The Welsh Coast Pioneer and Review for North Cambria

Th^R08^11 Vicar of Holywell. !n''matfc^ P-Willi-rn^, vicar of Holywell, has )n8 the °- '1's c^ui c'1w, rdens that he is resign- frOlntt lIving, the to take effect as Of Ult. He was appointed to the living Ion"- 111 1,v^i U! succession to the late Canon |3lue oi AS' "le living of Holywell is of the j usColi l2' Wl!" a house,.and is in the gift of an of ^xfrrci- Mr Williams is also runl ClerMvmI ••UVell> a"d is one of the best-known < Cn ln the diocese of St. Asaph. I

Ame Late Dean Howell. Dean. Howell Memorial Fund i°atHes (Arat rexham on Monday, Mr F. W. ? 0. Bv^or)"Presiding. The secretary (Mr j°iu ^rl £ 7) stated! that he had1 received a letter *riend of J" lJarry5 estate agent, stating that a ^ke n;s had promised anonymously to a ()() any requisite- deficiency in the er, t' scribed up to £ s°- The total SUlb- after d d r, ised amounted' to ;6286, which, ze e, ^3° for expenses, left £256, ir. wincf anonymous offer. The cost of il SQb-coW originally proposed wo-u-ldl be ^,300. ■3rranIIlm:1'tee was appointed/ to carry out "gements. The R r Paste el- D. S. Thomas intends to resign the Vch J of the Eb-enezer Congregational ^Uy v'p, anrwst, where 'he has ministered for Th ars- Je pas^v" Morris has given notice to resign Chn c^ar2e' of Bethel Calvinistic Metho- the I IIgelley, but he will continue 0 Port's! ^e Dolgel!ley English Calvinistic The b Church- «eillQiialS^0^ of Bangor on Friday placed the a S*0ne of a dnurc'h which is in. course ^evijjn' at an approximate cost of ^4,000, li^Ush; a Watering-pTace on the South L,ar- j>' x £ e coast. The site was given, by the pr,lctuie 1*' ^'ynn, of Glynllifon Park, and tn.e te8or.v been designed by Mr P. Shearson 1 arc^itect, Bangor.

Istl Property Market. c'ting Competition at Anglesey. its, h » *%x) (iMes-sirs W. 'Dew audi Son, K j>0ri Thursday week, at the Llangefni itlIpQtt4 a^> Put up to public auction, several JjSeJ4 an,(i extensive Anglesey farms and! including the outlying1 portions f -If Ftit Trescawen Estate, the property of The solicitors were 3iJte Roberts and Laurie, Llangefni. J otherg a very large attendance of farmers lk f Ch. (6a. 13P.), within a few minutes1 p -ecJ¡ h, wsirug1 aea.side resürt of ^lenllech, l'rt¡¡ 'Of at a •breakin-eck pace- to £ 900. Two n Aadlwynf.a'l1l11, in itlhe parish) of V r's'r-b':Sirdt(J, ccimprisvn.g 13a. 21. T,^ tn /'coo to /s7o, were knccked .Wyd^'r Jahn, Jonei*, "U'Wyiiliax.th Esgob. c-C f(j tI PaTik?' holdli,nS of 6a. IT. JIp., in the at the j uncÜün of f' ur rmpcrtant 1!} !è¡kedl up from £100 to. ,f,450, anid was x'11 t0 ^r' Evans., o;f L'ian'erc'ny- Gv':yn- s'hiop, wi:th 27 peiches of ifii t?:ri,a.tit t C0!nitested- withi .great keenness, far Jane 'Williams', ultimately secux- V^tl55' %,?' ,;nUt0t' r'ydloy.n Mieiliu's (34a. ir. 7p., with K if yardi, road', and croft), St °'^ £ 9°°> bxit siocn. ran up by .^te.^tirerl011?^3 to £ *&<>, at which price it "7 Mr Ric,:h.a;rd! Wiiiliam.s, Olgira, Ptiv6 Bryr.ir.wcog- Farm., withi new &ia uilcliaxg:s:, yiarcl, etc., .andi com- W'j.?r" 4P-) and' Ce'fn Du Bach. (8a. 21. $9^ of j! n!0'ckeidl db'Win. >Ho 5Ersi WiililiaimiSj, iiv 'Of y, former farm, .far £ i.,67o. Three ^ei qo J11 ,D>'SW' ne!ar Amlwch, co-mpris- jfj in 15a. or. 1 op., diragged some- airirT '^ddinlg, ibut went :as cme lat to TO. "Was: then witbdlraiwn. x<n& first P'^ was put. up. sung'ty, and ireadhis'di t'hie lt_ a^IS0, was withdrawn. The second Hj- 11 at ,ts^e farm (3a.. 3r. 39?.) was with- a /i'S0) and! for the third part -the1 only i,a Periodl fic-lilioweidi, l:;t aifter tot of Cr.niear T)(o'rt Amliwc.h. ibeinij with- e "W'itho'uit a. Siinglie bid and- some be- Put' UP" 'One of the latter, how- ctn^i rf3'Vie:S!t' °f <a main: in'the room, was K" b3^ fom>e' brisk ivhien a ^Vh'^Tt Bach wias knocked dbwm to ^\Jl|1S4a C,bms' ^ladyn-, for £ 270, the no.ld- r'^P- 0,f3T; 2^P' '^r Roiberts also secured \^ICclclrn:mJ0!d(at:r0!ni land .near Amf'weh sec* 9weni Huighesi, .car proprieticr, 'oj six acresi of bui:ing .Ici -s- or \^°o. i-anid: in- the centre1 of Amlwch to \r lot i-n this s'e:cti.o.n of the '^iUv'rh" '0,ma'.si Wii,lilli:ams, timtoer mer- to >, ■' 'viz. three1 oottaTOS' anid land on IQ,t 1:1:<:e' J.1d:nüm, ^456- TJl, total lVdd "was about £S,oeo.

t BA A4"».o«KBARMOUT,i- rs ^'an»n °n' ^atur^y Messrs W. Dew ri"e'freehold estate known 3se Sln? § s ant 1 miles from (Barmouth, V* OTT^'81 \FI-' A°R" xlP-> for /2,QOO. The pur- fr°Hnner of Vn rt^Vr ^'flDougall, Manchester, om u?' S1 estate in the «ame neigh- is C^hlch the rising seaside resort ey> acted Uated;- Mr J. Charles Hughes, as solicitor for the vendor.

RHVL- '\j'hy^ tWoe?Srf Roberts and Son, Ccr- Jls^'On at the '^nown- private residence's trl -Alexandra 'Hotel. The first, ^I^ for /-cSt ^ara^-e> was sold to Mr ^en/^is»:S PurcV,^ ?0' and1 Plas Gwyn, Russell W Mr. Crooks for ^550. v, acted as solicitor fior the l\ e Ass —

'tUb sOCIat. n ^0°thall' Season commenced -0ll^ay ,an es-tOn -super-Mare, a train lnJMn.g ^brake, ikilling two per-

The Poverty of the Clergy. Some Remarkable Comparisons. Astonishing Figures. A COMPILATION of the recent wills of clergymen and dignitaries of the Church provides some very interesting figures in regard to the poverty- of the clergy, anent which so much has been written of late. Within a comparatively short time 196 clergymen have died, and they have left by will the enormousl sum of 18 millions and a quarter. There are in England and' Wales1 over 14,000 parochial benefices, and of these nearly half are under £ 200 a year, while 1,400 are und'er Zioo, the average being an income of only £67 per annum. Despite the great increase in the nation's wealth, the value of livings is decreasing in- stead of increasing. Indeed, it is said by those who have made the returns a study, that .aU the clergymen in England have a less income than £180 a year, while a quarter have an 'n- come of less than 25s per week. This reads strangely when we find that the Rev James Spurrell diedl last year worth 6580,000. In the Diocese of Canterbury there are 32 benefices with an average net annual value of ;665, yet the late' Archbishop of Canterbury's will was proved at 635.000- York stands next. The number of benefices- total 50, in which the average net value is £53. But here, again, we find that Dr Thomson, the late Archbishop of York, left by his,will ^55,000. Over 200 clergy have recently died, leaving estates ranging in value from 6500,000 to £10,000, and nearly 70 left fortunes running into six figures. Fcr the sake- of comparison we, append a 1'st of the benefices in the various dioceses, show- ing that nearly 1,500 clergymen have an aver- age of f 67 per year to live upon Number of Average DIOCESE. Benefices in Net. Diocese. Value. x Canterbury. 32 65 york 50 53 London 15 52 Durham. 3 71 Winchester. 51 68 Bangor 8 71 Bath and Wells 73 68 Bristol IS 62 Carlisle. 18 78 Chester 15 53 Chichester. 43 66 Ely 78 66 Exeter 53 70 Gloucester. 49 65 Hereford. 70 63 Lichfield 43 71 Lincoln. 64 73 Liverpool 2 68 Llanaaff 51 72 Manchester. 9 76 Newcastle. 5 65 Norwich. 137 66 Oxford. 120 56 Peterborough 65 66 Ilipon 18 65 Rochester. 17 73 St. Alban's 56 74 St. Asaph 17 76 St. David's 99 73 Salisbury. 77 68 Southwsll 48 71 Sodor and Man 2 71 Truro 22 75 Wakefield 1 62 Worcester 64 63 Totals. 1491 67 What is practical Christianity If one, is, to, judge by the figures' given above, it wouldl ap- pear the storing up of wealth by a few of these reverend gentlemen, while the majority of their brethren are struggling with poverty. True, many of those whose names, are given' above have inherited: wealth before they joined the Church, but surely, having regard to the, Pact that they have a command over immense wealth, it is h'arly consistent with their protestations that many of their brothers in the work of Christ should' be compelledl to keep -body and soul to. gether, as seme, of them do, on less! tn,an Ci a week. It is no exaggeration to say that many a poor curate is a vegetarian from compulsion, ,and not choice, and, further that not a few actually set forth on their missions of mercy wanting food, and cannot spare even enough, money to buy an overcoat. The startling figures here given tell' their own: convincing t'ale of the gigantic wealth of a few clerygmen on the one hand, and, on the other, the inadequacy of an income which brings with it the bitter experience of perpetual struggling with pinching poverty. Within a few weeks of his- death a rev. gentle- man, whose name is given above, and who had an annual income of close upon 615,000 a year, de-liveriedl a lecture to a number of curates, whose average income was £75 a year, on thrift, and! after animadverting on the sin of selfishness and) avarice, placed his name down fcr 41 is. In response to an appeal on behalf of the Queen Victoria. Clergy Fund, the objects and purposes of which are as follows:— (I) To impress upon all member's of the Church of IEnglfand, the clearly defined Chris. tian duty of contributing towards the support of the clergy: (2) To supplement and extend organisations for the support of the, clergy, to elicit contri- butions for this purpose from the richer to the poorer dioceses, and! generally to promote the further sustentation of the clergy. there came from the church collections in the diocese of Canterbury the large sum of .441, while the diocese of York collected £ 2 11s id.

A Lucky Nurse.' Romantic Story. A FORTUNE (says the Dailv Express") is reported to have been left to Miss Maggie Love, a nurse of Underwood road, Paisley, under pathetically romantic circumstances. Some time ago she nursed a young law student in Glasgow, named Alexander Wyness, who was very ill. An affection sprang up between the couple, and the student asked the nurse to marry him. She agreed to do so as soon as his recovery was complete. Unfortunately the patient had a relapse, and eventually he died, but before the end he made a will bequeathing to Miss Love £ 24,000 in money, and also, it is said, an estate in Warwickshire, pro- ducing an annual income of f.3,000,

-0_ •Messrs Home and Sons, of Cliffe, Rochester, have sold two tons of Northern Star potatoes for £ 137.

London and North=Western Railway and Electrification. THE directors, of the- London and Nortlh-Western Railway Company have decided not to electrify any portion of their main lines between. Euston and Scotland or Euston and Holyhead. Such a change would involve an enormous o.utlay, while steam! would: still be neededl for the heavy mineral trains. It is pro'bable in the near future that several branch lines may be electrified-, but stear4 will still, be retained1 for heavy traffic.

A Wet August. Dull Skies Mean Loss of Trade and Money. WITH the passing of August, summer is gone, and autumn is fairly launched upon us. Its coming will not arouse many regrets. There are years when summer's' glories make us pailise a't the landmark of each, opening month, with sad reflection that cheerless w.nter is one stage the nearer. 'Now, hoping 'gainst hope, we try to cheer ourself with the half-belief that Sep- tember may give us the warm days and peerless skies which joune, July, and; August have denied. There has been no such August as tri,is which has just closed for years, past. During what should be the driest month of the twelve tnere has been freedom from rain 011 only eleven days, and, the clouds have been accompanied often enough, with cold, searching winds. It is not that the total rainfall has. been very ab- normal. There was more rain -actually in both 1900 and 1898, but in those years it was- not .0 unpleasantly distributed:, and, therefore, cl.d not spoil the holid'ay month quite so sadly. The average temperature, too, has been lower this August than in thei same month for years. Those unfortunate creatures who took holi- day the second fortnight of the month deserve sympathy. They enjoyed only three fine days, and during- the time over two-and-a-half inches of rain fell. The first and) last weeks, were better, but they could only 'boast of eight fine days out of fourteen. Throughout the month, 3.788 inches of rain fell, as against 2.608 last year, 1.725 in 1901, 5.369 in 1900, and 1.628 :n 1899. A badi spring has been followed' .by a worse summer. The Englishman has grumbled about his country's weather, as he always does, but this year he has had very solid) reason. The pecuniary loss which s'uch a spell inflicts upon the' country is inestimable. Many a farmer; s now brooding over sodden fields, bearing un- ripened or damaged crops, with inevitable bankruptcy staring him in the face. From every direction come the same reports-wheat unmatured or spoiled 'by second growth; oats malted or shelled); peas, rotted; potatoes dis- eased; all cereals beaten down with wind and rain; hay which, could: never be got in; straw useless except for litter grain only fit for pigs; pasturage flooded. No Chamberlain tax will be needed, to. make bread andl fodder dearer this winter. Tailors, drapers, and hatters are bemoaning a depression which w:,ll spell ruin to some, and serious loss to. all. People have waited; before buying summer clothing for the summer which never came. Flannel suitings, straw hats, light z, costumes, have been a drug in the market. Overcoats and heavy cloth dresses were being worn until late in- the spring, ^-jey have been largely resumedl now for the winter, which threatens to trip almost upon the heels of the last. The cotton crisis has conspired with the weather to depress the tailoring fraternity. Workers could not afford! to buy summer suits, manufacturers were too much concerned with the serious state of business to bother about tfrfem. A prominent tailor has' declared seriously that even Chamberlain's tariff proposals were having their effect upon his trade. "They ..ave helped to unsettle the minds of commercial men," he said, "andl when a man is worr:ed about markets and! business profits he doesn't trouble about" new suits." And so to the Lan- cashire clothier fate has been trebly unkind. It has afflicted' him with bad weather, a cotton, corner, and a Chamberlain. The cycle' trader is another who complains that the had weather has spoilt his season. From the medical officer's report, one gathers a. solitary ray of comfort in this depressing time. A cold, wet August generally results in a lower death-rate from infantile diarrhoea, and certain other ailments which afflict the youthful.

Death of Mr Hugh Jones (" Trisant"). A Prominent Liverpool Welshman. THE news of the death of 'Mr Hugh Jones (Trisant) will be received with keen regret by a large circle, of friends, to whom the deceased had endeared himself on account of his amiable and sympathetic disposition, and his life-long service to the social andl spiritual welfare of those amongst whom he laboured. Mr Jones went to. Trefriw for a brief holiday about a month ago, and was shortly afterwards stricken down by an attack of apoplexy which resulted fatally on Sundlay morning. He was a native of Penrhos (Ciarmel), near Llanerchy- meddi, and 58 years of age. He went to Liver- pool some thirty-six years ago, and carried on business as a 'builder and! contractor. He was at one time chairman of the Walton Local Board, and in religious life he was a constant and. active worker. He became a deacon of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church in Kether- field-road North in 1876, and was' subsequently appointedichairman of the Liverpool Welsh Presbytery. He acquired some distinction n 'bardic circles, and his daughter (Miss Bessie Jones) is the well-known, harpist, Telynores Gwalia. Trisant was a great lover of curios, and his house in urleigh-road South contains a fine collection of paintings by some of the old' masters, and. many other artcles of antiquarian merit. The body was brought from Trefriw on Wednesday morning, and the funeral took place at An field Cemetery at two. o'clock in the afternoon. The Rev;Evan -Davies conduct- ed the service at the house in Trefriw previous to the removal of the body, and bearers- were Messrs R. T. Ellis, R. H. Williams, R. E. Thomas, M. W. Roberts, R. O. Roberts, and Price Jones (deacons of Peniel C. M. Chapel). There was a large catherin- of friends.

On Friday, at Rochester, an inquest was held lasting 18 hours.

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