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?a-?s ? ??i??. Y9 ARTHU?AVERY. AUCTIONEER & VALUER. Sales of all Description and Valuation or Transfer, Niortgage or Probate made. Bailiff under the Law of Distress Amendment Act. SALEROOMS- The Pantechnicon* BERWYN STREET, LLANGOLLEN. Rooms are always open for the reception of Goods tor Sale. No Storage Charges. LLANGOLLEN SMITIIFIELD. TUESDAY NEXT. MAY 7th. SPECIAL SALE OF FAT CATTLE, SHEEP AND PIGS. Farmers are earnestly requested to send in their Fat Stock as early as pcssiblo on morning of Sale. JONES & SON. Auctioneers. J LLANGOLLEN SMITHFIELD. JONES & SECOND SPECIAL PRIZE STORE CATTLE SHOW AND SALE. TUESDAY, MAY 14th, 1918. ?'? Y 1 4 ?,n, 1918. the fcrowing CASH PRIZES will be offered 10s. 6d. for the highest priced Dairv Cavr and Calf; in-calf Dairy Cow; Pair of Calving Heifers. i' To be judged: í 10s. 6..1. for the B0.55 Pair of Yearlinor Bullocks or heifer?. ;> Send your Stock. Enter Early. No Sale, no j: Charge. I Llangollen. rBRON_CGIj; BILLJSj — GREAT — WILD WEST I Exhibition & Mammoth CIRCUS C. WHipositively visit The RECREATION GROUND, LLANGOLLEN, FRIDAY, MAY 10, For One Day only. I i THE REAL THING; §-, You have seen-the Pictures of the Great Wild West. I E I < Come and see the reality. COWBOYS & COWGIRLS tI. Indians! Prairie Mustangs f The World's Champion LASSO THROWERS. II TIIIIj GREAT STOCKWHIP CRACKERS! BRONCHO BL1 STEMS ft'i Thrilling Indian and Cowboys Ride for Life! f and [: THE GREAT SPECTACLE I >' The Attack on the Dead wood Coach, in which I f? HORSES, COWBOYS, INDIANS, k;- Etc., appear at one time. I 1, i In addition to our Wild West Exhibition we present our Great Circus Show; Wherein the World's Most Wonderful Artistes ¡ ( will display FEATS OF DEXTERITY orderiu- ou the impossible. < f Marvellous Male and Female Equestrians, j Troups of Dariujr Acrobats, Hair-Raising Aerial Gymnasts, Beautiful Performing Horses and Ponies, and the World's Funniest CLOWNS and j- MIME |i TWO EXHIBITIONS DAILY (Rain or Shine) p Si: At 3 and 8. Doors open at 2-15 and 7-15. j 1 iEATING ACCOMMODATION FOR 5,000. I. PRICES OF ADMISSION I- 48" 38-, 2s., Is. & 6d. #I Children admitted to 3 o'dock Exhibition only at Half- Price to all Seats. 8 o'clock Exhibition, Children S-: Half-Price except to 6d. Seats. I' lilT Don't forget date of Visit of Broncho Bill. I" SCALE FOR PREPAID ADVERTISEMENTS One Three ? Si? Insertion. In"erti?!J lnsullons. s. d. ,i. i. i d. 25 0 9 1 6 2 6 32 1 0 2 0 3 6 40 1 3 2 6 4 6 48 1 6 3 0 5 6 56 1 9 3 6 6 6 64 2 0 4 0 7 6 All Advertisements can be sent by pOEt to the publishers, I CAXTON PRESS, OSWESTRY, in which cases stamps or Postal Orders, in accOldance with above scale, must be enclosed. Announcements of Births and Marriages 1/- prepaid. otice of Deaths, with any i remarks othar than t-imple facts, 1/- prepaid, ,No AdverLiseiiient booked under 1/6. In Memonam" and Thanks N otioet., 2/6 prepaid. o L-l,T, The Golfa-.Apply, The Bed House, -L Gobowen. d!9—e 3 mA o LET. 1st of May, House and Shop in Market < Street, Llangollen. — Apply, Advertiser Office, Llangollen. dl&—e3J X3TA3TTED, Cook-Generals. Housemaid- Waitresses, Generals and Young Girls for Llangollen, Liver- pool, Manchester and all parts, at once. (Stamp).— Miss ,Langford, Green Lodge, Llangollen. e3x FOR SALE, Very Old Silver Coins and Coppers.— JL Appty, A Advertiser OBQce, HangoHen. e;i—lTx WAITED, a Small Pony or Donkey and Governess t Cart complete with harnasa at olice.-Apply, Mrs. Dutton, Poultry Farm, Llangollen. e3—I7x r* T ARRTBD COUPLE (without eNIdTon) required as Ul' C&ret?kers; man willing to attend to garden in evenings. References re(juired.Nitiss Sandford, High- croft, Llangollen. ox ,NU\, ELS. flutidred- of the latest vo c^oow from at Woodaali, MinahaJl, Thomas and '.Jo e I De' Shop, 20, Church Street, Oswestry. ) wJ. _.C
I"A Big Problem."
I "A Big Problem." We are afraid such efforts as Mr. E. B. Fielderi made before the Shropshire Chamb- er of Agriculture, on Saturday, to enlist popular sympathy with agricultural land- owners do noc always carry conviction. to the man-in-the-street, who is much more inclined to regard the possessors of broad acres as "jolly lucky fellows." Cer- tainly in the past it has not been easy for the said man-in-the-street to square the tales of territorial woe with the apparent affluence of the average large landowner, i and the seeming inconsistency was seldom allowed to pass unnoticed on the pre-war political platform, where gibes at the "spendid paupers" were generally sure of arousing some enthusiastic hilarity, and a quotation from Sir Wilfred Lawson's famous satirical stanzas on "the sorrows of these noble men Whom biting poverty so hard.y treats, Driven from Castle, Court and Hall And forced to seek their living in the I streets" could be counted on to bring down the house. Even Mr. Gladstone, who was no socialist, we remember once describing the magnificence of a famous Welsh Border estate as being largely built up on the high'rents that prevailed after the Crimean War, though as his own experience of estate management reminded him, that was net an invariable circumstance even in the "good old days." Since then a good many fresh burdens have been laid upon the land, and probably Mr. Fielden was not far wrong in his calculation that, ?on the average, investment in agricultural land in this /part of the country yields little I more, taking everything into consideration, than 2 per cent., which is certainly not much of a return as investments go. But to manyf landlords ownership is not thought of primarily in terms of finance, and, on such estates, rents which have long ceased to bear relationship to any adequate per centage return on the capitalised value are maintained at the figure they have been fixed at for years, because like the owner- ship, the tenancy is largely hereditary. We heard not long ago of one comparatively small Shropshire estate, all agricultural, on which the rent roll is some £500 or 9600 less than the official land valuation, but the owner declines to raise his rents out of sentimental objection to any change in the time-honoured policy. That, we fancy, is fairly typical of the hereditary landowner's view of his moral obligation to family tradition. Tenants, indeed, have be- come so accustomed to this policy that it is something of a shock when some commer- cial magnate buys a big agricultural estate, and, applying business methods" to its management, begins to adjust, his rents m what, actuarily,. may be a just enough basis. Such landlords are, in the nature of things, seldom the most popular, but the fact that they tend to increase in number seems tj suggest that even to the hard-headed bit, ness man such property is not without its attractions. At any rate, the greater at- tention now being given to the ownership of land as an investment rather than as a social privilege is opening up new consider- } ations which may eventually place agricu l- tural economics on a very different plane j to that of former days. Perhaps such a. change was inevitable in any case. Already the agricultural labourer is an organised trade unionist,, possessed of a legal mini- mum wage. Possibly the development d i 'scientific farming may make "cientific" i rent assessment more economically feasible. Anyhow, modern conditions demand the higher standard of equipment all round, and after the war there will be the big question of new cottages to face. Certainly, if agriculture is to be materia- ly developed, a large capital expenditure' will be required, and, equally assuredly, there are few agricultural estates, large or small, in the economic condition to stand that expense on their present rent rolls. But,- if individual capital cannot be ilt- tracted, we must look for State-aid, and State-aid is not likely to be granted with- out a measure of State-control, which, as Mr. Hall remarked at Shrew6buV, lani, owners desire to see reduced to a minimum So probably do tenants, for our experience of the scientific assessment of rents under public control, as revealed in the adminis- tration of the Small Holdings Act, is that it admits of little of the old give and take j principle at present operative on m here-1 | ditary estates. In any event it is doubtful whether the Government would contem- plate investment of public funds which j was not likely to yield more than 2 per j cent., or, with new expenditure taken into i account, still less than that. Mr. Fieldan j therefore, well says that it is a very big j problem, and it is; perhaps, not astonish- ing that the Shropshire Chamber dis- cussion has carried us little forward to- I wards its satisfactory solution. But it is something to have it clearly and candialy stated, and we can only hope that the ur- f gent necessity for the increasing encourage- ment of putting the land to best advantage after the, war will inspire the inventive genius of the nation to find ways and means to bring it about. Let us at least extract what comfort we can from the recollection that we have been threatened with black outlooks" for agriculture before, and still agriculture has very successfully survived I Mr. Hodge's Straight Talk. The Minister of Pensions took the oppor- tunity of his visit to Wrexham, on Friday, to enter into discussion with a number of delegates from different parts of North Wales on certain problems affecting the administration of the Pensions Act, and the result, we may hope, is a considerable clearing of the air on some important points. To begin with Mr. Hodge was plied with a number of suggestions for still Ïur-' ther developing the activity of his depart- ment. The Ministry was asked to fulfil its promise to provide an orthopaedic annexe at Wrexham, and to extend the scheme of training proposed there beyond the rather limited scope offered by market gardening and diamond cutting; while, with more general application to the question of train- ing, Mr. A. W. Williams-Wynn asked for special instructions to cover the cases of men who desire to be taught various village industries. Montgomeryshire also had its inquiry to make concerning the payment of panel doctors for the medical treatment of discharged soldiers, and a suggestion was I offered from the secretary of the Com- rades of the Great War at Llanidloes that allowances should be made to families of men married after discharge, while a Car- narvonshire delegate had a great scheme to unfold for turning Welsh boarding houses into convalescent homes. As he listened to all these proposals Mr. Hodge may have reflected on the variety of ideas which may I be stimulated in the popular mind when it I is believed that there is a chance of getting something out of the public funds! But, though the Pension Minister has not failed to tell us of his own powers of unlocking the key of the Treasury whenever he has I felt that justice demands a more generous treatment of our discharged sailors and soldiers, he is himself evidently not easily bled," and we may hope that, if some of the delegates came away from the meeting a little disappointed that their pleas were not fully met, they were consoled on their return journey by the reflection that there is at least one Departmental head in the Government who is conscious of the neces- sity of keeping some control on public ex- penditure We do not, of course, mean to suggest I that the treatment and after-care of our discharged warriors is a matter on which we should desire to see parsimony. Far from it. We believe that there is no sphere of administration in which we ought more to feel we can afford to be as liberal as can be but even admirable liberality must be directed into right channels, and we are glad to observe that Mr. Hodge seems de- termined that that should be done. It may not always be an easy,task, but the official judgments laid down at Wrexham seem to us on the whole sound and equitable. It i is a moot point, for instance, how far the Government are justified in incurring hos- pital expense after a man is cured, and it is, perhaps hardly astonishing to learn that the Ministry looks to the aid of private philanthrophy very largely to establish and maintain convalescent homes, though fye hope Government aid may be extended, where other sources fail to make adequate provision in this respect, on some such lines as suggested by the Denbighshire Joint Dis- ablement Committee. To the plea, from Bala, that parents should be allowed a pension even if their fallen son had not contributed to thei. maintenance, Mr. Hodge pertinently replied, that that trans- lated the pension into a form of compensa- tion, which is clearly not the intention of the Act or the view of the Ministry. In the sajijo way, the suggested granting of allow- ances for families of men marrying after discharge was described as going a bit too far," and we certainly think that, if this extension of official responsibility were ad- mitted, it would be very difficult to discover where, if logically applied, the obligation would end. It is significant, too, to ob- serve how firmly Mr. Hodge set his face against any further concession to the panel doctors, whom he laughingly accused of I U trying to get at the Ministry. These decisions may seem a little rigorous to some of our read ers, but we would ask them to remember that the Tr&as- usy is not a bottomless well, and, if Mr. Hodge holds his hand in certain sub- -gidiat?y directions, wh ere otherwise some larger concession might be allowable, it is in order that there may be all the more aid available for really urgent needs, which, as heaven knows, are extensive enough I Wales and Second Chamber Reform. At any other time than the present the Report of Lord Bryce's Conference on the Re- form of the Second Chamber, issued last week, would have attracted the keenest interest among politicians. For it touches a problem that has long, exercised the mind of constitu- tional reformers, and in o qtr rter more profoundly than in Wales, where the demo- cratic instinct is developed f- tradition and experience, to a high degree. Many of ovf readers will recollect the vehement indict- ment which Mr. Joseph Chamberlain pre. ferred at Newtown and Denbigh, b, the early eighties, against the action of the Peers in thwartng the progress of social and political reforms for which, even thcu, the Princi- pality was fully ripe. as that accusa- t r o n- as that accusa- tion was, it became er~n 1 ore justified with the passage of the years, until the Parlia- ment Act of 1911 put an end for ever to the power of the House of Lords indefinitely to postpone legislation repeatedly demanded at the polls and carried v .rough the House of Commons. But the mere restriction of this prerogative was never regarded as the final step in the "mending of, the Second Cham- ber, and the proposals no- laid before the country by Lord Bryce and his colleagues are a rath..t belated corollary to the Parlia- ment Act itself. The general principle is to place the selection of Members of tll" Second Chamber in the hands partly of Members of the House of Commons grouped into electoral areas, and partly of a standing joint com- mittee composed of both Houses. For this purpose Shropshire is joined with Cheshire and Staffordshire, with the allotmc of 15 seats, and 36 grouped members as electors^ while the whole of Wales, with Monmouth- shire, is also allotted 15 seats, and 3.) grouped members. All this though, as we say, to-day only inspires the sort of lukewarm local en- thusiasm that is engendered by more or less theoretical problems. The mind and heart- of the nation is too intent on more pressing questions of national administration than I constitutional reform, however adirirable but it is at least interesting to note that the I scheme is specifically devised to fit in with, a system of federalism, which provides or the devolution of strictly national business to a. national council-a. goal towards which Welsh Nationalists have long been k"dng with wist- ful eyes. The consummation of the federal system of government foreshadowed in the report may have to wait till after the war, but we may at least cordially welcome this signi- ficant evidence of the direction in. which in- fluential public opinion is obviously tendings
.PERSONAL.
PERSONAL. queen Alexandra. has, purchased the oil painting, On the Banks of the Conway," by Mr. Francis Black, R.B.A., A.B.C.A., which is in the present exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists. The marriage of the Hon. E. Mostyn and Miss Reynolds, which was to have taken place on Tuesday, has been unavoidably post- poned till May 14th, at St. George's Hanover Square. At Brynawelon, Criccieth, on Thursday,Mrs. Carey Evans, wife of Captain Carey Evans, R.A.M.C., who is on foreign service, and daughter of the Prime Minister and Mrs. Lloyd George, gave birth to a daughter. This is (Mr. Lloyd George's second grandchild. Mr. H. R. Giles of Ellesmere waa adopted as Past Assistant Grand Director of Cere- monies at the annual Grand Festival of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons,, held in London on Wednesday, under the presidency of the Most Worshipful Grand Master H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, K.G., there being large attendance of brethren from all parts of the world. The Bishop of Hereford was last week pre- sented with the honorary freedom of Durham. The Bishop, in reply, said his appointment ws made,the occasion of a strange campaign, and they in Durham marked their sense of its quality by choosing the moment to give him an emphatic proof of confidence and friendship. Fair-weather friends were com- mon enough, but true friends were born for the day of adversity. They were tried by that test, and did not fail. Major the. Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore, M.P., is now in Jerusalem as a member of the Zionist Commission, to which, as we stated some weeks ago, he was appointed by Mr. Balfour, and it fell to his lot to acknowledge the thanks expressed by the local community to Great Britain for their work of liberating Palestine and the Jewish nation. In his speech Major Ormsby-Gore said a- free, pros- perous and contented Palestine could only be built up by the Jewish people wording in harmony with other groups. The marriage of Capt. Gt. Earle, Rifle Brigade, and Miss Isabel Bridget Rouse- Boughton-Knight, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Greville Rouse-Boughton-I" ght, 28, Eafton-place, and Worinsley, Hereford- shire, will take place on Thursday, June 6th, at St. Peter'schurch, Eaton-square, London. Judge Samuel Moss has appointed Mr. A. Graham, Shrewsbury; as his deputy for the North Wales County Court circuit during his illness. Mr. Graham is well known in Shrop- shire and North Wales as a successful mem- ber of the Oxford circuit. The death is announced of LieuCoJonel the Hon.. George Herbert Windsor Windsor Clive. He was the second son of the late Baronesj3 Windsor, sister of the sixth Earl of Rlymouth, and the Hon. Robert Henry Clive, second son of the first Earl of Powis. Born in March, 1835, he was educated at Eton, and served from 1B52 to 1860 in the 52nd Light Infanltrtv, and afterwards,until 1870, in the Coldstream Guards. For 25 years, from 1860 he sat in the House of Commons J Conser- vative member for Ludlow. He was a magis- tra-teand deputy-lieutenant for Worcester- shire and a magistrate for Shropshire, and he married in 1876, the Hon. Gertrude Albertina Trefusis, daughter of 19th Lord Clinton. The Baroness Windsor died in 1869, and was succeeded by her grandson, Robert George, son of Colonel Windsor- CliveAs elder brother, who was created Earl of Plymouth in 1905, the earldom of the pre- vious creation having become extinct on the death of the eighth earl, who 1.,t no issue.