Evening Express

From All Quarters jfr. T. H. Tagby. & Bookincham nnreery- mau. has captxtred 349 queen wasps in four MY¡. Field-Marshal Stir George White, the hero of Ladysmith, celebrates hie eeremty-fifth birthday to-day. The names of nearly 200 new Meipieatta of the Imperial Service Medal were published m yeawrday's "Gazette." The Atlantie and MedHetraneadi Fleets lhave ajcrived at Falmouth, uod aire ooaling in preparation for the manoeuvres. The Naxquess of Zetland is suffering from the effects of a severe fall from his horse, which put its foot in a rabbdt-hole. It was stated, at Shoreditch County-court that oa.k taken from a houae 300 years old was still damp, and split when it wae expoeed to the air. The Bogaor Council proposes erecting a flag on the parade to be need as a signal to trippers that it is time to return to the railway station. •'Hold your tongue, woman," said Judge jf oss to a garrulous dab tor at Sangor County-court. "If you spend your money as faet as you talk, small wonder it's all gone

GRAMOPHONE A GENERICTERM There is no trade monopoly of the Olle of the word gramophone, deoided Mr. Justice | Parker in the Chancery Division yesterday, The ommorhonll Oomp^ny (Limited), øought: to ofjtain the registration of the word as a description of their talkiiKf-maohin/es, but liis Jjorde*hi~p the a-pplicaUon with oostfl. saying t.bE a n&nm by wliioh a machine was popularly known ought not to be entitled to registration. Although in the: trade 4he word oooa noted the goods of the applicants to the general public, it mbrelyli denoted a disc nmiohme a.8 opposed to al cylinder machine, without any reference to the source of manufaoture.

THE HEAVY LADY Bouke amusement was caused at Southport Oounty-ootm, yesterday in a case in which two bath-ohair men were concerned. Albert R. ithodes sued Steven Taylor, an old man. for damage to a bath-chair. He alleged that Taylor had been taking the chair over rough roads, causing serious 4ajxiage to one of the tyree. Taylor said the brake did not lit. "It baa a sharp edge." he sa.id, "and at the time I had a heavy lady in the obair (Laughter.) I had to put the brake on or the chair would have run me off my feet and then w hat would have happened to the poor lady? (Laughter.) She is a terrible weight, and she would have been killed, and I might have been killed with her. His Honour said the bath-chair must be bronght, to the next court, and he would see what it was like. The case WM adjourned for a I mcmth.

The Man in the Street. Even the heavens wept yesterday when the news spread that the great while fighting man, James Jeffries, had tailed to hold his own against the coloured champion. Everywhere the result proved most disappointing, and in many pla-ces the dereat^ was received as a humiliation that was almost unbearable. Without any real reason. thousands had pinned their faith on Jeffries, who, how- ever, use the term of Freddie WeLsh, was unable to "come back." Never before had so much interest been given 10 one IÚght-it was universal—and few people went to 1L d on Monday night, in order that they could receive the news directly it came through. As enthusiasts used to sing at smoking conc<rt?, they did "not go home tiE morning." And that going home was an awfully melan- choly affair. Many felt the outcome to oe nothing less thrn a disgrace, not only to the one man who had come from his i.retirement to do his best to win a big I victory, but also to the white race, and 'ven individually by these of the same blood. There were those who could not contain their feelings of extreme annoy- ance and vexation, and we read that as Jeffries staggered about in the ring with an eye bunged up, a beaten man, one of nis friends left the arena weeping. As was to be anticipated, others, many of whom had held their feelings in check ready to hurrah in the event of the white nan's victory, do not take any pains to aide their extreme disgust at the whole iffair. Their stock of gibes at the inter- lational interest aroused is almost un- bounded. Any stick is good enough with which to belabour those who hped that the nigger would meet with his quietus. Had the battle gone the other way many of those pessimists who are now groaning at the ''disgraceful exhibition at Reno," etc., would be throwing up their hats and referring in affectionate terms to "Good old Jeff," the supremacy of the white race," and so on. As a. hard matter of fact, no one likes the way the fight has gone, and already the world is being searched to find the man who is capable of achieving the task at which Jeffries failed. Does that man exist ? It is extremely doubtful. And certainly the man to do it is not one of the "has beens." After all, Johnson himself has done something, and the mere fact of his colour is an accident, deplorable cer- tainly, but unavoidable. What is moro disquieting is the feeling roused in diffe- rent parts of the world where the negro element is strong and where the antipathies of the white race have not been held in restraint. Education is, as ever, far from being an absorbing subject with members of the Cardiff Corporation, and at yester- day's meeting Mrs. Cantillon, who pre- sided at the special schools committee, was all alone in her glory until the arrival of Mr. Herbert Thompson. Alto- gether, there were three school com- mittees meeting yesterday, and Mr. Thompson was the sole representative of the 30 councillors and ten aldermen of the corporation. As there was nobody's salary to be raised and nothing calcu- lated to produce exciting scenes, it is to be presumed that the majority of the City Fathers had found a. more pleasant way of spending their time elsewhere. It was rather a pity that it was so, because there arose a capital opportunity to debate a very important subject. Dr. Eichholz, inspector of special schools, had recommended the appointment of an "arter-care committee." In the report read by the assistant secretary of educa- tion (Mr. H. H. Thorburn), it was pointed out that at present there is no agency to help in avoiding the educational loss which is bound to occur when children have left school and try to find positions of usefulness in the world. A helping hand at this time might make all the difference between pauperism on the one hand and a life of independence and self- respect on the other. Such a committee already exists in connection with the oral school for the deaf at Howard Gardens. It is an ideal committee from the standpoint of the corporation, for it consists wholly of one person, Miss Emma Young (the head- mistress), who has meritoriously gone beyond her mere duty in looking after the condition of the children for long after they have left the school. This lady deserves every credit for her altruistic devotion to a high standard of-duty, and she should be encouraged in every way to persevere. But nothing seems to be done in connection with the Virgil-street scholars, who may go to Timbuctoo, so far as the education committee are concerned, after leaving their care. However, it seems a wrong principle to give the youngsters an expensive training and then to turn them loose upon the world. In the end it proves a most expensive method, as well as an unfortunate one, because many of thee handicapped tr.embe^ of the community become permanent burdens on the rates where they might have become ueeful and self-supporting citizens. It is to be hoped that members of the committee will make an effort to attend when this subject oomes forward for consideration. Pontypridd cannot claim to be a fashionable town so far as the birth-rate ? concerned, and its 421 births in three months, with a rate of 40 per 1,000 inhabitants, is not beaten in many places. No wonder the town of the famous bridge and the long station platform is a proud place, and the mere fashion in babies can be joyously foregone in producing such a capital result. However, the j Pontypridd Council are just as much con- cerned in maintaining their population in health as by increasing it naturally. War is to be declared on consumption, and the people a.re to be armed in order that they may fight the insidious hordes of microbes which enter the human system to steal the means of life. These should not be days of ignorance, and the leaet that any public authority can do is to w rn the people in simple terms against the spreading of the white man's scourge. Ju&t lately we liave heard a great deal about "the white man's hope" that broke down Here is something infinitely more in keeping with the description, and it is encouraging to know that in all parts of the kingdom ways and means are being discussed as to the best methods by which the foe of mankind can be held up, eventually, it is hoped, to be wiped from the face of the earth. Good luck to Pontypridd, any- how 1

STOP PRESS + —— Latest Telegrams. 3.1-3-PON.TEFRAC-r PLATE Result: Torch Corporal Trim Sweet Memory 3.30 rlIBURY CUP RESULT M r Cullioan's Atty redwe 4 7 1 Mr W Sinew's Fiedmoat Taylor 4 7 7 lli R Buxrows's The 113.jor Fallon 4 7 11 TEN EAJS. &tt¡.ng-IO tv ag<"t XuU filly, 4 to 1 agst Beau Monde, 9 to 2 a git First Flisrit, and 1C to 1 aget Waist's maiket. Eittieg—ii ta j each aw: ..t1 ad market. Bibury 3.30 A!=o ran —Bouiba. P'natoon., Cipra, Clare- !•< Bachelor's Chnrm, Ctrllet Monte, and Claienceux. Benin*—300 to S a get Atty, 5 to 2 nsrst Piedmont, TRAIN MURDER; VERDICT. ¡ XHckman was found guilty. THE SirVTER CASB. The jury re-turned a verdict for plaintiff, witii damages. Sussex 157 all out (Kent won by an innings and 142 r unfit Rants 103 for three (won by seven wickets) I .(}-HLRSTBO-c:ru.E ST .uŒS, Result Night Eider Rhosmarket Master Thrush SIX EAN. 2.4.5—WEST RIDING STAKES: Nata Ally Beau Monde First Flight Saint's Douche Dead Heat lor Third Plaos Be::lug—to Betting—10 to 1 each agut Jock 'Scot aad Tasioran, awl 1 x Bibury ;.0. Also raniBird of llarcti, Baccliante, and I An Lhit "Vita. .w 3.41—SPECTLATION PLATE Sanou Melton South W est St. Distaff ll'¡¡.r.\mi Rocksavaje Torchbearer -10. r. '?:r. -<t." I

A LOVER OF PRETTY WOMEN I A bandoomse young German etoctarat, Erich Orwtin, agoed = of ^^nl^c^nlbe^g■, who has at least a, dozen fiamceee, has just been arrested cut Zurich, cm the ohaxge of fraud, and his extradition is demanded. Half a dozen of his fianoees, who still loved the young Doa Juan, wanted him of his coming: arrest, and advised him to leaive Germany, but several others. fimding themselves duped, gave his description to the police. One paa-ent lodged a formal comploiza of fraud, as he had lent, Orwtin, as the fiance of his daughter, XZ4). Oristin's life as a student was to beootme engaged to as many young girls of good family as possible, and then to, aek money from their parents 'to carry on his studies." By accident, four of his flamoees ordered their trousseaux at the same shop at and henoo the disoovery. The parents of theoe four ftanoeee, to avoid a aoandal, are not prosecuting, but another parent is, and several others will proba-bly join him. When arrested Crietin said: "I love all pretty woroec, and, therefore, oonld not marry I lone." one.

AERONAUT'S LOST BEARINGS The unreliability of airships of all types in strong wind iB shown by the aiamning' experi- ence of the G-roas military balloon during- a might trip from Berlin to Got ha. Leaving Berlin at nine p.m. on Monday the vessel ran into a 9t{1MD.' near Torga-u. and was driven from its oowee by the wind. During the an-aill hours of the, morning the aeronauts Lost their bearings, and were at last oom- pietely ignoxa-nt of their whereabouts. By gtiest luok the airship, which had lost a good deal of gas, oame to the groond a.t five o'clock yesterday morning near the Zeithain exercise ground. The airship is, however, a complete wreck. j

HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW The weather throughout Switzerland is unprecedented for July. Above 1 5C0 feet of snow has fallen heavily during the last Z4 hours, the gre&t&it fAII6 being in the Enga- dine and Alpine passes. The I ane has risen three feet, owing to continuous rain during the Jast ttfee days, stowing navigation in Switzerland and Germany The levels af th, river have never been so high in July. It is ¡I yetry oold, and the rain is cooturaoos. Moun- taineenine is gimp^y ImjoMibla.

30 Years in Galleys I PRIESr SENTENCED FOR KUBDER 1 Father Adorni, the young priest whose I t'rial for the murder of the octogenarian i clergyman Oostautini at Borne in Septem- ber. 1908, has oocapied the attention of the ftome Assize Court for some weeks past, has been condemned to thirty years in the galleys, the (first seven yearns of which have to be passed in absolutely solitary oonfine- ment (wires the Milan correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle"). Father Adorni was an inmate of the historic oratory of Saint Philip Neri, at the Chiesa Nu-ova in Borne, and the old priest whom he brutally beat to death with a -tiamme,r so as to possess himself of the victim's hoard and bankbooks lived in an apartment directly opposite. After perpetrating the foul deed Adorni, according to his own confession, eat down in fromt of the corpse and drank a bottle of ¡ wine, laughing heartily awhile at his vener- able colleague's fate. He says he has never ¡ sin-ce felt any palng of remorse. Before leaving the house he put the body in bed, adorned it with a crucifix and rosary, and on the following days visited the chamber rcpea.tedly to search for other valuable pro- perty of the victim. His ulterior motive was to induce a young lady of good family to elope with him to America.. The trial took place inside the old Church of Saint Philip, where the founder of the Oratoriaas began and ended his fruitful labours. The condemned man is likely to I have to face another trial, since there are grave indications of his having also been the assassin of a wealthy engineer, Com- mendatore Arvedi, who was mysteriously murdered in the Bome-Perugia night express I three years ago.

PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION I At a meeting of the Pontypridd District Council on Tuesday, under the presidency of Mr. D. Williams, J.P., Mr. L. R. Williams, tne accountant, submitted an exhaustive report on the question of direct rating, estimating that the extra. cost of collection wmld be 10 per cent, of the amount that would be saved if direct rating were established.—The further consideration of the matter was referred to a committee. Dr. Howard Davies (the medical officer) sub- mitted a lengthy report as to the inspection, of meat affected with tuberculosis, and sug- gested that a system similar to that which obtained at ^Newport be established, and that the inspectors of nuisances visit the various elaughterhouses twice a day when animals were being slaughtered. The medical offioer's report was adopted. The medical offioer in his quarterly report stated that during the three months there were 421 births and 152 deaths, this being respectively equivalent to 40 and 14.2 per 1,000 of the population per Dr. Daviee referred to the breaking off of the negotiations with the Oaerphilly Council in regard to the means of provision for the isolation of small-pox cases at Mynydd Mayo, and a committee wae I appointed to confer with the Caerphilly Council. It was also agreed that the medical officer of health should obtain printed hand- bills fo rdistribution in cases of tuberculosis, giving directions and advioe in the prevention of this and other infectious diseaeee and infant mortality.

"NASTY, BASE, MISERABLE." j At a meeting of the Bermondsey Borough Council last night a turbulent scene was witnessed. The Rev. Kave Dunn, referring to a ruling of the mayor, said he had not been near enough to that gentleman to see what state he was in. (Hisses and cries of "Order.") The Mayor: You look after your- self. Mr. A. Layton: It is the most offensive remark I have ever heard. A nasty, base, miserable insinuation. I ask Mr. Dunn what he meatio by it? The Rev. Kaye Dunn: I am not going to be catechised by you. Mr. Layton: It is a base insinuation. Make a statement that the mayor can get hold of. It is a disgrace to your cloth. Mr. A. B. Clark: I do not intend to let the matter drop like this. (Hear, hear.) A man in the gal- lery shouted out- "We vtant to know whether it is Irish or Scotch-" The mayor at opce ordered the man to be removed, and this was done. When order had been re- stored, the Rev. Kaye Dunn withdrew his remark, which he said he had used in the heat of the debate. The mayor aooepted the apologry, and the council proceeded to the next business.

GRAVEDIGGER AND FAMILY At Waltham Abbey yesterday John Harvey, I gravedigger at Chingfcrd Cemetery, and his wife were charged with cruelly neglecting their seven children, ranging from the ages of thirteen years to seven monthe. -Dr. Harold Emlyn Jonee, medical inspector of schools, who visited the house, said he found it in an indescribably filthy condition. There was no food in the house, and the children, who were half naked, bore every sign of suffering from slow starvation. The witness took all the children to school, carrying one partly clad in his arms, and provided them with food, which they ate ravenously. The eldest boy and girl were at least two stones below the normal weight, and were per- manently injured, mentally and physically. The defendants were sentenced to four months' hard labour.

SUICIDE IN DEATH CHAMBER A Toulouse deatast, named Moeller, was so affected by the death of his wife that he committed suicide. Mme. Moeller had for a long time been suffering from paralysis and died on iSunday. The bereaved husband immediately called in one of his friends, and, declaring that life without his wife was impossible, handed him a sum of £ 96 to pay for the f'uneral. He then sat down in a chair by the side of the bed on which his wife's body was laid out and blew out his brains. In a letter to the police Commissary he asked that his body and that of his wife should be sent to Marseilles for crema-tion and the ashes placed in the same urn "so that in death, as in life, we may remain mwted."

SHOTS AND POiSON I A mystery which will never be fathomed surrounds three successive suicides which have occurred at Bome within a few days of each other, (iiuseppe Burrore, a young lieu- tenant, shot himself in hie lodgings a weep ago after leaving a letter aadressed to hia eighteen-year-old brother. As soon as the brother had read the contents he posted a letter to his fiancee and then shot himself. The girl oommitted suicide by taking poison. There is no clue whatever to the fatal secret which, caused the triple death.

TRAGEDY OF A ROSE TREE I A tragedy of a rose tree was relatod to the Higligate magistrates yesterday by a woman. My husband is a gardener," she gaid, and he has an exceptionally fine FTalu Karl Druschi tree, which he was cultivating for exhibition purposes. An insurance agent who called yesterday plucked the very finest rose on the tree, and the tree is spoiled." She was informed that her only remedy was to bring a county-court action against the man. I

LUCKY HEREFORD Havtog paid off the last instalment of the 1880 loan of £ 30,000 out of the profits of the gasworks, Hereford Town Council has just reduced the prioe of gas by 3d. per 1,000ft., in addition to handing over £1,000 for the relief cf the rates. A contributory scheme for a sanatorium fnx the county wae

Boxing is Unaesthetic I FRENCHMAN PREFERS A BULL-FIGHT M. Mormet-SnJly, the famous aotor and doyen of the ..societain" of the Comedoe Prancaifle at Paris, has been giving some very interesting impressions of a boring match be saw the other migirt between a big negro and an American. This was the first time he had ever seen a fight in the ring. It was the first time, and will be the last," he said. It was an interesting spectacle, if yon like, but it was oertainly very ugly. I must admit I can't understand it. To admire strength, nimblenees, even the possi- bility of doing harm-th:tt I realise perfectly, and one sees it in both wrestling and fencing. Wrestling ;6 a harmonious thing. It gives us an excellent series of living pictures, and there is nothing revolting about it. But box- ing—oh! la! la! I must say I admired the muscles of the negro when he first stepped into the ring, but everything afterwards was heartbreaking. After talking and shaking hands in a friendly way the adversaries flung themselves on each other, and, with eager eves bulging out of their sockets, tried to break each other's teeth—tried to break anything, in fact, that they could. And the public applauded. Like myself, most of them knew nothing about boxing. Then what did they applaud ? Blood ? "I like to see a good bull fight. It is a splendid spectacle. The bull has got to die, and it is :NAter there than at the slaughter- J house. Even a cock-fight has its points. But I can find no excuse for the unsesthetic bruta.lity of a boxing match, and nobody with any sensibility, unless he merely wanted, to follow something because it was fashion- able, could even look at it." Perhaps it is unfortunate that the boring I match which M. Monnet-Sully, casually attended was a very unfortunate example of the "noble art."

"STIGMA ON THE COUNCIL." At a meeting of the Neyland Urban Council Mr. George Roach mentioned an agreement between the council and Mr. Levi Davies with reference to the working of a quarry. The Clerk (Mr. Griffiths) said the agreement had, disappeared. Mr. Hier asked whether a copy of the docu- ment had been furnished to Mr. Daviee. The Clerk: On that point Mr Davies and myself do not agree. He says he was not furnished with a copy. Mr. Boach observed that the disappearance of the document cast a stigma on the council. The clerk promised to make a further search for the missing document. Plans were presented of a proposed bridge to be erected at Church Lakes, between Key- land and Lla lis tad well. The road fords a tidal stream, and at high water is impassable. Dockyardmcn and sohool-children have to oross the stream daily, and the Pembmke County Council have been asked to give finan- oial support to the scheme.

LLANELLY HARBOUR BILL The Llanelly New Harbour Bill, the renewal of the Bank of England loan of £ 237,000, and a proposed additional loan of £ 40,000 were discuesed at some length at a meeting of local ratepayers on Tuesday even- ing.—Mr. D. T. Jonee, chairman of the dis- trict council. who presided, moved a resolu- tion in support of the Bill, and said the new agreement would effect a saving of L2,395 in the rate of interest per annum, and render unnecessary any representation of the Bank on the trust. This would save 300- guineas, and the ratepayers would be better off by an ei ghtpenny rate--The resolution having i been seconded, Mr. E- R. Behenna, Swansea, said that with good facilities his firm would ship at least 200,000 tons from Llanelly a,nnually.-In opposing the scheme, Mr. T. R. Ludford said Llanelly was free of the Bank of England to-day, and he advised them not to spoil a prosperous town for the sake of an unprofitable dock.—Mr. Dan Williams. J.P., president of the chamber of commeroe, speaking in support, maintained that if the ratepayers repudiated the debt incurred by the town they would put themselves entirely in the hands of the railway companies. The passing of the Bill would mea-n a reduction in the rates next year of 4d. in the X.-The meeting was adjourned until this (Wednes- day) evening.

"VERY IRREGULAR CAREER." Mr. Justice &winfen-0ady in the Companies' Winding-up Court on Tuesday had again before him the petition by H. Gittelsohn and others for the compulsory winding up of the Cambrian Theatres (Limited). The Hon. C. E. Macn-agbten, K.C., who, with Mr. Sims, appeared in support of the petition, said that it had been presented by two share- holders who had 50 £ 1 shares each, and it was supported by two creditors. The com- pany had a short, but not very prosperous, though certainly a very irreg-niar career. Mr. RusaeU, K.C. (with him Mr." Simmons), for the company and creditors and share- hoLders opposing, said that oat of the indi- pendent shareholders, who numbered about '100, he thought 50 were in favour of a, oom- pulsory order, and under these circum- stances he did not oppose the order the peti- tioners were asking fOT. Hie lordship accordingly made the usual compulsory order.

BLAMED MOTHER-IN-LAW Prank Tarworth, a collier, of Whitecroft, wae summoned by his wife, Lydia K. Yar- worth, at Coleford yesterday for cruelty and (desertion. Mr. A. Lionel Lane, Gloucester, appeared for complainant, and Mr. T. L. Scoble. Coleford. for defendant, who plea.ded not guilty. The parties were married at the Baptist Cha/pel, Park end, in 1908, and there was one child. Complainant -aid her hus- band earned about £2 per week, and h.id been cruel to her since marriage, but he > ad not struck her. He went out on a drinkiig bout for a whole week, and when he returned home demanded supper, and after she cooked it he kicked the frying pan, broke up the furniture, and threatened to kill any- one who came there. Sbe then took her baby and avent to her mother's bouse. Defendant said it was all his mother-in-law's fault. The case was adjourned for one month.

HAD SAILED FOR AMERICA" Henry Hawkins, until recently the landlord of the Britannia Inn, Coalway Lane-end, was charged by his wife at Ooleford yesterday with desertion. Mr. T. L. Scoble, solicitor, Coleford, appeared for complainant. Tbe case had been before the co-urt twice previously, and on the last occasion the summons wag dismissed because defendant offered to pro- vide his wife with a home, or to take her to America. Complainant said ednce th, last court heT husband told her "he had no money. and she could go anywhere." Defen- dant sailed for Seymour, America, on Friday last. The Bench made an order for 7a. per week and 13e. ryl. costs, remarking that she would be a lucky woman if she got anything.

DOWLAiS PASTOR'S CALL. In a personal coma ion to his congre- gation at Bethania, Dowlais, the Rev. Peter | Price, B.A., lias confirmed the report puo- i lihed in the Evening Express that the' Bethlehem Weish congregational Church at Bhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham, had extended to him a coruial inviUuiou to the pastorate rendered vacant by the retirement- of the Rev. Robert Boberts (ex-chairman of the Welsh Congregational Union). The rev. gentleman stuked that he will come to a decision within the next fortnight

TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION The King received Captain Scott in audience on Tuesday, and inquired into the details of the plans of the Antarctic Expedition. Hie Majesty ei pressed deel3 interest in the undertaking. and his heartiest wishes for its success. Hie Majesty presented his portrait to Captain Scott, to be carried in the Terra Nova, and hung on the walls1 of the Antarctic but.

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Rush to the Goldfield CAERPKTLLYCENTLEMAN'S EXPERIENCE I A gentleman at present staying at Caer- rhilly has lately returned from the neigh- bourhood of the latest gold boom, and baa communicated to us :wne facts upon the subject which will be of special interest at the present juncture. We will give the story so far as possible in his own words. I went," he says, to Canada in 1906, and almost from the first worked on the Grand' Trunk Pacific Baiiway. La^er on I joined the engineering department, one of whose i dm}rubers—Cameron by name--had spent his Lite up and down the country, had made a fortune in Alaska, and was still a man of considerable means. He and I got very chummy, and one Sunday I saw him going, a<s I thought, for a tramp up the railway track. I asked permission to join him, and he consentea, but he gave me no inkling as to what he was going to do. We had gone a considerable distance from the camp when he stopped, and told me he trusted me to freeze'—keep quiet about his movements. He then went straight to some bushes, fetched an old shovel and frying-pan, and, to my surprise and interest, walked over to a place where water was running a.nd began to wash the soil. This was the first time I had ever seen anything of the sort, and I can assure you I watched his doings most cloeely. After the washing process had gone on for some time and the mud was cleared from the pan my chum initiated me into the mysteries. The bottom of tne pan was covered with sandy earth, and at first I could discern nothing in it out of the common, and told him so. He washed this panful of dirt again, and then pointed out to me some minute particles-of gold. By this time my interest was at full stretch, especially when Cameron told me he had found traces of the precious metal all up the valley. But he also pointed out that at no spot did it exist in paying quantities, but the particles we had seen had been deposited by the river when in flood, maybe centurios before. The only thing that inte- rested him was, therefore, that where the river had its source there was gold, and through that district the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was to pass. "Now, I need hot tell you I pondered deeply over what Caineron had said, kept in his company, and carefully studied the maps of the district. I also found that the others knew of the proximity of gold, and so did the company, and the latter were determined to keep in to rail-head as much as possible. While I was in camp we heard of the gold find in the Peace River district, but this proved to be only placer' deposits, and merely useful as substantiating the surmise of my friends that it was an alluvial gold district. "I now think it my duty to warn your readers not to rush out without counting the cost. My friends have told me pitiful stories of hardships endured by them in Alaska, where they had been lucky to win through alive, but with awful reminiscences of hard- ship—starvation, the bullet, and the knife. Some had fortunes in their belts; others had to be content with the knowledge of untold wealth just beyond their grasp. To rush out now would be the merest folly. There are thousands of hardened, qualified men already near the spot. To the late-comer it will only mean disaster in a district where food is dear and scarce and the scum of the continent has gathered." I

WORLD'S FLYING RECORD BHEIMS, Tuesday. A storm burst suddenly at mid-day, render- ing all attempts to fly out of the question for a time. In spite of the unpromising weather, there was again a very large attendance of the public. The storm subsided towards three o'clock, and flying was restftned. M. Le Blanc, on a Bleriot, covered three miles in 3min. 10 2-5sec., beating all records. Con- tinuing. M. Le Blanc completed 31 miles in 34min. 6800., establishing a fresh record. Late in the afternoon some highly interest- ing flights were made in the Gordon-Bennett Cup competition. M. Le Blanc beat the world's record by oovering 100 kilometres (62 miles) in lh. 6min. Usee. Mr. Latham did the same distance in lh. 24min. Meanwhile Captain Madiot, with flying kites, attained an altitude of 820ft., which he maintained for 36 minutes. Mr. Latham, who next started out for a height prise, arrived shortly after seven o'clock over the town of Rheims and ciroled round the cathe- dral and then round the city, being aoolaimed by many thousands of people in the streets. After soaring for some ten minutes over the city, he returned safely to his shed at Bethany, having attained a maximum height I of 1,279ft—Eeuter ■■ ■■ —

IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL The London Gazette contains an official notice, dated Whitehall, June 30, which states that the King has been pleased to grant the following retired members of his Majesty's Civil Service the Imperial Service Medal for long and me-ritoriouis servioe:- Bufus Eynon, sawmill man, Pembroke Dockyard. "Yi Griffiths, skilled labourer, Pem- broke Cockyard. Thomas Herbert, skilled Labourer, Pem- broke Dockyard. John M. Mathias, shipwright, Pembroke Dockyard. Robert Mathias, skilled labourer, Pem- broke Dockyard. John Noakes, skilled labourer, Pembroke Dockyard. Lewis Phillips, smith, Pembroke Dock- yard. John Pottow, chief warder, Usk Prison. Wm. J. Underwood, ship branch fitter, Pem- broke Dockyard. ■

HIGH PRICES FOR CURIOS I During the sale at Christie's on Tuesday of the Schroeder collection prices showed most unmistakably the eagerness of modern oolieotors. A pair of square orange tubs brought 5.100 guineas, although a like pair fetched only 1,900 guineas in 1895. Two commode jardinieres whioh left the Bevelstoke collection fc.r 710 guineas fetched 2)000 guineas. No less than 9,000 guineas was given for a vase and cover of 1779, sold with two other covered vase.s. But when the famous rock-crystal Biberon was r<M<:h?d there was some dds- appoiTitment. At the Gabbitas sale Sve years ago it astonished the art world by moun i, to a price of 15,600 guineas. To-day the bidding stopped at L10,000, at which price it was see-tiaed by Mr. Wertheimer. who purchased it when it was last offered. Including this £ 10,030 the total for the first day of the sale reached £ 67,783.

A MOTORIST'S NAP I At Watford Police-court on Tuesday Stan-I ley Barber, jun., of Croxley Green, w a" charged with negligently driving a motor-car. On June 18, at two o'clock in the morning, the defendant, while driving from Ixmdon, j ran into a fence at Bushey and wrecked his car. He told a police oiiicer he was asleep at the time, having had a very long day. The solicitor for the defence contended that it was an act of God which made a man ioee control of his senses by sleep, and this case, wm analogous to a driver of a car being struck by lightning He suggested that the defenùant should have been charged under t'he Highway Act for being asleep while ia daarge. The bench inflicted a fine of X5 and costs, and agreed to state a caee.

I BOYS' BRIGADE AND SCOUTS! Owing to the inolement weat-her the fancy dress dance arranged for the 700 children as a preliminary to the opening of the! Paj'isi?nne Fete a6 the S,)?pWa Gardens to-day ?Wedn?pd?y) had to be abandoned. The' refreshments liberally provided will be dis- tributed among the various charitable; institUtions in t.he city. The Boy Scouts and Boys' Brigades will give a display this evening if the weather be fine, but should the conditions be unf avour- able the display will be postponed until Saturday evening.

THE HON. C. S. ROLLS At the meeting of the Monmouth Town Council on Tuesday the Mayor suggested that domething Gnit?.ble ghould be erected in the borough to commemorate the achievement of the Hon. C. S. Bolls in flying the Channel. He referred to that gentleman as a genius, whose chief characteristic was modesty. If an appeal were made he thought sufficient money would be forthcoming to hare same- thing substantial, as Monmouth wee, the htatieA&m of tta Hon. C. S. JiWiB.

The Only One Saved I CLUNG TO BOAT FOR SIXTEEN HOURS I The sole sumrivar off the Bournemouth booting disaster—Mr. Edwin Sidney Cassell, a. oommerciaJ traveller, of London—told a vivid story at the inquest at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, yesteaxlay, on Prank Buasell, a Bournemouth pawnbroker, one of the fo.ur victims of the accident. Caasell, -mbo foa- sixteen hours clung to the partially submerged boa.t, said the craft was overturned by a heavy squall when about three and a half miles from shore. The five occupants all managed to regain the boat, only to be washed out again by the heavy seas, and Davis, the boatman, then disappeared. Time after time, said the witness, the remaining four were swept out, and, he and Burdett repeatedly swam to Bussell and Gough and brought them baok to the boat. At leziigth Gough and Bussed sank, Bussell disappearing just before witness could reach him, and Burdetot dropped off after having hung on for an hour and a half. He con- sidered Burdett would have been able to keep on the boat much longer but for exhausting himself in heroic efforts to save Gough. A verdict of Aooidenta,l death" was returned, and the jury complimented Cassell upon his deliverance and heroic conduct.

RHODRI OR LLEWELYN? Welsh members of Parliament and mamy others were engaged yesterday in an aim,us- ing guessing oosnpetition Mr. lileweliyn Williams, the member for Carmarthen dis- triot, is naturally much interested in the honour of the Principality, and feeis that the arms of Wales should be quartered on the BoyaJ Standard. In front of the gallery, above the gangway, on the Speaker's right, ,is one of four panels. Three represent Eng. land, Scotland and Ireland, and Mæ. Wil- liams had asked the first Commissioner of Works whether the fourth paybel is meant to represent Wales. The arms on too panel, however, are something cf a mystery (writes the Loudon correspondent of the "DadlY Despatch"). Some oontend that they are those of Rhodri Ma-wr, King of Wales, while others declare that they are the arms of Idewelyn, the last native Prince of Wales. Yesterday the matter- was being hotly dis- cussed, but the voting seecmed to be in favour of Llewelyn. Mr. Lewis Harcoiirt will doubtless fairly adjudicate on the knotty problem to tiie satisfaction of all parties.

THE PRICE OF TITLES There ie, I hear, a very considerable measure of dissatisfaction being expressed by members of the liberal party on account of the recent honours list, and no small measure of diplomacy has been needed to keep this dissatisfaction from public expres- sion (writes the London correspondent of the "Daily Dispatch"). There is no longer any convincing attempt to deny that the most of modern honours are sold for hard cash, or that, while a baronetcy, rewards those who spend £50,000 or so on party, a peerage will sometimes cost as much as a quarter of a million. To find men who profess Liberal opini<m and at the same time receive titles is a sore blow to young Liberalism, and I hear of one sturdy politician who threatens to publish a book showing how the financial aide of the party machine is worked.

AFTER MANY DAYS Sergeant Bennett, of the 16th Lancers, now in camp at Landguard, near Harwich, when taking part in the relief of Kimberley with General French's column, had his watch stolen. He reported his loss to Sergeant J- Henderson, of the Cape Mounted Police, who recovered the watch a few days afterwards. Bennett had then gone on to Paardeberg, and Henderson, hearing nothing of or from him, ooncluded that he had been shot. Hen- derson, who is now proprietor of the cigar box on the parade at Felixstowe, inquiring a. day or two ago of one of the non-commis- sioned officers of the 16th if anything was known as to the whereabouts of Sergeant Bennett, was informed that he was in camp. Henderson sent for him, and to Bennett's surprise reminded of the circumstance, and returned the watch,

LONDON WELSHMEN The annual oonvereajsione of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion was held, at the invitation of the Drapers' Company, at the company's hall, London, on Tuesday evening. The master of the company, with Mrs. K. Fletcher, was present to welcome the guests, and Lord Tredegar acted as president The attendance included several Welsh members of Parliament, and several hundred well-known London Welsh ladies end gentle- men. All were charmed by the entertainment provided, an excellent musical programme being given. At the olose Lord Tredegar, in proposing a vote of tihanks to the hosts, referred in eulo- gistic terms to the generosity of the company towards education in Wales. Dr. Henry Owen, who seconded, also paid a tribute to the company's generosity. The Master replied in felieitous terms.

MECHANICAL ARM I A mechanical a-rm for traffic purposes has been invented by am official of the General Post Ofiice at the Situdd-street Stores Depart- ment, who has charge of four motor-vans which distribute stores in the London dis- trict. In driving round corners he found that it was inconvenient to be continually putting out his arm to warn tra.Sic behind, so he invented this mcohandcal arm, which the authorities permitted him to attach to his motor-van. The arm is a strip of wood painted red and fashioned to resemble a human hand and arm. It is worked by a wire attached to a pedal, a slight pressure by the driver's foot causing it to shoot out from the off sicle of the wn above the seat.

GENERAL INJURED Lieatenant-general J. M. GrierHOn, the com- m-ander of the First Division not Aldershot, was badly injured while supervising the operations of the troops under his command on Monday night. Night manoeuvres were being carried out on a fairly large scale, and General Grierson, who wa6 in charge of the operations, was knocked down in the dark I by an officer who was riding down hill on a bicycle. He was at once removed to his resi- dence, and medical assista,noe was sum- moned. The operations were suspended a.nd the troops sent back to camp.

— ARMADA TREASURE I The London Syndicate commenced opera- tions on Tuesday in Tobermory Bay, High- lands, for the purpose of finding the sunken Spanish Armada treasure. Lieutenant Foes, who directs the operations, has located the sunken treasure ship inside an area of 400 square feet. She is understood to contain gold plate of enormous value. Ceylon seaii fishing divers, who work without diving dleR. are to be employed.

ILLEGAL FISHING 1 George King, a collier, of Pillowell, was summoned at Coleford yesterday for attempt- ing to take fish by angling in Connop Ponds, the property of his Majesty's Commissioners. Defendant said it was the first time he had been there. and he did not know it was private water, and there wa6 no notice. He was ordered to pay 16t-.

Miss Phronicia Watkins purchased a pair of high-heeled shoes la,st week and wore them for the first time last Sunday aadi, sprained her ankle. — Bin^ville "Eugle" Diilgvill4-- "ragle" i

Function of the Churches "ARISTOCRATIC COLFING SINNER "I The Eastern Division of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Federation of Evangelical Free Churches Councils opened its annual meetings a.t the Tabornacie Congregational Church, Newport, yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Thomas Bichards (Newport) pre- sided, and reirred to the mission tent erected at Portheawl, where it was intended to hold a big mission during the present summer. Portheawl, he said, was the rally- ing point of the forces of the devil. They desired to make it the rallying pcint of Christians in South Wales, such as Llan- drindod was in mid-Wales. The Bev. Seth Joshua, the Federation missioner. who is to be in charge of the tent at Porthcawl, said he hoped he would have as strong a blow as Johnson for the fight at that seaside resort. (Laughter.) Its streets were lined every Sunday at this time of the year with drunken people, and the atmos- phere vibrated with the most horrible blas- phemy. And," continued Mr. Joshua, "you Newport people send down your aristocratic sinner with his club and golf ball." Leisured Classes Criticised The Bev. Thos. Bowen (Dowlais) proposed a resolution deploring the growing disposition to interfere with the quietude and sanctity of the Sabbath, especiaJly by the indulgence in sports and pastimes, particularly by the leisured classes of the community, end appealed to Church members to discourage the evil. The resolution also protested against the running of excursion trains to Porthcawl and other resorts on Sundays, and expressed approval of the action of the police and magistrates in the stand they had taken in regard to the violation of the licensing laws and the imrea" in &D.nd?.y drinking in Porta.wl. The Rev. Harry Abraham seconded, and said it was not the working classes who were chiefly to blame, but the "men who had abundance of leisure. They could play golf all the week, and on Sunday they went off again, and some of the people from Newport were most eager to be off on Sunday morn- ings. The Rev. J. Thomas (Cardiff) supported. He said he was preaching in Newport on Sunday, and saw more violation of the Children's Act in Newport tIlan he had seen since it had been enacted. Between one o'clock and five minutes past fourteen children under the age of fourteen years came out of one public- house. The Fistic Art The Rev. E. V. T id mail (Mountain Ash) asked if the meeting did not think something should go forth concerning prize-fights and the prominence given to them in the papers. They ought to arrive at some con- clusion by way of boycotting the papers. Principal Bdwardp thought the matter needed more than a mere resolution, and suggested referring it to the executive. This course was adopted.

"FINEST IN THE KINGDOM The annual inspection of the Taff Fawr Waterworks was made by mem- bers and officials of the Clardiff Cor- poration on Tuesday, upon the invitation of the Lord Mayor (Alderman John Chap- pell, J.P.). The party visited the .6ialckhrok Balancing Beservoir, constructed for the purpose of reducing the pressure between Cantref and the city, and afterwards the Cefn Balancing Be^ervojr, which ha.3 been built wit-h the saine object in. view. Mr. C. IL Priestley, the Cardiff Waterworks engineer, made explallatory statements en route. From Merthyr they drove to Cefn, and thence through the Ta,ff Fawr Valley to the site of Llwyn On Reservoir. At luncheon, the Lord Mayor, 'who presided, proposed the health of the waterworks committee and success to the undortaking.-Alderinan Robert Hughes. replying as chairman of the committee, thought they would agree that no better shed could be found. All the details of the scheme had been prepared by their own engineer. They owed him a debt of gratitude for the excellent manner in which he had engineered it—(hear, hear)—and looked forward with conuuence to the future construction. Councillor Seccombe expressed the hope that Barry would join hands with them and participate in the supply. Mr. C. H. Priestley promised to do all he could to make the reservoir one of the finest in the kingdom, ù had been contemplated to continue the drive beyond the Storey Arms, but owing to the unfavourable weather that part of the programme had to be eliminated.

BARRY HIGH SCHOOL I The annual prize-day of the High School for Girls, Bomilly-road. Barry, was held on Tuesday, the Rev D. H. Griffiths, M.A., vicar of St. Woolos', Newport, presiding. The Rev. R. Shelley Plant, M.A., Baglan, in a brief address said education should not be of the cast-iron type, but administered according to the menta l capacity of the child. The prizes. which Were given, amongst others, by Viscount Tredegar, Sir Clifford Cory, Bart.. M.P.. and Alderman Lewis Mor- gan, were presented by the chairman as follows: -English medals, Muriel linen and Beatrice Holloway; kindergarten glish medal, Molly Stephens; music medal, Doris Biackler; gymnasium medal, Molly Stephens; Scripture, Jack Seddon and .Doris Biackler; good conduct, Graham Bell; English, Leviae Sinclair; general improvement, Beatrice Holloway; good conduct and general im- provement, Betty Graham; English, Levine Sinclair; education prize. Beatrice Holloway; most improvement, Mary Morgan; kinder- garten, Andrew Short; good conduct, Hugh Kempt home; reading and writing, Stuart Biackler; kindergarten general improvement, Molly Bennett.

WANTED EFFICIENT WIVES The Upper House of Convocation, at the Church House, Westminster, on Tuesday discussed the report of the Poor-law Commis- sion. The Bishop of Birmingham deploted, the fact that the Commission's report, had not proved a real trumpet-oall to the ordi- nary citizen. The Bishop of Llandaff said he supposed the reason the trump?t-c?Ll had not produced UM ea«;t which the Bishop of Birrn??gha?. had hoped foT was that the trumpet had given a rather uncertain sound. One of the most important things for bringing about an improvement in the matters before them in the report would bo the improvement of family life, and unless girls were taught in the different schools how to become efficient i wives and mothers there would be very little hope of family life being improved. A series of resolutions urging the Govern-1 ment to take action on the re-port of the Com- mission were ultimately adopted.

DOCTOR AND SCHOOLBOYS At Kent Assises on Tuesday Dr. Charles Rodney Huxley, aged 56, pleaded guilty to discharging a gun and oausiner bodily harm to Arthur Leonard Bced at Beokenham in March. Counsel stated that the defendant was annoyed by a number of boys, and sent his attendant for blank cartridges, which he fired a.t them. Tbe boys, however, only chaffed him, and told him to "shoot up." Defendant afterwards pruoured a loaded cartridge and fired the gun. and one or two; shots struck the boy Reed, who had just come on the ground and had not interfered with the defendant in any way. One shot entered Beed's eye, whioh had to be reoicved, j and the other eye was also in jeopardy. The defendant's wife had offered from a small legacy she had inherited to pay £ 115 com- pensation to the boy, and also £,)5 for costs, On behalf of defendant it was stated that his health broke down some yoa.rs a.go, and he gave up private practice The Judge decided to bind defendant over to come up for judgment if called upon.

COUNSEL'S ADVICE j Arising out of a case of nigbt poaching at the last Nottinghamshire Assizes a charge 3f perjury was brought at Notts Assizes en Tuesday against Henry Pearce, a collier, who gave evideuca at the original trial. Prieonr. on oath, now made the extra- ordinary allegation that it was the dcæend-¡I ing counsel who put him to g-ive the version he then gave. Prisoner created a sensation in court by declaring that o&un??I said, "Teil me the truth, and l'll make the lies up." Mr. Justice Bray. without discussing the truth of the allegation, said if true it was one of the most uisgraceful things he ever heard of. The jury found prisoner guilty, and two otiber men pleaded guilty to similar indict- ments arising out of the case. Sentence wae dodo=ed. <

Paris Doctor's Accident COURAGE IN FACE OF DEATH Dr. Duchastelet, a physician and surgeon who was well known in Paris, was crushed "between two cars. At the hospital he said: "Do not make me talk, it only wears me away; I shall not live more than a few minki-tes. There is nothing to be done." Hero the doctor broke off to describe his injuries to the house surgeon, to whom lie refused permission to examine him. "It is no u&e," he said, "and don't use your probe, for I am afraid of infection." A minute later the doctor saw the driver of the stationary oar standing near-him. "Have no fear," he said, "it was not your fault," and inst.antly expired.

GAS v ELECTRICITY A Select Committee of the House of Lorde. presided over by Lord Donoughmore, had before them on Tuesday the Bill confirming1 the Swansea Gas Order. j Mr. Poliook. K.C., and Mr. Szlllmper appeared for the promoters, and Mr. Free- man, K.C., and Mr. Vezy Knox, K.C., repre- sented tne opponents to the Bill, the Swamsea, rural District Council. After a consultation Mr. Vezy Knox said it had been agreed that the price of gas within one mile of the existing borough boundary should be the same as that charged within the borough of Swansea. The price outside the one mile limit of the existing borough boundary should not exceed the price within the borough by more than 4d., with the excep- tion of Oysterinouth Parish, with which the parties were not concerned. If the company did not extend their mains to Birchgrove within one year from the date of the con- firmation of the Order, the council should be at liberty to put in force their electric light- ing powers so far as such powers related to Birchgrove. The company should within a period of twelve months extend their mains to the Baptist Chapel at Killay, and also to n, point on the road leading from Swansea to within 290 yards of Llewitha Bridge. The Committ-c-e decided to consider the clauses this (Wednesday) morning.

A PENNY A WEEK The Master of the Bolls and Lords Justices Farwell and Kennedy had before them on Tuesday the workmen's compensation appeal of the respondent from an award of his Honour Judge Bryn Boberts at Swansea County-court in the case of the Upper Forest and Worcester Steel and Tin- plate Company v. Grey. Mr. Atkin. K.C., on behalf of the appellant workman, said this was an appeal from an 2.waru of the county-court judge at Swansea making an order reducing the compensation payable to a workman named Grey to a. penny per week. There was, said connsel, no doubt that there had been a genuine acci- dent. The county-court judge had found that the man was incapacitated from doing his wor]¡, but said if he had gone back and taken light work as he was advised to do, he wouid not at the date of the application have bein suffering from mœp.aClty to do hia work. The Master of the Rolls. without calling upon counsel for the respondents, gave judge- ment, dismissing the appeal. He said that in his opinion the county-court judge had arrived at a right conclusion, and he could not say that he had misdirected himself. The Lords Justices concurred, and the appeal was dismissed accordingly.

POLICE PROMOTIONS At a meeting of the Swansea Watch Com- mittee on Tuesday a strong division of opinion took place on a recommendation of the head-constable and the sub-committee as to three promotions which had been re.ferred back. The recommendation was that Inspec- tor Edgar be made chief inspector with £ 10 a year increase, that Sergeant J. W. Lloyd be macio inspector, and Police-constable Bounds sergeant. An amendment was moved by Councillor David Jenkins that the senior inspector (Inspector West) and the senior sergeant (Sergeant West) be appointed, but this was lost by six votes to four, and the recommendation was carried. A letter was received from the Shop Assis- tants' Union complaining that the Shop Hours Act was being evaded and was not being stringently applied. An application was received from the Car- marthenshire constabulary requesting that an agreement should be made with the Swansea police for mutual assistance when necessary. Mr. Miles said he was more strongly opposed to these arrangements than ever since the Newport affair. Mr. Lee moved that the letter lie on the table, and this was agreed to.

PARLIAMENTARY BILLS The Llanelly Batepayers' Association on Monday evening decided to lend their sup- port to the Llanelly Harbour Bill now before Parliament. A petition has been deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Lords by the Pontypridd Waterworks Company pray. ing to be heard against alterations in the Pontypridd and Rhondda Joint Water Board Bill. A Bill to confirm a Provisional Order of the Board of Education to enable the county borough of Swansea and the urban district of the Rbondda. to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts came on Tuesday before the Chairman of Committees of the Houee of Lords. The object of the Order is to acquire land for educational purposes. The Bill passed this stage, and in due course will ba reported for third reading.

I -= j PLAGUE OF FLIES The pretty riverside village of Postwick. in Norfolk, is suffering from an extraordi- nary plague of flies, which the medical officer of heaJth at yesterday's meeting of the dis- trict council declared to be a serious menace to the health of the inhabitants. One member stated that aJl the houses had to be shut up, while the flies made it intolerable to go out in the evening, and never in the experience of the oldest residents had there been such a plague. Dr. Back said the houses he entered simply swarmed with flies, and attempts to reduce their numbers were utterly useless. Deposits of refuse on the hver bank, it is presumed, have caused the plague. Complaints have been sent to three authorities. ? -JL

AFFORESTATION PROPOSAL Mr. Isaac Edwards presided at a meeting of the public works committee of the Merthyr Corporation held on Tuesday. The borough engineer, who had been instructed to report as to any land suitable for planting, owned by the corporation or otherwise, reported that he knew of no lands belonging to the corporation suitable for the purpose, except a small area within the fences of the reservoirs which bad not been completely planted. In hia opinion, if afforestation was to be taken in hand, it would be wise to adopt the planting around the reservoirs aa a first step.

MONMOUTH RATE INCREASE At the meeting of the "Monmouth Town Council on Tuesday a general district rate of 5s. 2d. in the £ was formally ordered to be levied. Thili is an increase of 3d. upon the previous rate.-With reference to the proposed removal of the assizes to Newport, the Town-o)erk said the corporation had done all they could to retain the assizes for Mon- mouth.—The Mayor said that during the recent assizes a deputation waited upon Mr. Justice Lawranoe. They were satisfied to a large extent with what his lordship said to them.

DANGERS OF DENTISTRY At Cork on Tuesday John Tuffe, described as a, mechanical dentist, was remanded to Ba-ntry Petty-sessions, bail being allowed, charged with the manslaughter of Ellen Collis, school teacher, of Cahewagh. near Bantry. It was stated that accused, who representoo a dental company, operated on deceased on June 13, extracting six teeth. Hemorrhage set in afterwards, and the girl died on June 22. The coroner's jury have already found that, death was caused from hemorrhage following extraction of teeth by an unqualified person.

CONDEMNED MAN SHOT SANTIAGO DE CHILI, Tuesday. The sentence of death passed upon Wil- helm Beckert, who was formerly employed at the German legation here, was carried out this morniitg, the condemned man being shot. Beckert had been found guilty of having murdered a port-er at the Legation and of having set fire to the Chancelierie in order to conceal his embezzlement of ,juanu belonging to the Legation.—-Beater.