Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH ON THE I DEBATE. On Tuesday evening a. correspondent waited upon the Bishop of St. Asaph, who is now busily engaged at his Palace, and asked his opinion as to the rumoured comp" romise upon the Welsh Church Bill. His Lord- ships;kid proposals for compromise had certainly been mentioned. They came, not from the defenders nf the Church, but from its most strenous opponents. The offer of such a proposal at this time was li"tiiri •ant. It w is a clear indication that the more far si-hted of the Welsh Liberationist members now saw that the carrying of disestablishment and dis- en.*lo\v:i:e:;t for Wales was not such an easy matter to adiiieve. The diflieuUi^ increased as the real truth alrat the Church gradually leaked out, and the recent deb-i?«\s in l'.u-iiaiaon: had done the Church an inealen'.able amount of good hy educating the the Ktifilish pcop!c upon the real merits of the case. Nearly ever- .single argument advance 1 had collapsed, the only on-? remaining being those that were equaliv applb.vile ;:gainst the Ciinreh in England. Ar.other and uncxpeccd difficulty which beset the L:!>r;Ui inist nartv a roe from the fact that the Wt-l-h electors now clearly understood that even after discv.dov.hient the tiiho would have to be paid, and that the pre out generation of Welshmen would n :t even (It liv-the !» :ie':t of Is 8(1. which would be what imlivirinal would eventually get when the ;itl;tl hid fallen in the course of some forty year, One of the iii-L prominent of the Liherationist members, who had been foremost in pressing foi'WiH'd terms of compromise, let out the nwlrward admission th) v lioU-i; get something to give the people at once. It clear that in order to do this %votild have to be arranged, rim was the real issue of the rumour about compromise. The Bishop added that the terms e) tite c-Mnprotiiise and the fo'iudation of the rumour (■"till he truv-d to the same source, namely, the V.eKh I.ihi rationist member. As to the Church, they would h ive nothing whatever to do with com- promise. Thev were fightintr the battle on principle, and they won- pt rfeeily convinced that the more the trntii bec im•• known the stronger their case would beùme, It was admitted, even by opponents, that '<; whole weight of argument in the recent debate *:is on the side (,f the Church. The particular instances upon which the Welsh members based a general accusation against the Church in Wales were flimsy and nn-r.ppnitable, and Mr Asquith would Prulnljiv 1 jf- v. rv much more careful in the future how lie rcpv;i,t 1 ioformation supplied to him by his Welsh Li.,LT it onist friends. The correspondent asked the Bishop his opinion :1" Mr 1";lIel y-ni'h s protest against paupers the petition ill the St. Asaph workhouse. His lordship replied that it was oiliv fre-h evidence that the Wc-l?h Lil)e:ationistr. were determined that in their campniioi Hpainst the Church they would give no ioilsidi-r.it,;on whati-ver to the poor. Mr Smith was must therefore be pardoned »or want of humour in asking the questijn, which ostentatiously betray" ed the disregard of his party •or the inti iesls of the poor. Church people had always thought th it in these matters care for the Poor was one of the first things to be considered. It had been left for the Welsh Liberatioaist members to Millie known tilt: fuet that the Welsh people, whose ^&lce w?s ni t to he heard in what they caHed this re.iimous C"¡Ul'"vcrsv. wa? the voice of the p )0r. .fernn" l ?"' majority on the division, the BisLop l I" 111llJI,nty 011 tile. IVl,;lOn, t Ie IsLOp V K ;v-is wholly wit):cu? si?ninc.mee, except so far t, at It \loul,l l I t C' 't ? it would stimulate Churclime.i to sweep it away at 1 l1éX' I I' II' J 1 I 'd d at tile NEXL Ilt:liet-.Ll His lordship consi d ere d JV eat Church people were more nniLed than ever, and lIe 11 \1!1I1'('f 'f '1 I 1 1. d' lie number Nvh(, ?.? ?,?.d the petitions urpri.^cd him. They were more numerous than those a";l1l1t tl¡ L' ;L,,I;tin,t tlitf Bill, and the cries about re:>"ure a.nd P-'r'll' b d procure an^ Persuasion were a olute]y absurd.

CHLRCH MAKRlAfiES ANL REGISTERS. T OWt IJ] 9'ous' on Tuesday, Sir I Fniii.i T' ii i d th. SLcrc.?rv of Sbte for the Home Department ?heUier he ?s prcnajed to insert any provisions in the Established Church (Wales) ];il! relating' to the celebration of marriages in the Cliui-ch in ;1 ,,11 registers recording such 1 uriiiKes; and wlieiher he proposed to insert any P ovisions re.ating to registers of baptisms and glials, and other books and documents containing cinries: whohy or partly relating to the affairs of the Cl.,iireli or to eeclesiasticiil charities, mentioned in the a"i:1ItLûnth sc:ctiúll c>f th Local Government Act, T A-><piith In the case of Ireland the ques- tIon ° celehration of marriages was dealt with by a i,•i.a-iire p.tssed subsequently to the Irish Church Act, '? the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law :hel:!J.JI -?"?''?"'?' Act of 1870. I will consider :-1 it i" pU"lb:e and expedient to make any rla'VISJOII for the matter in the Est?bUshed Church 1\\ ,tit"" I;nt As regard s dtc second part of the hon. ?o?t s <jn(?)),),? ? may point out th? chtuse 27, a of that Biil contains an express saving clause ?°'??? ?"d documcnts referred to in section 17 ? ? t.b? f- I.o?.? Covernment Act, 1894. j,.A :t re?i i- -.f t1.( ..)ip?.t to those opposed to the ?T, /or the Disestablishment and Di?endowment of ?<')):ttch in W.??es Issued by the Vicar of Hh"l a reu: J g r?H .uti si??d by nearlv 3,000 persons hM been '?''?ded finu that district to Parliament. The '« ti pUJub,¡uú of Hhyl at the iast census was 6,49L ?ordEn)t\npEet.idedon Wednesday night at a M<-e!n? ,,t \Y??? residents in the Metropolis, held in ll()I"bori Town Hall, and was supported by Lord "?sLury, l,?d Kenyon, the Deans of St. Asaph and ^°rv i?'. Pru.cip.U Oncn. a.d Mr StiU?y Leighton, Lord Emlyn said they were met to strongly Protest against the Bill, which he believed to be un- iu,l I L J?t. unwise and fraught with the gravest dangers to "»e ta.te Th- division on the second reading had not, he thought, advanced the question, and he did not "ehevc the ?peestablisbment of the Church was any noarer no? than last week. Lord Halsbnry, who ú owed, :.ïJ that for 300 years the Church i. WtJM had been in possession of her property. If the Church was entitled to her property, as the greatSst landowner to his land, or the tradesman to the money in his till, what right had they to take it away ? They were face to face with bigotry of a rampant character against the Church and every form of religion. Other speakers followed. Not all those present in the hall agreed with the views of the various speakers, and dissension was frequently noticeable.

THE CHURCH AND NONCONFORMITY IN NORTH WALES. The Special Correspondent of the Daily Xacs writing from Llangollen, says that after incessantly moving from place to place for nearly a month, it seems to him that the evidence that the Welsh people are not only in favour of disestablishment, but mean to have it, is overwhelming, and that the more closely the evidence is looked into the stronger it becomes. He writes :—I said in my last article that in Ruabon, from which I was writing, the Church and the squire probably had the best of it, and I alluded to some statistics which the vicar had given me to prove this. The figures as they stand do prove it very decisively. They show that on a certain Sunday in 1893 there were in three churches in the ecclesiastical parish of Ruabon 1,213 attendances during the dav. In the four chapels there were 687. Church attendance," says the vicar's printed slip exultantly, nearly double the attendance in all the Nonconformist chapels in the parish." Here is a phenomenon in Waiea Here is a bright spot for the Church Who says we are not making headway ? But just let us look at the method by which the reverend statistican has attained this cheerful result. In the first place he sticks close to the ecclesiastical parish. That enables him to bringin a church two or three miles away on one side of Ruabon and relieve him of any necessity to go out two or three miles in the opposite direction where, in the same civil, though not in the same ecclesiastical parish, he would have taken in Rhos, which I de- scribed in my last letter. To say nothing about neighbouring localities of a HimillLr character, Rhos is said, by one who knows it well, to have from twelve to fourteen times as many Nonconformists as Church people. As I explained it has fifteen chapels in which I think there must have been on Sunday evening of last week probably not less than three or four thousand people, while the two churches must have had two hundred and fifty between them. To have taken a three mile radius round his own church would have completely upset the Vicar's calculation, and of course he was quite justified in adhering strictly to his own parish. But even within his own area he is driven to the most remarkable shifts to make out his nearly two to one majority. The Non- conformists do not have early celebrations," but the Church people do • and, though the advantage is a very small one, the Vicar reckons the three services as against the chapel people's two. He thus gets aixtcen ahead of his rivals, who probably were all abed and asleep. In the afternoon he does much better business than this. He brings in all his children from the Sunday School to afternoon service in the church, and steals another march of 174-86 adults, that is, and 88 children-upon the outwitted Dissenters. I am assured that there must have been that afternoon not far short of 403 children in the chapel schools, but the Dissenters had no inkling of what was going on until it was too late, and not one of their children was counted. If we add to the 687 with which the Yicar credits the Nonconformists the 400 children in their schools, it will give them 1,087, and if we deduct the 16 communicants, who ought not to have been reckoned, from the 1,213 Church people, we get 1,197, so that after all the majority should have been only 110 for the Ciiurch, and even to get up that the chapel people declare that there was the most vigourous whip-up all round the place, and that the power of coal and blankets was put to the severest test. One woman was heard to declare that she went that day though she had not been inside either church or chapel for three years. The Vicar, of course, would deny this, and I am sure quite truth- fully so far as his knowledge went. But even vicars do not know everything. I may just remark that the f;Lct that the Church could muster only 88 children on the occasion referred to, while the Nonconformists claim to have had 400, is rather a bad omen for the continuance of the Church majority in Rua.bon, and I may further add that since that census Sunday the Baptists have set up a new chapel there, a.nd the Methodists have just now acquired a piece of land for a new building. Writing from DR-In. the correspondent says:-To keep on talking of this as an agitators' movement betrays an entire misapprehension of the situation. The majority of the people, the over-whelmiug majority, so far as I can discover, are Noncomformists, and it is a part of their principle of Noncomformity to object to a State religion. When I sa.y that the majority of the people are Noncomformists, I am Baying what seems to me quite indisputable as regards nearly every locality in which I have mad e inquiry. I wrote mv last letter from Llangollen. There are in that beautifully situated little town two churches, and three perfectly competent residents in the place put down the Church party there at abont 350. There are two Calvinistic Methodists churches, whose a.dherents-eckoned in just the same sense as that applied to the Church—were pnt down to- gether at 650. Two Baptist churches, one Welsh, and one English, were also put down at 650. A Welsh and an English Wesleyan chapel together were thought to number 300, and there was a Welsh Congregational chapel with from 70 to 100. Alto- gether somewtjere about 1,700 Noncomformists and .350 Church people. Even if we double the Church people and call thein 700, there would be still a majority of 1,000 for the Dissenters. Tha.t surely ought to be margin enough to satisfy any reasonable doubt about the religious principles of Llangollen. But the vicar couipiains bitterly that the Noncom- formists are opposed to a census. How do you propose to ta.ke it?', I asked. Take it how you like," he said, only let it be fitir and thorough." "Noncomformists don't believe it could be taken fairly except by ballot, and by ballot the electors have again and again shown decisively that they arc in favour of Disestablishment." The electors," he said. Why should it be confined to the electors ? On a subject of religion surely women are as much entitled to a a voice is men." There I am entirely with you. Some of us, you know, think tha.t women are as fully entitled as men to speak on this and all other subjects. But women at present do not vote on other Parliamentary matters. Why should any exception be made in the case of dises- tablishment ? If you are content to legislate with- out any voice from women on matters of temperance, education, health, factory management, and a thousand other matter-, why are you not content to accept the decision of the ballot box on the Welsh Church ?" The reason is perfectly plain. The Church clergy are not content that their Church shall be represented by those who actually attend and practically support the Church. They want to get the credit for that part of the population that never greatly interests itself in any Church. In that little town of Llangollen there are probably about 3,500 people. A little over 2.000 ar' accounted for, either as Clmrcl.1 or Ghapei people, leaving about 1,500 who from one cause or another, arc unattached, and of these a very large proportion the clergy believe they would be able, by hook or by crook, to set down among those who are in deadly earnest in the defence of the Church. As to the demand that women should have a voice iu the matter, why. of course, women do figure in the reckoning of the membership of churches and chapels respectively, and the very unmistakable result is that upon this showing the Church is even worse off than at the ballot-boxes. ————— «— —

I FLINTSHIRE MONTHLY MEETING. The Flintshire Calvinistic Methodist Monthly- Meeting was held at Nantyr, Adwv, on Monday and Tuesday. The following were among those present:— Rev. Evan Jones, G. Owen, and R. E. Morris, Wrexham D. M. Davies, J. P. Ditvies, aud Thomas Roberts, Chester; J. Jones, Ruabon O. B. Jones, (secretary), Robert Jones, Rhos (chairman), Josiah Jones, Flint; J. E. Jones, Bagillt; George Jones, Northop; and Charles Williams, Messrs.lohn Davies, and David Hughes. Llangollen; Joh.i Williams and Robert Pritehard, Acrefair E. Jones and Kenrick, Bwkhgwyn; R. T. Davies and Jenkins, Rhos; Thomas Parry and John Jones, Wrexham W. Jones and Thomas Thomas, Brymbo; l-obert Roberts, Lodge, and A. Cunnah, Moss. Mr Isaac Jenkins, of Rhos. presided.—Letters of condolence were sent to Mr W. Griffiths, Nerquis, Mr W. Davies, Tryddyn, in their illness, and to the bereaved family of Mr Jones, Perthichwareu, Llanarmon.—Candidates for the ministry from Acrefair a.nd Newmarket were examined.—It was decided to ask the association to give the Rev. H. W. Griffith, Rhoaesmor, a letter of transfer to America.—The Rev. E. Anwyl's (of Nant and Coedpoeth) letter of transfer from the Vale of Clwvd Monthly Meeting was reid.-The cause at Bethel and Nant was reported to be flourishing.- Messrs John Edwards, Buckley, and R. Ihomas, Ffynon^roew, were elected to be ordained. The next Monthly Meeting will be held at Llangollen, in con- nection with the association, and the following one at Mold,on May 27th and 28th.—The meeting acquiesced in the payment of the specified amount of the debt of the English Churches, and allowed the transfer to the Presbytery.

THE GRIEVANCES OF FLINTSHIRE FISHERMEN. At Chester Town Hall, on Tuesday, Mr C. E. Fryer, inspector of fisheries, held an inquiry on behalf of the Board of Trade into two by-laws made by the Dee Fishery Boird of Conservators. The by-laws in question prohibit the use of any trawl net having a beam over 20ft. between the trawl heads or iron," and the use in fishing the sea fish of anv fixed net or other fixed engine whatsoever." Mr If. D. Jolliffe (clerk to the Fishery Board), supported the by-laws, and Mr W. H. Churton, on behalf of a number of Connah's Quay and Chester fishermen, appealed against the by-law prohibiting the use of trammel nets.—Mr Jolliffe said the by-laws were brought forward in the interests of the ifshermen. Representations having been made that a 20ft beam would curtail the length of beam generally in use, the Board were prepared to leavp. th.%t matter in the hands of the Board of Trade.-Mr Churton said the fishermen had no objection to the by-law against stake nets as distinguished from trammel nets, the latter of which had been used from time immemorial. They were not quite certain that the trammel nets when used with weights at the ends came under the head of fixed nets. The Parkgate (Cheshire) ifsher- men were in favour of the by-law, and it was a case of the Parkgate fishermen against the Connah's Quay and Chester fishermen. If the by-law were enforced it would inflict serious injury upon the latter. Evidence was heard on both sides, and the inquiry closed.

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PARISH AND DISTRICT COUNCILS. GWERSYLLT PARISH MEETING. The first annual parish meeting was held in the National Schools on Wednesday evening, March 27th. Mr A. H. Sparrow, chairman of the Parish Council, presided, and said ho considered it a very distinguished honour to have been unanimously chosen the first chairman of the first Parish Council of Gwersyllt, and hoped that he should never do anything to bring discredit to that office. He thought that all his fellow-councillors would agree that he was striving to conduct the meetings with dignity and with harmony and that he was working hard, he thought, not only his fellow-councillors, but their clerk, would admit. He should continue doing all tnat energy could do to forward the interests and the welfare of that parish. Tho parish meeting had the* exclusive power of adopting what were known as the adoptive Acts, via., the Lighting and Watching Acts, 1833; the Burials Acts, 1852 and 1885; the Public Improvement Act, 1860; and the Public Libraries Act, 1892. Every parish meeting could give or with- hold its consent whenever the District Council resolve that a public right of way should be stopped or diverted, or that a highway was unnecessary for public use. Accounts of all nou-ecclesiastical parochial charities must annually be submitted to + U^ ,U Q"n_k.- 1 J._ I_: a .L Luc yanau mcewii^. ILL opiuiuw laiijr uxjJia.iicu tuts powers of the parish meeting. The Parish Council was, in his opinion, praoticallv the working committee of the parish meeting. That being so, they might reasona bly expect him to give details of what had been done. If the County Council and District Council would give them assistance the work they had started would end in benefit to the parish. Let them take for instance their recommendation to the County Council that the bridge carrying the main road near Gwer- syllt Colliery be shieid fenced, as many accidents, some ending in death, had occurred, owing to horses being frightened by the trains running underneath. It was the opinion of the council that this bridge and its approaches should be protected in the same way as the bridge near the Great Western Railway Summerhill Siding. The matter has been referred to the Main Roads Committee of the County Council. Then again there was their recommendation to the District Council that the Water- works Companies be asked to take steps to prevent the water mains from freezing in future, and also to fix and protect from frost addi- tional hydrants in the villages, so that should the pipes in the houses freeze, cutting off the water supply, pejple would be savad the fearfully hard work of Having to carry water from a distance. If the Dis- trict Council took up this recommenda.tion with energy then very great benefit would accrue. As to the water question, it was nothing less than mon- strous that the Waterworks Companies should be allowed to turn off the water whenever they liked without warning and without notice. In some houses it was positively dangerous, and in every house the inconvenience and labour caused by this reckless disregard for everyone's comfort was such that steps should be taken to try and put a. stop to it He should like that meeting to strengthen the hands of the parish council by passing a resolution calling upon the District Council to ask the Waterworks Com- panies to fix notice boards in the villages on which they must give at least one hour's notice before shutting the water off, and state the hour at which they intended shutting off the water, and the time approximately it would remain off. With regard to the charities Gwersyllt parish had no charities left since it became a parish of itseif. Its charitable income was derived from once having formed part of the old ecclesiastical parish of Gres- ford. The question arose how many trustees had they the power to appoint and how many beneficaries. The Parish Council had taken the matter up with the Chari.y Commissioners, and they awaited an answer. In spite of some opinions to the contrary he was still of the opinion that some of the charities were non- ecclesiastical, and that the Parish Council would have to exercise its power of appointing trustees. If the Commissioners gave a complete answer to the letter sent by the Parish Council tho matter would be decided once and for all. As to the footpath question the Council had appointed a committee to inspect footpaths and rights-of-way. The expenses already incurred amounted to 125, 120 of which had been spent in the Parish Council election. As to allotments the Council had had applications for seven acres from Iihosrobia. He was in communica- tion with owners of land, and wanted it to be known throughout the parish that the time had come when applications for allotments might be sent in to the Clerk, Mr James Price, or to himself. Mr Sparrow fully explained the Allotments Act. If a demand for allotments spring up in this parish Colonel Wheatley informed him he would let them the land. There were other questions, such as the condition of the roads, sanitary matters, barbed wire placed in unlaw- ful places, the inconvenience caused to the people in the parish by the withdrawal and re-arrangement of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay trains, and if they knew of any cases of extreme poverty which might be met by parochial relief, a recommendation from this meeting to their district councillors would be attended to.—Mr Thomas Cotterill, Windy-hill, proposed, and Councillor Job Lea seconded, that a request be made to the Parish Council, asking them to recommend the Great Western Railway directors to run passanger trains two or three times weekly from the Belland-lane Crossing, Ffrwd, a station to be placed there, and also a station at Moss, and thence on to Wrexham to meet the requirements of the district.—Mr Thomas Cotterill proposed that-a request also ba made to the Parish Council, calling the attention of the District Council to the condition of the road from Windv- hill Brickyard to Mr John Whitley's. These resolutions were carried.—Mr J. Evans proposed, and Win. Davies seconded, that a i-egl--a it be made to the Parish Council, recommending the District Council to take immediate steps to abate the nusiance at Summerhill caused by the sewage, which is piped from a portion of the top road, empties itself into Mr Poyser's field, and passes in front of tho houses situate in a portion of the bottom road. The resolution was also supported by Mr Robert Wynne. —Mr T. Cotterill wished to know if the clerk had the minutes of the vestry meeting at which permission was given for the diversion of the road at a point near the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Rail- way bridge, Syddylit-lane, to the Mold-road, and if the said road had been inetitllod to the satisfaction of the waywardens and surveyor ?-The Clerk said he had not the books, as he was not aware that they would be required.—It was proposed by T. Cotterall, seconded by Mr Edward Edwards, that the Parish Council write to the surveyor.—Mr E. S. Clark atid he had spared no expense to .nake that road a good one. The metalling was from eighteen inches to two feet thick. The resolution was passed with three dis- sentients.—With regard to the charities, the Chair- ma.n announced that it was his duty to read the com- munication with respect to parochial charities.—Mr E. S. Clark I don't think it neceoary that you should read the whole correspondence relating thereto, and every item in the statement.—Mr Charles Hughes I think the matter had better be referred to a select committee to he chosen by this nicelili- The Chairman The Act speciifes that it must be read at the annual meeting, and as long as I :1111 chairman I will do so.—Mr Thomas Cotterill said Workingmen of the parish of Gwersyllt,—I have been as poor as any workingman in the parish. I don't consider that honest poverty is any disgrace. I don't think that if I was brought into circumstances which made me the recipient of any dole or charity I should be ashamed of my name being published. To have those charities read out annually we have fought for years. I hope that every workingman will stick to his guns, and have them read in detail whoever is the chairman.—The Chairman then pro- ceeded to read the charities :—Mr John Davies' charity, £ 444 10s in Indian shares per cent. stock, which yields an annual income of iEI3 6s 8d, dis- tributed as follows Gresford, four persons at Xl 6z3, C4 6s 8d Rossett, three persons at £1 6s, S4 Gwersyllt, three persons at £1 6s, S4 the Gresford charities, which comprises Lady Frances Wynne's, the Peter, Ann, and Jane Shackerlev, and Ann Shackerley Junior, Richard Lloyd, and the consolidated charities. Total amount of all these charities, iE160 13s. They were distributed as follows :-Hossett and Gresford medical charities, S10 Gwersyllt medical charity, zElO Vicar of Gresford casual relief, 17; Vicar of Rossett casual relief, 47 Vicar of Gwersyllt casual relief, iE7 clothing, .£29 5s Gresford National Schools, X6 Rossett National Schools, £6 Gwer- syllt National Schools, X6 clothing for poor—Gres- ford, JE1 10s Rossett, XI 10s Gii-ersvllt. ;El 10s; the managers of the National schools for pupil teachers—Gresford, £2 Rossett, JE2 Gwersyllt. JE2 shoes for poor—Gresford, £1 4s 8d Rossett. £1 4s 6d; Gwersyllt, 1:1 4s 6d repairs to propertv, X48 2s lid balance in hand, X4 Is 5d —Mr Charles Hughes thought it was absurd that poor peoples' names who had been the recipients of these charities should be made public. Mr E. S. Clarke quite concurred with Mr Hughes.—The Chairman I have done my duty, nothing more, according to my reading of the Act. (Cheers.)—A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the meeting. MOLD PARISH MEETING. On Thursday, March 28th, a parish meeting was held in the County Hall, when there were present :— Messrs E. Bithell (in the chair), P. B. Davies Cooke, James Taylor, B. E. Phillips, E. Lloyd, Henry Parry, Charles Lewis, Thomas Sliepperd, Joel Williamson, Thomas Jones, David Jones, Piasnewydd; W. Rogers, A'c.—The Chairman expressed regret that no greater interest was taken by the public generally in the work, and called upon the Clerk to read the account of the charities for the past year.—The Clerk, Mr Keene.did so, saying the charities last year had been administered pretty much on the old lines. The charities had been distributed over Mold town, Gwernaffield, Leeswood, and Buckley (Mold portion), amounting in all to S,66 9s Id, leaving a balance of .E15 lls lOd undistributed.—Mr D. Jones asked why so large a balance was kept in hand.—The Clerk replied the reasons was that some of the money was not p:ud in until the distribution was over. It had been the same the year before, and was likely to be so every year. The sum of X13 odd had been paid to Mr Job Edwa.rds for bread distributed in doles. Mr Keene was asked whether that would not cease now. —Mr Keene said he did not think it would. It lay with the trustees, and o.ny change in the trustees would have to be approved by the Charity Commis- sioners.—The Chairman said he had inquired into what were known as the parochial charities, and had found that during the last 200 years or so XZ,734 had been left for the poor of Mold. uf the interest, jEJ9 Os 2d went for education, iC252 103 6d was not accounted for, or had been lent to the Church, and L752 10s 6d had apparently been lost, at least it was not accounted for at present.—Mr Morgan said the County Council had applied to the Home Depart- ment that a barrister should be appointed to inquire into the charities of the county, and the application had, he believed, been granted. He suggested that the whole question should be deferred to the visit of the Commissioner, and threshed out then. This view was accepted, and the meeting passed on to the question of allotments, when it appeared that two persons from Buckley had applied for allotments.— The Clerk said that the County Council had made an order to the effect that Buckley, part of which was now in the parish of Mold should be erected into an urban district. In such an event, Buckley would be a parish of itself, and as the order would be confirmed prob- ably within the course of a few months, would it not be well to postpone all applications from that quarter, so that they might be disposed of by the people of Buckley themgelves? It would, he thought, be much more satisfactory to themselves and to everybody concerned.—Mr Joel Williamson said that in the meantime they could ascertain whether there was any general desire for allotments in the district.—Mr Cooke asked what was about the population of Buckley.—Mr Williamson said he believed it was quite 10,000.—Mr Morgan said he believed the number to be much over-estimated, though he had often heard it stated it was 10,000 and upwards. Taking the number on the register, and multiplying it by five, which was a pretty sure guide, the number was only about 7,500, certainly not 8,000, and this included the population of districts which it was not proposed to include in the new urban district. He did not think the new district would exceed 6,000.—Mr Cooke asked whether the district was increasing in popula- tion ?—Mr Morgan could not give a categorical answer, but he believed it was, and certainly the character of the population was being raised. Their dwellings and buildings were being imnroved at a rapid rate, and he did not know of any part of the county where there bad been a greater or a more rapid improvement in the character of the dwellings. -Mr Taylor then proposed, and Mr Cooke seconded that they should make it known that the parish council would be glad to be informed of the probable number of those who intended to apply for allot- ments, together with the amount of land required. This was agreed to, and with that the business pnrlprl- CEFN AND RHOSYMEDRE PARISH MEETING. The parish meeting met in the Congregational schoolroom on Friday, March 28th. Mr Sauvage, chairman of the council, presided, the councillors were also present. The attendance was small, and the proceedings were only of a formal character. I MINERA PARISH MEETING. j I On Thursday evening, March Zdth, a special parish meeting was held in the National School, Minera, to take into consideration the large increase in the rate for the present year. The chair was occupied by Mr Edward Jones, Bwlcbgwyn, chairman of the parish council. Mr Wilcoxou, representing Mr Daniel, the assistant overseer, also attended. Mr Wilcoxon gave a clear explanation of the reason of the increase, and answered a great number of questions. On the con- clusion, Mr John Lewis, Worn Villa, moved a vote of thanks to the chairman for presiding, and also to Mr Wilcoxon for his able and very satisfactory explana- tion of the increase. Mr Joseph Jones, New Brighton, seconded the motion, which was carried. I ESCLUSHAM PARISH MEETING. I On Monday evening a parish meeting was held at the Vrondeg Board School, when there was a very small attendance. Mr Scotson was elected chairman, and Mr Daniel Edwards clerk of the meeting. The Chairman read a letter from Mr Edward Daniel sta.tmH that either Mr J. Wilcoxon or himself would attend the meeting, which was called to take into considera.tion the large increase in the rate for the present year. Mr Wilcoxon explained the causes of the increase, and answered to a number of questions. The meeting then terminated. MARCHWIEL PARISH MEETING. I The annual parrish meeting was held at the schools on Saturday, Mr John Evans, Old Hall, presided. Mr R. Price proposed, and Mr Joseph William Evans seconded, and it was carried unanimously, That this meeting of parishioners begs to convey to Mrs and Miss Sturkey their deep sympathy and con- dolence under the 6ad bereavement occasioned by the death of the Rev. J. Sturkey, and also their sincere regret at the loss sustained by the district in the removal of so earnest, kindly, and estimable a rector, who had earned the esteem of all who knew him.—It was resolved to hold the annnal meeting of the parish council on Wednesday, April 17th.-Mr Price said that as their district councillor was present, he would like to know whether it was he who caused the Wrexham water to be brought down to Marchwiel. They must bear in mind that all the people had to pay the rate, but the water only benefited about one-fourth of them, and therefore it was a question which should be discussed at that parish meeting. He, for one, took a great interest in the matter, and he would very much like to test the feeling of the parishioners. In the first place, the parishioners were not consulted in the matter, and it was thrust upon the inhabitants by a body going out of office. He wanted to know who were responsible for causing the water to be brought into the parish. As the district councillor was present, he would be able to answer the question. If the district council would not interfere with the pump, he should like to know by whose authority they would open the drain in order that it might take away the waste water.—Mr Joseph William Evans, the district councillor said, although he was on the sanitary committee n,t one time, he was not member when the question of bringing the water down to Marchwiel was discussed, From the opinion of several members of that com- mittee, it was thought that the people of Marchwiel certainly wanted water. The Surveyor would give the necessary permission to open the drain.—Mr Price Am I to understand that the parish is to be saddled with the sum of X330 by persons who know nothing about the parish ?—Mr Evans said that the various committees were responsible for anything done in the union.—Mr Price said a8 the district council had decided not to iuterfere with the pump, they were quite willing to keep the pump in order. The district council did not know how they were situated, but he hoped they would be acquainted with it through the press. What would those people do who would not be able to get the Wrexham.water ? Where was their supply of water to come from if the pump was condemned, as some people wished it to be. There were people living on the Overton-road. How would they manage if the puinp was condemned? Some people talked about the water of the pump being contaminated. It was a most strange ihing that they never heard of such a thing until the Wrex- ham water was brought down. It x-, si not a question of twopence a. week, but compelling a person to pity against his will. That was why he kicked against it. —Mr Evans said that Mr Price was the cause of the rates being raised by persuading people not to take the Wrexham water. He (Mr Evans) was in favour of the Wrexham'water, but did not take an active part in bringing it down. He would not now say the pump was wanted, for he would thereby be depriving the ratepayers of iell a year, which sum would be paid if the remainder of the village took the water.— Mr Price said he would not be the monthpieee any longer for those who did not want the Wrexham water. They had an opportunity of being present that evening, but they did not attend the meeting. RUABON PARISH COUNCIL AND PARISH I MEETING. This Council met at the National School-room on Monday. Sir Watkin W. Wynn presided, and there were also present --Mcssrs. C. Davies, vice- chairman Dickenson, George Saint, Dyke Dennis, Halliday. Moore, Carless, Gibbons, W. Morgan, W. Jones, Hughes, and T. E. W. Saint, clerk. The Council was called together to discuss the business to be placed before the parish meeting, and a general discussion upon the advantages and disadvantages of having Ruabon separated from the old civil parish of Ruabon took place. The Chairman had taken con- siderable trouble to go into the statistics, and gave a very lucid explanation of his investigation, dealing with the sanitary, school board, and other rates. They had not, however, had sufficient time to com- plete their investigations, although the Chairman thought they would be better off by the separation, and after some discussion the matter was left in abeyance. This concluded the Council business, and the parochial electors entered the room, amongst whom -,Yere :Idr Morris, D.C., Messrs. D. R. Williams, Hankin, Price, Kenrick, W. Rogers, F. Williams, W. Edwards, J. C. Douglas, J. S. Laycock, P. Middleton, Hutchison, D. L. Davies, R. Griffiths, butcher J. Griffiths, Wynnstay Wadvl Wylin- stay Thomas, Home Farm, &-c.-Sir Watkin invited questions, and Mr Francis Williams said it was the law according to section 6, sub-section 14, of the LocaljGovernment Act ot 1894, that a state- ment, regarding the charities should be made at that meeting.—Sir Watkin was afraid that that could not be done, inasmuch as the question was a large one, and there was a very large number of valuable documents to be gone through, which would entail enormous work, and the council had decided to defer this work until the days were longer, as they did not consider it safe to deal with such valuable documents (which cannot be replaced) by candle light, and he considered it was a. work to be tackled in daylight.—Mr J. Williams quoted another portion of the Act, and read section 44, appendix 1. and ex- plained that the present trustees of the charities, whoever they were, were bound to present a, report to the chairman at that meeting.—Sir Watkin said that it was rather premature to ask for a report at so early a date, and the section referred to would come in at the next meeting, as he had stated it entailed enor- mous work, and as the council had only sat for three months, they could hardly be expected to do more than what had been done. The matter would be dealt with in due course. Mr Williams asked if they could promise the report by the next parish meeting. — Sir Watkin said he had fully ex- plained the circumstances, and the matter dropped.— After inviting other questions the Chairman said he would close the meeting if there were no further questions, and Mr P. Middleton asked how the ques- tion of garden allotments stood.—Sir Watkin gave an explanation of the work of the Council regarding the weather. He said that a plot of land had been acquired, but the arrangements were not quite com- plete. The landlord was willing to give it up, and it now rested with the tenant. They could not compel the tenant to do so, and he did not think that as yet the tenants had been communicated with.—Mr W. Edwards asked the chairman to name the landlord and tenant.—Sir Watkin said that personally he had no objection, and if it was the wish of the meeting he would willinely do so. There was no secrecy in the matter. All the Council meetings were open to the public, and the reporters were always present. He had no desire to create discord between landlord and tenant or any one else, but as this matter was in a budding state he thought it could be left alone for the present, bat he would leave it entirely in their hands.—Mr W. Edwards thanked Sir Watkin for the explanation, with which he was quite satisfied, and was willing to leave this budding matter in the hands of the Council, in the hope that it would ultimately bring forth a rose.—No further questions were asked, and the meeting was closed with a vote of thanks to Sir Watkin. proposed by Mr Edwards, seconded by Mr Hutchisun. I BROUGHTON PARISH MEETING. This meeting was held in the Brynteg S-hools on Monday evening. Mr Joseph Edwards, who presided, said they hr.d paid the election and parish meeting expenses, which amomted to iE2214s5d. They had also expended JE18 lis 9d in the boundary defence. He would liae to hear suggestions from those present, as the council wished to do their best for the interests of the parish.—Mr James Hall referred to the boundary question, and said ho thought a good case had been made out for Broughton.—Mr Robert Jones said he was sorry to see so few present, as in his opinion the parish meeting was of the greatest importance.—Mr Boffey moved the following resolu- tion That in the opinion of this meeting the parish council should make arrangements at an early date to decide the question of the adoption of the Free Libraries Act.—Mr Peleg Jones, D.C., said that while be was in favour of free libraries, he would recommend that the matter be proceeded with on a small scale as an experiment, and quoted several attempts that had been made in the past to start libraries and reading rooms in the neighbourhood which had proved failures. He agreed that something was needed to attract the young men.—Mr Jones eventually seconded the resolution.—Mr E. Evans said he was entirely in sympathy with the movement, and hoped it would be carried out at an early dat-)Ir Charles Anderson thought that attempts which had been made in the past and proved failures might be explained. One reason he thought was that the material supplied was not up to date, and now that education was becoming so prominent he thought the free libraries would be a success. He also referred to the footpaths question, and inquired as to the closing of a footpath in the parish.—The Chairman said the council had a roads and footpaths committee, but he regretted to inform Mr Anderson that the footpath in question was closed with the consent of a vestry meeting. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and unanimously carried.—A ratepayer mentioned the water supply question, and thought the parish council should complain to the district council, as the supply during the last few months had been very meagre. He thought the water ought to be analysed, as he questioned if it was pure.—The Chair- man referred to the Lighting Act, which he would like to see adopted, as lie was sure it would prove beneficial to the parish.—Mr James Hall proposed, and Mr W. Davies seconded, a hearty vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried. I I EYTON PARISH MEETING. A parish meeting for the township of Eyton was held in the Eyton National School on Monday.—The Chairman, Mr Samuel Peate, said this was the first time they had met together under the new Act. He was very pleased to see so many of the ratepayers present. It showed that they were taking great interest in their work. He thought that they would be quite as well off as if they had a parish council. He was very pleased to tell them that up to the pre- sent time the extra. expense had been very small, especially when compared with other parishes.—Mr Walter Hughes said lie had seen the district coun- cillor, Mr David Jones, who had sent by him (the speaker) an apology for his absence. If any resolu- tions were brought forward he (Mr Jones) would be very pleased to support them.—Mr Maurice Edwards said he thought they had been very wise in selecting Mr Peate as their chairman. He was quite sure that a better chairman could not be found. He knew ilr David Jones was doing his best for them, and he thought they had in him an excellent representative in the district council.—Mr William Pritchard wished- to call the attention of the meeting to the unneces- sary expense incurred in keeping the bye-wavs in repair. He thought it was possible to reduce this expense, and consequently lower the rates.—The Chairman said he had done all that lay in his power to do what Mr Pritchard had just proposed, but unfor- tunately he could find no remedy for it.-It was pro- posed by Mr Walter Hughes, seconded by Mr Griffith Williams, and agreed to, that Mr John Lev/is and Mr William Pritehard be appointed overseers for the ensuing year. BURTON PARISH MEETING. I On Tuesday evening, March 29th, this meeting was held in Burton Schoolroom, under the presidency of Councillor J. S. Boydell, who informed the meet- ing that the only business was the reading of the Gresford charity statement of accounts. Some remarks were made respecting certain person being the recipient of three or four gifts which are dis- tributed from these charities, and whether this was in order, and if a person was entitled to the gift more than once in four years. It was stated at the Allington meeting that some were receiving it annually. The matter was deferred until next meet- ing, when, in the meantime, inquiries would be made. The attendance was very small, and it is to be regretted that the parishioners do not interest them- selves a little more in the affairs of the parish. OVERTON PARISH MEETING. I The annual parish meeting was held on Monday. Among the parishioners present were:—Messrs W, Y. Hargreaves, county councillor; J. A. Mossford, district councillor; and the following members of the Parish Council:-H. Scragg, R. Duncan, Lewis Evans, Eli Williams. John Lloyd, Thomas Gabriel, John Jones, George Jones, and William Arrowsmith; Major Fawkes, Mr C. H. B. Williams, Knolton Hall, Dr. Wright, etc.—Mr Scragg said lie would take the chair by virtue of his office as chairman of the Parish Council. Mr J. A. Mossford objected, but Mr Hargreaves supported Mr Scragg. Mr Eli Williams, the clerk to the Parish Council, having read a com- munication from the Local Government Board on the question, Mr Mossford withdrew his objection. There was an animated discussion on the Overton drainage. Mr Hargreaves gave figures showing the riteable value of the whole of Overton parish, then that of Overton Villa, Overton foreign, and Knolton. He very much objected to the rate for the drainage being levied on Overton foreign and Kuolton. If the ra.te was levied on Overton villa only. it would amount to Is 6d in the X. but if on the whole of the parish it would be 3d in the X. Overton villa would only benefit by the scheme, and they ought to pay for it. He moved that the district council be again requested to apply to the Local Government Board to try and get the enormous expenditurs reduced, and also that the district council employ further engineering advice in order to see if a much less costly scheme could not be adopted. The reso- lution was carried unanimously.—Mr Hargreaves said as the district councillor was present they hoped he would use his best endeavour at the next meeting of the district council to impress upon that body the great necessity of trying to meet the wishes of the parishioners. Mr Mossford promised lie would do so. Mr C. H. H, Willipiiis proposed, and Mr Edward Roberts seconded, that the Local Government Board be asked to define the district upon which the sewerage rate could be levied. The resolution was carried, twenty-two voting for it, and nineteen against. Mr Edward Roberts called attention to the disgraceful state of the road around Lightwood Green, leading to Mr David Cooper's. It was resolved to ask the parish council to refer the matter to the district council, and this concluded the business. KINNERTON PARISH COUNCIL. I The Council met in the Schoolroom on Monday evening, March 25th, all the members being present. The first business was the amount to be paid for arranging, lighting, and cleaning of the schoolroom. The Rev. J. C. Trampleasure proposed that 2s 6d be the amount allowed per night. This was seconded by Mr P. Davies, and carried unanimously. The election expenses were next handed in, which, with the additional items of providing books for the clerk, printing circulars, &c., amounted to S13 3s 7d.—The iiev. J. C. Trampleasure intimated that a precept ought to have been issued at the last meeting on the old overseers.—The Chairman stated that it could not have been collected with the last poor rate, as that was made 011 the 4th of December, and a special rate would have to be made.-Tlie Clerk notified that there was plenty of money in hand from the poor rate if they wished to use that to pay the expenses. —The Chairman thought as it was not on the demand note it could not be used for that purpose.—Mr P. Davies proposed, and Mr J. Evans seconded, that the precept be deferred till after the 15th of April, when fresh overseers would be appointed. The state of some of the footpaths in the parish was next brought forward by Mr R. Price, who described the footway leading from the Green to Honk'ey, as being in a. very dangerous state for many yards by the side of the brook.—The Chairman suggested, as the brook divided the Hope and Kinnerton parishes, the forma- tion of a footpath committer to meet the Hope Parish Council footpath committee. The following were appointed as a fooip.ith committee to consider all the footpaths in the parish, viz. :—Mr J. Evans, Mr R. Price, Rev. J. C. Tiainpleasure, and Mr Dean.—The Rev. J. C. Tramp easure proposed, and Mr Price seconded, that the clerk be instructed to write to the Hope Parish Council footpath committee, to see if they could fix a day to meet this committee respecting the footway over the brook. This was agreed to.- Mr J. Evans drew attention to the condition of the principal footpath leading from Penyffordd to Kin- nerton village, and said the stiles were too h;gh.- The Chairman stated that the parish council had nothing to do with the stiles, and as a rule the land- lords had, heretofore, made arrangements with the tenants to look after the footpaths and stiles.—The Rev. J. C. Trampleasure agreed that the footpaths were in a very bad state, especially the one mentioned by Mr Price. The next meeting was arranged to be held on April 17th, when the overseers will be appointed. PENYCAE PARISH MEETING. I The annual parish meeting was held on Monday at the Public Hall. Mr Henry Pickering, Penycae, presided. There was a fair attendance. The Chair- man in describing the work of the council, said they could not be expected to be doing much in so short a time, He was pleased to say that committees had been formed to consider the vitrious powers brought under their control. Several complaints had been received about the sewage and other dangerous mat- ters matters prejudical to health, all of which had received attention, some of the grievances having been removed. Councillors Thomas Williams, Wm. Jones, Thomas Evans, and others also spoke. The qpestion of extending the parish boundary was dis- cussed at some length. The Rev. L. D. Jenkins moved that the matter be left in abeyance for con- sideration at the next council meeting, and that an appeal be made to the County :Council. This was seconded by Mr Gomer Roberts and carried un- animously. RUTHIN RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. I The Council met on Tuesday. In addition to the district councillors present at the Board of Guardians, Mr T. J. Roberts, of Llandyrnog, was in attendance, and Mr Ll. Adams, clerk, and Mr Ed. Humphreys, surveyor of the Ruthin Highway Board, now de. ceased. A long discussion occurred as to the taking over of the district roads, Mr Roberts, of Llandyrnog, being of opinion that the Llandyrnog parish should continue for three years to repair its own roads, as the Act allowed. However, the clerk, and the clerk to the Highway Board, stated that the County Council ordered, after consulting the Boards of Guardians, that all the roads of the county should go over to the Distrist Councils on March 31st, for the sake of uniformity.—Mr Humphreys Roberts, clerk, said that the five parishes of Aberwheeler, Llandyr- nog, Llangwyfan, Llanrhaiadr, and Nantglyn, wouid have to meet the expense of putting the district roads in repair if they were not in a fit condition on being received into the custody of the Council. No such order could be made in respect to the Ruthin Highway Board's roads. The question of whether the officials of the Highway Board should be employed by the council, or should be compensated and allowed to retire was deferred to the next meet- ing, and in the meantime the men on the roads will continue at work as heretofore.—Mr Ebenezer Evans, inspector of the district council, was requested to I visit and prepare a report as to the condition of the I roads in the five parishes already named, which roads have been under the control of the respective parish overseers. The salary of the clerk (JE50) for the past year was voted.—Mr Humphreys Roberts said he had not asked for extra payment for the trouble he had had in bringing the new Act into operation, which had been civeii in some unions, and a vote of thanks was passed to him, on the motion of Mr Gomer Roberts, for having undertaken the work in con- nection with the adoption of the new Act without extra charge.

THE WREXHAM AND RHOS I RAILWAY SCHEME. The Grepti Western Railway (No. 2) Bill, the object of which is to empower the Grea.t Western KaiUray Company to make new railways in the county of Denbigh has already passed through the House of Lords. On Monday it came before the ex- aniitiors of the House of Commons for proof of com- pliance with the further standing orders affecting private Bills. Formal proof having been given, the examiners decided that the further standing orders had been complied with, and the Bill therefore will in due course be reported for second reading. We understand that the Bill will be opposed before the House of Commons Committee.

THE FIRE AT HAFOD COLLIERY. I Hafod Colliers resumed work on Monday, after a stoppage of six full weeks. The loss in wages alone is estimated at about a thousand pounds per week. Mr E. Evan3, Bronwylfa, has sent the Vicar S,5 towards the relief of the Hafod colliers. 0

I RUTHIN RIVER DIVERSION CASE. I IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. On Friday, March, 29th, at St. Asaph County Court, his Honour, Judge Sir Horatio Lloyd, delivered judgement in the case of Garner v. Smith. The plaintiffs, John Garner and Mary Anne Garner, occupiers and owners of Scyborris, Ruthin, and the defendant, Joseph Smith, occupier of Bacheirig, an adjoining farm, were the parties concerned, and the substance of the complaint was that the defendant, by the erection of a dam, had diverted the water of a. stream, and had abstracted and detained water which had baen accustomed to flow down to the plaintiff's lands. It appeared that the defen- dant had erected a dam by means of which water was diverted from the stream and con- veyed through an open trench and pipes to a reservoir constructed near the defendant's farm buildings. Thence it was periodically let down through pipes on the defendant's premises for the purpose of working machinery. Shortly after the issue of the writ, defendant made an open cutting or trench from his premises for conveying the water after being used by him back again into the watercourse at a point above the plaintiffs' farm. Defendant contended that he had a right to divert the water and nae a reasonable quantity for his farm purposes, and said that in fact he returned more water than he took, and denied the alleged pollution. The law relating to the subject was well established by the cases of Mason and Hill," Wright and Howard," "Embrey and Owen." The right to use the water rested on a clear and settled principle. The proprietors on the banks of a stream were prima facie the owners of the bed, but there was no property in the water. Every pro- prietor had an equal right to tha use of the water which flowed in the stream. and no one of them could deal with it to the prejudice of another. The principle had never been ques- tioned the only difficulty had been to adjust the right of the reasonable use which each proprietor in his turn could claim. His Honour proceeded to read Baron Parke's judgment in the case of Embrey v. Owen," which he said seemed to define very closely the real questions for consideration in a case like that. At the time the action was begun the overflow was certainly not returned to the stream, which clearly entitled the plaintiff to ask for an injunction. He thought that the complaint that the mode of dealing with tte water, as adopted by the plaintiff, substantially and materially inter- fered with the beneficial use of it by the plaintiff, was a reasonable one, and was justified by the evidence. He had therefore come to the conclusion that the mode in which the wator was dealt with by the defendant produced a sensible disturb- ance in the natural and ordinary flow of the stream, and that it had the effect at times of detaining the water. At other times it let it off in unusual quan- tities, and so caused it to go down to the plaintiffs' with more abundance and rapidity than it would naturally do, to the injury of the plaintiffs. As to the question of pollution there was conflict of testimony, and it was somewhat difficult to come to a satisfactory conclusion. Upon the whole, it was established that when the action was brought the water was tainted by pollution from the defendant's farmyard. He was, however, satisfied upon the other question, and he entered judgment for the plaintiffs, and granted an injunction restraining the defendant from any act which would interfere with the natural and regular course of the water in its accustomed manner to the plaintiffs' fariii.-T,ic usual costs were allowed, in- cluding counsel's fees.

PONTBLYDDYN AND LEESWOOD. PRESENTATION.—On Friday, March 29th. at the Leeswood Boa.rd Schools, Mr Henry Jones, who has been head master of the schools since thev were opened in 1880, was presented with a handsome marble timepiece and ornaments by the teaclierei and scholais of the school. Mr R. T. Evans made the presentation on helialf of the subscribers. Mr Jones, who was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Jones (for in-tny vetrs mistress of the infant department), warmly acknowledged the presentation. Mr Jones's connection with the schools ceased 011 Fridav. He is about to live with his son, Dr. S. Edwards-Jones, at Bangor-Isycoea. FI.OWER Snow.-A meeting of the committee was held on Tuesday at the National Schools. Mr W, T. Phillips presided. A scheme was unallimously adopted for thc re-arrangement of the show schedules. It was decided to abolish the amateur division, and in its place to have an open competition for several special subjects. These will include the best collec- tion of plants arranged for effect, tho best tray or basket of fruit, six varieties; dish of twelve tomatoes, six ferns of four varieties, four coleus of distinct varieties, twelve cut roses of distinct varieties, six tea roses of distinct varieties, four geraniums of distinct varieties, best collection of herbaceous cut flowers, best collection of carnations, brace of cucumbers, &c. The show will be held on August 15th. Messrs George Taylor and T. A. Powell. Hartsheatli, and Mr Cochrane, of Leeswood Hall, wore elected mem- bers of the committee. WIIUHMRWIlMWJLmu —— ■■ ,■ rnrrmiTMTTlM-M III

I RHOSLLANERCHRUGOG. STAINER S C;;ueiFixio.—This will be rendeiedl on Good Friday at St. John's Church, at the M.39 service. SUDDEN DEATIIs.-On 3fonday evening, Mrs Sarah Jones, widow of the late John Jones, Owen's-slreq*, died snddenly.-The following day, Mrs Ellen Jones* wife of Thoma.s Jones, collier, Hall-street, also dieclo suddenly. In both citses death is attributed to heart disease. No inquests have been held. THE QUEEN'S SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION.—Among the naves of those who passed the Queen's Scholar- ship examination held last Christmas, we find those of Miss Elizabeth Jones, Ponkey Board School, in the first division, and Mr R. W. Evans, IU103 Board School, and James Hughes (Peutredwr), Cefn Board School, in the second division. DLlJE JJOOKS.—ine itigiit xion. sir U. U. Jiorgan, Bart., M.P., ha.s presented to the Public Hall Libraxy the following Blue Books:—" Elementary Educa- tion," return do. Code of Regulations," do. Revised Instructions," report of the Commission on the Aged Poor," Building Societies," LabouX Statistics," "Superannuation of Teachers," "Mineral Statistics," and report of 11.M. Inspector of Mines for the South Wales District. PItESENTATIo.N.-Tlic Hev. Joseph W. Jones (so. of the late Mr Joseph Jones, Church-street, Hhos). and curate of Holy Trinity, Oldham, was presented on Saturdity evening by the parishioners of St. Paul's, Pendleton, with a handsome gold albert,* gentleman's dressing case, and a volume of Lenten sermons, as u. token of esteem and regard on his leaving St. Paul's for Oldham. The Vicar mad« the presentation. He said he knew that they valued the work Mr Jones had done ill the parish very highly. He knew Mr Jones long before he came to St. Paul's, and therefore he was pleased to inalce the presentation. Mr Churchwarden Harrison said he had a good opinion of the work done by Mr Jones in the parish, and he hoped that the presents would serve to remind him of many happy hoars spent at St, Paul's. He wished him every success and happi- ness in his new curacy. Rev. J. W. Jones, in I I acKnowiedging the presents, said it was a great encouragement for any one to know that his work had been appreciated. The time during which h. had been with them was only two years, but it was long enough to make friendships, and one most regret the rupture when they were broken. The work had been difficult owing to the infirmity of their late vicar, still the duties were made lighter by the kind way in which they had treated him. In thank- ing theem he could only say in the words of a well- known American, when a degree was conferred upon him, that he felt as grateful for it as if he deserved it. He felt that it was rather their goodwill that had prompted them to give him tho presents than any- thing he had done. lie trusted that although ne longer curate of St. Paul's, lie might count that he had many friends there. Mr Jones resigned the curacy of St. Paul's owing to tha resignation of the late vicar.

I GRESFORD. THE LADIES' CLUB.—At the quarterly meeting of the Gresford Ladies' Club, held at the Griffin Inn 011 Monday, it was stated by Mrs Griffith-Bosoawen that seven little girls ha.d joined the uewly-formed jureniie branch of the society as honorary members, rii. Miss lilnid Boscawen, Miss Dorothy Towusheud, Miss Dorothy Holland, Miss Margaret James, Miss Hlorerw. Howell-Evans, Miss Una Butler, and Miss Cociia Clark, whilst over thirty others had boen entered &a members. It was proposed by Mrs Griffith-Boscawen, seconded and carried, that all the juvenila members should wear at the aniiiveraa--y the white searf and blue ribbons of the society, and carry small Hot staves with flowers and it was further arranged that they should walk in the procession iuimediatoij after the band, and preceeding the adult members.

PENYCAE. UEITUAHV.—The death took place on Wednesday, March 27th, of Mrs Jones, wife of Mr John Jonea, engineer, Penycae. Mrs Jonos was an old inhabit ant, and highly respected by all who know her. Slte had been a devoted member of the Galviniatl# Methodist Ghurch, Groes, for many years. BBPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.-O:t Sunday afternoon, the Rev. W. B. Jones distributed prizes to the follow- ing members, who hadpassedsuccessfullyatthereccnk scriptural examination, held under tho auspices of the Welsh Baptist Sunday School UnionMessrs Edward Jones, Isaac Griffiths, John Wiliiam Jones, Watkin Pritehard, Jonathan Williams, Jonathan Davies, Richard Roberts, and Thomas Jones; Missea Sarah Evans, Sarah Valentine, Mary A. Davios, M. E. Williams, Ellen Williams, Elizabeth Evans, ll. E. Jones, E. A. Jones, Maggie Jones, and Blodwea Jones. A WEDDING.—-A wedding took place at the Parish Church on Wednesday, klarch 26th, bt3tween HE Andrew Phillips, eldest son of Councillor Andrew F. Phillips, Tyddyn Uclia Farm, Penybryn. and Miss Hannah Owens, daughter of the late Mr Daniel Owens, Rhos, and sister of Mrs Davies, of Plas 14M Farm, Penycae. The bride wa3 given away by Councillor John E. Davies, Plas Issa. Tlieceremony was conducted by the Rev. L. D. Jenkins, vicaj", assisted by the Rev. David Lloyd, curate, and waa witnessed by a very large congreg ttioll. The party were entertained by Councillor and Mrs Daviss, Plas Issa Farm. In the afternoon the bride and bride- groom drove to Ruabon Station and proceeded to Berwyn, Councillor and Mrs Phillips, Tyddyn U ch entertained all the farmers of the neighbourhood anu thrir wives. Several valuable presents have been received. THE LATE :H5 JONES. STAFFORD Vmw. The funeral of Mrs Jones, wife of Mr John Jones, engineer, Stafford House, Groes, took place on Saturday, and was largely attended. After a short service at the house, the procession passed on to th3 Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (at which the deceased had been a devoted member for many years) in the following order:—Ministers; coffin, borno by six bearers; mourners, including a very Itrge number of relatives and general public. Another impressivo service was held at the chape1, conducted by tho llev. John Jones, Ruabon, who referred to the Christian career of Mrs Jones, and the loss which would be sustained by the church through her death. The Revs. W. B. Jones and Wiiliam Jones having taken part, the coffin was removed to the burial-ground adjoining the cliapel for interment. Several betutiful wreaths were sent by the following:—Mrs 13vans, Berwyn View. Pentre; Mrs Freemui, Liverpool; Misses Owens, St. Helens Miss Webster. S. Helens; Mrs Williams, Oifa Cottage, Ruabon Mrs Griffiths, Nantyffrith, and others.

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,eriouS, 'f uf it in Ha.wMden parish, affords no valid I ICr!ou" ùn,;t the civil case for Diaesta.bhshment. TClr° .1, h S Cl h. 1';) t rSnurL^ continuance ? the Stat. Church in \V;iU* ^j1 v „ political injustice which ought to be 'TC, a complete measure of Dlse"tabhsh- ?"?? ? complete mca.sura of Disesta.bhah- ?vh?ie of En?nd ?.d W ?s. or?t the loa^t Y liy n Kc? for W:?es and he consider" that the Ict..t) 'II b f k Mt("?o, 1\ position will be a source of woak- riJt< I. l' B hi .J Ciuirch's ??j?? .?teresta. But what of „ ?i u. ? '?hia, t'Jo, is a question to be decided ?,tJ.nvn:c"? ft f th' t Kv c':izC'f'^trnstess of this property are not CJ L .h oJ ^'j.rs oi it, as is often wrongfully supposed, ?? rccci? l' ? ???jon. for whose spiritua?l provision l)li: ,rho! nation. or w lOse SplrltUa. Pl'ov;slon *?'"?' ? .,njowinent3 were in part given and in part ,1I1 D'ff f'" i.irt'1,1 prueesse?. Difference of opinion is l',IL:') 1I'e ? ? h"" much the State, when the "lft'L c:hurc to be the State Church. ahoutdcLum dl¡il' pUl'p)¡¡e5 ?,? hov much ouht in eqmty to ?r P?"? ?? ?,y SI1rjY be a matter of ?rra.t?e- ? ?' "f I (,. I IJ be -7-hr \n'h')riUGsofth? Church would reco(?- nR*t" Hs surely shou)d. that the St?te hM both the t,1VUr 'ii;C responsibility of dealing with the ?' col;r^e a discndowcd Church became a "?? i „r X for at II events, 1 would p ?i nc'" for t?ie time at ?U events. and won1d l: 1 .rd wcrk to reor?nise herself. Yet who ..to' h I ''? ?f i u) t :??'- "? ? country such as ours voluntary otf, cr.n ?..ntd be forthcoming where work was to be ^"i1' .luin|,ior arrangement and a more econom- I ""c ,{] Cl I' I ) itr:itit)ll of the Church in W:des would not netL^i ril- v 1*'iean a crinpkd oi even a weaker Church llt.'L't.  ?? Dnt/however that might be, a poor tI..< 1'1. I t G k iii?)re likely to do God 's wor k than a '?' ?, '"? rjturLh in ? osse?sion of endowments which so rlC. 'r f II Cl" d' r,,r mnrtioii of fellow-Christian citizens did not ''? he h ? '? moral TIght to retain. As to So¡C ?"?"Y?.?i?fthcH?'.?nd especia.Uy of the dis- CIilwk in- clauses, strong exception n)i?tprcb?b)y k -r but the only way to save unnecessary loss ?'"?' 'uttti. w? ? Churchmen themseh-es, if not • WO ):?f. to f?c* the matter with something "i.;d' better than a mere position of resistance, ) t. endeavour to make the best terms for the e"Tv'inated Church that might be possiMe. It was t0 r ri-t and present policy of Mtivo resistance 1 I:l)tl.m more—for not even refor,us were ser1'nV 4j-v l' u posed—that the sufferings of the Church *icchiefly due. In a foot-note the writer an"w;it he alone is responsible for the article ho ,j ji. c 11 commit no one else at ?U to the views he expK-