South Wales Echo

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I The Man About Town. With the advent of winter literary and discussion societies resume their activity, and press forward in the pleasant and useful work of interchanging notes on every subject which supplies interest to the minds of men. Last week I noticed that the Impartial Society has begun its winter course. I am apprised this morning that the Cardiff Literary Society commences its second se3sion to-morrow night, in the rooms of the South Wales Sketching Club, when the Rev. W, M. Moggridge will read a paper on Dante. The hst of subjects to be dealt with is of a much more ambitious cha- racter than in the first essays of last year. Others beside myself must have wondered that Cardiff had so long permitted itself to be outstripped by other towns, certainly not more fortunate in the presence of a cultured class. No doubt the social meet- ings in connection with the Young Men's Christian Society have supplied a convenient and instructive means of literary reunion, and one has heard echoes of a more esoteric association which is not remotely connected with the University College. These, however, did not till ex- actly the place occupied by the thriving Literary Club of Manchester, and societies of a similar purpose in Birming- ham, Leeds, aud Liverpool. Like most things, I suppose, it wanted a few men of vigour and enthusiasm to give it a good start. With Lord Aberdare as the honorary President, and Vice-Presidents including Principal Viraimu Jones, Mr Lewis Morris, Dean Vaughan, Mr Dilwyn Llewelyn, Professor Max Muller, and last, but not least, Sir Edward Reed, the society should have a prosperous career and a com- manding place among the institutions of the town. u It has certainly began its second year with an attractive programme. Not the least welcome of the innovations are sectional meetings for the particular study of Shakespeare and Browning. The Penarth section, greatly daring," introduces Browning's Luria on October 23rd, and on the fol- lowing members' night Mr Hancock will introduce the tempting but difficult question of Parody," not without reference, I hope, to a thesis at once discriminating and amusing which Dr Wendell Holmes entitled Diversions of the Echo Club." Dr Hedley has promised a lecture in November in December the Rev C. J. Thompson has undertaken the Hercu- lean task of dwelling on the comprehensive dicta of the Seer of Chelsea in the limited space of an "An hour with Car- lyle." I may add that the committee express their desire to increase the member- ship of the society both in Cardiff and at Penarth, where, it should be stated, the monthly meetings will be held among the pleasant surroundings of the Turner House. The sympathies of all Cardiff, I feel sure, i may be bespoken for the tramcar and omnibus employes, who put themselves in evidence yesterday in a most praiseworthy and imposing manner. I am in passing doubt as to whether this was their first church parade but it was their first demonstration since the establishment of a Benefit Society. Some of us knew of, and had gladly encouraged, this excellent organi- sation but it must have been with surprise that the statement was read that within a third of a year it has grown into an institution numbering 244 in rank-and-file, together with about fifty honorary members. From the infor- mation which was brought to my knowledge when the Sick Fund was founded I saw every reason to believe that it would be a great boon to the members of this useful and not always duly appreciated class of public servants. It must tend, not only to the cultivation of habits of j thrift, but to strengthen their position in a town where their lot has had a somewhat larger share of kicks than half-pence. They made, I am told, as well-dressed and good-lookin,, a procession as any other Friendly Society in the borough. How they manage to keep up 1 such 4 a reputable position on their wages is a question one need no lonzer dwell on. The vital principle of their Benefit Fund is thrift, and with duo attention to prudent habits, your omni- bus or tramcar man need have no difficulty in presenting himself in as gentlemanly a guise as any of his customers—and with, possibly, a few more shillings to spare. The sad accident in the Caucasus, by which Messrs Donkin and Fox and two guides from Meyringen lost their lives, adds one more to the long list of fatalities for which the enticing sport of mountaineering is responsible. Mr Donkin, who was a professor at St. George's Hospital, was well known as an ex- perienced mountaineer and secretary to the Alpine Club, though perhaps he was equally well known as an accomplished photographer and musician. As far as the scanty materials to hand show the travellers perished through a prolonged tourment. Such storms, even on well- known mountains presenting no difficulty in the way of climbing, have more than once proved fatal. This happened on Mont Blanc in September, 1870, when three travellers and eight guides perished. Having started in good weather from the Grand Mulets, they were overtaken by a storm somewhere short of the Calotte, and finding themselves unable to face the wind, they bivouacked in the snow, hoping the weather would clear but the storm lasted for three days, and they were all frozen to death. In that case the distance to be traversed to a place of safety would have taken about four hours in fine weather, and the way was a beaten track. The liability to snowstorms is thus a source of danger even on Mont Blanc while in the Caucasus, where the glaciers are far huger, and the distance which mountaineers have to traverse before they can attack peak or pass is far greater, the danger is intensified to an extent un. known in the Alps. The defenceless condition of the Bristol Channel was the subject of some of the ablest speeches made at the Cardiff meeting of the Chambers of Commerce. The ques- tion was not raised as a panic cry. It was brought forward in perfect sobriety, as one important aspect of the national defences and from the Tyne to the Humber, and a number of other ports, we were told that there was no more real protection than is provided for the Bristol Channel. The Government now in power is vaunted by its supporters as being above all things patriotic and alert. Just as Conserva- tives of the more rabid order used to say that Mr Gladstone's administration was careless of its duties to the country, it is claimed for Lord Salisbury's young lions" at the War Office and the Admiralty that they are fully alive to the nature of their responsibilities. But what is the upshot of the patriotic endeavours of Cord George Hamilton and Mr Edward Stanhope ? That one of the most important organs of opinion, which is as notably free from Jingoism as it is from cant, describes the policy of the Ministers responsible for the national defences as one of Government by voluntary subscription—an administration of the collecting box. # The British taxpayer must continue, whether he likes it or not, to find twenty millions a year for the War Department. But the actual defence of the vulnerable points on our coasts to be "supported by voluntary contributions." This was the principle of the preposterous schema which the Government suggested for the defence of Liverpool. That city is as inadequately protected as the ports on the Severn Sea. But the contribution made by Liverpool and by South Lancashire to the twenty millions voted for the army and the fourteen millions voted for the navy do not entitle the inhabitants of the manufacturing districts to protection at the hands of the Government against foreign attack. i f The local authorities of Liverpool are to find land for batteries and other purposes, guard- boats, men, and—money. In return the Government will supply a few small or per- haps even middle-sized guns, and will take command of the whole arrangements. Now, it is said, a similar scheme has been propounded on behalf of the Government for the benefit of the city of Edinburgh and the defences of the Forth. Our Scotch fellow-subjects appear eager to accept the proffered burden. A paper has been issued entitled Report of the Permanent Local Representative Committee for the Defence of the Firth of Forth, and the keeping open of the North Sea to commerce in the event of war," The report deals with the Government offers on the subject of local defence. The Admiralty expect the locality to fit out and man vessels for patrolling the front of the submarine mines, to raise a brigade of Naval Artillery Volunteers, and to make certain important traffic regulations. In return the Admiralty promises to give every help required for instructing the said volunteers in torpedo work, and to lend for the volunteers such gun and torpedo boats as they, the Admiralty, might be able to provide." The War Office expects the locality to provide sites for batteries and other military works; also eight tugs, to be manned by the volun- teer Submarine Miners, and to form a committee of organisation. In return the War Office promises three six-inch guns and a number of small machine guns. The history of these demands and of the replies offers an instructive study. It appears that the Permanent Local Repre- sentative Committee was nominated in February last at a meeting of the East of Scotland Tactical Society, members of which form more than half of its num- ber. The Committee so nominated resolved in May—" That the War Office and the Admiralty be requested to aid the Government and the duty of the locality in the matter of local defence against hostile attack." The; conseq uonee was a meeting, apparently public, at which the representa- tives of the Government made the proposals described. This meeting renominated the Permanent Local Representative Com- mittee, which body, according to this document, will assist the Commanding Royal Engineer in obtaining a patrol vessel on hire." It is willing to do its utmost to raise the Naval Volunteer Brigade on condition, first, that the Government pays the capitation grant, not according to its present regulations, but at a reasonable time secondly, that the conditions of effi- ciency are: modified to suit the circumsjances of the Scotch fishermen; and thirdly, that the actual vessels and guns intended to be sent to the district on a threatened outbreak I of war be now sent there and always kept there. The Committee are preparing the asked-for traffic regulations. To the War Office the Committee replies that no statutory powers exist conferring upon the locality the right of acquiring ground or levying rates to pur- chase sites for batteries and military works; that the six-inch guns offered are inadequate and, in polite language, that it is nonsense to talk of batteries on Inchkeith island so long as there is there neither landing place nor shelter. Finally, the Committee mildly lecture the War Office upon its strategical incompetence in propos- ing for the defence of Edinburgh works lying to the west of that city.

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I THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC. JACKSONVILLE, Sunday.—There were 33 fresh cases of yellow fever and nine deaths here duriug I the past 24- hours.

THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. tOKNTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] AUCKLAND, Sunday.—The report issued by the Bank of New Zealand has completely restored confidence throughout all the colonies. There is now a great demand for shares.

BLIND CYCLISTS. A party of 12 from Normal College' for the Blind at Norwood, started from London to-day for a cycling trip to Derby. Two machines, accommodating eight and four respectively, were used, each steered by a seeing man, tho other riders being bliod.

j COLLAPSE OF A PLATFORM. 100 Persons Injured. [REUTICR:S THLEGRABI.] NEW YORK. Sunday.-Durieg too ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a new Polish Catholic Church, at Reading, Pennsylvania, the platform fell, and 100 persons were injured.

THE REVOLT AT RUSTCHUK. Three Arrests. I [ CKNTLtAL NEWS TKLKGRAM.J VIENNA, Mond-,iy.-News reaches this city that three men who were prominent in connection with the late revolt at Rustchuk were arrested at that town on Saturday. They had sought refuge in Russia and returned to Rustchuk last week, I hoping that after the lapse of time they would he safe from arrest. I

FATAL RESULT OF A NEWPORT ACCIDENT. This morning, Joseph Walkins, rigger, Dock- Parade, died in the Newport Infirmary from injuries received by an explosion of coal dust on board the Norwegian barque Lloyd on Saturday week. The vessel was lying in the Old Dock, and on the men going below first thing in the morning with naked lights an explosion occurred. Two other men were also burned, and remain in. patients at the same institution.

BLACK MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION I Continued Fighting. [RXUTICR'S TI;LEGRAbf.l SIMLA, Monday.—General McQueen, retiring with the third column from the Western slope of the Black Mountain, arrived yesterday on the ridge at the back of the mountain, hotly followed by the enemy. Three Sepoys were killed and two wounded. A reconnoitring paity found a new route, which is now being mended. Whilo tbu,; engaged they were under heavy fire from the enemy, by which three men were killed and one wounded. The second and third columns are now joined in one camp.

WATCH ROBBERY AT MERTHYR I [SFKCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE FCIIO. "I At the Merthyr police-court, to.day-before Mr North and Mr Smyth—John Quinlan was com- mitted for trial at the assizes on a charge of stealing from the person of a youth named Charles Riohard Williams a watch-chain and a bat, in Betheeda-etreet, on the 29th of September; and for stealing with violence from the person of John liees, roller, 29, Williams- town, a watch and chain, worth 24, in Quarry-row the Bame night. P.C. Parker arrested the prisoner in tial, store, where he eventually foucd Kees's watch concealed under some rags. Prisoner admitted the offence in regard to liees, who was walking along the street with his wife. They are an elderly couple. Prisoner seized Rees by the throat, robbed him, and ran away towards the river.

A RAID ON NEWPORT BREAD SELLERS. At Newport borough police-court, to-day, the town clerk prosecuted in four summonses against grccers and bakers, for selling bread otherwise than by weight. The names of the defendants were Benjamin Harries, 32, Commercial-road: Geore Frederick Thornp. 84, Commercial-road; William Yeates, 34, Commercial-road aud David Howell, Cross-street. The four shrunken starveling half quarterns of bread which had been purchased by the inspector's assistant were produced in court, with labels pinned to each showing how much they were deficient of the two pounds avoirdupois. Thome's was the least, namely, l^oz, Howell's was 2oz, and the other two each 2i»z short. The mayor remarked upon the peculiar line of defence — the bread was uot weighed becauso the customer or the assistant was in a hurry. The assistant to Mr assistant was in a hurry. The assistant to Mr Howell vouchsafed the further fact that most young men were above taking the piece which was added when the loaf was weighed, and were known to tlirow it back again on to the counter. The Town Clerk said the inspector was compelled to employ an assistant because whenever he himself appeared to buy the loaf was always scrupulously weighed. The inspector had been moved LO action in consequence of repeated complaints. So audacious were the lawbreakers that they de. livered bread to the magistrates' clt ik's residence, so that gentleman averred, without the usual scaling process. The bench meted out to all defendants the initiated tine of 20,Oliver Andrews, butcher, Commercial-road, was also fined 5 tor having unjust weights in his posses- sion, but the bench acquitted him of auy inten- tion to defraud, as it was shown he sent the weights to be tested on the 19r,ii July. weights to be tested on the 19-h July.

CARDIFF CORPORATION CONTRACTS. The Western Mail" and the Finance Committee. At the Cardiff Town Council meeting to-day, in the course of a discussion raised by Mr Councillor Riches, on the inequality of prices paid by the corporation for stores, Mr J. H. JONKS drew the attention of the council to an article that appeared in the Western Mail, on September 11th. He did not know whether any person saw that leader, but to him it was the most scurrilous libel that could possibly be perpetrated upon any public body. It ran Mr Sanders is particularly anxious to have specific charges formulated against the committee of which he is a member. Well, we are prepared to formulate and substantiate a charge asainst that committee in respe t of the way in which they dealt with the printing contracts. We assert upon our responsibility, and we challenge the corporation to appoint a ';oiii- inittee before whom We may lay our proofs, tha,t they, or one of them, employed a discharged servant of Messrs Daniel Owen and Co., Limited, to enable them to discredit the tender of that firm. We allege that this person who was so employed by Ali, Wanders or his committee, and who tbu:. obtained access to the tenders of other competing firms, was rewarded by being himself allowed to compete for a certain portion of the corporation work, and, it need hardly be said, obtained the contract for its execution. No doubt Mr Sanders will be able ta ,xpla;ii this mode of tiansact- ing business as satisfactorily as h ,ias explained the other practices of the Cardiff Finance Committee: Mr JONES was proceeding to comment on the quotation, when Mr BRAIN rose to order. Sir MORGAN MORGAN also wished to know whether they were in order. At the last meeting when this question came up, he was ordered at once to sit down. Mr SANDKRS I must speak. Sir Morgan has made a statement to which I must call your attention. It is perfectly true as far as it goes The MAYOR (interrupting) At the last meeting I ruled Sir Morgan Morgan out of order in opening this question. Mr Jones has opened it again without giving notice of motion, and I must ask the meeting to support the chair. Mr J. H. JONES, who had remained standmg, thereupon resumed bis seat. Mr SANDKRS (resuming) said be was about to say that what they bad heard from Sir Morgan was quite true so far as it went, but half a truth was often the greatest lie. It was equally true that the person whom Sir Morgan Morgan was rising to charge got up at Bnce and requested that the thing might be allowed to go on, which was the very opposite to what he (Sir Morgan) was now doing. The Western Mail-- Sir MORGAN MORGAN I am not the Western Mail. Mr SANDKBS You are their lawyer. Sir MORGAN MORGAN What has that got to do with it ? (Cries of Order.") Mr J. H. JONES said tbat, inasmuch as he was not at hberty to raise the question now, he would give notice of motion for the next meeting. The incident then terminated.

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J I THE PROPOSED WEIRING OF 1\ THE TAFF AT CARDIFF. Letter from Sir W. T. Lewis. r At the monthly meeting of the Cardiff Towa Council to-day, The MAYOR intimated that last week a deputa* tion had waited upon him to ask if be I would endeavour to get the corporation to take up the question of weiring the Taff. They suggested a scheme greatly modified in its details from those formerly before the public, and he wrote to Sir W. T. Lewis with the object of inducing the lattar to learn Lord Bute's views on the matter. He would ask the town clerk to read the correspondence. The letters referred to were then read tA follows Town-hall, Cardiff, 1st October. 1888. Dear Sir William,—I am informed by Mr HurmaO and Mr Payne, who had an interview with you this morning re Wfirins of the River Taff, that it was not convenient for Lord Bute to see ine in respect of the same. This I much regret, as it is no doubt a publi- requirement and liece.-sity, and from what bas itee" intimated to me Lord Bute lins on previous occasions expressed his concurrence in such a scheme being accepted. The question to me appears one of cost now that the level height of water has been decided upon. The principal landowner being Lord Bute, and know- ing at all times his lordship's desire t<> advance the inituests of Cardiff in every way, this would be in my opinion one of the most desirable things to complete for the younger portion of the inhabitants of Cardiff. From what was told me I am led to hope, through your kind assistance, th'it Lord Bute, notwithstanding his position with others of being at the present larger ratepayers, would consider the matter in regard to the beuctit his land would derive and, taking this view, I should be glad if you could give me such assurance of his help that he wl,nltl assist me when I bring the question before the council.—I am, dear Sir William, yours very fllithfulJl" T. WINDSOR JACOBS, Mayor. Sir W. T. Lewis. Bute Mineral Estate Office, Aberdare. Oct btli, 1888. Dear Mr Mayor,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the first instant respecting the pro- posed weiring of the river Taff, Lord Bute would tiave been only too pleased to have seen you on this or auy other matter which you considered of importance to the people of Cardiff, but, unfortunately, he had so many pressing matters to attend to during his recent short visit that lie desired me to convey to you, as 1 did through a depuiatiou that called upoil me, his regret that he could not appoint a time to receive your views on this iiiattf-r; a.nd. inasmuch as the subject had besn repeatedly considered by Lord Bute, and in this particular instance it was simply a difference in the mode of carrying out the scheme, his lordship referred the question tj Mr Corbett and my- self. I infer from your letter that you are under some mis ipprehension as to the prob,1 ble effect of the carry- ing out of such a scheme on Lord Bute's property, tor instead of, as you assume, its being likely to be auvantageous, there can be no doubt as to its being disadvantageous to Lord Bute's property from a coinmeicial point of view. Notwithstanding that, however, his lordship would not object to the scheme, provided it be the desire of the people of Cardiff, as represented by the Cardiff Corporation. that the Taff should be ponded up in the mode suggested by Mr Hurman and Mr Brewer. Uurler the circumstances, ir cannot be a matter of surprise that Lord Bute should be advised not to sub- scribe towards the expense of such a work, in. addition to his large pnportion as it ratepayer. aud r rtlgret I am unable at the moment to encourage you to expect any such assistance from his lordship as you desire in the last paragraph of your letter.—I remain, yours very truly, W. THOMAS LEWIS. I The council adopted a suggestion from Mr Brain that they defer furtberconsideration of the mattec until after the November elections.

TERRIBLE DISASTER IN SOUTH AMERICA. Fifty-seven People Drowned. I From Valparaiso information has been received J of the bursting of a wator pond 800 ft above the level of the city of San Juan de Dios and the deluging of the streets, causing a frightful loss of life. The despatch is dated Valparaiso, the lith August, and says that four days previously the pond burst. The water rushed through the city in a wave 12ft high, carrying nearly everything before it. At first it was thought that aa immense tidal wa ve bad come from the sea. The shops were flooded and theit contents destroyed. The people who were in the streets at the tune were washed up and down, some being drowned, and others sustaining terri. ble injuries. Four days after the disaster the streets were still in an impassable state. The collection of the bodies of the drowned and killed I was a sad work. N,) fewer than fifty-seven f bodies were recovered up to the time the l despatch was sent off. but this number, it was thought, would be largely increased when matters were put right again. The soldiers and Bailors were engaged at the time of writing in clearing away the debns, In one case a tailor named Torres lost his wife and four children, whilst the contents of his shop were entirely destroyed. The loss of property alone was more than a million dollars in value. The pond was an artificial one, and belonged to a brewer named Meiler Men a.

A QUEER DEAL" AT NEWPORT f i A Knife and Poker Incident, y At Newport borougopolice-court to-dty-befora the mayor (Mr T. Pugs ley) and two other magis- trates—Jacob Scrobtzza, manager to a seamen's outfitting firm, was charged with assaulting and wounding Thomas Kerr, a seaman.- P.C. Perry said that on Friday afternoon he saw the complainant, who stated that he had received an incised cut on the head from 1\ chisel. Blood was running down over his jersey. He took him to a chemist's to have the wound dressed and complainant promised that ha would not leave until after attending tha court, but he had since ascertained that he had gone to sea.—Mr F. Gardner, for the defence, said that the seaman bau a very good reason for going off. He went into the shop and wanted tD appropriate a pair of new boots. When defendant ran to the door to stop him, tha man drew a knife and chivied him round the counter. Defendant armed himself with a small poker, and it was a question of knife or poker for some minutes. Ultimately lefendant got his blow in first. A chisel was not used.—Inspector Winmill said the complainant went to redeem a pair of second-hand boots.—Mr Gardner This is about a newjpair.—The Iayor; As there is no prosecutor the case is dismissed.

.===- THE SECRET OF MATRIMONIAL HAPPINESS. He is a surly fellow who will not be propitiated if be sees that his wife is quietly bent upon preparing "dainty dishes" fur him, or upon having a nice.y-decoratea drawing-room in which his fads meet with consideration but, in point of fact, the happiness of marriage ought to rest upon deeper foundations than these. Such little instances of care and kindness are important only as illustrations of the way in which the grand principle of mutual regard, of resolute unselfishness, is to be applied in the domestic sphere. When two married people sincerely vie with each other in making each other happy, not even the terrible force of poverty and disease can make them miserable but if the man does not, in his heart of hearts, cherish the ambition of pleasing his wife, and if the woman has not the corresponding ambition on her side, then the most elaborate devices in the way of I. ready smiles and dainty dishes will not make the f" semblance of affection serve for the reality.—Tht Nonconformist. )

FALL OF A HOUSE. I — A Woman and Two Children Buried. Shortly after ten o'clock this morning a large tenement house, occupied by nearly a dozen families, fell in Cumberland-street, Dublin, burying a woman and two children in tbe ruins. Tho fire brigade was summoned, aud an attempt was immediately commenced to extricate them. Most of the other tenants were away at work at the time, and several woman who noticed the back wall giving way succeeded in escaping.

THE POLICE RAIDS AT CARDIFF. I A Riverside Club Visited. Late on Sunday night Inspector Lewis visited a club conducted at 45, Eldon-road, of which the manager is Frederick John. The inspector found twenty men within, drinking. On searching the premises, he found a nine-gallon cask of beer and a quantity of spirits, which he seized. The manager will be summoned for selling beet- without a license.

COLLIERS AND THEIR WAGES. The Derbyshire miners' delegates in conference at Chesterfield, on Saturday night, decided finally to carry out the resolutions of the Manohenter Conference, and to give in fourteen days' notice demanding ten per C60t. advance. The notices terminate on the week ending the 27th inst. Sixteen thousand underground workers were represented.

THE MAYORALTY OF NEWPORT. With regard to the choice of chief magistrate for Newport for the ensuing year, rumour is busy with the names of two gentiemen, viz., Mr H. J. Parnall and Mr M. Mordey. Both are on the Liberal side of the bouse. For several years past the position has been filled by a Conservative.

FOG IN THE TYNE. A dense fog prevailed in the Tyne this morning, stopping navisTHtio»^foiM?^^

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