The South Wales Star

BARRY LOCAL BOARD AND THE BARRY COMPANY'S BILL. THE MEASURE TO BE OPPOSED. THE LOCAL AUTHORITY IGNORED BY THE COMPANY'S SOLICITORS. At the monthly meeting of the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board held on Friday afternoon last at Cadoxton, Dr P. J. O'Donnell in the chair, it was reported that a letter had at last been received from Messrs Downing and Handcock, the solicitors to the Barry Railway Company, promising to give attention to the Board's communications with reference to certain objections to the Com- pany's Bill now before Parliament upon Mr Downing's return from London.-The Chairman stated several letters had been written by the clerk to the Board to Messrs Downing and Handcock, but they had been ignored until now, the object evidently being to put the Board out of court in the matter. On previous occasions, Dr O'Donnell added, the Board had been accused of being hasty and premature, but this surely could not be said this time. The Bill had passed the House of Lords, and the only course the Board could now adopt was to take steps before the House of Commons committee to have clauses inserted in the Bill for the protection of the Board's interests which would be affected thereby. The points raised by the Board had reference to the outfall sewer in Barry Harbour and Holton Bottom also the proposed closing of the road at Coldbrook and the old pathway leading from Cadoxton to Palmerstown.-It was pointed out in course of the conversation which followed that the engineers of the Company had already stated that there was no difficulty in the way of the Company meeting the wishes of the Board.—The Chairman said the Board must decide upon some course that day, otherwise it would be too late to take action.— Mr J. J. Williams If the Company give us a guarantee it ought to be sufficient.-The Chairman: Clauses inserted in the Bill are our only protection. -It was announced that Mr J. A. Hughes, the clerk, had written explaining that the Board were not animated by a hostile spirit towards the Com- pany's undertaking, the success of the Company being beneficial to the district, but that they were bound to have their claims recognised, as these were of importance to the ratepayers.-At length, it was unanimously resolved to write to Messrs Downing and Handcock stating that the Board were reluctantly compelled to take steps to gain the points raised and on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by General Lee, it was also agreed to unanimously that a ratepayers' meeting be convened to obtain the necessary consent to oppose the Bill in the House of Commons on the grounds named.—It should be added that Mr George Thomas, a shareholder of the Barry Com- pany, refrained from voting, although he fully approved of the course of action taken by the Board.

THEFT OF SHIP'S STORES AT BARRY DOCK. THREE NOTORIOUS CHARACTERS IN CUSTODY. SMART DISCOVERY BY THE POLICE. The Penarth magistrates (Mr J. Pyke Thompson and Mr W. B. Gibbs) had before them on Monday last a case in which three notorious characters, William Pace, an ex-convict; Joseph Taylor, a late Gloucestershire police-constable and William Worthy Ward, all of Cadoxton, were charged with breaking and entering a storehouse belonging to the Barry Graving Dock Company, on or about the 23rd ult., and stealing therefrom nine dozen shirts, singlets, trousers, mufflers, &c., belonging to the master of the stranded ship Vanduara.- Acting-sergeant Ben. Davies said about midnight on Saturday the prisoners were arrested on sus- picion at Taylor's house in Lee-road, Cadoxton, Pace and Ward trying to escape over the back wall when secured. On searching the house, together with those of the other prisoners (in Lee-road and Fairford-street). a large quantity of the stolen property was discovered, that in the case of Taylor being found under the floor in the front room.- Prisoners, over whose heads other charges of a similar nature are hanging, were remanded in custody till Thursday at Barry Dock Police Court.

PENARTH LOCAL BOARD AND THE WATER SUPPLY. On Monday evening last, at the monthly meet- ing of the Local Board at Penarth, Mr D. Morgan presiding, with reference to the recent complaints of the unusual hardness of the water supplied to Penarth, the clerk (Mr J. W. Morris) was directed to communicate again with the Cardiff Water- works engineer. A letter was read from Mr Williams stating that Lord Bute would not con- sent to the laying of larger mains across the Ely Bridge on the Penarth-road, but compulsory powers were being sought in Parliament to enable this to be done.

MU. ARTHUR J. WILLIAMS, M.P., AT BARRY DOCK. THE MEETING POSTPONED FOR A WEEK. The public meeting of Liberals which was to be held at the Bible Christian Chapel, Barry Dock, on Thursday evening of this week, has been postponed for a week at the same place, when Alderman J. C. Meggitt will preside, and Mr Arthur J. Williams, M.P. for the division, will be present, and deliver a political address. All Liberals and friends in the district are cordially invited to attend.

CONGL Y CYMRY. Y GOLEUDY. Ar eprlur fro peryglon-gwyliedydd Yw'r Goleudy eon Gyru bydd deg rybuddion I wyr dewr dramwya'r don. IOAN ANWYL. I

PWYLLGOR LLENYDDOL CYMREIG RHANBARTH BARRI. Y mae dymuniad ar i'r pwyllgor uchod i gyfarfod nos Wener (heno), am wyth o'r gloch, yn yr un man ag arfer, i orphen rhan lenyddol yprogramme. Y mae y pwyllgor cerddorol wedi gorphen ei waith. Gwnaed pawb o'r brodyr ymdrech i fod yn bresenol, ac i ddarparu cynllun o brngramme yn barod, fel y gellir gorphen y gwaith nos Wener. Y mae rhagolygon am gyfarfod llvvyddianus, ae y mae y pwyllgor cerddorol wedi trefnuprogramme rhagorol.—J. D. DAVIES, Ysg.

A GRUESOME CHAPTER FROM BARRY. A SAVAGE BULL DOG EATS FLESH OFF A BOY'S ARM. About ten o'clock on Tuesday night last, a Sailors' boarding-master named Michael Courtenay living in Gueret-street, Barry Dock, fell down a long flight of steps at the Buffalo Institute in Thompson-street, and sustained severe injuries to different parts of the body. He was carried home on the Barry Company's stretcher, and Dr. Bray's services were requisi- tioned. About noon on Tuesday last, a lad named Henry Wedger, aged 13, living at No. 3, Lombard- street, but employed as errand boy with Messrs Barnett & Co., pawnbrokers and clothiers, Holton- road, Barry Dock, was in the act of cleaning a huge bull-dog, belonging to an assistant named Mitchell, at the back of his master's premises, when the animal which is a savage brute, jumped at him, and bit a piece of muscled flesh out of his arm, and proceeded to eat it with the piece? of coat and shirt sleeve which were torn off with the flesh. Drs. Bray, Lloyd-Edwards, and Sixsmith were called to attend to the lad's shocking in- juries, and he was conveyed to his parents' home. A painful case of sudden fatality also occured at Cadoxton, on Tuesday. Mr Henry Loose, aged 35, for many years in the employ of Messrs Barnett and Son, clothiers, was at his brother's house, when he was seized with a fit, and died shortly afterwards. Deceased, who leaves a widow and one child, wasabout to undertake the manager- ship of Messrs Barnett's new clothing establish- ment at Barry Dock.

IMPORTANT CLAIM AGAINST BARRY POLICE. AN INTERESTING ACTION. An action of some interest to police officers, expecially those of the Barry District, was heard at Cardiff County-court on Thursday last by his Honeur Judge Owen. John Blainey, a berthing master, of 19, Queen-street, Barry, brought a claim against Police sergeant David Weeks and Police- constable Henry Hill, of the Glamorganshire Constabulary, for assault and trespass. Plantiff sought to recover L10 from each defendant. Mr C. H- Downs appeared for the plantiff, and Mr George David (Messrs. David and Evans) repre- sented the constables.—Evidence was given by plantiff to the effect than on February 12 last the defendants went to his house aud said they wanted his boy. The defendants did not produce a warrant, and witness would not allow them to see the boy. Defendants did not tell him what they wanted the boy for. Defendants, however, forced their way into the passage past witness, and took the boy, who was wanted to give evidence in a robbery case.—For the defence it was submitted that plantiff brought the affair upon himself by refucing to assist in the administration of justice. -Mr David said probably there was a wrong, and it was only a technical wrong. -His Honour thought there was no case against Hill, who was acting under his superior officer.-The plantiffs son was called, and stated that before the police came to the house his brother told his father that he was wanted at the police station.—Police- sergeant Weeks gave evidence, and stated that he told plantiff why he required the boy, and admitted pushing plaintiff out of the way and telling1 Hill to pass through.—Mr David stated that Is. had been paid into court, and submitted that that was sufficient damages.— His Honour said the action was an unusual one to bring to a county-court. When the case was opened he thought it was serious, but was glad to say that it had resulted in a very trumpery action. Up to a certain point the officer had behaved in an orderly manner, but when he pushed into the house he was wrong. Judgment was given for 5s. damages and costs against Weeks; and in the case against Hill judgement was given for the defendant with costs.—His Honour This is an action which ought never to have been brought. It was purely speculative action.

NARROW ESCAPE OF A DOCK LABOURER AT BARRY. A labourer named Benjamin Sheldon was ab work a few days ago at Jackson's deep lock works at Barry Dock when a painful accident befel him. He was holding a drill, and two men were strik- ing, when one of the men, unaccustomed to the mark, missed his aim, and brought his sledge hammer down with heavy force on the side of Sheldon's head, narrowly escaping fatal injuries. The poor man, having been temporarily attended to by Dr. Powell, of Barry, was carried to his home at 6, Church-road, Cadoxton-Barry

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE. 11TH COMPANY, 2ND GLAMORGAN ARTIL- LERY VOLUNTEERS. COMPANY ORDERS.—DriHs for the week com- mencing 14th May, 1894 Wednesday, 16th-Gun and Recruit Drill, from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m. Friday, 18th -Examination of Members for promotion, at 7 p.m. sharp. Saturday, 19th—Gun layers' examination at Cardiff time of leaving, etc., will be notified to the competitors. The annual Church Parade will probably take place on Sunday, the 27th instant. Full particnlara will appear in next week's orders. By Order, (signed) J JUST HANDCOCK. Capt., Commanding 11th Company, 2nd G.V.A., Barry Dock. SEVERN VOLUNTEER DIVISION-ROYAL ENGINEERS. Honorary Colonel, Major-General H. H. Lee, R.E. Battalion Orders by Major A. Thornley, Command- ing. For week ending 19th May, 1894: — Drills- Wednesday and Friday-Submarine Mining Establish- ment, 7.30 p.m. Defence Practices, Saturday, 19th May-Parade in rear of Town Hall, at 2 p.m. sharp. Detail of Duty—Orderly Officer: Lieut. H. T. Thornley. Programme for Season's Work ending with Annual Training, Defence Practices will be held on the following days May—Tuesday, 22nd. „ Wednesday, 23rd. June-Saturday, 2nd (half-day). „ Wednesday, 6th. „ Thursday, 7th. „ Saturday, 16th (half-day). „ Wednesday, 20th. „ Thursday, 21st. July-Wednesday, 4th. „ Thursday, 5th. „ Saturday, 7th (half-day). „ Saturday, 14th (half-day). Men detailed for water-work will draw sea boots. By order, (Signed) W. GIDDY, Lieut., C.B., R.E., Acting-Adjt.

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COGAN SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. EIGHT CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR THE FIVE SEATS. The nomination of candidates for election on the Cogan School Board took place on Monday. For the five seats vacant on the Board there are eight nominations sent in. The names submitted are as follows Edward Barton Riley, 49, Pill-street, Cogan, builder. Richard Price, 21, Pill-street, Cogan, boilermaker. James F. Proud, 126, Plassey-street, Penarth, plumber. William Longhurst Morris, Compton House, Stanwell-road. Penarth, builder. Rev Frank Ernest Williams, South Bank, Windsor- road, clerk in holy orders. Charles Joliffe, 84, Windsor-road, Penarth, station- master. John Parey, 22, Pill-street, Cogan, machinist. Frederick William Ensor, Hirwin Villa, Windsor- road, Cogan, solicitor.

BARRY RAILWAY BILL. PASSENGER TRAFFIC ON THE PROPOSED LINE. The Select Committee of the House of Lords, of which Lord Balfour of Burleigh is chairman, on Friday last resumed consideration of the Barry Railway Bill.—Mr Cripps, Q.C., on behalf of the promoters, intimated that with regard to the Dumballs-road, Cardiff, an agreement had been come to between the railway company and Lord Bute as to the extension of Dumballs-road. His lordship would be asked to initial the plan, with Sir Douglas Galton road's laid but in it, while, with regard to the surplus land, an agreement satisfactory to both parties had been come to.—Mr B. F. Williams, Q.C., on behalf of the Glamorgan- i shire County Council, asked that clauses should be inserted in the Bill rendering it compulsory for the company to carry passengers.-The Chairman Oh, no, I do not think that we could do that. It is proved to us that they had no satisfactory passenger station at the northern end of the line.- Mr Williams said that the case of the Glamorgan- shire Oounty Council was that the company had come before Parlirment from time to time and had got certain powers under the representation that they were going to carry passengers, but they had never carried passengers. The county council therefore asked Parliament not to sanction any more railways to this company at present unless they undertook to carry passengers or to equip their line so that they might be compelled by the railway com- missioners to carry passengers.-The Chairman said he had very great sympathy with the applica- tion, and there was a strong feeling on the part of the committee that it would have imposed upon the company the necessity of earring passengers if it had been possible to give the company a station at the north end of their line.—Mr Pember, Q.C., for the promoters, said that under the Bill they would be exactly in the same position as every other railway in the kingdom. They had opened chip line as a passenger line, and it was no good for any other purpose. There object was to carry passengers that was what they intended the line for, and when it was once opened and equipped they must carry passengers.—Mr Jackson, on the behalf of the Cardiff Corporation, appeared against the clause refering to the Dumballs-road. He submitted that the clause as it stood simply made it permissible on the part of the railway company to construct a new road, and the corporation sought that it should be made com- pulsory on them to make this new road.—The Chairman asked if there were any grounds for doubting the bona-fides of the company in making the new road ?—Mr Pember None, my lord. As a matter of fact, we are compelled to make the road, because before we can take a jot of land from Lord Bute we must construct the road, and we cannnot take the land until the road is made.- The committse then adjourned.

FURTHER EXPLANATION AS TO PENARTH WATER SUPPLY. At a meeting of the Cardiff Waterworks Com- mittee on Friaay last, under the presidency of Alderman D. Jones, Mr Noah Rees called attention to the Penarth water.-The chairman said the water might be harder than at Cardiff, because last week or the week before the reservoir at Penarth was cleaned out and the walls lime- washed afterwards. The present pipe which supplied the reservoir, was too small for properly filling the reservor.and in consequence they had had to pump from Ely in addition to the water which flowed by gravitation from Llanishen.— Mr Rees asked whether it was likely such a thing would occur again.-The Chairman said it would occur every time the reservoir was cleaned, but before long they hoped to have a larger pipe to supply direct from Llanishen. The Bute authorities had objected to the corporation carrying the pipes over the bridges on the Penarth-road, and the corporation were now asking for powers in their present BilL—The matter then dropped.

GOLF MATCH—PORTHCAWL V. ST. FAGAN'S. The return match between these clubs was played on the Porthcawl Ground on Saturday last. Below are the scores :-Sill,qles K U David, 1; J E Williams, 0; G F Insole, 0 H A Tapsfield, 6; W H Watson, 0; G W David, 4; F Halsey, 0 Rhys Price, B-19. A J Simpson, 0; T M Barlow, 3; Rev Davies, 9 Dr Taylor, 0; J F F Commen, 1; Dr William*, 0 Colonel Slaney, 5 H W Vivian, 0-18. Four.(omes-E U David and J E Williams, 1; H A Tapsfield and G F Insole, 6 W H Watson and G W David, 1-8, H Thompson and J M Barlow, 0 Rev Davies and Dr Taylor, 0 J F Commen and Dr I Williams. 0—0.

SENSATIONAL INCIDENT AT CADOXTON-BARRY. An incident of a sensational character occurred on Tuesday afternoon last at Cadoxton-Barry. As the children of the infants' department at the Board School, situated on the Common at Cadox- ton, were leaving school a quantity of dynamite, of the gelatine type, was found in the lobby. The deadly material was picked up, and handed to Miss Carr, the head-mistress. It is not known how the dynamite got to the school premises, whether carried by one of the children, or placed there with a mischievous design. Inquiries are being made in the matter.

LAST WEEK'S TRAFFIC RECEIPTS ON THE BARRY RAILWAY. On the Barry Railway during the past week the traffic receipts were:—Coaching, Z350 goods, :£192; minerals, £ 2,795 dock dues, kc., £ 5,174 total, £ 8,511. Corresponding week of last year:- Coaching, £333; goods, £ 163 minerals, £2,163; dock dues, &c., :£3,134; total, £5,799; increase, £2,712.

THE PENARTH NAUTICAL IMPOSTER. PRISONER AGAIN BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. At Penarth Police Court on Monday last- before Mr J. Pyke Thompson and Mr W. B. Gibbs -the fraudulent ship's captain," named Georee Albert Adams, alias Captain Hall, master and part owner of the s.s. Buteshire," was again brought up in custody charged on remand with obtaining goods by false pretences from several tradesmen at Penarth.-The evidence of Police- constable Henry Hill (401), of Barry, who effected the arrest of the prisoner under clever circum- stances at Barry on the evening of the 16th of April, having been read over. Mr John Morgan, outfitter, 16, Glebe-street, Penarth, said the accused came to his shop on the 14th of April, and. representing himself to be the master and part owner of the steamer Buteshire, he ordered a stock chest of clothing, which must not be more than JE70 in value nor less than de60. The goods were to be delivered on board the Buteshire, which would arrive at Penarth Dock on the following day. He (prisoner) had just left the s.s. Ayrshire, a sister ship to the Buteshire, at Newport, and in order to cover the buttons on his naval uniform, which, he said. were too prominent, he afterwards ordered a reefer coat, and one of the value of 18s lid was supplied him.-Inspector Rutter was examined, and he said the prisoner was wanted on similar charges at Newport, Plymouth, and other places.-Prisoner. who said he had been drinking all the week, and did not know what he was doing, had nothing to say in reply to the charge. AXOTHEB CHARGE. ( Prisoner was then charged with receiving by false pretences two bottles of perfume, value 6s, ¡ from Mr H. J. Aubrey, chemist, Penarth, on the 14th April. The evidence was similar to that given in the last case. A FURTHER CHARGE. Mr J. E. James, of the Ship Inn. Penarth, next charged the prisoner with obtaining board and lodgings by false pretences on the same date. Evidence was adduced by the prosecutor, Jane Hodges (cook of the hotel), and Inspector Rutter, and prisoner admitted he had no connection with the Buteshire or Ayrshire. He strongly denied, however, the evidence given by Mr James in fact, he declared he saw Mr James for a few minutes. Prisoner was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions on the several charges, bail being refused.

SAD FATALITY AT PENARTH. A BRAVE LITTLE BROTHER. On Saturday morning last, about half-past ten o'clock. Johnnie Greatrex, the three-year-old son of Mr Hazey Greatrex, bailiff to Mr David Morgan, of Woodland House, Penarth, was drowned in a pond in the yard of Cwrt-y-Vil Cottage, the residence of his parents. The child had been picking gooseberries with his mother twenty minutes before the accident occurred, but, tiring of that occupation, strayed away to the pond— a sheet of water only a few feet wide and so more than 3ft. deep. There he and his brother had been accustomed to play with a little boat, and it Is supposed that in endeavouring to reach, this boat the boy over-reached himself and, falling on his face, was suffocated. Within a few minutes of the accident the child's aunt, Mra Thomas Greatrex, who resides in a cottage about a quarter of a mile distant, came upon the scene, and, observing something unusual in the water, approached the pond, and to her horror discovered her little nephew lying face downwards and apparently dead. Instead of pulling the child out, she hastened to her home and summoned the aid of Mr Bellwood, a lodger. Upon returning to the pond with Mr Bellwood. they were astounded to find Johnnie's brother, Willie, about seven years of age, lying in the water uncon- scious beside the younger child, and whilst a doctor was sent for efforts were made at resuscitation. Upon Dr Moynan appearing, he pronounced life to be extinct in the case of Johnnie, but, after applying the usual remedies, succeeded in restoring Willie to conciousness. On Sunday afternoon a Press representative called upon the deceased's parents, and also interviewed Willie, who has been removed to his aunt's cottage. The ohild who is a splendid specimen of the chubby country boy, said that on going towards the pond he saw his little brother lying face downwards in the water, And, of course, miss, I tried to pull Johnnie out. I got hold of him, but he was so heavy that I fell in myself, for I wouldn't let him go." TB8 INQUEST. On Monday afternoon, at the Police-sth. Mr E. B. Reece, eoroner, held an inquest on body, and the ;ury returned a verdict of Accidental de.

WARN' "r TO IMPORTED RIGGERS aT BARRY DOCK. Four riggers, hailing from Gloucester, were summoned to Barry Police Court on Thursday last for infringing the Barry Railway Company's bye-laws in following their employment on a ship in Barry Dock without being properly licensed. Mr J. J. Handcock (Messrs Downing and Hand- cock) conducted the prosecution, Captain R. Davies (the harbour master) also being in atten- dance. On behalf of the defendants, a Gloucester solicitor stated that they had offended through ignorance, and promised not to repeat the offence. -Mr Handcock said the Barry Company were not vindictive, but were forced to take an action to protect their property and that in their charge. They required all riggers engaged in their dock, as a guarantee of competency and of conduct, to be approved of by the dockmaster (Captain Davies) before they were allowed to engage themselves. After the recognition of the company's right, and the promise of the men, he was prepared to withdraw the summonses.-The Bench acquiesced, Mr O. H. Jones stating that these proceedings should be regarded as a warning.

WANTON CRUELTY OF A BARRY SCOUNDREL. At Barry Dock Police-court on Thursday last, John Morris, alias" Morrissy," was summoned for being ftrunk and disorderly in Wood-street, Barry Dock, on the previous Wednesday night, and also with assaulting Catherine Foley. Police constable Wm. Williams and Acting-Sergeant Herbert Evans substantiated both charges, the former stating that be ran to the assistance of the woman on seeing Morris strike her down and then push her whilst she was lying helpless on the road.-Catherine Foley then said that she was continually being ill-treated by Morris; that he I followed her about the district threatening to do for her; and that this was done because she refused to keep him by prostitution. He did not work, and she had had no relations with him. Just before the assault witnessed by the police he had broken a jug over her head.—The magistrates—Mr O. H. Jones (chairman), Dr Neale, and Mr John Lowdon—sentenced Morris, against whom Superintendent Giddings stated there were four previous convictions, to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour. -10.

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THE CONTINUITY QUESTION. A. E. P. ROSS'" REPLY TO A PRIEST OF THE UNDIVIDED CHURCH." To the Editor of the "BARRY DOCK NEWS." SIR,-A mis-statement may be made, or a false- hood told, in very few words it is a much longer matter, however, to refute it. Not your corres- pondent, but you, Mr Editor, are to judge whether my letters are too long. It would have taken volumes to refute all the absurdities advanced by your correspondent in the course of these letters. I have only challenged some main issues. I leave, for instance, to Nonconformists the thorough refutation of the statement which first caused me to address you, i.e., that the various forms of Dissent owe their origin to the Pope. Our Lord's- words to His Blessed Mother on the occasion of His first miracle were "Woman" (the same affectionate word which He addressed to her when dying on the Cross, and which, in the original, is a. term of great respect), •' what is that to thee and to Me 1" It is most evident she did not under- stand them as your correspondent does, for she afr once said to the attendants Whatever He shall say to you, do it," and our Lord obeyed her wishes, working a miracle, although He had said "Hia hour was not yet come" for mimcies. The other words also, Rather blessed are they who hear the Word of God and keep it," are the highest praise of Mary, who was blessed because she was Mother of God, but more blessed because the Gospel testifies of her that she kept all these, things and pondered them in her heart." If your correspondent's ideas were general there could have been no progress in historical, or any other branch of knowledge. Dr Lingard is not te be branded as generally unreliable, because since hi. time the Record Office documents have become accessible, which causes modern Catholics to bar more correctly informed on certain points than he was, and the more is known of the origin of the Church of England the worse that origin appears. As I have before said, I believe that the mis-repre- sentations of your correspondent and others aa regards Catholics and Nonconformists, arise from the fear that the Established Church will be made in the end to give up some of her illgotten cooda. ./ep6av .aITai11 that at the Reformation the old religion was destroyed by fire, sword a"d sacrilege, and a new one invented, in' which there is neither priest, nor altar, nor sacrifice." The old form of consecrating and ordaining bishops and priests was abrogated and a new manner of making new ministers way introduced. (Your correspondent should have assisted, as I did, on May 1st. at the consecration, m Clifton Pro-Cathedral, of the new Catholic fh CIlfton> and he wo«ld have r. c .gnised the differences between that pre Reformation function and that prescribed in his Prayer Book.) The old worship, toe Mass, was abolished and a, new worship, the "dearly beloved," was made. The most beautiful churches which our fore- fathers had raised to the glory of God were destroyed, and those left standing were made as bare as barns. The Church of England is like the cuckoo, which takes possession of another birdV nest, and, like the cuckoo, whose voice is quite different from that of the bird it has robbed and evicted, her voice differs from that of the old Church. The old Church was one and infallible, the new one is a Babel of sects, which includes the antics of Father Ignatius, and the very contrary views of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and of your correspondent. Your correspondent is not a Catholic. No church in the world, outside the small heretical sect of the Church of England, would recognise him as such. In the time of St Augustine of Hippo certain heretics pretended to call themselves Catholics, but, as the saint observed, anyone enquiring for the Catholic Church anywhere would certainly not. have been directed by the general public to their Churches. The party your correspondent repre- sents gloried for 300 years in the name of Protes- tant. They are now ashamed of it. They knotr that the main part of the endowments of the Church of England are Catholic property, to which. she, being Protestant, has no just claim. I feel. Mr Editor, as if I ought almost to apologise &» you for so frequently insisting on the same points in these letters, but it is necessary. The Anglican Church was set up by violence, and supported by robbery and penal laws. It has never been able W gain the affection of the Welsh people, and now that (at least here, in Wales) it is tottering to its fall, it hopes to bolster itself up by stealing the very name of the ancient and Catholic Church which preceded it.—I remain, Sir, faithfully yours, A. E. P. ROSS.

BOARD OF TRADE PROSECU- TION OF A PENARTH CAPTAIN. FIXE FOR ILLEGAL CARRIAGE OF GRAIN. Thomas Kirby, master mariner, was charged before Messrs W. B. Gibbs and J. Pyke Thompson at Penarth Police-court, on Monday last, with. that he, as captain of the steamship Gena, of Whitby, did not take proper precautions, on the 31st of January last and other dates, to nrevenfc the grain cargo from shifting, thus acting in con- traventiou of the Merchant Shipping Carriage of Grain Aet, 1880. Mr Roe, on behalf of Mr Ivor Vachtll, solicitor, Cardiff, appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Board of Trade, and explained that defendant commanded the ship on a voyage from Alexandria to Hull, during which a portion. of the grain cargo was stored in bulk in the 'tween decks without being duly divided off as required by the Board of Trade regulations. The defendant, whose ship now lies at Penarth Dock, pleaded ignorance of the requirements of the law, but Mr Pyke Thompson replied that an excuse was an absurd one. for a man like defendant who occupied a re-ponsible position ought to make himself acquainted with the law bearing upon his dutiee and obligations.-The Bench then imposed the mitigated penalty of £ 25 and costs, in default a. month.

INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION AT PENARTH. IMPORTANT GRANT TO THE COMMITTEE. Some time ago the question was raised by the Penarth Intermediate Schools Committee as to the making of grants from the Science and Art. Department towards the building of intermediate schools. This important matter has bten fol- lowed up by the Penarth Committee and the Glamorgan County Council, and we are pleased to hear that a letter has been received from the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education making- a grant towards the building of the Penartk Schools of £ 408, being iC233 in respect to science accommodation, and £175 in respect to art accom- modation. Penarth is the first town to obtain such a grant, and the principle being thus admitted, it is highly probable that the committees of other intermediate schools about to be built in the Principality will make application next year for similar grants. We understand that the members of the Intermediate Schools Committee will be called together at once, and that it is probable that the schools will be built forthwith. The amount of grant is calculated upon the accommodation provided.

LAST WEEK'S COAL SHIPMENTS AT PENARTH DOCK. The amount of ccal shipments dealt with 1 Penarth Dock last week was 41,999 tons.