NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1912, Page 14

NEWS AND NOTES.

<jTh« foßawing items of intelligence have been selected from files received by fche kttest mail.] A-fc Weymouth,. Alfred Charles Rigge, * tradesman, was charged, under the Prevention of Corruption Act, with corruptly giving money to Hora-ce \Wilkl of "H.3LS. Hindustan, canteen manager for the' Army and Navy Cooperative Society. Mr. 1 Pearce, who prosecuted on behalf of the Secret Comnusfcioii and Bribery Prevention efcated that it was the duty of rWiliß to obtain fresh or perishable"stores from local tradesmen, and he wae a-pf>roached by Riggs, who gave him •Burreptitious gifte of money, amounting to about £5. vVhen this was discov "the defendant was forbidden to Supply the Hindustan- or any other of His, Majesty's ships at Portland with goods. The defendant -wrote and expressed regret, saying he gave Wills the money out of sympathy, to enable him. "to go, home to.JJevonport to -see his ■wife, vrho was ill. The Bench fined thj> defendant £5 and cost*. Speaking at the London Diocesaii Conference in reference to the coal strike^ tho Bishop of London declared tfai'^w© had seen too niaav fortune* made with sweated ' industrfes. That 'the 'first, tax upon an industry should be fen?' payment of the worker "was a piopoaiibn- which he should like to have diricafefeed in such a conference as that. 'Tho poorer class of miners found it impoesible, with the great rise in the cost of living, really to feed tlipir children. We had decided as a nation to interiere in some degree. He claimed that 4 fi6' phould interfere by asserting in this ■■phere 1 o+" labour that "the labourer is oworthy of his hire." -"■The 'Market Drayton police, having ■ibee»" notified of the da-ring outrage "Upon John Stewart, the , driver of a 'foxi-cab at Manchester. ,who waft eeri--ously injured by revolver shots near 'Stockpoft, made a smart arrest. They "found a man wandering in a field n*ear •the- railway" station who answered • the description of the perpetrator of the '•outrage:" He had m his possession a lolly-loaded, six-chambered revolver. Me ,'jwas in an apparently exhausted condition, and did not know where he had been. He asked the police to tell aim "who he wa-s. Ho is a man about fthirty-ffre yeara of a^e, *nd well educated. At tfee annual meeting of tha Peace Society, lield at the Mansion House in London, a Tesoltvtion, moved by the Xord Advocate, was passed deploring the continuance of war between Italy and -Turkey; xegrettirig that the arbitoation treaty between America, and ",ftreat .Britain had not yet been ratified : by -the United States Senate, but rejoicing, hi the manifest progress of the ,\"orld. in the direction of universal peace. _ The Eight Hon. J. A. Pease, iI.P.. v,'ho presided, said there were very few writers in the press who were not. trying to prevent war; yet their (.headlines had the effect of exciting suspicion among the peoples of the world, '•which produced results very difficult for diplomacy to overcome. The strong feeling which had existed between Germany and the .British people of late he attributed to facts of that kind. Viscount, SHaMane's visit to Berlin had, he .said,, been of real assistance towards se'ouring permanent good relations between- Germany and 'Britain. Mr. P. Snowden, M.P., in moving a resolution, which was carried, deploring the growth of military armaments, blamed the Church,-' for not advancing the doctrine cf peace, and declared that the interiiational "organised labour movement was the greatest peace agency. A deputation representing people con'eemed in the shrimp trade in, London aad on the coasts waited on -the Billingsgate and LeadenhaU Markets Committee N of the City Corporation, and endeavoured to show cause why the committee's scheme for closing Billingsgate Market entirely on Sundays should not be proceeded with. It was argued that • Sunday closing would almost ruin the Sunday trade m shrimps, and would be' one more step towards driving trade 'away from Billingsgate. One memberof the deputation said the proportion of. the English fish trade- passing through •Billingsgate had shrunk from nine-tenths to two-tenths. If the trade is discontinued on, Sundays by the council, an appeal will piobably be made to the 'Board of Trade. Joseph Barrett, aged forty-five years, shot his wife- Rachel, aged thirty-one years, at Colby, near Aykham, and then committed suicide. Tho husband and ■wife had been living with the wife's father, and Mjs. Barrett was in. one of tfie' bedrooms with a neighbour when ier husband appeared with a gun. As she- attempted to escape her husband overtook her outside the nous© and fired, killing her instantly. He theu told the neighbour to take away a 'little child which they had been keeping. She met a roadman, , to whom she told what had happened. / He at once walked towardu the house, .and as he approached h© caw Barrett chcofc himself and fall dead by the side of his wife. At the annual meeting of the Medical Mission Auxiliary of the Church Missionary Society in the Queen's Hall, XioikJou, the Sev,' Dr. M. Mackenzie, yi/hp fains recently returned from Fuchsit; iKiid that the missionaries would tell" them -that since the revolution there had been absolutely no growth of the use of opium in China. Many Chinese had given up. opium at the cost of their lives, aad a, great* many had given it up with success. With regard to the training of native students, he pointed . fittt. that all through, the revolution it was the native doctors who had kept 'the hospitals going. The recent events *5h China had created a great demand for" modem medical help. Very few Winchns -would become Christians, but 'they came Jnto the hospitals, and the Christian students 'were using stretchers in 'their streets in fhe line of fire. Men v&u, a few years ago, if they saw a -raan drowning, would cay "Let him drown," were then risking their lives Iribing stretcher work. Christians also held high Government' offices in Fuehaii. Mr. .T. Spratt, of Wootton Eivers, who, when the village last year found a clock in the church tower as a Coronation memorial beyond their meWs, came to the rescue by making a clock out of scraps of iron, steel, and brass supplied by the villagers, has now made_ chimes for it. Tho quarters be'i3w'ei}ri th& hoai'B twelve to six have each a different set, so that the hours also are indicated by the chiming: In acknowledgment of his work, an address, signed by practically the' whole village, has been presented to Mr. Spratt, wlio, having been kept in ignorance of the movement afoot, had to be fetched from his garden after the villagers had assembled in the school for the presentation. Joan Lloyd, the f oar-year-old __ daughter of Mr. and Mrs- Lloyd, of Bell-road, Hottnslow, Middlesex, has passed the first local examination of the Associated Board of th» Royal Academy of Music arid the Royal College of Mmdc. The little girl, who cornea of a musical family,' played all the set pieces on the piauo from memory- Sir George Martin, organist at St. Paul's Cathedral,; London, 'jras -theHexaminer.

A woman in a pitiable state of hunger and exhaustion appealed for help at the police station at Vanvee (near Paris). She stated that her name was Beatrix de la Jlarcho, aged 50, and that she was the editress of the Etoile Polaire, published in Chandernagore (Fren.-h' settlement in Bengal). "I was coining back from the Women's Congress in Christiania," she said, "when a thief -a-obbed me of £'80 while I was asleep in the train. Having no money, 1 hoped to reach Marseilles on foot, but I am too tired and hungry to etruggle any further." , The Belfast Trade* Council has referred to its executive- committee a resolution calling upon the Government to remove the Recorder of Belfast, Judge Craig, K.C., because of his attitude in. certain workmen's compensation casesbrought before him. Sir. George Greig, in moving the resolution, declared thai he understood that insurance companies were contemplating a reduction of premiums if Judge Craig remained on the Bench, because liabilities under the Act would be very much smaller than they had been. The secretary pointed out that if the matter wae raised at all it must .be in the House of Commons, and a Labour member would be placed in a very awkward position if he asked a qu-eetiou on the mattpr unless he could adduce fatts on which to base it. I A most curious example of "the way ! of a seed in the ground " is reported by thet Rev. Tertius Poole, the' vicar of Culnitikjck, in Devon, who writes to the London Daily Mail : — " The yeai' before last I turned a. croquet lawn into a rotary, planting thereon 500 roses. This grass lawn has not been disturbed for quite a hundred years. I gather this from an old parishioner (95 years of age), whose father used to mow this particular lawn. This year it is covered. with the largest assortment of pansies I have ever faeen ; of splendid quality, too. No eeed has been bowu, nor have there been any pansies near by. The only solution I can give -is that the seed must have been in the soil these many years." One of the pansies, adds Mr. Poole, is like a gold and bronze butterfly. It is proposed to erect a memorial to the late General Sir Alexander Taylor, who for some time before his death in February was the sole survivor of the heroes who took part in the daring aseauifc on Delhi during the Indian Mutiny. A committee, of which Lord Roberts is chairman, ha» been formed, and has issued an appeal to officers who served with General Taylor, as well as i to Boyal Engineers and Civil Engineers' from Cooper's Hill. The memorial will be- erected at Delhi near to that of tho heroip Nicholson, who epent many nighte, in the trenches with the comrade who co long Survived him, of whom he said when lying mortally. wounded, "If I live' through this the world shall know that Alex. Taylor took Delhi." Rules issued by the Secretary for Scotland for persons undergoing preventive' detention in Scotland state that a canteen will be opened at which prisonere in the ordinary and special grades may purchase articles of food, and that those in the special grade may have garden allotments assigned. to them, the produce being purchased by the prison at market rates. Included in the electro-therapeutic department of the Middlesex Hospital, London, is an instrument called the " cold cautery." It is a littld braes knife or spoon with blnnt edges, on the surfaces of which an intensely hot arc flame is produced by electricity. Used for the removal of certain forms of malignant growth, this spoon or knife cuts ite way through the tiEsues and at the same time sears tho cut ends of the veins and arI teries, preventing all bleeding. ! General Bernhardi, author of a recent much discussed work, "Modern War," in an article in the Berlin Post, warns his countrymen against leaving Tfiingtau in its present defenceless condition, in view 6f the manifest resolve of Great Britain to oppose any real expansion of German power with arms, and the probability that she can count on Japanese support in an onslaught on the German position in Shantung. General Bernhai'di, while on a tour of the world, visited Teingtau, and heard a story, already often quoted in the German press, to the effect that at a critical moment in the Morocco negotiations a British squadron appeared off Tsingtau. According to General Bemhardi, subsequent revelations removed all doubt that the squadron was merely waiting for a signal from London to attack a practically defenceless German settlement, the authorities of which ■were not even aware; of the gravity of the situation. At an inquest held in Chelsea, on the body of Sarah Townrow, of Gertrudestreet, Charlotte Griffin stated that she had^ cent her little boy to Mra. Townrow's bedroom with a cup of tea. A few i minutes later the boy returned, saying that a cat which had been sitting on Mrs. Townrow's shoulder had flown at him and knocked the tea out of his hands: On going upstairs, the witness found Mrs. Townrow dead in bed. The' coroner said it was the first time he had ever heard of a cat protecting a i body. At the thirteenth annual examination for the National Diploma in Agriculture, held at the University of Leeds, I an examination conducted by a joint board of the Eoyal Agricultural Soi ciety of England and the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, in all 102 candidates presented themselves — 21 in Part 1.. 43 in Part 11., and 38 under the new regulations iutroduC'ed this year. Of tho candidates who entered for Part 11., 29 were , successful, and will receive the diploma,' four gaining honours. Of the four candidates who sat for the whole examination under the new regulations, three were successful in obtaining the diploma. The lengthy to which a class of girls in the Potteries will go to obtain fiWy was illustrated by a case heard at Fcnton Police Court, where two ytiunsj girls were charged -with stealing ijbbous from wreaths placed on a Eew grave in the cemetery. The prosecuting solicitor explained that thure had been *o many complaints of offences of this kind that the cases had been brought as a deterrent. s?he girls, who were caught in. the act of taking ribbon from wreaths, were discharged with a cauLion. EnquirieH showed thut ribbons are stolon regularly from the Potteries Cemetery by girls, who use it to tie up their hair or decorate theisr drefases. Mr. Boardman, a silversmith, a«sociated with the firm of Boardman and Gloßsop, and his wife, of Vnlley-road, Highfields, Sheffield,- were found dea/1 in bed- As they were not seen iv the morning a window was broken open by on© of the married daughters who lived near by, when she found her father aud mother lying dead in bed. The room v.-as full o£-gas, and they had been suSocuted. Dr. Fordham, who was .summoned, expressed the view that th* 3 ;/ had been dead for tome hums. Mr. Boardman was seventy-seven and Mis. Boardman seventy -eight years of age. A motorist named Ralph Holiday, of Suttoo, summoned at CroyJon" for travelling at twenty-eiybfc miles an hour, explained that his speed ivab nccec-ary, as he was taking part in a militaiy mobilisation, He wae lined £1 and jcosts.

The long trial was lately concluded, at Charlottenburg, oJ a chemist' named Scharmach, who was arrested four months previously in connecting with tho sale of poisoned tspirks, to which nearly sixty deaths among the poorer populaj tion of Berlin, in December last, were ultimately traced. Soharmach was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and a fin© of £100* He was convicted of preparing and selling to retail houses [ as pure alcohol a mixture four-fifths of which was methylated alcohol and oneI fifth spirit of ethyl. The Court found him guilty of criminal negligence in 1 not ascertaining the deleterious effects of methylated alcohol, and added that it was only insufficiency of evidence which prevented him from being convicted of willful crime. Speaking at the annual meeting of the General Committee of the National Liberal Federation at Rugby, in Warwickshire, Mr. W. G. C. Gladstone, i grandson of the former Prime Minister of England, said the most conspicuous feature of the Liberal financial administration had been, he believed', the colossal reduction in the National Debt. During the past six years the Liberal Ministry had paid olf £64,000,000 of National Debt. Iv the same period of -time France had paid off £17,000,000, and Italy had' paid oil" £11,000,000. In the same period, on the contrary, Germany had increased her debt by £83,000,000, and AustriaHungary by £112,000,000. The system of farthing fares on the South Metropolitan tramways, between Crpydon. Tooting, and Button, has been abolished, after a prolonged trial. The 6tages, necessarily marked, by numbers, caiiesd^ considerable confusion. At thesame time, the public did not take easily to the small change. An outbreak of what is supposed to be ptomaine poisoning has occurred at Cho_rley, Cheshire, and its suburbs of Adlingron, Coppull, and Withnell. About a hundred and forty cases have been notified to the medical officer of the town, but the number of people affected is greater .than this, as milder attacks have not been reported. Mr. William Bowling, of Sunny Bank, Heapey, a mill 1 foreman., died from a sudden illness which developed after a meal. Mrs. Bowling was affected in the same way as her husbandj but her illness was not 60 acute. Dr. Harris has expressed? the opinion that the outbreak is due to ptomaine poisoning. ■ ' Estate of the gross value, of £519,487, with net personalty £61,427, has been left by the. late Lord Wenlock, iof Escrick Park York, Governor of Madras, 1891-1896, a former president o£ the Yorkshire Liberal "Unionist Association, and of the East Riding Territorial Force Association, and director of the Yorkshire Insurance Company and. other coin, ponies. He left £100 to his butler, and £50 each to his secretary, head gamekeeper,. cook, farm bailiff, and his estate office- clerk, adding: "1 should' like to have made the amounts of ihese legacies larger, but I feel ihat I am, unable to do so on accoiint of the heavy death duties which will be payable out of my estate." The death duties will amount <to about £67,000. In presenting the annual report of the National Sanatorium Association in the Council Chamber of the Hearts of Oak Buildings, Euston-road, London, Mr. C. H. Garland, the chairman, stated that of the 280 consumptive patients cared for in the institution during the year, 91 were discharged with the disease arrested and 137 with their condition very greatly improved. This meant, he continued, that no fewer than 82 per* rent, of the patients derived considerable benefit, and that in 33 per cent, of the cases they had been freed from all consumptive symptoms. Still more significant, of all those who had been treated in the first stages of the disease 68 per cent, had been discharg-ed with the complaint arrested. Lord St. John, of Bletso, Lord-Lieu-tenant of- Bedfordshire, who died recently at the ago of sixty-eight, at his seat at Melchbourne Park, Sharnbrook, after a long illness, served with the 74th Highlanders during the- Fenian trouble iv Ireland, and was president of the Bedfordshire Territorial Association. He was the sixteenth ' holder of a title dating back to 1588. An ancestor of his served William the Conqueror ass transport officer, or, as the records put it, ' ' chief supervisor of wagons, and carts." The second baron was one 6i the judges of Mary Queen of Scots. He is succeeded by his son, the Hon. Henry Beauehamp Oliver St. John. 4. bet of £5 that twenty years ago meat could be purchased in Piccadilly by retail at 5_ o'clock in the morning was mentioned in the Law Courts in London. A cas-a came on for hearing in the Yarmouth County Court in which a claim was made for the- return of the £5 deposited with the stakeholder, but the County Court Judge stopped the ca*e, saying that he would not have the time of the Court taken up with such nonsense. While agreeing with the lalter observation, a King's Bench Divisional Court held that the Judtje had struck out the case as a betting transaction before he^ had heard • the facts, a-nd directed him to hear and determine the case. Bishop" Welldon, speaking at Blackburn Parish Church, declared himself neither Liberal nor Tory, but a thorough democrat, willing to trust the people. The need of the age, his. lordship 'said, •was Christian 'democracy. The curse of m6dem society was selfishness. At a meeting in support of co-educa-tion as carried out at St. George';;, Harpendfln, Lord Lytton said that co-edu-cation would remove that unnatural element of. shyness and .embarrassment whnrh was the result of tho artificial con- - ditions under which most of the boys and girlt.' fachoolb of England weie condUct&d. A sealed bottle has been found on the East Coast of Chili that had accomplished a remarkable voyage of several thousand miles. In the latter part ot 1608 a gentleman travelling in, the Indraghiri, of the Tyser Line of cargo boats, 1 Captain H. Wilkes, "8.N.K., London for Melbourne, via tho Capo,made a pi'actice -of putting overboard daily -a sealed bottle recording the day's position of the vessel. Of over forty feuch records this is the only one that has come to hand. The message had travelled, roughly, along the 50th parallel, just' half-way round the globe, through immeiiße stretches of wild water, for at least 7000 miles, without allowing for its many inevitable deviations. The facts of the discovery reached the writer, Mr. H. P. Adams, of Surrey, England, from Mr. 'Maurice | Dofarges, of Santiago, Chili. Victoria claims one more seat in the Australian Parliament than the redistribution schemo allows. Within nine months since the census was taken, Victoria improved its population by 47,243, as againßfc 26,049 added to New South Wales. On those figures New South Wales is certainly not entitled to count as a more progressively populous State than Victoria. That is if the ekctornl right? of tho respective States tu'o measured by th.?ir voting possibilities rather thy.v by their vobinj; actualities. From a national point of view (»ays "0.X." in the Bulletin) a redistribution of ueats Mould be guided by polling if tuins. The non-voter has no peiiunul claim to political veprcseatatioii, any; now, A