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CRICKET. TVhVXHAU v. OSWP-STRY.-This return match was P 1 • d at Wrexham on Saturday. In the first P Dc'ouuter. on 'h Owestry ground, the visitors won uHV a 3- n?rRin of 13 rana. This time victory lay with .?. 0,?vestry team. Scores:- OSWESTRV. WREXHAM, r. rnrtwricht, b Boot 6 G C H Heasman, 1 b W, b 'J,T i;oii"li. t>K"bert3 31 R T Gough 1 T??Ayrrr'? cH?hurst.b J H Hoberts, b R T 4 Gou-h 26 '.u?h b 11001 14 Boot. b It T Gough 0 ?" ? "riti? c Stanford, b F JagRrr, b R T Gough 0 5 E A Orford, I b W, b B C vVhitiK-W. I b w, b Boot 1 Gough. 0 I lillh .II. b H G France Havhurst, I b w, b .-waii 14 l'itchford 3 } n'. *hf.iril. b Roberts 3 H G Heasman, b R T 1) ii(,,)t .17 Gough. 6 .■l;, "lit 3 A E Whitfield,st Sheather M ,1 D Kirby, c and b b Pitchford 0 2 J H Hollinga, c W G Gough, CRT Gough G Ll Hughes, not out 0 J Stanford, b R T Gough 0 Kxtras 15 Extras. 5 115 47 M.n' v. Dt-xm?H.—Moid on Saturday last Aa, liuHered to Denbigh a decisive drubbing. The _t:tùr,; ijuded minus n two of their players, while Fraud,; was a notable absentee. Jones, the (.t., I t d t k Ii h?e citp?hi. elected to take first innings, commenc- :¡,¡,; veutUre with Hatcllffe and A W Lewis, who I "r. ?cut to face the bowling of Wynne Edwards '?? EH'=- The innings opened disastrously, for 1> ¡, the scr, at 13 both batsmen had received their !iVtus. -it Gilie,?ipie in partnership with Hurst, ??'. c,-?re went to 44. North and Hamilton succumbed f hont aidintr the cause, whereupon Marston joined .??tthCiHespie.andtbe telegraph recorded 53, .,rn I d d b R b ?n the Dew-comer was dislodged by Rowbottom rf^iibbs. GtMespie was partnered by the local ?kTCfr- Jones, and the former pursued cautious ties-Jones opened with a clean-cut 4. He V'ciiilv became set, and 67 stood to his credit when ?T.n.J cH.n?ht by Davies off Ellison. His score ?mtri-ed two 6's, one 5, and four 4's. Aatbary was (' ncxL b)tt-"?"' and nine had been added when he was bowled by Ellison. The score now stood at 150 for gj?ht wickets, and at this stage the innings was d ? cl? ctu?d. Ellison and Gibbs did the bulk of tb bowline, the former taking the largest nnmber of K?kctB. The visitors opened with McBelev and Cri'?t?- ?t"?' ?'? attack was shared by North and D l?LL?H. "5dey was laid low at 9, and Wynne i.j?d- occupied the vacancy. Four wickets were down for 25 when Gibbs stepped into the arena, but he was powerless to stay the rot. Upon the advent f the last man (O Williams) the Denbigh score ood at 55. Some vitality, however, was imported juio tae miliums, which closed for 66, Gibbs (not out) b-adiu^ the llt with 18. No change became neces- sary III the Mold bowling, for Lewis and North were h [n well oil the wickets. The latter secured six uukeis for 32 runs, taking three in one over. The scores were as follow:— ;J=J1(i.t1. H I. Katcliffc. c Kllison, 0 R Moseley, b North 3 3 J D W Lirifliths. b D E 11 \Y Lt:i",J lJ w, b Elh- LewIs .11 -1-11 1. 6 T A Wynne-Edwards, b W li;lie»l>'e. ""t out .35 urtll. 4 A R Eliissm, run out 0 A ,I N:,r,.h. t! Fillb, I)Gibbb 0 J H Gibbs, not out.18 I. If 1) Ellisun 0 G P Davies, b D E Lewis 0 J ,1 :llar4..n, c Itow- J H Williams,c Hurst, b h Cibbt. 5 North. 4 EJw,;r.j J..UC", c Davies, H Rowbottom. h North.. 0 I, Kin,n .b7 J D Halford, c &: b Nùrth 0 C H A ti,ury, b Ellison 5 E Humphreys-Roberts, b i: H li Scaigill, to but D E Lewis 0 1) F Lewis „ 0 Williams, c Hamilton, b North 11 Extras .16 Extras .15 Tut.U for 8 wicketsl50 66 GWEITSYU T v SOUTESEA.-This match was played on Gwersyllt Park on Saturday, and resulted in an eaiv wm for the visitors. Gwersyllt batted first, and were ail disposed of for 49 runs, no one reaching doable figures. Southsea started badly, Moss being giveD out caught at the wicket, and Evans running himself oat before any score had been registered. When Buckley joined Wilding a very different com- plexion was put on the game, the pair hitting the bowiins; all over the field, and treating the Gwersyllt men to a tine leather-hunting. Buckley was even- tually bowled by Jackson for a finely hit score of 48. in which there were only six singles. Wilding batted splendidly for his 31, some of his cuts both late and eqaare being very fine. The Southsea innings totalled 101. RHUS v. RUABON.—Played at Rhos on Saturday, and a pleasant game resulted in a win for Rhos by 40 raus. Abel Ilughes and T Till were in good form with the bail, the former taking six wickets for 8 runs, itud the latter three for 16. Scores Khos.—Edward Jones, b Morrison, 0 W Furm- stciie. c Gerrard, b W P Jones, 20; David Davies, b 1' Jones, 25; William Jones, b W P Jones, 0; Tno !:ias Tili, c Gerrard, b W P Jones. 3; Abel Ilf.^iic-.bW P Jones, 0; A Potts, c and b W P J ucs, 9; Ben. Williams, b Morrison, 1 George Till, run OU:, 0; William Hughes, run out, 5; Ivor Jones, nvt out, 1; extras, 3 total, 67. Rnabon.—J Morrison. b T Till, 3; W. P Jones, c WJjnes. bT Till, 0; D J Bowen, b Abel Hughes, 4: FX Evans, b Abel Hughes, 6; J Gerrard, run oc:. 2 T F Shelby, b Abel Hughes, 1 Edw. Edkins, b Abel I-In-lhes, 3; Stanley W Davies, b Abel Hr.f.'tics. 0; Edward Edwards, b Abel Hughes, 0; J D Thorpe, b T Till, 0; T Wright, not out, 5; extras, 3; total. 27. OSWESTRY 2ND ELEVEN v. ACREFAIK.—Played at G?wc«:ry ou Saturday. Scores OrWc=try.—A W Sabine, c Allshore, b Longdon, 42; J Un\ky.b London, 6; H Owen, b Langdon, 0; Hey W Williams, b Worsjey, 1; J V Jones, b Long- don, 2; P Fiuch-tt, c Wflds, b Longdon, 28 WH Gonnb. not out. 20 Heamcote, b Warsley, 4 Broad- wood. b Longdon, 1; S Vowles, did not bat; E Jones, did not bat; extras, 12; total, 116. Aert-f.tir.-T A-hton, b J Y Jones, 1 E Woods, c W. Williams, b Bayley, 11; Allshore, 1 b w, b Bayley, 1: Longdon, b J V Jones, 4; Taylor, b J V Jones. 5: Thedford, b Bayley, 0; W. Jones, c Ycw!e=. b Bayley, 0 Edwards, c E Jones, t Bayley, 4; Worsley, not out, 1 Hughes, b J V Jones, 0 Berkeley, did not bat; extras, 3; total, 30. ELLKSMEKE COLLEGE V. OVERTON.-This match was played at Overton on Saturday, and resulted in a win for the home team. The College batted first, bnt Rerc all ont for 29 runs, W Nnnnerley and G Godtrich bowling well for Overton, the former taking six wickets for 15 runs, and the latter three for 11 rnus Overton went in, making 55 runs, out of which NV Nauneriey batted well for his 17. In the second the College made a better show, making 71. C E Andrews and R H Philipps batted well. Score Ellcsniere College.-R H Philipps, b G Goderich, 8; 2nd innings: c H Evans, b G Goderich, 16; P R Ihiiipps. retired hurt, 1; b W Nnnnerley, 1; D R Evans, c and b W Nunnerley, 5; b W Nnnnerley, 9; C L Andrew*, b W Nunnerley, 0; b W Roberts, 14 NY K ADIIIIS, b G Goderich, 2; c W Nunnerley, b W Roberts, 6; F J Pearson, b G Goderich, 0; b G Goderich, 1; H L Scholefield, b W Nunnerley, 0; c Dr Junes, b W Nunnerley, 3; H J Davis, c J Smith, b W Sunnerley, 4; b W Roberts, 9; N A Taylor, not ont. 4: c kina b W Roberts, 0; A C Whittle, b W Nnnnerley. 0; c H Evans, b W Roberts, 8; J Porter, b W N'nuuerlty, 3; not out, 0; extras 3, do. 2nd inninys, 4; total 29, 2nd innings 71. Overton.—G Goderich, c F J Pearson, b Andrews, 4; 2nd innings: c P R Philipps, b D R Evana, 13; Anhur Roberts, b Andrews, 0; Alf. Roberts, c D R Ewtns, b Andrews, 9; c DR Evans, b Andrews, 0; E 1 Jones, run out, 0; not out, 5; W Roberts, b D It Evaas, 5: c Andrews, b D R Evans, 0; W Nnn- nerley. cKU Philipps, b Andrews, 17; not out, 8; J ■Smith, b D R Evans, 1; J R Richmond, b D R Evans. 6 Dr Jones, c and b Andrews, 1 R Studley, c 1' R Pniiipps, b D R Evans, 4; H Evans, not out, 4: J 1: Richmond, R Studley, J Smith, Dr Jones, Arthnr Roberts, and H Evans, did not bat 2nd innings; extras 4, 2nd inninga 1; total 55, 2nd idlings 27 for three wickets.
SHROPSHIRE MAYORS' CHARITY…
SHROPSHIRE MAYORS' CHARITY FOOTBALL I ASSOCIATION. The lIayor of Shrewsbury (Mr Scoltock Hughes) presided at a meeting at Shrewsbury on Tuesday Ilignt to distribute the funds.-The Treasurer, Mr C- Rerry, submitted the balance-sheet, which showed receipts 1102 43 lid, and a balance available for distribution of iE48 14s 7d— £ 31 more than last year (Hear. hear).—After some disacussion, the following distribution was agreed to :-The Secretary (Mr R. 1I. Roberts) for clerical assistance, S-3 3.3 Sa.lop Infirmary, annual subscription of 14 4s and donation 6s; the Salop Eye and Ear Hospital, S.5 53; the Shrewsbury Dispensary, 13 39 the Ironbridge dispensary, £ 5 5a, and iEl 19 each to Newport, Chirk, draids, W rexham, West Bromwich, and Wem Clubs, who will name the charity to which they wish the kionev to go.-Mr Kerry was tnanked for entertain- 1!-k' the teams and the representatives of the clubs at the two finals.
THE FREE WHEEL BICYCLE. I
THE FREE WHEEL BICYCLE. I The first of the topics for discussion to-day, gentle- men. ,Fayti a writer in Chums ") is the great biking 'jaesuou of free-wheels." There never was, I ^appose, since the introduction of the pneumatic tyre, I'D adjunct to bicycles which has aroused so much interest an the one we are considering. There can b- no possible doubt whatever that a "free-wheel" more difficult to manage in traffic than a 11 fixed- v.b,.tl." That fatal tendency to back-pedal, and so b put on the brake at wrong momenta, is one that tht: beginner has the greatest difficulty in over- coming, And what is more extraordinary still is the way in which men, accustomed to a front-wheel brute, forget all about the back-pedalling brake in moineuts of emergency. Until you are an expert you cannot stop as quickly in traffic and (this is more important 1 start as quickly upon the new bike as the °'d. The machine is less under control for the reasons named. I have even seen an expert rider, Quae-nstomed to the" free-wheel," throw himself ot: almost under an omnibus by jambing on the back-whtel brake when he had no intention of doing 80. And if an old rider ia thus nonplussed, how shill the novice be better off ? Let the latter stick to t?? old fashioned machine until he has ridden a t? thousand miles, and is master of his bike. He may begin after that to talk about change. Oar second case is that of the expert-the man who has ridden for some years but cannot make up his mind whether a "free-wheel" is or is not a. good ■ thing. To this fellow I answer the "free-wheel" is the very finest addition to a bike we have had since P^enniatics. There is no word with which I am acquainted adequately to describe the splendid sen- tationa a. good rider enjoys when mounted on the new Machine. Why, Chnms, he does just about half 80S touch work as you tellows on the old jiggera. A few tood strokes on the level road and his machine will pn with him for nearly a hundred yards. When the find is behind him, the thing is too splendid for e hef. I have rIdden twenty miles under such con- ditions, and have not pedalled three of them. It wan a mere pink just sitting still and letting the old wind do the work. Here and there a sharp turn kept up the impetus and sent me flying again. I was not us tired at the end of this journey as a man who has walked have a mile. But, cries someone, you speak of the free-wheel" as a difficult thing to master. What, then, are its difficulties, and how do they arise ? Sensible ques- tions, my friends, and I will reply to both of them. The free-wheel is difficult to master just because so few of us (until we have ridden the new machine) understand how to pedal properly. Unconsciously, we are often back-pedalling. Our action is not even. At one moment the chain is slack; at the next it is tisjht. While we ride an old-fashioned bike we shall never cure these faults. But the new machine will cure them or it will know the reason why. The moment we mount it we begin to experience the bitter truth of our deficiencies. Every other stroke, and there goes the pedals, now loose on the wheel, now trying to catch the stroke, uow back to jamb on the brake. The consequences are exasperating and deplorable. We are literally all over the road; we have no sense of security at all; we think the whole thing a fraud. But an hour changes that opinion. This transformation scene really comes about in the simplest manner. It means only that a man has learnt to pedal properly. And pedalling properly, he soon acquires complete control of the back-wheel brake, without which no free-wheeler should ever be built. The result is control of a kind which the rider of the older bike never kuows and never could know. A touch of the pedals now checks speed a clever performer can regulate his space to the utmost nicety, can let the machine run between omnibuses, negotiate the stiffest hills cleverly, and take openings which others would not dare to take. Biking, in fact, becomea a new joy. One word of caution, and I have done for to-day with this great subject. Be carefnl to have your ¡ back-brake so regulated that it will not easily jamb the back-wheel. It should be so fitted that it will bring the machine to a standstill at a slow speed, but will not lock the wheel. There have been many accidents through people neglecting this vital ques- tion of adjustment.
CYCLE TALK. I
CYCLE TALK. [BY ITINERANT."] Friday was a rather sorry day for cyclists, and Saturday was none too promising. Yet the dark clouds which hong close at noon were dispersed, and two hours later in the day cirrhoua clouds were all that remained and these, of course, did not trouble wheelfolk. The roads, except in the shady parts, were nice going, although in some places heavy traffic, followed by a baking sun, had left ugly ridges where previously there was smooth macadam. My itinerary on Saturday was to Glyndyfrdwy, about five and a half miles on the other side of Llangollen. This is a run that can safely be undertaken by learners and ladies any afternoon, and the scenery is of such a rare order that many veterans are satisfied to trundle here and rest awhile. The best way, after passing Raaboo, is to run through Newbridge. It is here that the lovely scenery commences, for it is here that the Dee is encountered and go where you may the Dee is always charming. While climbing the long incline on the other side of Newbridge, Crow Castle, with the eminence on which it stands, quickly comes in sight, as well as the whole expanse of the verdant valley. The hedges on each side of the road were very rich with flowers, and the profusion of pink and white briar roses scented the air with their fragrance. After the exertion of the collar- work, and after a sharp turn on the right, the remainder of the road is delightful travelling, the surface being in good condition. On the left the ground rises abruptly, whilst on the right it dips quite as sudden to the wooded valley below. Occasionally the steep slopes are rich with groves of larches, pines, and oaks, whilst in some parts the heavy-leaved chesnut trees envelop you in cool damp air as you rush beneath the lovely awnings. But however pleasant the road to Llangollen may be during the last half of the journey, the five miles on the other side, to Glyndyfrdwy, are an adequate recompense for the pedalling from Wrexham. The scenery is typically Welsh. The wooded sides of the valley, with the tumbling, twisting waters of the Dee at the bottom, provide an ever-varying picture. From Llangollen to Berwyn Station is one and three-quarter miles, but what with the head winds, and the greasy state of the reads, consequent upon the sun not being able to pierce the vaulting of heavy trees, my friend and I were well-nigh fagged when we got on level road again, a mile further on. We did nut think the ¡ hill was near so bad as we experienced it, and it was only until afterwards that we found that the rise is a matter of 230 feet, and that at the two miles Ii end the incline is one in seventeen. The road afterwards swerves almost at right angles, and there is a mile of a spell from work, during which you get further glimpses of fresh aspects of the glen on the right. At Glyndyfrdwy there is splendid and cheap accommodation for cyclists. Here you can drink your afternoon tea at leisure whilst you rest from the wheels, away from all the crowd of the half-day trippers at Llangollen. Hereabouts the roads are skirted by even more varieties of wild lfowers than on the previous part of the itinerary. Pink and white campions were particularly plentiful, and when we departed as the day was becoming cooler, the latter was sending forth their strong perfume. We rode home with the reds of the sunset I showing over the ridges on the left, and with the corncrake croaking loudly in the meadow land adjoining the road. One narrow squeak we had. Some children threw the iron hoop of a barrel into the road, and my friend just managed to swerve from the dangerous obstacle, whilst I was close behind him, and did not see it until too late. Fortunately I only caught the edge of it had I gone over it I am afraid to think what would have been the condition of my tyres. One nuisance in some of the villages is the habit of the inhabitants of throwing their broken bottles and pots into the road. These become pulverised by passing vehicles, and then the small pieces get into your tyres, and inflict grievous injury. Major-General Sir F. Maurice, K.C.B. has approached the National Cyclists' Union with a proposal to form a reserve rifle corps of cyclists. The crude idea is to enrol the names of riders who will put in sufficient practice at ranges to become tolerably decent shots, and who will also give an undertaking to serve at any time or place demanded of them in the event of an invasion of this country. The secretary 0': the Union, Mr S. R. Noble, with Mr T. H. Woollen to assist him, will prepare a detailed scheme for the furtherance of this object, which, meagre as it is. represents in some degree official recognition of the cyclist's value in time of need. It seems that if a cyclist rides furiously to bring him within the arm of the law someone must be in danger. This phase of cycling in the streets was presented at the Cardiff Police Court on Thursday before the Stipendiary Magistrate. The cyclist, William Bucknell (fourteen), of West- street, Newport, was. according to the constable, riding furiously in Castle-street, towards Queen- street, where he passed a couple of other cyclists, whom the constable said were going at seven or eight miles an hour. He stopped the cyclist, who said he was not going very fast. The constable differed, and told the Court that the pace defen- dant was going made it impossible for anyone to cross the street -The Stipendiary: Was there anyone in danger?—Witness: No, sir. The Stipendiary: No one in danger ?-No, sir; there was a lot of people about.—The Stipendiary: Was there no one in danger that is the gist of the offence ?-Yes, sir.—The Stipendiary Who was in danger ? Everyone was in danger who attempted to cross the road.—The Stipendiary Yes but did anyone attempt to cross the road ? -No, sir.—The Stipendiary Then no one was in danger the summons must be dismissed. ii ■—
Army, Militia, and Y olunteerd.…
Army, Militia, and Y olunteerd. APPOINTMENTS.—The following staff changes and appointment;, are published in the Gaz--Ite:-Col. J. F. Hilton, from 23rd Regimental District, to be a colonel on the staff to command the trooos in Bar- badoes, &-c-, and to have the temjiorarv ranc of major general whilst so employed; Major h. L. Englehart, Roval Welsh Fuailiera, to be a deputy-absistant- adi u tant. general at headquarters.
1ST V.B., R.W.F. I
1ST V.B., R.W.F. I THE COEDPOETH COMPANY. I The members of I Company had their first march out on Thursday week. In spite of the occasional heavy showers there was a good muster. Under the command of Captain Thompson they marched to Bwlcbgwyn, where they were provided with refresh- ments. On their return they were met by the Coed- poeth Band, which played them back to the Parish Hall. We learn that Mr E. W. Maingay, of the Caia, Bersham, will join the Company as lieutenant.
WELSH TWENTY SHOOT. I
WELSH TWENTY SHOOT. I The second competition of the season took place I on the Ffrwd range on the 20th inst., Captain A H. Sparrow making the necessary arrangements. There I was a very strone wind, and militated against good scores. The following are the results:- irts. Sergt.-major Claridge, Hawarden 92 Sergt. Edward Griffiths, Caergwrle 92 Sergt. Jones, Hawarden 90 Sergt. Catherall, fiawsrden CO Major J. H. Sparrow, Cefnybedd 86 Col.-sergt. G. Bailey, Hawarden S6 Lance-sergt. P. Lewis, Caergwrle. 82 Capt. A. Y. Sparrow, Caerewrle 77 Sergt. Challoner, Hawaraen 75 Ai-mour-sergt. Cooper, Caergwrle. 66 Private Phillip Joued, Caergwde 55 A total average of 81.16.
IN
IN I A Whitechapel police constable, named Cook, dropped down dead while on duty in Spitalfields Market on Tuesday. The Milton (Kent) School Board have decided to purchase some miniature rifles for the use of the boys in their schools. At the annual Kentish cherry sales the frnit made over S30 an acre. Cherries and strawberries are now being railed to London and the North in large quantities, and a glut of cherries this season is probable. Alfred Highfield, a labourer, aged twentv-one, was sentenced to death at the OU Bailey, on Wednesday, for the mnrder of his sweetheart, Edith Margaret Poole, by catting her throat on May 13th. The International Miners' Congress in Paris hac; passed a resolution declaring that employers should be held responsible for all accidents occurring to workmen employed by them in or around mines. The Khedive on Wednesday travelled from Port Victoria to London, and was welcomed at Charing Cross by the Duk, of York on behalf of the Queen, subsequently proceeding to Buckingham Palace. Oat- side the station his Highness was cordially cheered Charles Bullock, a solicitor, of Great Berkhamp- stead, who has converted to his own use zE28 000. entrusted to him for investment by clients, was on Tnesday. at the Hertford Assizes, sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. A dispute between the Urban Council of Radstock and Lord Waldegrave, as to a plot of ground claimed by the latter, has occasioned a lively scene, the public officials imprisoning the earl's men with barbed wire while they were clearing the Council's property from the land. Sir Robert Peel pleaded guilty at the Old Bailay on Wednesday to having published defamatory libels concerning his brother-in-law, Mr Van der Heydt. There had been some differences between the parties in respect of the Peel heirlooms, and bir Robert had written abusive letters. Counsel for Sir Robert now withdrew all insinuations and offered an apology. Prisoner was ordered to enter into recognisances in XI,000 to come up for judgment it called upon. The annual midsummer morning meeting of the Early Rising Association took place on the summit of Parliament Hill, Hampstead, at sunrise on Sunday. After an address had been given by the President, Mr J. Bowden Green, a resolution that early rising being conducive to health, enjoyment, and longevity, the principles of the Early Rising Association be heartily commended to all non- members was adopted, and a fruit breakfast was served. The unusual ceremony took place on Monday in the Lord Chief Justice's Court of the Queen's Bench Division, of a Grand Jury of the county of Middlesex being sworn in and addressed by Lord Ruaaell, the occasion being the trial for alleged misdemeanour of Frederick Field Hodgkinson, Vice-Consul of Bremerhaven and Geestemunde. His Lordship said the charge was that Mr Hodgkinson, being in the service of the Crown in an oece of traac, O received money from sailors for transmission to England, but failed to tran-mit. Servants of the Crown charged with such offences abroad must be tried before a Middlesex jury. The Grand Jury returned a true bill, and were discharged. The Employers' Association of the Bedstead Alliance met in Birmingham on Tuesday to again consider the question of reducing the rate of pay to the operatives who strike at the will of the members of the alliance, in order to force the hands of bed- stead maKers outside the combination. The Htrikers have hitherto been piid their full wdoge, no matter how long they remained idle, but 803 this runs away with a very large sum of money each week, the em- ployers are seeking to restrict the pa,y to four weeks The men hold out for eight weeks' full pay and three months on half pay. If a compromise cannot be effected, the alliance, which embraces firms em ploying about 40,000 people, will probably collapse. The founder of the combination believes that matters will right themselves, but many members of the alliance are not so sanguine. The employers' com- mittee ara resolved to make another attempt to come to terms with the men, and the development of events is awaited with no small amount of anxiety, because the collapse of the alliance in the bedstead trade would prejudice the combines which have been similarly formed in other industries.
Wales and the Border.
Wales and the Border. In connection with the North Wales University College at Bangor on Friday there was a large gather- ing to celebrate the close of the eeasion 1899-1900. Principal Reichel, in reviewing the work of the sesdion, mentioned especially tae question of a new site and new college buildings, and the proposal to establish a department of mining in connection with the college. Information was received at Bala, on Wednesday, that the body of an unknown man had been fuund on the mountain between the town and Llanwddyn. At the inquest, held by Mr W. R. Davies (coroner), it was stated that the body was nearly reduced to the condition of a skeleton, and that it had apparently lain on the ground for about three months. There was nothing by which it could be identiiied, but It appeared to be that of a labourer about fifty years of age. The jury returned a verdict of found dead. Four young Bethesda quarrymen were up at th Bangor Police Court, on Tuesday, charped with creating a breach of the peace in the great quarry centre. From the evidence of Sergeant Owen it appeared that the four culprits, who were close chums, had divided themselves into pairs and engaged in a furious fight with each other. In reply to the Bench, they admitted their guilt, and reiterated their astonishment at the fight having arisen, asservated their firm friendship for each other, and swore that such a thing should never occur again, whereupon they were let off on the payment of costs. The South Wales Dail!! Xc-s has the following:— Mr William Evans, of Birmingham, who was much impressed by a recent complain; about the dearth of text books for the teaching of the history of Wales from the Welsh point of view in the secondary schools of the Principality, has placed the sum of JE50 at the disposal of the Nationaf Eisteddfod Associa- tion, with the view of obtaining by Eisteddfodic com- petition a thoroughly competent and satisfactory work for the purpose in view. Mr Evaus is all ardent promotor of all Welsh educational movements, and it is to be sincerely hoped that his present action will bring fruitful results. From a return supplied by the President of the Board of Trade in response to a request by the member for the Montgomery Boroughs, the some- what surprising fact appears that no loans have yet been approved under section four of the Light Rail- ways Act, 1896. It will be remembered that on pass- ing of the Act a sum of £ 1,000,000 was set apart to provide for such loans, and the fact that even, if applied for, no loans of the kind have been approved lends colour to the argument, advanced when the Bill was debated, that the rate of interest asked for was more than the local authorities could be expected to pay. Of the sum of zE250,000 allocated to free grants for the purposes of the Act advances to the amount of £ 126,C DO have been conditionally approved by the Treasury. Of this sum £ 25,CD0 is given to Welsh railways, viz., S,18,000 for the Tanat Valley Railway, and X7,000 for the Welshpool and Llanfair- Caereinion Railway. The neglect of the materials for the writing of the history of Wales now lying buried at the Britsh Museum and the Record Office amounts to something like a scandal. Governments make sympathetic responses from time to time, but fail to include in their estimates the small grant that would secure the services of competent persons to deal with the material lying ready to hand. Once more the Welsh members have called attention to the subject in the House of Commons. On the vote for the Public Record Office Mr William Jones. Mr Herbert Lewis, and Mr Humphreys-Owen emphasised the need for calandering and indexing Weish historical manu- scripts, and received from Mr Hanbury not only a kindly reply but a promise to consult the Deputy Keeper of Records with the view of obtaining an opening for a young Welsh scholar in the Record Office. It is only right to say that Mr Hanbury has on previous occasions expressed his sympathy with the object in view, and in any other than a dying session he might have given some more practical effect to the suggestions set before him. The struggle is one that can only be won by sheer persistency.
A DAUGHTER'S DEVOTION.I
A DAUGHTER'S DEVOTION. I At Shillingstone, in North Dorset, great concern has been felt for the welfare of a young woman of twenty-one, by name Edith Paine, the daughter of the village saddler. For some time the attention needed by an invalid mother fell on her shoulders, but in March last year the mother's illness terminated fatally, and, sustained no longer by anxiety, the daughter's health suddenly broke down. An article in a Dorset newspaper, the Southern Guardian, gives the girl's modest statement in the following words After my mother's death," said Miss Paine, I quite collapsed. I could not recover from the nervous strain, and a visit to Bonrnemonth made me even worse. In September last I actually fainted in the street, and had to be assisted home. I suffered con- stantly with violent pains in my head, and was frequently sick. I had no strength to do anything, and was distressingly short of breath. A doctor told me my liver was in a bad state, but his medicine did not seem to cure me. I was always sleepy and drowsy and without a particle of colour in my cheeks. Mr Paine here remarked that his daughter's health caused him great anxiety at a time when trouble was already heavy upon him. He added, she has to thank me for her present good health. I read in the paper about a girl in my daughter's melancholy state having been cured by Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people, and I said that she must give the pills a trial, which she did, commencing one Sunday while I was away from home. When I returned on the following Tuesday there was a wonderful improvement in her." Yes," interposed Miss Paine, before I had taken the pills for two days I found a wonderful difference. father was surprised at the rapid change in me. And now I feel strong and bright again, and can do my work as well as ever. I took only three boxes of the pills." Worry wears worse than work it leads to nervous exhaustion with the symptoms of depression of spirits, irritability of temper, hysteria, and a disordered stomach and liver indigestion, inaomnia and nerve troubles, such as neuralgia or sciatica, invariably follow. Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people relieve all these distressing symptoms by restoring tone to the nerves and spine and enriching the blood supply. They have also cared ans»mia, decline and consumption, rheumatism, eczema, rickets, erysipelas, and even paralysis and locomotor ataxy. These pills are genuine only when bearing the full name, Dr. WilliamB' pink pills for pale people (seven words) printed in red on a pink wrapper they are sold by chemists, and Dr. Williams' liledicine Com- pany, Holborn Viaduct, London, at two shillings and ninepence a box, or six boxes for thirteenand nine.
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I For leisure Moments. I v I): s 1 -4. Is hwM no.:i m; a The nearest ia bjine tAo u.. i in- ■ ij. h6 final woid in the title stauda tor the oollecuon 01 native bazaars, Government nuiiaiuL's, barracks, and bungalows that go to make up the iiule town where the head of the didirict re^des, and whence justice is administered. The station haa a name but th«t I omit for various reasons. It has no h.story. Tht< I apologise for, and shall explain why. l'ne Cdolhe is a subtle one. Years azr) thp :•> vn was barn in ano'h-er pi-tee. That sounds cuiiuus, ijUL it IS a fact ttlll, u o -rfan us career -,U thu Oll.i .i • :1" }tJ:") I. .h It now stands, Ih ii the Govern.Men issued all order and i: was icc auiicd uu its pim in situ. When the district was new :.•> onr rnlo, when there were kinH in tutllana LTU(A IU uie OUCRUUIIUIUV, miis, a jtii,tit iruiilier outpost—barely designated liv >. tI un n> 'he Govern- ment maps-tzittrised the- beginning of Hotter things. Then the kiugs .vaxed fac ions. LLi.ir noboy was the accumulation of huinkn heads, and with a ri-ie ot temper their hmte to improve tit jr colljctions traversed the bounus of decency t-.i -n iiii,:d by the ruling power. The Govtrnment is d an order for- bidding the practice. Now,.collectors all me ivorid over exhibit extraordinary u "ninutty when confronted with any extraneous inteifereu'ii: w t.i their hJbuv. It was so in this instance. The kings hitherto content to collect from one another's tribes joined forces, and set out iu puisuii. of iome really indicating types of beads belonging to lhJ British ünernmell", Then the stockade became almost a fort, tLi ttie lutle out- post eujoyed a temporary digui y as its n .me was flashed across the empire us me uLs,! ot sup^lias f jr the column going up into the hills t", en'^rc-f our rule. tVitb the troops came crowds of m trw.ttis, buuniahs, and all sorts and conditions of the Indian shopkeeper, and the town was a thing accomplished. When the column returned, sickness ensused, and an inquiry was followed by an order directing the cantonment to ba removed to a site on the open plain across the river. With the troops went the town, but it left its histoiy on Lh.J other bank. Since then its progress has been placidly uneventful. What is left ot the kings collect rupees now lusteid of, head j. L'he days of excitem-nt are uver, and our station taketi ra.nk as the drearist, most unget-at-able, and undesirable from a European point vf view. l'nere is nothing of interest in the native town. Ttie mosques, tank-, and temples are too new. Dirt abounds, and the qu ter e jnsisto of a "erieof streeLI3 made up of frontless shops, each street devoted to one craft. For caste is a matter of occup ition, an i those of the ilk herd logcttur. But it is not good lot mide. Thus we have the streets of the brassvvorkers, cloth sellers, grain merchants, tanners, and s > on, and the inhabitants and their warts ovc.fi nv .uto iue road- way. All are dirty, and a few more so, and the difference in uie suieii of the streets requires expe- rience to detect it. It is always oj.piessive. Le, us turn and see what the Europtiau part is like. The river steamer, aftcr some three or four tedious steaming between huh mud and Uaaks, hL, deposited the traveller on the mud ghat in it her,; .:oe; doty for a wharf. He stands surrounded by kit Beyond ,i i t Bt;yun d are circles of coolies, oeggars, children, and dogs. Cabs there are none, so a bullock cart having appeared from somewhere, i io k,t is on it, aud after a few yards' passage np a m jre than usually dirty native street, the European po. ti >n uf out- position is dis- closed to view. It lies ou all sides 01 a nuge oval grass- covered plain-green or khaki, according to the season of the year—known locally as the parade ground. This is circumscribed by a b o id road, dusty or muddy as the. rains ar off or ou. rne rising ground at one end of the oval is cover- d by the barracks, hospital, magazine, stores, and oiffcers' mess house of the native infantry. Atthe other extreinityare the church, club house, with its Badminton and tunnis courts and post office. Back from these are the Government offices, Court house, and Treasury. The long sides of the oval, across the road, are filled up by the bungalows, mud-xalled and tha ch roofed, of the civil aud military population. Each stands in a compound, and in mese are the stables and servants' houses. Tne bungalows are just sufficiently tar back from the road to get the full benefit of the dust raised by the traffic on it. All are depressingly uniform in .appearance. The tenants of thene bungalows are the civil officers connected with the district and the men belonging to the regiment. The latter predominate, ana are a much-married lot. The staff corps subaltern rushes into matrimony with a courage deserving of the best. The vile coucoctions of the mess-cook, the dreariness of the mess itself, the expense of finding solace in polo and kindred sports, are some of the wedges that drive home to him the desirability of having a home of his own. But matrimony is not good for the service. It is a hot and rainy climate, something worse than Bengal. From March to No.ember in the early morning and in the evening the station (European) is visibly alive. From six to 7.30 the regiment folds and unfolds itself across the parade ground. Its wives, iu drill costs and habits, lide and drive round and round the broad road. The civilians do likewise. The air is not exhilarating. The road shows always the same uninteresting stretch, and there is something pathetic in the regularity with which the little band of exiles goes through its daily exercise. The parade over, the regiment disappears, and the Europeans with It, for breakfast. Then the civilians go off to court or office, and the officets are busy with company returns and accounts. For some hours the station, so far as white faces are concerned, might be a city of the dead. The sun blazes fiercer and fiercer, the natives and the lazy bullock carta move more and more languidly, and the dust peneuates farther and farther into the drawing-rooms and verandahs of the mem-sahibs. Mid-day sees a few men drive quickly home to tiffin, to be followed by a siesta in a long chair beneath the punkah. A few have more office work than the others, and the adjutant of the regiment three times a week has his crowd out to drill. In a blazing sun, with a steaming face and stained khaki uniform he spurs his horse across the ground, and his voice grows huskier and crosser as the drill proceeds. Four p.m. and the station begins to wake up. The servants carry tea tables into ver- andahs, traps and ponies are made ready, and after a short drive or ride all meet at the tiny club. A little tennis is played and less Badminton, then all eit round beneath the punkah, slung between two long bamboos, aud sip cool drink and retail gup until the stars come out. On the road outside the club a row of sleepy orderlies and chuprassies copy their masters' and mistresses' example. One by one the married couples go off, each preceded by a servant with a lamp for fear of snakes, and the bachelors foregather round card and billiard tables. A last drink, and they, too, go home to dress. Dinner and then bed Twice a week the baud plays at the club and once at mess. We should enjoy it once more did we not hear it practising tne tulieti-in parts—throughout the day. it is better cold in the season, from November to March. There will bu two race meets, with their accompanying balls and dinner parties. A gymkhan every lortnignt, when the men dash wildly about on ponies, and the women try to thread needles, or add up impossible sums for their cavaliers; and polo three times a week. A tent is erected on the polo ground, and tea and cooling drinks are dispensed. The band seems to play better than it did in the hot season The sum is kindlier, and the air lets you draw a full breath and not regret it. There is something invigo- rating in the rattle of the hoofs as the game swings up and down the ground. If it was always a "cold season we should do very well indeed. Dance follows dance until-the hot weather is on us again. The lucky ones go off on leave to .he hills, and the remainder reach down helmets and swing punkabs and verandah chicks with a very obvious air of mak- ing the best of it. I had forgotten the post-office. Once a day a runner comes from somewhere with the mail bags slung on either end of a pole covered with iron rings. These clash and jangle as he runs-this is to scare evil beasts and like spirits. It is the event of the day, and the little office is typical of the station heart. The thump, thump of the postmaster's stamp registers our excitement. On home mail days it rises to fever heat. On Sundays we attend service at the red brick Government Church. Our padre lengthens or shortens his discourse according to the tempera- ture. When he is down with fever or away the com- inissioner reads the lessons, and the senior captain tne collects. All through the punkahs swing lazily overhead. It seems strange at first, but one gets used to it. Beyond the station is the graveyard. It is very full, and one or two graves stand always ready. We subscribe liberally to its upkeep, and there is a grimneas in the reason of our generosity that may well be passed over.—R. G. B., in the Glasgow Herald. The Chinese Jew is not to be confounded in the manner of his nationality with, say, such a modern immigrant as the American Jew. He is older in China than the Anglo-Saxon is in England. He has lived in China, a settled community, at least since the very early years of the Christian era-not less than sixteen hundred years. In the time of the Han dynasty, which ruled over China from 200 years before Christ to 220 years after Christ-420 years in all, there settled a colony of Jews at Kai-fung-foo in China. It is not long since the synagogue of Kai-fung-foo stood with the very inscriptions record- ing the arrival of the first Jew colony in China. A remarkable thing has arisen. The synagogue at Kai-fung-foo has been pulled down because the Jews there have become so entirely Chinese that they understand no Hebrew, keep no Jewish observances, intermarry with the pagan Chinese, and, though they call themselves Jews still, hardly know what the name means. Years ago they were wealthy and important men then they were Jews in religion as well as in name. To-day they are poor and it is their poverty, probably more than anything else, that has sent them back to Paganism. ———— First impressions of Pekin gathered through a. cloud of dust before entry into the city are rather favourable. But the moment one gets inside the favourable impressions vanish. Pekin is like other Chinese cities, but, of course, on a larger scale than most—a glorified village of one-storeyed houses- with the unpaved and ill-smelling streets which you have met with in the south, the same open sewers, and the same almond-eyed and pigtailed people, as like one another as grapes on a bunch, jostling each other and jabbering at a great rate in a variety of dialects. The Chinese city is an amazingly interest- ing place, with its exchanges and markets and fairs that are almost always in progress. There are hundreds of trades carried on here in vile, stinking, narrow, and multi-coloured streets. Every road in the city has its crowd of shops, its cheap restaurants, and its gambling and opium hells. In this shop the dutiful son buys his father a coffin, which the old gentleman shows to his friends with pride. Near by is another establishment where, when the father takes his journey from this world into the next, the sorrowing relatives purchase the gold and silver paper which is to be burnt over the grave to provide the passage money to the realms of the blessed. The fur market is a place which should never be (and never is) missed. Here are scores of spaces piled high with skins of all sorts, brought down from the interior by fierce-looking and pictureaqueiy-robed Mongols, to be bartered for brick tea and other commodities, There is a large demand among the mandarins and nobles and successful merchants for furs, which are a luxury they indulge in without I ,rriction, though you may be sure they do not pay for liem more than one third of the price or:s;in>illy a-ked by the vendors. The busiest Mmo oi i day in !his, as in the vegetable, poultry, arri other markers, is "ix o'clock in t -p- in irning, or thp Chine- are very early risers, tvid the tomsand merchants here congregated manage to get through a good day's work before the Englishman thinks of putting in an appearance in the city. Pekin has more than its share of beggars, and they are the most wretched-looking crowd in the world. Begear's Bridge is a sight nevpr to be forgotten. This is where the majority ply their shocking calling on everyone they ineet-sidling along, whining, and threatening to do terrible things to themselves if alms are refused. A very common form nf multila- Ointi which they prnctice is to blind th-ms-Oves. Less common, but still frequent enough, is to cut off the arms. The number of the blind and the halt belief.—Morninq Leader.
i 1Views upon Many Subjects.
i Views upon Many Subjects. The present rising in China is evidently a national movement, and by a nation of four hundred millions. Hi'tor j* has recorded no such gigantic struggle as this mav well be if the luck goes against the West at the outset and encourages the East to try conclusions with us once for all. And then the immense, the infinite irony of it I For seventy years we have been trying to impose civilisation on an nnwilling race, and now they turn and hoist na, literally, with oar own petard, with the guns we have insisted on selling them, handled bv the men we have taught to handle them.-Pall Mall Gazette. This year a change has come over the railroad corporations' treatment of tramps. Hitherto the gentlemen of the road have found it difficult to secure free transportations from Chicago and other cities to the sections they had picked out as summer residences. Hard-hearted conductors have had no compunctions about th/owing them off trains. This year they have actually been offered free accom- modation in parlour and sleeping cars but those who travelled westward thus luxuriously were forced to alight in Kansas and Nebraska, where they were immediately seized by the farmers and set to work in the harvest fields at two dollars and a half a day and board.-Chicago Tribune. Letters intended for the provinces muat be posted half-an-honr before they are written. There will be no too late stamp for letters that are intended to go by a delivery that does not arrive. Papers, if posted in the London office, will not be despatched by the provincial office until notice has been given to the papers interested. In order to secure the con- venience of the permanent officials letters will be ignort d unless they contain stamps to the amount required by the regulations not yet formulated. In case of complaint the public will have the option of writing to St. Martin's-le-Grand or Mount Pleasant, and npon the non-receipt of a reply from one of these offices are requested to write to the other, and in the event of obtaining no satisfactory explanation to begin again.—" New Rules for the G.P.U." from Punch. Mr Balfour's reply to-night (Monday) with regard to the Bill dealing with the sale of intoxicating liquors to children was anticipated. For some time p tst strong pressure has been brought to bear on the Government from their own side of the House to induce them not to allow the Bill to proceed, and a great deal has been made of its alleged unpopularity with the working classes. I hear that one or two Unionist members have made special efforts to collate working class views of the measure, and their chief argument against it is that of which Mr Balfour has made the most-that it would permit girls at a dangerous period of their lives to be sent to the public-house, while it proposes to prohibit their younger brothers from running the risk of temptation. This is a good ad captandum argument, and there is reason to believe that the utmost has been made of it in the London constitnencies. On the Liberal side, however, Mr Balfour's version is thought to be a singularly bad and clumsy piece of electioneering tactics. One of the most interesting figures at the great Chistian Endeavour gathering at the Alexandra Palace in July, will be Mr Charles Heber Clark, of Philadelphia, who is better known as Max Adler." He has given up writing humorous books, and is now the editor of the Textile Record. It is one of life's little ironies that this great laughter maker, a man with a world-wide reputation as a humorist, should sit in a third-floor office in an old-fashioned house in Walnut-street, Philadelphia, and write dull editorials on the protective tariff, pig iron, and the currency. He is a staunch teetotaller. He lives in the country, at Conshohocken, where he is at the head of a great firm of manufacturing chemists. If you want to please him you must abstain from any reference to his Max Adler" books-he thinks very little of them, and will never write any more. He is engaged in quiet religions work. He it a good preacher, and he is greatly interested in the Christian Endeavour movement, hence his visit to England next month. The death of Admiral Maxse is a kind of landmark in the story of the decline of the old Radicalism. That the hero of "Beauchamp's Career," the friend of Charles Bradlaugh and George Odger, the old Re- publican and Radical candididate, should have necome a fiery enemy of all that modern Liberalism has come to mean is indeed one of the puzzles of our politics. The most sincere, the most impetuous, the roost loyal of men, Admiral Maxse parted from some friends of his youth with warmth, but not with all. The most distinguished of them, Mr George Mere- dith, has gone on in the paths which Admiral Maxse could not any longer tread, but the personal tie remained as firm as ever. Fred was always Mr Meredith's name for the Admiral. On the Tnrco- Greek War and the Armenian agitation Admiral Maxse felt and expressed nothing but dislike of the anti-Turkish movements in this coun- try. He did so with his invairable frankness and fotce. He was a man singularly cap- able of attracting aud retaining affection, for as was his ardour of speech, so was his warmth of heart. One effect of the war which has all along been foreseen is the subject of bitter comment in Ietteis from South Africa. That is, the alienation of feeling between the soldiers and the English colonists. I am afraid that hatred oa one side and contempt on the other is not too strong a term to use concerning many incidents and developments in the relations between these two classes. The colonist bitterly resents the way in which he has b3en set aside, not always, perhaps, in the most considerate fashion, by officers of the regular army. The soldier, on the other hand, while be has no social sympathy with the type of man he has met in Cape Colony and Natal, does not understand or sympathise with the vehement race-hatred that runs like poison through South African Society. To many soldiers the Boer is an enemy of address and courage the colonist speaks of him as of a mad dog. An indirect effect of this feeling is that feather-headed schemes like those of Mr Arnold-Forster for settling the two Dutch States with semi-military colonists on the Roman pattern have broken down before they are well on foot. The soldiers will not stay. They hate the country where they have seen so many hardships they long to be home again. They sigh for London as Mr Kipling's soldiers sighed for Chelsea Barracks. I think the House to-day (Monday) woke up for the first time to the realities of the situation in China. Civilisation," said a politician, is blind and deaf," and certainly the blazing Chinese nationalism has caught it unawares. So far as policy is concerned, the shock has been to the good. We hear less of frantic counsels for upsetting the fabric of Chinese government—less, in fact. of the kind of talk that led to the South African war. Even the fatnou6 press that led us into that all-but-acknow- ledged calamity now warns Lord Salisbury against rushing into a Chinese war. But what is our un- happy Premier to do ? London is now hourly expecting to hear the news of the loss of Admiral Seymour's force. Men speak of it as almost a certainty. And afterwards ? No conception of a clear English policy exists. Are we to invade the Yangtse Valley ? Are we to penetrate, with un- certain allies, into the vast untrodden interior of China? Is the West to join in a new anti-Eastern crusade-a West without faith and without power of cohesion? As a shrewd statesman put it to me to- night-" It is not a case of civilisation against barbarism, it is a case of one kind of civilisation against another kind of whose power and inner virtue it is entirely ignorant." One hopes that these alarming notions may receive a check in the news that we are awaiting. At present the one certitude of the Chinese situation is that it has to-day at least killed the prospect of a general election this year.
THE PROFITS ON CHESTER RACES.
THE PROFITS ON CHESTER RACES. The annual report of the directors of the Chester Race Company, Limited, which has just been issued, states that the expenditure on the cipital account up to 31st December, 1899, amounted to X12,858 8s. 7d., or £ 2,883 8s. 7d. in excess of the paid-up capitai, EI,883 Ss. 7d. of which had been provided by the reserve fund. The gross receipts for the year were iEl3 314 5s. 4d., as against iEll,553 in the previous year. S4,309 13s. lOd. of the racing fund had been trans- ferred to the rebuilding fund, leaving t2,000 to credit as arranged under the agreement for the new lease. A further sum of jE513 12s.Gd. had been added thare- to, being the surplus of the 1899 meeting. The profit for the year-namely, 13,336 03. lOd.—had been trans- ferredjto the net revenue account, and added to the balance brought forward from last year amounted to E3,449 15a. lid., out of which the maximum dividend of 10 per cent. had been paid, The division of profits under the new arrangement with the corporation had worked out favourably. The corporation had received nearly S350 more rent than it would have done under the old lease. The racing account showed a satisfadtory surplus for the year, and the directors had been able to make a substantial provision out of revenue account towards the payment of over-spent capital and the creation of a rebuilding fund, which now amounted f 10,000. The new stands had giveu almost general satisfaction. The directors deplored the loss the company had -sustained by the lamented death of their chairman, the late Duke of Westminster, K.G., whose interest in the welfare of the comqany and the snccess of the Chester Race Meeting was much appreciated by the shaaeholdere of the company and the citezens generally.
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- WHEAT RISES. I
WHEAT RISES. A.t Sp Idiot; c rn n:arket on Tu. i-iv the wheit i; t ie was excit i, aud there was a ii=o j >i ;ea of 2s to 3-1 on tne Week, samples cUaugiug nan is at 31-1 and 32s per quarter. This mikes a rise iu price of 6s per quarter in three weeks. Farmers having stocks, however, were disinclined to sell, believing that prices will go higher. The advance is attributed to reports of the failure of the American crop.
LANCASHIRE CHEESE. I
LANCASHIRE CHEESE. I Cheshire is the cheese county of the north par excellence, of conrse bnt Lancashire cheese nas evidently its grom army of petrous. At the Preston cheese fair on Tuesday it is reported that there was a very brisk demand lor the produce brought in by the farmers of the neighbourhood, and while the common sorts fetched from 373 61 to 42 i 61, medium sold at from 453 to 503 6d, and the best reached 52s 6d to 57s.
I HAYMAKING PROSPECTS.
I HAYMAKING PROSPECTS. The hay har/est has commenced, end providing we are favoured with a succession of sunny days the crop generally will be very satisfactory. This is the general conclusion arrived at from reports which the Daily Mail has obtained from its correspondents in twenty-seven English counties. The great nnjoritv of these reports testify to the excellence of the pro- spects. The spring was late, and there was a long spell of dry weather, which tended LO thin the grass, but the rains of the last few weeks have come in time to effect a welcome change, and in most districts the harvest will be above the Average in quality and quantity. The least favoured dis;ricts are Bark-ih rt\ wo; tnarnptonshire, and Lincolnshire. 1.1 North Bucks, Suffolk, Staffs., aud \v orcestershire the crop will be below the average. Exceedingly good sums up the prospects in Ireland.
TfiE OUFLOOK. I
TfiE OUFLOOK. I The Mark-lane Express says The weather has been of a very broken character, and the markets have taken alarm. The English, French, and American wheat crops are stated to be in jeopardy, and with only 2,055,( )0 q ;S, of wheat on passage holders of grain actually in warehouse have been able to make a very firm stand. All sample3 of wheat are held for a shilling advance on the week and there is a rise of three shillings in top price flour, an improvement echoed by a shilling rise in the ordinary kinds. The situation from the middle of May to the middle of June warcanted priced Is to 2s higher than actually prevaled, and this was indicated week by week in this colamn but the market, as nsual, passed suddenly from inertia to something like excitement. The causes setting buyers in motion had to accumulate. The fear to-day is that exaggeration may spoil a legitimate advance. English wheat will not nearly equil the crop of 1899. French wheat will not nearly equal the crop of 1899 but these statements become false when put as though they meant that England ttad France iu 19C) would have very poor wheat crops. If England yields C 1,000,000 bushels and France bushels, the production will not have dropped below au average of 350,000,COO buahels for the two countries. All the same, it will be a notable change from the 424,C bushels of Anglo-French production in 1899. Passing to tne American promise, a ctble shown us on the 16th iustant stated that the erop in Dakota would be only half that of last year, and to this rumour we referred in our issue of the 18th. On the 19th and 20th further cables received by leadiug houses spoke of the ioor promise of the spring wheat in Minnesota, Manitoba, Wisconsin, and Missouri andiConlirtned reports as to Dakota. A miller's cabled ingairy was answered, Spring wheat crop probaly 60 per cent of last year. But the winter wheat crop seems to be a good yeald, and spring wheat has still six weeks in which to recover itself. The rise of wheat in America is 3s to 43 per qr, according to the market. The visible supply in the Eastern States is 5,520.000 qra., however, against only 3,5C ),(T3 qra. a year ago, so that the rise will be more difficult to support in the proportion of 5 to 3. The present terms are cabled at 32s for No. 2 red winter wheat and 303 9J for No. 1 Northern spring. London will not pay more than 33s for the latter and 32s for the former, so that there is no margin left to pay for ship- ments of the one, and ab3olutsly no difference at all in the case of the other kind. The price of33s for No. 1 Northern is above the idedo of spjt buyers, as it is and must be called a speculative quotation.
CULTIVATION OF GRASS AND LIVE…
CULTIVATION OF GRASS AND LIVE STOCK. A correspondent, "T.C.S. writing to the Agri- i cultural Gazette, says :—The President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Welbeck Agricultural Show ou June 5 th, stated that "our present land system had grown up by slow degrees, and had pro- duced to-day the most independent, the most intel- ligent, and the mpst advanced class of agriculturists in the world." Holding this opinion, Mr Walter Long naturally concludes that the less Parliament had to do with agriculture the better for agriculture." How, then, does it come about that Parliament is invited by the Agricultural Holdings Bill, under the conduct of the President of the Board of Agriculture, to employ itself in drawing up a schedule of improve- ments, to which the consent of the landlord is required before any claim for compensation can be entertained ? Surely it has always been competent for landlords and tenants to enter into contracts to carry out perfectly legitimate acts without the express consent of Parliament. Mr Long freely acknowledges that a tenant is entitled to compensa- tion for improvements which add to the letting value of land. But when he places in a schedule which requires previous consent in writing of the landlord a certain number of improvements, he places them in an Index Expnrgatorius which actually pro- hibits the tenant from carrying them out. Prohibi- tion by Parliament against laying down to grass is, as the Bill is now drawn, a distinct inceutlve to exhaustive farming under the four-course system of agriculture. If the Bill passes in its present shape no compensation can legally be awarded, even for two years' seeds. Unless common sense on the part of landlord and tenantat at the conclusion of a ten- ancy is powerful enough to abrogate Parliamentary action, all land scheduled arable must remain arable without even the help which is afforded by the rest of two years'seeds. It has been my privilege to act under Mr Lipscombe duriug his Chairmanship of the Committee of the Central Chamber of Agriculture. To myself it will be as great a blow as to him to tind that Parliament taboos the cultivation of grass in favour of the cultivation of corn. 1'h", independence and intelligence which Mr Walter Long very properly ascribes to our British farmers have year after year been shown in restricting the cultivation of arable land and in improving the cultivation of grass. The latter is recuperative and the former is exhaustive husbandry. In the agricultural returns for Great Britain, just issued, Major P. G. Craigie gives the authority of our Board of Agriculture to the recogni- tion of the independence and intelligence which have for a quarter of a century been applied to the cultiva- tion ot grass. He says that ever since the year 1872, the extent of land under the plough has pro-I gressively declined, with only three shght checks." And at the conclusion of his most valuable and interesting report, Major Craigie tells us something of the tffect which the cultivation of grass has had on our live stock. We all know how progressive is the increase of the population of Great Britain. We do not all know equally well how progressive has been the increase of British cattle during the last few years. In 1895, the proportion of cows to 1,000 persons was as 72, and of other cattle 112. In 1899, notwithstanding the increase of human beings, the increase of cattle had gone on at such a rate that we have 74 cows and 115 other cattle to 1,000 persons. Again, Major Craigie points out that the cattle of this country are now more numerous in proportion to area then any in Europe, the much smaller herds of Holland, Belgium, and Denmark only excepted." During the past thirty years Great Britain has in- creased her cattle by 23 per cent., Holland and Belgium by 13 or 14, and Denmark by 40 per cent. Thirty years ago, when I was much engaged in the work of laying down old tilled land to grass, the slowness of the work of recuperation was brought home to me. Whoever undertakes the work of conversion of old tilled land into permanent pasture is reminded of the truth of the old saying, To make turf will break a man to break turf will make a man." Happily, the work of recuperation goes on more quickly after land has been laid down to grass for a lengthened period than it does in the first years after laying down. Hence it comes about that the work of conversion of arable land into grass, which, as Major Craigie points out, began in 1872, is now showing its fruits in the increase of our cattle. We had to endure some reproach because during the un- remunerative period which inevitably follows laying down to grass there was a decrease in live stock. We are now reaping what was sown years ago. We shall not lose what comes to us after many days, unless we again resort to the plough. Before Parlia- ment definitely pledges itself to forbid compensation for the unexhausted improvement of laying down to permanent pasture, Parliament ought to direct an inquiry as to how and by whom the work of con- version of arable land into grass since 1872 has been done. The Board of Agriculture has given us the official information of the number of acres formerly occupied as arable land, and now scheduled as per- manent pasture. The work has been done either by landlord or tenant, or by the two combined. The Board tells us, year by year, how many acres of British land are occupied by owners, and how may are let to tenants. I am quite aware that mTich land formerly arable has beeu laid down to grass by owners, who now have a perfect right to schedule such lands in their agreements as permanent pasture But if the House of Commons will order a return to be made which will show by what means the large reduction in our arable area "has been brought about, we shall know how much of the good work has been done by landlords, and how much by tenants. We all grant that the work itself is good, and Mnjor Craigie does well in pointing out that the increase in our cattle consequent on that work is a subject of congratulation. When Parliament knows all about I it, Parliament will enact according to the motto, Palmam qui meruit ferat.
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Correspondence.
Correspondence. WREXHAM FAIRS. Mr David Edwards, 25, Hampton-street, Newington Butts, London, S.E., writes If I remember at one time when the fairs were held in Wrexham, were there not bashes of ivy and holly placed over the doors of private houses 2" -The question is not quite as clear as we could have wished, but Mr E. M. Jones, to whom the question has been referred, says Yes, during the fair. It wag discontinued when the town was incorporated." Perhaps other readers will have farther information to give. We should be glad to receive it. THE NORTH WALES PERMANENT RELIEF SOCIETY. I SIR,-I wish to make a few remarks in reply to Mr ) Nathaniel R. Griffith's letter in your last issue. I can assure you that I would be the last peraon to say anything unkind or unfair about the lessors of minerals in this district, who have contributed more to this Society than lessors in other districts to their funds. I have in the past admired their liberality, and I sincerely hope that that sympathy with the needy which has characterised them will be again extended in the future. What I said about the lessors was correctly reported in your paper—'• I knew of no reason whatever why the lessors should withold their support. Whatever obligation was upon them in the past, there was exactly the same obligation to-day." I still maintain what I said, and for my life I cannot see a word which has a tendency to be most unfair" to the lessors. At all events I had no intention of being so. Mr Griffith says Some of the lessors, however, continue to subscribe to tho funds of the Society." The action of those lessors in continuing to subscribe to the funds confirms what I said, and they are prompted by a desire and sense of honour to do in the present as they have done in the past. He also arrives at the conclusion that the lessors are now only to contribute one half of nothing—but there is not very much honour in such a deed. No one has done more and taken more interest in the welfare of this Society than MrN. R. Griffith has, and especially in the cases of widows and orphans of the men who have lost their lives down in the bowels of the earth. I hope he will take the same interest in the future, and that he and the other honorary members of the Board of Management will appeal in the strongest possible manner to the lesbors to contribute 12; per cent. to the Society, that has been such a olessiog to hundreds of permanent dis- abled fellow-workmen and widows and orphans in North Wales.—I remain, yours faithfully, IHOMAS WILLIAMS. Bryn Coch, Tan-y-vron, June 27th, 1900.
THE" BLUE BOOK" OF THE WREXHAM…
THE" BLUE BOOK" OF THE WREXHAM UNION. The "Blue Book" of the Wrexham Union for 1900 and 1901. was presented by the Clerk. Mr J. Oswell Bury, at Thursday's meeting of the Board of Guardians, and the volume (published by Measra Bayley and Bradley, Ltd., Wrexham), shows the same painstaking work of the Clerk aa that which has characterised former editions. The book con- tains forty-six pages of letter-press mitter, and its coatents are much the same in arrangement as in previous years. One now feature, we believe, is the inclusion of a list of overseers of the poor. The concents include lists of guardians, committees, medical officers, assistant overseers, and union officers. The arrangements for out-relief are given the t.hill and fircwoo l accounts, a statement showing the total amount of out-relief glv.-u in e^icn year from 1883 to 1900, and for in-maintenance during cue same period particulars as to registration, school attend- ance a return of the births and deaths, and one of the number of vagrants relieved in the county ot Den- bigh during the past ten years the present rateable and assessable value of the parishes c jm prising the Wrexham Union the abstract of the annual poor rate return of the Wrexham Union for the past year; the census of 1891; the Wrexham Union report for the year ended Lady-Day, 1899, and a statement of accounts for the pJdt year of the Brabazon Employ- ment Society. Some very useful comparisons can be made from a glance at the various statistics in the book. In the year 1883 the oat-relief amounted to E6,730 9s lid, aB compared with £ 6.200 3s 7d for last year. The numbers of oat-Ltuur paupers represented in these sums are 4,491 and 3,218 respectively. Toe cost of in-maintenance of 1,111 paupers in 1883 was SZ,792 16s 3d, as compared with C3,418 7s 10id for 948 during last year. From 1892 the population IB estimated to have risen from 63,000 to 71,000, the birth-rate per 1,000 to have decreased from 34'38 to 33 73, and the death-rate also to have decreased from 2146 to 19-22. All this, of conrse, is satisfactory reading. The number of vagrants relieved in 1890 was 5,942, and la.-jt year it was 5,887. The highest number was attained in 1894, wh-n is was 10,821. The present rateable value of the uniou is zE259,730, as compared with iE235,895 in 1885. We append extracts from the report for the year ended Lady- day, 1900 :—" The total expenditure of the Board of Guardians duriug the past year amounted to X22,397 6s Od, being a decrease of X378 163 3d as compared with the previous year. The out-relief expenditure shows au increase of EI53 as compared with the previous year. The number of out-door paupers relieved was 3,218, being a decrease of 110 as compared with the number relieved in the year ended Lidy-day, 1899. The statistics are given in the last comparative statement of paupjrism punnshea by iL F. T. Bircham, Local Government Board Inspector, viz.:— Wrexham Union Population in 1891, 61,795 ratio per cent. of pauperism to population, 2-4 cost per head of population, 33 Oid. During the past year 80 objections were heard by the Assessment Committee. In 50 cases the assessments were reduced, in two cases they were increased, and the remaining 28 were confirmed. 24. supplemental and 12 substitutional valuation lists were sent in to the committee, and returned to the overseers approved. 2 new valuation lists have been ordered by the committee. The rate- able value of the Union has increased from iE256,509 at Lady Day, 1899, to £ 259,730 at Lady Day, 1900. The assessable value has increased from £ 231.573 LO zE234,750 during the year. The amount of espouses (including the clerk's remuneration) incurred by the com- mittee, and paid by the Board of Guardians, during the past year, was X172 lis ^Od. The number of inmates at the beginning of the yer was. 272 Admitted during the year 657 Born. 8 Total number of admissions 665 Number discharged during the year 601 Died. 50 Total numbeurof discharges 651 Remaining in the hou-e at the end of the year 286 The daily average number in the house 265 The highest number any day (23rd February, 1900 1. 311 The lowest number any day (2nd July, 1899) 232 NOTE.—Temporary leave of absence is granted to well-conducted inmates, especially to the oid people, and acts beneficially in maintaining the discipline of the house. The religious denominations to which the paupers belong are, according to the Workhouse Creed Register, as follow :-Church of England, 150 Roman Catholics, 46; Baptists, 25 Wesleyans, 23 Presbyterians, 15 Methodists, 15 Salvationists, 2 Calvinistic Methodists, 5 Independents, 3 Congre- gationalists, 2 total, 286. Number of vagrants relieved 1900-men, 2,870 women, 453 children, 81 total, 3,4C1. The number of children in the school at Lady Day, 1903, was 53, viz., 27 boys and 26 girls, including infants as compared with 39, viz., 19 boys and 20 girls and infants, at the corresponding period last year. About 9 boys and a similar num- Der of girls receive industrial training—including gardening and carpentry for the boys—which is imparted by the teachers. The schools are periodically visited and the children catechised by the chaplain, and on the 21st June, 1899, were examined by H.M. Inspector, J. R. Moalev, Esq. The followiug is a copy of his report The children passed a good examination." During the year 3 girls and 1 boy have been sent to service. The work in which most of the men are engaged is wood chopping and farming. During the winter months, when the demand for firewood u gre.it, all the men available are employed in the wood sheds but during the spring and summer months many of them are at work on the land. About sixof the most infirm are kept partially at work in paring potatoes for the use of the house, the weight consumed being about 15 cwt. per week at the present time. About twenty-six are kept at the firewood and farming, while nine of the most capable are employed as wardsmen or helpers, in attending to the wants of the sick and infirm, and in the domestic arrange- ments of the male sick wards. The wardsmen act under the supervision of the nurses. Four inmates are employed in the tailors' and shoemakers' shops here they mend and keep in repair the whole of the mens' and boys' clothing as well as the boots and shoes of the inmates, in addition to the makine of many new articles of clothing. One is employed in the bakehouse, two are engaged with the steam boilers, about four in the kitchen garden, and ten others in the yard and offices about the house. These men include many of the imoeciles of the establish ment, while the greater number of the rest are of such ages and so infirm as to render it impossible for them to earn for themselves a living out of the house. Stone-breaking is sometimes applied, when onnor tnmty anaea, as a supplementary labour-teat The cleaning of the h0nS and genera.! ??? work£ wilth the help required in th?a?k dT? ward. take a large am.unt of fem-de Kbonr « the a?e-bodted women when not otherwmJ '? are employed in the wa.hhoaaea and lau agc which is, without doubt, the most laborious ndrds, agreeable work in the establishment The! i h e Is a. so a sewing room where are employed four s?M)er?Jy women, and where are also made and Y whole of the waring apparel and buddl'ng  the whole of the wearing apparel?nd b?Sin??°°?? with the house, with the exception f m^.a «p.ired in the tail?? ?., °? ? sha artklc e chops.. eri> the wS the pMt year services have b"° held m the Workhouse chapel twse? rv i ? cea ? h L?? held in the oir.?l.-house chapel t wice on Sanday,,tnorilin, and evening, and on Tharsda? ???Ks. Th? chaplain officiates on Sunday orninnIn?s. !he services on Sunday and Ttrur?°''°'°? ?"s other conducted by the ministers an? l??'? being denominations of the district. IQ ??° °? ?s varioaa services, frequent visits are made «n °U the ab°ve ?re given during the waere ?ma? ?'°" ? ?e above ??BeB are given during the week by th ?""?P'?'.n ?Ud ? the curates of Wrexham 216 an? ?aplll.m "Llid in the past year. On Snday afteC VISits were p&id Bible Class is held b?ad ?????S Q°? eighbon?ood, who kindly attend.  In January of 1893, the t> system of employment amount the old iZ3D 9ystem of Qnable to work in the ? old?  ?" ??em of unable to work in the house aHd '??''? inmates nnable to work in the ha?oa Wl\ orgaU18ed by Mr. Gnffith-Boscawen, who ,,? ts asT h 0rary secretary, .nd aasiited by severalladiesB.e honorarv secKt?y, Md aagt.ted by several ladie?'?,° ??'?? 'Y uader.ake to m.tract the old people nce ? '?? ?M 1 j *° "tract the it hM WOrked very ,tisfactoril). j
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