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THURSDAY FOR FRIDAY. PRICB ONE PENNY 1 Cbt Rortb Wales Wttklp ntlOS And series ot 12 Popular Weekly Newspapers. t The Colwyn Bay Weekly News- The Conway Weekly News. The Penmaenmawr Weekly News. The Llanfairfechan Weekly News, The Bangor Weekly News, The Llandudno Weekly News, The Llanrwst Weekly News. The Bettws-y-Coed Weekly News. The Vale of Conway Weekly News. The Abergele Weekly News. The Vale of Clwyd Weekly News. The North Wales Weekly News (General Edition). SPECIAL NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements appear in the whole of the above News, >apers at ONE INCLUSIVE CHARGE, and at a price usually sked for insertion in one newspaper only. Scale oi Charges will be forwarded on application. SPECIAL PREPAID ADVERTISING SCALE, ISPOR SITUATIONS VACANT AND WANTED, ARTICLES FOR SALE APARTMENTS AND HOUSES To LET, MISCELLANEOUS, &c. One Three Six Thirteen Insertion. Insertions. Insertions. Insertions 16 Words s. d. is. od. I S. 9d. 3a. od. 34 os. gd. 18. 6d. as. 6d. 4s. 6a. ,a „ is. od. as. od. 3s. 6d. 6s. 6d 40 ,» is. 3d. as. 6d. 4a, 6d. 8s, od 48 is. 6d. 3s. od. ss. 6d. 10s. od e6 is. gd. 3s. 6d. 6s. 6d. us. od, 64 as. od. 4s. od. 78. 6d. 13s- od. It boohed, double these rates will be charged. RELIGIOUS SERVICES, &c. SPECIAL PREPAID SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS RELATING TO RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND PREACHERS. CHARITIES, ENTERTAINMENTS, &C. I week a weeks. 4 weeks, zo Words. i s. od. is. 6d. as. 6d. to tI I S. 6d. as. 6d. 4s. od. 40 as. od. 3s. 6d. 6s. od. 3t as. 6d. 4s. od. 7s. od. And 6d per insertion for every additional 10 Words. Half-penny stamps accepte in payment of all sums under 55 The charge for Births and Deaths is is. each. In Memonam "Notices, asfed.; Marriages, as. 6d. An extra charge is made ■for booking. The announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths must be authenticated by the name and address oi the sender. Thursday morning's post is the latest time for receiving Advertisements. Address- Head Office)—R. E. JONES & BROS. (Proprietors), ce/— .< The Weekly News Office, Conway Telephones— No. 31-Editorial and Publishing Offices, Station Road Colwyn Bav. No. 1-3, Rose Hill Street, Conway. No. laa-Printing Works, The Quay, Conway Telegrams-" Weekly News," Conwav. TIDE TABLE FOR THE NORTH WALES COAST.* DECEMBER. Date. Morn. Even. height. a4 820 846 •• i| 8 25 911 « 9 37 •• 16 » 26 .0 3 -• 1026 •• 27 „ 10 Sa •• 11 17 8 28 11 41 ll 2Q 04 •• 0 27 •• 18 4 7o 047 •• I 8 17 9 3! I 29 i 49 •• 16 10 Conwav 10 minutes later. e our jSSleabers, of onte aub Abroab, Jl ISerrg anb a aVV!2 e1t) leaf.
HOME LESSONS.
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HOME LESSONS. THE tCHRISTlIIAS of 1909 will be memorable for many things, not the least important of which will be the great political struggle now going on in the country. At this very time of peace and good will to all men," the masses of the people are engaged in the defence of some of their most cherished rights; and liberties, won for them by the sacrifices of their forefathers. They entertain no ill-will against the privileged classes who seek to deprive them of their heri- tage; but they will fight for the maintenance of that inheritance until the (battle is finally won, and won in such a away as to prevent for many a year' to come any repetition of the attempt now being made to rob them of the political freedom which they enjoy. The battle is a fierce one, and it is to be feared that it will wax fiercer still until the polling day, when the climax will be reached. What is to be the re- sult of this unfortunate warfare between Peers and People? For our own part, we soo into reason to fear that the people will, in Mr. Chamber iliain's words, be so careless" as ±0 allow themselves to be cheated out of their rights. With the arrival of the Christmas festival, comes a brief truce in the hostilities both sides in the campaign will lay down their arms; the public speaker will cease from troubling, and the canvasser will be at rest. During this brief respite the middle and working classes will have a few hours to themselves for quiet contempla- tion, and in looking around their own homes they may leam a lesson from their domestic life. The British working man is a good fellow at heart; butt he has the defects of his quali- ties and the greatest of these defects is that he is so ready to accept the guidance of other people, and so unready to tnmk foi himwif. .But when he Idbes think, he 'thanks to some purpose—and he is tJhidkirng now What is there in his home life to set him thinking? He is poor enough, goodness, knows and neithex be nor this family are encumbered with an over- supply of food and clothing. But he will realise that in one respect he lis better off than he was a year ago, for the reason that since then, thanks to a Liberal Government, old-age pen- sions have become a reality and have brought a new 'happiness and a new hope into the life of the workers. To that extent ho is better off than he was before. He will realise, too, that he enjoys advantages denied to workers in Ger- many and other P rotecti. on ist countries; for the plain and simple fare upon his table is un- taxed, and therefore he can purchase a larger and better supply of food with his scanty wages than would be possible were it not for the blessing of our system of Free Trade. In Protected Germany he would have to work longer hours for the same or less wages, he would have to work under harder conditions, and his, wages would be capahlle of buying him less food and clothing than here. These are anions'st the causes for rejoicing whicihi will present themselves to the mind of the British workman this Christmas. And having realised what are the advantages he enjoys, as compared with the Protected worker the British workman will decide to stick to a system which imposes a slight tax upon six out of fifteen articles of food, rather than turn back to the bad old system under which the whole of the fifteen articles would be heavily taxed. Moreover, he will make -this re- solve, that his taxes shall be levied for and upon him by his own, elected representative in Par- liament, and not by a House over which he has no control, and which hlas no sympathy with him in his aspiration for fairer conditions of life for himself and his family.
Election Jottings.II
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Election Jottings. Mr. Sam Thompson, at his Colwyn Bay meet- ing, referred in a patronising way to Mr. Win- ston Churchill as that young man." •* Mr. Greaves Lord, on the same occasion., de- clared' that Mr. Churchill's -campaign in Lan- Mr. Greaves Lord, on the same occasion, de- clared. that Mr. C.hurchill',s campaign in Lan- cashire had fallen rather flat." As it happens, Colwyn Bay is situated a little bit too near Lancashire. Mr. Thompson says there are three Protective countries which enjoy a better system of old-age pensions than ours. But he did not say that these three countries with the better system have Ion? since ad- opted the taxation of land values, one of the thinies he objects to in Mr. Lloyd George's Budget. He did not say that the poor people of this country!, would still be without .their old-age pensions so far as his party are concerned. r The whole connection of the Unionist party with the subject of old-age pensions, right away since 1895, is a very sad chapter in British pol- itical history. » He did not say that Unionists in both Houses of Parliament, after failing to bring in a measure of their own, strongly opposed the pre- sent Bill, which has meant increased comfort to 680,000 poor people. There were no grocers on the Tory platform on Thursday evening. Why? Because in this very month of DooermbeI the grocers of the country, through rtheir principal organ in the Press, have condemned the taxation of food proposed by the Unionists. < There were representatives of the landed sys- tem there. Why ? Was it because Mr. Lloyd George in his Budget offers half a million of money far the encouragement of good land- lords, or because they object to. the valuation of their land? There was present a representative of tihie British Army. Why? Was it because he pre- ferr.ed the phantom army-the six reaper oarps- conjured up by Lord Midleton (formerly the Right Hon. Sir John Bodcrickj. to the real and efficient army brought into being by Mr. Hal- dane ? There were no working men ,0111 the platform. No; because the British workman knows that untdter Tariff Reform his food will cost him more. The Liberal party in this district have good reasons for enjoying their Christmas dinner. The fight is going splendid from their point of view, and their optimism is justified. The victory is already secured for them; unless they fall into the fatal mistake of over-con- fidence. They must all work hard to ensure success. If they do. that they will achieve not merely a win, but a glorious triumph.
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WEEK BY WEEK. A new fashion has come up in. connection with notices of birth. On at to Mr. and Mrs. a son. (Both doing well.) Rather wickedly the Liverpool Post asks if it wouiW not be better to say, All three doing well "? Fcr agreeable as it is to learn that both Mr. 2ud Mrs. —— are in a fair way of recovery, still, the public are left in a painful state of anxiety as to the condition of the new arrival. It is pleasant to recall that, whereas King Canute's effort to command the sea was a fail- ure, a Welshman's attempt at the same game was a brilliant success. St. Iilltyd was a saint living in Gower in the sixth century, and was much worried by continually having to re-build his walls owing to the waves washing them down. Accordingly he prayed to heaven for as- sistance, and in response an angel came and gave him instructions how to drive the waters back. St. Illtyd acted as he was told, and the sea receded before him as if it were a sen- sible animal. and left the shore dry. Then the saint struck the shore with his staff, when, lo-, and behold, immediiateily a well of clear water bubbled forth, and in course of time became famous for curing diseases. St. Illtyd's well is well known, and is nien-tioined in the Cambro- British Saints." Here is a quaint old world picture from the "Cambrian" of this time seventy years ago, William Davies, private in the Eighth Com- pany of the Royal Carmarthen. Militia, was dis- charged at Chelmsford Barracks in 1799, and has kept his regimental clothing ever since in order to be buried with him, viz., one pair of white pantaloons, black leggins, two shirts, with 18-inah long chitterlings, diminity waistcoat, &c. He is a native of the parish of Llangendeirne in this county, and is now 86 years of age. On his arrival home he desired his wife (should she survive him) to bury him in his full uniform but she is gone before him, and now his son is to perform this last duty. de frequently says, I am determined to go to' my grave a soldier." 7r An agent of one of the principal pianoforte businesses in South Wales tells some amusing incidents of bis experience. On one occa- sion," he says, I went to the Rhondda Vallley to examine an instrument, lately purchased from our firm, about which serious complaints had been made. I ran my fingers over the keyboard, and was astonished to find the instrument in a most deplorable condition. There for you! said tthe mistress of the house. I lifted ,the top audi looked inside. Olh dear, dear I quite for- exclaimed the housewife; the lodger, who left, used to keep his food there! and from tihe interior I brought forth a piece of beef, bread, cheese, butter, and. a pot of mustard." In the course of a short note on the past mon/tih the Homiletic Review says: Gladstone was a theologian as well as a statesman; Salis- bury was a learned chemist as well as a popular politician Mr. Balfour shines as a philosophic writer; and Mr. Lloyd George's religious ad- dresses are as masterly as. those which he de- livers on the political platform. This has been a memorable year for the Welsh Baptists. Even Welshmen who are not affiiliated with the pol- itical party of which Mr. Lloyd George is so prominent a leader share the pride of the Prin- cipality in the brillant career of one of its ablest sons. That the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be president of the Baptist Union of Wales is one of the most significant proofs of the moral progress which this age is achieving beyond any stage hitherto mark,ed in the nationi- 'al life. That a man eminent in his own deno- mination, and not ashamed to emphasise his identification with it, should attain to. one of the highest offices of the legislature, is a fact al- together differentiating our civilisation from that of any preceding epoch. Such a condition would have been impossible a hundred years ago, when high and noble character was not demanded1 in kings or administrators. If revolutions are talked of, and if reformations are refererred to, here we have both a revolution and a reforma- tion entirely accomplished by the' march of the religious senlSe of the people of the British Em- pire. It is fallacious to say that the world does not move. Humanity is not only moving, but it is moving in the right direction."
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A former pupil of the County School, Llan- gefni, Leslie Jones, Brynsiencyn, has just gained an open scholarship of £80 per, annum at Em- m.anueil ,College, Cambridge.
ILeather and Tariff " Reform."
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Leather and Tariff Reform." To THE EDITOR OF THE Weekly News. Sir,—I was met on the street in Colwyn Bay the other day by a gentleman who favours Tariff Reform," and he greeted me with a sort of triumphant note in his voice, thus What about Fiee Trade now? What about that gentle- man in Nottingham in the leather trade who has turned Tariff Reformer? Well," 1 said, I have not seen the particu- lars, but I dare say the gentleman has turned Tariff Reformer because he may probably see money in it—for himself. I have not the slight- est doubt but that he has some selfish end in view." "Ah he said, you will have to give up Free Trade one of these days." Well, on looking at my morning paper I found that this was no case of sudden conversion, as my friend thought, but that this Nottingham leather merchant had cut himself adrift from Free Trade three years ago by joining the Tariff Reform Commission. Further, it was stated That for the last three years his works had been running at top pressure he himself admitted that We have been working day and night," and adding, "that despite foreign competition and trade depres- sion, there was a profit of five per cent." My surmise, therefore, was correct; he was after more profits.. I don't know whether this would include more wages, though, for his workmen, nor did he mention more employment. Now, since then, Ii have looked into the posi- tion of the leather ktrade, and with your kind permission, would like tOo place a few consid- erations thereon for my friend, and also for your numerous readers, who also may have seen the incident, which was made so much of by the Tory Press the other day. The leather trade came to the front at the late bye-election at Bermondsay, and the Tariff Reform "—or Protectionist candidate I prefer to call him—the celebrated John Dumphreys, promised that if elected, he would see that for- eign leather would be scheduled for a ten per cent. duty in coming into this country. Why? Because leather tanning, as an' industry, had de- clined in Bermondsey. Now anyone acquainted with the facts in re- gard t.o the leather trade, knows that, whereas London used to be the great centre and source of the manufacture of leather goods, and na- turally also of its raw material, it is not so ttJ day. Leather goods of all kinds, and in greater variety and extent than ever, are made all over the country, notably at such places as North- ampton, Leicester, South Wigston, Walsall, Manchester, Leeds, and Glasgow. Leather tanning has declined at Bermondsey, but it has spread to other districts naturally, in a word, leather tanning has followed the leather trade, and there is consequently many more men employed in leather tanning in the country than when. it used to be centred in Ber- mondsey. Now I venture to say that, if ten per cent, or twenty per cent. duty was put on foreign leath- er imports, it would cause but little, if any, in- crease to Bermondsey's ancient special trade. But what might presumably increase the pro- fits of the leather trade of Bermondsey and of Sir John Turmey, of Nottingham, by a ten per cent. duty on foreign leather imports, would most assuredly seriously affect the boot and shoe trade of Northampton, Leicester, Soutth Wigston, Stafford, Stone, Leeds, and Glasgow, and add to the difficulties of the fancy leather and bag trade of Birmingham and Manchester, and also the saddlery of Walsall, because leather is the raw material of these important manufacturing places. Mr James Branch, M.P. (Messrs Branch & Son, boot manufacturers, Betlinal Green and Northampton), says: "If a duty were levied upon partly manufactured goods, the differ- ence would mean the ruin of our foreign, and colonial trade. The difficulty of competing with America, Austria, and Switzerland abroad would be enormously increased, if we had to submit, to a tax on our raw materials." Alderman Hickson, of Northampton, President of the Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Associa- tion, has said —" British manufacturers have no fear of American or any other competition, as all the leadng factories are fully equipped with the latest machinery and plant. We are not taking competition lying down. We neither seek nor require interference by the Government on our behalf. The taxation of leathar and machinery would spell ruin to the boot trade." Now, look at the relattive importance of the leather imported, and the output of the boot and shoe trade. The total imports of leather of all kinds amount to nearly nine million pounds' worth, of which nearly one-third comes from British India, and would therefore be exempt from a 10 per cent, duty, leaving roughly six millions of foreign leather but even this amount has to be reduced, because over one and a half mil- lions are re-exported; this would be subject to rebate, thus leaving only four and a half mil- lions upon which duty would be paid. To benefit the leather trade, then., 10 per cent duty would be imposed on four and a half mil- lion pounds' worth, and the price of all leather produced in the United Kingdom would rise in proportion, to the detriment of the boot and shoe trade. Now what is thfe extent of that trade? No less than. 45 millions sterling! of which two millions are exported and only three- quarters of a million was imported in 1907. Think of the idiotic, nay, criminal, policy of jeopardising -this, enormous, trade, giving em- ployment to over 500,000 men, besides all the employees i nthe retail trade of the country, for the benefit of a trade in foreign, imports of eX- actly one-tenth. But there is just one other little item I would like to add. If foreign, leather is to be protected for the benefit of Bermondsey and Sir' John Turney, what about the hide and skin merchants? Are they not to have any of the p>lums going ? They also have to meet with foreign imports. In 1908 the imports of hides and skins amounit.ed to six and a half millions. Why not a duty of 10 per cent. on this item? Of course, it would be the Bermondsey tanners and Sir John Tuirney who would feel the pinch here, because their raw material would thus be increased in price, more, to my reckoning, than 10 per cent. 011 four and a half millions, it seems to me that 'Bermoindsey, &c., is going to. be worse off than now. And then comes the bark merchants. Half a million pounds' wortlhl of foreign bark is im- portiCd, and if the leather people and the hide and skin people are to have the chance of in- creased profits, why not the bark merchants? And so we go on until the circle is completed, and everything is taxed and everything is dearer, and we get rid of that terrible thing, cheap pro- duction. So, helping Bermondsey seems to me a serious business for Northampton, Leicester, and all the other places mentioned, and also to all wearers of boots and shoes and users of all kindis of leather goods. AN ALLEGORY. There was once a Scottish Highlander lying very ill in a hospital in New York. The doc- tors said he would not recover, and told the nurse to give him whatever he liked. The nurse asked the poor fellow what he thought would do him good. Oh! he said, "if only I could hear the soond o' the pipes She told the doctor, and he said Poor fel- low, he will get his request," and a Scottish paper played outsidle the window The Land o' the Leal." Next morning the doctor came into the ward, and, behold, the Scotsman, was sitting up. 11 Well' he said to the nurse, how's this?" Ah she said, the Scottie has got better, but all the others are dead Yours, &c., R. THOMSON. Mount View, Victoria Park, Colwyn Bay.
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Colwyn Bay Liberals. MR. W. CLOUGH, M.P., ON THE BUDGET. A meeting of Liberal workers was held in the Lecture Hall, Colwyn Bay, on Friday even- ing when a special address was given by Mr W\ Cloug'h, M.P. for the Skapton division of Yorkshire. The hall was full. The meeting was ably pre- sided; over by Mr John. Crompton, of Victaria- park, who, in his opening remarks. emphasioco the importance of the present contest and urged all present to do their utmost for the Liberal caulse. Mr Clough was received with cheers. He said he was very glad the House of 'Lords had forced a General Election at such an opportune time, and upon such an opportune point. Were or were not the .lords and dukes to bear their pro- per share of taxation? This Budget was the most just and equitable he had ever known. A Yorkshire barrister .said it suited him down to the ground. He had no luxuries and he had no income. (Laughter.) There was no law to compel a man to Simolke, to drink, or to. drive a motor car, and if a man wanted to escape the income tax, let him give his children some of his surplus to. go on with, and so reduce his means within the limit. (Hear, hear.) He was afraid they would have to live for ever to es- cape the death duties, but they could prevent other people leaving them money at their death so as not to pay the duties. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) It was a luxury to smoke, and he supposed it was a luxury to drink, it was a luxury to have an income, and certainly a luxury to have an unearned income, it was a big luxury to have an income above £5,000 a year. Very well, the Budget said, they would, have to pay for these luxuries. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Mr. Lloyd George (pro- longed cheering),—by the way, he remembered he was a Welshman—'(laughter),—Mr. Lloyd George, the little Taffy," had left untouched the wardrobe, the flour-bin, and the breakfast- table..(Cheers.) That was a very good reply given to a Tory canvasser by a Yorkshire cot- tager, when the canvasser referred to, the tax on spirits and tobacco :—"Ah, yes, but there's only one smoker and drinker in this house, and that's me; but there's eight eats bread." (Applause.) He looked upon the Budget as having been made out as a doctor makes out his bills. When a doctor attended at a mansion he charged pro- bably a guinea a visit, but when attending the poor he often, forgot to send in his bill. He was reminded of a doctor friend of his who was called in to a very poor patient. The doctor 'said that what the patient needed was nourishment, so he immediately went home, made a prescription., and sent it to the patient in a pill-box, who opened it and found it full of sixpences with a note To be taken when re- quired." So also the Budget demanded from the rich a fitting tax and to the very poor Mr. Lloyd George had forgotten to send in his bill and given them a pill-box of sixpences every week in tihe shape of (the Old-age Pensions Bill. (Prolonged applause and cheering.) With regard to the House of Lords, he was a single-chamber man himself. They had muddled through ten: years of single-chamber government under the Tory party from 1896 to. 1905, and he was prepared to take his chance of muddling through ten years of single-chambered Liberal Government, and he would undertake that there would be far less muddling about it than in the case of the Tory party. What were the duties of a Second Chamber? To revise; (2) to check hast1" and ill-con- sidered legislation but the beauty of it all was that the Lords had done neither, and so. had failed to justify their existence. They, were supposed to act the part -of a clow, that was to say, a sluice or lockgajte, only to open when the volume of public opinrion was so. "Teat that for safet-H it must be let through. They were also to apply the brake, which they never did when a Tory party was in power, but they put it on in the case df .a Liberal Government, whether they went uphill or downhill. The Lords wt-je THE TOOLS OF THE TORY PARTY, and the absolute veto must gü. (Cheers.; The Lords had made four great and daring innovations upon the C'onstitutioin (I) They claimed to make and unmake Cabinets; (2) They claimed to control the national purse- strings '(3) They cdaimed to. force a dissolution, and (4) they had assumed the prerogative of the Sovereign. The Lords had broken two. Liberal leaders, the Grand Old Man and Sir Henry Campbell. Bannerman, but they would not break the Right Hon. H. H. Asquiith. He knew where be was going—(hear, hear),—he knew the way there, and before long they would find that he had leached the goal. (Cheers.) At the present rate a man could walk his legs off going into the division Hobbies, and then, after toiling all thrüugh isummer and winter be snubbed by the Lords, but Mr. Asquith would not be snubbed nor would he be bullied. (Hear, hear.) The resolution moved by Sir H. Campbell- Bannerman would be put in force. It would be the first duty of the new Government to. pass the same, and the Lords would have to agree to place it on the Statute Book. It would be done by Act of Parliament, and the first of its provisions would be, that on the rejection of a measure by the 'House of Lords, equal numbers fiorn both Houses should meet in. private and discuss the matters at issue. In the event of their agreement the measure would become law. If they disagreed the measure would be. sent up a second time with an intimation that it must be passed. If rejected1 a second time, the two Houses would meet as before and endeavour to come to an agreement. Failing this, the Prime Minister would apply to the King for the creation of sufficifent new peers to ensure the passing of the bill. The mere threat would be sufficient. The reason for the somewhat roundabout method adopted was to allow plenty of opportunity for debate, and yet within the limits of a single Parliament the will of the people would prevail. (Hear, hear. J So that Colwyn Bay people might yet see Sir Herbert Roberts a poor of the realm. (Cries of No, no.") For his own part, he would see that they did not make the present Member for Skipton a lord. (Hear, hear, and applause.) The victory was certain and assured so far as Colwyn Bay was concerned, but at Skipton there was a sturdy Tory crew. He, however, was not going to let them walk over. (Hear, hear.) He advised all and everybody who wanted the best principles of social reform put in effect to vote for the Liberal Member. (Cheers and great applause.) Mr. Kettlewell moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Clough for his splendid address. Last Sunday aj stranger visited his chapel, and he took him into his pew. He afterwards learnt that the stranger was none other than the Member for .Skipton, and that he was to speak that n'ght. So that even in these days one could, entertain angels unawares. (Laughter.) Mr. McKie supported the vote of thanks to Mr. Clough for his excellent and enlightening £ |peech. He really was.so eloquent that he (Mr. McKie) thought he was a Scotsman. (Laughter.) It was a very different thing, however, for a man to address a hostile meeting, and if any 01 his young' friends present had contributed to the uproar at the Tory meeting the previous evening he hoped it would not haD pen again. Give them plenty of rope, and they will hang themselves. (Laughter.) Mr. F. Grubb, Liberal agent, endorsed the remarks of the last speaker, and on behalf of Sir Herbert Roberts said he was sure that Sir Herbert would be the last to encourage any- thing like sustained interruptions, and so also would the responsible leaders of Liberal opinion in Colwyn Bay, and, as the last speaker re- marked, it would do more good to grant their opDonents a full hearing. (Applause.\ Mr. Clough suitably responded, and said that there was a Scotchman present, a Yorkshireman and Welshmen. What power on earth could withstand such a combination? (Laughter.) Mr. Clough moved, and it was seconded and supported, a vote of thanks to Mr. Crompton for his able presidency over the meeting, and characterised him as being the right man in the right man in the right place as chairman of the Liberal Associatioin. (Applause.)
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Rev. Evan Jones aind "The Lions." lhe Rev. Evan Jones, Carnarvon, the Presi- dent of the National Federation of Free Church Councils, delivered a stirring speech OIl Satur- day at a meeting held at Holyhead in support of the candidature of Mr. Ellis J. Griffith, M.P. The Rev. Evan Jones said that the purpose of the present election was to bind up the lions. He was remindied of the Pilgrim's approach to the House Beautiful, where in the narrow pas- sage the lions were chained, and he felt that, in the crisis of to-day, if the people were only sufficiently courageous to make the passa- they would find the lions in the path safely secured beyond harm's reach. For himself he did not mind how many lions there might be be at large so long as they were as innocent as Daniel's lions (Applause, and laughter, the audience appreciating the allusion to Lord Shef- field, who occupied the chair.) Let the people keep in the midst of the path, and no hurt would come to them, and when they had passed the obstruction many good things would happen. Mr. Gladstone once used a beautiful figure of the shipping in the Mersey to illustrate what would follow a great reform. When, before the days of steam, the wind was contrary, the Mer- sey used to be crowded with shipping, but when the wind turned it was a grand sight to. see the ¡ ships moving like great butterflies down the river to the sea. When the wind shifted for Liberal statesmanship, the long-delayed vessels of national education., local option for Wales, possibly a measure for the women, and certainly deaesftablishmenit of the alien church would move on their way to the completion of the voyage. (Cheers.) The complaint of the Bishop of St. David's that the present fight was con- cemlJrating too much around one issue reminded him of the boy who upset a hive of bees, and who called out when they attacked him in im- mense numbers It is unfair for such a lot of you to come together one at a time and I'll deal with you." (Laughter and cheers.)
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.a- Mr. Lloyd George Attacked. LORD MIDLETON'S LIE, SSON IN COURTESY. Viscount Midleton, the creator of the famous Brodrick oap and of the phantom Army Corps, delivered himself of a little homily on political etiquette at Northampton on. Saturday. He was particularly severe on Mr Lloyd George, who, he said, should bear himself as a states- man In the course of his speech the noble lord dropped the following polite gems — I wish Lloyd George had been brought up better. He uses language which the wildest back- woodsman, would be ashamed to lather." "His speeches are one long continuous scream, wanting in dignity and sincerity, with a deter- mination to produce an impression at the ex- pense even of justice and truth." His one object seems to be to turn men's hands against one another." "A man who went to hear the late Mr. Glad- stone was asked his impressions, and he replied, It's hardly fair to. ask, for I'm a bit of liar myself.' Viscount Midleton also said that it was en- tirely in the interests of the poor people that he and his brother Peers had thrown out the Bud- get. Hard words were, he said, being uttered, but the Lords were not going to take them lying down. If there was one thing they had a right to ex- pect of a Chancellor of the Exchequer it was that he would confine himself to the truith. In hi? last speech Mr. Lloyd George had insinu- ated that the Lords had said that it was in the interest of the people that they should be crowded into narrow streets without air and without light. No Peer had ever made so foolish a speech or thought anything so ludicrous, and he challenged Mr. Lloyd George to say to whom he alluded. he challenged Mr. Lloyd George to say to whom he alluded.
Mr. Lloyd George's Candidature.
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Mr. Lloyd George's Candidature. At a special meeting of the Carnarvon Boroughs Liberal Association at Carnarvon, on Monday, on the motion of the Chairman, Dr. Wynne Griffith, seconded by Mr. J. R. Pridhard, Mr. Lloyd George was unanimously adopted as the Liberal candidate for Carnarvon Boroughs. It was purely a formal business.
The Rising Tide of Liberalism
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The Rising Tide of Liberalism CARNARVON BOROUGHS. A big demonstration in support of the candi- dature of Mr Lloyd George was held at the Criccieth Town Hall on Saturday night. Mr William George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer's brother, presided, and the speakers included Mrs Lloyd George, Mr Richard Lloyd George, th-e Chancellor's eldest son; Mr Ll. Williams, M.P., and the Rev. Gwynfryn Jones. The Chairman said that the tide of Liberalism was rising rapidly throughout the Carnarvon Boroughs. Reports which had come in from the six boroughs showed enthusiasm the like of which had never been seen at the begin- ning of a campaign for many a long year. (Cheers.) It was peculiarly gratifying to find. the young Liberals of the constituency appeal- ing to the leaders to give them some work to do to help the cause. (Cheers.) Mr Llewellyn Williams, M.i' said' that 600 noble lords had dared to face the Commons of this country. They had ridden into the Valley of Death, and they and their coronets would be swept into utter oblivion. (Cheers.) THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE. The Tory organisations in all the Carnarvon Boroughs has now been visited bv Mr Vincent, the party candidate. On Saturday night he quoted to his supporters at the Pwllheli Con- servative Clubthos.e taxes in the Budget which he claimed operated harshly upon the working classes. He said that he, like Mr Lloyd George, was a lawyer—(cheers),—but he submitted that he was more capable than Mr Lloyd George to interpret an Act of Parliament for the simple reason that he had stuck to his business while Mr Lloyd George had not. (Laughtez, and cheers.) EAST DENBIGHSHIRE CONTEST. Mr Hemmerde addressed a meeting of the electors of East Denbighshire at Cefn Mawr 011 Saturday evening. On the same day Mr David Rhys, barrister, London, who had been addressing meetings in the constituency during the past six or eight weeks, was adopted as the Conservative and Tariff Reform candidate.
....--.--Mr. Sam Thompson's…
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Mr. Sam Thompson's Patriotism." The Manchester Guardian of Tuesday says:- Mr. S. Thompson, the Unionist candidate for West Denbighshire, at Llangollen last night took what one supnoses he would consider the patri- otic course of trying to inflame British senti- ment against Germany. One cannot say to what eixtentt Mr. Thompson has travelled in Germany and made himself familiar, either by personal conversation with German people or by a first-hand study of German politics, with the real attitude of Germany towards England, but he makes two statements of thei gravest charac- ter. One is that Germany has cast covetous eyes on the British Colonies. The other is that Germany is not friendly to this England of ours." It is to be hoped that Unionists who value international peace and the mutual friend- ship which is the best guarantee of people will set their faces firmly against these wretched at- tempts to (atch votes by such means. There can be only one purpose behind Mr Thompson's attempt to enlighten out of his stores of foreign knowledge the Welsh public about the secret ambitions which andmate the German Court. It is, of course, to suggest that our naval defences could only be safely entrusted to the great pat- riotic party which he represents. He has ap- parently forgotten South Africa. After our dole- ful experience of the way in which thev bungled everything it was possible to bungle in that campaign, a sense of humour, if not of decency, should suggest the propriety of silence about the claims of Unionist Ministers as di- rectors of national defence.
...--.. The Local Joinery…
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The Local Joinery Trade. For the purposes of the present General Elec- tion it is being said that our Free Trade system is ruining the local joinery trade, and that the industry would benefit if the country returned to Protection. Exactly the same assertions were made a quarter of a century ago, and were answered by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in a speech made by him at Birmingham in 1885. In that speech Mr. Joseph Chamberlain said: I notice that Mr. Dumphreys in one of his speeches complained that frame-work, wooden, frame-work, was imported into this country from Canada,^ Norway, and Sweden, to the detriment of the. English carpenters, and he proposed that a duty should be put on that manufacture also. In Germany they followed this recommenda- tion they have put a duty on the manufacture of wood, and what do you think the result has been? Do you think the carpenters and the cabinet-makers have been benefitted? No, not a bit. There are fewer houses built, and there is less work for the working man, and there are less wages paid." Mr. Chamberlain added It is right you should know those things, and that when those quack remedies are proposed to you, you should understand what is the result of taking them." In spite of later utterances of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the foregoing statement still re- mains incontrovertible.
--".-.c. Eifion Division.
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-c. Eifion Division. An appeal is being made to the local Liberal Associations in the Eifion division to form an election fund, of which Mr. C. E. Breese (Port. madoc) will act as treasurer. Next Saturday the, Association will meet formally to adopt Mr. Ellis W. Davies as candidate. Mr. Davies is addressing a series of meetings in his constitu- ency this week.
--.--.. Carnarvonshire Council…
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Carnarvonshire Council and Unemployment. In order to relieve the unemployed in the county the Carnarvonshire Council are prepiar- ing to carry out an improvement scheme which will include the straightening of dangerous curves in the main roads in the various districts. One of these is located between Penypass and Penygwryd. An inspector of the Local Govern- ment Board will view the district this week, and it is expected that the loan necessary for the purposes of the scheme may be carried through with very little delay.
CAKES AND PUDDINGS.—No. 6.
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CAKES AND PUDDINGS.—No. 6. There are many ladies who do not know that Cakeoma makes the nicest and lightest pud- dings. If this recipe and instructions are fol- lowed, it will be found that Cakeoma is very easy to use, and that it makes an excellent pud- ding. LEMON PUDDING. 1 packet of Cakeoma. 4 to 6 oz. fine chopped Suet i pinch of Salt. 2 Eggs. A third to half a glass of Milk. The grated rinds of two and the juice of one Lemon. METHOD. Put the Cakeoma, Suet, and Salt into, a basin and rub together between the hands until as fine as breadcrumbs. Beat up the Eggs with the Lemon, and add them with the Milk to the other ingredients, and mix lightly but thorough- ly. Put into a pudding mould and tie a cloth over it a.nd steam or boil for three hours. Serve hot with sweet sauce. These quantities make a pudding sufficient for ten or twelve persons: the quantities can be reduced proportionately for a smaller pudding. Lunch Cake recipe next week. Cakeoma is sold only in 3%d. packets by Grocers and Stores everywhere.