The Welshman

IA A RA E 18 I I C/BIFAETHEN, Saturday.—Quotations as follows:- Car-k butter, 12d to 13d per lb.. fresh butter, 14d. to 13d per lb. Drewed poultry Fowls, 3s 6d to 5s pei couple ducks, 2s 6d to 4s Od each geese, 5s Od to 8. Od each; turkeys, Is per lb. Eggs, 9 for 1;. Cheese, 24s to 28s Od per cwt. -NEWCASTIF-EmLYN-, Friday.—Prices were as follows —Porkers, 6s 9d per score: weaners (9 to 10 weeks old), 148 to 16s Od each; sheep, 3d per lb; lambs. 4d per lb; calves, 3d to 4d per lb young fowls, 31- to 4s Od per couple (5d per lb. alive) old ditto, 2s 6d per couple ducks. 4s Od to 5s Od per couple Eggs, 11 for a Is Fresh butter, in rolls, Is to Is Id per lb ditto, in tubs, 11 d to 11 Y2 d per lb. I CORN. I LIVERPOOL, Tuesday. Wheat quiet, with a small trade at about Friday's prices. Maize, quiet trade at I about Friday's prices to the turn easier. Beans- Saidi, none here and none expected before January or Feb- ruary owing to options at Alexandria. Peas, none here. Oats-old white, 2s lOd to 3s; new, 2s 6dto 2s 7d. Flour unchanged. Weather tinsettled. W S.W. HULL, Tueday.- Good market and prices a little higher. Wheat Is up, at 29:; to 30s. Barley 22s to 27s. White oats Is dearer, at 18s 6d; black oats, 18s. Beans unchanged at 30s. Maize, 24s 6d. Weather I fine. CATTLE. I ROATII (Cardiff), Tue,day.- A moderate supply of cattle, meeting a steady demand, prices remaining easy. Sheep and lambs a fair supply, in middling request; prices firm Pigs enough for requirements, prices rul- ing high. Quotations Choice steers and heifers 60s to 63s per cwt., secondary lots 56s to 58s per cwt; cows and bulls, 48s to 52s per cwt Pbeep- choice wethers, 8d to 8 d per lb; ewes, 7d to 7 id per lb lambs, 8 £ d to Sid per lb pigb-choice porkers, lis to lis 3d per score secondary lots, 10s 6d to lus 9d per score; baconers, 9s 6d to 10s per score. CHEPSTOW, Tuesday.—There was a fair supply of beef and mutton at Tuesday's market. Best beef made from 6!d to 6id per lb, with from 5td to 6d per Ib for second quality. Prime wether mutton fetched 8d per lb heavy ewes, fed and lighter ditto, 6!d to 7d per ib. Store trade was dull, but lambs fetched late rates. Porkers dearer, small making 128 per score, and heavier pigs, 9s and 10s. SALFORD, Tuesday. At market Cattle, 2,273 sheep, 6,571 calves, 100. Large arrivals of foreign beef have depressed that market. Choice light- weight sheep in demand. Calves belter. Quotations Cattle, 4td to 6Jd sheep, 6d to 7}1 calves, 5d to lid per lb. BUTTER. CORK, Tuesdity. Fii-tits, 99., seconds, 95s; thirds, 92s fourths, 82s. Superfine, 100. Choice, 94s. In market, 190. Frehb-A, 102,i B, 96,4.

ABKICULIURL A 7 PIAGUE OF MICE.—I shall be much Ob- liged if you can suggest a plan for clearing,a grocer s .shop of mice. The vermin have so mufch to eat that they will not eat poisoned food, or go into a trap, and as our cats are all wild, we can make nothing of them.—Inquirer. [Why ale you- cats "all wild?" In the circumstances de- scribed, the keeping of a few tame cats would be the best remedy against the plague.] THE BIRMINGHAM FAT STOCK SHOW.- The fifty-seventh annual exhibition takes place at Bingley Hall on the 25th to 30th .Novonibor, and entries close on Wednesday, 1st November. When applying to the secretary, Mr. W. H. Lythall, for entry forms, it is necessary to state for which wection they are required. The prize money of- fered amounts to 1:3,500, ineltidino-, the Lool Mayor s prize, the High Sheriff's prize, the chal- lenge cups value 100 guineas each. SHIRE HORSES ACCIDENTALLY POIS- ON hi).—An extraordinary case of poisoning of Shire horses, valued at £500, has occurred at Keighton Manor, near Scarborough. Mr. Robert Crowe, a well-known farmer, had some seed whea which had been steeped in a solution of arsenic, for the prevention of smut. By some extraordinary mistake this was given by one of the farm servants to four valuable Shire mares and a gelding. Four of the animals died on Sat- urday night, and one on Sunday morning. The farm servant, is is stated, said he thought it would make the coats glossy and the animals look well. JIuch sympathv is expressed for Mr Crowe tor the heavy loss which he has sustained APPLYING THE DUNG TO THE GRASS. I am thinking of applying the dung to the seooa d years' grass instead lot the turnips, and depend- ing on artificial manure for the turnips. The land is light and dry, and worked on the shift rotation (three grass), and I will be glad to have your opinion on the proposed change, or perhaps some of your readers may be kind enough to give their experience on the point.—J.T. [The appli- cation of the dung to the second years' grass will be highly beneficial to the past u-es, and capital crops of roots can be grown with a well-balanced dressing of artificial manures alone. But in de- ciding as to whether the change of system is to be commended, a great deal depends on the manurial condition of the soil, and local conditions other- wise.] DRYING MILCH COW FOR FATTENING.— I have a Shorthorn cow I wish to fatten for Christmas s how, and I am not going to be able to get her dry with the good feeding she is getting. Your advice on the best method to get her dry at once would ohlige.- Young Reader. [The method for arresting the flow of milk, or. as it is gener- ally known, the drying up of milch cows, that is usually adopted by many of our clients is to stop milking the cow at once, and feed her a.s hard as possible with good food. For the pa.st fifty years we have seen, this carried out with the ve"y best results, and without any bad effects. Leave the udder alone, don't draw a single drop of milk, and the lacteal fluid will very soon dry up. We may add that we have frequently bled cows for this purpose, taken 5 to 7 quarts of blood from the neck and given 1.1 11) of salt with 2 oz. ginger, but it answered neither quicker nor better than stopping milking. So long as the teats are drawn the milk will flow.]. MIXED SPICES FOR CATTLE, DOGS, &c.- I would feel obliged if any reader of yours could recommend mixture for feeding dogs (dogs' meal) also what varieties and quantities of mixed spices might be used for dairy meal, pig-feeding meal, and poultry food.-Agricola. [We do not advo- cate the spicing of foods for animals, unless the fodder or meals be slightly damaged by too much bad weather, and the food has a fusty smell, then the following condiment'might be used, say, one teacupful each of treacle (dissolved in hot water). and locust bean meal and a tablespoonful each of powdered fenugreek and salt may be added for horses, cows, and sheep. Good wholesome food is the best condiment. for animals, artificial spiced diet is not necessary. Unlike the human subject, domestic animals rarely damage their digestive organs with riotous living, therefore do not want their appetites whetted with fancy liqueurs or seasonings. Agricola will find in the columns of the p,apers, advertisements of a variety of spices and condiments for different animals which he will get much better and cheaper than he can mix for bimwlf.1 FEEDING DAIRY COWS.—I shall be much obliged if you can tell me what quantities of each of the following foods should be used to make a well-balanced food for dairy cows in milk, viz., t'lrnips, oat straw, hay, maize meal, bran, and Thorley's dairy cake with draff. The cows are big crosses. Perhaps the bran, maize meal, or bran meal might be eliminated, but what I want is to arrive at an economical as well as well-bal- anced mixture. Apologising for taking up so much of your valuable space.—P. S. [In reply- ing to this we must say that to go into the full particulars and work out all the details of the percentages of the different articles named by querist would occupy too much space. Re Thor- I-e v's dairy cake—we may have seen it, but know nothing whatever about it, neither as to the materials from which it is made, nor its chemical composition. However, we thiak if querist gives to each of his dairy cows, say, from It to 18 lbs. of turnips twice a day, and from 3 to 4 lbs. of meadow hav three times a day, and from 5 to 01b. of oat straw daily with 1 gallon of sweet wet draff night and morning, to which may be added 1 lh. each of maize meal, bean meal. and bran. the last three articles mixed in equal parts by weight, work out a well-balanced ration that is an albu- minoid ratio of 1 to 4t, and we consider them the most valuable and most important articles of the whole lot, and must not he eliminated.] BRITISH FARMERS "HAVEN'T GOT A LOOK IN."—At a political meeting held at Nor- ton last "week, a racy speech was delivered by the chairm ih, Mr. Digby Cayley. He said there was one thing tlitct. appalled him in his extensive reading, which was the ghastly accounts of I poverty and unemployment in this country. New there must be some reason for this. It was ex- I traordinary that England, which was supposed i-c. be the wealthiest country in the world, should contain within its borders more unemployed and more poverty than any other country. At this moment, if private charities and the poor rate were to come to an end, thirty people out of every thousand wOIJd die of starvation in a month Wasn't that awful to think of? Must thore not be "something rotten in the state of Denmark to account for it? We thought ourselves very clever in adopting free trade, but were we the only talented people in the world? Was every other nation a bora fool? Surely the time had oome when some inquiry should be made into our fiscal system with a view to rectifying it. He granted that ireo trade had been of immense benefit to the work-ng man, but the cheapness of his food had been obtained by the sacrifice of whole classes of people connected with agricu'- ture. He didn't begrudge the w orkman his clieap food, but it was not going to be all beer and skittles even with him. If our fiscal system were continued, he would gradually lose his means of livelihood, and what was the use of cheapness if the means of purchase was scarce? The English farmer, on the other hand, was taxed up to the hilt. To use the language of the turf, lie was carrying lOst 71b. and his American competitor 8st. 71b. And we are expected to win Whv, we haven't got a look in at all (laughter). WShyE, NDING CALVES BY TRAIN.—I have been in the way of having calves forwarded by train for years, and I can say I never had one take the least harm or be any the worse for the journey. I have had them in real coid frosty weather with two sacks round them,, and a little hay packed in, turn out not the least worse. I have had calves from a lot sent loose in a horse-box, in which way they catch cold, and that sets them scouring, and a great number die. There may be- mjstakes made in sending calves very young, or that are ill, but this is no reason why the practice should he. condemned altogether. If it is, I am certain it will be a great injustice to the farmers of this country, as no better way can be found for mov. ing calves long distances from the milk-producing districts in the vicinity of large tc wns to remote farms, where butter-making and cattle-rearing only are carried on. But what says your Editor regarding the best way calves should be forwarded per tram?—M. C. [From the particulars given f in the above, it would seem that querist has ha -1 some years of successful experience in the trans- missicn of calves by rail. Putting a young cal' into a sack packed round with a little hay, leaving the head out, and the mouth of the sack tied care- fully round the calf's neck is a capital plan, and one that we have frequently noticed, and from our knowledge of numbers of cases, the young animals have taken little or no harm, and at present know of io better plan, unless the railway companies could see their way to make special crates or cubicles for "their better conveyance. We do not favour putting the calves loose into horse boxes. These boxes are. as a rule, very draughty and cold and as M. C. says, the calves catch cold and numbers die of diarrhoea (scour). However, we must say that we have frequently seen young calves newly born handled and forwarded by rail in a very inhuman sort of manner which was any thing but pleasing, but when care is exercised, we know of no better method than the above.] TICKS ON CATTLE AND RED-W\TER — This season I find my cattle are covered with an insect which I never saw before. It has actually got on the dogs as well. This pest has a number of claws, with which it sticks to the animals, and sucks blood until it is as large as a pea. I hear it is called a tick, and as red-water and it have ap- peared here about the same time, per hips you could say if the one thing is connected with the j other, and also if there is a remedy for getting rid of them.—Little John. [We have on numerous occasions commented at some length on the dis- ease known as red water in cows, and that when we first remember the complaint was very nfe on badly drained and undrained sour mossy lands, and light shivery soils, and by the application of 6 to 10 cwt. per acre of ground rock salt to the disease-producing lands the m-iladv had been eradicated. In all our experience we never yet came across a single case where ticks were pre- sent. We may also say that during the past eight weeks we have seen three solitary cases of red- water, one each on three different farms, some distance apart, but on the old pastures, that were dressed with salt thirty years ago as a preventive. The bodies of these cows were all carefully exam- ined twice a day while they were ailing, but no ticks could be found. So much for our ow n prac- tical experience respecting ticks. It is said by experts that the disease in foreign countries is due to the animals being attacked by ticks, which carry the infection from one animal to another. The tick said to be the cause of red-water in cattle is known in America as Rhipiceplialus an- nulatus, or Boophilus bovis; in South Africa Rhipicephalus decoloratus, or blue tick in Aus- tralia the Rhipicephalus Australis. As we our- selves have not as yet found a case of red-water in cows associated with ticks, we are inclined to think that there are two kinds of red-water in cattle, due to different causes, and it is quite pos- sible that the ticks infesting querist's cittie- 'like epizootic lymphangitis in the horse—has been imported by some means or other from Africa, America, or Australia. As a remedy, washing the bodieA of the cattle with some in- secticide or some of the numerous sheep dips—the arsenical dip such as Cooper's might answer well, but care must be taken to see that there are no skin wounds, or a dressing of, say—lib. flowers of sulphur, 1 quart of spirits of tar, and 1 gallon train (whale) oil, well mixed and applied to dif- ferent parts of the body may be tried.] PURE MILK AND CLEANLINESS.—Amid all the discussions that have taken place during the last two or three years in relation to the purity of milk, I often feel amused at the author- ities, for while they are so severe with one who mixes a little pure water with milk, they allow an enormous amount of cow dung, scurf hair, and other impurities to be sold to dainty people as food, who, if they saw how the process of milk- ing is generally carried on, would scarcely dare to touch a drop again. It is true that it is almost impossible for any milk to be delivered to the con- sinner in an absolutely pure form but on the other hand, if a thorpugh system of cleanliness could be introduced into the cowhouse, and every milker compelled to carry it out, I \vouJ,d venture to say that nine-tenths of the dirt would not find its way into the milk pail. If you can throw out any suggestions to farmers and ccwkeepers how to enforce more cleanly conditions in the cow-house you will be appreciated by all parties concerned in the milk ti-affic.-Sil. [Of all the queries we have had submitted to us_, we consider that this is about the most important and most interesting. Our querist, "Sal," has certainly hit the right nail on the head this time, for she writes as if she had had some thorough practical knowledge of the filthy and abominably uncleanly conditions under which milk A times is drawn from the cows. We have on hundreds and hundreds of times when standing in a cow house watching the milkers, thought ourselves that if nine-tenths of the peop'e saw the insanitary state in which the cows were milked, they, as querist says, would not care to touch a drop of the milk. "Sal is quite right about the cow dung, scurf hair, etc., we have frequently commented on the same. But how is it to be remedied? Town dairies and the cattle are kept clean and properly looked after by the veterinary and sanitary inspectors, and we can- not see why country sheds should rot be put under the same rules and regulations. We would not, however, like to be appointed a veterinary in- spector there it would be, we think, on a par with a referee at a football match, as a very large number would have to be condemned for insanit nry conditions. A few years ago there was great commotion about 800 cubic feet space for each cow, but having the floors properly laid, drained, and kept clean, as well as the cow 's hips, quarters; and udders before milking, is, in our opinion, of greater importance than the large air space. The only suggestion we can make is that all country sheds and cow-houses should be under the control of the County Councils, and duly qualified veter- inary and tanitarv inspectors appointed, as legis- lation and reformation are certainly required.]

SHOCKIM STATE OF RUSSIA. REVOLUTION" ON THE WAY." The revolt against bureaucracy gathered strength in every part of European Russia on Thursday, 26th ult. From Archangel to Batoum, from Lodz to Kazan, came the same stories of the stoppage of labour and the strengthening of the strikers' cause. At Sebastopol the battleship Kniaz Potemkin was burned by mutineers, and a -I- I company of fortress artillery rebelled. J our hunclred arrests were made. In St. Petersburg the shops were closed, shipyards were deserted, Government clerks and dock labourers left their work, a portion of the Moscow railway line was destroyed, and a canal bridge blown up. The strikers are being armecT, although thus far their attitude has been chiefly one of passive resistance. Saturday's papers bring news that at St. Peters- burg arrangements have been made for the de- parture of the Czar for Denmark if events render such a course necessary. With such gravity is the situation viewed at Court that steam is kept up on board the Imperial yacht and attendant warships. The orders issued by General Trepoff, Governor of St. Petersburg, to the troops guard- ing the peace of the capital are stern and brief. Ball cartridge only is to be used. He states that in dealing with any disorder, the preliminary volley of blank cartridge, which is usually fired as a warning and a deterrent, is to be dispensed with. Instead, the troops are to use ball cart- ridge, or which they are not to be sparing. The troops, moreover, are to march in what is known as "anti-bomb" formation, that is to say, with files well apart. By such tactics, the effects of exploding infernal machine are considerably mini- mised. St. Petersburg and Moscow are in perfect dark- ness. The public ear has now become accus- tomed to violent harangues with cries of Down with the Emperor and the singing of the "Mar- seillaise," and the people are not likely now to be content with sweetly reasonable discussion. The newspapers are agreed that a revolution is now under way, and that it can no more be staj-ed than can the ice of the Volga in the spring. Another telegram from St. Petersburg says: The keynote of the strike remains the same: The studied absence of violence and the avoidance of .demonstrations. The streets are almost deserted, and no workmen are visible in the neighbourhood of the railway yards. In view of these facts, which are almost unexampled in any country con- sidering the conditions of the time, General Tre- poff's threats are looked on as provocative in the extreme. There has been no oxciise for the use of military force. The men at the Putiloff works have struck for two days as a protest against Tre- poff's proclamation. A despatch from Moscow, dated October 27th says: To-day there is no single public service which is working. We are without water, with- out light, without public conveyances. No Zem- stvo or municipal servant is at work. The very schoolboys even have forsaken school in order to parade the streets To-day it was rumoured that 40,000 strikers were marching on Moscow from outlying indus- trial centres. The soldiers have orders to shoot all assembling in the streets. On all hands one hears of meetings where the sole question of discussion is a Constituent As- sembly, which is declared to be immediately prac- ticable. The party of reaction appears to be los- ing hope. Yesterday the Moscow Gazette" appeared with its front page in mourning; to-day it prints an appeal to all true Russians to as- semble in the parish churches, where they will be organised and armed, and will then march to fight the strikers. This appeal sufficiently argues the powerlessness of the authorities, inasmuch as it is printed in the form of an advertisement in I' several papers—a proof that it has the full sanc- tion of the administration. The bakers and provision shops are besieged by people, who fear that the fast lessening supply of food may at any time be exhausted. The Congress of the Constitutional Democrats to-day passed a lengthy resolution, proposed by M. Ali?iikoff the author of the best work in English on the crisis in Russia. This reoolution I justified a universal strike movement on the ground of the purity of its aims, which are the I liberty of man, the free election of national re- presentatives. A telegram from Odessa on October 27 savs: T1 le police are engaged in revolver practice night and day. After the arrival of the foreign mail to- day the Railway Administration announced the absolute stoppage of communications in all direc- tions. There has been no intercourse .with Mos- cow and St. Petersburg for the last five days. The non-arrival of grain trains is causing the stagnation of shipping. The port territory has been guarded by military since noon, and the city suburbs are patrolled. The large employers of labour, fearing wholesale arson, are appealing to the Commandant for separate guards. The troops however are insiifficient for tlll,13 purpose. The men's demands include an eight-hour day, free life insurance, etc., but are obviously the cloak for the combined political object of damaging and coercing the Government. One notable feature of the present popular agi- tation is the important part—growing every day more pronounced—which is being played by the women students of the high schools, all of them Radicals of the extremest type. Here in Odessa they have invaded the university, literally in the face of all rectorial protests and professional re- monstrances, and five hundred of them are now attending the lectures. At the public meetings of the students they are the most prominent figures, and they take a strenuous share not only in the organising, but in the speaking. Their impas- sioned oratory, their fiercely eloquent denuncia- tions of bureaucratic despotism and corruption, and their perfervid appeals to the manhood, val- our, and honour of Young Russia exercise an en- ormous influence. In consequence of the suspension of traffic on the Ii. conecting the railway with the harbour, the loading of steamers is impossible, and export has practically stopped. Twelve English vessels are obliged to leave without their cargoes, the charter parties being broken. ,j News published on Monday gives details of a serious collision on Sunday afternoon between the military and the crowd, in which 21 persons were killed, and 67 injured. Three soldiers were wounded. On Saturday, too, there was a street encounter, in which a student was killed and 86 others wounded, among the latter being 17 girls. There is no abatement of the strike movement throughout European Russia. Moscow is now completely cut off from St. Petersburg, the tele- graph and telephone operators having joined the strikers. At Warsaw there has been desultory street fighting, in which several lives have been I lost. Tuesday's papers brought the pleasant news that the Czar has completely yielded at last. On Monday night he issued a manifesto granting practically all the demands of the Russian people. After speaking of the late disturbances, their cause, and possible remedy, he goes on to say :— We therefore direct the Government to carry out our inflexible will in the following manner:- 1. To grant the population the immutable foundations of civic liberty, based on real inviol- ability of the person and freedom of conscience, speech, union, and association. 2. Without deferring the elections to the State Duma already ordered, to call to participation in the Duma as far as possible, in view of the short- ness of the time before the Duma is assembled, those classes of the population now completely deprived of electoral rights, leaving the ultimate development of the principle of electoral rights j in general to the newly-established legislative order of things. 3. To establish it as an immutable rule that no law can come into force without the approval of the State Duma. and that it shall be possible for the elected of the people to exercise a real par- ticipation in the supervision of the legality of the acts of the authorities appointed by us. We appeal to all faithful sons of Russia to re- member their duty towards the Fatherland, and to aid in bringing to an end these unprecedented trou bles, and to apply all their forces in co- operation with us to the restoration of calm and peace upon our natal soil.

AN EXPLANATORY CATECHISM. 1. What is Qivilym Evans' Quinine Bitters? An excellent vegetable Remedy, prepared in the most skilful and scientific manner, and containing the active principles of those plants generally ac- knowloo to be the best remedial agents, and to possess t to most healing and curative properties. It is now extensively used in many countries, and everywhere acknowledged as the Best Tonic Remedy knqwn. 2. What does it contain ? Quinine and the active principles of the follow- ing well-known herbs: Sarsaparilla, Saffron, Gen- tian, Lavender, Burdock, and Dandelion, scien- tific-illy prepared, and in such happy proportions as to form a Tonic Bitters positively unequalled. 3. What is its action ? It assists and promotes Digestion* strengthens the Nerves and Muscles, purifies the Blood, en- livens the Spirits, and removes all Obstructions and Impurities in the Human Body. It gives tone to the whole system. It strengthens and fortifies those parts which have been Aveakened by Disease, and are consequently more liable to Colds and un- healthful influerioes. It has gained the Highest Recommendations as the Best Family Medicine and a remedy for every kind of Weakness. 4. What Diseases is it specially recommended for ? Influenza, and the after effects of an attack of Influenza, Indigestion, Chest Affections and Dis- eases of the Liver in all their various forms. Neu- ralgia and all Nervous Disorders, Depression of Spirits, General Weakness, Loss of Appetite, Sleeplessness. 5. Must patients confine themselves trlthin doors ichen using it ? No; the working man need not abstain from his labour, the mother from h.er household duties, or the child be kept from school while using it. 6. Is there any difficulty in procuring it ? There heed to none, as it can be obtained of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors, or will, be forwarded direct by the Proprietors, carriage free, on receipt of stamps. It is sold in bottles 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each. Beware of Imitations. See the name "Gwilym Evans" on Lahel, Stamp, and Bottle. Sole Proprietors: Quinine Bitters' Manufacturing Company, Limited, Llanelly, South Wales.

i VARIOUS DISTRICT !IE!?S Sir. Wm. Thomas, of Cilgall Ganol, Pencanw, Carmarthenshire, who died on Juiy 4 last left property of the value of £ 2!j(i 10s. Miss Sarah Thomas and Miss Anne Thomas, the sisters are tllk- executrixes. A Burry Port man named John Evans resid- ing with his sister at Pencoed Road, partook of a hearty meal late on Saturday night. Afterwards he complained of a pain in his side, and about 2.30 a.m. he died, before a doctor could arrive. For the meat market and corn market tolls at ^!u' meeting of the Llandovery Town Council on I Wednesday, last week, there wa, but one tender, viz., that of Mr. George Williams, Bear Inn, to whom they were let for £ 25, including rates. Sir Lewis Morris distributed prize? and c"rti? ficates to successful scholars of Ienby County School on Wednesday afternoon last week. The school extensions were formally opened on the same occasion. Alderman C. J. Williams pre- sided. Dr. Ll. Prichard, Cardigan, was on Thursday, 2Gth ult., appointed junior assistant medical offi- cer of the West WalestAsylnm in room of Dr. James, resigned. The committee fixed the rate of maintenance of pauper patients at 9s. OJd. per head per week. Mr. Chappell, of Llanelly, has invented a nipple for use ii-Ptli incandescent burners, which is said to greatly economise the consumption of gas without reducing the illuminating power. The patentees are Messrs. Chappell and Miller. L/lanelly. At the Pembrey Copper Works on Saturday evening a workman named Edward Davies, re- siding at Mansel-street, was discharging moulds of hot metal at the cupolas, when his foot slipped, and he fell heavily on the heated metal, receiv- ing severe burns to his left arm. Mr. Evan Davies, of Abergwenlais Mill. Cily- cwm, Carmarthenshire, miller and farmer, who died on September G, and whose will is proved by Mr. Jchn Davies, of ]4, Walter's Road, Swansea, chemist, the brother, left. property valued at E477 2s. 8d. The contest to fill the vacant seat on the Llan- dovery Rural District Council for the parish of Cilycwm, caused through the resignation of Mr. James Peters, took place with the following re- sult Thomas Jones, Penrhyn, farmer (R.), 89; Thomas Powell, Cefntrenfa, farmer (R.), 69; majority, 20. The death is announced of Mr. David Jenkins. Cartref, Cwmfelin, near Llanelly, in his seventy- sixth year. He had been connected with the Glynen and Castle Collieries from the start, and was well known throughout South Wales. He was a founder of Tabernacle Baptist Chapel Llwynhendy. The death is announced of Miss Agnes Davies, eldest daughter of the Rev. W. Davies, Congre- gational minister. Llandilo, which took place late on luesday evening, The- deceased, who was 31 years of age, had been ailing for some time, and shortly after returning from a walk she died from exhaustion, due to consumption. The Ferryside lifeboat went out on Monday morning to render assistance to a large vessel which was seen tossing about near the dangerous Cefn Sidan in Carmarthen Bay, and which way- reported to be in difficulties. At ebb tide, how- ever, the ship got safely away, and the lifeboat crew returned late in the afternoon. The Rev Richard Williams, Trefooca. College, has been inductedpastor of Tabernacle Chapel, St.. David's, Pem. The church, which was founded 166 years ago, had at one time a store loft to hold; its services in, but the members had to quit the premises owing to the floor giving way, pre- cipitating the congregation into the cellar. A chapel, costing £ 4,500, has since been built. Mr. Justice-Kekewich in the Chancery Division on Wednesday week began the hearing of the AboryistNi-itli action of Fear v. Morgan, which was one to restrain interference by the defendant with ancient lights of the plaintiff's and for damages. The premises were 16, North Parade. It was stated that the judgment would affect a great many other cases.—The case was adjourned. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Cardigan Agricultural Society on Saturday, the accounts of the 1905 show were examined and passed, and all outstanding accounts ordered to be paid. The committee recommended the selec- tion of Dr. Pritchard, The Priory, as president- elect for. 1906. Dr. Pritchard has been a liberal supported of the society from its commencement. New Milford is having a little sunshine to sweeten the gloom and depression caused by re- cent dockyard discharges and the slackness at the Great Western Railway factory. The Channef steamers Reindeer and Roebuck, have been taken to New Milford for their annual survey and re- pairs, and as the work is being done by the com- pany, a number of recently discharged men have been taken on again. Mr. J. E. Jones, who is, probably, one of the best known schoolmasters in South Wales, has now retired from the headmastership of the Llan- elly Higher Elementary School. Formerly Mr. Jones was headmaster of the famous Heolfawr School, when it was carried on by Messrs. Nevillr Druce, and Co. A committee is now collecting subscriptions to present Mr. Jones with an oil painting of himself. This will subsequently be hung in the public library. The Llanelly coroner (Mr. Buckley Roderick) held an inquest on Tuesday week, at Five Roa-K, on Wm. Jones, a quarry man, who was killed at a neighbouring quarry. The deceased was firing a charge of powder for blasting, when a terriiic explosion took place. He was found afterwards at the bottom of the quarry, quite dead, with h:¡; clothing still burning. Nothing could be seen to show that the powder was improperly used. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Arrangements are now being made for the hold ing of atemperance conference at Llanelly, under the chairmanship of Mr. R. Beaumont Thomas, J.P. Amongst other matters, the Rev. Hugh Jones, pastor of Bethel Baptist Chapel, will pro- pose a resolution in favour of total abstinence from intoxicating liquor being made a condition of church membership. Such a condition has al- ready been resolved upon in two large Noncon- formist churches in Llanelly, and an effort is to be made to secure its general adoption. A fire broke out at Bryndu Farm, Talgarth, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Evans. It was first discovered in the barn, and in a very short time it spread to the other buildings. The Brecon Fire Brigade were summoned. The Hay Fire Brigade was also sent for, and they arrived about two o'clock in the morning, and were the means; of saving the greater part of the buildings and stock. The farm is owned by Lord Tredegar. The damage is estimated at £ 1,000. Valuable assist- was rendered by Superintendent Fly, Brecon, and P.S. Davies, Talgarth. Sir John Bell, at the Guildhall, London, on Thursday, 26th ult., concluded the magisterial hearing of the charges preferred against Win. Leslie, Alice Frances Cheeseman (who were ap- prehended at Aberystwith), George Webber, and Richard T. Rosenberg of having by false and fraudulent pretences obtained from engineers- electricians, electrical appliances and money to the aggregate sum of E33,000, and of conspiracy. This was the fourteenth hearing. The witnesses- were now bound over to give evidence at the trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions. On the arrival of the Cork boat at New Milford a man giving the name and address of T. Holmes.. 47. Edwards Street, Aldershot, reported that hi* brother was missing, and must have gone over- board. His brother, he said, was attached as master shoemaker to the Durham Light Infan f i, v- at Cork, recently removed from Aldershot, and he was being taken home in his charge." He was told to take care of him as he was light-headed, and kept a watch upon him. He missed him from his berth about mid-channel, and though a close search was made, only his boots could be- flound. (When the Inniscarra. arrived at New Milford, Holmes said he thought he saw his bro- ther dart along the pontcon. No one else, how ever, saw the missing man, and it is believed he- i must have gone overboard.

Dr. Clifford's deee was be8toed upon hi? by an American ladies' coUega. SCHOOLS A SACRED TRUST. -Saking at the St. Asaph Diocesan Conference on Thursday, 26th nIL. t}w Bishop of St. Asaph said they looked upon the schools as a sacred trust, and an insuperable bar- rier to a secular system of education. The re- sponse to his appeal for funds had more than trebled his expectations. As to the promotion of i temperance, the present improvement in the country's drinking habits he believed to be duo more to voluntary effort than to legislation. He felt that the nation was bound to be liberal to the, owners of publichouses in the matter of compensa- tion. As to disestablishment, Lord Rosebery had told them that the Welsh party had already drawn the swords, and where whetting them on the grinding stone, but the official leaders of the Liberal party were maintaining an ominous sil- ence on disestablishment. If they did get into power they would renew their attaqk on the. Church, and disregard the churchmen who had helped to return them. His hopp and belief was- that in the diocese of St. Asaph they would face the danger in the future as III the past, strong in unity and in inextinguishable loyalty to the Church of their fathers.