Ross Gazette 30th July 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 30th July 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 30/07/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 30th July 1914 |
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earance . EK . DDMENTS RKED SALE PRICES . JMMER GOWNS . GOWNS . GOWNS . ffered at HALF - PRICE . Sowersby ( LIMITED ) Place , Ross . OR QUALITY , FOR VALUE . ORD , Model T. to be the world's best value . dy dy ody .. SECOND SHEET . Quaint By - ways . A Around Ross Telephone- , Ross . COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFUL SEPIA PRINT REAL - PHOTO POST CARDS OF QUAINT OLD WORLD SOENES IN THE WYE VALLEY . Price 2d . each . Old Almshouses , Ross . ADDRESSES . THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , JULY 30 , 1914 . HERBERT B. MEW , Telegrama- " Barrel , Boss . BARREL BREWERY , ROSS . BRILLIANT ALES NOURISHING STOUT . " These Alon and Stouts give great matisfaction to those who enjoy a brilliant Beer , with delicate palate , and fall of life . This is accounted for by the fine quality of the materials employed , the delicious flavour and aroma of selected Hops being very noticeable . The Ross Gazette . THURSDAY , JULY 80th , 1914 . NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS . BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT We do not hold ourselves responsible for all the opinions expressed by the able watter of those notes . PERSONAL GOSSIP . Retiring London Magistrate , London will miss the ready wit which ag- companied the administration of justice by Mr. A C. Plowden ; the well - known police- court magistrate , who is retiring on account of ill - health . Many of Mr. Plowden's obiter diata have become famous . Once at a licens- ing sessions , when his court was filled with public - house keepers , he remarked : " There seem to be more publicans than sinners . " Two Since the failure of the Conference the small boys were once charged before him with political situation has become stealing milk which . had been left unprotected even more outside a house on B hot day . " What can acute . The King was to have left town on you expect ? " said Mr. Plowden .. " What Monday for Goodwood , but the deadloak would you think of a jeweller who hung up his watches outside his shop ? Prisoners dis charged . " per gall . 10d . Light Dinner Ale - Half - pints , per don . 1/6 which has arisen prevented him from carrying Recommended for family use Sparkling Bitter Ale ... Very High Class Kilpeck Church . Abbeydore . Garway Church ( several ) ... A.E. Grosmont Church ( several ) . Light Ale FA 1 / - The Old Sundial , Wilton Bridge . Pints G.A 19 " " " Skenfrith ( several ) . 33 Ross from the River . P.A " Llanthony Abbey . Kerne Bridge . X.X.B. ( Double ) Nutritious Stout X.X.X.S ( Treble ) Nutritious Stout ( Recommended for Invalide ) . Cask of 4 , 9 , 18 , 56 , and 54 Gallons . Home - brewed GINGER BEER , GINGER " 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pints 1/9 " " " 1/4 " Oatmeal Stout , for Invalids Pinta Half - pinta Pinte 29 93 " STOUT , and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , Goodrich Castle . The Market Place , Ross . Symond's Yat . 18th Century Torch Bearer , Rowleston Charch , Pontrilas . Wilton Bridge , Ross , Pilgrimage to Father Kemble's Tomb , Welsh Newton . On the Wye near Monmouth . Upper Redbrook . Welsh Newton Church . The Cross , Hentland . Treago ( several ) . Kilpeck Church ( several ) . Abbeydore ( several ) . Hereford ( several ) . Goodrich Castle ( several ) . Symond's Yat ( several ) . Tintern Abbey ( several ) . Llanthony Abbey ( several ) . Chepstow Church . Chepstow Castle . Tintern Abbey . Hereford Old Guild House . Meeting of Severn and Wye . Scenes in Hereford . ! Scenes in Ross . Scenes in Leominster . The Skyrrid . Leominster Ducking Stool . The Screen , Llanano . The Feathers ' Hotel , Ludlow . The Grange , Leominster . At Weobley .. Buttas , Weobley . Pembridge . Partrisnon Church . Leominster Church A Cottage Madonna . Redbrook . Immediate Cash Advances . THE LONDON AND PROVINCES DISCOUNT COMPANY , Ltd. , pre - eminently he leading establishment of € 125 £ 135 £ 180 its kind in the " ngdom - lende large sums of to classes the mplete with all Accessories . EY & HALL ( LIMITED ) , eers & Body Builders , NTRAL GARAGE , ROSS . to - day ! out one . opy Holidays , " we shall be pleased to give ou will say , a Holiday without a Camera Kodak in balf - an - hour . You can have the essional Photographers , S. meras and Accessories . We develop your EBENHAM ( opposite G.P.O. ) , ROSS - ON - WYE After a rest at the summit the journey down was made by way of Swirrel Edge , but as the boy continued very fresh the trip was extended to Red Tarn and Grisdale Brow , home being reached in six hours from the start . There is no local record , says the Yorkshire Post , of one so young having climbed the mountain by this difficult route . " ago . The Bisley Rifle Meeting concluded on Saturday with the final stage of the King's Prize . Sergeant Dewar , 4th Royal Scots , was the winner of the Gold Medal , after shooting off B tie with Private Fulton , Queen's Westminster , who was King's Prize- man two years Private Corrie , 7th H.L.I. , took the St. George's Vase , and in shooting off a tie with Sergeant Wood , East Riding Yeomanry , for second place , Cor- poral Ommundsen , H.A.C. , won the Silver Cross . the Yorkshireman taking the Bronze . The Roberts Challenge Cup went to H.M.S. Excellent . and the House of Commons eight beat the Lord ' team in the contest for the Vizianagram Cup . CRICKET FIXTURES . ROSS FIRST ELEVEN . Aug. 1. - Lydney and Aylburton , away Aug. 3 and 4 ( Bank Holiday and Tuesday ) . M.C.C .. home Aug. 7 - Falcon's Touring Club , home Aug. 8. - Gloucester , away Aug. 15. - Gloucester Nondescripts , home Aug. 19. - Old Bromsgrovians , home Aug. 22. - Ledbury , away Aug. 29. - Holmer , home Sept. 5. - Froome Valley , home " A " TEAM FIXTURES . Aug. 15. - Longhope , away Aug. 22. - Brockhampton , home Aug. 29. - Garway , away LEAGUE FIXTURES . Aug. 1 - Ross v . Ruardean Aug. 8. - Cinderford v . Weston Aug 15 - Perrystone v . Ruardean Aug. 22. - Perrystone v . Weston Printed and Published for the Ross GAZETTE LIMITED , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at their Offices , High - street and Church- street , Ross , in the County of Hereford THURSDAY , JULY 30 , 1914 . in 1 , 3 , and 6 - gallon jars or 6 - gallon casks . Stone Ginger Beer , In Sarew - stoppered Bottles , 1 / - per dozen . 9/6 out his plans . General Paget has been in 1/6 town during the week - end , and has been re- ceived in audience by the King . The tension 8/6 is growing day by day , and the likelihood of 1/9 a General Election during the autumn is being Probably we B / - freely discussed . something more definite in the next few days . Meanwhile , we must possess our souls in patience , and content ourselves with the hope shall know Story of Mr. Plowden . On one occasion Mr. Plowden asked prisoner whether he would be dealt with sum- marily or be tried by a jury . " I'll leave it to absent - mindedly said the magistrate , who had been to a bridge party the previous evening , to the mutual bewilderment of the court you , sir , " was the reply . " No trumps , " Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout that there will be a happy issue out of this officials and the prisoner . ( own Bottling ) supplied at moderate prices . Families and Private Customers supplied with High - class Wines and Spirits . DENTISTRY . embarrassing situation . For Natural looking ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS transferred to Nish . VISIT D. GORE BOODLE & Co. , Ltd. , 43 , HIGH STREET , ROSS , EVERY THURSDAY from 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. A Lady always in attendance . Extractions First Hour Free . BRANCHES EVERYWHERE . Abergavenny , 6 , High - street , Tuesdays , 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monmouth , 12 , Church - street , Fridays , 12 to 5. Hereford , 3 , St. Peter - street , Wednesdays , 11 a.m. to 6.30 . Chepstow , Tuesdays and Fridays . Gloucester , Every Day . BOODLE'S ESTABLISHED 1790 TEETH . TELEPHONE 39 . f T. W. PURCHAS & SONS , I Grave anxiety prevails with regard to the bellicose preparations in the Near East . Diplomatic relations between Austria and Servia are broken off . The Austrian Minister has left Belgrade , and the Servian Minister at Vienna has been handed his passport . The Servian Army has been mobilised , and mobili- sation is in progress in Austria - Hungary . Bel- grade has been evacuated , as the position of the capital is considered too vulnerable a point of attack , and the Government has been Failing efforts at peace between the two countries , it is fervently hoped that hostilities will be localised , and that the conflict will not spread to other Euro- pean countries . The war fever , however , runs high in Vienna and Berlin . Servia's reply to Austria's ultimatum insisted that Austrian officials should not participate in the inquiry , and that Austria - Hungary should not name the officers and functionaries to be dismissed or punished . The other demands of Austria Servia was willing to concede . In the absence of " guarantees , " however , the reply was con- sidered unsatisfactory . Hence the rupture in the relations . certain " London is still in search of a motto . Com- petitions are being promoted by newspapers for the purpose of finding the most suitable one , and at home and in the reference libraries men and women eager to gain a prize are turning over the pages of dictionaries of quotations , & c . Even in the pulpit the subject is made the basis of Bermons . The Dean of St. Paul's is laying the Scriptures under contribution , and has found two mottoes which are quite appo- site - vis . , " Dwell Together in Unity , " and the other , " Order is Heaven's First Law . " Only one is from the Bible , however - the Arst the second being - from Pope . The ad- dress at St. Mary - at - Hill , Monument , Sunday was based on the subject of a motto for London . The next time the matter comes before the London County Council its task the multiplicity of mottoes that are being unearthed . on money daily ted the company , the follow- WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS , will become all the more difficult , because of ing deserve attention : - No preliminary charges whatever ; the despatch with which advances are completed ; the low rates of interest charged ; the system of small repay- ments extending over a period . - Address all applications ( in the strictest confidence ) to The Manager , W. SHIRLEY , 48 , STOKES CROFT . BRISTOL ; or to local agent , Mr. GURNEY , 101 , East Street , Hereford . MAYPOLE TEA 1/4 TOBACCO CICARSI CICARETTES ! + Every known Brand at Manufacturers ' own List Prices . Endless variety of Tobacconists ' Fancy Goods and Shop Fittings The Trade only supplied Opening orders a Speciality . Send for Price List to SINGLETON & COLE , Ltd. , Cannon St. , Birmingham . The only WHITE Insect Powder POURFLEA INSECTICIDE ANTISEPTIC NO POISONOUS GERMICIDE For use on DOGS , CATS , POULTRY , etc. Perfect preventative against Moths . Bold at Boots and all Chem sta in 6d . and I- Tins . Wholesale frem CODFREY SHA , S KILL , S'ISS X. + 4 ++ + YOU CANNOT AFFORD to be unwell . Health of body and the resulting elasticity of mind are of supreme importance to everyone living under the strenuous conditions of modern times . The person who is " out of sorts , " " off colour , " or " below par " is not in a condition to make the most of life . Now , the necessity of keeping the organs of digestion in a thoroughly clean and active state can never be too strongly emphasised , since they are the channels through which the body receives its nourish ment . It is therefore a wise , as well as a simple course , never TO BE WITHOUT Beecham's Pilla . the tonic , corrective and curative properties of which , promote a healthy action of the liver , stomach , kidneys and bowels , thereby rendering the work of digestion and assimilation easy and satisfactory . It is a well - known fact that great and ever - increasing numbers of men and women in every walk of life owe their unvarying state of good health to the regular use of + + ROSS , IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN WINES AND SPIRITS . Special Blend of Finest Old SCOTCH WHISKY , G.G , Very Fine Old IRISH WHISKY 817 IT'S Per Dozen . 49 / - 49 / - 16 / - Good Sound OLARET , in excellent condition And other very . Fine Clarets , up to 60 / - per dozen . BOTTLERS OF PALE ALEJ AND STOUT . E. Collins and Sons . Smallbrook , ROSS , Theatrical managers are taking time by the forelock . The arrangements for the autumn season are well in hand , and at the Gaiety an adaptation from the French by George Grossmith and Paul Rubens will be produced under the queer title of " The Bing Boys are Here . " " The Silver King , " which King George recently witnessed at His Majesty's , is to be revived at the Strand and at the neighbouring theatre , the Aldwych , Mr. George R. Sims's new five - act drama , " Jenny o ' Mine , " will make its first appear- Mr. Otho Stuart is to rejoin Mr. F. R. Benson's company , and will play many of ance . To Command Home Fleets . Sir John Jellicoe , who has been appointed to succeed Admiral Sir George Callaghan as Commander - in - Chief of the Home Fleets , is only fifty - five years of age , and has long been recognised as " the " man of the Navy . He has been variously described as the Roberts or the Kitchener of the Senior Service . His career started auspiciously , says the Stan- dard , when he saw active service in the Egyptian war as a lieutenant in the Agin court . The next year he received the £ 80 prize of the Royal Naval College . Three years later he received , while lieutenant of the Monarch , the Board of Trade silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea . he had his first experience of the Admiralty , being appointed , Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance . Service Experiences . Shortly after His next experience was not so pleasant , as he was commander of the ill - fated Victoria when she was sunk off Tripoli by the Camper down . Seven years later he again saw active service in the expedition for the relief of the Pekin Legations , where he acted as chief staff officer to Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour . Then he returned to the Admiralty as Naval Assistant to the Controller , only to take up at the expiration of his tenure of that office the post of Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes . Rapid Promotion . In February , 1907. he attained flag rank , and became in rapid succession Rear - Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet , a Sea Lord of the Ad- miralty and Controller of the Navy , Vice- Admiral Commanding the Atlantic Fleet , Vice Admiral Commanding Second Division of the Home Fleet , and finally Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty . While ocupying that position he was specially selected to hoist his flag in the Thunderer , in command of the " Red " fleet in the great manoeuvres last year . A Captive of the Mahdi . Major - General Sir Rudolf Carl Slatin ( Slatin Pasha ) , a Baron of Austria , G.C.V.O. , K.C.M.G. , C.B. , Inspector - General of the Soudan , who was married in Vienna the other day to Baroness Alice von Ramberg , only daughter of the late General Baron von Ram- berg , has had an extraordinary career . While serving Gordon against the Mahdi this in- trepid soldier fought no fewer than twenty- seven battles . Captured at last by his ancient enemy , he was kept in durance vile for twelve years , suffering like a slave under a load of irons . At last he escaped from the fanatics , and told the story of his awful experiences in a Ross URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL . TOWN LIGHTING TO BE TENDERED FOR . THE PROSPECT IMPROVEMENT . ROSS SECONDARY SCHOOL ESTIMATES . The monthly meeting of this Council was plained of , and that it would be non - exist- held at the Broad - street Chambers on Mon- ent in a short time . After dealing with day morning when , in the absence of the various other matters , he ( Mr. Watkins ) Chairman , Col. O. R. Middleton , the busi- proposed the adoption of the report . ness was presided over by Mr. W. R. Lewis Mr. DAVIES seconded , and it was carried . ( vice - chairman ) . Others present were Mr. J. Meredith , Mr. T. Watkins , Mr. J. H Hall , Mr. E. Morgan , Mr. F. Cooper , Mr. W. Butcher , Mr. J. F. Davies , Mr. T. Mat- thews , with Mr. Ernest R. Davies ( Clerk ) , Dr. A. J. Campbell ( Medical Officer ) . Mr. F. Ricketts ( Sanitary Inspector ) , and Mr. A. H. Pearson ( Surveyor ) . MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT . Dr. CAMPBELL stated that a case of perperal sephicaemia had been reported , to him . but with the exception , the town was quite free from infections disease . He had analysed a sample of drinking water at a house where an illness had occurred , but he found no impurities in it . FINANCE REPORT . Mr. DAVIES , in giving the finance re- port , said the committee had passed ac- counts to the amount of £ 289 7. 2d . had in the treasurer's hands £ 487 18s . 2d .. and when the hills had been paid there would be a credit balance of £ 248 11s . They had also passed the labour account for the nort , said that during the past month , the month of August , accounting for £ 82 . The beds at the common lodging - houses in the town had hee occupied no less than 1,941 times . On the motion of Mr. MEREDITH , seconded by Mr. HALL , the report was adopted .. They THE CASUAL VISITORS . Mr. RICKETTS , in the course of his re- Mr. MEREDITH inquired whether all these people came to look for work or did thev ston at these places for any period . Mr. RICKETTS said many of them stayed in these houses for months at a time . Mr. MEREDITH said so far as his experi- ence went , a lot of these able - bodied men made out when they came round cadging . that they were looking for work , but could not find any . " But he had often directed these men to farms where they would be given work . But from his own knowledge , he knew that the men never went near the place . They might earn , if they liked , from 21s . to 80s . a week . He was , however , be- ginning to lose sympathy with these fellows . Mr. COOPER said several of these people made these lodging - houses their homes from one month's end to another . Mr. MORGAN : And when they are bad they go into the workhouse . Clerk reported that he had received seven guineas from the Atlas Assurance Company . being the full claim in accordance with the brigade charges scale for the call to the fire at the stable in the Crofts . The Clerk also stated that this office had never disputed any brigade claim during the twenty - four years he had been secretary to the brigade . The committee thought this fact ought to be The Ross known by the insuring public . 1915 , was before the committee , and Mr. Secondary School estimate un to July 31st , J. Fred . Arnold attended the meeting and explained various items in the estimate . After a discussion , it was resolved , on the proposition of Mr. Watkins , seconded by Mr. Meredith , that , considering the ex- planation was satisfactory , the estimate should he passed , and that the Finance Chairman should be authorised to sign it and that the estimate shor'd be forwarded by the Urban Clerk to he County Council . with a request that a precept he issued . The committee also wished to discuss certain other matters regarding the school in com- mittee . In moving the adoption of the re- port , Mr. Davies said there were certain matters in connection with the Secondary THE LIGHTING OF THE TOWN . School that should be known by the rate- payers . Mr. Arnold told them that if 20 Mr. HALL , in giving the Streets Commit- more pupils were sent to the school , it would tee report , said the sub - committee had had make a difference of about one penny in tha long conference on the question of the £ on the rates . This school was being car- auto - gaslighting and automatic control , and from the correspondence and pamphlets gone ried on at considerable expense , and the into by the committee , it appeared that this idea that the Urban Council was not favour- ably disposed towards the school was alto- control , either by the " clock work " wade " type , resulted in a very consider- gether a wrong impression . They as n Council wished well to the school , and trust - able saving in the cost of gas , for by this ed it would flourish , and he prosperous in contrivance no longer did lamplighters have future . An excellent education was to light many lamps too early , and extin- given for a low fee , and if the expenses to the rates could be reduced by a penny in the by securing twenty more scholars , the ratepayers should know this . the Mr. MEREDITH seconded . The CHAIRMAN said last year the cost was something like threepence in the £ ; but this year it was only twopence , and they were now told that if they could only get twenty motе scholars that would still further reduce the rate another penny in the £ . Therefore , if they could reduce the rate . they would be able to manage the school at a very small cost to the ratepayers . At Leominster , he understood , the rate was 33d . in the e , so he he considered they had Mr. MEREDITH said he would propose the adoption of the Inspector's report . Mr. carried . WATKINS seconded , and it was or guish others too soon because of the men's long rounds , for af.a pre - determined moment all the automatic gas street lamps in the neighbourhood were simultaneously illumin- ated or extinguished , the gas being auto- matically turned on , and then extinguished by means of a by - pass turner . Apart from the saving in gas , there was a saving in wages of lamplighters , and a further saving in mantles . In Ross , the sub - committee thought that in either the " wade or clock- work type , one of the two lamplighters might be dispensed with . After going care- fully into the figures as to the cost of light- ing for the past three years , the sub - om- mittee considered it would be advisable to the parts he formerly acted with Mr. and book which created a vast amount of interest something to congratulate themselves upon place the matter of street lighting before Mrs. Benson during the forthcoming proviń- cial tour with Shakespeare's plays . London is to witness a religious revival in September , when the American Revivalists , Soudan . " One of Slatin's stories is that he some years ago , " Fire and Sword in the seeing how economically they managed the the Streets Committee before making a re- school . The reducing of the rate by getting commendation . At a subsequent meeting of the Streets Committee , the report of the was in high favour with the Khalifa owing to these extra scholars was a point which his capacity for praying . He showed more should certainly he made known to the pub- sub - committee was considered , and after a Dr. Chapman and Mr. Alexander , will arrive vigour and tenacity in this exercise than any lie . Another point worth knowing was that discussion , and previous to going to the ex- PLUMBERS , HOT & COLD WATER FITTERS , GASFITTERS United States . He was to leave England in Makers of all kinds of Sheet Metal Goods . ESTIMATES GIVEN FOR- KITCHEN RANGES , GRATES , BOILERS , BATHS , LAVATORIES , AND ALL SANITARY WORK ; SPOUTING , PUMPS AND WATER WHEELS , WATER SUPPLIES FOR FARMS , & a ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO . High - class Note Papers AT POPULAR PRICES . BEECHAM'S Newton Linen Note PILLS . Sold everywhere in boxes , price 1/1 ( 56 pills ) & 2/9 ( 168 pills ) . PRINTING STATIONERY Before sending any order for PRINTING or STATIONERY to another Town , enquire the cost of same in Ross . We will gladly give estimates at any time , and only ask for the opportunity to obtain orders . on our merits in open competition . " GAZETTE " PRINTING WORKS A FASHIONABLE NOTE PAPER , AT A POPULAR PRICE . The New Size in several Delicate Tints , with very Dainty Wallet - shaped Envelopes to match . Our Price 7d . per lb. box . " Private Address Embossed or Printed to order . Large variety of Note Paper to select from at THE ROSS GAZETTE OFFICE , 44 , High - street & Church - street , ROSS . new to conduct a mission under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. On the other hand , Mr. Arthur Henderson , M.P. , president - elect of the National Brotherhood movement , is to go on a Brotherhood tour in Canada and the September for his campaign in support of the Brotherhoods which have recently sprung up in America , but I understand that he has had to postpone his visit on account of the changed political situation in this country . However , he is bent on going . In exehanging visits with the American Reviv- alists , it will be something in the nature of religious reciprocity . of the natives , and was accordingly esteemed as quite a portent . of sanctity . A Veteran Gunner . was re- the school was carried on most efficiently , pense of fitting auto - gaslighters to the ' 172 and that although a number of children street lamps , and after going through the . from Ross were sent to Monmouth Gram - Surveyor's draft specification , it the proposition of Councillor mar School , the Ross Secondary School solved on gave the same education at a lower fee , for Lewis , seconded by Councillor Butcher , to recommend to the Council that the Ross . both the schools worked under exactly the Gas and Electric Light Companies should be same code , and in addition to the extra foes , the parents who sent their children to Mon - invited to tender in accordance with the Booth , K.H. , 43rd Light Infantry , and ob- monuth had to pay extra for the railway specification , to be finally approved by the tained his commission in the Royal Regiment ticket . So by sending their children to the Council for illuminant lighting and general as far back as 1850 , serving five years later Ross Secondary School they would get the maintenance of the present 172 lamps and in the Crimes , when he was present at the Major - General W. Booth , late Royal Artil- lery , who recently celebrated his eighty- second birthday , is the son of the late Colonel same value for less money , besides which additions thereto , at a price per lamp , for siege and fall of Sebastopol General Booth they would be helping in the reduction of three years , commencing September 29th retired in May , 1887 , his last command having the rates . next . He proposed the adoption of the re- been that of the Artillery in the Cork dis port . triot . He married in 1861 Eliza , daughter of Mr. COOPER said they ought to he ex- Mr. WATKINS said they ought to deal the late General Russell , Royal Artillery . ceedingly pleased that they had such an ex - with this matter carefully . During the last cellent school in the town , and if any preju- few years they had spent over £ 200 in divert- dice existed , that prejudice should be re- How a V.C. was Won . The London season is now practically over . Victor Hugo says , " Le jour est aux jeunes , " and this seems to be true with regard to the season which is now ending . There have Captain Price Vaughan Lewes , who is ap- been many fashionable dances given by boys and girls . The young hosts and hostesses pointed to command the Superb , gained his either write notes of invitation , or send earde D.S.O. by a very daring and dangerous piece in their own names , and receive the guests of work on the Juba River , says Truth . The themselves . Of course , the suppers are not Somalis had murdered a Mr. Hamilton , and on the same sumptuous scale as would be set were holding two Englishmen of the steam- before their elders , and minerals and barley ship Kenia as hostages . Lieutenant Lewes water are more in request than champagne landed from the cruiser Blanche in charge of or wine . forty volunteers , and made a forced marela Smart Work . moved . He was very sorry the members of ing the flat flame burners into incandescent , the Rural District Council did not support and the streets were now in good order . If the school , but it was said that the Urban they altered the system , the streets would Council had treated them badly . The Rural have , to he pulled up again , and since the Council ought to support the school , seeing extension of the boundary the gas company what advantages the rural people obtained down mains in the added area , and that had gone to considerable expense in laying from the town in the way of markets , etc. the town . They had an excellent school , and though capital expenditure would be practically they did not want to entice people to take thrown away . And before they altered the their children away from other schools , yet present system , he would like to know what The London public parks are the favourite of eighteen miles , surprising and defeat they might throw out the suggestion that advantage they were going to reap , and if it rendezvous of the hundreds of thousands of 900 tribesmen armed with rifles and spears . if they desired to make a change , they could would be cheaper in the end . This matter would require very careful consideration . poor children who broke up at the County He got the two captives out of a fort , de- send their children to the secondary school . Mr. MORGAN said he endorsed every Council's schools last week . Albeit it is not stroyed two villages as a reprisal , and re- Mr. MEREDITH said he attended all the word Mr. Watkins had said , especially for turned without the loss of a man . practicable to give all the youngsters a meetings of the Council last year , and he the sake of a few lamps in the centre of change in the country or by the seaside , I never remembered any member saying n am glad that over 40,000 have had arrange- word against the school . In fact , this ments made whereby they are able to get out Council had always been very proud of the of the smoke for at least a fortnight . The school , and of the way it was managed by the headmaster and his efficient staff . The only thing this Council had ever criticised was that the school should be placed on a first . proper financial basis , so that the school Mr. MEREDITH : Do I understand that could he carried on with as little charge , to the tender will be for lighting the whole of the rates as possible . Personally , he work the area , and not just picking out as it ed for this school very hard for some years , were the " pick of the bunch . " and he was proud of it , and the children at- tending it . Neither had he heard any mem- As senior naval officer at Candia , when the Mussulman outbreak occurred , he landed first half went on Thursday , and the remain- from the Hazard and rescued a party of sol- der will go early next month . The vocal de diers under a colonel in the face of a very light which was audibly demonstrated by the Captain Lewes received the thousands waiting to entrain at the various heavy gun fire . official thanks of the New Zealand Govern- termini would have moved to sympathy all but the most stoical of individuals .. It is to be ment for his services when acting se Deputy Commissioner of the Western Pacific , and on hoped that the public appeal for funds to ex- his return home was awarded the C.B. tend this benevolent holiday scheme will be promptly and generously responded to . A most regrettable occurrence took place To Marry a Countess . It is announced that Millicent Countess ber of that Council say a derogatory word The report , as presented , was adopted . at Dublin on Sunday , when several people Cowley is about to marry Major G. W. were killed and a large number were injured in a street affray between soldiers and Duberly . Major Duberly comes of an old civilians . The affair happening at a critical landed family which has been for over a cen- stage in the Home Rule controversy might tury seated at Gaynes Hall , near St. Neots . have grave political consequences . A few He is in the Grenadier Guards , and has had more sparks of this kind will , it is feared , a distinguished career in the Army , having light the flames of civil war , which will not been present at the battles of Modder River and be subdued very easily . From the conflicting Magersfontein during the South African War . accounts of eye - witnesses it appears that , following a gun - running exploit by the Prefers Sport . National Volunteers at Howth , the con- Lord Wodehouse is just over thirty . When and a detachment of the King's Own Scottish stabulary warned headquarters at Dublin , he was twenty - three , says the Sketch , he stood Borderers and reinforcement of police in- for Mid - Norfolk , and had the fight of his life . tercepted the gun - running at Clontarf , with Barely disguising his attitude towards poli- a view to dispossessing the Volunteers of tics and the election , he faced the constitu- AS It is alleged that some of the ency a Liberal by rather haphazard Volunteers fired at the troops , with the result inclination , and a sportsman by nature ; he if he that two soldiers and a policeman were wanted to experiment and ascertain bared for the political life , and he wanted the adventure of going to the poll . The other man got 4,170 ; Lord Wodehouse their rifles . wounded . When the Borderers returned to Dublin against the school . THE REMOVAL OF OFFAL . The CLERK said that was not so . The tender was to include the whole urban area . The CHAIRMAN said the Electric Light Company would have to lay their mains , Mr. MORGAN : Let them lay their mains The CHAIRMAN said that was so . Mr. HALL said the committee went thoroughly into this question , and they came to the conclusion that if they could get the lighting of the town at a considerably less price , it was only fair to the ratepayers that they should do so , as long as the town was equally as well lighted . It was their duty to do the best they could for the town and ratepayers . Mr. WATKINS : And all the expense the gas company had been to would all be thrown away . Mr. WATKINS presented the Sanitary Committee's report , and said that Mr. Ric- kette reported that there had been some trouble with the occupiers of the slaughter- houses relative to the keeping of offal prior to its removal in properly constructed . vessels . At present this offal was kept The CHAIRMAN said it would be abso- sometimes until it was in a very advanced lutely fair to both companies to throw the taken of purification . When it had been lighting of the town open to tender . The taken through the town , the stench was in- Electric Light Company complained that describable , and especially was this the case some five weeks ago . He ( the Inspector ) they had never had a chance to do anything asked the Council to take into consideration so far as street lighting was concerned . the fact that the slaughter - houses in the There was another point . The lighting ac- town were practically surrounded by dwel- count had been unsatisfactory . It was more one year than another , and it would be far ling - houses , and that it was unfair to those more satisfactory to both the Council and dwellers that such a condition of things they were met in the streets by huge crowds Entering the Commons with a majority of of food might become contaminated by flies the lighting of the town was to cost . got 4,197 should exist , in addition to which articles the companies if they knew exactly what and pelted with volleys of stones . Thereafter twenty - seven , Lord Wodehouse kept his seat which might have feasted off this refuse be- found that the Gas Company had treated Mr. MEREDITH said he had always the military opened fire with ball cartridge . for four years , mainly because there was no The effect of the firing at close quarters was good reason for getting out of it . Four years yes to the butchers , and had asked them tip-top.id fore . The Inspector had sent copies of the deadly , and the streets of Dublin - not for the A letter was also received from Mr. HALL said if they asked the one com- The CLERK : The companies will have to was long enough experience to show him that first time in the last twelve months were the such ideals as he cherished would not flourish them to provide galvanized receptacles , with scene of much bloodshed . In addition to firing , the troops are said to have charged the in the stifling atmosphere of Westminster , close fitting covers for the storage of this pany for a price , it would be only fair to and more than long enough to explode the offal . The committee , said Mr. Watkins , ask the other . Mr. MORGAN : Where are you going to crowds with bayonets . As to who gave the fallacy that the Commons is the best club in approved of the action of the Inspector , and order to fire , and as to how many volleys were fired altogether , are questions which demand London . He prefers the Bath , plus the polo requested him to see that the bye - laws were get the money from for the mains ? Beld . At any rate , he did not stand for Par- carried out . close inquiry , and no doubt the Government liament again . will cause this unfortunate affair to be probed to the bottom . The inhabitants are very in- dignant , and their attitude towards the soldiery is such that the latter are confined to barracks . Several soldiers who happened to be in the streets at the time of the affray were set upon indiscriminately and badly maltreated . HIGH - OLASE NOTE PAPERS at lowest prices . Largest and choicest stook in the district to select from at the " Gazette " Office - Advt . Besides being the fines , Seceptioni mending all breakages , Secestine is Invaluable to ladies for renovating all kinds of Dress materials , Laces , & c . SECCOTINE M'CAW , STEVENSON & ORR , Ltd. , Loop , Belfask , and 312 , Shoe Lane , London , E .: Mr. BUTCHER seconded the adoption of discussion . one of the memorialists concerning the pay for that . smoke nuisance , saying that the nuisance down the lower part of the town was little if the report , which was carried after further any better , and unless the Council moved in the matter the petition would be sent to the Local Government Board . The committee THE FLOODING OF THE TOWN . did not wish to be brought into conflict Mr. HALL further reported on behalf of with a firm with such a large interest in the Streets Committee , that in consequence the town , and he thought if this matter was of the recent flooding of the lower part of left to the Sanitary Committee it the town , the committee considered it a would be put right . They were assured by matter of urgency to provide a storm water the Manager that every step was being sewer to prevent a repetition of such flood- aken to put a stop to the nuisance coming . The committee therefore gave instruc- |