Ross Gazette 21st May 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 21st May 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 21/05/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 21st May 1914 |
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LDSON NEW - HUDSON LADIES ' MODEL . Prices from £ 5 19s . 6d . PASSEY & HALL , CYCLE ENGINEERS , Limited , CENTRAL CYCLE WORKS , ROSS . Agents in Ross and District for the popular NEW HUDSON CYCLES . For many years Official Repairers to the O.T.C. NEW - HUDSON GENT.'S MODEL .. PRICES from £ 5 19s . 6d . Ross Board of Guardians . Mr. MORGAN seconded , and it was carried . The sub - committee appointed , consisted of Campbell and the Officers . LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AND MR . the Chairman and Col. Middleton , with Dr. WEBB'S APPOINTMENTS . NEW GRATES AND SAVING OF COAL . The fortnightly meeting of this authority was held in the Boardroom , Union Offices , Ross , on Thursday morning , when Mr. W. B. Pilkington ( Chairman ) presided , with Mr. F. Cooper in the vice - chair . Others present included Col. O. R. Middleton , Mr. H. H. Child , Mr. F. S. Collins , Mr. R. Pashley , Mr. H. Hone , Mr. T. A. Lock , Mr. J. W. Robinson , Mr. J. Parr , Mr. A. Herbert , Mr. C. A. Scudamore , Mr. A. Gwillim , Mr. H. T. Blake , Mr. W. Lloyd , Mr. E. Morgan , Mr. H. Lickfold . Mr. J. Murdoch , Mr. A. W. Foster , Mr. T. Preece , Mr. J. T. Stone , Mr. J. Day , Mr. S. Birchley , Mr. M. K. M. Power , Mr. D. A. Meredith , Mr. F. W. Bull , Mr. C. Freer : with Mr. J. Fred . Arnold ( Clerk ) , Mr. E. W. Gent and Mr. A. H. Webb ( Relieving Officer ) , and Mr. H. L. P. Battersea ( Master ) . OUT - RELIEF BUSINESS . The RELIEVING OFFICERS reported that they had relieved 241 poor persons dur- ing the fortnight at a cost of £ 54 4s . 6d . , and that with non - resident relief , amounted to £ 56 9s . 6d . FINANCE REPORT . Mr. COOPER presented the Finance re- port , which showed a balance at the bank of £ 508 15s . , less unpresented cheques of £ 1 15s . , leaving £ 507 . They required that morning £ 195 6s . 3d . to meet their current liabilities , and when those were paid there would be a credit balance of £ 311 138. 9d . The unpaid calls due on May 1st were £ 5,586 , and when those were paid there would be a credit balance of £ 5,847 13s . 9d . He proposed that the report , as presented , be adopted . This was seconded and carried . MASTER'S REPORT . The MASTER'S books showed that there were 87 inmates in the house that morning , as compared with 95 for the corresponding period of last year . There had also been 230 casuals relieved during the fortnight , as against 286 last year , or a decrease of 56 . Illustrated papers had been received from Mr. F. Cooper , Rosedale , Ross ; Doctor Campbell , Chepstow House ; and Mrs. J. Hart , Morecambe Lodge . CONCERNING THE HOUSE . Col. MIDDLETON , as Chairman of the House Committee , said they had visited the house that morning , and found everything A quantity of ashes required and as the committee considered it too ex- AN APPOINTMENT NOT SANCTIONED . THE ROSS GAZETTE - THURSDAY , MAY Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution . PRACTICAL BENEVOLENCE AT THE DINNER TABLE . The Wye Valley . 21 , 1914 TRAGEDY AT HULL YOUTHS ' FATAL DUEL MOTHER AND CHILDREN SHOT DEAD . WOMAN INJURED IN FIGHT . During recent years much good work has been done to bring to the notice of tourists the magnificent scenery and attractions of Two love - lorn youths at Lexington , Ken- Two children and their mother are dead the Wye Valley . Without exception the tucky , on Saturday fought duel , killing and their father , John Thompson , an so- The annual election of pensioners being at Wye Valley is one of the most beautiful val- each other and wounding the blonde divorcée countant , home from West Africa , is lying hand , the " diners " at the four leading leys in the country , and is , through exten- about whom they had quarrelled . The dead critically injured as the result of a remark hotels in Ross gave their usual silver collec - sive advertising , becoming daily more popu- duellists were Hubbard Miniard , seventeen , able tragedy at Hull on Saturday tion in augmentation of their annual sub- scription in aid of the above fund . Through out the year , at the Thursday market ordin- ary , the plate is sent round for the usual penny collection , and this year the following appreciable totals have been obtained : - £ s . d . The Swan Hotel , Ross The George Hotel , Ross 206 5 5 disposal . 6 60 550 lar Costumes that Fit , that are New , that will Please . The Largest Stock in the County , THERE IS NO BETTER VALUE . WAKEFIELD KNIGHT , HEREFORD . CHIPS OF NEWS . and Henderson Hensley , eighteen , and the John Thompson was an accountant in a The Great Western Railway Company has woman over whom they fought is Mrs. Martha recently issued a leaflet offering very special Adams , twenty - four , who was separated in gold mining company , and was due to leave and most extensive facilities to tourists who the courts early in the year from a man much England on Tuesday . He had been talking about taking back his wife with him a part wish to spend a holiday in the Wye Valley . her senior , In a brief introductory article , which com- Though she was aware , says the Daily Tele- of the way . He was playing with his two years and mences with the well - known quotation from graph , that both the youths were in love with children , aged two - and - a - half Wordsworth , her , Mrs. Adams did not believe , she says , eleven months respectively , and asked the " How oft in spirit have I turned to thee , that their rivalry was of a fighting nature , so servant to go to a telephone , which was some O Sylvan Wye , she invited both to spend the afternoon with distance away , to ask a doctor to come to see his wife , who , he said , had not been well dur- her and several girl friends . the following particulars are given : - When young Miniard saw Mrs. Adams in ing the night . On returning the maid found " The Wye Valley Ross , Symonds ' Yat , Monmouth . Tintern , Chepstow the mere whispered chaff with his rival the jealousy the doors looked , and looking through the Before the will of Sir Henry Schooles , Lord mention of these names will assuredly suffice which had been smouldering in his breast for kitchen window she saw the two children on to conjure up pleasant visions of all that is weeks broke forth . He uttered a violent oath the hearthrug bleeding from the head . The Chief Justice of Gibraltar , who admitted to beautiful , interesting , and picturesque . The and challenged Hensley to a duel . Both the police were summoned , and Mrs. Thompson probate an affidavit was required from an tourist will find few more delightful localities youths , " chivalrous young Southerners , " was discovered dead in bed , bleeding from attesting witness . for his holiday rambles than in the fertile quickly drew their revolvers and fired . Mrs. gunshot wounds in the head . The little chil- Adams ran between them . The young men dren were also dead . country lying amidst the manifold windings tried to dodge round her in an effort to hit Thompson was lying on a bed in another of the Wye , between Hereford and its junc- tion with the more stately Severn . There is each other without endangering her life . They room suffering from wounds caused by re- almost every kind of natural beauty to be did not save her , however , for she was struck volver and gun shots and also from gashes , in found along the routes to be traversed , and three times . One bullet entered her arm , an- the throat . He was taken to the infirmary in it would be difficult to find a more powerful other her face , and a third her leg . She sank a critical condition . combination of charming scenery and stirring to the floor , while the lads continued their historic memories than that which awaits the desperate efforts to kill each other . Finally young Miniard fell , pierced by four bullets . visitor to this district . Then , in a minute or two , Henry also fell , mortally wounded . The King's Head Hotel The Royal Hotel , Ross Quite recently , upon the solicitation of Mr. Frederick Cooper , the local Hon . Sec .. the plate was sent round the luncheon table at the Point - to - Point Race meeting , and a sum of £ 5 58. was subscribed , making a total of £ 24 18. , which places about 48 votes for The election takes place at the Hotel Cecil , London , on the 10th June next , and the re- sult will be published on the morrow in the " Standard " and several other newspapers . At one of the hotels , at which there was a large attendance , the feeling of the com- pany present was ascertained as to the ap- propriation of the money collected at point- to - point luncheons , and it was the unanimous opinion by vote , that where no compensation is sought by the farmer on whose land a meeting is held , that a sum , equivalent to the cost of a life vote in the Royal Agricul tural Benevolent Institution , should be ap- " The Holiday Season Tickets are issued plied to those complimentary purposes , and at an exceedingly low price for periods of ' a presented to such farmer or his nominee in week , fortnight , or month , and offer a recognition of his generosity in placing his choice of tours unsurpassed by any other grounds at the disposal of the Race Com - description of tickets . mittee : In the leaflet are set out three distinct THE LEDBURY HUNT . JUDGING OF THE YOUNG HOUNDS . On Thursday , at Ledbury Kennels the judging of the young entry took place . Sir George Bullough , the Master of the hunt , had 15 couples to be placed on the flags , 9 The CLERK read a letter from the Local couples dogs and six couples of bitches . The to sanction the appointment of Mr. A. H. fort , Mr. Gerald Hardy ( late Master of the Government Board , in which they declined judges were : His Grace the Duke of Beau- Webb , the Relieving Officer for the Sollers - Meynell ) , and George Sturman ( huntsman to hope district , as collector of taxes for Peter- the Heythrop ) . Their awards stow and Sellack . follows : - Mr. POWER said he thought it was a very arbitary action to take , and he was going to propose that they renew the application to the Local Government Board for their sanc- cion . It should be made quite clear to them that Mr. Webb had only a very small dis- trict to cover , and as the Local Government Board had said that the Board of Guardians were not paying him a sufficient salary , that this would be more work for him to do with a little better income . He ( Mr. Power ) thought they should keep on applying to the Local Government Board for them to re - con- sider their decision . Mr. MEREDITH seconded , and said the Clerk could also point out clearly that in Mr. Webb the Board had a very efficient officer , and as they wished to retain his ser- vices , they wished him to be allowed to do this work . This was agreed to unanimously . MENTALLY DEFECTIVE . The CLERK read a letter from the Coun- ty Council asking for particulars of the names and addresses of all the mentally de- fective persons within the Ross Union , as laid down under the Mental Deficiency Act . He had sent the particulars to the Relieving Officers , and he was awaiting the returns from one district . OTHER MATTERS . Notice was given by Mr. COLLINS to move the re - appointment of Dr. Shepherd as Medical Officer for the number two dis- trict of the Union at the next meeting . A letter was read from the Local Govern- ment Board sanctioning the increase in the salary of Dr. A. J. Campbell as Medical Officer of the Workhouse . The CLERK reported that he had received two applications for the post of assistant nurse in the infirmary , and after reading the letters and testimonials of the applica- tions , it was resolved that the nurse from Hereford should be interviewed by a small committee , including Dr. A. J. Campbell , which was given power to appoint if satis- factory . The CLERK read a report of the dele- gates who attended the recent poor low con- ference at Malvern , which dealt with the question of drink and the new poor law orders . ARMED MAD MOTORIST'S CAPTORS . The Hampshire Standing Joint Committee have made à grant of £ 5 to Superintendent Wakeford , and of £ 2 each to Police - sergeant E. J. Long and Constables S. Joyce and F. A. Poling , of the New Forest police , in re- cognition of their brave conduct in arresting Mr. Lee Bond , the armed " mad motorist , " at Lyndhurst on February 16th . Mr. Bond , armed with a revolver , compelled a chauffeur to drive him through parts of Hants , Dorset , and Somerset , and was arrested only with great difficulty . At the last Hants Quarter Sessions he was ordered to be detained dur ing his Majesty's pleasure . satisfactory . removing , and it was recommended that ap- plication be made to the Urban Surveyor to remove them . A new rug was required for the trainer's room . Only one tender was received for the repair of the boundary wall , travagant , it was decided that the work should be done by a local mason under the supervision of the Master . Six new ham- mocks were required for the tramp wards , and some of the hooks required altering for hanging the hammocks upon . In view of the great saving of coal , through the grates that were put in some six months ago as a sort of experiment , it was estimated that there had been a saving of between 40 and 50 per cent . Under those circumstances , the committee recommended that six new grates of a similar pattern be pur- chased and fixed in . That be a matter for the Contract Committee to consider . The House Committee further re- commended that a small sub - committee be formed to go into the question of the classifi- cation of the inmates , which was now requir- ed under the new poor - law orders issued by the Local Government Board . There was considerable difficulty in the minds of some of the Board as to how this order was to be mere leaves issue a son , Thomas Pitt Hamil carried out , and therefore it was suggested ton Cholmondeley , who was born in 1900 . that this sub - committee should go into the question and report .. Henry Cowmeadow would DEATH OF LADY DELAMERE . A telegram from Nairobi states that Lady Delamere died on Sunday of heart failure . She was Lady Florence Ame Cole , fourth daughter of the Earl of Enniskillen . She was born in 1878 , and married in 1899 the third Lord Delamere , whose interest in big game shooting and in the development of British East Africa she fully shared . Lady Dela- Thousands attended the Letchworth May gave an were " The Holiday Season Tickets now offered by the G.W.R. form an important part of the equipment of all tourists to the Wye Valley and more especially to those bent on compressing as much enjoyment as possible into a limited space of time . tours : - 1. - Tours in the Wye Valley and around the Gateway of Wales . 2. - The Wye Valley and Cathedral Tour . 8. - The Wye Valley Tour . On all these tours these holiday season tickets are issued to holders of tourist tickets or excursion tickets , available for one week or longer , to Ross and other local stations . The tickets are issued solely for holiday pur- poses , and are available for ANY NUMBER and shown on the maps . As to . the fares . of JOURNEYS between the stations named on the first two tours , the weekly tickets as cost 168. first class and 10s . third class ; for a fortnight , 24s . and 148 .; and for a month On the third or Dogs : 1 , Ragman , sire Baronet , dam 86s . and 21s . respectively . Rapture , walked by Mrs. Hutchings , Beau- Wye Valley tour , the weekly tickets cost champ Arms , Dymock ; 2 , Juggler , War 12s . for first class , and 7s . 6d . for third ; for Janitor - Gadfly , walked by Mr. G. Rox- a fortnight , 18s . and 10s .; and for the burgh , Fair Oaks ; 8 , Ravmond , Baronet - month 26s . and 15s . respectively . Rapture , walked by Mrs. Russell , Freetown All the stations included in these tours Bitches : 1 , Betsy , sire Baronet , dam Wakeful . are named on the leaflet , and we have no walked by Mr. J. Parry , Eastnor ; 2 , Jeal- hesitation in saving that this is one of the us , War Janitor - Gadfly , walked by Mr. greatest concessions the Great Western Rail- Jones , Danemoor ; 3. Ratify , Baronet - way Company has made to tourists visiting Rapture , walked by Mr. W. S. Lane , Bos- this district , and we can only hope that their bury . Best couple : Wolfish and Brusher . effort will not only bring " grist to their walked by Mr. Jenkins , Pendock . The mill , " but that it will be for the betterment prize to the new puppy walker went to Mr. of local trade generally . Roxburgh , Fair Oaks , who walked Juggler . After the judging , Sir George Bullough en- tertained the company , numbering about 200 , to luncheon . ANGLING NOTES . The Teme and other streams in the Tebury district continue in good condition for ang- The flies in use are March brown , ling . alder , olive duns , Wickham fancy . The May- fly has been seen on the Teme . In the Worcester area an improvement in the conditions set in after Tuesday , and with the higher temperature prevailing some suc- cess was secured among the trout with the Both the Arrow and the Teme gave fly . some good fish to anglers who used the fly . The minnow has also been successfully em- ploved . The river Severn at Stourport , Bewdley , and Arley is running at a moderate level . Its condition at present is well suited to any form of trout - fishing , and anglers should con- template sport with either fly , minnow , or The best files just now are March brown , blue dun , olive dun , Wickham's fancy , and coch - y - bondhu . worm . Those who cater for visitors cannot do better than keep these special facilities for viewing the Wye Valley prominently before their patrons . We understand that in a few days ' time a booklet dealing solely with Ross will be issued by the Railway Company , particulars of which will appear later . A ROSS NATIVE'S DEATH . ! FORMER MAYOR OF GLOUCESTER . We deeply regret to have to record the death which occurred at a Gloucester Nurs- ing Home on Thursday last of Mr. Trevor Powell , J.P. , the senior , ex - Mayor of the City , and for many years a prominent figure in the civic and political life of Gloucester . The deceased underwent an operation a short time ago for trouble in his right hand , and it was recorded as satisfactory , but he gradually weakened . coal factor . The late Mr. Trevor Powell , who was sixty- nine years of age , was a native of Old Forge , near Ross , where his father was a well - known gentleman , farmer . He went to Gloucester as a young man , setting up business as a Subsequently he became con- The river Wye , refreshed by recent rains , is nected with the Foxes Bridge Colliery Com- in fairly good angling trim , but anglers re - pany . Cinderford , which he represented in quire more downfalls and a warmer atmos- the Gloucester district up to the time of his phere . Sport with salmon continues moder- death . In 1874 he was elected as a coun- ately good , and trouting is satisfactory , par - cillor for the then newly - formed Barton ticularly on the upper reaches of the main Ward - since sub - divided - at the election river and on the Welsh and other tributaries . which followed the incorporation of the Sport with trout is still satisfactory at and urban district of Barton St. Mary with the about Rhayader and the Elan Valley , and old city , and he sat continuously for the also on Lugg and Arrow . A few preliminary aldermancy . He was re - elected to the latter ward until 1892 , when he was elected to an drakes have been seen , but the May - fly season for about a fortnight ' hence , when the May- position in 1898 , but two years later he fish , or chad , will begin to run up - stream ceased to take any part in municipal govern- in great schools . ment . In 1876 he served the office of City ning rather high , but it is in good fishing the Mayoralty , which he retained for two The river in the Buildwas district is run- High Sheriff , and in 1884 he was elected to order . Few anglers have been out ; they years . In the latter part of his municipal are waiting for the opening of the season for career , Mr. Powell transferred his support taken . fresh - water fish . A few trout have been to the Conservative party he had previous- THE HOUSING QUESTION AT LONGHOPE . Mrs. Adams was assisted to bed , and is re- ported as on the way to recovery . NEW KEATS SONNETS . HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LINES . a Bir Ronald Ross has sent to Mr. Lloyd George , for submission to Parliament , a peti- tion setting forth his claims for financial res cognition of his work . The Bishop of London has been promised 25,000 towards the remaining debt on King's College Hostel for Theological Students pro- vided a similar sum is raised by the end of this month . WIFE'S VETO ON DRINK . Sir Lionel Carden has been ordered by the Government to remain at his post in Mexico SALOON - KEEPER FINED FOR SERVING City with a view to the protection of British interests . HUSBAND . The third boat from the Leyland liner Columbian , which was burnt at sea on May Mrs. Charles Harmer , of Huntington , Long 3rd , has been picked up . Four of its occu- Island , has successfully invoked the assist - pants were alive . ance of the law to make her husband stop Labertesque , the man who fought 200 duels , drinking . Mr. Harmer has a fair business , has died in Paris , where he was the hero of but it is going to ruin , his wife says , because the boulevards . She went per- The Times was able on Monday , through he drinks and neglects it . the courtesy of Dr. E. Horner , a private sonally to the saloon - keepers at Huntington tutor resident in London , to give to the and warned them not to serve her husband , world two hitherto unpublished sonnets by says the New York correspondent of the Keats , written when he was standing on the Daily News . Jacob Guldi , one of the saloon- threshold of his all too brief maturity . keepers , paid no attention to her warning , and continued to supply Harmer with liquor . The latter's wife therefore took her case before the grand jury , who after hearing it indicted Guldi . The saloon - keeper was arrested . The case went against him , and he has been obliged to pay a heavy fine and promise not to serve Harmer any more . law that Mrs. Harmer invoked is to the effect that when it can be proved that a man is a drunkard , saloon - keepers may not serve him if they are so requested by the victim's de- pendents . This is the first time in this part of the country that this law has been appealed to . One of them is entitled " On Receiving Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt , " and runs : Minutes are flying swiftly , and as yet Nothing unearthly has enticed my brain Into a delphic labyrinth - I would fain Catch an immortal thought to pay the debt I owe to the kind poet who has set Upon my ambitious head a glorious gain . Two bending laurel sprigs - ' tis nearly pain To be conscious of such a coronet . Still time is fleeting , and no dream arises Gorgeous as I would have it - only I see trampling down of what the world most prizes , Turbans and crowns and blank regality ; And then I run into most wild surmises Of all the many glories that may be . " The Times also published a facsimile of the title page containing Keats's autograph and inscription , and the facsimile of the page containing the two sonnets in Keats's own handwriting . ALLEGED OBSCENE PHOTOGRAPHS POLICE PROSECUTION . The £ 2,000,000 LEFT TO WIDOW . SHOP - GIRL WHO MARRIED A MILLIONAIRE . Mrs. Francia Skinner , of Boston , whose husband died on the liner Caronia on her last voyage from England , has been left the entire fortune of her husband , valued at £ 2,000,000 . Mrs. Skinner was a shopgirl in a large Boston department store , and her marriage to Mr. At Bow - street Police - court , London , on Skinner was romantie , says the New York Monday , before Mr. Graham Campbell , correspondent of the Daily News . Miss Carr , Frederick E. Grives , a middle - aged , well- as she was then , was on a holiday at Marble- dressed man , described as of no occupation , head with some girl friends , and as they were living at Tilecroft - road , Norbury , was charged admiring Mr. Skinner's yacht the owner in- with sending through the post à packet con- vited them on board . The acquaintance thus taining obscene matter . begun resulted in marriage . Mr. Skinner was Detective - Inspector Lawrence , of Scotland the nephew of Mrs. " Jack " Gardner , well Yard , said that he arrested the prisoner at his known as possessing the finest collection of home on Saturday . In reply to the charge he paintings and private art galleries in the world . said , " I have been in the habit of collecting nude photographs . I exchanged with other people , and have sold some , but only occa- sionally . I have advertised for photographs and to exchange . " The witness added that he found in two locked deed boxes at the house some hundreds of photographs of the worst possible type . The prisoner was a married man with eight children . cution , said that the case could not be worse Mr. Muskett , who appeared for the prose on its merits . VALUABLE PAPYRUS . NEW THEOCRITUS MANUSCRIPT . un- Mre . F. E. Smith gave birth to a daughter in London on Saturday . Sir Edward Carson denies the statement that he is to be married next month . A derelict wooden ship has been sighted by the Olympic in 40.19 north latitude and 29.34 west longitude . Lord Kitchener will leave Cairo for Eng- land on his usual leave about June 18th . At the Newcastle corn market on Saturday wheat advanced from 9d . to 1s . , maize by 18. , and oats by 9d . Flour was up by 1s . The French Government will be repre- sented by two Ministers at the unveiling of the Victor Hugo monument in Guernsey in July Vesuvius is active , says message from rose from the crater during Friday night , Naples . An imposing , tall column of vapoura showing flame . A resolution has been passed by the Pork of London Authority authorising the Law and Parliamentary Committee to oppose the Importation of Plumage ( Prohibition ) Bill . A 200 - mile journey in the balloon Planet- from London to Launceston - was made on Baturday by Mrs. Mortimer Singer , accom- panied by Mr. Mortimer Singer and Mr. C. F. Pollock . It is stated that the London Chamber of Commerce Council's attitude towards the proposed introduction of the Empire Trade Mark is not one of active opposition , but of absolute neutrality . Counterfeit florins are said to be largely in circulation , particularly in the north of London . The death occurred on Saturday at Bath years of age . of Mrs. Bonar Law , mother of the Leader of the Opposition . The deceased lady was eighty The new naval Zeppelin L3 , in the course high flight trial at Friedrichshafen on Saturday , reached a height of 10,250ft . , carry- ing seventeen persons . This is claimed as an airship record . " of At East Cowes on Saturday afternoon , Messrs . Samuel White and Co. launched an- other large Navy seaplane - the third of exactly the same type the firm have built for the Admiralty within the last few weeks . at A find which will be welcomed by classical After White Wolf's " bandits had looted scholars has been made by Mr. J. de Monins Johnson , M.A. , of Exeter and Magdalen Col- Tsinchow , where there were many casualties , Branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund . leges , working on behalf of the Greco - Roman and also Tsinan , in the Province of Kansu , The they were defeated , with heavy loss , scene of his recent excavations was the site of Tsingshui . Antinoë , in Upper Egypt , where , among other An inquiry has been opened at Nancy , on papyri , literary and documentary , were . the Franco - German frontier , with reference earthed , says the Times , several leaves with to a German Army aeroplane which is numerous fragments of a papyrus book once alleged to have flown several hundred metres containing the Idylls of Theocritus . Its date into French territory . is placed in the latter part of the fifth or in the While a family were floating lazily down sixth century . The well - preserved pages are the Thames on a punt near Halliford the baby large , between them containing upwards of 500 of the party was attacked by a swan , and in lines , so that with the minor fragments the driving the angry bird away , the Daily total number represented will no doubt con- Citizen states , the boat was almost capsized . siderably exceed that figure . BABY ATTACKED BY A SWAN . PUNT PARTY'S EXPERIENCE . The Corrections of WIFE'S RIGHT TO DIE . Sir John Hare , the famous actor , cele- brated his seventieth birthday on Saturday . Dr. Henry O'Neill , one of the leading mem- bers of the Belfast Corporation , and author of many medical works , died in Belfast on Saturday . A workman , Thomas . Glades , twenty - eight , fell into a smelting pit at Brown's Steel Works at Sheffield , and was terribly burnt on Saturday . trouble began through their water- the original text have been introduced by spaniel barking defiance at the swan , which a second hand , which has also inserted mar was keeping watch over the nest of its mate ginal annotations . on a lawn by the river bank . The bird pad- dled out to the punt and attempted to seize the dog . A shout from a passing skiff warned paddle , scared off the angry swan for a time . BHOT BY HUSBAND TO END SUFFERING . Dakin , the family , and the father , brandishing a But it suddenly returned and tried to get hold of the baby , which was lying at the bottom of the punt . The father again attacked it with his paddle and nearly upset the boat before the bird was finally induced to go away . TRAVELS OF A RING . The question of " the right to die " is raised again by a tragedy at Hirschberg , in Silesia , says a Berlin correspondent . Dr. Timme , headmaster of a school there , shot and killed his wife and then attempted to kill himself . He told the police that his wife had SO much pain from an incurable cancer that for weeks she had implored him At last he If he recovers he will be ly been the intimate colleague of the late A ring lost in Leicester years ago found its suffered Sir Thomas Robinson , for many years owner in Penang recently by a remarkable co- Liberal member for the city - but subse - incidence . Mr. Hargrave , proprietor of the to put an end to her sufferings quently renewed his identity with Liberal- Bell Hotel , Leicester , found the ring in his decided to do ap and to take his own life at On Friday morning the wife iam in the sphere of Imperial politics . Mr. coat when he changed after golf on Birstall the same time . was found dead in bed . Dr. Timme was Powell had been a city magistrate for many links . All efforts failed to trace the owner , years , and sat regularly on the bench , occu- and Mr. Hargrave gave it to his son , Mr. O. Bravely wounded . Considerable interest is being taken in the pying his seat only a week before his death J. Hargrave , as a keepsake when the latter blind , for his sight is destroyed . Housing question in many parts of our rural The deceased is survived by two sons , Messrs . left for the Malay States . When he arrived at Penang he met another Englishman , who , districts , and at Longhope last Wednesday T. B. and J. O. T. Powell . both of whom noticing the ring on his finger , at once claimed evening a meeting was held in connection were formerly prominent in football and with this question at the Latchen Room . it . He had dropped it , as he imagined , into his own pocket when he had a last round be- where Mr. William Constance gave an in- teresting address on this subject as it concern- fore leaving England for the East . ed that locality . Mr. CONSTANCE said that the East Dean Rural District Council Housing Committee had been considering the question for a con- aiderable time , and had at last succeeded in getting sites for buidilng in the Forest of Dean at a reasonable cost , but as yet no houses had been built . Boheme of the Local Government Board , He explained the athletics . " The Cook's Best Friend . " BORWICK'S BAKING POWDER . DISASTROUS TYPHOID INOCULATION . PERILOUS ESCAPES FROM FIRE . water , was drowned . A horse attached to a lorry bolted at Lang- Dock , Bootle , and , dashing into the The Bev . E. A. Dunn has been instituted Vicar of St. James - the - Less , Bethnal Green , by the Bishop of Stepney . Suburban postmen will shortly be provided with electric lamps to replace the antique oil ones now in use . MASSACRE IN PERU . FORTY - FIVE MUTINEERS SHOT BY MACHINE - GUN . A verdict of found drowned was returned at Sileby , Leicestershire , on John William forty three , gas works manager , whose body was found in a disused canal . Damage amounting to £ 30,000 was done by fire which broke out on Sunday morning at a cotton mill at Nelson occupied by Messrs . Hindley and Co. , and Messrs . Naighton and Co. The Paris Civil Court has awarded £ 720 damages to a young woman who had suffered injuries resulting from the application of X - rays for the removal of superfluous hair . The Bishop of Leicester held & special con- firmation service at St. Philip's Church , Leicester , for the benefit of a boy named Willie Sharpe , who was too ill to attend the March confirmation service . . At the funeral of Mr. A. G. Gardner , a well - known riding master , and resident of Carshalton , the deceased's favourite hack , " Polly , " was led to the graveside saddled and carrying her master's riding erop . The marble statue of Lord Justice Fitz- gibbon , upon which Mr. Bruce Joy has been at work for over two years , is completed and has been forwarded to Dublin , where it is to be placed in St. Patrick's Cathedral . the " Gazette " Office . - Advt . ESTABLISHED 1813 . WILLIAM PULLING & CO . , The massacre of forty - five mutineers , in irons , is reported in letters which have Five persons , including a woman and two reached Plymouth from the Amazon , via New The Echo de Paris asks that the Cross of children , made a perilous escape from a fire York . Early last month forty - five Peruvian the Legion of Honour should be bestowed on at a house in Ladbroke - grove , Notting Hill , soldiers , who had been charged with mutiny Madame Poulain , the woman who worked the on Sunday night . They were asleep on the and conspiracy to kill their officers , were signals after her husband , a railway signal- second floor when the fire broke out , and their taken to the River Napo , a tributary of the man , had been shot . escape by the staircase was soon out off . But Amazon . They were placed on a flat deck there was one way to safety - they opened craft , and from the patrol boat Iquitos & had been returned from the Herefordshire Day festival on Saturday , when Mies which he thought to be expensive , and did window on the landing and crawled along machine - gun was trained on them and all were Printing at lowest cost for reliable work at PRINTING . All classes of commercial Industrial Home as unsuitable , he being of Mildred Tracy was crowned May queen by not meet the needs of rural tenants in the weak intellect . As the contractor for the last year's queen , Doris Bareby . narrow ledge to the next house . The woman shot . Sword - thrusts completed their deaths . was the only person injured . She was out coffins had left the town , and he had deputed from the local schools plaited a Maypole , he was in favour of cottages having large one of the Paris hospitals , the authorities de - skylight . Children provision of sufficient gardens . Personally In order to do away with contagion risks in after reaching safety by falling through another man to make them for him , it was while their elders thought that this was not a proper course exhibition of gardens , and the scheme which he wished to cided that all attendants and purses should be Morris and old country dances . to take , and the Clerk was instructed to propound and which he claimed to be the inoculated against typhoid . Since this was A Boston party were motoring to the write to the contractor , pointing out the Rauceby golf links on Saturday afternoon when It was quite a voluntary affair , and the had to have his arm amputated , saya a Paris best was that of the public Utility Society . done two women have died and one man has ton Board's opinion of the matter . The Medical the car overturned at a corner between Heek- Society would not possess compulsory pur correspondent . The other attendants now em- Officer's report and the Visitor's report ap - ington and Sleaford . Mr. Herbert G. Smith , chasing powers . Under this scheme the Gov- phatically refuse to submit to inoculation . peared to be satisfactory . He ( Col. Middle - a solicitor ; was killed , his neck being broken , ernment would advance two - thirds of the ton ) would propose the adoption of the but the other occupants escaped with minor capital required , and the Society the remain- report . injuries . ing third . There would be an opportunity for tenants who gave the necessary notice to become the purchasers of their house , and tenants would have absolute fixity of tenure and would have the power to sell or nominate a successor to their holdings . Arrangements could be made by tenants to purchase by quarterly instalments covering a period of 10 , 15 , or 20 years . The houses would vary as to accommodation , but most of them would contain two rooms on the ground floor and three bedroms . With regard to the question of sites for the six cottages which it was decided to build in Longhope , Mr. Constance stated that he had had a definite offer of one near the Latchen Room at £ 150 per acre , and one in Velt House - lane at about £ 90 per acre , and negotiations were proceeding with the agents of the Longford Manor estate re- specting two or there different sites : The address was followed by an interesting discussion , and from the arguments put for- Boroyd after standing at his looms for sixty - fessional Chauffeurs Journal . ward it was quite evident that the majority has been absent only two weeks through illness . failure , at his residence in Lowndes - street , Manufacturers of all kinds of Finest Quality British Liqueurs and Cordial four years . During the whole of the time he The death occurred suddenly from heart HEAD OFFICE : 71 , LOMBARD ST . , E.O. LLOYDS BANK LIMITED . Chairman - R . V. VASSAR - SMITH . Deputy Chairman - J . W. BEAUMONT PEASE . Capital Subscribed Capital paid up " Reserve Fund Advances , & c . = Deposits , & c . £ 26,304,200 4,208,672 3,000,000 50,871,249 91,947,968 THIS BANK HAS OVER 650 OFFICES IN ENGLAND AND WALES . Colonial and Foreign Department : 60 , Lombard St. , EC . PARIS AUXILIARY : £ 50 REWARD IN MOTOR TRAGEDY . A reward of £ 50 is offered by the council of the Cyclists ' Touring Club for information leading to the detection of the motorist who , on the night of Saturday , April 11th , ran down and killed Mr. Henry Tyrrell and sari- ously injured Miss Wells , his fiancée , at Lewisham . A Swiss waiter named Klingler walked round the Isle of Wight , a distance of sixty- four miles , in the record time of 18hr . 56min .. DISTILLERS , The letting of about 200 sites for tents on Wine and Spirit Merchants , Bonded Warehousemen the beach at Felixstowe this summer has pro- duced a rental of over £ 1,100 . fordshire and Middlesex Musical Festival , Over 3,500 persons took part in the Hert which concluded at the Alexandra Palace on Saturday . Hertfordshire County Council have been recommended by the Sanatorium Committee to purchase a site at . Letchworth for the erea tion of a new sanatorium under the Insurance Act . An application for power to make cancer notifiable disease has been refused by the tip , a gannet seabird rarely seen in the With wings measuring 6ft . lin . from tip to Local Government Board on the ground that West of England has been killed near Wil- there is no general consensus of medical litan , West Somerset opinion as to the infectious nature of the disease . Mr. William Bradshaw , of Nelson , who is drivers , issued by the Chauffeura Club , has A paper devoted to the interests , of motor- said to be the oldest living , cotton weaver , just appeared , bearing the name of the Pro- has retired from the service of Messra . of those present favoured the site known as Walk Meadow , on the roadside adjoining the Sergeant Horace Baker , the oldest gaoler Chelsen , on Sunday night , of Mr. John Lewis yard of Messrs . James Constance and Sons , in the Metropolitan police district , who is re - Griffiths , the United States Consul - General and the meeting was adjourned sine die for tiring after thirty - five years service , in London , Mr. Constance to report upon the result of during that period no fewer than 149,900 OPERA . Carrying Lady Juliet Duff as a passenger , his negotiations with the agents of Manor prisoners through his hands , and mot one of Mr. Gustav Hamel flew from Brooklands to estate , them had been allowed to break the regulations , Oxford by way of Reading on Saturday , LLOYDS BANK ( FRANCE ) LIMITED , 20 , AVENUE DE L'OPERA . had And CIDER MAKERS , Hast - street , 48 , Broad - street , and Bath - street , HEREFORD . AND HIGH - STREET , ROSS . Foreign Wines and Spirits imported direct , under Bond , from Country of Production to their Bonded Stores , Bast - street . Retail and Trade Lists Post Free on application . DISTILLERS , FOR 80 YEARS , OF PULLING'S PURE HEREFORD GIN . Goods Carriage Paid to any Railway Station Finest Special Reserve Whiskey , 50 / - per dozen . Bound Claret from 11 / - per dosen . Bole Consignees of TIRANT and 60.'S CHAMPAGNE , at 56 / - and 68 / - per dosen . All other Champagnes at Lowest Prioos , MOWERS What are you going to NICHOLS Who Repair all k BOILER REPAIRERS . BROOK FO THE WEATHER AND THE CH SEASON'S PROSPECTS . According to reports from fruit g districts in the Midlands the recent and cold weather has caused more d in parts of Worcestershire than in counties . Thousands of acres of peas ported to have been cut down by the whilst the first blooms of a large acre strawberries and plums were killed . tainty exists in the Evesham district as plum yield , which will , it is stated , b in some districts , and it is thought the agus crop will be short . In the Wo district the frost has caused havoc with potatoes , peas , and kidney beans , a kinds of fruit . but in some localiti damage does not appear to have been ious as in others . In Herefordshire th has done little damage . IN HEREFORDSHIRE . Never has there been a more b wealth of bloom on the Herefor orchards than that seen this season . trees everywhere have been a picture . very satisfactory to be able to repor the frosts have done but little damage . tunately , during the cold snap the w remained dry ; otherwise considerable would have resulted . Cherries and d were the chief fruits affected , and the of these will undoubtedly be somewhat ed . A good many of the very early po were also cut . but as the planting tubers generally has been rather late t jury is not serious so far . With regard to the other crops th look is most encouraging , almost too as in many instances the fruit has set that the fear is that the trees will he loaded , thus endangering the sise of the Pears and apples are very thick . W the bush fruit also look exceedingly he In some isolated districts the straw have suffered a good deal , but general prospect is good . Plums have also set than was expected . The warmer weather has had a rema effect , and there is every likelihood of grass crop . The hops likewise have im notwithstanding the damage done duri recent cold nights . IN WORCESTER . The sunny days are welcomed by the ket gardener and the agriculturists i area , but the satisfaction would have greater if they had been preceded , r Bevere frost , but by a few days ' steady with at least a normal temperature p ing . May has maintained its reputat a fickle month . It ruined much blossoms of apple , pear , cherry , and bursting out all too early to bedeck the by the " little summer " in April . T cessively warm period in April is , in fa sponsible for much . Not only did th soms spurt forth with unaccustomed ra but in hundreds of gardens and fields toes and peas made good growth , and was promise of a valuable early supp the markets . Experienced men , ho were pessimistic , and in the first part month there came the frost which play havoc with early potatoes and all ki fruit . The potato crop especially has ed , and in scores of plantations the blac haulms are being dug up and fresh pl goes on with all possible speed . The frost - to use farmer's phras " aimply swept " the low - lying areas great damage has been done , not only potatoes , but peas and kidney beans . IN THE VALE OF EVESHAM . of With the welcome return weather growers have hopes that the be no more damaging frosts , such a of the early morning of May 2 , whi pears to have been more serious in the ly favoured Vale of Evesham than in fruit districts . That frost cut down ands of acres of peas in Worcestershi stroyed the first blooms of a great ( of strawberries , and killed a considerab portion of the plums in the district . May 2 there was the prospect of the h crop of fruit of all sorts for many Now much uncertainty prevails as to t bable crop . While it is certain that E. Collin Smallbr PLUMBERS , HOT & COL Makers of all ki ESTIMA KITOHEN RANGES , GRATES , BPOUTING , PUMPS AND WATER ALL ORDERE |