Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times

• + THE NATIONAL FINANCES. The Exchequer returns from April 1, 1901, to October 19, 1901, compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, show the following results 1901 1900 £ £ Receipts 61,765,584 56,287,040 Expenditure 111,204,249 101,230,000 Balances 5,325,545 2,865,886

DOVEY FISHERY BOARD. SALMON MORE PLENTIFUL. The ordinary meeting was held at Barmouth, on Thursday, under the presidency of Dr John Jones, Dolgelley. A letter was read from Mr Wyatt, Bryngwynan, respecting the preservation of the upper part of Glaslyn river. Dr Roberts, and Messrs L G Jones and R 0 Jones were appointed a I committee to meet the riparian owners, with full power to come to an understanding regarding the preservation of the Glaslyn in the future. Mr W R H Wynne wrote stating that the river keeper had informed him that he had found two men netting at the mouth of the Dysynni on August 9 with a foot net inside the prohibited portion. They had in their possession 15 bass and one salmon. The clerk was instructed to take proceedings. The fishery officers reported that they had found during the quarter all nets within their districts to be according to the requirements of the law. They found salmon more plentiful than for several seasons. The season was a poor one at Barmouth owing to the pollution of the Mawddach, but they were of opinion that should the Mawddach be kept clean salmon would enter the river freely. The 1st of November was fixed as the date of the election of representative members, and the chairman was appointed returning officer.

—-♦ A Parliamentary return dealing with the ex- penditure of local authorities on technical educa- tion show that in 1898-9 the amount so expended in England, Wales, and Itelandwas£970,612,. and that in 1899-1900 it was £ 615,134. Engineering" states that an effort is to be made to get the Treasury to agree to the remission of the tax upon all alcohol imported for scientific purposes. The British and Russian Governments are stated at St Petersburg to have come to a com- plete agreement calculated to avert all dispute" in connection with the future of Afghanistan. Captain Griffith-Boscawen, who presided over the Denbighshire Quarter Sessions on Friday at Wrexham, regetted to find that certain so-called social clubs had been established in the neighbour- hood of Wrexham. He said they were nothing but drinking clubs established for the purpose ot evading the Welsh Sunday Closing Act, and so great was the evil that the attention of the Govern- ment would have to be called to the matter. A Salt Lake City despatch states that Mr Joseph Smith has been chosen president of the Mormon Church,in success to the late Mr Lorenzo Snow. The Emperor William deposited a maginificent wreath on the sarcophagus of the Emperor Fred. erick at the mausoleum in the Friedenskirche at Potsdam,this being the seventieth anniversary of the late Emperor's birth. Prince Friedrich, Prince August Wilhelm,and Prince Oscar also laid a wreath on the tomb, as did numerous deputations of officers. As Monday was the anniversary of the great victory won ninety-six years ago at Trafalgar over the combined French and Spanish Fleets under Villeneuve, the Nelson Column at Charing-cross, London,Swas again decoraated in honour of the occasion. The Direct cable from Durban, South Africa to Perth, Westein Australia, will be opened on Novem- ber 1. The Rev E J Peck was probably the last British subject to learn the news of the death of Queen Victoria. He is the representative of the Church Missionary Society among the Eskimo on Blacklead Island, Cumberland Sound, Baffin's Bay, aad it was only by the chance call of a whaling vessel on September l.that he heard of the sad event-over seven months after its occurrence.

NEWS IN BRIEF. At Penrhyndeudraeth on Friday a young woman named Redfern, of Halifax, was committed for trial at the assizes on a charge of committing perjury. It was stated that as the result of charges made by her against the Rev T E Jones, formerly curate of Llanbedrog, Mr Jones lost the curacy. On Monday evidence was given to the effect that the accused had confessed to a magistrate that the charge against Mr Jones was unfounded, and that she was anxious to undo the injustice she had done him. A meeting of the Penrhyn quarrymen who are still out on strike was held at Bethesda on Saturday. The principal speaker was Mr W W Jones, the president of the Quarrymen's Union who alleged the reasonableness of the men's demands, and appealed to Lord Penrhyn to do what the majority of em. ployers already had done without, he said, any loss of dignity or authority. In a letter to Lord Avebury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, through his private secretary, says that in the new coinage it has not been thought desirable to alter the design of the gold coins, but with regard to the rest of the coinage the Treasury is considering the advisability of making a change so that their respective values will be marked upon each coin. This suggestion was recently made to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach by a number of represen- tative commercial men, who pointed out the desirability of having the value of each coin marked upon it in plain letters similar to those to be found on the penny. A conference took place on Saturday between the manager of the Halkyn lead mines and represen- tatives of the miners who have been out on strike for some days. No settlement was arrived at, the men still declining to accept the proposed reduction of 10 per eent. in wages. At the Anglesey Police Committee on Thursday a resolution was passed asking the Government to abolish grocers' licences. The Rev Walter Baggaley, who five years ago was in charge of the Roman Catholic Mission at Barmouth, and has recently returned from Central America, where he has been working among the poor people of Spanish Honduras, has been appointed to the Aberystwj th mission by the Bishop of Menevia, Sir Archibald Smith has resigned the Mastership of the Rolls, and he is succeeded by Lord Justice Henn Collins. Mr Justice Matthew becomes a Lord Justice of Appeal. A Plymouth Correspondent saysThe Devon- port Dockyard authorities have received instructions to prepare for building a battle-ship larger than any now existing. Its 4-placement will be 16,500 tons, and its length 425 feet. The previous largest battle-ships designed for the British Navy are of the Queen class, with a displacement of 15,000 tons and a length of 400 feet. The A merican Navy has the largest ships afloat, the New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, and Georgia, each of which has a displace- ment of 15,320 tons. The new ship will be the first of a King Edward VII class. The death occurred (fl Sunday evening of, Sir Archibald Smith, whose resignation of the Master- ship of the Rolls was annonnced only a day or two before. The offical announcement is made of the appoint- ment of Mr Joseph Walton, K.C., Recorder of Wigan, to be a judge of the King's Bench Division, in the place of Mr Justice Mathew. Burglars entered the Post-office at Chicago on Sunday night and stole 76,068 dollars' worth of stamps. They entered and escaped through a tunnel which must have taken a week or more to make. It runs from the rear of Lhe premises, and the hole was drilled through the steel bottom of the wholesale stamp -ault. This was only six feet trom the cashier's vault, which contained over three hundred thousand dollars in cash. The latter was evidently the objective of the burglars. A peculiar case under the Workmen's Compensa- tion Act was heard in the Manchester County Court on Monday. Two apprentices in a machinery works had words, and one of them threw a piece of iron at the other. This missed the lad at whom it was aimed, but struck a: third youth and destroyed the sight of one of his eyes. He claimed compensa- tion from his employers, aud the question was whether he had sustained an accident that occurred in the course of his employment. The judge mled that he had, and awarded him compensation. Among the coloured friends of Great Britain represented at the coronation of King Edward next year will probably be the people of Uganda, whose Prime Minister, it has been arranged, will coma from Central Africa. He will be one of the most interesting visitors. Not long ago, when the cathedral at Mengo was begun, he set the example to the people of; digging and carrying the clay to 119 the brick-kilns. He is shortly to publish a book he has written on the spirit-worship of Uganda. At the Llandudno Police Court on Monday a landlord was fined X5 and costs for permitting card. playing for money to be carried on his licenled premises. It is rumoured that an invitation is likely to be extended to Mr Augustine Birrell, K.C., to become Liberal candidate for York at the next election. u- ^lcliard ^ee is resigning the headmaster- ship of Christ's Hospital, London. Mr Lee has been connected with the ancient school for nearly thirty years, and his tenure of office has proved a brilliant success. Bnt he naturally desires to transfer to younger hands the task of initiating a new era on the approaching migration to Horsham in Sussex. In connection with the bicentenary of Yale University, U.S.A., an interesting ceremony took place in Wrexham churchyard around the tomb of Elihu Yale, the founder of the College. An account was given by Mr Mason, one of the churchwardens, of Yales connections with Wrexham, and after. wards wreaths of evergreens were placed on the tomb on behalf of the graduates of the University the churchwardens of the parish, and the Corpora- tion of the borough. It was stated that tke gradu- ates of Yale proposed to place a memorial of the founder of their College in Wrexham church. Sir Thomas Lipton (says a Chicago telegram) has declared himself in favour of a change in the construction of the American Cup challengers and deienders. He said that the yachts should be something more than mere racing machines. At present the yachts were not safe. Should the cup ever cross the ocean, said Sir Thomas, the chal- lenger would have to be built according to British ideas of stability.

SALOPIAN WAR MEDALS. DISTRIBUTION BY LADY POWIS. The Countess of Powis, who was accompanied by the Earl of Powis, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, visited Shrewsbury on Saturday, and distributed the South African war medals to the members of the active service companies of the Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry and the Shropshire Im- perial Volunteers. Some 220 officers and men received medals. At the close the men were addressed by the Eatl of Powis, who said it was with the greatest pleasure that he took part in that presentation of rewards which had been con- ferred apon the recipients by their King and country as a mark of appreciation of gallant service in South Africa. It was a source of satisfaction and pride that when volunteers were called for there was such a ready response, and when this page of the country's history came to be written the conduct of the Volunteers in the South African campaign had been such that every Briton would read of it with pride (cheers). In the afternoon Lord Powis presided at a luncheon.—After the loyal toasts Colonel Kenyon-Slaney, M.P., proposed The recipients of the South African war medal." —Colonel Meyrick, in replying, said he had that afternoon received a telegram from Lord Roberts, which said, "Please convey to the members of the Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry and Volunteers who are receiving the South African medal my warmest congratulations on the occasion, and assure them of my appreciation of the good work they have performed in South Africa."

-♦ PROCLAMATION OF THE PRINCE. CARNARVON'S AMBITION. The ancient town of Carnarvon, conscious and proud of the advantages of its matchless castle, has always been alive with projects for picturesque ceremonials. Carnarvon's latest ambition is to secure the pro- clamation and installation of the Duke of Cornwall and York as Prince of Wales within the walls of the edifice where the first Prince of Wales is traditionally supposed to be born. It is pointed out that the Castle possesses a room, the Masonic Lodge-room, suitable for the holding of a Privy Council," in which the ceremony could take place. The matter, it is stated, has been brought before the King, and His Majesty is assured that his con- sent to the proposal would be a source of immense gratification to the Welsh people.

THE CECIL-BAIN ROMANCE. AN ATTEMPTED ARREST. An Edinbmrgh correspondent states :-Although no protest was lodged during the past week against the second proclamation of the banns of marriage between Lieut. Cecil and Miss Jessit Bain, a rather startling development took place at the end of the week. Recognising that the injunction of tke Court of Chancery restraining the parties from marrying was to have no effect in preventing the young couple from carrying uut their purpose, Lady Frances Cecil applied to the Court of Chancery for a warrant for the arrest of her son, and this was granted, signed by the Lord Chancellor. Armed with this document, an English solicitor and a couple of London detectives arrived in Edinburgh on Friday with the intention of executing the warrant. Applying first to the Chief Constable, they found that Mr Ross refused to act in the matter without the authority of a Scottish judge or one of the chief law officers. A petition was ac. cordingly presented to the Lord Justice General, but on Saturday his Lordship refused to counter- sign the warrant, on the ground that the authority of the Lord Chancellor does not run in Scotland. Another step taken in the interest of Lady Cecil was to lodge a caveat in the Sheriff Court against the registration of any irregular marriage on the part of Lieut Cecil. On Sunday St Cuthbert's Church was again crowded, but nothing in the nature of a scene occurred to gratify those who had been brought out from motives of curiosity. Toe Rev R H Fisher, Morningside, Edinburgh, was the officiating clergyman, and he had only one pro. clamation to make—that iu which the interest centred. This proclamation," he said, "is made for the second time," adding, This is the full and final proclamation." No public objection was made rand no protest was lodged. The session clerk would, therefore, on Monday write out the neces- sary certificate to enable the young couple to carry out their purpose of marriage as soon thereafter as they wish. Lieutenant Cecil and Miss Bain were quietly married in Morningside Parish Church, Edinburgh, on Monday. About a dozen persons were present at the ceremony. The couple afterwards left for the South. Mr Cecil has £ 8,000 per annum, but on reaching 21 years he succeeds to L50,000, and on becoming 25 he succeeds to half a million left him by his grandfather, Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. The Press Association is authoritatively informed that Lady F Cecil will take no further proceedings against Lieutenant Cecil for his marriage with Miss Bain. It is expected that Lieutenant Cecil will throw himself upon the mercy of the Choncery Court, and probably make an application to the Chancellor for a sum towards his maintenance until he reaches the age of 21, when he will be amply provided for. The same correspondent is author. ised to state that Lady Ceoil has not acted with any vindictive spirit, and that had Lieutenant Cecil waited until his majority his mother would have been quite wilting to receive Miss Bain in her family. Lieutenant and Mrs Cecil left York on Tuesday for London, and arrived in the capital between six and seven o'clock in the evening. A considerable crowd awaited the arrival of the train at King's Cross, but a barrier kept the people away from the platform. Lieutenant Cecil and his wife were loudly cheered as they stepped from the reserved carriage in which they had travelled. To a reporter the Lieutenant said: I intend to do nothing except wait developments at my hotel, but I am going to place myself unreservedly in the hands of the Lord Chancellor." He and his wife then drove to an hotel, the crowd again loudly cheering.

MARKETS WELSHPOOL GENERAL, Monday.—Wholesale price- Butter, Od to Is 2d per lb; eggs, 10 to 11 for Is; fowls, 3s Od to Os Od; chickens, 3s 6d to 4s Od; ducks, 4s 6d to Os Od; rabbits. Is 4d per couple j geese, 5s each. NEWTOWN GENERAL, TUESDAY.—Eggs 10 toO for is; butter Od to Is 2d per Ib; fowls 3s Od to 0s Od chickens 3s 6d to 4s Od ducks 4s 6d to Os Od rabbits, Is 4d to Os Od per couple; geese, 5s each. LIVERPOOL CORN, TUESDAY.—Wheat, quiet trade, about Friday's rate. 1 Californian, 5s9Jd to 5a 10; 1 Northern Spring, old, 5s 9d to 5s 9Jd 1 Northern Duluth, 5s 9d to 5s 9fd. Beans, Saidi,30s 6d to 30s 9d. Peas, 6s 3d. Oats, new white, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; old, 3s Od to 3s 3d. Maize, moderate business, about half-penny over Friday, new mixed, 4s lid to 4s llfd. Flour, sixpence dearer. LONDON HAY AND STRAW, TUESDAY.—Prices:— Good to prime hay, 95s to 112s 6d inferior to fair, 80s to 90s good to prime clover, 95s to 110s; inferior to fair ditto, 80s Od to 90s mixture and sainfoin. 85a to 105s Od straw, 28s to 40s per load. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-Numbers: Beasts, 1,806; sheep, 7,962. Quotations:- Best beasts, 5ad to 6d seconds, 5d to 51d; thirds, 4!d to 4 4 5Jd best Scotch sheep, Od to 711 other sorts, 151d to 7d lambs, 6d to 7|d per Ih. The supply of cattle was smaller than last week, showing a decrease of 203 beasts and a decrease of 2,181 sheep and lambs. Demand for cattle fair, but slow for sheep and lambs, at about late rates. BIRMINGHAM CATTLE, TUESDAY. — Supply and demand fair. Prices ruled as follow Beef, Herefords, 61d to 7d shorthorns, 6d to 61d; bulls and cows, 5d to 6d; calves, 6d to 8d; wethers, 7Jd to 8d; ewes and rams, 5id to 6d; lambs, 7d to 8d per lb. Bacon pigs, 9s 6d to 9s 9d; porkets, lls Od to lls 3d; sows, 8s 3d to 8s 6d per score. SALFORD CATTLE, TUESDAY. At market Cattle, 3,074 sheep and lambs, 9,465 calves, 122. Trade both for cattle and sheep slow, and prices hard to maintain calves also dull. Quotations Cattle, 5d to 6jd; calvep, 5d to 7id sheep, 6d to 71d per lb. CORK BUTTER, Thursday.—Primest, —E prime —s firsts, 96s; seconds 89s kegs, -s j thirds 81s kegs —s fourths 69s; fifths -s; choicest —e; choice —s; superfine 99s; kegs —s; fine mild 96s mild s choicest boxes 99s; choice boxes, 94s; 133 cwt of fresh butter A, 101s to 99s B, 89s to -8 factory seconds, —. Total number of firkins. 292. OSWESTRY CORN MARKET, WEDNESDAY. — The following were the quotatiors:- White wheat (old) 38 lid to 4s Od white wheat (new), Os Od to 0s Od per 751bs red wheat (old), 3s lid to 4s Od red wheat (new), 08 Od to Os Od per 7blbs old oats, 16s Od to 17s Od new oats, 118 Od to lis 6d per 2001bs; malting barley, 16s Od to 19s Od; grinding barley, 13s Od to 14s Od per 280lbs. OSWESTRY GENERAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.— Quotations Butter, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb; eggs 8 to 9 for Is; beef, 7d to 8d mutton, 7d to 9d •" lamb, 9d to lOd veal, 7d to 8d pork, 6d to 8d per lb fowls, 4s Od to 5s Od per couple ducks, 5s Od to 6s Od; rabbits, 2s 2d to 2s 4d per couple y potatoes, 9d to 10d per score carrots, Id to lid per bunch; cabbages, 2d to 4d cauliflowers, 2d to 4d each; cucumbers, 4d to 6d each watercress, Id mushrooms, 5d to 6d per lb apples and pears, 91 to 2s per 100; damsons, £ d to Id per quart; Walnuts, 6d per hundred filberts, 6d to 9d per lb cob nuts, 6d per quart; hedge nuts, 2d per lb. OSWESTRY WEEKLY CATTLE FAIR.—There was a good supply of stock at the Smithfield on Wednes- day, especially of pigs as the Swine Order was re- vokpd. Beef was a slow trade and stores were not so good as last week, cows and oalves met with a ready sale. Messrs Whitfield and Sons sold 236 cattle and calves, and 956 sheep; Messrs Hall, Wateridge and Owen sold — fat cattle aud a number of sheep; Messrs Whitfield and Rogers, sold a large quantity of stock, as did also Mr T Whitfield, Junr. Prices ruled as follows :—Beef, 6d to 61d per lb; veal, 61d to 7d per lb; mutton, 7d Lo 7jd; lamb, 7d to 71d per lb pork pigs, 51d to 6d bacon pigs, fjd to 5|d per lb. ELLESMERE, TUESDAY. —Quotations as follows Wheat (new) 4s Od to Os Od per 75 lbs; malting barley, 4s 6d to 5s OJ per 70 lbs; oats (new), 10s 6d to IlEi6,1 per 200 lbs butter, Is Id to Is 3d per lb; eggs, 7 to 9 for Is; fowls, 3s Od to 4s 6d ducks, 4s Od to 5s Od rabbits, ls6d to 23 Od per couple; apples, 4s Od to 5s Od per 901bs. WHITCHURCH, FRIDAY. Wheat, 4s Od to 4s 2d per 75 Ibs; barley, 3s 9d to 4s 3d per 70 lbs, oats, 2s 8d to 3s 9d per 50 lbs eggs, 8 to 9 for Is butter Is Id to Is 2d per 16 oz; fowlp, 3s 6s to 4s Od ducks, 4s Od to 4s 6d per couple potatoes, 9d to Os per score; beef, 6d to 8d mutton,7d togd j lamb, 7d to 8 £ d veal, 6d to 8d pirk, 7d to 8d per lb rabbits, Os Od to Is 8d pei ooupte; apples, 2d per quarter; damsons, Os Od to 6s Od per measure. BRADFORD WOOL, THURSDAY.—Although there was less activity in fine wools there was a nice steady tone about this market to-day; it is evident that there is a good deal doing in the producing branches, and the output is just now very large. In the meantime, however, there has undoubtedly been some easing off in the values of fine merinos. Just now, although there is considerable consump- tion, low crossbreds have declined in value, and 40's have gone down to 71d, and 36's to 7ici, but 32's are very stiff at 7gd. It appears that the latter are wanted for yarns in connection with Government orders. There has been a further relapse in EngJish wool. Pick North hoggs have fallen from 9d to 8Jd. Both Lincoln hoggs and partial wethers are 2 weak at 8d and 5d respectively. Ripon hoggs aie lid and wethers 8J. Yorkshire hoggs are down to 91d and wethers to 5id and 6d. Pick half-bred hoggs are 8J.. and wethers 61 and 7d. Nottingham, Norfolk, and Yorkshire half-bred hoggs range from 7Jd, and wethers from 61 to 61. Manufacturers are well employed, and merchants are showing fair activity. Whatever prices may be, thero i, a la ge turnover, and no lack of work apparently in any direction. 4

Mr P A M'Hugh, M.P., who has undergone 's x months' imprisonment for contempt of Court i connection with newspaper articles condemniag alleged jury-packing in Ireland, was released f om Kilmainham gaol on Monday. The LOt d Mayor of Dublin and representatives of other public bodies received him, and a publio luncheon was given,in his honour.