The Rhos Herald

• v^mm OF r ■■■ to hold an aviation maetiv ■ •.& Whit Sat^day, us -dined at Qorh-ston off a sea 'V. O humlred weight. Leslie Wilson,. D.S.O. will be -ar.didate for Reading at the -as Barlow, F.R.S., has IN--en e1-f\j x the Royal College of Physician*. j. z of Surgeon-Major Ferdinand < i Caimean veteran, bag taken place Jit f' r lr o, 6d. was bid at Markcl. Drayton for > L l j !'¡ oaid MO ordinary shares in a 'PI < -e, brewery. 1 'i-e' a pair of old Chinese far,. ) verts cliLieree, Bin- high, changed hands for 1£19;: 10s., or nearly £2() an inch. ) Aft- leaving Hartlepool Harbour the Sc; [ boioajfii trawler Constance stmk- The cre»* w»n *r .av«d. t E.M. battleship Victorious was re-commis- t sioned at Ciiatiutm with a new nueleus-crew for .< ,in the Noyv Siib-Ditiswu of the Fleet. Milton's cottase at, Chalfont St. Giles has yielded £ 150 8s. led- daring the past year, and ii tn parhjent of es|x»«s there is a balance of .£34. 4s. 3d. in hand. Mr. -ia Hambidae, a tringle woman, of Swindon, who was arrestedl in csonneetion with v, d i of !»civl -(>om ch M '<Tb<wc body was found in a we has been diseharg-ed. Fhp Ro val National Lifeboat Inetitntion seat to Soutlisca a new lifeboat to replace the i t d thore many years ago. The- boat is named after the late Mr. Richard Crawley, ;i 'Soiii Itanipton. An Admiralty nmmovaxtdxsm has been issued sta* coastguard stations are beneeforth to be known iJtttv omeers^ ehief boatmen as i class petty ofEecrg, and ounininionied boatmru before October, 1SW, ss.sc-cond-cia" petty officers. A workman whose saame is untrsovTi. aftor waiting outside a new Iniilding in Great Marl- bo rough-street in the ÃOpt" ot being ttht- entered a public lavatory and ínticu4 a wouiiil in his throat w,th a penVrtife. He was tsilct-n in a serious condition to Middlesex HospitaL The Nor-eeian sailinsr ship Marjrorka ar- riving at null repoitfd having lost her boat- swain, a man d fetterson. The vessel ov countered terrific weather after leaving Pal- mouth, and when sixty mi1 o. the Ilumber the second officer and the boatswain were washed overboard. The former was rescued. An earthquake shocV, aeeompankd by a fall of aerolites, is reported from Brittany. Newfoundland Legislatare h" been pTo- ropied after a se>^ion which, while the ahortost on record, has accomplished the largest volume ox business. During the anti-Aiceriean riots ia Bogota Colnrwbia), two English priris wesw for Americans and were mobfeed and beatd- For a perfect copy of the first e<h-.ve-a of the New Testament in WeWj XISO WM paid at Messrs. Sotheby's. As the result of the finding of a body of a female child at Fsr^lxrtvnMfh. ?i*"a;r Broinky. a young woman has beea dctaiueS by the pol". I No fewer than 26,848 dogs were received. W*t year into the Batterseac, Bone f&r f.ost aaadu Starviiig Dogs, Henry Field, who has beea oeut to tSvree' years' penal snitude as an habituat criming. had his conviction quasacd. by 43se Appeal; Court. The Reigate Bench eoBMnrttod: GteS Shovel I, i aged 15, and Albert Henry Humphrey, is, | for trial on the charge of placing aa obst.ruc-1 tion on the main dovm line of the Li.B.i».C. Railway. Charged wih discharging dredg-in" wifhim a: prohibited area off Rembriilge, a "barg emastv^r; at Newport, Isle of Wight, said it was done in order to save his life and lives of The! case was dismissed. A verdict of "Suicide while temp<nc»riSy in- sane wai returned at a Bournefckmth i mm rest on Harold Griffith Perkins, 21, son of the Rev. W. H. Perkins, a Baptist minister. Deeense^ died from injuries received thnw^i fa..ling, fron? a window. A verdict of "Manslaughter" both parents was returned at a Bradford inqi-wst, on a child, two and a half yeart old, which was de- scribed as being only half the weight of a healthy child of its age. The parents )T ¡ undergoing a short term of imprisonment. ;1 Wool from Inyanga, Southern wtis sold at the London Wool Exchange a.t prices ranging from la. lid. to Ig., 4fd„ a pcmnS. Mr. Buckland, of South Wharf, PaddvRgtor, was stated at an inquest to lave dbsssk Mm-; ment in mistake for mpdicine. While Alfred Edgar Bartholomew was ttarry- it1 « a gun through a hedge at Spoons. Hall" Pebmarsh. a twig caught the trigger axA he was shot dead. J "Every man is sorry when his lie is fotmd ont." Judge Bacon declared at the Whiteehapel County-court, "but he is not tinged with regret | if it succeeds." | "The laift fire claim I settled was a year ago." | a fire assessor pleaded at the Bhoredikh | County-court. "I have done nothing saase, and I hav6 a wife and eight clvildreri." | Mr. Hobhorse states in reply fo a ,tïml 1 by Mr. Watt that only one person in Seotland, applied to be allowed to grow tob-ae«? for c.i- j p^riniontal purposes in the season of 1SH>9. J The funeral of the late Adlmiral. 1 Metaxa, formerly naval aide-de:r»»ip to Queen 1 Victoria and King Edward, WfJ}¡ 1>11it'f: .-at j Southsea. 1 A t Milltown Malbay, a shopk««i|»er TwtTued'l Daniel O'Brien was remanded on » å-ar -of, lie; -,I* maliciously setting fire to' the dweSijng-Ijoiise of | Mrs. Jane Lee. j The wheat statistics of Vietera for fhel season of 1909-1910 show that the area -muter! this crop is 2,097,000 'acres. yielding'] 28.780.000 bushels, an average of iS.TS Ixtasaels ■ per acre. Mr. Edward Brown, the pouJtxw «ss^ert, J speaking at Guildford, SPitl that Surrey spent j between £ 50,000 and £ 70,000 a and poultry that were not produced in the county. It is proposed to raise a mercwmsl t fhe late 1 Mr. J. G. Talbot, senior member for the Uui-j versify of Oxford. 1 iSir Herbert H. Risley has been ap>p(nnte<d i secretary in the Judicial and Pufole Bep&rt- ¡' of tli,, Sir James R. Smith has been appointed poli- tical aide-de-camp to the See.rtl.arjf «t £ btø.te for India.

lettfi, r-f. l '••trretp'ondvd.'] ? !n 1.1 'I 5 in "-]1. :n:V!' l-ii days WLč!H j 'v •!> owing to bfid .Lbev. 11 h-i-r -od lately thaf hi. >: ofcy is to chills tbrr. he .1 to bo- oJ course, perk-ctly While ravelling to the i of France SiujeFty caught, it is said, a slight enchial chill 'iroBi an open cartih.qc ")d.,v. It. would not be surprising if, on the "j,,]g'E;l"t't,urn, hit> l,j\dicr>l adí"Íere ii-iL- to insist upeii his curtr.iiiiur his public wml:, ,Úù a!rt. UpOIl hi3 i: "king I oil g, i, and more frequent holidays. Ought taricab drivers to smoke? was n, question which cropped tip the other day between the Home Secretary and a depuc;> tion f.'om the drivers" union. It wis that driver had been reported for siiso»L.g. and the Commissioner of Police said that the practice of smoking on taxicabs wns dangerous because of the danger of the light of the match coming into contact with the petrol vapour. If the danger is a real one. it is, of course, tery serious, but it is next to impossible to think of the diiver of a taxicab without, a cigarette in his mouth. New men. new methods. In the prosperous days of the hansom Jehu used to sit up on his petob, jaunty and debonair, smoking a cigar. His successor swears by the -cigarette, and he will certr.inly feel it a deprivation if he is not allowed to indulge in a whiff whiie on duty. Why should not a hairdresser be a success- ful playwright? At any rate, here is one who has done it. Mr. Durchon Janitsch has written a play called "The Raven's Cry," and the proceeds of its production are to be devoted to the assistance of those hsiir- dressers who snared bv the Paris floods. | There is a gCCKl ueal in that idea. A long time ago we heard of a newspaper written "by gentlemen for gentlemen," and unkind pieople nowadays talk of a certain journal as being written "by office-boys for offioe-boye." Why not, then, plays by hairdressers for hairdressers, and novels by tailors for tailors? A hairdresser, it is certain, sees a good deal of human nature while pursuing his daily avocation. "Every five minutes," says Mr. Janitsch, "brings us a variety of manner and of temperament. Even when we are talking for the thousandth time about the weather, we are learning character." That much-abused but always popular in, stitution, the annual exhibition at the Royal [Academy, is going to be rather duller than Ensual, so the prophets say. Millionaires, torn with anxiety about the Budget, the jsuper-tax, and the land taxes, have tightened their purse-strings, and have no money to spare for the encouragement of art, and there will, therefore, it is expected, be fewer J commissioned works.. It is not on that account, however, that Mr. Sargent, the famous portrait painter, will have no por- trait on the walls of the Academy this year. He has long threatened to leave Burlington House desolate in this respect, and this year he has carried out the threat. He will, how- ever, have a number of landscapes ont view, and his genius in that phase of art will cer- tainly lend distinction to the exhibition. I Amotg the portraits will be one of his Majesty the King, by Sir Edward Poyntor, and Sir William Orchardson will exhibit what are said to be two of the most exquisite likenesses he has ever put upon canvas. Visitors to London who are interested in church architecture should not fail to make a pilgrimage to the old Norman Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smith- field, which is one of the finest and most in- teresting churches in London. It has suffered -come shocking treatment in past years, and it is possible to see on one of its walls traces of the days when a. blacksmith's forge stood there. The work of restoration has been proceeding for some time, and the operation of removing a portion of a stationer's shop which covers the south side of the arch of the ,Smitbheld Gateway has brought to light some fine mouldings and dog-tooth ornamen- tation of the early English arch, and in addi- tion the arch of a small mural arcade of the same period, similar to that on the west front of Dumstable Priory, which was also an Augustinian Priory. At the back of the arch a portion of an Early English arch of the nave and a portion of a vaulting rib -and a mutilated pier and capital have uncovered. These discoveries confirm the statements made by the Restoration Com- mittee that the Smithfield Gate is a portion of the west facade of the church of the Prior,y of St. Bartholomew. [n not much more than a month the White City will be re-opened with the Anglo-Japanee,e Exhibition. Thorough in .everything they undertake, our friends from the Far East do not intend that the opening day shall find them with their work half finished. Every detail in their section will be complete. An interesting feature of the Exhibition will be the examples of landscape gardening, an art in which the Japanese have been famous for centuries. The princi- pal example of this will follow the plan of the garden of the Emperor's old palace near jKvoto,. which was laid out at the end of the sixteenth century. Its designer only under- took the work on condition that he were allowed unlimited time and money, with the further proviso that nobody should examine the garden until it was finished. Fifteen years passed, it is recorded, before the Em- per/ir enjoyed the first private view. The counterpart of this garden has been con- structed in a few weeks. Plays may come and plays may go, but "'The Scarlet Pimpernel seems likely to go 100 lor over. It is, as Mr. Terry told an i 'i T'> ..■■ :■; .t< r. '• i •; rv. S hi; vvrti i>r;u • c\:1 •• t advcrti?i;v. ■ over Lor.doa | and k-;1' 'verv'! 1> i'hoy eansed a ijrreut deal mor» mtt brn would have, been the ease if Mr •< r.?;;d waited a day longer and boomed the a- •"Sa^dth perform- a.Bce. A. E. M.

A POSTPONED FLORAL. Ife was drciiied to po-tpnne tit., f-ineral of C/iLin-m »-"enry H«d«tnatt, 22 y«-fn*R of age a dentist, of Kforestfaeb. tj('/I' Swnn^r-ii, petitlin^ tb" report r experts us to w he*her tlx; man i« t«ti11, iiie -r whether he is aothfcby dend. An inrpiei*! ».«>« held a which a verdict 'v.«* vet*irued i,li-t death was Line to an overdone of narcotic It wuk givell in evidence that Htiixn)-?i hat nequired the drug lis-his bv S:ij««t»ng narcotic* into !.ÏH forearms when Buffering tri al insomviia. it. in now stated that doutyts have arisen as to whether he ib desw. owing to the pink eolour of th" faee, the ruddires of ih- iipli And the absence of mortification. Ills lifniike appears .nee is wdd to be extraordinary, after lie had been "dead" six I ¡} ¡tV;o. There ia IitU. dotibt that HuUman is dead, l'he doctor* engaged on the cane ".t.dhne the Hupjwmeii of the lime I.A)Ilk ptLLo¡' to iillli to imagination. 0-

DESKS OF FAMOUS MEN. The sale at Sotheby's of a eo1 lection of writing de,.to4 formerly Ivho j;i g to famous men brought the following reni'«rk»i Jtj IS O'Conviell'm' ilek El 1 0 Dickens's desk £ 13 0 0 William Blake's d(-k £:50 Kt 0 Robert Btirs)14,1, (ie,,h ctiou 0 0 The O'Connell desk wrh of hlaek oak. The Dickens desk wa« prese;iteo. ng a br-Mhr plate stztteg, by the novelist to Air. 1. P. Davi*. to whom Diekenn t-old Tavistock lio:i<<e in I"ci) The Burns Dettk waii used h) hili. ;tt whitnec he went after his mafriajje with Jean A¡'UW'II' in 1788. Aftet- his detth ilie iSoik betame the pro- I perty of hix widow, ami sr. IHh laout. IJCU out of I the possession of his family unril iiow.

PROFITABLE PIfi KEEPING. II The Bath Workhouse Firm Committee make a good profit for the ratepayer- out of their pig I keeping. During titt- i att ea» ;hey r»*aiised I'! i,iii the sale'of pigs £;) ¡ f>¡¡,. lid., £:!t.K, (It whieU was I profit. Why. asked a memb«-r of the4i«ii«(r!i at'tlic iafct meeting, should they breed p' at the workhouse meeting, should they breed p:?-o; at the workhouse I and yet buy hacou? It was explained that in curing bacon there was a j<ood deal of offal which could not he used at the w, ki.o.ise, i.nd i was far more profitable to 8* 11 the f igs and buy bacon. The Farm Committee were congratulated by the more profitable to 8* 11 the pig" and buy bacon. I The Farm Committee were congratulated by the chairman of the board.

BEQUEST OF A DEAD HORSE. The will, which has ju»t been proved, of the late Mrs. Mary Ann Fillin^hara. of Newark Lodge, Sydenham, who left grom estate of £ 47.o.F>4, directs that as soon as pots- i 1)1,t after her death her pet cats, "Tiger" and "Dairey'' her pet dog, I- Nip and her horse, Boy," "hall be as humanely destroyed as possible by a duly qualified veterinary surgeon in the presence of tn-r said coachman, Thomas Palmer, and to her said coaehinau she left the carcase of her said itorse. The te*tatri:: allio left bequests to employees.

BELFRY IN A TREE. An extraordinary belfry is at the present time to be seen in the churchyard of St. Leonards, at the village of Woore, in Shropshire. During the hurricane of a few weeks ag"t,h<- belfrv of theehureh was so damaged as to m ce.itts.tp its reconstruc- tion, and in the meantime tlw ^hioners are summoned to worship by tin-i i' :ing of a single bell, securely adjusted in the forks of an ash tree growing within the precincts of the sacred buiid- ing. 7

YARMOUTH AS NAVAL BASE. The possibilities of Yarmouth as a naval. coaling station have been te«ted, and tOUl" de-ti-yei-c.- tiie R<*tber, Wenr, t 'Ix rwe! Mill Uve took ou hoard 300 tons of coal specially brought from South and then berthed at Lov»e»toft. The des- ti-o vt-rs (osiiaelt, Alitot-i, -itid I'attai- iiso tested Yiirmouth for loading oil fuel. A train of 3F) tt-tiels from London bt-o(tglit t,,ijs of oil, which was transferred by pipes to the des- troyers. 'C;

STRUGGLE WITH BURGLARS. During church hours on Sunday night burglars broke into a house in Deanery-road, Stratford (Essex), occupied by Mr. William Dodson, by forcing the front door. The house was left unattended, but the doors were locked by Mrs. Dodson when she went out to church. She returned, home after service, and as she was about to unlock the front door she heard someone running down the passage. She unlocked the door with her key .and entered the house. On seeing Mrs. Dodson the burglars, who were two young ment about twenty years old, made a rush to get- out, but Mrs. Dodson pluckily grappled with them and attempted to hold them, using her umbrella freely in the struggle. Mrs. Dodson received several blows about the chest, and eventually the young burglars fought their way to the front door and ran in different directions. Mrs. Dodson chased them up the street, shouting to a man. who was passing to stop them, but the men got away. I The whole of the house had been tho- roughly ransacked, every drawer and box in the rooms having been turned out OIl the floor. Fortunately, owiiif to Mrs. Dodson's returning, very little' property was taken. The missing1 articles included two watches, a brooch, ai:4 a ring and about a sovereign in Kihor.

| The Prince and Princess of Wales have pre- f sen ted a brooch to Nurse Schilling, who was trained at Bethnal Green Infirmary from 1893 to 1906 and was one of those chosen to nurse s Prince Albert of Wales during his recent ill- peas at Osborne.

T '■ >; '.■■■ v C .¡' SC: v 1 "'C. A or ■ ■ ■« in- vestor-; 1 -i' o v i-t on Batuv,5 Geory- 'ind Norfe TLv 0: iVv'-ii: ■' I. s: vl tiuit when ■. G .-■• v\ ..s bi.'l., is .yi: v.; n- v. j-hnb^a had <>.• Mrs. i.ia/ i'-hvkz- >t Trclawny-road., Hack-' > ncy, nu f1 < treated or <*h- b,i-c .rite I I:L;i'Ution in ParisJ t., Polioc-rouj." 'v-b"y fluit as he wats 1 t sad tli.it u fro)n tile efIQCC ol is my tun t,0 d; Dr. Gordon. the •.•nnviie'il s:ir-oriT.'tw?ent of the Hackney Inihmsry. Raid that the deceased when put*into- a bath f.prang up in u iright. Ut) III The witness added: "If I mentioned water it sent the deceased into » spamn. He was, how- ever, quite sensible, ard could give a con- nected account of his ilhu'sa." Dr. Gordon said it was twenty-eight years since he hnd the last ease. The symptoms were like the present one. Seaman asked hnn to cut his throat, 't his was not an invitation to put j him to death, for he added that it would be the only way air coukl Eh3 admitted to the respiratory organs. » Eventually, witness continued, the deceased'# agony became so terrible that they had to in- ject morphia to quieter! him. He.died at 4.30 in the morning after an awful night's suffer- '■ ing. Witness had made a pest-martem examiv nation, and from the symptoms he concluded deceased died from hydrophobia. The Coroner It is a terrible sight to see a man suffering from hydrophobia. I remember one in my medical student days, and the sight, will never be effaced from my memory. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from hydrophobia, and from accidental causes."

DELUSIONS AND SUICIDE. Charles Edward C^n-uaughton, forty-two, warchousem ",n, of ArdwicL, .Jjftanchesterj went home one day and #aM to his .sister, "The top V and bottom of it is I have to give up my work, as all the men at the workB are saying I am trying to work their wages down." He had been drinking recently, and on Mon- day his body was found in the Rochdale Canal. In the man's pocket-book was written "Dear Sister,—This is my last and final letter. I kuu;W now what- I have done. I have been cowardly all through my life- false t<» myself, fabe to my own soul, false to mv religici. atici. to my God. I know that what I h: ve mi id is he^mning of Shl) Catholic persecution in England, perhaps all over tne i^uierse. i have been a weak- coward, and I could not even pay my debts. I goto meet the deon» of Tseariot, now -ludas. I am as proud as Lucifer, but have not the x spirit of a mouse, and then with my back against the wan I can bite the hand tlutt fed me and rob the man who helped me. I have been false to-everything, false to every- body." A fellow workman of Connaughton said there" was no truth in the man's imaginations. A verdict of "Suicide wl ilst insane" was j^.5; turned at the inquest.

CARTRIDGE IN THE COAL. The Cardiff steamer Trafalgar has landed at Falmouth the body of William Orchard, a tire- man, of Cardiff, who was the victim of a mys- terious explosion. During Friday a heavy explosion was heard and volumes of smoke issued from the stoke- hold. Norman Trimiey, the chief engineer, pluckily descended, and found that- the fire from beneath the port boiler had been completely blown out. Orchard was picked up smothered with red-hot cinders and terribly burned. His injuries were dressed with oil, and he seemed to make progress, but on Sunday evening he became unconscious and expired. Captain Davies stated at the inquest on Mon- day that the coal was procured from a Spanish steamer at Cartoforte. The fumes in the stoke- hold were those of black powder, and he could only assume that the explosion was caused by a miner's cartridge being among the coal put into the furnace. He had no reason to sus- pect any foul play on the part of the crew. The coroner said it could only be surmised that the explosion was caused by a blasting cartridge left in the coal, and the jury re- turned a verdict that death was due to burns caused by the explosion. eo

SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. Four Yorkshire visitors have had a singular and unpleasant experience on the Big Wheril at Blackpool. Desiring to see how the town looked at night from the top of the wheel they paid the fare, and the wheel had completed three-quarters of the circle when it suddenly stopped. For a time the visitor's were unconcerned, and ever) when half an hour had passed they concluded that some trilling defect oe- curred, which would soon be put right. It was not until the electric lights of the ground were switched off that they realised tlif» truth—that they were l'or-(,-tt 'ell Now thoroughly alarmed, they shouted, until they were hoarse, but such efforts- proved in vain. Fiually a new idea struck Mr. Light- bowler. He started striking matches, and hold- ing them against the window. Lights in mid-air had the effect desired. A. crowd soon gathered, then the police sent for the manager, steam was got up, and, after tw& hours, release came.

THREE KILLED BY GAS FUMES. Three men employed at the Alfred Hickman Spring Vale Works, near Wolverhampton, ttrø lying dead as the result of an escape of gas at the works on Sunday night. n "v Two of them, Henry Giiffiths. aged 40, of Coseley, and Ernest 31, of Upper Ettings- hall-road, Wolverhampton, were engaged in clearing out the tube lesdingfromthegns- house to the engine-house, when an unaccount- able escape of gas fumes overpowered them. Another workman, named Richard Hpglies, Parkfield road, Wolverhnmoton, gallantly to the rescue, but his attempt f•< -d he fell to the floor. of reach of the fumes Griffiths was fonnd to dead, while Ball and Hughes, who were token to the Wolverhampton Hospital, died a few hours after admission. A fourth man lie. seriously ill.