned with the conditions under which it is produced and stored at the farm, with its treatment in the town dairies, and with its supply to customers. Farmers and dairymen who agree to these rules will be permitted to use the society's pure milk seal, though this is not to be taken as a guarantee of purity, but merely as an indication tnat the precautions indicated have been carried out. The farmer who desires to sell milk under this seal has to agree to periodical examina- tion of his cows by a veterinary surgeon and by tuberculin tests. All milk is to be strained at the farm, and provision is to be made for cooling it immediately after milking. De- tailed rules deal with the drainage and general cleanliness of cow-sheds, the isola- tion of sick and newly-bought animals, the water aupply, and the manner of milking. The milkers are to be under periodical medi- cal inspection, and have to give an undertak- ing to report any form of sickness at their houses. Any addition to or abstraction from milk, whether colouring or any substance or liquid, is to be absolutely prohibited, and various milkings are not to be mixed. All pasteurised, sterilised, or separated milk must be so labelled. • • • t FISH MEAL. I Several experiments and trials have shown that when it is of good quality fish meal may be profitably used in compounding rations for farm stock, especially pigs. But it is im- portant to bear in mind that- it may have been prepared from inferior material and contain excessive quantities of salt or other adulterant, and then may actually prove to have a harmful effect on the health of the animals consuming it. The analysis of* a large number of samples of fish meal shows that its composition varies very widely. In one no less than 45 per cent. of the whole sample consisted of ash, and in another as much as 6 per cent. of sand was found. A farmer persuaded to pay a good price for these sub- stances would have no -:ause for satisfaction with himself. Great care is therefore desirable in buying fish meal, not only because of its composi- tion, but also because of the methods adopted in its preparation. The proportion of salt in the meal should be guaranteed not to exceed 8 per cent.; more than that may cause illness, and is certainly of no value to the animals. Fish meal is specially suitable for feeding in combination with roots and potatoes, which are poor in those constituents in which fish meal is rich, but it does not appear to be de- sirable that the meal should contain more than 4 per cent. of fat. Some investigations have been made abroad with the object of ascertaining what quantity of the meal may most profitably be fed to the different classes of farm stock. The fol- lowing proportions are recommended as a daily allowance on condition that the quality of the meal is good: For every 1,0001b. live weight cattle may have 21b.; and for every 1001b. live weight sheep may have l-101b. to 1-51 b.; while pigs may be allowed from a Jib. to lIb. per head, according to live weight. PROTECTING HONEST CHEESE-MAKERS. Since it was proved years ago that cheese- making need not be confined to particular localities a great change has come over the industry, and now the position is that hun- dreds of times more Cheddar cheese is made out of the Cheddar valley than in it, and a standard of quality in this as in other pro- duce tends to disappear. Hence the public is frequently deceived by inferior cheese, which thus sometimes competes on equal terms with the best qualities. An official inquiry has recently been made on the question whether the application to cheese of certain descriptions, including I Cheddar, Cheshire, Cotherstone, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Stilton, and Wens- leydale, implies that the cheese is made from the whole milk. The opinions of a number of cheese-makers, dealers, and dairy experts were ascertained, and the evidence obtained appeared to the Board of Agriculture to jus- tify the conclusion that cheese described as Stilton and Wensleydale should invariably be made of whole milk, or milk with cream added, and that Cheddar, Cheshire, Cotherstone, Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Leicestershire cheeses should be made from whole milk, except in cases which it is alleged way ari«M towuvl* tbe oII!n.à af +)- 11> wnicn tne miiK is too ricii ana pan or tne cream is removed in order that the cheese way have the proper consistency. In some cases it is admitted by makers of some of the above cheeses that they take a. little cream from the milk for personal use. But this practire, which i« probably illegal, and clearly contrary to the interests of the s makers of such cheeses, is not recognised :i9 part of the process of manufacture, and does not affect the meaning of the descriptions in question. In view of the results of this inquiry the Board have decided that if any case is brought under their notice ;n whicli the terms Stilton or Wensleydale are applied to cheeses not made from whole milk. or milk to which cream has been added, or ji1 which the terms Cheddar, Cheshire, Cothcrstone, Derby- shire, Lancashire, and Leicestershire are ap- plied to cheeses which huve been skimmed in a greater degree than is necessary for the purpose of giving the cheese its proper con- sistency, they will take steps to institute pro4 ceedings under the Merchandise Marks Acta.

DELICIOUS COFFEE. RED WHITE & BLUE For Breakfast A after Phmr.

seventeen nunttrea men attended a memorial service for the late Rev. Silvester Horne at Whitefield's Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon, and hundreds more were unable to obtain ad- mission. The Rev. F. B. Meyer was seized with ill- ness in the pulpit at Regent's Park Chapel on £ imda.Y morning. bit later was able to continue.

CHIPS OF NEWS. The death occurred at Chichester oil Satur- day of the Rev. Henry Malioney Davey, the Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral. The Cunard Company announce a new Atlantic special leaving St. Pancras each Friday at 6 p.m.. enabling passengers to spend the night in Liverpool before sailing. Th< Euston special on Saturday morning will continue. Three large pictures, one being three yards long and two yards high, have been prf- sented to the Lambeth Council, which hn- asked its Town Hall Committee to consido where the pictures can be hung. The death occurred on Saturday of Mr Arthur Cummings, of Charles street. Berkeley-square, who was injured in th' motor-car collision which took place OBISMIC Olympia during last week. The profit made by the Surrey Public HAUH Trust during the past year amounted h 4:2,089 19s. 9d., as compared with £ 1,004 19s. 6d. in the previous y-ar, admittin; of a dividend of 5 per cent. The proportion of non-alcoholic takings was 58 per o" the total receipts. The Army is not a depot for the eounirv wastrel; in these days it is looked up to." uid Mr. Montagu Sharpe, the Chairman, at. ;;)t' Middlesex Sessions, when counsel apper.r. for a. prisoner said he hoped the Court wovl be able to send him away into the Armv or N-ovy In a rough sea off Yarmouth on James Howlett, skipper of the hcrrlnb steamer Datum, jumped overboard ar.o res- cued a man named Turrell, who had beer, washed off another boat and was on the point of drowning. The death occurred suddenly in London an Saturday of Mr. Reginald, Jaffray Lucas, ivbo sat in 1900-6 as Conservative M.P. for Ports- mouth. He was a brother of Sir Arthur Luc;:s. In consequence of alterations in the tra-:s- Siberian train service, mails for the Far intended for transmission via Siberia, will in future be made up in London on Tuesday. Wednesday, and Saturday afternoons., and on Saturday evenings. By the bursting of a steampipe at Celynen Coniery, Abercarn. on Saturday, a man named William Pedstone was so scalded that, he was taken out of the pumphouse dead. Eight women, arrested at Workington. as the result of a. betting raid by the police, were charged at the police-court on Saturday with using the premises for betting. After formal evidence they were remanded. The Duke of Connaupht has sent a dona- tion of ?100 to St. Paul's Cathedral Preser- vation Fund. Several cases of swine fever have been confirmed in the Thirsk district during the past fortnight. While driving a traction engine at Slief- field Samuel Gould fell underneath the wheels and was crushed to death. Fruiterers at Newport (Mon.) have agreed not to sell bananas, in consequence of the high prices charged by the importers. By means of Lent collecting cards, a sum of £ 120 was realised at Hersham. Surrey, to- wards a fund for the re-roofing of the parish church. On the liowther estate in Cumberland "Lord Lonsdale is about to erect forty up-to- date cottages as the nucleus of a model vil- lage at Hackthorpe. A woman occupying a post as a clerk in Hamburg has been arrested and charged with selling to a French organisation some plans which she is alleged to have procured relating to the construction of a German warship. Of the public-house licences referred for extinction, the Surrey Licensing Committee have, as the result of their preliminary meet- ing. decided to proceed with only eleven cases, several of the licences having been renewed. A telegram from Ujda to Paris says that El "Roghi. the Moorish Pretender, has suc- cumbed to wounds he received during- the attack of the French on his northern camp -oil the 1st inst. The death is announced in Paris of Vice- Admiral Humann, at the age of seventy-six. The deceased was formerly chief of the French Naval General Staff and Admiral commanding the Mediterranean squadron. A divisional court of King's Bench quashed the conviction of the caddie master of Princes Golf Club, Mitcham. for refusing to supply a caddie to a member of the public. The action involved the right of the club to a pre- fe renee to the common. Arrangements have been made by the Lon- don County Council with the National Lend- ing Library for the Blind for the loan of thirty-five Braille volumes, changeable once a month, for circulation amongst, the children in attendance at the Council schools for the bland. Catherine Steddle, aged twenty one, of Upper Kennington lane, Lambeth, was knocked down and killed by a motor-car in Kennington-road on Sunday morning. A bomb explosion, believed to have been the work of Suffragists, took place at Spur- geon's Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon. Little damage was done. In many churches, without distinction of creed, special services were held on Sunday throughout the country in thanksgiving for the gift of sight. Mr. Norman Gibb, of Gateshead, a nephew of Sir George Gibb, chairman of the Road Board and late general manager of the North- Eastern Railway, has been appointed chief mechanical engineer for the Southern lines of the Siamese Royal State Railways. I am not guilty. If I had been I should have engaged a solicitor!" was the humorous observation of a woman summoned before the Darlington Bench. Hammersmith Borough Council offices dur- ing the summer holidays are to be closed one hour earlier in the evening, but are to be opened at the usual hour in the morning. Six hundred tons of pitch were on board the trader Lindale, which caught fire at Silvertown on Sunday, and a man named Herbert Saintly, in running off the ship, slipped off the gangway and was drowned. Arthur Eaton, on whom an inquest was held at Hackney on Saturday, was a famous clog-dancer, who danced Walter Hicks for the championship of the world. He held four cups, and once met Dan Leno in open compe- tition. He died from lockjaw, caused by a carden fork running into his foot

An amuaing tale of an ikon fa representa- tion of a 8acred figure) and an engine is told by Mr- Stephen Graham in the Times to illus- trate the superstition of the Russian peasan- try. One peasant held that it was an unclean spirit that made a steam engine go forward; another said it was just steam. no more, he knew. It is an unclean spirit," the former reoeated. "I'll bet it is an unclean spirit." How .will you prove that it ia?" "I'll bet you a quarter the engine won't be able to pass the ikon of Mikhail the Ugodnik." "Very well-done! The ikon was brought to the railway lines. Presently thrum, thrum, thrum, the post- train left the village railway station. The first peasant stood himself on the lines and held the ikon in front of him with both hands. The other stood by and watched. The train came on, but when the engine-driver saw the peasant barring the way and apparently flag- ging the train he brought his machine to a standstill and c.ried out to know what was the matter. "You see," said the peasant, "the engine dare not pass the ikon. The quarter is mine—let's so and have a drink."

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REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE The wheat gradient. this week is between th^ Midland and the far north: Leicester, 33s. lid.; Berwick, 80s.; ran!le. 3s. lid. No range. 3s. Ild. o English wheat was offering at Gloucester. The barlev gradient is between York- shire and Wiltshire; a very low average for that high quality market is returned from Burton, and no offerings were reported at Newark and Gloucestershire: Northampton, 21s. lid. Gloucester, 17s. 6d. range, 4s. 5d. No English oats were offering afc Worcester or Tpswich. These signs of the home crop giving out are usual after Mid- summer day. Thev are rare in May, and not without a decided significance for would-be buvers. the sales of British wheat at the statute- markets since September 1st have been as fol- low: This season. 2.196.000qr. at 31s. 2d. per qr.; last season, l,836,000qr. at 31s. 8d. per qr. The fall in price, considering last year's- very difficult summer for ripening, is not very serious. Barley has suffered in value far more severely: This season, 3,367.(MX)qr., at 27s. 3d. per qr. last season, 2,445,000qr., at 29s. Id. per qr. The price of oats is low, and recovers very gradually. Last week it was only 18s. 5d., and for thirty-five completed weeks of the- season is 18s. 4d.: This season, 644.00ftqr., at 18s. 4d. per qr. last season. 554,000qr., at 19s. 9d. per qr.—Mark Lane Express. I CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANE. LONDON FLOTTR. (Cash ex 'rown Mill.) Top Price per 2801b. 3116 Town Whites 29/6 Town Households 2(;16 No.2. 250 Hungarian Process „ 32/6 Best American London Ground. 28 '6 London Standard, 80 per cent. ,» 27/0 Conjrntr FLOUR. Caah at London Terminuc.) Best Price per 2801b. 26/0 Good Patents Straights „ 23/6 Roller Whit-es. 23/6 Stone-Made 23/4 BRITISH GRAIN (0.. STANDI). e. s. Wheat, White per 5041b. 34 to 31 Red 11 33 to 36 Rivetts per 4801b. 31 to 33 Barley, Malting per448!b. 29 to 31 Poultry 27 to 28 Feeding per 4001b. 23 to 25 Malt, English, Best per 33<>tb. 43 t; I 44 „ Fine 46 t., 41 „ Ordinary „ 38 to 39 Sootch, Fine. 41 to 42 Ordinary v „ 39 to 40 Brown 31 t0 35 Black 34 to 36 Crystallised. 34 to 38 Oats, Fine Scotch 1!I12 „ 26 to 27 1913 „ 23 to 24 Good Gartons, Old 22 to 23 New „ 20 to 21 Tartary, Old 21 to 22 „ New „ 20 to 21 Winter, Old Black. „ 23 to 24 11 New „ „ 20 to 22 Old Grey 22 to 23 New. to 20 to 21 Common. New per 3121b. 19 to 20 Inferior. New per 304)b. 18 to 19 Beans, Pigeon, 1911 per 5321b. 56 to 58 „ 1912. 48 to 52 1913 4(i t0 47 f Winter, 1912. 11 37 to 39 11 1913. 35 to 36 Spring, 1912. 39 to 41 1913 38 to 39 Peas, Marrowfats, Fine New per 5011b. 89 to 91 Sound New 79 to 81 Yearling „ 50 to 60 Partridge.Fine „ 37 to 39 „ Common. 35 to 37 Maple, 1912 37 to 38 Dun 1913 35 to 36 Rye, Essex per 4801b. 23 to 24 Tares, Best Spring, 1911 per 5321b. 55 to 57 Good 1912 47 to 51 Pine, 113 41 tie 43 Common, 1913 „ 33 to 37 Winter, 1912. 47 to 49 Fine, 1913 „ 41 to 43 Common, 1913 33 to 37 Gores, 1911 97 to 10% „ 1912. 81 to 8* „ 1913, Best. 57 to 6& „ Common 1913, „ 41 to 43 Buckwheat. Norfolk. per 4001b. 33 to 34 Linseed, Lincolnshire. per 4241b. 52 to 54 Rapeseed, Best New per 4161b. 74 to 75 Cominon „ 68 to 70 Moatardmed, Browa per 4481b.98 to 110 whi. go s. go Oommoi 76 to 80 C&aaiyned,Emma per 4641b. 30 to 84 —Mark Laru iPjepftM.