The Rhos Herald

EPITOME OF NEWS. « In a case at Kingntan-on-Thames it wno stated that a summons was served by nailiug" it oa the front door of a litmse. Fire destroyed a drapery shop belonging to Mr. Wallace Hughes in Eriitoii-road, Lonaoc. Several women assistants had to be rescued by firemen. Dr. Hillier, Unionist, M.P. for North Herts, is touring1 his constituency in a molor-car bear- ing the number 1,884. His majority at the last election was 1,884. A Russian "witness at a Bethnal Green in- quest who required the services <>i an inter- preter admitted that she had lived in tins coun- try seven years, but, could- not speak English. The body of an unknown man was recovered from the Thames it Chelsea. He was wearing a brown tweed coat and waistcoat* navy blue trousers, and a striped shirt. Mr. J. R. Macdonaid, M.P., writing from Lossiemouth, Scotland, states that as he has lost his diary he would be glad if secretaries of societies with whom he has made engage- ments would let him know the dates at once. The Mayor of Sandwich presented the Royal Humane Society's vellum certificate to a lad of eighteen named Alfred Gisby for saving the life of a boy in the river at Sandwich in June last. Grisby rescued a man and a boy at the same place. v Over £ 952,000, or 183 lls. on an average tor each of 11,400 employes of the North-Eastern Railway, has been deposited in the company's savings bank. Lord Minto, the retiring Viceroy of India, leaves Simla on November 2, and will visit Rampur, Allahabad, and Benares., arriving at Calcutta on November 12. Dr. Jameson, Mr. Sciireiuer, Mr. Lwnel Phillips, and the Premier of British Columbia and Saskatchewan have joined the Council of the League of Empire. Some marauders, endeavaiiring to enter a powder magazine at Yergeroiiy, France, wounded the sentry. The guard, liring n:, ine men as they fled, accidentally killed the ?enl.);v. The body of a woman, between sixty and seventy years of age, was recovered from the surf at Lowestoft. It was quite warm, but arti- ficial respiration was tried without success. Six of the crew of the sloop iSunlight were picked uj near Barbados by a British steamer nearly dead from starvation, having lived on sugar and vinegar for thirteen days. Two leaders of the Honduras revolution, Generals Bonilla and Lee Christmas, are re- ported by the New York "Herald to have been captured with sixty men off the Guatemalan coast by Guatemalan troops. They are being held prisoners. Mr. Thomas G. Lee, of the Armour Packing Company, has, says a message from Chicago, been indicted for perjury by the grand jury in- vestigating the alleged combination among packers. L, During excavations at the ancient Roman city at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, situated not far from the Severn Tunnel, thirty skeletons were discovered. v Thomas Henderson, an ex-soldier, was charged at Bedlington with stealing a key worth 6d. He went to the residence of a county magistrate, claiming to be a-baronet, and ordered all the members of the household to be locked up. The defendant was ordered to be removed to an asylum. At Kingston-on-Thames Walter Rose, of Albany-road, Her sham, was fined £ 3 and costs for having cruelly beaten bis dog with a stick on January 24. Inspector Lewis, of the R.S.P.C.A., produced the dead animal's Lead for the examination of the justices, and said that both the jaw and skull were fractured. The old Tudor mansion Porter's Grange, Southend, at one time the residence of Disraeli, has been sold, and if the efforts of the towns- people to save it fail the estate is to be developed for building purposes. Hanging by a piece of cord from the wall of the office of Messrs. P. Kenady and Co., paper agents, of St. Andrew's-hil!, Queen Victoria- street, London, a clerk, aged twenty-two, named John Morgan, was found dead. Lord Alverstone, the Lord Chief Justice, un- veiled at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, a stone drinking fountain erected to the memory of the late Rev. J. Nelson Palmer, who was for many years prominently identified with the parish. The death of Mrs. McCaugban in hospital brings the number of victims of the rt-cent Belfast hotel fire up to six. Mrs. McCaughan's husband—the Rev. W. J. McCaughan, who was fatally injured in the same disaster—was buried only a few days ago. The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company are establishing a four-weekly service between British and Continental portit and all the lead- ing ports in East Africa, via the Suez Canal. This service will be inaugurated by the Guelph, which is due to leave Southampton on September 14. "I don't think," was the reply made by n lad giving evidence under cross-examination at Kingston County Police-court. Although the death-rate .t Worslev, near Manchester, for the last official month was only 6.6 per 1,000, three out of the seven deaths which occurred were due to cancer. Messrs. Barber, Walker, and Co., it is stated, have decided to permanently close down their Moorgreen Colliery, Notts, as it is im- possible to profitably work the hard seam there. Harry Mann, aged twenty-one, a Midland engine cleaner, was crossing the ulsin line at Kettering when he was caught by an express goods train and killed. The body was terribly mutilated. I Richard Cairns, a Leicester iron-moulder, is in hospital at Nottingham suffering from two deep wounds in the back. It is alleged that a, groom named Palmer, who was apprehended, attacked him. A bungalow and a private caravan, belonging to a family at Park View-crescent, Skk-up, were completely burnt out whilst the owners were away. Several fire engines appeared on the scene. A foreman painter named Talbot James Noyce, was found dead in the area of an un- occupied house in* Hartfielcbequare, Eastbourne. He had apparently fallen from an upper etorey window. A tram conductor who was charged at WiSIes- den with being drunk denied the charge. He said he had been seven years in the police force, and knew the police were not speaking the truth. "I was facing all ways," said Police-sergeaint Stringer, of the Surrey Constabulary, when under cross-examination by a defendant at the Kingston Police-court in a case of cycling to the danger of the public.

j OUR LONDON LETTER. —"— p"rom Our Special Correspondent.} London is becoming a vast empty wilder- ness. The process of depopulation began when Parliament 'rose for its holidays. Then the westward tide of American tourists com- menced. and every vessel that leaves our shores to cross the Atlantic is full to the last berth with our returning cousins. The clubs, or many of them, are closed. As you walk through Pall Mall or St. James's you see the haunts of the elite crowded with painters, paperhangers, plumbers, and other necessary evils At the lunch hour they occupy the best seats in the windows where Major Periderms and Lord Frederick Verisapht are wont to sit and take stock of the outside world. And, I have no doubt, that the views of Painter, Paperhangcr, Plumber and Co. are quite as sane and in- telligent as the views of the aforesaid distni- quished gentlemen. The "glorious tivelfrii, has also Jielpeo. to empty the metropolis. Night after night heavy sleeping trains, run- í ning in duplicate and triplicate, have left I King's Cross, St. Pancras. a-lid Euston, for the purple-clad hills of the north where I grouse do congregate. As an ill-informed critic once remarked, "thc piti,(, of the rifle" is 'heard on the moors. Notwithstanding all this going away, people like myself, who do not, take London with a holiday gulp, who I have little use for club windows, and who have dome very little shooting since Green- wich fair was abolished, find abundant charm in London, at this time of the year. For one thing, it seems a more natural place; the native element, in the persons of the school children, is writ large; the river has a wonderful charm, especially towards twilight; and the parks are beginning to put on the first touches of autumnal beauty, So London empty is London entrancing, a city of quietude unknown to the rushing tourist and holiday-maker. "Big Ben" is having his face washed. There is hardly need to point out that by "Big Ben" I mean the clock in St. Stephen's Tower at Westminster. Two years ago his face was cleaned, and since then it has be- come so covered with grime and smoke that the pristine whiteness was in danger of dis- appearing altogether. It is not an easy matter to clean Big Ben. He has four faces, each about 23ft. in diameter, ajid over 200ft. from to clean Big Ben. He has four faces, each about 23ft. in diameter, aud over 200ft. from the ground. When airships are perfected, aerial craft will leave the Palace Yard carry- ing the First Commissioner of Works and a window-cleaner, and a short stay will be j made opposite each face while the cleaner mops the visage of Big Ben in order to re- move the dirt. But airships are not perfect, and so the cleaning process has to be done by suspending two men in a "travelling cradle" from a balcony of the tower. From below they look like pigmies, so far away that it is I difficult to see what they are actually doing. I do not know how long the face-cleaning process will take, but the results so far sug- I gests that it will be a big success. Why should not the work be done every year? The little town of Mitcham is noted for two things—its fair and its laveyider--and both are of great interest to London folk. Both occur about the same time in the calendar, and both occasion a certain amount of dispute. Every year as fair time comes round the Conservators of Mitcham Common post notices throughout the parish setting forth, in all the dignity and obscurity of legal language, that no sites whatever will be let for show purposes on Fair Green, and that an-one who puts up a swing, a round- about, or a cocoanut shv, will be visited by various pains and penalties. But showmen come, as they did of old, defy the notices, give their entertainments, and move off when the fair is over. And so the stupid farce proceeds. No one seems to object to the fair at Mitcham, except the Conserva- tors, and I cannot see why they should not allow the fair to be held. Certainly the Mite ham tradesmen do not object, for the visitors to the fair always bring a little extra cash to tills which are never filled to over- sowing. I mentioned lavender. From "one end of London to the other the cry of the lavender seller may be heard. It differs from "Milk ho!" "Taters 'ot!" oo any other of the street cries of London, in being a sort of rhyme which has come down from remote ages. I have listened intently to catch the words, and so far I have never succeeded, but the next time that I go out with that purpose in view I shall take a gramaphone. That ought to do the trick. The lavender crop this year is not so good as it was, in point of quantity, the reason being that much I of the ground, where blue patches of this famous herb formerly grew, is now covered with houses. As London extends the whole of the lavender fields will probably be swal- lowed up, and lavender will be to us nothing more than a sweet and pleasant memory. It seems like aetting back the clock to instal gas-lighting in place of electricity. This is what is shortly being done in West- minster, and the public during the coming winter will have an opportunity of judging of the effects of the change in Regent- street, Piccadilly, St. James's street, Piccadilly Circus, Pal] Mall, White- hall, Victoria street, and Parliament- square. The Westminster authorities claim that when the new scheme is in operation these streets will be the best lighted streets in the world. The existing standards in the centre of the roadway will be utilised, and in place of the electric arc lamps there will be high-pressure gas lights of from 1,800 to 3,000 candle-power. The mention of these shows that gas-lightimg is net confined to the feeble saffron flicker that it used to be. As electric lighting has advanced, gas-light- ing has also made rapid progress, and any- ¡ one who ventures to assert that gas-lighting 1 ie a thing of the past, fit only for sioa in an antiquarian society, is taBting without his book and displaying I;awent- able ignorance of present-day affaiss*. The contest between gas and electricity s only just begun. If ever a tithe of the proposals for com- memorating King Edward come to pass, the average Londoner will not know iris owa city. Every- day a fresh suggestion; comes forward, sometimes useful, a>metÍma idiotic. One man wants to reconstruct Trafalgar Square; another to rebuild the Mansion House; a third would provide towers of open spaces (and convert London into a collection of chimney stacks); asotker would have an ornann->: nl garden at Vic- toria Station. Then, getting their second breath, the memorialists propose to buy the Crystal Palace (and, I presume, have the windows cleaned); to make Somerset House, beloved of the cheerful taxpayer., into a Royal palace; to establish & King Etlward garden city; and to clear St. Hospital of debt. Whatever is dene., I think the claims of the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed ought to come before those of mere decoration and architectural adorn- ii-ient. It would, for instance, fee a sad irony if Trafalgar Spuare were rebuilt in memory of a great King whose heart was always with his people, and then to find si Hooded some day with a clamorous, htiBgry crowd of the starving and unemployed. Thes# things jar! EL H. B.

REMARKABLE COMMUNICATIONS. Deserted by his wife five years ago, the Rev. Christopher Hudson, a Leicestershire vicar, has gone through the Scottish ceremony of marriage with another woman. He deelares that "in the sight of God" he is justi&ed, and declines to obey his bishop's order inhibiting him from taking further service until sentence has been passed on him at Peterborough. He is Yicar at Sutton Cheney. The follow- ing are extracts from communications he ilas written..in his defence:— "I am conscious that in the sight of God, and I believe also of the majority of edu- cated and enlightened men, I have done nothing but what is honourable in the highest fcense of the word. "For more than five years I have end tired desertion—namely, since May 18, 1905, when I was a curate at Sheffield. "And for more than four years my boy, the only child of my former marriage, was given up to me on July 7, 1906, after an unopposed writ of Habeas Corpus which I had taken out to secure his release from my mother-in-law's house in Hull, has been in need of one to take a mother's place, while I h;vve needed a wife. "The time hae come when the inherent and scriptural rights of mankind to helpful and happy marriage, for which end it was 01"- dained, must be respected, and no longer, denied. No human being has a right to foro-a the continuance of an unhappy union upon his fellow-creatures. This is plainly the teaching of St. Paul in I. Cor. vii., 15, where he eays: If the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother, or sister is not under bondage in such cases; but God hath called us to peace.' "Therefore I take no shame to myself, bffiS gladly acknowledge that on July 9, at Hinck- ley, and in the presence of three witnesses, .after the Scottish manner in a private house, I married my present wife-16 wedding which I hold to be as Scriptural, honourable, and moral as anv wedding in the United King- dom, even if taken by a dozen priests and bishops in a cathedral."

FIVE INJURED IN MOTOR SMASH. On Sunday a collision occurred in the Uxbridge-road, London, which resulted in injury to four gentlemen and a lady. A private motor-car was travelling towards London as a taxi-cab from Rich- mond was approaching. The wall of a viaduct obscured the taxi-cab driver's view of the other car, and there was a collusion of so violent a character that a lamp-post at the corner where the roads cross was knocked over and smashed, and the two vehicles were completely wrecked. Of the occupants of the vehicles, four gentlemen, and a lady who had a child with her, were injured, the most serious case being that of a gentleman who was badly cut about the head. The injured persona were conveyed to the Hanwell Cottage Hospital and received attention. About two hours later the lady and child and her husband were taken home.

It is understood that Major-General J. S. Cowans, Commander of the Presidency Brigade at Fort William, Calcutta. who is at present on leave, will not return to India, but that he will accept the post of Inspector-General of the i, Territorial Forces.

TWO SHOT AT A FAIL A shooting affray marked the opening oi Mitcham Fair on Friday. Two showmen, Frede- rick Gray a.nd Harry Gray, his son, were shot, and Henry Harris, the proprietor of a "H;?up- la" booth was arrested. The incident occurred about two o'clock in the afternoon, when the fair was crowded with people. It is said that the Grays and Harris quarrelled over a pitch. A heated dispute en- sued, during which, it is alleged, Harris pulled out a revolver and fired at the two Grays. The crowd promptly scattered in all directions, and took shelter behind the nearest caravans. Harris, it is said, ran after the Grays with & revolver in his hand, but a young woman named Maria Henick, in the employment of the elder Gray, ran up to him, and pluckily wrenched the revolver from him. Immediately after the police came up and arrested Harris. Altogether, four shots were tired. In view of the crowded state of the ground, it is remarkable that no more people were hit. Frederick Gray was wounded in the back, and his son Harry in the chest. Bo-th are doing well. As regards the fair itself, the action of the Mitcham Common Conservators during recent years in attempting to stop it bas apparently only resulted in making it more popular. The number of shows is greater this year than ever before. The Conservators took out summonses against twenty-two showmen for taking up places forty-eight hours before the time allowed, which was Thursday noon.

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