The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1913-01-11 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

AMOY. Ylratt4 InJile.dealh of the.E4v, cancel 4, 14,49.warbigme, Routaport7  '.• . ' In pn,ewk recently ir Junniel ippes, iitioag-e4tAt;" EtMU lirellied • the pigicier eseay prizes at the following diertetylfedau Bay, : Llanilfillo, • Corwen, Bettwfryniithes, - Abergele, Llangernyw ,(two ,competitions), Rhyl,. and. DeganaY.  Mr.. Taft, speaking at a.inncheon4n .New York, on Saturdays under the auspices of the International Peace Forum, said- *be was willing to :arbitrate on the Panama darial' tolls question as soon as an exact issue had been reached.  • * • * * • Sir Sydney Olivier It CM G Governor of Jamaica, has been appointed to'be Permanent Secretary of the Board of Ageicultare and Fisheries. * *  1. Lord Howard de Walden has offered for the second time a £lOO prize for a play dealing with Welsh life, and the winner' is announced to be Mr. J. 0. Francis, 8.A., a Loridon-Welsh teacher and an old student of Aberystwyth College, whose production, "Change," deals with the conflict of ideas industrial Squth Wales. Lord Howard daWalden comments that Mr. John 'Gals-1 worthy •has every reason to be proud of his  ••' • •  A,return was Aubiished in Friday night's -London: Gazette showing ,the number,of.remiving orders and administration orders nailer section 125 in the High Court and in the several county courts • having bankrtiptcy, jurisdiction in England and Wales gazetted in the quarters and in the years ending respectively 31st December, 1912, 1911; and 1910. This shows that during the final quarter of 1912 there were 181 such "orders granted in the High Court, and 770 in connty" courts, the figures for the last quarter of 1911 being 196 and 813, and for the similar period of 1910, 150 and 820 respectively. For the year 1912, 679 orders were made in the High Court against 708 and 694. for .1911 and ,1910, and the orders in county courts totalled 2,929, 3,036, and 3,233 respectively. The totals for High Court and county courts for 1912 were 3,608, for 1911 3,744, and for 1910 3,927.  There lives in Croydon a young lady, Miss Lily ,Headford,.-.who- saved a relatiVe's-life through her own sacrifice.. Miss Headford, :who is only 22, still suffers intense pain.at ;times- from the effects of her permitting no lees than a .square foot of her skin to -be grafted on the-head of her aunt, Mrs. Solo. moo, of; Ili...ingston-on-Thomas, who was corn:pletely sdalped by a shafting, accident at her husband's Jaundry last spring: Miss •Heititoid has- received a letter 'from- the Queen in which her 'Majesty expresses her adrnirtion of • her heroisin.  - S * • • •Sentente of 15 years' penal servitnde was passed at the Old Bailey on Wednesday on .yotink chauffeur named Bowes for attempting to murder Sir Edward Henry, the Police-Coniniissioner.  * • •  Clainii aggregating over £360,000 for the reqiwary of the value• of personal property and for toes of fife consequent on the sink. ing-Orthe Titanic lave been prepared, thid be filed in Neyi. York neat Tuesday in accordance :with the order of Judge Hough -.(says the Pally Telegraph's New• York cotrespondent).,  Robert . Wylie, beadle of Kilbarchan United Free Church, near Glasgow, has been l'oulid hinged in a tool-house adjain'ing the church. A pencilled will found in his house requested that a certain' person in the village, ihotlid pinch him to make certain. that he' was dead- Tile will adtlied that Wylie had-booked a Damage for, Australia, and had lodged £lOO with a 'snipping company for repayment at Melbourne. A belt containing 41 -sovereigns was also found.. .  Poker, Nationalist,M.p, for Eliot Waterford-abee 1885, Ale& on Wed= needaY //Rados* and Re