The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-07-16 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CIILLVIMB COMA DOILDSR. Henry Mayo, builder and contractor, Chilvers Coton, came up for public examination. Debtor's statement of affairs showed a deficiency of £297 7s. 24. Mr. T. W. Oakey, of Nuneaton, was debtor's solicitor. The oMoial Receiver elicited that the debtor was originally manager for his father, and afterwards carried cm a Iwo- --ed at Willenhall, whin/. ing Fawner at, was a balance  which  dispred  briokYard a "... remain due  Manumitly Wilson, of If to Chilvers on his own  oostrsots for  Connell, and to Faceless failed debtor the hi  accounts.  for his sister, the matter.  ate di the ernotion ,ely ea spot in ..esed ids badness. • •  At Seven (Oaks, on Monday, Ethel Beatriee Daley was remanded charged with wilfully wounding her father with intent to murder him. Accused, it is alleged, stabbed her parent eighteen times. At Norwich, on Tuesday, James Watt, labourer, of Sprowaton, was Anrecuted for the munier of bia wife by shooting her. The couple had for some time lined apart owing the brutal conduct of the man. Watt walked drmly to the sradold, and when the lever was pulled by Billisgtou Ana APPeaPad le be instaatawous.  This year, for the first time since 11119\ the public' school cricket match, Eton v. Narrow, has been brought to a conclusion within the time allowed for playing it. There has been, as my readers are aware a great agitation to extend the match over three instead of two days, as at present, but the fear has been that this would spoil it as a smart society function. Now the need for the extension is not so apparent, and it is probable that the fixture will be kept within the two days until a long series  or unsatisfactory years have pasmd. Besides, after all, it does not matter much which side wins. People go to see each other and to cheer the boys, and one team is quite as popular as the other. The final calculations of the figures do not trouble the fair ladies half so much as whether the tints of their costumes and the colour of their hats perfectly harmonise.  Mr. J. G. Kotzc, the ex-Chief Justice of the Transvaal, is making rather a long stay in England. Holding as he does that Mr. Kruger dismissed him from office in an exceedingly unconstitutional manner, I think he has shewn considerable restraint in the interviews he has given to newspaper correspondents. Mr. Kruger admitted that there was no blemish on the private character of Mr. Kotze, and it was on account of his determination to uphold the independence of his office that he suffered deposition. While avoiding his own immediate grievance, Mr. Kotze has, however, been saying sOme candid things about the Government. I don't know whether my readers are aware that, on account of a superstitious dread of numbering the people, the Transvaal is without statistics. There has not even been a census taken Mr. Kotze says that  Camp JUSTIN  it is probably more in the dark concerning the facts of its own country than any professedly civilised State in the world. Mr. Kotze differs from Mr. Selous, the great traveller, with whom I had a talk on the subject a few months ago, in regard to the agricultural wealth of the country. He believes there is an immense future for the land, notwithstanding occasional drought, locusts, and hail storms. To develop this, however, an Agricultural Department is needed, and Mr. Kriiger will not hear of its creation. The real trouble in developing the resources of the country is in securing labour. The miners pay the Kaffirs too well for them to care to take up ordinary work, and it will be some years before a normal state of things is obtained. There has been during the present week a sort of aftermath of the May Meetings in the shape of the World's Third Sunday-School Convention. The Strand on May mornings presents a curious blend of smart and rather loudly dressed young actresses, picking their way to the theatrical agents', and of demurely dressed, healthy, sober, and thrifty-looking people—Charles Lamb called the prettiest of them in their natural freshness the "shining ones" —snaking for Exeter Hall. After May these disappear, and are replaced by trippers in town on their annual outings. This week,however, supporters of the Sunday-school from four continents have been making a tour of the Great City, and holding eessiocui as well. Their business meetings have