Ross Gazette 25th June 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 25th June 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 25/06/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 25th June 1914 |
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LKS . SENT SEASON : - rêpes Ondulé , etc. de . 1s . , 11d . yard . wide , 2s . 6d . yard . ide , 3. 11d . yard . Shantungs , Fancy Silk Ninons , Soft Moirés and Shot Silks . ent wear . Crêpes de Chine , etc. mart Gowns . 5s . 11d . a yard . e Satin Mousseline , Satin Grena- owersby ( LIMITED ) lace , Ross . SECOND SHEEN A LIGHT ALE For the Warm Weather is TENNENT'S LAGER BEER . RECOMMENDED . - WHITBREAD'S POULTON & NOEL'S : LONDON STOUT Increases popularity . because of its regularly good condition . 2/6 Por dozen pint 1 : bottles -Per dozen pint Abottles . per dozen pint bottles . LAZENBY'S TONGUES IN GLASS MOULDS ,. 1/3 , 1/6 , 2/2 , 3 / 3/10 each ALL KINDS OF POTTED MEAT AND FISH , In 31d . and 6d . Glasses THE ROSS GAZETTE Chivers ' Jellies , 21d each . All flavours . Bird's Jelly Crystals , All flavours , 31d . each Green's Jelly Crystals , All flavours , 21d . each . J. BARNWELL & SON , Agents for QUALITY , FOR VALUE . W. & A. GILBEY'S WINES & SPIRITS , FINEST QUALITY PRESERVING es . ' s mail : - m India- 器 ill be interested to know that tle " Ford " is running satis- ly . I have just returned from mile trip , including 28 miles of a end , wet and greasy , and radient The car has 3,000 miles since landing , no ouble at all . m Chorlton - cum - Hardy- r you sold me is giving every otion . I am more than d with her ; am much obliged ar kind advice . HALL EERS DERS , ( LIMITED ) , Garage , k ! use it . tending purchasers , who can see and Printing , & c . , any day in raphers is at your service . We stock every requisite for the Amateur Photographer . BENHAM osite G.P.O. ) , ROSS - ON - WYE ardier Wells , who meets Colin Bell heave weight championship of the Emp at Olympia on June 30th , hat en has set his mind on defeating fore he puts the gloves aside . bition of his life is to challenge the of the Gunboat Smith Carpentier con ad terwards , if successful , to take the contest for the heavy - weight cham- of the world . " I was in anything best form on the two occasions on met Carpentier . " he stated , on Satur- ani was suffering from dysentery mei Cunboat Smith in America . To- wever . I am hetter than ever I was in CRICKET FIXTURES . ROSS FIRST ELEVEN . -Lydney and Aylburton , home Ledbury , home Cheltenham , away Chepstow , home Ludlow and South Shropshire , away Strond , home Old Herefordians , home " A " TEAM FIXTURES . -Brockhampton , away Bradley Court School , home -Bradley Court School , away LEAGUE FIXTURES . -Goodrich and Bishopswood Perrystone Ruardean v . Weston Cinderford v . Ross -Perrystone T. Ross V. Ruardean v.Goodrich and Bishops- Wood Weston v . Cinderford -Perrystone v . Goodrich and Bishopswood Ross v . Weston Ruardean v . Cinderford -Cinderford v . Perrystone Weston y . Goodrich and Bishops- wood and Published for the Ross GAZETTE TED , by GODFREY M. MORTON , at Offices , High - street and Church- st , Ross , in the County of Hereford HURSDAY , JUNE 25 , 1914 . LUMP SUGAR , 2/3 per dozen lbs . Grocers , ROSS . Price Lists on application . TO VISITORS- When in Ross drink the wine of the country , BULMER'S HEREFORDSHIRE CIDER . LAZENBY'S Agents for FRUIT SALAD . A selection of Choice Fruits in Clear Syrup . Dainty . Refreshing . Ready . WE SELL IT . JAM COVERS IN PACKETS Ask for a Price List . Per Large Tin 1/4 . Also in bottles PRINTING STATIONERY Before sending any order for PRINTING or STATIONERY to another Town , enquire the cost of same in Ross . We will gladly give estimates at any time , and only ask for the opportunity to obtain orders on our merits'in open competition . " GAZETTE " PRINTING WORKS Immediate Cash Advances . THE LONDON AND PROVINCES DISCOUNT COMPANY , Ltd. , pre - eminently he leading establishment of its kind in the ' ngdom - lenda large sums of Among the ad- money daily to 11 classes Telephone - 59 , Ross . Whitbread's Ales and Stout , in Bottle . A SPECIALITE Hand - made Chocolates , 2 / - per lb. Obtainable at our Confec- tionery Branch- No. 8 , HIGH - STREET . These Chocolates are equal in guality to those sold in many London Stores at double the price . HERBERT B. MEW , Telegrams- " Barrel , Boan . BARREL BREWERY , BRILLIANT ROSS . ALES NOURISHING THURSDAY , JUNE 25 , 1914 . The Ross Gazette . THURIDAY , JUNE 25th , 1914 . MOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS . Br ou DomboN COMPORDENT We do not bold ourselves responsible for all the opinions expressed by the able wither of these notes London at last . world . PERSONAL GOSSIP . " Queen of the Poor . " CHARGE OF ARSON AT ROSS . WESTON - UNDER - PENYARD MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL . A QUESTION OF FOOTPRINTS . was charged with felonston - nalieron and A Polyglot Queen . Queen Olga of Greece , who is now visiting Eastbourne , is not well known in England , indeed , the but she speaks our language perfectly . She stlinguist among Royalties , being able to courerse fluently in Russian , Greek Albanian , English , French , and Italian . A Russian by birth , she is a daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine , -At the Ross Police Court on Friday last , the house which was two hundred yards brother of the late Czar . Constantine was a before Capt . R. H. Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , High Admiral , and for that reason the late Col. O. R. Middleton , Col. Evan Thomas , Summer appears really to have arrived a Czar paid Queen , Olga the uniqué compli- Mr. J. A. N. Booker . Mr. T. Matthews , Mr. through the field in which he was in only at away . He could not say where Williams was going to There was no footpath After the unseasonably coldment of creating her an Admiral in the Rus H. J. Marshall , and Mr. J. E. S. Hewett the lower end . He asked Williams if it weeks we have experienced until quite sian Navy - the only lady naval officer in the James Williams , of cently , the air in the City has seemed almost were a fire at Rudge . Williams replied : unbearably close during the last few days , " It looks as though there is something There is a decidedly thundery tendency , and setting fire to a rick of wheat straw , the pro wrong there . " He asked Williams if he perty of Mr. J. G. Protheroe , of Rudge would come over and see what it was , and the people who profess to understand these Queen Olga was only sixteen when she Farm , Weston - under - Penyard , on June 12th the prisoner replied : " I will come if I can things harrow our feelings with threats of a married the late King George . She had not last . do any good . " He ( witness ) and his wife been many years in her adopted country be- prodigious heat wave to come . Mr. J. B. Evans , solicitor , Ross , appeared started off to the fire , and Williams started The river fore she had earned by her devotion to chari- for the prisoner . Beason promises well . with them . When they got to the firs Wil- The eccentricities of table pursuits the name of " Queen of the Mr. Joseph George Protheroe , farmer liams was a little way behind . Williams did fashion are accentuated by the effort to Poor . One of her earliest achievements Rudge Farm , Weston - under - Penyard ,, said not go past the firs . They went on a little grapple with the climate . There are weird was to found the Evangelismos , " one of that on June 12th he had gone to bed just further , but not quite to the fire , In com spectacles to be seen in the parks , and the where men of all nationalities are made al called by William Hall . He got up and went they stw Williams talking to a man at the the finest seamen's hospitals in Europe , after nine o'clock , but at 11.20 p.m. he was ing back by the firs , about ten minutes later , enterprising authors of revues will soon find most effusively welcome , and she gained to that the dresses actually worn nave passed the thereby a reputation for benevolence which rick of wheat straw burning , He could see Henry Wilkes . the rickyard , where he say a corner of the firs The man's name was limit at which any caricature is possible . has followed her ever since . the fire from his bedroom window . The rick The East - End Suffragists who declare Dress at Ascot . was assessed at £ 28 78. As in his opinion known Williams yourself very long . your By Mr Evans : Although you have not appointed that the Premier did Two of the most daringly - dressed women that none of the buildings or anything else wife is an old friend of the Williams family ? was in danger , he did not send for the bri - Yes , that is so . not at ce promise a Government measure at Ascot , says a correspondent , were Countess gade , but sent for the police constable . of votes for women may pretty safely be as- Drogheda and Lady Dalmeny And she has had to do with the cottage in The latter With assistance they threw water on the ad- which you are now living for some years ? sumed to be talking with their tongues in their wore a skirt . of black and white stripes of joining buildings to keep the fire from spread- For three years , and living there on and off . cheeks Mr. Asquith's consent to see a depu- startling breadth , black satin Russian ing . He knew James Williams . who was Then your wife and Williams ' are neigh- tation at all is , I believe , regarded by Miss blouse , and a tight - fitting black satin cap taken in custody that night . When he saw bours , and it is nothing unusual to run from Sylvia Pankhurst's brigade as a distinct step turned up with white . Lady Drogheda was Williams with the constable , the latter said one house to another P - It is quite a usual forward , and the tone of his reply was de dressed in a white embroidered Zouave jacket that he had arrested him on suspicion , and thing . cidedly sympathetic . His clauses were , of and a black taffeta skirt , with a black cire that he ( witness ) better charge him . course , conditional , but optimistic women ribbon hat . These were the most startling next day he saw Supt . Broad and Tompkins costumes I saw . are inclined to translate " If the change note was subdued . Even the footgear was not them , and those boots compared with the house P - As far as I can say , he had , but he Williams came from the direction of the But for the most part the at his farm . They had a pair of boots with surprised to see Williams P - No , I was not . comes as " When the change comes . " Liberal feeling geherally favours the Premier's so fanciful as it has been . The ostrich chal- footprints by the rickvard in a little open was at the gate when I got there . declaration that if votes are given to women they must be given on a democratic basis , and the East End Federation of Suffragettes , it may be assumed , will not complain at this . dem all woman Suffragists , of course , are not democrats , and any such extension would meet with opposition from the more moderate body of Suffragist supporters . " themselves dis There are rumours of deep - laid plots which the W.S.P.U. is said to have in store for the long - suffering public . The ladies , by the way , are now back at their Kingsway headquarters again , hot in a very chastened spirit appa- rently . They are talking , indeed , of taking proceedings against their disturbers . The W.S.P.U. in the role of prosecutors would be rather a novel spectacle , but perhaps they will decide against this appeal to man - made law . " The most serious suggestion that has been made is that the water supply of Lon- don may be tampered with . The Metropolitan Water Board has in its possession a letter indicating that this may be attempted , and , while the possibility of a hoax has to be borne in mind , I believe the police are treating the matter quite seriously , and the sources are being well guarded . The possibilities of in- jury to the public along these lines are very great . If any noxious substance were intro- duced into the drinking water it would be diffi- cult to reconcile the action with Mrs. Pank- hurst's oft - repeated guarantee that human life is to be respected . But the movement , has long appeared to have got out of hand , lenged the osprey in hat decoration . Queen Alexandra . His Majesty is credited , says the Pall Mall Gazette , with the interesting idea of gather ing round Queen Alexandra on the occasion of her seventieth birthday this winter as many of her descendants and relatives as These include one son and three possible . daughters , one daughter - in - law and one son in - law , six daughters , while . Prince Arthur comes in as grandsons , and three grand husband of one of the latter , apart from the older relationship by marriage . Many Relationships . The So on this particular Friday you were not He is not a very conversational sort of And he does not have much to say to you P No , si , he has not . man ? No. I never had much to say to him . When you and your wife passed , Williams " was talking to Wilkes in an ordinary way ? - As far as I know . but we did not stop . shed . He also saw the foot marks across Was there anything unusual about him the fifty acre field which adjoins the orchard . that night ? -Nothing I noticed , sir . He had not the slightest doubt that the boots produced corresponded with the foot prints across the field and in the shed . In reply to Mr. Marshall the foot marks corresponded in every way . The shed was some 45. to 50 yards away from the rick . There were several footpaths about the farm , but there was no path through the orchard or the ad- joining field . There was a footpath by the I did not notice whether he was following . You thought Williams was following you ? plantation . When he came along the field Henry Wilkes , labourer . Lea Bailey , said between 7.30 and 8 p.m. , there were no foot- he remembered the night of June 12th , when marks there then . This track was leading he went out to look at the fire . He went away from the farm . The prisoner lived not through the little plantation to the firs . quite a mile away from Rudge Farm . He While he was there a man and his wife had lived there just over six years .. named Andrews came up . A short time him ? -Witness : Ever since I have lived at some talk with Williams ahout the fire . He Mr. Evans : How long have you known after James Williams came up . He had knew prisoner quite well . Their conversation was about their healths , and he told Wil- liams not to worry . When they parted Wil- liams went in the direction of his home . The fire was hurning then . On the other hand , Queen Alexandra's re- lationships cover all Europe , and include on her own side the Royal Families of Greece , Rudge . Russia , Norway , and the Ducal family of He has a way of strolling about the Cumberland . Through her marriage she is country and about the locality , irrespective related also to the Royal houses of Germany , of the time of day ? I believe so . He is a man who does not get about very Saxe - Coburg , Spain , and Sweden , apart from numerous smaller States and Duchies . If , quickly ? -I should not like to say that . I as is being said , the Sandringham party in- believe he can . cludes the Kaiser and Kaiserin , the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden , the King and Queen of Denmark and of Greece , it will be the most notable Royal gathering since that which King Edward brought together at Windsor .. King's Private Secretary . Lord Stamfordham , who succeeded Viscount Your farm is practically on the main road ? -Yes , it is , practically . , And it is the main road leading from Ross to the Forest ? -Yes , it is . By Mr Evans : You could see the fire quite well from where you were standing P - Not then , as we were down out of sight of the fire . There is a public path running alongside this plantation P - Yes , sir , there is . Where about were you when you saw Wil- liams ? -Right at the corner of the planta . tion . How far were these foot prints away from the rick P - About 25 yards . The foot prints could not be tracted in the yard because of the straw . What time would that be ? -It would be These boots are a very common make for hetween eleven and twelve . There has been a rather large number of Knollys as private secretary to the King much of a judge , and should not like to give about there ? -I have seen him on his farm , labourer's boots , are they not P - I am not I suppose you have often seen Williams STOUT . theatrical failures lately , and short runs ap day . Better known as - Sir Arthur Bigge , he my opinion . 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It is therefore a wise , as well as a simple course , never TO BE WITHOUT Beecham's Pills . the tonic , corrective and curative properties of which , promote a healthy action of the liver , stomach , kidneys and bowels , thereby rendering the work of digestion and assimilation easy and satisfactory . It is a well - known fact that great and ever - increasing numbers of men and women in every walk of life owe their unvarying state of good health to the regular use of + BEECHAM'S PILLS . Sold everywhere in boxes , price 1/14 ( 56 pilis ) & 2/9 ( 168 pille ) . A melody production , and ready interpretive facilities . PRICES from 48 GUINEAS . DALE , FORTY , & CO . , Ltd. CHELTENHAM . Also at Birmingham , Leamington , Cardiff , Stroud , and elsewhere . DENTISTRY . For Natural looking ARTIFICIAL TEETH and PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS VISIT D. GORE BOODLE & Co. , Ltd. , 43 , HIGH STREET , ROSS , EVERY THURSDAY from 10.30 A Lady always in attendance . a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Extractions First Hour Free . BRANCHES EVERYWHERE . Abergavenny , 6 , High - street , Tuesdays , 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monmouth , 12 , Church - street , Fridays , 12 to 5. Hereford , 3 , St. Peter - street , Wednesdays , 11 a.m. to 6.30 . Chepstow , Tuesdays and Fridays , Gloucester , Every Day . " s BOODLE'S TEETH . A Responsible Post . You say you discussed your illnesses to- gether ? Yes , and I recommended him not to worry . Probably you have seen similar boots to these before that day ? -There are special marks in these boots which you do not find Mr. Morling ( the Clerk ) : Was he worried P in other boots very often .. -Yes , sir . He said he had got some Jand This main road passes your house , and a to work , and he complained that he could considerable number of tramps pass from one not do it . place to another . is there not P - We occas- ionally meet a tramp . ing . Mr. Evans : Did he say he had been work- am aware of . the pair of trousers . He went to Rudge Farm in the afternoon . P.C. Tompkins and Mr. Protheroe were present . On his arrival he saw two distinct footprints . He examined the rickyard and found that there had been Few people realise the responsibilities and You get a considerable number of Fores - ing on the land that day ? -No , not that I hard work attached to the post , especially ters passing your house I suppose ? Yes , we Supt . Broad stated that on June 18th he during a time like the political crisis just do . If you live on the side of a main road , proceeded to Rudge Farm , Weston - under- passed , when he had to attend the debates in you generally see some people passing . Williams was then in custody , Penyard . the House , and return and give a concise ac- Have you any idea how long this rick had having been brought in by P.C. Tompkins count to the King of what had happened . His been burning before your attention was call - early that morning . When arrested prisoner Lordship is the son of the Rev. J. F. Bigge , ed to it ? I cannot give you any idea . The was wearing a pair of boots produced , also Vicar of Stamfordham , from which village he flames had got right round it , and I should takes his title ; he was educated at Eton , and not like to say how long it had been burn- later joined the Royal Artillery , in which he served through the Zulu War . He married in for the most part to regard " Plaster Saints By Mr. Morling ( the Clerk ) : Can you say very kindly . From an artistic point of view , 1881 the daughter of the late Rev. W. Neville , what time it was not burning P - I went to however , it can hardly be claimed that this is and they have one son and two daughters . bed a little after nine , and the rick was all as good a play as " The Melting Pot , " which right , then . I should have seen it if it had a fire . These footprints were in the shed near to the rickyard . There were other will be revived to run concurrently with it at the end of the month . Miss Horniman's com- been burning , for my bedroom window faced footprints going in the same direction some Sir Edward Brabrook , who presided on the fire . twenty - five yards away . He proceeded fur- pany concluded a very successful season at Wednesday evening at the ladies ' dinner of By Mr. Marshall : And you could see nother , and he picked out the track again in the Coronet Theatre at tlie end of last week . the Colquhoun Club of the Royal Society of traces of footmarks for some 25 yards . It the fifty acres field after crossing the orchard . The Salvation Army has succeeded in im- Literature , is the great authority on friendly would be impossible for the straw and stuff . He acted as Assistant Registrar On reaching pressing even the blasé Londoner by its great societies . The Chairman : You say the rick was all This track went straight up this field . There was no footpath there . Congress . The interestingly - attired delegates from 1869 to 1891 , and then succeeded to the right when you went to bed ? -Yes . If there the top the track was followed along under from many lands have been familiar figures post of Chief Registrar , an appointment he had been a fire , it would have illuminated the hedge to the top corner until it came to the meetings have made it clear that , with ises on the law of friendly societies rank as Authority on Friendly Societies . in the streets for the last couple of weeks , and held until his retirement in 1904. His treat his bedroom , and I should have smelt it . Mr. Power : Would this man have to come are n footpath , when it was lost . On examination actly with the boots produced . His reasons all its success , the Army has not ceased to classics , and are fully as authoritative as his along this track from his house ? No. The he found these footprints to correspond ex- strike its own distinctive " note . " Alleluias " contributions to the literature of archæology . track was leading away from the riekyard . for saying this was that there were five nalis very frequent at the meetings , and William Hall , carpenter , of Rudge Cot- missing in the tread of the right boot . This fastidious ideas of reverence might well be In Command at Bulford Camp . tage , Weston - under - Penyard , said on the was seen in several of the prints , and that shocked sometimes if the sincerity and real Major - General Hubert Hamilton , who has night of June 12th , he had been to a friend's corresponded with one boot . P.C. Tompkins spiritual experience of the Salvationists were just taken over command of the Third Divi- house , and on leaving the house he saw what and Mr. Protheroe were with him at the not so unmistakable . The real nigger min- sion of the Expeditionary Force at Bulford appeared to him to be a fire in the direction time . That was the only track across this strels , with such refrains as " When trouble Camp from Sir Henry Rawlinson , is fifty of Rudge Farm . He went home , and think - particular field going in that direction . came in Noah's time , my ! didn't it rain ! " three years of age , and has nearly thi . -four ing it strange that cutch or bushes should be There were tracks of a lady's and gentle- have served to remind us of the Jubilee years ' service to the good , having joined the burning at that late hour , he stood and man's walk , but these he discovered were Singers and their quaint melodies . General Queens as a second - lieutenant in 1880. While watched the fire from his home for some those of Mr. and Mrs. Protheroe , and they Booth evidently commands the same respect in Egypt in 1898 he came under the notice of minutes . He called his mother's attention to went in the direction to the farm and not as his honoured father did . At the memorial Lord Kitchener , who made him his military it , and she fancied she heard somebody call- from it . The prisoner's trousers and boota service for " officers promoted to glory " secretary in South Africa , and took him out ing . He then called his father and brother were quite wet and muddy . There were also during the past year he made touching refer to India in the same capacity when he was ap to get up , and he went straight to Rudge pieces of buttercups on the boots , and there ence to his loss and the Army's by the late pointed Commander - in - Chief . Lord Kitchener Farm , which was about a quarter of a mile were buttercups in the orchard . General's promotion . By Mr. Evans : These were very ordinary It is not the fashion of had a very high opinion of his military secre- away . Seeing it was a rick ablaze , he called the Army to strike a minor key for very long , tary , says Truth , and both in South Africa Mr. Protheroe , whom he accompanied to the farm labourers ' boote , were they not ? -Wit and the dominant note at the meeting - where and India the two were inseparable friends . rickyard , and they then found it was a strawness : cannot say . mourning was symbolised by white instead of black - was one of triumphant assurance . there " Oldest Living Poet . two . Honorary Surgeon to the King . the With regard to this fire , the rickyard is quite close to the road ? -It would be about 20 yards from the road . Mr. Evans : I only say that because there The Dancing Green is on the edge of the has been some scuffling going on there . P.C. Tompkins said : On June 12th at 11 Do you know defendant well ? -Yes , very p.m. I received information concerning a fire at Rudge Farm , Weston - under - Penyard . Is he a man who walks quickly ? —Not as On proceeding there I found a rick of wheat straw on fire , and I remained there and rick burning . He never saw anyone about You have known the defendant some time , until after the fire . He went for the police I prestime P - No . I did not know him until he was arrested . The programme of the first International M. Fertiault , in honour of whose 100th constable at Bromsash . By Mr. Evans : What time was it when The constable would known him ? -Yee , New Thought Convention , which opened on birthday the Société des Gens de Lettres is Sunday , is rather a staggering production . organising festivities , may be presumed to be you first saw the fire ? -Witness : Between a Tompkins would know him . Doctors and persons with all sorts of myste- the oldest living poet . He was born when quarter and twenty past ten . It took me rious letters after their names discourse on a Napoleon was in Elba . The year in which he about five minutes to get home first . Are you in Mr. Protheroe's employ ? -No , came to Paris to seek his fortune was the year variety of subjects , from " The Secret of A considerable portion of the Rudge Farm Eternal Youth " to " Healing by First Inten- in which Chateaubriand produced " Moise , " sit . I am not . Thiers was admitted to the Academy , and Reginald Cole , postman , Pontshill , deposed is on the side of the main road P - Yes , but tion . " Concern for the physical body ap- their that he was standing by his house at Lea where this rick was burning it would be on Fanny Ellsler and Marie Duval made pears to be a large part of the New Thought , débuts at the theatre . It was in a bank that M. Bailey on the night of June 12th . He knew the lower part of the rickyard next to the if one may judge from the syllabus , and are healing Fertiault made his own début , says the Weat- Williams , and he saw him on the Dancing orchard meetings at the Obviously it would not be very difficult for minster Gazette , and he worked in that bank Green near the house , about 10 o'clock . He Knightsbridge Hall . The number of socie ties represented is surprising , and their from the age of twenty to the age of ninety- walked to a path that might lead to Rudge . anyone to get from the road into the farm Prisoner vard P - I should not say so . Of course , there One of the customers for whom he He knew where Williams lived . ability to find polysyllabic names to describe cashed cheques was Alfred de Museet . It was was not going in the direction of his home , is an entrance into the farm from the main themselves is quite interesting . There is a large number of ladies among the lecturers , only in the evenings that he cultivated litera- but away from it . He spoke to Williams , Forest road , Good - night . " But he got по I suppose you have not heard anything and it is not surprising to find that most of ture , and he has not even yet ceased to culti- saying vate it . A visitor found him , only the other answer . Williams was alone when he saw about the defendant scuffling on their farm the delegates come from America . The founder of the that day ? -No , prisoner never said anything Alameda Home of Truth day , busy with the proof - sheets of a volume him on the Dancing Green . By Mr. Evans : How long would it take to me . ( situated , inquirers may be glad to know , in of poems composed in his 100th year . Williams to walk from where you saw him to You have not been on Williams ' farm ? - California ) explains " The Rich Mentality , " Rudge Witness : I could do it in five No , only on the road . and another lady has made the cheering dis- Surgeon - General William Babtie , V.C. , minutes easy . covery that " He Can Who Knows He Can . " C.B. , C.M.G. , M.B. , has been appointed an The rejection of the third provisional agree- Honorary Surgeon to the King , in place of Forest of Dean P - Yes , sir . ment designed to bring the building dispute Surgeon - General Sir W. L. Gubbins . Sur- to a much - desired end has not created any geon - General Bábtie , who is a son of Mr. well . very general surprise . The feeling in favour John Babtie , of Dumbarton , entered of standing out is less strong among the men Army Medical Service in 1881 , and in the a rule , sir . than it was , and it has become evident to the last South African War was staff officer to How are you able to place the time at 10 made certain enquiries , stopping on the pre- more thoughtful of them that the dispute the Principal Medical Officer of the Natal o'clock ? -By the time I had been to a cer - mises till 1.25 a.m. I then returned to Ross , and at the bottom of Rudge Hill , about 500 cannot go on for ever , and that its settlement army , being present at all the actions for the tain place and the time I got back home . must be on a basis of compromise . Only in relief of Ladysmith , and the subsequent Williams was out a public road when you yards away from Rudge farm , i sa prisoner curable optimists expect the counsels of the fighting in Natal and the East Transvaal . saw him ? -Yes , sir . Williams standing by the side of the rosd . more thoughtful to prevail in these matters , Was there anything unusual about Wil- I got off my bicycle and said : " Hello , Jim ; however , and the officials of the unions were Won V.C. for Bravery . liams when you saw him ? -Not that I saw is that you ? " He said : " Yes , Mr. Tomp- I replied : quite prepared to find their advice disre- For his excellent work there he was men- of , but it was nearly dark . kins , I have been to see the fire . ' How far would it be from Williams ' house " You have not been to see the fre , or I garded . There is a general disinclination to tioned in despatches , got the medal with five believe that the masters will proceed to clasps , was promoted to be a Lieutenant- to your father's house ? -It would not be should have seen you there . " Prisoner said : ballot on the proposal of a national lock - out . General , and obtained the Victoria Cross . five minutes walk to anyone who can walk " I did not go inside the rickyard because The very doubtful nature of the response He gained the last - mentioned coveted honour well . the people might say that it was me who from the provinces is recognised , and a vote by heroism in succouring the wounded , in Charles Andrews , a gardener , of Hanley did it . I was at home in bed , and I saw the which went against the proposal would be a Weston - under - Penyard , deposed light through the bedroom window . When face of the fire of the enemy , at the battle of Cottage , PLUMBERS , HOT & COLD WATER FITTERS , GASFITTERS sufferers from this unfortunato affair are , of with Captain Congreve to saye , though un- his front door about 10.80 p.m. when his fore the fire and the time he wont to bed , The worst Colenso , and for his assistance in attempting that on June 12th , he was with his wife at I asked Williams where he was fast , just be wife called his attention to a fire on the He said : " I went along the footpath to the course , the wives and children . The fund successfully , Earl Roberta's son . started by South London Liberal M.P.'s is le Rudge Farm . That would be a quarter of a stile , which is close to Rudge Farm , and I being liberally supported , and I am told that mile away straight across the fields , but he then went back home and went to bed . " the street collectors have found the public could not say how far it would be round the I saw that Williame boots and trousers were very sympathetic , but , even so , a cessation of path . He had only lived there a week , and all soaking wet . " I then said to him : " I work for twenty - two weeks is bound to hit the had not known Williams very long . He saw don't believe you have been in bed at all . " Williams that night . They were looking at Prisoner replied ; " No. I have not been to families pretty hard . the fire , when they heard a noise in the field bed , but I only went as far as the stile . " close by their garden . He went to see what When asked how he came to , get on to the it was , and he found it was James Williams road where we We were standing , Williams said : As far as he knew Williams was Through the orchard at the back of coming down the fields from his gate towards the farm buildings " Without any further E. 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