The Aberystwith Observer

STORM RAVAGES AT BORTH. X1400 REQUIRED. At the quarterly meeting of the Cardigan- shire (northern) Main Roads Committee held on Monday at Aberystwyth, the questian of repairing the damage done by the sea at Borth came up for discussion. The following report was presented by the sub-committee: Year Committee held two meetings, the first of which was held at Borth. The owners of property adjoining the main road and who are interested in the question of its protection were invited to meet the Committee, several of whom complied with such request and agreed to form themselves into a Committee, Capt. Jones, Wellington House, Borth, to act as convener of such committee. The Surveyor was instructed to prepare an estimate of the cost of erecting a breastwork with groynes and his estimate is printed with this report. The Clerk was also requested to communicate with Sir Edward Pryse, Bart., and the proprietors of the Cambrian Hotel, Borth, and apply for their leave to.execute on their land any work which the Council may decide. The Committee recommend if the proposed work is undertaken by the Council that it be divided into two sections, and suggest before proceeding further that a copy of the Surveyor's report be sent to the Convener of the Borth Committee with a request that the Main Roads Committee be definitely informed whether or not the owners of property adjoining the main road will contribute one- half of the cost of any work which the Council may undertake in protecting the road. In his report the Surveyor said I respect- fully beg to report that, as instructed by you, I have consulted Mr Beynon, of Borth, in reference to the proposed sea defence works. I find that A700 was mentioned last year as the amount required to protect the road. Since then you are aware the sea has made further inroads and a greater sum is requisite to repair the breach. To do this and also to carry out the suggestions of last year for pro- tecting the road for 640 yards from the Hotel to the Golf Links will I believe cost £ 1,100. If a groyne of 150 yards length be placed at the end of the breastwork, as shown on the plan, a further sum of £300 will be required. -Mr Morgan James questioned if it would be legal to do the work at the cost of the county. -The Clerk (Mr Evan Evans) on being appealed to said that the idea was to protect themselves from any damage. But supposing that the road was washed entirely away it was held that it would not be the duty of the Council to restore the road.—Mr D. C. Roberts asked if there was any reply to tho letters sent.—The Clerk said that the pro- prietors of the hotel wrote granting permission to enter upon their property, but they were not prepared to contribute towards the cost of doing the work. On behalf of Sir Edward Webley Parry Pryse, Mr George Pryse wrute to say that in 1904 the late Sir Pryse Pryse subscribed X50 towards the cost of repairing the damage, and the work then carried out had only resulted in sending the pressure further north on to Sir Pryse's land, which previously was not in danger.—Mr D. C. Roberts then proposed that the whole matter be laid before the committee at Borth. If they were pre- pared with a considerable contribution then that committee would consider how much they should contribute.—Captain Doughton said that the road was seven or eight yards away from the foreshore and it may be years before the main road was even touched by the sea. The people seemed to him disinclined to do anything to protect their own property and believed that it was the duty of the County Council to do it. The Council were under no obligation to put a penny pieoe on the road.— It was decided to lay the whole ef the facts before the Borth Council.

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THE CECILS GENEROSITY. Generous provision has been made by Lord Salisbury for the family of Henry James Hard- ing, of Potter's Bar, who was killed by his lordship's car. Harding's widow is to receive 10s. per week, and each of the children 3s. per week until they reach the age of eighteen. At the inquest the chauffeur said he blew his horn twice, and thought deceased would step from the road on to the path, but he did not do so. The speed of the car was about fifteen miles an hour. The jury returned a verdict of acci- dental death, and exonerated the chauffeur from all blame. Because several members persisted in addressing the chair whilst retaining their seats, Mr Fox. remarked at the annual meeting of the Dolgelly Urban Council that they were chattering round the table like a pack of monkeys. -• i.- • I; >|

CiPEL BANGOR NOTES, Groat interest was taken in the wedding of Miss Morgan, the only daughter of the Rev. D. Morgan, Brynrheidol, which event was solemnized at Ponllwyn Chapel on Wednesday morning. The bridegroom was the Rev Joseph Price,, Pontrhydfendigaicl. The officiating ministers were the Kevs. W. Morgan, Pwllglas, T. M. Jones, Trisant and J. BoNveti, Pontrhyd- fendigaid, in the presence of Mr T. Morgan, registrar. Miss Morgan, Maesnewydd, and Miss Cowan, Maesteg, Glandovey, acted as bridesmaids. The bridgegroom was accom- panied by Mr W. Roger Jones as best man. Miss Jennie Jones, A.L.C.M., presided at the organ, and played Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The cbapel bad been tastefully decorated for tlm occasion and a beautiful arch spanned the road near the entrance to the chapel. The honeymoon is being spent at Llandrindod. The presents received were numerous and costly. We heartily wish Mr and Mrs Price long life and happiness. On "Wednesday evening the Rev. W. Morgan, vicar of Llandilo-Taly bont, delivered a sermon at Capel Bangor Parish Church on behalf of the Additional Curate's Society. The first meeting of the new parish council for the township of Melindwr was held at Goginan on Friday evening. All the members were present. The following appointments were made. Chairman, Mr William Bebb; vice-chairman, Mr William Lewis; secretary, Mr Richard Rowlands. Mr Thomas Owen was elected to represent the council on the local Education Committee. A discussion took place concerning the up-keeping of the foot- path that leads from Maesbangor to Capel Bangor Station. We regret to have to record the death of Mr David Jones, Tan'rallt, which event took place on Thursday evening. Deceased was a man of many parts, and under the old school board regime fulfilled the position of attend- ance officer. He was of a cheerful disposition, and always looked on the brighter side of things. Moreover he was a keen observer, a master of repartee, and altogether an interest- ing companion. His wife pre-deceased him some three years ago. His mortal remains were interred at Penllwyn burial ground.

NATURE NOTES. The country just now is full of the signs of life. Nature, again, has awoke from sleep; a general resurrection has taken place. Whilst taking a walk through the country the other day this fact was forcibly brought home to me. The fields have assumed a green appearance, and the trees have, already, shot forth their buds. The hedgerows were coverod with primroses of divers colours, and enlivened by the sengs of birds merrily worbling as they flittered from branch to branch in quest of a suitable spot wherein to build their nests. In a word it was an ideal spring day, and as I meditated on the beauty and harmony of nature-Ite wonder the sagacious Greeks called it "Cosmos"—I could not but become alive to the seriousness and difficulty of questions concerning my own existence and destiny. In all ages there have been some who have asked these questions anxiously, and at times, indeed, have convulsed the whole world. But now (more than ever) we are sent straight to nature and to fact, and we are told to be real; to think of what our words mean and these questions of the whence and wither of mankind are felt by us more than our forefathers to be formidable ones. Eyes have been opened to see the wonders and the mysteries of the n-o.t familiar things of life. Whence and why do I come into life? What is to become of mef What am I on the way to? These questiona carry with them to the man in the street, and by the domestic hearth, happiness or distress, life or death. And one thing further has been brought home to over consciousness, and that is, that Nature by itself cannot give the answer. Nature dees indeed speak of God, of duty of immortality. But though Nature does teach us of God and hope, of justice, purity, and prayer, its answers to our questions are dark and imperfect. The gainsayer declares that it is silent; the doubter that it is ambiguous. It hardly helps man to understand himself. But whatever we know or do not know, we know this-that One has come, as no one ever came to the world before. Who came to make quite certain questions on which men have been in the deepest perplexity Who came to tell us whence and why we are, and what we have before us in the after-time. Our only refuge from the agonising mysteries of the world is in His own Person. We know now in whose world we are; we know that it is One risen from the dead Who brought us hither, And holds the keys of whence and whither."

BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK. During some night attacks which were being carried out at Malta the destroyer Ariel struck the breakwater and went down. First- class Petty Officer Harry F. Sneddon lost his life. All the other men got safely ashore. The Ariel was a 30 knot boat of 355 tons.

STARTLING RISE IN THE PRICE OF TEA.-Yet there is NO increase in the price of Horniman's. Quality maintained" Always good alike." Horniman's 2s. Tea has no equal. It is the finest obtain- able, and guaranteed absolutely pure. Sold in packets, 6d. per | lb. Sold everywhere. Prices from is. 6d. to 3s. 4d. per lb. Sold in Aberystwyth by—J. R. James, 10-12 North parade (Special Wholesale Agent; E P. Wynne chemist, Misses Owen, 19 North parade Ellis, S3 Terrace road. Knighton—Blower, Chemist. Lampeter—Meggicks, draper. Machynlleth-Rees. Welshpool-Williams arid Co. Towyn-on-Sea—Lewis & Co., grocers. THE NAVY. Answering a number of questions -raised by Lord Brassey in the Upper House, Lord Tweedmouth laid down the views of the Admiralty as follows: (1) Great Britain must keep command of the seas, without any regard to cost. (2) At the present moment we are in un- questionable command of the seas. (3) We shall go into the Hague Conference pledged to this: that if foreign Powers extend their naval programme, we in turn will also extend our programme, in order to keep our position among the naval Powers. The Barmouth Justices have granted an application for dancing and music at the pavilion, provided that dancing takes place on two nights a week only, except during the summer months, and that persons appointed by the Free Church Council be allowed to inspect any of the performances. KEW BEE

UNITED COUNTIES HUNTERS SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the United Counties Hunters Society, which embraces Glamorgan- shire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire, was held at the Ivy Bush Royal Hotel, Carmarthen, on Saturday after- noon. Mr J. C. Harford, Falcondale, retiring chairman of the Committee of Management, presided. Lord Tredegar was arpointed chairman for the ensuing year. The chairman proposed that Mr Grismond Phillips ho re- elected hon. secretary, and heartily thanked for his services. (Hear, hear.) Col-.m.-l Lewes, seconded, and remarked tkat it was a source of pleasure to him and others to see t'ie shows improving year by year. The motion was adopted with acclamation. Mr D. H. Thomas, Starling Park, was re-elected treasurer, Mr J. H. Daniel, auditor, and Mi J. F. Rees, M.R.C.V.S., veterit ary inspector. Sir Edward W. Parry Pryse proposed that in the classes open to tenant farmers whose main source of livelihood is farming, no one who carries on any other profession or business in addition to farming bo allowed to compete. What they wanted to do, said Sir Edward, was to encourage tenant farmers, and they ought to make the case clear. After some discussion Sir Edward's motion was adopted.

HOME EVIDENCE RINGS TRUE. ANOTHER ABERYSTWYTH MAN. Another Aberystwyth man tells us to-day a remarkable experience, thus adding yet one more convincing piece of home evidence to the many already printed in these columns. That we can test the truth of home evidence, such as this, makes it far more valuable than testi- mony which comes from those who live far away. For years I was troubled with rheumatism and kidney trouble," says Mr George Hutchins, 5, South road, Aberystwyth. There were continuous, gnawing pains in my back. and the kidney secretions were thick and unnatural. If I had occasion to bend I eould hardly get upright again. I tried different medicines, and also plasters for my back, but I got no relief. Doan's backache kidney pills were recom- mended to me, so I commenced to take them. Finding the pills were helping me, I kept on with them, and when the fourth box was finished I was better. I am fine now, free from all pain, and the kidney secretions are clear and natural. I have only Doan's pills to thank for the benefit I have received. (Signed) George Hutchings." Doan's Backache kidney pills are two shillings and ninepence per box (six boxes for thirteen shillings and ninepence). Of all chemists and stores, or post free, direct from Foster-McClellan Co., 8, Wells street, Oxford street, London, W. Be sure you get exactly the same kind of pitis that Mr Hutchings had.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH. The calendar of the University College of Wales for the session 1906-7 has just been issued. It contains the usual information relative to the College, together with the report of the Principal for the session 1905-6 and the report of the council, together with the financial statements, as well as the pros- pectuses of the various departments. The book also contains a list of scholars and prize- men who have passed through the institution since 1900 and have gained distinction at the various universities and the higher civil service. The volume also contains tho exam- ination set for entrance scholarships and exhibitions in 1906.

ABEKFFRWD. PARISH COUNCIL.—The annual meeting of the Parish Council was held on Thursday evening. On the motion of Mr D. Powell, Ffrwd-ddu, seconded by Mr Hugh Jones, Pantfawr, it was resolved that Mr D. Davies, Cennant, be chairman for the coming year. Mr Hugh Jones, was elected vice-chairman, on the proposition of Mr Stephen Evans, Bwlchcrwys, seconded by Mr D Powell. Mr J. Morgan, Rhiwarthen Issa, proposed, and it was seconded by Mr D. W. Thomas, Rhiwarthen Ucha and carried, that Mr Stephen Evans and Mr Evan Richards, J.P., Penuwch fawr, be overseers. Mr John Morgan, proposed a vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr David Jones, Tanrallt, who had been a faithful assistant overseer for a great number of years and this was also carried.

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ONE THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Terrible earthquake shocks have shaken Central America with disastrous consequences. One thousand people have lost their lives in Acapulco, Chilpanzingo, and Chilapa., three cities of Mexico. The damage at the port of Acapulco is serious; prisons and the civil hospital were wrecked, the sick escaping. The barracks and many houses are uninhabit- able. The State Government is feeding the families reduced to want. Chilapa suffered greatly, the cathedral and many large houses being wrecked.

The Empress Eugenie will shortly figure as defendant in an action in the French law courts. The claim is to recover £ 184,000. Fifty years ago, it is stated, Napoleon III. borrowed £ 120,000 from M. Thierry, of Nantes, to be repaid with interest in 1870. A renewal was later agreed upon, the Emperor to pay £184,000 in 1885. During the Franco-German war the signed agreement was lost, and has just been found by M. Thierry's heirs. On being told that Thaw's mother had offered to provide five million dollars as bail, Mr Jerome declared: "All the millions behind Thaw will not be enough to get bail for him." An estate foreman, named James Crump, who had been employed for thirty years by Colonel Cotes, of Pritchford Hall, Salop, but had recently been discharged, was on Saturday found dead with his throat cut in a field near Shrewsbury. A coal seam underneath Blenheim Baptist Chapel, Leeds, is on fire. The worshippers have been struck by the peculiar odours and unusual warmth. Excavations were made, and a foot or two down the earth itself was warm. Deeper still the very stones were hot, so that they could not be touched. The Whitehead Torpedo Company have just perfected a new express torpedo. This wonderful weapon travels through the water at the enormous speed of three-quarters of a mile a minute. No torpedoes now used by the navies of the world attain this speed. A torpedo oostg,0500, J

MAIN ROADS COMMITTEE- HOW THE MONEY GOES The annual meeting of the Northern Main Roads Committee was held at the Town Hall, Aberystwyth, on Monday afternoon. Mr William Evans, Ponterwyd, was elected to the chair without a division. SURVEYOR'S REPORT. Mr Thomas Owen, surveyor, reported among other things That the severe frost and wet weather of last winter has damaged the reads; they are consequently in a worse con- dition than usual, and the expenditure will be correspondingly higher. The heavy traffic on some of tho roads picks out the weak spots; this is the case on the Aborayron section where1 tho frequent trips taade by the Great Western Motor Buses greatly affects the surface of the road. The Cwmystwyth to Devil's Bridge portion has also suffered from the ore and timber tratfic. Of the many had places, I find that the worst are on the Llanilar and Penuwch line of roads. The steam roller has been fully employed for five weeks on the Aberayron road, and has another three weeks' work between Alltiwyd and the South Gate. I am informed thah it has always been the rule with the men to leave ofT work on Saturday at 1 p.m. when working in the quarries, with the masons, or with the steam roller; when on the lengths some of the men stop until 4 p.m., but the majority leave at 1 o'clock or soon after. I beg to propose that a definite time be decided upon, and that the men be allowed to finish on Saturdays at 1 p.m., as it is the general custom of the country. It is my opiuion that the Council will gain by doing so, since it will encourage the men to take greater interest in their work. I find that a number of the men are without wheel- harrows, scrapers, and other tools. I beg to propose the following be supplied :—12 wheel- barrows, 8 large scrapers, 28 small hand scrapers, 28 iron rakes, 30 brushes. Each man should be supplied with brushing or hedging hook for trimming and cutting. Some picks should also be procured. In my estimate of expenditure nothing is included for the proposed work at Borth, or for repairing or re- building of bridges, inasmuch as these ques- tions are under consideration by the Council. Danger sign posts should be put up to warn cyclists in several places. My estimate fer maintenance of the roads for the current year is £3,000. For the first quarter £700. Mr Morgan Jamea called attention to a rather curious feature of the report, and this was the absence of any charge of cartage on the Aberayron road between the 4th and 7th milestones. He had had a conversation with the roadman on this section and the man told him that for the last 11 years he had wheeled all the stone required. Now, as the cartage of stone cost the county £4:00, he certainly thought it ought to be looked into, as there appeared to be a possibility of saving a. large sum of money on this account. Two farmers residing on a length of road told him that the men had not enough of work to do. One road- man had a dodge of utilising his time and had the stone carted to and fro from one end of the road to the other (much laughter). More supervision was required over the carting, and roadmen should not be allowed to employ a carter without the authority of the Surveyor. One roadman, he was told, was giving such constant employment to a carter that he had his coal carted free and his family given a trip to the seaside in the summer (laughter). This was not romanicing: it was a fact! Under the circumstances he proposed that no road- man ho allowed the use of a catt upon his length without the authority of the Sur- veyor.— Mr D. J. Williams, Trcgaron, seconded.Mr O. M. Williams said that Mr James was perfectly right in bringing tho matter forward, and suggested that the Sur- veyor should bring in a report. —Mr James: I am agreeable to that if he also reports upon the system of hiring carters. I am told there is preferential treatment.—Mr Williams Certainly, I'll include that.—The Committee agreed that the Surveyor should report upon this question.—Mr R. Ellis said that it was rather curious that they should have that complaint about the Devil's Bridge road. The road had only been taken over just twelve months.—The Surveyor was directed to report on the width of the wheels of the timber carriages used.—Mr Ellis moved that the men leave off at one o'clock. — Mr Joseph Parry seconded.Mr L!oyd Jones moved instead that they leave off at one o'clock from March 25 to September 29; and at 4 o'clock from the latter date to March 25.—Mr E. Richards seconded.—Mr Morgan James moved as an amendment that the roadman leave off work all the year round at 4 o'clock. He was surprised to fiud that statement at the end of the report that some of the men left off earlier than others. That seemed to point to preferential treatment, and whoever was responsible it did not reflect very well upon the Council itself. The farmers did not allow their men to leave off. If they could allow the men to finish as pro- posed it would represent on the year the work of five men, and as the Surveyor had not asked for any extra help it led to the conclusion that there were too many men on the road. It was not the custom of the country, and men were far better treated on the roads than on the farms.—Mr E. A. L. Powell seconded.—A vote was taken and the amendment was defeated.- It was decided that tenders should be invited for the supply of new stock. As to the Aberayron section, the Surveyor said that there was not enough stone on the road to complete the work.-Referring to the summary and expenditure on the road, Mr J. H. Davies, Cwrtmawr, said that from his own observations of the roads over which he passed he was con- vinced that the summary was absolutely wrong. How were these things got at. If they were to have them at all it were just as well to have them correct.—Mr C. M. Williams The returns are made out from the labour sheets submitted to the Committee.-—Mr Paith, Morgan the financial clerk, said that the men sent in returns for the correctness of which the Surveyor was responsible. The present Sur- veyor had not yet presented any returns.—Mr D. J. Williams (Tregaron) alluding to the Aberayron road suggested that they should approach the Great Western Railway Company and ask them to make a grant of a supply of stone to be put on the Aberayron Road. The County had gone to a lot of expense and it was only fair that the Company should pay something. They had been talking about charging extra for timber traffic and they ought to get something for this.-— Mr James did not think that the Company were in any way responsible but he had been told that they would favourably consider a request for a contribution towards the cost, and he suggested that the Surveyor should prepare a record of the money spent on this road and submit it to the Comp, ile was informed that with two trips each A y the Company was clearing £ 15 per week, mid this amount would easily be doubled in the summer when they would have four services each way. The Council had shown its readiness to grant money towards railways, and ih his opinion it would have been a good thing if they had invested it on motors instead (hear hear.) It was agreed to keep such a, record.—-The Surveyor's estimate of JE700 for the quarter was adopted. —The Committee did not adopt the suggestion to fix up cycle notices.

Lord Haliburton a former under secretary for war passed away at Brankeome Towers Hotel, Bournemouth, on Sunday morning.

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FIGHTING THE CORPH. At the annual meeting of the Machynlleth Education Committee the Rev D. H. Hughes, Baptist minister, complained of the way tho committees were being packed with Metbo- dists, and succeeded in getting the Rev T. J. Humphreys elected in place of Mr Daniel Howell. When the following were proposed on the attendance committeee, viz. Rev D. H. Hughes, Mrs Davies and Mr Daniel Howell; Mr Howell asked: Is any objection to be raised upon religious persuasions again ? — Rer D. H. Hughes I do not think that it should be taken in that way we must act fair to the public.—Mr Howell Those remarks would have been more appropriate if spoken at the beginning of the business.—The com- mittee was then appointed.

FORMATION OF AN IMPERIAL COUNCIL. The Colonial Conference has resolved on the formation of Imperial Council which it is intended ahall meet every four years. The decision arrived at follows pretty much the lines of Mr Chamberlain's resolution of 1902, and involves the establishment at the Colonial Office in London of a separate department, with its own seeretariant to deal with am! arrange subjects for discussion at the Confer- ences. The area of the British Empire is 12,000,000 aqaare miles, population 400.000,000. The latest returns show that goods to the -,v,lue of J6150,905,450 ,01'. iwsport'.&rl from our Colonies and in return they took £ 135,609,334.

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LLANILAR. FUNERAL.—The funeral of the late Mr Jenkin W. Jones took place on Saturday at Dantiar. The Rev J. F. Lloyd conducted a short service at the house, and gave out the pathetic hymn Bydd myrdd o ryfeddodau," which was feelingly sung. Then the mournful cortege wended its way to church, where the burial service was read by the Rev D. W. Davios, Cilcenniu. Deceased had lived a gentle life, and did much good in a quiet and unassuming manner. He will be greatly missed in the Sunday School, of which he was superintendent for many years. Great sympathy is felt for his bereaved wife and daughters. His sorrowing children paid their last tribute to their beloved father by quietly and reverently casting flowers into his grave.

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LLANRHYSTYD, LAUNDRY LECTURES.—On Monday afternoon Miss Daniel, Towyn, was presented with six yol urnes of Temple Classics," in recognition of her valuable work in connection with the laundry classes. These lectures forma part of the advance work which the County Council aro carrying out ill the county, and thanks are due to Messrs J. Morris Jones and E. Morrie Jones, who acted as secretary and treasurer. A good deal of interest was taken in the classes, and an audience of fifty watched the demonttrations. The Parish Council com- mittee are contemplating applying for a course of lectures on bee keeping and horticulture, and on veterinary hygiene. Europeans have been openly assaulted at Lahore, India, following the conviction of a native editor for publishing false statements. The disquieting feature of these incidents lies in the fact that they are by no means isolated c^,ses. In other parts of India the natives are making themselves disagreeable on the slightest provocation. The trial of the West Ham Guardians, who stand committed for conspiracy, will be opened at the Old Bailey next Monday. On June 10th, six motor cars will start on a race from Pekin to Paris.

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