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y THE UNSEASONABLE WEATHER. ¡ DESTRUCTION OF I. J The ruin that has fallen u;>on the fruit crops of the country threatens to he almost as <-cm)pl<<> in the case of core:;ls and tubers. From all over TIH; country reports are received of the damage doi'.e bv the heavy rains. The have been ccveroly laid that the osr, of harvesting will in j jnany cases be doubled, and t,!»e co:it:n'.rmce of rain j trill have the efi' vt of de <>vi orating the value of i)o;h grain and straw. Thi-re is, unfort'.mate!y, no prospect of an early inipro.-em -n! in t lie weather, nd the outlook for f is i i more serious day by day. Great destruction of <T >ps ha~ r«ite;l in Wales from the sti.ady th;v.*n;T).ir of rain (sarins tiie }> >ht few days, accompanied it ii^s l>een by heavy gales of wind, linn iivcis of acres of corn er.iji- in the Corwer:, LlnnjjoJli-ii, and JUiab-n dis:rirt-- liave been levelled wit h the ground, and the portion <>f the ha}' harvest still unfathered is prae; i -ai iv j ruined. The water* oi' tin* !)••(• iiave over-owed the 1 tanks, many acres being submerged by the Hoods. In Scotland, too. the iss to fanners caused by the inclement weather will be heavy. In Dumfries- oat rop, and in sor.i > in.v.anee? lieids have i.ven ievelled as completely as if a road roller had passed over tiiem. The straw is twisted in all directions, and it will be impossible to cut it. The condition of affairs in E^sex has becoms •Serious in the extreme. or the land forbids work" of any kind exeepi- the collect- ing of cabbages and beans. The earnings of held hands have dropped so low that they aye wand-ring from district to district, in droves searching for work. The farmers have pi ntof work to lie done, but they cannot wild the men on the land, it is tll(, -,Vol'St ii tlje dis'rict since 1379. Owing to a. great deal cf the crops being- already laid in West Norfolk and South Lincolnshire, harvesting has become very cost]v. It has been found necessary to displace the modern machine- cutters by lianli labour. The following brief reports f districts indicate t«u* adverse condition of the crops: Aberdeen.—Crops late and beaten by rain. Derbyshire.—Wheat has come on a little. Hampshire.—Wheat 20 per cent, under average. Kent.—Corn short, and thin; very unsatisfactory. Sussex.—-Corn battered by wind and Westmorland.—Late harvest; no increase of yield. Lister.—Outlook very cheerless. Dorset.—Protracted and expensive harvest. Wiltshire.— ie;i per cent, under tile average cror). Cambridgeshire.—A battered ere;}. Devonshire. heat u,:n and umii r average. Essex.—Wheat badly laid. Her«,or«ish;re. 0;;e-;hird croij down and overrun V ith grass. Leicestershire.—Much (:111 -ge. .Aor111amptonshire.— heat sr orm-broken. ■Northumberland.—Wheat indifferent. Shropshire.—Wheat bin. Shropshire.—Wheat bin. Somerset.—Wheat. Airy thin and bad colour. 25 cent. under .N (,ra ur^shire.—Fair ;L\{'r:1; cr; p-\

T N C i: N D T A R Y. The mystery ot' last wee': 's destructive lire at tho ■residence of Mr. Have, of .Milieu llaath. live miles from Whitchurch, Haiop, has hr-n solved. Soon after the outbreak, wai;ii lasted nearly two days, suspicion fell on a nur«-giri. fourt-en years" cf «*g", named LuxiuK'th Alic-' Kdwards, Char_:rd with the offence she at one ;a! nil ted it, but refused to .give any reason. She was brought Iwfole a magistrate a::d remanded.

HUSBAND'S NOVEL PLIGHT. A well-dressed man told the Yarmouth magistrates that he wanted to see his wife, who lived with her mother in Yarmouth. He had not seen her for seventeen years.—The clerk remarked that the magistrates could not grant summonses against mothers-in-law for detaining wives, and the Mayor suggested I hat as the applicant had waited seven- teen years lie mijrht be able to wait a little longer. The only remedy, added the clerk, appeared to be a Of (,)i,is an att(-rii;itive, t!ie applicant might, stand on the opposite side of the street, where his wife lived, and if she wanted to see liirn she would come out.—The applicant said it was very hard, as whenever he went to the house his mother-in-law told him his wife was out.—The Mayor said that the bench had no power to fetch his wife, and applicant, left the court greatly dis- appointed.

FORTY LIVES LOST. An extraordinary shipping disaster occurred on the Tykojarvi Lake, in Finland, on Sunday. A number of people were returning from church when the upper deck of the vessel conveying them collapsed, and the passenger* were precipitated inln the water or on to the deek-beiow. Forty pers >ns ■were drowned or otherwise iost their lives, and many were injured.

LI F EBO AT SERVICES. The Ciove'iiy lifeboa' Elinor beget, belonging 'the Royal N:;ti-ei:i; Lifeboat" Institution. w«s launched during 1he gale on Sunday night and itfought ¡;:fnlv :)"1\ ":f- e;< .rv. '¡.f: -rd'e, and crew ur t.hi-e; men from the sceooner ".nary Stewart, and tlue< ••ien from she yacht. Gadfly. V:e lifenoat at I'orfhdtRllaen, Carnarvonshire, ,.s also launched to the aid oi a barquentine in distress, which was drifting towards Carnarvon lIar, but the weather cleared u, little, and the vessel was tortunat"lv successful in crossing the bar in safety. The lifeboat then returned to her station but, there was so much surf that she could not land, .and had to be moored until daybreak.

WASHED OFF THE ROCKS. A party of visitors staying at Mullion, Corn wall, consisting of Miss Hevward, Miss Kigge. Mr. Percival Sbadbolt, and Mr. Osmond Shadbolt, his son, were walking on the cliffs between Mullion and Kvnance, on Monday, and being expert climbers descended the steep cliff known as Villan Head. There they seated themselves on a rock near the •water's edge. Suddenly a great, wave was seen approaching, and SlitObolt ;lii(I Ili.s Heyward rose to retreat, but before they could get. away were swept, into the sea. The "other two managed to retain a firm grip on the rock, and thus escaped being drawn into the water. Miss Heyward disappeared almost. immediately. Mr. Shadbolt made Irantic efforts to save himself, but these proved futile in the rough sea. Mr. Osmond Shadbolt also made a desperate but vain attempt, to save his father's life. Meanwhile Miss Kigge rushed to a neighbouring farm for a rope, but before she J returned all traces of the two bodies ha.) dis- appeared. Mr. Osmond Shadbolt was much cut and bruised bv his eifort.s. Mr. Shadbolt. sen., who resided at Kylestone, 1 buvheld, near Uxbridge, was <1, good swimmer. Miss Heyward's home was at Xangport, Somerset.

POLAR RELIEF EXPEDITION. The expedition for the relief of Dr. Otto Xor- denskjold's South Polar expedition sailed from tockholll1 on Monday on board the Frithjof. The members of the expedition, which is under the leadership of Captain Gylden, of the Swedish Navy, number twenty-three, including six scientific men. The Frithjof will touch at Bremerhaven, Plymouth, Madeira, I'uenos Ayres, and Ushnaia (Tierra del Puego), whence she will strike southwards for the winter station of Dr. iNordenskjold's vessel Antarctic. The Frithjof is not expected back until .April, 1904, at the earliest.

IMPERIAL PREFERENTIAL TRADE. Mr. Chamberlain, replying to a letter from Mr. Boscawen, M.P., says that he has never suggested any tax whatever on raw materials such as wool or cotton, and believes that such a tax is entirely un- necessary for the purpose he has in view—that, is, for a mutual preference with our Colonies, and for enabliii"' us to bargain for better terms with our foreign° competit ors. As regards food, there is nothing in the policy of tariff reform which need increase in the slightest degree the cost of living of imv family in this country. the fifth Congress of Chambers oi Commerce of the Empire was opened on Monday at Montreal, under the presidency of Lord Brassey. Lord Strathcona, in opening the proceedings, said that only a comparatively slight change would be jrequired in the United Kingdom to bring pre- ferential trade within the Empire into operation. Lord Brassev invited the congress to find a solution for the problem raised by Mr. Chamberlain's pro- posals, which he accepted as designed to strengthen the Imperial connection.

The stomach of a recently killed Indian crocodilt gave up a half-digested calf, a human skull, a 6ilver bangle, some brass ornaments, a tobacco box, made of tin, a lime case, a nut-cracker, a •railway ticket, a horn case containing some twenty copper coins, and a> godawater bottle containing eome mustard.

THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL. The Queen, accompanied by Princes? Victoria, fcrrived at Balmoral Castle on Saturday morning from Sandringham. By her Majesty's special desire, the visit was regarded as of a private character, and there was consequently nothing in the nature of a public reception. Outside the station square at Ballater, however, a large crowd had assembled, who cordially greeted the Queen and Princess as they left the terminus and entered the carriage, in Which they were driven to Balmoral.

HEROISM ON H.M.S. BLAKE. The cruiser Blake, on board of which a boiler explosion occurred on August 6th off Funchal, Maderia, arrived at Devonport on Saturday and reported that a third death had resulted, Stoker Ball (having succumbed to his injuries. Two cases of heroism are recorded. Immediately the crown of the combustion chamber of No. 6 boiler collapsed steam, smoke, and boiling water rushed out, transforming the stokehold into a cauldron. Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Hocken tried to close the stop valve, but the rush of steam pre- vented him. He then clambered up a ladder and Set the steam fan in motion. This temporarily drew the steam and smoke back into the boiler, and he then succeeded in closing the valve. Stoker Gee thrice rushed into the stokehold and brought out three of the men, one of whom was then dead.

MANIACS AWFUL DEED. Seven persons are dead, says a New York corre- spondent, as the result of the maniacal deed of (iilbert Twigg, thirty years old, who fired a double- barrelled shot gun, loaded with bullets, into the audience at an orchestral concert at Winfield, Kansas, on Thursday night, and then killed himself. Several others are in a critical condition. Altogether the bullets from Twigg's gun hit thirty persons. Twigg was disappointed in a love affair several years ago, and brooding on the matter unbalanced his mind. He left a letter shewing he premeditated the bombardment of the audience, and meant par- ticularly to kill Lieutenant, Bowdish and Surgeon Woods, of the United States Army, both of whom escaped the bullets. Twigg's imaginary grievance was that the citizens had ridiculed him, and he determined to get even with them.

WIRELESS MONEY ORDER OFFICE. The Cunard liner Campania has achieved the distinction of establishing the first wireless money order office at sea. Mr. Henry Robertson, one of the saloon passengers, was dismayed on finding in the middle of the voyage from Liverpool that he did not possess sufficient ready money to pay the Customs dues on arrival at New York. To add to his difficulties, lie had no friends on board to whom he could appeal. lie remembered, however, that his mother had sailed from New York in the Lucania on The same day that the Campania left Liverpool. When the liner was in mid-ocean, Mr. Robertson sent a Marconigram addressed to his mother on board the Lucania. with which com- munication had been established when the two vessels were fifty miles distant. The message transmitted by Mr. Robertson to the Lucania read: "Pay purser Lucania £ 10, asking him to advise purser Campania to pay me." An hour later the purser of the Campania received the following message from the purser of the Lucania: "Pay Henry Robertson £ 10. Have collected amount from his mother aboard Lucania."

SMASH ON THE MIDLAND. An alarming accident occurred about two o'clock on Tuesday morning on the Midland Bailwav at Whitacre, a station a few miles north of Birming- ham. A goods train which was being shunted apparently overran the signal and dashed into the stop block. The engine was derailed, and portions 01 the wrecked trucks were thrown across the main line. Just Own a fast excursion train from Bristol to Lancashire approached, and before any- thing could be done to avert disaster it crashed into the c/ebris. The driver applied the brakes as soon as possible, but the front of the excursion train was considerably damaged, and ten or twelve passengers suffered from the shock of the collision. The driver and fireman of the goods train saved their lives by jumping from the engine, and escaped with some cuts and bruises. Medical aid was soon forthcoming, and a breakdown gang having cleared the line most of the excursionists were able to continue their journey after their train had been freed of wreckage.

COLLISION IN THE SOLENT. An alarming collision, fortunately unattended by loss of life, occurred in the Solent on Saturday afternoon. The steamer Duchess of Albany was on her way from Portsmouth to Ryde, with 400 passengers on board, when she collided with the eteam yacht, Wintonia. The yacht was struck amidshipand extensively damaged above the water- line, while the passenger boat sustained consider- able injury to her bows, but was able to continue her journey at reduced speed. Great excitement prevailed on board both vessels, but no one was r hurt, and there was no apprehension as to either vessel being able to keep afloat. A heavy sea and a strong breeze prevailed, and the yacht shortly afterwards put about and proceeded to Cowes. The Wintonia is a yacht of 149 tons, and is owned by Mr. Butler. The Duchess of Albany was com- manded by Captain Williamson, who did his best to avoid the accident, and behaved with great cool- ness when a collision was seen to be inevitable.

SHOCKING TRIPLE MURDER. A frightful triple murder was committed at Bilston on Saturday, when a puddler named James Cartwright smashed in the heads of three children with a gun barrel. Cartwright, who had been living with a woman named l'umphrey for some time, had lately suffered from pneumonia, and had shewn signs of insanity. Early in the morning he attacked the woman with a knife, She fled and awoke the neighbours, who fetched the police. Cartwright barricaded himself in a room, and flung missiles at the officers, one of whom received a violent blow on the head. Cart- wright then cut his throat, but not seriously, and after a desperate struggle lie was secured. He eaid he had only been having some fun. On the bedroom being examined tho children were dis- covered as stated.

UNCLE CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION. rhilip Clark, forty-eight, a licensed victualler, of Golden-square, W.C., was again charged on Saturday, at the West London Police-court, with abducting Clara Evans, his niece by marriage, fifteen years of age, with whom he is alleged to liave gone through the marriage ceremony in July, after first obtaining a special licence by giving the j girl's age as nineteen, and concealing her relation- (6h ip to him. On this occasion the girl gave evidence. She admitted the authorship of a letter to the defend- ant, in which she wrote: "I shall be very pleased to see you on Wednesday for three things—to see whether you have been behaving yourself, and if you are "keeping sober, and to pay up I like to see you any time: it seems to wake me up. Don't forget the "days are flying by, and July the third week will soon be round, and I have made up my mind I will be yours if you want me. When July I comes I will drown myself as sure as my name is what it is if you throw me over. I can't bear to think of anybody else belonging to you while I am single. I can't say any more, so keep sober for my sake. I always will remain your loving CLARA." Mr. Williamson (representing the Director of iPublic Prosecutions) asked the witness whether she knew that it was illegal to marry the defendant. The magistrate: I think it is a legal point. ( Mr. Hanson (for the defence): Besides, it is a very open question if it is illegal to marry a deceased wife's sister's daughter. The defendant was committed for trial, bail being accepted. accepted.

The Irish Viceroy's proposed visit to Ulster next month has been abandoned, as his medical advisers have ordered him abroad. The Glasgow bakers, at a private meeting, have unanimously agreed to at once raise the price of the 41b. loaf of bread by one halfpenny. The advance n the price of flour is the reason for the increase. An Edinburgh boy first found a poacher's outfit, then rabbits hanging on a tree. and lie last of all found the body of the man, who had harmed Himself with a long strap. The man had been dead two or three days. Baron Alphonse de Rothschild's automobile was overturned at Trouville, throwing his lordship on to his head. His injuries are not severe, and will soon be healed.

BITS FROM BOOKS. i MORE ABOUT RUSKIN. Mrs. Meynell's monograph on John Raskin is a handy volume, slight, but exceedingly well- informed John Ruskin's life (the author says) was not centred, but limited, by the places where he was born and taught, and by the things he loved. The London suburb and the English lake-side for his homes, Oxford for his place of first study and then of teaching, usually one beaten road by France, Switzerland, and Italy for his annual journeys- these closed the scene of his dwellings and travel- lings. There was a water-colour drawing by his father that interested him when he was a little boy in muslin and a sash (as Northcote painted him, with his own chosen "blue hills" for a background), and ,this drawing hung over his bed when he died; the evenings of his last days were passed in the chair wherein he preached in play a sermon before he could well pronounce it. The nursery lessons and the household ways of the home on Herne-hill partly remained with him, reverend and unquestionable, to his last day. And yet the student of the work done in this quiet life of repetitions is somewhat shaken from the steadfastness of study of by two things- multitude and movement. The multitude is in the thoughts of this great and original raind, and the movement is the world's. Ruskin's enormous work has never had steady auditors or spectators; it may be likened to a sidereal sky beheld from an earth upon the wing. Many, innumerable, are the points that seem to shift and journey to the shifting eye. Partly it was he himself who altered his readers; and partly they changed with the long change of a nation and partly they altered with successive and recurrent moods. John Ruskin wrote first for his contemporaries, young men; fifty years later, he wrote for the same readers fifty years older, as well as for their sons. And hardly has a mob of Shakspere's shewn more sudden, unanimous, or clamorous versions and reversions of opinion than those that have acclaimed and rejected, derided and divided, his work, once to ban and bless, and a second time to bless and ban. HOW GREAT BRITAIN MUDDLED THROUGH. Lord Rosebery's words about England muddling through are brought to mind by the description in Mr. Fitchett's book, "How England Saved Europe," of the War Office in 1793: Of the British forces of that period it is difficult to give a faithful account which will sound credible (' in modern ears. The troops, for example, which the Duke of York led to Holland had, of course, the inalienable fighting quality of their race; they yielded, indeed, some examples of valour worthy of the best traditions of the British army. But they consisted, for the most part, of old men too feeble to march, or of boys scarcely able to carry their muskets. Sir Henry Calvert, who was aide-de-camp to the Duke of York in Holland, says of some newly- landed battalions: They much resembled Falstaff's men, and were as lightly clad as any Carmagnole men, and were as lightly clad as any Carmagnole battalion." Whole regiments, Bunbury records, were unable to march to the front on account of physical infirmities. In that ill-fated army there was neither system nor discipline. It not only "swore terribly," it drank furiously. The officers were untrained, the men only half-drilled. Soldiership in its modern sense-precise, scientific, business-like, with its exact calculations, its far-reaching combinations, its care for the soldier, for his health, his food, his I comfort-was in the early days of the great war an art which had never been discovered or else had perished. Commissions in these easy-going days were granted as a favour, sometimes to mere infants, or to lads who drew pay as officers while they were being caned as schoolboys. A Scotch story, quoted by Alison, runs that when a loud noise was heard in the nursery of a Scottish family of rank the nurse explained: "It is only the Major roaring for his parritch." It seemed, indeed, as if, in the higher branches of the army, the very art of war had perished. Courage was the one military virtue which survived, but it was uninstructed and undisciplined; and amongst the generals who led British troops on one disastrous expedition after another no gleam of leadership, no faculty for organisation—scarcely even a spark of common sense —is discoverable. The British general of the period, according to Lord Grenville, was merely "an old woman in a red ribbon." Lord North, on looking over a list of officers submitted to him for commands in America, said: "I don't know what effect these: names may have on the enemy, but I know they make me tremble 11 And it was officers of this type I that led English troops in the first engagements of the great war. THE YOUNG STUDENT'S DRESS. I In that charming book, "Love and Mr. Lewis- ham," Mr. H. G. Wells tells of the difficulties of the assistant-schoolmaster, of the smallness of his income, and his struggle for higher things: His costume was, with one exception, a tempered black mourning put to hard uses and "cutting up rusty." The mourning was for his mother, who had died more than a year before the date when this story resumes, and had left him property that capitalised at nearly a hundred pounds, a sum which Lewisham hoarded jealously in the savings bank, paying only for such essentials as university fees and the books and the instruments his brilliant career as a student demanded. For he was having a brilliant career after all, in spite of the Whortley check, licking up paper certificates, indeed, like a devouring flame. Surveying him, madam, your eye would inevitably have fallen to his collar- curiously shiny, a surface like wet gum. Although it has practically nothing to do with this story, I must, I know, dispose of that before I go on, or you will be inattentive. London has its mysteries, but this strange gloss on his Jinen-" Cheap laundresses always make your things blue," protests the lady. "It ought to have been blue-stained, generously frayed, and loose about the button, fretting his neck. But this gloss." You would have looked nearer, and finally you would have touched a charnel-house surface, dank and cool. You see, madam, the collar was a patent waterproof one —one of those you wash every night with a tooth-brush, and hang on the back of your chair to dry, and there you have it next morning re- juvenesced. It was the only collar he had in the I world; it saved threepence a week at least, and that, to a South Kensington "science teacher in training," living on the guinea a week allowed by a paternal but parsimonious Government, is a sum to consider. It had come to Lewisham as a great discovery. He had seen it first in a shop window full of indiarubber goods, and it lay lit the bottom of a glass bowl in which goldfish drifted disconten- tedly to and fro. And he told himself that he rather liked that gloss. But the wearing of a bright red tie would have been unexpected—a bright red tie after the fashion of a South-Western Railway guard's! The rest of him by no means dondiacal. even the vanity of glasses long since abandoned. You would have refleated: Where had you seen a crowd—red ties abundant and in some way significant r The truth has to be told. Mr. Lewisham had become a Socialist. THE EUNUCH'S DEATH. Mr. Morley Roberts and Max Montesole have combined in a novel called "The Shadow of Allah." It is strong with adventures. The following passage describes the death of a eunuch, who had nearly betrayed the Sultana: Moorjan's eyeballs almost started out of his head with alarm, and he threw himself on the ground and whined for mercy; many mutes sprang at him and dragged him away. Zareefa now came into view, with a mocking smile on her face; the Kalif attempted to seize her in his arms. but she bounded past him and stood at my window: his arms encircled her neck, and he kissed her loudly with the most endearing epithets. I turned my head away and would fain have closed my ears, as lie begged for a kiss and she demanded something in a whisper. "The paper only says that every hole is now guarded; 1 possess a plan of all the secret paths in this place, and shall have a hunt to-morrow," said the Sultan. You must let me join you it will remind me of the caves and passes of my country." cooed Zareefa. She said this in such a simple and truthful manner that it carried conviction to his soul, and he replied, 11 Bah what need is there for burrowing under- ground ? I do not doubt thee. my honey. and besides, none can issue hence, as the guard shall be permanent." "Give me the head of that lying Moorjan!" pleaded Zareefa, raising her face to her lord's. The Sultan struck a tambur and gave an order; Zareefa looked towards the door; her breast was heaving, her head slightly bent forwards, and her lips were compressed. li'lllah I she looked like him whom the Nazarene describes as the Angel of Light! The Sultan stood at mv window with his face half turned to the door; he shuddered and looked away into the outer darkness as a mute knelt before Zareefa and held a great basin towards her. Zareefa spoke, and the mute set the vessel on the ground and held aloft the head of Moorjan; Zareefa turned towards me and smiled, then pointed to the dripping head and called out in our own language "This shall be the end of those whom I hate. The mute bore away the hideous thing, and a. troop of half-naked women danced into the room with song and beat of castanets as the Sultan drew the curtain across the window. •at nn~T. t»orrcr-c—art, ttcoTge cnarics T.iomas, an attendant, employed at Stapleton Workhouse, was fined including costs, for an assault on George Trimble, a lunatic lad of sixteen years. The allegation was that Thomas threw hot water over I the boy while the latter was in a bath. Trimble's body was badly blistered. A number of cases of ptomaine poisoning have been admitted into the Cambridge Hospital, Alder- shot, all the sufferers being soldiers. Fortunately there have been no serious consequences among the twenty-three cases which have been treated. The outbreak is supposed to have been caused by eating fried fish, samples of which have been obtained, and are being analysed. The Home Secretary gives notice that the has certified the manufacture of electric accumulators to be "dangerous," under the Factory Acts, and that he proposes to make regulations to apply to all factories and workshops in which electric accu- mulators are manufactured. A young married woman, who was crossing from Liverpool to the Isle of Man on Tuesday, leaped on board the boat after the gangway was up, handing her baby to a bystander. The boat swung out sud- denly with the tide, and the baby had to be left behind. In the course of the cyclone which prevailed at Dover on Monday the mast erected at the wireless telegraph station, near Shakespeare Clift. was broken about 20ft. from the top. Lipon rarl Spencer, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Bryce, and Mr. Glad- stone at the House of Commons on the education cuestiun on Tuesday. In the course of his reply Lord Spencer said it would be the object of the Liberal party to make all schools free and equal to i.ll religious bfcdics alike. Henry Madden, a gas stoker, has been committed !'<■v trial at Clerkenwell Police-court for the wilful murder of his two children, Herbert Patrick and .May Beatrice, by striking them on their heads with a hammer. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edward Wheler, com- ir: nding the 1st, Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, died at Marseilles on Tuesday morning, while on his way to England from India. The gallant officer was coming home on sick leave jn the steamship Persia, accompanied by l.adv Wheler. Two deaths among the brethren of the Charter- house of London have occurred within a week. The of the deceased are Mr. George Heap, aged seventy-four, who was nominated in June, 1892, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mr. William 'I'efpir, aged eighty-nine, who, in November, 1893, received nomination from the Archbishop of York. So many Irish labourers have come over to I England this harvest time in the hope of securing work on the farms, that the supply just now is .ereater than the demand in the Southern part of Lincolnshire. Many are consequently without employment.

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B II BY DEALING DIRECT AT FACTORY PRICES 2 B I YOU SfiYE ONE-HALF I m LADIES' &GENT.'S SILVER WATCHES 8/6, LADIES'REAL GOLD WATCHES 20, REAL B J§H GOLD HALLMARKED GEM RINGS 3/6, ELECTRO-SILVER CRUETS 2/6, ALARM CLOCKS C/6, B gn| STERLING SILVER WARE, CLOCKS, &c. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Returned! B I SENT FREE for a POSTCARD! I |9 WRITE OFF TO-DAY FREE PRIZES FOR EVERY PURCHASER {I I H. SAMUEL, 493 MANCHESTER. I FRED ROBERTS & Co. CABINET MAKERS AND UPHOLSTERERS TELEPHONE XO. 0194. Removals by Road, Rail or Sea. Visitors desiring to Remove their Furniture to Rhyl should Z!) apply as above before calling elsewhere. -oo Kindly call and see our Stock of Linoleums, Floorcloths & Carpets BoB BLINDS &c., fitted complete by experienced Workmen. Estimates Free. Works: WEST KINMEL STREET. 3, Russell Buildings High Street, Rhyl. And Colwyn CAMERAS LENSES Dry Plates, Films, P.P.O. I BROMIDE, and other Papers. j j A Well-selected Stock of Mounts and Albums J* STANDARD BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY X( For Beginners and Advanced Photographers. J I\j/ H V AMATEURS' SOLUTIONS Carefully Prepared with Pure Chemicals. r if j DARK ROOM for Changing & Developing fir G. R. Lawrence, M.P.S. Pharmaceutical Chemist & Photographic Dealer VgT 20' High Street, RHYL. THOMAS BOYLE (LATE P. P. JONES) THE OLDEST SHOP IN RHYL. Established over 50 years. FISH, GrAAIE, POULTRY, RABBITS ENGLISH AND FOREIGN FRUIT AND FLOWERS. The far-famed depot for Vale of (% I Chvyd Poultry,Chickens from ™ each. NEW LAID EGGS ALWAYS IN STOCK. ICE ALWAYS ON HAND St. Asaph Visited Tuesdays and Fridays. Sole Proprietor- T. BOYLE 6, WATER STREET, & 22, MARKET HALL. FOR BEST VALUE STATIONERY FOR PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL USE GO TO MOS B ROS., "ADVERTISER" OFFICE, 13. SUSSEX r. STREET. AND 6. WELLINGTON ? CHAMBERS, RHYL, Where BEST QUALITY can be obtained at I 10 to 20 PER CENT LESS than charged { elsewhere. I AN AGREEABLE NOTICEI THE BOTANICAL GARDENS OR, "THE PARADISE OF RHYL," I OPEN DAILY FOR THE PUBLIC. ADMISSION, 3d. | I These beauiful GARDENS are situated on the I Grange Road, over the Gladstone Bridge, about half-a-mile from the Promenade. VISITORS cannot help but enjoy an agree- able change by visiting these unique and charming resorts, where nature unadorned dis- plays its charms, with its Avenues of Roses, Shrubs and Flowers, and Lily i-ond; with its wonderful profuse crops of Apples, Pears, Plums, Peaches, Apricots. Grapes, etc. Fruit Trees, numbering in all about 960, covering 7 acres of land, intermixed with Rustic Walks and sheltered by Trimmed Hedges, 14 ft. high, and about 200 yards long. Curiosities too numerous to mention. -0- A CHARMING RESORT FOR PICNIC j PARTIES. 1 LAWN TENNIS AND BOWLING GREEN. l FRUIT and FLOWERS can be purchased on ¡ the Grounds at moderate prices. A considerable expenditure has been made for the comfort of Visitors. E. BROWN, Proprietor. J Notice of Removal. JOS. WILLIAMS AUCTIONEER AND VALUER, ACCOUNTANT, PROPERTY AND INSURANCE AGENT GENERAL CERTIFICATE HOLDER Appointed by His Honour Judge Horatio Lloyd, Knight. HAS REMOVED TO HIS NEW OFFICES AND SALEROOM. No. 4, Queen Street SALES BY PUBLIC AUCTION Personally conducted on reasonable terms with immediate Cash Settlement. VALUATIONS & INVENTORIES prepared for Mortgage, Probate, Partnership, Transfer of Tenancy and other purposes. REPRESENTATIVE of the leading Life Fire, Accident, Fidelity, Plate Glass, Employers Liability, Burglary, Lincesea and Live Stock Companies. ESTATE AGENT in all it branches. MORTGAGES PROCURED. REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES. OFFICES:— COUNTY CHAMBERS, 51, Kinmel Street, RHYL. RHYL. COLEMAN'S R s THE FINEST TONIC IN THE WORLD. received from 6 0 0 0 Testimonials 6 000 Medloal Men. NORWICH If LONDON. NEW HARRISON KNITTING; MACHINES Knits Stockings, ribbed or plain, and Clothing. INSTRUCTIONS FREE. CASH OR HIRE. Makers of 'LIVE' WOOL UNSHRINKABLE. Best for Wear. Samples and Lists Free. Trams pass the Works: 48, UPPER BROOK STREET, MANCHESTER. 103, OXFORD STREET, Nr., OXFORD CIRCUS, LONDON. Men's Cure Free. A Gentleman will be pleased to forward a prescription of sure cure after 20 years' re- search, and can guarantee a cure to all those who suffer from Rheumatism, Gravel, Back- ache, Nervousness, Puffiness under Eyes, SleV- lessness, Weak Back, Neuralgia, Skin Diseases, Liver Complaints, Loss of Appetite, Stomach Disorders, Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, Pre- disposition to Consumption, Brain Fag, Kid- ney Diseases, Impurities in the Blood. Ener- vation from Over-work, Headaches, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Loss of Energy, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Lung Troubles, and a host of other ailments too numerous to mention. Send your name and address, plainly written, and I will send it free. Write to-day and see what people say. It will cost you X'Ahing. This wonder- ful prescription has cuicd thousands. Address —W. H. BROWN, Hsq., 14, Chesham Road, Brighton, England. Ã ame this paper. BORWICK'S BAKINGS POWDER boh^sm eelehrated manufacture has been well known lor nearly 60 years. When ordering Baking Powder insist on having Borwieks,