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HOW NOT TO USE LEGACIES. NEED FOR INSTRUCTION. There seems to be an opening for instruc- tion in the use of legacies, and the pupils would be drawn from the very rich and the v«ry poor, says the Wesf?>ii n-fer (lazette, for, curiously enough, the middle-class legatee is generally more careful and prudent *han those who are much belter or much worse off than himself. The latest instances come from Carmarthen. On Saturday the Guardmns there granted outdoor relief to a widow, aged sixty-four, who was formerly on outdoor re- lief, but who in October received £ 120 under a will. She had become destitute again by the end of February, having lived at the rate of ovier C5 a week. The legacy came from a carpenter who died recently at Ferryside, leaving his property in equal shares to eight poor rflative*. The widow said on Saturday that her two sons wer^ out of work, and she was bound to help th>'in. The money all went," she said. Another of the legatees, a chimney-sweep, was r l.-o on the rates before and he applied again for relief a fortnight ago. The Guardians re- fused outdoor relit f and offered him the workhouse. "Thesp people think £100 will last for ever," remarked one of the Guardians.

WOMAN POLICE INSPECTOR. FIRST APPOINT?.!EM' IN ENGLAND. The Liverpool Watch Committee has ap- pointed Mrs. Hughes, matron of the main Bridewell, to be an Inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department of the city. This is stated to he the first appointment of the kind in England. Her main duties will be the taking of evidence in charges concerning -women and children. It is felt that women will more readily give statements to a member of their own sex than to men. Mrs. IIughe3 may also be sent out to obtain evidence in cases concerning women, but as the appoint- ment is an experimental one her duties have not yet been strictly defined. Mrs. Hughes is a widow, and for two years as matron of the main Bridewell has been in charge of a number of wardresses.

£ 50.000 FOR AN OLD FRTEND. An interesting storv of a twenty-tive-year friendship is revealed in the will of the late Mr. Charles Cecil Capel. independent means, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, under which Mr. of Rv' d e', l?, I e of 11', John Isaac Barton. Mayor of Ryde. benefits to the extent of £50.000ne legacy of £ 20,000 And the residuary estate of about £ 30,000. Mr. Capel. says the Daily Mail, WM introduced to Mr. Barton twenty-five yursago, and they remained friends for life. We got along well together from the first," said Mr. Barton. He had no near rela- tives, and was not a man to make friends easily. In fact. I think I may say I was one of the few to share the privilege of close friendship. He spent a quiet life, his chief hobby b"ing fishing and the study of sub- marine life. He had lived with me during the pist ten years.

'WARE BASE HALF SOVEREIGNS. Rnurious half-sovereigns in large numbers •re being circulated in London, and shop- keepers and the public generally are warned to examine carefully all coins tendered to ,tb,M. So cleverly are these counterfeits ttpnufa-ctured that the officials at fne Can br dge-road post-office ha.ve been deceived. STh ree men recently drove up in a t.rap and paid for postal orders with two half- eo'.ereigno. which were subsequently found to be -1 ):?. The police are endeavouring to locate the ooinera' den from which they were isfned

SCHOONER SUNK BY TUG. The steamer Gauntlet arrived at South- tllalt.on on Monday with extensive damage tb her stem. She was in collision with the Danish three-masted schooner Niels Juel. from Stettin for Manchester, which foundered immediately about thirty-seven off St. Catherine's Point. The Gauntlet saved one of the crew, but the remaining five were lost with the vessel. The Gauntlet is a tug of 149 tons, belonging to the Elliott Steam Tug Company, of London.

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN MINISTER. The Rev. William Redfern, president <M the United Methodist denomination, died at Bristol on Monday after a short illness, con- tracted during a preaching tour last week in the Midlands. Mr. Redfern, who was a Derbyshire man, was train-ed M a. schoolmaster, but bocam-e a Methodist minister. He was president of the Methodiflt Free Church before the union of the three Methodist bodies seven years ago. Since July last he had been president of the United Methodist Conference.

SLATE CLUB FRAUD. Sentence of six months' hard labour for em- ofezzlement was passed at Enfield on Monday on Albert Edwin Harvey, an engineer, for- merly secretary of the Turkey Investment Society, a large share-out club. Evidence was given that on the share-out night two years ago Harvey was missing, and nearly a hundred depositors who were assembled at the rooms had to go away without their money. Harvey had been working In Bristol, and was not arrested until he returned recently to Enfield. It was stated that the total 4efaleations amounted to 4101 4s. 6d,

CHINESE TOWN LOOTED, BUTCHERY BY BANDITS. OVER 1,000 SLAUGHTERED. The sacking of Kuangchow, in South- Eastern Honan, is graphically described by the Times Shanghai correspondent, who de- clares that for appalling ferocity the story could hardly be equalled. Kuangchow consist-s of two walled cities on either side of a river, and its population wns about 100,000. When the White Wo f brigands were reported coming c,ume of the townspeople manned the walls; but "While Wolf" sent confederates into the town in dis- guise, and the attack thus began simultane- ously within and without. all the people on the walls were but en .:e-l. The attackers, let into the city by their confede- rates, came running through the streets, SHOOTING AS THEY ADVANCED. Old women who were believed to have m-oiit, v which they would not show were tortured in the most horrible manner. One man escaping from the wall which he had been trying to defend was shot down and then pounded—to death as the brigands thought—with bricks. Marvellous to relate, he is actually recovering. Not the least villainous of the brigands was a boy of fourteen, who shot down all and sundry for the MERE IAJST OF KILLING. When the brigands looted a tax office or ex- change shop they took for themselves nothing but silver. They made the crowd scramble for the copper coins and notes, shooting any- one who appeared to be getting more than his fair share. Curiously enough, they seem to have spared Christians. Altogether over 1,000 persons were slaughtered in one day. including the magis- trate, who was hacked to pieces, his remains being soaked in kerosene and burnt. All the wealthy families were practically wiped out and their houses- burnt. In an adjoining market town, where the people were so imprudent as to fire a c-oup'e of rusty oh! cannon at the brigands, riie whole population—men, women, and ehink'en e n —were killed, except two boys who escaped to tell the tale.

SOUTH AFRICAN TRAIN DISASTER. SEVERAL KILLED AND INJURED. A train collision occurred on Saturday morning at Kraal Station, near Heidelberg, two persons being killed and several seriously injured. The two persons killed were a girl named Pansy Forbes and Douglas Forbes, aged eight. The injured were Mrs. Forbes, the wife of a driver on the Pretoria Railway service, suffering from shock; Mr. Phillips, bruised; Mrs. Noble, Mr. E. R. Harrison, Miss Svensen, injuries to the legs and head; Mr. G. H. Fisher, injuries to the legs; Messrs. P. and D. J. Naude, brothers, the former injuries to the head, and the latter serious injuries to the legs and head; Mr. and Mrs. Aitchison, bruises and shock; Mr. Banou, badly bruised, but no bones broken. ?Ic- f t the Park The Natal mail train, which left the Park Station, Johannesburg, at eight o'clock on Friday evening, had to be divided into two sections. The first passed through Heidel- berg safely at ten o'clock. The second por- tion passed through an hour later. At Kraal Station, some fifty miles from Johannesburg, and nine miles beyond Heidelberg, a goods train, which, it is officially stated, passed danger signals without stopping, ran into the second portion of the Natal mail, two car- riages of which were telescoped.

WELSH FARM MYSTERY. JURY RETURN AN OPEN VERDICT. After a hearing which had lasted seven days, an open verdict has been returned by the jury at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, at the second inquest on the body of Thomas Roberts, a middle-aged Carno farmer, who died outside his house on December 1st, and whose body was exhumed by order of the Home Office. The jury found that Roberts died from strychnine poisoning, but that there was not sufficient evidence to show how it was administered. Evan Morgan, an inti- mate friend of deceased, whose name had figured prominently in the inquiry, and who occupied the witness-box for six hours, Was wildly cheered outside the court.

LOST IN THE ARCTIC. RUSSIAN SEARCH EXPEDITION. M. Breitfuss, a representative of the Rus- sian Department of Marine, who is now in Norway with the object of acquiring ships suitable for Polar waters, has bought the Hertha. and the Eclipse, belonging to Sandefjord. They will be used. says the Morniny Ilo,t Christiania correspondent, in the search for three Russian Polar expeditions, of which no news has been received for some time. The Hertha, with a Russian crew, will search the waters of the Barents Sea, the coasts of Nova Zembla, and the Franz Josef Archipelago with the object of finding traces of the scientific expedition of Captain Sadow, Who, with seventeen men, has not been re- ported since last summer. The Eclipse goes to the Kara Sea to rescue the geologist Rosanoff and the oceanographer Kntchin, who left Spitsbergen in the motor- boat Hercules for Nova Zembla in August, 1912, and Lieutenant Brosiloff. who left in September, 1912, on a hunting expedition, for which he was inadequately equipped.

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LONDON AND ULSTER. ARMY AND POLITICS. RECORD GATHERING IN HYDE PARK. The meeting held in Hyde Park on Satur- day to support Ulster and to protest against the use of the Army in the settlement of poli- tical- differences was the largest demonstra- tion of English public opinion in modern times. It is estimated that over 200,000 per- sons were present. The resolution put to the meeting and passed, amidst a scene of intense enthusiasm, was: We protest against the use of the Navy and the Army to drive out by force of armf our fellow-subjects in Ireland from their full heritage in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and we demand that the Govern- ment shall immediately submit this grave issue to the people." From twenty one different points proces sions representative of seventy-six constitu- encies associated with Greater London con- verged on Hyde Park, where from fourteen platforms speeches were delivered by a num- ber of leaders of the Unionist Party, the chief of whom were Mr. Balfour, Sir Edward Car- son, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, and Mr Walter Long. In all over sixty Peers and Members of Parliament were in the pro- gramme. The following are extracts from the chief speeches: MR. BALFOUR. This is a resolution against coercion ti Ulster. As you would resist to the utmost if threatened. so, believe me, Ulster will re- sist to the last being deprived of the rights and privileges which Ulstermen share with their fellow-countrymen on this side of St George's Channel. SIR E. CARSON. The Army belongs to you. and the question is: Are you going to allow your Army or your Navy to shoot down your own kith and kir, at a time when the Government admit that they' are not prepared to appeal to the people to know whether they have the people behind them in this nefarious policy or not? Thfl Government say they have a right to use th, Army in any way they please. I deny that right altogether. They have a right to use the Army in any way you please, but they are not prepared to take your vote upon the subject. We will keep the old flag flying, and it will be a brave man who will come to Ulster and pull it down. LORD MILNER. The civil war with which they were tnreat- ened would present a spectacle serious and rtniiat-Liral-two bodies of men, the Cove- nanters of Ireland and the soldiers and sailors of the Empire, fundamentally agreed on the same ideals, with the same attachment for the Throne and Flag and Empire, hurled against each other in fratricidal conflict owing to the sinister pressure brought to bear on the Government by men who hated them both. That was an idea too monstrous and horrible to be contemplated. MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. Thev were there to protest against any attempt to use the Army not to maintain law and order, but to coerce men like themselves out of their citizenship in the United King- dom, and still more to coerce them to obey another and an alien authority which they loathed and detested. MR. WALTER LONG. He was not a believer in the use of strong or thoughtless language, but he said, delibe- rately, that if the Government used our troops to force Home Rule on Ulster and bloodshed was the result, as it must be, then they would go to their graves with the mark of Cain upon their foreheads. MR. F. E. SMITH. They had offered the Government that there should be a referendum of the people of this country, and they would abide by the result. The G overnment would not do it be- cause they knew the country was against them. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD. There were thousands of officers and men in the Army and Navy who, if they were ordered to shoot down Ulstermen. would refuse to obey that order. They would take any punishment for disobeying that order, be- cause their honour, conscience, and kinship forbade them to shoot their fellow-countrymen. MR. H. W. FORSTER. Ulster claimed neither ascendency nor privilege. She claimed to be governed by the same law that governed others, and she would fight to the last drop of her loyal blood to pre- serve the right that was her heritage.

MR, ASQUITH ON PEACE. DUTIES OF THE ARMY. ELECTION SPEECH IN EAST FIFE. Mr Asquith. as candidate for East Fife in the by-election caused by his acceptance of the office of War Minister, addressed a meet- ing at Ladybank on Saturday afternoon, the audience being composed of delegates from all parts of the constituency. There had, he said, been genuine misunder- standings and honest mistakes, but in his deliberate opinion there had been nothing in any stage or any quarter which ought to throw the least doubt on the integrity or hon- our of those immediately or directly concerned. It was his duty, in the post he had assumed, to see that the Army was fit in the ever- shifting conditions for its primary and «ie- mentary duty. The Army would hear nothing of politics from him, and he should expect in return to hear nothing of politics from the Army. The responsibility for the preservation of domestic peace, he continued, lay with the magistrates and the police under normal con- ditions. The Army's aid could not and ought not to be invoked by the civil power. It was only in emergencies, which were happily rare, that any such call could be addressed to the Army. It was the duty of the soldier, as of civilian power when occasion arose, to comply with the demands of the civil power. Present Tory doctrines struck at the very root not only of Army discipline, but of democratic government. If they were to recognise the existence of dispensing and discriminating power they must recognise it not only in officers, but in men not only in the Army, but in every body of public servants, in judges and magistrates and in the Civil Service. He believed that a settlement of the Ulster question by consent was in the interests of the country and of both of the great political parties. He was anxious for peace, but it must be peace with honour. They must secure the placing of a Home Rule Bill on the Statute Book. They must see some process applied with necessary variations, and applied without undue delay, to other parts of the United Kingdom, in the conviction that such reconstruction of our constitutional organisa- tion would lead to greater efficiency of local and Imperial interests.

THREE-CORNERED CONTESTS. LABOUR MEMBER'S REPLY TO PREMIER Speaking at Wolverhampton on Sunday night, Mr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., alluded to the Prime Minister's reference on Saturday to three-cornered contests. He said Mr. Asquith was wrong in assuming that the ob- jects of Liberalism and Labour were the same; they were altogether different. It was true that at the present time there was much in common between Liberalism and Labour, but it was absurd to think that the Liberals could do the work of the Labour Party, con- trolled, bossed," and financed as they were by rich men. If Mr. Asquith wished to avoid three-cornered contests the remedy was in his own hands—the introduction of the second ballot or the alternative vote. Otherwise there would be more three-cornered contest* in the future than in the pMt. -+_

NEWS IN BRIEF. TERRITORIAL INSURANCB. In a War Office circular issued on Satttfday it is notified that claims for indemnification for property destroyed by fire in buildings held by the Territorial Force associations, and sanctioned by the War Office, is limited to public equipment and association property. DEATH OF MRS. HUXLEY. Mrs. Huxley, widow of the Right Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, died at Eastbourne on Sunday morning in her eighty-ninth year. SUNDAY SHOOTING AT BISLEY. The Bisley ranges were opened on Sunday for the first time on a Sunday. The attend- ance was not large. POLICE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER. Th.e King has appointed MT. trans LOUIS Dumbell Elliott to be an Assistant Commis- sioner of Police of the Metropolis. NOT ENOUGH FEVER NURSES. Fever nurses have become so scarce that the Metropolitan Asylums Board are to con- sider recommendations for increased pay, re- duction of the age limit, and more attrac- tive terms for probationers. GERMAN EDITORS SENTENCED. Herr Zepler, the editor of Der hreie Weg, and Herr Schmidt have each been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in a fortress for the publication of articles containing insult- ing references to the Crown Prince. MULTI-MILLIONAIRE DEAD. The death occurred at Pasadena (Cali- fornia), on Saturday, of Mr. Frederick Weverhaeuser, the multi millionaire of St. Paul, Minnesota, at the age of seventy-nine. "SAUSAGE KING" DEAD. Mr. Prime Taylor Coulson, originator of the now famous Cambridge sausages, died at Cambridge late on Friday night at the age of seventy-seven. He was working up to a week ago. HER 100TH BIRTHDAY. Bootle's oldest resident. Mrs. Elizabeth Griffin, received many congratulations on attaining her 100th birthday on Saturday. She has never seen an electric tram, a motor- car, or an. aeroplane. TITANIC BANDMASTER. The Colne Corporation has decided, by erecting a bronze bust, to honour the memory of Mr. Wallace Hartley, the leader of the musicians who perished in the Titanic. He was a native of Colne. NEW GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY. General Lawson, who married the widow of the late Lord Lathom, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey. TORPEDO ASTRAY. A torpedo that had gone astray in the North Sea was brought to Chatham on Satur- day by the destroyer Fervent. The torpedo was picked up by a Ramsgate fishing smack. FAMOUS ARTIST'S FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Sir Hubert von Her- komer took place on Saturday in the church- yard of the village of Bushey, Herts. There were deeply impressive scenes, and a huge crowd followed the procession to the church- yard. MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD. The dead body of a man named Richard Luff, aged sixty-four, was found on Saturday in a copse near Haslemero. He had been miss- ing since Saturday, March 28th, but, although a diligent search was made, his whereabouts could not be traced. HIDDEN £ 10 NOTES. Officials at Leominster Workhouse dis- covered forty-five £10 notes in the clothing of a young woman named Frances Nash on her admission to the lunatic asylum. Her strange behaviour led to her arrest, and she was cer- tified as insane. The notes were stitched in her skirts. FINED FOR DANGEROUS DRIVING. Mr. Marshall feansom, a garage proprietor, of Mansfield, was fined 1?5 and £ 6 costs, at Nottingham, for dangerously driving a motor-car at Hucknall. It was eaid that he drove at the rate of forty miles an hour. ROBBED HIS MOTHER. For stealing £ 113, the property of the mother, John Woodcock, a bruyhmaker, aged twenty-one, was at Bury on Saturday bound over for three years. The money was found concealed under the slates of an outhouse. RACECOURSE PROFITS. Sir Watkin Williams-Wvnn, who presided at the annual meeting of the Chester Race- course Company, tnid the gross receipts showed &n increase (if k683 over the previous year. A dividend of 10 per cent. was agreed to. KILLED BY SNAPPED HAWSER. Whilst the oil-fuel carrier San lLlaro was lea,ving the Admiralty Oil Fuel Depot, Port Victoria, on Saturday, the hawser broke, and killed Able Seaman Samuel Pointer, of Gravesend. ECHO OF HOUNDSDITCH OUTRAGE. The death took place, at his mother's home, in London, on Saturday, of Robert Eric Alfred Bentley, aged three years, who was the posthumous son of Police-Sergeant Bentley, one of the three police victims of the Anarchist outrage in Houndsditch, on Friday, December 17tli, 1910. NEW BRIDGE ACROSS THE MIDWAY. The new bridge over the River Medway at Rochester, which, at a cost of nearly £ 80,000, has taken three years to build, will be opened next month by the Countess of Darnley. L.C.C. AND CONSUMPTION TREATMENT. The London County Council Public Health Committee recommend that patients who re- ceive treatment for tuberculosis under schemes prepared by the Council or local sanitary authorities should be charged part cost in cases where the patient's income is JE160 a year or over. THE CITY SOLICITOR. The month which has just closed, says.the City Press, was a memorable one in the life of Sir Homewood Crawford, for it saw him com- memorating the fortieth anniversary of his wedding day, and also marked his entrance into the thirtieth year of service as City of London solicitor. TRAGIC AFFAIR IN DUBLIN STREET. Michael Kelly, a Dublin car owner, was standing at the car-stand on Saturday, when an altercation took place between some passers by. As a result, Kelly was, it is al- leged, assaulted, and on being taken to hos- pital was found to be dead. TRADE UNIONISTS AND INQUESTS. The text of the Coroner's Inquests (Fatal Accidents) Bill, which has been issued, shows that it is sought to be enacted that tnde unions should have the right to be repre- sented at a Coroner's inquest on the death of any person occasioned by an accident. The measure is presented by Mr. Hudson. "GOOD HEALTH" AND DEATH. Mortimer Egan, aged sixty-eight, went out to get his insurance sick money. He met a friend, and went into a ptiblic-bouse. There he culled for some drink, held up his ghiss, exclaimed, "Here's good health," and fell dead. At Hackney the Coroner's jury re- turned a verdict of death from heart disease. FREE LIBRARY FOR BETHNAL GREEN. The Hethnal Green Borough Council have entered into a provisional agreement to pur- chase n site upon which to erect a public free library, the cost of which Mr. Carnegie has offered to defray on certain conditions. Beth- nal Grrcn is one of only two boroughs in Lon- don who do not possess a free library.

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IRON HAND IN CHINA. WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. BITTERNESS AGAINST JAPAN. Beporte from every part of the country, says the Poldn correspondent of the Daily Tele- graph, state that all attempts at outbreaks are now severely crushed, and that hundreds of executions are taking place. In Pekin two Moretaries of the Presidential Palae, five ex- Senators and Commoners, and a score of other individuals are reported to have been summarily shot after a drumhead court-martial. It is established in connection with the revolutionaries who have taken refuge in Japan that serious questions are likely to arise with the latter country, because it affords an asylum to prominent political per- sonages who declare that they will conspire without cessation to wreck the present regime in China. Japan certainly resists any attempt to induce her to expel these people, and a growing bitterness may henceforth be ex- pected to exist between the two countries.

SERGEANT SHOT IN BARRACKS. At Xewcastle Barracks on Monday Sergeant Davis, of the 4th Durham Light Infantry, was found shot in the married men's quarters, with a rifle by his side. Mrs. Davis heard a report, and found her husband dead. He had been quite weH and cheer1. INDIAN MUTINY OFFICER DEAD. The death took place 011 Monday at Carreg Cennen, Llanclilo, while taking his bath, of Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Edward Hopkins, aged seventy eight. He had seen active service in the Indian Mutiny, Afghan, and other cam- paigns, but retired thirty years ago. DEATH OF PROFESSOR POYNTING. Professor Poynting, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the University of Bir- mingham, died on Monday at his residence at Edgbaston. He was in his sixty-second year.

PEACE CENTENARY. GIFT OF WASHINGTON LETTER FOR SULGRAVE. The British Peace Centenary Committee has received a valuable and interesting gift from Sir Joseph Lawrence in the shape of an original autograph letter from General George Washington to Colonel Drayton, writ- ten during the War of Independence, and dated "Headquarters, Newburgh, May 10th, 1782." The letter is written on four sides of octavo writing paper, and except for two or three short and unimportant words is very clearly decipherable. Sir Joseph Lawrence has had this valuable relic in his possession for some time, and its authenticity is un- doubted. Being a warm supporter of the movement for the celebration of the 100 years' peace be- tween England and America, Sir Joseph has now most generously presented the letter to the British Peace Centenary Committee, and it will be deposited in Sulgrave Manor, the old Washington home, which has recently been purchased bv the committee, as soon as the necessary restoration of the property has been carried out, and the place adapted to the uses for which in the future it is to be dedi- cated. The committee of management of Sulgrave Manor, of which the American Ambassador is the chairman, have expressed their hearty thanks to Sir Joseph Lawrence for his gift, and hope that this may be the first of many similar gifts of historic documents and relics relating to the Washington familv, and also to Anglo-American history from the time of the Treaty of Ghent onwards.

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