Cheshire Observer

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4 -> SOLD AGAIN! The British elector well may rub his eyes when he reads a cable from Johannesburg this week to the effect that the number of Chinese employed on the Rand mines on July 31st amounted to 52,203. During August, 1,754 arrived by the steamer, Indravelli, 76 died, 40 were discharged for repatriation, and six were struck off the strength under the resolution of the Execu tive Council of June 21." The unsophis- ticated reader of this statement may exclaim, with Bret Harte, "are things what they seem or is visions about '<" All this Chinese slavery" still proceeding under the British flag in South Africa, and under the counten- ance of a Radical Administration The pre- sent Government are notoriously a Govern- ment of many mandates, but if there was one particular mandate on which more stress was laid than any other by the protagonists of the Radical cause just before the General Election, it was that of Chinese slavery." For months before the elections this "slavery" hobby was ridden almost to death. It managed to keep alive only till the last poll was declared. Every Radical platform rang with denunciations of the foul blot on the British name associated with this worse than servile labour. Speakers and writers on the Radical side lashed themselves into an insane fury over the unspeakable enormities of which China- men were guilty in their abhorred com- pounds, herding together like dogs in a kennel, handcuffed and driven to their work at the point of the bayonet, and kept at their task by the crack of the lash on their bare bodies. Then when the Dissolu- tion hove in sight, Radical orators bared their heads and went down on their knees, thanking God that the time was not far off when South Africa would be purged of this festering sore. The alpha and omega of Mr. Mond's speeches in Chester and elsewhere during last year were the imperative necessity for the stoppage of Chinese labour on the Rand. Cato himself did not preach "delenda est Carthago" to the ancient Romans with more painful iteration. Supposing that an incredulous member of Mr. Mond's audience had dared to prophesy that after six months of Radical Govern- ment Chinese slavery" would not be stopped, he would have been laughed to scorn. Suppose he had ventured to predict a year ago that after six months' Radical rule the Chinese coolies on the Rand would be not only not deported but actually increased, he would have been torn limb from limb by an outraged mob. A year ago to-day, while Mr. Mond was professing unspeakable horror at the thought of Oriental labour in the Rand mines, the number of these coolies, to be precise, was returned at 44,565, on August 31st, 1905. Last September every Radical candidate was fulminating his hardest against Chinese slavery," and if he had been told that a year hence, under a Radical regime the same system of sof called Chinese slavery would be in vogue, with an increase of 7,638 victims, an incredulous public would not have ¡ swallowed it. So late as November last Mr. Mond declared with well-feigned earnest- ness that he would sooner see every mine in the Transvaal shut down and never opened again than see it worked with labour under such conditions." Carried away by his excitement, he turther stated that "the present (Unionist) Government flung at the British Empire the intolerable insult of slave labour in South Africa, and caused the people to hang their heads with shame before the citizens of America and the Colonies." In the next breath he pre- dicted that the end was not far off. The moral degradation could not continue. But the blessed Radical Government have come into power, and the end apparently is still as far off as ever, after the lapse of a year, and the "moral degradation" still continues, only in an increased degree, so far as the number of "slaves" is concerned. In the same speech to which we have re- ferred Mr. Mond, in an unguarded moment proclaimed that South Africa ought to be flooded with white men. Unless we strengthened the white influence in South Africa, the millions of blacks would rise up, and we should have a war compared with which our late war would be a mere baga- telle." Well, the omniscient Radicals have had their way in South Africa as elsewhere practically since the date of that speech, and the world can attest to the manner in which they have flooded South Africa with whites." Mr. Mond dtd his little share. He" flooded" the Transvaal with five whites, who spent six month s there, and threw down their tools, threw up their hats the very day they heard of the Chester election, and took the first boat for home. This week we read that, instead of ilood- ing South Africa with whites, to counter- act the black peril, the Radical Govern- ment have imported 163 Cape coloured labourers to work the New Primrose Mine- What has happened] The batch of 163 were arrested for refusing to work. They demanded an increase in their pay, which at present averages 3s. Gd. a day. The Cape boys allege that their agreements with the recruiting officers were not fulfilled, and they wished to give a month's notice and return to the Cape. The Magistrates dis- charged them with a caution. Does not all this prove conclusively what Mr. Yerburgh and every speaker on the Unionist side have contended from the beginning, that the whole difficulty arises from the fact that the native labourer will not do the work in the mines ? He is naturally disinclined to work in any form, and as soon < a he acquires suffi- cientmoneyto purchase a wife he becomes too much of the gentleman to work. The Unionists, were they endowed with the same political dishonesty as their opponents, might bold indignation meetings to-day, protesting against the Chinese slavery countenanced and continued by a Radical Government, might demand the removal of this foul stain upon the British name," and clamour for the flood- ing" of South Africa with whites. The voters who sent Mr. Mond to Parliament foolishly believed that, the moment a Radical Government came into power, the odious Chinese would be swept out of South Africa as by a magician's wand. We have submitted all along that, in the absence of a sufficiency of Kaffir labour to do the unskilled part of the labour, Chinese coolie15 wore a necessity. The Radical G • ■ -o t have found that this is an iot- v-e Lihl fact; they have continued tiio labour, and have found that the Chinese, even when offered a free passage home, do not desire to return to their wives and families, but prefer a good job, when they have got it. The British electors, therefore, who voted for Radical candidates, under the impression that the Chinese were slaves" and that the Radicals would cut their bonds, have been fooled. One point, however, is clear as noonday. They will not be fooled a second time, and this Mr. Mond and his colleagues will discover to their cost.

LOCAL & GENERAL NOTES. The Duke of Westminster's colours were I carried to victory in handsome fashion on Wed- nesday, when Troutbeek won the SU Leger in 'I record time. It is everywhere spoken of as a popular w in, and in Chester and district it was hailed with the unbounded delight which a Grct?venor triumph on the Tun naturalIY affords. Troutbeck has been remarkably successful this year, and has gained public coiifi& i? i: great degree It will be remembered that he won both the Eaton Plate and the Dee Stakes I at the Chester meeting in May, and subse- quently nnished third in t? Derby. Unfor- tunately neither the Duke nor th? Duchess wa» ablo to be present to witness the race, the in- disposition which prevented her Grace from keeping the engagement being much regretted, j The news of the victory was promptly cabled to I the Duke in South Africa. Mr. Cha.pman is to be congratulated on the fact that Troutbeek if. tiio fourth St. Leger winner lie has bred at the Eaton otud-Ormoi(le (1886). Flying Fox (1899) and Sceptre (1902) being the former winners. In other years horses from Eaton have been placed as follows in this classic race:-1832, Shotover (3); 1884, Sandiway (2); 1390, Blue Green (2); 1896, Labrador (2), Rampion (3). \Y « arc informed by the Rev. F. Willougljby Jon, the rector, of a remarkable coincidencc in Waverkm Cliurch th's week. Ail through the summer the windows of the church have been kept cpen, and up to last Sunday not a bird had been seen inside. On that morning, however, they found a robin in possession. At the early sort ice he was for the most part silent, contenting himself with just a few sweet chirp- ing., from time to time, but at the next, service he gave of his best, and that best was a revelation to many assembled. It so happened that- No. 240 was among the hymns set down for that servioe, and when they came to the 2nd verse there occurred the lilies— Happy birds that sing and fly Round Thy altar, 0 Most High. A more apt or impressive illustration of these words could hardly be imagined. High above the sound of the organ, choir and congregation could bo heard most distinctly the beautiful note, of the little bird, resting at that moment on the top of the reredos in full sight of the congregation and inciting them as it were to give of their very best in the praise of his Creator and theirs. At the harvest festival on Wednesday he was again with them, and although silent for the most part during the celebrations of the Holy Communion, he lifted up his voice with them both times in the Gloria in Exoelsis in a most striking manner. Before the children's service the windows were aJl closed, and it was thought their little friend would have to remain outside. But no; failing to get in at the windows, he found hie chance through the open door, and agafn joined with the organ in the acoompani- ment of psalm and canticle and hymns. "It has been to many of us," writes tEo Rector, a new and pleasant experience, and, as I think it may interest others as well, I venture to send you this little account of the timely visits to our church of the bird that man loves best, The pious bird with scarlet breast, The little English robin." The Radical party, with their accustomed pre- cipitancy, are proceeding to fill up vacancies which have not. yet occurred. Amid the specu- lation rife as to the successor of Judge Bowen Rowlands the name of Mr. Ellis Griffith has been mentioned, and on the strength of this the Radical party in Anglesey are talcing steps to find a candidate to fill Mr. Griffith's shoes in Parliament. Ail this, of course, is sadly prema- ture It is not by any means certain that Mr. Griffith will be offered the post. nor is it sure tfmt ho would accept, if given the option. It has to be lemembered that this is an English judgeship, and there are plenty of English bar- risters who have a claim to consideration. For our own part, we are waiting w It'll some curi- osity to see whether the present Government will be as generous as their predecessors and will give the appointment to a barrister of oppo- site political views Upon the strength of the West Riding Judg- ment. Radical members of education committees are in a tremendous hurry to stop the payment for religious instruction in elementary schools. Air. Lanoelev took up the wondrous tale at Mon- day's meeting of the Chester authority, and ven- tured the rash estimatt. that the cost of re- ligiou-i instruction iri the city "would run in the direction of a three-halfpenny rate. Of course, if Mr Lanceley says so. it must be true, be- cause he is one of those infallible gentlemen who neveT make a mistake. In the absence of the repoit on the financial state of the case, we have no more ground for making an estimate than Mr. Lance ley has; still, it would be a great surprise to us if the small proportion of tlrrk% devoted to religious teaching could be made to cost a thrwo-hnlfpenny rate. When the figures come to be analysed, we shall see how good a guess Mr l>ance!ey has made. Quibbling over figures apart, however, is it not tmgenerous in the last, degree for the Radi- cals to bo it stic-h hot haste to repudiate the bargain of the late Education Act? That bar- gain, which was entered into in ail good faith by Unionists and Radicals alike., was that the Voluntary schools were to bo handed over to public control rent free on the condition that the owners of the Voluntary schools were to be allowed to continue the definite religious instruo tiou for which th.y had built, and maintained the schools The West Riding Judgment has upset this arrangement on a mere technicality. which judgment may or may not be reversed by a higher tribunal. The fact remains, how- ever. that the Government and the owners of the Voluntary schools never would have con- sented to the compa<.rt of the Education Act, if they had known the interpretation placed upon it by tho West Ridmtr Judgment. If that decs on stands, the Voluntary schools have given away their birthright- for less than a mess of pottage, for oothmg at all, 1U short. Mr. La nee ley. who. be it remembered, owes his education to a Voluntary or Church school in this city. had the assurance to state at the Education Committee that this city was "un- favourably situated" with regard to the cost of religious instruct ion. As the Bishop promptly reminded tlw meeting. Chester is particularly well situated in this respect From a return be- fore us. we find that Chester is blessed with no fewer than twenty-one Voluntary schools, with aeoommodation for 8,820 scholars. If the West Riding Judgment is to be upheld,, the owners of tho Voluntary schools will have no reason for continuing to provide these schools rent- free The ratepayers would then be face to face with the necessity of providing school a.ccommo- da.tion for the pupils at present educated in these Voluntary school*. Has Mr. Lanceley worked out the cast to the city of rep'acing t-huse Voluntary schools by Council schools? A very moderato estimate is £10 per scholar, for the avp-rage actual cost of t.ht» schools built by 1.00 StJiool Boards since 1870 has been moro than twelve guineas per scholar On the £10 per head basis, however, it would oost the ratepayers of Chester a capi- tal sum equivalent tip a rate of no less than 9s. III in the £ to replace the existing Volun- tary schools in the city by Council schools. How would Mr. Lanceley like to fight, a municipal election on a programme that, contemplated this intolerable imposition upon the ratepayers? Nothing would please us better than to see him enter on such a contest. Before lie begins to talk largely about religious teaohin* costing the city a three-halfpenny rate, which we dispute, he had better count up what would be meant by a rate of 9s Id in the £ to build Council 6!boolF. Naturally much local interest, was evinced" in the fine aquatic contest on the Thames last Saturday, and the victory of the Cantabs was ,n,-c,t popular The American people and their Press take a sportsmanlike view or Harvard's defeat, and fully recognise that a good crew has been beaten by & better one. The presence of Col Frank Willan, in the chair, and others at the dinner to the crews at Prince's recalls thy race of 1869. In that contest Colonel Willan was bow of the Oxford four which beat Harvard, and the referee on that occasion was Judge Tom fTughc-S, of Chester, author of the ever popular "Tom Brown's School Days Nine years ago Harry Steele Morrison, an American lad of sixteen years, paid a visit to Hawardcti. He had come alone from the St.ates with the principal object of interviewing I Mr. Gladstone. Through the kindly interven- tion of Mrs. Gladstone he attained this end, and his impressions are now published. He tells how the aged Statesman "extended his hand as I approached him and asked me to bring my chair close to his, as he was rather d&{" In the course of a friendiy chat Mr. Gladstone "made one statement." writ-c? Mr. I Morrison, "that will remain with me always. 'Remember,' he said, that fame and notoriety I are not the things which count at, the last. I would be very unhappy if I felt that in being II a Statesman I had sacrificed any of the princi- ples T embra.:cd with the Christian faith.' "I felt, when I left his pncc. that if I accomplished nothing else while in Europe it was worth a journey across the ocean as pantry boy. and worth all the unpleasant experiences I had. just to come into contact, for a moment with this noble man of God."

LOCAL NEWS ——— CHESTER CATHEDRAL. j SERVICE LIST FOR WEEK COMMENCING SErf. 15. SATURDAY, SKFTKJIBF.r UTlt.-Morniug', 8 0: Holy Com- munion. 10.15 Service, Ouseley in A anthem, oJ Sing, 0 heavens" (Lucas). Service, Ouseley in B flat; anthem, Stand up and bless (Goss). SUNDAY, SKI-TKMBEK 16TII (14th Sunday alter Trinity). —Morning, SO: Litany and Holy Communion. 10.30: Service, Stanford in B flat; introit, hymn 320; Hoiy Communion, Stanford in B flat; preacher, the Canon in Residence. Evening, 3.11); Service. Stanford in B fiat; antheir, The Lord wiil comfort Zion' (Hiles); hymn 51 f.. C.S0: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis to Chants; processional hvmn. 390; hymns 544, ?5. 370; preacher, the Rev. Canon Lambert, M. A. Collections for Mersey Mission to Seamen.

Katharine Duchess of Westminster left London on Wednesday for Comrmerc Abbey. Prince and Princess Henry of Pless are residing at their Schloss Fiirstentein, Schlesien, where they are entertaining a few visitors this week. The Right Hon. G. Wyndham, M.P., is to open the extension buildings of the County School, Hawarden, on Monday next. The Hon. Hugh Fielding, the Earl of Den- bigh's second son, who is a sub-Lieutenant in tho Royal Navy, has arrived in England from South Africa. Hawksione. the historic ooat of tho Hills in Shropshire, has boon sold by Lord Hill. with the sanction of the Court of Chancery, to Mr. Goorgo Whit-eley.. M- P., the Ministerial Whip, together with tho estate of about seven thousand acres, says "Tho World." Mrs. Griffith Boscawea is among those an- nounced to speak at the annual conference of the NationaJ Union of Women Workers, which is to be held at Tunbridge Wells in October. A new organ is to be placed in Tryddyn Parisb Church as a meirKwial to the late Rev. John Davies, for thirty years vicar of the parish. Towards the cost of the organ Mr. Andrew Carnegie has contributed £ 100. The King has appointed Mr. George T. Ken- yon, of Llaneroh Panna, Flintshire, to be Steward of the Lordships and Manors of the Hundreds of Bromfield and Yale, in the county of Dewbig-h, in succession to the late Sir R A. Cunliffe. Sir Horatio Lkn'd returned to his Chester residence from a holiday in Scotland on Mon- day night. We are glad to state that he looks and feels very much better for the rest, which was taken in consequenoe of his recent serious illness. Sir Theodore Martin, who is now at his Welsh home, Bryntysilio, near Llangollen, will to- morrow (Sunday) enter his 91st year. He walks briskly and buoyantly, and his eyesight and hearing are unimpaired. Constant hard work all through his life, Sir Theodore has declared, is the secret of his longevity and vitality. On Thursday a wedding took place at St. Anne's Catholic Church, Nantwich, where Baron Von. Trutswchler, Audlein, and Miss Margaret Murphy, of Audlem, were quietly married by special licence. The bride was at- tended by her cousin. Miss Williams, of Ire- land, and her sister, Mrs. Mortimer, of Audlem. The Rev. Father Deery officiated. The bride wore a travelling dreas of cinnamon eolienne, trimmed with cream laco applique, white chiffon, and silk pleatings. with hat to match. The newly-married pair drove to Crewe en route for Ixwidon. The annual meeting of the Cheshire Chapter of the Knights Imperial Primrose League was held at Tatton Hall on Friday. The members, including Colonel Thorpe, Colonel Dixon. Colonel Birlev Major Wilpon, M.F.H., Mr. G. Lord. M'r: Leicester Caldecutt. Mr. F. Ash worth, Mr. T. F. Egerton. Mr. A. E. Feme, Mr. J. Ambrose Smith, and Mr- Grimshaw Duckworth. were entertained at lunch by Earl Egerton of Tatton, after which the ordinary business of the chapter was conducted. Earl Egerton was re-appointed' commander, the Hon. Alan Egerton deputy commander. Mr A. E. Ferns hon. treasurer, arid Mr G. Duckworth was chosen as hon. secretary in the place of Mr. Lance Bentley, resigned. Truth." in a tribute to the late Judge Bowen Rowlands, says he was a thoroughly sound lawyer, and a clear-headed, capable man in every capacity he filled. As a County Court Judge he was most successful, and he shewed so many of the qualities of a good judge—not the least of them being unfailing courtesy and good temper—that he would probably have done equally well on the bench of the High Court, if such promotion were open to Countv Court Judges, as many people hold it ought to be. His death will be very wideiy regretted, for he made nothing but friends in his profession on his judicial circuit, and in Parliament during the six years that he sat there—andi-his notwith- standing the fact that he was ae keen a party man as a Welsh Radical member is bound to be. Mr. ynne Corrie's second shooting party ob- tained abundant sport, on tiho R.ua bon moun- tain moors in North Waies. nine guns having killed five hundred and seven brace of grousa on the best, day on Vron Deg beat. On the three following days six hundred and seventy brace were killed on Tower, Park. Newtown and Vron Deg beats, Lord Trevor, Sir Officv Wake- man, Major Williams-Wynn, Mr II. Peel, Mr. Bagge and Mr. J. R. Tennant were among the guns. Mr. George Whiteley, Chief Whip of the Government, is suffering from acute nervous breakdown. It is understood that Mr. Lyle Smyth- junr., has taken Crab wall Hall, latelv occupied by Mr. U, B. Corl>ctt. Lord Ebury returned to London on Saturday from Liverpool where he had been to take leave of Lady Ebury who has gone to Canada. Among the donations to the Countess of Minto's fund in aid of the provision of skilled nurses throughout Northern India is one of;610,3 from Baron Schroder. The Earl and Countess of Erne arc entertain- ing a house party at- Crom Castle. Newtown Butler. including Viscount and Lady Mary Crichton and Lord and Lady Hugh Grosvenor. The Secretary of the Chester General Infirmary begs to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a donation of £13. 5s. Hid. from the Rev. Willoughby Jones, Waverton, proceeds of the harvest lestiviii collection. We are glad to hear that Mr. T. G. Frost has purchased the library at Mollington Hall, so that the old books and records will still be preserved. It is understood, Mr. Frost will enter into possession of the house and land about Michaelmas. Among the house parties at Doncaster this week were the following :-Lord Henry Grosvenor. at Sandbeck Park, with the Earl and Countess of Scarborough; Lord Stanley, Lady Alice Stanley, the Hon. Ferdinand and Mrs. Stanley and Mr. W. Hall Walker, at Nost-ell Priory, with Lord and Lady St. Oswald; Lord Kenyon, Miss E. Cavendish Bentinck and the Hon. Hugh Boscawen, at Wentworth Wood- house, with the Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam; Miss Lucy Lyt.tplt.on with Captain Clive and the Hon. Mrs. Behiens at Swinton Grange; and the Marquis of Cholmondeley at Wise ton Hall with Major and Mrs. Laycock. Tho Duchcss of Westminster was to have stayed with Major and Mrs. Laycock. NEW ORGANIST FOR CHRIST CHURCH. Mr. T. Brooke Ed wards, organist of St. Mary's Church, Brougbton. has beta appointed organist of Christ Church, Chester. CHESTER SCHOOL OF ART. -George H. J. Day, a student of this school, has been awarded a King's prize (valuo 22) for success at the art examination in modelling from life. SCIENCE EXCURSION.—On Wednesday, about twenty-five members of the photographic section of the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature and Art, spent an enjoyable time in Hawarden. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. W. G. C. Gladstone, the members were able to photo- graph the old castle and its grounds, and roam over the park. TO SUCCEED JUDGE ROWLANDS.—It is officially announced that the King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed Mr. S. T. Evans, K.C., M.P.. to be Recorder of Swansea, in place of the late Judge Bowen Rowlands, K.C. Mr. Evans is the Radical number for Mid-Glamorgan. Follow- ing precedent, ho will, presumably, require to be re-elected to Parliament. He was unopposed at the last election. Mr. Evans is well known on the Chester and North Wales Assize Circuit. CHESTER BOAT FOR PORTUGAL.—Tho Chester Boat Co. Ltd., have this week shipped to Oporto a very handsome pleasure boat specially built to the order of a Portugese gentleman. The craft, which is a firie speciman of the boatbuilders' art, is a double sculling outrigged gig. 22ft. long and 3ift. wide, built of specially selected Honduras mahogany with oak timbers, is fitted with swivel rowlocks and detachable sliding seats. and is handsomely upholstered in blue. Altogether the boat is luxuriously appointed and reflects great credit on local design and workmanship. ST. DEINIOL'S LIBRARY.—Mrs Drew's article in the "Nineteenth Century and After" on Mr. Gladstone's Library at St. Deiniol's, Hawarden," has been reprinted, and issued in pamphlet form by Messrs. Spottiswoode and Co., Ltd., London, price 3d. In the course of this interesting and well-written article, Mrs. Drew fully explains the origin and character of the institution, which her father, the late Mr. Glad- stone, founded at Hawarden for the promotion of Divine learning. "Roughly speaking, £60,000 has been devoted to the scheme— £ 40,000 by Mr. Gladstone himself; £ 10,000 by the nation for housing the books, and the remainder by his sons and daughters for housing the men, the latter constituting their joint memorial to their father."