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-c THETUNNELMYSTERY Resumed Inquest. POST-MORTEMÕISOLOSU RES. Desperate Fight for Life. Iht days have passed since the mutilated .&IIn8 of Mary Sophia Money (22) were ctis- in tbemile-long tnnnel between Coulsdon Merntham, on the South-Eastern and Cbat- Railway system, and the origin of the tra- is still ankuowD. Thereason for the young kphnqj bookkeeper's visit into Surrey is also 'Explained, aail wben the inquest was resettled Monday at the Feathers Hotel, Merstbam, "fire the body still lies, tho limited accommoda- te in the hotel narlour was simply packed, The result of the police and railway inquiries Bfovided the fresh evidence for the day's proceed- v?8. which were again conducted by Mr F. f^Rhtiogale (deDuty coroner for £ aat Surrey). j*|e Percy Mortisou (the coronet) WHS also pre- a3 were also Captain bant, of the Surrey °J»«*bulary Soperintendent Brice. and the Jher principal officers in the case and Dr. tickett, who made the post-mortem examina- 00. Hobert Henry Money, dairy farmer, of Kings- HiS], the brother of the deceased, was re- und in answer to the Coroner said his vvas tight-banded. He conld not Bay Oetfaer his sister's pocket-handkerchief was jerked. She used small handkerchiefs, some- lace-bordered a Jaror My mother isalive, and I have ■fir sisters alive, One of them, at Windsor, »aw the Sunday before last. Slie promised Ko back last Sanday Dight. Deceased's Scarf. ^maia Hone, a lsllow employee of tba de- *??8ed at Messrs Bribers' dairy at Lavender Clapham, also had her evidence read over. "id you notice what sort of scarf daceased ^6? asked the coroner. witness Yns, a loner white silk scarf. She Tv' 00 round ^er I)ec'1 and shou'ders. yoa tell Mr Bridger at 30.50 that Miss rj^hey had not returned ? — Yes. I said I would ?*'t on foi her. I found her latch-key in her j*f» so I waited no till one o'clock in the morn- Bridger was in the dining-room with Mrs tlder. lit i 0 handkerchief ? —Yes, it was a '"e fancy handkerchief, with tiny white flowers the edge. 'JDhsre was no mark on the band- 'chief. I am certain, bnt I could jot swear to it. I "onld be able to identify the handkerchief. '•U positive she had a handkerchief. She had jbesides the purse and the handkerchief «er hand. The purse was of round knitted ton, abont an inch and a half in diameter. 0j° Was paid balf a sovereign on Saturday «.nd 1 think she bad some silver and 5Pers in the purse as well as the gold. a Juror I adhere to my former state- »?Dt- I did not know she had any young man, Do knowledge of any engagement ring. wore four rings when she left home, twe on finger and two on another. Miss Money took place as bookkeeper of Miss Isabella Lane, went into the country. Superintendent Brice; It was possible for Person to deliver a note to deceased with- t my knowledge or without Mr Bridger's j, pledge. I have seen far Butler in the shop, r-t I never saw her walk with anyone. Miss was not very strong. V&HBB Francis Golding, the confectioner's aol.tant. of Station Approach, Clapham, who chocolate to Miss Money on the Sunday was again examined. She could give no jj'liculaiB of the handkerchief. Tbe chocolate l?*. in a small round box three inches long and and a half in diameter. Witness could DO conversation farther than that she was to Victoria, 1t11."b-Inspactor Peacock, of the S.E, and C. "tway, who found the body, added to his state- aJH that deceased's head was three inches from Uils. Those Newspapers Again! this stage Dr. Crickett mads a complaint ,tp*ding statements which bad been pat ia cer- Papers unaer his name. He denied all respon- 3'i'y for the interview." ^Qcl beating his evidence read over, the 0r said he wished to modify his statement ,fe«5ard to the laceration of the month. H have again," he said, examined the t'blI.th in & better light, and I find no laceration. I* mark was a natural indentation, very much iterated." Carr, who removed the body, was er Ioed by Superintendent Briee, and adheied to ^"tatement regarding the scarf being in the th. He should say there were 10 or 12 inches :e mouth. At first he thought it was coming jSj the neck. ^"e soarf, which was dreadfully bloodstained, L'llain produced. l»ge constable said it was right in the month ^>d the teeth. Chariee Bellchambers Called. fyf*18 first new witness was Charlfcs Bell- fibers, Harrow-road, London, a clerk on tbe N. W. R, He said be had known Miss ^»sy for five years. They were not engaged, jejf there was no understanding to that effect "een them. he last time I was with her, he continued, on June 18th. SL« Coroner submitted) letters, which the fcih**8ed had sent to Bellchambers. She addressed as 14 Dear Cbarlie," and them— 11th love from uee." Hh b'd Riven her a ring, he contined, a gold but I can't remember the stylS of it. J5- Coroner Wbero were yoa on the 24th iu«i ^ker ?—I went to Birkhampsteafl bv motor ihft *raiior occupied by a friend, and tetarned U o'clock. We pat up at the George Jfrom 5 till 9 o'clock. fciv a I'Df> witness identified it as that she ever mentioned another young man's e to yon ?—No, never. b, eVer mentioned Batler'e name ?—l«o; I Coroner at this stage said that as there be discrepancies in the evidence, be pro- on the recommendation of Captain Sant, the jury to the tunnel to inspect the e of the tragedy. tOt be Proceedin/irl were accordingly adjourned "n hour. <> Injuries Described. 0?a the reassembly of the jury at a quarter to 1 10 W. n, Willcox, London, attached 'h* Home Office, was called. On 28th instant, he said, I made, tbe examination of the body at ij0 hotel here. It was the body of a well- ,lahed woman at the age of about 21._ The Wj r proceeded to detail tbo ternble injuries on the head. There were, iK#8a'd, three very distinct bruises aronnd threei very disunct bruises inside Ood & mouth, which he carefully examined n There had been no recent injuries "all e Rama or the teeth, and the roof of the "bowed no signs of injury. The natural 11011. OLation wis deeper and rather more pro- than is usually tbe case, but there was n in the membrane-covering. *\tinuing, Dr. Willcox detailed the other injuries. On the breast were several Mj^.ykeg. Coming to the hands there was a )n .j! crimson bruise corresponding wr^ tbe tear Rlove. There was also a bruise on the, °f the elbow on the rigbt side. This and Ij'her of a similar nature was quite 1:tE:nt from tho other bruises, being *• blue in colour. I take it they l|l% produced in qcite another way from Other bl uilles, On the right forearm there H slight braise and a small, oval, dark \o80n bruise. which might almost be called a '4"l1d, At the lower end of tha right side there Iftjj Pale red bruise, and there was also bruia- itO the back of tbe hand about half an inch W'^etef. On the right forefinger a nail was The Btomac'n showed no sign of disease. J*ere was DO evidence of smell or poison, ^hi» 0 not exaruinei the contents chemically, 6dlb 6 stains on the skirt proved to be brain Bruisas on the right arm and wrist and tl1 were such as might have been Caused by Gripping. bsight have been inflicted in a struggle with V Person. They mu9t have beeiv inflicted a Rliort time before 'ieath. The aeeeased pro- defended herself with the tight arm. to Sapcrinteadent Brice, Dr. Willcox sciatcbes on the shoulder might have \c«nied by the nails of a person. •ftk ^"eas went on tc Bay that on account of the inflicted by her being rnn over it was io sHy whether there had been an Pted outrage. Sn 13 concluded the evidence, and the inquest "Rain adjoamed till October 16th. 0 Police View of the Inquest. :'lItJ Monday evening Superintendent Brice, controlling the investigations into tbe sSii i 't Tunnel mystery, was seen by the JU*j?/ couespondent of the Press Association at KD!' 116 Ba'^ t^>ac as tile ,esu't iSt »»t the inquest yesterday, particularly Dr- Wilcox, the police would go on with n Ve,3t^ar'ions with renewed vigour, They 6V p atrest immediately in view, but he added v^0 lved in hope. It is not expected that I will be taken up in the Surrey district, fc"" otk''c' are loo'iiD^ for m"'n iD Ijondon » r 1 antrea population. Should he ever he /jll bo detsined and the Surrey police ""iot¡lInlca,ed with, ae anv police court investi- It tUnet take place in Surrey.
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A FOUNTAIN CHASE. MAE1TEG ^ATAND GIRLS. I 't;!8*11 B^ace, laboarer, 61, Coegnant-road, f Maeste«, was charged at Bridgend 1 fcV.Qdc?y' before Messrs Oliver Sbeppard and j 11 fiarri, with indecently assaulting Anne H^/hes, aged 9, and Katbeiine Wil- ^ed 6, on the mountain at Caeran on I R^Tnoon. Tbe little girls eaid that as^'r them to come with him and look t aD^ lhey B0- ^hey u^i|]Co^ P'r s on the mountain bflaDQ eafcury, collier, Caerau. said he i <N sonar with the girls, and on going towards j k, J .^J'soner got up and ran away. Witness u' Kj after a chaae of half-a mile. f °^er Pleaded not guilty. y t,ew'8 (Messrs T. J. Hcghes and t f °^er Pleaded not guilty. k° ^e^ondod. applied for bail, which was '(j; prisoner beiog remanded in custody ] ■*turd*y. n i i
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THRILLING STORY OF A WRECK Orkney Islanders Watch a Disaster. Messrs Hagerup, Doughty, and Co. have re- ceived a telegram giving the complete list of those lost throagb the wreck of the City of Lincoln. Those clrowned are H. Harris (skipper), W Hut- cbinson (second hand), Uyde(deck hana), Elogtrd (deck hand), and Bdmondson (steward). The six survivors manape.1 to get ashore and will leave for Giimsby as soon as possible. There are no particulars available aa to how the mishap occurreJ, but the telegram adds that the tlaw. ler is a total wreck. The Central News Kirkwall correspondent telegraphs One of the most thrilling disasters which have occurred on the Orkney coast during the last few years occurred last Saturdav, when the steam trawler City of Lincoln, of Grimsby, was wrecked off the island of Papa, Westray, and five men were drowned. The vessel left Grimsby for the Faroe fishing on Wednesday, September 20th, and started homeward again on Friday, September 29th, at 9 a.m. On Saturday morn- ing about 3 o'clock 11C shipper and secon3 mate came on the watch, uid found a Iiht bearing south, which was taken for Sule, Skerry. When too late, however, the captain discovered be waa in error, and found the light was Noup Head, Westray. When tbe vessel struck the whistle was blown for assi ttance.and the people of Papa- Weatray, made the most Btrenuoca exertions to render aid. It was of coarse impossible to lauticb 8ma 11 boats in the terrible sea which waa then running, but they tried to secure a connec- tion between the doomed vessel and the shore by flying kites and by sanding out empty casks. The crew meantime wera clinging to the rig. ging, and from time to time the agonised on lookers would see a man torn from hia resting place and hurled into the waters. At 7 o'clock the chief engineer resolved to swim for his life, and boldly plunged into thd sea. After a terrific straggle be succeeded in reaching the shore in safety, and then the captain seeing that all was lost followed the example of the engineer and made for the shore. The natives on the beach were ready to risk everything in an endeavour to effect a rescue, but the unfortunate man was carried away by the great waves when almost within reach of their belpiDg bandi. It is the impression of those on shore that the captain was ultimately struck by a piece of floating wreckage, for all of a sadden he threw up his bands and disappeared. The other deck hands remaining on board the vessel, which was now breaking np rapidly, also entrusted themselves to the mercy of the waves, and ultimately with the aid of those on shore they were all landed in safety. The crew con, sisted of twelve men, and of this number sevsn reached tbe sbore in safety. The qther four were swept from tbe riggin and drowned. Tbe'seven men who were sa\ed are all doing well.
FIVE GRIMSBY MEN DROWNED.
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FIVE GRIMSBY MEN DROWNED. The atesm trawler City of Lincolo, of Grimltbv, has been totally wrecked on the Island of PaDa. Westray, Orkney, during a northerly gale. Five of the crew of 12 have baen drowned. The vessel struck on the rocks on the northern part of the island. Farther particulsrs show that the ateemer left Grim&by a fortnight ago, and had been fishing at Farce, whence she was returning with a good cargo of fish. Daring the night she struck Papa Island, and immediately became a. wreck. There were eleven on bourd, nnl five men were drowned, including Captain Henry Elarris and the mate, W. Hutchinson. The names of the other three are not at preaenrknown. The bodies of the skipper and mgte have been recovered. Captain Hanis was one of the most successful skippera Hailing out of Giimsby, and a little time Bioce be mauaged by dint of unusual skill to bring home the City of Manchester steamer when she was practically disabled. He and the mate leave a family of five children each, most of them being young. The news came from the thitd hand, who himself had a narrow escape from death. The City of Lincoln makes the third vessel lost from Grimsby in a week. Crew of Eighteen Drowned. Lloyd's Helsingborg agent telegraphing on Sunday saya the Swedish stealer Robert, Huelva for Stettin, with a cargo of COD per ore and the Swedish steamer Niord. Stettin for Gothenburg, with a. cargo of geneial goods, have been in collision. The former vessel sank and 18 of the crew were drowned, including all the officers. One WIlS saved. The Niord put in badly damaged. The cause of the collision is unexplained. The sveatber was perfectly-clear and the wind light. The Niord struck the Robert amidships on the port side, and the Robert sank immediately. Those on board, namely, 19 men and two women, all Swedes, perished, with the exception of tbe carpenter who was rescued by tbëcrew of the Niord.—Reater. Passenger Steamer Wrecked. San Francisco, Saturday.—The M.S. Alameda, wbioh started tbis morning for Honolulu, bas gone •ashore in tbe bay. She is settling down. Her 60 passengers were safqly taken off in launches. Tbe work of trying to refloat her has bad to be abandoned. The few fittings that remain on her are now being removed.—Renter. Fate of a Glasgow Crew. A Glasgow correspondent telegraphs the Loch Vennachar, owned by Aitken, Lilburn and Co., Glasgow, is now given up as lost. She left Glas- gow on June 14th with a, crew of 27, and waa last reported within one day's sail of Adelaide. It ia presumed that the ship must have been canght in one of the extraordinarily severe gales that swept over that part of the globe and wrecked on the rocka which abound in the Kangaroo Island. Messre Aitken, Lilburn and Co. received a, cablegram on Monday morning from their Ade- laide agents to the effect that the wreckage of a ship's boat bearing tbe name Loch Vennachar bad been washed ashore on Kangaroo Island. Subjoined is a list of the crew:—W. S.' Hawkips, of Glasgow, master James Priest, of North Shields, mate; Charles Radclifie, of Hornsey, Hull, second mate Fred W. Lake,, of Malvern, Melbourne, third mate James Reid, carpeiiter W. Molseed, Greenock, steward W. McLean, Greenock, cook R. Simpson, Engen Broberg, sail maker Donald Mathison, A. Anderson, S. McEwan, Thomas Anderson, Hugh Humphreys, Alex Dunlop, M. Jensen, David Hanson, E. Holden, John Bickle, and William Barry, able seamen Edward McPbie, William Tnrnball, and Wm. Martin, ordinary seamen Joseph W. Hadley, of Wivenhoo, Essex Thos. W. Pearce, Southampton D. S. B. Thomson, Victoria, Australia, and Horace Eastwood, Kncttinglev, Yorkshire, apprcQtice3. All weie shipped at Glasgow. Pleasure Boat Run Down. Lisbon, Monday.—Tbe German steamer Matk- groff, bound for Hamburg, ran down the pleasure boat Olivia to-day. There were five persons on board, four of whom were drowned.—Renter. Five Fisherrr-en Missing. Grave fears ate entertained for the safety of five men who left Jersey for the Minquiers on Sunday morning on a fishing expedition. The party failed to return on Sunday night as expected, and on :Mondav » tng visited the Min- quiers, but failed to fiud any trace either of the men or their boat. Tbo party included Mr G. Renouf, an experienced local pilot Mr Abler, a prominent local tradesman two fishermen brothers namett Battam, a Mr Le RIche. Tho men left man open sailing boat, and the joarney back would be agsinst a head wind. Coal-Laden Barque Sank. Palma, Balearic Isles, Monday.—The captain of the steamship Baleares, from IVULt, brings details of the collision reported off that port on Sunday. The vessels concerned were an Italian barque laden with coal and the French steamship Matapan, with a cargo and a few passengers from Marseillas to Dunkirk and Liver- pool. The collision took piece in a fog off Cunijera Island. So violent was the impact that the barque sank 14 minutes after the collision. Tbe crew numbered 20 men, four of "whom were drowned. The captain had both his firms roken. Terrible scenes of panic took place among the passengers at the tim6 of the accident, bnt ncne of them was injured, The Matapan has sprang a leak forward, which has forced her to put into San Antonio, The passengers and cargo will be transferred there and tbe vessel will be towed back toa French port. Tbe Italian sailors bave applied to the maritime authorities of Iviza. for aesist, ance.— Renter.
THE SHAH AND BLOODSHED.
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THE SHAH AND BLOODSHED. A Solemn Warning. St. Petersburg, Friday.—When the Shah of Persia arrived at Astara, the first Persian station on his return journey from Russia, Geneial Kobanovskv handed to his Majesty a telegram from the Viceroy's Assistant-General Shirinkin, officially refuting the statement about the murder of twentv Persian schoolboys by Armenians, Subsequently the Shah, summoning before him the director of the Custom House and repre- sentatives of the local Persian authorities, ordered them to publish openly and categoric- ally a declaration Btating that anyone wbo threatened Armenians or attempted ^excite disorders for the purpose of inflicting losses upon Armenians would be most severely punished. In my Empire," said the Shah, I will aliow no disorders, and will on no account per- mit my country to become the scene of suah wild and bloody events as those which have occurred in the Trans-Caucasus."—Central News.
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THE ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCE. A Guarantee of Pace. The Hon. T. H. Cochrane, Undersecretary for Home Affairs, speaking at a Unionist meet- ing at Stockport on Monday night, said the Anglo-Japanese treaty was a guarantee of peace not for 10 years only, but for 10 times 10 years. Though a treaty of defence, not defiance, it gave security to us with all our possessions, for it meant we bad a gallant friend to stand by us in cabO of unwarrantable attack, while it gave to the Japanese the streugth derivable from warm friendship with Great Britain. The Govern- ment's foreign policy had earned the goodwill not only of Japan, but of many other ooantrioa.
THE COAL OUTLOOK.
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THE COAL OUTLOOK. I WORKMEN & THEIR LEADERS. Mabon, M.P., Replies to Attack. TO THI EDITOR. Sir,—It is evident that some of the stormy petrels of tbe South Wales coalfield have been set on the wing once more. Their object is obvious, viz., to create public apprehension and throw mud at Welsh colliers at.1d their leaders. Of course they pretend to have their in- formation from varied sources well qualified to spfeak, ind it is little wonder that the un- initiated and ignorant in these matters are so often deceived and are so ready to blame tbe comparatively innocent. One of these found occasion to appear in your columns n tbe 2tb nit., and, with the obvious purpose of oreating ascertain mprossion on the public mmd lD Soutb Wales, was great in reading a serious and severe lesson to the Welsh colliery workmen and their leaders in view of the approaching termination of the Conciliation Board agreement. He has been heard of before. His occasion comes with each revision of the agreement betneen South Wales colliery owners and their workmen. Upon the evidence of others he has found that tbe present depression in tbe South Wales coal trade has arisen from three different c&nses—the coal tax, cost of production, and the adoption of electricity instead of coal as motive power. That may be right enough to an extent, but that it ia the whole reason is quite a different thing. Bat should his opinion be the correct one, and even the suggested remedial measures be the right ones, why Bbonld fasts and figures with regard to cause or the proposed remedies be so distorted:- What is the object to be gained in the oft-re- peated complaints thrown broadcast against the men and their leaders-tbree-foartbs at least of which are incorrect? There is but one, and that is obvious. This correspondent is endeavouring to premoald public opinion, and, should there be a crisis in tbe South Wales coalfield at the end of tbe year, to make ont that the men and their leaders only will be responsible. In this effort to establish a case against these parties several extremely inaccurate statements are indulged in, which, in mv judgment; were the writer making them compelled to put bis name to the article, would never bave been made. Allow me to notice some of tbem. He says, "English coal finds the effect of the coal tax more severely than Welsh coal in the foreign markets of the world." A glance at the tonnage atainpsd from South Wales and tbe price received for it as compared with those two iteml from the various English coalfields, as given in a recent Government return, will prove tbis statement to be not only inaccurate, but most absurd. In speakiug of the reduced cost of production as a possible remedy be makes this bold, but un- truthful, assertion, that the men and their leaders (inltbi8 coalfield) persistently set them- selves aeaiost any cheapening of coat of produc- tion. True, ho tries to cover himself by stating that this is an allegation made by employers, but the examples he gives prove conclusively that this is to him a fact; the covering is bat for a purpose. Tbe effect on the minds of those that are unacquainted with the facts is the same. To that statement and several others that follow I give an unqualified contradiction. Then come two other equally erroneous mis- statements. First, that it ia well known tbat in the English coalfield the pro- duction per man is greater than in South Wales, and, ReconftJy, that an Eng. lish coalowner gets more work for a sovereign than his Welsh confrere. The first of these statements is inaccurate, and the second a libel on the truth. True, the English miner sends to bank per man more coal than tbe Welsh miner, but that does not prove that be prodaces more. Let the percentage of coal "gobbed" bv tbe Welsh miners be sent to bank, and the figures as to production will easily be reversed. It tbe English employer got more work for bis sovereign than bis Welsh confrere, it would be the best argument for a reduction in the hours of labour ever found for it is a well- known fact that the time worked in 8011 the mines of the United Kingdom, with the excep- tion of a portion of Lancashire,'are quite an hour less per day than the daily boarB worked in tbe mines of Soutn Wales, Aaio,tbe figures that this writer gives in sup- port of bis false assertion that the 30 per cent. minimum in South Wales means much more to the Welsh owners than the same figare does to tbe English owners," is both grossly inaccurate and grossly misleading. The figures ginn are not correct. The advances paidlto workmen in both places are not paid on the ton of coal only, but on tbe standard of wages earned and the 40 per cent. advance now received by tbe English federated miners ia paid to them on a higher standard rate than the standard rate that tbe Welsh miners receive 30 per cent. on. Moreover, the one-sided object of this correspondent is more glaring still in what he leaves unaaid than in what he says. He has in comparing tbe disadvantages of the South Wales colliery owners with the advantages of tba English colliery owners studiously not* said that the South Wales owner receives at least double the price for tbe coal he pays wages on t ban bus English confrere. Let the effect of tbe shilling per tODcoal tax be considered from that stand- point, and which would fare worse ? Then as regards the depression itself. Is there no depression, and has there been no de- pression in tbe English coal trade ? The fact is that for two years prior to the end of June this year we in South Wales man for man and colliery for colliery have worked a little over double the time tbat has been worked through- out the Midland Counties, even including York- shire, with tho exception of two colliery firms. If it is tbe aoal tax, tbe cost of production, and tbe refusal of tbe men and their, leaders to adopt electricity, which are the only causes of tbe present depression in the Welsh coal trade, and if there is not a much greater and broader cause tbat has affected the Midlands for two years, and is affecting the South Wales coalfield, how is it that in the Midland Counties-where tbe shilling per ton tax, according to this cor- respondent, is more severely felt than in South Wales, where also the cost of production is so much less, and tbe workmen and their leaders are so much more ready to help tbe employers in the adoption of electricity—the depression in trade has been felt 80 much longer, and even severer, than it has yet been in South Wales ? What a field of fact contradictory to tbis nameless correspondent's assertions opens up bere were any one of tbe men's leaders free to enter into a discussion on the matter. But it is well known that at present they cannot, that they bave to meet in a few weeks and discuss the whole matter with the representatives of the employers, who will be with themselves tbe responsible parties lor the settlement to be made, and wbo with t'bem will be jointly respon- sible should there ba a failure. The severity of the velvet-gloved attack of your nameless occcaeional correspondent on the Welsh colliers is my only reason for penning this letter. If this writer were to be believed the Welsh collier is the laziest of all lazy men in the United Kingdom, and the leaders tbe moat un- scrupulous. But a number of us have been in the coalfield too long and are, I hope, too well known for it to be expected that we should take this mao's unjustifiable accusations lying down. —I am, &c„ MABON.
SHEEP-WORRYING DOGS.
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SHEEP-WORRYING DOGS. At Merthyr on Monday Patrick Carty was summoned for causing damage to the extenfi f through having in his possession two dogs, which had been worrying sheep belonging to tbe Rhymnoy Iron Company, Pontlottyn. The evi- dence showed that several sheep were found killed and others badly maugled by David Pro- tberoe, the company's Bbepherd, and other wit- nesses. P.S. Gammon said that when he spoke to the defeudant be caused one of the doga to be drowned, and tbe other was now missing. He was ordered to pay JE5 and the eosta of the prose- cution. At Aberavon on Monday Isaac Rees, of Nanty- feiw Farm, Ogmore, farmer, claimed £ Z 12s 6d, and Mary T. Thomas, of Gelli House, Ogmore, £ 1 5s from John Thomas, grocer, Abeigwynfi as compensation for sheep killed by defendant's dog, a black retrie\er. Judgment was given for tbe complainants for the amounts claimed.
CARDIFF SKIPPER'S DEATH.
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CARDIFF SKIPPER'S DEATH. Captain Logan, of St. Jobn's-crescent, Can. ton, Cardiff, died suddenly on board his boat, tba ss. Hazelmere (Messrs W. J. Tillet and Co.), on Monday morning. It appears the vessel arrived in the Channel off Biiton Ferry on Sunday night, and the captain retired to rest soon afterwards. Next morning early tbe steward took him some coffee, and receiving no reply he reported tbe matter to tbe mate, and he advised tbat tbe captain should not be disturbed for a while. Later on the steward went to the cabin and found Captain Logan breathing very hard. The vessel was taken into Briton Ferry at 9 o'clock. and the captain soon afterwards expired. The de- ceased gentleman was well known and respected in shipping circles, and was 55 yeara of age.
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CARDIFF CORPORATION. Election of Auditors. The election of elective auditors of the Cor- poration accounts took place at Cardiff on Mon- day, there being three candidates for two appoint- ments ;—Mr Oswald Coleman and Mr John S. Taylor, the old auditors, and Mr John Dudley Edwards, Baogor-road. The poll was an exceptionally heavy one, and IthareBnlt waa declared by tbe Mayor shortly after half-past 9 as follows ;— I J. S. Taylor. 845 J, Dudley Edwards 840 Oswald Coleman 663
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PRINCESS CHRISTIAN'S THANKS. Mr Herbert Cornish, secretary to tbe Institute of Journalists, has received the following letter from the Nat.onal Committee for the establish- ment of sanatoria. for workers suffering from tnberculosis Dear Sir,-I am desired. by her Royal Tiigh- ness Princess Christian to suv how very sensible she is of the kindness of the Press in giving pub- licity so largely to the appeal she recently made on behalf of this committee, and her Royal High- ness wishes me to convey her tbanks to those papers who so kindly gave their help. I am sending this expression of tbanks to you as the best means of conveying it to the Prt-iss gener- ally.-T am, deareir, faithfully yoore, E. Douglas Wbite (secretary).
CUSTOMS REPORT FOR 1905.
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CUSTOMS REPORT FOR 1905. Remarkable Growth of Exemptions Tbe 49th report of the Commissioners of H.M. Customs for 1905 shows thtt the net receipts from the coal duty for the financial year ending March last amounted to £2,052,774, as compared with £2,057,653 in tbe previous year, an iocraasa of only £1,121. The Commissioners report that had tbeie not been a considerable increase in tbe repayments on account of coal not exceeding 69 a ton in value, the receipts from the duty wouid have been considerably larger, for the total export of coals, coke, etc., show a sub- stantial advance. The exports increased from 46.966,268 tons to48,703,044, and the shipments of bunker coal from 16.911,467 tons to 11.385.411 tous-an increase of 474,004 tons. It is probable that in order to escape the tax the shipping companies have now carried as far as possible tbe system of coaling in this country for tbe whole voyage instead of replenishing their bunkers at a foreign depot for British coal, as was formerly the practice. In this conaection it may be observed that the increase in tbe ship- ment of bunker coal in the calendar year 1904, compared with 1903, amounted to 2-3 per cent., and the increase 10 the net tonnage of steam vessels cleared with sargoes and in ballast at ports in the United Kingdom to places abroad was 2.8 per cont.j but compared with the calen- dar year 1900-tbe last before the imposition of the coal dllty-the increase in 1904 in the ship- ments of bunker coal was 46*3 per cent., and in the tonnage cleared only 14-g percent.Duringthe year 1904-5 exemption from duty or remission of duty was allowed on the exports of 7,536.000 tons of coaJ. coke, <fec. These exports, added to the shipments of bunker coal, give a total of 24,921,000 tons, or 39*7 per cent. of the aggregate export of coal, on which the duty was not charged or was remitted." A table is given Bbowing that since 1902-3 the shipments of eoal not exceeding 6s per ton bave increased from 3,742,385 tons to 6,007.571, and tbe Commis- sioners attribute this increase largely to the continued fall in prices since tbe boom of 1900, and they add another table showing that since 1901-1902 tbe annual average declared values (inclusive of duty) of 4be exports of coal have fallen from 13s 2d to 10a « The decline," they conclude, 1 in value was greater in 1904-5 than in the pioceding year. During the last few months of- the financial year, however, the prices of small coal showed consider able improvement, due to some extent to the diminished oatpat of large coal and the consequent reduction in the output of small coal. The price of best Welsh large steam coal rase smartly for a few weeks in January, and then fell to about 3d below the commenoing price, whereas small Welsh coal at the end of March was nearly Is a, ton above the price ruling in January. Comparing the beginning of the financial year with the end, tbe fall in the value of the large coal was aboat 411 a ton, and the rise in tbat of tbe email coal aboat 9d a ton. Besides the increase in the shipments of coal below the 6a limit, there haB also been a considerable in- crease in the Quantity of similar coal contained in the exports of patent fuel, nearly all ot which is shipped from Soath Wales."
ACCIDENTS IN SOUTH WALES COLLIERIES.
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ACCIDENTS IN SOUTH WALES COLLIERIES. Tbe Home Office has just published a. report relating to persons employed and accidents at minea and quarries in the United Kingdom in 1904. It states that tbe total number of persons employed at mines was 877.057, of which 163.034 were employed in tbe South Wales coalfield. During the year there were 1,158 separate fatai accidents, causing tbe loss of 1,202 lives, of which 268, or 24-4 per cent., took place in South Wales A comparison of the figures for the Yorkshire coalfield with those of the South Wales coalfield shows that tbe former in 1904 employed 23 4 per cent. of the total number of persons working at ooal mines, but had only 19'6 per cent. of the total number of deaths, whereas in South Wales tbe state of things is j ose the reverse, the coalfield employing 19-6 per cent, of tbe total number of perrons, and having 25 9 per cent. of tbe total number of deaths.
SHORTAGE IN ACCOUNTS.
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SHORTAGE IN ACCOUNTS. Charge Against" an Official. At Bristol Police Conrt on Monday .Tames Whiting, secretary of the PishcondB lodge of tbe Bristol, West of England, aDd South Wales Operatives Trade and Provident Society, regis- tered nnder tbe Trade Unions Act of 1871, was charged with having certain moneys in his pos- session, viz., JE15 14s 4d, belonging to the Bocietv which he bad, it was alleged, unlawfully withheld. The defendant said tbe charge was partly true, but he had never received the money, and be could not pay it for he had been out of work. He admitted that JElS odd was due. Mr R. H. Carpenter (Messrs Benson, Carpenter, and Co.) appeared for tbe society, stating tbat the defeodant had been secretarv of tbe Fish- ponds lodge some years, and also held a high position in the society as a general councillor. Some little time 1120 the acoouate were found to be deficient to the extent of £15 odd, and pro- ceedings were t-tken nndbr Section ]2 of tbe Act. Tbey asked for an order for the payment of the money, or in default some punisbnrant for the defendant, for it was important in a society^of that kind, which was made up of a great number of working men, that the officers should be reli- able. Mr John Fox, the general secretary of the society, said it was in August it was found that the money was in arrear. and John Clerk Fox, assistant secretary, proved the amount owing to the society. The present of tbe Fishponds Dodge said the defendant had been a useful member, and they were very sorry to find that the money had not been paid over. Witness thought there was no doubt that the defendant had paid moneyfor other members to keep them in benefit, although he had no righi to do it. The Clerk: Do you know more than one case where he has credited a member with having paid to keep him in benefit ? —Witness I have heard members say be bas paid money for tbem.—The defendant added that his wife died recently, and he bad no one dependent upon him. He coold earn bot very little, and could not pay the money, but a son had promised to pay 10s a. month. The Bench made an order for tbe defendant to pay JEI5 14s 4d and JE1 fine, or in default to go to prison for one month.—Tbe Defendant I can- not pay tbe money.—The Chairman If any of your friends can pay it yon Till be allowed to go.
TRAMP'S CONFESSION.
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TRAMP'S CONFESSION. Fired a Hayrick Owner Declines to Prosecute. The destruction by fire of a large hayrick on Sunday at Arnold's Down, na.U baverfordwast was atSended by some rather unique feature'- Tbe øtack, which weighed aboat 24 tont.was pur- chased only a few days previously at tbe farm -ale by Mr S. W. Phillips, merchant, Haver- fordwest, for £55. Just after the news tbat tbe rick was on fire reached the Haverfordwest police OD Sunday afternoon a man, who gave tbe name of Philip Tremaine, and said he was on tramp from London, Clme to the police station, and made and signed the following con- fession Some time this afternoon I went to sleep alongside a hayrick aboatone mile the other side of the Haverfordwest Railway Station on the Narberth road. I was awakened by the riek being on fire. I had a pipe lighted in my mouth when I fell asleep. The pipe bad fallen out and put the rick on fire." Tbe man was thereupon detained in custody, and a copy of his confession was sent to tbe owner of the rick, who, t should here be stated, was not insured. Supt. Francis informed tbe Haverfordwest magistrates on Monday, when Tremaine was brought up, tbat he had received a reply from Mr Phillips acknowledging the receipt of the communication, and adding, I do not wish to prosecute." Supt. Francis said he consequently offered no evi- dence. Mr Phillips was the man who bad suffered, and tbat was what he bad said. The Cbairman (Mr T. Rule Owen) disobarged tbe prisoner.
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FIREATBEAUFORT Attributed to Rats. A fire broke oat on tbe premises of Messrs Morris and Co., grocers, Bristol House, Beau. fort, on Sunday evening, the outbreas originat- ing in tbe warehouse. The alarm was raised about 9.30, and Mr J.Morris, with his assist- ants, immediately set to work to subdue the flameB, and a band ofbetpers.ander the direction of P.C.'s Harvey and Cleaver, were also soon at tbe sceno with a hose. A bigh wind was blowing at the time, and there being a quantity of ip- flammable material among the stock it was at one time feared that tbe whole of the extensive premises would be Involved. By dint of persist- ent effort, however, the workers limited the range of fire, and extinguished the flame. shortly before 11 o'clock. Considerable damage was done to the premises and stock. Tbe outbreak, It ia surmised, was caused by rats nibbling among t, store of matches.
SERIOUS AUSTRIAN RIOTS.
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SERIOUS AUSTRIAN RIOTS. 200 Persons Injured. Vienna, Monday.—Serious street fighting be- tween Czechs and Germans, in which nearly 200 persons were injured, some of them seriously, occurred at Bruenn yesterday. Six of those con- veyed to tbe hospital are not expected to recover. Among the injured is Professor Wellner, a well- known inventor of a fiyug machine, wbo was working in his study when a stone thrown through the window struck him in the eye. The disturb- ances bave made a. bad impression in political circles bere, and it is feared tbat they may lead to a complete interruption of negotiations for r. reconciliation between the Germans and Czech parties in the Reicbsratb, Which have been making excellent progress.—B»uter.
REV. ALFRED TILL V'S Will.
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REV. ALFRED TILL V'S Will. Estate of Over £7,000. The will of tbe late Rev. Alfred Tilly, for many years p»Btor of the Tredegarville Baptist Cfiapei, Cardiff, bas just been proved. The tc-atator has appointed bis son, Mr Alfred Tilly, and his son-in-law, Mr F. A. James, his executors Iacct trustees. Tbe gtosa nmcunt of estate has been proved tobe£7,481,whioh is divided in shares Among his son and daughters. <
SIR E. J. REED. M.P.
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SIR E. J. REED. M.P. No Longer a Candidate for Cardiff. TO RETIRE AT THE GENERAL ELECTION. Sir Edward Reed, M.P., is no longer a candi. date for Crrdiff. For reasons of ill-health he will retire at the General Election, and will not seek re-eleotion. This decision was conveyed on Monday night in a letter from the bon. member to Councillor Lewis Morgan, and read by that gentleman to a meeting of the Manage- ,ment Committee of the Cardiff Conservative Association. The announceaJent will be received with regret on all sides, for though Sir Edward Reed had exnressed his determination not to again accept nomination at the hands of the Liberal Associa- tion, his many friends on that side of politics re- gard with sincere aorrow the cause of the ap. proaching seAerance of the bon. member's long and honoat&ble connection with the Cardiff Boroughs. The text of Sir Edward Reed's letter is as follows 28th September, 1905. My Dear Councillor Lewis Morgan,—I am much obliged by your favour of the 25th. Yoa will remember that it was in November last that your friends passed a resolution practi- cally inviting me to Btand again at tbe next fol- lowing election for the Cardiff seat, and promised me the support of all the three parties represented at the meeting which I attended in that montb. I greatly hesitated, as you know, on aocount of my age and want of health, but when in Feb- ruary the last Session of Parliament had com- menced, and a dissolution seemed almost certain, I could not and it in my heart to send a refusal which would have involved so many very generous friends in disappointment, and in the extreme difficulty of providing another oandidate at what seemed almost cer- tain to be very short notice. On that account I accepted. The election did come off. and I then had to reconsider my position in the matter. You will remember that I underwent quite a course of operations, and although they ended in great and very distressing injury at tbe time to my nervous system, and disabled me from doing work for many weeks, they resulted, as I believed, in snob permanent improvement of my health as made me feel that I might continue my candidature until an autumn election, which then appeared probable. During the last month, however, my old trouble of severe coughing, followed by great distress of my head, and like- wise, as I have learnt, by great interference with my heart's proper working, ball retarned, and I have suffered a great deal-so much Indeed that I have not been able to give that full and regular attention to my professional work which is customary with me. You will remember that a few weeks ago, in conversation with you, I described what seemed to be the recurrence of my ailments, and that I felt very unfit to enter apon political labour. In view of your kind representations, I de- cided that I would not renounce my candidature in the event of an autumn election taking place, but would do my beat and utmost to carry the seat; again if possible. It now seemf certain, however, tbat there will be no antumn election, and therefore there will be ample time before the election of 1906 to sub- stitute another, and perhaps much better candl- date for me. I think it is only fair therefore to everybody in Cardiff, and more especially to those who were BO ready to support me, to finally relinquish the candida- ture wbioh I am not in a fit state to further pro- long. I am satisfied tbat I shall have little health or strength to spare during the coming winter, but on the contrary shall have to fight for my health, and possibly to go abroad for weeks or months together to mitigate my Obysical condition. I have been very unwell for the last week or two, and am too unwell at the present moment to write such a political letter as I should much wish to write on thus relin- quishing my hope of giving further service to Cardiff after the next election. This letter is based upon such Intimate and prolonged knowledge of my loss of robust health that I bope it will be accepted by all mv proposed supporters ae a final relinquishment of tny can- didatare. and I most oarnestly beg them all to believe that notbing, absolutely nothing, but such a breakdown of my health as I cannot et my age bope to fully recover from, is the cause of my piesent action. I write this Jetter with real pain and Borrow, and in the hope that all our friends will see the inevitablenells of it, and will believe that it is with unspeakable regret that I thus have to foretell my final political severance from Cardiff when the dissolution arrives. On some later day I may hope to be able to give a fuller expression of my feelings, but I am unable at the present moment to vsrite more or to do more than rely opon the extreme kindness of those who have been so good to me and were so ready to prolong my representation of Cardiff bad it been pobsible.-I am, my dear Councillor Lewis Morgan, yours very trnly, (Signed) E. J. REED. At the meeting of the Management Com- mittee of the Conservative Association, held at Salisbury Chambers on Monday evening, Mr Lewis Morgan presiding, the letter from Sir Edward Reed was read, and a resolution was unanimously passed expressing deep regret that owing to failing health Sir Edward Reed was not able to be their candidate at the next General Election. It was decided also to take immediate steps to secure another candidate.
IUREAT BOND THEFT.
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UREAT BOND THEFT. An Arrest and Confession. New York, Monday.—The Herald says the man who obtained the secarities deposited in a New York bank by Mr Pearl by means of a cheque forged in Mr Pearl's name was arrested yesterday on his way to church. He made a con- fession some hours later. Half of the securities have been recovered and the reet will be obtained to-day. The Herald does not give the man s name, but states tbat be is a clerk, aged 24. He is em. ployed by a brokerage bouse, and has no connec- tion with the bank which was robbed or Mr Pearl's firm. He overheard Mr Pearl and another gentleman negotiating the loan, and at once planned the theft. He had been in Wall-street for some-years, and was well acquainted with the details of Buch transactions. He was traced by means of the die which be had had made to forge the certification of the cheque. The detectives were able to obtain a description of the man who gave the order. The arrested man says he made a blander when he used a plain cheque instead of one of Mr Pearl's own cheque forms also when he forged the number in red ink instead of in copying ink.—Central News. Robbery for a Bet. New York, Monday.—The man who has baen arrested in connection with tbs robbery of securities belonging to the National City Bank is a clerk in a broket s firm on a small salary. His name is given as Hairy Leonard. He told the police that he committed forgery and robbed the National City Bank just to show how easy it was to outwit the safeguards of a New York bank. He afterwards sent I by post 300,000 dollars to tbe hoase of the senior member of the firm of Pearl and Co., who had received a loan from the bank on the deposit of the stolen securities. The remaining sum of 59.000 dollars p has not yet been recovered. The accused was held to bail in 50,000 dollars. As be left the court be said that he had committed the robbery for a bet.-Renter.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO. Grim End of a Love Quarrel. Berlin, Monday Night.—The end of a ritd duel on American lines Is related by the Berliner Tageblatt." Twenty years ago Theo- bald von Bovens, a naturalised American sub- ject, who has lived for the past three years in Berlin, had a dispute regarding a lady with another American named Fish. The duel which was the outcome of the quarrel took the form of drawing lots to decide which of the two should take his own life, and the fatal lot fell to Von Bovens. He, however, failed to abide by tha contract until yesterday, when he received R letter from the other party to the duel bomtnou- ing bim to discharge bis debt of honour." Von Bovens thereupon hanged himself, leaving a letter to explain his action.—Renter.
HOW TO MILK A COW.
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HOW TO MILK A COW. Pontardawe Magistrate's Advice. At Poutardawe Petty Sessions Mr Herbert fdoyd (the chairman), during the hearing of a milk summons, emphasised tbe importance of a second milking of cows. There were certain things which people must attend to if they kept a dairy. They nanst milk the cows regularly, and have a person to do it who knew how. The milkman must strip the cow, as the last few drops the cow gave were the most valuable. There were very few women, except farmers' wives, who really knew bow to milk a cow. Cows oag;bt to be milked not later than 6 o'clock in the morning. He should like it to go forth to the farmers in the district that regularity in milking and the stripping of the cow were ) essential.
Montgomery Problems.
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Montgomery Problems. WHAT WHITEHALL MAY DO. Prospective Raid on County Funds. A correspondent in the TImes" deals exhaustively with the situation in Montgomery- shire and the interesting problems which it raiBes and gives an inkling of the hopes which the sec- tarians entertain of a by Whitehall on Par. liamentary contributions to tbe oountv, to an extent which would provide for the expenses of tbe whole of the schools—sectarian and Council ecboolB— the administration of which is thrown n the Board of Education by the recent action of the County Council majority. Oar con- temporary's correspondent says the situation in Montgomeryshire presents some new and in- teresting problems both in local government and on administration by tbe Board of Education. It emphasises also in a peculiar manner the dangers of slovenly or faulty drafting when legislation is undertaken at high pressure. The alteration of a phrase in the Education Act of 1902. the introduction of balf-a-dozen words into the Education (Local Authority Default) Act of last year, would have sufficed to prevent Mr Lloyd George from taking the present step by the simple expedient of making it purposeless, and whatever may be the Welsh leader's defects be seldom commits the error of taking an im- portant step without soma definite object in view. That he does not always succeed in achiev- ing his object is another matter altogether. Mr úloyd Gsorge and his followers have not hesitated to wash their hands of their own schools as well as of the Church schools, making both classes a cbarge upon the Board of Education rather than permit the Council schools to earn grants which might be seized. The establishment of an emergency school at Pont-dol-goch i8 pro- bably tho first of a. series of such schools in- tended to influence not so much the present as tbe futnre situation, by tbe creation of rival schools to the existing Church schools, which, it is hoped, tbey may be allowed to Bupplant in the congenial atmosnhere of a. coming Liberal Administration. The withdrawal of the Council representatives from any body of Charch school managers will not materially affect the situation. In tbe case of the Council schools, however, the reverse ia the case. Abstention on the part of the Progres- sives there means the stoppage of tbe whole administrative machinery, and Mr LlOyd George counts upon Sir William Aneon Dossessing absolutely no remedy. By an oversight in drafting, the Education (Local Authority Default) Act, while pro- viding for the recognition as managers of aoy school of the persons are already acting as managers thereof, contains absolutely no" provision to meet tbe case of a school which either has no managers or whose managers abstain from acting. Consequently the district education committees can neither be removed nor superseded, nor oomoelJed to act. It is not competent for either the Education Committee or tbe Board of Education to act except through persons who are already acting AS managers of the particular school concerned. How, then, can the Act be administered in re- spect of schools possessing no managers who will act ? TUllot is one of the very interesting problems which Mr Lloyd George now invites Sir William Anson to solye- On the broader question of providing funds for the maintenance of the schools, however, there is more to be said. Mr Lloyd-George relies upon Sir William Anson'savailable funds for this pur- pose being restricted to Parliamentary grants for elementary education purposes. The phras- ing of Section 1 (2) of the Education (Local Authority Default) Act. npon :which Mr Lloyd George relies, says that aDY sums paid by tbe Board of Education for maintenance of schools in resnect of which the local education authority may be in defaplt may be dedacted from any sums payable to the authority on account of Parliamentary grants." On the Btrength of what was stated on bebalf of the Government in the discussion on this clause, Mr Lloyd George contends that the only Parliamentary grants on which Sir" illiam Anson bas a lien under tbis Act are tbe elementary education grants. So far as the actually existing unconditional lien is concerned, Sir William Anson would probably feel' himself bound by the pledge upon which Mr Lloyd George relies. Bat the whole of sab- section 1 (2) reads :— Any sum paid by the Board of Education under tbis Act shall be a debt to the Crown from the local education authority, and without prejudice to any other remedy may be deducted from any sums payab!e to that authority on account of Parliamentary grants." Tbis places a totally different complexion apon the financial aspect of the situation. It will bo seen that the subsection specifically states that anyaam expended by the Board nnder tbe Default Act shall be a Crown debt. Tbe de. duction of lIums sopaid from the education Rrant is only an easy method of recovering by other than process of law.and does not prejudice any other lemedy." The other remedy is, of course, taking the case to the Courts for judg- ment. Jadgment once given, the recovery of tbe sums expended is a very ensy matter. Contem- plating this contingency, Mr Lloyd George is known to rely on the seizure of county buildings and posaibly their sale; or at least the issue of in- structions to boards ofguardiansnot tohaad over county rates collected by tbem to tbe County Coancil bat to the Board of Education. He, however, forgets, or wishes his followers to forget, that the money may be recovered without any public display whatsoever, The education uatimates for the year included a 6id education rate, intended to be ased for administration and Council school purposes only. Add to this another 5id for non-pro\ided school pur- poses, and we bave a shilling rate. A penny rate foe the county produces, roughly, f1 200 so tbat a shilling rate would fce say which would thus represent the outside figure of what Sir William Anson would require to provide for a year's working of the whole of the schools over and above the education grant for tbe county. Having, then, obtained judgment m the Courts against the connty, which be would have no difficulty in doing, he conld attach any earn standing to the credit of the county either in tbe coun- cil's banker's hands or in tbe Imperial Treasury. Even neglecting the former alto- gether, he would fini that the Exchequer contri- bution to Montgomeryshire in 1904 amounted to £14,826. and ditto under the Agricultural Rates Act to an aggregate of £18,2117, which he could attach at any time as it fell due to tbe county. It is here that tbe inherent weakness of Mr Lloyd George's position lies, but a weakness of which his followers have bitberto been kept In blissful ignorance.
BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH ON TESTS.
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BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH ON TESTS. The Biebop of St. Asapb, presiding on Satnr day over a Dulicmeeting in connection with tbe Denbighshire branch of the National Union of Teachers, said be had hoped two years ago the present controversy might have been averted. bat the prophecy which an English statesman made to him at that time now awaits its inevit- able fulfilment, and he feared the solution of the question must once more be fought out in Par- liament. He awaited the result without fear. While the State and the denominations had been at isBue a a to the form of faith to be taught the child at last they.were beginning to recognise tbat only oce person bad a right to decide tbis question, aud that was the parent. At the close of the meeting tbe Bishop re. plied to Mr D. S. Davies. a member of the Denbighshire Education Committee, wbo had said there wre 75 schools in Denbighabire where there were religions tests for teachers. His Lordship said tbore was snch a thing as a legal test and a test which was not legal, but which was very rigidly exacted. With regard to the leg-al t6sts for Voluntary schools it might be desirable in tbe interests of education that tbe position should be faced, but if they removed tbe legal test to-morrow they did not remove all tests. In tbe intermediate schools bad tbey not heard of a test being applied ? tbey beard of one denomination getting the headmaster and seeing that all others were of the same colour ? (Cries of Question.") Certainly it was eo and be was quite prepared with bis facte. Tbe question of tests must be looked at all round.
BARRY AND THE BOARD.
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BARRY AND THE BOARD. The Barry education authority 'on Tuesday eveniug will receive the report of its committee appointed to deal with the action of the Board of Education over the stofiing of St. Helen's Roman Catholic School. It is understood that the committee support the view that there is no cause to justify a deoarture from the terms of the Board's letter of August 10th, and adopt tbe higher standard of staff indicated in their later communication, and tbat it is is tbe rigbt of the local authority to determine what standard of staff shall be adopted in all school. under jurisdiction,subject to tbe provisions of Artiole12 of the Code, and notbing has been disclosed to prove tbat in tbis respect there bas been any failure on their part.
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WAUNARLWYDD SCHOOL STRI KE. There is no truce in the Wuuoarlwydd school strike. Parents met on Friday night and were more determined than ever to fight tbe county educational authority. A resolution was carried tbanking the Rev. B. Davies-Williams for declin- ing to sign tbe informations for summonses. Tbe meeting passed the following resolution :— "That this meeting of the father* and rate- payers bf Waunarlwydd Hereby request our Parish Council to formulate a memorial to the Board of Education urging that body to care- fully consider our opposition to tbe mixed school principle in Waunarlwydd, in accordance with tbs terms of the Education Act. 1902." Amid rousing cheers the Rev. T. J. Das asked why, setiag that tbe scbool had increased largely during tbe last ten years, the local education authorities had only juat discovered tbe great of ratepayers" money ?
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MOTHER WITH CYILD IN DANGER. Rescue from Drowning at Ystradgynlais. A child fell into tbe Great Western Canal, Ysiraclgyrilais, on Saturday. The mother, Mrs A. Davies, Crown Cottages, plunged into the water to rescue it, but was soon in daneer. A man turned Banjamm Jones, 65 years of age, who wa' close by at the time. promptly jumped into tb water and rescued the child, and after wards aarceeded in palling out tbe woman.
IDecapitated on the Line.
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I Decapitated on the Line. GRUESOME DISCOVERY ON THE T.V.R. A gruesome discovery was made early on Sunday morning by a gang of platelayers on the Taff Vale Railway near Norton Bridge, tha mutilated body of a young man being found lying across tbe metals. The workmen were pro- ceeding along the railway to their work before daybreak, and the discovery was made by William Edwards, wbo stambled over the body in the darkness. Upon searoh being made he and bit fellow-workmen were amazed to find < mutilated body, tbe head having b6en severed from tbe trunk. The spot where the remain* were found is near tbe Pontshonnorton Junction of the T.V.R main line to Merthyr and their branch line to Cilfynydd, and it is conjectured that the poor fellow must bate been run over by the last motor-car from Pontypridd to Nelson, abont 10.30 on Saturday night, or on its return journey. Information was given to Sergeant Morris and. P.C. Lister, who had the mutilated remains taken to a signal-box, where an examination of the clothing was made. Upon some papers were fonnd two names, E. R. Jonea and W. H. Jones, 56, Combard-street, Penrbiw- ceiber, and the police at tbis place were com- municated with and given as correct a descrip- tion of the dead man aa was possible in tbe oitcumatances.. Later in the day tbe body was identified by deceased's brother as Evan R. Jonea 126), single, a native of North Wales, and a lodger at 36, Eenard-street, Ynysboetb, Pec- rbiweeibar. How the deceased got on to the line can only be surmised. He came to Pontypridd early in the afternoon with a friend, Richard Davies, and theywre together until about 9 o'clock, when the latter went to purchase a pipe, and miased hit unfortunate friend. Davies went home by tbe 9.45 p.m. train,and it ia presumed that Jonas also went to the station, and missing his train commenced to walk along tbe line unobserved. None of the engine or motor-car drivers felt any jerk leading them to the conclusion that some- one had been run over, and an examination of the engine and car wheels did not disclose any blood atains. An inquest was held at the Police Station, Pontypridd, on Monday, before Mr R. J. 9bys, coroner, on tbe body of Arthur Robert Jones, whose decapitated body was found on the Taff Vale Railway branch line near Pontypridd on Sunday morning. Mr Hurford. stationmaster, represented tbe railway company. Richard Davies, Matthewstown. PeDriwceibert said he was a friend of the deceased, and accom- panied him to Pontypridd on Saturday afternoon on the 5.10 train. Tbey were about four honra in Pontypridd together, and spent that time in visitingpublio-houseB.Deceased bad been drinking beer, and was very far under the influence of drink. They missed the 8 o'clock train, and reo turned to the town, witness subsequently missing his friend in tbe Pontypridd square. William Edwards, platelayer, described how be discovered the body between the rails of the passenger line to Cilfynydd while Henry PaiutsV,T.V.R. Co. motor coach driver, said he failed to find any stains whatever on the wheels, neither did he feel a jerk on Saturday night, which would lead him to the conclusion that be bad come into contact with soma obstacle. Inspector Salter, in reply to the Coroner, said there was no mortuary at Pontypridd. Later on Mr Hurford called attention to the same fact, adding that in this case the body was placed in tbe signal box, where men bad to work during the Qay. The Coroner spoke strongly in favour of such a building being erected in every populous centre. Licensed victuallers were not compelled to taka in body, and bis opinion was that a morcnary should be provided in all places of 10,000 inhabi- tants. Sergeant Morris said tbat the man could bave got on the line from two places in Berw-road, or it was quite possible be had got to the station, lost the train, and walked along tbe line. The stationmaster said it was bardly likely that he eould have walked along the line from tbe station unobserved. Tbe jury returned a verdict of Accidental death."
Late Rev. Morlais Jones.
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Late Rev. Morlais Jones. INTERMENT AT NARBERTH. Rev. J. Lloyd Williams'Tribute. The remains of the Rev. John Morlais Jones, Congregational minister, Lewis ham, London, were laid to rest on Saturday afternoon in the peaceful churchyard of the quaint little church of Crinow, Narberth, which adjoins Crinow Farm. tbe home of Mrs Jones. The body was brooght down by tbe train which arrived at Nar- berth at 2.45, and a large number of residents of Narberth and district joined the funeral pro- cession outside the station. Crinow Church is less than a mile from the town, and was reached about 3.30, but tbe little building could not accommodate all who desired to be present, and some had perforce to remain ontaide. Tbe ser- vice in the church was conducted by the Rev. T. David, rector, and tbe last offioes at the grave- side were performed by the Rev. J. Lloyd Williams, B.A., Tenby, a member of deceased's own denomination. Before concluding tbe service at the graveside the Rev. J. Lloyd Williams paid a high tribute of respect to the deceased minister. He said the life of this world was considerably poorer by tbe passing away of their brother. Some of them would remember the young man who became a minister at the Tabernacle, Narberth, 40 years ago, bow by the freshness and fervour of his pteachtng be immediately arrested attention, and how be left in a short space of time an indelible impreaaon upon the churoh and neighbourhood. Their brother served Wales directly only for a brief period, but indirectly be served Wales to tbe very end of his days, for it must not be forgotten that he presented to the English neople tbe secret of tbe religion of Wales, and the peculiar power and charm of all that was best in the Welsh pulpit. Daring his (tb., speaker's) College course he became associated with a number of old boys from Lewisham School, and notbing Impressed him more than the way in which they venerated the name of Morlais Jones, of Lewisham. Another fact tbat must not be lost sight of was that the English pulpit became accessible to the younger men of this generation in Wales, largely through tbe influence of pioneers like Caleb Morris, Thomas Jones, and Morllais Jones. These men went to England, paved the way, and gained a hearing for the sons of tbe Principality, and the younger men of to-day had entered into their lubours. If he were asked what was tbe distinctive message of their brother to the present generation ho would say tbat Morlais Jones gave men a high concep- tion of tbe way tbe Gospel should be preached, and how it coald be enlarged not only by diligent study of the Scriptures, but by the use of all tbat was best in literature. Mr Williams then performed the committal portion of the service, which was conclnded by an impressive prayer, offered by the Rev. Lewis James, Brynbank. The coffin, which was of polished oak, bore the inscription, Rev. John Morlais Jones, for 31 years minister of the Congregational Churcb, Lewisbam born 8tb November, 1843, died 26th September, 1905. Tbe mobrners were Mrs Jones, Miss Jonea, Mrs Beazley (daughter), and Mr Beasley (aon-in- Jaw), of Oxford Mr Brynmor Jones, M.P. (cousin), and Mrs Jones: Mr John Lewis(brotber- in-law), Crinow; Mrs Morgan (aister-in-law) and Mr T. Morgan, Natberth Mrs Owen (eister- in-law) and Mr Owen, Tycoed Mr John Davies, Ponah; Mrs Jamea Thomas, Pontardulais; Mr E. D. Wilson, aud Mr C. E. Blomfieid atten- ded as tbe' representatives of the Lewisham Church. Among those also present were Reve J. R. Williams and T. Stevens, Narberth; T. Phillips, Templeton; Mr W.Palmer Morgan,C.C., Mr D. Fisher, Dr. Morgan, Mr John James, Narberth, and Mr Davies, Bryn Sion. Mr A. Edwards conducted the funeral arrangements. There was a large number of exquisite wreaths from relatives and friends, as well as from the chnrcb at Lewisham. and the various organisa- tions connected berwvith.
ANOTHER BRISTOL MURDER.
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ANOTHER BRISTOL MURDER. Mother and Child Dead. Another murder was committed in tbe parish of St. George, Bristol, on Saturday afternoon. It was only on Thursday that the locality was the ecene of the murder of two children and the attempted suicide of the mother. On Saturday afternoon a woman named Mary Ann Boyce, alias Rail brook. who bad been re- siding at 2, Croft's-end, St. George, Bristol, was found lying dead in an upstairs room. with the l dead body of a three year old female child by her. The infant's tbroat was cut, and a table knife was found lying on the blood-stained floor. The woman had evidently been dead some two or three honra. Tbe police theory is that the woman first killed the child and then took ber own life. In the room in which the bodies were discovered, was a bottle and glasa which bad contained fnsil oil, and the appearance of the woman indicated death from narcotic poisoning, although she was much cut about the throat. Tbe husband of Mrs Boyce died in the Union some yeara ago, and for some time past she ba8 been living mth a man named Holbrook, wbo is stated to be a miner. Trouble had of late come. into the home through lack of means, and re- cently tbe furniture was sold. Then came police to leave the cottage, and this, it is thought, proved tbe last otraw for tbe poor woman, who took ber own life and tbat of ber child rather than be turned bomeless into a pitiless world. Tbe neighbours say tbat Mrs Boyce w s a womau of excellent character and that ebe had made 8 brave struggle against adversity.
DISLOYAL PLACARDS.
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DISLOYAL PLACARDS. 50,000 Issued in Dublin, The Freeman's Journal states that Mltr on Sunday morning placards wero posted in Dublin and the suburbs exhorting Irishmen not to eolistw the Army and Navy,and Ba)ing, It ia in our bands to refuse to enter the forces nf the English UrORn. Let us figbt the battle here on our own sod." The polio, some on bicycles, sat out to tear down the posters, of which it ia com- puted nearly 50,000 had been issued. A large number of^officers were occupied from early In the morning until midday in the work.