The Journal from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England • 4

NEWS SUMMARY. At Villacoublay Aerodrome, near Paris, yesterday an aviator named Reals, who was flying on a biplane fell from a height of 600 feet and was killed. The Peruvian Congress has nominated a Govern- ing Board, with Colonel Benavides as President, pending a new election. The Fleet has recognised the new Government. The match between M.C.C.

and fifteen of Northern Natal ended yesterday in a draw, stumps being taken up early owing to rain. The final scores Natal, 94 and 141 for eight wickets; M.C.C., 289 for four (declared). A company of invited guests interested in shipbuilding, inspected the new shipbuilding yard of Messrs Joseph T. Eltringham and Compaifv, 1 at Willington Quay, yesterday, and also witnessed the laying of the keels for the first three vessels to be built there by the company. Replying to a deputation at Rotherham last night on the question of temperance legislation, Mr J.

A. Pease referred to his support of the last temperance measure, but said that as the life of the Government was so short, he thought it would be impossible to introduce a Bill next session. The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments: be Bishop of Sheffield, the Right Rev L. H. Burrows, Bishop Suffragan of Lewes; to be Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rev J.

E. Watts-Ditchfield, Vicar of St. James the Less, Bethnal Green; to be Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the Yen. H.

B. Hodgson, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne. At Liverpool Assizes yesterday, George Ball, alias Sumner, was found guilty of the murder of Miss Bradfield and sentenced to death, whilst Samuel Angeles Eltoft was adjudged to be an accessory after the fact, the jury recommending him to mercy on the ground of his youth and in the belief that he was influenced by Ball. Eltoft was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Mr Asquith presided over the fifth meeting of the Cabinet within a fortnight at 10, Downing Street, yesterday.

The leaders of the Unionist party also met at Lansdowne House, London, for I the consideration of the attitude to be adopted by the party towards the political situation generallv. and towards the Ulster position in particular, In view of the anticipated important debates in the Parliamentary Session which opens on Tuesday. Steps are to be taken by the Northumberland County Council to meet the objections of farmers to present dangerous state of the county roads. It was announced at yesterday's meeting 1 in Newcastle that a new system has been devised for treating the surface of the roads, and the belief was expressed that this would overcome all objections. The Council unanimously passed the new scale of salaries for teachers.

A statement with regard to the financial position of the small holdings showed that the loss on the undertaking amounts to over AN EXPERIMENT IN SMALL HOLDINGS. When the Small Holdings Act was brought into operation by the present Government, many complaints were made because several of the County Councils were reluctant to comply with its terms. They were charged with showing political bias and with trving to defeat the Act. The allegation was, of course, absurd, because it is clear that, whatever political opinions members of County Councils hold, all must well- come the prospect of the establishment of small holdings, wherever there is a reasonable chance of them being carried on with success. The hesitation of tbe authorities was due to several causes.

In the first place it was usually neces- sarv. in order to obtain land in a suitable locality and within easy reach of means of communication, to disturb existing tenancies. Further, there was a doubt whether, when larger holdings had been broken up, any considerable number of those who desired to take small holdings could make them economically successful. Experience has shown that these fears were well founded. The County Councils that stood out the longest have been justified.

Those who embarked on a scheme as soon as possible after the Act was passed have had reason to regret their precipitancy, or, at all events, if they are unwilling to recognise they were too hasty, the ratepayers have ground for complaint. Of the truth of these assertions we have ample evidence in the statement made yesterday to the Northumberland County Council. Ip to the end of last vear there was a net loss on the small holdings schemes of a little over £1,000 £330 7s Id on the schemes and £689 Is on establishment The ratepayers will be called upon to make good the deficiency, for, though the hope was held out that the schemes may become self-supporting, fow can be sanguine to entertain such expectations Against the loss must be set the possession of land and buildings, but that asset is a poor consolation to the ratepayers if the land and buildings cannot be put to profitable use. Already the County Council have compelled in some cases to reduce rents, and it seems that process will have to be carried much further. Those who are struggling to make a living on the small holdings must be given a fair chance.

Otherwise it will not be long before the authority wiU have to consider the alternative of bringing the experiment to an end, and selling the land and buildings for what they will bring. We imagine that, for the present at any rate, the County Oounoil will be disinclined to consider that contingency, and will prefer to reduce rents, even if, bv doing so, they have to go counter to the strict law of economics. The ratepayers are not the only losers through the enterprise. As Major Hedley observed, many small-holders have left the country, with hopes broken and the savings of years of hard work wasted. We can have nothing but sympathy for these men, and for the others who remain to continue the fight against adverse conditions.

Their experience will not, however, have been in vain, if legislators, members of local authorities, and all who aspire to cultivate the land realise the necessity of a more cautious policy in the future. It is particularly essential that Parliamentarians -should take the lesson to heart, for they dictate the course which local bodies have to follow- The Act in question was passed in haste, and so little consideration was given to the provisions, especially to those relating to finance, that failure was inevitable. In justice the loss that ratepayers have to sustain ought to be borne by the Exchequer, for it was the Government which imposed the scheme on the local authorities. doubt whether the present Chancellor of the Exchequer will be prepared to meet the bill. He seems, rather, to be preparing to lay new liabilities on local bodies.

Against all proposals to inaugurate fresh schemes of doubtful utility, but which will certainly involve heavy expense, the ratepayers and their representatives should enter an emphatic protest. We are not adverse to small holdings, or to plans for improvement of rural conditions generally. But we contend that, in the nature of things, progress must be slow, and that more harm than good will be done if attempts are made to enforce sweeping changes all at once. The experiment with small holdings has led to a loss for tbe ratepayers, and produced nothing but disillusion for a large proportion of those directly, affected by the scheme. Similar results will surely follow from some of the rural schemes now popularly advocated if they are to be enforced by the same questionable methods as marked the inauguration of the Radical Small Holdings Act.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. UNIONISTS AND THE LAND. who wish to get a clear view of the various policies for the solution of the rural problem may be advised to read a little book, entitled "Llovd George and the Land;" which is published by Messrs George Allen and London. It has been written by Mr G. E.

Raine, and the author, while criticising the policy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, outlines the land programme which he thinks Unionists should accept. The proposals he puts forward express the ideas of those members of the Unionist Party who were responsible for the publication of the much-discussed "Blue Pamphlet." All Unionists may not endorse every part of the scheme. There is, for instance, the question of Wages Boards. In advocating them, Mr Raine is in advance of average Unionist opinion. His book will, however, we hope, be widely read, for it convevs a large amount of information on all aspects of the land problem.

MINERS' PIC-NIC SPEAKERS. An interesting voting paper is that issued to the branches of the Northumberland Miners' Associatkm, showing the names of speakers it is proposed to invite to address the pio-nic at Morpeth in July. Statesmen, journalists, Labour leaders, Nationalists, and militant suffragists are all included in the list. It is noticeable, however, that the miners do not propose to "hear the other side" at their gathering, for though Radicalism, Socialism, and (suffrage reform have numerous representatives on the list, there is no suggestion that Conservative, Unionist, or Tariff Reform advocates should appear on the Morpeth platforms. This is regrets table, as it is by giving ear the views of others that the whole truth of a case may be arrived at.

Orations all on one side are apt to become monotonous. They also lack the educational value that is helpful in the consideration of political questions. ADDITIONAL BISHOPRICS. The announcement of the appointments to the three new Sees will serve to draw increased attention to the work of the Additional Bishoprics Committee. The report gives credit to a member of the committee, Lord Wolmer, for success in overcoming difficulties which seemed insuperable in the creation of the new dioceses of Sheffield, Chelmsford, and St.

Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is with a full conviction of the importance of tbe diocese to the welfare of the Church of England that the committee persists in its work, which is carried on without the measure of financial support that is desirable. The Rev Edward Harding Firth, organising secretary of the Additional Bishoprics Committee, very happily sums up its raison d'etre in quoting in the annual report the expression of a priest, "that bishops must bo multiplied to such a degree that the people can feel themselves identified with a bishop, and know that it is a part of Christianity to be so." THE LIVERPOOL MURDER. The trial of George Ball, alias Sumner, and Samuel Angeles Eltoft, for the murder of Miss Catherine Bradfield at Liverpool ended as most people must have expected. Ball was convicted and sentenced to death.

Eltoft was found guilty of accessory after the fact and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Eltoft is little more than a youth. Ball, though young in years, has all the coolness usually associated with age and experience. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial. Ball may be said, however, to have convicted himself.

In the witness-box he told a story which no rational person can believe. He gave a minute description of an unknown who, as he alleged, committed the crime, and of whom, he admitted, he only got a glimpse, and, when his attention was called to a discrepancy in his tale, he suggested the theory that the stranger had an assistant whom he never saw at all. The conelusion of the jury was that Ball himself was the murderer, and it necessarily follows that "the story of the two men who disappeared without leaving a trace was a product of his imagination. BASIS OF SOCIAL REFORM. In a speech at a gathering of the Clothworkers' Company in London, Lord Morley said, the root of social reform is secure employment, and the bane of the workman's life is precariousness and insecurity.

By the increase and wider application of knowledge, which makes us more fit to compete with foreign manufacturers, more can be done to maintain security and to avoid the mischiefs and calamities of a precarious condition of industry than can be done by any number of abstract formulae. Lord Morley, as everyone knows, is a Free Trader, but in these observations lie enunciated sound Tariff Reform doctrine. His reference to abstract formulae was, in effect, a condemnation of the theoretical basis on which Cobdenism rests. OBSOLETE. There are many in Newcastle and on Tyneside who owe their acquaintance with Tennyson, and his works to the popular vogue that was given to the heroic ballad of "The Revenge" at the time of the building and launching of the battleship bearing that name at Jarrow.

The flight of time is strikingly illustrated by the announcement of the Admiralty that the Revenge is to be added to the sale list as a vessel unfit for further service. There have been many vessels styled Revenge since the stirring Elizabethan days. Those who cherish the memory of great deeds and the British spirit of fighting to the last will hope that ere long the name may be placed again on the Navy List, for Sir Richard Grenville's last fight and gallant death must never be The story of the brave little Revenge, told with such patriotic fervour by Tennyson, is, indeed, one of the bright gems left to us from the time of the Spanish Armada. REVOLUTION IN PERU. Though effected by a military coup d'etat, the revolution in Peru was due solely to political causes.

President Billinghurst, who has been deposed and deported, had only held office since 1912. Failing to obtain the support of the National Congress, he established an autocracy. The immediate causa of his downfall, as The Times says, was that he attempted to crush the opposition of Congress by unconstitutionally forcing on a General Election, on the ground that the elections to the existing Congress had been invalidated by illegality. He followed up these measures by the arrest of a certain number of members who had incurred his enmity. President Billinghurst had rendered distinguished service to his country before he was called to the office from which he has just been expelled.

He misjudged the spirit of the peOple when he endeavoured to establish a dictatorship. LIGHTS ON TARIFF REFORM. LOOK AT GERMANY! "On the whole there hare been in the past year in Germany more posts than workmen to fill Sydow, Prussian Minister of Commerce, in Berlin, January 19th, 1914. Free Traders are still to be found, we believe, who imagine that a movement towards Free Trade is in progress throughout the world, and especially in Germany. If so, these must have experienced a shock of pained surprise on reading the speech of Heir DeJbrnck, the German Secretary.of State for the Interior, in the Reichstag on January 20.

He boldly announced the continued adherence of Germany to the tariff policy inaugurated by Prince Bismarck 34 years ago, under which that country, has such marvellous progress. No responsible German statesman, it is evident, would dream of reversing a policy which has brought such untoJd prosperity to the German people. Under it the resources of the country are being developed to their fullest extent, its industries and commerce have enormously increased, its wealth lias multiplied, and its working classes enjoy a standard of living previously undreamt of. In the production and consumption of iron and steel, which lie at the base of most otWer countries, Germany has long since overtaken this country, and in exports of home produce she is drawing rapidly ahead, her increase last year being £54 millions as against our £36 millions. AGRICULTURE AND TARIFFS.

Under her present fiscal system, as Herr Delbruck pointed out, beneficial social legislation has kept pace with material development. While our Chancellor of the Exchequer is at his wits' end to find the money for naval programmes aJid schemes for social reform, Germany finds no difficulty in raising all the money she requires for these purposes. Notwithstanding the depressing influences of the Morocco crisis and the Balkan War, Germany is now financially stronger than she was before these troubles arose. As to the position of the working classes. Herr Delbruck maintained that wages in Germany have risen more than prices, and we know that the reports of British Consuls in Germany fully corroborate this statement.

So far from unemployment being general, as some Free Trade newspapers would have us believe, Germany has yearly to import a large number of labourers from other countries. Whatever unemployment exists is mainly in the large towns to which the population flock, and not throughout the country. Herr Sydow, speaking in Berlin on January 19, said: "On the whole there had been in the past year in Germany more posts than workmen to fill Herr Delbruck denied that the recent rise in food prices, which is quite as marked in this Free Trade country as in Germany, was in any way due to the agrarian tariff. It is a remarkable fact that Germany's cereal harvests have increased from 14,700,000 tons in 1880, when a protective tariff was introduced, to 27,961,000 tons in 1912. while ours have steadily declined throughout the whole of that period.

Herr Delbruck defended the agrarian tariff of 1902 as having, in conjunction with commercial and most-favoured-nation treaties, both satisfied the interests of the home market and fulfilled the need for wider foreign markets. German statesmen, it is clear, recognise the fact that it is both undesirable and impracticable to exclude agriculture from the scope of their tariff policy. The consequence of that policy is that Germany's imports of foodstuffs are only about half as mucih as those of this country, although her population is 50 per cent, greater, and that Germany employs about per cent, of her working population in agriculture, while we employ only about 8 per cent, of onrs. COURT CIRCULAR. Windsor Castle, Thursday.

The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, has arrived at the Castle, and had an audience the King before dinner. The Viscount and Viscountess Esher and the Lord and Lady Stamfordham had the honour of dining with the King and Queen this, evening.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL The King lias sent his annual subscription of £21 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, of -which he is the patxo.ii. The King will hold an investiture on Thursday, February 13th, when the recent recipients of the Order of the Bath, the Star of India, and the Indian Empire will be invested with the insignia of the respective Orders. The Queen hias decided to give one or two small private dances at Buckingham Palace during the early part of the season for the young friends of Princess Mary and her brothers. These will be quite informal affairs, and, apart from the Royal Family and the Household, only a few of their Majesties' personal friends will be among the adults present. The late Lord Knutsford's first wife was a grand-daughter of Sydney Smith and his second a daughter of Sir Charles Trevelyan, and the favourite niece of Lord Macau lay.

The Marquis of Londonderry has arrived at his London residence from Mount Stewart, for the opening of Parliament. Lady Londonderry is expected to arrive to-morrow. The King has approved the appointment of Mr John Carswedl, F.R.F.P.S. L.R.C.P. as a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland.

It is forty years to-day since Mr Thomas Burt, the Father of the House of Commons, was first elected to Parliament for Morpeth. Mr Churchill will be the guest of the evening at the annual dinner of the Royal Aero Club at the Royal Automobile Club on February 27, when the Marquess of Tullibardine will preside. Colonel G. J. Cuthbert, formerly of the Scots Guards, is to succeed Brigadier-General T.

Capper in command of the 13th Infantry Brigade at Dublin. Manchester City Council is to purchase the house in Plymouth Grove, Manchester, in which Mrs Gaskell, the novelist, lived, for the purposes of a public museum and as a memorial. Mr Walter Runciman, M.P., has gone to the country for a few days to recuperate. The Captain Scott MemoriaJl Fund Committee has commissioned Mr S. 'Nicholson Babb to design a bronze tablet or Das-relief as a memorial to Captain Scott and his comrades, and foi; which the Dean and Chapter of St.

Paul's have assigned wall space in the Cathedral. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. SIR E. SHACKLETON'S LATEST ARRANGEMENTS. Sir Ernest Shackleton has practically decided to purchase a new ship called the Polaris, which has, the Press Association is informed, been specially constructed for ice work.

She is a vessel of 650 tons, and is at present in Norway, where she was built by a syndicate interested in Polar work. The ship is constructed on the best lines, and is very economical in fuel consumption. She will be converted so as to carry oil fuel. Under her new name, Endurance, she will be employed on the Weddell Sea side of the Antarctic, under the command of Captain J. K.

Davis, who is in charge of the Mawson Expedition ship Aurora, now on its return voyage to Australia. The Aurora, which has been brought up to date, will probably be the ship selected for the Ross Sea side of the continent. Failing this, Peary's ship Roosevelt, which has been offered to Sir Ernest Shackleton, may be selected. Both are fitted with a wireless telegraphy installation. It has been decided that the ship employed on the Ross Sea shall be officered and manned entirely men of the Royal Navy, while the vessel on the Weddell Sea will be manned entirely by the merchant service.

The expedition will thus have the two greatest marine services as important units. Sit Ernest Shackleton is at present in communication with the Admiralty for the loan of officers and men, and is meeting with every consideration from that Department. The War Office, too, has promised to help in every possible way, especially in connection with the aeroplane eledges, and all scientific tests that maybe required. Sir Ernest is also receiving from the War Office valuable advice on food values. It is not generally kriown that that Department has a complete analysis of every kind of food, including "specialities" placed on the market from time to time.

He has also received an assurance from the War Office that if it is decided to include some armv officers so as to represent that branch of the service, his application will be favourably considered. The Staff. The staff chosen so far Ernest Shackleton, head of the expedition, aged 39; Mr Frank Wild, second in, command, and surveyor, 39; Mr George Marston, artist, and in charge of clothing and sledges, 31; Lieutenant A. E. Macintosh, probably leader of the Ross Sea depot partv, 33; Mr A.

Cheetham, third officer on the Weddell Sea ship, 36; Capt. Orde Dees, Royal Marines, head of the motor school at Deal, expert Alpine climber and instructor in physical training, 35. who has accepted pending the decision of "the Admiralty; Mr Ernest Joyce, in charge of the dogs on the Rosa Sea side, 39, and Captain J. K. Davis, in command of the Weddell Sea ship.

It will be noted that all are between 30 and 40 years of age, and with the exception of Captain Orde Lees have had more than one experience of Antarctic work. I 1 or the scientific staff, applications have been received from several members of Scott expedition, and it is practically certain that a number of his party will go. Applications have also come in from members of Dr Mawson's present expeditions and two men who are now with that explorer in Adelie Land will be included among the scientific staff. If the permission of the Admiralty is obtained, officers and men from the naval side of Scott's expedition will constitute the ship's staff on the Ross Sea. At the end of March, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Messrs Wild and Narston will go to Finse, in the north of Norway, to test the sledge and tent equipment.

The party on this test will live exactly as on a sledging iournev. 'Though the temperature is not so low, the weather conditions, sudden blizzards and types of ice, are similar to those prevailing in the Antarctic. Sir Ernest's main plans have undergone no change Association Foreign Special. MISSIONARY WORK. RE-OPENING OF THE NEWCASTLE EXHIBITION.

The missionary exhibition which is being held in Newcastle on behalf of the work of'the Societv for Ihe Propagation of the Gospel, was re-opened yesterday in the Exhibition Hall, St. Mary's Place, by Lord Joioey, in the presence of a large attendance. Dr Graham Aspland, of Pekin, presided, and amongst those present were Canon Boot, Revs G. Barnsley, C. G.

Hall and B. E. Spencer, Mr F. F. Worthington, and Mr J.

G. Hicks, hou treasurer. Phe Chairman he was one of a noble armv of 24,000 missionaries, and he would like to say that Lanada presented the greatest missionary and religious problem of the present day. While 70 per cent, of the emigrants were British, the other 30 per cent, was contributed by 50 nations. eulogised Dr Aspland's Work on penali of missionary enterprise in the East, notably in connection with medical missions.

His Lordship that Canada, after all, was probablv the Church greatest problem. As time went on thev would rise to their responsibilities, because the missionary spirit was the essence of Christianity. BERWICK'S NEW BRIDGE. correspondent learns that the proposed route Border Bridge, which is to cross the JL eed at Berwick is presently so arranged that the jroar North Road, London to Edinburgh, will oroalc Irorn its position close to Tweedmouth own arm, and instead of coming on through iweedmouth by Tweed Dock will travel past the above farm and come out at the west end on t6 a laxiuct which will be part of and attached to the new bridge, which will traverse the Tweed and join Jiankhill, Berwick, near Golden Square, so that the mage itself will have practically direct connection with High Street, Berwick's main thoroughfare, rhe bridge and viaduct would thus be about threequarters of a mile in length. The cost of the new bridge is set at about and the Road Board expect to have it completed in two years from the which NORTH COUNTRY NOTES.

The Hon. Charles Lambton, I' a.j Colonel the Hon. William Lambton. D.5.0.. who have just presented a un def- Dervish jibbas, swords, spears, to 1 land Museum, are both brothers of the col Durham, and have each an interesting of military experience.

The D.S.O. and medals in the Soudan ec he was also in the South African war, tion with which he was mentioned in dr 7 and holds the Queen's medal and tine medals. Colonel the Hon. William Lambton the Egyptian campaign, being at Atba ra Omdurman, and also in South Africa, uienwounded in the latter war. He was twice tioned in dispatches, and was.

awarded Queen's medal, the King's medal, and the The Queen Victoria Jubilee Tnstit'it 0 Nurses (the patron of which is Her Queen Alexandra) has presented to 0 Nurse Law, the senior nurse in Berwick, long service badge, in gold, "for 21 years and loyal work for the institute." Nurse 21 years' service has been entirely accomp in Berwick. She came from hospital formation of the Berwick branch, and, offers from such places as Liverpool and gow, she has remained in Berwick, where services are highly appreciated. In more than one way it was appropriate Lord Joicey should make the presentation took place yesterday to Mr Thomas Bell, 011 occasion of the jubilee of his commercial tion with Newcastle. Not only is his or president of the Chamber of Commerce, but year he himself completed half a century 'V ciation with the Quayside, during which he has been brought into close personal aS rl ri as business relations with Mr Bell. They two fine examples of commercial men.

Joicey is the largest coal producer in the Mr Bell the largest coal exporter. It was an admirable tribute which his paid to his veteran friend yesterday, thong one point it is questionable whether he ratepayers of Newcastle a good'turn. To the City Council, of which Mr Bell was a 9 ber for 26 years, as an economical body? a ro time When the estimates for another months are being prepared, is sca conducive to the exercise of that rcvi which is necessary now to keep the they stand. Moreover, his lordship should regard for the modesty of the members. doubt this it was that caused some of thed blush at the eulogies showered upon them.

New to most people would be the fact bro a out by Mr Bell in his interestingly speech that his first office boy was Mr Renwick, and that when the latter left the his successor was Mr James Tullv. The 1 which these two gentlemen have achieved 111 commercial world is in itself a tribute to business methods of their former employer, to the training they received at his hands. "Too old for business at 40" is a cry heard nowadays, and yet a strenuous oommcK career seems to have left most of the vote of the Quayside wonderfully well preserved, yesterday's presentation there were to be not a few men who have passed the span, and Who are still active and alert in ness, and well set-up physically. Sir a sfl Stephenson and Mr Bell himself are no -y examples. Lord Joicey is.

68, but he several years younger. is it us in 01 ways. For instance, yesterday morning. Sheriff of Newcastle (Councillor Herbert found a letter on his breakfast table ad re to "Mr Bernard Shaw." Fortunately, the made himself thoroughly explicit a "Sheriff of Newcastle." The Missionary Exhibition in St. Place, Newcastle, will be opened Bishop Ormsby, who is well known the Newcastle Diocese as an earnest ica For little more than a year he has been of Eglingham and Rural Dean of Glenda well as Assistant Bishop.

He has 1 fit Church in va rioxis places in the Diocese, as well as in the Durham Diocese. has filled several important positions abroad eluding that of Bishop of Honduras and C.e» America (1893 to 1907). The members of the Newcastle Liberal will entertain Dr John Wilson, on their premises in Pilgrim Street to-nighthonourable member for Mid-Durham, thong 1 his 77th year, still devotes a great deal and energy to public work. The miners North have had in him for many years leader. No man understands their life better than he does, and none could assiduous in supporting any movement 1 for its object the betterment of their coaidi to" Durham County Agricultural Society is congratulated upon its financial position, to the splendid work of Alderman Richardson (Mayor of Sunderland) and b- 1 porters, on the occasion of the annual U0 at Pallion in July last.

This year it is the show will bo held in Durham City, a 0- ten yeans' interval. At any rate, Alderfl 1 1 H. Procter has suggested that the City 0 should send a deputation to society, and the suggestion has been The grounds of Drybum, the residence 0 Darwin, are ideal for such an exhibition. The Rev George Andrew Hassall, for Jjefj 5b years curate of St. Thomas' Parish, CoH who is leaving at Easter to take up duties in the Parish of St.

John, Lincolnshire, is a native of served his apprenticeship as a marine a' 1 at the North-Eastern Marine Engine was afterwards employed in a similar at Jarrow. He also became secretary to a union, and also worked at Palmers an 4l strong's works, and at Hebburn Colliery- Mr Hassall became a licensed evangelist diocese of Durham, in St. Thomas' Parish' (V derland. He went to the Church Traini' 1 4 lege for Lay Workers, and for ten years charge of a mission in Southampton. secretary to the Church of England TetOP Society for Lanchester Rural Deanery, ber of the Diocesan Churcli Defence Com and was instrumental in forming the West Durham Church of England liOague.

The rev gentleman is a member Annfield Plain Urban District Council- "Yes," said Brown, "I have a Only this morning, when I came down gt fast after 1 a sleepless night, and forg (l1 him his usual tit-bit, he went out 1 I 3' garden, pulled up a bunch of flowers. them at my feet." "And what wer a er quired his friend. Brown, as he hurriedly left the room- A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. rlB (FROM THE NEWCASTLE OOURANT, FEBR 1 REWARDS FOR VOTES- George Baker, of Eleraore, given to each poor married freeman 0e of Durham who voted for him at tJ tion three pecks of wheat A 1 a di cS coals has been distributed bv tha vot gentlemen of that city to almos inhabitant. NEWCASTLE FEVER HOSPITAL Ralph Atkinson.

of this ida.ti° oe .1 benefaction of £10 towards fr 0 1 of the debt due to the Newcastle is Fever Hospital, in consequence y. Messrs Surtees, Burdon, and a Mr Atkinson's third donatio 4 -THE NEWCASTLE DAILY JOURNAL; FEBRUARY 6, 1914. The Corset Shapes. TFfE CORSET SHAPES for the Spring are absolutely different of Last Season. The new "La Vida Models wtQ be shown and expiated in the Georgian Room on Monday, Feb.

9th, Weingarten's own Lady Expert will fit Customers daily. Appoint; merits should be made to-day by telephone direct to Corset. Ltd. LIMITED. North-T timberland Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

FUNERALS FURNISHED throughout in town or country. Cremations. Family and Servants' Mourning. Telegrams: Modiste." Newcastle-on-Tyne (Telephone 784). Day or Night.

Sunday and Night Entrance: Elswick Court DURHAM CATHEDRAL MUSIC, TO-DAY. £forninc, in F. 10 x.m. I I will Service in F. 4 p.m.

Great is our Lord S. Bennett. BIRTnS, MARRIAGES, A VI) HEATHS. 3HOTICES ol BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, when prepaid, are charged One Shilling far Twenty Words, and Threepence for each Five Words over Twenty; if not prepaid the ordinary credit advertisement rates are charged. Al! Notices fuust be duly authenticated by the signature and address of the sender, and should be accompanied by remittance, otherwise the insertion cannot be guaranteed.

of "MARRIAGES ARRANGED" charged One Shilling per line. BIRTH. Birney Hill, Ponteland, on February sth. to Mr and Mrs Philip Eostace-Smith, a son. MARRIAGE.

St. Marv Abbott's, London, on February 4th, 1914, by "the Yen. J. Henderson Canon of Newcastle, and Archdeacon of Northumberland, assisted by the Rev. Canon Pennefather, Vicar of the Parish, Francis Edward Bond, of Springhouse (Pennsylvania), to Florence, widow of the late Henry EeLes, Newcaetle-on-Tyne, and daughter of the Rev.

F. C. Lloyd, of Kew, formerly Rector of Bridford, Devon. DEATHS. the sth John Clayton, second son of C.

E. M. Bell, 3, Framlington Place, Newcastle. Regent Terrace. Gateshead, on the 4th aged 88 years, Hannah, daughter of the late John Honevman, of North Shields.

Interment at Preston Cemetery at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, 6th inst. Ramsey's Lane, Wooler, on the sth aged 54 years, George, youngest son of the late John Hopper. Interment at Wooler on Saturday at 3.15 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation.

East Farm, Backworth, on the 4th Elizabeth, widow of James Urwin, and daughter of the late Robert Storer, of Healev, Rothburv. Interment at Earsdon on Saturday, the 7th at 3 o'clock, leaving residence at 2.15. Friends please accept this (the 4 only) intimation. tEMLEY SONS, Monumental Sculptors, (SHOWROOMS: No. 1 ARCH, WESTGATE ROAD.

A Revolution IN STATIONERY. Oar Parcel of Stationery contains the following96o Sheets, Bvo. size, 480 Sheets Albert, 200 Correspondence Cards, 1.500 Good Court Envelopes. N.B.—Notepaper and Cards embossed with two or three-line address. THE GUINEA COVERS EVERYTHING.

Write for a sample to-day and if you are satisfied please pass on to a friend. 1 Mawson, Swan, Morgan, LIMITED, "The Royal Exchange," Newcastle. McQueen so if For RAZORS. Oar Celebrated Exhibition Razor Our Celebrated "Grainger" Razor Our Celebrated Tynedale Razor (Post Free.) CUTLERS A OPTICIANS, GEO. G.

LAIDLER, DECORATOR. TEMPORARY SHOW ROOM, Entrance: 38, Northumberland Street, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Established T823. Telephone, 1344 CetL Hotels, Hydro, mXHEDALE HYDRO, HEXHAM, Northumber. A land.

Situation. Winter Garden, 100 feet by 30. A temperature of 60 degrees throughout the establishment GRANT, Proprietor. lONDON. NORFOLK HOTEL, SURREY STREET, STRAND, W.O.

Bed. BreaJtfast, Attendance. and Lights, from (if-. Night Porters. Light.

Paneenger Lift. Telegrams: "Following," Eetrand, London. HOTEL, ROTHBURY. 1 Treat Fishing. fcxcelleni Golf Conne of 9 Holes with easy access.

Tennis. Post Horses. Motor Garage Spacious Public Room's. Large Terraced Gardens. Homely and Comfortable.

MRS GARVTE, Proprietress. HOTEL-HYDRO? A MODERN KITE-HOTEL with the COMPLETE BATHS INSTALLATION of a CONTINENTAL SPA Latest Electrical Treatment Rwident Physician. Delightful Grounds. Spacious Ballroom. Every Social Amusement.

18-Hole Course near. MOTOR GARAGE. Send for Illustrated Tariff. W. A.

THIEM, Manager. ABBEY HOTEL, HEXHAM. Proprietress: MRS LUMSDEN, LATE OF THE WAVERLEY HOTEL, WHITLEY BAT. Boarding Terms from weekly. An Ideal Spring Climate.

Accommodation for Motorists. FOB all classes of AGRICULTURAL ADVERTISEMENTS the "NEWCASTLE DAILY JOURNAL ia the beet medium in the North of England. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Rejected will be returned if aoeompsnied with stamped, addressed envelope, but the! sent at 1 fee sender's risk. i BARG A I IN FURS.

DEHLET, PRACTICAL- FURRIERS, AND DEALERS IN FINE FURS, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Pablic Notices. fJTYNESIDE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. TOWN HALL. Newcaatle-upon-Tyne.

TUESDAY EVENING, February 17th, at 8 p.m. Dr Wilfrid T. Grenfell, C.M.G. "MIDST SNOW AND ICE IN LABRADOR." Illustrated by Lantern Slides and Kinematograph Films. Tickets, and 6d, to be obtained from Messrs Hirschmann's Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

RAIL WAY. EXCURSION TRAINS FROM NEWCASTLE. Feb. 10: 11.48 p.m. to St.

Pancras. Feb. 11: 1.45 to Durham, Wellington. Bishop Auckland, Shi I don, and Darlington. Feb.

13: 11.19 p.m. to King's Cross. Feb. 14 12.49 to Stockton, Thornaby, and For further particulars see bills. 262 ISPENSAR GAT E.S HEA D.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL MEETING of the GOVERNORS will be held at the DISPENSARY, WEST STREET. GATESHEAD, on TUESDAY, 10th February, 1914, at 5 p.m., to receive, and if approved adopt, reports of the Committee and tbe Resident Medical Officer. Accounts, Elect Officers, and to traneact generally the business of the Insolation. W. SWINBURNE, Hon.

Sec. 3rd February. 1914. CI YT SERVICE COMMISSION. FORTHCOMING EXAMINATION WOMEN CLERKS (18-20) and GIRL CLERKS (16-lffi, GENERAL POST OFFICE, London, sth March.

The- date specified is the latest at whidh applications can be received. They must be made on forms to obtained, with particulars, from the SECRETARY, Civil Service Commission, Burlington Gardens, London, W. DUR A COU EDUCATION COMMITTEE. ADMISSION OF PUPIL TEACHERS. 1914.

BOYS and GIRLS dewirous of being APPRENTICED as PUPIL TEACHERS in any of the Schools in the area of the County Eduoatk Authority must, make a preliminary application to tbe undersigned on or before tbe 15th MARCH nsxt. Candidates must be over 16 but not over 18 years of age on tbe 31at. July, 1914. For further particulars and preliminary form of application apply to the Clerk to the Education Committee, Shire Hall, Durham. A.

J. DAWSON. Clerk to the Education Committee. Shire Hall, Durham, 2nd February. 1314.

207 TANGO TEAS. TELLEY'S ROOMS, MARKET STREET, NEWCASTLE. Miss Harding of London, Paris, will bold her next TANGO TEA on SATURDAY. Feb. 7.

at 4 p.m., with of the Latest Tangos and Society Dances by Parisian Experts, and General Dancing for Visitors. Tickets, including Tea, Reserved Seats at front tables. JUVENILE CLASSES will be held FRIDAYS, at 5.45. 1 ADVANCED CLASS for Elder Children, SATURDAY MORNINGS, 11.30 till 12.30; BEGrNNERS at 10.30. EVENING CLASSES and TANGO CLUB DURING WEEK.

For particulars write Miss HARDING. TileyV Rooms: also at Cafe Dansant, Grand Hotel, Tynemouth, on Monday Evenme. Fob. 9th. at 8 o'clock.

Tickets (includ'tig refreshments), each, or reserved tables, may be had on entering, or before, at tbe Grand Hotel, Tynemouth. AND By tbe kind permission of Col. Vain who has purchased of McLaren's "Royal" Gold Medal Tractors, A Practical Demonstration will be given (weather permitting) on OFFKRTOS HALL FARM, near Sunderland. Next WEDNESDAY. 11th Fefrs-narv.

1914, at. 11.0 o'clock a.m. All interested in the cultivation of land by direct traction are invited to attend. Catalogues and further particulars I on application to J. and H.

MCLAREN, Midland Engine 1 Works. Leeds. 276 I gORO UGH Of GATESHEAD. TYNE SALMON FISHERIES DISTRICT. SALMON AND FRESH WATER FISHERIES ACTS, 1861 to 1836.

Pursuant to Section 16 of the Act. 28 and 29 Victoria, chapter 121. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That be Town CouncJ of Gateshead, at a meeting held on the 4th day of Februarv, 1914, appointed the following two persons to be membera upon the Board of for the Tyne Salmon Fisheries District for the year ensuing, namely: LAURENCE HILL ARMOUR, of 54, Bewick Road, Gaiesliead. WILLIAM CLOUGH, of Ravenstourst, Low Fell, Gateshead. By Order, W.

SWINBURNE, Town Cle-rt. Town Hall. Gateshead. sth February, 1914. 281 JJURH A BIS'HOTPR IC ESTATES.

All those frcm whom small Freefao'd and Copyhold Rents, and Rents for the Allotments upon the Division of Commons, are due to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, ARE HEREBY INFORMED that the COMMISSIONERS' AUDITS will be held at the TRAVELLERS' REST INN, EVENWOOD. and the FLEECE HOTEL, WEST AUCKLAND, on FRIDAY, the 6th; at the QUEEN'S HEAD INN, LANCHESTBfi, on TUESDAY, the 17th at the LAMBTON ARMS HOTEL, in CHESTEK-LESTREET, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th: at the CROSS INN, RYTON, on THURSDAY, the 19th and at the EXCHEQUER OFFICE. DURHAM, on SATURDAY, the 21st of February, 1914. for the purpose of receiving the same; and it is particularly requested that all such Rents be paid on the day named for the respective districts. SMITHS, GORE, and Receivers to the said Commissioners.

7, Little College Street. Westminster Abbey, London, S.W.. and 81. Bondgate, Darlington. 256 QLENDALE DLSTRICT COUNCIL.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD ACT. 1894. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That EDWARD STUART MILLS. Esquire, District Auditor, has appointed tbe AUDIT of the ACCOUNTS of the above-named Council for the Halfvear ended 30th September. 1913, to commence on TUESDAY, the 24th'day of Februarv.

1914. at 10 o'clock in the Forenoon, at the GUARDIANS' BOARD ROOM. WOOLER, and that such Accounts will be open for.inspection by Ratepayers at tbe said Board Room for seven clear prior to the said 24th day of February. 1914. Dated this 4th day of February, 1914.

ROBERT MIDDLEMAN, 254 Clerk to the said Council. OF NORTHUMBERLAND. IN PARLIAMENT. I LOCAL GOVERNMENT AOT, 1888. BOROUGH FUNDS ACTS.

1872 and 1903. COUNTY COUNCILS (BILLS IN PARLIAMENT) ACT. 1903. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORPORATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That at a Quarterly Meeting of the County Council of this County, held at the Moothall, Newoastle-tipon-Tyne, in the said County, on Thursday, the sth day ot' February, 1914, a Re pen of the Parliamentary- Committee of the Council, containing the Resolution set forth in the Schedule hereto, wop adopted by the County Council by an absolute majority of the whole of the members thereof.

Dated this sth dav of February, 1914. CHARLES FORSTER. Deputv Clerk of the Countv Council. THE SCHEDULE REFERRED TO IN THE ABOVE WRITTEN NOTICE. That it is expedient that the Council do oppose in the Session of Parliament, 1914, the following Bili, that is to A Bill to enable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to and wosrk Additional Tramways in the Urban Districts of Long ben ton and Weetslade to raise further money; and for other purposes and that the expenses incurred or to be incurred in or in relation to such opposition shall be charged upon, and be payable out of, the County Fund of r.h« County of Northumberland as general expenses.

278 The Gosforth man will find the new shop of Anthony Donald at 18, Northumberland Street convenient for the purchase of his next supply of Rocket quarter size collars. I7ARMERS WANTING SERVANTS will find JF Daily Journal" ttoa Beat Adrertiaiag MMIom. KRXTHOL Aids the Invalid to convalesence and assists those in health to withstand the changes of weather in winter. In Jars and BRADY XMEAB.TIN, 29, MOSLEY NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Chauffeurs Livery Outfit Comprising Jacket and Breeches in Blue or Green Livery Cloths, with Cap to match, Black Leather Leggings and Gauntlet Gloves.

READY FOR SERVICE. FULL MOTOR WEAR LIST WILL BE SENT ON REQUEST. Isaac Walton Our Firms. 23-31, GRAINGER STREET. NEWCASTLE.

I fbtotasfle jpailg Jrnmral gouremf. Estab. 1711. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1914. Sun Rises: 7.53.

Sun Sets: 4.49. WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NORTH-EAST DISTRICT: Wind mainly between south and southeast, light or moderate: mostly fair or fine; day temperature somewhat less high than of late..