The Herald of Wales. — 1889-01-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LAND REGISTRY.  The Lord Chancellor in pursuanoe of the Land Transfer Act, 1875, made a number of general rules for the purpose of carrying the Act into execution, , and baa annulled the subsisting general rules Bo far ,As they are inconsistent with the new ones. A new scale of costs to be charged by solicitors in registration proceedings under the Act has also been drawn up. Under the new system the concerrence of a solicitor with the applicant for registration with a possessory title is no longer necessary. A great many tedious and troublesome forme are done away with, and now the applicant will simply write his deecription of the land, &c., on prescribed forms furnished by the office, and the registration is completed by merely tiling the actual documents left in their proper place. Urder the new system, as the deposited maps will be the actual sheets of the Ordnance Map, and there will be a survey officer in the office, each portion sold on a registered restate will be marked off the ariginal deposited map, and a general Ordnance Map will housed for Index purposes,and each original estate marked off thereon as registered. Arrangements +reale° in progress whereby maps will be supplied and Paled for registration purposes at very cheap rates hy the Ordopnce Survey Department. Under th• system rffine of the special provisions as to interill,' payments by instalments, calling in capital, r) I otherwise, so frrquently found in mortgages, Id be introduced into charges of registered ....I. Under the new system, however, provisions ivy made for introducing these provisions and other i,ual provisions ancillary to a mortgage—ircluding ,uortgages to building societies, but without preildicing the simplicity of dealing provided by the Act. Under the new system the certificate of a magistrate, comm,ssioner for oaths, prectising solicitor, or banker may be accepted as sufficient authentication,whereas previously the execution of ahnost every locument bad to be witnessed and verified by a totioitor. Under the old system the practice of the ' ffice was very strictly. and sometimes inconveniently, I-fined by the rules. Under the new a wide discretion s given to the registrar in all formal matters.  Music is to enter more fully than before into the uirriculuni of studies at Eton.  Ernest Jenner Marriott, 15 years of age, son of Dr. Marriott, a well-known physician of Leicester, las been found hanging to cuitains in his bedroom at Cihworth House. He was home for the holidays from ,Jholtenham College, and is supposed to have cornnitted suicide in afit of passion. _  A swan, the property of the Cork Corporation, which for some months past has been swimming on -he waters of the Lower Harbour of Cork, and was ouch admired, was, the other day. discovered to have `ioth its eyes shot out, and the bird was being carried ins to sea by a strong ebb tide when capturid br a Mot, who brought it to Queenstown, and placed t in the Admiralty camber. There the poor bird -ontinned swimming about, knocking against the play walls andboats, until a gentleman was autho:ised to put an end to its sufferings by shooting it. A public meeting at Avignon, in which n4aquet, St. Martin, and Laguerre spoke in favour of , General Boulanger, was held in the large courtyard of an inn. While Senator Naquet—who is rather deaf—was holding forth, a hen was about to lay 1 an egg, and began to cackle vigorously by way of announcing the fact. The indignant orator, believing the noire proceeded from one of his hearers,exclaimed •• Those who interrupt nil in such a fashion are the worst enemies of the republic " The statement was received with tremendous applause and loud laughttr. - • - "  A coolness, growing out of the following conversation, has sprung up between Jones and Smith: " I had a splendid time last night," said Jones. " I spent the evening at a little social gathering At the Goodman xllansion." " Are the Goodmans nice people? " queried Smith. a Well, I should may m. They are very aristocratic. To get into their circle one roust have eithcr a great deal of money or a great deal of genius." "You don't Cell me so l And you say you were there ? " "Yes." "You were invited, were you ? " "Of course." "And to be invited a man has to have plenty of money or a great deal of genius?" " Precisely." " Well, I Jones, I am very ie.' to hear you have beCQlne rich ‘ll nL.s"depLAW me fie. covaida