The Rhos Herald

BETTING ON FOOTBALL. Using premises for the pnrpose of l e M i on football was the charge at L; Police-court on Monday, against Harris, a boiler fitter, of Kenning-I'm i >- gardens, who was summoned for Dial e ot. Mr. R. 1). Muir, appearing for ib- tion, said complaints had been made is 1 « Director of Public Prosecutions by iii charge of several of his Majesty's shi,;H a ::) the dissemination amongst, persons on board the ships—petty officers and sram»n aiid others—of large numbers of betting slip. in- viting them to bet on football match u- teetive-Inspector Eustace went to ( 1 > 1 a Dockyard, and started & eorresjxmdeni 1 t the defendant, the officer describing im t as an A.B. on H.M.S. Inflexible. A 11 n of betting cards were received from <h dr- fendant for the purpose of inducing pt a on board the ship to bet; with him on foot- ball matches. Defendant, who pleaded guilty, was ordered to pay a fine of JB100 and .£15 los. costs, or go to prison for three months.

DEATH IN ROAST PORK. At an inquest at Manchester ott Monday on the body of Walter Lambert, age twenty. seven, a carter, it was stated that he ate some cold roast pork on Thursday, Nov. 11, was ill during the night, had to return from work next day, and died later. Several others ate of the pork, but no ill-effects had followed. The Coroner: It is quite feasible that he might be the only one partaking of the pork who might be affected? The Doctor: Quite oio. The. pork might look perfectly good and healthy, but a spot of ptomaine bacteria the size of a pinhead would cause poisoning- to set in. The jury returned a verdict that Lambert died from heart failure, as the result of vomiting and diarrhoea, set up by liaving eaten some bacterially affected food. The coroner said that ptomaine did not always arise through decomposed meat. It was caused by one of those little microbes they heard so much about setting up an irritant poisoning. Everyone ran the risk j of j tomaine poisoning, and it showed the jj necessity for storing meat in sanitary i places. .• (

A WIFE'S MONEY. An agreement made by a wife before lier marriage was the subject which occupied tho attention of Mr. Justice Warrington in the Chancery Division on Monday, and the judge j refused to set it aside. M rs. Ethel Smith was the mother of a child I by the man whom she was about to marry, i and she said she asked him to marry her. She J had at that time a little money which alio i had inherited from her mother, and eii-e went ? to her solicitor and stipulated for the setting t free of a sum of money to ejaable bun jbo start < a business. It was agreed that £;2.i.» fSsould be kept out of the settlement. Mrs. Smith asked the Court to declare that the agreement was not binding upon jaer on the ground that there was no consideration; because there was no bargain betweeai her and Smith. She said she was anxious that her money should be iied up ao that her hus- band should not touch it. He only married her because she asked him to «<?. His Lordship held that there was a bargain | between husband and wife, and declared that I the agreement was valM and b.infli.u £ upon Mrs. Smith.

j THE NATIONS CUEST. I The King of Portugal arrived -in I^ng'and 011 Monday on a ISLate visit :<> tit; king and Queen. His Majesty erco <1 from Ch-rrjourg j to Por'snioutli in tlu Loyal yacht Vic'i,«iia j and Albert. 0 r'6. At Portsmouth the b:t'l-■: ■' of the | Home t Dread- 5 nought, fhgship of Adiuiral r in f May, at the head. An the n.¡[ y, ehfc s steamed past the fleet King i-foc.d on j the bridge acknow ledgi ng t h-- eh of the | sailors and t.hs 'salute fi\u tiii j sa;e, and the i shore batteries. The Prince of Wal-s V,- .,t a boardv he I Royal yacht to welcome King Msnoc-l, after landing, received an ad'drt.from ti e 3I?yor, aiM then left for Windsor. King Edward s Welcome. At Windsor King Manoel was welcomed at the station by King Edward, v/ho wsui aeeem- panied by the Duke of Connaught and Prince Arthur of Connaught. When King Manuel alighted' from the train King Edward took his hand and ki-i*exl him upon each cheek, the salutation being warmly returned by the young monarch. The Duke of Connaugnt, Prince Arthur, and Prince Christian in turn offered their felicitations. The Prince of Wales joined tee group, and the guard of honour on the platform was in- spected. i The Mayor and Corporation of Windsor then presented an address of welcome. The "Birthday Dinner at Windsor at night was a brilliant function. King Mano'» health being enthusiastically toasted. After the banquet there was a musical entertain- ment by fiie Ncrth Staffs (Potteries) choir.

AWAKENING OF CONSCIENCE. The sequel to a reviva.1 mission was heard at Salisbury cii Monday, when a baker named Alfred Jerred, of Stoke-on-Trent, was com- mitted on a charge of bigamously marrying Mrs. Isab-cilit lluut, of Lincoln, on May 29, 1904. J Shortly after 6c calle had opened, the pro- scouting solicitor aid he had received a tele- gram which suggested that there had been an intermediate marriage between the r.ri- soncr'g first wedding at Salisbury in 1895 and the alleged bigamous alliance, but the pd- eoner denied marrying the woman. For the prosecution it was stated that noth- ing would probably have been heard of thie case but for the fact that the prisoner at- tended a revival mission at Stoke, which caused him such an amount of heart-search- ing that he communicated with his wife after a lapse of nearly ten years. Both women were stated to be anxious to take Jerred back, and alfto to take charge of one of the children which resulted from the intermediate union. The prisoner was admitted to bail on the sureties of his mother and brothers.

SEARCH FOR MISER'S HUSBAND. Search is being made in Manchester for a Mr. Tomlinson, who is known to have lived in that city for many years, and for whom a fortune in stocks and shares, besides a prosperous business, is now waiting. The person who left this fortune was Mrs. Emma Tontiineon, ageq seventy years, who was in business as an underclothing manu- facturer at Dalston-Iane, London. Some seventeen years ago she separated from her husband, who went to live at Manchester. Mrs. Tomlinson went into business, and by the closest economy mallad to save until she amassed riches, although no one imagined she had it. She lived alone in a large house, and on November 1 a lady clerk who was able to obtain admission caued the asuistance of the police, and the old lady was found on the floor very ill. She was at once removed to the Hackney Infirmary, where sho dietl. When the house was searched stocks and shares were found in every hole and corner, and in all £ 5,000 worth have been un- earthed, besides jewellery. If the husbsrd cannot be traced the money will go into Chancery.

LONDON HOTEL TRAGEDY. On Sunday morning Mr. Frank Whit- worth, secretary of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association, a well-known Lancashire amal- gamation, was discovered by a servant lying dead on a bed at the Midland Grand Hotel, St. Paneras. There was a bullet wound in the temple and a revolver was lying on the floor by the side of the dead man. Mr. Whitworth arrived in London on Fri- day night in connection with business mat- ters. He was expected home on Saturday evening, but on Sunday his wife received » letter of farewell from him. Mrs. Whit- worth at once put herself in telephonic com- munication with the St. Paneras Hotel. Thi» was about noon on Sunday, and it was at this time that, becoming anxious because of the visitor's non-attendance at breakfast and the inability of the servants to obtain an answer to repeated knocks at the door, the hotel iltalf found it neces:sary to break into the bedroom.

r-rr-i A boy who had been '"hanging on behind a four-wheeler released his hold in Hornsey-road, Lond n, amd fell under a traction-engine, which crush >d him eo badly that he died shortly after- ward Ro ert Hope Huntley, proprietor of the Fair- view rpi a age, Heybiridge Basin, charged at Maldon with neglecting thirteen children :inj ill- treating others, has been sentenced to two1 anonths' hard labour.

EPITOME OF NEWS. --4'- L. Balfour will open the new Gra vessel: d golf liuks 011 F:iday, i..ovenioor t;. Nearly rtjlire:- thousand yards of telegraph wire, the property of the Postmaster-General, has b- n stolen in the IIar:ivcH district. Captain R. Cole, of tlif "R.G.A., has been ap- pointed to command the H..G.A. at the Tower of Lord-" A fishing smack foundered at the entrance to tl!e it Fovrol, and the crew <ii' eight were drowned. ( Por insulting a policeman by calling him "Japanese"" .& workman at Antwerp has been to ei- sentenced to eight days' imprisonment. A fox was hunted through the streets of pei r y the Earl cf Yscrborough's hounds and captured an a cul-de «:u-, A telegram from Munich states that the Bavarian Government arsenal at Ingclstadt will probably be 'taken over by Krupps. The death is announced of Mr. William R. Morfill, professor of Russian and other Slavonic languages, at Oxford. An anonymous donor has given £1,():){) to the MusweiH HiS Freehold Social Institute, and another .hn5 given £250. Mr. -8. Bowe, deputy-surv-eyor of Eastbourne, hu.1 been appointed surveyor to the Ciucton-on- S'II Urban Council. Ihe frhcowiag of hot coppers among children iUe quaint concluding ctreutony of the Anglesey Hunt Week at Beaumaris. The death is announced of Fir Robert Dundas, Bart., of Aarnieton, Mid Lothian, Convener of the county of Edinburgh. Fawkets ia the name of a labourer who has Ixvi; arretted at Old Buckenha-in, Norfolk, on I a eltarge of setting fire to a clack. Abel Atherton, a miner, was sentenced to deatti at the Durham Assizes c- the murder of Elizabeth Ann Patrick at Chopwd1. It was stated at a Befinal G reeii inquest that not a single medical man in the didrict could Be found at home at eight a.m. While cycling at Budleigh Salterton a labourer named Parker collided with another cycliat and was thrown to the ground and killed. President Taft has arrived at Washington in good health after his thirteen thousand in ilea t- ;ur in the West and South. A bov named Harper has been killed at the '11'1 Kittv Mine, St. A.Ile1 as the result of an explosion. Mr. D. D. Sh-eehan, M.P., of Dublin, who sin <1 a newspaper owner in eo. D-crry tor alleged Iil, was-awttrcltd one farthing damngea. Knoch Mart:n, aged sQt- and Jane Furlong, agod sixty-eix, both of Upshirv, were married at Walf.hatn Abbey Church and ?«how<»red with confetti as they drove away. The dead bodv of Surah Ann Peiue-ell, aged eixfv-f(.iiir, a relative of the landlord of the Whi*e Hurt Hctel, South pat«, was discovered hwigistg in the scullery of the hotel. For dan»:ige done to a costume by a dog belongi.ig to Mr. Marc, of Brixton, tearing it, Mm. Whaler, of Brixton, was awarded 30a. and cos's at Lambeth County-eoart. Forty pounds ws« fonnd in the clothing of a femakj limatie who luts just died in Stoke Work- hfuse after being an inmate for two years. "I do not know what you mean/' eaid a man who was asked at the Tower Bridge Police- court whether he was a Protectant cr a Roman Catholic. Robert Prior, a Metropolitan Railway en?ine-driTer, made a mistake with hie levers, with the result that flames ot out from the furnace s-nd burnt him ro badly that he died. At Lawford's gate, Brietpl, a prisoner named Warner, aged twenty-six, who WM charged with bigamy, was said to be employed am an "errand I boy at 7s. a w<ek. I Alderman Captain A. B. S. Fraser, who haa been elected Mayor of Hove for the third year in suckes,ion, was given a. complimentary ban- quet at the Hove Town Hall. Tho Council of the Royal United Service In- stitution, Whitehall, have accepted a portrait of Queen Victoria, painted bv the late Alexander Leslie-Melville, which has bun presented by the artist's widow. George aged eighty, who was sen- tenced to five yearn* penal! servitude at Stafford Aasizes, itas said to have bees a coiner sinoe 1883. Ijiecester land-grabbers took potweseion of • piece of land belonging to the Midland Railway Company, but were ejected by a railway police- man. Despite hit seventy years, Judge Bacon Mat at the Whitechapel Connty-conrt until 10 p.m. in order to finish the hearing of a case, and was at his seat again at 10 a.m. Among the candidates who presented them- eelves for the motor drivers* examination at Vienna was the Archduke Leopold Salvator. Yarmouth Corporation has decided to alter the mechanism of the Town Hall clock 80 that the chimes will be siknt between 11 p.m. Abd a.m A labourer named Patrick Revelle was fonnd at a H udders fie Id inquest to have died from in- haling' acfd fumes while following 'Ixis employ- ment. Alderman William Fairbrother, who has re- signed his seat on the Warwickshire County Council, has hunted with the Warwickshire Foxhounds for sixty-six seasons. Exeter politicians find themselvea on the eve of an election with nowhere to hold demonstra- tions, all the public rooms in the city being in the hands of amusement caterers. A middle-aged woman entered a butcher'* shop in Shield-road, Byker, and, picking up one of the knives, stuck it into her throat. She expired almost immediately. The Bristol City Council has decided to con- struct a lake and recreation grounds at Portishead in order to provide work for the un- employed; A4,400 will be spent on the under- taking. Canon Horsley, the newly-appointed mayor of Southwark, is about to open the crypt of his church, St. Peter's, Walworth, as a restaurant, L.b urr where free and cheap meals will be served to the poor children of the district. It is hoped that the King will be able to visit tha coming show of the Sussex County Agricultural Association at Eastbonrne, said the Duke of Devonshire at a ploughing natch luncheon at Preston, near Eastbourne. The fund raised by the Mayor of Yarmouth to supplement the scanty allowance of £15. per annum provided by the Police Act to the widow of Charles Algar, the murdered Gorleston eon- stable, has resulted in E420 being obtained. Four Municipal Reform aldermen, and one, Socialist alderman have been elected by the Bermondsey Borough Council, which now con- sists of thirty-four Municipal Reformers, twenty- seven Progressives, and two Socialist*.

j OUR LONDON LETTER. G [From Our Special Correspondent.'] There were no party peerages in the list of Birthday Honours, which was, in fact, first published without any peerages at all. It had been expected that one or two wealthy Liberals would be "sent upstairs" as an acknowledgment of their services t. the party, but probably Mr. Asquith felt that as matters stand between the two Houses this was no time for creating fresh peers. There were, however, two peerages announced in a supplementary li;.t,s and that conferred upon Sir John Fisher is of great interest, considering how prominently the name of the First Sea Lord has Lien before the public during the unhappy controversy upon naval affairs. No previous holder of the position has been made the object of more determined and virulent attack, but his last honour shows, at any rate, that the strong faith in his genius and ability held by those in high placis is unsh:: 1;v-n. There have been rumouis of the First Sea Lord's early retirement, and his acceptance of a v peerage is held by some to mean that his period of power at the Admiralty is approaching its conclusion. This, however, is denied by others who should be in a posi- tion to know. Relief organisations and charitr.ble private individuals are constantly hcotd with the difficulty of distinguishing between the de- serving and the undeserving poor. This diffi- culty is painfully evident to experienced ob- servers of the condition of the Embankment just now. Indiscriminate charity., gifts of soup, bread, and even money have brought about a state of things there which is rapidiy beeon?ing a scandal, and may be fL source of serious trouble if drastic measures are not quickly taken. The bait of free food at- tracts nightly hundreds of London's undesir- ables. There arc no doubt deserving units amonget them, but it is much to be feared that the majority are of the worst type. There are scores of professional beggssrs among them who pester passers-by for money. The police have admittedly a difficult problem to solve. They are better able to keep obsei". ation upon the hundreds of out- casts whil< they are gathered in one place than if they were scattered over London, and a refusatl to allow the Embankment to be made a i»e< ting-plaee would bring a great outcry from people who do not appreciate the seriouc nature of the position. All tha same, some; iing^ taust be done, and a better way would be for the organisations who now distribute their gifts on the Embankment to open district depots, and so break up the maem of wretchedness. A great deal of flummery is being published about a coffin-lid in the British Muccum which bears a portrait of an Egyptian Priestess. The portrait is said to have a most malign influence upon people who speak » disrespectfully of it. A long aist of amazing [ misfortunes haa been put down to the ac- count of the Priesteea. One gentleman, standing face to face with her likened her to r a suffragist. She retaliated by getting him I discharged from his employment, and over- whelming him with disaster generally. Some- j body else writes of the unhappy fate of three j friends who had in their possession illua- j traced accounts of the mummy. One was nearly run over, another had a fall, the third i lost a tooth, and two chimneys fell upon her houee! These are, however, only minor ills; other people, we are told, have lost limbs and even life because they flouted the Priestess. All this is very depressing, but I turn with relief to the letter of a gentleman who says that he has stood in front of the wonderful coffin-lid, and, greatly daring, called the Priestess everything he could think of, and has entirely failed'to arouse her wrath. But let him beware; she may be simply biding her time. He may loose a tooth yet. Credulous people are convinced that the Priestess is going to make things ex- tremely unpleasant until her coffin-lid is re- turned to the place whence it came. The recommendations of the Committee which has been dealing with the Stage Cen- sorship do not appear to have caused general satisfaction. The Censor is to be retained, but the responsibility for his decisions is to rest wholly with the Lord Chamberlain, and the office will be strengthened by a Consulta- tive Committee. This is a solution of the difficulty which was strongly advocated before the Committee began to hear evi- dence. Now, however, comes in a curious point. Although the Censorship is to remain it is not to be compulsory. Licenses may be applied for or not, as dramatists and managers may choose, and plays may be per- formed with or without the approval of the Censor; only if a play is produced for which a license has been refused or not applied for, it will be at the risk of the producer, who may be prosecuted if in the opinion of the authorities the play offends their sense of what is right and proper in a stage play. Apprehension is expressed that the result of thie proposal may be to bring into existence theatres for the production of doubtful plays, which would, of course, attract by the very fact that they were unlicensed. Certainly this does not seem a desirable condition of things. The Committee have avoided coming to a direct decision one way or the other, and have taken a middle course, which may very possibly turn out to be worse than either. It will probably be news to many that opium-smoking and gambling are carried on without any dieguise in that queer corner of London which is the Chinese colony. These are, the twin passions of the "heathen Chiaee," so notorious M for ways that are dark that are vain," and wherever they congregate there will. be found the game of "fan tap" and the opium pipe in full swing. It is expected, hvever, that in a few weeks the County Council will obtain the power neoemazy to abolish both theee evils from the Ch;n::se lodging-houses iri the- i ond, though no doubt Jol2ii be quito clever enough to find incurs flaiging in them ill private. G -,I n; opium-smoking are forbidden i: .4 tit present the C •• -»il nur, no authority to com pel a lodgnx n\ ki) e r to take out a license, and th- » live are uniicci^ •• o that the [uaeiicrs go on unhindered. rp w order will oomc into force early in >. The Chinese colony L* chiefly ec" ■ •? .a:]om, :-Iud CO!i:i".ts of a floating of about 300, but duriug- flie vear j lI. ,>.<*<}(# Chinese pass through the lodging-lna: One of the most attra* £ :.«.c items in gramme of the second <• -1 Queen's Ilall on Saturday aiter.roo.. 'Wr, Granville Bantoek's "Okl English i j which was eondtie'cd by ijae com; <- work was given recently at the <. Festival, but thin was the finst [ in London. Mr. Bantoek has <! > material from old compt'«ers—Gib land, Bull, Farnaby, and Bird-muj ) t put a great deal of fine work iaio L numbers of which the Suite consists. i work is certain to become very popuia. 1:;1 orchestral societies throughout the et, ;y. The symphony of the afternoon hoven's No. 5, of which Mr. Wood g. an admirable rendering. M. Jacques T';H;a:uf, the brilliant French violinist, played u fully in concertos by Lalo and Mozari. At the next concert, on Saturday week, Clara But will sing some of Eigar's Sea Pictures," which were, by the way, written expressly for the famous contralto. A. E. M.

FROST AND SNOW. Snow fell at many places on Monday. At Malvern there were five inches on lh. k-v^i, the heaviest fall ever reeorded in tk. V Midlands at such an early date. In Yorkshire twelve. degree* of fros* registered on Sunday morning a -n Monday, and the snow lay from ? inches deep on the Wolds. The L. r eoroaer held an inquest on a r 70 years of age, narned Kedd, who trozen to death on the roadside y morning. The snow plough had to be bro- -.■> clear ihe electric tram lines c y between Stockton-on-Tees and 1.1 t. and out side work in the shipyards e Tees has been practically suspend phone communication between Mi'1'1 and the Cleveland villages was susv 1 From Wales and many parts of f i. :,1- lands snow and intense cold are i 1 also. A heavy snowst.orm. visited a f Leicestershire on Monday morning ren- dered sport impossible. In the Blakeney district of Gloneff fr "11, where .large areas of fruit are fi: Ii » i- gathered, much damage has been done the severe weatlter.

BURGLARS' GOOD TIME. Burg-lara, who appear to have been busy in the neighbourhood of Clapham-common during the put few days, have, aftor making an unsuccessful attempt to break into St. Barnabas Church, visited the Vicara,go school. and whilst a dancing clafis was under instruction managed to secret. themselves. On Monday morning it was discovered that five missionary boxes had been opened amt thoir contents, amounting to about £ 3, ex- tracted. Despite the fact that the principal and "three: servants slept on the premises, the burglars seem to have made themselves com- fortable in one of the governess' sitting- where they lighted. a fire and pre- pared tea. When they departed they left tho front, door open, and it was in this way tlu. the raid was discovered. II -O- c