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From the Papers I A workman who was fined at Jarrow on Monday for drunkenness on Sat ut-dty was slated to have worked 98-?f hours last week. The Swansea Dock hatehwar workers numbering about forty, struck work on Monday morning. The cargo trade of Swansea port was held up. Captain J. R. Carter, of Cowes, till skipper of the king's yauSht Biittania, which is now lying up, is to command Lord Brassey's vajht Sunbeam,which is being (quipped as a R<d Cross hospital -hip. The military authorities on Mondaj promulgated an oider that soldiers i, Carmarthen are not, to be supplied Wli I intoxicants by licencees exe, pi: hetweei 1 p.m. and 2 p m and between 6 30 and nine in Ibe evening. O-west ry Towu Council on Monda\ decided to oppose a schema ptoposed LJ. he Salop COUIII y Council for thp erect toi it a cost of £ 20 000, of an isolatio hospital to serve eight, uibiii and tura districts in North-WesL Shropshire. A house-to houae penny collector hrougheu Shropshire, organised by M W. C. B'idgeinan, M.P., resulted n nearly £ 2,000 being raised for the So John Ambulance Association and the B, ltibli Rr d Cross Society. The Royal Society of Medicine ha conferred on Sir John Williams, M D G.C.VO Aberystwyth, the rare disim ion of Hllnot at y Fellow of the socieln Sti J,,JIO Williams is president of tie Welsh National Library, Aberystwyth. Two young women Jessie Mi Call and Mary Qumn —were sent to prison a N wcasile on Tyne on Monday for four months for diunkennes and assaulting he police. It was stated that tli-N were so violent that it required eigln constables aided by several soldiers (I convey them to the police station. lVI, Asquithjin the House of Commoni- on Monday said that as a good deal ot electoral legist ration work had been don- he did not think it advisable toabandm the i-t-gist i ation courts this year. ABih !o postpone the elections fjr a year and '0 deal with registration for next year would be introduced forthwith. A bottle was picked up on l'nday at Carthy's Grove, on the County Waterfoid coa.,t, outside Youghal Harbour, en taming a piece of brown paper with the following written in copying ink pencil No other paper to be got. Going down with the Lnsitania torpedoed t ff Old Head of Kilisale.-M. MoManus Good-bye." Mr Austin Chamberlain announced on M nday in Par liament that he is in con sUitation with the MunitionsfCommittpe and also with the Government ot Ind a in regard to to the utilisation of 'the laboui supply of IlIdIa in the mann facl uie of munitions of war. The whole question is receiving the fullest attention. At Stalybridge on Monday Sarah Ann Harrison, living in a lodging-hAuse in Ashton-nnder Lyne, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. A boy named Eli Ashworth, of Jeffrey Street. Dukinfield, was near the canal at Clarence Street bridge when be saw the defendant jump in the water. He caught hold of her shawl and held her till assistance arrived. She was re- manded to the workhollso for a week*

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