Ross Gazette 9th July 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 9th July 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 09/07/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 9th July 1914 |
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Cycling- the Perfect Pastime . You more than double the enjoyment of your leisure by cycling . No other pastime can quite equal its charm , variety and health giving qualities , Why not follow the example of thousands of cyclists , and RIDE A B.S.A. Bicycle A B.S.A. fitted with an Eadie Coaster or B.S.A. Three - Speed would make an ideal machine for you . Bole Local Agents- PASSEY & HALL , Ltd. , 35 , Gloucester - road , ROSS . £ 1 DOWN SECURES A B.S.A. BICYCLE Ross Police Court . FRIDAY - Before Capt . R. H. Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , Col. O. R. Middleton , Mr. H. J. Marshall . LICENSING BUSINESS . The licence of the Nag's Head Inn , Ross , was permanently transferred from Mr. Levi Rose to Mr. William Henry Pearson , of Gloucester . A permanent transfer was also granted Mr. Matthews in respect to the licence of the King George's Rest , Corps - Cross - street , There was no other business before the Court . Ross , HEREFORDSHIRE ASSIZES . LABOURER SENTENCED FOR STACK FIRING . The Herefordshire Summer Assizes were opened at the Shire Hall , Hereford , before the Lord Chief Justice ( Lord Reading ) on Friday . DISCHARGED WITH A CAUTION . George Henry Webb ( 17 ) , Holmer ; Regin- ald Arthur Small ( 15 ) , and Everard ' Aubrey Small ( 12 ) , were charged with breaking and entering the dwelling - house of Wilfred Evans , at Holmer , Hereford , and stealing 11s . 6d . in money . Mr. T. P. P. Powell prosecuted . The defence was that it was a mischievous freak on the part of the boys , and not the result of a vicious disposition . Harewood End Police Court . MONDAY - Before . Mr. G. W. Bankes ( in the chair ) and Mr. G. W. Davey . SWINE FEVER REGULATIONS . Llangarron , was summoned for not keeping Morgan Davies , farmer , Upper Trewen , the register concerning his boar pig properly filled up on April 7th and May 7th . Defendant , when charged , said : " For the one day I do plead guilty to , but for the other days I do not know that I should plead guilty . " He said P.S. Kendall deposed that on June 19th , he received instructions from the Inspector of the Board of Agriculture to place Mr. Morgan Davies under form B in consequence of swine fever existing at two places at Symonds ' Yat . He asked Mr. Davies if he would kindly let him see his boar register . He did , and in that register defendant had an entry for March 17th for a case at Sy- monds ' Yat . He asked Davies if the sow had been there on any other days . He replied that it had , but that he did not enter that , as the sow did not prove service , and there- fore he thought he need not enter it . On Monday , the 22nd of June , he again called . at Mr. Davies ' Farm and saw the register again . He asked if another sow had been there on the 12th May , the mother of the pigs affected with swine fever . that was so , but that he had neglected to make the entry . Mr. Davies did not know exactly the date . The sow was on his pre- mises from the 12th to the 18th May . De- James Williams ( 33 ) , labourer , Weston- to Mr. Davies , P.S. Kendall said that the fendant was still under form B. In reply under - Penyard , Ross , was charged with set - defendant did not withhold any particulars ting fire to a stack of wheat straw , the as regarded the tracing of these sows . property of Joseph George Protheroe , at The Chairman said it was perfectly clear Rudge Farm , Weston - under - Penyard . Mr. to the Bench that defendant had not com- Sherwood prosecuted , and Mr. Farrant de- plied with the Swine Fever Orders . Had de- The only evidence was that the prisoner fendant ever been cautioned before . Defendant said he had not , but the Clerk was seen in the vicinity of the rick , and said the notices had been properly published . footmarks near the fire corresponded with The Chairman said the Bench had decided his boots . defendant would be fined 5s . and 98. costs to take a very lenient view of the case , and for each of the two offences , which was 28s . in all : The lads were discharged with a caution . DISCHARGED . fended . Prisoner said he went to see the fire , but denied starting it . The Judge said it would be unsafe to convict , and the prisoner was discharged . CHURCH AND OFFICE BREAKING . In the Second Court ( before Mr. Com- missioner Vachell , K.C. ) , three men of the tramping fraternity named Charles , John , and Herbert Bateman , aged 27 , 29 , and 25 , were charged with breaking into Yarkhill Church and stealing money from the poor- box on June 7th ; also with breaking into the booking - office at Ledbury Railway Sta- tion and stealing 9s . 7d . , the property of the Great Western Railway Company , and further with stealing a pair of boots belong- ing to Christopher Lewis , from the porters ' room at Ledbury Station on the same date . Prisoners pleaded guilty , and there were John was sentenced to eighteen months ' hard labour , Charles to twelve months ' hard labour , and Herbert to nine months ' hard numerous previous convictions . labour . DUTCH BARN FIRED . Frederick Charles Tyler ( 28 ) , labourer , was found guilty of setting fire to a Dutch barn on a farm occupied by Mr. Henry Cox , Brimfield , near Leominster , also ten tons of hay and straw , and garden tools . Mr. Powell prosecuted . Prisoner , who said he had been drinking , was sentenced to three months ' hard labour . SCHOOL CASE . Alice Bick , of Doward Hill , Whitchurch , was charged with not sending her child Ada regularly to school , the girl being absent on June 25th . said the child was 13 years of age , and in Mr. F. Bolton , School Attendance Officer , standard five . She had not attended school since January 7th . The defendant's hus- band was in the Asylum , and the woman had 1s . in May 25th of this year . a short time ago been confined . She was fined There were two younger children on the school regis- the roads . She would be 14 in August . In ters , but this girl was allowed to run about reply to the Chairman : Mr. Bolton said he had explained to the mother that as the child was over 18 years of age , and it could he proved that she was properly employed agriculture , that she might leave school . The Chairman said that defendant would have to pay a fine of 16 . For Oakes , Pastry , Puddings & Plea BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER . LEEDS STUDENTS ' RIOTS . VEGETABLES AS MISSILES FOR AUDIENCE . THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , JULY 9 , 1914 . ROAD RECONSTRUCTIONstruction of about twenty - two miles of road . IN HEREFORDSHIRE . MR . JACK'S REPORT . The task of obtaining and hanling the neces sary materials required is in itself a diff- pult and trying business . The several gangs of men and the steam rollers must be kept constantly at work if the best financial re- sults are to be obtained . In many cases the quarry owners cannot turn out the materiál fast enough , which upsets the haul ing arrangements and also the general pro- gress of the work . RIFLE SHOOTING . HEREFORDSHIRE COUNTY MINIATURE ASSOCIATION . The following is the team selected to shoot against Lincolnshire in the Inter- County postal match which takes place dur- GLOUCESTERSHIRE PITS CLOSED . EFFECT OF AMALGAMATION OF BANKS . In his seventh annual report on the main roads of Herefordshire the County Sur- At a meeting of the Gloucestershire veyor ( Mr. G. H. Jack ) acts the part of the candid friend both to the public and the Cuorty Council on Monday , Mr. J. Emes County Council . He is evidently not enam- collieries in the Kingswood district , in the oured of the altered system of maintenance With regard to the Hereford - Ross road ing July : -E . James , I. D. James , and J. called attention to the closing of certain just established with the District Councils . ( Callow Hill ) Mr. Jack states that the diffi- R. Moore , Ross ; F. Vick , G. Edwards , and hope that the Education Committee would In the lay mind there is no doubt an impres - culty of maintaining the surface was due to C. Mound , Kimbolton ; P. C. Lloyd and R. take whatever steps might be necessary and sion that the County Council now administer the presence of the irregular outcrop of rock Hopkins , Canon Ffrome ; A. U. Zimmerman within their powers for relieving distress the main roads absolutely , but at the outset heing near the road surface .. The strata G. Bowkett , and S. Bowen , Tarrington ; A. among school children . He said that without N. J. any warning four of the pits in the district Mr. Jack declares that it would not be quite dipping into the hill gave rise to it series Stephens , Ballingham ; W. S. Gagim- had been closed and something like 2,000 correct to say that they are now under the of " pockets " which were filled with very Moore , W. H. Faulkener , and R. direct management of the County Council soft clay . This has to be removed to aery , Hereford ; P. Hoddell , P. Freeman , men had been thrown out of work . for these reasons : depth of as much as three feet in places , ( 1 ) The district surveyors are still engaged and the area filled with hard material by the District Councils , and are only re- Similar difficulties were experienced on the sponsible in part to the County Council . Hereford - Shrewsbury road at Dinmore Hill . ( 2 ) The roadmen are engaged jointly upon At this place the work was even more costly the main and district roads . " for the reason that the soft sides had scarcely . ( 3 ) The plant is owned partly by the any metal upon them . The crust of the road County and District Councils . now varies from one to three feet in thick - range of the latter club . The teams were closing of the collieries had been brought ( 4 ) The details of the accounts are in the hands of the clerks or surveyors to the rural districts . In short the full responsibility for the management and financing now rests with the County Council ; and at the same time , he points out , the actual execution of the work still rests to some extent with the Dis- trict Councils acting as agents for the Coun- ty Council . From the point of view f the District Councils this arrangement has the advan- tage of placing at their disposal a better staff and plant for the maintenance of the district roads . I venture to give it as my own opinion ( says Mr. Jack ) that from the County Council point of view the system does not hold out a single advantage ; on the contrary it is against the interests of efficient main road management . It seems to me that from whatever point of view the position is approached there does not appear any reason why the finances of the county generally should suffer by reason of Herefordshire falling into line with other English counties in the important matter of highway administration . " Looking back a bit , Mr. Jack opines that the old method of maintaining the roads through contracts with the District Councils may be said to have been a success until the advent of motor cars : from that time its efficiency steadily declined until March , 1913 , when it became impossible and unworkable mainly for these reasons : Firstly , the ever increasing traffic made estimating exceedingly difficult , the roads giving way where least expected , and thus jeopardising the granting of the annual certificates . The withholding of these cer- tificates was most irritating to the District Councils and incidentally a most un- pleasant duty for me . Naturally the District Councils used every endeavour to guard against their financial arrangements being upset , and this brought about an inflation of the estimates and a constant demand for extra allowances . Thus in the case of there being the least doubt as to a road being passed , applications for increased grants were made with very little com- punction , with the result that large sums of money had to be granted , otherwise the withholding of his certificate might have been dubbed unreasonable . Secondly , the important question iof ac- counts which is now receiving the attention of the committee , is another factor in the difficulties attending the old contract sys- tem and the present agency system , It is of the utmost importance that the responsible official should have ready access to all ac- counts in connection with the work under his charge . In Mr. Jack's opinion serious errors are likely to be made , and in fact have been made owing to the accounts being kept in no less than 13 offices , three of which are outside the county boundaries . If the ex- penditure is to be kept anywhere near the estimate the accounts must be kept at the Shirehall for frequent reference . Thirdly , it is common knowledge , that much better terms can be arranged with large orders are to be dealt with , and he says quarryowners . hauliers , and others where he has proved this to be so in connection with the Road Board work , which is under his absolute control and supervision . Com petition is very much keener than it would be if this work were to be split up for execu- tion by the District Councils . just ended amounted to no less than £ 42,287 ; The District Councils ' estimate for the year add to this the extra grants on the same basis as the previous year and the figure rises to £ 46.437 . The total cost was £ 88,112 . This sum includes the establishment charges and extra expenditure over and above estimates . £ 45,000 ESTIMATES FOR 1914-15 . ness . HOW TO OBVIATE " POTHOLES . " The whole character of the repairs on the much - used roads has altered during recent years . In this county there is now not nearly enough attention given to early re- pairs of rotholes . The work must be done in the early stages , and must be skilfully and methodically executed . The life of the trunk roads is now less than one - half what it was when Mr. Jack came into office seven years ago . batch , Hamnish . and G. Banton , Whitchurch ; H. J. Cole- " HEREFORD TIMES " CUP CONTEST . The first match in connection with the last , when Tarrington met Hereford on the above competition took place on Saturday Mr. J. W. Nicholls said the closing of the pite was little less than a calamity . He feared many of the children would be sent to school in such a condition that it would be as useless as it was cruel to attempt to Mr. W Priday said he understood the educate them . NO SALE , NO SELLING OFF , NO HALF - PRICE , But a large , clean , and reliable Stock of present day Drapery Goods always on hand , in all Departments . THERE IS NO BETTER VALUE . WAKEFIELD KNICHT , HEREFORD . SOLICITOR'S FRAUDS . £ 20,000 OLIENTS ' MONEY MISSING . The failure , owing to extensive defaica- evenly matched , and but for a Hereford com- about by the recent amalgamation of certain petitor putting a bull on a Tarrington target banks . It did not seem to be a matter for tions , of a firm of solicitore which has been Hereford would have won by two points . Unfortunately for Hereford the match goes to their opponents , who will shoot in the final stage at the county meeting at Ross on August Bank Holiday . The the County Council to consider . ( " Oh ! " ) . The Vice - Chairman : The cause does not in existence for 150 years . was disclosed at the London Bankruptcy Court on Saturday Mr. T. H. Deakin suggested that the at a meeting of the creditors of Mr. James affect us at all . Education Committee should be given power John Stokes and Mr. Francis Harcourt to deal with the question as the necessity Stokes , practising as Hawks , Stokes , and COUNTY PRIZE MEETING . arose . The matter was not settled by any Sons , at Borough High street , S.E. means , but there was a hope that the col- " It is one of those distressing cases , " " said The County Prize Meeting will be held on August 3rd at Ross on the Territorial Rifle lieries would be started again . Mr. E. S. Grey , Official Receiver , " of solici- The Vice - Chairman pointed out that under tors appropriating to their own use money be Range , by kind permission of the Hereford- I notice in several districts attempts shire Territorial Force Association . An at the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act the longing to their clients . In this instance the are made to force chippings into the holes tractive programme of competitions has been local education authority were enabled to ap - senior partner , Mr. J. J. Stokes , who is big entry . ply to the Board of Education for sanction seventy - four years old , takes all the blame , arranged and should attract with a heavy roller : this is not only in- A new feature this year is a competition for to make provision for feeding necessitons and says that his son , the junior partner , had effectual but very expensive . If my re - inexpert marksmen . The Rev. N. Burgess , school children up to the limit of the amount no knowledge of the transactions . cent instructions are properly carried out , of Knighton - on - Teme , will take charge of which could be raised by a halfpenny rate amount of the aefaleations cannot be there will be no need for the use of the firing point , and Mr. L. W. Dancey , of on the parishes served by the schools in tained at the moment , but it is estimated by £ 20,000 . The joint heavy roller : the old idea of waiting until Wilts Rifle Association , will act as statistics question . If the Council thought it wise to the senior partner at trust the Education Committee with the liabilities of the firm are put at £ 24,582 , and the road is in such a state as to need re- grave responsibility of making application the separate liabilities of Mr. J. N. Stokes The coating ' s very much out of date . trunk roads must be frequently patrolled to the Board of Education in the matter , it at £ 19,000 . " The creditors appointed a trustee to wind by competent lerigthmen , and all neces- would be the right course to adont . The com- mittee would not adopt the course , unless up the estate in bankruptcy . sary repairs , however slight , attended to at once . The time is not far distant , and in fact has arrived in some counties , when the principal highways will need as much attention as a railway track . Railway tracks are certainly much easier to main- tain than highways used continuously by mechanical traffic . OPENINGS FOR SKILLED WORKMEN . Mr. Jack goes on to say that he is afraid that the pressing need for well trained and skilled roadmen is not recognised as it should be in counties like this where agriculture is the staple industry . The lack of skilled men officer . SUMMER LEAGUE MATCHES . The present position of clubs is as follows : Hereford Ross Ballingham Tarrington Much Marclė Hamnish Canon Ffrome Kimbolton Lucton Whitchurch .... Shot . Won . Lost . Pts . 8 2 1 4 2 1 4 1 1 5858882552 1 1 1 8 3 5644222000 they found that children attending their schools were in real want of sustenance , and he was sure the Council would not like to feel there were school children in Gloucester- shire who were starving through want of action on their part ... REAR - ADMIRAL KILLED . ascer- FATAL MOTOR - CYCLING ACCIDENT . MINE AND FARM WAGES COMPARED . died in the Cottage Hospital , Camberley , on Rear - Admiral Edward Percy Ashe , M.V.O. , SNAPPED PUNT POLE . TWO PEOPLE DROWNED AT Viscount St. Aldwyn said he sympathised Sunday , from injuries received in an accident with what had been said on the subiect . He while motor - cycling on Saturday evening . The ( Lord St. Aldwyn ) , however , felt that col- Rear - Admiral , who was sixty - two , joined the Detail scores of last week's matches are as liers were persons who , compared with the Navy in 1866 , and was placed on the retired follows : agricultural Inbourers , were very well paid . list in 1908. He served in the Egyptian War when they were at work , and because a col- of 1882 , receiving the medal and Khedive's TARRINGTON V. MUCH MARCLE . liery was closed immediately the children of bronze star , and also in the South African War . Much Marcle . colliers who had been earning high wages E. G. Morris 98 should require to be fed at the expense of L : C. Powell 96 the ratepayers , seemed to him to reflect S. Weston 95 upon the thrift of the colliers . It might be R. Whittaker 92 necessary , and if so the Education Commit- ..G . Smith 90 tee would do it , and it was quite right the H. Weston 84 Connty Council should sanction what they had done ; but he ( Lord St. Aldwyn would 555 like to know whether there was any power on the part on the part of the Education Authority to treat the relief granted under Co. , in the Thames at those circumstances , as a loan , to he repaid when the collieries were at work again . If Pangbourne on Saturday . Miss James and her younger sister were so , that would be a fair thing to be done .. The Vice - Chairman pointed out that the staying at Whitchurch , and Mr. Lines had Act gave powers of recovering the cost from gone down for the week - end . Miss James and Mr. Lines , with Mrs. Han- parents where there was ability to pay . ... A Vernall ( 93 ) , E. Preece ( 90 ) , for Tarring- ton , and C. H. Hall ( 84 ) , for Much Marcle , were counted out . BALLINGHAM V. WHITCHURCH . Ballingham . labour is everywhere apparent even in the Tarrington . richer counties . In Herefordshire the want 98 S. Bowen is becoming very serious . 97 W. Morgan ...... of such Modern methods are expensive and unless 97 A. Zimmerman the men understand their work . there is 98 G. Evesham every probability of much money being wast - 96 H. Higgins ed . It must not be forgotten that the art 95 G. Bowkett ... of modern roadmaking is not more than 15 years old at the most . To many people any 579 sort of man will do for roadwork , the im- pression being that little or no skill is requir- ed . This is a great mistake . Mr. Jack ven- tures the opinion that there are not a dozen workmen in the county competent to act as foremen over gangs employed in the con- struction of waterproof roads . Most of the likely men for such work in this county are 97 H. Stephens attracted by the higher wages paid in the 96 A. Stephens industrial districts of Staffordshire and South 95 A. Seymour ... Wales . It should be made known that skill- 98 R. Phillips ed labour upon the roads affords good pros- 92 J. Stephens pects for energetic men , and that there is 92 H. Green ... room in this county for quite a number of such men . The extra wages paid would be 565 recouped over and over again , if only for the reason that work would be thorough in the first instance . It matters little how competent the Chief Surveyor or his staff may be , if the men who actually do the work are untrained and consequently incom- petent the result must be unsatisfactory and costly into the bargain . It is quite impos- 99 N. J. Moore sible to get good work out of a bad work- 99 W. H. Faulkner man , however much he is supervised . In- 98 W. S. Gagg ... sufficient ; what is wanted is a combination 95 J. Faulkner tellect and labour taken separately are in - 97 E. J. Thomas ... of the two . or as the 96 R. W. Dimery otto of the Royal Agricultural Society has it , " Practice with Science . " Whitchurch . PANGBOURNE . A snapped punt pole caused the deaths of Miss . Dora James and Mr. T. Price Lines , & young solicitor , and a member of the firm of and Donisthorpe P. Freeman 98 P. Hoddell 97 Mr. Emes informed Lord St. Aldwyn that Bon , another friend , had been up the river , G. Banton 96 the colliers in the district were not paid at Suddenly the pole snapped and she lost her and Miss James was punting them back . C. Godwin 92 the rate which other colliers received . The balance . She caught at Mr. Lines , and in A. J. Herbert 86 minimum wage was more than 28. a - day less her fall she pulled him overboard . Ballingham , were counted out . R. Carpenter ( 90 ) and F. Probert ( 90 ) , for 584 labourers do . ... F. Taylor 78 than obtained in Yorkshire . He thought the Mrs. Hanson , who was lying down in the colliers in his district were the worst paid in punt under the shade of a large parasol , first 547 the country . knew that there had been an accident when Lord St. Aldwyn : They get at least twice she heard the splash . She caught up a paddle or three times as much as the agricultural to take the punt back to the spot , and a resi- dent of Pangbourne , Mr. Layard , whose Mr. 8. Fussell said if the families had to house was near by , plunged into the river migrate to other districts in order that the fully clothed . husbands might obtain work , and were put Both Mr. Lines and Miss James , however , R. Hopkins 99 to consider expense in so doing , it would almost immediately , and when their A. Bengry 94 be difficult if not impossible for them to re - bodies were recovered a quarter of an hour ... R. Cowell 93 pay the loans . later artificial respiration failed to restore R. C. Lloyd 98 Mr. J. H. Alpass moved that the Educa- life . Mr. Layard was rescued . HEREFORD V. CANON - FFROME . Hereford . ... Canon - ffrome . W. Walters 92 tion Committee be empowered to apply to H. Clarke 92 the Board of Education for sanction to pro- vide means for school children in the dis- trict in question if the necessity arose . 569 O. A. Falkner ( 94 ) , F. N. Taylor ( 90 ) , for Hereford , and A. Cowell ( 89 ) and H. Deem ( 86 ) , for Canon - ffrome , were counted out . ROSS V. KIMBOLTON . NEW COUNTY BRIDGES . Mr. Jack has these notes on new county bridges : Three new ferro concrete bridges gins bridge over the Lugg , Horsepool Bridge were completed during the past year . Wer- over the Doyre , and Sapey Bridge at Whit- Ross . hourne . The estimated cost of Wergins 97 E. James Bridge , including the pipe and concrete cul- 96 J. R. Moore ... verts on the north side was £ 2,365 . The 94 W. Newton actual cost was £ 2,097 . Horsepool Bridge 94 F. Hill ... Kimbolton . VILLAGES THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION . sank ARMED WOMAN AT PALACE . A VICTIM OF HALLUCINATIONS . minster result Mr. G. Jefferies , in seconding , said he An Australian lady is at present detained thought Lord St. Aldwyn was mistaken as in the observation ward of the City of West- Workhouse , pending the to high wages being paid in the collieries referred to . They were old collieries , and of communication with her legal representa- F. Pearce 97 very expensive to work , with the result tive in Bristol . On Friday evening the lady ... F. Lucas 98 that it had not been possible to pay the rate addressed a policeman at Buckingham Palace , F. Vick 93 of wages which ruled in some colliery dis- and asked to seen the King . Her manner ... C. Mound 92 tricts . Two villages , Mangotsfield was so strange that the officer took her to the and was completed at a total cost of £ 268 4s . 5d . , 93 T. C. Sherwood G. Edwards 92 Pucklechurch , were threatened with extinc - police - station , where she was found to be in and is , I believe , much appreciated by the 91 I. D. James ... The estimates for the current year were in inhabitants of the Peterchurch district . No F. Chandler 85 tion unless the collieries were restarted , and possession of two loaded revolvers , of which At the first place submitted to the County Sur- less than 125 was contributed by a local 565 ultimately the education grants would be she could furnish no intelligible account . 552 greatly affected in consequence . the police - station she said she wanted to see vevor by the District Surveyors . After ex - resident , Mr. C. F. Gibbs . The cost of Sapey For Ross , T. Tomey ( 86 ) and H. W. Bull The Education Committee were given the King " about the sale of two houses , " and amining the roads in company with the sur - Bridge was £ 853 5s . 6d . , against the con- ( 84 ) , and for Kimbolton , A. Dwen ( 82 ) were authority to take any steps necessary in the as she was apparently the victim of hallucina veyors in cases where he considered such tract amount of £ 850 . Other expenses in counted out . matter , and it was stated that if the position tions she was conveyed to the Fulham - road procedure necessary Mr. Jack revised the became urgent a special meeting of the com- Workhouse , where she still is . estimates and effected very considerable mittee would be summoned to deal with it . The total estimate as approved by the County Council at the April meeting The tenders for the supply of road material and haulage thereof have been submitted to Mr. Jack by the District Councils . These have been examined , some economies made , and the original documents returned to the respective Councils . economies . amounted to £ 45,551 . GENERAL CONDITION OF HEREFORD- SHIRE ROADS : In spite of a reduction of £ 4,000 in the estimate presented by the District Councils in respect of maintenance during the year 1913-14 , the roads . Mr. Jack declares , are in about the same state of repair . He is able to state that over long stretches consider- able improvement is noticeable ; on the other hand lengths which were in good repair last year are now greatly in need of repair . As the Vice - Chan The past year was an exceptionally favour- able one as regards weather . There were no continuous periods of rain , no snow to speak of , and very little frost . Adverse climatic HAMNISH V. LUCTON SCHOOL . Hamnish . connection with the work were as follows : - Propping , wathing and lighting old bridge prior to reconstruction , £ 88 16s . 2d .; tem- used during the reconstruction , £ 61 88. 1d .; 97 G. Millichip porary bridge , £ 150 ; repairs to private roads miscellaneous expenses , £ 15 8s .: making a 98 G. Colebatch 92 E. Anthony total of £ 1.168 17s . 9d . Lucton School . E. R. Maude 98 G. B. McMichael 92 ... F. R. Stone , 90 H. J. Nock 87 R. A. Brittain 84 A SORDID CRIME MURDERERS CHEATED OF THEIR OBJECT . i GERMAN COUNTESS'S SAD END . DEATH IN A LONDON BOARDING - HOUSE . The death of a woman named Winifred de Nordwell , twenty - eight , who had described herself as the widow of a German count , was in the Westminster on Saturday Coroner's Court . The most important work to be under- 90 F. J. Davies ... taken this year will be the repair and restor- 87 W. Chester ation of the fine 16th century six - arch bridge 87 H. J. Colebatch E. D. Fitzpatrick 82 over the Wye at Wilton , near Ross . The preservation of this ancient monument will 546 A despatch from St. Petersburg gives the related call for much care and skill on the part of For Hamnish , G. W. Robinson ( 85 ) and neighbourhood of Uralsk . A cattle dealer re - ager , Bessborough Gardens , said that he met 528 following particulars of a crime enacted in the all concerned . I am most anxious to retain W. Robinson ( 70 ) , and for Lucton School , in every detail the ancient and picturesque W. J. Davies ( 82 ) and J. H. Dodgson ( 69 ) character of the finest bridge in the county , and one of the most interesting in the West of England . Bournville Chocolate HOW A WELL - KNOWN ACTRESS STOPPED HER HAIR FALLING . MISS UNITY MOORE'S VALUABLE AD- VICE TO ALL WHO WISH NICE HAIR . It is not generally known that Miss Unity Moore , the vivacious young actress playing a leading part in the " Marriage Market " at Daly's Theatre , London , recently had the unpleasant experience of losing a large missiles by students to pelt the gathering pre- Rice , peas , and cabbages were used as quantity of her beautiful hair . Writing from Daly's Theatre she tells us how , after sent when degrees were conferred at Leeds undergoing an operation , her hair lost its University on Saturday . Attired in gro- lustre and began to fall out to an alarming tesque fancy garments , the students occupied extent . A friend advised her to try Lavona the gallery in the main hall , and threw Hair Tonic , and this is what she says con- cerning this preparation : " Since I have spring onions attached to fishing rods were numerous articles at the people below , while used Lavona Hair Tonic I am glad to say dangled in visitors ' faces . that the falling out has completely stopped . cellor was passing into the hall a large black I am simply delighted . much more life in it , and the result of using and the mace - bearer were completely en My hair has now blanket was dropped on his head . Both he Lavona Hair Tonic is . most satisfactory . " veloped , and only emerged with the aid of conditions in this county are more severely Lavona Hair Tonic is in fact so wonderfully professors in a very dishevelled state . Several felt than in some counties . effective , that it is obtainable under a per- girl students joined in the disorder , and at part of the roads consist of thin coatings of sonally - signed guarantee of satisfaction or empted to throw the blanket over the Vice- granite resting on red clay , which , when money back from Albert Porter , 13 High - Chancellor as he was leaving . street , Ross . He stepped wet , will not support heavy or even medium aside as it fell , but the mace - bearer was Under this guarantee you do not pay one thrown to the ground . Subsequently the penny for the tonic unless it satisfies you students made a fancy dress parade through completely , and your decision is absolutely the city . final ; therefore we strongly recommend all readers suffering from hair trouble of any kind to get a bottle and try it without delay . DEATH OF MR , SYDNEY GRUNDY . other cases where the traffic is not excessive End , Croydon , in the early hours of Satur the effect is almost as ruinous , inasmuch as day morning , three men made good their the convexity of the road is destroyed and escape in a motor - car . the side ditches so squeezed as to be in many Mr. C. E. Hazlewood , the jeweller , who cases useless for the discharge of the surface sleeps above the shop , was roused by the dening of the clay under the road haunches ters below prized open and then the sound of water this obstruction facilitates the sod- sound of voices , and listening heard the shut which is pushed into waves by the first loco- broken glass . motive . The loss in metal alone on these the window and saw a man in a long grey Seizing a revolver , he ran to weak sides must be very considerable . overcoat and soft hat helping himself to the During the last few years he had strongly jewellery from the window , which he passed advocated large sized material , either lime to one of his accomplices . The jeweller fired stone or slag for the sides instead of the at them , and they ran to the other side of the TRIED TO VOTE TWICE FOR COUNCILLOR DISQUALIFIED LAWYER WHO TOOK TO WRITING PLAYS . His first loads . The greater Perfect Chocolate Flavour BURGLARS IN MOTOR - CAR ENGINE TRAFFIC INCREASING . Engine traffic continues to increase in the MAN WOUNDED BY REVOLVER SHOT . county . Where this traffic is heavy and con- tinuous the roads are quickly ruined . After robbing a jeweller's shop at South In were counted out . on On A witness named Henry Ellis , hotel man- little daughter , and carrying a sum of £ 70 , turning from market , accompanied by his the deceased some time ago at the Sketch art observed a number of suspicious persons who Club , and , finding that they had ideas on and kindred subjects in common , they became followed them . He handed the money to the intimate , and eventually she went to reside at girl , telling her to take the nearest road to her his lodgings during his wife's absence . FALL FROM FOURTH FLOOR . uncle's house . On arriving at her uncle's the return of his wife on Monday she objected dwelling the girl found only her aunt there , to the presence of Mme . de Nordwell in her SAD DEATH OF A LONDON LADY . but an hour afterwards the uncle came in . house , with the result that the deceased left , The girl heard him saying " We have killed The witness met her accidentally in a public- him , but we cannot find the money . " When house in Vauxhall the same night , and found Mrs. Francis Elgar , a lady occupying a flat the aunt told him that the girl was in the at Parkside Mansions , Knightsbridge , a room for her at an eating - house in Victoria- house they decided to kill her . She succeeded , street . On the following day , when a room Saturday morning fell from a balcony of her however , in escaping by the window , and the was taken for her at Page - street , Westmin- flat into the shrubbery bordering Hyde Park uncle , who entered the room , which was dark , ster , the woman very ill , and refused and sustained injuries which resulted in her for the purpose of killing her , murdered his food . The witness did not call for medical death , as she was being removed to St. own daughter instead . The murderers have assistance , as he did not think the case was George's Hospital . The deceased lady , who been arrested . was of independent means and the widow of the late Mr. Francis Elgar , a marine engi- neer , had not been in good health of late , and it is conjectured that in looking over the bal- cony into the Park she lost her balance and fell . The distance from the balcony to the ground was about 60ft . Mrs. Elgar had re- sided in the flat for several years . COLLISION WITH SIGNAL - BOX NINETEEN WAGGONS DOWN EM- BANKMENT . A railway accident occurred early on Sat- urday morning at Yeovil Junction Station on the London and South - Western main line . A heavily loaded goods train was approach- ing the station when the couplings of the rear part became disconnected , and the leased trucks , running down the incline , dashed into stationary waggons . re- They W88 serious , but did so on Thursday morning . The woman died , however , about a quarter of an hour after the doctor's arrival , the cause of death being stated as a gangrened lung fol- lowing on pneumonia and probably accele rated by alcoholism . Mr. Francis Boyles , manager of the Regent Hotel , Piccadilly , identified the deceased as his employer's niece , and said that his em- ployer was now abroad . Death from natural causes was the verdict returned by the coroner's jury . from which he died within an hour . SIR E. CARSON ON ULSTER . Sir Edward Carson and Mr. Walter Long The death has taken place in London of spoke at a Unionist demonstration in South SEVEN YEARS . London on Saturday . Sir Edward said Mr. Sydney Grundy , the dramatist . He had While cycling down Bell Hill , Billericay , Unionists would have none of the Govern- the exclusion of Ulster . been in indifferent health for nearly a year . on Saturday , Mr. Walter Evans , of Leyston- Bentence . of three days ' imprisonment , ment's fantastic proposals with reference to which meant his immediate discharge , was 1848. He was called to the Bar in 1860 , and The impact stone , collided with a postman named Ram- Mr. Grundy was born in Manchester in inal , and there must be an end to all these bankment , narrowly missing the river . To go on with such caused the train to collide with a signal - box , Bay at a sharp corner . Mr. Evans was thrown the punishment imposed at the Northumber practised in Manchester till 1876 . tomfoolery in the circumstances was crim- and , the nineteen trucks rolled over the em- from his machine and sustained injuries , Grummett , charged under the Franchise Act manoeuvres . He was going to Ulster this were completely wrecked . The signal - box . A cheque for £ 40,000 was received by with - endeavouring to vote twice at the Whit - the Haymarket in 1872 , and since then he had tions , he says , have been somewhat tardily man in the overcoat apparently had been hit of peace . If not , they must rely upon them- and part of the bridge was destroyed . The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Com ley Bay and Monkseaton Urban District written or adapted more than fifty dramatic taken up by some of the district , surveyors , by the shot , as he staggered and had to be thing . Mr. Walter Long declared that if the the approaching train he jumped from the provement and viaduct scheme , by which the Council election on April 6th , 1914. Last year . works . and in other instances they have been ignor- helped into the motor - car , selves , and they would not shrink from any signalman had a narrow escape . Noticing pany se their contribution to the pier im- he voted in two wards , believing he had the Belle of Haslemere , " written in conjunction Among his earlier successes was " The ed altogether . the driver of Unionist party were returned to power they window into the road in time . Several troop level crossings will be abolished . The work is right to do so , but on being warned he had with Mr. H. Pettitt , and produced at the axle - weights carried by the majority of en- was not seen , the only gine is the wound sus There cannot be the least doubt that the the number of the motor - ear , if it had one , which at once started off at top speed . As no right promised not to repeat the offence . Adelphi in 1887. Much the most popular of gines using the roads of this county are far tained by one of the thieves . would produce an alternative policy . trains were due through the junction , but In April this year , however , after he had were stopped . voted in one ward he applied for a ballot his many adaptations was " A Pair of Spec- in excess of what is alowed by the law . It paper in a second ward , where he was also tacles , " produced at the Garrick by Sir John on the register . He will now be disqualified from holding any further office for seven Poor Law Guardian . land Assises on Councillor William Jennings play , " A Little Change , " was produced at costly Clee Hill stone . His recommenda- road , where a motor - car was waiting . The week , and hoped they might yet have tokens was knocked over the bridge into the road , Dover Corporation on Saturday from the 1 Hare . will be interesting and instructive to watch the results obtained by the laying down of Horton's BENEDICT PILLS Cyril Bwayne , Thomas Norman Stubbs , and Leonard Budd , a young telegraphist living years , and will cease to be a Councillor and says the Pimea , and in a pamphlet published each axle of vehicles may be obtained , also motor cycles through Llanddulas village at comove all obstructions ; also oure Anemia , and not been seen since . His clothes were found Free to Ladies . Mr. Grundy was little in sympathy with the axle - weight ascertainers , by means of which John French Puddicombe were each fined £ 1 at Kingston , left his home early on Saturday more recent developments of English drama , the separate weight upon each wheel or upon and costs , at Abergele , for recklessly riding In a few days correct all irregularities and morning to go for a swim in the Thames , in accordance with the usual custom , and has the total weight of the vehicle and contents . corner . It was stated that 260 motors passed invaluable . From most chemists , or by post , The machines will weigh up to 16 tons , thirty miles an hour round a dangerous rause no injury ; to the married or single are on the bank at the spot where he usually bathed . under cover , 1 or 2/9 , from Horton & Co. , A mad bull dashed into a shop at Sheffield RECONSTRUCTION OF TRUNK ROADS . The death occurred in Belfast on Saturday Chemists Chief Dispenser from the late on Saturday and knocked down the counter , PRAYER AND HYMN BOOKS , BIBLES , etc.- The year just ended saw the commence of the Most Rev. Dr. Tohill , Roman Catholio Birmingham Lying in Hospital ) . Dept. 10 , Aston injuring an assistant . The animal then jumped All through the window into the street and after- We hold a large stock marked in plain connection with roads with which the County in the Church , the greater part of that of Pills , so improved Banitary Towel , and in - nocked down . It was captured , after a long ment of the most important undertaking in Lord Bishop of Down and Connor . He was Manor , Birmingham . Bold over 50 years . almost sixty years of He was thirty - sevenadies should send penny stamp for a free sample wards attacked Inspection invited . " Gazette " Council has ever had to deal . The work come being spent in Belfast . teresting booklet post free . prises the reconstruction or partial recon- THE Prevents hair falling of Restores it to its natural colour . MEXICAN It is not a dre Prevents Dandruff and is this year spoke scornfully of " " Messrs . Shaw , Barker , and Wilde ( Limited ) , Manufacturers of Epochs . " HAIR Should be on every toilet table . Throughout the World , price 3s . 6d . RENEWER . The best Renewer known . Of all Chemists and Hairdressers figures . Office . - Advt . the spot in two hours . some children , whom it chase , in the outskirts of the city .. costing about £ 100,000 . A great demonstration was held at the Metropolitan Tabernacle , Newington Butta , on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the centenary of peace between the United States and Great Britain . Ministers of all denomina- tions took part and there was a large attendance . MRS . For Children teething . Over 60 years reputation . Allays all pain . WINSLOW'S Soothes the child . SOOTHING SYRUP . Cures Wind Colic . Is the best remedy for Diarrhoe Contains no poisonous ingredients . Sold everywhere , 1/14 per bottle Southa COMPLETE HO AND CHI Have 7 DAYS ' Commencing Thu FUR CARPETS , LINO'S , Of PI CASEMENT MATERIAL TRAVELLIN CHINA , HARTHEN Will be Genn A GREAT d TO S Gloucester ' PHONE 10 . FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT COMETS . A little over & century ago , says S Moments , comets were learnedly regarded Bidereal automobiles packed not with but with universe trotters . Maupertuis tures one pulling up at Paris , and wond who would be the more surprised , the b vardiers or the tourists . The imagination of Ambroise Paré capable of even greater flights . In his entitled " Celestial Monsters , " he describ blood - coloured comet that sailed freighted with axes , knives , and swords , which was manned with hideously bea gnomes . " So horrible and frightful he says , " the spectacle of it , and such t did it engender among the devout that fell sick , and others died . " moor Lambert hastened to the rescue . " Cosmological Letters " he distinctly that a blood - coloured comet , however equipped , could only destroy a few kingd But , later , he was induced to admit th real big one might carry off the hurl us beyond the region of Saturn , w hideous winter reigns interminably .. Kepler himself believed that comets animated . He said there were more sky than fish in the ocean . Arago saw counted them all . According to him were exactly 17,500,000 . According to lace , one of them produced the Deluge . On the other hand . Newton annou that a comet as long as from here to St would , if condensed to the degree of atmosphere , find confortable quarters thimble . NOAH'S ARK . In a letter to the Eastern Morning Mr. M. B. Bakke , one of the Cunard חז in Norway , gave the following technies scription of Noah's Ark : Six hundred feet long . One hundred feet broad . Sixty feet high . Three firm decks . Time of building , 120 years . Year of building , 1656 ( 2509 B.C. ) Materials : Wood . • Owners : Master shipwright Noah . Name of home : Not imposed by the time control of that time . First sailing : February 17th . Place of departure : Unknown . Place of destination : The mountain of A Time of journey : Ten months , fourteen Head - way : Not entered in the log - boo Present position : Docked on the A where it is still standing . ONE PROBABLE EXPLANATION . It was an ancient village . Its church old , its cottages old , its inn was old , an cheese was very old . But the visitor w formed that the oldest thing in it was G Gammon . " Indeed ! " said the visitor . " Her must see him ! " For if he was really than the cheese , he must be well wo visit . His host conducted him out into old courtyard , under an old bridge , ove old stile , and along an old road . At they stood before the venerable and ated human relic of the past . are , sir ! " said the guide , proudly . say he be 112 years old . Now , how account for his livin ' all these yea " Well , " suggested the visitor , as b garded the feeble husk of humanity rec obliviously on a boy h , " perhaps he's done anything else " ТНЕ Моноска . Four gentlemen of rank appeared Old Bailey on June 6th , 1712. charged assault , riot , and beating the wate They were described as Mohocks - a given to a number of profligate and men who almost nightly went forth in In thi injuries on peaceful citizens . stance the charges embraced slittin officer's nose , rolling a woman in a down the street , and upsetting coache chairs . The defence put forward was they were not Mohocks , but had parad streets for the purpose of offenders . A verdict of guilty was re against each of the prisoners , but small fine was imposed . The Mohock source of anxiety to the authorit several years , and a Royal Proclamati issued , offering a reward of £ 100 arrest of the offenders . This does no to have had much effect . When charge brought against these men of fushi magistrates extended to them much le art . arresting To suffer and be silent , that is a There is a weñess in the e craving for sympathy . You think having a harder time than your ne from whose lips no complaint ever but if you knew his or her lot you deem yourself fortunate compared to |