The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. William Marrow, aged three, the son of a collier, of Standish, near Wiean. fell into a bath of boiling water and died later. Large crowds of people witnessed the funeral of Admiral Sir William Luard at William. The funeral cortege was nearly a mile iu lepgtli. Over 400 justices of the County of London at- tended a specially-convened county day meet- ing. heid at the Sessions House, Newington. to pass resolutions of sympathy with the Queen Mother and King George V. The Board of Trade inquiry was opened at Liverpool into the loss of the sailing ship Kate Thomas on April 4, whereby 17 of the crew and two passengers were drowned, an apprentice being the sole survivor. A Stoke-on-Trent lady who witnes.sed the royal funeral procession in London tells a story of"a dastardly act which was perpetrated while the cortege was passing, a girl about 16 years of age having her hair cut off. The hair, which had been done in a plait, was cut just below a ribbon that held it near the nape of the neck. A verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned i at an inquest at Hanley on Mary Arimtt, aged 51, and the woman's husband, William Armitt, an ex-soldier, was committed for trial. It was stat.ed that Armitt cut his wife's throat with a bread-knife after they had been sitting with their arms round each ot.her. At Coalpit Heath, near Bristol, three de- serted chickens arc being well cared for by a cat, which is also rearing two kittens. A baker in the Army Service Corps named Joseph Andrews was overcome by the heat at South sea. and died within a few minutes. The Rev. John Corcoran, parish priest, of Knock, was fined 2s. 6d. at Bally ha unis, Co. Mayo. Petty Sessions for assaulting Tobias I Kilkenny, of BallyhowJcy, Knock, or March 20. Ten thousand women suffragists will march I from the Embankment on the evening of Satur- day, June 18. to the Albert Hall, where a meet- ing will be held to demand votes for womc". The boys* school at Sholing, Hr.nts. ss :0 be converted into a girl's school at a c("t 0, L23.J, and the girls' and infants' school, ililC a boys' school at a cost of £Ö50. A new infant school is to be erected at a cost of £ ;>,3<80. While cycling against a head wind at Abber- ton, near Colchester, Mr. Benjamin Heard, a fish merchant, of Tollesbury. was seen to dis- mount and immediately afterwards fall to the ground. He died before being picked up. The Registrar-General's annual summary shows that the birth-rate for last year, 25.6 per 1,000 of the population, was the lowest on record. In all there were 914,621 births. Had the rate been equal to the average for the pre- vious ten years the total number of births would have been 993.284. or 78,663 more. The University of Edinburgh has conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Com- mander Peary. Judge Will. of the Birkenhead County-court, has died at his residence in Liverpool at the age of sixty-eight. Stories by Eden Phillpotts, Arnold Bcrrett, and Max Pemberton are at present running as serials in Paris daily papers. Mr. W. H. Lever, of Lever Brothgrs, the great soap manufacturers, has given £[)_OOO to the central fund of the Congregational Union. At Messrs, Puttick and Simpson's rooms ;L-ill was realised for an 1854-5 [our annas blue and reel postage sta.mp of India with head inverted. The King has conferred the Royal Victorian Order on the officers belonging to the foreign regiments of which King Edward was colonel who came to England for his Majesty's funeral. A skating rink and electric theatre has been opened at Colchester. It is the first place of amusement, the city has had since the abolition of the old theatre more than half a century ago. West Hartlepool Unionists, at a largely- attended meeting, decided to invite Mr. Howard Gritten. who opposed Sir Christopher Fumes* at tlye General Election, to contest the seat again at the forthcoming by-election. The funeral has taken at Charlecote, Warwick, of the fifteen-year-old son and heir of Sir Henry Fairfax Lucy. Bart.. of Charle- eote Park. the boy was taken ill at Eton, and died after an operation for ap}KMidicitis. The King. on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has approved of the re-con- stitution of the Royal Commission on Y ines for the purpose of an inquiry in to the health and safety of persons employed in metalliferous mines aud quarries. Mrs. Eliza Blackburn, the oldest woman in Don- caster, has attained her 100th birthday. Mr. Lloyd-George has promised to speak at a valedictory service at the Old Hanover Chapel, Peckham, which is to be turned into a cinemato- graph theatre. Special tramcars with half-fares are to be pro- vided by the L.C C. for members of the South- wark Institute going to and from their cricket ground at Dulwich. Hundreds of gas-jets, said a police-inspector at a London fire inquiry, are left alight all night in City warehouses owing to negligence by em- ployees. As a result of a dispute between the local life- boat men, who claim pay for a launch in February, and the National Lifeboat Institution, the Broadstairs lifeboat was removed from its station and taken in tow by a tug, which left for Lon- j don. | Forty-eight pounds was paid at Sotheby's for a first edition of Bronte's 11 W uthering Heights." The London County Council's proposal to take I over Finsbury-square garden in trust for the en- joyment of the public v was rejected at a meeting of leasehpldera and occupiers of houses in the square at the City of London College. An anonymous gift of E2,000 for the extension of the premises of the Union Jack Club was re- ported at the annual meeting in London. The annual report of the Intelligence Division of the Board of Agriculture, dealing with proceed- ings under the Food ana Drugs and other Acts in 1901V mentions that the principal chemist of the Government laboratories reported the presence of 3 per cent. of paraffin or petroleum oil in two samples of margarine taken at a factory by the Board's inspector. M. Muuratieff, Chief of the Moscow Secret Police, has been murdered with a revolver by an Anarchist named Cfiouravieff. It is stated that Chouravieff was wanted in connection with the murder of a St. Petersburg police official, and that M. Mouratieff had directed the pursuit. On the Enchantress arriving at Greenock from Pembroke, the First Lord. Reir-Admiral Sir John Jellieoe, and Captain E. C. Troubri.ige landed in order to visit Messrs. Scott's shipbuilding yard. They afterwards motored to Goran and visited the Fairfield yard and works. Next they proceeded to the yard of the London and Glasgow Company and inspected the cruiser Yarmouth.

OUR LONDON LETTER. e Our Special Corrpftyionden/.] King George's c n».i;U-r: si '-n in short~ the pc-i d of cviK'r: for the Ki:;r caus-rd u,r :■ ;i at I(::¡t v,e class of Li -1 :i is— -th s-; en- pr.fci -1 ->:1 the (1r:q:(ir.\ 'i 1::1 tr:¡<1 F. ]• ';1 ri1";al GI'{:'r (\r::i: "C )C:1 ,};l¡¡:f" ,f ,] hJ c; ¡] f ], < h M'-f c rtra.'l I i; v. c 1. s. nd t':o ii-t- i'-s order givrs .Jss.:ie DO as th ( <" when gv-r.-errl mo. in:: ;h;.H :enpr. t. v original ::yv:r ■ e- 11 -n 1\(1. adh.erto t ) vrrv seiious l1'1J'rl<l. I; h: hvr flected u:>on traclrsnteii ;:]] ovoi- the cotsntw. vv!r, 1.(1 it1 • uly in (t(d large sums (tf money hs :y and -i:n;nn:r g(;"ds. Tin. ;• will suffer r loss even now, but the enn- erssion Tncans the gain < f a month to them, and they will have a chance to dispose of the greater pc.tion of their stock at remu- nerative prices in the month of July. The order was amended by special desire of their Majesties and Queen Alexandra. Wlnjt effect the death of the Sovereign will have upon the political .situation is an absorbing topic of discussion just now. Nothing definite cam he known until Parlia- ment meets, but there is a general feeling thit we are not likely to hear much more about the Veto question this year, unless the Government decide to have an autumn session. On the other hand, Lord Rose- l,e!- v*(I(,i!ieil that he illtendfi to postpone his House of Lords resolutions. If they are proceeded with, it is difficult to see how a breaking of the present truce can be :1Y,d,, as their discussion would at once bring the whole matter again to the front. So far as the House, of Commons is con- corned, it is probable ..that there will be enough work to keep members busy until the middle of August, without touching the question of the Veto. The Government may think it wise t have an autumn session for the purpose of dealing with that very tick- lish problem, or they may agree to hold it over altogether until next year. That the Veto question will be settled without another appeal to the country is extremely doubtful, but it is now very improbable that the appeal will be made this year. It has been suggested that the Coronation of King George should take place during this year, but a moment's thought will show that to be impracticable. For a full year the Court will be in mourning for King Edward, and the brilliant and imposing ceremonial of a Coronation would be com- pletely out of harmony. Besides, these are matters which are settled largely by prece- dent. and none of our last four Monarchs has been crowned until more than a year after accession. King Edward, who suc- ceeded to the throne in January, 1901, was not crowned until August of the following year. Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle on June 21, 1837, and was crowned one year and one week later. In the case of William IV. fourteen months, and in the case of George IV. seventeen months elapsed between- accession and Coronation. Probably King George's birthday month, June, may be selected for his crowning. The fight for a Kensington square is to have a tame and inglorious ending after all. After days of alarums and excursions, erections of barricades, padlocking of gates, and taking of prisoners, the whole thing will fizzle out, and be settled just like any ordinary dispute in the Law Courts. 1 But at lea,st the residents in the very select neigh- bourhood of Edwardes-square ha-ve had a "crowded hour of glorious life." They have stood up doughtHy for what they believed to be their rights, and when it, came to a ques- tion of sitting up all night to prevent an ad- vantage being taken by the enemy, these "old leaseholders in revolt" (as Mr. Ches- terton calls them) did not hesitate. Not they. Somebody must surely write a heroic ballad of the men of Kensington. There was a wild hope at on'e time of even more ex- citing things, and crowds waited till mid- night expecting to see the Town Council's steam-roller driven full speed (three miles an hour) against one of the padlocked gates. But this item of the entertainment did not come off. A larger number of horses than in any former year have been entered for the great International Horse Show, which, though it will certainly be affected, 1 like all other important functions this year, by the death of King Edward, is iikely to be a very great success. The value of the horses entered runs to more than half a million pounds ster- ling. The Horse Show is always a popular event, and this year particular attention is being paid to the popular side of the pro- gramme, so that those who are not experts in horseflesh will find plenty to interest them. An interesting innovation this year is a class for mounted police, in which nearly fifty men from different parts of the country will compete. The value of the prizes to e, awarded amounts to nearly J 13,000, and there should be a tine spectacular display in the jumping competition for the King Edward VII.. £ 500 Gold Cup. Nearly every British cavalry regiment will be represented among the entrants, and teams from many other countries will compete, including a number of Cossacks, than whom there are no iiner horsemen in the world. Among the proposals for commemorating King Edward in London is one whi h was made at the meeting of the City Corpora- tion the other day for calling by the late Monarch's name the new bridge which is to span the river between Southwark and St. Paul's Cathedral. Powers for building the new bridge will be sought for in the next Session of Parliament. It will cost upwards of two millions, and will, it is said, be a very fine structure. It has been found impractioi able to adopt the recommendation at the eminent 'architects who were anxious that the northern approach to the bridge should de- bouch upoji the middle of the Cathedral in- stead of at the east end. This plan would have opened up a magnificent view of the mighty building, and many people hoped that the suggestion might have been acted upon. It is stated by the chairman of the com- mittee, however, that the idea is quite im- practicable. It would, he says, cost an extra million, throw traffic into confusion, and would allow no provision being made for tramways. These are fatal objections. The chairman adds, however, that by taking the approach to the east ccd of the Cathedral the committee will be ad;.Ming the proposal made by Sir Christopher Wren in his town- planning scheme for building the City after the Great Fire. Sir Benjamin Stone, who is known as "the photographer of the House of Com- mons," though he is no longer a member of Parliament, possesses the finest collection of photographs in the world. He has been collecting records for fifty years, and the I impossibility of obtaining the particular ,i pictures he specially wanted led him to be- come a photographer himself. Sir Benjamin ¡ has made 20,000 {Prints, and his collection numbers about 30,000, all classified and arranged in the most thorough manner. He has photographed events and people and I places all over the world, but his pictures of State ceremonials and Parliamentary per- ¡' sonalities are of the greatest interest. Sir Benjamin is an enthusiast, and I saw him at I Westminster Hall at five o'clock in the monling during King Edward's lying-in- f State, waiting to secure a photograph of that most impressive scene. Sir Benjamin, i who thinks that picture postcards have put an end to the hobby of collecting good j photographs, presided the other day at the dissolution of the National Photographic j Record Association, which he founded thir- teen years ago. E. M. I

WOMAN'S STRANGE DELUSION. I A well-dressed woman, apparently of superior education, made a remarkable application to the Willesden magistrate on Monday. She said she had been accused of the murkier of her father and child, and the Treasury had used her for the purpose of testing a w system of electricity. Her body was charged with it, and it was now drumming in her head night and dav. The magistrate asked the lady to have a talk with the police inspector about the matter, but she exclaimed excitedly, "No, I will not. I am charged with electricity. I am a duped woman, duped by the Treasury. And then to offer me the position of ward- maid in an asylum charged as I am with electricity by the Treasury." ,k Applicant then commenced to behave in a very excited manner in the witness-box, and was with difficulty removed from the court. The inspector later reported to the magi- strate that the applicant had been taken. verv ill, and he had sent for a doctor to w&0 her. f

INJURED BY BOILING TAR. I A serious fire took place on Monday morning at the Birmingham Corporation Gasworks at I Saltley. A tank. containing between 7,000 and j 8.000 gallons of tar, became ignited, and there was a conflagration, which at one time seemed fraught with the most serious consequences. Fire brigades from the city and surrounding districts attended, and great alarm was caused amongst the inhabitants in the neighbourhood, as it was feared there would be an explosion of gas. One section of the firemen attacked the flames with sand, and the other with water. It soon became evident that there was no pros- pect of putting out the fire, and efforts were then directed to preventing it, spreading. The tank burst, and boiling tar ran into the canal and wharves. Two Birmingham firemen were I injured by boiling tar splashing in their eyes, and a works employee was also burnt. j The origin of the outbreak is unknown.

FIVE YEARS FOR TWOPENCE. In the children's court at Nottingham Guildhall on Saturday, the case was dealt with of a boy named John Bernard Clarke, who, although only 14 years old, was stated to be an incorrigible character. The charge against him was one of steal- ing a purse containing 2d. from a lady at the Whitsuntide Fair in the Market Piace. lie had been placed on probation for a. previous offence, and, it being now stated by the attendant officer that it had been found impossible to deal with him satisfac- torily, the magistrates ordered him to be kept at a reformatory until he attains the age of 19.

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THE KING AND THE BOY SCOUTS. General Sir R. Baden Powell, speaking at King's Lynn on Saturday night, in support Óf the Boy Scout movement, said thar the late King took a very gieat- interest in it. On the day before his death his Majesty sent for him and discussed, the details of the review which was to be held at Windsor. His Majesty saw- that it meant to be a great thing, displayed a deep affection for the movement, and showed that he had evi- dently studied it in all its details. He had already been assured that King George would show as much interest in the Boy Scoute %& his father did.