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Administrative County of Monmouth. "XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN" that the following BASIS or STANDARD JM for COUNTY RATE, as finally corrected and approved by the COUNTY RATE BASIS COMMITTEE, will be TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION at the next QUARTERLY MEETING of the COUNTY COUNCIL, to be held in and for the said County on the 4TH DAY OF MAY, 1904, at 1.30 o'clock in the Afternoon. P.!l.RSHES OR PLCES. :r-v- ABERGAVENNY UNION. j £ Abergavenny ITrban 33,717 Abergavenny Rural. 9,705 BettwsNewydd 603 Blaenavon 27,831 Brvngwyn 1,144 Bwlch Trewyn 500 Clytha 1,663 Cwmyoy Lower 2,994 Cwmyoy Upper. 621 Foothog 334 Llanarth 1,771 Llanelen 1.466 Llanfoist 2,444 Llangattock Lingoed 876 Llangattock-nigh-Usk 3,799 LlanoYer 4,412 Llansaintfraed 232 Llanddewi Rhydderch. 1,518 Llanddewi Skirrid 527 Llantilio Pertholey 11,419 Llanvair Kilgeddin 2098 Llanvaplay 843 Llanvetberine 1,338 Llanvihangel Crucorney 6,943 Llanvibangel-ni,,h.Usk 443 Llanwenarth Citra 1,674 Llanwenarth Ultra. 2,927 Old Castle. 239 £ 124,086 BEDWELLTY UNION. £ Abertillery 76.356 Aberystruth 46,399 BedwelUy 50547 Ebbw Vale. 64,395 Rhymney 23,888 Tredegar 45,619 zC307,204 CHEPSTOW UNION. x Caerwent 1,844 Caldicot. 9,555 Chapel Hill 1.121 Chepstow 15,514 Dinham 281 Howick 283 Ifton 2,278 Itton 796 Kilgwrrwg 229 I Liangwm Isha 339 Llangwm Ucha 1,055 Llansoy 649 Llanvair Discoed 588 Llanvihangel Roggiett. 1,362 Llanvihangel Torymynydd.. 494 Matherne and St. Pierre. 4,847 Mounton 267 Newchurch East 1,207 Newchurch West 553 I?eaterry 155 Portskewett 12,743 Boggiett 3,390 CHEPSTOW (CONTINUED). £ St. Arvans. 2,299 St. Arvans Grange 271 St. Brides Nethorwent. 532 St. Kingsmark 48 Shirenewton 2 371 Tintern Parva 1 142 Trelleck Grange 678 Undy 4,280 Wolvesnewton 951 X72,122 CRICKHOWELL UNION. £ Beaufort. 3,251 Dukeatown 3633 Llechryd 344 Rassa 1,196 X-8,424 DORE UNION. x Grosmont. 3,359 Llangua 2,241 £ 5,600 MONMOUTH UNION. Cwmcarvan 1,173 Dingestow 1,039 Dixton. 1,284 Llandenny 2.089 Llandogo 1,705 Llangattock Vibon Avel.. 2,470 Llangoven 727 Llanishea 716 Llantilio Crossenny 3,524 Llanvihangel Yestern Llewern 926 Mitcheltroy 1,3.56 Monmouth 22,954 Pare Grace Dieu 156 Penrose 1,411 Penvclawdd 376 Penalt 1,375 Raglan 3.758 Rockfield 1,315 St. Maughans 839 Skenfrith 2,288 Tregare. 1,257 Trelleck Town 325 Trelleck Parish 1,789 Wouastow 848 £ 55,706 1. NEWPORT UNION. £ Abercarn 50,561 Bedwas 5,817 Bettws 1,358 Bishton. 3;Z40 Caerleon 5,552 Christehurch 7,386 NEWPORT (CONTINUED), Cocdkernew 582 Duffryn 4,510 Goldcliff 1,968 Graia 4,104 Henllys 2,148 Kemeys Inferior 861 Llandavenny 2,081 Llangattock-nigh-Caerleon 3,487 Langstone and Llanbeder.. 1,008 Llanhennock 1,160 Llanmartin and Llandevaud 704 Llanvaches 968 Llanvihangel Llantarnam 20,793 Llanwern 2.662 Machen Lower. 1;521 Machen Upper 5,276 Magor 3870 Malpas. 3,832 Marshfield 2,033 Michaelstone-y-Vedw. 945 Mynyddislwyn 10,435 Nash 2,446 Penhow 1,036 Peterstone. 6,405 Red wick. 2,430 Risca 38,221 Rogerstone 18,126 Rumney. 7,985 St. Brides Wentlooge 5,369 St. Mellons.. 7^639 St. Woollos 7,271 Tredunnock 1,071 Wilcrick 902 Whitson 971 £ 248,734 PONTYPOOL UNION. -8 Abersychan 61,293 Glascoed 1,101 Goytre 4,556 Griflithstown 9,161 Gwehelog 1,866 Gwernesney 344 Kemeys Commander 358 Llanbadoc 2,936 L'andegveth 477 Llangeview 1,083 Llangibby 2,848 Llanhilleth 28,560 Llanllowell 594 Llandrlewi Vaeh 6 2 Llantrissent 1,480 Llanvihangel Pontymoile.. 5,550 Llanfrechfa Lower 5,517 Llanvrechva Upper 11,009 Mamhilad 2,097 Monkswood 607 Panteg 17,649 Pontypool 22,128 Trostrey 711 Usk 5,946 X188,523 H. STAFFORD GUSTARD, Clerk to the Monmouthshire County Council. .d "l;d. JOHN H. RENNIE (Member of the Auctioneers' Institute by Exam- ination AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL AUC- TIONEER, VALUER, SURVEYOR, LAND AGENT, HOTEL AND INSURANCE BROKER. Newport, Usk, 8f Chepstow Districts. Sales of Fat and Store Stock in NEWPORT, USK, and CHEPTOW CATTLE MARKETS on Market Days. Horses in NEWPORT MARKET monthly. Furniture and Chattel Effects, SALEROOM, periodically. Chief Offices and Saleroom:- 6 and 12, SKINNER STREET, NEWPORT. Nat. Telephone, 0625. Telegrams, Rennie." Auction Fixtures. 1904. Apr, 4.—Fat and Store Stock, Usk Cattle Market 5-The Valuable Live Stock, at Mamhilad House Farm, Little Mill, for Mr E. G. Davies (leaving). 6-Fat and Store Stock at Newport Cattle Market 7—Farming Stock, Carts, Harness, Malt- ing Utensils, and a portion of the Household Furniture, &c., under instructions from Mr Joseph Harris, maltster, Oakfield Housa, New Inn, Panteg (leaving). 8—Furniture and Effects at Sale Rooms, Newport. 12-Fat and Store Stock at Chepstow Market 13-Fat and Store Stock at Newport Cattle Market. Particulars in due course from the Auctioneer at his offices, 6 Skinner Street, Newport; and at Usk and Chepstow on Market Days. By MB JOHN H. RENNIE. j '( Mamhilad House Farm, 1| and 3 Miles respectively from Little Mill and Pontypool Road Railway Stations. HIGHLY IMPORTANT & GENUINE SALE OF Af\ HEREFORD & CROSS-BRED CATTLE, zt\J viz 3 young cows with calves at heel, cow in full profit, 3 heifers in calf, 9 promising 2-year- old steers, 3 ditto heifers, 11 yearling heifers and steers, 5 Hereford calves, prime fat cow and bullock lOO SOUND MOUNTAIN & CROSS-BRED JLOO SHEEP, comprising 70 Welsh ewes in and with lamb, 20 cross-bred couples, 5 yearlings, Ryeland and black-faced rams, 35 choice fat black-faced tegs; n Good-working CART & NAG HORSES & COLTS :—4 young cart mares (1 in foal), cart gelding, very promising 3-year-old cart colt, 2 ditto 2-year-old colts, 2 yearling ditto, and I nag ditto about 100 Acres sound Grass Keep from time of Sale to February 2nd, 1905, in Lots; and 20-Ton Rick of Prime Meadow Hay to be consumed on the land; a few lots of Agricultural Implements amongst which are chaff cutter and horse gearing, nearly new 13-coulter corn drill (by Kell), cattle crib, covered sheep racks, &c., which MR JOHN H. RENNIE has been favoured with instructions from Mr E. G. DAVIES (who is leaving), to conduct on the premises, On TUESDAY NEXT, APRIL 5th, 1904. Luncheon (by Ticket) at 12 noon. Sale at 1 p.m. Catalogues obtainable from the AUCTIONEER at hIS Offices, 6 Skinner Street, Newport; and at Usk and Chepstow on Market Days. Oakfield House, New Inn, Panteg, Half-a-mile from Pontypool Road Railway Station, MR JOHN FT. RENNIE has been favoured with instructions from Mr JOSEPH HARRI*, malt- ster (who has sold the property and is leaving), to ster (who has sold the property and is leaving), to SELL BY AUCTION, without reserve, on the premises, On THURSDAY NEXT, APRIL 7th, 1904, the whole of his very useful Live Stock, Hay, implements, HARNESS, TRADE EFFECTS, and a portion of the superior HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, viz.: Improved RADNOR EWES with their Cross- bred Lambs, Oxford Down two-year-old Ram, 3 prime young Dairy Cows in full profit, choice barren heifer very smart bay Bag mare, 15*2, 6 years, sire, Quicksilver," dam by 11 Somerton," good in saddle and harness, will pass all road nuisances, highly recommended dark brown Cob Gelding, 14, 4 years, unbroken Rick of exceptionally Prime Hay about 12 Tons, 25 Fowls; Whitechapel Dogcart, with lamps and cushions complete, by Stone, as good as new; miller's Spring Cart in perfect order, nearly new spring oak Rave Cart with dripples; platform Weighing Machine, by Parnall; Balance ditto, 2 Sack Trucks, 3 Patent Malt Screens, Malt Mill, Boby Screen and Blower; Corn Mill, hand or steam Galvanised Iron Cattle Crib, 3 Covered Sheep Racks on wheels, 2-Knife Chaff Cutter, long and short Ladders, Oil Cake Crusher, Turnip Cutter, Double Corn Bin, 2 Iron Pig Troughs, Wire Netting. Casks and Tubs, 2 Haul Rakes, Pikes aud Rakes, Garden Roller, Set of Brass- mounted Trap Harness, Cart Harness, Sundry ditto, a portion of the well-made Household Furni- ture, perfect-toned Harmonium, Dairy Utensils, and Effects. Sale at 2 p.m. prompt. Auctioneer's Offices-6 Skinner Street, Newport, and at Usk and Chepstow on Market Days. -r: USK CRICKET CLUB. Iwm Concert To be followed by an INVITATION DANCE, in aid of the Funds of the above Club, will be held in the Town Mali, Usk, On Tuesday, April 5th, 1904, | From 8 to 10 p.m. The following well-known ARTISTES have kindly consented to appear Miss Beryl Ferguson (violin), Miss Maud Day (soprano), Miss Ada Hill (contralto), Messrs Sinclair (tenor), H. Hughes (baritone), H. Marigold Groves (humourist), E. B. Haynes, H, G. Powell, and Eight Little Burglars. Selections by the Usk Orchestral Band. Tickets: -Concpr.Reserved Seats, 2s 6d; Second Seats, Is. Dance—Ladies, Is 6d; Gents, 2s; Double, 3a. May be had from Messrs George Edmunds, C. E. Wagstaff, F. Hill, W. Frost Roberts, H. Freemao, E. W. Waters, and A. G. Wallace. Plan of Hall at Mr Harry G. Powell't<, Bridge Street, Usk. Doors open, 7 30; commence at 8 carriages at 10. D,tnce-10.30 p.m. to 3 a.m. 5s. Reward. LOST, BLACK & WHITE CAT, black back tail and fiead, white sides and neck, black spot on nose. Answers to the name of "Jumbo." —Information to Miss MERRBTT, Mary port-street, Uek. By Messr*. MARFELL & POOLE. Llanolway Farm, Llansoy, 1 Mile from Llandenny Station and 4 Miles from Usk. HIGHLY IMPORTANT SALE OF Farming Stock, Grass Keep, &c., WHICH MESSRS MARFELL & POOLE have been ,1. favoured with instructions from Mr A. P. JONBS (who is giving up the Farm), to SELL BY AUCTION, on the premises as above, On THURSDAY, APRIL 14th, 1904. PARTICULARS £ Q HEREFORD & CROSS-BRED CATTLE, t/O comprising 8 cows due to calve, 2 ditto with calves at foot, 2 barren ditto' 12 yearling heifers, 3 two-year-old ditto, 2 three-year-old ditto, 2 yearling steers, 11 two-year-old ditto, 1 three. year-old bullock, well-bred yearling Hereford bull, 3 weaned calves, 6 fat ditto 3 POWERFUL CART HORSES, viz.: Bay mare (descended from "The Pope"), 4 years old, in foal; bay mare, 4 years; black gelding, 3 years old; asmall collection of Agricultural Implements, together with nearly 200 Acres of Grass Keep until February 2nd, 1905, in 6 suitable Lots. The land may be mown and hay sold to go off. The whole set out in Catalogues, to be obtained from the AUCTIONEERS. Luncheon, Is. (returnable to purchasers of X2 and upwards), at 12. Sale at 1 o'clock. Auctioneers' Offices-The Willows, Usk. Llanusk Farm, Llanbaddoc, 1 Mile from Usk. SECOND ANNUAL LETTING OF RICH MEADOW LAND. \/TESSRS MARFELL & POOLE are favoured i.?JL with instructions from E. WILLIAMS, Esq,, to LET BY AUCTION, on the Farm, On MONDAY, APRIL 18th, 1904 (Usk Market Day), in Suitable Lots for Grazing, 100 Acres of Riclt Pasture Land. Full particulars in Catalogues, to be obtained from the AUCTIONKBRS, The Willows, Usk. IP ¿ By Messrs. DAVIS, NEWLAND3& HUNT. Pentre Farm, Llangwm Isha, 3 Miles from Usk and Llandenny Stations, 6 from Raglan, and 8 from Chepstow. HIGHLY IMPORTANT SALE OF A HERD OF OA CROSS-BRED CATTLE: 9 prims young OV/ dairy cowa and heifers with calves or to calve in good saason choice veal calves 18 very promising 3-year-old, 2-year-old, and yearling steers and heifers; Af\ IMPROVED RADNOR EWES with lambs jl\J or to lamb pr Active and Good working CART GELDINGS O and MARES, 2 very promising CART COLTS, 4-year-old Cob unbroken, Welsh Pony Sow and Pigs, 10 Fowls, 4 Ducks; a Collection of Implements, Drills, and Machines (by the best makers) Harness, Casks, Tramming, and a few articles of Dairy Utensils and HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, which MESSRS DAVIS, NEWLAND, & HUNT have been favoured with instructions from Mr HUBERT HODGES, who is leaving, to arrange for SALE BY AUCTION, upon the premises, On THURSDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1904. Detailed Catalogues may be obtained 1 week prior to Sale at the principal Hotels in the Neigh- bourhood, or of the Auctioneers, Chepstow and Newport. Luncheon (by Ticket) at 11.30. Sale to commence at 12.30. Star Inn, Llanvihangel Tor-y- mynydd. IMPORTANT SALE OF THE Live and Dead Farming Stock, PRODUCE, DAIRY UTENSILS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, & TRADE REQUISITES, COMPRISING Prime dairy cow, "Blossom," in full milk, served February 17th; her very choice fat calf prime dairy cow, "Fillpail," in full milk, served February 29th her very choice fat calf; very promising in-season heifer, 4 growing 2-year-old steers and heifers very useful thick set cob mare, 5-years old, good and quiet worker in all harness, and in foal; brown cob mare, 4-years-old, broken to" saddle, in foal; young BOW in farrow, hilt, 60 fowls, 2 stocks of bees, 2 tons of capital mangolds rick of prime meadow hay, about 11 tons; stump of ditto, about 3 tons, conveniently situated for removal, adjoining the main road; broad-wheel cart, cob-size dog cart in good order, set of nearly new plated harness, set of cart harness, mowing machine (by Wood), iron horse rake, wheel plough, pair of iron harrows, stone roller, 2-knife chaff engine, corn mill, root pulper, galvanised cattle trough, open sheep rack, 3 stone pig troughs, long and short ladders, rick sheet, 6 capital hogshead casks, 3 60-gallon ditto, cider hairs and bottles, hog tubs and water butts, barrel churn (by Hathaway, iron cheese press (by Carson & Toone), cheese vats, trindle, milk lead and stand, 8-day grandfather's clock in oak case (by W. H. Harri- son, Chepstow), ditto brass dial ditto (by Webb, Uley), antique oak gate-legged table, massive ebony occasional table, pier glass in gilt frame, mahogany centre table, round oak table, 6 chairs with upholstered seats, folding chair, easy and wicker chairs, brass-rail fenders and fire sets, spittoons, ornamental ware, umbrella stands, plants and pots, nest of drawers; Windsor, arm, and single chairs; rocking chair, coloured prints and engravings in gilt and other frames, table and other lamps, quart jugs and cups, ditto pint and half-pint ditto, tumblers, wine and tot glasses, pewter measures, kitchen and culinary utensils, benches, shelving, galvanized meat safe, refrigera- tor, mahogany half-tester bedsteads, clothes boxes, single-barrel breech-loading gun, &c., which MESSRS DAVIS, NEWLAND, & HUNT have been favoured with instructions from the REPRESENTATIVES of the late Mrs MORGAN, to arrange for SALE BY AUCTION, On TUESDAY, APRIL 5th, 1901. Sale at 1.30. _t:õo' \7" LLANDENNY LAUNDRY. A LAXJKTDRX Will SHORTLY BE OPENED at the above place, by MISS F. M. LEWIS (1st Class Diplomee, Gloucester). ø- High-class work guaranteed at Moderate Prices. Special arrangements made for work received by rail, THE WELSH INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION ACT. Usk Higher Grade School. THE SCHOLARSHIP MANAGERS announce that they are able to offer Two Bursaries to Children attending, or who wish to attend, the Usk Higher Grade School. These Bursaries will be money payments, granted at the discretion of the Scholarship Managers, and it is hoped it will enable Parents, otherwise unable, to keep their Childreu at School for a longer period. It will be awarded on application to the Scholarship Managers, such application to be made on a form supplied by the undersigned, on or before the 2nd day of April. A. H. WATKINS, Clerk to the Scholarship Managers. Ty Newydd, Usk, ,17th Marcfi, 1904. THE WELSH INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION ACT. Usk Higher Grade School. THE SCHOLARSHIP MANAGERS announce A that they are able to offer THRER SCHOLAR- SHIPS for BOYS and GIRLS tenable at their School, the value thereof being the total exemption from all School Fees. All Candidates must reside within the Usk Scholarship District, and have attended a Free "Public Elementary School for the last two years. The Scholarship will commence on the 5TH APRIL next, and the Candidates will be required to sit for Examination at the HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL, USK, OU SATURDAY, the 2ND APRIL, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. All Applicants must send in their names to me, the undersigned, with particulars of their ages and standards they are now in, on or before the 28TH MARCH instant. The Managers wish to point out that they grant Two Exhibitions, value 217 per annum each, tenable at any County School to Scholars attending their School who make satisfactory progress. A. H. WATKINS, Clerk. March 17th, 1904. THE WELSH INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION ACT. Usk Higher Grade School. THE above SCHOOL will be RE-OPENED on 1- the 5TH APRIL NEXT, for a term of 15 weeks. All Candidates seeking admission must pass an Examination and will be required to attend at the School at 3 o'clock in the Afternoon of SATURDAY, the 2ND APRIL, for that purpose. All fees must be paid to the Undersigned who will attend to receive the same in the afternoon of THURSDAY, the 7TH APRIL. A, H, WATKINS, Clerk, March 17th, 1904. "1 "1 A To the Electors of the Urban District of Usk. LADIES & GENTLEMEN, JLj I sincerely thank you for electing me as one of your representatives upon the Usk Urban District Council, and trust, by attention to the office, to merit the confidence you have placed in me. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, DIGBY S. W. NICHOLL. YNYS HAFOD, USK, March 29th, 1904. Hunting' Appointments, MR. CURRE'S HOUNDS will meet on Monday, April 4th Llanvair At 11 a.m. Friday, April 8th. Cobbler's Plain At 11 a.m. THE LLANGIBBY HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday, April 5th Llanmartin At 11 a.m. To finish the season. THE MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Saturday, April 9th Heolgerrig At 11.30 a.m. (to finish). APPOINTMENTS, &c., FOR WEEK Ending April 9th, 1904. April. Fri. I-Good Friday. Sat. 2 —Pontypool Petty Sessions. Sun. 3-Easter Sunday. Mon. 4—Easter Monday—Bank Holiday. Usk Cattle Market. Pontypool Rural District Council. Football-Usk v. Berkeley, at Berkeley. Tues. 5-Abergavenny Market. Footba.ll- U sk v. Stroud, at Stroud. Usk Cricket Club Concert and Dance Sale of Live and Dead Farming Stock, &c., at Star Inn, Llauvihangel Tor-y- mynydd, by Messrs Da is, Newland, and Hunt. (See Advt.) Sale of Live and Dead Farming Stock, &0., at Mamhilad House Farm, by Mr John H. Rennie. (See advt.) Wed. 6—Newport Cattle, Corn, and Cheese Mkts Abergavenny Petty Sessions. Quartet Sessions at Usk. Thurs. 7-Usk Petty Sessions. Usk Urban District Council. Sale of Live and Dead Farming Stock, &c., at Pentre Farm, Llangwm Isha, by Messrs Davis, Newland, and Hunt. (See advt.) Sale of Live and Dead Farming Stock, &c., at Oakfield House, New Iun, Panteg, by Mr John H. Rennie. (See advt.) Sat. 9—Pontypool Petty Sessions. ç. 7" A WASHING AT HOME. BRADVORDIS "VOWEL XLS" Washing. Wringing SAVE TIME,1* fflRn'lln< MaChineS SAVE LABOUR, and SAVE THE CLOTHBS. Writefor Catalogue, fiotfer on application. THOMAS BRADFORD & CO., *4°I '4R> AND 142, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON AVENUE, DEANSGATEJ MANCHESTER; 130, BOLD-STRJKTV LIVERPOOL; CRBSCENT IRON WORKS, SALFOXD. Cyclists, Light Up! Saturday, April 2nd 7.32 Sunday, 3rd 7.34 Monday, 4th. 7.35 Tuesday, 5th. 7.37 Wednesday, 6th. 7.38 Thursday; 7th. 7.40 Friday 8th. 7.42 Saturday 9th. 7.44 Being One hour after Sunset. County Courts in Circuit 24. I COURTS will be held at the several Court-towns on this Circuit, before His Honour JUDGE OWEN, the Judge thereof, on the days and at the time hereunder mentioned:— Time, a.m. April May June Chepstow 10 11 6 Barry 10 12 3 7 Cardiff 10 13 4 8 It 10 14 5 9 „ 10 15 6 10 „ 10 16 7 11 Abergavenny 10 13 Blaenavon 10 18 9 Tredegar t. 9.30 19 10 14 Pontypool 10 20 11 15 Newport 10.30 21 12 16 „ 10.30 22 13 17 Monmouth.. 10 26 17 21 Rnss 9.30 9 4 Crickhowell.. 11 25 3 Usk 11.30 8 2 Future Usk Court days. April 8th, June 2nd.
ISir Edwin Arnold.
I Sir Edwin Arnold. The grave closed on Monday over a dis- tinguished writer who will long be remem- bered for those works, both of poetry and prose, wherein he has introduced us to Eastern thought, and helped ua to under- stand the people of both India and Japan. In the biographical sketches which have been published, ample reference has been made to his books and to his work as editor of the Daily Telegraph, but there are still some few of his attributes concerning which a little may be said. One of the most striking characteristics of Sir Edwin Arnold was his ALMOST APPALLING INDUSTRY. To edit a great newspaper and to contribute frequent articles to its columns would seem to be enough for one man; but he found time to write voluminously, both in prose and verse, and his books, mainly on Orien- tal subjects, are sufficiently numerous to furnish a library of themselves. When he went for a ''holiday" to Japan, he wrote more than sixty columns of letters for the Daily Telegraph, composed a poem longer than his" Light of Asia," furnished suf- ficient articles to Scribner's Magazine to make a volume, and learned to make him- self understood by the Japs, both in speech and writing. This does not mean that he learned Japanese, which is the work of a lifetime, but in the "country of the gods there is a modification of the native tongue which enables foreigners in a few weeks to make people understand all that they want to say. Another of HIS RECREATIONS I was a visit to the United States, where he gave, to sixty-five audiences, readings, or rather recitals, from his own poems, and was received everywhere with acclamation. When his poems came first to his mind he noted them roughly on scraps of paper, or got his daughter to take them from dicta- tion. Then he adopted a plan which many literary men have found useful, putting aside the notes until the next day, when he revised and improved the lines, and made a { clear copy of them. This copy he treated as a rough draft, and went through it thrice, making a fresh copy on each occa- sion. Sometimes," he said, the lines are importunate, and will be at once regis- tered. Reading, smoking, driving, dress- ing for dinner-it does not matter how I may be then engaged-the verses will haunt and fascinate me, dancing before my imagination, demanding to be fixed and I must catch them, then and there, or they will go. Sometimes the right ideas will come suddenly, as if by electric message." Then there was I HIS WONDERFUL MEMORY, I I Arnold believed thoroughly in his own poems, and could repeat them all from be- ginning to end. When he gave the recitals referred to in the United States, he scarcely looked at the book, and although he did not follow precisely the text, yet the variations were so masterly that nobody who was not following him in the text noticed the sub- stitution. With Shakespeare's plays he was nearly as familiar as he was with his own poems, and on one occasion he surprised Walt Whitman by offering to repeat any of the American writer's poems upon being told the first lines. Another attribute of Arnold was HIS PATIENCE. He enjoyed good health until about six years ago, when he wrote to a friend (Major Pond) that at present he was the victim of some strange weakness of the lower limbs, which the doctors say may prove chronic, and which prevents me standing long, or walking much." This weakness proved, un- happily, to be the first symptoms of paraly- sis, but he retained his courage to the end, and wrote not long since. I never despair, but go on with my work, thanking Heaven for my unimpaired powers."
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[We do not necessarily endorse all our correspondent writes.-ED. C.O."J THE USK ELECTION. Polling took place on Monday for the election of twelve Urban District Council- lors for the local government of the town during the next three years, and 278 voters passed through the polling booth at the 11 In Town Hall, where Mr A. F. Lucas, the re- turning officer, presided. The result is published elsewhere, and is at once a triumph for the local Liberal Schnadhorst," a lesson to easy-going, in- different Conservatives, and a demonstration of the necessity of organization and of the power of a personal canvass. The Liberals very wisely had seven nom- inees only, and not a few of the voters sup- ported only this phalanx. Result all elected. Conservative voters-supposing they were strong partizans, which but an infinitesimal number are, unfortunately, on these occa- sions, when the leaders of the Opposition pull the Party strings quietly and obtain a desired result-were handicapped at the start, by the nomination of fourteen of their colour. This showed an absence of party feeling, just as it showed their inability to grasp and profit by the experiences of past elections, and so probably apathy and indif- ference will continue until Conservatives are brought to a sense of their duty by a bior upset which may be bitter at the time, bub ultimately a blessing in disguise. There were three papers rejected in the counting, A NEW FIELD FOR EMIGRATION. Lord Delamere has purchased at Mairobf, in the East African Protectorate, 100,000 acres of land for general farming and col- onisation purposes. Sir Charles Eliot says that 11 this region is covered with a thick growth of trees and creepers, and the fact that this dense vegetation depends entirely on rain seems to show that the ground must be unusually rich, and the same is proved by the fertility of the little gardens estab- lished in the vicinity of railway stations." Of course, there are the wet and dry sea- sons common to equatorial regions, but Europeans, with moderate care, can live al- most in the same way as in England, and dress in the same kind of clothes. The soil is of a red-brown colour, natur- ally strong, and containing iron. It will bear crops for three years without any arti- ficial help. There are also large areas of black cotton soil, and the grazing is abun- dant and good. Experts, indeed, hold that East Africa is like the south, only more so," and offers as favourable a ground for colonisation as Australia or New Zealand. DERIVATION OF EASTER. The name Easter is a survival of Teutonic mythology The 3-ermans called it Ostern and the Anglo-Saxons Eastre or Eostre, from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. May we experience the benefi- cence in genial spring-like weather this holiday time. X-RAY MARVELS. Many are the marvels of modern science, but the most up-to-date surgery surely rarely attempts the task of supplying a man with what is practically a new face. This difficult achievement, however, has been performed with great skill at the London Hospital. Some two years ago a man in New Zealand, who was suffering from ro- dent ulcer, which had deprived him of half his face, read in a newspaper about the marvels of the X-ray treatment. He determined to try t he treatment, and in three days was aboard a ship bound for London. He was taken in hand by the London Hospital, and cured by the X-rays. Then the Hospital authorities gave him new nose, made of rubber, a new palate, new teeth, and new upper lip. with moustache The result is, as one of the officials said the other day, that when he gets back to New Zealand, "his wife won't recognise him." So natural is the appearance of this new face that it would be difficult for most people to believe that it was not the original one. THE HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. The one blemish in the Chinese labour demonstration on Saturday was that the wire pullers were shamelessly deluding their supporters. The repetition 'of No slavery under the British flag," and the con- tinual reference to slavery, indicated that the banner bearers had been cajoled or de- ceived into carrying upon their shoulders the statement of a palpable lie. The work- ing men were quite right in denouncing: slavery, but there is no slavery intended in South Africa, and the agitators know it, but their dupes do not. The Bandsmen ap- pear to have been the only real gainers—- they having definite emoluments for services rendered on the occasion.
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Births, Marriages, & Deaths. Announcements under this heading are inserted at a uniform charge of 1/- each, unless such -vo?,ds as "No Cards," "No Flowers," cj-c., are added, when the charge will be 2/6. All Announcements must be authenticated. Postage Stamps may be sent in payment, Lists of Wedding Presents are inserted at the rate of 1/6 per inch in depth.