South Wales Echo

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0 I The Man About Town. I Newport possesses a cold, cheerless, coffin-shaped Hall, draughty, acoustically weak, and seated with the most abominable of hard-backed chairs. This may serve admirably for a public meeting, but at a Concert it is of prime importance that one should be absolutely comfortable. I do not wonder at the middling attendanco at even I so excellent a performance as that given by the Philharmonic and Orchestral Societies last night still less I do I wonder that ladies are not tempted to decorate themselves in rich attire, but fortify themselves against the cold with high-necked dresses, thereby robbing the scene of brilliance and interest. It scarcely needs pointing out that a little expenditure on comfortable chairs would work miracles in the way of attracting and comforting an audience. The combined Societies, however, were well received, and for many reasons— particularly for a bright, attractive pro- gramme-are to be highly congratulated. ir The chief event of the evening was the performance of Professor Stanford's Cantata The Revenge by both Societies. It was a bold and commendable step, this venture into modern English music. For it must not be forgotten that in our midst there is growing up a school which is exercising con- siderable influence throughout Europe. English music is in form eminently academic. Its main qualities are eleva- tion, dramatic energy, and perspicuity. It uses modern methods with scholarly appreciation, and yet with such Saxon sobriety that, if it cannot reach the pro- found depths of Wagnerian passion, at least it is never for a moment obscure or unintelligible. If we could imagine Mendelssohn born. half a century later, we might expect to find in him those rich yet limited qualities which mark the English composers of to-day. Intelligence and vivacity are allied with the highest talent but this talent seldom developes into genius. And yet it must be said that the English School is never more sure than in the modesty which is half its strength. It does not ventnre into tasks too great for its strength. It understands its limits, and never seeks to break through them. The dramatic Cantata :i8 eminently the true sphere for its peculiar skill. The delicate and brilliant treatment of national ballad or rhapsodical poetry, such a.s Stanford's "Revenge, McCmrn's "Lay of the Last lillstrel," II u-I bert Parry's L'Allegro," Sullivan's G oi? d eii Legen d Golden Legend," Mackenzie's Jason," — these works arc characteristic of a refined and cultured spirit, which, it is not surprising to learn, is appreciated as highly in the great fatherland of modern music as in England itself. There is, indeed, much to hope for in this admirable restraint and this skilful and. patient workmanship it marks the creation of a scholarly and delicate atmosphere which is the natural element for the nurture of some genius of the first order. We have reason to be grateful, therefore, to a. Society which will give us an oppor- tunity of hearing our English works in some- thing like adequate form. The Revenge" went well,nay, more than well, at Newport there is body and talent in the Philharmonic Society which somewhat took me by sur- rise. But this enables me to speak, with more force than I otherwise would have felt justitied to exert, of the evident lack of re- hearsal. There is a vague impression, I know, that the Revenge," being only a Choral work, is an easy matter. No huger mistake could well be made. If there is one thing in which the English School is rich it is in the resources of modern harmony, in all the wealth of recent developments in musical theory. The Revenge is one of the most difliciilb cantatas written it abounds in terrible intervals, awkward leads, intricacies of time, and difficulties of expression. Such a work requires the most careful and arduous practice. See those lazy tenors, for instance, how thay fell prostrate before every lead, and seemed to move about uncertainly as if encompassed in a cloud Were it not for so excellent a backbone as the basses proved to be, the Choir would have once or twice gone to pieces. This lack of rehearsal is the more lamentable because it is obvious that so peculiarly drin-iotic a work requires the utmost intelligence and ease in interpre- tation. Its beauty lies in the delicate shading which relieves the sombre gloom of the theme. To deal roughly or awkwardly with this is to i'uin the piece. It is not an Oratorio Chorus of the Handel type where canncn in the background and immense shouting will, on the whole, add to the general effect It would be cruel to say such things to a society which could not master these technical excellencies; but to the Newport Philharmonic one can only remark that they ought to have done far better because they have the capacity to do so. Of the orchestra I have no space to speak at length but to my mind it is moving in the right direction, maintaining a pure and classical programme and yet attempting nothing beyond its strength. It possesses a line wind element, and last night boasted two members of the coming Festival orchestra. I can only add that their programme, includ- ing a Beethoven Symphony, the Inter- mezzo from Caved1 cria Rusticann, the Taunhauser March," and a Beethoven Violin Concert: might be studied to j dvan- tage by the Committee of the Cardiff 1:1,1;,c I)Y file C,),ni,?i?ltee of tile Cal-o'lfr ? '1< The Cardiff Public Works Committee were very nearly making a serious mistake yesterday. There is a dispute between the builders and the stonemasons. It is obvious that all wise men will leave the matter in the hands of those concerned, and await the issue with tranquility. Now, some of the masons are in the employ of the Cardiff Committee and asked the same terms, that is a penny rise per hour, as their brethren. It was only by a casting vote that the Committee were not committed to the payment of this penny in the mean- time it being understood that, when terms were agreed upon, the wages should be altered accordingly. Surely, it is clear that the Corporation mustnottakcsides in these matters. Councillor Thomas stated that it was not possible. But, in so far that in any case the Council would be bound by the decision come to between masters and men, is it not obvious that by advancing the wages now, they give the men an unfair lever ? The Council," they would be able to say, have seen their way to dealmg with us as we want it is clear they consider 9d an hour fair wages you must give it, too It is the soundest of all political maxims that where you desire to adopt a neutral attitude, you must in the meantime remain in statu quo. There is more than hope that the strike will not take place, for, despite the noise and stir on both sides, at such a time as this neither builder nor mason can afford to be idle. Never was the market so high for houses. Prices of the most extrava- gant character are asked and obtained. I know of cases where dwellings which two years back were sold easily for £ dbu are now sold for £400. This state of things cannot last for ever. Nay, it is the Springtime which, more than any other fact, makes for high prices. There are mysterious rises and declines in the value of houses at a moment's notice which cannot be accounted for. In the last ten years there have been no less than 10,023 erected in Cardiff alone. One would imagine that this represented a steady and even progress. Nothing of the sort. There were twice as many houses built in 1884 than in 1891, and yet it is more than doubtful whether the demand was really greater. It all points to the existence of that monster of modern civilization, the Jerry Builder. Imagine 1,445 houses built in a comparatively small town in one year. Or let these figures sneak for themselves HOUSES BtJILT. August, 1853—August, 1884 .1,445 1884- „ 1885 .1,345 1885- „ 1886 .1,201 1886- 1887 .1,226 1887- 1888 .1,062 1888- 1889 603 1889— 1890 745 1890- 1891 830 8,357 Houses have their periods of rise and flux. This year I imagine is a particularly good one but when trade is brisk, and one can see what sudden drops there can be-460 in one year !—it is obvious that it is in no one's interest to fight. A free and frank discus- sion to-night should result in the renewal of a cordial understanding. The Newport Park has got to the pic- torial stage. It is a pretty sight, these paper parks with trees and dales and mounds and avenues and beds of flowers. A stroke of the pen will give you hothouses, and a scratch or two, a whole lake fit for the gods to bathe in. But there is the same misfortune attending paper parks as paper money both must be backed at the bank for their face-value. Otherwise you might as well present a blank unsigned cheque, and endeavour to make believe you had raised the wind by it. There is no such ordeal as to see the frantic efforts of man to make a park look like its picture. You may work as hard as you like, but for years your lake will look like a magnified puddle and your slopes like cinder-heaps and your avenues bald streaks of clay. So that it will be premature for Newport to rejoice yet. They rejoiced at Cardiff before their time, and troups of happy children would trip gaily to the Roath Park year after year. Do you know, for all that the eye of man can see that ridiculous park—" our beloved Park," I should say !—look as though it never had a penny spent oil it. Why, it has simply swallowed up £ 25,000, and chortled in its gluttony. Like a reckless spendthrift, it is not a brass farthing the better for the princejy income it La" i.e. n drawing. In a year or two the Newport Park will be going through the same phase. And the good people of Newport will be feeding it with bank-notes until it is in fit condition to expire of a fit of apoplexy, and not a fraction the better will the greedy monster look

Local Matrimonial Suit. BURTON V. BURTON. I Judicial Separation Granted. In the Divorce Division, to-day—before Mr Justice ,Jenne-the case of Barton v. Burton was further heard. The petition was that of Mrs Kate Emma Burton for judicial separation from her husband, Mr Wm. Burton, who had carried on a dra- pery and millinery business in Queen-street, Cardiff. The petitioner alleged adultery as the ground of her petition, under circumstances reported yesterday. The case had been adjourned for further evidence as to identification. Mr Richards, commercial traveller, Cardiff, stated that he saw the respondent at the Talbot Hotel on the occasion of the alleged adultery there on the 31st December, 1390. His Lordship said this would be sufficient, and granted a judicial separation with coats.

AN INCORRIGIBLE" YOUNGSTER AT NEWPORT. Catherine Loveday, a woman of highly respectable appearance, went to the Newport police-court this morning to explam why tln shining morning face of her twelve year old son was not seen at school. Otficer Trump's statement was:, Fined 2s 6d seven weeks ago, and the boy has not been to school since." The mother now tearfully told the Bench that she could not control the lad she had done all in her power to get him to school, and had invoked the aid of police-constable and police-sergeant, but without effect. All the boy did was to play cards, of which she had destroyed five or six packs. Officer Trump confirmed the mother's testimony, saving that the boy was a terror to the neighbourhood, as he smashed the windows and beat the neighbours' children.—The Bench ad- journed the case in order that the School Board might consider the advisability of sending the mischievous urchin to an industrial choü1.

DEATH OF SIR ALEX. ACLAND HOOD. The Press Association's Taunton correspon- dent r Alexander A eland Hood, Bart., of Standries, Taunton, died this morning from pneumonia, at the ago of 73. He was for- merly Conservative member for West yornerset, and up to the time of his death sat as chairman of the Council of the Western Union cf Conservative Associations. His sou, who succeeds to the title, is the present Unionist candidate for West Somer- set. The deceased leaves a widow and a family of nine children..

HORSE-WHIPPING A GROOM. Dr Ferguson,a well-known medical practitioner of Bolton, was yesterday fined 20d and costs or a month, for horse-whipping a tramguard and groom, named John Lowe. Defendant first slashed a horse in charge of the complainant, and when remonstrated with belaboured the plaintiff savagely about the head and face, seriously injur- ing him.

COTTON TRADE LOCK-OUT. 3,000 Operatives Idle. The lock-out in the cotton trade at Heywood, consequent upon the dispute in that trade at Stalybridge, is being keenly felt by both em- ployers and employed. Over 3,000 operatives are idle, and of these only about 1,000 receive aid from local trade societies.

TO-DAY'S WEATHER 4.30 P.M. TO-DAY'S FORECAST FOR ENGLAND, S.W., AND SOUTH WALES. Westerly to southerly strong Windsor gales squally rainy; un- settled.. I \oV A.RNINGS. -SIgna s are still fly- ing in districts 0 to 3 and 6 to 10 general in west of Ireiand. Tho barometer has commenced to fall quickl and a_ depression of con- ?'id,?. l,. size is approaching our islands from the westward.

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May Day Demonstrations I PREOAUTIONS IN PARIS. I PARIS, Friday.—The authorities are taking the greatest precautions against a disturbance in Paris on May-day, and the military pre- parations are of a very extensive cha- racter. The garrison of the city will be strengthened the 2nd and 5th Regiments, Hussars and 9th Dragoons, whieh will arrive to- morrow from Melon and Rambouillet, while the 4th Hussars, 5th and 10th Dragoons, 3rd and 9th Curassiers, and 4th Chasseurs will be held in readiness to leave for the capital at the first signal. The barracks in Paris will receive pro- visions sufficient to supply the increased number of men occasioned by these displacements. On Sunday the cavalry horses will be saddled and bridled from early morning, and men will be at their side ready to mount at any moment. All the troops of the garrison will be confined to the barracks after to-night and fçom to-morrow morning. The soldiers, ready equipped, will wait in the barrack yard with her arms piled. Thirteen packets of cartridges will be served each man. All the public buildings, the monuments, and military establishments will be guarded by soldiers placed at intervals and concealed so as not to bring them in direct contact with the crowd unless, necessity arises. -.Reitter. ANARCHISTS AND SHOPKEEPERS. PARIS, Friday.—The morning newspapers state that the police will pay domiciliary visits to Anarchists! houses to-day, and that warrants have been issued for the arrest of a number of persons. M. Loze, Prefect ot Police, has expressed the con- viction that the 1st of May will pass quietly in Paris. The managers of several large English and American shops near the Opera have received threatening letters informing them that the Anarchists will blow up every house the owner of which is not French. Intelligence from Fourneier says the demonstration in the cemetery there has been postponed.—Renter.

Jottings for Ladies. I A t.h(,me" days are beginning to go out of fashion in London, and the women who held them with irritating regularity once a week are now reo ducing t, i,i-ii to once a month, and a few of those whofound them most irksome have, with admirable cuteness, fixed them on "fifth Mondays, Tuesdays," etc., to limit them tooue day in two or three months. One lady, who had become particularly annoyed at missing all the best things of the winter, which she declares came always on her day," for the sake of seeing a lot of people she did not want to pee and receiving n, shower of pasteboard from the friends she did want to see. says that next year she is going to observe as her" at-hume day the second Sunday in the week. The average woman can now be expressed in figures, so far at least as her physical qualities are concerned. She weighs one hundred and seventeen pounds and is five feet three inches high, if she is an American. If she is French she is only five feet one inch tall, and if she is English she is the tallest of the three. These statistics have been obtained by measurements of over a thousand women in their stockings by the i French Academy; of over seven hundred women by Dr Francis Galton, in England and of nearly two thousand women by Dr Sargeant, of Cam- bridge. American women, it is said, weigh slightly more than either French or English women. This is a statement difficult of beiief. --0-- Heliotrope and pale blue is becoming a fashion- able combination m evening dresses, and although it sounds odd it is really very pretty. The novelty in the make of evening dresses just now is chiefly in the sleeves, which show wounderful variety in shape and trimming. Elbow sleeves are often finished off with deep accordion-pleated frills of chiffon. A pretty ball gown just mad e for a Primrose Dame is pale blue satin with a light garniture of primroses on the bodice. Fellow aud pale blue is always pretty. --0- Dressiug-growns arc so pretty this season that one can scarcely distinguish them from tea-gowns. A new model—a counterpart of a gown made for the Princess of Wales—is of pink woollen stuff with white lace trimmings about the neck, a white hood frilled with lace, and a girdle of silk cord. Breakfast jackets are being made of flowered delaine and flowered nainsook, trimmed with ribbons the exact shade of the pattern and Valenciennes lace. The prettiest French petticoat I have seen this season (says a writer in the Pall Mall) had little baskets of flowers thrown on a black silk ground, and was trimmed with a deep pinked-out flounce of pale-green silk, another of pale pink a trifle shorter, and yet another of black lace. This last was run with three rows of b,bé ribbon in three delicate shades to match the pattern of the silk, and ornamented here and there with bunches of ribbon loops. Among the newest petticoats are some made of rainbow-striped silk, trimmed with lace flounces and silk ruches. The shadow silks are also fashionable for petticoats, but the stiff, rustling' silks are more popular than anything. --0-- Now that women are taking more and more to riding safety bicycles, the vexed question of femi- nine cycling costume becomes increasingly im- portant. In France they dross very much like the men, that is to say, in tunics and cloth knicker- bockers, or knee brecches, the chief difference between a man and woman awheel being in the rather longer cut of the lady's tunic. In America the dress is much the same as in England, although there also there has been much discussion on the subject. A Cincinnati paper recently offered a prize for the most convenient and becoming lady cyclist's costume. The costume which won the prize consists of a divided dress skirt supported from the shoulders by suspenders a light silk blouse, held in position at the waist by a rubber band inserted in tho lower edge a Windsor tie at the neck a jacket of the saine material as the dress skirt, doth or flannel, and suitable material in black, grey, navy blue or brown a yachting cap and gauntlet gloves and for underwear a union suit. -0 Of the truthfulness of women, the following statement was made recently by the Hebrew j Journal :—" It is one of the worst misfortunes oL women that falsehood is not, as a rule, considered '-1 ..LL_ "1T_ =- _I_Fl .L," a Uisnonour among 1-uenl. vv Oll1an J:'5 priviu-r^eu lJU we¡¡,r t';w [¡',CIe; 11r¡dEr one hood, because nothing better is her sin as the sin of weakness!, which she is I expected to commit, just as you expect a frayed rope to break." To this, the Sun in;ike, vigorous reply:—"This is disgust- ing and shameful it is grossly, positively, unquestionably, and necessarily untrue. If the accusation were true, how could men honour women, or how could women respect each other ? It is an accusation which, if believed, would cause one-half of the human race to be held in contempt by the other half. If it were proved, honourable intercourse between men and women, and mutual good faith, would be impossible. Society itself would be shattered and life Would be a. fraud. What man could woo or seek to win a maiden who was false at heart ? What sire or son could look upon the gentler spirits of his family as untrue? The very thought of it is abhorrent, and not less insulting to manhood than to womanhood." The newest thing in French parasols is too lovely for anything (says an enthusiastic lady writer)—too lovely even for Ascot on a hot day. It is made of nothing but delicate-coloured dia- phanous stuff, and trimmed all over with fussy little frills or puffs. A woman who felt any dread of the effect of the sun on her complexion would prefer to have a parasol something more substantial. It is made of fine corded silk with festooned flounces of chiffon. Lace is a popular trimming this season so, too, is bebe ribbon. Some pretty black parasols I saw in a window had a ruche of lace round the edge with tiny white bows of this ribbon at short distances. Others equally pretty had hand-painted borders of flowers and birds. The new handles are mostly of clematis wood, and are dyed all sorts-of shades.

EXCESSIVE HEAT IN BOMBAY. Terrible Death Rate. BOMBAY, Friday.—The heat prevailing here at present is abnormal, and the death rate has in consequence risen to over 40 per 1,000 per annum, being the highest figure attained within the last 12 years. Rr.

THE SPEAKER'S INDISPOSITION The Press Association learns upon inquiry this morning that Mr Peel, the Speaker, is somewhat better. He is, however, still confined to his room, and will not be in his place in the House to-day.

VITRIOL MISTAKEN FOR WHISKY A man named McNolly has just died in Meoth Hospital, Dublin, from drinking a bottle of vitriol in mistake for whisky.

THE GREAT CURE FOR CORNS.-Munday I Viridine—Still further testimony.—A Chemist writes:- Wij'Ll you send me a, bottle of your Viridine *? It is for my own use. I get plenty of corncui-es of the same colour, but none of them appear to equal yours. No one ought to say his corns are incurable until he has used Viridine.' Teousands have been cured, some of whom had suffered for over 50 years. Beware of imitations. Sold in bottles, Is, by post Is 2d, by the Proprietor. J. Munday, Chemist, 1, High-si veet, Car ,Hft and J>)l Chetni^s V* "FOR TUB BLOOD IS THE LIFE. world-famed Blood Mixture is warranted ti cleanse the blood from all impurities, from whatever cause ar sing, For Scrofula, Scurvy, Eczema, SkIll and blood diseases, pimples, and Koresof all kinds, its eff ects are marvellous. Thousands of testimonials. In battles, 2s 9d and lis each, of all Chemists. Proprietors, Luicoln and Midland Counties Drug' Company, Lincoln. Ask for Clarke' 1 Blood Mixture and do not be persuaded to take my nutation 1'"

Wife Murder by a Negro. A NEW SYSTEM OF HANGING-, I RESUSCITATION EXTRAORDINARY- 1 NEW YORK Friday.—A ?m?rk?e  ,r' sIV is reported from Fayette, 'PJ. Coleman Blackburn, a negro, was for wife murder on the 20th instan an(J, after benm suspended for 36 minutes, J^(jy wsi nounced dead by three doctors. The bodY; t() then given to the man's relatives and conVf^ -e w'" the cemetery. On the way thither a ri?ol. sevva$ heard inside the coffin, and when  'IL was re-opened the supposed corpse v*||s £ 0X,n<} to be breathing. A physician attended th6 man at once, and soon pronounced "'? 0f danger. He is sa*d to be now able to walk an ,co0< verse. The man was hanged on a new s by which he was jerked upwards fully and then allowed to drop three feet.-Rc!äer.

CARDIFF WATERWORKS I I COMMITTEE. 1 A meeting of the Waterworks Colyllrpittee ot the Cardiff Corporation was held this nlorniog4 Alderman David Jones presiding. There also present Councillors W. R. Parker, Rees, Augustus Lewis, and J. Comley an J. A. B. Williams (waterworks ?inoer).—Mr GreenhiH, tho borough  surer, submitted a hst of persons In surer, ?ulornitte(I ,t list of persons parishes of St. John and St. Mary from Watet the collector was unable to recover the  rate, and it was resolved that unless the se amounts were paid forthwith the collectolbe authorised to cut off the supply.—S,evera,l cas^ were reported in which persons refused ?'?o'? the inspector to examine the water h? ,?fd in their houses, and the Town Clerk directed to communicate with these P^ and point ?ut that the inspector was emp9*er0cl to make such examinations.-A communicajj0]i to lYlZt ] Z(? ST?C II eXL:tTfli nation,. -A cornnilinlttoll w.?received from the Health Committee :J.: óf th?t a supply of water be laid on to the  the new sanatorium near the Ely Paper ?fef and the request was acceded to, the Engineer being directed to carry the work. An application was ??g c.?ved from Mr J. S. Corbett n?sk the committee to place a ydrant near the ??*? Harriers Hote!. L'a?ndou?h, for purposes of r ?. watering, and subject to the usual condit1 the necessary permission was ;?rtntecL-Tho tender of Messrs Thomas Spittle, Limited, ? ?. port, for the supply of 70 20-inch pipes foi ^3 Centres Reservoir was accepted, the price of reg-0' iar.5 being £ 415s, and of specials, etc., L9 pel I

ON BARMAIDS. c. I Forty minutes allowed for dressing for t I bar" is, as appears from the Pvidt-nce in ? tried before the Recorder at Salford, one of dS regulations for the guidance of the bar,"Aids employed at a flourishing Manchester IIott The allowance of time appears a handsome 0 -j the more especially because a plain and J1ø attire seems to be all that is contemplated, o rule being supplemented with the words, flowers or gaudy dresses." The regulatioI19 ø which a copy was stated to be Icel)tbanil)g these young persons' bedrooms, also, it exhort the barmaids to give what is p, I aild b<' obfi?in? a.nd attentive to customers tb8 no aœount to be tempted to take or encourae giving away of drink or money, which, if  out, brings ruin, disgrace, and dismissal." list concludes with the warning, No over the counter, or unnecessary talk or freab6 on the part of ba.rm?ids with customers, wIn tit. allowed. Any barmaid giving encol Lira,eii-;eylt allowing customers to put hands on them, Wtt? resistance, will be dismissed." r —rrr?

ANOTHER LECTURE TO CARDlft I SHOPKEEPERS. M To-day, at Cardiff pohce-court—Sir M<?" Morgan, AId?nnan Jacobs, and Dr Paine bsl the m:?iatrnte.? pr6s8nt-Richard Hope, 2^ labourer, wa? charged with ateaun?onthei"" inst., a pair of trousers, value 10? 6d, from ;0 Caroline-street, the property of RiCb. Henry Allsopp, out6tter.—The prisoner ? seen to take the trousers, which Ivere hanging outside the shop, and when pursued dropped them in the street and then mad"^ When arrested by Detective Roddy pr??t! admitted his guJ!t.-r Paine elicted th? prisoner was under the influence of drink NN'lle" the theft was committed, and after him to 14 days' imprisonment, turned to prosecutor and told h,n It was eX9rdI1lØ. wrong for shopkeepers to expose their goods ?uch a way astoo?er a strong temptation,. ? pecialiy to persons under the influence of dtio If he (Dr Paine) were on the grand 3nrf ghcuid in such a case press tha Recorder to allow the prosecutor's expenses..

f ANOTHER DUEL. I Avenging a Frenchman's Insult. ,t I OSTEND, Thursday.—A second duel was ioug" near here this morning between Harry VJ16 Mil bank, second to Mr B xrrowes on the occasi° of that gentleman's duel with Mr Fox IJ9 Saturday, and a French gentleman. The meetur arose out of an insulting remark by the Freflc man at a public dining place. The greatest y cautions were taken to keep secret the affa' which came off two miles from town. Pist were nsed, and at the first shot, the parties being 12 paces apart, Milbank's adversary was wottn in the hip, and immediately conveyed by seconds and a. surgeon to a steam yacht lying 60 the shore. The wound is of rather a seriote nature. —Renter.

ALLEGED !LLEGAL PAWNING A' I CARDIFF. William Hobbs (35) was charged at Cardig police-court, this afternoon, with illegally P^f. ing two watches, of which he was the bailee. ':I Belcher prosecuted, and in opening the case that prisoner had obtained the watches from House, a jeweller, living in Cowbridge-road, JI the pretence that he was going to sell them commission. Within a week both watches <T{ère pawned. He would ask the magistrates to tna. an example of the prisoner, as offences of tbl. character had, he was informed, of late becOlOo very common in Carcliff. Prisoner was ordered pay a tine of 40s and costs, 20.,i coivi)en-atiOl, tc, the prosecutor (who had recovered his propertt I but 110 order was made for the payment of t moneys advanced by the pawnbroker.

BETTING TELEGRAM CASE. Charge Against a Clevedon Girl. -Result At the Birmingham quarter-session^, yesterday Emily Palfrey, 16, of Clevedon. formerly tel* graph clerkat the Handsworth suburban telegrapp office, and Philip ArblastCr, chemist's assistant employed at the shop where the telegraph ofSpa was situate, pleaded guilty to conspiracy defraud Frederick Davis. The case arose out o. betting'by telegraph. The female prisoner delaybe a betting telegram sent by ArblasMrjs frtead Davis until the arrival of another telegr*tf announcing the wihning horse. Arblaster w* sent to hard labour for six months, and P-41ftd was fined L10, and ordered to find sureties ft* her good behaviour for twelve months.

I HANSARD UNION CASE. Proposed Change of Venue. In the Queen's Bench, London, to-day. application was made to Baron Polloofe and t Justice Vaughan Williams on behalf of Hor»^ Bottomley, Sir Henry Isaacs, and others amu6. of certain offences in connection with the Hans? Publishing Union, that the trial of the ca?e ?lilcb was to have commenced at the Central Crin?o? Court next week be removed to the eeu,, Bench. The ground of the application was t" intricate questions of law would arise makiøtll desirable to have a special jnry instead of a Colo, i mon jury. The court granted a ?ec?e ?Kt CILIlivo I upon the Crown to show cause why the propel change of venue should not be made.

I THEFT OF SPIRITS AT CARDIFF- At Cardiff poJice to. day-before Paine, Sir Morgan Morgan, and Ald. Jacob9^ Win. Baker, late a cellarman in the employ ? Messrs Stephens and Co., pleaded guilty to st'6" l. ing spirits, value 7s 6d, from the Compa.ny's? Mary-street premises. Prisoner had hither*?' borne a good character, and had been working fO the firm for about seven years. -Mr Frl'V Williams conducted the defence, and Mr Cousi prosecuted.-Dr P,4ne said that prisoner b committed a serious breach of trust, a.nd 0'?? undergo a month's imprisonment.

AN EXTRAORDINARY VOICE. Highest B Reached. In the matter of high voices the record,' according to the books, has generally been assigned to Lucrezia Agujari, who is recorded in one of Mozart's letters to have sung in his presence in the year 1770 as high as Cin altis- i r, t o. It is ntpres t ,ns., sinio. It is interesting to note, therefore, that Miss Florence, a young American soprano, trained in Boston, who will make her dtbul at Miss Marguerite Hall's recital on May lltb, must be fairly credited with equalling, If not eclipsing, this feat. At Messrs Erard's yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a few persons who had been invited by her agent to hear her, Miss Florence gave proofs of the exceptional range of her voice by singing a shake on D and E in alt., sustaining a G- in altissimo, and touching the B natural above. Allowing for the enhanced pitch of to- day, this is fully as high, if not higher, than the C of Agujari.

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