Evening Express

The Man in the Street. il —— Mr. William Jones (the newest member for Adamsdown) and Dr. Biggs captured the ratepayers' meeting last night over the question of permanent chairmen of committees, and possibly they would have carried the Cory-hall audience with them on other subjects had they Used their eloquent, and practised tongues earlier in the proceedings. One speaker had elicited cries of derision, '"Nonsense," ''Rubbish," and other opprobrious terms, when he ventured his belief that the corporation consisted of individuals as good as the city could produce. As to the question which received the help of the two coun- cillors named, it should be explained that Mr. Jones by no means expressed the sentiments of Dr. Biggs, but the latter prevailed-probably because he had a later opportunity to tickle the ears of those who were present to condemn the corporation root and branch. While there may be something to say for making the chair go round, it must also be said that it would be extremely difficult to get heads of committees to beat the Lord Mayor for education, Dr. Robinson for health, Alderman F. J. Beavan for finance, and Mr. J. T. Richards for police matters. The main desire of any public body should be to get -the best available chair- man. and there are members of all autho- rities who are totally incapable, by tem- perament and lack of business training, of directing public work. Members of a corporation specialise, or should do, and for their different departments it would be exceedingly difficult to get better chairmen than Sir William Grossman, Alderman Robert Hughes, Mr. Morgan Thomas, and Mr. John Chappell. To take these gentlemen, from the work they have studied for years and to re-place them with members of immature judg- ment and experience would be rank folly, and certainly disastrous to general inte- rests In this matter the meeting was out of its element, if not beyond its depth, but certainly everybody will agree that Mr. S. Hern and his colleagues would do well to back their criticism of the council by reforming it in a practical manner—by nominating and supporting keen men of business at the November elections. No one can pretend that Car- diff has its best possible council bat, as was pointed out last night, that is entirely the fault of the ratepayers, who have the remedy in their own hands. The Llandaff and Dinas Powis District Council did not hesitate for a moment yesterday in deciding to give their employes every facility for joining the Territorial Army. Following the conces- sions made by private firms, this kind of sentiment from our public bodies is -encouraging. A citizens' army is a grand asset to a nation whether or not it trans- pires that it will be actually wanted. If a matter is worth taking in hand at all, it is just as well to bend one's back and get at it properly. This is evidently the opinion of the country at the present moment, and the young fellows who come forward at the call of the nation's safety are none the worse for being able to stand the fatigue of a march or for knowing how to shoot. Bridgend and other coun- cils are-also encouraging the movement, and we shall soon be ready to receive the Prussians, the Russians, or any other invading army. When we have got our men in training and at full strength,! we can safely say, "Let 'em all ome!" I The proposed new bridge and the town .council's fatal love of secrecy in disciiss- ing this and other local matters of the highest importance is producing a curiously grave position at Newport. An authority which first voted for and then Against the provision of a refuse destruc- tor cannot be expected to know its own mind on any other subject where the expenditure of a large sum of money is involved. One phase of the matter ought to be taken into serious consideration. It is probable that with the growth of the town another bridge or two across the Usk will be necessary. In such an event, it would be absurd to take down and re-build the present structure to find j a year or two later that another bridge must be put across the river lower down. A new bridge away from the present site ought to prove convenient to a very large number of people, and by diverting some of the traffic would lessen the strain and add to the life of the debated structure. Now we are all recovering from influenza and the other evils that have followed a belated winter, it is time to cheer up and look forward with cheerful- ness to the future. As the germs get expelled hope returns, and with many comes a strong desire to live to a ripe old age. This is where General Booth comes in. The leader of the Salvation Army will be 80 on April 10, and at least he is a personal example well worth attention. His methods are, briefly, to eat little, drink water, take exercise, to be guided by an unvarying system in all his occupa- tions, to avoid excess of all kinds, and to aim high. The first item is compul- sory with many, and most of us drink water—neat or otherwise. But with regard to the remainder, everybody must speak for himself. For instance, one would not ask a navvy to half-starve him- self, while the authorling who is waiting on immortality can do very well on porridge in small doses at long intervals in his garret home. After all, the main thing is a contented mind, and with this a few years less in this world than some is better than becoming old on a system of dying diaily and worrying through every flying moment.

THE DEAF AND DUMB. I The twenty-first annual report of the Glamorgan Mission to the De. and Dumb has just been issued. and state that the year was distinguished by ext-ena," useful- ness, and as a result a further and substan- tial increase in the income. Notwithstand- ing this increase, the committee thought it only fair to mention that the superintendent did not derive any pecuniary advantage therefrom. On the contrary, his labours were increased. The report of the Rev. J. Bodvan Anwyl indicated the variety and importance of the service which he ren- dered to the people under his charge. It was gratifying to know that the deaf and dumb had now a ministry provided for them which was equal to that enjoyed by any congregation of hearing people, and that the classes organised by Mr. Anwyl for the study of the Bible, English history, &c., by the members of his flock had proved helpful. enlightening, and elevating in their charac- ter. It was with sincere regret that the com- mittee announced the resignation of Mr. L. Gordon Lenox, the hon. treasurer. He had held the office for 21 yearg, and the commit- tee wished to place on record their high appreciation of the sagacity, courage, devo- tion, and quenchless enthusiasm which dis- tinguished hifr tenure of office. Mr. Lenox was succeeded in office by Mr. R. A. Lewis, Pontypridd, who had also proved himself an able and devoted friend of the mission during the whole of its existence. Mr. Gordon Lenox in a farewell message says that, having removed from the district served by the mis- sion, Mrs. Lenox, who had herself ren- dered no mean service to the mission, joined with him in sending heartfelt good wishes for the welfare of all the deaf and dumb people. I The Rev. J. Bodvan Anwyl, the superin- tendent, in his report pointed out that there had been an increase alike in income and expenditure. The committee had been able to t- fer L75 to the reserve fund, which, together with £30 2s. 4d. contributed l by Churches outside the mission area and their former balance and interest, brought their building fund to JE261 3s. 4d. The whole amount required might be placed approxi- mately at £1,(0). A number of contributing Churches had dropped out of the ranks this time, and it was hoped that they and others who had not yet contributed might be able to send a contribution. The receipts for the past year amounted to 1429, and the cash balance to S79.

I JUDGE ON TERRITORIALS I A curious application was made in the King's Bench Division yesterday by Mr. Percy Nisbit, paymaster of the London Division of the poyal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who appeiled to Mr. Justice Grantham for exemption from jury service on the ground tha,t this privilege had been granted to the officers of the Territorial Army. Mr. Justice Grant,hma said that the reason for granting the privilege to the Territorial Army was that if they were on the jury they would not be pbl-e to go and fight. "No doubt the Territorials have been very much favoured. Everything has been done to draw them-I won't say 'into the net,' for that might be misunderstood—but into the fold." Finally his lordship promised to do what he could for the applicant, but did not release him.

DRUNK ON METHYLATEDSPIRITS A policeman went to a house at Salford on the night of March 22 and found a woman lying on a couch unconscious. Her face was badly brttised, and her body bore. marks which suggested that she had been violently kicked. She was taken to the hospital, where she was detained until yesterday morning, and her condition was such that she would have to go back to the inetitutitMi for several days. As far as could be asoertained a foreign sea- man met the woman in a beerhouse and joined two other prisoners, who were drink-1 ing methylated spirits and beer. Sonne alter- c.ation arising, a heated quarrel quickly fol- lowed, and it is alleged that the woman was knocked to the ground and kicked about the face, month, and ribs. They were each sent to gaol for six months' hard labour.

I ACTRESS KILLS A PRINCE. I Prince Kasa/tkin Rostovsky, a captain of 1 Hrus-sars, was sfuot dead iin the most fashion- able restaurant in Warsaw on Tuesday nigh t. The prince was dind "Dg with a boauuf; jiumgarian actress a.nd shngcr, named Rosa j Bauer, who apparently accused the prince of desertimig her. After a brief exchange of ,a,ngry words the singer drew a revolver amd the p*riince fell at the first shot. The prince deserted his wife to fellow the singer some time o4go. liis son is at present a page at the Czar's Court. i'

Two schoolboys yesterday found the body of a man, who had apparently died some1 weeks ago, in the back yard of an empty house in I' Stanley-Street. Paddington. BETTER BE SCBR T3AJ SORBY." When yoll uh w BngUad's Glory Matches be "sure" you ,el them Thar are %be \-rnad& matches In the world. "çp And n&49y" fore?gu made matches are but "eorrj" substitutes; muci more expewive. too. KogU&i'* "cy K&tcA Ww. G¡ou. <mtS—4

FROM ALL QUARTERS Mrs. Pritohard, the Welsh poetess, whose sonnets are known to all Welsh people, has just died at Holyhead. The promoters of the Brighton Casino and Marine Palace Bill have informed the Board of Trade that they do not intend to proceed further with it. A young woman, named Toms, dislocated her jaw at Barnstaple last night while yawn- ing, and had to be taken to the infirmary on an ambulance. A collection of coins belonging to the late MT. C. H. T. Hawkins, who set aside 110,000 for acquiring art treasures, were sold in Lon- don yesterday for L600. All over England the art of thatching is gone," Lord Pembroke declared yesterday at a oonference at Oaxton Hall on the question of rural education. Only eight guineas was bid at Stevens' Rooms yesterday for the sword of Admiral Kempenfeidt, who went down with the Royal George in 1782. Mr. William O'Brien's newspaper, the J ( Irish People," is to cease publication at once concurrently with the retirement of its proprietor from public life. The petrol tank of a small motor-car burst yesterday in Mr. J. Blyth'smotor-cycle works, Hornoastle, setting the shop on fire, fclowing t.}lO end of the shop out, and rendering Mr. Blyth unconscious. The Salisbury Guardia-ns have decided to discontinue serving gruel to tramps. The gruel was so popular that the number of tramps visiting the workhouse increased by 1,100 in a quarter. While a well was being sunk at fekreen's Park, Roxwell, near Chelmsford, the bore passed, at a depth of 331 feet, through a seam of coal two inches thick. Mr. Banister, who was refused Commu- nion because he married his deceased wife's sister, has resigned the managership of the Norwich electric tramways. This may affect the oase, as Mr. Banister may oea.se to be a parishioner at Eaton. We have many more officials now than when I was a boy," said the Old-street magistrate in discharging a man who had been wrongly accused of left by a London County Council official. Had the man who charged you not been an official he would not have suspected you." » ■ ■ <

DRINK AT AUCTION SALES. I Messrs. Davis, Newland, and Hunt, auc- tioneers, were summoned at Lydney for sell- ing intoxicadng liquor without a licence on March 11. Mr. Lyndon Moore, of Newport, appeared for the defendants, who pleaded not guilty. Poiice-constable Hazell s,fnted that, in plain ielotl,ers, he attended a big auction sale at ldriffield Farm, Lydney. A youth sold wit- ness for Is. a luncheon ticket, and, entering the luncheon-room, he presented it to the lady who was serving, Mrs. Birrell, of the Bell Hotel, Chepstow. With his food he took a glass of beer. Mr. Davis, who was con- ducting the sale, afterwards told him that the Is. was for the food alone, ajid no profit was supplied was made out of it. The dr.nk was supplied absolutely fr_e. Mrs. Birrell was bi? a?ent in the matter. The charge was made to pre- vent fraud, and every customer whose account came to a sovereign, or more had the ls. returned. Originally both food and drink was supplied free at Batch sales. Cross-examined by Mr. Lyndon Moore, wit- ness said that the ticket did not guarantee both food and drink. He knew of one man who at that sale unsuocessf uUy attempted to purchase d-Lik alone. For the defence Mr. Edgar Davis described thecoumetakanat ruch sales. His nrm took the instructions of the pa.rty calling the sale In this oase he was directed to obtain five gallons of A-hisky and eighteen gallons of beer, and this was done. The drink was secured from Mrs Biz-r-oll, who also attended to the luncheon The auctioneers made no profit on the tickets, and they charged only for the food. In their account of the farm sa.Ie they deducted the net amounts which the drink co-,t making no profit on that. The Chairman ai-d that the bench con- sidered that the law had been broken, but this was the first case of the kind brought to their notice, and, under the ciroumstances. they ha-d decided to dismiss it. At the same time they commended Superintendent Griffin j for bringing the case before them.

MARATHON DERBY. I Six men, considered to be the best in the 1 world at the game, will start on Saturday afternoon, April 3, in a Marathon race at the Polo Grounds, New York City's big base- ball park. The race is called the Marathon Derby, and for it a prize of lO.OOOdol. has been offered, to be divided as follows:- 5,W0dol. to the winner, 2,5G0dol. to the second man, 1,500dol. to the oontestamt finishing th id, and l.OOOdol. to the fourth. The entrants are Alfred Slirubb, the English lorug-distance runner, who again will try the 26 miles 385 yards, despite his announced intention never again to do so; Tom Long- boat, the Indian; Dora.ndo Pietri, the little Italian; Henari St. Yves, the French runner; Johnny Haye9, the American lad who won the Olympio race to Shepherd's Bush last year, and "Mat" Maloney, the former amateur who holds the world's record for the distance of 2h. 36min. 26 l-5sec. These figures were made last autumn in a run from Rye, N.Y., to Columbus Circle, New York City. He also recently won the amateur Marathon race at Madison-square Garden, and then turned professional and decisively defea,ted Pat White, the Irishman, in a long- distance race at the 69th Regiment Armoury in New York. The polo grounds cover a large area, and it is probable that the track, which will be over the turf, will measure about a quarter of a Glile. The immense stands which enolose the grounds will seat about 25,000 spec- tators.-P.ress Association Foreign Special.

SURE DEFENCE AGAINST SNAKES I "There is one taling which we export from this country that few pea,ple-in fact, no one outside those in the trade—ever know any- thing about." says an Amer'tn expert "That is hair ropes. They are shipper ma.inly to India, tho-ugh they go to any place where poisonous "snakes are plentiful. Every cowboy and plainsman learned years ago tha.t if he did not wish to wake up in the morning and And a rattler for a bed mate when he had to sleep out on the prairie, he had to be careful before lying down to see that his horsehair lariat was coiled carefully aooufc him, so tna/t there was no opening through which a snake might crawl. No snake will tackle a hair rope. It is the only Sure protection against them. Somehow the id-ea permeated the mm els of the East Indians, and now t-h-ey buy these ropes for protection against the poisonous snakes with which the country abounds."

MESSRS. RANK SUED In the King's Bench Division on Wednes- day, before Mr. Justice Grantham and a special jury, the case of Rolls v. Joseph Rank and Co., corn and flour merchants, of .London and Cardiff, was heard. j Mr. St. John Moran, for the plaintiff, said that the plaintiff was engaged at the defen- dants' London office, and he alleged that on December 3. 1907, he was given into custody on a charge of stealing 75 sacks, of the value of 30s. The plaintiff was acquitted, and he now sued for false imprison- ment. Defendants ju?tiBed their con- i duct by the evidence of two oi their employes, and said that they acted without malice, but he asked the jury to give the plaintiff, who was a man of unblemished reputation, exemplary damages for the reck- less and wicked prosecution of an innocent man. The hearing was adjourned.

BANK BOOKS FOR BABIES. Dutch military officers' wives have made Queen Wilhelmina a present. The balance of the moneys collected are to be employed to provide a number of bank books to be furnished for children born on the same day as the expected heir. These books wiil be supplied to the children whose fathers are military men below the rank of officer. The Queen has expressed her extreme satisfac- tion at this method of doing her honour.

A PLUCKY COMEDIAN. While entering the K emrington Theat.re yesterday, where he is to play in The i Shadows of a Great City next week, Mr. Arthur Williams, the well-known comedian, saw a pony and trap containing a girl of: ten dashing down the street. The pony was evidently qud?e bey<mù control. Despite his M years Mr. Williams sprang on to the mad a?d brought the animal to a stanatill.

EDITORIAL STAFF OF MARTYRS Since the German Socialist organ, "Yor- waerts," was founded 25 years ago, penalties amounting to ten years and eighteen weeks' imprisonment, seven weeks' arrest, three months' detention in a fortress, and £5LO in fines have been inflicted on members of the editorial staff.

BEDS and Mattressea renovated.—1, Mlnny-st., Cat toys. o459

The King of Servia I The King. of Servia HIS INTENTION TO ABDICATE. I King Peter has intimated to the British and Russian Ministers at Belgrade his inten- tion to adbicate and renounce his family's rights to the Servian Throne (says the "Daily Chronicle"). The King, it is said, is suffering from depression, brought about by the col- lapse of all his plans. He is also convinced that the Crown Prince Alexander's physical j and intellectual powers would render him unfit for the Throne. Kinig Peter desires an allowance of a year, and a loan is likeJy to be contraded for the purpose. Two Scandina-vian Princes are spoken of as probable candidates for the Servian Throne. Nothing (says Reut-er) is known at the Foreign Office of King Petor having in- formed the British Minister of his intention to abdicate. A similar message with regard to the Russian Minister comes from St. Petersburg.

VOTES FOR WOMEN. The Albert-hall, Swansea, was on Wednesday I | evening crowded, partly, no doubt, in expec- tation of as much amusement as instruction from the suffragettes anaounced t-3 speak. Miss M. E. Manhiiig, M.A., an erstwhile Swan- sea lady, took the chair. There waa evi- dently a large section of the assembly, par- ticularly in the gallery, prepared for fun, and they commenced operations directly the choir started, a, toy trumpet, being used effectively. During the first slight pause in the music the Cnairwoman, Miss Manning, commenced, unfortunately, by saying tha.t she had been told tiiat it was quite unlikely she would get those Welsh people" to listen to them, because th-ey knew so little. The disturbance hereupon threatened to prevent her givin.g her reply, which was that she, as a Welsh woman, knew that they would listen because they had brains. She also invoked a hearing for Miss Matters, who had also a strain of Welsh blood in her veins. In concluding she said she would not keep them any lg-er-(loud cries of Hear, hear," and applause)—because they wanted to hear Miss Matters. (Loud cries of No," and laughter.) Miss Matters on the whole had a very good hearing, and repeatedly scored off her interrupters. If the Government was to be by physical force, she said, they ought to put out Asouith and put in Sandow or Hackensc-hmidt. She contended that in three spheres—the Church, the kitcihen, and the children—women should have a voice. It was because women were fundamentally different from men that they claimed the vote. If they were all heart and men were all brains, what a beautifuj combination they would have! The goal was in eight. By all human and Divine laws what they asked for was just and right. (Loud applause.) A resolution calling on the Government to enfranchise women this session was put, and declared carried.

SANITY AND WILL-MAKING The testamentary dispositions of Miss Mary Meredith, who had lived in Crynant-road, Auerduiais, and died on June 6. 1906, were the subject of the suit of Seroomhe v. Jones and Another, \.ch on Wednesday came before A-r,(>th<?r, NM I (Sir J<)Iin Bigham) in the Pro- the president (Sir John Bigham) in the Pro- bato Court. The plaintiff, Mary Sercombe. propounded a will dated April 6, 1908. The defendants were William Jones, Margaret Eeynon Jones, and Thomas Lewis. Mr. Grazebrook (instructed by Mr. Whittington) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hugh Jones (instructed by Messrs. Metcalfe and Sharpe) was for the defendants. Mr. Grazebrook intimated that the parties had come to terms. The plaintiff, he said, was residuary legatee uhder the will, and he asked his lordship to pronounce for the will of April 6 and against two wills of June 4. Mr. Whittington. solicitor, of Neath, was called to prove tho due execution of the April will. He said that he Prepared the will on the lady's instructions, and she approved of the contents. Joseph Lewis, tin-worker, Aberdulais, giare evidence to show the state of mind of the testatrix a-t the time of the June 4 wills. He said that he li-ed next door to the testatrix, and he remembered being called into her house by the nurse last June. The testatrix said that she was being starved, that her arms Tfad been broken, and that two ladies had tried to do away with her. He saw her arms, and it was not true that they had been broken. Mr. Grazebrook submitted that this evi- dence was sufficient to justify him in asking the court to pronounce against the two wills of June 4 The President pronounced for the will of April 6 a'1d against the other documents, and made the terms of settlement a rule of court.

TURNED CREY IN A WEEK. Ernest Grav, the YOIg Ealing green-I grocer, whose blak hair turned grey in?al week by the ÐJgony of suspense, was fined 20s. at Brentford yesterday for drunkenness. Ho had been remandeci because a man named Lyons, who went to assist the con- stable to arrest him, died almost imme- diately after the incident. The inquest since held showed that Lyons's death was from natural causes. The widow of Lyons, said counsel. had written Gray a letter, in which she said: "I do sincerely hope that those in authority will think. as I think, that the punishment you have undergone is suffi- cient, because it will live in your memory for the rest of your life."

RHONDDA AND THE C.E.T.S. I A meeting of the clergy and laity of the Rhoaddii Deanery was held at St. Paul's Schoolroom, Porth, the Rev. T. Tissington, vicar of Owmparc, presiding in the unavoid- able absence of Canon W. Lewis, R,D. The Rev. A. W. Washington Palmer, rector of Tin tern and organising secretary for the Church of England Temperance Society in the Diocese of Llandaff,, gave an exhaustive address on the Church of England Temper- anco Society Forward Movement. The clergy and laity present pledged themselves to do all that lay in their power to render success- ful the forthcoming temperance mission in the fourteen parishes of the deanery in the course of the coming autumn.

CONFIRMATION AT TONNA Tuesday was a red-letter day in the village of Tom,a. The Lord Bishop of Llandaff administered the rite of confirmation for the first time since the church had been conse- crated. As the seating accommodation vax not sufficient for the congregation chairs had to be provided. There were a large numb3T of candidates from Tonna and Resolven, the former presenting 42 and the latter 33. The clergy ofifciating were the Rev. D. Thomas (vicar of Resolven) and the Rov. Charles Cha,loncr Lindsey (vicar of Tonna and chap- lain to the high-sheriff of Glamorgan). The present assize is the fifteenth at which the Rev. C. C. Lindsey has acted as chaplain.

SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS Three summonses were issued by the Swan sea magistrates on Wednesday under the Sunday trading laws against street news- vendors, and the cases will be called on Tues- day next. The defendants will be defended by Messrs. T.eeder and Morris, and the cases are not likely to be completed till the follow. ing week. This is the first attempt to extend the Sunday Observance Act of 1677 to street newsvendors. It i £ stated that the case is to be reso- lutely defended, the Sunday newspapers being keenly interested in the result. The legality of the seizure of papers is one of the points which is being questioned in some quarters.

KING AND TERRITORIALS. Mr. Haldane, speaking at Kensington Town- hall on Wednesday, said the King had intimated his desire to present on June 19 coloairs to all the battalions of the Terri- torial Force which had reached 75 per cent of their authorised establishment. The presenUitiou would be made at Windsor Castle, and, in view of the large number of units, detachments or delegations were to atte;n,d to receive the colours. Mr. Haldane said they had got, about a quarter of a mil- lion out of 300,000 required for the peace establisnment, but an immense amount of work had to be dona to bring the force to the standard of a modern, scientific'ally-or°°-anised Army.

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Cup Tie in Danger. I TEAMS MAY REFUSE TO PLAY. I The greatest Association football match of I the year—the final Cup tie beTween Bristol City and Ma.nchester United at the Crystal Palace—and another contest of the greatest interest—the international match between England a.nd Scotland next Saturday—will have to be abandoned if the football players ¡ resort to a strike to settle their differences, with the Football Association. 'I The members of the Players' Union, who number nearly 1,400, and include practi- cally every player of note, are determined to back up their management committee in their attitude on the question at issue—the right to take legal action without first ob- ta.ming the sanction dI the Association. Shoals of letters and telegrams ha-vo reached the offices of the union in Ma,n- chester, bringing as:suranoes of support from every team in the First and Second Division of the League and of the Southern League, with only two exceptions. In many instances captains testified to the loyalty of the players, after formal meetings and resolu- t,ions. Such unanimity was hardly expected, for it has been declared that the players as a body could not afford to decline to sign the .n,w form of ne- new form of negotiation, binding every pro- fessional to strict observance of the rules and regulation of the Association. The conflict is sure to be short, sharp, and soon, for the players know that if they leave it until the end of the season they will be at the mercy of the Football Association, which, it is said, intends to expel the ring- leaders. Their only chance, their supporters con- eider. is to deliver a decisive blow-for the rival teams to refuse to play in the two great forthcoming matches, and so put before the Association the alternatives of surren- derin.g or of disappointing all the followers of professional football.

PUBLIC CENSORS At Swansea Library Committee meeting Mr. feline asked whether the book purchas- ing committee were the censors of public morals, and said they had declined to pur- chase a. number of books recently on the ground of their alleged immorality. Mr. Crocker said that the committee were within their rights, and he instanced a book which he (Mr. Crocker) knew to be objection- able. Mr. Scline said he would bring the matter up again. Mr. Seline had given notice of a motion that no member should be chairman more than two years in succession, but when he rose to propose it the Chairman (Mr. Chap- man) ruled that it was ultra vires. Mr. Seline declared that he would bring the matter up again, but he was more than once requested by the chairman to sit down," which he said he refused to do. The Chairman: Then I declare this meet- ing closed. Mr. Seline went up to the cha-irman as the meeting broke up and said that it was a deliberate falsehood to assume that this was a personal matter.

EIGHTY AND EIGHTEEN The love affairs of Mr. Francis Mills, who carries on the profession of canine medi- cine manfacturer in the somewhat prosaic neighbourhood of East Ham, was investi- gated yesterday by Mr. Justice Coleridge and a jury. Despite the fact that Mr. Mills is well advanced in years, being an octo- genarian, according to one account, he recently fell in love with a widow many years his junior. Her name was Elizabeth Courquin, and with her son she resided not far from Mr. Mills. Calling on Mrs. Courquin one evening to urge his suit, Mr. Mills found that a friend of her son, a youth named George, had just brought back the eon's bicycle which he had borrowed. At once the elderly lover's jealousy was aroused. Eighty looked with stern suspicion on eighteen. What eighty about eighteen to neigh- bours in the pique of unrequited affection was given in evidence to the court. It formed the subject of a slander action brought by Mrs. Courquin. She was awarded ZESO damages.

CIRLS FROM THE COUNTRY. Some plays pre-suppose a woman who insists upon marrying one man and falling in love with another. According to the accepted canons of the Playwrights, art, this kind of woman is quite common. To get herself married to the wrong man appears to be the first instinicrt of her nature. She makes a holyby of it. There is no very clear reason why she should marry him if she doesn't care for him. Speaking generally, the playwrights' only excuse for her is that she was quite a, girl and she was brought up in the country. For my part, I have never met this kind of woman in real life, and my experience of young ladies brought up in the country is that they are quite as well able to take care of themselves as the young women who have had the advantage of being brought up in Kensington or Camberwell.- "Black and White."

OBSTRUCTION ON THE LINE ? William Trigg, a resident cf Boiler Shop- row, CindeTiord, was eha-rged before the local magistrates yesterday with having placed a large limb of a tree ofn the line at the crosehng of the Great Western and Severn amd Wye Railway, Dear Bilson signal- box. Trigg was seen by a man named Baldwin who immediately removed the obftrnction, aj'd five minutes lalter a train came along. When arrested by Inspector Packer, Trigg, it is stated, made a moat extraordinary statement. Prisoner was re- manded till to-morrow.

NEW RECTOR OF ST. BRIDE'SL The Vicar of Mountain Ash (the lie v. J. Sinnett Jones, M.A.) has been appointed rector of St. Bride's-super-Ely. He has- been vicar of Mountain Ash for nearly eight years, and was formerly curate at St. Bride's for a period of eight years. During the time he has been at fountain Ash St. Margaret's Church has been renovated and beautified at a cost of 1500, and a new church (St. John the Baptist's) has been built at a | cost of £ 4,000. The patron of St. Bride's- super-Ely is Mr. L. E. Traherne.

PRESENTATION AT CARDIFF I A meeting of a. nom-political complexion was held on Wednesday at the Parish-hall, Grangetown, Cardiff, when, under the presi- dency of Dr. Robert Smith, the presentation wa-s made to Dr. D. E. Canitillon of a solid silver epergne and table ornaments in recog- nition of his services as councillor for the ward. The speak- s ireluded Councillor J. Robin- son, ex-Councillor J. J. Dixon. the Vicar (the Rev. F. P. Hill), the Rev. Father Brady, and Mr. W. R. Smith.

PRISON IN FLAMES I Leavenworth (Kansas). Wednesday.—The National Military Prison, here was burned down this evening. When the fire broke out a cwd&n of troops was drawn around the building, and the prisoners, many of whom are desperate characters, were warned that alllyboody attempting to escape would be shot. The cell doors were then opened, and the prisoraem, overawed by the levelled rifles of the soldiers, meekly marched to a stockade, where they were put under a strong guard.

LORD MAYOR AT DINAS POWIS The interior of fhe Parish-hall, Dinas Powis presented a charming appearance on Wednesday, when a bazaar was held in con- nection with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. The chair was occupied by li,r. T. E. Morel. The object of the bazaar was to clear off a debt of -0226 on the church and organ. The Lord Mayor in performing the opening oeramony apologised for the absence, through illness, of the Lady Mayoress, and then delivered a humorous speech.

CARDIFF CHILD'S FATAL SKIP I Mr. W. L. Yora.th on Wednesday held an inquest at Cardiff Law Courts touching the death of Helena Hall, aged three years, the daughter of Percy Hall, labourer, 164, (Uiriia- strect, who was Skipping on the kerb, when a baker's ecurt aame along. She stepped off, the result being that the horse kioked her, ana the wheel weriit over her neck. The verdict was "Accidental death," and no blame was attached to the driver.

SWANSEA JUVENILE COURT The Swansea magistrates on Wednesday resolved to hold a juvenile court for the Hundred of Swansea on tho first Wednesday of each month, after the termination of the ordinary police-court business.

A LINK WITH THE PAST l The Lord Mayor of Cardiff (Alderman Lewis Morgan, J.P.) is an upholder of old institu- tions, and at the next council meeting the members will have before them his report as to the appointment of a town-erimr.

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BUDGET SURPRISE DEFICIT OVER H 2 MILLION The Treasury issued on Wednesday night an account of the revenue of the United Kingdom for the financial year, which ter- minated on Wednesday. As had been gener- ally anticipated from the weekly Exchequer returns, it shows a decrease as compared with the realised revenue for the previous financial year, and with Mr. Asquith's esti- mate for the present year, made in his last Buifget statement to the House of Commons. The revenue figures for the year were: — Estimated revenue £153,080.000 Revenue received £15í.578.295 Decrease £1,501.705 Revenue last year £156.537,690 Decrease compared with last year £ 4,959,395 The financial year ended somewhat better than it began, as at one period it seemed highly probable that the decrease in revenue would be much larger than is the case. Comparing the figures with those for the previous year, the first quarter showed a decrease of £ 2,337,389, and the second quarter a further one of 12,081,293. The third quarter was somewhat more favourable, with a decrease of C610,821, and the last quarter showed a net increase of £ 70.108. The details of revenue for the year are appended, together with increases or decreases under the various heads as com- pared with the previous year:- Decrease. Increase. £ £ Customs, c29,200,000 3,290,000 —— Excise, 2,070,000 —— Est ate, &c., Duties. £ .8,370,000 700,000 Stamps, £7,770,000 —— Land Tax, X730,COO —— —— House Duty, £ 1,9C0,000 60,000. —— Property and Income Tax, £ 33,930,000 — 1,550,000 Postal service, £ 17,770,000. 110,000 Telegraph ferrice, £ 3,020,003 22,000 —— Telephone service, £1,510,000 132,000 Crown Lands, £ 530,000 —— 10,000 Receipts from Suez Canal Shares a, n d sundry loans. £ 1,171.466 —— 181,449 —— More interest, however, attaches to a ¡ detailed comparison of figures with the Chancellor's estimates. Taking them in order given above, Customs (in consequence of the remission of sugar duty) were expected to show a decrease of £ 3,290,000. The actual decrease is also one of £ 3,230,000. Originally the anticipated decrease under the second head—that of Excise—was placed at only £ 220,000, but the estimated revenue in this department was subsequently reduced by Xl,,270,000 in respect of the transfer to county councils of certain local taxation licences, and the expected reduction thus represented a sum of £ 1.490,000. The actual decrease is £ 2,070,000. The estimated increase in estate, Ac, duties was X430,000, but actually there is a decrease of £ 700,000. In stamps an increase of £ 110,0C0 waa esti- mated, but again there is a decrease of £ 200.000. Land tax and house duty were estimated to show a decrease of 290,000, but actually the decrease is only £ 60,000. Property and income tax is the pleasant surprise of the return, for whereae an increase of only £ 620,000 was estimated, the la.st quarter of the year has brought the total increase to £ 1.550,000, or nearly a million sterling above expectation. From the postal service, including the tele- graphs a.nd telephones, the Chancellor expected an increase of £ 470,000, but the increase is on the telephone service only, namely, £ 132,COO, the decrease in the postal service being £ 110,000 and telegraph service £22.000 respectively. From Crown lands the estimated increase was £10,000, a.nd, as in the case of the Customs decrease, but in a less remarkable degree, the actual realisation agrees with the estimate. The decrease from Suez Canal shares and sundry loans was estimated at £19,412, but the aotual decrease is only £ 17,946. A decrease from miscellaneous was anti- cipated to the amount of XZ07,278, but here again the decrease was only 1181,449.

I TRIBUTE TO BRITISH NAVY I I The following cable has been sent by the secretary to the President of Uruguay to Admiral Sir Percy Scof$ in graceful appre- ciation of the latter's reference in his speech to the kindness and hospitality that he and his officers and man received in Uruguay. Monte Video. To Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Admiralty, London. President Williman desires to thank you for your kind reference to himself and to Uruguay at the London municipal banquet. Your captains and your officers had every claim on our hospitality, whose only merit consists In those feelings by which it was prompted of sincere friendship towards England, which, if they had not already existed, would have been created by your amiable and genial courtesy on the occasion of your too short visit to our country. I tra-nsmit to you the cordial greetings of the President, with an expression of my own high consideration. (Signed) Dr. E. BARBAROUX, I Private Secretary." j

MULEY HAFID ADN FRANCE Paris, Th-Lir--da-y.-The "Matin" states that M. Rcgnault, the French Minister, a.nd the members of the special Embassy to Muley Ilafid, returned to Tangier from Fez yester- day. The Suitan has agreed to the operation of Mie Moroccan police on the Algerian frontier and in the bordering territories, and to the elaboration of a protocol for the evacuation of the Shsawia couintry, while other results of an economic character have been obtained, but Mtiley Hafid flatly de- clined to accord permission to Europeans to acquire land within a. perimeter of twelve kilometres aground the towns open to Emropean trade, and also refused to sanction the elaborate schemes for works at Tangier Drought forward by the Commission of Hygien,e. The question of a new loan will be discussed during El Moku's ooming mission to Paris.

MYSTERY ON A LINER On the arrival at Plymouth on Wednesday of the Teutonic, of the White Star Line, from New York, it transpired that on Tuesday afternoon a revolver shot suddenly drew attention to a cabin occupied by a Mexican, who was g-en-arally believed to have a large sum of money with him. When the occupant ru-hed in he found the discharged revolver, but no trace of the intruder, beyond the fact that his belongings had been ransacked. Meanwhile cries were heard from an adjoin- ing room, and it was found that-the bullet from the revolver bad passed through the cabin partition, and had entered the neck of a young girl, who, fortunately, wae more frightened than hurt.

FOOTBALL TRAIN TRAGEDY A Plymouth coroner's jury last night returned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against E. M'lntyre, the Plymouth Argyll half-back, in respect of the death of Nicholas Wallis, the club's trainer. It was stated that while returning in the train from Derby on Feb- ru,ary 20 Wallis and M'lntyre quarrelled at cards. On arrival at Plymouth it was found that WaIlia's jaw wae fractured, and as a direct consequence of his injury an abscess formed on the lun,g. causing death.

SOUTH WALES ART SOCIETY The annual meeting of the South Wailes Art Society is announced for Tu<>sday\night next, at Mr. II. W. Sbellard's studio, High-street, Cardiff. The committee in their annual report express regret that the sale of pictures last year was not so great as usual. Efforts are being made by the committee to raise a fund for the purpose of erecting an art gallery in the city as a Permeaient home for the society. The financial TK),si-tion continues satisfactory.

EXCITING RESCUE SCENES The Brixham trawler Mint, No. 195, went ashore yesterday on Foreland Ledge, Bemuridg(5, Isle of Wight. She was seen to be among the rocks, and full of water The lifeboat Queen Victoria proanprtjy put off. and rescued the crew of three, amid scc-rc,s of great excitement., half the population of Bembridge turning out to witness the opera- tion. It is believed the Mint will become a total wreck

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Big Jump in Exports. —— .—.— BUSY TIMES AT CARDIFF DOCKS. During the past fortnight what one might almost term feverish activity lias been in evidence at the Ctar-diff Docks. This woek the number of steamers waiting to load at the Cardiff, Penarth, and Barry Docks have fully tested the additional appliances provided, and some steamers have had to wait a short while for a berth. Monday was a record day for coal shipments at the Bute Docks, and it is expected that the week will be a record one. The dry docks also have been very busy. The present spurt in trade is largely due to reaction after the quietness oi the past few months. Other reasons are the approach of Easter and the anxiety of shippers to get vessels away before the holidays. In addi- tion, the fears of a general strike in the coal- field are having some effect, as large con- sumers of coal abroad are talcing large quan- tities, with the object of accumulating stocks so as to obviate inconvenience in the event of a suspension of work. The greater demand for coal has caused an advance of ls. to Is. 3d. per ton in the price of large and over 2s per ton in small coals.

tTHE WHITE PLAGUE At *a meeting of the St. DogmeH's Rural: District Council Dr. Havard, the medical officer of health, called attention to the order of the Local Government Board which came into force on the 1st of January as to the compulsory notification of pulmonary tuberculosis in persons receiving Poor-law iv.edical relief. The disease was making sad havoc among the population of the St. Dog- i mell's Rural District, one out of every ten deaths being attributable to it. In the first ten years there had been 187 deaths in the districts under his supervision as Tiledicali officer of health attributable to that hor- rible white plague. It. was hoped that the medical inspection of school-children would secure the detection of previously unrecog- nised cases among the children. Dr. Havard concluded his remarks by asking permission j to provide pocket spit bottles for consump- tives who were too poor to provide them themselves.—This was granted.

I ELOPING GIRL'S DISTRESS. The elopement of Louisa Appleton, aged seventeen, a London milliner, and Harry Cole, aged nineteen, a Bournemouth hair- dresser's apprentice, which ended at Bir- mingham in a prosecution for travelling on the railway without tickets, was again before the stipendiary magistrate yesterday. Whea Cole was sent to prison for a month on Tues- day, in default of paying the 20s. fine imposed, the girl asked piteously to be allowed to go to prison with her sweetheart, but the magistrate, as reported yesterday, said, "We must save this girl," and remanded Her. One of the lady missioners and the magistrate had a long private conversation yestetrdia-y in court regarding the girl, the nd of which was thai he said he should remand her for a. week for reasons which he ladies would explain to her afterwards.

THE SP-EAKER'S BIRTHDAY. I To-day is the fifty-fourth birthday of that dignified and important personage, the Speaker of the House of Commons, who ranks (by statute of William and Mary) as First Commoner of England, that is imme- diately after peers of the realm and before the eldest sons of viscounts and barons. Mr. James William Lowther, who has held his high office since 1906, is grandson of the first Rarl of Lonsdale, and elder brother of Sir Gerald Lowther, British Ambassador in Tur- key. He was firs.t elecited for Rutland a quarter of a century ago, and has been M.P. for Mid-Cumberland fo'r nearly 23 years. The Speaker is married to a daughter of the late Mr. Ja-mes Beresford-Hope, and has two sons (the elder an Attache at the Legation :n Mexico), and a daughter.

CANADA AND THE NAVY. Winnipeg, Wednesday.—The Board of Trade here has unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the action of the Dominion Par- liament on the naval crisis, and decla,ring that Canada should bear her full share of the defence of the Empire, and should im. mediately offer a Dreadnought to the Mother Country. Toronto, Wednesday—Sir James Whitney, Premier of Ontario, replying to a question in the Ontario Legislature on the subject of the Provinces combining to present a batitle "hip to the British Navy, said in his opinion Canada had missed a great opportunity. He hoped the Dominiôn Government would offer one, or even two, Dreadnoughts without delay. No formal action had been taken in the matter.

FUTURE OF CARDIFF DOCKS The practical side of designing and con- structing docks, as described by Sir Whately Eliot, drew a large g-athering to the Engineers' Institute, Cardiff, on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr. William Harpur, the city engineer. Sir Whately, who repre- sented the Admiralty on the Keyham Dock construction, was of the opinion that the docks of Cardiff, Barry, and Penarth ought, to meet the requirements of most vessels for years to come, but the question of widening and deepening dock entrances was now engaging the minds of engineers, for the rapid progress in the size of vessels during the last 30 years was never previously thought of.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BALLINGER 1 Alderman Trounce presided over a meet- ing of the Balliriger Testimonial Committee at the Cardiff Central Library on Wednesday, when Mr. W. P. James, one of the hon. secre- taries, reported that Mr. Goscombe John had executed his replica of their late chief librarian. Councillor Thompson (hon. treasurer) stated that X260 had been paid into the bank, and that almost every par-t of Wales was repre- sented in the subscription list. Subscriptions had also been received from many towns in England, and one each had come from America, Lndia. and Holland. (Applause.)

MASTER OF TIVYSIDE HOUNDS I To-day the Tivyside hunting season comes to a close, and with it terminates the master- ship of Colonel Newland, Dolhaidd, who has proved an ideal master. His successor, Major Spence-Jones, of Manoreifed, is likewise a keen sportsman, and has a wide and varied experienc-e in the hunting field, being beet known in We8t Wales as Master of the Pan-t- glas Hounds, which he hunted for four seasons. He belonged to the Rifle Brigade, and now commands tho Carmarthenshire Squadron of the Peanbsroke LnvperiaJ Yeo- manry.

11375 DAMAGES TO BELGIAN, I In the London Sheriff's Court on Wednes- day Miss Celeste Leemans, a young lady of Belgian parentage, was awarded 9375 damages against Mr. Juiw Ribstein, son of an hotel proprietor in the West End of London, for breach of promise and seduc- tion. Counsel said the plaintiff was engaged as a cashier at the defendant's father's hotel. The defendant announced his engage- ment to the plaintiff to his family, but his father refusing his sanction, he refused to keep his promise.

I LITTLE BOY—BOX OF PILLS. I A little boy, named William Marshall Cook, who lived with his parents at East Usk-road, Newport, was playing about the house, on Wednesday, when he picked up gome pills. After having swallowed them he beca-me ill. and was taken to the hospital, but died shortly after admission. j

ILLNESS OF MR. MARION CRAWFORD j I ILLNE?S OF MR. MARION I Rome, Thursday.—Mr. F. Marion Crawford, the well-known novelist and historian, is lying seriously ill with pneumonia at his home at Sorrento. Telegrams received here indicate that his condition causes much anxiety.

I DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Cherbourg, Wedneeday.-Am explosion of dynamite occurred to-d-ay in the Tourlaville Quarries. Three men were injured, two of them so badly that they are not expected to recover.

I REWARD FOR MISSING POET. The friends of the missing poet, Mr. John Davidson, have offered a reward of X20 for information as to his whereabouts.

CITY TRAMWAYS TRAFFIC -1 Faasen?re. Receipts. Last Year. Cardiff 466.007 ?2,000 5 0 £1.%1 4 3 Newport. 146,141 £ 609 15 7 JB602 4 52 J

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I Screams in a Cabin I LINER PASSENGER MYSTERIOUSLY SHO" A mysterious shooting incident waa reported yesterday at Plymouth on the arrival of the White Star liner Teutonic from New York. Yesterday, whilst the third- class passengers were on deck after dinner, they were startled by the report of a revolver, followed by screams. The report was found to have proceeded from the cabin of a Mexican gentleman, who, it was com- monly reported, was bringing a large sum of money to Europe. The cabin was found full of smcke, but no one was discovered there. The screams, it appears, had pro- ceeded from an adjoining cabin, where a young Norwegian girl, named Rudd, was dis- covered shot in the nock. The assumption is that, a thief had been rummaging for money or valuables among the Mexican passenger's effects, and had accidentally fired a revolver which was con- cealed there. The weapon was still smoking when found, and the bul?t had evidently IP?,96sefl through the partition. The buIld was extracted by the shin's doctor, and the patient is doing very well. One or two suspected passengers were examined, but nothing definite could be charged against them. Just before the liner arrived at Plymouth a first-class passenger reported to the purser that some of his valu- ables had been stolen.

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP VIADUCTS A daring attempt was made yesterday morning to blow up the new Hoboken Viaduct, New York, which is being erected at a cost of £250.0:0. The entire to wa was shaken as if by an earthquake. The win- dows of houses within a. radius of a quarter of a mile were shattered and the walls were pierced by jagged pieces of steel. The office of the Noteure Manufacturing Company close to tho bridge was demolished. In several houses sleeping tenants were buried in wrecked furniture and fallen plaster. The bridge was damaged 13 than the sur- roundiing btL lol ngs, one steel pillar only being destroyed. Five others were displaced. The casualties due to flying pieces of steel number six. The explosion produced a panio in Hoboken and Jcr-soy City

J MILLIONAIRESS AND BANK. Mrs. Hetty Green, whose income Americana compute at £ 365,000, moved from her dingy flat in Hoboken yesterday to the house of her daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks. The famous woman financier explained that 8:11,2 feels lonely. The furniture of the flat all went m one small van. Nothing was left behind. Even an old starch-box which had served for months pasit a.s an ice-box was removed from the rear window of the flat L and packed in the cart, to-g-ether with a bag of salt. Mrs. Green has suddenly moved her money from the Chemical National Bank to the Na.LioiE.l Park Bank. where he ooou- pica offices next to these of Mr. StuyveEant F.sh, the banker and railway magnate. A N qua.rrel is alleged to be the reason of the transfer.

I AN EARLY ADDER. The other day, while much anew was still on the ground, some schoolboys playing near a bum in Gordon Moss, Berwickshire, caught a fine specimen of an adder. It measures from head to tail 1ft. ilrin., and Li one of the largest ever caught in the Moss—tho site of a former lake. It is also very much darker in colour than those seen during th-e summer months, wihen they aie common. It. is well- known that these creatures hibernate iiiter, twined, and why this one should have left its close companions to wander solitary in a coil world, it is diffioultto d-ct-:rmi.no.

ROBINSON CRUSOE. By the death of M.r. Andrew Selkirk, of Largo, the links binding the quaint Fifeshire town with the shipwrecked mariner, and tho poet who spent his time in rhyming and pray- ing on the banks of the On so, are isot broken for "Robinson OrusJe" is still regxre- sented by one of the family, and in the "Coui)ty Directory there can be read "Mr. John Selkirk, marine-engineer, Largo." Only one thing is required to make the associa- tion complete, and that is that Dr. Alexander Selkirk, of Cowdenbeath, should move and practise in Largo.

I CAREFUL IRISH CIRLS A curious lcitter from a farnier of New1- town Butler was read at this week's meeting of the Enmiskiilen Board of Guardiems, in whioh he asks them to help him to find a wife. "I have asked several girls, buft some- how the Irish girls have not the 8a.-me feel- ing for a lonely man as what the 'English ladies have. I would be ansio-us to get all English lady, as I like t-heir way of s peaking A farmer of Glangevlin (County Ca gau) made a similar application to the guardians last month.

I WHAT TRAVELLERS LEAVE. Of the thousand and one things left at hotels from time to time," remarks a New Yoirk hotel clerk, razor- strops have the other camrmiod'ities pushed across the border in point of numbers. About ten per cent, of the people who have razor sir ops in their gripe leave them behind. Of course the reason is that the strop is bathing on a nail out of sight somewhere wtlien the man. pecks up, amd he doesn't think about it. His comb and brush aire an tihe dieseer before Mm. and tiuait's easy.

A tAROE COFFIN. I A remarkable funeral incident took piacv at Eye (Suffolk) yesterday, when the body was interred of a woman weighing 30et. The oaik coffin was 6jft. long, 3ft. wide, and 2ft. deep. As It was impossible to place it in the hearse the coffin was conveyed to the cemetery on a trolley, the total weight being 40st. It was lowered into -the grave by means of chains and pulleys. It is the largest coffin buried in Eye Cemetery for forty years. The woman was the wife of a labourer.

A BOY FABRICATES The mystery mrrrorrnding Thomas Meaike, aged eleven, who on Saturday repotrted thaA he had beem locked up for six wee^B in an attic BIt Cicethorpe, Grimsby, and bad been taken into the country and ab andoued 001 the roadside, has been, cleared up by the Cleo- thorpe police. The whole stcury is a faJbtrica- tioai, the boy, whose real name is Bertie Kirby, having run away from his home at Sherwood Rise, Nofcts.

MAN DEAD WITH HIS CANARY The dead body of a. man, discovered by the police in a honee near Bournemouth, has proved to be that of Thomas Beamish, of Bandon, near Cork, A post-mortem examina- tion showed that death was due to an abscess on the brain and pneumonia, and must have occurred a week ago. The man's only companion in the house was a canary, which, was also found dead in its cage.

"S.O." NEED NOT BE USED. In the oase of certain small towns and villages- it has hitherto been necessary for the letters "S.O." to form pa-i-t of the postal address. With the object of simplifying the address in such oases the Pcet-master-General lias decided that in future these letters need not be used.

HURLED DOWN THE SHAFT I While three men were being drawn up yes- terday at the Maltby Colliery, near Rother- ham, the winding apparatus broke, and they were hurled to the bottom of the shaft, two being Jf'llod ontright and the other fataily injured.

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