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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1906. NATIONALISTS' DEMAND. Egan. O.S.B., and cn "Religious services in HORSE BREEDING. the- people of the Transvaal in regard to Mr.

Chamberlain's war loan arrangement. It cannot be too strongly stated that the people utterly repudiate any tuch obligation. The popular support that Mr. Chamberlain got for the war contribution was on the understanding that the mines would provide the amount demanded. There was no suggestion of a loan when he arrived at Johannesburg.

After many secret conferences with the magnates the announcement was suddenly sprung upon the people that the contribution was to bo by way of a loan, and that tho mining houses were to guarantee the first issue of ten millions an undertaking which would not at that time have entailed on them any loss. Thus the obligation was shifted from the mining houses on to the 1 people, the magnates clinching the bargain by extracting a pledge from Mr. Chamberlain that no further taxation should be levied on the industry in connection with the loan. Tho people of the Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the Clerey Tr-onin" iftEdwirf TuKe Ab BrhnrSi' IoJJTc Lds THE CHURCHES, Tho death of Bishop Hoaro of Victoria in the recent Hong Kong typhoon recalls the names of other Anglican colonial and missionary bishops of modern times who have been, drowned. Bishop Tyrrell of Newcastle was' drowned in an Australian river, Bishop Cotton of Calcutta in an Indian river, Bishop Maples of Likoma in Lake Nyassa, Bishop Churton of Nassau on the shore of one of the West Indian islands, and now Bishop Hoare in Chinese waters.

Bishop Emythies, who died on board ship, was buried in the Indian Ocean. To-day is the anniversary (writes a correspondent) of the first synod of the English Church, which was held at Hertford by Archbishop Theodore in 670. The isolated missions in Kent, Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia, and Northumbria were united into one English Church by this grand old man (as Dean Hook called him), and this synod was the first outward symbol of that unity?" Curiously enough, Dean Leigh of Hereford thought it took place in his own city, and welcomed Archbishop Temple as the first Primate who had visited Hereford since the time of Theodore. Dr. Temple does not appear to have corrected the Dean's error, and Bishop Browne of Bristol records the incident in his portion of Dr.

Temple's life without pointing out Dr. Leigh's inaccurate history. Among the speakers at the Church Army gatherings held in connection with the Barrow-in-Furness meeting of the Church Congress October will be the Bishops of Ely, St. David'B, Southwell, Edinburgh, and Burnley, the Dean of Carlisle, Archdeacon Norrie, Canon J. Denton Thompson, Prebendary Carlile, Viscount Cross, Sir E.

Russell, Mr. C. A. Crippe, K.C., Mr. G.

Harwood, M.P., Mr. T. Summerbell, M.P., Mr. J. St.

Loe Strachey, Mr. G. Lansburj', and Mrs. Bagot. A meeting of the Durham Diocesan Conference will be held in Darlington on Wednesday, October 10.

Tho subject for discussion will be tho present position of the education question. The Rev. W. Hams, B.A., B.D., of Welshpool, ha6 accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Memorial Congregational Church, Hollin-wood, which has been vacant since tho removal of the Rev. J.

A. Buttress to Morecambe 6ome timo ago. A new school-chapel was opened on Saturday afternoon by the Independent Methodist Home Mission Committee on the Blackley estate. Mr. John Cumblehulme, of Bolton, performed the opening ceremony and conducted a brief service inside.

The Rev. Robert Coverdale, who was licensed laet week by tho Bishop of Manchester to the perpetual curacy of Shuttleworth, read himself in yesterday morning and preached his first sermon in the evening. Harvest thanksgiving services were held at the church, and there were large congregations. Tho eighty-first anniversary of the consecration and the harvest thanksgiving were celebrated jesterday at St. Philip's, Salford.

The church was consecrated on September 21, 1825, by Dr. Blomfield. Bishop of Chester. The Rev. Spencer J.

Gibb, vicar of St. Agnes's, Reddish, preached in the morning, Canon Hicks, rector of the church in the afternoon, and the Dean of Manchester (Bishop Welldon) in the evening. There were large congregations. Mr. Tom Bragg, L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, soi of Mr.

T. P. Brass, of Whitehaven, tho chairman-elect of the Cumberland Congregational Union, has been accepted as a medical well. B.A.. of Edinburcli.

tho Rev. A. O. Lonhrr and T)r. tont n.irt.

oo The Rev. Stanley J. Hersco, the new vicar of St. Thomas's, Lancaster, read himself in and preached his first sermon yesterday. The members of tho Heywood Wesleyan Circuit have invited the Rev.

Arthur Turner, of Bolton, to succeed the Rev. T. D. Anderson, B.A., at Heywood after the next Conference. At St.

Helens yesterday the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Augustine was opened. The church replaces a school-chapel which has served the wants of tic mission of Thatto Heath for some years. The front is of red sandstone. The high altar is alabaster, with richly ornamented panels of mosaic work.

The altar rails are of marble, and the lower part of the walls is lined with marble. Tbe cost of the buildinjr has eif friends. High Mass wa3 sung by the Bishop of Liverpool (Dr. Whiteside), who was assisted hv other olergy, while the sermon was preached by the Rev. Fr.

Paul, O.S.F.C. THE BISHOP OF. SALFORD. CREMATION AND MIXED MARRIAGES. The Bishop of Salford (Dr.

CasartelH) on Saturday consecrated a new Roman Catholic cemetery at Barrowford, near Nelson. In the course of his address he said it was important that all Catholics should know that the Church had set its face against the practice of cremation. He admitted that cremation had much that could be said for it, on the grounds of sanitation, nor were they so foolish as to suppose that if the body was reduced to ashes by fire it could not rise at the last day. The Church's reason was that this practice of cremation on the Continent of Europe ho did not think it was so much so in this country had been introduced and largely promoted and encouraged by persons whose views were distinctly un-Christian, who were materialists, and had made cremation a kind of shibboleth, a kind of profession contrary to the Christian doctrine of immortality and the resurrection of the body, and it was to disassociate themselves from view3 of that kind that the Church, as a matter of discipline, had seen fit to forbid them to practice cremation, to which they were also opposed on legal grounds. Preaching at Clitheroe yesterday, the Bishop of Salford said it seemed to him that Roman Catholics were apt at present to lose respect and veneration for the Church's laws.

A matter of this kind that had impressed him very greatly since he became Bishop was that of mixed marriages. They knew that the Church's law forbade mixed marriages, and not only forbade them but declared them invalid. In a country like this, where they were in the minority, the Church granted special permission ior certain oi ner cmiureii to contract mixed marriages where there were good i i- rt 'l i. reasons, UUL tuai wucu uiu luuiuu iur gcoo reasons refused the sanction, there was a great outcry, with threats of disloyalty, and in some cases the parties would take themselves off and contract a sacrilegious marriage outside the Church. Thar showed a weakening ot tne idea tne auuionty of the nf the Church that must be.

miarHoH against. People would say the Church was harsh and unreascnaDie, Dut tne Cnurch. with her 1900 years experience, was wiser than a Young man of 19 yefcrs or a young woman of 17. ROMAN CATHOLIC CONFERENCE. The annual Conference the nineteenth of its kind organised by the Catholic Truth Society opens tbi3 evening at Brighton.

Yesterday special sermons were preached in the churches of Brighton and Hove by the Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Johnston, the Bishops of Southwark and Clifton, and the Rev. B. W. Maturin and Father Vincent M'Nabb (Dominican). The inaugural address of the Conference will be given in the Dome this evening by the Archbishop of Westminster.

To-morrow and Wednesday there will be a series of papers and discussions in the Pavilion. Father Gerard S.J., will deal with "Agnosticism," and Fath-r Robert Hugh Benson, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, with Christian science." Abbot Gasquet, O.S.B., will deal with "The Christian family In Pre-Reformation days," and Mr. J. W. Gilbert with Sunday On Tuesday evening the Rev.

B. W. Maturin will give an address on "The reunion of Christendom." On Wednesday papers will be given by Mr. Reginald Balfour on "Work in the hop eardens," by the Rev. C.

Plater, S.J., on Retreats for workers," by Monsignor Connelly on "The part of ritual in Catholic worship, and by Dom Gilbert Higgins, C.R.L., on The Catholic Truth Society." On Wednesday evening the Bishop of Southwark will hold a reception, aod on Thursday there will be two excursions, the first to the Charterhouse at Park-minster (for men only), and the second to Arundel, where the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk will entertain tbe members and associates at a garden party. In addition to the Conference proper, there will be an assembly of Catho lic jaw guardians on weanesoay morning. at which papers will be read on Defective i mD and is proceeding to Wei-Chen, Tientsin, North China. At a dedication service at Whitehaven the Rev. Cousins, the foreign secretary of the stainea ciass winaows.

nas oeen ine citt of be HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. DEPUTATION TO MR. KEARLEY, M.P. On Saturday, at the Government Officej, Holyhead, Mr. Hudson Kearley, Secretary to the Board of Trade, received a deputation consisting of Mr.

Ellis Jones Griffith, M.P., and members of the Holyhead Urban District Council, with reference to matters pertaining to Holyhead Harbour of Refuge. Mr. Ellis Griffith said that the matter might be looked at from two points of view, viz. the national and the local. Already a million and a half sterling had been spent upon Holyhead Harbour by the Government, but it would not answer its full purpose until a further sum had been expended.

From a purely local point of view it had to be admitted that the town, although a seaport, was severely handicapped in regard to access to the sea. Tne public quay was situated at the furthest possible point from the town. What the town required was that a convenient landing place should be placed at their disposal for passenger steamers, so that passengers might be able to see the town and its surroundings without being compelled to walk for three-quarters of an hour needlessly. He hoped that the visit of the Secretary to the Board cf Trade would be followed by an ample concession, such as would be a realisation of the hopes which the people of Holyhead had entertained for tho past 30 years. Captain R.

D. Roberts, vice chairman of the Urban Council, made a strong plea for the removal of the Platters Rocks and the building of a quay along Porth Thomas Hughes. The Harbour of Refuge enclosed an area of 267 acres, but, owing to the sunken and dangerous rocks, the safe anchorage was limited to 150 acres. The tonnage of ships had greatly in-cieascd since the building of the breakwater, and steamers of 13,000 tons now came there for shelter. In rough weather, and owing to the harbour being crowded with smaller craft, these ships had to anchor in the roadstead, where they were themselves in danger and also proved an obstruction to the mail, express, and cargo steamers entering and leaving the harbour.

He instanced cases of large vessels going aground owing to being unable to get anchorage other than in the roads. Mr. Gordon Roberts pleaded for the recognition of Holyhead's claims from a national standpoint. It was the enterprise of those interested in shipping which had raised Great Britain to its commercial pre-eminence, and they fully deserved every encouragement and protection possible. Over 500,000,000 were invested shipping in this country, and it wa9 only due to the interested persons that there should be upon this highway of the West a thoroughly safe refuge in time of storm.

It was inconsistent to spend almost two millions upon a breakwater and then to decline to spend a quarter of a million necessary to make the harbour answer it3 true purpose. Mr. James Lanbury pointed out that gunboats and torpedo-boats were obliged to obtain water at the mail pier and to obtain their provisions by boats, a proceeding attended by much danger in roush weather. He sunportcd the request for a deep-water quay. In" former times the town possessed some foreshore, but xV1 now occupied by the London and JSorth -Western Railway Company, who paid a sum of 750 annually to the Board of Trade for this and other concessions.

He considered this revenue might be considered by the Board of Trade as a contribution triurarla ilm av which would be involved in meeting the present application. He believed that lack of foresight cm the part of the town authorities in the past had resulted in their being deprived of their just rights without adequate compensation. iafip er rate 'ut thai North Western Company mr. xnomas siater stated tftat befdre the Act was the property of imo the London arid Comnanv anmiiiwl fh sito nf the present hotel, stntinn. unti cmnria imni town being granted in lieu the comp'aratively inaccessible Parys Island quay.

The present conditions absolutely prevented any commercial development of the town. It was probable that tho London and North-Western Company would require additional quay space shortly, and the town would be willing to consider the advisability of giving up their rights to the Parys Island quay in return for other facilities from tho Board of Trade. Mr. Hudson Kearley informed the deputation that the Board of Trade regarded with great sympathy the efforts made to improve the position of Holyhead in this matter. Though the national view was not outside the purview of the Urban Council, he was not prepared to dis-cuss in detail- Tlie suggestion for removing the Platters Rocks and making a deep-water quay would involve the expenditure of half a mUhon of money, and it was one which would come up for discussion sooner or later.

If the Platters were removed it would mean the abolition of many difficulties which now hampered tho mercantile marine and tho navy, but this waa a question which would probably he discussed by the Cabinet at some timo in the future. In regard to landing facilities for passenger steamers, the Board of Trade was satisfied that there was a case, but he feared that it would bo of no use to approach the Treasury for a grant toward such an object unless tho town were prepared to guarantee some contribution towards tho expenditure. The C0SJ -of a Q11 at Carreg Waldyn was 6,000, and it would be well for them to consider the amount which the town would guarantee towards this expenditure. In regard to the application for the opening up of Walthew Avenue, the Water Mill Road, and the road to the South Stack past Cae Mawr, these would have the favourable consideration of Mr. Lloyd-George, as well as the other matters which had been laid before him that day.

IRISH IN THE EVENING SCHOOLS. The Manchester Gaelic League has succeeded in getting an Iri3h class in three of the evening continuation schools in the Manchester area and one in Salford. The Manchester classes will be held at St. Patrick's, Livesey-street St Anne's, Ancoats, and St. Francis's, Gorton) which is under the Manchester Committee.

In Salford the class will be held at Mount Carmel Schools, Oldfield Road. The class at St. Wilfrid's. Hulme, ha3 failed through lack of support. RAILWAY MEN AND MR.

BELL, M.P. A joint meeting of the Derby branches of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants wa3 held yesterday afternoon to determine the way in which their delegates should vote at the annual general meeting of the Society. It was decided to oppose a proposal to amend the rules so as to provide that no Parliamentar candidate shall be run by the Society unloss he is a member of the new Labour party and subjects himself to their whips. This, in effect, sides with Mr. Bell in the struggle which he has so lone carried on for political independence.

The meeting instructed the delegates to support a motion the object of which is to prevent a member of the Society holding two offices. Should this be carried one result will be that Mr. Bell will have to resign either his position as general secretary of the Society or his seat in Parliament as the direot representative of railway men. TRAMWAY MISHAPS. Two inquests were held at Liverpool on Saturday as the result of electric tramcar accidents.

Verdicts of accidental death were returned. James Higgins, a foundryman, attempted to ride his bicycle across the track in front of a car and was thrown underneath the car. In the other case John Flumblev. is, labourer, fractured his skull by falling while attempting to jump from a car before. bad stopped.

MANCHESTER CO-PARTNER- SHIP HOUSING. NORTH A SCHEME PROPOSED. Councillor J. Williams presided at a mretins held in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chec-tham Hill, on Saturday, to inaugurate a society for the better housing of the worker. The profit from the project was to incluJs a fund for the benefit of the widows, superannuation of the old and feeble, and the unemployed amongst the)members.

Mr. A. Kedford, who explained the scheme, stated that he had no doubt it would succeed, as the sites for the purpose of housebuilding had been inspected and the cash advances that would be needed to ensure success had been arranged. It only remained for the -workers' committee to do their part. The Northumberland miners have decided by ballot to appoint two witnesses to give evidence before the Departmental Committee on the Mines Eight Hours BiU.

As the Richmond (Yorka) Police Court on Saturday Edmund Brown, farmer, of Arken-garthdale, was ordered to pay Alfred Guy 10 for wrongfully dismissing him from his service. It was stated that the boy was dismissed 'because the fanner believed "ha had tha devil in him, and was the cause of -wet weather," 'which tse farmer get tine bis ha. 1 1 GRANTHAM DISASTER EVIDENCE THAT STEAM WAS NOT SHUT OFF. The Board of Trade inquiry into the Grantham railway disaster will be opened to-day. According to a Central News telegram, an important piece of new evidence has been brought to light, the regulator of the.

engine being open when it was recovered from the wreckage, showing that the driver had not shut off steam. The speed at which the train dashed through the station is estimated by some of the express drivers, who know the gradient, at seventy miles an hour. Mr. Bolt, divisional superintendent, is reported to have stated that the local inspector saw the brake connected when a new engine was brought into use at Peterborough, and the guard asserts that the gauge in his van showed the vacuum had been established satisfactorily. On Saturday morning an engine was run over the points near the scene of the accident.

They worked perfectly, and all the mechanism is in order. Throughout yesterday a breakdown gang, with powerful steam cranes, were clearing away the smashed tender and coaches which fell down the embankment into a builder's yard. Under the tender were found the roof of the passenger coach, a packet of sandwiches, and a pair of spectacles. The guard's van, from which Knighton escaped, has been Temoved from its position at the bottom of the slope. No more bodies have been discovered under the wreckage.

During the day three mail hampers and a sack of letters were removed, and also a bundle of Grantham letters, badly burned. Tho sorting of the letters has been a difficult and unpleasant business. In some cases the officials could make nothing of them. Many, however, have been delivered late, of course, and damaged. Local bankers received letters with cheques, hut these cheques were damaged, and much trouble was caused.

Registered letters, strangely enough, suffered most in the fire. A letter addressed to a Grantham magistrate was picked up charred, but tho contents, a security for 1,000 were intact. Mrs. Robertson, who was hurt in the Grantham railway disaster, was yesterday in a critical condition. The other injured passengers, however, were reported to be doing well.

The bodies of eight of those who were killed have been removed from Grantham. The funeral of Fleetwood, the driver of the express, took olace yesterday at Doncaster Cemetery. Thousands of-persons were present, including from three to four hundred drivers and mrn emnlnved in the locomotive department of the Great Northern itauway. The Rev. G.

F. Richardson, vicar of the Plant Church, which owes its existence to tho Great Northern Railway Company, conducted the service. The bodies of Sergeant Robertson and his two children are to be taken to Netley and buried there with full military honours. Sympathetic references were mndn yesterday at ncarlv all thn nlanna nf onvshin in Grantham. GENTLEMEN APPRENTICES." Speaking at a railwavmen's meeting in London last night, Mr.

Bell, M.P., said that he noticed that the unfortunate fireman who perished in the Grantham accident was what was known as a gentleman apprentice." Ho had nothing to say against gentlemen apprentices, but he insisted that the firemen should iu all cases be fully qualified men. He did not question the man's efficiency in this case, but he would not be subiect to tho engine driver's instructions as would an ordinary fireman, and the driver would perhaps do some of tho work himself rather than order him about. THE REVISION COURTS. FRIENDLY RIVALS. On the list of claimants before the Revising Barrister for the Romford division on Saturday appeared the name Borowski, with the initials B.B.F." after it.

Mr. Newbould (Liberal agent): I have the names Bruno Bronislas The Barrister: Wait one moment. Say that I've got Bruno spell the remainder. (Laughter.) (Reading the entry in the list): Boroweki, Bruno Bronislas Felix. Is that right? Mr.

Carlton Roberts (for the Conservatives): Is he an alien? the trouble to nut on a man with siinb noma but I promised Mr. Roberts to attend to the parocniai electors. Mr. Roberts I can onlv add nnn nthor sion of the gratitude I feel towards you in these matters. juc oi my last acts as the official agent ot tne conservatives of the Romford division should be to erect a suitable monument as a memorial to your tnougbtful assiduity to all that concerns me and the party I represent.

(Laughter.) Mr. Newbould Ah You promised me a subscription to our funds. Mr. Roberts Well, here's something towards the cost of your postages. T10 put half a sovereign on the table.

The Liberal agent, picking it up, handed it to bis clerk, the incident provoking much merriment. A Lady's Claim. Dr. Eleanor Gertrude Jones, assistant medical officer at the Greenwich Union Infirmary, churned at Greenwich to be on the occupiers' Mr. Newbery, Liberal agent, said that had the lady been a man she would have been entitled to a service vote.

The claim had been put in to please her. (Laughter.) The Barrister disallowed the vote. In the case of a claim by a man living in Guilford Road, Greenwich, which was objected to by the Conservatives, a Liberal canvasser raid ho knew tho claimant personally, and the claim was genuine. A Conservative canvasser said he also knew the claimant personally. The Liberal Canvasser: Do you know his wife's mother's sister or his mother (Laughter.) The Conservative canvasser, amid renewed laughter, admitted that he did not.

AN OVERWHELMING CLAIM. During the hearing of the new lodger claims at Greenwich on Saturday the Liberals objected to a claim from Charlton Road, opposite the Rectory Field, Blackheath, on the ground of value. The Conservative agent said one fact alone made the room of sufficient value. The claimant could sit in his room and watch Kent, the cnampion cricket county, play cricket ajid the Blackheath Rujby team play their games. (Laughter.) The claim was allowed.

WINDERMERE LIBERAL CLUB. OPENING BY MR. LEIF JONES, M.P. The new Liberal Club at Windermere was formally opened on Saturday evening by Mr. Leif Jones, M.P.

Tbe premises are situated in Church-street, close to the railway station, and were originally built and for many years occu pied as a fina art gallery by the late Mr. John Garnett, for 47 years postmaster of the district. They are very suitable for their new'purpose, and comprise a readine-room, with a billiard- room above, and quarters for tbe caretaker. So far about 70 persons have become members. Mr.

Hubert Coutts, president of the North West- imorland Liberal Association, occupied the chair on and said that they were thankful to those well-to-do friends who had enabled the club to start entirely free from debt. Air. jones said tnat nowadavs clubs werp. taking tne place of pubs. He himself was a member of the Eiehty Club, and in Manchester there was a '95 Club and in Yorkshire a 1900 Club but there would not be a club that would celebrate a greater Liberal victory than that 1906 club.

(Applause.) Referring to hi3 email majority at the general election, lie i-aid that there was a bill at present in Parliament which would go far to make it bigger the Plural Voting Bill, whih would specially affect Westmorland. He hoped that the club would become a useful and active centre of Liberal propagandiam. LADY WARWICK ON SOCIALISM. Speaking at a public meeting at Swansea promoted by the Gasworkers and General Labourers Union, the Countess of Warwick said the trade union movement was of immense value, bnt trade unionism without Socialism would not go far enough. The trade unionism of the past was the Socialism of tbe past.

The trade unionism of the future had got to be the straight ticket for Socialism. It was only a question of time when the feeding of the children would become free. It was our first duty secure their health and well-being. iect. I mav av it is not mv claim was MRobeyr mixed wards in sick infirmaries- Connor.

ORDINATIONS. MANCHESTER. The Bishop of Manchester held an ordination in the Manchester Cathedral yesterday, and his Lordship ordained ihe following deacons and afterwards licensed them to their respective stipendiary curacies James William Augur, University of Durham, to St. Paul's, Bolton; George Arthur Deakin, Victoria University, Manchester, and Ordsall Hall, Salford, to St. Matthew's, Ardwick George Herbert Lees, Hatfield Hall, Durham, and Schola? Cancellarii, Lincoln, to Edenfield; Grandage Edwards Powell, University College, Oxford, and Ordsall Hall, Salford, to Holy Innocents', Fallowfield Robert Wainwright, University of Durham, to St.

Mary's, Nelson. CHESTER. The Bishop of Chester held an ordination in Chester Cathedral yesterday, when the following were ordained Deacons: James Dnbbs, of the Royal University of Ireland, to St. Chad's, Over; Sidney Heber Jones, B.A., of St. David's College, Lampeter, to St.

Thomas's, Stockport; Cyril Ellis Martin, B.A., of St. David's College, Lampeter, to Christ Church, Crewe; William Ord Hunter Rodwell, of Hertford Collese, Oxford, to St. John's, Birkenhead. Priests William Somervillo Caldwell, B.A., of Tiinity College, Dublin; Edward Norman Dodd, M.A., of Downing College, Cambridge; Julius Clements Frayer. B.A., of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham Olive Edward Gittms, B.A., of Keble College, Oxford, and Wells Theological College.

LICHFIELD. The Bishop of Lichfield in the Cathedral yes-teiday ordained the following: Priests Thomas French, St. Aidan's Theological College, to Bucknall-with-Bagnall Herbert Walter Humphrys, Lichfield Theological College, to St. Edward's, Leek; William Gwynn Key worth, B.A., Keble College, Oxford, and Leeds Clergy School, to Christ Church, Tun-stall; Robert Dorrien Kirby, Lichfield Theological College, to the Parish Churoh, Burton-on-Trent Lancelot Edward Marton, BrasenOse College, Oxford, and Salisbury Theological College, to St. Matthew's, Wolverhampton; Walter Wright Partridge, B.A., Queen's College, Cambridge, and Leeds Clergy School, to All Saints', Leek; Arthur Hall Webb, St.

Aidan'a College and Lichfield Theological College, to St. Paul's, Burton-on-Trent Charles Henry Wedgwood, B.A., Clare College, Cambridge, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, to St. Martin's, Tipton. The Rev. Prebendary Penny, M.A., rector of Wolverhampton, conducted the quiet day for candidates and preached the ordiuation sermons.

SOUTHWELL. A general ordination was held by the Bishop of Southwell in the rarish church of All Saints Derby, yesterday, when the following were ordained Deacons Frederick Turton Dixon, Queen's College, Birmingham, to St. Stephen's, Nottingham; William Robert Statlier Hunt, B.A., Queen's College, Oxford, to Holy Trinity, Nottingham; Frederick Christopher Stocks, B.A., Worcester College, Oxford, as a public preacher Cecil Herbert Tasker, B.A., University College, Durham, to Eyam, Derbyshire. The Gospel was read by the Rev. W.

R. Stathcr Hunt, B.A., and tho sermon was preached by the Rev. F. W. Head, B.A., Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

WAKEFIELD. An ordination was held by the Bishop of Wakefield iu the Cathedral Church of All Saints', Wakefield, yesterday, when the following candidates were presented ueacous: uerocrt Gwyer, B.A., of v-J j' uul WW Heptonstall A 1 X- il' "tiers dllllis Iramine Sc Priests: Joseph Arthur Smith, B.A., of Wad-ham College, Oxford, and the Leeds Clergy School; Bicton Clemence Wilson, B.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Wells Theological College. The Gospel was read by the Rev. Herbert Lin-ford Gwyer, B.A., and the sermon was preached by tiie Rev. Henry Cowper Cradock, M.A., vicar of Ossctt.

Tho candidates were presented by the Rev. Stuart Alexander Donaldson, B.D., Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and one of the Bishop's examining chaplains. YORK. The Archbishop of York yesterday held an ordination, at which the following candidates, wiiu were iiresemea ov Look examining chaplain, were made deacons and licensed to the curacies named Owen Lauce- Tir -A- Hertford College, Oxford, to St. Thomas's.

Scarborough Ahirwi Denne, B.A., Selwyn College, Cambridge, to Fylmgdales; John Henrv Ellis, B.A., Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Clergy Training School, Cambridge, to Campsall; Herbert j. unity uoiiege, uuDim, to LIVERPOOL. Tho Bishop of Liverpool (Dr. Chavasse) held an ordination in Christ Church, Waterloo, near Liverpool, yesterday, when the following were Deacons: Ernest Jauncey, L.Th., St. Chad's Hall, Durham, to St.

Chad's, Everton William bhaw, B.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, and the Clergy School, Leeds, to Christ Church, Waterloo; Bertell Hubert Smith, B.A., of the University of Durham, to North Meols: Yorke Darrell Steward, B.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, and Bishop's Hostel, Liverpool, to St. Bride's, Liverpool; Bertram Eustace Taylor, B.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, to St. Peter's, Woolton Aian Prangley Thome, B.A., of Brasenose College and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, to St. Mary's, St. Helens: Herbert Arthur Wadman, of Chichester Theological College, to St.

Thomas's Seaforth. The Bishop was attended by the Rev. Canon Smithwick, M.A., vicar of Seaforth and rural dean the Rev. M. Linton Smith, M.A., vicar of Blundellsands, who presented the candidates, and by the Rev.

T. S. Stnnov nr a domestic chaplain. MUSICAL SERVICES. THE CATHEDRAL.

Holy Communion dallv 7 as- j. day. Matin at 11; Evmhom at 3 iC. (Chant, week, catbadral. Hondav.

Matins: in n. i v. B1T are SerV.ce Anthem, 425 fPaetrina 'Obavioiirof tho worirt." Kreiiionc: Stanford inn flat Anthem, 606 (Coa. "It l. a (too.1 hlnK rrllll.

ffrT Ins clrl' WmtfeM. In Anthem. 10 159 (Wey)-- 5 auui auav, aaL ni auniinl (n i-n 11 i ifenjong Childe. In Frlil v. Uatini-Sromrf in R.

i.n.'ie a 1 1 1 1 nin oi merpv Lord dorl. Thee." BrnilnnVT in.t 2ZZ (HenrfelKohny. "For He give Batunliy. Matins at 10 30: 1J. Introit rT-liailtmkv' "Let the bright seraphim' In Anthem.

17a ilr.n.li 'Let their celestial concert." IRISH SCHOOLMASTERS' GRIEVANCE. Mr. John Dillon spoke on Saturday at a demonstration of teachers at Baliaghaderin. co. Mayo, to protest against the present system of primary education in ireiana.

ihe teachers were promised the whole-hearted HiiiYnnrt nfthn Trial. iu meir endeavour ccv present uoaru oi Commissioners of Education, who. it was stated, were not responsible even to the Government. ATTACK ON A GOVERNESS. George Ross, ex-soldier, was charged at Alton on Saturday with highway robbery with violence from Slarian Grist, governess to Rev.

A. K. Bowstead. of Hartley, The prisoner gave himself up at Wellingborough. It is alleged that he told the police on his way to Alton that he went down to Aldersnot from the hop-picking, and walked through several villages, where he had drink.

Then he lay in a 6eld. andTcm the prosecutrix arriving he struggled with her for the possession of a handbag. Thev both fii ditch, and he got away with the bag, containing two purses and a brooch. A remand was erantei ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING. RAILWAY PORTER ACCUSED.

There was a remarkable development in connertf with the attempt to wreck an express train on the Midland Railway mode near Desboroogh on Wednesday. Alfred Topham (19). raUway porter, who gave the alarm to a signalman tliat iron bolts had been mjc i.u.iiLm. was nimself brought before) the twiii.tcs wi oMuroay and charged with 1 train wreckinir. Mr fVh.

wtBesborouch. said Tcnhim ty.M hi could not moe the obstruction, but ha (Mr Orchard) found thev were easflV nnvwM m.1 accused was remanded. Three hundred Yorkshire singers, drawn from Leeds and Sheffield, left Germanv on Satur day- This week they give concerts at Dusseldorf, Cologne, and Frankfort. Or. Coward is at their head.

SPEECH BY MR. REDMOND. Mr. John Redmond, M.P., addressed a largely attended meeting held yesterday at Grange, county Limerick Resolutions were passed in favour of Home Rule and the distribution of the untenanted land among the small farmers and labourers, thanking the tenants on an estate in the neighbourhood for refusing to discuss terms of purchase with the landlord until the 450 acres on the property were given to the Estates Commissioners for distribution among 'the poor farmers and labourers, and supporting the demand for a Catholic university. Mr.

Redmond said that when the present Government came into office they declared they were about to consider some scheme for conferring self-government on the people of Ireland, and in the circumstances the Irish party decided it would be a wise policy to give uj-imacers a in pie wne xo iimiuic wi. The Irish party had obtained a large measure of justice for the labourers, but not a full one, for he did not believe it would be possible to obtain a full settlement of any Irish question except from an Irish Parliament. Irishmen had reason to complain of the Government. It was not fair, however, to blame them altogether, for no British Government, however able and sympathetic, could ever govern Ireland according to Irish ideas, because they did not understand Irish ideas. Laughter and Hear, In a score of instances the Government had disregarded Irish public opinion and falsified the promises given.

Tho members of the Government, with two or three exceptions, were avowed Home-rulers, ana it was staiea on the highest authority that they would introduce a bill next year dealing with self-government for Ireland. The extraordinary part of the situation was that they also were told that this Home Rule Government was only what was called administrative Home Rule. He was anxious that the Irish public should fully understand that the Irish party had no responsibility whatever, direct or indirest, for any such makeshift as that. He had heard of men being consulted, but ho knew that neither the leaders nor any of the representatives of Ireland were consulted. They had, however, this consolation if they did not know the Government's mind the Government should know theirs.

(Hear, hear.) He declared there that the Irish people stood where they always stood; they declared that nothins short of a complete measure of Home Rule and by that ho meant a Parliament freely elected, with an executive responsible to it could ever be accepted as a settlement of the Irish question. (Hear, hear.) The Prime Minister had spoken of certain proposals leading up to Homo Rule. When produced the Irish party would consider them and submit them to the judgment of the Irish people, and no decision would he come to by him or tho Irish party until the whole question had been submitted to a National Convention. Ho wished to for himself that when the hour came any influence lie possessed would be used to induce his countrymen to reject any proposals, no matter how plausible they might seem, which tended in his judgment to endanger the prestige and power of the Irish. National party and to weaken or disrupt the national movement.

His first and greatest policy, wnicn overshadowed everything else, -s to preserve a united and powerful national organisation in Ireland until they had achieved the full measure of national freedom which they were entitled to. Someone said there was a halfway house. That was a matter of opinion, but his policy above all was to preserve the great weapon of unity unblunted, and therefore hie advice would be to reject it. Never in the history of their land was there greater need of a strong luiitea parry ana a strong anu ieariess organisation behind it than there would be during the next t'velvc months, when the people would have to discuss those grave problems, and he appealed to them to put. into the hands of their representatives the weapon ot a powerful organisation.

The Evicted Tenants. Unfortunately the land question was not yet settled, the two moBt acuto phases being the grazing ranches and the restoration of the evicted tenants. The promises held out had been falsified. The restoration of the evicted tenants was the acute question, and not the num ber of sales under the Purchase Act. The Tory Government shamelessly broke their promise of the immediate restoration of the evicted tenants.

The situation was now changed; the Government were friendly, but the proceedings were slow, and years must elapse if the procedure was not accelerated before the evicted tenants could bo restored. Why was this? It was owing to the action of a section of the land lords. (A voice: "Yes, and a section of the farmers, Yes, and a section of the people, who were blocking the working of the evicted tenants clause of the Land Act. He was glad to learn that in that neighbourhood there was every probability that the untenanted land would be sold to the Commissioners, to divide for the enlargement of the holdings of those who really needed land. He had noticed with pain that there seemed to be a desire to use the evicted tenants as pawns in the game of discrediting the Irish party and dividing the national forces.

(Hear, hear.) They were told recently that the evicted tenants should look for reforms, not to a united party in Parliament, not to the League, but to a new Land Conference. The same thing had been said abont the labourers. A new Land Conference, In his opinion, would be absolutely useless. Let the Government understand that if they did not take measures to solve this problem they would take the matter into their own hands. If once this Government understood that Ireland would not stand any further nonsense in this matter they would very speedily put their hands to the work.

LABOUR AND SOCIALISM. MR. PHILIP SNOWDEN, M.P., AT BURNLEY. A Labour demonstration organised by the Burnley United Trades Council was held at Burnley yesterday afternoon. Members of various trade unions met on the Cattle Market ani paraded the streets, accompanied by two brass bauds and several banners.

A crowd of several thousands assembled in the market 6quare, where speeches were delivered from two platforms, and a resolution was passed con gratulating the workers' representatives on the way in which they have pushed forward the questions oi ine xraoe mspuies uin, tne workmen's Compensation Bill, the feedins of school children, the unemployed, and the eight-hour day, ana pledging support to tne party in'the House of Commons in their work for tho emancipation of the worker. Ma. Philip Snowden, M.P.. said it was the combination of Labour and Socialism which was responsible for the presence in Parliament of 50 Labour members independent of all other parties. The modem developments of capitalism .1 -f 1...

.1. -i jnr) thf use of politics hv tho oTiiri'lrwimr .1, had compelled tne trade unionist to put aside his old political prejudices and to participate as an independent force in political activities. Another reason why the trade unionist had been compelled to come into politics was the inefficiency of trade union methods alone to solve tho problem of unemployment and other industrial problems. In spite of the efforts of mischief-makers, and in spite of misrepresentation, the relationship of the trade unionists and Socialists inside the Labour representation movement remained friendly, cordial, and harmonious. The difficulty of the workers in getting industrial legislation was another reason whv the workers had Ice: faith in Liberalism and Toryism, and were determined for the future to have their own political partv.

He spoke of the necessity of strengthening the Labour party in Parliament and cf having a stromr public opinion outside to enable it to enforce its demands. The object of an Independent i.HLMjur kxii.v iu i auimiicm. as tne emancipation of the workers. If it had had no higher idea of its work and rurpise than to get a Trade Disputes a Workmen's Bill, and old-age pensions he should not have been there. Their object was to secure the emancipation of the workers emancipation from landlordism and capitalism, and from the forces of slavery, and to gain for them freedom to live, freedom to work, freedom to think Mr.

J. A. Seddon, M.P., said they had heard lately of a Conservative Labour party. The only description he could give of it was that it was composed of men who could drink free beer and send up a mighty cheer one day in the vear for a picnic, and then niek nltxn for the rest cf trie year. daughter.) Th beral Labour rn -waTweeTtwo evi Either he had to be false to hia party or false to 1110 woraers, DUTCH IRONCLAD SINKING.

It is reported in Amsterdam that the coast defence ironclad Piet Hein, which is moored near the harbour of Helder, is sinking. The seacock cannot be closed, and is letting in water The boilers (says Renter) are sizoadr under -water. THE ANNUAL CHESTER FOAL SHOW One thinks rather of dairy cattle thar usv.w.uv.uu un Lhe'h''- live stock, yet many good horses are brC, t' tt, "-u t' iojiuws. jivoiy year a show is -held in the Linen Hall, Chester TT.11 The LiMa xijux ia ooc a Olt like wtiat. ri think it ought to be.

It is a curious rtr enclosure, on the western side of the city off the old street leading down to the Roc in which stands Bishop Lloyd's palace So' American visitors to Chester who had lc-'w over the palace went afterwards to the --m show, and the one interested them alrnut much as the other. The showy ard is 1... rounded by a high brick wall, built pro'oaV1-somewhere near two centuries ago, bearin V'l the crooked signs of age, and approach! b-a cobble-stoned road of the coaching days j-' side, while the show is in progress, it an exterior piece of farmwork of early torian days, for some parts of farming changed little. Finer horses are now. ever, bred than were bred formerlv, the more solid stock.

One reason for th no doubt is that a better class of dann used. It is now late enough in the seafoti ta be able to see with some degree oi cerraiatr what a foal will turn out to be. Sewraf those of the heavier breed shown on Paur.fi had magnificent limbs. Of the light or carr-i breeds, little that is dogmatic can he Some of them appeared to be (in hnrn'a- language) rather weedy. Nor can the stated of the more general use of ni.M on light-horse breeding.

It was said that a 5Mu cJi Sood T'rice now as formerlv. nd that there did not seem to be anv appr.v'ar. falling off in the demand for light hirW t-'-s good mouths and a proper turn of sU. Taken altogether it was one of the best -n seen in Chester. and it was, too, well attt-mied 1 the Duke of the first honour in a very strons agricultural colt foals, with a fine, bay by the well-known sire Phenomenon The second award went to Mr.

Joseph Dvk-' Brereton Park, and the third to Mr. Edge Grange, Malpas. Asiricult filly foals also were strong. In this cla'tbi principal award went to Mr. Peter Allen laston, with a bay by Matchless Waiter.

i'f quality and excellent feather. A siMenri second was a brown (by Tattou Friar) ing to Mr. Lewis Dodd, the president Farmers' Club. Mr. Allen's animal won at the Birkenhead and Cheshire m-Allen also secured third place in this with another exhibit, and the Duke of Ve-.

minster's exhibits were highly Mr. R. E. Evans, Belgrave. and Mr.

F. hodi wero first and second respectively in the year-old gelding or filly class. In the horse section the winners wero Hunter or filly foal): 1, M. Kennedy, Chester; 2, E. Griffiths; 3, G.

Denson, Picton. Kuadster or filly foal): 1 and 2, F. Bentlcy, 3, G. Denson. Yearling Hilly nr gehhr.gr Ellis Uillham; 2, Mrs.

A. Beech; 3. j. Benson. Two-year-old (filly or gelding: j' Herbert Jones, Chester: 2.

Thomas Atlinr Yearling hunter, by thoroughbred sire (silver cup given by Mr. A. Tyrer): 1. U. 2, F.

D. Pickerine. Two-vear-old hunter uAi-ing or filly): 1. E. Griffiths; 2, G.

Denson; J. E. Shore. A POSTMAN'S ADVENTURE. ARRESTED WHILE SEEKING A THIEF.

A Birmingham postman was arrested on lu evening round on Friday in extraordinary His name is Harry WomlhouM, and he has been a postman for fifteen has a vcrv good character. In the 'nume I the evening delivery on Friday lie called at tha iiuuso oi iuiss jane uowies, zu, siirim? Edgbaston, to deliver a letter. He found the door open, and knocked, but could nut make anyone hear, eo ho vent off to finish his Having completed this, he returned to Mi Bowles's house, thinking there was something suspicious about the door being open and one. answering him. When he got thcro the door was still and after knocking he went ineide, rinsing door behind him.

His reason for doing rhi-T he explains, was that if anyone was inside he might arrest him. Whilst he was inside Bowles returned. On opening the door she was surprised to see the noeiman. The honsi via disorder, drawers had been opened anditoi: contents scattered about the rooms, and eexml ornaments had been removed from the manM-pitce, and other things displaced. Wondhntife explained to Miss Bowles the circumstini'-s under which he came to be in the house, anl offered to fetch a policeman, as she thnucht she had been Tobbed.

He found a constahTr- neat the house, and went back with him, hut as as they arrived Miss Bowles gave the pnstmar. into custody on a charge of housebreaking, she then dropped down in a Taint. "That's a nice thing," said Woodhnusp to th constable, trying to do a good turn and getting into trouble myself." However, the man was taken into nistodv, and on Saturday morning appeared hefnre the magistrates at the Police Court. After rvider.ee had been given, the Chairman of the Bench saM the case was the most remarkable he had ever beard in his 21 years' experience. Thry thouvh.

Miss Bowles could not have realised the pravi'y of the step she was taking when she pave fh's postman into custody. In discharging the they said there was not a tittle of evidence against him, and hi; left the court without a stain on his character. The decision was received with loud applause. GROCERS' LICENCES. At the annual meeting of the Macclesfield ci District Temperance and Band of Hope Unioa on Saturday Mr.

Harold W. Whiston re-elected president. In an address said that those who retailed a well a3 those Who manufacturer? rlrinV ararn i unli-orl in fh degradation of their fellow-men. This applied 10 Louse who made use of grocers licences. Mr.

Robert that the creation of grocers' licences was one of iub oiggest Diumiere Parliament ever made. A resolution was nnanimnmlv arirmtpr M-hich the Government to abolish grocers' licences. CHESHIRE FARMER SHOT. An inquest was held on Saturday at Brides-mere, near Xantwich, with reference to tha death of John Dutton, a well-known Teaii. farmer on the estate of Lord Tollemache.

His body, with a gunshot wound in the found in a field close to the farm last Wednesday. It was stated that he had no fmar.ria! difficulties, his balance at the bank beis? 1,000. When he left the house he said he going rabbit shooting. Dr. H.

Harrison stated that the posi'ioa i which the gun was found showed that man had not intentionally taken hi life- The gun discharged very easily, and if the butt tl bumped on the ground it would have goc off. The jury found that Mr. Dutton accident! shot himself. NETHER DENTON FOAL SHOW. The fifth annual show of foals and hi vii held at Nether Denton, Cumberland, on '-ur' day.

The principal prizes were for cart and the entries in some classes were large. There were, for instance, thirty-four All? foals. The first prize was won by a black fi'-7 belonging to Mr. R. B.

Keen, Cranberry Bra. Bardon Mill; the second going to Mr. T- Graham. Irthington. and the third to Mr.

son. Walton. The first prize for colt foals won bv Mr. W. Kr r.in T.

AtkicsoC Ainstable, being second, and Mr. J. Armstrong, xvyiesyKe niu, irtnmgton, tnira. ins tural brood mares were also a large clafs- the thirty-two animals shown that adjtfl? best was the nrntiortu nf Mr Vrr. of which has won many prizes in Cumberland tbe South of Scotland.

Messrs. B. and A-wick, of Baggarah, Low Row, took the aim Lujru prow, ine nrst prize it" g. harness brood mares was won by Mr. Askerton Castle; the second by Mr.

J. an1 17 XTnlwrttalA tho. Mr. J. 8.

Law, Irthington, the first for and Mrs. Thorn borrow, Low Row, tbe T. Renwick, Coanwood, the first for foals, and Mr. J. Kennedy the second.

At Carlisle on Saturday W. Irving, batchy and sheep dealer, was summoned for a1101 the skin of a heifer which had died anthrax to be cut otherwise than under supervision of a veterinary inspector, burying the carcase without the supervision. He was fined 1 and cosw each case 4. 9s. 2d.

altogether. beea 2.500. exclusive of the interior fuvnish-if of the latter, with the Transvaal did not at tee moment iully comprehend how Mr. Chamberlain was betraying them in this sordid bargain. They fully comprehend it now.

and tho arrangement is scornfully repudiated. TRANSVAALELECTIONS. HET VOLK AND THE CAMPAIGN. Router's Johannesburg correspondent telegraphs that Het Volk held private conferences on Saturday at Krugersdorp and Johannesburg, to arrange a programme and Bettle the details! of the. electoral campaign.

A small section of the Responsible Government Party, he adds, has severed its connection with the recently-formed Transvaal National. Association, disagreeing with the inclusion in the Association's programmo of the repatriation of Chinese coolies pending the provision of tome substitute. THEATRICAL STARS. MISS EDNA MAY AND MISS CLIFFORD. Miss Edna May, who has been so long in The Belle ot Mayfair at tho Vaudeville Theatre.

London, severed here naection with the company on Saturday night. Miss May made a statement to a pre33 representative of the reason that had compelled her to take this step. Without showing any jealousy of Miss Camilla Clifford's sudden access of popularity for Miss Clifford, indeed, she expressed the highest regard she pointed out that a great injustice had been done to her by the way in which Miss Clifford had been featured and billed in pre-ferenco to herself, who was, nevertheless, drawing much the largest salary paid to any member of tho company. "I am paid," said Miss May. "200 a week, and yet my name appears in much smaller type on tho sandwich boards than the name of Miss Clifford.

I am leaving the theatre because my contract has been broken in this way. I am the star in tho play, and. have leu searching England and America for a good song, but without success. I received two songs to try, but they were not suitable. The pcoplo who were asked to write songs for me do not appear to havo had any -inspiration.

Oco composer was given six weeks to write me a good song, but I got no satisfaction. Miss Clifford, however, comes into the ana immmnateiy a sno song is lounu tor tier, it proves a great success. Miss Clifford looks perfectly charming. The song is a tremendous success, and becomes the perfect hit of the piece. I ask you is this fair? Here I have been asking for song: and cannot get them, and Miss Camilla Clifford has one found for her without any difliculty.

All 1 say personally of Miss Clifford is that she is a lucky little woman who has got a charming song while 1 have been vainly searching for such. I like ber very much. She is ono of the sweetest littlo women I havo ever met in my life, and has often been in my dressing-room so that will show how I regard her. Of course I could not be a Gibson Girl. Consequently I could not sing 'Why am I a Uibson Girlr" Hut I could sing something very near Why am I a Picture Girl 't for instance.

It is tho tune and tho idea that arc so catching, and I submit that as star of the piece, should have been given the best song. Not only is this treatment not fair to ine, but it is not fair to other members of the company. It is absurd to Bay that my action in leaving tho play is dictated by any feeling of jealousy. I am simply leaving because I havo not been treated rightly. My picture has been given on he sandwicli boards with my name written so small beneath it that people could hardly sec it.

On tho other side was announced in huge letters that Miss Clifford was positively going to sing, and tho timo she would appear on the stage." Tho people go mad over her song, and the next thing that, happens is Miss Clifford's name is put outside the theatre in tho most prominent place this, mind you, though I am getting 200 a week and am the When I venture to remonstrato I am told that Miss Clifford, because of her engagement to a peer's sou. draws the public, and that, therefore, shp is to bo advertised. What i3 left for me but to say to myself. You had better get Miss Clifford when spoken to on tho subject said, I know nothing about it, and do nut caro to discuss the matter." It is stated that since Miss Clifford rejoined the Vaudeville caste after her return from Norway, and the announcement of her engagement to Lord Aber-dare's son, the theatre receipts have gone up several hundreds a week. As Miss Edna May states.

Miss Clifford's salary is much less than 200 a week. AN UNUSED TRAMWAY. DEADLOCK AT WIMBLEDON. The unfortunate deadlock that lias arisen between the Wimbledon Town Council and the London L'nited Tramway Company shows no siens of solution, with tho result that there is littlo or no hope of work being oommenced upon the tramway extension to Tooting during the present vcar. The town is now in the somewhat Gilhertian position of possessing a tram-wav where it is not particularly wanted by ihe residents North Wimbledon and where its incursion was resented, whilst the great industrial population of South Wimbledon, which is clamouring for a tramway to Tooting in order tu link up with the London County Council lias and to have an alternative and cheaper to London, cannot get one.

The question is causing considerable agitation in the boroih, aii'l the position of affairs has become mere acute since the action of the District Railway Company in raising the season ticket rates to exorbitant figures. A Complete Tramway Standing Idle. But though Wimbledon possesses a new and perfectly equipped tramway in the north, opening up communication with Kingston, through Raynes Park, Now Maiden, and tsurbiton, it i3 not in use. Sir Clifton Robinson says that he can put. cars upon it at an hour's notice, but the Wimbledon Corporation will not permit this to bo done until the tramway company gives some tangible evidence of its intention to proceed with tho work of the section to Tootine.

And in this action the Corporation is supported by the ratepayers, who, much as they appreciate this new method of reaching Kingston for twopence, as against the poor train service 1 at a cost of 4Jd- for the single journey, feel the greater importance to tho town of the line to London. NOTICE TO QUIT A SCHOOL. THE EDUCATION BILL. The managers of St. Anne's National Schools, Clifton, in the Lancashire Education Committee's Kearsley area, have been put into a oifficult position by receiving from tho owner of the school, Mrs.

Corrie, of Oswestry, notice to quit on December 10. Three months' notice has to be given to the public in the district concerned before a new school can be erected, and unless Mrs. Corrie decides to allow the managers to continue in the school it is likely that difficulty will be experienced in providing accommodation for the 300 children now attending St. Anne's School. Mrs.

Corrie's reason for her action is the Education Bill now before Parliament, as the trust deeds say that the Church of England doctrine must be taught in the school. Dr. Snape, Director of Education under the Lancashire County Council, has asked her to allow the use of the school until a fresh one can be built, but her decision has not yet reached the Kearsley Committee. Thev have fixed tho required accommodation at 600, and the cost will fall upon Clifton. CUMBERLAND CROQUET TOURNAMENT.

The North Cumberland croquet tournament nded on Saturday at Edenside. Results of the! finals: Open singles: W. M.Miller, Deat u. a. worsaeiJ, Durham, by 25 and 26.

nanaicap suiKies iciass A): li. U. Worsdell tb; beat Mrs. Miller, Edinburgh (8), by 14. Handicap singles (class B): Mrs.

Alexis Thomson. Edinburgh t9i, w.o.. J. Marjoribanks, Heads Kook (11), retired. Challenee doubles handicap tits.

Turner, Blackball Hall, and Miss Ire-wonger, Mentohe (14), beat Mrs. Alexis Thomson, and Mrs. Buckle (Edinburgh (174), by IS. Handicap doubles (drawn: G. B.

Worsdell and Slias Q. B. Hudson w.o. Hiss Graham and W. M.

MSUar.