The Kington Times - January 1917
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Kington Times 27th January 1917 - Page 3
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| Date | 27/01/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 27th January 1917 |
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Suffice it to judicious throughout . variety of subjects , Var , Morality in War- Feminism , Nationalisa- ge and Divorce , " Birth a very useful volume PE ( NAUMANN ) , G , 7s . 6d . nslation of the most . rmany since the war . member of the Reich- eading political writer Th his early life a had an exciting career . stematic scheme of an e as one of the world lost of the argument ( from the author's ssential permanent as- ngary and Germany . uction by Rev. W. J. The volume will emand . ING OF CHRIST PITMAN , 38 aux , B.D. , is Rector present a Chaplain to deals mainly with the the Gospels . There ing away of old tradi- with the hymn , Lo says " If Christ ould he be visible in if we can survive ngs we shall derive study here afforded . th energetically . IRTUE ( WREN ) , Y , 5s . ells a good story and on " eculiar title , but when tue to be the d . per proper title . The life with consumate skill we are satisfied ell as the lesser one is strong and grip- this book , which is will wish it twice as ith eagerness Captain YMOUR ) , WILSON , of choice verse which he great Belgian poet at Rouen while the The little poem " In em and there is not is not rich in merit . steful and appropriate binding , it should be book is too good to f paper - covered books OSOPHY ( COLLING . MILLAN , 58 . Fellow and Lecturer Oxford , and therefore and interest to what part , deals with the on , the second part hysics and part three Theology " The book ttempt to treat the dogma , but as a criti- phical problem . Chris- is approached as pus . doctrines are a re- ts of a single idea , language in which it lled a metaphysic , an ith many of its con- not agree , but we are go further and say should be widely read ht and reasoning it PUBLISHED . Phillips ) , Washburne ; " Which Temple ye 61 " ( D.H.U. ) , Elliot very in the 20th Cen- Wo in a Caravan " " ( Allen and Unwin ) . GORDON LANG . ELTY TO PIGS . ions on Monday John n Hay , Cannock , was three pigs on , January According to the kept without food in eep in manure . They instead of weighing only scaled from 8 to ness stated it was ob he pigs were starved . and more like wild 9 2/2 THE KINGTON TIMES . JANUARY 27 , 1917 . CEYLINDO TEA The Better the Quality the less you use . 2- 2/2 2/4 24 INTERNATIONAL STORES THE BIGGEST GROCERS IN THE WORLD TEA COFFEE :: GROCERIES :: PROVISIONS TENBURY'S GREAT RED CROSS SALE . MR . H. T. NOTT'S BULLOCK REALISES £ 737 . MR . W : BALDWIN'S " VICTORY APPEAL . " FIFTY GUINEAS FOR A CALF . In and the Tenbury district especially had done extraordinarily well in the past and she trusted that that day's sale would exceed all former efforts . Was any sacrifice too great which they could make to alleviate the suf- ferings of their brave soldiers who were wounded or sick in fighting for all they held most dear , honour and home , justice and The need for money and right ( applause ) . yet more money by the British Red Cross Society was increasing with every day of this awful war . She therefore appealed to them to bid well that day and let Tenbury and She had district show what could be done . sure in d great pleasure in declaring the sale open ( applause ) . Three cheers were given for Miss Wallace and the Eardiston Farming Company . THE SALE . Mr. Frank Russell then took charge of the proceedings . After referring to the absence of Mr. A. E. Baldwin owing to military duties , he said that if they did not know him as well as Mr. Baldwin they must remember that they were not giving him the money but to that excellent object , the British Farmers ' Red Referring to the Secretary's hope that they would make £ 300 of the bullock , Cross Fund . I.S. 90 CORRESPONDENCE . THE EDITOR DOES NOT HOLD HIMSELF RESPON- SIBLE FOR THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY HIS CORRESPONDENTS . ALL COMMUNICATIONS FOR PUBLICATION MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE SENDER , NOT NECESSARILY FOR PUBLICATION . BUT AS A GUAR- ANTEE OF GOOD FAITH . GO TO MARCHANT BROTHERS FOR The Best Selection of New MILLINERY and Ready - to - Wear Ready to Wear Goods In All Departments . Children's Millinery and Baby Linen . A Speciality . 1. Broad Street , LEOMINSTER . HEROIC ACT IN THE CREAT distance . EXPLOSION . the sound broke the light in the sky faded with the same dramatic swiftness with which it had blazed out . It Everybody was shocked and startled . was apparent in a moment or two more that there were no aerial visitors about , and then came a period of bewilderment and wonder as For a to the origin of the manifestation . long time London as a whole was in blank ignorance of what had happened . One effect INCREASED SEPARATION ALLOWANCES . 3 . FOR SOLDIERS ' AND SAILORS FAMILIES . The Government's new scale of separation allowances in view of the increased cost of living , were announced last night . They are granted in respect of children only and apply to families of both sailors and soldiers . The allowance to the wife without children is un- altered . The increases are : - 2s . a week first child . Is . 6d . each for second and third . 1s . for each other . For motherless children the increases are : - 2s . for first child . Is . for each other . The increases are for children up to the age of 14 only . Beyond that age the old rates continue . The following table shows what the family will receive under the new Army scale as compared with the old : - New Scale . Old Scale . s . d . s . d . Wife ... 12 6 12 6 Wife and I child 19-6 17 6 Wife and 2 children 24 6 21 O 23 o 25 D Wife and 3 children 28. Wife and 4 children 31 o And so on , adding 3s . for each additional child , as against 2s . under the old scale . The extra 3s . 6d . for wives living in London remains . The allowances to non - commissioned officers vary from 15s . for a sergeant's wife up to 42s . 6d . for seven children under 14 years of age . The new rates take effect : - Navy Army From January 19th . From January 15th . Where a wife , without children , is unable to earn money and her income is insufficient , her position will be considered by the Local War Pension Committee of the Statutory Com- mittee . Claims for increased allowances to dependants on the ground of increased cost of living will be similarly considered . Increased allowances are to be given to the children of sailors and soldiers of higher rank where the total allowance to the family ex- cusive of the man's contributions would other- wise be less than that to the family man of the lowest rank ou the new scale . BONUS FOR FARMERS GROWING OATS . Official notice is issued that the Army Council offers to contract at 41s . 3d . per quarter of 320lbs . for oats from the harvest of 1917 The offer is strictly confined to oats from suitable land now in permanent pasture , the . intention being to have a large increase in the arable area of this country . For the same harvest the Food , Controller has fixed the price of oats at 38s . 6d . per 336lbs . , so that the bonus offered by the Army Council is 4s . 7d . per quarter of oats delivered . Forms of contract can be obtained from the Controller of Cultivated Land Areas , 45 , Parliament - street . The Army authorities sprang a surprise on . the York grain market on Saturday , by commandeering 1,000 quarters of oats at 475 . 6d . per quarter , from the Yorkshire Farmers , Ltd. , a large co - operative concern . The quantity included not only the stocks in the comptny's granaries , but supplies on rail bought at rates at least 3s . 6d . per quarter . higher than the price to be paid by the Government . No business was done in oats on the market . A fortnight ago the quotation was 49s . to 519 . POTATOES AND HERRINGS AS A MEAL . terms of potato , and had been thinking potato Tenbury holds a creditable place in the records of the British Farmers ' Red Cross CHIEF CHEMIST'S SELF - SACRIFICE . Fund , and that position will be considerably strengthened by the record sale which was OFFICIAL REPORT . held on Tuesday . It is impossible to give NATIONAL UNITY . Ministry of Munitions , Saturday 5.4 p.m.- anything like an estimate of the receipts at About seven o'clock last night a fire started at To the Editor of the Kington Times . present , as many parish efforts have yet to be a factory in the east of London , near the held , but it may be taken for granted that Sir , Now that the Prime Minister has for river , which was employed on refining ex- of the explosion had been to cut off the area when the sum total realised by the effort is Major D. A. Spence , speaking at a meeting plosives . Fortunately a few minutes elapsed from telegraphic communication with the rest of the Farmers Club on Monday night , said paid over it will be far in excess of last year's mulated a National policy and the new ad- after the commencement of the fire before the of the metropolis , and for nearly an hour it that for the last two years the potato had ministration has got to work , it behoves us total , in itself a highly creditable one . all to put aside our personal ideas on sexplosion occurred , during which interval was impossible for all except those in the im- assumed a place in the German mind quite considering to whom the successful organisa- various political issues , except such as will many of the operatives were able to escape mediate neighbourhood of the disaster to locate equal to that held by their much - vaunted tion of Tenbury's patriotism and liberality is sterner resolve . from the factory . The explosion appears to it , and even they were quite at a loss to say army . The Teuton began then to think in due there will be no hesitation in singling out ensure greater unity and a Mr. W. Baldwin , of Colleybatch , for special Controversial obstacles to national solidarity have involved practically all the explosives in precisely what it was that had exploded . was itself completely The wildest rumours flew about , the most ever since . There was not a shadow of doubt mention , Mr. Baldwin , himself a well - known such as questions of the franchise , manhood the factory , which suffrage , votes for women , and the general impression being that a gasworks had an abundance of land existed in this country destroyed . rest . and highly successful agriculturist , has never should be tabooed . The only legislation the Fires were caused in neighbouring ware- caught fire and brought about the explosion suitable for the entire potato crop required tired since the commencement of the war in country will tolerate now is that which will houses and factories , one of the largest of of a gasometer . In the midst of the general for the nation's consumption . This was about putting forward the great need of the Red help to beat Germany . The bewilderment as to what had happened , which the only crop which the country was capable Cross and the duty and privilege of those at hinder and annoy . All else can only which was an important flour mill . effects of the explosion were felt for a great was as great in Fleet Street as anywhere else , of self - producing . The potato might be used home to do all they can for the men at the Whilst urging the postponement of the con- Mr. Russell exclaimed : Why ! we made £ 500 sideration of contentious matters until the new Three rows of small houses in the the Daily Mail received a call on the telephone to a far greater extent in the average house- front . The success of last year's sale is now immediate neighbourhood were practically from King's Lynn , Norfolk , a town 100 miles held , and the taste for it could be largely in- a matter of history and Mr. Baldwin's share in of a donkey at Leominster ( laughter ) . He Government has carried us to victory , we demolished , and considerable damage was oc- away . A correspondent there stated that a creased by house vives learning some of the It is typical , would offer them two excellent heifers from should protest against any concession to party casioned to other property . that triumph is not forgotten . tremendous explosion had evidently taken many ways of presenting this food on the however , of Mr. Baldwin that he did not rest the Eardiston Farming Company , a cow and a clamour in the direction of universal suffrage . An engine from the local fire station had place somewhere , for the noise had been dis- table . It could be cooked in such a way as content with the achievements of the past , calf from Colonel Wheeler , and then Mr. H. And our repudiation of any sort of log - rolling reached the spot and was playing on the fire tinctly felt in that town , and did London know to be put on the table at almost every meal , but realising the ever - present and increasing Nott's most generous gift of a bullock , which between party politicians should be thorough when the explosion occurred . The engine , what had happened ? need of the Red Cross , suggested another would be oeffred for sale on the same principle and persistent . itself was destroyed , but fortunately only two effort . The manner in which his proposal as the donkey was put up on the former of the firemen appear to have lost their lives . was received speaks volumes for the public occasion . All over London the effects of the explosion spirit and loyalty of the Tenbury farmers . CHIEF CHEMIST KILLED . had been felt . There were few persons An excellent committee meeting of farmers The chief chemist of the factory and a num- among London's millions who were not startled was held and the main details of the sale ber of other workpeople were killed by the by the thud of the explosion , even if the agreed upon . Delegates were appointed in explosion or buried in the ruins . The chief aerial illumination was not seen . Doors each parish , provided with collecting books chemist , Dr. Angel , while advising the opera- banged to and fro in the most curious fashion , and asked to organise some parish event , such tives to seek safety , himself went to the fire and windows rattled and shook till alarmed as a concert or / whist drive . and attempted to combat it . The Committee people thought they were coming in on them . factory or in the neighbouring houses , is not broken The crash of glass sounded all over The number of persons killed either in the In a great many cases windows were actually yet ascertained . The casualties , however , the East End , and here , the broken windows owing to the warning which people had by the are to be counted by the thousand . But sub- outbreak of fire , are not nearly so heavy as urbs miles away suffered casualties in this A heifer , the gift of the Eardiston Farming Company , was first placed in the ring . Bidding commenced at £ 40 and at £ 55 Mr. J. P. Barnes , of Tenbury , secured the animal amid cheers . A second heifer started at £ 50 , and was bought Yours truly , CITIZEN THE FOOD PROBLEM . To the Editor of the Kington Times . Sir , Your issue of the " Leominster News ' Although Bank , Robinson , Berrington , £ 5 inland do not know of or do not think of the damaged . William Baldwin , £ 5 10s .; Mr. R. Nott , The It is likely that a good many people living lard , £ 20 . In the meantime CRASH OF GLASS EVERYWHERE . effects . and few people would die of starvation if they had a chance of taking potatoes in some form or other along with herrings , or some such nitrogenous substance , three times a day . WAR BONUSES FOR SALOP TEACHERS . SHARP DISCUSSION AT COMMITTEE MEETING . at at £ 61 by Mr. W. H. Bowkett , Tenbury . The cow and calf presented by Colonel E. dated the 19th inst . presents a report of Mr. were fortunate in their choice of collectors for V. V. Wheeler on behalf of his grandson , Prothero's meeting at Hereford . the Red Cross cause has been promoted Master C. J. V. Batley , were sold for £ 42 to , they have not been published it is possible Mr. Potts , of Middleton . The Hon . Secretary that many questions were asked and replies throughout the district with energy and en- called for three cheers or Master Batley with given at the meeting bearing on the very ur The Shropshire Education Committee thusiasm . It is extremely unlikely that a Shrewsbury , on Saturday , had a sharp discus- single inhabitant of the district has not been the hope that he would make as good a man gent question of food supplies . I do not sion on recommendations from a special com- invited to help , and the response has been given , grandfather , and these were heartily therefore , know whether either of the follow- was at first anticipated , Up to the present way . There were odd incidents illustrating mitte proposing war bonuses to assistant classes have shown ing aspects of the matter were brought to between thirty and forty bodies have been once again the vagaries of explosions and at teachers in county secondary schools , and to their good will , a feature being the quantity calf for re - sale . The idea quickly caught on to some authority sufficiently influential to reported to have been seriously injured . Mr. Potts then generously , returned the his notice . If not , I think they should be , or recovered , and about a hundred persons are the same time serving to show the far - reaching certificated teachers , head and assistant , and of gifts of fowls , eggs , etc. from cottagers , and amid cheering the calf sold again and deal immediately with things undoubtedly hay- certain uncertificated teachers in the elemen- as well as cash . The district has seen quite In central London a bank window was tary schools . The bonus to the assistant Ample assistance was forthcoming from the an epidemic of whist drives , varied by con- again , the total realised being fifty guineas . ing considerable adverse effect on the prob London fire brigades and a broken in Kingsway . It was a window look - teachers in the secondary schools was at the number of certs , etc. , while football matches , ploughing The purchasers were Mr. Arthur Morris , £ 6 able very serious shortage of food for the ambulances . rate of £ 20 per annum for married men and The police and the municipal ing east . In Queen Anne's - mansions , St. competitions and Christmas carols have all 2s . 6d .; Mr. George Collins , £ 5 10s .; Mr. people of these islands . authorities have found temporary accommoda- James's Park , windows were broken also . At 10 to women and single men , the increased been pressed into the service of the Red Cross tion for those whose homes have been Harrow windows were severely shaken , and cost to the county being £ 1,090 , and the bonus with good results . homes have bee at Acton the door of the Council chamber was to the teachers of the elementary schools at Tuesday last was set apart for the great 5e .; Mr. H. Clent , Clee Hill , £ 5 ; Mr. E. W. enormous amount of food stuffs and other the rate of 20 per cent . Certain firms have generously sent large blown open during a sitting of the Council . A on their present auction sale day . Several munificent gifts had Barnes , 65 ; Mr. Frank Oliver , Wolferlow , commodities taken out of the country by neut subscriptions to the Minister of Munitions with resident at Streatham describes the explosion salaries , the total amounting to about £ 7,300 been received , including a prime fat bullock £ 5 ; and finally outright for £ 4 17s . 6d . to Mr. ral ships . Even in a small port such as this , The Chairman ( Mr. W. H. Smith ) moved and a view to their being used for the benefit of as " seeming to lift the house up , " and at it is considerable and in the large ports it from Mr. H. H. Nott , two fat heifers from the Fletcher , Greete . Eardiston Farming Company and a cow and the sufferers , and the Local Government Board Herne Hill the French windows of a house Colonel Patchett seconded the adoption of the The Hon . Secretary evidently feared that must be very great and is only limited , I be- have undertaken in conjunction with the local were violently blown open . t seconded the adoptio proposal . calf from Master C. J. V. Batley ( grandson of the bids for the calf might diminish the lieve , by their purchasing power , i.e. , the authorities to see to the applicátion of any " The glare seemed to light up the whole Quarter Sessions , strongly protested against Mr. R. Lloyd Kenyon , chairman of the Col. E. V. V. Wheeler ) . In addition there biddings for Mr. H. T. Nott's bullock , un money these neutrals have in their pockets . house , " says a man at Beckenham , " and the were gifts of pigs , sheep , dogs , roots and tion of the bullock , however , showed that kinds of vegetables , including potatoes , which great hopes had been based . The recep- They are allowed to buy meat , bread , all funds raised in this way . the Minister has requested the borough of a house at Lewisham were all broken and explosion shook us terribly.1 " The windows these increases , which he said would impose implements , these being sold at Messrs . Ed- tiers to the result in spite ing apparel of all sorts , including , cloth , rub - authorities to arrange for the provision of im the wife of the occupier was blown over by of a certain class in the county , at a time an extra 1d . rate on the county for the sake waids , Russell and Baldwin's stock market . of the previous " flutter " of those present . ber and leather boots , and practically every mediate relief for those requiring it . At the Corn Exchange were received a pro- £ 100 was realised in as many seconds , the article for domestic use . They also get out of Owing to the effects of the explosion all the shock . At Winchfore Hill windows were when it was for the county as well as the fusion of live and dressed poultry , ducks , biddings being Mrs. Whinyates , £ 20 ; Mr. " Bond " and free of duty wines , spirits , communication with other districts was broken broken in several houses , and in one case the country to be economical . - Mr . Horace Lovett geese , eggs , butter , rabbits , potatoes and other Baldwin , £ 20 ; Miss Wallace , £ 20 ; Mr. Bal- tobacco , tea , etc. , on which we have to pay ately forthcoming , but owing to the lack of living at Kingston spoke of the explosion be- tum to spend in the key , and lit off for a time . Local assistance , was immedi- glass fell on a corpse in the room . People supported Mr. Kenyon , and said £ 7,300 was a produce , and miscellaneous articles . The Corn Exchange was opened to the public dur- The first £ 100 was reached amid very heavy duties , and further , they have ing the morning and sales were quickly cheering and the auctioneer then warmed to been getting sugar in quantities as no private communication assistance from the Metro- ing rather felt than heard , the vibration vio - objected to it being done to benefit à certain effected at good prices . his task of collecting the useful " fiver . " individual could obtain , and often they get it politan Fire Brigade could not be obtained , lently slamming doors and rattling windows . Bids came freely for some time and when the when we have had to go without . There is a immediately , the fire not being in the London OPENING SPEECHES . Within half an hour , how- fun flagged Mr. Baldwin had always a " com growing feeling against so great a quantity of fire brigade area . At 2 p.m. , at the conclusion of the ordinary mission " to put in . Other fillips to the necessaries , which are badly wanted at home , ever , ample assistance was afforded from all smithfield market , the sale of Red Cross bidding were feceived from time to time . At being taken out of the country . This has quarters . stock commenced . been shown notábly at Falmouth and Cardiff There was a good attend - 285 Mr. Openshaw offered £ 5 if £ 295 was lately , but unless the large inland towns with ance of farmers , butchers and others who reached . This was done and the £ 300 was their big populations take the matter in hand usually visit the market . reached . At £ 410 Mr. Ballard came to the it is doubtful whether much will be done to Mounting the rostrum , Mr. W. Baldwin , the rescue by offering £ 10 if £ 440 was got , and stop it and opposition may be expected from Hon . Secretary , introduced Miss Wallace , of this only took a few minutes . Then Mr. Eardiston , who opened the sale . Mr. Baldwin Baldwin and the auctioneer offered £ 10 each if shop keepers in coastal towns whoo derive con- siderable prolt from the sales . said that before they commenced these pro- the £ 480 mark was reached . There was a No one begrudges our Allies anything . The ceedings and before they started to make at good response and so £ 600 was realised . At neutral is quite a different proposition . If least 300 of Mr. H. T. Nott's generous gift , £ 530 Mr. Cooper offered to make it up to £ 550 they must have food here , which is by no he would like to read a little correspondence when 545 was given . This was successfully means certain , the quantity should be regu- which had taken place last year . He then accomplished and it was then felt that the lated . other words Is they should " fiver " had done its work well , having read a letter forwarded by Sir H. F. Vernon ( County Hon . Secretary ) per Mrs. Whinyates . beaten the Leominster donkey already . The If the strenuous effort about to be made by In this letter a Colonel of the Indian A.M.S. , humble sovereign then began its work well agriculture is to have full effect and so that writing from Headquarters wrote : " To the and before long £ 617 was the total . it may benefit the poorer , as well as other Secretary British Red Cross Fund , Worcester then realised that the bullock had nearly people , I think some other requests should be County Branch For communication to the achieved the donkey's Worcester record of £ 663 made , viz : - inhabitants of Tenbury Wells who so kindly ros . , and the auctioneer set to work again . Bids A big reduction in railway rates on farm subscribed for the motor ambulance " May . " were made for wives , children , and boys at produce . Some kind of restriction on the Sir , It has occurred to me that the subscribers the front and £ 653 was made . To give all a profits of the " middle - man . " And , or , a who provided the Red Cross river launch chance half sovereigns were then accepted and very greatly improved system of distribution Everybody would be pleased to know that this the score was carried to £ 676 . Yours truly , launch is now plying on the river Tigris and being satisfied , Mr. Nott bid 1 more and the Fowey , Cornwall , J. H. WILKES . is carrying out most usefu ! work in the re - bullock was knocked down to him , given back January 21st , 1917 . moval of sick and wounded , who are much and put up for absolute sale . Mr. W. H. benefitted by this , the very best means of con- Bowkett bid £ 60 , at which the bullock was veyance for this country . " knocked down amid hearty cheering , the May It was The In " rationed . " BURGLAR'S DUG - OUT . NO EFFECT ON MUNITIONS . We are further informed by the Ministry of Munitions that the accident will make no Both last night and LONDON EXPLOSION . INQUEST ON 15 BODIES OPENED . CORONER'S SYMPATHY . class by putting that cost on the general body of the ratepayers , many of whom were poorer than they whom they proposed to help . - Col . Patchett , speaking as an ironmaster , said they had had to increase the wages of their work- men in some cases by 77 per cent . , and he had working - men in his place , puddlers , making five times as much as any teacher in that county . 2018 C practical difference to the output of munitions . The inquest on the bodies of 15 victims of The Chairman said the opposition and the The Minister , with the chief officers of the the great explosion was opened on Monday arguments used by Mr. Kenyon and the other speakers were deplorable . - Mr . John Bayley , Explosives Supply Department , visited the afternoon . Only formal evidence of identification was contempt for such mean cutting proposals to- of Wellington College , said he had an utter scene this morning , and every possible effort is being made to deal promptly with the un- taken , six of the bodies being unidentified . The Coroner briefly addressed the jury , re- did work in the county at a paltry pittance . wards a body of men and women doing splen- fortunate effects of the explosion . this morning his marking that the 15 cases into which they In the end , after further sharp were going to inquire were in some way or be Majesty the King has made inquiries as to the assages , between various members , the proposals were extent of the damage and loss of life , and another connected with the explosion . He carried by a large majority . has expressed his solicitude for the victims did not propose to make any preliminary and their families . observations upon them , but he was sure the The Minister of Munitions , on behalf of jury would wish him to express their deep the Government , has requested the local sympathy with the friends and relatives of authorities and those in charge of the relief those who had suffered . operations to convey his deep sympathy with all those affected . William Riley , a deserter from the Royal Mr. Baldwin remarked that it would be a total being 6737 - a truly magnificent result . great pleasure to those who subscribed to the A rick sheet presented by Mr. J. Quarrell , launch to know it was doing such good work . of Hereford , was put up and made 60s . Garrison Artillery , was sentenced to five years ' Continuing , he said it was his pleasant duty , sheet was afterwards carried round the town as it was twelve months ago , to ask Miss and 68 collected . Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Stan- penal servitude and five years ' police super- vision at Guildford Quarter Sessions for Wallace to open that sale for them . He did ley Mattock proceeded to sell a hunter , which LIKE A THUNDER - CLAP . AN ENGINE DRIVER . The wife of an engine - driver , aged 42 , iden- tified the body of her husband , who , she said , ALL LONDON LIT UP BY THE BLINDING died in hospital on Saturday night as the result of bodily injuries received in the area of the disaster , while employed in his duties . Medical evidence was next given that the man died from the recurrent shock , the result of his injuries . GLARE . MOTHER UNDER RUINS OF HOUSE . The explosion provided a spectacle of sub- lime grandeur for the whole of London . Millions who saw the sight , which was visible in the most distant suburbs , will retain it as an impressive memory for life . It occurred almost exactly at ten minutes to In the case of a widow , a son whose head All over London the streets were was bandaged said he was at work in a flour thronged with thousands of people hurrying mill when the explosion occurred . seven . He was LITTLE INVALID ATTACKED IN BED . At Kidderminster , on Monday , Clara Cun- ningham Pennell , wife of a carpet weaver , of Stourbridge Road , Kidderminster , was charged with the attempted murder of her daughter , Hilda , aged five years that morning . It appeared the child had been suffering from measles and was left in bed . Mrs. Pennell went into a neighbour's house and said : " I have done something to Hilda with the poker . " The child was found in bed with her head was fractured , and the poker was found The little one was at once removed to the Children's Hospital , and her condition was regarded as hopeless . near . When Detective - sergeant Jones arrested murder she made no reply . so with the greatest of pleasure , as Miss Wal- made 8 guineas , sheep , pigs and implements , burglaries , and is well known as the man who homewards when through the murk and gloom injured in the head by pieces of flying glass . Pennell and charged her with the attempted lace and the Eardiston Farming Company had concluding with a sale of the remaining articles , lived in a dug - out at Hampstead Heath . been splendid supporters of their effort last at the Corn Exchange . year and also on this occasion . He hoped they would have a record sale and he appealed to the farmers especially to open their hearts and their purses and to do the best they could . HEALO you have a Bad Leg . Eczema Old Sores , Wounds , Ringworm , Cuts , Ile honestly believed and hoped that would be Burns , Scurf , or any skin affection , send to Maurice the last time he would have to appeal to them on behalf of the Red Cross and he hoped they would support that last " victory appeal " by giving it a thumping good start . He would now ask Miss Wallace to say a few words in opening the sale ( applause ) . Miss Wallace said that the British farmers , Smith & Co. , Kidderminster , for a free sample of HEALO Ointment . Try it , you need not send for a large box . A Shifnal lady says it is worth £ 5 a box . HEALO allays all irritation , reduces inflammation , prevents festering , soothes and heals all bad legs . Don't say your case is hopeless without trying HEALO . Boxes 1,3 and 3- Local Agent : J. W. ROWE , Chemist , High St. , Leominster : A MISSING SCHOOLBOY . A boy of 12 , after seeing his father off by the 3.40 p.m. train from Victoria for Brighton on Wednesday , disappeared , and has not been seen since . He was wearing a brown over- coat , a new grey Norfork suit , with knickers , and a black school cap with purple stripes and a silver badge of St. Olave's school on the front . Information will be welcomed by Mr. Henry Clark , 13 , Cathcart Hill , N. tears , the south - east . The house was of the damp and misty evening a pale pinkish Upon going home he found the house a heap glow appeared suddenly in the sky towards of bricks . He could see his mother under- neath . She was extricated alive , and taken " Fire ! " exclaimed eperybody familiar to hospital , where she died . enough with the glare which a conflagration about 200 yards from the factory . In à twinkling the Medical testimony was to the effect that will show in London . glow grew to a dull angry red , and then in deceased suffered from shock as well as numerous cuts and bruises all over the body . a flash the whole sky seemed to burst into a blinding glare of light . The night became as day for the moment . Streets and buildings from one end of London to the other it was the same - were revealed in dazzling clearness . Barrow ? " The Justices remanded the woman in custody till Monday next . de For Neuralgia , Faceache , Toothache and all Nerve Pains , take Lane's Neuralgia onle . Never fails to give relief after the first few do888 Bottle 1/9 , Postage 5d . CHENEY CHEMIST LEOMINSTER . He : " How do you like Foppington , Miss Miss Barrow : " Not at all . And in a moment came the roar of an ex- can't pronounce his r's , and I do detest being plosion , one big appalling thunderclap . As addressed as Miss Bow - wow . " |