The Ellesmere Guardian. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1891. Notes by the Way.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 928, 22 July 1891, Page 2

The Ellesmere Guardian. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 , 1891. Notes by the Way.

-» A su«oeßTion made m the columns of the Guardian a week or go ago, has

borne fruit, inasmuch aa the Clminn: n of the Town Board lms summoned a public meeting to discuss the feasibility tof a weekly half-holiday. The ra ijority of the business people of Southl-rilgc favout the scheme, providing that t!iei< 1 is unanimity, and there appears to b<> no reason why it should n>t be so. [t is to be h oped that Loeston wi'l join m the movement., A. general half holiday throughout tha whole district would ha a great boon to employer .anl to employee alike. Engmsfi papers to hanl by the $ah Francisco Mail are full of the details of i he great baccarat libel caw. The main '•icts' of tha matter are alrea ly famil'nr to colonial?, the Press Association man i:ablin£_ont columns of gossip from; day to day. But English newspaper readers mu3t have been fearfully tired of Mr an 1 Mks (therm anl thu whole host of other folk who leaped into notoriety through the affair. Page after page is devoted to t'escriptiuH of tha scenes m court. the women's dresses, the men's eyeglasses »nd collars. The mostextraorJinai'y part of it all is the sensation which was caused by the Phinok of Wales* bahaviour m the wit ness box, One would imagine that the great British Public expeete Ito a c him appear m coronet and robes, or at loaat with the three feathers wavi'ig owr his head. It cannot understand, or at tiny rate is never tired of admiring the fact that H.R. fl, appeared m the b>x like any private gentleman and gave his evidence m the usual way, slraii>htfor wardly and m order. Had the Prince objected to be sworn on conscientious grounds, or given his evidence m Maori, there might have been some reasonable ground for astonishment., As it is we fail to see anything surprising m the proceeding, unless it is m the fact that he ever allowed himielt to be mixed up m such an affair at all .