The Cambria Daily Leader

I SWANSEA I I MERCANTILE Co. Ltd. 'I of 1S, Park Street- Swansea, Make Cash Advance -om £10 to £1,000 To Cowimer^iai Gw.lempii. Tradf*- uven. Farmers. an I inspectahle JTo-wehoMprs m their own Not* ..f Hand, at a tOW imprest. StrictJy Private. Canfiden!iai. For further pa r t rv. H. E-. JONES, is, Park Street, Swansea.

Our Note Book. Opening of New Neath Road Schools—Inaugural Functions of 1868 and 1.912-An Active Morriston Octogenarian—Dr Joseph Davies' Reference to Robert Owen—The Mayor j Proud of his Prototype. The new Neath Road Schools which Were opened on Tuesday by Mrs. U. D. YV illiams, occupy the same site as that occupied by the old British and Foreign Society's Schools, which were bounded in 1?8. Among those who j ? ere present at the opf'nm ceremony j in that far-on day, and who are still j in the land of the uving, are Lor? GIan- tawe, Dr. Joseph Davies (Hafou), Air. .Oakley Waiters, Air. Win. Lewis, J.P..j and Mrs. Gwenllian John. The latter lady, who is the mother of Mrs. H. D. Williams, is one of Morriston'k eldest inhabitants, being 83 years of age, and being born two years before the passage of the Great Reform Bill, 1332. She is still wonderlully keen and alert, and moved about on Tuesday' with the tiimbieness of a woman half her age. %r 71 Dr. Joseph Davies, who spoke with such eloquence, grace and cultured charm at Morriston, on Tuesday, is one u1 the oldest and best-respected of Swansea's medical men. For many, many years he figured as an outstand- ing outpost of humanity at the Hafod, being doctor to the works of Messrs. ) N-iv-an and Co. During the course of i his speech he referred to the excellent t Work done for education by .Robert; Owen, the great Welsh Socialist, who established the lirst school in Scotland. worked upon the principles of Pasta-i luzzI, the Swiss educationa ) reformer. Tho Mayor's eyes simply danced witn delight, and a broad smile of satisfaction | beamed across his ice at the reference, for Councillor David Williams is also a Welshman and a Socialist. In the same year as that in rthich Mrs. Gwenlhaa John was born, chere j \Vas established at Manchester the; Natioilal Association for the Protection of Labour, this beiug regarded as the first fruits of Robert Owen's teaching. those clays this great Welshman— who his received the scantiest recogni- tion from his fellow-countrymen—»vent about from place to place pleading tor j a standard oi life which should secure to the workers necessaries, not simply for existence, bUt for their highest (:1'i:i- Clency, and for the development of ??Ill their powers, physical, moral and Ü-el- lectual. Robert Owen alienated sup- Port in Nonconformist Wales, for his oo-operative and Socialist schemes, by h:s secularist views. The Mayor, on the contrary, is a stalwart Churchman. i m> To-da, _V,s Gossip I A leading feature of a New Year's party for little children of Alourt • 'eat>ant last evening, was the smash- lng of oranges on the wall-paper! Oh, those boys! j "He is one of those half-educated People. Ho has been to the Grammar ochuol and wanted a soft job," said the j relieving Officer of one applicant to the outh iielief Committee. An expert who has examined; plans. of the new Swansea Y.M.C.A.,  it is one of the finest and be.vt Planned buildings in the whole of the touutry. $ ;,¡: "Keep your voice up aiid Your teiaper-it you can manage 1 t: I-;is fie!iry Thompson's advise to a Witness at the Swansea Police Court, Yesterday. Solicitor (to a witness at Swansea j Po lice Court): They were talking of j r.;au V\ ells and Private Basham. are lighters, are they not? j Oh, the ignorance of the legal profes- sion '< I t ;;1\. --(. ?t v. as quite interesting to watch exertions of Mr. Jeffreys to dislodge that brick at the Swansea Chamber cf ?-omiuerco on Thursday. ']-'ho way I1 handled the crow-bar ii-Ias *orMi seeing,  ? .?' star-gazing crank has his eves • | -\? e<?h. ai?o. ior he wrK CH to pout, undei' the synopsis of his Imd- I )light observations of the stars two I ni*i 1 » s age, published in this c?umr. "-as an advertisement leading off with tho cry ^0t~wacer Bottles! Hot-water j Bottles 1" ? ? on ? ???er of the "Leader'? staff, on +h °ok,"out. for ?Ty. ?-as ? done aLi, 1 +!1S morning. Seeing a crowd of j ??? ci? ted rl.adies mh-ont of lin Oxford- st. 1 treet ???'??'?? '? thinking that j it ?? '??th.ng h? th.n a murder, he m J \"1 "° th/ e sconc—only to find that jj a w It er <'Wgain sale was ?n! | '?Not? t ?musing ?i8ht in town tnwn''?'?"?S WM¡ the -nebriated ftyZ Jhi ,1° ?agSered a)ong Gower-! t 'R-Itli a ? ?' 'PP?d pota?cs! In Ole hand, ?.??".e ?Songs of'Araby" ? ? ?.t ? ? ? ??s vo;oe. Strange to sav, h", sang: Bass, "hieh was p'ubably what \¡e had bc('n dl'inking. =-= ¡ From the ?DaUy K.xpt-p?:— T?e Lancashue rnionist memoes by Parlia1UclIt, inflU<'llced, no douht aJr'' ihat has been b!o? bl Ih,, ?"-? ??iL" the "-Tuniot Mofl" r,i. ,(,?M" '? ?'? "Times") ? u,. ??hcluT's anvil chorus Wfl1tt:X1 u ?'' ?o"?' Law in in, formal eonT? eDC(^ at the House of! Commons Yesti)rda y t,o discuss th(' <mestion Qc???i'day to discuss th? a CCs Lanra? '? ? ??' ? ?! A roe hy any V other name, etc. A rose hy a."c? v rother name, etc.  The late Mr. Eclwa i r If i whúse! death was recorded -? ???-- ??-? the other rliv onlv the oldest! BiScSr Ld ?U\V th° ° ldest ^n, but one of thi e ?f ? th° last, surnY{)r 01 th crowd oi :pecta- I tors who tors N;-h,) the M,Morp, blo soenes enacted a\ ?e ?tpubHc execu-J ?on calTl(>1 out ? TItrough. On! ?< ??S?on the ??'?' in the words, of Mr't???' ?? large and so dense, th^t on« ('oHIO, have waIked on! the heads of the people from the S^olj *o High-street

WiUTHEWMKS BE CLOSEUP Spelter Position. I I March to London btateme-nt i Flatly Contradicted. I I EMPLOYERS DETERMINED j I The dispute h?iw??n the Sw?n&pA? ppclter workers and thefr empJoycrs with regard to the question of the abolition of Sunday labour has now lasted eight weeks, and apparently is as far from settlement as ever. I Negotiations have be,en proceeding be- tween the representatives of both sides for some time, the men eOiltending that. 'I the Sunday charging of furnaces can be done tway with, while the employers adherz) xo their view tiiat, the exigencies of the trade are such tha t to concede the men's demands is not only impracticable but impossible i without so reducing the output or in- | c:ea-sing the cost of production as to render the manufacture of spelter un- ■profitable. Nor have the einployeeil been any more successful in their eu- dearour to secure .as a,ii alternative the adoption of a Sys-teiii 01 eigat-hour j j shifts. The Ten Shilling Offer. I I The employers, however, expressed their willingness to malic an allowance of 10s. per furnace for distribution amongst the men who work six days out of seieii. This concession the men arc unwilling to accept aö a solution of the problem. Tho lat-est offer of the masters, which was, it wail remembered, aecom- fiarjKxl by an intimation to the effect that if work not resumed next week it would be necessary to take steps to draw the furnaces—winch in I oistier words means the closing of the works for an indefinite period—was considered by the Morriston sec- tion of the workmen last night, when the position was fully explained, and; it was decided to recommend the Strike Committee to make a further appeal to the employers to keep the negotiations open in the hope that u. way out of the! difficulty might still be discovered. But how ? j Men's Decision. The suggestion put forward at last! night's meeting was that time and a hail should bt; allowed for work betv.yeu! Saturday night and Monday This would, it was argued, meet the ob- j jection urged by the emjJloyers regard- ing the introduction of eight-hour [ shifts. It was stat-ed that a s imilar rate of payment existed at several of the large works in the district. The offer of a 10s. bonus which the employers are said to have made was fully COll- I sidered, a "Leader'' representative! was informed to-day, and the decision j oi the men was, to quote the words of i our informant, "that rather than ac-I cept such an offer ax. a solution of the problem, they would prefer to retur11: to work on the old terms and confess themselves beat-en." i Other sectional meetings to consider the latest phase of the situation are being held to-day. What the outcome will be reninius to be seen. While the Morriston men are apparently deter- ( mined not to accept the offer of the em- ployers, there arc others who urge tha.ti a ballot of the v?tole of the uorkmen aSected should be taken, and in thi way only can the feeling of the spel- terden bo ascertained. THE LONDON MARCH. I An Absurd Statement. I The statement published I;n a con- temporary that about 200 of the men now out intend to oommence a march i to London on Monday next, and that. on their arrival a deputation would j wait upon, the Home Secretary in refer- ence to the dangerous nature of their employment, was described to a "Leader" representative to-day as an I uttei- absurdity. j The spelter industry is scheduled as I an unhealthy, but not a dangerous I occupation," said one of the men. f Our leaders are doing; all that is I nece.ssaiy, and with their efforts we are quite satisfied. The suggestion may have been made, and no doubt does credit to the quarter from which it > emanated. But it is too absurd. iol- j serious consideration, and may lie (lis- uus-sed for what it is really worth." EMPLOYERS DETERMINED. ) Works may be Closed for Months. I A "Leader" representative is defi-l nitely assured that so far as the em- plovers are concerned, they are of opinion that there is no good or usefrill purpose to be served by any prolonga-1 tion of the negotiations, and that the decision at which they have arrived, and which has been communicated to the workmen's representatives, may be re- garded as their last word. The statement with regard to the! drawing of the furnaces in the event of work not being resumed next week," said the representative of one firm, "was not in the nature of an idle threat, and was not intended as such. "It represents the carefully-considered view of the employers, and will cer- tainly be carried into effect. It means, that the works will be definitely closed Several furnaces have aLready been with- drawn; arrangements arc being made! for withdrawing the remainder DCX t! week. If that is done, the works mav not be re-opened agam for months That is the exact position. It is for the men to decide."

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard j Bingham and Mr. Samuel Hill-Wood, j have joined the General Cour-leiii of the Inipe-riat Maritime League. 1 At Marylobone County Court ye-ster- day a solicitor informed Judge Sir W ¡ Selfe that his client was a well-known publican a.nd weighed 30 stones.

WILL NOT MEET. I Friendly Societies and the I Local Doctors. i OFFICIAL DECISION. I We have received the following im- portant official report from Mr. Reuben Robinson, secretary pro. tern. to the "Swansea United Friendly and Trade Societies Medical Association" At a meeting of the above, heid en Thursday evening, January 2, 1913 the following resolution was passed, after duo consideration:— "That this meeting, having con- sidered the suggestion of appointing a deputation to meet the Swansea doc- j tors, is of opimon that for the present we cannot recommend such a deputation in face of the negotiations which are going on with his association. I "We also wish to point out to the public of Swansea that up. to the pres. we have had no official request from the doctors oi Swansea to appoint such a deputation. Neither have they sug- gested iiny terms upon which they are prepared to attend to our wives and children, or uninsured persons., in future; although in other towns up and down the country ,the doctors are making instance, at Derbyshire and Notts, three weeks ago, the doctors made an offer to attend )?o the lamUy for 10?. Gd. a year. We appeal to all our members of the Friendly and Trade Societies at- Swansea to send in their forms signed for a medical association at once, so as we may be able to make the necessary arrangements for medical attendance for our wives, children and uninsured persons on and after the loth day of January."

i LAW THE LISTENER. I Lancashire's Strong Objection to 1 Protection. Poor Mr. Bonar Law! Yesterday he held another private conference, at j which it is understood that his Lanca- shire supporters did not support him very heartily—indeed, the Lobby cor-i respondent of the Chronicle says he gatners that Mr. Law's role was chiefly Uiat of listener. Lancashire's repug- nance to Protection was not concealed by tho speakers. It seems clear (he adds) that, the rent in the l.niouist party, which seeatuj Ust week to be closing, is now widening into a chasm broad and deep, which may soon become unbridgeable.

I DESPERATE DUEL. ) ) Austrian Noblemen Arrange to Fight to the Death. .k i ttioti, I t i Although this is the year of grace 1913. a duel of an unusually desperate character was fought with swords at Budapest yesterday by Count Tisza., the former president of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, and Count Michael Narolyi, one of the Opposition leaders. Tho duel (says the "Express") was the result of a quarrel between the two politicians in a Budapest club yesu?i- day. The quarrel was of such a serious nature that tho seconds ar- ranged that the duel should continue until the death or total disablement 01 one of the combatants. The. duelists fought thirty-two rounds before their seconds were able to stop the combat. Count Tisza finally suc- ceeded in wounding his adversary severely in the head and breast. Count Tisza himself received only a slight scratch. Count Narolyi was removed to his home. He is expected to recover.

THE NEW Y.M.C.A. 1 I Beady for Opening about Jane or I July. How did the Swansea Y.M.C.A. do I last asked the "Leader" man. Well," said Mr. Smart, the sec., I most of our „iine h;iÖ been given to perfecting the plans and arrangements ) oi the lieu- building; that has been the main work of the Committee." The Committee feel they have been entrusted with a..considerable sum 01 money, and that this should be laid out to the best possible advantage. Out of tho 3,700 contributions to the new building, nearly 3,000 havo completed their payments, making a total ot 1; 10,811 18s. ld. pzi,.d up to the ena 01 the year." j And how is the building going onK" j They arc already on the top storey, and the builders anticipate having tho roof on in February. It is likely to bo ready for opening about Juno or July." "The Y.M.C.A. has, I suppose, (jone j more during the year than simply running up this new building?" Yes, one of the most encouraging new things ha-s been the training of a body of Christian young men on scien- ti&c JinCiS for l 'hmtian work in churchc*. The class has been mee.tillg weekly since October, under the direc- tion of Mr. J- H. Turnbull. All the ¡ ordinary activities have been kept up. Tho religious life here was never I stronger than now." Questioned as to finance, Mr. Smart said:— You can toll the generous public that we shall need another £ 5,000 on the Building Fund. That much will be additionally necessary to open the build- ing free of debt. The site being one of j the most valuable in Swansea, and one that will continually increase in value, it was deemed necessary to erect a building worthy of the site, worthy of the town, and the growing needs of tho Y.M.C.A. As soon as we get this erected, we shall begin to build branch institutions J' in different portions of the Swansea district."

LOSS TO LOCAL LIBERALISM. I I Dr. John Evans. Well-known Swansea Man's Varied Career. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, We regret to record the death, which took place this afternoon, of Dr. John Evans, who has been a well-known figure in the town for many years. The deceased gentleman leaves a grown up family, consisting of Dr. Trevor Evans, tho medical officer of the Swansea Prison, Mr. Medi Evans, mining engineer, Miss Letiy, Miss Muriel, and Mrs. Derwen Thomas. The late- Dr. John Evans, J.P., whoso death wo regret to record, was born a.t Li.arnu-th, ia Cardiganshire, in the year 1844. He attended school at Frorne, and a.t the age of fourteen went to sea. Those were the days of sailing ships. Four years later, he resolved to pursue his nautical studies at home, and it is a dramatic fact that his vessel ou its [next voyage completely disappeared, and the years which have since passed have brought no tiding of the wnerc-abours of the ship or its crew. 'The captain was Dr. EYans uncle. Perhaps this event influenced the youth in his decision to abandon his in- tention of going to sea. Subsequently■ he attended the Miltord Haveu Gram- mar Scnool, and there graduated to blasgow University, and III 1872 emerged a fully qualified doctor, obtain- ing his L.F.P.S. and L.R.C.P. (Edinburgh). Call of the Sea. Again there came the call of the ocean, and as a ship's surgeon Dr. Evans sailed the seas on the old pas- senger ship Glamorgan. Thus lie crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixteen; times, journeying on no less than eight! occasions to iVew York. It was in the year lÎ 4 th-at he started. in practice ,L Swansea. Settled hero, lie soon became interested in the ad- vancement, both socially and politically, of the borough. People ivere impressed by his sincenty. He was inspired with; the spirit of Liberalism, and played aui important part m the Parliamentary elections. As an orator he was fearless1 and outspoken, and up to his very last moments he took a lively interest, in the deliberations in the House of Com- mons on the Disestablishment Bill. Jt was liijs earnest desire that he should live to haye seen it passed into law. Tho deceased gentleman was a bro- ther of Mr. Morgan Evans, J.P., or Cardiganshire, who was referred to by Mr. ijloyd George a-s "the Grand Old Man of Cardiganshire." He it was who gave important evidence before the Royai Commission dealing with the Cardiganshire evictions of 18(51, and it was but natural that Dr. John Evans should have manifested considerable in-, terest in this question, and his writ- ings on the subject are of great interest. An Experience. ) cc In one ai-Dcle which he contributed to ¡ "The Young Tribune," he related the: following experience:— I ?\ luie negot?Ung with an Insurance Company, in order to get a policy, tho company in question, different from all others, as far as I am a,ware, required, if practicable, two magistrates as refer- ences. Being in Glamorganshire at the time I had no difficulty in getting one from one who knew me only for a short time; the other justice was in Cardi-i ganshire, and had known me all my life. To my great surprise I had a short note from him addressing me as 'Sir' (and not John as before), stating that before he would put a pen on paper he wanted to know if I were a member of the Liberation Society, or! intended to be; he also informed me that my brother was the local secretary to those agitators Edward Miall and Henry Richard. The letter was senv to the Insurance Company, and was ac-1 cepted as a favourable reply, for the! directors hold that politics had no weight with them. This is an instane-el not of the sins of the father descending, but the sins of a brother crossing to, another brother." 0 ¡ Founded a Newspaper. It In 1875 Dr. Evans married Miss I Martha Letitia Greenwich at Milford • Haven. Two of his cousins are Sir A. Garrod Thomas and Mr. Aeron Thomas. I Ho was a promineut member of tlio; Swansea. Cvmrodorion Society, a Jus- tico oi the Peace, and a member of the Liberal Executive Committee. He it was who, in the early days of Swansea, journalism, founded the "Daily Post" as an advanced Liberal journal! under the editorship of Mr. Liewelvu! Williams, K.C., M.P. The day chosen ior the first issue wa.s the one on which Mr. Gladstone made his memorable Home Rule speech in the House of Commons. Dr. Evans was highly esteemed by Lord and the late Lady Grenicll, and was entertained by them in Egypt when his Lordship was Sirdar. Heturning, Dr. Evans personallv conveyed many valuable gifts from him to the Roy* al!, Institution of South Wales.

SACKS ABLAZE. I I- i .Last mght an alarm of arc was re-1 ceivod from the Strand district. The! Swansea Fire Brigade arrived to fintÍ ¡ that some old sacks at the timber yard. of Messrs. Lewis had been on fire, but that the blaze had been extinguished with buckets of water, the damage dono j being very slight. I

CLEANER'S FALL. I Last night Arthur Maddock, of No. ) 1, Pentremawr-road, was conveyed to the hospital, suffering from a fractured j knee-cap as the result of having fallen down a step while cleaning the Glynn Vivian Mission Room at Pentremawr- road. He was detained. I

THE TUBE WORKS. 9150,000 Expected to be Spent in extensions. ) CORPORATION CRITICISED. ) t | For some time past, the Mannesmann I Tube Company have been contemplating important addit.ous to their present works at Landoie. The Company com- plained of the way m which t-hey h&d ¡ been hampered owing to the I procrastination of tho Swa-isea í Corporation over lho question j of a.n approach to tueir works, with the I result that it was leared that instead oi undertak illg; extensions locally they ( | would prt??eci with tne ereen?n of new w0rks m m? North ot England, where they have had the offer oi a number of H ls on what a?e ciescrtb?d as very favourable terms. At the meeting of the Council, a, I which the company s communication was discussed, it was explained that the! Corporation were not wholly responsible for the delay which had takeu place, and a hope was expressed that. the cornpally--wmch already employs about two thousand men in the district—; ni i h-L see their way to consider the de- cision at which they had arrived, In the meantime the firm have nao j the otter ot a convenient site, ana jm?otiatioQt. with the landowners tMc j proceeding so satisfactorily that there Is every p[osp<?'t of the deal beL;"? j carried througti, in. 14 71ch case the ex- I tensions will be made locally as origin- ally intended. Nothing definite, it is stilted, has yet been decided, but the position is re- j garded as very hopeful. It is reported that the extensions, if carried out at Swansea, will mean an expenditure ot anything bet,ween Liuo,oou and The number of additional men to be employed would be between 500 and,! OOU.

f ELECTORAL REFORM. I a J Proportional Reprelsntatioa for Iriah Commons. There was a meeting of the Parlia-1 menvary Committee for Proportions) | Representation last night at the House of Commons under the chairmanship of 1 Sir Wm. Anson. The Committee, in view of the in-1 erbasing demand from Ireland for the ) adequate representation of miuoritie in the first and crucial years of the now Irish Parliament, determined tci present amendments, wh,oh na.e been put down in the names of Mr. Walter i Guinness. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, 8i1 Alfred Mond, and Captain Newman.! applying proportional representation t< the Irish House of Commons.

,-==== AN OLD WELL. I Testimony to the Success :of the Swanaea Drainage Scheme. I } In the course of excavation for new offices in Pier-street, Swansea, tor Messrs. Hajiis Bros, and Co., Slup- brokeis, an old well has been dis- covered. It is roughly a bout four feet in dia- mewr, sproaJwg to a width ot six teet at a distance of eight feet down, that is so iar as the excavations will go. The well lay uudernt?th UIÛ floor of an old! stable; it had been sealed up, and a lead which probably connected it with | a. pump, has been removed. j There is nothing unusual about the well, said Mr. Portsmouth, the archi- tect; we often moet with such old wells in excavation. In '87, when Swansea had a drought, many of these old wells were opened out, and proved very useful." J Asked what would be done with it, Mr. Portsmouth said the rubble wall work would be removed so far as re- t quired, but the well would not be filled up, because he thought it took the l drainage of the sub-soil. They wiitl, at ) the level they go to, place a coupe of j iron joists over the well and build over j it. At this spot, there is a layer of ex- cellent sand about eight or nine feet deep, then a bed of clay. The well which has in it six feet of water, and goes down altogether from the street level about 23 feet, passes through the bed of clay. Water can be obtained anywhere around here by sinking to about this depth. Mr. Portsmouth is surprised that on this occabiün they havo found the sand quite dry, with no trace of water. It seems that the recent draina scheme has been a great success. Tlicy; always u?ed to have considerable trouble w ith water when making exca- vations similar to this.

"SANTA CLAUS." Further Acknowledgments. Per itias Cook: W.ll.H,. 6d.; Sadie Ben- nctt, Is.; Iswal Davies, Is.; Ralph Symonds, Is.; Mrs. J. Locker. ls. ———————————— t

NEXT WEEK IN COMMONS. Mr. McKenna in the Commons :res-I terday informed Mr. Bonar Law respect-! ing the business for next week that on Monday the Committee stage of the Es- tablKhed Church (Wales) Bill would be! oont-inued, and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the Report stage of the Government of Ireland Bill would be taken.

"THE MASTER BUILDER." We have received the following letter from the Rev. James Evans (Aberavon) with reference to the cartoon (by Mr. T. Robinson), published in our columns on Thursday :— Hearty congratulations to the Leader 5 cartoonist on to-night's car- toon. It is worthy of u F. C. G. or ( Punch.'

At the Sandown Colliery, between Canterbury Dover, a soam of coal, ';ft. 4in. thick, was uncovered yester- j day.

 IN THE HOUSE 01 i COMItONS. The Welsh Bill. i Mr. McKenna and Disestab- lishment in England. BORDER PARISHES. (Spccial to the I- i.radei,. "j j HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday, The Deputy Speaker (Mr. Whitley) took the chair at eleven o'clock. A Bill was presetted on behalf ol air Runciman providing for the branding of barrels filled with cured herrings in England and W ales. It was read for a" first time. Welsh Church Bill. Ine. House went into eommitt'^e on the Established Church « Wales) BIll, and proceeded to consideration Cl Clause A. which makes provision as ic border parishes. Air. Cave moved an ajiiendmcnt to exdude from the scopa ÔÍ the Bill all 'ccicsia-stical parishes not whollv m Waies or Monmouthshire. There were ne said, 20 such parishes, six of them bemg in W_ elsh Dioceses and fourteeu in English Dioceses. The Bill as it stood, he maintained, was an attempt under cover of a somewhat obscure clause to make a beginning with Lhe Disestablishment and despoiling of the Anglican Church in England. (Minis- terial cl-ies of "o," and "Fiction -McKenna did not think the I on. and v learned gentleman had established a case for the amendment. The Govern- ment proposed that, so far as me, "??- ??Secgraph?cai a' aiYd M? onmonthsnu-e 'houjd be 1 trea? ted as the area ov? wh'.ch D?stabh?hment should ope?  ? atte™pt> ? ?SS?n ot atnfclTm TJ' a;S ° iutl'oou<:o D?.?aUi?hmenr into  (M??cnal chec?.) 1 he Government, had refused to ela-ia for Welsh Disesta blishment parishes in ?h?''?- ???-? with t\vWefslh h Diüccses m caoes Where pari.sbes eould not. be treat<d, as bemg wholly Enghsh or whoUv We!? Jt  Proposed ? let the inhabit d) e<.ded whether rhey ,?liuuld come into I tins 6ci?une or not d that ihe HnnL Alfll'd Cnpp" c:aimd that ihe Home- Rff'f'c:Uny !1ad rwt aJ.l,jwered 2\11', Ca'e's objcction: This l'E'a.rraWfC. -cut of loc??l coud 'tions cli'LL to I)e dealt with not by Welth Commissi^ "PJ?Po^d in Claue, but eiTher bv thet-ouse Ox Commons or the ?- asti. cal Commissioners. M^B?ciS5'aid ^ntoleranoe and bicr0lrv hreathed through ev„ry word o? th an • learned gentleman's speech Mr. Bnageman asked how the upminB of parishioners was to be taken Mr. Llewelyn Williams. I \1r. Lle.rel,n Williams said that afier rthhf e Norman invasion W?J? was found more difficult to conquer t?.n E?g?S (Laughter). He explained that border panshes came iDto <.xi.s?nce m connee- ¡ Pn^ ;te Pea*el!l1 -? the Principality. S,?m!dmeUt ?' rejectd by 204 I vot-e?? u> 56 Providing;?0 m°lhed an amendment providing that i)ai,hes WeMi St cfl?S5s.lt, ,» English dfccw. v ? j?nghsli, but belem?ii? ? a ?ekh dioce-, j should !? excluded froT? the operation of the Bm if the pa^ ioners genera]!y wished i? suce ex- clusion. He said there were .?n or eight such parishes in the diocese of ?1'' were tbqroughlv An- glicised Mr. Hobhouse thought that the pf. ceptance of the proposal would lead to all kinds of difficulties, and stated the Government could not accept it. I ed-o--nPa-ge- j

? T 'P 15.30 EDM. —1W lit WH III! ill* MB Mil Kt\ <"li j THE WAR. At hens message states Turkish i -i; of 2,000 m0n in Island of Chj0 has surrendered to Greeks. PEACE CONFERENCE, Peace conference was postponed tiii late in afternoon, in consequcnce TO Turkish title* from Constantinople. Ap- r>re;iei:s:on is felt in subject if A.-lrianople. AYIFE ASSAULT. Thomas Johu Thomas; collier, Aber- il niais. charged with assaulting his wiie, was fined 2Us. and costs. TRAM TRAVELLER. On a charge of travelling on a N tii tram a distance greater than that paid for, Thomas David Branch, Tallvll'.vvd, Skcwon, was to-day at Neath lined 10s. and costs. t TART TIME DENTISTS. Swansea Provision of Meals Com- mittee to-day appointed T. Is. Tustian. Trcvur G'-iffiths and T. W;itk:?is as pait time <lent-ists. Ihcre were six applicants. COAL KKPOET. _"L' 1:\ r. .J. f' The Seaboj^ie House Coal Market ro- (illlet to-day. ffo carg beinj UJ; fK-r. f' "1'11' 1)(, t '1-- 6?.; 'oJld 20?. 6J. l:' :d,' p u- ',i¡¡ ,¡¡¡!'t' "alls;.nd.1" t.d..Ar1ifl ?'. Hl'NGRY SCHOLARS. S-v:nj<-e.. r.-ovision oi Meals Com- T^.iiet couc'f'nir.cd methods of as- c n were imngry allege dto bo employed in c, ;n Victoria Ward.

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