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LOCAL AND DISTRICT. Mr. H. R. Williams, of Rhos, has been ap- pointed to take charge of the railway bookstall at Ruabon, under Messrs. Wyman, and will enter upon his duties in January. Capt. Morris, of the Church Army, lectured at Oorwen National school on Thursday. Mr. John Williams entertained the juvenile Good Templars. Mr. Salusbury Roberts lectured to the adult members. -+-- The Town Band of Hope meeting was held on Saturday night at the Girls' Council School, Mr. Francis Lewis presiding and the meeting turned out very successful, a good number of children assembling together. Parents are requested to send their children every Saturday night to the above meeting at 6 30. A meeting of the Gorsedd Bards has been con- vened for December 1st, at Shrewsbury, to nominate one of their number to the vacancy created by the death of the Archdruid, Hwfa Mo a. The selection will probably not be conclusive until it is confirmed at Carnarvon during the Eisteddfod week next year. --+-- Mr. Richard Edwards, chairman of the Dol- geliey Urban Council, was on Tuesday evening selected for the post of surveyor and inspector of nuisances to the Council at a salary of £ 45 a year. After his selection Mr. Edwards resigned his seat on the Council and handed. his fee to the clerk. There were seven applications., Mr. Ed. Davies presided at the meeting at Cefn Tabernacle on Monday, when Mr. Robert Richards gave an address. Messrs. Samuel Brown, Ed. Eaton Jones, J. T. Evans, G. Matthews and Phillip Davies, Miss M. Francis and Miss E. Valentine took part. A competition in reading an unpunotuated paragraph was won by Mr.'John Griffiths. The temperance meeting at the Cefn Primitive Methodists Chapel on Monday night was presided over by Mr. Andrew Humphreys. Solos, &c., were given by Miss Wright, Mr. A. Phillips, Mr. Ernest Evans, Miss Postle, Ruabon, Mr. Reynolds, Mr George Jones-, Acrefair, Mr. B. Davies and quartet, Mr. T. Cunningham and Miss F. Cunningham. Despite the inclement weather there was a large attendance at Zion Chapel, Cefn, on Monday night, when the Rev. R. G. Roberts presided. The following took part :—Messrs. T. R. Evans, John Price and party, Emlyn Jones, Ben. Griffiths, W. H. Lloyd and party, Harry Richards, Edward Williams, Francis Jones, Miss Jane Griffiths and Miss Alice Evans and party. The competition was won by Mr. Levi Powell. An accident occurred early on Wednesday morning on the main line of the Great Western Railway between Chester and Shrewsbury, at a point near Ruabon. During some shunting opera- tions two waggons left the metals, and both lines were blocked. A delay of over two hours was caused to the mail train, end in consequence all correspondence from Ruabon to Dolgelly was delivered nearly two hours late. A joint meeting of owners' representatives and men employed at the Westminster Colliery, near Wrexham, was held on Thursday, with the VMtwuf settling certain gwhich, the men baa formulated respecting the manner of dealing with fractional parts of fa: things in the working price list. The masters agreed to the men's terms, and so averted what promised to be a disastrous strike. A somewhat similar igreeihenS has been arrived at between the Qr-ro-: _arid,-icen employed at t&e Wynnstay Oollit i L;: Ruabon, where the men had threatened to hand m notices to cease work. We learn with regret of the death at the age of M of Mr. Charles Stoddart Bruce, which took place at bis residence at Chiswick. The deceased gentleman and his family have been regular visitors to Llangollen for upwards of twenty years, and he was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Of an unusually observant nature, he knew Llangollen, its surroundings and its people as one of its inhabitants, and evinced much interest in all matters pertaining to the improvement of the town he loved so well. The news of his death has spread grief far and wide over Chiswick where he was universally respected and admired. The Rev. Thomas Davies, Wesleyan minister in the Llanfyllin circuit, died on Saturday evening, aged thirty-eight. A native of Tregeiriog, he completed his college course at Didsbury, in 1894, and was honoured by being invited to spend the first three years in the Wesleyan Methodist minis- try at Llanrhaidr, his home circuit. Since then he has travelled in Tregarth, Dinas Mawddwy, Port. madoc, and Conway circuits with marked success. In August last he went to Llanfyllin circuit. His widow is a daughter of the late Rev. John Hughes (Glanystwyth). The interment will take place at Oswestry, on Wednesday A letter was read at the Pwllheli Guardians meeting on Wednesday from Archdeacon Williams, of Merioneth, offering to take into his service a boy inmate he bad noticed when visiting the workhouse recently. The application was unanimously granted —The Chairman What persuasion is the boy l-The Master: An Independent.—The Chair- man I do not want to interfere unduly, but it should be explained that the law states explicitly that facilities should be put in the way of pauper children to adhere to the denomination of their parents.—Mr. J. F. Roberts (a Churchman) I pro'pase that he should be allowed to go subject to Archdeacon Williams not proselytising him.— (Laughter.) The funeral of Mr. Thomas Martin, traffic agent for the large industrial district served by the Croesnewydd and other branches of the Great Western Railway, and one of the most popular officials, took place on Friday at the Wrexham Cemetery.. The service was taken by the Rev. D. Stanley Davies, vicar of Rhoaddu. As the funeral procession was on the way to the cemetery one of the mourners, named David Hughes, suddenly reeled against another mourner who was walking with him, and died before he could be taken into a house. Hughes was formerly employed as a ganger on the Croesnewydd branch of the Great Western Railway. He was a deacon at the Hill-street Presbyterian Chapel. f The Church people of Llangollen are agitating in order to secure a Parish or Church Room the need of which we are assured by the editor of the Parish Magazine is increasingly felt. The National Schools (he adds) are no longer as freely at oui disposal as in years gone by, and Church work is greatly hampered for want of a convenient and suitable meeting place. On Monday evening, Nov. 11th, a meeting- of the Churchwardens and Sidesmen was held to consider the matter. A good number came together, and a resolution was unanimously passed, on the motion of Mr. 0. W. Richards, seconded by Mr. Bushby (junr.), that A Parish Room was an urgent necessity, and that steps should be taken to meet this want." It was further resolved that a Sub-committee, consisting of the Vioar, the Wardens-, Mr. C. W. Riohards, Mr. R. Horspool and Mr. A. J. Price, be appointed to meeting at an early date. consider various details and to report to the larger

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