The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. The Glasgow steamer Amsterdam sank while loaded in the Tcea. "-tie Queen visited the Hackney Horse Show fit the Agricultural Hall. The King and Queen have witnessed the per- forniance of "Dame Nature" at the Garriek Theatre. n By a magazine explosion at the Trcadvtil Mine, .Juneau, Alaska, twenty-three men were killed. Two pike, weighing together 541b., we-r-e taken by Mr. A. J. Penny, of Yarmouth, wliile fishing near Potter Heighaur, Norfolk. Of 7,212,337 electors in contested constituen- cie.s. Mr. Churchill stated that 6.667.810. or over 92 per cent., voted last January. Six Walter HeIy-Hutchinson, Governor of Cane Colony, now in London, has been elected president of the British Empire League. Sheriff Roll has been elected alderman for Billingsgate Ward in place of the late Sir Fran- cis Hanson, by 348 votes, as against W polled by Sheriff Slazenger. Twenty thousand applications were received for appointment. in the Labour Exchanges. Mr. Buxton states, but all the appointments have now been made. On his wedding morning, Thomas Cowrra, of City-street, Belfast, who had recently b"n suf- fering from depression, was found dead with his throat cut. The Earl of Shrewsbury, replying to a nume- rously signed memorirJ. stk6 that he cannot, comply with the request to re-open the famous Alton Towers gardens to the public. While on trial for assaulting s WömafR a ncgro named Allan Brooke was taken fron* the I court-room at Delias, Texas. U.S.A., and lynched by a crowd numbering nearly 2,000 per- sons. With the usual sails replaced by a eevew -pro- peller worked bv a motor an "aero ice vaeht J attained a speed of thirty-seven miles an j in experiments on the ice at the saoutZi til ihe i Neva. Since 1907 "cheap" Jewish mavr;c" Uw which a fee of Is. 9d. is paid, have dr ;• owing, it is thought, to local industrial <5epz?«s sion. t Seventy years' unbroken service with Messrs- Silas Dyle and Sons, glove manufacturers at I Milborne Port. Somerset, will l;e conipk;t-e<l on March 21 by William Stockwell, in N-,hcse honour I the firm are giving a banquet, and to whom a .presentation will be made. Annie Dewey, housekeeper to Canon CaStesr- ata, a Roman Catholic priest, of Wallsrtjrtoii, Surrey. was found not guilty of libelling Aiiim Tugwell, wife of the registrar of births and deaths at Sutton, at th-e Surrey Aausizes- The Archbishop of Weetrmnster liza r«c*?iv*d a communication containing a promise of CI-006 towards the extinction of the debt of E6,000 on Westminster Cathedral on condition that the re- maining £ 5,000 is provided by the end of April. Colonel J. R. F. Sladen, eoaimantlhig the 2nd East Yorkshire Regimjent at Fyxahaji, rac killed while playing polo recently. While Mrs. L. Brett, of Morpeth-mansions, Westminster, with a lady companion, warn walking in Queen Victoria-street, a well- dressed man snatched her handbag and escaped. The bag contained £ 6 in gold. The bag contained £6 in gold. Mr. Joshua George Terry Lea, a we-Il-krome Birmingham stockbroker, was eharged with ¡ forging and uttering an authority for transfer of certain shares in the Mining and Finance Corporation. 'Mr. George Heath, of Holland Park-avenue, ) W., chairman and managing director of the firm of Henry Heath, Limited, who committed suicide in hie office on February 2, left estate valued at £500, with net personalty niL TIle widow, Mrs. Rose Edith Heath, is the nolo I executrix. H.M. cruiser Diamond, with IIÍx destroyers and four new turbine torpedo-boat*, kas left Dover Harbour for night operations in the English Channel. The Rev. Geoffrey Hopkins, curate of Kingston, has been nominated by the Crown to the rectory of Althorpe, vacant by the cession of the Rev. H. E. Trotter. In a printed reply to Mr. Will TTiorae eSms Home Secretary says that the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is arrai)ging to give the police force one day's rest in «ven. ->d that the first instalment under the new ny&i-. 41 will come into operation next month. Writing to Mrs. Grueber, of Lewisiuim. im the name of a detective who had arrested him for defrauding her, George Attle, aged 33, asked for the loan of E3. The letter was h;I,- (i to the police, and Attle was, at the Lotvd&a Sessions, sentenced to 18 moxithe imprison- ment. One of the eight submarines of the C class, manootivring in the North Sea, grounded on Newcombe Sands, off Lowestoft, and a lifeboat and a tug went to her assistance, but sh" re- floated and was escorted towards Yarmouth. The jurors in a case in the Divorce Ctmrt had to be sworn twice, owing to the fact that the first oath taken was that usually adBainss- ter d to witnesses. "I am not sure, Sir John Bightim remarked, "that the jurymen ought not to have double fees." "During 1909 the movement in favour of tie disposal of the dead by cremation eoiitim;<->d to make slow but steady progress,t&e "British Medical Journal. '• The nnwlxrr of cremations carried out in Great Britain wAs 855, an advance of 60 as compared with Mr. Thomas W. Wedlake, who has ji,ft retired from business as an ironfi>w»c?<r at H-jruelnircli, Essex, in his eighty-seco;Kl year, holds the verv'rare distinction of never having lisd an- ilhrjss. • He drdärcs that the seci-ct, of good health lies in cold waterv of whieh he drinks h quart every day. Mrs. Susan Rabjohns, who died At Bra. £ ?- nineh, Devon, wr,« employed at the Hek* Pii}KT Mills for G9 years. •■'lb: love'1 of finery is the thing is corrupting all the young people. The imibiS'iiy to pay is the mendacity of it." gaid Baeon at the Bloomshury County Conrt- A cat vdtcll wiw chasing -a mouse kuoefced nvir a lantern jmicI eauscd a Jarw fnriuiii'i^p to be burned down at Baresttm-sw-Sea*, France. A man who was sentenced at the Marjlehnne Police-court was said to have been a "'{B-tj'es-' sioual bailer-ont" of arrested persons. The remarkable price of £ 29 Ids. per wad paid ut Christie's by Messrs. Garrard t'ox old English porringer. It realised ¡ Is.iiu. A yoang man named Joseph Co*vau, of City- •rr.-H, H.'H'iist. who was to have boes f.. ;.1 ,4L his Iiou.l- wit;; a terriuh" L'l liis ti.soat,. and died iK'fote arrival at dn ¡ IH" ,i..

OUR LONDON LETTE3. ——O (From Our Special Correspondent.] A stranger In London on Saturday would never have guessed any election was in s progress, and that the people were choosing a County Council to serve for the next three years. There was nearly everywhere an .ntire absence of excitement. Tire truth was that the event came too closely on the heels of the General Election, which exhausted all the entlrr^asni of Londoners for a time. Oonsideriug' the importance of the matters with which the Council has to deal, and how they affect the interests of Londoners, it is remarkable that so little interest is taken in the triennial election of members. Even in 1907, when the Progressives were routed, only a little more than half the electorate took the troupe to go to the poll, and this year the percentage of those voting was con- siderably smaller than that. The result of the election is the disappearance of the Municipal Reformers' big majority. To find a parallel for the present position of the parties we have to go back to the Council of ia'Jo. Amongst other things which are placed to the credit or the discredit of the Municipal Reformers are the abolition of the river steamers and of the Works Depart- ment. There can be no doubt that their steamer policy lost them seats in the river- side constituencies. Mr. John Burns's salary as President of t the Local Government Board has been made j the subject of questions in the House of Commons. Last Session the House decided that both that office and the Board of Trade should be raised in status and salary to the j level of Secretaryships of State, but it was understood that the holders of the offices at I that time were to benefit by the change. I There is, however, a new Parliament now, itnd, theoretically, a new Administration. I Mr. Winston Churchill, who has gone to the Home Office, has £5,000 a year, and his suc- cessor at the Board of Trade, Mr. Buxton, is paid an equal salary. Mr. Burns stays on at the Local Government Board, and probably he will now IW released from his self-denying covenant, so as to receive the substantial additions of X.3,000 a year to his salary. In any event, this, as the Prime Minister said, j is one for the general assent of the House, which will certainly be accorded, for, what- ever various opinions may be held of Mr. Burns, there are few members of the House of Commons who do not admit that he has been a success as a Minister. It is more than j likely that the next President of the Local 4Governmeiit Board will not be so well worth his pay. There is said to be every probability that I the scheme for occupying part of the crescent site between Aldwych and the Strand about which so much was heard two or three years [ ago, will be carried out after all. It was I described as the "Paris in London" scheme, and it was intended to build shops, with offices above, fronting on the Strand and the side streets, and to erect on the central por- tion of the site an imposing building with spacious galleries, to be utijised in connec- tion with a permanent exhibition of French arts and manufactures. There was to be a theatre, a concert hall, and a restaurant, I with open courts around in the style of a Continental cafe. In this position such an enterprise would probably prove distinctly I popnlar. Some progress was made with the preliminary arrangements when tire scheme was first mooted, but the matter did not go through at the time, and the Council with- drew the option which had been granted. At I the last meeting of the late County Council, I however, the option was once more agreed to I for a lease of the portion of the site required for 99 years at a rent of X55,000 per annum for the first four years. The audience which cheered the Princw and Princess of Wales the other night at the Royal Victoria Hall, in Waterloo Bridge- road, was a vast improvement in point of behaviour upon those who used to gather at the "Old Vic." in the old days, when it was the Victoria Theatre. The audiences at that time had an unenviable reputation for rowdiness. There are many interesting theatrical traditions associated with the place, and some of the greatest names in the history of the English 6tage have appeared on its playbills. Kean, who played Richard III. and Othello before the Old Vie." patrons once told them exactly what he thought of them. They had called him before the curtain, and he said: "Well, I have played in every civilised country where English is the language of the people, and I never acted to such an audience of unmiti- gated brutes before In the middle of the last century the theatre had earned for itself a very bad name indeed. But those days are long past. A number of philanthropic workers took it in hand and ran it as a Temperance .Hall to provide good music and wholesome entertainment. There were many diffieulties, chiefly financial, to be overcome, but since 1888' the hall has been endowed by the Charity Commissioners, and an excellent work is being carried on there. A walking-stick of cordite may seem to a good many people a dangerous sort of thing to carry about, and the will think that Mr. Haldane, who confesses that he used to walk with one to the House of Commons every day for months was doing a very foolhardy thing. It is pretty certain that if "the man in the street" had known what was the nature of the stick he would have given the Secretary for War a pretty wide berth but, as a matter of fact, there was no anger. Cordite, though composed of gun-cotton and nitroglycerine, is perfectly safe to handle. Mr. Haldane's stick might have been sub. jected to a temperature of two hundred degrees Fahrenheit without any effect, and he might have broken it into little bits with a hammer, with no danger to himself or any- one else. Some years ago Sir A. Noblo i carried out some experiments with cordite. and he reported that although he had sub- I 'I t square £ »eh ;t«s bad it. Mr. Haldaao• did r.ot expl.-iin had the stick made or why he L'd e ased to use it. Perhaps he re&.ezn- t a Liberal Government was j d on a question relating to the' cj- servo er the explosive, and had the idea of pT-cduong his i-lick upon the table- of the ij iTou' in pr o I; that" the supply had not -j ervireiy run out. ervireiy run out. A most interesting bit of old London is NeviU's-eourt in Fetter-lane, part of which's now, to the sorrow of historical students, in the h-a-id.1-. of the destrev-rr, who is Ill.) s;v.:ctor of antiquity or ti;;<!r ion, and ki'Oivs of One of th-3 claims of Nv yiirs-court to dstinction in these day.? is that it has Mr. Keir Hardie for one of its residents, but in the past it has ksown «on:« of London's greatest men, and some of the queer old houses still standing by its nanow way were left untouched by the great t11'. Johnson once lived in t, or very near by, fïPd Thomas Hobbes, of Malmcsbnry, and Tom Payne, who wrote the "Rights of had their abode here. In Fetter-lane "Praise God" Barebones, that "sturdy Puritan, lived, and 'Htid forty pounds a year for his house." There were others, too, who could hardly be described as "worthies." Among them wa.s Elizabeth Brownrigg, who was executed in 1767 for the murder of one of her appren- tices. "Her house," says Leigh Hunt, "with the cellar in which sho used to confine her starved and tortured victime, and from the grating of which their cries of distress were heard, was one of those oil the east, «ide of the lane, looking into the long and narrow alley behind, called Flower-de-LuceCourt"- 1. A. E. If.

NEXT mars"CENSUS. Mr. John Burns. President of the Local Government Board, presented in the House cf Commons a Bill for taking the census of Urcat; Britain in 1911. Tne census will be taken on Sunday. April 2, 1911. Many suggestions have been made for an improvement of the form of question put to honseholdcrs. There will be some altera- tions. but probably not of a revolutionary cha- racter. The census. will be substantially the same as it was ten years ago, aiid. as then, every effort will be made -to speed up the analysis and publication of the returns. There will be about 40,000 enumerators. The cost of the census is between £ 140,000 and £ 150,000.

BIRD AND MAN FIGHT. While walking along the Pin hay diffs. Lyme Regie, Dorsetshire, Mr. G. Churchill, of Pinhav, was attacked by a large gannet, a bird well known in, the North of England j as the Solan goose. The gannet flew at him j several times until he succeeded m killing 1 it. From; tip to tip of its wings the bird measured cWer five feet. j The gannet is well known on our coasts. It I is nicknamed the spectacled goose. On the I Bass Rock, in the Hftrth of Forth, it congre- gates in vast numbers. It is extremely I powerful on the wing and has a voracious I appetite for fish. The normal length of the bird is three feet. I (

FATAL POLITICAL DISPUTE. At Staffordshire Assizes on Monday David Harrison Jones, a miner, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Henry Stokes at Wal- r sail on January 15. The parties had been friends and 00 the | same sioe in politics up to- the last general el~V'tion, when the accused changed his el~V'tion, when the accused changed his views. At a public-house, while the men were under the influence of liquor, a quarrel a: ose about party favours, and the accused struck the deceased, whose death followed,, The judge said the case approached mis- adventure, and bound the accused over to come up for judgment when called upon,

WATCHED A MAN HANG. An astonishing story of callousness was told I at an inquest at Darlington, on Friday, when a youth confessed to having watched a fellow- I prisoner hang himself in the police cell without making aaiv eff-ort to stop him or raise an alarm. On Thursday night Jaices Cully, barrowman, aged 47, was arrested on a ellarge of larceny, and placed in a cell with & youth named Bolam. Cully was under the influence of drink. Later, the sergeant, looking into th» cell, found him hanging to the upright pillar, quite dead. At the inquest, George Bolam said he waiefaed Cully get the rope from the lining of his coat and hang himself with it. Åtlked why he did not stop him, Bolam said, "I did not care what he did. I was not going to interfere," and when asked why he did not shout, he replied,, "I forgot." He added that when Cully had1 hanged himself he thought no more about it, but went to sleep. Before hanging himself Cully, asked, "Who is going first.? and witness re- 9 plied, "Well, I am not going." d coroner remarked that apparently Bolam W3.s of weak intellect., and the jury returned a erdiet of "Suicide while temporarily insane/'

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ILKESTON BY ELECTION. 1 he result of the Ikesion 1 Derbvshireji by-elect-ion c.un,l jr Walter Fosfa- i:i 'a.v-tr (f C-'o-iel Se-l-v. U>-der-Hccretarv for the C< if: >s. who '.s:-s, d"'eet-ed in Liv, <>-■]. ;va,. iu; :d, on Monday nighl Colonel J. E. 11. iL V-j.i'Pi 31 r. H. I' iiiili 1. ■'■-■v i yv 11 1 1 ?^ o, I L-bcrai mr.jovity The figures in J»:tu!;«i'y woie W. F{.s<-i.,r (J ]0 !;t F. St. J. iiurtcw -'•••(U) LiV-ral iu:;jor:ty 4 IiJ0

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OUTRAGE AND ROB3-ERY. Mr. William d 78. e gentlen 1 of independent means, living ;:v: d t o Limes, Albert-road, South >0 eod, s-s- tuined severe injuries, occurred at a hit;? hour on Monday night. Mr. Taunton was assaulted and robbed .t his arrival home after collecting remts, T men, who had apparently waiting ( the house for sonic con,-ide:l)!e tie: e ) stated to have attacked- biro j*- -if! h* had entered h'is resiils.T-ce. 'J :1" a:«a:i nis& rifled his pockets, and escaped wit-i a Wy-. t and other valuables which Mir. T:i; -|!v whose head was badly cut, wav. 'wearin-.r the time. No arrest "has yet, etfecUd.

AGENT wanted to visit Local Farmers. Gtood sal*r* offered.—riO, Wood#iAe Park-road, Finahley. RINKR AND ELECTRIC THEATRES. J'j n:r-l?DG ED Security Eight per Debentures nvrt C-t a (ew. SttftTf-s. fncr S.'th- at. plr. -12, Avenue- Mmmu PM-h, W.