The Rhos Herald

j Ef IISME T". j TTk- new French l-jir'X. i t »--s r-,ti. fed by the r j Six Iambs have bsea i-„ >: afc'ihe i farm of Mr. John Kr-ight, SRoiSfe. i One of tlie King's barge W. Styles, has just died at Datchiei, t The Self-Denial Fund «i :• .ct -oix Army this year amounted to .£6 3d., about I X150 less than last year. Seventy-five lost children :r the hands I of the Ha-mpstead police on Monday, but all were claimed later. Owing to the attitude of /voters at Dun- kirk, France, over the q • .si the price of loading rails, a commit" merchants of the port has decided to sub-- w >rk im the docks. 't The Antwerp Society f r f'^r^teciion of Animals reports that recent .is .Us of decrepit horses at that city numbc: f fzom. Hull, sixty from Goole, thirty £ r<„ i^wcastle, and three from Leith. One of ¥ £ « <iil horses l»a^ to be carried. Mr. Charles Frohman h • -nred a new comedy in three acts, by A-: cay Hope and Cosmo Gordon Lennox, d "Hekzalo Paths," which will be prcd, at the Reper- tory Theatre. The Bar. E. S. Shuttlew vicar cf SL Paul's, Kingston-hill, has r<t • a cheque for £ 1,000 from a donor, who v "q to remain anonymous, towards the fu^ the comple- tion of the church, which is without a tower. One day's disbursements i." the North- umberland liiners's Union fv v 1¡, the strikers against the Eight Hours A a ,*("k:n condi- tions total j860,000. Close £ 100,000 in various securities is still at it^ ->• :i!and of the union. Stolen two years ago and r-covered, a. picture, "Surrey Hills," bv ¥ Leader, has again disappeared from tr» Gallery at Wellington, New Zealand. Mr. Burns has appointed c. nmitt^e. in- cluding Sir S. B. Provis, of cal Govern- ment Board, to revise the oi -tting to the administration of out-relief. "Our farmers want wives a message reoeivea irom Western A by the Premier, Colorvl Moore, v:; ■ present in London. "Send us as many as you can!" Losing his balance at a -X. > colliery, Midlothian, a mine inspector 1 Alexander Wilkie-Grahame fell from o to the pit bottom, a distance of 384ft., m i -is killed. Final arrangements hav< made in Brussels for the organise 11. during the miluinu-r of a regular airsh iti-iot between Brussels and London. In recognition of her havi Bord- wcll School for ten years anr rdle-nths with- out a.n absence Florence j was pre- sented with a silver watch Kieeting 01 West Suffolk Education Cck. For being drunk while in c v* & taxieab in Knightaoridge, William C "w at Lam- beth Police-court sentenced k nth's hard labour. Edinburgh University has :d the de- gree of Doctor of Music he ,a, on Dr. Frederic Cowen, the famous and con- ductor. Private William Freestone e old 4th Light Dragoons, who took he Balac- lava charge, has died at Wa •. v-aged 76, as the result of an accident. Colonel Harrison has ar Entebbe after visiting his pygmies in o. It is officially announced .al candi- dates are being secured i. kleld by Unionists in many placer qoUt the country. The sailing ship Emily, of Was sunk in the Irish Sea, near the i; a<it: a col- lision with the steamer P.1., her crew were rescued. I An elderly woman sudden nentally deranged at Waltham, Lin- ,¿nd, tak- ing1 off all her clothes, ran agh the village street. Three more cases of small ) occurred in Melbourne among the F,L xom the liner Otway, who are in q-Un.L. This brings the total up to five. Mr. Wynne Baxter, at a Tv ;-v-wt into the caae of a woman who •. v eating frozen rabbit and pickled f i he had heard that at some periods t; r rabbits were dangerous to eat. Owing to Canon Drew's 8if: -ecs. Lord and Lady Gladstone, who leaving Hawarden, have postponed t~: arture in- definitely. Miss Warrender, a follow o- Vale of White Horse Hounds, has appointed vicar's warden at a vestry n, Purton, near Swindon. Negotiations have been o .r fer one hundred Scottish athletes, p i High- land dancers from the Bra; ?ring to take part for a week, beginn 3, in the Festival of Empire, to be h, Crystal Palace this summer. A burglar who has been t, i •* serv- ing a sentence for breaking • -use of Lady Herbert in Thurloe-n. -l Ken- sington, has written coolly as < refund him half a sovereign which if n him by the police. Mr. T. T. Gre, of Cr ■ ,-ford, Herts, has consented to beet i candi- date for the Hitchin Divie next general election. The Pennsylvania Raiiro < led to increase the wages of all pe v employ by six per cent. This decisi t t c hus»- dred thousand men. About six dozen bottles r wine were smashed in the streei « Crosa owing to the breakdown of h*: wine ran in a rivulet along the t- Mr. James D. Lever, brr tJ W. H. Lever, head of the great i enter- prise of Port Sunlight, died; ;i<vugh, Cheshire. At the Kingston Childrei Matthews, aged eleven, a sc" > ound over for stealing sixpenny be- longing to All Saints Churel In connection with the -;)t of a house surgeon for the Nor- v ital, at Wisbech, one of the uns. J ants proved to be a negro. He > '1 quali- fied. The French barque Jeanne r which has been on the overdue list, tenock in good order. The vessel New Caledonia, on October 29, jatered numerous calms. The annual report of the < ble of Edinburgh shows a striki: "ose in drunkenness, which is largely i to the effect of the higher duty y the

EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS A WIDOW. The oldest woman in the United Kingdom has died in the person of Peggy McGurk, of Catrickmore, Co. Tyrone. Her age is autho- ritatively computed at 110. Peggy was a well-known figure for miles arourid her native village, and up to a few years ago she was active in her daily work. She received even up to her death a small sslary as caretaker of the local courthouse, and she also had an old-age pension. Although known by the name of McGurk, her correct name by marriage was Hodgins, but her married life was so brief—only about three months—that her neighbours never got out of the habit of calling her by her maiden name, and so, after the death of her husband in 1822, she was still Peggy McGurk. Throughout her long widowhood she lived alone in her cottage, and there she died a lonely death, being found by some people who, noticing there were no signs of her moving about, broke in the door.

r;- .ó _r'' c:. "A I | >■' Cyrrf.e'XxmdeM-l — [Of:1; 0.. l.{. :J:C -.OCLi. -:i;; ii or two ago 'j >o woixld certainly be j another Gen-s".V; < i «i :a May or June, j are how spe anohL-ir voice and say- ing that -'< reason the prt-f-aut Parliament sho-itjd not see this year out, and I perhaps another after it. That there ja a I more hopeful failing prevalent in the rank and file of t-j<« who follow the Government is certain, an'i it has been brought about by Mr. Aeqnith'1; Veto resolulioas. On the I whole, these with favour with the Ministerial parly in the House of Commons, and there is a iVji-ng of satisfaction that,, they I' are not to be c<;u;plicated with any question of the reform oJ the House of Lords, at Nny rate for this That the resolutions, I when submitted tf.1o the vote next week, will be carried by th<> full strength of the Minis- terial majority may be taken for granted. Then, however, will come another matter, the settlement ct which, does not at present ¡ appear to be so csrtain. As soon as the Veto resolutions are disposed of the Government will come forward with the Budget, that Budget which will by that time have been before the country for about twelve months. Then will come the tug-of-war. The Gov- ernment will naturally desire to pass it through the House in the shortest possible time, while the Opposition will demand the ri?ht to discuss it clause by clause. The fate of the measure will depend on the way the I Nationalist vole goes. Will Mr. Redmond and his followers support the Budget, thus giving evidence of their satisfaction with Mr. Asquith's method of dealing with the Hou&e of Lords, or will they wreck the Bill and de- feat the Government? Probably they will stand by the Government but we shall see. If they turn against them, we shall certainly have a General Election in a few weeks. And that is just what most people do not desire. None of the parties has a lot of money to spare just now, and members, who have hardly had time to get accustomed to their I seats in the House and to their new dignity, which has cost them many golden sovereigns, are not at all anxious to spend as much again in so short a time. All things con- sidered, members of Parliament and the free and independent electors would much prefer I to wait a year at least before again going through all the bother and worry and ex- pense of an election. A new metropolitan police regulation pro- ¡ vides that all taximeter cab warnings are to be of a uniform nature, and that only a tingle note of a low tone is to be allowed. I The order does not affect the cabs already in existence, but only new ones; nor does it I affect private cars or motor-cycles. It is understood, however, that the Local Govern- ment Board are considering regulations I which shall apply to all motor vehicles. Thia action has not been taken too soon, and be- I fore very long, it is to be hoped, the nuisance caused by the weird noises emitted by motor alarms will be considerably mini- mised. A great deal of diabolical ingenuity has been eiercised lately in devising more and more fearsome sounds of warning to I foot passengers. There is the ordinary hooter, the musical instrument that plays a chord, a siren that shrieks as if in awful ¡ agony, another contrivance which madly sounds the principal notes of a major chord, I one after another, like a clarionet in a fit, and still another, the worst of the lot, which produces a sound like a maniac's chuckle. I It will be a good thing to get back to the simplicity of the siügh: note of a low tone." These are times of great salarie8 for popu- lar stage performers, but Madame Re jane is creating a record for Great Britain this week at the Hippodrome. The famous, French actress is appearing in a play with a com- pany from Paris, and the amount of her salary is stated to be .£700 per week. As the play last only about half an hour, the salary must be considered a fairly good one. There is sure to be a rush to see the great Rejane, who has played before pretty well all the Royal personages of Europe, and has been loaded by them with presents and honours. There is one Royal personage whom she defied. This was the ex-Sultan of Turkey, who, when Rejane was in Con- stantinople, commanded her to appear at Yildiz Kiosk. Now Abdul,, as everybody knows, kept a tight hold on the money-bags, and in this case he offered a fee only to the leading lady. Rejane, however, refused to allow her company to perform for nothing, even before a Sultan, and, though the French Ambassador appealed to her to give way, she left Constantinople with her fellow- players, and the Sultan waited in vain. The new venture of Mr. Charles Frohman at the Duke of York's Theatre is meeting with great and well-deserved success. He has made of his new Repertory Theatre quite the most interesting playhouse in London, and by a long way the most impor- tant from the point of view of serious drama. Our actor-managers have long been accus- tomed to see a very marked distinction be- tween plays that are good and plays that pay. And, ae business men, they have chosen the latter when they could not have both. Their idea of a play is one which gives all the best scenes, all the beet lines, and all the "curtains" to the star ef tko cast. At the Repertory Theatre there ia none of this. The star system is not in force-at least, there is no bright, particu- lar star—and the play's the thing. Mr. Frohman is introducng at the Duke of York's a series of fine plays, plays which are much too clever and intellectual to appeal to the actor-manager who wants a showy part and the centre of the stage all the time. The actor-manager may, perhaps, learn from the success of Mr, Froluaan's venture. j'{' v" .<•> eomefh'n'y better of t' foam it has u'" -i SO Icvfj. 'LlLic '1.r::1;J {;f.? :1 u-trange nm "18 of awakening est in poetry. A long experience of sueli leads me j to the conclusion that there are few j thivtgs more utterly imromanfcie and im- poetical than big gatherings of people all bffifc upon making a meal. Wordsworth was not referring to people but to cattle wheni lie wrote: "The oldest and youngest at work with the strongest; There are forty feeding like one!" It was, nevertheless, with tho idea of stimu- lating public interest in English poetry that the Poetry Recital Society arranged the dinner to poets' descendants, and it is stated that its announcement has already had an effect in that direction. The works of poets have been applied for at public libraries to quite a remarkable extent, and it seems that a number of very worthy people have learned for the first time that there are things worth reading in Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, and a few others. Some, it is said, have discovered poetry for the first tijfle, and really enjoyed it. A. E. M.

« MAN BLOWN TO PIECES. Whilst a composition for blasting pur- poses was being prepared on Monday at the Electric Blasting Company's Morks, near Trafalgar Colliery, Dean Forest, bY a young mu named Frank Phelpp, it ""YF1"ded. The building was completely i„oli»hed, and Phelps, who was working c>ae in it, was blown to pieces. In ad';xt i i buildings several other employees. chiefly wirle, were at work, and although they felt rise force of the shock they were unhurt.

AGED WORKHOUSE HERO. The heroic act of an aged papuer in Liver- pool Workhouse was brought to the notice of the Workhouse Committee. It was stated that at two o'clock in th. morning one of the nurses rusheu into a ward with her clothing, from her feet to her waist, I a mass of fire. The girl was on the verge of hysterics, was utterly unable to eave herself, and in a few moments would have collapsed. A man named Hudson, 63 years old, who waa lying in bed, jumped up, seised a b'?nket, and quickly had the nurse tightly bound within its I folds. The flames were thus extinguished, and it was stated the nurse was now very little the worse for her adventure. Her rescuer was dewcijbed as a "victim of unfortunate circumstances." He vas a cab- driver, and upon his employers in Liverpool giving up business owing to the ac-.vr^t of taxis, he was almost stranded. By g'«g to the Yeomanry camps in the summer grooming the men's horses he earned suffirifto subsist until Januaty, but then his funtlsi were ex- hausted, and he was compelled to seek the ahelter, of the workhouse. It was unanimously agreed to repaid the old man for his courageous conduct.

UNDER A TRAIN. As the 10.56 a.m. train from London Bridge to Brighton neared Balcembe Station on Friday, the driver saw the door of a carriage of an approaching train open, and a man fall out on to the four-foot way. As soon as he could bring the train to a. standstill he went back to find, as he sup- posed, the victim's body, but, to his surprise, although almost the whole of the train had parsed over the man (William Henry Savell, of Tooting), none of the wheels had caught him. Savell was dragged from beneath the train, and is now in the Cottage Hospital at Hay ward's-heath, suffering from shock and a dislocated shoulder. He can give no ex- planation of what caused him to fall from the train.

» WOOD WORKERS PERILS. Thomas Patterson, a piano fitter, of Hammer.. smith, died from blood-poisoning, which was supposed to have been set up by a splinter of wood which he ran into his finger whilst at work. At the inquest at Westminster a fellow-work- man said that Patterson, who had been. working with mahogany, told him that it was nasty stuff to work with. Mahogany was regarded in that light amongst workmen, whilst rosewood was supposed to be even worse. A Home Office inspector said he had known a good many cases where rosevood dust had caused eczema on the hands of workmen. The jury found that blood was the cause of death, but said that the evidence was not sufficient to show whether it was caused whilst th* man was at work or not.

Thoresby House, Earl Manver's residence ia Sherwood Forest, has narrowly escaped destruc- tion by fire. Smoke was seen issuing from the roof of the east wing, and tàt., rafters were found to be on fire. Damage to the extent of about ,£300 was done. Sir Ernest Shackleion and Captain Scott have written to the National Canine Defence League stating that dogs used on their expe- ditions will be treated very kindly and Mceoft ,ø,'pq.

| nmin v' The sad story of an opera t. nri n.syh«w iol'l g.r> • tii. ..j • i: <aettc* a • ::1- i-; s Tb-f* verdict urn oue ->i JJeath 1-. i: ture.'5 I The evidence showed that the 1 -c < d wM Found by a policeman in liamirM -> u a nude state en 'ilarch 12. Br. jutted to Coiney Hatch on March 18. Leonora Cassette, the widow, siikl de- wwsed was an opera ppsearedt last April at the Coronet Theatre fie also sang at concerts. He suffered from a slight- nervous disorder last September. Dr. Gilfillan stated that deceased, when admitted to the asylum, srruggjed violently, but eo far as could be detected there was no injury. Later a small abrasion apared on the arm. Thomas Squires, an attendant, stid he put deceased in the padded room, in which wit- ness did not think it was possible for. patient to injure himself. Dr. Turnbull's evidence showed that Cas- sette slowly sank and died from blood poison- sette slowly sank and died from blood poison- ing. Witness had not seen any case quite as I bad as this. The patient was quite naked in the padded room and tore hie mattress to ahreds. The abrasion on the arm might have been self-inflicted.

A SUFFRAGETTE'S HUSBAND. The matrimonial troubles of the husband of a lady said to be a well-known suffragette were described at the South-Western Police-court on Saturday, when Mr. John Tunnicliffe, at Brixton-hill, was summoned by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Tunnicliffe, of Sullna-road, who sought to obtain an order for alimony on tïh# ground of her husband's alleged desertion. The defendant denied deserting his wife, and said he was only too anxious to return homo to her, but she would not let him. Mr. Hindle (defending) Is she a suffragettef Defendant: Yea, I believe she is one of the leaders. She ordered my daughter to pack my box for me to leave the house. He was not even allowed to go to bed; she would not let him. i Mr. Hindle: What is all the trouble about ? Defendant: She wanted to be master. De- fendant went on to say that if he asked hi# fendant went on to say that if he asked his wife where she had been to when she stayed out the whole evening, she told him it had nothing to do with him. Mr. Hanne (for the wife) Yen did not raise any objection to your wife ordering your boX to be packed? Defendant: It was no use. She is master. She said if I annoyed her she would lock up. up. Mr. de Grey: There is no desertion. I be- lieve she wanted him to go. The case is dis- missed.

SWEPT OFF SUBMARINE. Tremendous seas were experienced off the Lizard on Saturday by C 37 and C 38, two of the latest submarines, and Lieutenant Alfred B. Prowse, the young commanding officer of C 37, was swept out of the conning tower and drowned. The vessels have only just been built at Barrow-in-Furness, and were being conveyed to Portsmouth, their first station. Lieutenant Prowse stayed in the conning tower for hours together, and it is considered his death is due largely to the physical weak- ness caused by long- hours of duty during trying period. Two bluejackets were with him in the tower when a huge sea swept against it, tearing the protecting canvas completely awy. Lieutenant Prowse went overboard, and, clad in oilskins, and wearing heavy boots, instantly disap- peared. The other men succeedcd in clinging to the wheel and stanchions, and thus saved themselves. The lieutenant was only twenty- seven years of age.

-0 CORONERS LAW. In summing up the evidence at an inquesC at Battersea on Saturday on the death of James East, 43, who committed suicide in Wandsworth Infirmary, the coroner com- mented on the peculiarities of coroner's law, A man who was insane in the meaning of the law, he said, could not commit a felony. It was a matter of history that a suicide's family used to be punished in certain ways, and the man's body was buried at the meet- ing of cross-roads. All inducements were attempted in olden days to prevent suicide, but theee measures ofttimee proved futile. The ordinary rough method adopted on at- trial for felony was to ascertain whether a, man knew he was doing wrong, and the first sign of insanity was often found to be tb. act of suicide.

POISONED GRAIN IN ESSEX. At Ongar on Saturday, Hugh Craig, farmer, of Paslow Hall, was charged witft placing poisoned grain on a field at Black- more, and John Kirby, a chemist, of OngjMV was charged with aiding and abetting. Superintendent Haver said the police hact had great difficulty in trying to find whero the poison which had caused the deaths of game, dogs, foxes, and birds in Essex had been obtained. Kirby had admitted supply- ing Craig with poison, but said he did so am a gift, and therefore did not register it. Defendant Craig said he only desired to prew tect his crops. Defendants were each fined X2 6s. 9d.. in. eluding coets.

Mr. L. N. Parker is making the EnglisK translation of "Chantecler," in which )(i8ø Maude Adams will appear in America. Superintendent Charles Pearns, of the J Divie sion, Metropolitan Police, has died in St* George's Hospital from pneumonia. "That is a thing I keep far away from," said a soldier witness at the Kingston Polio** court, when asked if he suggested a fight. Mrs. Maude, whose funeral took place at Barraford, near Nelson, died a few hours after her daughter had been married. A treaty has been concluded between GHa" Britain and Mexico providing that botli countries shall have equal rights in navigating the rivers forming the boundary of Yucatao and British Honduras. The special report of the Departmental Coos- mittee on the Law and Practice of Coroners" Courts, which has dealt with the question of deaths under anaesthetics, has now been signed, and forwarded to the Home Secretary^ for publication in about a month's time.