Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

COMBINATION. WREXuAM v. BUCKLEY. xl: tii played their first combination match of thj .-c.pjii on Saturday, when Buckley were the Visitor- to the Racecourse. The afternoon was very and there was a fair "gate." Quite a large nuiuhtf cf ihose present were cyclists, and there was of iiiachines near the entreuce to the t-id. Ijiurkley's visit was of speciiil interest, because tfctir team included two Wrexhaiiiites-Beu Lewis "LQ A'i. Williams. Tht: teaina lined out in thefollow- order :— L, Wex.i:i>n Evans, goal Pounfney and Davies, Potts, Kohinson, aud Harrison, halves; • TL', <iri l'ifths.Jones, Owen, a-nd Gordon, for- wards. NN. J?il, goal; D. Matbias md Lewis, vV. Lig"htfoot, \V. Jones, G. Hamphreya, ?'\ ljivies, Kyffin, Brookes, Ben. Lewis, and Alf. t'n- farwarfls. Ar 11 1. Gough, of Oswestry, waa the referee. '•cxiiau: started the ball and were first to become 4g<icssive. Lranberg and Griffiths got away, bntwere puiltd tip by the visitors' defence. After the ball had ?'d ?!t- h?)f-way line, the homesters renewed the ¡¡,k. j L I D 1 I..d ?' ?, ?t-j Lewis c eared. e:J!l tory play in '?'d- ^-»i loi:vtu, but at length the left wing got posaes- .J r. d G" n ?:i. PLd Goidon experienced hard lines. After this c b.?i hovered about the Buckley citadel, bat at ?sm? \"tut outaine. Harrison put in some good an.biint;, .i.nd p?s?ec. to Lnmberg, who ceDtred. The ?MUfjrL. bo?hver was weak, and the Hackley ac;.s ?'r?i. ihe visitors thGntav?ded the home territory, Jtid the Wrexham defence was called upon for the ? I'mL after ten minutes' play. Directly after- I'-atus Lvam had to throw away, and the back, "?-f-rr?d the b?t) well up the field. This little daah I.t tile -t f u kl. 'I' I' t ? ?c Pl-rE of va!: ey impctted iiltt?c more Iiie mto !?"!L Which hitherto had bee n somdwhat s!ow. ?'JHj).i phy ascended At i?uRLh D?vie? got away "e-?tefor?uckley, but shot ra9bly when he If ? p?s-ibie choice. A little later, from ? free f I)u I, Jones headed over the croaa-b&r for "r(;"1J I 'j'h J '1'htit was after about twelve minutes' I1- and afterwards the sphere was quickly trans- c[k J t V K ill 'I d ??? J':wa to the Wrexham end, but Kyala spoiled C%iy OpPorLtInity by kick''n, a gr6at deal too f,„^ aua.iu bacams slow, and ?rexham .n,' IU' th' d ?. ?'at; imo their opponents' quarters, ? g'?od centre L piacect over the bar by Gr)fBtha. The III 1., I. f 1 ,?' k' however, still had tbe best of the game, ? L.?rdoQ c?Ued upon Ball to amv?-, which he CI ,tl." X f t' h the ex pense of a corner, by reaching out with ?? t'p? of his tiagere. ?. fLer twenty minntea Owens -ft. db'" -J tr through lJicey. A little Jter, at the other _?' 1,r?,,?k, Was robbed wbea in a pr,?Lty position. j?-?'?fv.ardstbe Buckley centre-forward shot a '-4 C t. .'? 1° high. Play was very quickly transferred to Dt er end, and Owen, w?o might have shot, passed to Lumberg, who pltr-sd outside. Whilst Wrexham were m*ii>i-<ining an Hggressivn attitude, Gjrdon placed lh--o.it.;h fro :t el izid quarters. Buckley put a little more vigour int., ne g-une after this, but a foul against Mv.hia-i r.^a.if in Wrexham being awarded a penalty kick. This waa taken by Jones, and a third goal resulted after thirty-five minutes' operations. The same player was at fault a couple of minutes later, ttud Wrexham were awarded a free-kick. Jones was racing away in fine style when he was tripped, and fro:n tho free-kick Owen shot right across thp goal-mouth. Play was of an even character np to the interval, when the score was:- I WREXHAM 3 I- BeCKLEY. 0 Wrexham assumed an aggressive attitude agiin on resumption, although neither side showed as good football as in the first instalment. The homesters had a near shave a couple of minutes from the start, Ball having to save Three corners followed in quick succession, bat all were futile. Sarne dribbling on the part of Harrison was the next conspicuous feature, and a corner accrued, which was fruitless. Griffiths afterwards hit the net post with a clinking snot, bat the leather being taken to the other end, Brock s made a creditable effort, but lacked anpport Kor some few minntes the Buckley forwards tried to penetrate the Wrexham defence, but Evana and Ponntney did good service, and a determined attack ensued by the home quintette. The shooting was we.ik and inaccurate. After thirty minutes' opara- t;ons Ball stopped a good shot, a-ad Robinson missed by a few inches five minutes later. Gordon next made a rush for the Buckley citadel, but he was too hard pressed to get in his shot. End-to-end play followed, and when the whistle went for time the score was the same as at half-time. na.mely- WnEXHA:\I 3 BUCKLEY. 0 OSWESTRY UNITED v. HUDSON'S (LIVERPOOL.) This match was played at Oswestry on Saturday. From the centre kick, the United made immediately tor the visitors' goal, Parry and Watkins almost scoring in the first minute. Smart work by the home forwards confined operations to the visitors' territory for a short time' Hudson's at length got away, and were placed iu a more favourable position, tlocvevar, the foul and corner were got away, and a speedy run by Parry changed the venne, but the succeeding efforts met with little success. A fruitless corner fol- lowed. and after about ten minutes' play Watkin landed the ball in the net. Smart work by George Richards and Evans gave Hammond and Gooderich nice openings, and the latter skimmed the bar with a beautiful shot. Quinn and Telfor, by good combina- tion, placed the visitors in a more favourable position, but failing to maintain it, Watkins raced away, aud again beat Cunningham with a beauty. Aided by a couple of free kicks, Hudson's got unpleasantly asar Tracey, but, thanks to Edwards and Butterton, his services were not required. Quinn, Telfor, and Lloyd were again in evidence, but were pulled up. Quiun again broke away, and being robbed by Edwards, pressure was brought to bear on the visitors' goal by Parry, Gooderich, and Davies. After Ferris had failed to defeat Tracey, Watkins took a pass from Parry, and beat Cunningham for a third time. Nearing the interval Lloyd looked like scoring for Hudson's, but Tracey saved finely, and instantly the ball was at the other end, where Gladstone Davies puzzled the visitors' custodian with one just under the bar, which he fortunately got away, and immediately the interval arrived with the score at three to none in favour of the home eleven. Resuming, the exchanges were pretty even for some time. Eventually, Oswestry were awarded a corner, from which Hammond increased the total to four, j Repeated attacks were made on the visitors' goal, and after a number of interesting scrimmages had taken place, Watkins beat Quinn, who had taken Cunningham's place, for a fifth time. Good work by the Oswestry half-backs-Richards, Evans,, arid -Butterton-iiiacle it difficult for Hudson's to get away, and consequently they only rarely became dangerous. On the other hc.nd, the United were con- tinually on the aggressive, and before the final whistle blew Watkius increased the score to six, the final score being— j OSWESTRY 6 Goals. None. I The teams were:- I Oswestry Goal, J. Tracey backs, J. Edwards and B. Watkins half-backs, G. Richards, H. Evaus, and Butterton right wing, G. Davies and Ha:n- monds left wing, T. Parry and H. Gooderich centre, M. Watkins. Hudson's Goal, Cunningham backs, McFarlane and Ledger half-backs, Askin, Marr, and Ferris right wing, Quinn and Telfor left wing. Crook centre, Lluyd- Referee, Mr F. Evans, Wrexham. Linesmen, Messrs Smoult, Liverpool, and H. Roberts, 03westry. NEWTOX-LE-WILLOWS v. TEAXMERE ROVERS. Played at Xewton-le-Willovvs on Saturday. A very even game was witnessed, and in the first half neither side could Ecore. In the second half, the Rovers, j scored a goal, Newton replying with goals scored by Butler and Houghton, the result being—Newton-le- Willows, 2 goals Tranmere Hovera. 1 goal. BASGOU v. WHITE SltR WAXDEHERS.—Played at Bangor on Saturdav. Three minutes from the start R. Jones scored for Bangor, and a few minutes later a penalty kick fell to the Welshmen, bat this was not improved upon. At half-time, Bangor led by one goal to none. In the last half Bangor sot through once again, aud the result wai-Bangor, 2 gOlds; White Star Wanderers, none.

BIRMINGHAM AND DISTRICT LEAGUE. DRUIDS v. STOKB RESERVE. Played in Wynnstay Park before a large gate. The weather was very warm for football, but it a most determined and well contested struggle from beginning to end. The homesters were the first to show up, and in three minutes from the start one of the best chances of the game was lost, through no less than five Druid players miasing their kick from a beautiful pass by.Ephraim. Butler shot too h'gha mo- ment later. Eccles was a masterpiece in himself, and laved time after time. From a free kick Stoke made I headway by the right wing, but was checkmated by Price, and Mates and Ephraim Williams were responsible for an awkward rush. Mates from a free kick shot into the net untouched. Ephriam misled by inches, and Lockley headed over. From a splendid run on the visitors' right wing, Whitehonse, although ■ the goal was at his mercy, missed his mttrlc and shot wide. From a fine combined rush by Stoke, Harris made u splendid pass, but J. E. Willinma robbed Lockett in time. The home half-backs were playing a sterling game, stopping all combination of the visitors' forwards. Mates initiated a run anil made a pass to Benson who shot in, and Ephriam making no mistake gave Carlage no chance whatever, and put the Druids in the lead. A corner for the visitors proved abortive, and shortly afterwards, Benson shot over at the other end. After a fruitless corner aud i fret: kick for Stoke, the Druids' right made a success- ful ra!?h, but Ephriam shot hign. Ca.rt!e?e made ? marvellous save of a deadly shot by Lockley. Un- donbtedly the homesters pressed from this to the interval, as several corners fell to their lot, and bhots i from all quarters rained in, and it must be credited to the superb defence of Stoke that no further scoring resulted. Half-time read, Druids one goal, Stoke nil. From the re-start it was evident from the pace" the visitors meant business, and the play was con- fined in the Druids' quarters for a considerable period, j From a combined rnsh Whitehouse equalised. The reverse somewhat aroused the homesters, and two corners fell to their lot. Shortly afterwards W. Davies tried a long shot which went wide. After Harris bad missed a splendid opening, Benson at the other shot wide. The half-backs of the visitors showed excel- lent football, and Holford with a screw shot put Stoke ahead. In epite of this the ancients forced the game, and Ephraim gave Lockett some trouble to ntgociate his shot. Postle at the other end saved in brilliant style. Eccles shot outside, and Price placed the ball so accurately that it fell in the centre of the goal and it was rushed, but the referee decided it had been outside the line. In a. moment later Ephraim shot in, and in rebound from the goalkeeper, Benson shot into the net, but again the referee i refused to allow the goal on the plea of time. His decisions on these two goals gave great dissatis- faction to the large crowd. Final r,sult-S,.oke two goals Druids one goal. The following were the team-i :— Druids—Goal, Postle; backs, C. Thomas, and J. E. Williams; half-backs, Price, nlatei, and T. Davies right wing, Benson and W. Butler left wing, Ephraim Williams and Walter Davies; centre, Lockley. Stoke-Goal, Cartlege; backs, Eccles and Hood; half-backs, Bowman, iloidford, and Baddeley right wing, Whittaker and Whitehouse left wing, Harris and Jones; centre, Lockett. Referee, Mr Cartel, of Chester. RESULTS OF OTHER MATCHES. Ironbridge 1, Brierley Hill 1. Stafford Rangers l, Wellington Tjwn 1. Halesowen 2, Shrewsbury Town 1.

CHESTER AND DISTRICT LEAGUE. DIVISION 1. WREXHAM VICTORIA V. BUCKLEY SWIFTS.—The Vies, opened their season's engagements at Buckley, on Saturday, in gritud weather, and before a fair "gate." Billingiou, the visiting captain, won the toss, and elected to kick nphill in the first half. The game opened quietly, both sidea appearing to suffer trom stiffness, owing to the earliness of the season. Daviea and Williams on the visiting left gradually made headway, and the home goalke3per did well to clear their final effort. Relief was but temporary. however, and the Vies.' forwards swarmed around the home goal, forcing several corners in quick succession, these proving abortive, although excel- lently placed. The Buckley right half was kept exesedingly busy, and although kicking downhill, the home defence was taxed to the ntmout, H. Hughes at back and the custodian playing BDely. A good shot was sent in by the visiting right, one of the home backs fiating out. A penalty kick waa awarded the I Vica., Hesketh being entrusted with this. The goal- keeper, however, saved the shot at the expense of a corner, amidst loud oheers, the corner kick being cleared. A sharp sprint by the home right followed, and a good ground shot only missed the post by I inches. Enlivened by this, the home wings and halves played well, good work being spoiled by poor centre play. The Buckley centre-half lost a Bplendid opportunity of scoring bv tardiness in shooting, he bemg robbed of the ball, and play tr&usferred to the other end by the visiting left, and although the goal- keeper saved the final shot, the visiting centre again secured, and scored first goal for his side. The Vic?;. kept np the presenre, and .J:. Daviea missed by I inches on the l?t. As h?-time drew nearer, the homesters roused tbemaelve3, and Mathias bad to save his charge under difficulties. The score at hail- time stood Wrexham Victoria, 1 goal Buckley J Swifts, nil. Play opened in favour of the Vies. in the second portion, but poor shooting prevented their adding to the score. At thia period of the game the hw .jonlrt not ma.ke headway, the visiting h i >• i ..i 1 n*cks holding them easily in cncck. Afi.' i i in-- scrimmage in the Buckley goal, the bill pi KV 'n the net, but the goal was cl:sallo .veil for 4 ff The visitors were not to be repelled, hvoV- ever. and a good run by the left wing ended in D tvie; sc )riug the second point for the Victoria with a daisy-cutter. They directly afterwards forced a corner, which was followed by another corner, and from this Bryan rushed a third goal. Nothing daunted by their misfortunes, Buckley played np strongly, and they made a raid upon Mo-thias, who was compelled to concede a corner, aud this being splendidly put in froat, the homesters scored their first goal. Tnis rnjeess put new life into the home team, aud they plajvd with great vigour, keeping the The defence w.is not to be caught napping a second time, and play again reverted to the Buckley goal, where F. Williaun was pulled up for eff side when in a splendid p JI tion. Play continued in the home go-il until the finish. and when time was o\lU;d the score sto:; :-Wrex- ham Victoria, 3 goals Buckley Swifts. 1 goal. The Victoria teaai turned out as follows -Goal, W. Mathias bicks, E. Alitti-iews aud -T Davies half- b-ioks, W. Jones, T. J. Smith, and W. Hesketh forwards, B. Lloyd, A. Billington, H. Bryan, J. T. Daviea, and F. Williams. DIVISION II. VV'KEXHAJI Si. GILES'S V. ELLESMEBE PORT CHRIST CIIURCH.—Fresh from their victory at Chester the previous week, St. Gitt s opened their season at home ¡ on Satur.i-:v, when they entertained as visitors Elles- mere Port" The match, which took place at Coedyglvn, started after time, owing to the late arrival of the visitors. Losing the toss, the Saints kicked off down hill. Port rushed on the home citadel, tu" were repelled, and the homesters took up the attack Thev gained a free kick, which was of no avail, but C D ivies and Forkin had good tries. Dickan and Hhoden were safe at ba,C, and play II hovered round the visitors' goal, Foikiu i-naking a splendid attempt to score. The hnIle team came nea.r scoring several times, Dick Hughes shooting hih when in good pos tion. Ellesmere made some headway, bn: on¡d-gain no material advantage, and  the Saints returned to the Rtttck. Give-and-take I play followed, when Hughes ran by himself throngh I several opponents, and experienced hard lines in not scoring. The'work by W. Davies at half was very conspicuous, for he was continually in the thick of the fray. After McHale had missed a. golden oppor- tunitv, Forkin scored the first goal from a pass by W. Davies. Immediately afterwards Rogers hitd a good try, following which the viiitors made tracks for the home goal, and were awarded hands near the penalty line. It was not of much service to them, for the Saints rushed to the other end, and from a scrimmage McHale secured goal No. 2. Ellesmere afterwards m -.de their best attack of the afternoon, "od vigorously tried to pierce the home defence. They did not succeed, however, and from a corner Rogers scored a third, and C. Dwies added a fourth. Hard shuts-were also sent in by M'ilaleand Hughes, but the visiting custodian showed good form under heavy pressure. lialf-time arrived with the scare-St. Giles, four; Ellesmere Port, none. Port made a good re-start downhill, but it was only temporary, tor very soon Rogers scored a clever goal for St Giles. M'Hale aud Forkin did good woik together, but did not score. Play beea.me a little more even, the visitors gaining two corners which they did not improve upon. With the score so heavy, play became monotonous, iuterest having vanished. M'Hale scored a grand goal, and nearly repeated the feat a minute later. Dick Hughes tried hard but could not manage a goal for himgelf. The visitors played good individual football, but they must combiue more if they wish for succes?. The backs are safe, ba: must not ramble even if their goalkeeper has nothing to do. The halves tackled and worked hard, but require to follow up their forwards more. The right wing was fed more than the left, and constquently was more I prominent. The centre-forward is a trier, but does not keep his place. The losers did not show any- great form, for they seemed entirely disjointed. The heavy score against them might have affected their play in some degree, but at best they were disappoint- iog. Final-t. Giles, six Ellesmere Port, none.

WREXHAM AND DISTRICT JUNIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE. The first match of the season in connection with the above League took place on Saturday last, when Erddig VlctoritJo met Newtown, before a good number of spectators, cn ihs grouud of the former. The Victoria won the toss, and a very exciting game followed, ending in a victorv for Newtown by four goals to two. Referee, Mr Charles Roberts.

ACCIDENT. On Saturday afternoon an accident happened at a football match at Rhyl. While engaged in a frieadly Sims against Rhyl United, J. Rowland, centre-for- ward for the Holyheid team, fell while shooting for goal and dislocated hi-i shoulder. He was removed off the field and sent to a doctor.

CRICKET. HOLD CRICKET CLUB. I I 1ST ELEVEX AVERAGES FOK SEASON 1300. Matches played 2t won 9 drawn 5 Lost 10. Mold scorel 1,998 runs, 143 extras for 232 wickets. Opponents sCjred l,dJ2 runs, 192 extras for 233 wickets. Most Xot in Total Batticg. Inns. out. Inns. runs. Av'r. D. E. Lewis. 18 3 10 203 13.53 £<lw.trc. JuliC,; 19 1 67 242 15.44 Krank Hurst 22 0 26 231 10.53 Ivor H. Evay)s 18 1 26 169 9.94 H. L.KatchIIe. 18 3 28' 143 9.53 A. M. -North 15 0 43 142 9.46 A. W. 21 1 31 130 6.50 J. B. M?tuii. 18 4 17 67 4.78 J.?l.Lowsby 13 2 15 41 3.73 Tiic foregoiu having participated in 13 m?tchc?—7 home, 5 away—are nualiiied to De included in Ciao avcr- a"c" '?*  °' Also Batted G. D. Hale 2 0 55 67 .33.50 W. C. Eaton 3 031 67 19 J. Si,ll()Ils 2 0 22 33 16.50 %V. S. Gillespie 12 2 40 160 16 T. E. Ad:tms 2 215. 15 15 li. T. I'zLrrv 2 1 6' 6 6 i.7.Barker 7 2 8 2J 4 T.U.Schoileld 2 0 7 7 3.50 K. Ellwood 9 3 7 20 3.33 B. C. St. G. Scar^ell 4 0 G 13 3.25 C. H. Astbtiry 11 1 6 27 2.70 D.Bailec. 5 0 3 ti 1.20 J. O. Jones .3 2 1" 1 1 Not oat. Bowling. Overs Mn's. liims. Wkts. Av'r. D. I, 202 35 5)5 79 6.39 ;1. M. North 93 16 295 38 7.76 C. H. Astbury. 49 7 155 17 9.17 J. biuions. 12 2 23 3 9.33 Edward Joues 21 3 £ 0 6 10 A. \V. IS S 35 3 11 W. C. Eaton 18 3 44 0 11 Ivor H. EvalJs 10 2 34 3 11.33 K. Ellwood 3) 9 57 5 11.49 VV. S. Gi!1t:spie 29 4 123 8 15.37 H. L. Katclitfe 28 4 84 5 16.18 Frank Hurat 17 1 55 1 55 2ND ELEVEN AVERAGES FOR SEASON 1900. -datchti played. 12 won, 5 drawn, 1; lost, 8. Most Not in Total Inns. out. Inns, Hun". A v'r. T. B. Schoficld. 2 1 13 23 23 .J. M. Lowsby 6 0 41 121 20.16 J.O..Jones. 3 0 50 52 17.33 B ailee-Hair., if toil 10 0 38 121 12.10 J. Siriious 3 0ti 23 7 65 Llew. Pduce. 4 0 li 2) 5 Griffitlis 3 17 10 5 H. Hancocks 3 0 12 14 4.66 J. li. 6 2 10' 17 4.25 J. E. Eaton 7 a 14 28 4 J. H. 12 0 17 47 3.91 0. Williams. 9 1 16* 29 3.52 W. feters. 9 0 6 24 266 B. C. St. G. Scargell 3 15" 5 2.50 S. Prince. 12 1 10 25 2.27 R. T. Parrv. 2 0 4 5 2.50 T. H. Parry 3 0 5 6 2 J. Fletcher 3 1 2 2 1 I A". B. Boosie 0 1 2 8 .88 J. Hughes. 6 0 2 3 .50 Not out. Bowling. Overs. M'ns. RUllS. W'kts. Av'r. H. Hanocks 3 0 4 2 2 W. releri 6L 11 122 20 6.10 J.Simons. 18 5 57 8 7.12 D. B. Hamilton 50 10 140 19 7.37 J. E. Eaton 21 2 fe5 8 8.12 J. O..Ju:!Cs. 7 2 36 4 9 J. H. Williains 56 7 145 16 9.06 A. B. Boosie 12 2 26 1 26 Gritliths. 2l 2 71 2 35.50 J. M. Lowsby. 7 1 40 1 40 Mold Second Eleven scored 635 ranf:, 62 extra for 117 wickets. Opponents scored 791 runs, 6t extras for 101 wickets.

CYCLE TALK. I [BY ITINERANT."] Now is the time of the year when cyclists need to be wary. The farmers are trimming their hedges, and many of them do not consider the great cycling public, or remember the bye-law, for they leave brambles and hawthrons strewn about the sides of the roads. The only safe place to ride is the middle of the road, so that if one has to pass a conveyance one runs consider- able risk of mishap. But some farmers I have noticed, are being educated by sympathy or fear of the law to a sense of the claims of the cycling public, and when they go lopping off the summer's growth of their hedges they take with them a broom and a rake. These are deserving of our respect. But even the precautions thns taken would not do away with all the evil, because many of the thorns, which are for the protection of the trees during the time of growth and inflorescence, decay and drop off when trees and plants cease their summer's activity and commence to prepare for the long winter's sleep. I fancy it must have been such an insignificant thing that wrought havoc on my ba.;k tyre on Saturday. The hedges had not been trimmed at all in the locality in which I stopped for a rest by the roadside during the beat of the afterncon, and the farmer over the hedge was busy with the harrow. When I was about to amount I found the tyre slack, and on a very close examination, discovered that the business end of a thorn as sharp as a needle had penetrated the inner tube, although the machine had merely been standing idle. Needless to say for the ensuing r autumn months I shall eschew lounging on the jI wayaide.  Not ten per cent. of the children at Lanark will attend SuuJ..y school. The main reason I given by the Rev. Mr Cameron, at a meeting of tue Lanark Presbytery, is that the boys are too I much engaged in pushing bicycles up Lanark Hill for pennies.

I -i:ifipral newi. I "tln i.1I "eJ • i. living near Ar •i-lj i. vh i ?> .-m ec e >-> • •> i boyhood, on •! i v, i;i.-kf.l his mtli-.< d ihen com- II mii.e r-u ciJe -jy fii jotiuj; The Hoard of Trade state that during August reports received ahoy thirty-one sailing-sh ps and five steamers to have lieen lost. In the former thirty- t six t-.iid iu the latter thirty-one lives were lost. It will be P. small hop crop this year. The crop cannot rcii h half ihe actual growth cf last year, cr n.botit an average of 7cwr. per acre. Tn quality generally, however, will be exceptionally good. A teketarn from Chtrbnrg, oil Tbur-dav. s-»ys that in con-i q ience of the strike Hilling the Seinu barge- men f )Ui orl)-;do boats have b^en ordered to Roaen j to iniitain orl-r aed prevent interference witli the traiii-j on the river. A telegram from New York says the Pitteburg and Baltimore Coal Company have accepted a cootra.c to ship to England 75.000 tons of coal. The company have oeen able to give more favourab'e terms thaa the English companies. The body of a Feci fisherman named Henry Gorry was washed up in Douglas harbour on Friday morn- ing. The decew • :ntm one of the crew of the Alpha., a lierrir:; smack which was -iuchored in llonglas Iiay on .Thursday night. I The Snb-Post-office in the ftl-irket-place, Lynn, has been broken into, and the cash-uox riflid of its contents of JESS worth of BUimvs and £ 32 cash. The pcmmis-.ress closed the office at four p.m., and on returning later found a window at the rear broken and open. Sacci, v.hf\e occupation it is to exhibit himse!f np and downtt)M world as the "Champion F ister, i., now fastened in a cage of d iss at til" Fans Exhibi- tion. Here lie will reiiiain f r forty days without air or food. A doctor will watch bj the uitle of the cage during the forty days. Scarborough's Town Council i-i embarking on a heroic eifort 10 reduce the s:reet organ i lfiietion. The toivn clerk is preparing bve-iaws providing for the registration of s reet organ grinder- the wearing of numbered b idges by them and by the instruments, and the limiting of th., number of orgaus. About two years ago Mathias Luzean, a French- man, married a young girl named Jatia Floqaet. Litst week the young woman left Paris for Vincennea, where she lunched with a friend. Her husband followed, kilkd hia wife. and wonnded the friend, and after apologising to a faris jury Oil Wednesday, wm acquitted. Friday's telegraiii from Simla says that the weather and crop reports are now promising. Ex- cellent rain has fallen during the week in all the famine tracts. The winter sowings are practically assured The number of persons now receiving relief is under four millions. The cotton crop prospects are good in the Central Provinces' lierar, and Bombay. In the basement of a dingy house in Beech.im- street, Leather-lane, Efolboru, the police h ive fouud all old woman, an itinerant vendor of matches, in a very weak condition trom want of food. She had crawled into the cellar one or two days ago to rest, and found herself unabie to get out again, or to attract attention until Wednesday night. She was taken to the union infirmary. Dr. George Blair was at Castle Eden, on Siturday, charged with assaulting Dr. Matfen Hope, at Thorniey, with whom he was assistant. It was alleged that defenaent was remonstrated with by Dr. tlope for staying over his holiday. This led to an altercation, and Dr. Blair was stated to have struck Dr Hope in the face. Defendant was bound over in £10 to keep the peace and ordered to pay costs. A accident occurred to a Blackburn grocer, named Willlum Hardinan, while sleep-walking on Saturday morning. About two o'clock his wife awoke, and finding he had left his bed she called his name aloud. Hardman was then standing on the landing, but the shock of the sudden awakening is supposed to have caused him to loss his balance, and he fell headlong downstairs, the base of the skull being fractured. The Hamburg-American liner Deutschland arrived at Plymouth on Mood ty morning, from New York, in five days seven hours thirty-eight minutes, just four hours in advance ci her previous beat time, thereby establishing a new record for the eastward passage. The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grossa, which left New York one hour before the Deutschiana, was beaten in the race by about seven hours. Serious discrepancies as to the condition of a m'lon charged with murder were disclosed at an inquest at Aldershot. The man, a pvivate named Bri&u, had attempted to commit suicide, and in the struggle to deprive him of a rifla he fatally shot another soldier named Scot. The medicail evid-ance was to the effect that Brian was .suffering from melancholia, while the guards' reports were that he was in confinement for being drunk in hospital. The jury returned a verdict of wiiful murder agttinst Briau. On Friday a coilier named Thompson was sum moned at Blackburn for wife desertion and persistent cruelty. Defendant said: She never had mv mea's ready. The Wife: Yon can't starve a collier. (Laughter) Defendant's Solicitor: Why could you not save money out of 24s weekiv ? Wife: Because he cats it all. (Laughter.) Defendant: I bought her chickens, pigeons. beer, rum, and wine. The wife Ah that was when we were courting. (Laughter.) A separation order was granted. An explosion occurred on Me.iay at tin Sporting Cartridge Manufactory, iu Gray's Inn Koad, London, owned by Messrs Eley Brothers. One of the build- ings was wrecked, and when a search was made it was found that two of tha employes had received fatal injuries, and that-three others, including the manager Were ssriously hurt. Some twenty uther persons were badly cut aud shaken. The force of the explo- sion was sufficiently widespread to break the windows of adjoining houses, and great alariii was caused in the neighbourhood. A Great Eastern excursion train from Southend was stopped late on Saturday night near Kayleigh Station. Porters rushed to and fro asking for a medical man. There was much excitement, as it was feared that an accident hitl occurred. A doctor was fiually found in a hist class compartment. He pro- ceeded to a carriage filled with women. These were cleared with the exception of one. The doctor entered, and the excitement grew. Presently he emerged,-smiled, and said Mother and cniid doing well," The train proceeded to Liverpool-street. The Paris Steele publishes a letter from M. Trarieux, preai.i-:nt of trie L-ague of the Ivigh'.s of Man, to ex-Captain Dr<;yfm, in wbieh the writer declares that he does no; wish to let tiu anniversary of the judgment of the llennes Couic-martial pass without conveying to the ex-Captain the consolation of sympathy in his misfortune. M. Traiieux adds — We snail rtjoice when it is possible to prove to al: the terrible denial of justice of which vou were the victim. Lapse of time will make no diff-rence. Whatever happens the authority of the.jet: do33 not deprive U3 of the liberty of per^oual judgment." The Christian principle of giving to the unfortun- a.te the benefit of the doab; has not been applied to the case of a friendless Irish harvester, who was buried at Connington, in the dead of night, without bentlit of clergy, He cut his throat in a barn, and the coroner's jury left it open as to whether he was insane. The ciia) ity which thinketh no evil was not allowed to operate, and the corpse was carted from a stable to the churchyard grave and buried by lantern light in the presence of a callous crowd. The funeral had a baautifully sympathetic and re- deeming feature. A girl strewed tioweis oa the coffin before the earth was shovelled upiu L. The extension works of the Sydney Hirbour Collieries at Balmain have been visited bv a large and influential pitrty en the occasion of the shaft, whicil was commenced two years ago, reaching a depth of 2 000ft. It is expected that coal will be reached at a depth of 2,900ft. in nine mouths. Vessels drawing 30ft. of water will be able to berth alongside the mine. Over XIGO,000 have already been expended on the works. Sir (Jr^orge iJihs, speaking at a luncheon, said tha.t when the rich coal deposits kuown to exist under the harbour Were tapp"d Sydney was bonnd to be the commercial and n?Lnti- facturing centre of Australasia, no matter where the Federal capital was situated. A Dover correspondent of the iKnhi Yews tele- graphs :-Considerabie comment has baeu caused at Dover by the fact that two new Prencl, mail packets, The Nord and Pas de Calais," have been fitted up with powerful electric searchlight3 exactly similar to those used in the French navy. These searchlights are placed in prominent positions on the bridges of the steamers, and have been erected by the French Government. It is also stated that they are in charge of a naval official, although the beat-a are owned by the North of France CJ. It is a significant fact that these steamers, which from the time they commenced to run took the day service, were recently transferred to the night, and at night these searchlights are occasionally trained npan the land fortifications of Dover. Lieut.-Colonel Yorke, reporting to the Board of Trade upon the accident which occurred on the North British itailwav near Channg-cross Station, Glasgow, on March 28, whereby seven passengers were killed and thirty-one injured, states that the direct cause of the disaster was the acLion of the signalman, Rentonl, in accepting the second train before satisfying himself that the first had passed his signal box, and that the blunder cannot be ascribed to inadvertence, inasmuch as Rentonl wilfully set aside the special precautions provided by the lock and block system. Colonel Yorke adds that the driver and guard of the first train also deserve censure for not having ascertained wla. was wrong with their brakes. Colonel Yorke mikes further complaints, and concludes by stating that the facts disclosed are highly unsatisfactory aud disquieting. Replying to an address sent him by the South Place (London) Ethical Society, congratulating him upon the completion of his Systen of Synthetic Philosophy," Air Herbert Spencer has just forwarded from Bepton, near Midnurst, the following letter of acknowledgment Declining years have their pleasures as well as their pains, and among the pleasures may be named expressions of sympathy such as those contained in the address you seud me on behalf of the South Place Ethical Society. Many who have spent their lives in the development of their ideas have not had the satisfact;on of meeting with recognition. Only after death have their ideas been appreciated. I have been more fortunate, and having lived long enongh to complete my work have also lived long enough to see that it has not been without its effect. Thank you for your kind words and for the expression of your good wishes."

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i Wales and the Border. A H-niiesda t~works man unsacTes-fully asked the DisU-ict Council for more salary, because sin.-e he had been at the giswoiks his appetitj had ereatly increased and he had to take an extra meal daily. Mr J. H. Ellis, who caused a. commoion among the temperance party at Rhyl with his 11 Whisky Sand Competitions," has arranged tome further com- petitions, in which the prizes offered are for the best design of the sentence Tea is the cup that cheers." Mr A. M. Rickards. the lion, secretary of the Shropshire Society in London, has reifeivtd a letter lrorn Major-General Baden-Powell thanking him for the congratulations of the society and accepting the invitation to be present at a meeting of the society on his return to England. The Denbighshire County Governing Body have awarded scholarships, entitling to admission to an intermediate school, to E. A. Matthews, of Cerrigv- druidion, twelve years of age, who gained 417 marks in the recent examination and to John Edwards. fourteen years of age, of Llansilin, who gained 439 marks. There died on Snnday, at Marsh-row, Mostyn. Joseph Cliff, aged 30 years, from the effects of i"jaries sustained at the Mostyn Ironworks. On the 28th ult. the deceased fell into a, fke. the manhole of which had been left open. The flue was fall of red- hot dust, which severely burned his legs and body. The deceased lingered in terrible agony until Sun- day, when death took place. On Monday night an unusually high tide rose on the North Wales coast, and large numbers of visitors and residents assembled to witness the occurrence. A stiff north-westerly breeze was blowing, accom- panied by a little send. The tide swept over the promenade at Colwyn Bay, leaving a thick deposit of sand and shingle. No damage was done, but at Llandulas the configuration of the fine shingly beach was curiously altered. On Satnrday a boy named Robert Jones, aged five years, son of Wiliiam and Harriet Jones, Mountain- street, Carnarvon, was killed on the railwav near that town. The boy and a companion were gathering blackberries, and eventually made their way on to the railway line from Carnarvon to Llanberis. At this point there is a sharp curve, and while the child was in the act of crossing the metals he was knocked down by a passing train, and died some two hours later. Maih indignation has been expressed at Rhyl at an act of church desecration. People going to places of worship on Sunday morning were shocked to find that large placards had been placed on the entrances to churches and chapels advertising a play which is to be produced in Rhyl this week. The oiffcers of some of the places of worship promptly washed cff the placards, bnt others remained throughout the day. Private doors and windows were also plastered with the posters. Four months have been spent by the Royal Anglesey Militia in camp neat Beaumaris. The Militia hand has often played in the town, and the soldiers have had a first-rate time. Last week they learned that they were to be removed to Peterborough barracks. An epidemic of desertions forthwith broke out, aud by Saturday night fifty men had run away from camp. The Carnarvonshire police on the other side of the strait have had a busy time in catching the rnnaway troops. At the fortnightly meeting of the Ruthin Board of Guardians on Monday, the cierk submitted the estimate of expenditure for the next half-year, which amounted to £1,647. making a call for common charges at 35 in the pound. This, ha explained, was the lowest estimate they had had for a very long time The estimate for the corresponding six months of last year amounted to £1.957, and the previous year £2300. Mr Henry William3 How do you account for the redaction ? The Clerk: The county rate is not so heavy as usual, and there has been reduction ¡' in other directions. Several guardians expressed their satisfaction at this state of affairs. At the meeting of the Holywell Urban Council on Monday night Superintendent Hnghes presen:ed his annual report as to the common lodging-honses of the town. Dr. James Williams was given to understand that in the case of one of the lodging-houses in Penybull the tenant had used some out-houses for the accommodation of his lodgers. Tramps had been placed to sleep in these places, which consisted of a stable and a pig-stye—(laughter),—for which they paid fourpence a night. The house was overflowing, and the overflow meeting was placed in these outhouses. (Renewed laughter). He believed, how- ever, these places had been taken down. An inquest was held at Shrewsbury on Monday, ) into the death of John Alfred Bickerton, aged 4, Abbey Foregate, who met with his death on Saturday afternoon. Evidence was given to the effect that when playing with his brother and sister the child tried to pass through the rounds of a heavy ladder, which wa.s standing in a yard adjoining his father's house, and the ladder fell upon him and he was crashed to death. The jury returned a. verdict of accidental death, but the coroner said someone had been guilty of gross carelessness, as the position the ladder was left in made it a death trap for the chitdren. Much consternation was caused in Holywell on Sunday by the reported suicide of an old man. Hans j Anderson, aged 75 years, a Dane, but lately of Tottenham, has for some little time been living with his son at Bagillt Hall, where they were working up a business as market gardeners. On Snnday morn- ing father and son arranged to go down to the river side for a walk. Before leaving the house Hans Anderson went to feed the dog. A short time after- wards the son went to the garden to call his father, and he was horrified to see on a fruit tree the body of his father dangling from a branch. He was cut down and medical assistance obtained, but life was j pronounced extinct. The reason for the tragedy is inexplicable. AD extraordinary accident happened at a level crossing at Abermnle, near Ncwtown, on the Cam- brian Railway, at the latter end of last week. It appears that Mr Charles Miller, Brynderwen Farm, was carrying his grain from a neighbouring field, and had to cross the line. A large broad-wheeled wagon, weighing over 22cwt., and drawn by three horses, was crossing the line at this spot when the 4.15 p.m. express train from Newtown dashed into it, smash- ing it to matchwood. Fortunately the horBesl attached to the heavy vehicle had crossed the line, aud the engine struck the wagon in the middle. The horses escaped injury, as also did Edward Evaus, ) the wagoner in charge. Had the wagon been laden with grain the train would undoubtedly have been wrecked.  A corespondent writes .—On Monday Mr < Newstead, curator of the Groavenor Museum, Chester, was able to announce an important discovery of Roman remains in Chester. In October last, daring excavation at the back of premises in Eastgate- street, near the Cross, a length of Roman water lead piping was unearthed, and much interest was attached to the relic. The discovery on Monday was of the remaining poition of the pipe, which bears the inscription, Csæ) Julio Agricola." The Museum authorities have been informed by an expert that this is the only inscription extant of Agricola's name. It clearly proves that the pipas were laid when Vespasian and Titus were consuls for the eighth and ninth times resp?ctivelyt ao that the date corresponds with that of A.D. 73, when Agricola governed the pro- vince of Britain. The total length of lead piping now recovered from this spot is 16ft. 6in. Cheater Cathedral was broken into and robbed by a daring thiei on Friday night. The entrance seems to have been effected through the stained-glass window at the side of the canon's vestry, for the glaBs has been smashed to the e«tent of nearly a square yard. The robbery, when once an entrance was gained, was carried out in an impudently cool manner. Various contribution boxes were broken into by the aid of tools left by workmen engaged in restoring St. Oswald's transept, and a candle from one of the altars was used by the nocturnal visitor to give tbe light he required. Two of tne boxes were in the nave and one, a box for promiscuous contribu- tions by visitors, was placed near the entrance to the chancel. These had been emptied on Wednesday, and it is supposed that not more than.£2 could have rewarded the efforts of the thief. The matter has, of course, been placed in the hands of the police. A similar affair took place two or three years ago, and, it is interesting to note, the details were almost precisely similar. The culprit ,vas not then captured. The whisky sand competition at Rhyl gave opportunity to members of the Urban Council of that town to discuss the question of advertising on the foreshore at their adjourned monthly meeting on Tuesday. Mr J. \V. Jones asked the town clerk it the Council had power to stop such competitions. The Town Clerk said he was afraid that the Council at present had not the power. He also read to the Council a letter of protest against the competitions signed bv Mr H. L. Threlfall, of Edge-lane, Liver- pool, and also resolutions passed by the meeting held at the Welsh Baptist chapel and by Denbighshire and District temperance Association. Mr Elwy Williams gave Mr Ellis credit for not intending to offend, and hoped that nothing would be done of a like character in the future. Captain Keatinge advised the dropping of the affair, feeling sure that Mr Ellis did not wish to offend. Mr Ellis thanked the Council for acquitting him of any intention to do anything to demoralise children. He had acted innocently, and had arranged the competition to gratify the children who were disappointed in another contest. He claimed to be a temperance man, and did not like over-indulgence in anything. He had finished with the matter. The Council passed to the next business.

At a meeting of the Town Council of Tunbridge Wells, on Thursday, tenders were accepted for the installation of a local telephonic service. It is estimated that the initial cost of the installation will be £9,00), and the annual cost of working about il,OW. In less than twenty-five years the Corpora- tion expect the undertaking: to pay back the first outlay and yield an annual profit, to be applied to the reduction of the rates. For some time Malew has boasted of a ghost haunting its parish church. The spectre was said to walk nightly up the aisle, candle in hand. Evea the vicar of the parish, the Rev. M. Spicer, had to confess that he saw a mysterious light moving from the door- way end of the church to the chancel, and then vauishing. He searched for a more prosaic explana- tion, and found it. The light, it appears, comes from the distant revolving beam3 of the Langness Vght- house.

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For Leisure Moments. "r A--corc-.i: to h -t -lie sth of the I following remai k toie i.to:.>. >• mxy relied on: Three veiiL!Pniefi %vert-. 4.ttiti,(r along the biii dts Boulogne when oi.i- .hciti, o • ico'i- !,v a mysterious influence, steppr-d ►hcrt and ceased talk- ing. Over his senses a clou! demanded. The scene of theBois went from before his eyes, the sounn of his friends' voices from his ears. Only was he conscious of being in the midst of a vast and barren plain, upon which there slowly appeared a coffin in which lay his sister, dead. The vision faded from his mind, and on recovering himself he found his friends star- ing at him in alarm, while he was shaking as though with cold. Alarmed, he hastened to the telegraph office and wired to ecqnire the stat3 of his sister's health. She was some 3,000 miles from Paris, and when the reply:came to his telegram it is stated that she had died the very moment he was seized with the vision. It is rather a sad thing that the fairies who delight our unquestioning childhood should be the cause of such bewildering controversy when we grow up and begin to study them seriously. A tremendous amount of discnesion has been caused by the attempt to discover the origin of fairy tales. It cannot be said that the theory which was so attractively set forth by Professor Rhys at the British Association has made good its claim to hold the field. On this view the widespread belief in the fairies contains a definite residuum of historical fact. The Good People of Scotland, the pixies of Devonshire, the leprechauns of Ireland, and the Tylwyth Teg of Wales all repre- sent traditions of the vanished aboi-ginal race which once inhabited these islands, and was driven first into woods and caves, and then into non-existence by our most distant ancestors. This race, as Professor Rhys sums it up, consisted of a small, swarthy population of mound-dwellers, of an unwarlike dis- position, much given to magic and wizardry, and I perhaps related to the modern Laps. A great part of our fairy lore is supposed to consist of vague traditions of this forgotten people, as Scott loved to think that the water-cow which is fabled to inhabit Scottish lochs might be a recollection of the time when the cave-man lay down with the hippopotamus. Unfortunately the evidence is of the vaguest; readers of the Antiqllary will remember the distressing con- sequences of an assumption that this is a dilute which may be easily settled by philologists," and students of fairy history are divided into camps as irreconcilable as were Sir Arthur Wardonr and Mr Oldback on the question of the more recent Picts. These are people who seem to think that in the making 'of a Chinaman (says a writer in the Sunday Strand for Angust) the soul had been forgotten, and that he stands, among humankind, in a class apart. The opinions of the essential character of the China- man, formed under every sky, from the Flowery Land itself to California and Australia, are as various as the climes in which he is found, but in one respect ail are practically in agreement—he is the in- carnation of selfishness. A recent writer has accounted for this unenviable national trait from the fact that China has for scores of generations been overcrowded. There has been an age-long struggle for mere existence, and thus the old motto of the supremely selfish man, "Everyone for himself, and the devil take the hindmost," has been elevated to the position of the national rule of life. Given absolute, unmitigated self-seeking, all the rest of the many ills under which China groans are easily accounted for. That frightful callousness which, unless they have a most wonderful command over their real feelings, and a marked trait in the character of the Chinese, is only another form of it. They lie outside their interests. In fact if they touch them at all it is favourably, for they reduce the number of competitors in the race cflife. Broadly speaking, all classes in China are disciples of Confucius, which means they are all materialists, the followers of a philosophy rather than the believers in a creed. They are full ot wise saws" ?ud month-fHiing sayings, which sound well, bat have no effect uponj their lives. THE "WALL PAPER" DISEASE. Mr W. L. Alden, whose random notes on all i manner of subjects, entitled 11 From China to Peru," are now a feature of Pearson' s .Uujazinc, has some witty words to say in the September number on the very latest disease." There is another new disease, and this time it has no connection with microbes of any sort. It is the wall-paper disease, though that is not the scientitic name of it. The discoverer is an American physician, and from his account of it there is reason to fear that it is very prevalent, and very disastrous in its results. 14 The first symptoms of the wall-paper disease are gentle aiad apparently harmless. Toe palient becomes aware of them as he lies in bed in the morn- ing and looks at the wall-paper. No matter whitt the figures on that wall-paper may be, provided they are not merely geometrical lines, the patient presently discovers that one of them represents a human face This rather amuses him, and he searches further in the hope of discovering another face. In this effort ( he is invariably successful, aud, without knowing it, he is also in the grasp of the new disease. Every morning before he gets out of bed be tries to find new faces in the wall-paper, and he never fails to find them. The discoverer of the disease mentious one patient who, in the course of nbout live months, found seventy-eight human an3 twenty-foar animal faces in the wall-paper of his bedroom. You will say that the habit of looking for faces in the wall-paper does not constitute a real disease. But that is because you have not read thp learned physician's powerful pamphlet on the wall-paper disease. He shows that this habit becomes so strong as to render the victim a helpless slave. He lies in bed for hoars in the morning, simply to look for new faces. He lies down in the afternoon under the pre- text of resting himself, but in reality in order to smdy the wall-paper. "After a time the faces which a.t first were ou!y amusing, grow to Kam terrible to him. He discovers demons, and horrible snakeiike animals on his wall, md the more he looks at them the more terrified he becomes. Gradually he finds himself unable to sleep because o! the fascination which compels him to keep his sjas burning, in order that he may look at the faces which he fears. After the disease has run its course for about a year the patieut goes tj the lunatic asylum, where he usutilvends his days in a room with a plain white wall, on which his perveted imagination nevertheless still continues to paint imaginary faces." A SHIP THAT MAY HEACU THE POLE. A. striking article appears ia the September M-~iud*or onThr: great ice-breaker, the Ermack, a ship that bids fair to solve the difficult problem of naviga- tins to the Pole. Shebis intended to carry i-teitfier cargo nor passengers, nor guns. The single aim of her builders was to make her as strong as possible. Therefore she differs in many respects from the cr- dinary steamship. To begin with. she has a double ■ skin throughout, instead of merely a double bottom. The epidermis is a layer of steel plates an inch and a quarter in thickness, extending from the ked to the deck level, forty feet above. Within this is another steel stirface half as thick. The two walls are firmly braced by steel supports, and the space between them is divided into water-tight compartments. Siie is divided by an unusual iiiirubcr of water-tight bulk- heads—forty-eight in all-and most of thess extend to the deck level. After the boilers and machinery were all in place, these various compartments were filled with water to their full height. Not only did the walls eudure the strain, but the Ermach floated as serenely as before. No ordinary accident could send her to the bottom. There are four propellers, three located at the stern and one at the bow. They are counected with separate engines, in order that any one of them may be operated independently, if this is desired. The fore propeller is an American device, and waa nr?t employed in the ice-breaking vessels of the Great Lakes. Its effect in action is to suck the water from beneath the ice, thus greatly reducing the resisting power of the ice and causing it to break more easily. This propeller is useful in another way. when the ship's progress is retarted by accu- mulations of ice below the surface and before her ■ how. Bv reversing the motion of the screw, the blocks of ice thin crowded together are driven fat- ward out of the ship's path. In external appearance, as in interior arrangement, the i.'rnmch is unusual. t Her bow, stern, and aides are all cut away sharply, Instead of meeting the surface of the water at right angles, they project aboY" it. The slant of the bow is seventy degrees, of the stern sixty-five, and of the sides twenty. Consequently the ship looks top- heavy, as though sitting entirely on the surface, al- though, as a matter of fact, she draws twenty-five feet. How does the Knnavl; break the ice ? Where water freezes to a thickness nearly three times the height of a man, its resisting strength is enormous. It may be beter imagined than described. What is the ice- breaker's plan of attack when facing an opponent of such powei ? The natural inference of one who knows nothing of the subject is that the ship charges the ice barrier like a battering ram but this method would be as futile as attempting to fell a redwood giant with a paper cutter. In exact terms, the Ermach is an ice-crusher. That accounts for her peculiar lines. When she steams against the ice, her bow does not encounter it horizontally--in the j liue of greatest resistance. Instead it rises upon the surface. As the engines urge the ship forward, more and more other weight is thrown upon the ice, until it breaks beneath the strain."

Mr J. S. Mackay, barrister, on behalf of Mrs Mary Elstone, has issued a writ at Woodstock, Ontario, for damages for breach of promise against Mr G. King, j of Hickson. The plaintiff is a respected resideut of Perry-street, Woodstock, and is seventy-four years of age. Her one-time woer is one of the wealthiest farmers in the ccuuty, and is about eighty years of age. A Paris correspondent says that the Frenchmen present at the dinner to the representalives of Britisn Chambers of Commerce in Paris on Thursday night were much surprised by the simple statement of fact made in the speech of Lord Avebury. This was tha: Great Britain was France's best customer, and takes a third of her total exports. A jury at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on Friday, inquired into the death of a little girl named Lydia Chamberlain. Deceased said she had been bitten in the face by a tly. Intense inflammation followed. She was attended !ocally, and removed afterwards to hospital, where she died. Medical evidence showed death resulted from bloodpoisoning. The case was extremely rare.

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Views upon Many Subjects. I am told that the Queen is anxious to reecgnise in some definite manner the attitude of the colonies in connection with the situation created by the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa. Probably the Queen's wish-will assume the form of a specific address to the colonial Premiers. This has not been definitely decided upon, but I believe that it is Her Majesty's desire. The new German Civil Code contains some amusing clauses concerning the management of the household. In case of dissension between man and wife it is the husband who has the absoluse right to fix the hours of meals, their composition, and the order of service and the number of aei>va;iis. The code also deals with the right to open letters, which it dec' ires belongs exclusively to the man.—Lc St ir. (Pari: j. A good many irresponsible rumours have been flying about as to an earlv dissolution of Parliament, and statements to that tffect, profes~icg to be more or less inspired, have been given the dignity of leaded type. It is as wet!, perhaps, to say that there has been no real authority for these interesting announce- ments, and that Lird Salisbury has neither by word nor sign indicated any such intention as that with which he is credited.—Pall OazetU. Red-tape ia own brother to Pipe-clay. There are not wanting signs that he too will be less often visible than of yore. Just us the soldier, by dis- carding antiquated drills and regimentals, will 1!a:ù ampler scope as a man, so mu-t the oiffcial iiin* aside his stiff, unlovely departmental unrealities, and come forth a natural man into the free air of tha world's fiicts. To this end the newer contact witii colonial men and methods should be no small Outlook. I am sure that hundreds of mistresses, as well as myself, would willingly agree to their demands if we could hear of any respectable tervants reqeiric- situations," sighs '■ Nemo in the Daily Chronicle, ii reference- to the servants' recent meeting In Hyda Park. For the last six weeks I have been unabla to hear of one, and yet the only demand I make is that they must be honest and respectable. They could have Sunday afternoons and evenings free, ak:) after six on every other day, aud a wholu day once 3. month. I would eveu agree to call them and yet they come not, and we poor mistresses are drive a to desperation." Let me say that even in the case of a a early election Liberals do not, so far as I can ga uier, rake an over-gloomy view of the party prospects. Tha expectation is that at the end there wili b3 an improvement on the pr< :ent Parliamentary situation. Unanimity—of whi i. Lord George Hamilto l quaintly spoke on S'iitjrday—;s out of the question, la Durham and Northumberland the Liberu.:s expect to hold all the seats now in their possession, and t) win Newcastle, Durham City, and probabiv Tvnc- mouth. Lord Durham' influence has largiy transferred from the Ministerial side, 0.11(1 in thia part of England, at all events, the "khaki" ii not exciting any very keen response. The attitude of Irbh Nationalist voters in England is being considered at the Irish headqnartars, and a, decision is naturally a matter of diilicuJty, Ii. is not to be expected that there will be a general direction to vote for Liberal candidates, least rf all for official Liberal candidates. Indeed, so far as the Irish vote has already been locally pledged, it has shown a tendency to revert to the older plan of supporting independent and Radical candidates whose view3 ani attitude are in harmony with Irish national Il"nira- tions and political feeling. It is also certaia that there will be marked discrimination between varioC3 types of Liberal candidats-for instance, between Lioerals who have maintained their Home Rale pledge intact and those who have minimised cr evea abjured it. I believe it is also settled that Irish opposition to the war is to be freely expressed and enforced, a:1d will influence the voting only in p. less degree thau the Home Rule question. I referred the other day to the falling eff in tha attendance at the Wesleyan Sunday schools. It does not stand alone. AlthoQgh the population of country is increasing at tbe rate of 300,000 a year, the number of Sunday ecnolars everywhere dsclioes. In the Church of England they have fallen off by 7,000, the Baptist report a 'decrease of 7,000, the Calvinistic Methodists of 4,200, the Presby- terians of 1,200, the United Methodist Free Church of 3,000, the Free Church of Scotland of 4,300, and other denominations complain of similar losses. The figures I have given show a decrease of 32,000 ;u (me year, is no wonder that the leaders of the Churches are alarmed. In America the Sunday school; tell a different story. The Presbyterian Church in America, instead of raisiDgao many thousand guineas to celebrate the beginning uf dl twentieth century, has started a moveraens to secur™ half a mil'ion new scholars for the Sunday schools. Nearly 450,003 boya and girls have already been enrolled a3 additional scholars, and the effort will soon be entirely suc- cessful. The latest publication of the Historical Mana scripts Commission will, like its predecessor, be rather a hard nut to crack for the ordinary Engiisa reader for it consists of a calendar of H. portion of the great collection of Welsh manuscripts in the possession of Mr Maurice Wynne, at Peniatth, and is for the most part in the Welsh language. The in- troduction, contributed by the learned editor, Mr Gwenoyyryn, furnishes, however, some interesting particulars. The collection, which claims to be the premier collection cf Welsh manuscripts, both in extent and in quality," includes the most ancient manuscript of the L two) of Wales, in Latin ami Welsh the oldest versions of that ancient collection of Welsh tales, the Mabiuogiou, as well liE of the Arthurian and other romances the oldest and only perfect copy of the Holy Grail—meaning, pre- sumptively, the mediaeval romance of that name— toge'.her with an early translation of a portion of the Gospel of St. Matthew and an immense bodv of poetry, dating from the Black lbok of Carti^rthcn downwards. The capture of Lydenburg as it was first announced seemed to portend the break-up of Botha's force. and to bring the end of the war within sight. That, again, seemed to mark a definite in the gamble ia victory and defeat to which Unionist politics are reduced, and to portend as certa.in an October election. This certainty, however, hardly exists in face of the later news, which showed thai Bjtha's force, which is said here to amount to 5,000 men, was in existence, and that the Boers had carried off their guns. Ou the whole, Sir Matthew White Ridley's speech has rather increased the doubt whether the election will be hurried forward. The Home Secretary suggested tha* there would be an appeal to the country before a new session, which, if Sir Michael Hicks-Beich can make ehift a little longer with the resources he lias at his disposal, need only mean a January election. November is impossible, for in that case the Scottish elections would be on the new registers, and the English cn the old. Bat the Home Secretary showed cieatiy what I h^ ave so often affirmed—namely" that no decision has yet been taken, and that the matter has not substantially moved since the Cabinet at the Premier reserved it to himself a.fter reference :0 the Qneen. To-day's news (Tuesday" ) is something like & detinue harbinger of an October election. The summoning of a Privy Council is not necessarily associated with an immediate appeal to the country, but; it serves the obvious propose of fixing and announcing the date and 1 imagine that this is the main purpose of calling it. The inference is th&t that date will be next month. I have no doubt ths? Lord MaiisbHry'b exact decision bas no vet been communicated, but it is nov/ almost universally thought to tend towards the compromise of un autumn dissolution. I say compromise," because the Chamberlain effort was for a July election, and ic was then that Lord Salisbury's refusal, firm and detinue, was pronounced. Tne logical conseqaencs" Of that decision would have been a January election but politicians are rarely lojiicai, aud—what is to the point—Lord Salisbury is rarely firm. So thlt on the. point of asking the cacntrv its opiuion aboct the war and the settlement before the one Ï3 finished or the other is in operation Mr Chamberlain win have his way. This, I and. is the view at the Libera! headquarters. There an October election ia regarded as practically certain, and the machine ia being run at full pressure on thol t hypothesis. So far as the selection of csndidates is concerned, the work is pretty well over, and in Scotland, at all even, some admirable and promising men will be asso- ciated with the Liberal cause. On the other im- portant point—the choice and the expression of a -programme-the great difficulty will arise. It is hoped that the front Opposition bench will act mo-e or less together, and produce if not a. strong and comprehensive declaration at least a clear one. Two or three points, are, I think, settled. The Liberal pronouncement will not be confiued to the war and it will represent an effort to concentrate thoa-dit and action on one or two litrge domestic problems rather than to cover the entire political aud social sphere." Foremost among the-e problems will be temperance Furthermore, there will, I think, be an appeal to the country, in view of the difficult times before it and of the questionable way in which its business has been conducted, to see to that criticism and the main fouut of such criticism, the Liberal party, is strocgiv represented in the coming Parliament. Probably that rather than an appeal to return a Liberal Government to power—an appeal which could hardly be made with much coníidcnce-will be the key-note of the Liberal declaration. '??-?——

Army, Militia, and Volunteers VOLUNTEER PARADE AT RUTHIN. Ou Saturday afternoon the members of the l--t Y 1). Royal Welsh Fusiliers held a battalion drill at Ruthin. Abuut fifty-four members of the volunte-r cyclists journeyed by cycles from Wrexham, Llan- gollen, Ruabon, and other districts, meeting at Lhmdegla. This contingent under capiai'i Wils"on of Wrexham, afterwards proceeded to Ruthiu, wht- together with the oactaiion. they were formed up, and various maLoeavres were mactised. Coonc- A. Wynne Edwards, Denbigh, was in command a:ld there were also on parade Mijor Swame, Ration Major Johnson, Wrexham, and Captain and Adjutant Barker. The Dleu were in drill order, and tile mufirer was extremely satisfactory Xfci" L,,t.,u in all numbered 491 the Denbigh, Ruthin, and Knabon Silver bands in attendance. Darinz an interval in the drilling opei-atials Coloael EdwaJB addressed the men, and calied for three hearty ehe-a for Lieut. Maurice Griffiths and Sergeant Margin, of the Royal Welsh Service Company, who W-r'e mentioned in Lord Roberts's despatches last we-k for distinguished service in uuth Africa. Tb? aDn-al T3 responded to with vociferous c?eering. ai-ter tn. arih in t1 he Ruthin Ca.Ue grounds, Ai>r were provided with refreshments. Afterwards they strolled round the town, and fell in again at s-v-n o clock. Then they marched to the station, iud the W resham contingent arrived home art tWi'J:Y minutes to ten,

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