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HOW TO OBTAIN A MINISTER FOR WALES. A letter from Mr. Vaughan Davies, M.P., which appears in another column calls attention to the urgent need for a Welsh Department of the Board of Agri- culture. This is a question to which fre- quent reference has been made in this column, and we hope Mr. Davies will in some way or other induce his colleagues in the Welsh party to move. The matter is especially urgent in view of the forma- tion of a national development fund by Mr. Lloyd George's Budget proposals. Steps must bo taken, whether there is a Welsh Department or not, to see that the Principality has a fair share of this grant, or Wales will suffer in the same way as Mr. M'Kenna made her suffer in the matter of the secondary school grants, a good part of Wales's portion being appro- priated by England. In order to prevent this sort of thing, the best plan would be to have a Minister who would look after the interests of Wales thoroughly. There is never the least trouble in Scottish matters of this kind. Scotland receives her share as a matter of course, and simply because the Scottish members take very good care that a Scotsman holds office in the Government for the express purpose of looking after the bawbees and seeing that they are properly spent. There would seem to be little prospect of Wales obtaining for some time to come the Minister for Welsh Education which has been thought of so often. But if the Welsh members were active and united there is no reason why they should not be able to secure, under existing conditions, a most effective substitute. In the House of Commons, besides the Minister for Education (Mr. Runciman). there is a Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. Neither has anything like a real and effective grip of the peculiar questions affecting Welsh education, and the result is endless friction. This could be avoided if the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board were chosen from amongst the Welsh members, or, at any rate, from among those members, not necessarily Welsh, who understands the conditions of education in Wales. The fact that there is now a Welsh Department, which exclu- sively devotes itself to thirteen counties in which the conditions are exceptional, surely justifies the making of a general rule that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board should be one who has a thorough understanding of the Welsh case. We should then have some guarantee that the j n terests of Wales would not be entirely ignored, and that so many causes for friction would not arise. We hope this suggestion will be borne in mind when the next vacancies occur in the Government.
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THE LAST OF THE GREAT COM- PANY. Just as 1809 gave to us many of the great figures that enriched the literature, ennobled the art, and promoted the science of the Victorian era, so 1909 has gathered the last of the giants to the dost. Thus has been spanned to completion a century of literary thought and expres- sion without a parallel, or with a parallel only in the spacious Elizabethan period. George Meredith was the last of the great figures of the nineteenth century.. And what a brilliant company they were. Carlyle and Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Burne-Jones and Wnistler, Tennyson and Swinburne and the Brown- ings, Darwin and Spencer, George Eliot and George Meredith. The list is capable of indefinite expansion. We picture them in their bohemian com- panionships, their Brotherhoods, and new art movements, their petty squabbles and their splendid conversations. Meredith himself has left us a rare picture of the domestic interior in Cheyne Walk where once he proposed to reside in company with Rossetti and Swinburne. But Rossetti's bohemian mid-day breakfast, "devoured like an ogre," to say nothing of the extensive menagerie, warned him to keep away from such apartments. Bohemian as those days were, they yet nurtured some of the rarest and most beautiful thoughts in our language, and they established amongst this brilliant company of men a republic of art and letters that left an indelible stamp upon the literature of England. Our own period has its compensations, but it is one of poverty compared with the luxuriant output or tnose upon whom we look as the Great Victorians. George Meredith was the last of them. He was by no mean the least. In the sense that he had ceased to write, his work lay far behind him. In a more real sense it lay all around him and before him, brightening his latter years with a radiance peculiarly its own. Libs Swin- burne, he lived on into the twentieth cen- tury, the lamp of life burning feebly within him, but the flame of his art mounting ever higher in the appreciation of his fellow-men, like some beacon point- ing the way of true art to the literary generation that follows after. One by one, from his place of rest and solitude amongst the Surrey Hills, he saw his old companions depart until only Swinburne and himself were left. A few weeks aeo Swinburne went, too. And now the last of the great company has followed, sink- ing peacefully through painless sleep back into the Nature of which he bad learned to consider himself a part. Just as Keats apostrophised the night- ingale, Thou wast not born for death. immortal bird proclaiming thereby the everlasting life of the species, so we might apostrophise a poet and writer of Meredith's enduring power, proclaiming the permanence of his contributions to literature. Meredith's style as a writer of prose and a novelist is not. conducive to popularity until its intricacies are mastered, but the vitality and courage of his thought, his fearless disregard of con- ventions, and the vivid brush with which he painted the social picture made him one of the great intellectual and ethical forces of the nineteenth century. Welsh blood coursed through his veins. The Celtic spirit of his forefathers seems to sparkle in his pages, and here and there one becomes conscious of an almost Welsh atmosphere in his works. Not in the characters or the scenes, for Meredith's novels took little heed of the Principality, which, in truth, he loved, but. in the very spirit of the boob itself and sometimes in the idiom. His work has long since established for itself a permanent place in nur literature, not only for its clear-cut human pictures, its wonderful, soulful Tvom^n. but for its ethical teaching and for the information and encouragement it must always afford to the student of social history. His poetry may take longer to establish a fame comparable to t.1" farm* of his novels. But it is the vehicle through which he has leift to us a memory of himself that will always endure. Not till the fire is dying in the irrate Look we for any kimihi with the stars. Mnrodith, especially in his declining years, round that kinship with the stars and with the Nature that throbbed around him. His gracious ooetry is the expres- sion of a man who has learned the great secrets of Nature and her living, who has found for himself a place of peace and contentment in the Divine scheme of the world, and who is himself part of Nature's strength.
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LONDON LETTER. + A COLUMN OF INTEREST TO ALL OUR READERS. LONDON, Thursday. The King's activities show that his Majesty has made a remarkable recovery of strength and energy. He spends not a really idle moment in the course of the day. The roost notable feature of his prospective programme is his promise to visit Birmingham to open t.he new univer- sity- buildings. When his Majesty loft England for his recent tour in the South of Europe the state of his health was so indifferent that it seemed improbable that he would again undertake an exhausting provincial task of this kind. In fact, it was pra-ct-ic-ally understood that hencefor- ward the Prince of Wales would perform such duties, and that his Majesty would be left free to discharge the diplomatic and routine business of the Sovereign (in itself sufficiently exacting) undisturbed by outside claims on his time and energies. I Happily, the King finds himself suffi- ciently renewed in strength to revert to his former wide scope of activity, a fact which must be regarded with intense satisfaction in every part of the kingdom. A CONTRAST IN MINISTERS. An oblique compliment was pa-id on Wednesday to the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer by a Liberal member who is not in the ha,bit of scattering compliments II amongst the members of the Treasury Bench. This was Mr. Hugh Cecil Lea, wTio represents a constituency in North London, and who lies been the centre of more than one stormy incident at West- minster. Mr. Lea was questioning the First Lord of the Admiralty on some departmental matter or other, and he urged Mr. M'Kenna to receive a deputa- tion on the subject—"especially," he added, in view of the accessibility of the Chancellor of the Exchequer." It was a neat thrust at Mr. M'Kenna, who is not quite so adaptable as his Welsh colleague in the Cabinet, and the House had a little laugh. MR. LLOYD GEORGE AXD FINANCIERS. Mr. Llo3'd George's negotiations with leading members of the Stock Exchange on the question of the stamp duties have enhanced his already high reputation as a diplomatist. He told the House on Tues- day thait, there was every prospect of an alternative selicmo being adopted that will be more agreeable to stockbrokers and at the same time produce the money that the Chancellor of the Exchequer wants. Upou this assurance the lively debate that was going on collapsed. The Liberals were delighted to find Mr. Lloyd George playing such an effective card, because Mr. Bonar Law and other business experts on the Opposition benches had thrown themselves eagerly into the debate. It is only another example of the Chancellor's clever method of dealing with difficulties. If, so to speak, he can get an adversary to sit down at the .came table with him agreement seems inevitable. His belief in the direct value of negotiation is boundless, and his announcement was a pretty little anti-climax to a debate in which lie had been assured by City men on both sides of the House that his pro- posals would seriously damage London as the central money exchange of the world. 8m J. <3 OR ST AND HIS PENSION. Politicians are wondering whether the relinquishing of his political pension by Sir John Gorst is a prelude to his accept- ance of some permanent official pasition carrying with it higher emoluments. Sir John Gorst certainly deserves well of the Liberal party, with many of whose aspirations he has not c.onceraled his sympathy. There is also some curiosity in the Parliamentary world as to who will ta.ke up the pension of zCI,200 a year thus vacated. These political pensions are strictly limited in number, and in quite an accidental way, owing to the long tenure i of power by t,he Unionists, they all fell into the hands of one party. Presum- ably, we shall now have a good Liberal appropriating the bounty of the State, and it would be no great surprise if the recipient turned out to be a Radical peer. Sir John Gorst, by the way, is now seventy-five years of age, and, therefore, is not likely to take up any arduous public employment, though it may be re-called that Lord St. Aldwyn gave up his poli- tical pension when he was close upon seventy, and then went out to the East on an important arbitration commission. ENCOURAGING TO ARTISTS. In the world of artists much gratifica- tion is felt over the handsome result of the sale of the late Sir John Day's collection of modern pictures. True, they were not English works, but artists are delighted with any sign that the Old Masters do not entirely hold the field in the auction room. "Beware of Old Masters!" is the watchword or Sir Hubert Herkomer, and it is echoed by hundreds of other painters, known and unknown. It is mortifying to the professional artist to see collectors giving tens of thousands of pounds for pictures mainly because] they are old, while so many struggling painters of high promise are left prac- tically to starve. The result of the sale of the Day collection is something new and promising, and artists hope that it will encourage other collectors to invest m modern works instead of, as often happens, wasting their money on spurious Old Masters. INTEREST IN THE WELSH PAGEANT. Great interest is taken in London in the announcement that in the forthcoming Welsh Pageant leading parts are to be played by the nobility and gentry of the Principality. The various English pageants have had the advantage of being supported by the aristocracy, but prin- cipally "behind the scenes," and the example set by Wales opens up a wide field of interest it the members of the English peerage should have the enter- prise to imitate it. We have had society dancers and amateur dramatic per- formers, and it may be remembered that after the Coronation a countess exhibited herself in her robes and her coronet in aid of some worthy object or other. But our English lords and ladies would be a little shy of showing themselves on the large stage of a pageant. It would be a piquant, spectacle to see present members of the House of Lords personating their freat ancestors in some historical pageant, he Duke of Northumberland as Hotspur, the Duke of Marlborough as the redoubt- able* Jacta Churchill, the Duke of Welling- ton as the Iron Conqueror of Napoleon, Viscount Ridley as the Martyr-Bishop— these one thinks of at random. No; they would all be too shy. PRINCESS AS PROOF READER. The Prince and Princess of Wales have recently taken quite a keen interest in matters journalistic, and their knowledge of the inside of newspaper offices is probably the most extensive of any of the members of the Royal Family. The other day they paid a visit to one of the large illustrated weeklies, and, greatly to the3astonishment of the manager, showed a great knowledge of the technique of the business. I think," observed her Royal Highness, as she picked up one of the proofs there is a wrong caption to this photograph. It is an admirable picture of Lady So-and-so, not of the Duchess of Blank." The manager at once sent for the editor, who had regretfully to confirm her Royal Highness's opinion. The edition was at once stopped in order that the requisite correction could be made. MR. GEORGE MEREDITH'S WORKS. There has been some demand in the booksellers' ghops to-day for the novels of the late George Meredith. Attempts have been made in recent years to popu- larise him in sixpenny editions, and for these there has, no doubt, been a remunerative sale, but the writings of Meredith would never appeal to the orowd. What probably grieved him more was the knowledge that even the educated classes failed to understand him and his literary method. How many members of the House of Commons could claim a passable acquaintance with his writings? Probably the House of Lords, where the general standard of culture is higher, whatever certain politicians may say to the contrary, would make a better show. But the English people at large have not been educated up to the point of regard- ing the novel as anything more than a piece of light literature to while away dull hours. George Meredith fashioned the novel into a work of fine art, and he was great enough to scorn public neglect (he was not of the inferior breed which whines), and to go calmly on his selected way. The people who want to know all about a man after he is dead are buying his books this week. Most of them will throw them aside unread.
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SURVEYORS' INSTITUTE AT CARDIFF.—MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL COMMITTEE Mr. HOWARD MARTIN, President. Mr. A. GODDARD Secretary. I Mr. I. TBEHARNe BE, ES.
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PEMBROKE ^DOCKYARD. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO BE ^CREATE IV The Admiralty have decided to appoint si chief engineer Wf ^oroke Dockyard. This eteip, which has considered neceesa-ry in vi&w of the decisi arrived at recently to re-tube the boilers and refit th;> machinery of torpedo-bo&t °yerrs regularly at the dockyard in necessitate the creation of a sP- eaSlneering departmenit at the yard.
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DOUBLE EXECUTION. BROTHERS ffgUBESre HANGED. At Pentonvill« pnson on Thursday Morris Reubens and Marks Reubens were exaclited ,,eub(, for the murder of William Sproull, a ship's engineer, at Whltec«apel. Sproull and met two women, and aocompa-111 them home. The Reubens came into- the room, and attacked the two men, and Spr°u 1 was subsequently found dead in the street, having been stabbed. Morris R.s-ub«ns and Marks Reubens lived with the wo,men. who were acquitted at the trial. Efforts at a viSoion of the sentence by the Court laUT!<al Appeal and for a reprieve at the instance of the Home See, tary both failed- During t-bear incarceration in the con demned cell the In have been visited b.\ a relative snd a few friends. Yesierday a brother and. a male friend paid "tliem [i farewell visit. Their father and mother have both been Loo ill to see their sons. The convicts retired to rest shortly after ten last night, and when called at six o'clock this morning they rose and dressed. At 7.3C breakfast was brought to their respective cells, but in eaoh instance the repast was left practically. untouched. When the pinioning process was performed both men apPe.ared to be on the point of collapse, but »tlr&Hlants were at hand, and, with wardorfi on either side of them, they were escorted to the scaffold, only a few paces away. final operation was expeditiously car- ried out, and the bolt drawn. Death was stated to have been instantaneous, and the execution to have been satisfactorily and humanely performed. Pierpoint was the executioner. TJETTEIR FROM ONE OF THE BROTHERS The London "Star" publishes a tetter I written by Marke Reubens yesterday, in which the following passages occur:— I I hope God will forgive me for any harm I I may have done to anybody, and I trust my fate will be a lesson to my friends. I am eorry fOw the poor man that has gone. I his relative will forgive us for all the trouble and pain we have caused them. Drink has been the bottom of all this trouble.
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"TWO BALLS A PENNY." SKILL FOR SLOT MACHINES. Thomas Williams, lioens-ee of the Woodville Hotca, was ennunoned before Mr. Milner- Jones at Cardiff on Thursday for allowing I unlawful gam Log. Iff, T. Woosey prosecuted, and Mr. A, F- Hill di&fe>nded. Police-constable Thomas Lifter stated, that a man, named Walter Zeal, put a penny in twice-the object being to cause a ball to bring a small metal disc out. His Worship: Did he put the same penny in twice. Mr. Hill: No, eir. Two balls a penny. (Laughter.) Proceeding, the officer said the landlord told him the discs were handed over the counter, and he received commission from the firm. Witness fla.id that on a previous occasion he had noticed drinks to the value of twopence being passed over the counter for a disc. For the defence it was contended by Mr. Hill thait, having been previously warned by Inspector Bingham, Mr. Williams did not return anything for the checks, so that it was simply a caee of a person enjoying him- self in trying his skill as in a game of bil- liards, and no inducement was offered from the machine, as the discs had been removed. His Worship: If people are foolish enough to put their pennies in it is good for the landlord. It is very undesirable that this sort of machine should be in a public-houre. If the defendant will give an undertaking that the machine will be taken away I will allow the summons to be withdrawn. I don't want to fine him. The undertaking was gtiven.
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HANGING PROM A THEE. Early on Thursday the body of an un- known man was found hanging from a tree in a field at Nantcoch, near Newport. It appeared to be the body of a tramping mason, and was suspended by a muffler. On a strip of paper was found the name F. Fea.rle, 9, Torlaia-street, Newbridge, Mon." The man was about 5ft. 8in. in height, of proportionate figure, fair complexion, sandy moustache, and brown hair. turning grey at side. He was wearing a light grey cap, blue serge jacket and trousers, and brown vest with light stripes. Deceased was also wearing a ladies' white night-dress, with the letters E. L." in red cott.on on the collar. He had no socks or stockings, but wore a very old pair of brown lace-up boots. There were found on the body a mason's trowel, chisel, and line. The body was removed to Glasllwch Farm to await an inquest
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. 4 I CHATTY ITEMS ABOUT MEN AND MATTERS. Lord Tredegar. The date for presenting' the freedom of Newport to Lord Tredegar has been altered from June 10 to June 9. King to Visit Gloucester. The Mayor of Gloucester has received a telegram from Lord Knollys stating that it will afford the King much satisfaction to visit the Royal Agricultural Show at Gloucester on June 23. Royai Gifts to Lord Roberts. The King and Queen were among those who sent hearty congratulations to Lord and Lady Roberts on their golden wedding cele- bration. His Majesty's gift was. a gold ink- stand, inscribed with the Royal monogram, and the Queen sent a gold cup. Labour M.P.'s Indian Tour. Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, the Labour M.P. has made arrangements .to spend a long holiday with bis wife in India during the autumn. "I am going out," he remarked, for a holiday, and to increase my know- ledge of the administration of the British I Empire." Mr. Wilfred Rowlands. Mr. J. Wilfred Rowlands, solicitor, son cf tho late Principal Rowlands, B.A., of the Memorial College, Brecon, has been elected the late Principal Rowlands, B.A., of the Memorial College, Brecon, has been elected unopposed on the Homsey Borough Counoil. Mr. Rowlands is a member of the firm of T. D. Jones and Co., solicitors, Fleet-street, and was formerly in practice a.t Maesteg. Lady Ninian Stuart's Set Reel. Lady Ninian Crichton-Stcart is organising the Pet reel, which will ag-ain be a special feature of the Royal Caledonian feJl, which is to be held at the Hotel Cecil on Monday evening, June 7 next. As in former years, the Marquees and Marchioness of Tullibardino are assuming the entire direction of the funotion, which is one of the leading events of the season. Honour for Mr. Aseguith. The Glseg'cw magistrates have resolved to confer the honorary freedom of the city or. I the Prime Minister, and it is understood that the arrangements will be formally approved at the next meeting of the corporation. Mr. I Asquith has close connections with Glasgow. Less than two years ago he relinquished the I position of Lord Rector of the University, of which he is an honorary LL.D. graduate. Appointment for Elfed. The Rev. U. Elvet Lewis, M.X., has been unanimously chosen vice-chairman of the Colonial Missionary Society for the ensuing year, in sticoession to the Rev. W. S. Hough- :01:1, of Birmingham, who has become chair- nan, and whom Mr. Lewis will succeed in the next year. This is the first time that a epresontative of the Welsh Congregational jhurches has been appointed to that posi- tion. Album for Mr. Lloyd George. The presentation to Mr. Lloyd George of an illustrated album by his fellow-pupils at the Llanystumdwy Church School, Carnarvon- shire. has been definitely fixed to take place on Whit-Tuesday, June 1, at Llanystumdwy The ceremony will be performed probably in the open air. The Rev. E. Evans, rector of Llansadwm, Anglesey, a pupil teacher in the Chancellor's school days, will preside, and the a.lbum will be handed over by Mr. Morris Davies, of Botherham, a schoolmate.
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RHONDDA TRAM FATALITY. The hearing was resumed at Perth Police- court on Thursday of the charge of man- slaughter preferred against Patrick O'Con noil, electric tram driver, who, it was alleged, was running at an excessive speed on May 1, with the result that a car left the rails and ran down Mary R,, of Dinas, who died the following day from shock, after having both legs amputated. Mr. Harold Lloyd repre- sented the prisoner; Mr. A. T. James {Messrs. Morgan, Bruce, and Nicholas) watched the proceedings on behalf of the Rhondda "V alleys Tramway Company; and Deputy Chief-con- stable Cole prosecuted. The Clerk (Mr. J. S. Davies) read to the witnesses their previous depositions, which they confirmed. A man named Tudor Thomas, who had previously stated that the car was travelling at the time of the acci- dent between eight and ten miles an hour, instead of four miles, on entering the facing points, according to the Board of Trade regulations, admitted, in cross-examination, that the estimate was only his own opinion. Mr. Roddy, chief traffic superintendent, stated that the accused bore an excellent character, there was no oomplaint against him of reckless driving, and he had not a black mark against his name since he had been in the service of the company. Mr. H. J. Nisbett, engineer and manager of the company, held that when the accident happened O'Connell must have lost his head. Addressing the Bench, Mr. Lloyd submitted th-ere was absolutely no case against his client, and on the evidence he felt certain that no jury would convict. Mr. T. Pascoe Jenkins (chairman) said tha.t he and his colleagues felt that it was not a very strong case, but intimated that it was their intention to send the case to the assizes. The formal oommitment will be made next week, when the doctor's evidence will be taken.
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SHOUTS FOR POLICE. EARLY MORNING SENSATION AT RUMNEY HILL. About two a.m. on Wednesday the peace and quiet of Rumney Hill were rudely dis- turbed by shouts of "Murder!" "Burglars!" "Police!" "Help!" and such like. One of the neighbours telephoned to the police- station at St. Mellon's. amd Police-sergeant Stevens and Polioe-constable Shapland were quickly on the see tie. Mrs. Margaret Holmes, the tenaiit of Tre- delerch, and her fa.mily had been terror- stricken by the brooking in of the front door about two o'clock. A man was seen going upstairs, but he was so upset by the cries of the inmates and the attention of the neighbours that he left the boqise and took refnge behind a tank. Here he was discovered by the police and taken into custody. He gave the name of IPenry Hughes, aged 35, tin worker, and said he had recently been working at Risca. He wa,g brought up at a special court at New- port on Wednesday and charged with feloniously breaking into the dwelling-house of Mrs. Holmes. The prisoner was remanded in custody.
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EXTENSIONS AT A SWANSEA WORKS. Four new mills were started at Cwmfelin Steel and Tin-plate Works, Swansea, on Wed- nesday by Mrs. J. R. Davies, wife of the manager. The extensions will cost £ 50,000.1 and will employ 100 extra hands. Mr. T. ACLAND, President of the Wales and Monmouthshire District Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers. [Photo M'Lucas and Oo., Llanelily.
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ABERKENFIG DIVORCE. 4 WRONGED HUSBAND AND HIS SAYINGS. In the Divorce Division on Wednesday Mr. Justice Ba.rgrave Deane and a common jury had before them the petition of Mr. Daniel I Fitzgerald, of Mo-uat Pleasani, Aberkenfig, Glamorgan, a stonemason, for the dissolu- tion of his marriage by reason of the mis- conduct of his wife, Catbernie, with the co- I respondent, Mr. Edmund LeWiS, stated V> be a chemia-t at Aberkenfig, against whom damages were ola-im«d. Mr. Jellicoe, who a for the ■peti- tioner, sa.id that the marriaee took place in 1903 at St. raf.l-' Uornan Catholic Church. Bridgend. After a shcrt time the husband went to South Africa in order to make money, and the respondent went to live with her parents. He sent his wife a remittance of 15 a month. In June, 1900, he was enabled to send his wife a draft of zP,250, with instruc- tions to pay it into the savings'-bank, with the object of drawing against it for her main- tenance. On the 12tli of July, 1906, there was a balance of £ 174, It seemed that after petitioner had go^ne to South Africa an inti- macy sprang up between the co-respondent and Mrs. FitzgeraJd. When her husband was cx-pected home she was unable to face him. She withdrew from the bank the £ 174, and eloped with Mr. Edmund Lewis, and they both lived on the money. They went to Glasgow, where the respondent gave birth to a child, of which the co-respondent was the father. They returned to South Wales and lived together. The petitioner took advice with i regard to the £ 174, and both the respondent and co-respondent were arrested and com- mitted for trial at the Swansea Assizes. When the matter ca.me before the learned judge it was found that the money was partly that of the wife. Therefore, the indktment for larceny could not be sustained, and they were acquitted. Evidence having been given, the jury assessed the damages at R200. A decree nisi, with costs, was granted.
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A SCENE IN COURT. CARDIFF YOUNG* WOMEN IN LONDON. A couple of well-dressed young women, named Daisy Marshall (24) and Bessie Stead- man (24), were indicted on 'hursday at the Central Criminal Court, wnton, for stealing a belt and other articles, the property of Alice Oollings. Marshall p'eaded guilty. Prosecutrix said that. sb-t, was a travelling companion and lived at a boarding-house at 15, Rochester-square. Camden Town. On April 25 prisoners called and took two bed- rooms and a sitting-room. After staying two days they left suddenly without paying any- J thing. Witness missed a belt, 50 pearls, and other articles. A police-officer said I-,e arrested Marshall at Hornsey on May 5, arid Steadman at Cardiff the foUowing day. When arrested Stoadman said, I suppose I'm as bad as Daisy." Steadman told ',}H)' recorder she was induced to take the things by Marshall. She pinned the things under her frock, and so got them to Euston, where she pawned them Both prisoners ^rere found guilty. The Clerk of tie Court had just re-ad out a previous conviction against Marshall, when she swooned and fell heavily in the dock. A doctor was called, and found that her heart was beating very violently. He advised the recorder that it would be best to let her have f,n hour's rest. Steadman was stated by Detective-sergeant Butters to possess a very good character. She had been to America, three times as a member of a theatrical company. Her parents lived at Park-street, Cardiff. She met Marshall in Cardiff in February last when on the stage. The Recorder discharged Steadman Marshall was brought up, later in the afternoon and sentenced to six months' hard Labour. Nine previous convictions were proved against the prisoner. She handed in a statement to the effect that she had never had a chance. The Recorder remarked that she would not be able to say that again, for he would give her a chance.
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MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Mr. Chamberlain arrived at Dover on Mon- day by the mail steamer Le Nord. He was assisted ashore by a lady and gentleman.' and walked to his compartment, about 200 yards, with a stick and the assistance of the gentleman. The right hon. gentleman 's still feeble, and, unfortunately, there did not seem much improvement in his condi- tion. He proceeded to London. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, with Mr. Neville Chamberlain, arrived at Charing Cross at 5.12 in the evening. The right hon. gentleman, who wore a heavy overcoat and brown Alpine hat, looked stronger than when he left England. He was bronzed and apparently in good spirits. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Chamberlain is not able to walk much better than when he went away, and in the short journey from the train to his brougham he wa.s supported on one side by his son and ori the other by an attendant. He was assisted into his carriage, and as he took his seat many people on the platform raised their hats in salutation. The right hon. gentleman lifted his hat in response, and was driven to his residence in Princes-gardens. Mr. Neville Chamberlain said his father was undoubtedly stronger than before he went abroad. It was his intention to rema-in in London till the end of the month before removing to Highbury,
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WEEK BY WEEK. + LIGHTER SIDE OF CURRENT EVENTS. A lolial paper strongly advocates a silver brass ba.n-d a6 a town attraction. It would certainly a.ttract notice. The old name of Llandrindod was F-fynon- llwyn-y-gog, or, the Well in the Cuckoo's Grove. A net profit of P,51.000-that is the corpora- tion tramway tale in Birmingham for last year. This is the kind of news that makes Cardiff kick itself. A thrilling- rumour is spreading through Swansea that, Mr. Alfred Mond is learning Welsh and that Gomer is helping him to develop a real Welsh accent. Private Bill legislation is an expensive business. A small public body like the Ammanford District Council finds it has to Pay £4,249 in connection with its Walter Bill. Amoerican methods are coming into vogue in the old country. Six spittoons have been presented to a Mcrthyr chapel for use in the pulpit seat. This sounds like a joke, e aps, but it is true, nevertheless. „ ,°^ exhibits in the museum a t Now- u ls, khe drum which was used in the that headed the entry of the British mops into Lr.cknow at the time of the Indian Mutiny. -v.^Anglesey clergyman is .credited with nt 5 WTmeil that he is a descendant of Die Aoerda-ron who died an old hac^o- He was buried at St. AsaWh. BishcD Short being his best patron. Talhaiarn and a few other patriots placed a fine stone on his grave. I' It is not generally known that the eceen- trie American genius, Walt Vfhitnian, had Cymric* blood in his veins. Ilia forbears on hIS in other's side were people of the name ° "illiams, "a line of sailors, one of that great Welsh clan which counted Roger Wil- tivrtT" amon £ £ ret American representa- J^be present season's run of Wye salmon, whica is well above the average, brings to mmd," writes a correspondent, a curious clause which formerly was common in all indentures of Wye-side apprentices. It was to the effect that apprentices should not be compelled to live on salmon more than two days a week." They did some things in a regal ma-nrner in the old days. Mr. Alan Stepney Gulston, who is vice-president of the Ca-i-marth-enshire Antiquarian Society, has just sent to the society's museum a large folio containing the MS. evidence in the. celebrated appeal in "79, when Phillips, of Owmgwilly, was successful, a.t a cost of £ 6D,OCO, in unseating Mr. Magins. There was an extraordinary bird-concert at the wood near the Heath in the early hours of Friday morning. At 12.30 the nightingale commenced its song, and was followed by the thrush, and shortly after by the cuckoo. As all three birds were quite close to one another, the effect, as described by one who heard it, was almost startling. A candidate for an old-age pension has applied to the clergy at the Canton Parish Church for a copy of his.marriage "lines." It is interesting to note that his marriage was the second that took place in the church, in 1859. Both the bride and the bridegroom were unable to write their names, which were written in by the incumbent, the late Rev. E. Fice, and the happy pair" signified in the usual way with a cross. So many people want to take part in the Pageant that it may bo well to explain here how to set about it. They should secure the Pageant Book of Words (whioh they can buy for sixpence at Panrfeant House, or at the booksellers'): then after reading the book they should write to the Master stating which parts they would like to play. If these particular parts have not been alrea.dy allocated their applications will be in time. But it is desirable to write at once. A recent work on Spain by a Welsh gentleman resident in the Peninsula contains q the following curious anachronism:- I would sooner hobnob with the Prince of Wales than with Owen Glendower, whom I suspect of having been a common fellow, speaking with an acccnt. and reeking of stale tobacco. Shades of the Pageant! Owen could hardly "reek" with what wasn't known in these islands for centuries after he had been gathered to his fathers. Moreover, he was a gentleman and & schola.r. "Wolves were formerly so numerous in Radnorshire," writes a correspondent, "that in 1234 a proclamation was issued command- ing them to be destroyed, and calling upon all the King's liege people to assist there- in.' Bleddfa, or Blaiddfa, Forest (the recep- tacle of wolves ') in Radnorshire, was so named from being the resort of these fierce acimals. In two years the actirity and inflaM^.41 cleared the onsnty ot them. A wolf would now be an e:ftinor- dinary spectacle indeed on the sunny slopes of Eadnor Forest." The practice of inserting notes and other material in books, mentioned at the Cardiff Library Committee meeting the other evening, is one that if judiciously performed is of great value to students, and Mr. Ballinger did a great deal of it during his librarianship at Cardiff. Any scrap of useful information relating to a. book or its author are collected and placed in the volume, pre. ferably at the end. In like manner when magazines are bound for a lib,ary it 13 customary now to bind in at the end a 1 the covers, advertisements, &c. This thickens the volume, but is often of interest and may even be of great value at times. A new story about the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been found. When he started as a solicitor at Criccieth he used to go on Saturdays to Feetiniog. where on Sundays he attended Calfaria Chapel, where the Rev. J. H. Hughes was pastor. Mr. George read the lesson at the commencement of the service, and then the pastor called upon one of the deacoiK to pray. Next day the minister called on an aged woman-member, and she asked: Who was that young man who read before you last night?" "A young attorney from Criccieth," said the minister. "Oh, an attorney!" she exclaimed; "no wonder you had to call on old Owen Jones to pray!" Mr J. S, Pughe, one of the most popular artists on the staff of the American Puck," who died "last month, was a native of Dolgelly, in Merionethshire, where he was born in 1870. His parents emigrated to America in 1872, and young Pughe started his career as a clerk. Developing a decided gift of line-drawing, he began to con- tribute to the New York Recorder." After- wards his humorous drawings in the New York World drew attention, and he joined the staff of Puck." A promising career was cut short by an illness tha,t culminated in the artist's death on April 19. It is note- worthy that as a youth Mr. Pughe won a prize for a pen and-ink drawing at the Utica Eisteddfod. One of the newly-elected Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London is Dr. Llewellyn Phillips, of Cairo, son of the late Dr. Phillips, of Cardigan. It was only in 1903 that Dr. Llewellyn Phillips took his M.R.C.P., so t.hat he has been elected to the fellowship in the short time of six Besides being an M.D. of Cambridge University, he is also a Fellow of t.he Royal College of Surgeons of England, there being comparative^ few men who are Fellows of both the Royal College of Surg-eons and the Royal College of Physi- cians. Dr. Phillips has been in Cairo for the last eight years, and holds the posts of pro- fessor of clinical medicine in the Egyptian Government Medical School and physician to the Kasr-el-Ainy (Government) Hospital. Cairo. There was an old preacher in Montgomery known far and wide v" Sam Brerse. Once every year he was invited to preach in Row- land Hill's chapel. Sam's English was very scarce, but he made up for its fiearcity by his hwyl. On one of these annual visits a young minister preached before Sam, and it .was clear that the former was much influ- enced by the wealth and respectability of the congregation. On turning to the second part of his text-" Whosoever does not believe is lost "-he apologised for referring to such a. j subject befoTe so respectable and fashionable a congregation. When Sam Brecse got up to follow he took the same text. My young friend here," he said, can preach in Eng- lish; I can't. He has got much more educa- tion than me. He is much more refined than me. You are all very respectable, and much richer than mo, but I have come here to say this to you: Whoever believes in Jesus Christ phall be saved, and whoever does not believe &hall be damned—and I ask no pardons!" First sermons have an interest all their own, The Rev. J. D. Jones. M.A.. B.D.. chair- man otf the Congregational Union, has vivid recollections of the preaching of his first sermon, and has himself given a graphic description of the circumstances under which it was delivered. In a little village about a. couple of miles from his home there was no church or chapel of any kind, but the mill- owner of the place pet apa-rt a large room in his mill for the purposes of worship. Mr. Jones, then quite a latl. but known as an earnest Sunday school teacher, was asked to take one of these services, and great was his nervousness when, on arriving at the mill, he found the congregation had abandoned it for the open air. The breeze played havoc with his carefully-prepared sermon notes, but the young preacher spoke out of his heart a siinplo me-saite to the people as they sat under the shade of the great trees, and looking back on this maiden effort he says, It was all pathetically crude, but it was full of entreaty and Gospel urgency, and I have sometime." asked myself whether the wider knowledge, the finer culture, the increased literary and homiletic skill which the years bring are any com- pensation if we in any degree lose t.he earnestness and urgency of our earlier days. Preachers might do worse than turn up the faded MSS. of their first sermons."