Ross Gazette 1st January 1914 - Page 8
Ross Gazette 1st January 1914 - Page 8
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| Date | 01/01/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 1st January 1914 |
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ESTABLISHED 1813 . WILLIAM PULLING & CO . , DISTILLERS , THE ROSS HEREFORDSHIRE TEACHERS ' SALARIES . SOME INCREASES GIVEN . An important meeting of the Hereford- shire Education Committee was . held at Hereford on Saturday under the presidency Wine and Spirit Merchants , Bonded Warehousemen of Sir James Rankin . And OIDER MAKERS , East - 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 , Mast - street . DISTILLERS , FOR 80 YEARS , OF PULLING'S PURE HEREFORD R Manufacturers of all kinds of Finest Quality British Liqueurs and Cordial Retail and Trade Lists Post Free on application . Goods Carriage Paid to any Railway Station Sound Claret from 11 / - per dosen . Finest Special Reserve Whiskey , 50 / - per dozen . Bole Consignees of TERANT and Co.'8 CHAMPAGNE , at 56 / - and 68 / - per dosen . All other Champagnes at Lowest Prioos .. HEREFORD AND ARMY MANCEUVRES . NEXT YEAR'S LOCAL SCENE OF OPERATIONS . " The Times " ( London ) of Tuesday con- tains the following important announcement , which will be read with much interest throughout this and adjoining counties : - The Army Manoeuvres will next year be carried out on the right bank of the River Severn , centred on Hereford . The area of Operations will , probably include Glouces tershire , Worcestershire , Hereford , and Monmouth . The Manoeuvres will extend from Septem- ber 15th to 17th , and the area set aside for the purpose will be visited by most of the troops for divisional or inter - divis- ional training from about September 1st . The selection of an area for Army Manoeuvres comparatively near to the sea will meet the wishes of Teritorial Com- manders , whose units may be included in the combatant forces , and who desire to have a coast camp for the annual training of their battalion . It has been anticipated for some years , by those who are interested in military affairs , that Herefordshire and the adjoining coun- DEATH OF MR . JOHN READ . Our many readers will learn with regret of the death of Mr. John Read . the old guard on the Ross and Monmouth Railway , which took place at his home in Camp - road on Christmas Day , at the age of 78 years . For some time Mr. Read had been in failing health , but it was not until Sunday , Dec. 21st , that he was obliged to take to his bed , and from that time he gradually grew weaker and passed away on Christmas Day , leaving a widow and several children to mourn their loss . The chief question under discussion was the teachers ' salaries and their demand for a scale . At a previous meeting the committee decided not to con- sider a scale of automatic increases , subject to efficiency , as demanded by the National Union of Teachers , but that it be referred to the Salaries Committee to revise the salaries of head teachers where it might appear to them to be desirable , so as to make them not less than those paid to teachers holding similar positions in similar counties . The report of the Salaries Committee as presented on Saturday stated that they had carefully considered the resolution , and after making increases in the sales of head teachers where it appeared to them desirable , amounting in the aggregate to £ 1.282 10 submitted a list of salaries as amended . In addition £ 70 had been added to the salaries of assistant teachers . In fixing the salaries , length of service and the Govern- ment reports , and each school had been taken into consideration . It was recommended that the increases of salary date from January 1 , 1914. In Council Schools where there was a teachers ' honse , a certain sum had been added to the salary for house rent , rates , and taxes , and in one case for the use of gas . In such cases the gross salary was given , and the amount added shown - thne £ 130 less £ 10 meant that the £ 10 ( the estimate value of these emoluments ) was first added to the £ 120 . the net salary . This report was signed by Col. Prescott Decie , Chairman of the County Council . GAZETTE THURSDAY , JANUARY 1 , 1914 . TO THE SOUTH POLE NEW BRITISH IMPERIAL EXPEDITION . SIRE SHACKLETON'S AIM . tion to the South Pole next year , DUTCH STEAMER ASHORE GO TO MADAME NORDICA A PASSENGER A report received at Brisbane from There day Island states that the steamer Tasman , The announcement is formally made that bound for Java , has sent a wireless message Bir Ernest Shackleton will lead a new expedi - announcing that she has gone ashore on Bramble Cay , Gulf of Papua , and that she la The Tasman Owing to the great expense involved , there lying in a dangerous position . hitherto been some uncertainty as to the large number of passengers on board , possibility of another British expedition in noluding Messrs . Adams and Stallemith , the the immediate future ; but it has now been Panama chibition commissioners , who have been visiting Australia , and Madame Nordios , Rescue steamers definitely decided that the distinguished ex - the famous prima donna . plorer will make a further attempt next year have been despatched to the reseal's assistance . to add to our knowledge of the Antarctic con- tinent , and that he will start from a South American port with the object of crossing the Bouth Polar regions and returning by New Zealand . EXPLORER'S LETTER . The first intimation of this important deel- son is made in a letter to the Times from Sir rnest Shackleton . The letter is in the fol- lowing terms : " Sir , It has been an open secret for some time past that I have been desirous of leading another expedition to the South Polar regions . I am glad now to be able to state that , through the generosity of a friend , I can announce that an expedition will start next year with the object of cross- ing the South Polar continent from sea to sea . I have taken the liberty of calling the expedi tion The Imperial Trans - Antarctic Expe dition , because I feel that not only the people of these islands , but our kinsmen in all the lands under the Union Jack , will be willing to assist towards the carrying out of the full programme of exploration to which my comrades and myself are pledged . Yours faithfully , " ERNEST H. SHACKLETON . " PREVIOUS VENTURES . Bir Ernest Shackleton has already twice in South Polar expeditions In moving the adoption of the report , Col. Decie said the increases recommended were considerable , and he ventured to say that the Education Committee would give no more . In arranging these increases they had not served tresses , and also , the whole of the teachers in the elementary schools would be recon- sidered every year in March . No headmaster could get less than £ 90 . and they might get £ 200 , which he contended was better than a scale . Mr. F. H. Russell seconded . " Mr. Wallis said he could not imagine that the committee's recommendations were going to allay the discontent existing among the teachers . The ' report was as full of unjust assistance was greatly missed when he retired anomalies as it could be . from the service some nine years ago . on ham shall be combined . The Ven . Arch- BISHOP OF BUCKINGHAM . APPOINTMENT OF NEW SUFFRAGAN . The Bishop of Oxford ( Dr. Gore ) has de- elded that the ecclesiastical offices of Bishop of Buckingham and Archdeacon of Bucking deacon Edward D. Shaw will be consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral on New Year's Day the first Suffragan Bishop . The new Bishop was formerly headmaster of Bishop's Stortford School , and became curate of St. John's Church , High Wycombe , in 1894. In the following year he became Vicar of All Saints , Wycombe , which preferment he held until he was appointed Archdeacon of Buck ingham . NEW ARCHDEACON The Bishop of Salisbury has appointed the Rey , Precentor Carpenter as Archdeacon of Barum , in succession to the Ven . Francis Lear , whose resignation takes effect this week . CZAR'S HEIR HURT AGAIN . ACCIDENT WHILE AT PLAY . BRADLEYS PRESENTS , ANY TIME , FOR YOUR NEW YEAR THERE'S SOMETHING THERE TO SUIT EVERYBODY . CLOTHES MAKE SENSIBLE PRESENTS . Large and varied selection of Neckwear , Hats , Caps , Collars , Braces , Mufflers , Hankerchiefs , Underwear , Shirts , Cardigans , Fancy Box , & c . , & c . Bradleys TAILORS CLOTHIERS COMPLETE OUTFI DOCTORS AND MEDICAL AID INSTITUTIONS . FOREST OF DEAN COMPLAINTS . 7 , High - street , AND ROSS MONMOUTH . CHIPS OF NEWS . Mr. Rhodes Cobb , who died at Kingston on Saturday , aged eighty - eight , was one of the founders of the Kingston Rowing Club . Canon Joseph Watson , R.C. , died , aged ninety - three years , at St. Catherine's Domini- can Convent , Shieldfield , Newcastle - on - Tyne , on Saturday . He A message from a St. Petersburg correspon- dent saye information has reached there that the little revived considerably in the THE PATIENTS . INCOME TAX , AND left leg . He had autumn , and was allowed to play at Livadie EXPENDITURE . for short intervals . As the Czarevitch's left At the quarterly meeting of the Governors leg is shorter than the right , he had to limp Frederick Annerdale Hastings Snow , nine- teen , who somewhat while running . He fell and again of the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary at was staying in Dover with his injured himself to the extent that he has now Gloucester on Friday , Canon Eyre stated parents , was found dead at a hotel on Satur to be kept always in a recumbent position . that the committee still received letters day . having taken cyanide of potassium . from the Forest of Dean , complaining of had been over - studying recently . what they supposed to be neglect of Medical BLAST FURNACE EXPLOSION . The funeral of Sir James John Trevor Law- Aid Association patients . Speaking for him- rence , Bart ,, the well - known horticulturist , self he thought the Forest of Dean was the took place at Mickleham on Saturday . A large last part of the county that ought to make congregation attended a memorial service at any complaint in reference the infirmary . Holy Trinity Church , Kensington Gore . During 1913 there had been - received from The death is announced of Admiral Sholto that area 245 in - patients , who reckoned at Douglas , C.B. , which occurred at Southsea on the estimated average of £ 4 15s . 4d . per Saturday . Admiral Douglas entered the Royal patient . had cost the institution £ 1.167 16s . Navy in 1847 at the age of fourteen . 8d . That left out of account 274 ophthalmic service during the Kaffir and Burmese Wars According to the Tribuna , the Italian Govern- 384 other out - patients . The contributions He saw takaran nccount whatever of the threaten- regions , the first time in 1901-4 under the ed strike of the teachers ( hear hear ) . He late Captain Scott , whose success in reach For over 48 years the deceased was in the honed they would give up that idea , as the ing the Pole on January 18th , 1912 , was service of the Great Western Railway Com - strike did not seem to be a sort of warfare clouded by the . loss of the entire Polar party snited to them . and it was unworthy of in March , when , in spite of the self - sacrifice pany , and for something like 38 years he their position . By the new arrangement the of Captain Oates , the other members perished acted as a passenger guard on the Ross and salaries of all the head masters and mis- within a few miles of food and fuel . In his second venture to the Antarctic con- Monmouth line , on which route he was more the Times continues , Sir Ernest frequently known as " Old John , the Guard , " tinent , Shackleton commanded the expedition which and during that long term of service he won set out in the Nimrod in 1907 and returned in the respect and esteem of all classes , as 1909 , after he had himself penetrated to TWO MEN KILLED . evinced by the many letters of sympathy within ninety - seven miles of the Pole . Mrs. Read and the family have received from Sir Ernest Shackleton's first Antarctic com- Two deaths have resulted from a blast fur all the gentry in the neighbourhood , as well mand accomplished a great deal during the nace explosion which occurred at Conset steel works last Friday evening . One man as many regular passengers on that line . He years 1907-9 , and by dividing its forces was was also a great favourite with his fellow able not only to make a southern " record " employes , and his genial face and kindly of 88deg . 28min . , but also to relocate the named Bernard Lavery died three hours after the accident , and the other , Charles Wilson , elusive Southern Magnetic Pole , which ap- Pears to oscillate over an immense area . The Buccumbed to his injuries in Consett In patients who had received treatment , and ment has declared itself in favour of Scutari as axpedition was largely composed of trained Armary late on Saturday night . The other two sufferers are progressing favourably . from the Forest of Dean amounted in 1911 observers in various departments of science , to £ 875 168. 11d . , in 1912 to £ 871 18s . 10d .: and very valuable meteorological , biological , DEATH OF FAMOUS BEAUTY . and , un to December 23rd of the present and zoological information was collected and year . £ 220 Os . 4d . The Forest of Dean had , checked . In his endeavour to reach the Pole Sir E. Shackleton with his Southern party KING MANUEL'S GREAT - AUNT . always had a large number of patients under treatment and for the present year the followed a track which was subsequently fol The death is announced at Sigmaringen , number amounted to 16 per cent . of all the lowed by Captain Scott in his successful but ill - fated journey . It was the first party of explorers to be Germany , of the Dowager Princess Leopold patients treated there . The offer of the assisted in this part of the world by ponies of Hohenzollern , née the Infanta Antonia of Hospital Committee to receive a deputation to consider any grievance , though five times and motor - traction , but as the diary of the Portugal The Princess was a great aunt of King repeated , had not been accepted . Manuel , and also the paternal grandmother of Southern party , which was led by the com manding officer , shows , the activities of the King Manuel's bride , née Princess Augusta medical profession with reference to medical Saturday of the Dowager Princess Leopold of motor - sledge were strictly limited , the ponies Victoria of Hohenzollern . Sixty - eight years aid institutions The intention of the In - Hohenzollern , née the Infanta Antonia of Por tugal . were eaten , and the hard pulling of the ex- Alderman Matthew Ballantyne , D.L. , an ex- pedition had to be performed by the old- of age , the Princess was a famous beauty insurance Act . as he understood it . was that . so far as good pay could ensure good medical Mayor of Londonderry , and a large grain mil . her youth , and the late King Edward once fashioned man - power of the earlier explorers , aid of her , " She was one of the three most attendance the insured workers should have ler , died on Saturday in Dublin , where he had After a most arduous time spent in the Ant- beautiful women I have ever met . " arctic , the crew of the Nimrod returned to gone to be operated upon . New Zealand on March 22nd , 1909 , having left Port Lyttelton on January 1st , 1908 . ties , would some time be selected as the seat of military operations . The vastness of the country which can be traversed and the ad- The interment took place in Ross Church- vantages afforded for carrying out a scheme yard on Monday afternoon , when the service of manoeuvres have been within the know was conducted by the Rev. C. H. Payton , ledge of the authorities for a considerable curate . Deceased was carried to his late period . What are termed Staff rides are ar- resting place by several members of the staff ranged for making a survey of the country . from the Great Western Railway Station at and one of these took place in Herefordshire Ross . The chief mourners present were Mr. recently . By this time maps and plans will Harry Read and Mr. John Read ( sons ) . Mr. he in the course of preparation , and certair J. Price ( son - in - law ) . Mr. F. Stroud ( Here- distrets will be picked out as suitable camping ford ) . Mr. W. P. Roberts ( stationmaster ) , stations . As to what extent the scheme of Mr. W. Ashburner . J.P. , late Inspector on operations will affect Herefordshire it is im- the G.W.R .. of Hereford , together with Mr. possible to say . No doubt the Army Generals F. Collins , Mr. W. Collins , Mr. A. Collins , will take up their headquarters in the city . Mr. R. Wilce , Mr. W. Cox , Mr. H. Harmer , There is no telling how or when , but possibly Mr W. Dean . Mr. L. Marshall , Mr. J. Wood . some time in the near future the city might and the members of the Ross Station staff . be under siege ! During the course of Army Mr. and Mrs. Digby Leighton , of Ashfield , Manoeuvres , movements cannot be anticipat- ed , and it will be nothing to be alarmed at if during the course of a peaceful afternoon . Ross or some other market town in the county is swarming with " Tommies . " Under the Army Manoeuvres Act is is only necessary for the military authorities to for- mulate the plans : then there is placed on the table of the House the scheme showing the area allotted for the purpose of opera- tions , which is formally passed into law . Un- der the Act the interests of private property owners were also present . Daisy , and Kittie ( grandchildren ) . THE OLIVE BRANCH Mr. Gibson Dyson said he was surprised at Mr. Wallis's remarks . The teachers quite understood the difficulties of the committee . which were not of the committee's making . One of these was that when the schools were handed over to the Local Education Authority some of the head teachers were getting large salaries , and the committee had acted generously in not reducing them . He honed the teachers appreciated this . Mr. J. Farr said the committee had pre- sented the report with the best intentions and feelings . whatever might be said to the contrary , and he honed , that the feeling en ended outside would not subside ( ap- plause ) . The report was the olive branch of Sir James Rankin said he honed the in- creases recommended would act as a balm There would be no further negotiations between the school- masters and the Special Committee . to Beautiful floral wreaths were sent from the Widow and Fred ( son ) . Harry and Sarah ( son and daughter - in - law ) . John and Pollie to the schoolmasters . ( son and daughter - in - law ) . Liza and Jack ( danohter and son - in - law ) . Fred and Chriss The Bishop of Hereford said he could not . RADIUM FOR CANCER . ( Hereford ) . Mr. and Mrs. Digby Leighton Ashfield ) . Dr. A. J. Campbell . Mr. and Mrs. ont feel there was still some risk of the T. Burford ( Crumlin ) . Mr. T. W. Rvall and differences continuing . and he thought it DOCTOR'S DRASTIC EXPERIMENTS . family . the Staff at Ross Station , Mr. and would be advisable to enter into communi- Mrs. G. Dean and family . Mr. and Miss cation with the teachers . American scientists are watching with in- The report was adopted . The Special Com- Denton . Mr. I. Perrin ( Ehh Vale ) , Jackie.mittee were empowered to act in any emer- tense interest the progress of a drastic cancer gency in consequence of the teachers ' threat eure by radium which is being undertaken by The funeral arrangements were carried out to strike . by Mr. T. W. Rvall . Station - street Ress . Dr. Howard Kelly at Baltimore , writes a New With , an average salary for headmasters of York correspondent . The patient is Mr. £ 120 18. Od it is pointed out that Hereford- Robert Bremner , a New Jersey Congressman , shire will still have the lowest average in the and on Friday eleven tubes coated with English counties , excent Oxford ( 117 ) , Rnt - rubber , and containing radium to the value of land ( £ 115 ) . the Isle of Scilly ( 117 ) Lin- 100,000dol . ( £ 20,000 ) were inserted in inci- colnshire . Kesteven ( £ 112 ) , and Lincolnshire . alons made in the extensive cancerous growth Lindsey ( £ 119 ) . through the contracts which have to be THE RETIREMENT OF DR . E. DYKES doubtful whether the new proposals will stopere allowed to remain in the growth for It is stated . for the teachers , that it is in the left shoulder . On Saturday the second application took place , and the radium tubes placed for the supply of meat . bread , etc .. for feeding the troops . Herefordshire beef twelve hours , and on Sunday it was stated the should surely find a place in the dietary . At patient showed considerable improvement . present , however , one can only speculate ! are amply safeguarded , and any damage caused to private property during the course of the manoeuvres is promptly made , good . When a few thousand soldiers are moring about cultivated land there is hound to be incidental damage , which has to be provided for through the medium of the Government cheque book . Possibly Hereford may share HEREFORD THEATRE benefit GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY . BOWER . A quarterly meeting of the Governors of the Gloucestershire Roval Infirmary was held in the Boardroom of the institution on Fri- dav . In the absence of Col. Curtis Hayward , GUTTED . who is taking a voyage for the benefit of his health , the chair was occupied by Canon Eyre . A letter was read from Dr. E. Dykes Bower intimating that on that day he would reach the strike . PROPOSATS OF EDUCATION AUTHORITY REJECTED . Mr. Bremner's case was regarded as hope less by the cancer experts of the world , but Dr. Kelly , who is a specialist at the Johns Hopkins University , believes that bold use of radium will cure , or at least check , the growth of cancer . THE ROSS MASTER'S SALARY . The Herefordshire Teachers and the The doctor was one of the founders of the DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £ 2,000 . National Union of Teachers have rejected radium " bank , " or institute , at Baltimore , the proposal to increase the salaries of some which is to be taken over by the Federal One of the Hereford threatres - the Garrick of the head teachers made by the Hereford - Government , supplies for which are to be -was completely destroyed by fire on Christ- mas Day . The building , named after David the age at which , by the rules of the insti - hirecation Committee on Saturday . obtained from mines which have been pur- The Education Committee granted increases chased in Colorado . It is believed these Garrick , who was born at Hereford , has tution , he must resign his dual position as of from £ 1 to £ 40 where they considered the mines contain great deposits of radium , and been run for many years as a theatre , being surgeon and ophthalmic surgeon on the Government reports iustified such increases , the Mines Bureau of the Department of the first opened by the late Mr. Henderson , but medical staff . During the long period- the total increase amounting to £ 1.282 10s .. Interior is lending every assistance in experi- latterly it has also been used as a picture thirty - two years as ophthalmic surgeon - in and in addition to that £ 70 was added to ments for the extraction of the precious one palace . Smoking has been allowed at the which he had held office . Dr , Bower wrote the salaries of assistant teachers . by new process . The radium so obtained performances , and it is thought that a match At a mass meeting of the teachers held at will be used for the benefit of humanity , and Hereford on Monday , a resolution was unani- not for commercial purposes . mously adopted demanding a scale . The re- solution read as follows : - ICE - PENNY FRAUD . INGENIOUS TRICK TO GET GAB . Mr. Bremner , the patient , is only thirty Xc + 4 nine years of age , and was born in Scotland . That this meeting of the Herefordshire teachers emphatically declares that the proposals of the local Education Committee are totally unsatisfactory .. and that no solution of the present difficulty can he arrived at which does not provide a scale of salaries satisfactory to the union and to the teachers of the county . This meeting expresses its full confidence in the county association and the executive of the National Union of Teachers , and noholds them in their determination to obtain a scale of adequate salaries . or cigarette thrown down carelessly on the he had tried to do his best for the patients previous night must have smouldered and under his care , and to carry out his duties ultimately caused the outbreak . to the satisfaction of the committee . His The discovery was made by a police - con - years of service had been happy . years , and stable , and the fire brigade and fire escape he would always look back with pleasant were quickly on the scene . Fortunately the memories and with feelings of gratitude for flames did not get beyond the auditorium the splendid opportunities that had been and the stage , which , however , together with afforded him for the study and practice of the roof , were completely gutted . The dress- his profession . ing rooms and the residences in front were The Chairman stated that the General luckily saved . The damage is estimated at Committee had accepted the resignation , and £ 2,000 . The lessee is Mr. R. A. Maddox . invited Dr. Bower to take the office of con- The property , which was insured . belongs to sulting surgeon to the institution . They also the Ancient Order of Foresters , and was requested him to continue for the present his originally used as a volunteer drill hall . The services in the ophthalmic department , as lessess had made extensive preparations for they were anxious that in any arrangements Boxing Night performances , and endeavoured for its future the high reputation in which to obtain the drill hall for last night , but Dr. Bower had established it should be fully was Sir James Yoxall , M.P. , secretary of the The chief speaker at Monday's meeting there was some difficulty over the license , maintained . Canon Evre expressed the deep National Union . and therefore he was unable to carry out his regret of all the governors in the loss of Dr. Mr. W. A. Nicholls , the local representa- intentions at either place . Bower from the acting staff of the institu- tive of the Union . said the local education tion . His ability in his profession had won authority had offered only one increase of him a reputation throughout the West of £ 40 . and that was in respect to the school at England , whilst his special work in ophthal- Ross . mia had won him renown throughout the £ 180 . which amount was reduced to £ 160 by The headmaster formerly received profession . the Education Committee . Now he had been offered £ 200 , which was the biggest salary in the county . Two others were offered an in- crease of £ 30 , but they were nearing the end The Rev. Precentor Carpenter has been ap . pointed Archdeacon of Sarum . Greenock sugar refineries are doing a big business at present . Last week 58,000 bags of Those sentiments were heartily endorsed , sugar arrived at Greenock , 45,000 beet from and the action of the General Committee was lime , and 18.000 cane . confirmed . 1914 AND DIARIES CALENDARS Pocket Diaries , Desk Diaries , Block Calendars , and Fancy Calendars in great variety . Many interesting Novelties . ' Ross Gazette ' Office , 44 , HIGH STREET AND CHURCH STREET . BOGUS NURSE SENTENCED . MEAN FRAUDS ON SHOPKEEPERS . Ellen Armstrong , of Luna - street , Chelsea , in the full uniform of a nurse , appeared again at Westminster on Saturday , charged with frauds on " small shopkeepers . Falsely of a lady , and in the uniform which she representing herself as a nurse in the service had not the slightest justification for wear ing , prisoner went about obtaining goods on credit , alleging that her mistress desired to patronise the small shopkeepers of the neigh bourhood to enable them to get a living . Detective - sergeant Steel said the prisoner had selected the most struggling trades people , poor widows , and others for her he had already been sentenced to short frauds , and the garb of the nurse had sup- ported her imposture . For similar frauds terms of imprisonment at Swindon and Andover , and had also been charged with housebreaking at that court , and discharged from situations for dishonesty . Mr. Horace Smith sentenced her to three months ' hard labour . Jermyn - street , CHARGE AGAINST A BROKER . On a charge of having obtained credit to the amount of £ 130 from Mr. Thomas Arthur Francis , manager , of Crown - chambers , Richard Stafford Clayton , Marlborough - street , London , on Saturday .. a broker , was remanded at Mr. Francis said that the accused hired a suite of rooms at three guineas a week on May 29th , saying that he had come from Van- couver , and paid for his first week's bill with honoured . He stayed until August , and re- a cheque on the Bank of Montreal , which was turned in September , taking a different suite at three and a half guineas . Two cheques he gave one for £ 56 15s . and another for £ 100 were dishonoured , and on December 9th he left without giving notice . CITY VICAR KILLED . Dr. T. S. Ellis defended the action of the that . In the cases in anestion the canitation fees were paid by the Local Insurance Com- mittees , who administered medical benefits to medical aid associations . who pooled this money with the subscriptions of non - insured persons , with the result that the actual re- muneration of the medical officers of these institutions for their attendance upon insus- ed persons was very small indeed . The associations paid a fixed salary , which renre anel doctors under the Act , and for a small sented a lower rate than that provided for additional amount these officers had also to attend the wives and families of the insured nersons . When asked as the senior medical the provisional capital of the new Albanian State . A disastrous fire , resulting in damage esti- mated at £ 25,000 , has ooccurred at the Hackar Brewery , in Munich . Five firemen were injured . The German Emperor has sanctioned the as- signment of £ 1,250 from the Secret Service Fund to the ethnologist , Herr Leo Frobenius , to enable him to continue his exploration work in Central Africa . The French airman Legagneux , at Cannes , established a new altitude record on Saturday , attaining a height of 6,100 metres .. The death was announced at Sigmaringen on . Mr. Isaac Cohen , a wealthy master tailor , was run over and killed by a motor - omnibus in the East End on Saturday . According to a Tangier telegram , the noto- rious Moorish agitator , El Hiba , is reported to have been repulsed after heavy fighting , Elizabeth Webster , fifty - three , of Stratford , who was found on the pavement bleeding from a wound in the head , and said she had been knocked down by a tramcar , died in the West Ham Hospital on Saturday . While working on Rochester Bridge , Harry Cuckow , of Chatham , overbalanced and fell into the Medway . The strong tide carried him when some distance , and he was unconscious rescued , but recovered under medical treatment . practitioner in Gloucester to preside over a meeting of medical men to consider the mat- Albert John Gale , secretary of a local alate ter , he stipulated that he could do nothing charged with embezzling 248 , the club's money . club , has been remanded at Bournemouth inconsistent with his nosition as an elected member of the Hospital Committee he could When he was arrested he said : " If they , but waited the money . would have been repaid , now they will not get a cent . " The money had the nooling of insurance money with other not he an advocate of the professional views . hnt it was made perfectly clear to him that been used to pay debts . Alfred Jones , a weaver , was at Bacup sen- moneys was wrong in principle , and onght tenced to three months ' hard labour for desert- to he protested against in every way posing his two young children in April , 1901. They sible . It was a system which had the effort had cost the Haslington Union £ 200 . of their petting inferior men . The Infirmary The body of Henry Salter , fifty , a waiter , was staff ought not to correct the mistakes of found in the Avon two or three miles below On December 4th Salter the Act , and he . as one having no personal Bristol on Saturday . interest in it whatever . heartily sunported threw himself from Clifton Suspension Bridge the doctors in their protest against the pre - into the river 350ft . below . sent state of things . THE INSURANCE ACT . MEDICAL BENEFIT . EXPLANATION OF THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS . The new arrangements for the administra- tion of medical benefit which come into force A girl of twenty , named Gertrude Booth , a Christmas - card maker , was found hanging from a hook in the kitchen ceiling of her Blackburn home on Friday night . She had been despon- dent owing to lack of work . When the two daughters of . James Pye , an Ormakirk labourer , found their father late in arriving home on Friday night they went in search of him , and found his body in fenced brook . He was lying face downwards in shallow water . BUPL un- Riotous scenes marked the opening of the Croatian Diet at Agram , and there was B struggle for the chair between rival presidents . Mr. Charles Moyer , president of the Western on January 12th are explained in a circular Federation of Miners , declares that he was as- issued by the National Insurance Commis - saulted and deported from Calumet , Michigan , the scene of the Christmas - tree disaster , in sioners for the guidance of approved societies which seventy - two people lost their lives . and their branches . Red medical tickets and forms Med . 32 , they state , are no longer available for choosing a doctor or institution and will not be accepted . Medical cards is- sued by the Insurance Committee must be An applicant who has not yet selected a doctor or institution on the panel list for his district should apply for a medical card to used instead . A young American in Paris who had lost all his money at the races hanged and shot himself in the Bois de Boulogne . An illuminated address signed by 263 journal- ists , including the editors of all the great news- papers , was presented to Lord Burnham on the occasion of his eightieth birthday . Ten military districts in Great Britain and some stations abroad will be affected by the on STUDENT'S SUICIDE ON A HOLIDAY . Three days after he arrived at a Dover The most ingenious means of defrauding a hotel with his parents to spend the Christmas penny - in - the - slot gas - meter has been dis holidays , Frederic Annandale Hastings Snow , covered , according to the Paris Journal , in aged nineteen , an engineering student at Honolulu . The gas company in Honolulu re- London University , was found dead in his cently found that one of their customers was bedroom with a tube containing prussic acid undoubtedly consuming large quantities of beside him . At the inquest on Saturday , gas , although no coins were ever found in his when a verdict of suicide while temporarily the clerk to the Insurance Committee on a proposal to transfer the fixed defences at ports the man for his secret , at the same time guar- Christmas Eve . A medical witness calculated panel or institution , the patient wishes to meter . Baffled in their attempts to discover insane was returned , it was stated that Snow form obtained at any post office . This medir and the control of the Royal Garrison Artillery the fraud , the company at last offered to pay was working at mathematical problems on cal card should be given to the doctor on the from the Army to the Navy , A farmer living near Brentwood went to B He then that the tube had contained enough prussic select . anteeing him against prosecution . If the insured person has already picture palace in Brentwood on Saturday even- howed them a mould of the exact size of the acid to kill twenty or more people . chosen a doctor or institution he will in due ing and learnt by a message thrown on the screen that a fire had in his absence destroyed copper coin used for the meter and an ice course , without making application , receive the stables and sheds at his farm . made a disc of ice which he put into the machine . He explained that with these be from the Insurance Committee a medical card Mr. W. Rampling , of St Osyth , Essex , Injuries received in alighting from a train bearing the name of the doctor or institu- Friday dug up in the open from his garden one then melted and the water dried up , so that the death on Sunday of the Rev. Albert he must be prepared to produce it to the of pullets ' eggs . The tops were over 18in . high . meter to release a supply of gas . The dise at Hammersmith on Christmas Day caused tion . After the medical card has been issued and a - half bushel of new potatoes of the size when the meter came to be opened there was Bari , at the West London Hospital . He was nothing inside . doctor or institution whenever treatment is Carmichael , the captain of the Hull Kingston Vicar of St. Giles's , Cripplegate , and had required . Rovers , a Northern Union club , won a horse , held the living since 1886. For thirteen years Any enquiries with regard to medical bene- trap , and harness , valued at £ 60 , in a Christ- of their service . Eleven increases . of £ 20 Since the middle of September Germany has he was master of the choristers of St. Paul's fit should be addressed to the clerk to the mas draw , tickets for which were 2s , each . were offered . but the bulk of increments Lowestoft , each containing about 500 fish , and taken 304,580 boxes of fresh herrings from Cathedral . Insurance Committee . whose address will be Dr. Weeks , Vicar of St. John's , Lowestoft , were from £ 5 to £ 10 ( 43 of £ 10 and 49 of Germany and Russia have been sent 394,580 bar- found in the panel list exhibited in the has announced to his parishioners that owing to £ 5 ) . In 60 cases no increase at all was sug - rels of salted herrings , each containing nearest post office . On and after January the , action of the sea air and winter gales the gested . The local anthority had not touch- 600 to 800 fish 12th insured persons aged sixty - five or over fabric of the church is crumbling away , and Both totals are new records . An officer of the P. and O. liner Ophir and on entry into insurance will become entitled that at least £ 800 is required to save the tower ed the certificated assistant teachers , and had Four hundred and ninety - five years is the his wife and child , who were attempting to done nothing for the uncertificated teachers total of the ages of the crow of the Lowestoft reach their steamer at anchor in Southend to medical and sanatorium benefits on the and spire . Clifford Ernest Deacon , an engine - driver , same conditions as other insured persons , There was no guarantee whatever that there fishing - boat Primrose , of which the oldest hand roads by a boat during the gale of Saturday except that in the case of these members aged thirty , of Rotherham , was killed on Satur would be any improvement in the salaries in is B. Grimble , who on Christmas Day was afternoon were blown out towards sea , and the future hevond the statement that the 80. The other hands are 73 , 69 , 61 , 60 , and 59 when rescued four hours later by a lifeboat seventy unless at least twenty - seven contri- knocked down and run over by the engine he medical benefit will cease at the age of whilst engaged in shunting waggons . He was day morning at the Main Colliery , Canklow , position of the teachers would be " consider - respectively . The skipper is 665 , but the cook on the North Sands were in a half - frozenbutions have been paid . ed " every year . The Union was aiming at is only 38 . condition . from a scale of adequate salaries for good service . Underneath a ledge of rook which a labourer The teachers , whose notices expire next was preparing to blast at the quarry at the en- month , state that the strike will proceed , in trance to Alva Glen , Alva , near Stirling , has which cases practically all the schools will be There was no cist or coffin , but a shell necklace been found a skeleton about 5ft in length . loft without teachers . 14in . in length was lying beside the skeleton . Electric lamps , instead of the oil ones now in use , are shortly to be supplied to the Metropoli- ban Police . The Great Skin Cure ! The death is announced of Mr. Pandeli C Ralli , senior partner in Messrs G. C. Ralli , cotton and general merchants , of Liverpool . Two children were burnt to death in a fire at Manor Farm , Boughton , Nottinghamshire , on Saturday . BUDDEN'S 8. R. SKIN OINTMENT will cure itching after one application ; de stroy every form of Eczema ; heals old Wounds and Bores ; acfe like a charm on " I have been a teetotaler for twenty months , Bad Legs prevents Outs from Festering ; and only drink port and peppermint , said a will cure Ringworm in a few days ; removes witness at Stratford Police - court on Saturday . the most obstinate Eruption and Beurvy . Suffragan Bishop of Buckingham and that of It has been decided to combine the offices of Boxes . 74d . and 1s . 14d . Agent for Ross : Mr. Matthews , Chemist : Ledbury , Mr. Archdeacon of Buckingham , now held by the Freeman ; Newent : Mr. Whittles . Venerable E. D. Shaw , FAMILY'S RERILOUS ADVENTURE . A FORTUNE FOR LONDON CHARITIES . Geoffrey Charles Ansell , By the death during his minority of Mr. sum of about £ 263,500 becomes available under the will of his father , the late Mr. Charles Ansell , stock- broker , for distribution amongst hospitals and other charitable institutions and agencies in London . Mr. TWO - FOOT COFFIN FOR A MAN Mr. John William White , of Southend , whose funeral took place this week , White , who was aged fifty - three years , was buried in a coffin some two feet long . Probably the smallest man in the world , as he one inches to be precise . With his two measured less than two feet in height , twenty- sisters , who were of normal size , he conducted confectioner's business . DELICIOUS RED WHITE & BLUE For Breakfast & after Dinner . had just alighted from . While hunting with the Crawley and Hor sham Hunt on Saturday Mr. Austin Bevan , only son of Mr. B. Y. Bevan , of Cuckfield , a of member of the well - known banking firm Barclay and Co. , met with a serious accident . In taking a jump his horse fell upon him , and ho was injured internally . A verdict of found drowned was returned at a South Monaghan inquest on Thomas Free- man , who returned to his native place on Christ- mas morning from Glasgow . He was taking & short cut ' to a relative's house and fell into a boghole during a blinding snowstorm . Frederick Williams , a farmer , of Griffiths- town , Monmouthshire , died on Saturday after swallowing his false teeth during sleep . After occupying the position for twenty - four years , Mr. E. R. Pease will at the end of the present year relinquish the secretaryship of the Fabian Society , and be succeeded by Mr. W. Stephen Sanders , who has acted as organising secretary for some years . 3 Colman [ Picture Fra Of every kind done o 200 PATTERNS Special attention give A large assortment of inexpensiv ORIGINAL WATER - C Gloucester - road ( opposite THE WEEK'S GARDENING . FLOWERS AND FRUIT . If not already done , and the opportunity lately has been one that was too good to ] miss , unoccupied beds and borders should The be dug and manured . manure should be old , well - rotted stuff . In clay or stiff to loamy soil leaf mould , road drift , or the sift- ings of lime rubbish - anything that will render it . more friable is preferable Lung . Unless very favourable conditions as . regards the weather occur , planting gener- ally should be deferred for the present . The hoe should be kept frequently at work tirring the soil between all spring - flowering " plante . when the surface is dry enough to en- able it to be done without clogging the tool . Do not stir deeply , especially over the points occupied by bulbs , many of the earliest of which may be pushing their growth very Dear the surface . Over these pricking lightly with a fork is safer than using the hoe ; but neither tool should be used when the soil is so wet as to clog it . There is no better time than the present for making new beds and generally improv- ing the garden's appearance by rearrange- ment . Front grass plots before houses may need more beds in them in order to show off the best plants . Crescent - shaped beds are well adapted for low plante of one kind- begonias , pansies , and stocks , for instance- while a yard - wide round bed gives a pleasing relief to the eye if situated near some of these flat bedding displaye ; and filled with Shirley poppies or cannas , or trained - up ivy- leaved pelargoniums or heliotropes , and finished off with just a one - row edging of violas . Quite a variety of climbers may be planted At this season of the year , and to cover naked alls the best way to set about it is to take out a trench three feet deep , and as wide , if the border will permit of it . In some cases the area is paved , and where the pavement cannot be lifted the climbers may be grown in tarbs . This necessitates constant watering in mer , but the plan is sometimes unavoid- able . Most climbers are not very particular as to soil , provided it is well dug so that the roots can penetrate deeply and quickly A tree which has to be cut out can still be made an object of beauty if it is cut several feet above the ground and then covered by some suitable plant . Clematises are suitable for this work , especially C : montana and C. vitalba ( traveller's joy ) . Other plants suit able for this purpose are Polygonum bald- Behuanicum ; the common dog rose , Forsythia Buspensa and the common ivy . It will , of course , be necessary to dig a good pit and f11 Ht with rich soil in order to give the plant a fair start . , Amaryllis or Hippeastrums that have been rested since the foliage died away force readily if plunged in a little bottom heat . This may be done even within a heated green- house by fixing up a deep box over the hot- water pipes , near enough to get the requisite heat , but not , so close as to cause the soil in the bottom of the pots to become unduly dry . The pots may be plunged in cocoanut fibre , which readily retains the moisture . If the temperature of the house itself stands at 50deg . by night , it will be sufficient to make the bulbs push up their flower scapes early in the year . Cuttings of ivy - leaved geraniums which were inserted round the edge of a large po must now be moved into a separate small po for each , and those that were struck singl in " thumb " pote may go into the 3in . size Be very careful about watering after repot Po fing , not to make the soil too moist . firmly , in a good , fibrous loam . Maintain steady temperature of about 50deg . , and give ventilation whenever possible . The atmo sphere must be kept moderately dry . cayed leaves should be removed at once . Green - fly is sometimes apt to be troublesome , and will quickly spoil a batch of plants . Fumigation or syringing will keep it down , choosing , if possible , bright clear weather . All de- Cuttings of perpetual carnations are to be taken any time during the next three months . Short sturdy growths from the middle of the stems make the best cuttings . Remove them when about three inches long with a down ward pull , trim them up with a sharp knife and then remove the lower pair of leaves They root very well in a bed of firm , mois sand in a propagating frame , or in a box with a sheet of glass placed over the top , but bes separately in thumb pots . Fill the pote with a mixture of good loam , leaf - soil , and silve Band in equal parts , after passing this throug a quarter - inch sieve . Make the soil moderatel firm in the pots , and press the soil firml around the cuttings as they are inserted .. Give a good watering in with a fine - rose can , and plunge the pot in a propagating cas with a bottom heat of 55deg . and an overhead temperature of 50deg . On bright , clear morn ings a light spray over with a syringe will be beneficial . Very little air is required at first ; just admit a little in the morn ing , and dry the glass inside to remove cor densed moisture , but after a week or so th top of the case can be removed entirely hight . When the cuttings take root gradual accustom them to more air , and finally r move them from the frame and stand in light position on the greenhouse stage . THE VEGETABLE GARDEN . T In preparation for grafting it is time to cutting back large branches on old trees readiness to receive the grafts . If this wo is done whilst the sap is dormant the woun will heal sufficiently to prevent any loss , Bup when growth begins in the spring . various selons may be collected and placed a border on the north side of a wall or fend Correct bundling and labelling is important The destructive caterpillars of lackey mot are called " tent caterpillars on account their forming tent - like nests of silk on t trees , in which they live during their ear existence , and beneath which they shelt during wet weather and at night when th are more mature . The damage to orcha trees caused by them can easily be prevente and son when they have a considerable ho on the orchard they can be dealt with aud Bome extent be destroyed by spraying w arsenate of lead . The moth is very variable in colour size , and measures up to an inch and quarter in expanse of wings in the male , an inch and a - half in the female . The eggs the moth are deposited in autumn in ri that suground the smaller shoots of the f trees , each ring containing from forty to o The should be collected at |