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COPVRtØHT. THE iv W all of Silence  A STORY OF CARDIFF, I I $pccÜ1H Written for tbe ?cnin? fiyprcs^ I  By SIDNEY WARWICK, I AUTHOR OF I I The Angel of Trouble," Through a Woman's Heart," No Past is Dead." I  Cat's Eyes: A Mvstery," Shadows of London," &c., &c. ■ I I SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. [ The principal characters in the story are; Jim Meredith. heit7 to his uncle, who h: cut out of his will his adopted daughter. I Olive .Lindsay, because she was convicted of fiJtealing irearls; Perciva.1 Detmold, one of the witnesses against Olive in the Black Pearl- ca^e, who id found in his house at Ua.ndaff.&ho-t --Iiro-ugh the heart, and whom a woman is suspected of murdering; Eva: Kennedy, whom Jim finds on the road near; Detmoid's hoose on the night of the murder.' and, at her request, conveys in his motor to Radyr Station; Ethel Reetarrick, a younj widow.. formerly Jim's sweetheart, and a, jealous woman, who hears of the last-; named incident a.nd eras pec ts Owen Hug'hee,; who is accepted by Elsie Muir. and, when leaving the Muirs' houee at Pen art h, meets; John Sarrol, whom he accuses of having! been in lea true with Detmold to rob him (Hughes) of his righ ta in a certain, jJJ.ven-! tioa. Heated words follow, Sarrol strikes at Hughes, the latter is about to strike back ■ when Stephen Muir appears and separates! them. 4Qrrol turns to Hughes and whimpers something which makes him recoil as from a blow. Hughes and Sarrol adjourn to the library, where the whisper, which is an accusation that Rushes murdered Perei-va.1 Detmold, is repeated. Hughes denies this, and declares Detmold threatened him with i a revolver, which, m the struggle with Hughes, went off inadTertently and killed Detmold. Sarrol flouts this. and shows Hughes a letter he is going to send dennureins: him. Then tells him to come back at nina o'clock, wtien he (SarroJ) will tell him what he intends to do. •'The shadow of something comin-g" broods; over more than one member of the Muir; dinner party that nisrht. and later Beatrice Sarrol and Philip Muir, who were formerly in love with each other, saunter through the grounds, in earnest conversation. CHAPTER XVII. (continued.) THE MAN AND THE WOMAN. And then his voioe cut harshly through the summer night, and the man and the woman, At her feet lay her husband. caught by their passion as in a swirling eddy of a tideway, were brought b&ck with a start to the realities. No outburst of ungovernable fury ait first: outwardly calm, cold as ice; his face grey white, only the eyes like gle-aming steeJ- j points revealing- the pent-up, seething i passions within him, as he stepped a. pace, or His voice calm, too, aU. he 1 spoke, thmwh it shook a little despite his iron control, coldly ironical: I always knew I'd let, myself in for a i damned bad bargain when I gave you my ilame, but until now I thought at least j you bad some rags of decency left." John Sarrol said. Beatrice's face might have been cus iu i marble; every drop of blood seemed to have left it, with fear's imprint frozen there. Philip stood looking at John Sarrol, too startled and disconcerted in that first K'omen; to find words. It seems fn interesting tete-a-tete that I have been so tactless as to interrupt," went on Sarrol, finding the effort of rejareeewn increasingly diffimùt-" pouring ouC-T tha; Story of vour wrongs, of your husband's cruelties, in another man's ears. giving your- self to this philanderer's a.n:ns! There's only one word for women like ycru." And Ytill in the low, restrained voice he flung the nile word at her, like a handful of mud in her face.. The word was like a goad to Philip ifnir. He strcde forward passionately, his eyea gleaming, his hands clenched-up to the other man. Don't dare to say another word to her! Don't dare, I say, or I won't answer for the consequences. You may say what you like about me-but be very careful for your own sake how you speak again to her! You have no longer a weak. helpless woman to bully with your words and blows, but a man!" Philip eaid. "You've been listening, and for once a listener I'as heard the truth about himself: pleasant or not—the truth!" The suppressed, fury broke out at last in John Sarrol. "I wonder you dare speak to me, you philanderer and thief of a man's honour!" And almost before the words had left his lips, Sarrol, his passion flaming out beyond control, aimed a blind blow at the younger maæ-a blow that would have felled Philip had he not moved quickly to avoid it; it merely grazed his cheek. Instantly Philip retaliated. His hand shot out, struck Sar- rol in the face, who reeled back staggering under the force of the blow almost to the .y window-, them, all threshold of the library window; them, all the sleeping devil in him roused to a pitch cf vindictive fury, to the lust for reprisals, lie closed with the younger man. He was of immense natural strength; in spite of his bulk, in spite of his habits of living, his muscles—now, at any rate, in this madnesfe of passion—were steel. The two men swayed for ap. instant by the French window, struggling blindly, sav- agely, like primeval men, whilst the woman stood, as if struck poweriees to move or cry out, one hand pressed to her heart, in the deep shadow cast by the verandah. Philip Muir was a. strong man. too. but the older man's grip was like a vice against which he struggled in vain; Sarrol's face and gleaming eyes, close to his, vindictive an-d sinister, were alight with a sudden murderous glint, as they Swayed in their silent struggle by the dark opening of the long window. Suddenly exerting all his brute Strength, Sarrol flung the other man off, hurled Philip away from him savagely into the unlighted room; and the younger ruan went down with a thud. the sound deadened by the heavy Turkey Qarpet, his cheek staking against the leg of the oak writing table. I'll mark yon. you philanderer, you thief of a man,'s lionour!" broke from Sarrol, following his fallen intagoniet into the room, the darkness of which suddenly swallowed the two men up from Beatrice's terrified eyes. It was darker to her eyes than it was to the two me- within the roam, each evrayed now by that one blind, savage, primitive instinct of passion to kill; less dark to ttwan because of the moonlight in the gar- den beyond the verandah, against which objects in the room stood out dimly, blurred and black. Only it was more by instinct than by sight that the hand of one of the men fell on something lying on the table; something hard and heavy on which his fingers tightened. A blackthorn stick that :"Owen» Hashes had left behind him inadver- tently after his interview here with John Sarrol au hour and a half ago. What was happening in the room? In p.ite of her appalled horror and fea.r. in spite of her desperate eagerness to know, tho woman out on the verandah had no rower over her limbs; she might have been turned to atone; all her senses seemed absorbed in the one faculty of hearing. She stood listening. What was happening in the i-oom hidden from her eye. by that veil of impenetrable darkness? She could hear the heavy breathing, a low, muttered -word or so, the sound of movements, but the antagonists were strangely and grimly silent And then——. Out of the darkness a sharp, strangled cry that was hardly human, that died away almost instantly, simultaneously with a ) dull. heavy fall, most of the sound of which the thick carpet seemed to. absorb. Then silence utter and absolute. q The spell of dreadful inertia that had paralysed her seemed suddenly to snap. Inatinctively Beatrice Sarrcl know that the struggle had become tragedy. Which man had given that cry? She ran forward to the window; her own words spoken earlier that evening: "dark and sinister, like a grave!" and those vague, oppressive fancies of coming ill swept back upon her now. In the room someone was breathing heavily—someone who did not speak as she entered, someone whom she could not see. Which man-which man? To Beatrice Sarrol's overstrung nerves, that played strange tricks with her senses, the Toom with its darkness and stillness and the tragic secret it held seemed sud- denly to fill with innumerable whisperings. hhe felt her way to the table blindly, filled with an almost irresistible, hysterical desire to scream, her skirte touching something on the floor as she passed. On the library table, near the silver can- dlestick and tray for Eealing-wax, was a box of matches; the fact must have impressed itself on her mind quite uncon- sciously. Her fumbling, impatient fingers telt for the little silver bo; found it. Which man had given that horrible cry? Beatrice Sarrol struck a match; he scratching sound of the match head on the box rasped jarringly on her nerves; the match flared up, throwing a little, waverinj tongue of light in the great room, before which the shadows fell back, like shifting waves, into the sea of darkness beyond Which man? Standing by the table, his passion burnt out, shaking in every limb, evidently making a desperate fight to master the mad impulse to give way to blind terror, afraid even to speak lest his voice should run out of his control to panic, was Philip Muir; and at her feet lay her husband, one arm Lent under him, a terrible discoloured bruise, almost a pulp, on the left temple, I where the heavy blackthorn stick had descended in a crushing blow, the dead eyes staring up at her. The match died out between her fingers. How she succeeded in strangling the cry that rose in her throat Beatrice never knew. "F-iilip-Philip, he's dead!" she said at last in a shaking whisper in the darkness- In spite of her horror, the woman forced herself to an unnatural calm; she bent and; felt the pulse, laid her hand on the heart of the figure on the floor. "Philip, you've killed him'" "Oh, that can't be-I tell you it's impos- sible; he'll come round presently—he can't. be dead! He was stronger than I more like a madman and he meant mischief—f believe, he meant to kill me and I had to defend myself. But he can't be dead-I won't believe that he's dead!" The breathlessly rapid, staccato words. hardly articulate, were quite unlike Philip Muir's voice. Hugh! Don't speak. Philip!" came the woman's insistent, agonised whisper ot caution through the darkness. Pity was in bar voice: pity for the living, and penbape a sudden, deep, remorseful pity for the dead whom in that moment of weakness and temptation she had wronged —with a wrong of which this was the evil fruit. Philip, now if ever in all your Me it is imperative you must keep yourself in hand; you must not loee your head. We've got to face facts; it is TiselesB to deceive ouieelvee. John Sarrol's dead—and what remains now is to save you from the consequences i J Listen!" Through the deep shadow of the room Beatrice Sarrol stole across to the door; stood listening feverishly. 'I [TO BE CONTINUED TO-MORROW.]
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I SMALL HOLDINGS Mr. R. HAROOURT (R.- Montrose Burghs; asked Sir E. Strachey in the House of Commons on Tuesday what counties in Eng- land and Wales had neither acquired land nor submitted schemes under the Small Holdings Aot. Sir E. STRACHEY said the English counties were Cumberland, Derby, Hereford, Lanca- shire, L 1on, Middlesex. Monmouth, Suffolk (We6t.). > > -ey, s-ng.eX 'Bat, Sussex (West), Warwick, :1<1 i.>rk (North Ruling;. The Welsh counties were Brecon, Cardigan, Car- narvon, Flint, G':pMorgan. Merioneth, and Pembroke. Many of these counties, however, were in active negotiation for the acquisition of land. Mr. ELLIS DAVIES (R., Carnarvonshire, Eifion) asked the hon. member for South Somerset whether his attention had been called to the fact that in the county of Mon- mouth 265 persons had applied for small holdings, that 113 of these had been approved, that it wa-s estimated that 1,484 acres, would be required to satisfy them. tha.t none of the applications had yet been provided for and no land acquired, and wha.t steps he pro- posed to take. Sir E. STRACHEY: The board are aware of the position in Monmouth. One of their inspectors recently inspected a farm for which the county council are negotiating, and the board are-satisfied that the county council intend to carry out the Act to the betst of their ability. Answering Mr. Morrell (R., Henley), f3ir E. STRACHEY said that the Board of Agricul- ture were now considering what additional staff was neccsisary to cope with the work arising under the Act.
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SCOTCH OR SCOTTISH P I The Education (Scotland) Bill, as amended by the Standing Committee, was further considered in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Mr. SINCLAIR assented to an amendment to omit a sub-section which abolished the cumulative vote in school board elections. An amendment declaring that the Scotch Education Department should in future be called the Scottish Education Department drew from Mr. Sinclair the remark that he did not agree with the people who desired to call themselves Scottish. The real authority on all things Scotch was Robert Burns, who in one of his best poems used the term, An auld Scotch drink." Byron also used the phrase, English bards and Scotch reviewers." Burns, Byron, and Scott would have been affronted at the idea that they should attempt to secure the insertion I of the word Scottish in two syllables when they bad one strong, sensible, and suggestive word Scotch," which was good I enough for anyone. (Laughter.) The amendment was negatived without a division, and the report stage concluded. Mr. SINCLAIR moved the third rea ?iii,'l?, of the Bill, which wa. carried by 195 against 48.
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1 170,000 TRUST FUNDS Mr. Justice Warrington in the Chancery Division on Tuesday commenced the hear- ing of an action brought by Mrs. Fountaine, daughter of a Norfolk squire, the late Mr. A. Fountaine, of Swaffham, and her son, Charles Audrew Fountaine, against Lord Amherst of Hackney and the representatives of the late Captain Dowler, who with Lord Amherst WAS a trustee of the estate of the late Mr. Fountaine. Plaintiffs sought to make defendants liable in respect of certain alleged breaches of trust which led to the loss of substantially three-fourths of the trttst funds, a snm of nearly £ 70,000, owing to alleged misappro- priation by a member of the legal profession who once held an honourable position in the City of London, Mr. Charles Cheston, who died about two years ago. Mr. Fountaine died in 1874, and left estate which realised £ 100,000. Defendants, it was alleged, put the affairs of the trust estate in the hands of Mr. Cheston, through whom the heavy loss was incurred. Counsel had not concluded his opening when the court adjourned.
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I FOOTBALL. — T NEWPORT CLUB'S SPORTING OFFER. I FAVOURABLE RECEPTION AT LLANELLY. The sporting offer made by the Newport CI ub has been received in Llaniflly in the same spirit, and as a result of the magnani- mous action of the Usksiders-quite in accord with the best traditions of the cyub-it is likely that what looked like developing in-to a serious business will now be allowed to drop. The LLanelly coramittee met on Mon- day might, and the Letter of the Newport club did not come to hand until Tuesday, so that the committee have not yet had an opportunity of dealing with it. There can be mo doubt, however, that the offer will be accepted, and the match struck out of the records of both clubs. SWANSEA'S WESTERN TOUR. The Swansea committee have selected the following side to do duty against the Albion at Devonport on Saturday: Back. Jack Bancroft; three-quarters, W. Trey, Phil Hopkins, Harry Toft, and Harvey Thomas; halves. R. M. Owen and Dick Jones; forwards. D. J. Thomas, George Hayward, Edgar Mor- gan, Ivor Morgan. Harry Hunt. Dai Daviee, gan, Griffiths, and Ike Williams. The team Dai also play Plymouth on the Monday. One or two reserves to be taken have not yet been selected. FIGHTING FOOTBALLERS. SUSPENSIONS BY CARDIFF AND DISTRICT UNION. Mr. G. W. Dicks presided o-ver the weekly meeting of the Cardiff and District Rugby Union held at the Bristol and Sooth Wales Hotel on Tuesday, when the following sus- pensions were passed—Dnnscombe and Can- terbury, for misconduct in the Cardiff Bar- barians v. Harriers matt-,h, for four league matches; Edmunds (Llandaff North), four league matches; and Evans (Penarth Thistle) eight weeks for fighting. Evans's penalty was ^increnrfed for giving a fictitious name. Taff Juniors and Canton Crescent were ordered to re-play, Taff entering a protest on short time.
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GOLF. GLAMORGAN CLUB DISSENSIONS. A MEMBER'S PROTEST: THE NEW COMMITTEEMEN. A meewirg ot the committee of the Gla- morgan Crolf Club was held at the Esplanade Hotel, Penarth, on Tuesday evening, at which it was decided to fill up the vacancies caused by resignations consequent upon the resolution passed at the annual meeting. Mr. F. L. Perry was not present. but wrote resigning his membership. In place of Mr. H. G. Alexander, who had resigned the treafnirerehip on protest, Mr. W. R. Sweet-Escott was appointed, and the fol- lowing were elected to the six vacant places on the oonimittee:— Messrs. R. Arnold. A. M. Ingledew, F. Shearman, A. P. Thomas, A. D. Bennett, and S. A. Moore t A E315 TOURNAMENT. The North Berwick Town Council has defi- nitely decided that an international profes- sional tournament for prizes amounting to £ 315 will take place over the burgh course on July 2 and 3 next. The event thus follows the open championship at Deal. The tourna- ment is jby invitation to all the leading men?t is Jrenoh, and American professionals SWANSEA BAY CLUB DINNER. 1 ne annual dinner of the Swansea Ba.y Golf Club is to be held at the Hotel Metro- pole, Swansea, on Friday next, November 27.
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C ARDIFF SHIP'S ROUliH VOYAGE The steamship Dordogne, of Cardiff, has arrived at Swansea after a very rough voyage with a mineral cargo from West Africa. When off Lisbon she lost her propeller, and in response to distress signals was towed into Lisbon, where she remained twelve days. She afterwards experienced rough weather on her journey to Swansea.
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[Coal Trade & Shipping I EFFECT OF MINES 8-HOURS [JILL I At th", monthly meeting of the Cardiff I Shipowners' Association. held at the Exchange on Tuesday (Mr. Trevor S. Jones presiding), the following letter addressed to the chairman was read from the Hon. Ivor Guest, M.P. for Cardiff, in reply to the request of the association on April 10 that he would oppose the Miners' Eight Hours Bill:- Wimborc/e House, Arlington-street, "Novømber 7, 1908. Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill. "My dear isir,- I desire to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to take this oppor- tunity of saying that I have for some time givec these proposals my very careful con.! sideration, and have also taken some pains to elicit the opinions of my con?tituenta with regard to them, in the hope of my b. ing able to view them in the light of their probable effect upon the trade of the city and port which I have the honour to repre- sent, as well as from the standpoint of the social advantages which they are calculated to confer upon the mining population of this country. In view of the extent to which Cardiff depends upon the coal trade, I should be sorry to find that the measure would have the effect of bringing about an appreciable. advance in prices by reason of a diminished output, but, titror a careful perusal of the report of the Departmental Committee on the matter, I have come to the conclusion that such will not be the case. "For very many years changes not unlike the one now foreshadowed have been intro- duced into the coal mining industry of this country, but during the debate on the second reading it was, I think, clearly shown that in sipite of these changes the industry, on the whole, revealed a general tendency to expansion, and if there should be a reduc- tion in output as a result of this measure, it will, in my opinion, bepurely temporary in its character, and will be overtaken in the way which our previous experience leads us, justly, I think, to expect. I do not believe, therefore, the result will be to bring about such a permanent advance in prices as will be likely to place a further burden upon the sihippinig industry. I would like here to emphasise the safe- guards which have been introduced into the Bill by the Government. These, I think, are real and important. First, there is the allowance for overtime, and the provision with regard to the labour of certain person", permitted to remain below ground, together with the power which is reserved to relax the Bill fully in an emergency likely to delay the general work of the mine. More particu- larly, there is the safeguard which provides that, in the event of an unexpected rise in the price of coal, the Government may, by an Order in Council, suspend the whole operation of the law in order to prevent any- thing like a serious erisris in the coal trade. Apart from these considerations, the period of transition will be such as to avoid all that approaches to a violent change, for there will be a gradual process of adaptation, for which not less than five years is per- mitted. "Finadly, I wish to refer to another aspect of the case, which, though possibly having no direct bearing upon the trade and industry of Cardiff itself, constitutes, at least, a matter of interest to a large and growing number of my constituents, namely, the beneficial effects which the measure is likely to confer upon the social well-being of the miners. The safeguards I have enumerated seemed to me to meet all reasonable fears in the matter, and this fact, coupled with the social advantages to which I have referred, have induced me to give the Bill my support. —I am, &c., (Signed) "IVOR C. GUEST." The secretary (Mr. W. R. Hawkins) was instructed to communicate with Mr. Guest expressing the deep regret of the association at his attitude on this question.
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STOUT LADIES LOSE WEIGHT. I A Classic Recipe. I There has been much talk la-toly ftlbomt a. new preparation for the cttrfe of bbWAnote fa,tDessa. simple, harmless mixture that any of our readers can make up at home, after procuring the ingredients at any chemist's. This is it:One half-ounce of Marmola (in a seaJed packet), one oaince of fluid extract of Glycyrrhiza B.P., one ounce of pure Glycerine B.P., and pepper- mint Water to make six ounces in all. This wonderfully successful recipe has become classic. The dose is two teaspoonfuls after eaoh meal and at bedtime. Stout men and women are by no m-eans required to half starve tthemselves when they go in for tJhiiB simple treatment. Let them rather increase their strength and fortify the nervous system by a little indulgence in wholesome and enjoyable dishes. Fatiguing physical exercises are likewise quite unnecessaa-y. Nourishment and repose axe as essential to health, and beauty as is the elimination of the ex-ceee of fat, which, in the form of internal deposits, is really dangerous and always injurious to health. e57Q4
REDUCTION OF HOURS IN .MINES.…
REDUCTION OF HOURS IN MINES. I HOW SOUTH WALES WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE CHANGE. Mt. Russell R-ea, M.P., in the course of a letter to the "Times," gays:— The Miners (Eight Hours) Bill has come down from the Grand Committee changed in one important respect from the Bill whioh secured the assent of the House of Commons on second reading, and changed oomsideraibly for the worse from the point of view of the consumers of coal. Personally I aim a sup- porter of the principle of the proposal to institute an eight-hoar day, as I have shown by vote amd speech in the House of Commons. Butt I foresee very clearly a period of some contra-etion of output "nIl public embarrass- ment, especially in certain districts of the country, if the change is not made witn knowledge and caution. It would seem rea- sonable to begin by jeveHing up the back- ward districts, &-nd this principle was adopted both in the Miners Bill and in the Government Bill as introduced. In the latter a nine-hour maximum was to be enacted for eighteen months, and afterwards one of eight hours. This has been altered in Committee, to eight and a half hours for the first three years, afterwards eight hours, and this alteration, in my opinion, is a change for the worse, and will create a very serious situation in South Wales and Lancashire. The eight-and-a-half hour day now proposed will reduce the working full day in Lanca- shire by ain hour and a half, and in most of the collieries of South Wales by two hours on the four rull days or the -week. The change, which is to come into operation on July 1 next, will be so great in these two districts that the further reduction of half- an-hour three years laterr "will be of compara- tively slight importance. All exporting centres, home and foreign, will come to the assistance of South Wales —at a prim-arid, South Wales will lose markets. To the consaw this period of re- adjustment will bring inconvenience and loss. The Lancashire manufacturer will have to supplement his supplies from more dis- tant and, therefore, more expensive sources; the docks of Cardiff will he filled wi-th vessels on demurrage waiting for their share of the rcduoed output at prices which can only be conjectured. Many of the more influe"tw ooalowmers of South Wales are anxious for a more gradual process. They dread the first violent change, and they consider the original pro- posal of nine hours for the first eighteen I months, with an eight-and-a-half-hour day for the remainder of the first three-year period, would be a sensible mi-tigation of their difficulties.
IBOXING
I BOXING WELSH IN AMERICA. I Fred Welsh, the Cardiff boxer, who has made such a good impression in America, is matched againgt Abe Attell, the feather- weight champion, at Los Angeles to-day, and the contest is excitmg a good deal of interest both at home and abroad.
iA DIVERSION FOR PORTHCAWLI…
A DIVERSION FOR PORTHCAWLI PEOPLE. An infuriated ox caused much excitement at Portboawl on Tuesday. The animal was being conveyed by the Great Western Railway to the seaside town to be slaughtered. It did not like its confinement in the van, and when the train reached the station its head was covered with blood, and it was in a dangerous state of frensy. With great difficulty the boast was got out of the van. A heavy wagon was procured, to the tail of which a rope was attached and fas- tened rcund the neck of the animal, while one of its legs was tied to its neck. Six men stood on each side of the bull, and in this way it was safely taken to the slaughter- house. The roans of the bull aroused all the inhabitants, and numbers lined the streets.
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Captain's Sudden Death I
Captain's Sudden Death I DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES The Cardiff Coroner (Mr. W. L. Yorath) held an inquest on Tuesday concerning the death of Robert Wintes, aged 60, the master of the steamship Antinous, which arrived at Cardiff Docks on Saturday night. The cap- tain died on Sunday morning, and his death gave rise at the time to some sinister tumours, whioh afterwards proved to be un- founded. Warren. Joseph Simmonds. the ship's car- penter, who had two very oad black eyes, said they reached Cardiff about mine o'clock on Saturday night, and the donkeyman, after going ashore, returned to thethipsober about 12.30. He began talking rather loudly Uj one of the men, and witness asked him to talk lesis loudly, as the boatswain was sleeping. "Have you come here to boss the 1*-?-(-ping. H ship?" asked the donkeyman, and witness said he had not. He had come to do his duty as carpenter and night watchman. The don- keyman then took off his coat, put up his handts, and struck witness in both eyes, knocking him down. Then he said. "Where's the ehivvy ?' ;-a, phrase which witness recog- nised as London "back-slang" for a knife. He picked up a knife and thrust at him (the carpenter) twice, but he was able to ward the blows off. In a few minutes they had al,other "turn-in." They struggled out through the forecastle door, and thea wit. J ness fell. While he was down the donkey- man pummelled him on the face w*th both hands, and said if he had a knife he would cut his throat. CAPTAIN INTERFERES. That finished the row for a time, but about an hour later, when witness wae put- ting out another hawser, the donkeyman came up, hit him in the eyes, amd knocked him down. Then he put his knees on wit- ness's throat and dug his fingers into his eyes. The captain, hearing the noise, came out in his pyjamas and an overcoat, and called the donkey- man off. The boatswain pulled him off, and the captain ordered them both to different parts of the ship. That was the last he sa,w of the captain. He could not say whether the d-onkeynian struck the cap- tain. Dr. R. Walker sa.id he was called to see the captain on Sunday morning. He omn- plained of a burning pain in his chest, and his heart was beating rapidly and irregularly. He had a black eye, but told witness it was given him accidentally, and the man had apologised for doing it. Wit- ness had made a post-mortem examination, and found that the deceased's heart was woo,k, though not diseased. In his opinion death was due to heart failure, brought on by excitement amd exposure. The jury returned a verdict of "Dea.th from natural oauses."
TRIBUTE TO LORD RIPON. I
TRIBUTE TO LORD RIPON. I VALUABLE SERVICE AS VICEROY OF IND IA. Mr. Asquitii took the chair on Tuesday at a luncheon given by the Eighty Club to the Marquess of Ripon. The Lord Chancellor presided, and numerous members of the Government attended. The Premier, in giv- ing the health of the guest, spoke of his long record of valued and splendid service. During five memorable years Lord Ripon was Viceroy of India, and his name would always be associated as that of the ohief Britisn Commissioner with the conclusion of the Alabama Treaty, whereby the foundations were laid of what they trusted and believed would prove the enduring and unshakable friendship between ourselves and our kins- men across the Atlantic. Lord Ripon, replying, said it was to con- sistent adherence to Liberal principles that he owed any success he had attained. Born at Dcxwnin g-etreet, he had hoped to die there, but that was not to be.
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Million Tons Combine
Million Tons Combine TWO MONMOUTHSHIRE COLLIERIES We understand that negotiations have reaohed an advanced stage for the amalga- mation of the Abersyohan Colliery, Mon- mouthahire, owned by Messrs. Hoskins and Llewellyn, with the adjoining undertaking of Powell's Tillery Steam Coal Company (Limited). The colliery properties of the companies lie between the Eastern and Wes- tern Valleys. The output of Powell's Tillery is about 650,000 tons annually, and of Aber- sycha,n about 300,000 tons, making together about 950,000 tons. Both collieries are worked as private undertakings. The capital of Powell's 'Tillery is Ei44,000 in shares and 156,000 in debentures. The terms of the deal have not yet been published. The extent of the Abersyohan Colliery taking, which includes the Nos. 1 and 2 Aber- syeban Collieries, the Big Pit, and the Golynos Colliery, is about 1,000 acres, and includes the same seams as are (t present being worked by Powell's Tillery. The collieries are bedng worked towards each other from the Eastern and Western Valleys, and although no connection exists between them at present, a connection will ultimately be made, and this will be a great convenience for the purposes of both concerns. The £ 56,000 in debentures in Powell'e Tillery Company ha^o been paid off, a.nd it is possible that the negotiations for tihe pur- chase of the Abersyohan undertaking will be completed some tame before March next. NEW PRICE-LIST AT CYMRIC RHONDDA COLLIERY. A new price-list has been settled for the Victoria Seam at the Cymric Rhandda Colliery, Ystrad, owned by Mr. Alban Richards. It is anticipated that, consequent upon the development of the colliery, work will be provided for a number of additional, hands.
I-ON BEHALF OF -WALES.
ON BEHALF OF WALES. I OLD-AGE PENSION ACT IN WELSH I LANGUAGE. Mr. ELLIS DAVIES (R., Carnarvonshire, Eifion) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer I in the House of Commons on Tuesday whether he would arrange for the transla- tion of the regulations with regard to old- age pensions into the Welsh language. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: Both. the Act and the regulations have been translated into Welsh. They will be published in a few days. SEPARATE BOARD OF TRADE STATISTICS. Mr. WALTER ROCH (R., Pembrokeshire) asked the President of the Board of Trade if be could in future in the Board of Trade statistics publish the statistics for Wales separately. Mr. CHURCHILL said he would consider how far it might be possible to meet the views of the hon. member, and would oom- municate with him further on the subject.
:PLIGHT OF A CREW IN MID!OCEAN.
PLIGHT OF A CREW IN MID- OCEAN. Writing to Messrs. Owen and Watkin Wil- liams, of Cardiff, with reference to the rescue of the members of the crew of the sailing ship Henry Clausen, jun., of Bath, Maine, U.S.A., Captain R. O. Jones, of the S now doni aD, says:—"On November 7, at eleven a.m., we sighted a derelict, and on approaching her, we found it to be the three- masted schooner Henry Clausen, jun., with main and mizzen mast gone, also jibboom, and water-logged. All her crew (seven, in- cluding the captain and his wife) were on top of the afterhouse, the only part of the ship above water. We hailed them, and they said they had no boats of their own. So we launched our lifeboat, manned by the chief officer, and took them off with great diffi- oulty. They were safely taken aboard the Snowdonian, and we landed them at St. Michael's, Azores, whither they were bound. Before the crew left the derelict the after- part was set on fire. They said they had experienced severe weather."
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