The South Wales Star

DINAS POWIS HIGHWAY BOARD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the High. way Board of the above District is prepared to receive TENDERS for the REPAIRS of the HIGHWAYS of the District. Forms of Tender, and Specifications of the materials and works to be tendered for, can be seen at the office of the District Surveyor, Mr FRANK LAURENS, A.M.I.C.E., Dynas Powis, on or after the 26th inatant.-Clear- ing and Removing Hazards and Manual Work to be tendered for separately.—Rayalties upon. Stones will be paid by the Board.—All Tenders must be delivered, sealed and addressed to Mr JOHN MOKRIS, Clerk to the Highway Board. 20, High-street, Car- diff, oa or before Tuesday, the 3rd day of April next. By order of the Board, JOHN MORRIS, Clerk. Cardiff, 17th March, ISO4.

j PUBLIC NOTICE. „„J EAaUy DISTRICT TRADES' AND LABOUR COUNCIL. NURSING ASSOCIATION AND COTTAGE HOSPITAL COLLECTION. Tf^rlF. Committee of the above Council will t:it at I_ the VICTORIA HOTEL. 1>AUKY DOCK, on SATURDAY, MAK H 31st. 1854, from 5 to 8 p.n> for the purpose of RECEIVING the COLLECTING [ BOOKS AND BOXES 1:1 aid of the above Funds. The Committee are deairons of Closing the Collection, a; id ask that Books and Boxes be returned on th»; above date. Signed on behalf of the above Council, W. P. CLARK, Secretary. 16, Regent-street, Barry Dock. Gequine Garden and Flower SEEDS. H. J. OWEST, CHEMIST, VERE ST. CADOXTON-BARRY.

BARRY AS A RISING WATERING PLACE. f THE Easter holidays this year were un- precedented in more than one respect so far as the Barry district is concerned The weather, generally speaking, was delightful, and it is possible that for many years the first public holiday of the year has not been more enjoyably spent than was the case last week. But coming more closely to the Barry district, it is to us a source of the greatest satis- faction to find that never in the whole history of Barry has there been such a dense and representative incursion of holiday-seekers from Cardiff and the hill districts than those who visited Barry Island, Porthkerry Park, Coldknap, the Pebble Beach, and the Barry district generally on Friday and Monday last. Year by year, Barry is becoming more and more popular as a seaside resort, and this fact only tends to accentuate the duty which devolves upon the Local Board and the public generally to render the district as attractive as possible to visitors. This may be done in several ways. Private interests may continue to develop the Island and other places of attraction for the reception and enter- tainment of the thousands more who would undoubtedly come to Barry at every opportunity when it is fully realised that due preparations are being made for the convenience and reception of the public. A step in this direction has already been taken this year, for both on ) Good Friday and Easter Monday Mr John Jones, of Holton-road, Barry Dock, and Mr S. Woodham, of Barry, provided most convenient means of transit to large crowds of visitors between. Cadoxton, Barry Dock, and Barry and the Island at most reasonable rates. The Local Board, as well, have a great deal to do in the direction of popularising the Island, with its lovely Whitmore Bay. It is, we think, now almost imperative that the local, authority should actively bestir itself to secure the municipalisation of the approach to the Island from Barry in order to enable them to take over the new streets which are being formed thereon, and provide the same with public lights and other conveniences. Until this concession is granted it is hardly fair to expect the Local Board to co-operate in this direction, at least, towards making Barry what it otherwise inevitably must prove to be—one of the most popular of Welsh watering places. For picnic parties, too, Porthkerry Park is unequalled, and for grandeur of scenery, the general comfort of visitors, and absolute safety for bathers, Cold Knap and Whitmore Bays are all that can be desired. In our news columns this week reference is made to the rumoured intention on the part of Lord Windsor to lay out a portion of Barry Island for pleasure gardens and other purposes, and for the erection of a promenade from the existing pier into Whitmore Barry. THE CAUSE OF LABOUR. WORKING-MEN especially will be inter- ested in the official report which will shortly be published by the majority of the members of the Royal Commission on I Labour. Through the co artesy Of the mem- bers & forecast has been afforded of the observations and recommendations they intend making on the important and ab- sorbing topics relating to trade organis- ations, disputes, and suggested remedies and after reviewing the same it is mani- fest that all who have any fellow-feeling whatever for the great cause of labour look fonvard with anxiety for the more exhaustive details of the Commissioners' report. The main cause of recent trade conflicts the commissioners attribute to wage rates, hours of labour, the employ- ment of non-unionists, apprenticeship questions, and demarcation of work. The majority of the Commission do not feel they are justified in pronouncing any direct opinion upon the large schemes of a socialistic kind which are involved in the question of labour, notably that of land nationalisation, but this, it may be stated, is one of the points which the majority of the members will deal with in their report. The majority regard all the above points as outside the range of legislation, with the exception of the case of the hours of labour. On this head the majority are opposed to the establishment by law of a universal eight hours day, but they are in favour of the extension of the existing legislation in regard to women and children. In the case of women and children and young persons they are also in favour of sanitary legis- lation requiring occupiers of workshops to obtain a license which should not be granted unless a workshop were made sanitary. Several minor points will pro- bably be dealt with in this section, and the report relating to factory and sanitary inspectors, the establishment of a central labour bureau or exchange, and the amendment of the Conspiracy and Pro- tection of Property Act, 1875, with regard to picketting and intimidation. One of the most important features of the reporc will be the reviews of the evidence in regard to the employment of women, which have been compiled from the reports of the lady assistant commis- sioners. SABBATH DESECRATION AT PENARTH. EVERY well-ordered and law-observing 0 member of the population of Penarth will hail with unmitigated satisfaction the courageous attitude taken up by the Rev Isaac O. Stalberg, minister of Stan- well-road Baptist Church, Penarth, on Sunday evening last, when he chose to deliver a strong condemnation of the conduct of a section of the so-called respectable inhabitants of the town in their demoralising and indevout practice of golf-playing on the Sabbath Day. The utterances of Mr Stalberg on the occasion were outspoken to a degree, and the man- liness and sense of duty displayed by the rev. gentleman in the course of his ser- mon ought to have a salutary effect upon these fashionable creatures—would-be professing Christians, no doubt—who have so grievously outraged the Sabbatarian conscience by indulging in so open dis- regard of the holiness of the Lord's Day. In his protest against the advocacy by the Rev. Canon Thompson, of Cardiff, of the doctrine of what is known as the Sunday Society, we also fully concur, and, taking the question to its logical conclu- sion, we say, with Mr Stalberg, that if golf-playing is to be permitted with impunity in the heart of a Christian com- munity like Penarth then picture galleries, public libraries, museums, and reading- rooms should be thrown open, hunting and coursing may be indulged in, football and cricket may be played, in shor. the flood-gates of secularism may be thrown wide open, and the torrents of a vitiating Continental Sunday allowed to flow in upon the devotions of the reverent and Sabbath-loving people of the Principality.

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BARRY DOCK ENGINEERS. It may be of interest to many in the Barry Dock district to know that notices have been sent by the Admiralty to the municipal authorities in all localities where the iron ship-building trade exists stating that, I in consequence of the augmentation of the fleet, it had become necessary to enter an increased number of artificer- ratings, and re- questing the municipal authorities to co-operate with the Admiralty in their efforts to obtain the requisite number of armourers and black- smiths. ———— I THE ADMIRALTY AND WIND-BOUND VESSELS AT BARRY AND PENARTH. All who are inter- ested in the welfare of the sister ports of Barry and Penarth will be gratified to learn that, at the instigation of the I I Cardiff Chamber of Commerce, it has been decided to ask questions in the House of Com- mons regarding the refusal of the Admiralty to permit coastguards to signal wind-bound vessels at Barry and Penarth. A report of the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce appears in our present issue, and they are anxious that such a system should be established although they regret they cannot vote any 0 C, money towards the cost, the president being of opinion that the matter was one more directly affecting the interests of ship owners. THE NEW LOCAL GOVERN- MENT ACT. Having been ap- pealed to on the matter, the Local Government Board have just issued a circular offering cer- tain additional explanations with reference to the Parish Councils Act. Amongst the principal points referred to is that having reference to existing guardians and members of urban sanitary authorities and highway boards who will continue to hold office until the election in November next of the first guardians, and urban or rural district councillors selected under the Act. There is no provision, it is pointed out, in the Act with reference to over- seers of the poor, surveyors of highways, in- spectors under the Lighting and Watching Act, 1833, or members of burial boards. The annual appointment of over8P,eril and election of surveyors must, therefore, take placo in the present year at the usual time, and up to the date when the first parish councillors elected under the Act come into office, which will not be before November, 1894. Lighting inspectors and members of burial boards will in all cases be appointed or elected at the same time and in the same manner as if the Act had not been passed. The Act does not in any way affect the election of churchwardens. It is interesting, however, to recall that under the provisions of the new Act the parish councils will have the appointment of overseers- in place of the churchwardens, and will otherwise take over all the powers of churchwardens and of the parish vestry in all matters not purely ecclesiastical. The parish councils, too, will take the place of the vestries in appointing trustees or beneficiaries to charities other than ecclesiastical. These powers, as affecting the vestry, will not come into operation until next November, so that the routine of the parish- ioners in vestry meeting assembled was practi- cally unchanged this Easter. NEIGHBOURING PARISHES AND THE NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT. i W The Local Govern- ment Committee of the Glamorganshire County Council will, at their meeting to be held at Cardiff to-day (Friday), take into consideration the provisions and require- ments. of the Local Government Act, 1894, with the view of taking the necessary steps delegated under the powers of the same, and to invite counties jointly interested to appoint joint committees to settle the status of areas on the boundaries, the schedule of areas to be con- sidered embracing the following local rural parishes, each with a population exceeding 300 Llancarfan, 548 Llantwit Major, 1,111; Pendoylan, 352 Penmark, 503 St. Andrew's, 1,149 St. Athan, 35G St. Fagan's, 490; St. Nicholas, 318; and Wenvoe, 445. Rural parishes under 200 population include the following :—Caerau, 187 Gileston. 62 High- light, 15; Lavernock, 78 Leckwith, 122 Llandough, 125 Llantrithyd, 155 Llanvithin, 29 Marcross, 89 Michaelstone-le-pit, 102 Porthkerry, 145 St. Donat's, 123 St. Hilary, 175 St. Lythan's, 114 St. Mary Hill, 177 Stembridge, G Sully, 152 Welsh St. Donat's, lRR. Parishes partly within and partly without I a sanitary district include Sully B, G Sully Rural, 152. rs TIJR WELSIT CODE A FAILURE ? The Western Mail, in the course of a lengthy article on The Utilisa- tion of Welsh in the Day Schools," declares* the provisions of the Welsh code are a total failure, and urges that returns to hand show tha.t the national demand" has proved voiceless, the code is a. dead letter, the national educational need is unrealised, parents are indifferent, managers inactive, and teachers hostile. These Me sweeping assertions enough, we confess, and are very largely justified by fact. Referring to the Barry district, the Mail states :—" The only public elementary schools in this district at which the provisions of the new code have been tried are those of the Barry United District School Board, and in each case so far the experiment ho.x proved a sitjnal failure Welsh, was included in the comprehensive list of sub- jects adopted by the Barry School Board at the. opening of the present winter for teaching at the free public evening classes at Cadoxton, Barry Dock, and Barry, and competent teachers were engaged to conduct the same. At Holton- road School (Barry Dock) the Welsh classes opened with a register of 107, but dwindled down in four months to 24 at, Cadoxton the class opened with 52 pupils, and discontinued at 13 while at Barry the opening number was 54, falling to 3 at the close. In most of the departments of the board schools in the Barry district there are teachers capable of conducting Welsh classes." Equally melancholy is the wail from the Vale of Glamorgan. Inquiries respecting the following schools, viz., Cowbridge U.D. (board), Penllyne (board), Llanharraa (board), Llantwit Major (board), Langan and St. Mary Hill (board), Lisworney (voluntary), Llanmaes (voluntary), St. Athan's (voluntary), Llandough (voluntary), Llantrithyd (volun- tary), St. Hilary (voluntary), Llanharry (voluntary), and Colwinatone (voluntary), show that no provision for the teaching of Welsh has been made, nor is there any demand by the parents to have their children taught the language. In the majority of cases the teachers are English and unable to speak Welsh. The provisions of the present code regarding Welsh have not been adopted in St. Fagan's school. There has been no demand for Welsh. None- of the teachers could teach it. The above remarks apply also to St. George's-super-EIy, Peterstone-super-Ely, Pendoylan, and St. Nicholas schools. This is a fair description of the whole of South Wales, and it is one which is calculated to prove that after all the cry for the utilisation of the Welsh language in schools was merely a sentimental bubble.

EASTER VESTRY AT CADOXTON-BARRY. The annual Easter Vestry of the parish of Cadoxton-Barry was held on Wednesday evening last, at the Church Mission-room. Iddesleigh- street. Cadoxton, when the Rev E. Morris, B.A.. rector, occupied the chair, and amongst those present were the Rev J. H. Evans, Dr Sixsmith, Messrs J. F. Williamn, Milsom, R. T. Holmes, D. Lloyd, J. R. Llewellyn, E. Lloyd, T. Martin, Jenkin Meredith, G. F. Willett, B. A. Willett, J. BL Nelmes, Paulley, Price, W. Simms, W. Owen, &c. The Chairman, in opening, expressed the utmost satisfaction at the valuable assistance and harmonious co-operation rendered by Messrs Milsom and J. F. Williams, the churchwardens last year. (Hear, hear.) The following ap- pointments were then made for the coming- year — Rector's warden, Mr Milsom, Barry Dock (re-elected) parishioners' warden, Mr Mr R. T. Holmes, Cadoxton, bo h gentlemen suit- ably returning thanks for the honour conferred upon them acting churchwardens, Mr G. F. Willett for the Parish Church Mr D. Lloyd, the Welsh Church and Mr J. H. Powell, St. Mary's; sidesmen, Messrs T. Martin and B. A. Willett for the Parish Church Mr Bond for the Mission- room Messrs J. Jones and T. John for the Welsh Church, and Messrs Elkin. Paulley, Young, and D. Parry for St. Mary's. Messrs E. Lloyd and J. F. Williams were also appointed auditors of the Church accounts for the coming year. Mr Felix Williams, one of the retiring church wardens, sub- mitted the accounts of the Parish Church and Mission-rood for the past year, showing a balance due to the bank of jSSl. During the year, he said, improvements had been carried out at the Parish Church, and the Mission-room bad been renovated, the latter, principally, through the kind in .trumentnlity of Miss Small, Mr Holmes, and. ot lers. Mr Milsom read the accounts for St. Miry's, which showed an adverse balance of 429 17s 4d. Those of the Welsh Church, however, presented by Mr D. Lloyd, showed a balance on the right side of £ 1 12s 7L It was resolved that the accounts be published as usual, and hearty votes of thanks were accorded the retiring officers for their services, and to the rector for presiding.

A GOOD STORY OF A SCOTCH MINISTER, A highly respectable minister who had no preaching gifts was one day going to officiate for a country brother who was from home. The manse to which he was going was some miles from the railway station, and the minister's man, John,. was in waiting with the conveyance for the stranger when the train arrived in the winter afternoon. John, after receiving him kindly, told him he had some business to do in the town close by the station which would tale him about half-an-hour, and that, if he would go along- to the hotel, the landlord would give him a com- fortable seat at the fireside till he was ready. ThE-, minister readily agreed but, when, instead of half- an-iiour, considerably, more than an hour elapsed before John appeared, he became very angry, and. upbraided him, when he returned, for his unnecessary delay, and threatened to report him to his master. At length John could stand it no longer, and said, Weel, sir, if ye maun hae the truth, I was telt by the master to put eS at the toun till it was dark, so that the folk in the parish, micht nae see wha was tae preach the morn."