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HUNTING FROM AEROPLANES.
HUNTING FROM AEROPLANES. -A military order has been issued in a rench camp near Troves, forbidding air- Illn from pursuing game in aeroplanes. An ^viator who had been seen shooting from ls machine was the occasion of it.
A Company Promoter's '» Affairs.
A Company Promoter's '» Affairs. Flintshire Cinema Flotations. At Birkenhead Bankruptcy Court, on Thursday, before Mr. Registrar Cave, James Sheldon Haynee, described as a company promoter and manager of a public com- pany, residing at Egremont, and carrying on business at Water-street, Liverpool, came up for public examination with a statement showing £ 1,556 of unsecured lia- bilities and no assets. Mr. E. R. Hoskm- son appeared for the petitioning creditor. Replying to Mr. Britten, Assistant Official Receiver, .he debtor said he had not been engaged in any other business except his company's work during the six years pre- ceding the receiving order, with the excep- tion of running a picture house for a few months at Buckley. He sold that house to a company for £ 600 in cash. He kept- no books while there. The £ 600 he had; paid away, but could not produce any receipts. This was not his first experience of the bankruptcy court, as he was adjudicated bankrupt in the Birkenhead court in June, 1910. On that occasion he returned his un- secured liabilities at £ 1,344, but claims were made amounting to 92,515, and he showed no assets. He applied for his discharge in the following November, and it was granted subject to his consenting to judgment for £ 100, which was paid from money he earn- 4 ed from commissions. A dividend of ls Oid in the £ was paid. After obtaining his discharge he was en- gaged for some time in commission agency work and the sale of Canadian lands. He also went into company promoting. The debtor was also questioned about picture houses which he had floated at Mold and Holywell, and he partly attributed his present failure to delay in the flotation of lhe North "Wales Picture Houses, Ltd., as the company was called. The examination was adjourned to June 25, certain accounts being ordered.
- -- e.* Mold Petty Sessions.
e.* Mold Petty Sessions. Monday.—Before Capt. P. A. Lloyd, R.N. (in the chair), Messrs. H. J. Roberts, John Hughes and William Rowlands. Messrs. John Hughes and Wm. Rowlands qualified as ex-officio justices, they being chairman of the Urban Councils of Mold and Buckley respectively. MAINTENANCE ARREARS. An adjourned case was called on for hear- ing, in which William Duckworth, iron- worker, Ewloe, was charged with non-pay- ment of arrears of maintenance, amounting to C3 12s., due to his wife, Jane Duck- worth, residing with her parents at Buck- ley. Mr. J. B. Marston, for the complainant, stated that the case was a particularly hard one. An order was made for payment of 12s. per week on the ground of desertion at the Buckley Sessions on the 23rd. of Feb- ruary. The defendant had actually paid the complainant nothing under the order, and the case was aggravated by the fact that there were two children of the mar- riage, one being an inmate of an institution for the Blind, to which the defendant was bound to contribute. He was arrested un- der warrant and brought to the Hawarden Sessions on the 9th of April, when the jus- tices adjourned the case to afford the de- fendant an opportunity of discharging the arrears, but he had paid his wife nothing. The complainant gave evidence in sup- port of her solicitor's statement, and put in a communication from defendant's employers to the effect that his average earnings since the date of the order were zEl 2s. per week. Witness added that when in full work her husband's weekly wage was 93. In default of the payment of the arrears and 9s. costs, it was decided to commit the defendant to prison for one month.
* NEW NATIONAL OBSERVATORY.
NEW NATIONAL OBSERVATORY. Lady Lockyer has presented to the nation a site on Sidmouth Hill, Sidmouth, Devon, which is 600 feet above sea-level, for the purpose of an astro-physical observatory, where researches can be carried on free from the disadvantages associated with work in low-lying towns. A laboratory, power-house, and two observatoritjs have been erected.
Holywell Petty Sessions.I
Holywell Petty Sessions. I Tuesday.—Before Messrs. Trevor Eyton (presiding), Joseph Jones, T. Humphreys, H. Vaughan Lloyd, Joseph Edwards, and Dr. H. W. S. Williams.
DOG EXEMPTIONS.
DOG EXEMPTIONS. Applications for exemption of dog licences were on the recommendation of the police, granted.
LICENSING.
LICENSING. The absolute transfer of the licence of the Fielding Arms, Pantasaph, was granted Mr. W. G. Yates; the Lletty Hotel, Moa- tyn to. Mr. Tiionuus Owen Jones, of the Cross Keys, Mostyn; the Cross Keys, Mcs- lyn, to Mr. Robt. Jones. The temporary giant of the Dee Inn, Bagillt, was, on the application of Mr. Harris (Messrs. IIughe6 and Hughes, Flint) made to Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, widow of the late licensee, Mr. Richard Jones.
EJECTMENTS.
EJECTMENTS. Two applications for ejectment orders, made by Mrs. Fanny Holmes, Holywell, were adjourned owing to the absence from home of her son who had served the notices upon the tenants of the houses. Mr. J. E. Pierce, Holywell, as agent, ap- plied for ejectment orders against Alfred Ashfields and Pierce Jones Evans in respect of the tenancy of houses at Islwyn-terrace, Bagillt. The orders asked for were grant- ed.
| "A NUISANCE."
"A NUISANCE." Benjamin Garratt, a young man, of Bag- illt, was summoned by P.C. Clement Wil- liams for being drunk and disorderly at Bagillt on the evening of the 14th March. The officer stated that the defendant should Ithave appeared at the April Sessions. His wife informed the court then that he was not well, but witness had reason to believe defendant was at work that night also the next night. With regard to the case, the defendant at 7.30 on the evening of the 14th March, was in the main road. He was very drunk, and had his coat and waistcoat off. He was shouting and using bad language. Z, He got defendant into the house and told him he was not to go out again. Directly he (witness) had left the place defendant returned to the road and used language more foul than he had done before. Defend- ant's wife complained to the officer of his conduct. Defendant had nothing to say except that he was sorry. The Chairman said the defendant had aggravated the case by not responding to the summons. The court was not to be treated with contempt. He was a nuisance and a disgrace to the place. His previous record was not a clean one, but it was a good many years since he was last before the court., The Bench impressed upon him that he must amend his ways.—Fined 10s. and 8s. costs.
----.;..--"YOURS " WHAT?
"YOURS WHAT? What are the degrees of familiarity in the end-phrases of a letter? A writer to-day refers to "yours very truly" as a cowardly expedient, but does not venture to pronounce on the relative values of "yours truly," "yours faithfully," and "yours sincerely." The style "Yours, etc. which is still popular among the writers of letters to some editors, has the advantage of leaving it to the recipient to guess what the writer's feelings really are. But at the best it is a subterfuge.
--.:..----GOLDEN WEDDING TRAGEDY.
GOLDEN WEDDING TRAGEDY. Two days after going with her husband to Blackpool for a holiday to commemorate their golden wedding, Mrs. M. Clegg, wife of Mr. John Clegg, of Nelson, a well-known Lancashire auctioneer, died from heart failure. She was seventy-six years of age.
Flint Adjourned Vestry Meeting.
Flint Adjourned Vestry Meeting. Canon Nicholas and the Chancellor. The adjourned Easter Vestry for the parish of Flint was held in the Chu; h of England Schools on Wednesday e ing week, and was presided over by the lector (Canon Nicholas). There were also pre- sent Messrs. Egei ton and T. B. Bellis (churchwardens), Rowland Roberts, Lloyd and the Rev. John Williams. The Canon, in his remarks upon the financial position of the parish, referred to the increased col- lections in all of the churches. Expenses had a tendency rather to increase than to decrease. In connection with the Parish Church, about zell more had been spent in repairs. The A.C.S. had lowered their an- nual grant to the Curate Fund, but he (the Canon) had increased his own contribution to the fund from £ 150 to £ 160. Again, £10 had been devoted from the Parish Church to the Curate Fund, which was now raised to 4:80 a year. The Pentre and Flint Moun- tain Churches had a balance in hand, while the Parish Church had only a defi- ciency of lis. 7d. The total expenditure of the Parish Church during the year was £ 185 13s. lid. The Canon proceeded to state that this was his 34th Easter in Flint, and that there were only one or two clergy- men in the diocese who had been so long in one parish. Although offered valuable pre- ferment in England, he had decided to re- main a clergyman in Wales. He often asked' himself the question whether he was sorry or glad at his decision to remain in Wales. Without hesitation he could state that it had been a source of very great pleasure to him to remain. Being rector of a parish like Flint was not altogether a "bed of roses." He had had innumerable difficul- ties to grapple with, and keen opposition to overcome. As a Welshman he was always proud of the fact that while an under- graduate at Oxford he had introduced a motion in the Union Debating Society that some papers printed in Wales should be introduced for the benefit of Welsh stu- dents who came to Oxford University. The motion was defeated, and chiefly by Welsh- men, who, in his opinion, were ashamed of being thought to be Welshmen. It was very singular that Scotchmen who left their own country were always proud of their country and met in large numbers to cele- brate St. Andrew's Day, Burns' Anniver- sary and other Scottish festivals. Welsh- men, on the other hand, were the very op- posite. If they left their own country to settle in England they were, in many in- stances, ashamed of their association with Wales, and on every opportunity tried to convey the impression that they did not be- long to Wales. Mr. Lloyd George, who had attained such a prominent position in Eng land, had never made friends of the Welsh- men in London, but during the whole of his public career had made friends of men like Sir Rufus Isaacs, a Jew, and Lord Murray of Elibank, a Scotchman they had heard of their motor-car journeys in the Soutlr of France. Again, when Mr. Lloyd George visited Algiers, and was received with almost semi-regal honours by the French Government, his companion was not a Welshman, but Mr. T. P. O'Connor, an Irishman. It was to be noted that Mr. Lloyd George never made a public friend of either an Englishman or a Welshman. As a Welshman, he was proud of the position attained by Mr. Lloyd George, although he differed from his views. In spite of so many disadvantages, Mr. Lloyd George had reached a proud position, proving 1 his in- domitable courage and his very great pow. ers. Like the Canon, Mr. Lloyd George was by extraction from die county of Pem- broke, where he (the Rector) knew many of the George family well, and they were a sturdy and honest race of men. If Mr. Lloyd George had been brought up among them he would never have made his little flutter on the Stock Exchange in the Mar- coni affair. The moral atmosphere of Pem- brokeshire was purer and clearer than the moral atmosphere of Carnarvonshire. In further remarks, Canon Nicholas said that the other day he read a report of a lecture on "Tom Ellis" by the Rev. Robert Wil- liams at the Manchester Welsh National Society. "Welsh education owed a tre- mendous debt to Mr. Tom Ellis, and prob- ably Wales would never know the extent of that debt. His successful efforts for ele- mentary, intermediate, and university edu. cation would always be a source of pride to his fellow-countrymen." Tom Ellis was dead, and to-day he was absolutely forgot- ten. A subscription was opened for the erection of a monument to the late Tom Ellis at Bala. The greatest difficult was experienced in collecting sufficient money to complete the monument. It would never have been completed if it were not for the large sum of money collected from English- men. Mr. Llewelyn Williams, writing in "Wales" on "The Makers of Modern Wales," dealt as a matter of course with Tom Ellis, saying, "While every village celebrity can expire in full assurance of getting his 'ccfiant' published with in six months of his decease, it is a slur on mod- ern Welsh nationalism that the man who gave it voice and shape and force more than any other should pass without any literti-y memorial." It was a notable fact that no one had ever attempted to publish a bio- graphy of Tom Ellis, who had worked so well as a leader of Welsh nationalism. It was a Celtic weakness that, while they might derive great advantage from a leader in his lifetime, directly he died the man was forgotten by those who had received bene- fits from him. Mr. Lloyd George, while to- day he benefited a great number of Welsh- men, would be subjected to this Celtic weak- ness and soon be forgotten after death. The Canon was proud of being a Welsh- man, and nothing gave him greater plea- sure than to remember 1896, when he de- cided to remain as a clergyman in Wales. While he maintained that he attributed his successful efforts in the parish to the fact of the keen opposition he had encountered,
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--.:+----LORD KENYON'S HOPE.…
-+- LORD KENYON'S HOPE. Speaking at Wortheubury in support of the candidature of Mr. D. F. Pennant, the Unionist candidate for Flint County, Lord Kenyon said the present Parliament would be known as the Parliament of destruction. Dealing with the present situation in Ire- land his Lordship said it could not be a good thing for the Empire in the eyes of the world that there should be such an un- satisfactory and unsettled state of things. He wished from the bottom of his heart that a peaceful settlement could be arrived at. The only solution seemed to be a federal system, and in his opinion when that was brought about it would be a repetition of the old story of the Kilkenny cats. While all this wraggling was going on about Ireland and the Welsh Church, every- thing was becoming dearer, and the work- ingman found it more difficult to live. Class was being set against class, and un- doubtedly it would be in the best interests of the count? y that there should be a change of Government.
-----.:.---"BOLTING" FOOD."
"BOLTING" FOOD." Hurried and rapid eating, which to-day is too common among all classes of society, prevents anything like efficient mastication, and as a result the food has a very poor start in the digestive process before reach- ing the stomach (says a writer in "Good Health"). It is always wiser to take less food if need be and then masticate that thoroughly ralher than hurry rapidly through a meal. There is no doubt but that "bolting" the food is one of the most proli- fic causes of indigestion, dyspepsia, consti- pation, torpid liver, headache, and many other symptoms and disturbances that might be mentioned. While prevention is the best cure, there is every reason to be- lieve that the majority of people who suffer from digestive disorders would derive great benefit by taking plenty of time to "fietcl1- erise" their food, that is to chew it thor- oughly before swallowing. Thorough masti- cation is also essential for the preservation of the teeth, for neglect to use these organs encourages decay, and brings about their early lose.
..¡.----CHANCELLORS' ARITHMETIC.
..¡. CHANCELLORS' ARITHMETIC. Nobody has ever dared to suggest that entrance examinations in arithmetic should be undergone by Cabinet Ministers, even by Chancellors of the Exchequer, though some of these would probably have been plough- ed (says a writer in the "Daily Chronicle"). Lord Randolph Churchill, no doubt, was only chaffing when he told the Treasury clerk that he "never could make out what those damned dots (decimal points) meant." But the leading case is that of Sir Francis Dashwood, Bute's Chancellor of the Exche- quer, who "blundered over pounds and strode pompously over farthings." Hie Budgets had to be contrived so as to include only proposals so simple that he could at least understand them, if he could not make them intelligible to the House.
---+:+-FINE WINDOW.j
-+:+- FINE WINDOW. One of the largest windows in stained glass made for many years was unveiled and dedicated by the Bishop of Chichester at the new parish church at Hove. It is 40ft. in length and 20ft. in widtiT, and is the gift of Major-General Marsland, late colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards, in memoiy of the late King Edward, who worshipped in the church in February, 1910.
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IL Profitable Poultry Culture.
I L Profitable Poultry Culture. By RALPH R. ALLEN, Lecturer to the Herts County Council; Edifcoi of Monthly Hints on Poultry," &c. (All rights reserved.) A SUCCESSFUL BREEDING SEASON. (Continued.) (Readers are particularly requested to note that this series of articles commenced with the first issue in January. In order to obtain their full value, ithe earlier ar- ticles should be read in conjunction with the current one.) LOCATION OF THE INCUBATOR. I have a theory that more failures result through the incubator being improperly placed than from any other reason. Fre- I quently have my services been requisitioned to attempt to discover the cause of failure in hatching, and in 90 per cent. of phe cases I have investigated it has been through un- suitable surroundings. Science has demonstrated that an egg subject "(1 to iiieub-.t,.ioyi requires pure air in. order a healthy chick may result, and to my i: :d that degree of purity-more or less—is the same standard as required to rijfain health in human beings. I may be over-exacting in my demands. If I am it is an error in the right direction, but where I operate an incubator is always a location that I could reside in throughout Ithe per- iod, at all events, from a fresh-air point of view. Too much attention cannot be directed to the subject of ventilation of the incubator- room at the same time, draughts must be avoided. The floor should be level and firm; vibra- tion is unquestionably a deterrent to suc- cess. Tank machines are not usually provided with legs, consequently they should rest on a solid platform, and at a convenient height from the ground for the operator. With hot-air machines it is most import- ant that they should stand perfectly level,, as only by this means can perfect circula- tion of the hot air be attained. It is, therefore, advisable before commencing operations to ascertain this is so by em- ploying a spirit-level. I am averse to machines being placed against a wall; the air in the room should be free to circulate round them. Avoid, also, a position where they are exposed to the direct rays of the sun. Bearing these points in mind, and select- ing, if possible, an apartment with an equable temperature—that is, no extreme variation between the heat during the day and at night time—and the first move to- wards success is accomplished. Living-rooms I avoid, if possible. Artifi- cial warmth by day during the winter and early spring months is followed by cold nights; continual movement causes vibra- tion natural curiosity from close associa- tion is not conducive to success; and bang- ing of doors is highly detrimental. PRELIMINARY ADVICE REGARDING INCUBATORS. If you are about to use an incubator for the first time, make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the machine before en- trusting it with eggs. Merely reading the book of instructions is insufficient and court- ing failure; rather strive to understand every detail, to ascertain the why and wherefore of the maker's insf ructions, and then, providing a standard pattern has been purchased, you have reasonable prospectas of anticipating success. I may be erring on the side of over- cautiousness, but even when this progress has been made, I counsel that in the first hatch comparatively inexpensive eggs should be employed. Artificial incubation, like everything else, requires to be learnt. Suc- cess may attend your first effort, but i)t is foolhardiness in the extreme to imagine it must, consequently your risk of loss is minimised by using cheap eggs, while you are gaining experience. (To be continued.) (Any enquiries concerning poultry-keep- ing addressed to our expert, Ralph R. Allen, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, will be answered through these columns free, but these requiring a postal answer direct, or sending birds for post-mortem examination, must remit half-crown postal order.)
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ATTACKED ON THE HIGHWAY. -
ATTACKED ON THE HIGHWAY. Rhydymwyn Man Assaulted by Two Drunken Tramps. ASKED FOR MONEY. Accused Sentenced to Three Months' Imprisonment. At Mold Petty Sessions, on Monday, John i: Birmingham (21), of 17, Midwood-street, Widnes, and Paul Diamond (25), of 17, Elizabeth-street, Widnes, labourers, were charged in custody with assaulting Hugh 0 t, Jones, labourer, of Glen Owen Cottage, Heudre, and also with being drunk and disorderly. Supt. Davies outlined the case. He said that on the previous afternoon the prison- ers, who were drunk and disorderly on the Rhvdym wy n -road, committed an aggravated and unprovoked assault on the complain- ant. Jones, who was known to be a quiet and inoffensive man, had been to Mold to see his sister, and when returning he sat on a wall to rest, on the road already men- 0 tioned. The two prisoners came along, took his hat off his head, kicked it up into the air, and then assaulted him severely. The Police at Mold were informed of what had happened by a passing motorist. The complainant, who complained of pain in his jaw and side as the result of the ill- treatment he had received at the hands of the prisoners, said that between 4 and 5 o'clock on Sunday, he left Mold, after visit- ing his sister, when he met the two defend- ants at the place named. They asked him for a pennv, and he replied that he had not got one. They then began to "humbug" him, and Birmingham struck him "in the ■eye. The prisoners then both assaulted him. knocking him down and kicking him. "NEVER RAISED MY HAND." Diamond said, "I plead not guilty. I never raised my hand. I wiped his face. I was not the worse for drink. We had money of our own." Birmingham said, "I plead not guilty to the charge. He (complainant) bowled me over with his head and I struck him. I deny kicking him or touching his hat" Joseph Edwin Jones, son of P.C. Freder- ick Jones, of Rhydymwyn, said that on the afternoon of the previous day he was cycl- ing along the main road from Rhydymwyn when, he saw the prisoners. They were .dancing, singing, and cursing, and he had difficulty in passing them. After passing them he saw them approach Jones. When they got up to him they seized his hat. Birmingham hit him, and afterwards both of them got hold of him and pulled him about. Jones, who was quite sober, did nothing to the prisoners, who knocked him down. Birmingham knelt on his chest and kept hitting him. Witness cycled back home and informed his father, with whom he left his bicycle to enable him to follow the prisoners. Tegid Smith, Northop, said he was walk- 1I1.g along the road in question, and saw Birmingham hit Jones when the latter was on the ground, but the other prisoner (Dia- mond) tried to stop him from doing 60, say- ing "You have given him enough." Both were drunk. He did not see Diamond hit Jones, but saw him wiping the blood off his face. Samuel Roberts, of 18, Nursery, Gres- ford, said he met the two prisoners at Den- bigh on the previous morning. He was making his way to Shotton and he arranged to walk with them. Between Denbigh and Rhydymwyn they called at one public- house, where they had three pints of beer each. Prisoners were the worse for drink. He was with them when they met Jones. They ASKED HIM FOR MONEY several times, and as he did not give them any, Birmingham went into the road and stripped to the waist, and afterwards began to knock Jones about, hitting him twice when he was on the ground. He heard diamond say, "Go on; let him have it while you are at it." After this had been going on for a few minutes a policeman came up and witness ran away. He did not see diamond strike Jones. P.C. Jones* Rhydymwyn, saitl that be .teceived information of the assault, and I went and found the complainant who had severe cuts on his head and was covered with blood. He followed the prisoners and heard Diamond say "Why did you not fin- ish the devil?" They were both drunk. Witness handcuffed them and assisted to bring them to Meld. Sergt. Whitehead stated that having re- ceived a message at Mold Police Station he proceeded along the Rhydymwyn road, and assisted to bring the prisoners to the Pol- ice Station. They were both drunk. Diamond pleaded not guilty, and Bir- mingham said, "I am guilty but not of hit- ting him on the ground." It was shown that there was one previous 0°nvietion against Birmingham at Widnes, and 10 against Diamond at Widnes and BlrtenWd. Chairman (Cant. Lloyd), addressing 1 prisoners, said People expect to be treated decently on public roads in country places, not to be attacked by drunken tramps you. You will each be sentenced to Fee months' hard labour.
DISTINCT DISGUISES.
DISTINCT DISGUISES. betr Was 6tated duri"g the hearin8 of a 1I53 Case at Highgate that one police- moi-v CO ist Seised himself as an American tour- ed another as a tramcar driver, in or- er to effect an arrest. _+
----.:.--ARRESTING DEATH'S…
ARRESTING DEATH'S DECAY. A chemist at Siena, named Partini, claims to have discovered a new method of permanently preserving the human body in perfect condition after death. He is now exhibiting a corpse of a man of thirty, which has been left lying in the open air for four months after treatment. The body is just as it was at the time of death, even the eye6 remaining unaltered.
*--BLACK AS A BACKGROUND.
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i--APPEAL FOR UNION. -
i APPEAL FOR UNION. The Conference of the Flintshire English Congregational Union was held at Rhyl on Friday. The Rev. Edw. Jones, Rhyl, in his presidential address, said the time had come for closer union between Nonconformist churches. As to the Anglican 'Church, there were two obstacles in the way. One was the fact of establishment, and the fact of estab- lishment in itself involved injustice to that branch of the church which was not estab- lished. Disestablishment was merely a question of time, not only in "Wales, but in England as well. It was inevitable from the very nature of their religion. As a spiritual corporation they had no quarrel I with the Anglican Church. But without mutual recognition there never would nor could be any reunion. The second obstacle was the sacerdotal spirit, the doctrine of which placed an impassable gulf between itself and all non-episcopal communions. The intolerant spirit of sacerdotalism to- wards other Christian communities was strikingly illustrated by the Bishop of Zan- zibar in charging with heresy two broad- minded bishops for administering the sacra- ment to ministeis not in episcopal orders. That was the spirit of sacerdotalism more closely allied to Rome than to other Pro- testant communions. He could see no hope, even if Disestablishment became a fact to- morrow, of union or operation between the sacerdotal party in the Anglican Church and Nonconformists. For such union must be based on mutual recognition—a recogni- tion of the validity of Nonconformist orders and Churches as constituted. It looked as though the sacerdotal party would ultimate- ly secede to Rome, leaving the Evangelical party to form a closer alliance with Pro- testant communions. In the meantime let them do all they could to resist the advance of sacerdotalism, which disparaged their ministry and un- churched their churches as a whole. He was afraid their people were not alive to the danger from this quarter-a danger of Rome gaining the upper hand in their land. They found there were convents established in all the most populous districts, and they heard that the children of Nonconformist parents, and even of church officers, were sent to be educated in them. There they came at least within a certain atmosphere, and eventually learned to hate and despise the religion in wliich they were brought up. The trouble was that their people had no religious convictions and no religious know- ledge. They knew not how Protestant free- dom was secured, they knew not what it meant. So they were ready to sell it for cheap education or a knowledge of French. Sacerdotalism in the Roman Church and in the High Anglican party was their enemy. It depreciated their ministry, made their whole religion invalid, and wounded their self-respect. The Rev. David Evans, Buckley, formerly of Preston Mr. Richardson, an ex-Catho- lic Mr. T. Harding Roberts, and others dealt with various points raised in the ad- dress.
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TRAFFIC ON THE DEE. Dr. J. H. Williams, the medical officer to the Chester Port Sanitary Authority, in his annual report says the development of the Hawarden Bridge port was a marked fea- ture of ,the last few years. The nature and amount of traffic had been much the same as previously—foreign tonnage being some 2,000 tons in excess of 1912. Iron ore, iron, steel bars, sand, coal, timber, and bricks were the chief materials dealt with at the ports. Systematic and regular inspection of vessels was carried out at all the ports, and special attention was paid to the for- eign vessels as regards the health and con- dition and comfort of the crew, and the general sanitary state of the vessels. Dur- ing the year the health of the crews was good, no notification was received, and the general state of the crews' quarters as re- gards ventilation, space, light, and water supply fairly satisfactory.
* BACHELOR TAX.
BACHELOR TAX. There was a time when the bachelor was taxed in England, but even if he attempted t' to escape by marriage he could not avoid the tax-gatherer. For William III. passed I a comprehensive measure "for carrying on the war against France with vigour," whereby a tax was levied on marriages, births, burials, bachelors, and widowers. The payment was on a. scale, an unmarried duke paying F,12 10s. yearly, and bachelors at the bottom of the list only a shilling. It cost a duke IV-50 to get buried and the same sum to be married. And there must have been dukes who balanced the cost of these luxuries.
HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A heavy thunderstorm passed over the Malton neighbourhood on Tuesday morn- ing, and about ten o'clock a house at Ter- rington, occupied by Mr. John Carr, was struck by lightning, with the result that a large portion of the roof was stripped of its tiles and a spar was knocked clean out. Mr Carr's boy, who was in the bedroom at the time, was flung to the floor, but escaped with shock. Mrs. Carr also had a narrow oscape from falling plaster.
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Among the bequests of Miss Mary Copp, I of Watchet, Somerset, was one of klO to her "faithful charwoman, Mrs. Chidgey." Z, Ings Mill, Heckmondwike, a building about forty yards long and two stories high, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. The Imperial Cotton Company's mills at Leicester were entirely gutted by fire on I Tuesday afternoon. The damage is estima- ted at several thousand pounds. J
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FAMOUS DIAMONDS. The most famous diamonds in the world are the Koh-i-noor and the Cullinan dia- monds, both of which belong to the Crown jewels of England. Then tnere is the Orloff diamond, an In- dian stone of great value, which is mounted in the Imperial sceptre of the Emperor o Russia. The Regent is a famous stone pre- served among the national jewels in Paris. The Star of the South, another fine bril- liant, was found in Brazil, and finally sold to the Gaekwar of Baroda for £ 80,000. The Sancy diamond is an historic gem, worth, it is said, over £ 20,000. It was bought by Mr. William Astor, and is worn by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Waldorf Astor. The Duchess of Portland wears the "Port. land diamond," said to be worth over £ 10,000, and the Duke of Westminster owns the "Neska" diamond, a triangular gem the size of a florin, and of imJPense value. Diamonds are in many colours, such as black, blue, red, pink, green, and yellow. Black diamonds are extremely rare, and hail from Borneo. The Duke of Richmond owns one big black diamond that for cen- turies did duty as the eye of an Indian idol. Mrs. Ronald Greville has some black diamonds, and a famous necklace of these stones used to belong to Mrs. Celia Wal- lace, a well-known American. Red diamonds are also rare, and one worth C800 is now among the Crown jewels of Russia. The Duke of Cumberland is said to own a pink brilliant of immense value, which belonged to an Indian potentate, and the famous blue stone known as the Hope dia- mond (the fate of which seems unknown) is one of the most valuable coloured specimens in existence. Lord Crawford possesses col- oured diamonds of great beauty which were owned. by his late mother.-—"The Lady."
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For stripping his children of their cloth- ing and pawning it a man was sentenced to 0 three months at Liverpool Police Court on Tuesday.
Flint Adjourned Vestry Meeting.
lie could never forget the great kindnesses and whole-hearted support he had received from his friends in the parish. Without this hearty and earnest co-operation he could never have accomplished the con- tinued success of the Church in the parish. He concluded by thanking those present for their attendance. Although few, their pre- sence proclaimed the peace existing in Church circles, and the confidence in the officials of the various churches in the par- ish of Flint.