The Abergavenny Mail

CRICKET CHAT. I [BY THE TYKE."] What a contrast between last Saturday and Saturday week? Ugh Candidly I could not fancy sitting and watching cricket in such beastly cold weather as we experi- enced last Saturday afternoon. What a con- trast Friday and Saturday. On the one day delightfully warm and bright; then the thunderstorm at night; followed by a posi- tively cold air on the Saturday. You can't get really enthusiastic about cricket on such a day, at least I couldn't, but evidently Frank James, the Ledbury all-rounder, did, as Withington found out. Ledbury should have gone to Withington last Saturday, but owing to the latter's ground not being in trim the match was played at Ledbury by arrangement. Led- bury had first knock, and opened with two of the numerous Smith family, the long and short of them, to wit, Harry, the wicket- keeper, and Jim, the left-hander. The pair put on 18 before Jim Smith was caught off Fox for half-a-dozon. James joined Smith and the pair made the best stand of the day, the former soon setting about the bow- ling, an I his second scoring stroke was a 6. At 46 Harry Smith was run out for 15, and Hoult, who followed in, was sent back without -scoring. < James went on Until he had registered 39, which included two 6's and three 4's, while Williams and the skipper, C B Masefield, each registered a round dozen. Brown, Hayes and Kendrick failed, but Clarke and Corbett made a useful last wicket stand, the former carrying out his bat for 13. The total was 108, the last five wickets only putting on 24 runs. Fox and James each secured three wickets, Heal two and Firkins one. « On Withington going in to bat they found James in his most deadly form with the ball, and when that occurs it means trouble for somebody. In this case 4 was the Withington batsmen, none of whom reached double fignres, while the total was only 38. James secured 7 wickets for 13 runs, and the last 5 wickets only cost him 6 runs. Williams secured 2 for 18, and Hoult, who bowled a couple of overs towards the close of the innings, bad two runs bit off him, without meeting with success. » On Saturday last Eastnor scored an easy victory over Forthampton on the Castle ground. Batting first Forthampton could only put together a total of 26 against the bowling of Winter and Court, the former taking 4 wickets for 13, and Court 6 for a like number of runs. Eastnor ran up a ecore of 138 for 6 wickets. The chief con- tributor was that promising young batsman, Leonard Phillips, who, going in second wicket down, was undefeated with 71 to his credit, Bcored out of 110 put ou while he was at the wickets. In the course of his innings he hit a 6, five 4's, two 3's. and nine 2's. Court, Mullins and Crookes were each responsible for a dozen and Howells made 13.

LEDBURY v. WITHINGTON. I Played at Ledbury on Saturday and won by I the homesters by 70 runs. Scores :— LEDBURY. J Smith c Firkins b Fox 6 H Smith run out .]5 F James c Morgan b Fox 39 L P Hoult c Morgan b Fox 0 Willia.ms b Heal. 12 C B Masefield c F Morgan b James 12 W S Brown c Morgan b James 1 T H Hayes b Heat. 0 W Clarke not out 13 J Kendrick c and b James 0 W H Corbett b Firkins 5 Extras 5 -108 WITHINGTON. F H Morgan b James 6 W Fox b James 3 Wade c Hotilt b Williams 2 C Morgan c H Smith b Williams. 5 R Firkins b James 4 J Heal c Smith b James 9 W Edwards c Clarke b James 0 F James b James 3 F Whetton b James 0 E Clifford run out 0 W Williams not out 1 Extras 5 -38 EASTNOR v. FORTHAMPTON. At Eastnor on Saturday and won by the homesters. Score :— FORTHAMPTON. A Newbury c Phillips b E Winter. 2 7 Smith b E Winter 0 A J Surl c E Winter b Court 2 Spry c HowHls b E Winter 7 .J Dee b E Winter 0 Rev A. H Wells h Court 4 F Wilkinson b Court 1 ■Bloxham c Sansome b Court 0 H Lane b Court 5 R C Davies c Browning b Court 0 A Cole not out 5 -26 EASTNOR. 'H B Court c Newbury bCole 12 <J Mullins b Cote. 12 W S Crookes b Cole 12 L J Phillips not out 71 R Browning b Well, 3 E Winter b Wells 2 W Howells b Newhury 13 W Pedlingham not out 4 Extras 9 (6 wktto) -138 A F Stubbs, E Sansome, and F Winter did not I)at.

ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAINS AT HEREFORD. FISH PLATES FOFND ON THE LINE.-An attempt to wreck trains at Hereford was discovered on Friday. After the fish express to South Wales had passed the junction with the Midland and Great Western Railway, on the north side of Barrs Court Station, the signalman heard an unusual noise. It was as if something had struck a piece of metal. Two other trains passed, and nothing unusual was noticed. Next the 3.7 a.m. express went by, and a loud noise on the points was heard. The signalman made an inspection of the line, and found two "fish plates lying on the ground near the points. The flanges of the wheels of the express had levered the obstacles off the lipe, and thus avoided an accident.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] BIBLE STUDIES CONDUCTED BT PASTOR RUSSELL. I WHERE WERE THE NINE? I I The Lesson:—Luke xvii., 11-19. ) The Text:—"Were there none found that returned to give glory to God, save this alin ?"-v. 18. The essence of to-day's lesson is grati- tude. It is impossible to imagine a perfect being acceptable to God without this qua- lity. We might almost say that the degree of our acceptance with God is measured by our gratitude. It leads to obedience to Di- vine laws and regulations, whether under- stood or not. It leads to self-sacrificing labours in the service of God, and accord- ing to a Divine automatic arrangement has its blessing. Our lesson tells us that the Saviour was approaching Jerusalem by way of I Samaria. It is surmised that this was his last journey to Jerusalem, which eventuated in his death. Ten lepers sitting by the roadside heard that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, and immediately called to him, as loudly as the hoarse whisper of their disease would permit: "Master, have mercy upon us!" Jesus, although full of compassion, seemed to treat the lepers' appeal coldly. He merely said to them. "Go show your- selves unto the priests." According to God's arrangement vrith the Jews under their Law Covenant, they were to have no sick- nesses except as tl1{'2 would represent sins and the priests were to pass judgment upon cases of lepro&y, determining whether or not the diseas-? were leprosy, etc. Our Lord's direction that the lepers go and show themselves to the priests- implied a heal- ing, and suggested that by the time they would reach the priest they would be ready to have him pronounce them clean. The lepers must have had considerable knowledge of Jesus' power, and must have excrcised great faith; for instead of cry- ing out for instantaneous healing, they started for the priest to have an inspection. Doubtless they hoped that when they would reach him they would be well and would receive a bill of health. They had gone but a short distance when they found them- selves cured. We can well imagine with what joy they hastened to have the priest approve them in order to return to their families. But one of them slowed up, turned back, and fell at the feet of Jesus, giving him thanks. His was a grateful heart: and we cannot doubt that he will re- ceive a great blessing eventually, though not then for he was a Samaritan, an alien I from the commonwealth of Israel. ANOTHER CRUMB OF FAVOUR. I In his case, the healing was a crumb from the children's table; for the rich man had not yet died- God's favour had not yet de- parted from Israel. Jesus had not yet ut- tered the fateful words, "Your house is left unto you desolate- Nay, it was three and a half years after Jesus' death before the individual favour to the Jews termin- ated to such all extent as to permit the Gospel to go to the Gentiles Cornelius being the first accepted to fellowship with God.—Acts x., 1-48. Had the returning one been a Jew, no doubt he would have been invited by Jesus to become hi* follower; but because he was a Samaritan, Jesus merely said, "Arise and go thy way thy faith 'hath made thee whole." Doubtless, when the time came for the opening of the door to the Gentiles, this grateful batuaritan was amongst those who gladly received the message, and made a consecration to God. We are not tr. understand that our Lord's words, "Thy faith hath made thee whole," meant that the man's faith aside from Di- vine power made him wholo; but rather that the posver of God and the faith of the man co-operated for his healing. The nine others who were heated also had faith, and as Jews under the Law Covenant, they might have had more grounds for asking forgiveness than had the Samaritan. TEN HEALED-WHERE WERE THE I NlEr [ Jesus called public attention to the fact that ten were kealed, but that only one had returned to give glory to God. True he had not asked them to come back and acknow- ledge the Divine power that wrought through him. True, they did what he told them to do -went and showed themselves to the priest—and no more, going then about their business. Why did not Jesus, before  ))-.il,,a i n with them, granting the healing, bargain with them, saying, "If I heal you. will you consecrate your lives and become my disciples?" Why did he not take this method of adding to the number of his disciple-i Undoubtedly he was following the spirit of the Father's dealings, which he expTe>vd in the words, "The Father seeketh sucli to worship him as worship him in spirit and in truth." As the Father seeks no others, go the Son seeks no others. The point we make i. that according to the Bible, no attempts were ever made by Jesus and his Apostles to obtain recruits for the army of the Lord by a "hip-hip-hurrah" process. We are not criticising others, but merely calling attention to facts which should have much to do with the guidance of all of God's people who seek to know and to do His will. Let us view the incident of our lesson symbolically. Let the lepers represent sinners who, coming to realise themselves unclean, cry out to the Lord for cleansing, persuaded that s in is injurious and resolved thereafter to walk in the Lord's footsteps, fighting against sin in themselves and everywhere. How many of the thousands whom he has healed, forgiven, and received according to their profession of diticiplesbip, have really hecollw his true followers? How many have forgotten his favour, forgotten their privileges, and after receiving a bless- ing have gone. one to hid field, another to his merchandise. another to pleasure, another to formalism How few have re- mem bered their resolutions in respect to what they would do if their prayers were answered A. REVIVAL IS IN ORDER. I Many Christian people hold that we are living to-day in a time of crucial trial as respects those who have made a covenant witli God. They believe that we are near- ing the time when the Church, the Body of Christ, will be received by the Lord in the rcisurreetion change. As the Apostle wrote, "We must all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eve"; for "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God," and the call of this Gospel Age has been to find those who are to constitute Jesus' asso- ciates in his Kingdom and glory. Of the Jews 3-esu said, in a similar time of testing in the end of their Age, "They knew not the time-, of their visitation." Only a few, comparatively, were in the heart condition of nearness to God which enabled them to understand the character of the times and the change in progress. The thought is that & similar change is upon us 1IOW, which. is being discerned by tho.se whose eyes of understanding are opened. The Samaritan in our lesson seems to re- present a class of grateful followers of the Lord who seek to give him glory in their worded, thoughts and doings, while the majority" of those who have similarly re- ceived his favour pursue the ambitions and pleasures of the present life. Neglecting to take the path which the Master trod, they will not reach the glory, honour' and immortality which he attained and to which he has called thi" d, A lower place must be for them. III a little while, according to the Bible, the glorie. of the Kingdom will be revealed to an astonished world, and the glories of the present condition of affairs will fade away.

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DYMOCK. ) LOCAL WILL.-The Rev. Reginald Horton, M. A., hon. canon of Gloucester and late viear of Dymock, Gloucestershire, which vicariate he was compelled to resign on account of ill-health and went to reside at Southbourne, near Bourne- mouth. His death took place on the 23rd March last, leaving estate valued at 25,495 13a 5d with net personalty 95,452 4s 6d. Mra Mabel A rbuthnot Horton, his widow, and Mr John Wilfred Hewitt, of the Home Farm, Hope End, Ledbury, Hereford, are the executors. The will is dated 27th October, 1912, wherein testator leaves to his wife, Mabel Arbuthnet Hortot? £ 300 2l each to his children, Rodber, Pemberton rGrace Olive, Christobel Mary Stuart, and Joyce Winifred B5 each to I his grandchildren and E50 to his faithful servant, Alice Cook. He leaves the use of his household effects to his wife for life and then for his children. He gives specific gifts to his two sons, and the residue of his property he leaves as to £ 110 upon trust for his daughter, Grace Olive, for life, with remainder upon trust for his wife for life, and then equally to his children, the share of his daughter, Grace Olive, to be upon trust for life, and then to the others equally. "BJBBY'S ANNUAL," for 1914, edited by Joseph Bibby (Is net, by post Is 4d) is again a publication remarkably well produced. The illustrations in colour can only be described as magnificent, being reproductions of famous paintings to be found in the art galleries IIf Northern Europe. The articles are all of the scholarly type, not the least interesting being A Saunter round the World," being » description of a journey undertaken by Mr and Mrs Bibby.

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THE GLOUCESTER YEOMANRY TRAINING. I The Return from Camp. The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars con- cluded their fifteen days' training at Patcham, near Brighton, on Friday, and returned home on Saturday, the first train, carrying Gloucester and Ledbury troops, leaving Preston Park siding at 5.20 a.m. and arriv- ing at Gloucester at 10.45. Very little work was done on the last day, only a short regimental scheme being carried out in the morning. At 1 o'clock there was a large gathering of officers, non-commis- sioned officers, and men in the recreation tent, when a presentation was made, to Capt. A. Carton de Wiart, who this year concludes his three years' period as adjutant to the regiment. Colonel Playne, comman- ding the regiment, spoke appreciatively of the excellent work done during the training, and congratulated the non-commissioned officers and men upon their general efficiency. The gift to the adj utant, which was in the form of an inscribed silver salver, was handed to Capt. Carton de Wiart by Regi- mental-Quartermaster-Sergeant E. Wood- man, whose remarks as to the esteem in which the adjutant was held were received with heartiest applause. The adjutant, in acknowledging the gift, paid a tribute to the keenness of the non-commissioned officers and men, and said the success of the train- ing had been very largely due to them. At the conclusion of Capt. Carton de Wiart's speech For he's a jolly good fellow was heartily sung. After tea the squadron leaders said Good bye" to the squadrons in the mess tents. Major Palmer, commanding A Squadron, expressed high appreciation of the work done during the training, and congratulated Sergt.-Major Cooper on the efficiency shown by the recruits, especially 10 important matters of detail. Major Palmer then pre- sented the squadron prizes as follows: Musketry 1, Lance-Corpl T. 0. Springfield (Winchcombe); 2 Trooper Lefaux (Chelten- ham). Recruits 1, equal, G. K. Watts (Winchcombe) and Rees (Cheltenham); 2 H. Clifford. Recruit's prize for general efficiency, G K Watts. Best owned horse Sergt. Burroughs. Best hired horse, Trooper Minnett. These prizes were given by Major Palmer and the other officers. Major Palmer said he would be delighted again to welcome the squadron at Fairford Park for their annual outing in July, and these pro- ceedings concluded with For he's a jolly good fellow and cheers for Major Palmer and the other officers. The regimental prize for the best horse was won by Trooper E. C. Pope, B Squadron. On Friday a horse belonging to rrooper W. H. White, Ledbury, was shot, it having been seriously inj ured by a kick. The Band, under Bandmaster Frank Dawes, whose playing at dinner-time during camp has been much appreciated, also played during Friday afternoon. Though carried out near a fashionable holiday resort, and having facilities for amusement of a kind not usually attainable at a Yeomanry camp, the training has been by no means a holiday, a full day's work being carried out almost every day. The beautiful weather which favoured most of the train- ing continued until Friday night, when it broke up with a severe thunderstorm. Throughout the afternoon heavy thunder rolled round the hills and from the direction of the sea, and about 9 o'clock the storm broke over the camp, flashes of vivid light- ning which lit up the whole country and the accompanying thunder following each other in quick succession. After having rolled away, it returned about 2 o'clock, when there was another heavy storm, but fortunately the horses remained quiet, and it was not raining when the Gloucester and Ledbury Troops, with some men from other districts. left camp at 3.30, as day was breaking over the Downs.

BELL-RINGING AT LEOMINSTER CONTEST FOR' KIDSTON CHALLENCE SHIELD.—Campanologists of the Hereford Diocesan Guild, to the number of between eighty and ninety, assembled at Leominster Priory Church tower on Saturday, on the occasion of the Glasbury bellringing competition for the Kidston Challenge Shield. The towers represented were :—Class A-Bridg- north St. Leonard's (holders), Bridgnorth St Mary's, Mathon, Brecon, Leintwardine, Welsh- pool, and Bredenbury; Class B-Bosbury, Claverley, Whitbourne, Llanelly, Llangattock, Kingsland, and Bodenham. In Class A the test was a peal of 240 changes of bob minor, and in Class B 120 each of grand sire and plain bob doubles. The Bridgnorth St;. Leonard's ringers (with John Overton as captain) secured the shield for the second year in succession, Bridg- north St. Mary's (George Case, captain) and Mathon (Andrew Layton, Captain) being second and third respectively. St. Leonard's were easy winners, ringing with only 24 faulas. In Class B the Bosbury Ringers (W Turner, captain) were first; and Claverley (Ernest Drew, captain) and Whitbourne (Richard Caswell, captain) were second and third, being equal in merit.

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I ACROSS THE TABLE. Some curious (lections, writer a correspot- deut, are implied by the list of their Majes- ties' relations to whom the words "members of the Royal Fmnih apply in respect of tJw Army Dress Regulations. Thus it appears that, for official purposes, the Prince oi Wales is the only one of the children of the King and Queen who belongs to the Royal Family-- neither Princess Mary, Prince Albert, nor the three .youngest sons being included in the War Office list. Another point to be noted is that the list omits the King's relatives who have married into foreign Royal houses. When Mr. Speaker asked Mr. Ponsonby in the House the other night whether he had obtained the Royal consent to the bringing in of his bill for the abolition of hereditary titles, he was alluding, says the West-minuter Gazette, to the constitutional practice by which all bills affecting the prerogative or the personal interests of the Sovereign must receive the consent of the Crown. In ordinary cases there is no need that this shall be signified on the earlier stages, and the third reading is the most usual time. There is, however, one class of bills where the Royal consent is required at the earliest stage. This is necessary in all bills for the re- versing of attainders, the restitution of honours, and the restitution of blood—the exact opposite, in fact, of Mr. Ponsonby's bill. Should there be any failure to obtain the Royal consent before the passing of a bill re- quiring it, then all proceedings on that bill become null and void, and this has actually happened more than once in the past. The Crown is the Fountain of Honour, and any bill doing away with titles must affect the prerogative. Probably no one is more likely to bring the Transatlantic flight to a successful conclusion than Mr. Hamel. He is one of the most brilliant flying men in the world, but he is much more than that, says the Globe. He is daring without being reckless or ever playing to the gallery, and never embarks on an enter- prise without having thoroughly weighed the risks and the chances, and leaving nothing to luck. The mere fact that an airman of his calibre should have definitely decided to make the attempt shows how soon a flight across the Atlantic will be a matter of practical politics. I passed a shop the other day that declares itself about to open for the sale of "head- wear," says a Daily Mirror writer. Why headwear; why not hats? A little late. I saw a display of "neckwear," and further on an advertisement of the newest style in foot- wear," beneath which was an announcement of ready-for-service" garments. Why on earth could not these people have called their goods collars and ties, boots, and ready-made clothes 7 That is what they were. But there are people who always consider it genteel to be vague and indefinite, the sort of people who prefer to call a cat or a dog a domestic animal. They think it is superior, but it is not. It is only silly and confusing. Popular turns of speech always interest me, writes a correspondent. I like the confiden- tial remark, Say nothink to nobody," and the waiter's response to the customer who thought the beef too much cooked, Sorry, sir, but we ain't got none what's no under- doner." This, overheard the other day, seems even more emphatic. A man was about to show his house to a visitor, and he proudly remarked: "I don't make no doubt 6ut what you won't be surprised when you see what accommodation there isn't inside if" I now send myself to sleep at night, pondering over the real, or, rather, the grammatical, signific- ance of the sentence. Of course, I think I know what the man really thought he was saying. So it would seem that there is, after all, nothing new in the Black Prince's diary un- earthed, remarks the Globe, by an enterpris- ing contemporary. The most 'interesting de- tails are to be discovered in Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter," by Mr. G. F. Beltz, which was published in 1841, and the author, who was Lancaster Herald, evidently had access to the manuscript, which he examined with great care. That is, how- ever, no reason why the diary itself should not be acquired for the nation. A lady who took a cottage at Cookham has named it Oidontno." Curious villagers are always asking who the tenant is, and the reply is usually, Oh, I don't know The next door neighbour has labelled his cot- tage "Ido." A recent anecdote with which Mr. Will Crooks regaled the House told how he met one of his constituents who asked' for the loan of fourpence to buy a loaf of bread. He had already purchased a pound of steak and desired to complete the meal. But," said Will, severely, you've been drinking." Right fust time. guv'nor." answered the man. I've just touched the first two bob I've earned in three days, and I- sim'ly 'ad ter celebrate it. Couldn't "old meself in." And," adds Mr. Crooks, I really couldn't blame 'im." I am told, the Carpenter in the Express says, that London has never before harboured so many skilled exponents of the confidence trick in all its guises than at the present time. At one time the expert tellers of the tale were nearly all English, and they found their vic- tims among Colonials and Americans, who were too confident of their own cuteness. Their success and the great profits of the game have attracted foreign "crooks," who operate among their countrymen who are visiting London. Italians, Germans, and Frenchmen have proved to be just as gul- lible as Americans and Australians. An Englishman and an Irishman working to- gether in partnership under various aliases still hold the record as the most consistently successful tricksters in London, and despite all the efforts of the police they have been making incomes believed to run into several thousands of pounds: A remarkable campaign is being waged by the Great Western Railway with the object of diminishing accidents to employees. Risks are run daily by railwaymen either because familiarity breeds contempt, or because the employees do not always grasp that there is al safe and a dangerous way of carrying out very many operations, whether in the shunt- ing yard, on the track, or in the engineering works. In the company's magazine the right way and the wrong way are explained month by month, the articles being illustrated with comparative photographs. Here is one example of the value of such a safety campaign. A well-known consulting engineer was recently motoring, when he came to a level crossing. A locomotive, which he could not see owing to an interven- ing building, was approaching, and death or injury would have been the result if the driver had not pulled up his car through force of habit. He had accustomed himself to stop when the road was obscured? because, being an old pupil of the Great Western locomotive shops, he had become a reader of the company's magazine, and had thus been led to adopt the Is-it-safe? habit. There has been of recent years, says a writer in the ])a Itil Chi-ori;Ie, a revival of tlie old Ascension Dav custom of beating the bounds." Writing in 1G52 George H r be, Y-t asserts that this practice is particularly dear to the heart of the country parson. fcecuv.re there are contained therein four manifest ad- vantages: (1) A blessing of God for the fruits of the field; (2^ Justice in the preserva- tion of' bounds; (3) Charitie in loving, wa'k- ing. and neighbourly accompanying one another, with reconciling of differences at that time, if there be anv; (4) Mercie in rplieving the poor bv a liberal distribution and largess. whic1. at that time is or ought to be uc.cd. W! lerefore he exacts all to be present at the Perambulation, and those that withdraw and sever themselves from it he misses, and reproves as uncharitable and unneighbourly."

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CRICKET FIXTURES. LEDBURY. May 30—* West Malvern, home June 4—* Hereford Thursday C.C., away June 6— Worcester Royal Grammar School, away June 18-Colwaii and District, away June 20—* Eastnor, home June 25-*Barbourne, away June 27—Worcester R.G.S., home July 1—Hereford Cathedral School, home July 4-Ross, away July 9-Colwall and District, home July 11—* Eastnor, away July 18-Colwall, away July 23—'•'Hereford Thursday, home July 25—Withington, home July 30—*Barbourn*, home August I-Froome Valley, away August 3-Bradley Court, home August 6—^Hereford Y.M C.A., home August 8- Colwall. home August 13—Hereford Y.M.C.A., home Augnst 15—Upton-on-Severn, away August 22-Ross, home August 27-Harhourne, away August 29-Froome Valley, home Denotes 2nd XI matches. EASTNOR. May 30-Perrystone Court, home June I-Mr G Davis's XI, home June 6-Upton -on -Sever ii, away June 13—Forthampton, home June 20—Ledbury, away June 27—Tupsley and District, home July 4 —Tewkesbury, away July] I-Ledbury, home July 18—West Malvern, home July 25-Stoke Edith, home Aug I-Perrystone Court, away Aug 3-Colvvall. away Aug 8-Tewkesbury, home Aug 15-Tupsley and District, away Aug 2,2-U pton-on -Severn, home Aug 27-Malvern College Servants, home Aug 29-Colwall, away Sept 5-Malvern College Servants, away WEST MALVERN. May 30-Ledbiiry, away June 1—Hereford Thursday, away June 13—St. John's Juniors, home June 20—Kempsey, away June 27-Witley Court, away July 4 -Upton -on -Severn, home July II-St. John's Juniors, home July 18-Eastnor, home July 25-Tllpsley and District, away Aug. 8-U pton-on-Severn. away Aug. 22-Malvern Young Imperialists, away

Ledbury Produce Market. I There was a moderate attendance, and not much produce on offer. Prices :— Butter (wholesale), lid and Is „ (retail) Is Id per lb Eggs (wholesale), 14 for Is. (retail), 13 for Is Fowls, 5-* to 5s 6d per couple Rabbits, 8d and 9d each. Potatoes, lOd to Is per peck. Apples, Is per peck. «

Ledbury Com Market. The markets are very dull, and no samples were on offer. Quotations :— Wheat 4s to 4s 3d. Beans, 4s to 48 3d Peas, none offering. Vetches, none offering. Rye, none offering. Oats (old), 226 to 28s per qr. (new), 21s to 23a per qr. Flour, firm. Maize, 26s to 28a per qr. f. o. r. Sharpness. Maize, 28s to 30s delivered. English Barley, 283 to 32s. Foreign Barley, 22s to 25s 400 f.o.r. Sharpness. Bran, JE5 10s per ton.