Ross Gazette 8th January 1914 - Page 5
Ross Gazette 8th January 1914 - Page 5
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| Date | 08/01/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 8th January 1914 |
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Y'S 2th , LITY . RGAINS , ess na cold aits for . ut . OSS . Prices : from £ 225 BELSIZE . td . , ub . & SONS E MERCHANTS ESTER , BDIFF . Factories for MOULDINGS LATHS , IPES , nd WHITING , STOVES ENDERS , HEARTH WARE LATE , and FOR BUILDING Ltd. , 9 , LERS , as , & c . Ross . or the Ross GAZETTE EY M. MORTON , at street and Church- County of Hereford . UARY 8 , 1914 . SECOND SHEET . ADDRESSES . ' K ' Boots and Shoes Footwear FOR Ladies AND Bo ADDRESSEE . THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , JANUARY 8 , 1914 . HERBERT B. MHW , Telegrams " Barrel , Boss , BARREL BREWERY , ROSS . BRILLIANT ALES NOURISHING STOUT . These Ales and Stouts give great satisfaction to those who enjoy a brilliant Bear , with delicate palato , and fall of life . This is accounted for by the fine quality of the materials employed , the deficious flavour and aroma of selected Hops being very noticeable . The Ross Gazette . THURSDAY , JANUARY 8 , 2014 . NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS . By oun LoDON CORDENT We do not hold one mple water of these notes . opinions expressed by the sosponsible for all the As I intimated would be the case last week , the New Year has found the metropolis in the midst of an industrial crisis which bodes ill per gall . 10d . Light Dinner Ale - Half - pinte , per dos . 1/6 for many thousands in the building and allied A.K. Light Ale .. F.A. Recommended for family use G.A Sparkling Bitter Ale Gentlemen P. Very High Ols XX.B. ( Double ) Nutritious Stout XXX.S. ( Treble ) Nutritions Stout Exact 16/9 OUR SPECIALITY . HANDSEWN BOOTS and REPAIRSall done on the Premises . C. KEYSE , Opposite G.P.O , QUE RITE FOR OUTWARD APPLICATION . A PROMPT AND CERTAIN CURE 1 / - Pinta 19 1/4 Nutritious Stout - Half - pinte 1/9 1/4 Oatmeal Stout , for Invalids Pinte Half - pinte Pints 33 32 33 " ( Recommended for Invalids ) . Casks of 4 % , 9 , 18 , 86 , and 54 Gallons . Home - browed GINGER BEER , GINGER STOUT and LEMONADE , 1 / - per gallon , in 1 , 9 , and 6 - gallon jars or 6 - gallon casks . B / - Bass's and Worthington's Ale and Guinness's Stout ( own Bottling ) supplied at moderate prices . ESTABLISHED 1790 trades in town , and may , unless very tactfully 8/8 handled , spread beyond the confines of the 1/6 capital . The trouble of the association of B / 6 union labour with non - union labour is one of 1/9 the most difficult and complex problems ; it is almost as inimical , it would seem , to mutual agreement as the association of lion and lamb . Not only , however , are there the alarums and Excursions of war in the camps of the builders and their men . Electricians are far from content , and the old trouble between the Amalgamated Society of Musicians and several of the metropolitan variety theatres has been responsible for the commencement of a campaign of systematic picketing of audiences in the endeavour to enlist the sympathy of the public . Apart from this very pronounced and fairly general simmer of labour unrest , London seems to be settled down , after all its Christmas and New Year festivities , to the sober business of another will be at least as prosperous as the year twelve months , which everybody is hoping which has gone . TELEPHONE 39 . T. W. PURCHAS & SONS , WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS , ROSS , IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN WINES AND SPIRITS . Special Blend of Finest Old SCOTCH WHISKY , G.G. Very Fine Old IRISH WHISKY Per Dozen . 49 / - FOR RHEUMATISM SCIATICA LUMBAGO 49 / - Good Sound OLARET , in excellent condition 16 / - And other very Fine Clarets , up to 60 / - per dozen . BOTTLERS OF PALE ALE AND STOUT . NEURALGIA NEURITIS THE JOY OF THE HEART IS PLAYER PIANOS . RELIEF FROM PAIN . The World's Best , with every known improveme QUE'RITE BRINGS THAT TRUE RELIEF SOLD BY Mr. A. PORTER , Chemist , ROSS . 1/1 , 2/9 . BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE TABLES A Large Stock of New and Second - hand Tables ways on hand ; also Convertible Billiard and Dining Tables . Write for List , G. Edwards , 134 Kingsland Rd . , N.E MAYPOLE TEA 1/4 The Very Best . TOBACCO CIGARS CIGARETTES Every known Brand at Manufacturica ' own List Prices Endless variety of Tobacconiste Fancy Goods and Shop Fittings The Trade only supplied Opening orders & Speciality . Band for Price List to SINGLETON & OOLE , Ltd. , Cannon St Birmingham DO YOU TAKE Beecham's Pills ? If your ans- wer is in the negative this question is of great importance to you , whether you be healthy or alling . If you are in the en- joyment of good health at present , an occasional dose of this excellent preparation will assist you in maintaining it . If , on the other hand , you are at all " out of sorts " and your indis- position is traceable to a disor- dered stomach or sluggish liver and bowels , it will be well for you to seek the immediate as- sistance of .Beecham's Pills . Health and stamina - vigour and vitality - a bright eye and a clear head - the feeling that it is good to be alive - these are boons easily within the reach of thou- sands ; and many who are en- joying them to - day thankfully acknowledge the health - giving properties of and modern efficiency devices . These Instruments possess the most remarkable powers of variable tempo , expressio melody production , and ready interpretive facilities . PRICES from 48 GUINEAS . DALE , FORTY , & CO . , Ltd. CHELTENHAM . Also at Birmingham , Leamington , Cardiff , Stroud , and elsewhere . E. Collins and Sons , Smallbrook , PLUMBERS , HOT & ROSS , HOT & COLD WATER FITTERS , CASFITTERS Makers of all kinds of Sheet Metal Goods . 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The Mother can see Baby's Fate and Fortune in the Birthday Information for every day of the year . If You are a Farmer and crops fail , or doubt when to buy or sell Cattle , get RAPHAEL'S ALMANACK , it tells the favourable time , and when to Sow Crops for Success . Buy a Copy to - day from your Bookseller , or post free 7d . from W. FOULSHAM and Co. , 5 , Pilgrim - street , London , E.O. Are well equipped for producing all classes of PRINTING and STATIONERY in good style , and at very Moderate Prices . Chlorodyne allations and Dr. Callls Browne's ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE Chlorodyne The Best and Surest Remedy for COUGHS , COLDS . ASTHMA , BRONCHITIS and kindred allments . Invaluable for DIARRHOEA , SPASMS , GOUT PALPITATION NEURALGIA , TOOTHACHAL Convincing Medical Testimony accompanies ach bottle Of all Obemints : 1/11 , 2/9 , 4/8 In political circles , of course , the topic of the moment is the Chancellor's recent re- marks on the burden of naval armaments , and those Liberals who have been persist- ently protesting against the continued in- crease in naval expenditure are claiming Mr. Lloyd George as a possible leader of their cause . Unioniste , naturally , are talk- ing of a crisis and a split in the Ministerial ranks over the Navy Estimates , and Mr. Churchill's reply to a French interviewer that he was not in the habit of being inter- viewed about important matters still under the consideration of the Cabinet " is being quoted with much gusto in the Opposition journals . In official Government quarters it is being pointed out that Liberal Members as a whole are committed to the automatio this year , and that the determination of a section of the Party to resist future addi . tions to the shipbuilding programme does not mean that there is any intention of em- barrassing the Government when the next Estimates are presented . However this may increase in the Estimates which takes place be , it is manifest that the " Little Navyites " have been distinctly encouraged by the Chancellor's remarks and many meetings are being arranged both in town and throughout the provinces , Meanwhile the impartial observer cannot overlook the fact that many leading business men , quite inde- pendent of party politics , are becoming con- cerned at the vast and ever - increasing naval bill which has to be endorsed year by year . Mr. Churchill himself is as conscious of the weight of the burden as are his critics ; but one at least understand the difficulty of his position and the force of the official argument which urges that if our offers to ery " halt " are rejected- PERSONAL GOSSIP .. The Russian Ambassador . Count Benckendorff , the Russian Ambas- sador to the Court of St. James's , is staying at Naples with the Countess Benckendorff and their son , Count B. Benckendorff , who has been taken there from St. Petersburg to recuperate after his severe illness . His Ex- cellency , who has represented the Russian Empire in this country since 1908 , is one of the most popular members of the Diplomatic Corps , and with his wife gives many lavish . entertainments at the Embassy . The Am- bassador was a personal friend of the late King Edward , and was usually a member of the country house parties that were invited to meet the late Sovereign . A Young Bishop . SUGGESTED LICENSING REFORM IN HEREFORDSHIRE . CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY MOVEMENT . INTERESTING PUBLIC HOUSE RETURNS . PICTURE PALACES AND REDUCED DRUNKENNESS . The The question of more stringent licensing cases of drunkenness had diminished . reform in the county of Hereford , and per- Ross Division comprises no less than eighteen King's Equerry - In - Waiting . parishes , extending from The Lea , Aston Sir Charles Cust has succeeded Lord haps more particularly in the Ross district , Ingham , and Linton on the one side , to Yat- Charles Fitzmaurice , as Equerry - in - Waiting has been attracting the attention of all the ton and Brockhampton on the north side , and on the King at York Cottage . For many leading temperance reformers and associa- as far as Welsh Bicknor and Goodrich on the months Sir Charles was laid up in a nursing tions throughout the county . In order to lay south side . home at Aberdeen , suffering from complica the matter more directly before the Justices ions which followed on an operation for THE LICENSING LEVY FOR THE COUNTY . appendicitis , and during the stay of the of Herefordshire , the Committee of the Dio- The Herefordshire Quarter Sessions were Court at Balmoral the King and Queen cesan Branch of the Church of England Tem- motored over to see him . Since his re- perance Society has issued to every Magis held at the Shirehall on Monday , when covery Sir Charles Cust has made a sea trip trate in this county a lengthy statistical re- Judge Ingham presided . There was only one to Panama , which has completely restored him to health . turn which sets out in detail a list of all the case down for hearing , and that was one committed from the Harewood End Bench . parishes in Herefordshire , together with the The chief business before the Court was the number of public - houses , the acreage , the licensing levy for the county , when the population , and the number of persons to Licensing Committee recommended that a each of these licensed houses . Accompany- levy of one half the maximum amount be ing these returns is a letter in which the Mr. Theodore Neild , of Leominster , moved committee states that they feel very strongly as an amendment to that , that the maxi- that where redundancy of licensed houses ex- mum amount be levied . sts , is is injurious both to the inhabitants The amendment was defeated . The report of the committee stated that and the neighbourhood . It is further sug- gested that this redundancy canonly be re- the total paid for compensation in extin- medied , or rather corrected , by the various guishing twenty - eight licenses since the Act Benches of Magistrates referring certain of came in force was £ 13,055 . The Chairman said the committee had a those licences to Quarter Sessions . Without going into the minor details , except of those little over £ 1,000 in hand . Half the maxi- for the Ross and Harewood End Petty Ses- mum levy would be sufficient this year , as it would bring in about £ 1,500 , and that with sional Divisions , we may state that according the money in hand would enable them to deal to these returns , in the city of Hereford , with five houses this year . there is an acreage of 5,031 , with a popula- Mr. Neild said that upon the authority of The Bishop of Zanzibar , Dr. Frank Weston , who is responsible for the Kikuyu contro- versy , is one of the youngest Bishops of the Church of England , for he is only in his forty - third year , thongh the Bishop of Uganda is a few months his junior . It was in 1898 that Dr. Weston went out to the West African island , and he served under two Bishops of Zanzibar before being himself consecrated . These were Dr. W. M. Richard son , who resigned in 1901 , after six years at the head of the diocese , and Dr. John Ed- ward Hine , the present Bishop of Northern Rhodesia , who resigned in 1908 , when he was succeeded by Dr. Weston . The O'Neills of Ulster . made Lord O'Neill , who is a writer of music tion of 22,568 , with 127 public houses , which the Church of England Temperance Society and odes , has just entered his seventy - fifth gives a percentage of 177.7 persons for each in Hereford a statement had been published year .. There is an interesting legend house . At Ledbury , there is an acreage of giving the proportion of licensed houses to attached to this family to the effect that in 7,423 , with 4,102 inhabitants , 26 licensed the population throughout the county , and the remote ages & strange race of people houses , or a percentage of 157.7 persons per this list showed there were proportions of from an unknown land sailed to Ireland for house . In Leominster borough the acreage public - houses to population which must strike the purpose of conquest , and when nearing is 8,728 , the population 5,737 , the number of everyone as being wrong ; and for the Court the Ulster coast it was decided between them licensed houses 54 , with 127.4 persons for to say that only half the levy was required , that whoever touched the land first should each house . At Kington the figures given when so many obvious anomalies existed , reign over it . One chief , seeing a probability are : 8,028 acres , 2,471 population , 19 licen- would be a failure in the matter of honesty of losing the prize , deliberately cut off his sed houses , percentage for each house , 130. on the part of Quarter Sessions . Dividing left hand and hurled it on to the shore be At Bromyard , 6,165 acres , 1,703 population , the county into petty . sessional divisions 18 houses , 94.6 percentage . In Weobley , there were something like 68,000 persons fore those in the other boats could land , and thus , having first " touched " the soil , claimed to be King . From him , so the legend of Ulster . runs descended the O'Neills , the Royal race Barrie and Shackleton . 3,899 acres , 702 population , 4 licensed houses , 175.5 percentage . THE COUNTY PERCENTAGE . with 372 licensed houses to serve them . Counting five to a family that represented one public - house to every 37 families , and In all there are thirteen Petty Session not take alcohol it ' might he said that some- allowing for a reasonable number who did Divisions , and in some instances the figures thing like 30 families had to , or The most interesting rumour I hear about are most interesting . Taking the county did , support a public - house . If a house the source of the gift by which Sir Ernest throughout there are 545 public houses , with earned £ 2 a week profit , the expenditure of Shackleton is enabled to undertake his ex- a population of 118,088 , which gives a per those 30 families must be at least double Could it be said , then , that pedition , writes a London correspondent , in centage of 207.5 persons to every licensed that amount .. that the donor is Sir James Barrie . There is house in the county . Taking the parish of in Herefordshire there were no redundant some colour for the story in Sir James Dilwyn , in the Weobley division , there is licenses . As a matter of fact 18,000 of the Barrie's well - known interest in Polar explora only one public house to the 956 inhabitants , tion and the assistance he gave to the Scott which is the largest number in the county fund , as well as his close connection with for one house . The lowest return given , is Scott , whose letter to him was one of the that at Grafton , in the Hereford county last written by the explorer , and was found division , which shows that there are 59.5 per by his dead body . Sir James Barrie's inte- sons to each public - house . rest in the matter is of long standing , and probably dates from his first reading of R. M. Ballantyne's " Ungava , " which is one of his favourite books . An Embarrassed Lecturer . ém- When King Constantine is crowned at Athens an event which will , of course , be one of the most interesting European cere- monies of the coming summer - it is , I hear , quite probable that the Prince of Wales will represent the King . This would , indeed , be an auspicious and a brilliant inauguration of the Prince's public career , for , although his Royal Highness has already become a familiar and a very populer figus on the Continent , gave the lecture . On the strength of that he he has not yet represented the British Throne to the Authorities at Eton , and offered THE ROSS AND HAREWOOD FIGURES The full details of the Ross and Harewood End divisions may be of interest , and the are given by the Church of England Tem perance Society as follows : ROSS DIVISION . астолле . 68,000 persons lived in parishes where there were no licenses at all . Was it in the in- terests of morality that between 20 and 24 families had to support a public - house ? Was it in the interests of the prosperity of the people of Herefordshire ? In Leominster borough there was one licensed house to every 127 inhabitants , or one to every 25 families gross . That was the most striking instance of the redundancy of public - houses . In Bredwardine , on the other hand , the number was one public - house to every 303 Reformers who had attempted legislation in the last fifteen years had re- commended the proportion for rural dis tricts at one licence to every 600 persons , and others at one to 500. Leominster had 161.6 45 houses , and no one would say that 20 houses were not sufficient to serve the town . popu- licensed reren lation , houses . fnre 2366 439 3 146 . 2235 578 2891 1945 485 ' Sir Ernest Shackleton once had an barrassing experience . He had been asked to lecture at Harrow School . Not wanting to Aston.Ingham go , he wrote back fixing a prohibitive price , Bridstow as he thought , and asked for a fee of £ 30 , ex- Goodrich clusive of expenses . 1123 To his great amaze Hope Mansell ment the offer was accepted , and he duly Leh his services at an equal rate of remuneration The reply came back : " Dear Sir , -This is five times as much as we pay to really first class lecturers . " Aristocratic Nuns . Julia Lady Lyveden , widow of the second Baron ( the present Peer's uncle ) , was re- ton Roa Urban ... Ross Rural ... Upton Bishop Walford Weston - under- Penyard Brockhampton . 23122 175 793 203 2775 738 41 1 175 persons . 101.5 but at the present rate of reduction it would 369 take something like forty - five years to bring 31544 ) the number down to a moderate proportion . 1620 3986 113.7 291 582 2 4340 1025 5 205 191.5 254 3210- 766 4 1561 254 1 upon any great national occasion . Inevitably I suppose , the report of the probable visit of his Royal Highness to the Court at Athens has revived rumours of a romantic nature , the Princess Helène , elder daughter of King Constantine and Queen Sophie , being one of the prettiest of the Princesses with whom the gossips have linked his name . No serious attention need , of course , be paid to such stories . The Prince will not be twenty.ceived as a novice in the Convent of Poor one until the middle of next year , and it will Clares at Edinburgh recently , Miss Marcia probably be time enough then to begin weav- Maxwell , aunt of the Duchess of Norfolk , ing romances about him . The order of the acting as her , sponsor . one of the austerest in Little Birch the nuns being entirely de : Much Birch voted to contemplation and prayer , and Much Dewchurch 4921 Poor Clares is Christendom , taken the veil . Peers - Priests . HAREWOOD DIVISION . The Harewood End Division figures read : Ballingham 910 152 1 152 1019 239 239 1303 410 205 539 17221 Mr. Albert Simpson said the levy in Here . fordshire was amongst the lowest , if not the lowest , in England , and if continued it would take generations to deal with the redundant licenses . Sir James Rankin said the Magistrates had to consider not so much the number of public houses as the amount of drunkenness which existing houses might give rise to . HAPPY RESULTS . 269.5 HAVE MADE MANY ROSS RESIDENTS ENTHUSIASTIC . en- No wonder our neighbours grow thusiastic . Statements like the following 87.5 are enough to make anyone happy . 272 232 3625 347 3 668 77 1 115.6 77 2647 175 2 1815 272 1 5411 761 9 2465 1396 +4 Whitchurch Sellack 2 2191 662 : 5 2065 334 1 2010 . Peterstow 1274 264 I understand that the Dominions Royal Commission which , it may be recalled , is charged with an inquiry into questions of Imperial trade has this week resumed its doing no active work . The Duke of Norfolk Little Dewchurch 1726 232 has a sister in the Carmelite Order , which is Garway sittings in town . Sir Edgar Vincent is pre - equally strict , and two other sisters . in con- Harewood siding over the gatherings , at which evidence vents . The late Lord Herries had no fewer Hentland on some outstanding points of considerable than five daughters nuns , and there is King's Caple significance is being taken . The members hardly a prominent Roman Catholic family Llangarren have also before them the question of issuing in England of which some member has not Orcop an interim report on its sessions which have been held both in London and in the Anti- podes . Any publication which the Commis- sion may think proper to make at this stage deliberations would certainly be of its perused with the utmost careful attention . In all probability the present sittings will portion of those becoming priests or monks terminate next month , when according to is probably less than it used to be , remarks present arrangements the Commissioners go to South Africa , subsequently continuing foundland and Canada . The labours of such their remarkable itinerary by visiting New a Commission should not fail to result in the acquirement of a valuable amount of first hand information concerning the vast trading interests of the Empire . Now that every secular career is open to Marstow young Roman Catholics of family , the pro- the World . The laet Peers who were also priests were the fourteenth Lord Petre ( s Lord Arundel of Wardour . Lord Sheffield's prelate of the Roman Court ) and the late only brother is a Roman Catholic Bishop ; and acions of the noble houses of Queens- berry , Denbigh , Camoys , Beaumont , and others have all entered the priesthood in recent years . Two Baronets are members of religious orders - Sir William Heathcote , who is à Jesuit , and Sir David Hunter Blair , the Benedictine Abbot of Fort Augustus . Cricket Story . Mr. J. Ambrey , of 1 , Berryfields , Ross , 253.6 says : " I have had toucles of rheumatism 99 in my shoulders , particularly on the change 132 of the weather . 182.4 334 341 14 341 A GENERAL SUMMARY . To put the whole thing more concisely , the culars of the different parishes and the num- following summary gives in detail the parti- ber of persons to each house : - 1'civil parish with 1 license to - 60 people . 3 civil parishes 60-80 دول " " 35 3 80-100 35 33 19 10 100-100 33 " 33 18 120-140 33 33 " 9 140-160 " 33 " " " 15 160-180 39 3 33 15 180-200 " 23 6 200-220 " 22 7 220-240 8 240-260 " 33 8 260-280 " " .3 . " 280-300 800-920 33 33 " 320-340 ,, 340-360 " " " 360-380 2 33 3 " 380-400 4 8 400-450 " 450-500 39 33 1 civil parish with 1 licence to 750 " 1 800 " 1 53 1 950 " " " I am pleased to say , however , that I have found Doan's Backache Kidney Pills very beneficial . They always eased me at once , and I can speak highly of Doan's pills as being an effective kidney medicine . ( Signed ) J. Ambrey . " Kidney weakness . causes sharp twinges nervousness , dizzy spells , headaches , urinary disorders , swellings of the ankles or limbs , when stooping or lifting , fits of depression , and those mysterious aches and pains so easily mistaken for female , trouble . Back- ache , dropsical swellings , drowsiness , sedi- ment , or any irregularity of the bladder are enough cause to suspect kidney disease . Then begin using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills , which are solely for the kidney and bladder , and have brought new life and strength to thousands . Price 2s . 9d . a box , six boxes 13s . 9d .. of all dealers , or from Foster - McClellan Co. , 8 , Wells - street . Oxford - street , London , W. Don't ask for backache kidney pills - ask distinctly for Doan's Backache Kidney Pills , the same as Mr. Ambrey had . The introduction of a bill to prevent the importation of wild birds ' feathers into this country and to render illegal the wearing of such adornments " has been urged per- sistently during recent years , and it is pro- bable that the influential campaign which The extraordinary success of Sydney has been conducted towards this end will have achieved its purpose before the end of Barnes in Test - match cricket recalls a story the forthcoming session of Parliament . What new to print , says the Daily Graphic may be the fate of - such a measure , of course , Several members of the I. Zingari Club were will depend largely on its scope and the pre- touring once when they met Barnes , then oise nature of its provisions , but I understand quite unknown , at practice one evening . He from member of the Selborne Society that bowled down their stumps with a regularity the co - operation of Germany and Austria has that was sufficiently surprising . been offered in the direction of enacting seemed to be able to do anything against him legislation which shall be practically iden -- and they were by no means rabbits . " tical with any which the British Government " You ought to be playing for England , re- may enforce . Such drastic steps as those marked the present writer to him , after he which have been taken in the United States had spread - eagled his wicket for the very firs are not anticipated , but a very healthy check time . " I shall be some day , " remarked the upon & business and a custom which have young bowler complacently . Now it seems to little to recommend them to civilised combe rather an honour to have been clean Leaving about 114 civil parishes without a way Gaol to Colney Hatch Asylum . munity will , in all probability , be placed bowled by the unassuming ornament for before the House of Commons in the near future . Lancashire cricket , since all true Lancas There has been much sympathy expressed trians still claim him as their own . here with the unfortunate people who found themselves in dire straits through abandon ment of the spectacle , " The Bomance of India , " which was to have been inaugurated at Earl's Court on Boxing Day . The syndi- oate has decided to go into liquidation , the official explanation of the extraordinary dilemma being , of course , that the objection of the India Office to some of the scenes 8 matter upon which I commented at the time led to the withdrawal of expected financial support . Many of the performers were taken on as long ago as Qctober last , and attended rehearsals without payment . They have lost the opportunity of securing pantomime en- gagements , on which they usually rely , and , George Robey and the Driver . No one " Having usually but little time to spare , " Licensed House . " PICTURE PALACES AND DRUNKEN- NESS RETURNS . At the Ross Police Court on Friday , before says George Robey , in the course of an inter- Capt . R. H. Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , Mr. view in the Motor , " I do not remove my Guy R. Trafford , Mr. J. E. 8. Hewett , and make - up , but travel from one hall to anoth Mr. F. S. Collins , the question of the sobrie- with the grease - paint still upon my face . One Capt . Verschoyle , in commenting upon the night we had little altercation with the ty of Ross was mentioned by the Chairman . driver of a vehicle , who quite forcibly de- us coming to lightness of the business that morning , said clared that he had not seen wards him , which was quite true , because hit was very pleasing to note that there had had been fast asleep . Oo's the Old Fright ? " MRS . TUGWELL INSANE . Mrs. Annie Tugwell , formerly of Sutton , Surrey , who in October last was sentenced at the Old Bailey to twelve months ' imprison- ment for criminal libel in a series of anony mous letters and postcards , has been certified as insane . She has been removed from Hollo- DEATH OF DR . WEIR MITCHELL . Dr. S. Weir Mitchell , the physiologist and author , has died at Philadelphia in his eighty - fifth year . He was a member of the and of the British Medical Association Royal Society , and in addition to having written a number of medical works enjoyed considerable popularity as a novelist . M.P. HURT IN MOTOR SMASH . An automobile in which was Mr. Newman , M.P. , and another car were involved in a the collision in Promenade des Anglais , Nice , on Sunday afternoon , near the race- course . Mr. Newman received injuries from broken glass . Mr. Newman is Member of Parliament for the Enfield Division . not been a case of drunkenness before that Court for three clear months . That was not only very complimentary to the whole town " At last , " continues Mr. Robey , " I looked and district , but the Superintendent and out of the window at him , when , jumping police were also to be congratulated on the back in surprise , be demanded Oo's the old good order maintained : one of the Magistrates , said they had had Hampsthwaite farmer who as they have drawn no money from the syndi tright you've got aboard ? ' ' My master is Supt . J. Broad , in reply to a question from cate their plight is singularly distressing . The artists have elected a distress committee and have addressed appeals to Queen Mary , Queen Alexandra , and the Lord Mayor The Indians who were engaged for the production , some of whom were entirely destitute , are now , I understand , temporarily provided for by order of the India Office . HIGH - CLASS NOTE PAPERS . - The best quality Note Papers at popalar prices , 6ld and 74d . per 1b . , and is . pe box of five quires.The Gazette " Office , High - street , [ Ross . no cases of drunkenness during the Christ Mr. - Thomas Morrell , sixty three , the was accidentally on Sunday in Harrogate Infirmary . The Mr. George Robey responded my driver , with dignity . Well , you tell ' im , said the man , scrambling up into his cart , that if mas and the New Year ; in fact , none that shot by his son while ferreting on Friday , died ' e'd sit on the engin with that face and nose called for their interference , and the town , father had been screened by a bush , but and then eyebowse wouldn't want Mr. Collins : That is highly satisfactory to rabbit . The rabbit was killed , but part of in that respect , was very quiet and orderly . looked up as his son fired at an escaping ' eadlights in a fog ! ' " the town and district . the charge struck the father in the face .. The opinion was expressed that the attrac- You are old enough to know better , " Mr. tions offered by the Picture Palace had a David Howard remarked to a woman who was great deal to do with the sobriety of the charged at West Ham with drunkenness , and the The same thing happened last year , lady answerod : " Of course I am ; I know that . " when Johnson's Theatre paid a lengthy visit A waste building site in Liberty - street , Ken- to Ross . It appeared that people preferred nington , has been lent to the Church Army to spending their money at such places of make into the eighth of its " city gardens " Since of free plots for poor married working men amusement , rather than on drink . A proposal for a tunnel under the Mersey costing £ 3,000,000 has aroused much interest in Liverpool . In memory of Major Bridges Webb , the late chairman of the Baltic Exchange , a handsome silver - gilt processional cross has been presented to the London City church of St. Andrew Undershaft town . the Picture Palace had been opened , the with families . |