The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. II' There are thousands fewer fever cases in Lon- don this autumn than in preceding years. Lady McLaren has been installed as preside* of the Society of Women Journalists. A witness at Clerkenwell Coiiiity-cotirt de- clared that he had seen taxicabs turn somer- saults. The Mayor of New York and the other officials receive Ci45,700 annually in salaries, Stro d (Kent) Workhouse is so crowded that 20 able bodied men are to be boarded out. The Morayshire, a steamer bound from the Clyde to Manchester, has run on the rocks in the Mersey. The invitation issued to the Royal Agricul- tural Society by Norwich to visit the town in 1911 'has been accepted. The Cornwall County Council 'have sanctioned an expenditure of £15,000 upoa new county offices to be erected at Truro. The sudden death is announced of Dr. Francis Guy A1 xander, of Old Woolwich-road, a well- iknown figure at Greenwich, A man who fell in front of si train at Earl's (Court -station hud a wonderful escape, sustain- ing merely a few wounds on his face. Fred Bland, the lightweight jockey, has severed his connection I with W. E. Elsey's -stable, having accepted an engagement to ride for a well-known gentleman in South Africa, The City Corporation have granted £ 105 to the funds of -he British Antarctic Expedition, ainder the command of Captain Scott. Mr. Thornh.; Glover, of Leigh, amateur champion bowler, and captain of the Lanca- shire bowling team, has died at the age of 25. Southwark Trades and Labour Council claim that five of the Progressive candidates returned for that borough were nominees of the Labour Party. Mr. Harry P. Lane, Deputy Chief Constable of Liverpool, has been appointed Assistant Chief Constable of Lancashire, at a salary com- mencing at £500 per annum. A youth named Arthur Good, of Brook-road, Hook, Surbiton, was on his way to the out- patients' department at King's College Hospital, when he fell down and died. William George Smith, caretaker of the Sydenham-rond Council Schools, Croydon, has been found shot dead in Ms bedroom. The L.C.C. has offered the City Corporation £ 200,000 towards the widening of Fleet-street, the total cost- of which is estimated at E436,238. A Midland railway porter named Richardson was knocked down and killed by all express train while crossing the line at Wellingborough. A marble tablet has been nnveiled in High Wvch Church. Hertfordshire, to the memory of the late Bishop of Colchester and his wife. It has been recommended by the Director of Education at Liverpool that the experiment of practising rifle shooting in schools should be tried. At < meeting of the Argentine Meat Com- pany, Limited, it was stated that there shoind t>e a plentiful supply of good cattle after Christ- mas. The last stone of the brealroatcrs of the new The last stone of the brealroatcrs of the new harbour at Monte Video has been placed in posi- tion in the presence of the authorities. The death has occurred at Teignmouth of Admiral James Richard Veitch, at the age of 82, who was present at the siege of Acre, and served in the Crimea. Mr. F. B. Girdlestone, Bristol docks manager, who has just returned from the Baltic, speaks hopefully of increased trade between Bristol and Baltic ports. Sidney Head was engaged tfl ramming a charge in a stone quarry near Barry, when the charge exploded. He was killed and another man injured. As the result of a collision with a Goole steamer, the ketch Olive Branch has sank in the Humber. The ex-Sultan Abdul Hanrid, alarmed by some eases of smallpox m the neighbourhood of his villa, near Salonika, baa been vaccinated for the first time. At the Slough Cattle Shew on December 7 thirty of the King's bullocks, 300 sheep, and eighty pigs from the Windsor farms will be sold. For a tour through Canada and the United States the United Kingdom section of the Inter- national Interchange of Students propose to offer fourteen scholarships to nuiversity students throughout the British Isles. At the next meeting of the Nottingham City Council a proposal will be brought forward for granting 10 per cent. discount tc those who pay their rates immediately the demand is made. The treasurers of the Middlesex Hospital Cancer Charity have received from Mr. and Mrs. Hichard R. Hollins a further donation of £ 100 for the maintenance of the "Richard Hollins Scholarship attached to the Cancer Research Laboratories. Sir Joseph Ward, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, referring to the fact that business throughout the Dominion was improving, stated that it was estimated that a com of nearly E9,000,000 was coming into New Zealand on account of this A suggestion has been "made to the Board of Trade by the Oldham Distrees Committee that a labour exchange be established, and that pro- vision be made at it for a supply of cheap food and for repairing boots and clothes. A business for the procuring and preparation of the skins of the brown rat » proposed to be ptarted in Calcutta. The trade in fancy articles made from rat-akina amounted to Lwow last year in Great Britain aione. Judge Bacon, who is in his seventy-seventh year, and still preserves a vigour and freshness which many a judge of lesser age must envy, has just celebrated the thirty-first aiMnver*ary of his appointment ae a county-court judge. A man said to be Henry Hammond Ethe- ridge, aged forty, of Woodland-road, Walling- ton, was found lying helpless in the rauden of an emptl house at Maiden-mad, Wellington. Be- side him were two small bottlea and A naaibef of medical tablets. With the utmost delight, Mrs. Sarah Poster, an inmate of the Grantham Workhonse Infir- mary, who has just completed her lOitk year, received the following telegram from Lord Kfiollys: I am commanded bj the King to congratulate yon on the occasion of your 104th birthday." Information has been received at the Foreign Office that the fraud known am the "Spanish pri- sostr" swindle is again being extensively prac- tised. Persons receiving correspondence from -the prison-er should forvtid it to tk British Ebnbassy at Madrid.

OUR LONDON LETT Ell. [From Our Special Corrwpfmdent-.J A General Election is in the air, as Mr. Balfour said in the. House of Common!? during the debate upon the motion for the adjournment of the House. and there have been many remarks of a similar nature in speeches by Ministers. The Commons have finished with the Budget at last, for the present, at any rate, and members will know how to appreciate a fortnight's holiday, after having1 talked little else but Budget for six months. The political situation is one of extraordinary interest. The Finance Bill, upon the fate of which so much depends, has been sent up to the Lords, and besides that, two other measurcs of great importance have been sent back to them by the Government, with a more or less polite request for them to reconsider their attitude. towards them. These are the Housing and Town Planning I Bill, which their lordships amended not alto- gether to the liking of Mr. John Burns and the Government, and the Irish Land Bill, which Mr. Birrell insists shall be passed as it left the Commons originally, or not at all. It is altogether a remarkable week's work. The next move in the great political game is with the Lords, and even those who are not as a rule particularly keen politicians are wondering what that move will be. I An interesting bit of Parliamentary his- w tory is recalled by the death of Yiscotrnt Selby, who' was better known as "Mr. Speaker" Gully. He was almost unknown to many members of the House of Commons when he was elected Speaker in April, 1895, and it was said at the time that Mr. Balfour and Sir Willium Hareourt, the leaders of the respective parties, did not even know him by sight. He was elects d by a narrow majority, j which is a very unusual occurrence in the case of the appointment of a Speaker. But the circumstances were, of course, excep- tional. The Liberal Government wanted at first to nominate Mr. Leonaid Courtney, but some of the party and the Irish members objected, and Mr. Courtney declined to be nominated unless the House was unanimous. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who was then Secretary for War, was next mentioned for the office,' but the Government could not spare him. Then they fell back on the quiet, unobtrusive Mr. Gully, and the Unionists I put forward Sir Matthew White Ridley. In the end Mr. Gully was elected by a majority of eleven votes, and an excellent Speaker he' made during ten years, at the end of which i time he retired with a peerage. Sir Henryl Campbell-Bannerman would certainly have been Speaker had the Government of the day been in a stronger position. Nothing at that time seemed more unlikely than that the I Secretary for War would ever become Prime I Minister. In spite of official denials the rumour l gains ground that King Manoel of Portugal, who will pay his State visit to this country I next week, comes "with a view to matri- mony." The newspapers have been busy ever since King Manoel's accession to the Throne | upon the tragic death of his father and elder brother, in marrying him to most of the eligible Princesses of the Royal Families of Europe, but the rumour that an English j Princess will be chosen as the future Queen of Portugal has had the longest run, and re- mains curiously persistent. The principal j obstacle which stands lh the way of such an event is, of course, that of the difference in j religion. All this invests the visit of the j young King with special interest. King Manoel's youth, and the courage he has ¡ shown in the discharge of his kingly duties since the terrible tragedy which brought him to the Throne have "won for him the sym- f pathy and admiration of a people who love I' few things better than youth and courage; and a hearty and enthusiastic welcome awaits him when he comes to London on Wednesday of next week to be the guest of the City at the Guildhall. Many greater and more famous rulers have been there be- I fore him, but none, except our own monarchs, have come nearer to the hearts of the people. I Lord Charles Reresford, to many people's great regret, is continuing his campaign j against the Admiralty. No sooner had he re- turned from Canada than he sent to the papers copies of correspondence which had passed between* him and the Prime Minister, relative to charges made by him, which, if true, would not be very creditable to the Authorities. They are, however, categoric- ally denied, and, though Lord Charles has undoubtedly a large following, the great weight of public opinion inclines to the Ad- miralty side in the controversy. To the ordi- nary man it seems that more harm than good is being done by all the fuss. An inquiry ry was held into the allegations reflecting upon the efficiency of the Navy, and the committee which sat to hear and sift the evidence was acknowledged by Lord Charles Beresford to be all that he could desire. Yet he found fault with their conclusions, and is now rais- ing freeh matter, and devoting all his talents and energy to a campaign against the Ad- miralty. If the authorities had been found guilty of the charges made against them by Lord Charles and his supporters they would have deserved the severest censure; but the charges have fallen to the ground, and they might as well be allowed to stay tihere. Although M. Paulhan's flying at a height of 977 feet is a world's record so far as offi- cial observations are concerned, it has been beaten by at least two ether hying men. Mr. Orville Wright flew higlipr at Berlin, and the Comte de Lambert recently manoeuvred high over the Eiffel Tower, his altitude being more than 1,100 feet. Those who have been fortunate enough to witness M. Paulhan'fi performances near London during the past fortnight, however, have seen some of the most spectacular and daring flights that have ever been made. Indeed, it i# only the high fighto, or flight in » «tom rash M th$| which Latham* & few weeks back, which are really attracii-o fr-r.m a spectator's point view. In a flip,:it oi average height. < nee people have got used to the marvel that a man can fl, at ail, it is almost monotonous to see a great machine poing round and ro\ni and round, tin: same conr.se over and over at/ain, turning at exactly tiie and doing everything in exactly the same way a great many times over. It is dull and un- exciting, and after a round or two one gets the impression that the machine might well go on and o;i for ever. When aeroplanes have become as oonmw.n as motor-cars a race- meeting will probably prove a poor draw. That, in spite of party heat and pa^ion, there etill exists a great d'.al of good-fellow- ship amongst the members of the House of Commons, is proved by the com;uavr-nt wLih momljers, irre-o -«!ive of party, p'ud Sir Benjamin Sto.i-, the veteran Birmingham member, who d*>es not intend to return to Westminster r the General Election. Sir Benjamin has long been photographer-in- ordinary to Mr. Speaker, not officially a p- pointed," but -Cmeially recognised. He and II his camera have been iist-itutions of Parlia- ment for so long that they will be badly missed. His collection of pictures of West- minster architecture and personalis is unique. There are some members who do not love the camera, but nobody ever rej E, d a sitting to Sir Benjamin, and the getfKj:ing the other day of pol:ih:al friends and foes is a proof of the general esteem in which he is held. Sir Benjamin is, of course, a Lnioiiitst, coming from* Birmingham, but it Liix'ral member who presided on the occa- sion, and it w;w « member of the present Government. Mr. Buxton, who made a pre- sentation, and who thanked Sir Benjamin lor his impartiality in making the membcts all good-looking, and t'.ie Liberals no whit h- so than the Conservatives, A. E. M. I

ACCUSED CONSTABLE ESCAPED. I The counties of Mayo and Sligo are beingf scoured bv policemen on bieyclcs and on foot, for a county Sligo constable, named Michael Gallagher, who has escaped after being charged with the murder of a young woman. Five days ago Constable Gallagher, who was stationed at the little village of Aclare, obtained leave and cycled to Enniscrone, where he was joined by a young woman. The couple went for a walk, and Gallagher re- turned alone, setting oS almost immediately for Aclare. On Monday morning the body of the young woman was washed ashore close to the pier at Enniscrone. She has been identified as Miss Knox, aged twenty-two, of good family and prepossessing appearance. j Gallagher was arrested, and while he was being escorted through the barracks with numerous constables around him he suddenly j rushed out of the back door and was lost to view in the darkness. Police immediately went in search of him, but up to Monday night did not succeed in tracing him. When charged with the crime Gallagher pleader I not guilty.

A GALLANT SAILOR. Late on Sunday evening while a sailor named Murphey was crossing over Twig Folly Bridge, Old Ford, he saw a man splashing about in the water of Regent's Canal., With- out a moment's hesitation he dived from the bridge in order to effect a resetie, but as he swam out the man sark. Murphey dived and remained under water for some time, but he failed to find the man, and being ex- hausted he made for the shore. As soon as he had regaintd his breath he swam out again, and dived once more. He remained I some time under, but when he re-appeared on the surface it was seen that he had secured the man. Aesistanee was promptly forth- coming, and the burdened and exhausted rescuer was helped ashore. It was found that the man for whom the brave sailor risked his life was dead. He has been identified as Hcpry Witrd, aged fifty-sii, a ropemaker, of Canal-road, Mile-end.

TWO MILES A MINUTE. At the Breoklanda motor track on Mon- day, a sensational record was made by Hemery, the famous Continental racing motorist, who, driving u 90 h.p. Benz, beat the world's records for the flying half-mile and flying kliometre, travelling at well over two miles a minute. So high was the speed he attained, and so important were the records made, that the Brooklands Club only announced approxi- mate figures, with a view to the tajies on the electrical timing apparatus being carefully studied with a micrometer. Over the flying half-mile Hemery travelled at 1271 miles an hour, and his speed over the flying kilometre was at the rate of 126 miles an hour. The previous flying half-mile record was made at Brooklands on November 18th, 1908, by Frank Newton, who travelled 4t 119.34 miles ah hour:

SUFFRAGETTES TO PAY. For the first tlipe the woman's militant suffrage movement wris concerned on Monday in an action for pemonal; irijury brought against its adhereuts. At a recent Liberal demonstration at the White City, Maiicliecfcer, missiles were thrown against the gftis rOof of the hall in I iduich a meeting was being addressed by Mr. Birrell, and the falling! pieces of glass •everely injured the hand of a waiter named Fitzgerald. At Salford County-eourt his claim for Lio was paid into court on behalf of thétbree women concerned-vn., Fanny Helliwell, Helen Toleon, and Emily Davison. Ordinary costs were allowed, an application for special P PC costs being refused. t .1

Refusing an appeal of men of thirty yettrtt standing arising out of lower wages at the Arsenal, General Hadden, chief of the Army Council, said that at present' "olitside manu- facturers were being practically starved to keep the Arfienal going and to prevent the reduc- tion of the number of eniploj'eea below the m'imimim of 8,000. The foundations of the outer 4riall4 'of the choir of Selby Abbey have been found tb be in a dilapidated condition. Funds are needed for repairs which are being snderfcftkexu

LiJTlIA 3j CHAMBER. A MAYOR'S SUGGESTION. At a me- with rc-fcrence to the care of Lbe -,t Plymouth, the Mayor (_ur. A.i.r: ii.-d bpeuder) wrote to the chair- man emphasising tho importance of a solution if not to sec the virility of the nation wree! <d by criminal indifference." "liv b f," he added, "is that the segre- gation of iio fe. is but the alpha of u.- diiLy. We are wasting millions on the erec- tion of expensive buildings in the most salu- brious neighbourhoods the maintenance of an enormous offi ial sis.:?, and the providing of good food. For what purpose? To help to live those who have not and never again will havd OHö -'am of intelligence—this is called humanity. "Medical science has made such strides that it is possible to t-ubnnt these idiots to a painle88 death. and release them from the purgatory of non-intelligence. Spend rather the money now wasted with such profligacy on schemes such as those adopted by the Mothers' Union Society, maternity institutions, and the institution of creches, and a different dawn will arise." The Rev. Dr. Binns subsequently protested against this suggestion as un-Christian.

DOCTOR'S FATAL MISTAKE. The accidental poisoning of a doctor was in- ▼enti.cmted di?*irag an inqu st on Saturday upon the- body of Dr. Thomas Guy Alexander, of East Greenwich. Mrs. Sophie Alexander, the widow, said that the decea.*»e<: was given to drinking a little more than vras good for him, but she had induced hint nearly to stop it. On Wednesday evening she went to the surgery, and h -r husband toldhel" that he bad takes 8trychn:Jw. and had injected morphia i1.. a.: rtrtidote. Before him on his desk was a book of poicons and antidotes. Death oc- curred the same uight. and before he expired the deceaxfd s'id, "if was al1 an accident." Police-sergeant 9 > R said that inside the eoek of the dceefcjJbs right leg he found a bottle half- full of gic. 0 A brother, vvhr. was in the court, at this point stood up p:,í4 he wanted to give evidence. He alleg-1 d thai dri.iking habits of the de- h < d been Dmch exaggerated. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from misadventure."

NAVY NnVER SO EFFICIENT. Sir Percy Sf'O! t 8P' r.king at the annual dinner of the Sef. h Cians Association, at the Hol- born Restau'-ant, on Saturday ni-ht., said he was, ab'e to con.trad'et: the idea which had been set- afoot that the Navy was not all that it ought to be. "T am certain he said, "that I shall be voicing the opinion of all those officers who know the real truth when I tell you that your Navy has never been in such an efficient stattf as regards organisation, training, and prepara- tion for war as it is at the present moment." During the last few years, he said, enormous progress had been made in every department, Necessary reforms, which had been proposed for many years, had been effected, and as a conse- quence a high state of efficiency had been arrived at. These .reforms, however, had not* been introduced without a certain amount of ob- struction, friction, and jealousy being mani- fested. The naval officers serving on the Board of Admiralty had to endure an existence very aiialagoM* to that of the early Christians. The attacks on them had been directed with singular ferocity.

THE GLAMOUR OF THE STAGE. Some interesting sidelights were thrown upon the life of an actor by Mr. Cecil Raleigh at the Dramatic Debaters on Sunday night. Mr. Raleigh said if an actor was employ d twenty- live weeks in the year in the country he was ex- tremely lucky. Beginners were offered sums of £ 1, 25s., oroos. a week, and sometimes there were joint engagements of husband and wife at 35s., which was a runk and crying iniquity. He calculated that an actor's expenses on clothes, boot*?, hsits, gloves, umbrella, rooms, washing, postager omnibuses, baggage, tips, make-up and hair cut, and subscriptions to the Actors' Association at £87 6s. If he got £2 a week for thirty-five weeks, this left him 12s. 6d a week for food. It was a brilliant calling, was it not? There were hundreds of actors and actressea who were not engaged thirty-five weeks in the year and were getting 20s. or 25a. That wait rank and horrible starvation.

AERIAL MANOEUVRES. The German airship manceuvres carried out before the Military Commission concluded. at. Cologne on Saturday by a successful flight of four cruisers across the city and round the cathedral in line ahead. Sometimes one vessel followed so close on another that the crews were abletó communicate by word of mouth. Great difficultyr wa« experienced in keeping stationi, The manoeuvre demonstrated, however, the the crOvers' ability to answer their helm easily, Although the special manoeuvres have ended, the Parsttval I., Gross II., and Zeppelin II., which are stationed at Cologne, continue ta make daily trips in the neighbourhood -to-train their crews. I

SLEEPING IN A PIGSTY. Croydon County magistrates on Saturday had before them Ada Mant, aged twenty-four, who* wis charged with neglecting her child, and the evidence disclosed a disgusting state of affairs. Mother and child were found sleeping on damp rags in a pig-sty near a public-house at Mitcham. In an adjoining sty were pigs. The Child, three years of age, was covered with and suffering from whooping cough. The magistrate (sentenced tlie woman to three months' imprisonment, not so much for punish- ment, but in order that she might be cared for, the beittg in such a dirty condition that she had to be hurried in and out of court as quickly air possible.

At a meeting of the committee of the Conatip, tutional Club, Mr.. JaftiesRemnant, M.P., was unanimously elected-ehih'man, and the Earl i Listen ant Granville Fortdscue, a cousin Dfr ex^PlWdent Roo«evelt,! detected a .1 sharper rhwtiH" at dice on boafld(i tlie North GefiliUttl Lloyd liner Kronpriheeasin Ceeilie. )ft. Fortescve went for the man, and in the Agfafe wbieh ensued the sharper sustained two blifli