The Cambria Daily Leader

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The Comer Cohmm j I i Regatta really mea-ns a. race with gondolas. It's a Venetian word. -1, Ir )? Swansea-or Mumbles Regatta? Which wa? it? The man in t?he s?tree?t gives a decided opinion. :If. What is the Welsh for dumpling? Dop't all <.p? ? once! The question stamped a party of learned Celts the other day. "Don't do that again, otherwise you will know that. you have been flirting with the undertaker,' is one of the sallies in "Hullo Ra-t;mo <V -fl 4 In a police court, case at Swansea, a solicitor put in a photo of the defen- dant with a silk hat. This is to show evidence of means," he said. & The local'Ha;rdre8"er' A8(,ci:dioll hold their annual outshortly. ?em- tickets aie advern&ed at 5s. cach and non-members at ?s. each. W ho would not icin a Union? Winds of all the corners kiss'd ] your sails, To make your vessel nimble." Vrrote Shakespeare. Not yesterday, however, at the Regatta 1 A noticeable fact. at Mumbles on Regatta Day was that the rugged scen- ery of the cliffs far away from the pier appeared to interest couples rather than the crowds. I # The purpose of the play, according toO S ha kespeare, is to "hold the mirror Up to nature." They are showing wild; s-tiimals at the Grand this week. We I I,a,y no more. Moon. Clouds and Co. are present- "ig some very effective pictures in the .,ky this week. We are forced to say this, although the above company do Dot advertise with us. I.' cc The antics of a certain young "bi d" in one of the boxes of the Empire this week supplied the audience Xvith quite as much fun as some of the Principals in "Hullo Ragtime!"$ A good-natured Glamorganshire farmer, of little education, asked for a subscription towards a new chandeieir "or the chapel, replied: "Well, here s a Pound towards it. But who is going to piay it There has, been no more enthusi- astic worker for the Swansea Regatta, that,, the genial veteran, Capt&m I ærttp, to whom belongs the distinc- tfon of having collected the record sum of a hundred guineas. Bravo The girls in the Training College studying "Virginibus Puensque bT R. L. Stevenson. We wonder how ^any of them will follow the advice i E'ven_«No woman should marry a tee- caller or a. man w ho does not smoke." Commander Loder-Symons is one bf those kindly unassuming men who have got to the front through sheer 8-bilitv. Prior to taking over the Fourth Torpedo Flotilla, he occupied the position of Flag Commander at tWonport. "Winner of the big race," shouted the newsbov on the Pier yesterday. But the Mariqiiita and Novada were still lighting hard for supremacy, and the Newsboy was only referring to the Royal Hunt Cup result. The angrv correspondent who ?rotp to the "Leader" asking what the j ?u-ucillors are doing with reference to ^be dust scattered by motor-cars forgot hat ?me of the Councillors have been ^"gaced <n the same practice at the ^■'liidhall. if* At. the Mumbles yesterday, the ?ry to be frequntiy heard was: here is the Swansea Regatta being (' T1' h beld This was, of course, only the ?a-n?ea. humori?s' was of suggestmg t I festi-al slioiild have been ?d at the other end. -7f I'll T!ie new policy of some of the ?m!?r6 of the Swansea Education -;Orainittee. because they canno? got! C1.CH o\YJl back with the Glamorgan ?.oun?y Council, is to punish the 'ldren of large busiess ratepayers  happen to reside outside the borough boundary. âJ. The quality of the sport provided at "be Mumbles yesterday was by no means 10 good as it might have been. Nothing "Ild have been more farcical than the V-tor polo match. It was fouud impos- to get two teams together, and so 4 game, of four aside was played. In- ci.dentally there is no reason at all why •bese ) events could not have k-on brought off at Swansea. There ^'oulrl have been more water between the Piers. awl the facilities for watching the faces. etc., would have been quite as good, if not better. Questions being asked:— I to Will there be another Swansea. regatta ? Who measured the fifty yards over fftioh the swimming events were con-1 bested ? Did every yacht entered expect a Prize? Where did the people who were so Prominent at the dance get to on -tegattii Day? Are the brake and charabanc pro- pri. etors not the happiest men in Swan- lea to-day? <= TO-DAY'S STORY. "Excuse me, sir," said the well- 4r'essed stranger, .?s he stopped inside lhe apartment, "is this Mr. Smart's ?ce?" "No," replied the man at the desk father angrily; "his office is upstairs, bn t he floor above." Much obliged!" muttered the, atrauger as he proceeded to absent him- ?tf. He left the door wide open. Then it was that the gentleman at the esk became angrier still. "Hi!" he ^tled. Come back and close my door! 1. do?-o-o-r « The artful one returned. From a bag y? produœd a mechanical a?ppli.%nm r, his face there sat a pleasant stniie, "Alio? me, sir, to show you p,y patent double-action door spring. loses the door wtthout. a, bang. Ab?o- -eb- the ,Pry latRst and best! War- "a"ted for ninety-ni ne years. Th< ""1 or nlDf't;r-UIDe yea.s. the dod?e worked—when the &rtfw -'?? a had talked &.little ioms?.

PLUNCED INT SEA. MUMBLES SCENE. WOMAN'S ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT SUIC.BE. PLUCKY RESCUE. i A f?n?atjon?I nci?eri marked the proceedings at Mumbles yesterday j evening, when an att-empt at suicide was alleged to have been made by a married woman, of about 50 years oi age, named Mrs. Emily Williams, and residing at Aberdyberthi-street, Hafod, Swansea. It is alleged that after partly divest- ing herself of her clothes she jumped into the water -eff the promenade, near where the shore sports were being held. There was a crowd of many hundreds on the seashore at the time, and the affair caused considerable excitement. Prompt Rescue. Passers-by who had seen the woman sitting down on the beach, had noticed nothing stronge in her manner, although she was seen to be partly undressed. Thi-s fact, however, gave no cause for perturbation. Suddenly, without any warning, the woman rushed down to the water's edge and plunged in. Alarmed spectators raised criee, and a young man named Harry Grey, with great promptitude and presence of mind, dived in after her and rescued her. The police were sent for, and the! woman was taken into custody. At the police station she refused to give any information of herself. She was very excited. Let me go in Again." A constable, it ? understood, foujid the wo.n sitting by the &ide of the $ea in a drenched. condition. She had apparently been in the water. On being taken into custody she is alleged to have said, "Let me go in again." Police Court Proceedings. At tne Swansea Uounty police Court this morning, Mrs. Emily Williams, of Aberdyberthi-street, Hafod, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea at Southend last night. Site was remanded until Saturday, bail being allowed.

BOTH KILLED. AVIATOR AND PASSENGER DASHED TO DEATH. (Renter's Foreign Special.) Johanistal, Thursday -While -making a two-hours' flight here to-day with a passenger, an aviator named Kragtee fell. Both were killed. p- it i

AIRSHIP TESTED. 1 —— 1 ■ ■■ ASTRA TORRES COMES WELL THBOiiCH THE ORDEAL. The seoond mooring test to which the naval airship Astra Torres was sub- jected at Aldershot ended at six o'clock this morning. Three hours later she was put through her ripping triaj. This was carried out inside the shed, the doors of which were left open to allow the gas to escape. With the first pull at the oord the airship collapsed. She was subsequently packed for transport.

HEALTHY MARRIACES. WHO VJOiJLO UK: TO LIVE IN THE CITY OF LYNN ? The City of Lynn, in the State ot Massachusetts, has adopted eugenic marriages, its clergymen havmg a-greed to perform no marriage cere- monies unless both the man and the woman present certificates from a i-t- sponsible physician attesting that they are in good physical condition and qualified for marriage. The argument (says the "Standard ) upon which this agreement is based asserts that society has as good right to protect itself from the evils conse- quent on the marriage of the physically and mentally unfit as it has to defend itself against any other menace.

SEAMEN'S BATTLE. FATAL FIGHT IN A GLASGOW STREET. There was a fatal sequel to a fight between the members of two irival 6ea- men's trade unions in Glasgow. The dispute I arose over the mamrmg of the Clyde passenger steamer Columba. Until recently the crew had been taken from the insmberc, of the Glasgow branch of the British Sea- farel-al Union, but for some days past the men have been chosen from the members of the National Seamen and Firemen's Union. For two or three nights past tne Sea- farers ha dwaited for the crew of the Columba. and last night the two parties met at the corner of Clyde-pjace. I A desperate fight ensued, in the course of which a Browning revolver was used with fatafefFect on a man named James Martin. Albert French, the local secretary of the National Seamen and Firemen's Union, was arrested. Two members of the Columba's crew were also taken into custody.

The King of Buganda and members of his suite visited the Law Courts yester- day and occnpied seats on the bench in t ,,Mr. jqistioe s court.

) The Regatta by Pencil and Camera. I Our central photograph shows the start at Mumbles yesterday for the prize offered by the Right Hon. Sir Alfred I Mond, Bart., M.P. In the foreground is seen Mr. Pritchard's Lady Beatrice, and on the right Mr. Behenna's Hyacinth.

STACCERED AND FELL. ACED CLERK'S DEATH. t SHOCKING INCIDENT AT SWANSEA RAILWAY STATION. j .—-— As reported in the 6.30 editions cf the "Leader," considerable alarm was caused in High-street Railway Station on Wednesday evening, when a man WJ5 seen to stagger and fall heavily to tie ground. It seems that Mr. Thomas Matty, aged about 70, a clerk employed in tie jgoods department of the G.W -R at Paddington, was about to return to London by the 5.35 p.m. train on Wed- nesday--after transacting business ior the company in Swansea—and when on the platform he staggered and vuti- mately fell. Dr. Anderson WM called, but life was found to be extinct- He was a native of Slough. The inquest will be held at Sidaall- buildings this afternoon. Mr. Matty was a married man. One of his sons is a clerk in the employ of the G.W.R. Company. He had several daughters. It soems that Mr. Matty attended a meeting at Swansea yesterday and as the meeting terminated early, he and a Mr. Bell, of Swindon, also in the em- ploy of the Company, went to the Mumbles. They returned in order toO catch the 5.35 train f< London. Mr. Matty seemed to be in his usual health all day.

SPANISH CUNHEBY I NATIVES SEEM TO BE MORE FBICPTENEU THAN tURT. ( R cuter's Foreign S pecin!. ) Tangier, Thursday.—A Spanish war- 1 ship this morning bombarded some native douars on the Morooco coast be- tween Tangier and Ceuta. The canon-1 ade alarmed the natives, but apparently did no damage.

SIR C. D. ROSE'S ESTATE. I Sir Charles Day Rose, of Haclwick I House, Whitchurch, Oxford, member l for the Newmarket Division, who died I April 20th, leaves estate valued at £ 355,000.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. Melbourne, Thursday—The counting I of "absentee" votes has not improved Sir W. Lyne's chance of defeating Mr.; Patter. It is therefore almost certain that the Government will resigu.-Reuter. j

"SAMSON AGONIS-ED." ( "I sentence you to have your I luxurious shock of black bair clipped once a month for the nest year." This sentence was pa on a young man of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, for ¡ larceny. The young man bogged to be ) sent to prison instead, and when the .ygige refused, left tie- court- sobbijja.

FIRE FIGHTERS FAIL I I ABERAVON "BLAZE. I j LARCE HAY AND CORN WAREHOUSE COMPLETELY GUTTED About the biggest blaze Aberavon has ever known was witnessed during the early hours of this moring, wnen the large warehouse of Messrs. J. Richards ad Co., ha-v and corn mer- chants, was completely gutted and de- stroyed. I The building was a three storey one, and occupied a considerable area. About 3 o'clock the fire was observed, I and police were on the scene with a hand firo truck within a minute or two of the outbreak. Very valuable assist- ance was rendered bv one of the work- men from the Alansel Tinplate Works, who battled with the file for a con- siderable time. Little, however, could be done with the appliances at their disposal, and the diihculty of the situation wao accentuated by the practical absence of water. For aboat two hours after the outbreak, there was no force of water, otherwise it is said that vaju- j able property might have been saved. I Furious Ffarnes. A feature of the fire at its height was the almost complete absence ot smOKe, which is probably accounted for by the nature of the hay and corn. At 5 o'clock one of the main walls fell I with a huge crash. There i?, it seems, a fire brigade at Aberavon, but our information is that they did not arrive until 4.20 a.m., and that then -the absence of any fire engine and of any adequate force of water made all efforts to Fave the burnmg building unavoidable. The fire therefore practically burnt itself out, and at 11 a.m. was still smouldering. The cause of the fire is quite unknown. I The stores, occupied by Messrs. J. Richards and Co., which had been re- cently built, were owned by Mr. W. Heard, Port Tfclbot, and valued at E800. The stores had been restocked, and its contents were valued at £.:500. We understand that the building and contents were insured. The place where the fire broke out was j near the Canniter Bridge, and situated right on the banks of the River Avon. ———— i

CARAVAN ROBBED. i J PERSIAN SRSSAKOS BUSY. I (Renter's Foreign Special.) I Teheran, June 18.A telegram states that brigands have robbed a large cara- van at Dauel-el-Abed between Kerman and Bunder Abbas, and carried oft a quantity of goods belonging to an Oriental rug company. A number of influential people, among whom are several formerly re- puted to have been reactionaries, are vigorously agitating in favour of the re-establishment 01 the Meilis (Parlia- ment), and 3j large party of those identi- fied with the movement will be enter- tained at luncheon by Samsam-es-Sul- taneb.

With pork as a bait, an angler in the I Newbury Borough free waters caught two finely marked trout, one 51b. L39z_ l and the other 3ib.

ANOTHER CHURCH DESTROYED. SUFFRACETTES ? WOMEN'S PROTEST COSTS A I HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. i An outrage which is attributed toj militant Suffragettes took place at Rowley Regis, near Dudley, where the parish church was destroyed by fire last night. I At half-past seven everything was all i right, and when the vicar left after con- ducting a service there was nothing to arouse suspicion. The outbreak was discovered at half- past eight, and several fire engines i arrived, but the brigades were almost helpless, owing to the lack of a proper water supply. A Fine Bu-iding. ) Less than ten years ago the church (St. Giles), which is right at the top of Rowley iell, was rebuilt at a cost of £ 6,000. It is a fine brick erection in the perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, sido chapel, and an embattled western tower, containing a clock and eight bells. The original church dated back to about the year 1200. There was a curious Norman font in the church and some memorial brasses dating from 1717. The regis- ter goes back to 1539. Money is now being collected for the purpose of &ndilla several more thou- sands of pounds 0; the building. A COSTLY PROTEST. I 4100,000 Worth of Property Destroyed. The East London Federation of the Women's Social and Political Union are organising a declaration to the Prime Minister, in which they refer to the present "mtolerable situation," and state:—"So bitter a sense of injustice has Hie delay produced that since the beginning of this year upwards of £ 100,000 ?rth of property has been destroyed by women as a protest against their continued exclusion from citizen rights." Mrs. Pankhurst. I Mrs. Pankhurst was yesterday morn- ing reported to very very seriously ill. She passed a sleepless night. A report issued by the doctor attend- ing her says her health last week caused much anxiety and she has now come back more weak than on either of the! previous occasions. Every time she is released her vitality is less, and she re- cuperates more slowly.

ALFRED NOYESlHONOURED. Yale University has conferred the honorary degree of doctor of leters on Mr. Alfred Noyes, the English poet. Mr. Noyes has met wlh great suc- 11 great ruc- cess in his lecturmg tour in the United States. Yale Universit y has paid him- the compliment of asking him to re- turn next year to deliver the Lowell lectures.

TROJAN TAPESTRY. 1 At Christie's yesterday a set of ten panels of Brussels tapestry depicting ■episodes in the Trojan War were sold Jar £ 6*405.

LOOKINC BLACK ACAIN. WAR FEARED. BULGARIA AND SERViA UNABLE TO AGREE. TURKS AND CONSPIRATORS Latest advices indicate a disturbing acuteness of feeling in the Bulgarian- Servian dispute. A Sofia message states that Bulgaria is only prepared to wait five days for arbitration by the Tsar, and only on Servia's request for such arbitration. Belgrade reports show that Servia does not seem inclined to retract her demand for a revision of the ante-war treaty, which means tha.t there is quite a possibility of ail outbreak of hostilities at any momen t. Servia has three armies ready for use against Bulgaria, and she has the sup- port of ten Greek divisions and three Montenegrin brigades. It is feared tilat the proposed con- ference of Premiers at (. Petersburg! will not be of much use. will mT, be of much use. Alleged Conspiracy in Turkey. Constantinople, June HL-Jn con-, formity with paragraph 2, article 6, of 1 the Martial Lav. regulations, the ruili-j tary authorities lun e deported to Sinope 4o0 persons who are considered likely to disturb public order. The members of the new Cabinet have taken the oath of loyalty to the; Sultan at Yildiz Kiosk. Said Pasha, ex-Grand Vizir, has been appointed president of the Senate.—Reuter. Meeting of Ambassadors. The Ambassadors met at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon as arranged, and sat one and a hall hours. Sir Kd- ward Grey received them, but soon afterwards went on to the House of Commons, Sir A. Nicolson taking his1 place.

CHINA'S PROGRESS. A COALITION GOVERNMENT TO BE SUPPORTED. (Exchange Telegraph Co.) Paris, June IS.The N<rtv York! Herald" (Paris edition) publishes a telegram from its Peking correspon- dent, who says the leaders of the various political parties have made « pact, which. it is hoped, will bring peace to China. A policy of safe- guarding life and property, reorganib- ina the Republic's revenues, and de- ve&PEng the resources of the country haa been adopted. A coalition Govern- ment is to be siil)po,-ted, -xi-iiiie, a vote of censure on the present Cabinet will be introduced on the ground of un- constitutional a ct s. It is oxpected that Yuan-Shi-kai will be re-elected President,! an d he has pledged himself not to establish a dictatorship. Sun Yat Sen Retires. I Dr. Sun Yat Sen has d(,finitel-, tired from politics, and will devil* time to railway and industzial d:?Vfeio.t- ment. I

INDIAN CONSPIRACY. I .——— 6 -—— ) A LONG LIST OF MURDERS I AND OUTRACES. Calcutta, June 18.—Mr. Gupta, open- ing for the Crown in the Barisal con- spiracy case, in which charges of pit- ting to seduce native troops and bring bout a wholesale massacre a.re brought against 41 defendants, asked for a free pardon for the two approvers who are giving direct evidence regarding the working of the Barisal and Dacca sec- tions of the conspira.cy. I He gave a lon list of murders and outrages which tM police have connec- ted with the society, and produced docu- ments showing how the conspirators divided the country into districts, in which organised sedition was preached, chiefly by means of religious services, students and unmarried youths being their special ooncern.-Reuter. A Wholesale Massaore. I The prisoners in the Barisal con- spiracy case are nearly all Bengalis of good family. The case started as the result of information supplied last month by Rai Jamini Das Bahadur, deputy magistrate of Nidnapur, who caused the house of his own sou at Dacca to be searched. The documents contained proposals for undermining the loyalty of the Gurkha, Punjabi, and Mahratta Sepoys, and for the establishment of military centres, and a suggestion for a whole- sale massacre in place of the present isolated murders. They also gave a list of names of members of the society. As a result of this find the police searched other houses, and further evi- dance was collected of the existence of an organisation, with several branches, for the purpose of waging war against the King-Emperor.

TRYING TO CURE CONSUMPTION. Dr. Fried nek Friedman, who went over to America with his "cure" for tuberculosis, sailed for Europe on Tuesday. It is understood that during his four months' visit he has taken fees amounting to £ 13,000.

THE CHANCELLOR'S SHOES. When visiting Criccieth recently a Neath pedlar called at the Chan- cellor's residence and begged a pair of Mr. Lk-d George's cost^oft shoes. Be has had them repaired, an d now proudly says that "indeed, ko ifi in LloyZL.

? M-?H?om DEBATE. t  ?A i%, ?; 'Ilia ?.- Mr. Asquith. raid he had hoped that after the speeches of the two Minis- I t-era concerned, some general agree-' tr.eni would have bewi come ■.<>. iiOjpa, hineviv, had been scatttrcd. !,H. J.lltilll said the Ministers would > have been better advised to have told the whole story to the Houso in October. This procedure would have saved an enormous amount of time and trouble. j r ASCOT SENSATION. ;1 Wtall ey, tlis jockey riding Tracerr, "a,, quite unhurt, and ralked back to the paddock. i LEICESTER. ,I "Labour Leader" states Labour [ Party will not contest Leicester Election. 'j Betting: 5 to 1 on Hornet's Beauty. Meeting House 1, Karenza 2, Sleipner S.-T. j Also ran: Waiontha, Countess Zia, Bat- i ¡ tel- Greedy Girl.  RACING SENSATION. j ^ater. The man is not dead, but < there is little hope of recovery. Tracery was leading at the time. 'i i I I ,J ( i .1

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