The North Wales Express

TO CORRESPONDENTS.. ANOTHER BANGOfR CITIZEN. — We have been obliged to curtail your letter. THE LAST TRAIN FROM CARNAR- VON.-The Llanberis train is always marked as such, and so much of the point of your letter goes. Still we agree with, you that the arrangements may cause strangers to go astray, and a. porter 1, might be stationed at the bridge. BANGOR PIER.—Next week.

GOMINC EVENTS. The fourth session of the present Parlia- ment, which opened on Tuesday, will be an important one for the Government and for the country in general, but the legislative programme outlined in the stereotyped phrases of the King's Speech is not a sensa- tional one. It is evident that the chief in- terest will be financial, and! the principal figure will be Mr Lloyd George, the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. He has a deficit to meet, and though he has as yet given no hint that he sees a way through the diffi- culty, there can be little d'o'mbt that his Budget, when it comes, will be a sensational one. To the Budget one must look for the most important legislative steps of the session. If Mr Lloyd George is true to his democratic instincts, and if he will be sup- Ported by his colleagues in the Cabinet, he has a great chance. He can undo much of the wrong that is now weighing so heavily upon the middle and working classes. Taxa- j tion of land values is within his sphere, and so is a high license duty, two measures that have reason and justice to recommend them, and, indeed, measures that are long over- due. Neither need be adopted in a retalia- tory spirit, for fair-minded economists of all parties agree that landowners do not now bear their fair share of the financial burden of the country, and that licenses are grossly undertaxed in this country, com- pared with the revenue they produce in other oountriee. The Budget, a.s hinted in the speech, will undoubtedly take up so much time that many other legislative measures will be crowded out. Amongst the measures the time for the consideration of which will be thus curtailed will be, we fear, the pro- mised Disestablishment Bill. True to its promise, the Government has included that Bill in its programme, but we have no great hope that it will become law during this session. The pressure of other work will tell, or, at any rate, will be adopted' as a pretext, and we do not believe that the Government will court a conflict with the Lords on the question. It is not probable that such' a conflict will be courted with any measure this session unless the crisis arises out of the Budget proposals. If the Lords are daring enough to throw out the Budget, the Government can have no alternative but to appeal to the country. Politicians in high places have of. late been expressing their belief that a general election is not far. This may mean nothing; on the other hand, it may mean that the Budget will be so drastic that the Government thinks a crisis will arise. In that case all the rest of the programme will go by theboard, for the time being, and on returning to power, the Liber- als would be armed v. itii powers to deal with the veto of the House of Lords, and all ordinary legislation would have to give way to the constitutional question. We welcome the foreshadowed legislation regarding the* Poor Law and the unemployed. Next to the Budget, this should be the most important work of the session, and asso- ciated with it will be the work of amending the Old-age Pensions Act. We trust that when with the latter, the pauper test will be at least amended, for it has been shown that in practice tins test is cap- able of inflicting great hardship. With regard to the question of the unemployed, we do not cee how friction with the Labour party is to be avoided unless the Right of Work Bill is adopted. We fail to see any really cogent reason against this much- abused and much-questioned' measure, which after all is no more than the logical oorol- lary to the law that forbids self-destruction. In forbidding suicide and punishing the man who attempts it, the State recognises the potential value of that man to society, and should, therefore, see that he is provided with the means to live and develop his value. That can only be done by providing fiim with work. Amongst the other measures included in the programme, the Bill to amend the law in regard to the supply of milk may be re- garded as one of the most important, not only to the public in general, whose health it is to safeguard, but alsio to farmers and all owners of cows, who may be very hard hit if the Government does not provide for some compensation 'for the animals des- troyed. We are likely to have a continuance of the Women's Sunrage agitation, as there is no mention of their cause in the speech. But apart from that, the session promises to be of more than usual importance.

Notes of the Week. Licensing Sessions. The annual licensing sessions are an object lesson in the administration of our licensing laws. The magistrates, ta,ken as a body, do their work carefully and well at these annual meetings, and it may be oEaidl that the temperance reformer has more reason to be -8atisfledwitb magisterial con- duct at licensing sessions than at any otiher time of the year. But it is very little they can do after all. except to carry out a little policy of reduction, and that under the shadow of the compensation authority. The chairman, it is true, has an opportunity—of which he generally avails himself—to recapi- tulate the figures already given more suc- cinctly in the police report, and. the police have a chance of saying that the licensed houses hav* been well conducted on the whole during the year. The powers of the ) magistrates are really very restricted, made more so than they should foe. For years the licensing ma-gistrates, have been referring to back doors of public-houses, and yet the matter has not been satisfactorily dealt with. The subject cropped .up at the Portmadoc Licensing week, and the police were instructed to prepare a report upon it by next year. Why not make a. general rule that no trade is to be done through back doors, except ivhsn it is absolutely impossible to carry on business in a public-house with- out a back dioor. Ambulance Work. The indifference shown by a section of slate quarrymen to ambulance work among themselves wa-s commented upon at an in- quest held at Llanberis touching the death of Abel Thomas, who, according to medical evidence, succumbed to hemorrhage conse- quent upon a fracture of the leg. A witness of the accident said, in reply to Mr G. J. Williams (inspector of mines), that none of the workmen in the vicinity at the time understood anything about ambulance work. The witness, however, carried the unfortu- nate man in his arms to a place of safety from a further fall of rock. Mr Williams observed that there was need for the quarry- men oD Llanberis and elsewhere to learn am- bulance work. Dr Mills Roberts said that the man died in the quarry hospital the day after the accident. Life might have been saved if there had been somebody imme- diately on the spot to check the flow of blood. He had preached and lectured much on first-aid work and conducted four classes. The Coroner (Mr Pentir Williams) regretted that he should' have been called a second time to hold an inquest in the same quarry within a week. The quarryman's occupation was a dangerous one 'at all times. He thought that every young quarryman ought to be compelled to undergo a course of am- bulance work, as he wao convinced it would be the means of saving many lives.

The Church and Football. We think the Rev T. Charles Williams did a wise tihimg when he preached the ser- mon we report in another column. It is useless to pretend thait football and other forms of aitMeticistm axe in any way evil in tiluemsiedives, and it is the duty iof the church to hellp din keeping (the good in such things, and mot to condemn indiscrimiiiafteiy. We can lemdiorse abl, that Mr Williams said, and especially his reference to professionalism. It has ailwiays seemed to us that ail tthatt is degrading about .the sipotrt is to be found in that seotiom of the spectators who could not aind would Iflot exert themselves to play a game. They are on a par with tlhose "sportsmen." who do business with street bookmakers, while they would hardly be able to teiH a horse from a. donkey at a glance. Fortunately, (matters ,a,re improving evenill1 this respect, and the general char- acter of football crowds is changing for the better, especially in some liocaiMlties where the committee has .set its face against all rough eonduct atmongat plia-yergt aaid spec- tators alike. This has been the case with the Carnarvon Committee, wHitose influence has worked wonders in all respects. No clergyman or minister who takes am in- terest in football need keep away from the Oval for fear of the behaviour of the crowd. The Mayor of Bangor. Mr H. C. Vincent, the Mayor of. Bangor, speaking at the annual sale of work in con- nelction with St. Mary's Church, departed from the salutary ride that forbids the chief magistrate, during his year of office, to take sides An politics. Mr Vincent took advamtatgo of his: pofeitriotn to maike a bitter attack on wtoat he termed the "waJd scheme scuiggesied in the King's Speech, the "wild Bdheme," of course, ¡being Dteestablisthan-ant. | Anytihwng more wild ithain Mr Vincent's own utterance on the matter it would be difficult to imagine. If the, fight on Dis- esta,blishmetnt is to be carried on with the arguments and the phrases Mr Vincent used, there seems to us to be a better prasjpeot of the success of the Bili, for it would be a poor controversialist indleed w!hoc'O'uld not play havoc with such reaon- ing. Mr Vincent seems to have felt some qualms respecting the. 'propriety of his action. and we trust that he will be able to restrain himsetLf while the continues to hold his present office.

Without Prejudice. TO MB BULL. I h-ave been told, Mr Bull, that you have been looking at the State Pageant in con- nection with the opening of Parliament, and that you were, as1 you ought to be, greatly impressed) with it. I believe that some people blame you on that account, but it seems to me that those people cannot pos- sibly have known you very well. They say, of course, that you were formerly a publican, a coal merchant, a. butcher, or a city clerk, or something of the sort, and that some of your ancestors were inclined to Chartism, Republicanism, and some other objection- able isnist. That may be true, but, natur- ally, it cannot be your fault. You have done well in your business and have become even a Justice of the Peace and a Churchwarden. That being the ease, you are in duty bound to make all possible, amends for the views and actions of any disreputable ancestors you may have the misfortune to have had. And you undoubtedly do so. The beginning of your general greatness may be due to the spirited actions of some sombre Puritaois of old), but there is no man living to-day who can leigitimately say to your face that you have not learnt to look down upon those fellows. Being personally an ex-tramp and a pre- sent pagan, I don't quite understand how you manage things, but that is immaterial, of course. I know that as a rule you don't know French—in fact, that you have often some trouble with your own English, par- ticularly with regard to the obstinacy of the aspirate. Yet you show a most remarkably patrician determination to adhere, in your State pageant formulas, to the language of that immensely great man who conquered you in one day, and then sent his descend- ants and those of his ennobled lackeys to fight agaist my own poor countrymen, a matter that only took them slightly over two hundred years:. I believe it is true that you have your own way -of pronouncing that French, — a way not quite intelligible to Frenchmen, les betes!—but the fact that you stick to it with such persistency under such great difficulties certainly shows that your ancestors must have come over with the Conqueror, for whom some people had another name, not exactly complimentary to his parents. You know, of course, that this is the twen- tieth century (though one might sometimes suppose it is only the twelfth), and you are always laudably prepared 10 talk about its progress and enlightenment. You likewise claim to be a very plain spoken person, "which nobody can't deny," as you gener- ally sing, on certain occasions, when you are in exceedingly good humour. Yet, with "the grave a.nd stern decorum" of Poe'f'I "Raven" itself, you talk and act the parts of what on other occasions you describe a. "dead feudalism" to a considerable degree of perfection (leaving out the question of accent, of course). You, for instance, dress up an individual and call him by the terri- fying title of "Rouge Dragon Pursuivant." He executes various remarkable capers, and you are thereby mightily impressed. Then you dress another individual, and illumina- tingly call him "Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod." Personally, I don't know pre- cisely what that means, but I suppose that you do know. If you did not, it cannot conceivably be supposed that you would take it all so seriously, you, who are such a humorist. However, I am glad that tlifls functionary is, for the information of per- sons like myself, officially guaranteed to be a gentleman. Then, you have a. whole Cabinet who kindly meet and make a speech, which .after- wards they very kindly call the "King's Speech." You tell us that the British king does not meddle in politics at all. Indeed, you sometimes go so far as to tell us that he dare not do so, being only a limited monarch. And yet, it would, appear from the speech which you so generously attri- bute to him, that he is what you often classically describe as "the boss of the whole show." This may appear to some people to be a trifle ridiculous, but I have no doubt whatever you are able to reconcile things, and that it is not ridiculous at all. You know, undoubtedly, that there are in this country at the present time some thou- sands of people who are out of work. I believe there were in London itself on the night of the fifteenth of January last some 2,088 persons who had no bed, to go into. Of course, that is a very unfortunate state of affairs, and it leads some irreverent people to say. disagreeable things about, you and the Government and the king and the "Rouge Dragon Pursuivant" and "The Gen- tleman Usher of the Black Rod." and many other noble personages. These irreverent people have the audacity to ask whether it was necessary, when people are starving, to make such a costly display of your belief in dead things. They suggest, for instance, that six carriages with six horses attached to five of them and eight to the other, were absolutely unnecessary and an affront to the poor devils who are out of work, and who consequently live in hunger. All this, as you know, is indeed very irre- verent. Those hungry out o' works really ought to have gone to see the pageant. It would, no doubt, have enabled them quietly to live for a whole month on wonder and as much fresh air as can be got in Lomdton, and would undoubtedly have convinced' them that it is their duty, as you say, to die con- tentedly "for their king and country." In- deed, it might have shown them that it is their duty even silently and admiringly to starve for the sake of the "Rouge Dragon pursuivant" or the "Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod." But, of course, we who know better like pageants and shows. Why. even I like circuses an-a clowns, particularly when they do. not claim to be something else.

LORD LIEUTENANCY OF MERIONETH. "PRACTICALLY SETTLED." I understand (&ays the London corres- pondent of the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercurv") that it is practically settled that Mr Osmond Williams, M.P., will be the new Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire. Great efforts have been made to secure the office. for a Torv peer, but there is the best reason to believe that Mr Asquith has declined to pay any regard to representa- tions that have been made in favour of the noble lord in question. Mr Osmond Wil- liams's appointment will give the greatest, satisfaction to his Welsh colleagues.

NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR BANGOR. SERGEANT GUEST'S PROMOTION. Police Sergeant G. T. Guest, has been pro- moted superintendent, and will be stationed c.t Bangor, in the place of D.C.C. Harris, who will retire at the end of March on pen- sion. It is only a little over ten years since Sergeant Guest joined the Carnarvonshire Consta-bularv, and he has made rapid pro- gress. He was promoted sergeant in June, 1907. He has proved himself a very able officer, and is popular among all classes. We congratulate him most heartily on his ap- pointment. Mr Guest will be succeeded as sergeant in Carnarvon by P.C. Roberts, of Degallwy. PROMOTION FOR SUPT. REES. 'Superintend&nit Rees, of Conway, who conducted the police inquiries in the Charlie sworth affair, has been appointed' ■Deputy Chief 'Constable of Carnarvonshire, in succession to Deputy-Chief Constable Harris, Bangor, who has resigned on pen- sion.

CARNARVON ^OUNTY COURT. A MONEY LENDING CASE. Yesterday (Wednesday), before His Honour Judge Moss. CLAIM FOR SHED SOLD. Joseph Davies, bailiff employed at i-lo, Prince Llewelyn Hotel, Beddgel,ert (for whom Mr Richard Roberts appeared) sued Owen R. Owen, Pe-nypa«s Hotel, Llan- beris, for £13, value of a galvanised shed sold to the defendant.—Mr J. B. AUanson appeared for defendant.—The defence was that the shed was not complete, and that the defendant had to buy several corrugated iron sheets to repair the shed. Judgment was given for plaintiff. A MONEY LENDING CASE. Mr Kennedy (instructed by Mr H. C. Davies, Penygroes) mentioned an action in which the plaintiffs were Stewart and Stewart, money lenders, Oxford street, Liverpool, and the defendants Owen Hughes and his wife Ellen Hughes, Tanyrallt, Tal- yga.rn. Counsel, who appeared for defend- ants, explained that the claim was for tl6 10s, the balance due for money lent on a promissory note. The action was entered in Liverpool last month, under fhe Bills of Exchange Act, and in order to bring the pMe within the jurisdiction of the court, the defendant Owen Hughes was described as a farmer. Within a few days of the hearing, however, the action was withdrawn, and a second action was entered in the Carnarvon Court. Counsel added that the plaintiffs, For some reason, had withdrawn this action, n.nd he asked his Honour to give judgment, for the defendants with oosts, 11,011 well as an order prohibiting the plaintiffs from bringing any future action in respect to the promis- sory note. It was monstrous, added Mr Kennedy, that the plaintiffs should forr-e the defendants, who were poor, into heavv ex- F>enseis, a,nd should then have withdrawn the action at the last moment. His Honour gave judgment for defendants with costs. gm

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WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. f-- SIGNIFICANT ACTION. THE WELSH DEMAND. "INSIST ON DISESTABLISHMENT." THE LIBERATIONIST "CASE." (From a Correspondent.) At a cpec-ial meeting convened for to- morrow (Friday) to consider the text of t.he King's Speech in its relation to Welsh de- mands, the National Liberal Council, of which Mr Lloyd- George is president, and Lord St. David's chairman of the executive, will determine the attitude and future ac- tion of Welsh Liberal organisations in face of present political situation. Special at- tention will be given to the question of Welsh Disestablishment, and the Council will adopt and issue the first instalment of ite official appeal to the constituencies in the form of a pronouncement on Disestablish- ment. The Executive of the Welsh Federation of Free Churches meets to-day (Thursday) for the sa-me purpose, and its chairman, the Rev Evan Jones,, who is also president of the National Free Church Council of Eng- land and Wales, in a. public utterance a couple of days ago, made his personal atti- tude and the probable policy of the Federa- tion on the question abundantly clear. Mr Jones said:— "It was said Wales had waited so long for Disestablishment that she could afford to wait a little longer. Wales had supported the Government solidly, but wa.s. put aside. The Welsh represen- tatives should see that Wales had her demandis. He had read the speeches of the Welsh members, and a more luke- warm set of speeches he had never read. Mr Asquith had promised them, and they must see that it was carried into effect, or fight. If the fight was with the House of Lords, they would whwck them; but if the Government dad not fulfil their promise, they would wreck them, come what may." Judging from the tone of the document to be issued to-morrow, the Welsh. National Liberal Council is equally determined that the inclusion of Welsh Disestablishment in the session's programme shall be no mere "shop-fwindtow show." The present posi- tion is thus presented:- "Ever since 1868, the majority of the Welsh people have by every constitu- tional means demanded the Disestablish- ment and Disendowment of the Church of England in Wales. At the Lao[ General Election, every constituency in the thirteen counties of Wales and Mon- mouthshire returned none but membeA pledged to bring about this great essen- tial reform—constituting a. united na- tional demand absolutely unprecedented in the political history of the United Kingdom. Mr Gladstone, Lord P.Oser bery, Sir Henry Campbell Bannermaji, and Mr AsquiLh-four successive British Prime Ministers—have each in turn en- dorsed this united national demand, and undertaken to bring about this reform. Therefore, we demand and in- .sist upon the Disestablishment and Dis- endowment of the Anti-National Church of England in Wales." It is worthy of note thait this central political organisation endorses the view taken by the Free Churches on the question of Disendowment, and is prepared 1:.) deal generously with the Disestablished Church. The document says:— "When demanding Disendowment, no one proposes to deprive the Church of modern benefactions. All that is asked is that the Church should surrender for the common public use ancient, national endowments granted at a time when there was but one Church, and wheij, every citizen in the country was sup- posed to be a member of that Churchy The original endowmects were thus inr tended for national rather than for de- nominational purposes. If the Church were disendowed, they would' again be applied to national purposes. No clergy- man would be deprived of his livelihood by Disendowment, because all life in, terests would he ..maintained." The claim for Disestablishment is based upon a number of broad principles, each separate argument being supported by ail array of facts, or figures, or botih. There is, for instance, the historic ground, that the Ancient British Church was distinct from a.nd independent of both Rome and Canterbury, different from them in its or- ganisation, in its customs, and in its govern- ment. It was only by force of arms that the Welsh Church was made subject to Rome. It is only by force of temporal power that' the Church in Wales to-day remains subject to Canterbury. This non-nationalism and anti-nationalism of the Church of England in Wales consti- tutes in fact the keynote of the entire docu- ment. Its non-nationalism is proved, by the following statistics :— Church or rree England. Churches. Communicants 195,000 530,000 Sunday scholars 182,000 •- 630,000 Sittings provided 460,000 1,568,000 Volunt'y contributions £296,000 £ 770,(KM) The Anti-National character and policy of the Establishment is historically traced from the days of Lliewelvn, the last -n,ative, Prince o-f Waks, down to the present dloY. Llewelyn's historic "Memorial" to the Pope is quoted, in which the Prince savs: "The Bishops they send us from England neither love us nor oar land; but persecute and op- press u« with their deep-rooted iiatred. Their ambition is to rule over us, and not to benent us." Mr Willis Bund is called to prove that "the policy was to degrade the Welsh. So arose an alien Church supported by an alien clerajv." The late Archedacon Pryce, brother of the present, Dean of St. Asaph, is quoted to show that "during several centur- ies Bishops in Wales were es»e>nt!elly a ho-itite garrison, -bound to the English Orov.n by common hatred towards the native Welsh." To prove that this policy was continued until, recent times, the historic address de- livered1 at the Swansea Church Congress by the late Dean Edwards, brother of -the- pne- sriit Bishop of St. Asa.ph, is quoted thus: "From 1700 to 1850 the head of every diocese in Wales was an imported Ecclesiastic, ignorant of the language, out of sympathy with the people. He came into Wales strong in, his narrow na,tional creed that aU things un- Entglisi) were u-n p actio nab le- To root out"the sin of Welsh he transplanted into all sunuy places English brothers, collections, tiiends. Weishmeu filled the. humbler posts. The favourites were feebk', pliant, unpatriotic men. Aping their masters, they affected contempt for the popular language. 'Ceasing to Welsh, failing to he English, they be- came nobodies." A This scathing denunciation of Anglican policy in Walets. though uttered by a lov-al sou of the Church, surpasses in frankness and bitterness anything ever uttered by a Liberation xst. Then with pitiless logic it is tehown that "thiouigh this policy of appointing English-* men to Welsh Sees has been changed, the* old spirit remains." In support of the evidence of the Rev A. W. Wade-Evans* I one of the most scholarly of the- Anglican clergy in Wales, author of the volume issued this r, week from the Clarendon Press on 'Welsh Medieval Law," is adduced. Writing only four months ago, Mr Wade-Evans said:— "The control of the Ancient Welsh Church was craftly and violently wrested out of Welsh into non-Welsh hands, and this control still remains in the hands of persons outside ,Wales, and out of touch with Welsh life. As the national religion of Wales she is ruined, being reduced by the control of strangers to a state of denationaliza- tion. To lend pcint to this indictment by one of her own and one of her ablest clergy, the Church of to-day is next specifically charged in the document about to be issued, with the following unpardonable offences against the sense and sentiment of Welsh National- ism :— "It is notorious that the Church een, tinues to be essentially Anti-National in her governing .policy. English-speak- ing clergy get the cream of the benefices. Clergymen who identify themselves with National aspirations stand little or no chance of preferment. "The Church in Wales continues hos- tile to the native language. English services supersede, or oust altogether, the Welsh services in many districts where Weleli is the native tongue. "The daily services in the Welsh Cathedrals are all in English, and the Cathedral clergy divide £ 7,600 a year between them.' Then follow paragraphs showing how the Church of England "has ever been and still continues opposed to political and social re- form." Dr Arnold, of Rugby, Canon iMoleswortli, and Dean Farrar being quo-ted in support of the statement. Among the specific instances are the follows: — "The Church of England was in favour of the Slave Trade; against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts; agaiiist -Parlia-ment- ary and Munici.pal Reform; against the re- pearl of the Corn Laws; against all Educa- tion beyond the simplest elements. It was a worldly clerical oligarchy." Finally, the tendency of the Church to- wards Romanism, is advanced as an argu- ment in favour of Disestablishment, thus:— "The Church of England has ceased to be the Bulwark of Protestaniism. Many of her clergy are in secret. Roman Catholics; a larger number still prac- tice Popish ceremonials; salaries paid them as Protestant clergy are largely used to promote Roman Catholic in- terests. For this reason large numbers of her Evangelical clergy think that the Church must be Disestablished and Disendowed1 to safeguard Protestaniism."

SUNDAY OPENING AT BANCOB. CONVICTION QUASHED ON APPEAL. In the Divisional Court of the King's Bench, on Monday, the case of' Parker v. Harris came before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Walton and Jelf, on appeal by W. T. Parker, of the Creamery, High street, Bangor, against a conviction of magistrates sitting at Bangor, the respond- ejit being the Superintendent of Police. A complaint was preferred against Parker to the effect that he kept open his premises for the sale of refreshments (not intoxicating liquors) at certain hours on Sunday, October 11th, 1908, in contravention of the Licensing Act, 1874, and the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881. It was admitted that the ,shop was open, but appellant contended that he had a legal right to keep it open, seeing that it was. not licensed, and that it was not a. refreshment house to which the Act ap- plied. The Superintendent of Police con- tended tha.t the Public-house Closing Act, 1864, applied, to refreshment (houses, other- wise an unlicensed1 house would enjoy greater liberty than a licensed house. The justices, after, it was said, considerable con- sideration, held that Mr Parker had com- mitted an offence, and fined him 2s 6d and coats. s Their LonMiips held' that Licensing Acts daid not apply in this case; and quashed the conviction.

A QUESTION OF FURNITURE. A HOLYHEAD ACTION ADJOURNED. His Honour Judge Moss held a court at Menai Bridge on "Tuesday. A HOLt HEAD DISPUTE. Hie Honour heard an action affecting the ownership of the effects of the wife of Rc. bert Price, a goods porter living at 10, Porthdafarch, Holyhead, who died last year. The plaintfff was the husband, who sought to recover certain goods or their value, assessed at JE37 16s, from George and Mary Owen, the deceased's father and mother, who reside at. Bodedern. According to the plaintiff's evidence, the effects consisted of furniture and other articles, including a pair of ear rings which were valued at £15. When his wife died he made an arrange- ment that Mrs Owen, the defendant, was to keep the furniture and the children at astun not exceeding 1<>8 a week, and he gave her the clothing of the deceased, because she had kept a child. Owing to certain facts which came to his knowledge, he broke the agreement with Mrs Owen, and he took the children back again. When he applied for the return of the furniture, she only handed him a few articles. To Mr S. R. Dew, who appeared for the, defendants, the plaintiff denied that he pro- mised the furniture to the defendants, be- cause he did not intend keeping house again. Further evidence was given by Mrs M. Parry, Gilbert street, Holyhead, in support of the plaintiff, for whom Mr Gordon Ro- I berks appeared. Mrs George Owen, Penygraig, Bodedern, one of the defendants, gave eviSenc that the plaintiff, who wae a very kind young man until he suddenly adopted another attitude towards her, gave her the furniture, explain- ing that he did not intend keeping house again. If defendant had known that the plaintiff wanted the furniture back she would not have troubled to cart them to Bodedern. When the plaintiff called for the baby he asked for certain articles, all of which defendant gave him, with the excep- tion of a small box which was given to her by her deceased daughter. Mr Dew: Why don't you return the furni- ture? Defendant: Because he gave them to me. Mr S. R. Dew suggested that the parties, being- relatives, might arrive at a settlement. Mr Gordon Roberts concurred, and the Judge adjourned the case to the next court.

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CHRISTIANITYjAND ATHLETICS. THE CHURCH AND FOOTBALL. PLAIN SPEAKING BY A PREACHER. The Rev Thomas Charles. Williams, Menai Bridge, on Tuesday evening delivered by special request an address to the young men of the district on "Athletes and Ath- letics." in the English Presbyterian Church, Menai Bridge, which was filled with a con- gregation consisting of members of all the churches and chapels in the village. Taking for his text St. Paul's words. "I beseecil you, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. which is your reasonable service." Mr Williams delivered a sparkling epigrammatic and very sensible address, dealing mainly with the question of the playing of football, which he openly declared he approved of. He knew little of the game, he said, but like many others, especially religious persons, who did not dare'to express their real feelings about, the subject, he was always glad when Wales won (laughter). That. said Mr Williams. was like the old London deacon whom he met in the great city a short time ago. when Wales had won an International match. The old gentleman said very solemnly that he did not care for this sort of thing, and then paused for a reply, after which he added, "Still since they must play football, I am very glad they are winning" (laugh- ter). Well, continued Mr Williams, that was his own attitude in the matter, with this difference, that he wholly approved of the game. He wanted to elevate the discussion of the question of football-plaving to the high level from which the pulpit ought to rega.rd it. He wanted them to know where. generally soeakins. he placed athletics in his view of the Christian life, though he da red sav many of his brethren would not agree with his views. His view was that there were three great ideals of life— THE ATHLETE, THE SCHOLAR, AND THE SAINT. He thought they could very fairly summar- ise all life under those three headings, though there might be a section—mere monev makers—(laughter)—who stood out- side that generalization. But then there were men who had no ideals whatever. Those who had came under one of the three ideals he had named. The athlete, of course, aimed at the com- plete development of the body. The cult was derived from the Greeks, and he sup- posed few people had done so much to bring the human body to its highest pitch of pro- portion as the Greeks. Of course, it could be overdone, and the medical profession had recently uttered warning against excess in this direction. But he (Mr Williams) re- garded the training of "tTie body, the de- velopment of all its powers, as an ideal worth striving for. The ideal of the scholar was to train the mind. too often at the ex- pense of the body. A good many of the great Calvin's peculiarities were probably the result of this. Then they had the Saint, perhaps the highest ideal of all. He very often went further than the mere neglect of his body—he very often sacrificed and mortified it. Now Christianity did not call upon them to choose between the ideals he had named. The true Christian should be an ATHLET SCHOLAR. AND SAINT ALL IN ONE, and consequently he (Mr Williams) regarded athletics as being part of the fuller develop- ment of the Christian character. It was a part in the development of our nature, which no other power could achieve, and conset- quently he regarded that in which they were engaged—football and other forma of athlet- icism,-as something not outside the king dom of heaven, but inside. "Oh, if we could get our young men to realise the dignity and the glory of the human body One of the .first things they ought to do was to real- ise the glory of the human body. What did the Bible teach about the body? In the first place, that God made the human body. There was the Incarnation. That waa a. big word, but they knew what it meant, and they would remember it when they were tempted to sin against their own bodies. Let them remember that God dwelt even now in their bodies. Some people regarded •Christ's taking on of the human body as a mistake, as the taking on of an obstruction, forgetting that Christ's assumption of that bodv gave dignity and glory to that body. That was ONE OF T.HE CARDINAL FACTS they ought to believe in. Then, agaia, St. Paul taught that the human body is the temple of the Holy Spirit-not the human heart, the spiritual side of man, but the human body. Then there was that crown- ing doctrine of the resurrection of the human body, .and when they passed those great truths in review, they realised the dig- nity of the human body, and Christianity certainly must have something to say and to do with the development and perfecting of the body. tHe regarded athletics there- fore as a part of the work of the Kingdom of God, and until Christianity included the cultivation of the human body, it was in- complete, and there was nothing that will bring the body to a proper state of effi- ciency but athleticsim. It was of the ut- most importance that the Church should take care that the development of the body- should not get out of the sphere of its work. The purpose of the church ought not to be to destroy anything that existed, but to utilise it. After giving examples of the realisation of this doctrine both from the Bible and profane history, Mr Williams said that what education was for the mind athletics was for the body; they were the body's means of grace, and what the church had got to do was not to destroy this game of football but to find some way of ruling and utilising this sport. "Negations were of no use to the church. It was no use telling men not to use or do certain things. The best way was to inform them how to use them and not abuse them. So he said to them not "Don't play football," but "play football." What, he objected to was that. they did not play. He, was told that after all there was not much football played in this countrv; it was simply a spectacle. He did not believe in professional sports, and he said this that the tendency instead of plaving the game, TO HIRE PEOPLE TO PLAY IT FOR YOU, and then to go mad over the result (laugh- ter) was not athleticism. His view was, why didn't they play? iHe knew many voung men who were football mad, and who yet had never played football in their lives (laughter). Such got all the evil and none of the profit of the game. The hope of football in this countrv was that it should be more generally played. He supposed they had the REFUTATION OF THEIiR GREAT GAME at heart. Then they must introduce a cer- tain refinement into the game. There were people who said that golf and cricket were the games for gentlemen, and football the game for roughs (laughter). He did not tsay that to them, for he wanted to get home again (laughter). But. they must discour- age the drinking and the bad language and the gambling sometimes associated with the game. Swearing was a proof that a man had lost his temper, but there was nothing in the world that required perfect control of temper as a modern game of football, and he did not think any man could play a perfect, game of football without having a- perfect control of his temper. In conclusion, Mr Williams indicated the danger of the love of football becoming a mere craze—they already- had football morning, noon, and night—'(laughter),— might become a national evil and peril. No nation was ever, made great by sport. But since play they must, let them play in the spirit of Christ, but not let the play absorb their whole minds.

DISESTABLISHMENT. THANKS TO THE GOVERNMENT. The Welsh members, at their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, pa-ssed a resolution thanking the Government for placing the Welsh Church Diseestablishment in a pro- minent place in the King's Speech, and adding: "We rely with confidence on the passing of this bill, so long delayed, and so greatly desired by the overwhelming ma- jority of the .people of Wales, through all its stages in the House of Commons in the course of the present .session."

CHURCH WORK IN BANCOR. ST. MARY'S SALE OF WORK. Yesterday afternoon, a. very successful tale of work was opened at the Penrhyn Hall. Banger, in order to obtain funds towards some improvements carried out in connec- tion with St. Mary's Church. The room had been very nicely decorated for the occa- sion, and there was a large attendance at three o'clock, when the Mayoress of Bangor, who was accompanied by the Mayor (Mr H. C. Vincent), declared the sale of work open. The proceedings were presided over by the Vicar (the Rev W. D. Roberts, M.A.), who explained the object of the work. and whose further remarks are reported else- where. The Curate of St. Mary's proposed1 a. hearty vote of thanks to the Mayoress, and Mr Roberts, Friars avenue, seconded. The vote was carried with acclamation. The following were the stall-holders:— Refrefhment Stall: Mrs J. Humphreys, Garth; Mrs Jones, Friars road; Mrs Ro- berts, Friars avenue; Mrs Williams, Fern- dale, Garth; Miss Owen, Edmund street; Miss Williams, Fair View; Miss Rhoda Jones, Friars road; Miss May Ross, High street; Miss Barker, Garth Miss Alice V. Humphreys, Miss Maggie Jones, Bethel. Welsh Stall: Mrs Thomas, Plasllwyd ter- race; Miss Davies, Dean street; Mrs Hughes, James street; Miss Owen, City Hotel; Mrs O. E. Thomas, the Misses Thomas, Miss Owen, Edmund street; Miss Williams, Fair View road. Fruit and Sweet Stall: Miss Rose Jones, Mrs Millard, Mrs Brereton. Welsh Stall (No. 2): Mrs Roberts, Ship and Castle; Mrs Williams, Fair View; Mrs Pryce Jones. Mrs Jones, Drum street; Mrs Davies, Fair View; and Mrs Thomas, Drum street. Girls' Friendly Stall: Mrs Dr Lloyd, Mrs Clarke, Mrs Williams, Edge Hill, and Mrs Hall. The Guild Stall: Mrs Lewis, 66, Orme road Miss Ruddock. Tanybryn Miss Gwen Williams, Garth Miss Watson, High street; Misses Willcox, Orme road; Miss Crapp, Garth; Miss Annie Thomas, Plasllwyd ter- race and Miss Rowland Jones, High street. Young Men's Stall: Messrs R. G. Watson, Willie Owen, Walter Jones, O. T. Roberts, S. Edwards, R. H. Morgan. Shooting Gallery: Messrs W. J. Lewis, Robert Jones, and Richard Williams. Electric Battery: Mr C. Goodwin. Japanese Stall: Mrs W. Owen, Mrs R. H. Morgan, Miss Bessie Thomas. Try Your Luck: Messrs O. J. Owen a.nd J. F. Thomas. Candle Competition: Messrs H. O. Wil- liams and W. Mitchell. Cloak-room, &-c. Messrs J. W. Willi ame, J. Williams, W. Munro. Tub: Mrs Thomas, Drum street.

A BLAENAU FESTINIOC INTER- PLEADER CASE. THE JUDGMENT. At the Carnarvon County Court, yester- day (Wednesday), his Honour Judge Moss gave judgment in two actions tried to- gether at three previous sittings affecting the ownership of furniture ait the Griffin Temjperanoe Hotel, Blaenau Festiniog. The plaintiff in one case was Ann Thomas, who sought to set aside a deed1 of assign- ment executed by her hiusbaaid. The de- fendant was John Da/vies, auctioneer and valuer, Blaenau Feminiog, who was trustee under the deed of assignment for the bene- fit of creditors. In the otiher case, J. Davies claimed the same furniture both as agaansit Ann Thomas and John Thomas (her husbatnd), and Lake and Co., Ldi., Car- narvon, who were execution creditors, hav- ing obtained judgment against Thomas and his wife for £ 66 odd. His Honour eaiid the wife lay claim to the furniture on the ground that she bought it with the profits of a business wthiich she said she carried on separately from her huslbaaid. The action substantially resolved itself first of all into the question whether there had been in fact trading by the wife separately from her heubaaid, and, if so, whether sihe was estopped by her conduct in claiming the furniture as atgainst the trustee and the execution creditor- It was admitted ,th-roughout that the husba-nd raised mort- ga-ges upon the premises where the busi- ness was conducted, and paid interest on those mortgages; but the wife said thait the business was hers, tha.t he*- name wia« albove the dloor amd an the biflhetaicte, tihatt she ordered goods for the business, and that it was to her that people looked for payment !or those goods. The man atlso supported his wife's story, but lie (hiis Honour) did not a,t,tach any importance to his evidence, be- cause he must have behaved very badly to his wife if what he eaid) in the witness- box was true, viz., tlhat, in spite of the fact that his wife had bought the furniture. out of her hard-earned money, he allowed the fur- niture to be assigned to the trustee. His Honour, after reviewing at length the evi- dence tendered on behalf of all the parties, concluded that the wife did not carry on a separate business, but that on the contrary she was acting as her husband' agent throughout. In the action by Ann Thomas judgment would be given for the defendant Davies, with costs, and for Davies also in the interpleader action, also with costs, the execution creditors being ordered to pa-v the sheriff's charges. Mr R. A. Griffith (instructed by Mr R. O. Davies) appeared for the trustee, Mr Wm. George for the defendants. Mr J. T. Ro- berts for the execution creditors, and Mr Creíbbin (Messrs Carter, Vincent, and Co.). for the sheriff.—Mr M. E. Nee (on behalf of Mr J. T. Roberts) applied for an order ex- empting several goods from the assignment, but the question was adjourned till the next court, his Honour, at the same time, sug- gesting that it was a matter in which some arrangement might be come to.

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¡- r Do You Know That the sounds of a fifo drum band roused ma¡}}T people from dreamless slumbers on Sunday morning? That this was about ten o'clock? That the Salvation Army had, somehow or other, managed to get hold of a lot of boys in round caps and military belts? That they made the streets lively with their music, especially the sound cf the big, big drum? That we don't quite know what some of the people in the chapel6 thought of ¡l.t? That in any case we are oil in favour of the. movement, big drum, cornet, and. all? That we only came across one who audibly expressed disapproval at cnc of the after- noon meetings? That this was an extremely wicked li,tue dog that would persist in -a series of scornful growls ui-d snarls when the hymns weroe being sung? That remonstrances were unavailing, and we fear that the little dog is still unre- pentant? That we were among tine clouds, on Monday i lit? That the ladv lecturer kept the large aud- ience enthnalled from first to last with her account of her adventure in cloud- land? That we want to refer, however, to the fact that come of the members of the commit- tee found themselves in the clouds a littLc before the lecture-? That they had gone to meet the lecturer} who was quite a stranger to them a<ll?^ That one of them, when the train came an, was very enxious that the lecturer should not feel n-e-glec-ted and forlorn, so he made R polite bow to the first lady he met, and said, "Miss Bacon, I presume"? That it was not ? That, nothing daunted' by this tempora.ry rebuff, he proceedied to accost four or five other ladies, drawing a blank each time? That when at last success crowned his efforts and he at last took off hi's lvit. before the right person, he felt like sug- gesting that next time she would make things easier for him if she arrived in an aii-ship? That some of "En Avant's" notes lost. theic way last week? That there was grief and lamentation in Bangor and Beaumaris ? That "En Avant's" subsequent letter was bedewed with (alleged) tears! That we found the lost children of his imagination—we mean, observation—and this week he has done t!he best he can with them? That we are sorry one of them is dismem- bered and the missing parts cannot be found anywhere? That a oomp. in this office has caused some excitement in Bangor by his original in- terpretation of our I'> reporter's copper-plate fist last week? That the .paragraph stated.—origiaally—Hittt the dresses a.t a certain fancy dress. baU represented characters of various periods? That the soaring imagination of the comp. turned the word '"characters" into "churches"? That, it seems this .has occasioned something like an ecde.siastical crisis in the Cathedral city? That we trust this simple explatnation will allay the- excitement, and bring peaoe to ruffled nerves? That, we hope1 members of the Bangor Board of Guardiains will read our extracts from Mr H. R. Williams' report? That we would specially refer them to the passage on new buildings? That we seem to remember hearing some- thing about a Bangor Workhouse rji- firmary question? on That we think Mr Williams has been to Bangor? That a word to the wisei J That. there is considerable opposition amongst Carnarvon shop assistants to any interference with their weekly half-holi- day? That we sympathise with them, M they olv generally a hard-worked class? That the Thursday half-holiday makes for health and contentment? That the Rev T. Charles Williams' sermon on football will interest some who are not footballers? That we hear that another sermon on tba same subject was delivered in Carnarvon last week ? That the two preachers were not quite in agreement ? That a debate between them on the ques- tion would be interesting? That there is a young man in Carnarvon who feels he has a grievance against the world in general and two young women in particular? That he kindly promised to take them both for a walk the other evening? That he departed a moment to buy sweets? That when he returned from the ehop it was only to find that the maidens had nown? That he is feeling rather about it, but he found some conscla-tion in eating the sweets? That he had more to console him than many a man in a similar predicament? That the lateist promotion in the Carnar- von shire police force will be a popular one? That, it guest what we expected? That we congratulate the young sergeant on his rapid climb upwards? That we wish him all success in the future,?

LOCAL SHIPPING NEWS. CARNARVON. ARRIVED.—Christiana s.s., Griffith, Liverpool; Carew s.s., Terretta, Liverpool; Constance s.e., Humphreys, Liverpool; Craignair s.s., Williams, Liverpool; Tele- phone s.s.. Roberts, Cardigan; County of 'Anglesey, Pritchard, Portinllaen; Result, Bennett, Wexford; Virtue, Pierce, Trevor. SAILED.—Christiana 13.6., Griffith, Liv. erpool; Telephone s.s., Roberts, Liverpool; iCarew s.e., Terretta, Penmaenmawr;Craig- nair s.s., Williams, Penmaenmawr; Con- stance s.s., Humphreys, Trevor; County of Anglesey. Pritchard, Portinllaen; Lilly Garton. McGain, Bowling; X. L., Clugston, Bowling; Harmony, Chambers, Ayr. PORTMADOC. ARRIVED.—Elizabeth Eleanor, Jones, Limerick; Rebecca s.s., Roberts, Liverpool j 'Mary Catherine, Williams, Kinsall. SAILED. —Lady Agnes, Davies, Newport; (Seven Brothers, Williams, Cardiff.

In the snow-covered churchyard of Bryn- eglwvs, near Corwen, the remains' of the laite* Mr W. Corbet Yaile-Jotnes-Paory were interred on Thursday afternoon, the coffin being carried ankle deep in STIOW by the tenants of the Plas-yin-Yale and M.a.Idryn. Castle Estates. The chief mourners were Colonel J. Corbett YaLe (son), Miss Yale (daughter). Mr a.nd Ilirs Osborne Yale, Mr and Mrs Yale. Mr T. Jones-Parn" (brother), Mr W. Jones-Parry, and Mr T. Jones-Parry (nephews, who also represented their father, Admiral Jones-Parry. Thirwald Hall, War- rijtgton, wfliose 80 y*iars prevented his at- tending). The officiating clergy we.re the Revs J. Owen (vical: of RrynegliwyTs), the Rev J. Davies (vicar of Whitfond), and the Rev J. Datniels (rector of Llamgeidio, neat Pwllheli).

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