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Bangor. John Henry Edwards and H. Edwards being the only persons nominated have been duly appionted elective auditors for the borough of Bangor SHEEP WORRYING.—A valuable flock of sbeep belonging to Mr Pritcharf vlvni Arms, and pastured on the CrIcket. tield, were worried by dogs early on Tuesday morning. Seven were killed out- right, and the sttne number were so badly bit that they bad to ba killed. BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-At the fortnightly meeting of the Guardians held at Bangor on Friday, Mr Hugh Thomas (chairman) presided, and was congratulated by the members upon his recovery from his recent iUness.—The Clerk (Mr R B. Evans) reported that £ 347 16s 2d had been ex- pended in out relief during the past fortnight, and there was a balance of X285 due to the Union. The Clerk submitted his estimates for the half-year which represented a rate of lOd in the £ (irrespec- tive of any benefits to be derived under th-i Agri- cultural Rating Act), or a decrease of id in the £ as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The estimates were referred to the Finance Committee.—A eommunication was read from the Bangor School Board respecting the sale by the Guardians of a plot of land belonging to them. Sometime ago the the guardians arranged to sell to the Wesleyan body a plot of land ad- joining the Glanadda Board School. The Schoo Board in the meantime were desirous of acquiring1 land for addition to their school at Glanadda, and correspondence had been going on between the School Board and the Wesleyan body, and the latter are willing (upon certain couditions) to exchange their plot in favour of the School Board if the Guardians would yell them another plot of land adjoining the one already sold.—Mr Hue-b Hughes gave notice that he would move at the next meeting that the Guardians should sell a farther plot of land and a email committee TO appointed to take the matter into consideration and report thereon to the next meetimr aerat,on MAY DAY meeting was held on FrIday evening, under the presidency of Ccun- arrangement!) for the annTnl i t0 £ V m.ttfravS:inters; SS^hieh'ifam?0' th" balance sheet, of £ 9 in hand ^at there was a balance procession nn r reso^ved to organise a TOars Mr Pli t SlmiIat to those of previous and +Vio f*f\ •,f111 Was re-elected secretary, alteration! Waa re-aPPoi'»1<>i with a alight I>JtY'~The annuaI St David's Day Sfl d at Ebenezer Welsh Con- gregatiorml Chapel, on Monday, the Rev S. R Jenkins, B.A., presiding, and Mr Thomas Edwards conducting. Competitions were held and prizes awarded in literature, poetry, music, and art. The vocalist was Miss M. J. Edwards. The Eis- teddfod was continuod on luesday, when the Mayor (Dr Grey Edward.) presided, and Mr L D Jones (Llew Tegid) conducted. Mr E. G. Owen f/CiCOrupaDist* Sbe anniversary was celebrated by a conversazione at the Uuiversity College, which was followed by an amateur re- presentation of Ibsen's Enemy of Society," in which the 'p'l-:tts were taken by the University College students of bot sexer.
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— — — ROBERT jjoBERTS, who for many years has held f. responsible posi- tion in Carnarvon, has purchased the business from Mr David Jones, and will shortly open with a. large and entirely new Stock of Medicine, and will trade as ROBERT ROBERTS (Late D. JONES) —— CHEMIST, BANGOR STREET, CARNARVON. K • JJ. B COAL MERCHANT, CARNARVON. All kinds of Steam and House Coal always on hand. Wharf: Bail way Co'U Yard. Residence: Hodowyr, 15, Tithebarn street. j Attra.ctive Music ior- Sunday School Anniversaries. Anthems for the Choir, Hymns for the Children, Anthems for Children and Choir. Send for List. H. BUCKLEY, Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent. MR WESTLAK E-M01UUX ORGANIST OF BANGOR CATHEDRAL, Choirmaster, St. PaaTs Cuurch, Colwyn Bay and Conway Parish Church; Professor of Music at the Forth Wales Trainicg College, Bangor- Examiner to the Incorporated Society of Musi; clans; Yice-Presi deist and Examiner to the Guild of Organists: Puril of Sir Walter Parratt (Organic to the Queen), Dr Gladstone and Dr Mann, GIVES LESSONS IN Singing, Intoning, Pianoforte, Orgau, and Harmony. SCHOOLS ATTENDED by special arrangement for Singing and Pianoforte. System adopted similar to that in use at the Royal College of Music. Pupils specially prepared for the Local Examina- tions of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, the Associated Board, and Trinity College. PUPILS' RECENT SUCCESSES. — Two Open Scholarships (Pianoforte), R.C.M.: I.S.M. Locals (only candidate with Pianoforte Honours in North Wales, July, 1894; Honour", December, 1894 only candidate with ADVANCED Pianoforte Honours in N. Wales, July 1895; Honours in Organ- Playing, July, 1895). AddressTHE CATHEDRAL, BAXGOR. DR. JOKES. D.D.S. (A.M.), &c. SURGEON DENTIST, Opposite the Market, Bangor. DR. JONES visits LLANGEFNI every THURS DAY, at Lledwigan- oad. LI^ERCHYMEDD from 10 to 1, and AMLWCR rem 2 to 5, with Mr Hughes. Stationer, S, Market street, TUESDAYS, February 23, March 23, April 20, May 18, June 15, July 2G EBEXEZEB AND LIANBEIJS, First TCJESDAI after Pay-day. BETHESDA, First TUESDAY after Pay-day. BANGOR every day except Tuesdays and Thursdays. HAMILTON & J0>ES, A P S., L D.A.S., From LONDON, Apothecaries' Hall, Market Place, BANGOR By Rvwd Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen. —% -N* By Royal Appointment in H.R.H. The Prince of Wales DAY, SON, AND HEWUTS FOUR GREAT REMEDIES FOR Lambing & Calving Disorders. Day, Son, Hewitt's GASEOUS FLUiD, For prostrated Cows and Ewes, Paining, Scour, Debility, Hoven, Colic, &c.—Price 20s per doz. Day, Son, &f Hewitt's CHEMICAL EXTRA CT For anointing after Parturition, straining,and preventing Gangrene, i'or Wounds, Swollen Udders, and Sore Teats.-Price 2s 6d, 3s Oil, and 7s per bottle, Hay, Son, Hewitt's RED DRENCH, For cleansing Cows and Ewes, Fevers, Chills Red Water, Hide-bound, &c.; prevents Milk Fever and Dropping.—Prices (Cows) 13s; (Ewes) 3s 6d per doz- Day, Son, &,■ Heiciifn GASEODYJS'E, Deadens excessive pain instantly, and quiets th 1 nervous system.—-Price 3* 6i par bottle e 1 UNPARALLELED SUCCESS OF DAY, SON, & HEWITT'S Lambing & Calving Chests Complete, Carriage Paid 30s and 93 3s, Write for phamplet and full delai OYAL^ANIMAL MEDICINE MANTTF TORY, 22, DORSET ST., LONDON. W. ESTABLISHED 1833) For Superior Qualitv At Moderate PrÍcesi, TEA & COFFEE, Groceries, Provisions, Flour, & All kinds of Feeding Stuft FOR HORSES, TRY ill. G. EVANS, OLD JAINUON HOTJSE & COUNT V COKT MILLS, BANGOR @ FINESI CYCLES Lists oi SILVER QUEEN & ROYAL. AJAX CYCLED for Ladies and Gentlemen iree. IMMENSE STOCK. KVw and Second hand. Wonderful bargains. Car- riage Paid. Easy Payments from 103. monthly. Large discount for cash. 1 years' guarantee. TJELIJ BRITISH CYCLE MANUFACTUR- ING CO., 45, Everton road, Liverpool. Telephone j 9413. Central Depot30, Elliot street, Liverpool. I- HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I intend to 4 X erect a factory for Nifcro-Compounds on the Common of Towyn Trewan, neir Valley. Anyone having reasonable objection thereto must send to the Clerk of the Anglesey County Council, Holyhead, and to me, by 1st March, 1S97, notice of such objections and the bearing of such objections if any will take place on 8th March, 1897, at the Valley Hotel, at 1 p.m. Plan and Draft License may be ir^pectd at the office of the Clerk of the Peace, Stanley House, Holyhead, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursdays, and between 10 am. and 5 p.m. on other days. (Signed), D. PAISLEY, 44, Lavenant Road, London, N. 96 J A PARTMENTS.—To all having apartments to let. Do not have theru empty when, for Is (or three weeks, 2s you can have a 30 word ad- vertisement inserted in six newspapers circulating in districts which each year send thousands of visitors tlJ Carnarvon. Name of papers, Leyton Leytonstone, West Ham,Wanstead, Woodford,and Forest Gate, Manor Park and Ilford Express and Independent. Address, Publisher, Ir^depenent Office, Levton stone, Essex SEMBLY ROOMS, A MI. W C H I' FOR TERMS, &c., apply to Ml W. H. Thomas, Lewis's Buildings. Amlwch A PARTMENTS and Lcdgings at No. 10, Con- CTL. star tine Terrace, Carnarvon, Moderate terms. LONDON Visitors Require Apartments. If you want to let your rooms, send an advertise- ment for insertion in the South Eastern Herald," the Woolwich Herald," the" 1Vest Kent Argus," and the Brockley News and New Cross Review." Advertisements appear in the four papers at one price—20 words, 6d; three insertions, Is; six insertions, Is 9d; thirteen insertions, 3s 3d; 2d for each additional eight words for one insertion. Over .50,000 readers in South London. Specimen copy gratis. Head Of&je—SS, Greenwich Roa London S.E. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS.—These beauti- ful Government Maps for Great Britain and Ireland (in every scale) are supplied by the Government Agents, Messrs J. Arthur Evans and Co., Station Chambers, Rhyl. Engineers are in vited. 122 WELSH FLANNEL ESTABLISHMENT. 37, BRIDGE STREET, CARNARVON. THE Public are hereby informed that the above business c irried ot; by thejlate Mrs Margaret Williams, will be continued ss hereto- fore in all its branches by her son, MR ELLIS WILLIAMS. The public may depend that the goods kent will be the very ,best produced by the leading Welsh Factories. WELSH FLANNEL ESTABLISHMENT, 37, BRIDGE STREET. CARNARVON. m ——— .1 —we 1—— 4 ROBrr. WILLIAMS PAWNBROKER, JEWELLER & CLOTHIER, 303, HIGH ST., BANGOR MONEY ADVANCED AT MODERATE RATES ON Gold, Silver, Plate, Watches, Antique China, Coins, Medals,$c. CASH per return for Parcels sent by post. MILKER'S SAFES for VALUABLES, OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT, FOREIGN MONEY EXCHANGED, UN- DERMENTIONED BARGAINS FOR SALE. Specially selected List of Genuine Second- hand Bargains ■Piq i Diamond Marquise Ring, turquise O J-Ub centre, very massive. Genuine forfeited pledge. PI Handsome Diamond Snuff Box, antique. J £ 1 1 fifl Spxiil L ne 14 Day Regular X lOw UU. (jiock, 52 inches long, 17 inches wide. Strikes hours and balf hours on gong. Embossed Metal Dial and Pendelum to match. Usually Sold at .S3. 0s Od. Oft Ladies' Gold keyless Walt-ham, Mass., c&vJ Ub Lever Watch, and ladies' gold Albert attached. 01 K Gentleman's Walking Stick. W@rk of o&J.t-' ar(;. Splendid carved ivory handle, in- laid with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, coral, emeralds, garnets, carbuncle, &c. Genuine for- feited pledge. Originally cost £ 85. Oj Kn Auto Harp, 20 strings, 10 bars. < £ > J. uo Special Line, pi "j English Silver Lever Watch. Guaran- oOj. -Lb teed Timekeeper. TTQ fif\ -Pa'r Massive Parian Figures un- wU. der glass shades. Very pretty. Aq (\r\ Eaisy Air Rifle, noiseless, with 100 vJo UU shots. Strong and reliable. Aq f~)c\ Student's Case of Mathematical In- Uo UU. struments. In Mahogany box. Y r e Violin and bow in case, complete. Mar- vellous value. OQ. Or! Rr oc f\r\ Mouth Organs. On UU superior qua lity kept. IOS 6d Japanese Koro Vases. The Cheapest Skip in Bangor for GOLD & SILVER WATCHES, CHAINS, RINGS, CLOCKS, SILVER, and BEST QUALITY ELECTRO PLATED GOODS, FIELD, MARINE, and OPERA GLASSES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BOOKS, &c. A Miscellaneous Stock kept. Our CLOTHING is replete with a great variety of Ready Made Suits, Trousers, Jackets, &c. Men's and Boys' Boots, Shirts, Hosiery, &c. Working Men's Trousers in Drab White, Brown Cards and Mole, Ready Made or to Measure, from4s lid. A large assortment of Second Hand. Blankets, Quilts, Sheets, at very low prices. Inspection of our large and varied Stock is specially in- vited. NOTE THE ADDRESS— 303, HIGH STREET BANGOR. BRANCHES— Flint and Holyhead. JOHN STANSFELO 12 to 24, GREAT GEORGE STREET, LEEDS, TO WHEELWRIGHTS, COACHBUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, BLACKSMITHS, AXD TIMBER MERCHANTS, WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED PRICE LISTS l L J- :J TO WHEELRIGHTS. BUY YOUR SPRINGS DIRECT FROM THE MAKER. 1000 PAIRS IN STOCK. All my WHEELS are manufactured from selected and well-seasoned timber; Naves hooped; Tyres are contracted on and set cold by PATENT HYDRAULIC MACHINERY, which improves the wearing qualities of the Tyres. PONY CART WHEELS. 3 feet 8 inches to 4 feet 0 inches diameter. Y,2 19s Od to S3 4s Od per pair. DOG CART WHEELS. 4 feet 2 inches to 4 feet 10 inches diameter. £:3 os Od to £ 3 19s Od per p».ir. SPRING CART WHEELS. 4 feet 4 inches to 4 feet 10 inches diameter. £ 4 Os Od to Y,4 5s Oil per pair. OMNIBUS WHEELS. 3 feet 4 inches to 4 feet 10 inches diameter £ 4 Is 6d to S4 17s Od per pair. CAB WHEELS-In Sets. 3 feet 0 inches and 3 feet 10 inches to feet 2 inches and 4 feet 0 inches diameter Xi 10s Od to S5 15s Od. HAND CART WHEELS. 2 feet 4 inches to 3 feet 0 inches diameter. £ 2 2s 6d to S2 7s 6d per pair. FLAT CART WHEELS. 3 feet 2 inches to 4 feet 6 inches diameter. £3 3s Od to JE3 11s Od per pair. CART WHEELS, WITH SPOKES LET IN, FULL SIZE, AND SQUARE TANGS. 4 feet 4 inches to 4 feet 10 inches diameter. £4: 158 Od to £6 12s 6d per pair. LURRY & DRAY WHEELS. 2 feet 10 inches to 3 feet 2 inches. £5 7s Od to £7 Is Od per pair. MAIL AND COLLINGE AXLES. PATENT and IMPROVED CAT ARMS. SWAN NECK SCROLL IRONS. li x i to 2k x t. 5s 6d to 9s 6d per set. DUMB JACK, BRIDGE, SPUR, ELL- FLAP, and GLOBE SCROLLS. All sizes kept in stock. CARRIAGE LAMPS, Best Quality, from 10s 6d per pair. WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED PRIZE LIST. Be prepared for the wintry season of the year, and write for Illustrated Price List of Steel Frost Nails, Screws, and Cogs. Illustrated Price List of all requisitas con- nected with Wheelwrights, Coach Builders, Blacksmiths, Engineers, Contractors, and Builders, on enquiry. The largest and best selected stock in Yorkshire. "TBDE ROYAL NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD OF WALES: GREA2 SUCCESS. NOTHING 8UCQEEBS LIKE SUCCESS. i FRUIT! FRUIT! FRUIT! WHITE FOB MBICE LIST. FITZPATRICK FTTZPATBICK HTZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICE: FETZPATRICK FITZPATRICK TITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK FITZPATRICK The Wholesale Fruit Merchant The Commission Agent looks after bis own business personally Employs no travelling agents so by this means oun sell cheapen Can buy right, so by this means sell right. Ships only Bound stuffs guaranteed. Has hoen' brought up in the Fruit and Vegetable Jine.—Hfe long ex- perience. Serves more people in Wales than any other firm in, Liverpool. Serves everybody and anybody at wholesale prices.. Keeps all sort a £ English aadi Foreign Fruits, Cherries, PftuoaJ &c. The Great Onion Salesman^ ;|#: JOHN OTZPAmiC^ WHOLESALE MAH.KET, CAZNEATJ STREET. LIVERPOOL. GOVERNMENT ARMS, ACCOUTRE- MENTS, CLOTHING, STORES, &c. Government Clothing:—Great Coats, 7/6; Scarlet Tunics, if8; Jackets, i/i; Grey Capes, i/io; Glengarries, id.: Waterproof Hoods and Capes, xod. Police Clothing:—Great Coats, 5/6; Trousers, 1/9; Leggings, 2/ Lanterns, gd. &c. I tons as actually used by the French during the Franco-Prussian War: —Chasse- 1 pot breech-loading Rifles, 8/- each; Swords, with brass j handles and steet scabbards, 1 Lances, 4/ Navy Boarding Pikes, a/7 &c. j British Government Camp Equipment: -Army bell Tents, 40-ft. in circumference, with pole, pegs, peg mallet, and i-in. lines, in bag complete, ready for use, 17/6 each Brown Army Blankets, j-ft. by 5-ft. 8-in., 1/6; Waterproof Sheets, 3-ft. by 6 ft., 1/6 Mess Tins, 3d.; &c. British Government Harness: — Heavy Cart Harness, £ 1 15s. 6d.; Gear Harness, £ 1 is.; (Trooper's Rifling Saddles, complete, 13/6 each; Bridles, a/3; Head Collars, 1/9; Leather Surcingles, 1/3; Nose Bags, ventilated, complete with buckle and strap. 3d.; &c. _HflW fiarnessFull-size Gig, complete, £ 3 15s.; Demy Hogskin, Riding Saddles, complete, £ x <s. Sec. Curtains, Carpets, AO.:—White Lace Curtains, 3-yds.*long, 50-ins. wide, 2/4 per pair Carpets, 2-yds. Py Rugs to match, 8d. ;-&c. <%Qjt^r&straftd ftHct List free OH application to ^IAhDIWE, Nottingham. FOR SPRING Cr¡"EANING Try the following-Sold Everywhere. ( jUIXEY'S BLACK LEAD. H Best in World. %d. Id. 2d. 4d. and 1/- sizes. IXEY'S BAG BLUE. i Kaady for usa in large Flannaletto Bags. yZti. and id. each Purest—Best. miXEY'S KNIFE POLISH. CutlerylikeSilver—^without wearing. 6d.41/-tins iiyiXEY'S "NSXELENE" Stove Paste In j^d., 1d„ 2d., and2^d. tins.' jyiXEY'S BERLIN BLACK.' Dries Dead—No Sm^ll—for all Ironwork, ,n Bottles. J^our Sho}*k<je]K!r not them for y->u, wvifn to— DALES' j Gold Medal DUBBIN Makes Boots md Barnøa Waterproof u a back, aud aoft as Telret. Adds three timet to the irear and allows polishing. IS Exhibition HlgftMf Award*. uw Tint, M., M., if./and II. 8cI.. of all Bootmskenii Saddlan,lraBinM««raA«i -+- MR JOHN PITCHARD BAXGOR. WITHDRAWAL OF SALE. THE Sale by Public Auction of No. 2G and No. 30, Victoria Street, and the Bakehouse, Upper Bangor, advertized to be held at the Queen's Head Cafe, Bangor, on Wednesday March 10th, 1897, will not t'eke place, the property having been sold by Private Treaty. JOHN PRITCHARD, Auctioneer. Bodhyfryd, Bangor. BANGOR. Important to Ship Owners and Others. MR JOHN PRITCHARD is in structed by the Owners, to oiler for Sale by Public Auction under the Ship-building Yard of Mr John EUis, Hirael, Bangor, on Friday, March 12th, 1897, at 2 p.m. prompt. The well-known Schooner Sarah Bridget," of Carnarvon, of 98 Tons Register and 205 Tons Burthen. The above vessel was built in Bangor in 1858 by the late Mr Edward Ellis, and about three years ago underwent very extensive repairs and was thoroughly overhauled, being supplied with nev Spars, Sails and Rigging. The vessel is well found in materials, is in good condition, easily handled with a crew of four hands, a fast sailer, a good slate carrier, and in every respect well worthy the attention of parties requiring a vessel of this tonnage. -For further particulars apply to the Aue tioneer, Bodhyfryd. Bangor. 157 rpO'BUILDERS' &"cbNTRACl ORS THE CARNARVON SCHOOL BOARD is prepared to receive tenders for the erection of new Girls and Infants' Schools. Plans and Specification may be seeu at the Office of the Architect, Mr Rowland Lloyd Jones. 14, Market street, Carnarvon, alter Tuesday, the 2nd day of March, 1897. Sealed Tender?, endorsed "Tender for New Schools," to be sent to the undersigned on or before the 13th day of March. 1897, and such tenders to contain thfi name of two sureties for the due performance of the contract. The Board does not bind:itself to accept the lowest or any tender, J. HENRY THOMAS, Carnarvon, Clerk. -= February 23rd, 1897. 156j WEST li-FP BY NEW HYDRO- PATHIC HOTEL, 35 MINUTES FROM LIVERPOOL. ■jVf AGNIFICENT HYDRO, on bauks of the Dee. Splendid inland and sea view; charming views of Wales MILD DRY CLIMATE Tennis, Boating, deep sea fishing, wild fowl shooting; close to HOYLAKE GOLF LINKS Billiards, Baths—Turkish, Russian, I Vapour, Electric, German, Marble,Nacheim. Vapour, Electric, Germin, Marble,Nanheim, Needle, Sitz, Ascending, Spray, Spinal Wave, Medicated Shower, Packing rooms, Salt Water Plunge, Hot Cold and Sea Water; Massage and Medical Gymnastics; Sanitation perfect. Terms from 2 Guineas; week ends from 16s. Medical superin- tendent, Dr Wilkinson. Tariff and full par- ticulars from Manageress. I IVERPOOL—SHAFTESBURY HOTEL. j Mount Pleasant, 100 rooms, near Central and Lime Street Station. No intoxicants sold Moderate shnr'?«. blectrie Li^ht. iret class TamMrMace lankly axid Commercial Hotel. YN EISIEU, Gof, cynefin a gwaith llongau yn fwyaf neillduol.—Ym- oxyner & R. G. Humphreys. Porthmadoc. TT7ELSH GIRLS' SCHOOL, ASHFORD— The names of all candidates for Founda- tion and Intermediate Pay Scholars mnst be sent in during the present month. Foundation Scholars receive their board and education free. Intermediate Pay Scholars at the inclusive rate of JE16 per annua. Forms of Application can be obtained on application to the Secretary, Welsh School, 127, St George's Road, Pimlico, London, S.W^ 174r o w Y ° u WHO DEAD We put it to you Could we have Sold MILLIONS OF BOXES OF F R A Z E R s TABLETS unless they possessed great merit ? And we assume that you will agree with us that FRAZER'S TABLETS have real and nnmis- takable merit, inasmach as they have effected THOUSANDS OF ('URES IN MANY CASES ATFER ALL OTHER MEDICINES HAD FAILED. Moreover, pHYSICIANS RECOMMEND ^RAZEE'S rpABLETS To Cleanse the Blood, Clear the Skin, Beautify the Complexion,. And Cure Eczema, Rheumatism, Constipation, and all Blood and Skin Disorders. TRY A BOX-THEY WILL BENEFIT YOU. IMPORTANT NOTICE. In Purchasing be Most Careful to Ask for FRAZSR'S TABLETS. There is Nothing to Equal Frazer's Tablets. All others are Worthless Imitations. See that Frazer's Tablets are packed in pale green boxes, with the words FRAZ ENd TABLETS in gold letters on the lid. Price, Is lid per box, or post free for Is 3d, from I F RAZERIS TABLETS, LIMITED,1 106, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C. j oTTXT^ INSUItANCE OFFICE kJ FOUNDED 1710. gnjil INSURED IN 1895 — je390,775,000 For all particulars apply to the following agents jp VLA Mr R. L. Jones. BANGOR Mr J. Smith & Mr R. Hall. BARMOUTH Mr R. F. Anderson. BEAUMARIS Mr Fred. Geary. CARNARVON Mr W. H. Owen. CONWAY Mr Charles Drover, Degan- wy and Llandudno. DOLGELLEY .Mr Thomas P. Jones Parry. HOLYHEAD Mr Owen Hughes. LLANDUDNO Mr Edgar W. Riches. LLANGEFNI Mr William Thomas. PORTMADOO .Mr J. Tobias. DELICIOUS, NUTRITIVE AND DICESTIBLE. FOOD For INFANTS" INVALIDS, and THE AGED. Balmoral Castle, Scotland, ijth Sept., t8<)6. "Sirs,—Please forward to Balmoral C?st!e one dozen as. 6d. tins of Bengrer's Food for H.I.M. The Empress of Russia, addressed to MIM Coster. WE have received VS F. COSTER
DEWI SANT. |
DEWI SANT. Good old Carnhuanawc, in his" Hanes Cymru," says of our patron saint: The day i chosen to celebrate his memory offers the people of Wales an opportunity to gather to- 1 gether to cultivate patriotism, and to succour such institutions and customs as tend to increase ¡ the honour of their nation and their native J land." How are we to celebrate the memory of our patron saint? That depends, we should say, on the character of the saint himself. David was a man of intense piety, and a St. David's day celebration should, therefore, be of a religious nature. David was a man of severely ascetic habits he is called Dewi Ddyfrwr" because, says the "Myfyrian," he was a total abstainer; it follows that all convivial gatherino-s where jolly good fellows" sit round the festive ive board, with "extension of hours," to enjoy the feast of reason and the flow of soul," are not the most appropriate method of honouring the saint's memory. These choice souls and elect intellects do not think so much, perhaps, of Dewi; they know nothing about the saint and they care less. The first of March is to them only a day of eating and drinking, of making merry with their boon companions over the wine when it is red, of singing insipid songs, of listening to the inane eloquence of local orators, of inflicting the sweetness of their own silly voices in their turn en unwilling ears. I Harmless enough, may be, but unspeakably fatuous and absurd as a function in honour of the Welsh or any other patron saint. Not only was David himself an abstainer; he drew out a code of severe pmi- ishments for the bibulous amongst his disciples. In the rules of St. David," says Newell in his" History of the Welsh Church," "it is ordered that priests about to minister in church, who drink wine or strong drink through ne^li-' gence,and yet not in Ignorance, are to do penance for three days but if they do it wilfully, they are to do penance for forty days. Those who are drunk through ignorance have penance for fifteen days; those through negligence, forty those wilfully, thrice forty days. He who causes anyone to get drunk from courtesy is to do the same penance as the drunken man. He who makes others drunk to laugh at them is to do penance as a murderer of souls." How much penance would follow many a first of March celebration in our day, were St. David's rules enforced, we do not undertake to say. It is abundantly clear, however, that our ideas on the question sadly need revising. David was one of the three blessed guests of the Isle of Britain," the other two being Padarn and Teiliaw. They were so called be- cause they" went as guests to the houses of rich and poor, native and alien, receiving neither gift nor price nor food, but teaching the Faith of Christ to all without fee, or thanks; to the poor and needy they made gifts of gold and silver, clothing and food." So runs the Triad. In this respect the saint's successors on the throne of St. David's can scarcely be said to follow in his footsteps. The bishop of St. David's now receives t4500 a year for his ser- vices, which, after all, are not perhaps so very much more onerous and more valuable than those of the saint who gave his name to the diocese. That is how the matter appears to a plain mind. The mind ecclesiastical could no doubt explain away the apparent la ok of proportion in the twinkling of an eye. One of the Englynion I y Clywed" says A glywaist ti a gant Dewi, Gwr llwyd, Hydan ei deithi ? Goreu defawd daidni. That was all very well in the primitive years of the sixth century. The goreu defawd" now is "daioni plus £ 4500 a year." Who says J evolution is a myth ? The monks have been busy with David's personalty. They made him the hero of in- umerable tales, and almost hid him clean out of human sight in thick clouds of romantic in- ventions. He was a dab hand at an argument, we ari told. The Pelagian heresy, after being once crushed out, sprang up again in his time. So one day David took his stand in a certain hollow to argue Pelagianism out of the country. As he warmed to his subject, the ground grad- ually rose under his feet; so that, when he came to the end of his speech, he was standing Gn a hill, and Pelagianism was no more. That was the Council of Victory," and, according to one tradition, was the cause of David's ele- vation to the archbishopric of Wales, though Newell denies that Wales ever enjoyed eccles- iastical metropolitanship, and in a rotund, Johnsonian sentence, describes the stories about the archbishopric as a specimen of the fic- tions whereby the perverse igenuity of man- kind has obscured the history of the early Welsh Church." Be that as it may, St. David was not the only Welsh bishop who owed his position to his argumentative capacity. His latest successor probably owes his election to his reputed prow- ess in combating the forses of heresy. Haw is he to fare ? Will the hollow ground rise up under his feet ? Will the coming bouts of controversy result in a Council of Victory ? We think not, for the dialectical methods of the new champion are already discredited. He has been weighed in the balances of logic and fair reasoning, and has been found wanting. Principal Owen is the twenty-ninth bishop of St. David's since the accession of Queen Elizabeth. Of these twenty-nine, only three were natives of Wales. The second was Dr Basil Jones, and the third is Mr Owen. The first was John Lloyd, consecrated in 1686. So badly did the air of St. David's agree with a Welsh episcopal constitution in those days that poor Lloyd died in the following year. During the period mentioned above, theere have been 119 bishops in Wales; 37 of them were Welsh, 79 English, and three Scotch. In the r igns of Anne, the four Georges, and William IV, only one Welshman was made bishop in Wales, that favoured solitary Cymro being John Wynne, consecrated bishop of St Asaph in 1715 It is only right to say that William IV, that very pious monarch, did not have a chance of appointing an Englishman as spiritual shepherd for the Welsh people. No Welsh diocese became vacant in his time. The brighter day of the Welsh episcopate did not dawn till 1870, when (by a clerical error, say some) Joshua Hughes was appointed bishop of St. Asaph. St. David's emancipation from the Teutons came in 1874, when Basil Jones was | raised to the episcopal bench. Llandaff re- mained Saxon for nine years longer, the present bishop being consecrated in 1883. Bangor was English, or rather Scotch, till 1890, when Dr Lloyd was appointed. Wales clamoured loud and long for Welsh bishops. Truth to tell, she does not feel very { proud of them, 'now that she has got them. ] Somehow or other the wrong men has been appointed. Adroitness in manufacturing arguments and manipulating statistics in defence of ecclesiastical privileges appears to be the highest possible qualifications in candidates for episcopal honours. A Welsh bishop should, like Dewi Sant of old, be a man consumed with a. passion for the saving of souls, and for the moral and intellectual elevation of his country- men. Hitherto the Welsh bishops have been the champions of a sect, not the shepherds of the people. They need wider, stronger, healthier ideas. Defend the Church? Yes. but they will most effectively defend the Church by serving the people. Let them remember Dewi biant-T new Bishop of St David's is a patri- A ?-T au and an ardent Church reformer. A bishop holds an office of great dignity ■ he r, y has it in his power to accomplish much. The bishop who sincerely loves Wales can do a great deal of good. But he must sink the ecclesiastic in the patriot, and realise the truth that a nation is more than a sect.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
NOTES & COMMENTS. The Welsh members are doing most of the work of Parliament in connection with the Education BilJ, and of course the member for these boroughs has ag&in showed his powers. Mr George has now become quite an old Parliamentary hand." There is, perhaps, no one in the House who has studied the orders of business and is such an adept iu proposing resolutions or amendments within the strict letters of these regulations. This was proved once more on Thursday evening, when his instruction to committee-the oniy one which survived the usual test by the Speaker and his o cers came to be discussed. Mr George raised the whole question of popular control of the Voluntary schools, and such was the effect of his moderate, clear and argumentative speech that he found great support even amongst the Tories. The publication of the New Code once mo-e strikingly points cut the anomaly of Mr Legard's appointment as Chief-inspector of Welsh Schools la the instructions to inspectors, which accompany the code, the paragraph dealing with Welsh re- mains unaltered. Here is an extract of it: It is desirable that tb3 attention of teachers should be called to this (teaching English by means of Welsh), and that the inspectors themselves should encourage the practice of bilingual teaching, by themselves making use of Welsh in testing children's knowledge." Of course, there is no hope that the present Government will remove this anomaly. We should, however, as Welshmen re- member it as another of the insults which Lord Salisbury and his party leval at the "Celtic fringe on all occasions, nod when our turn comes at the general election prove that Welsh nationality is something more than the vain of fanatics. At last there is some prospect of a settlement of the Penrhyn dispute which has lasted so loner The conduct of the men throughout the whole !fP^. ,s strikingly moderate and con- cdiatmg though firm, and they have showed the country that they are as a body of workmen such as any employer would do all in his power to meet in a fair manner. Th"ir fight for the principle of combination has been a grand one, and they showed by the resolutions they passed on Saturday that they are as firm as a rock. Their actions have been in great contrast to those of the railway workers on the North Eastern who with- out regard to the fair rights of their employers struck without notice and were unwilling tu retun* to work even when their leaders bad made what appeared a just preliminary settlement of the dispute. It is thus a matter for no surprise that the subscriptions to the quarrymen's fund are flowing in steadily day by day, and that their choirs are received with enthusiasm in every town they visit. The "Daily Chronicle" fund now amounts to £ 6000, and some workmen are suffer- ing loss of work for collecting towards the fund in England. One cuoir is still travelling about the provinces, and the other section holds concerts daily in London. It is made evident from time to time that the c.ose attention paid during recent years to the financial affairs of the Corporation of Carnarvon is bearing fruit which benefits the general body of ratepayers to a considerable extent. The district rate has been reduced since 1893 to the extent of 3d annually, that is from 3s in 1893 to 2s 3,1 in 1896. Twelve months ago there was also a re- duction of 3d per 1000 cubic feet of gas consumed, and now it appears from the minutes of Tuesday night's Council meeting that there will be a discount on water rents of large tenements equal to a reduction from Is 6d to Is 4d in the ;S.
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