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Notes from South Wales. (From our Special Correspondent.) A Surprise. One of the surprises of the past week was the publication of the will of the late Bishop of Llandaff. The gross value of the estate is given at £ 112,567 10s. iod., and the net value of the personal estate £ 16,855 8s. 3d. These figures disabuse the minds of many people of one thing at any rate, viz., that the Llandaff Bishopric was not a poor one. Uncanny. I heard once of a West Wales man who had bought a coffin in which he desired that his body should be carried to the grave when he died but last week was the first occasion for me to hear of a man who had prepared his own grave and inscribed the headstone. My authority is the Welsh Gazette, which states that the person who has accomplished this uncanny work resides at Llanfair-Clydogau. During the last few days," so I read, he has been busily engaged in preparing for his depar- ture to the next world, and has just completed a grave, covering it in the meantime with slab- stone, above which is also a headstone, fully inscribed with the names of himself and his wife, but the precise date of his departure is not stated." This uncanny kind of thing should be strongly condemned, and I am glad to read further on in the report that the matter has "become the subject of much unfavourable comment." Football Rowdyism. Football when played in a sportsman-like manner is interesting, but when it degenerates into sheer brutality no language is strong enough to condemn it. Last Saturday, for instance, there were several disgraceful scenes in Cardiff, Aberdare, and elsewhere, and it is a pity that the reputation of the winter pastime should be impugned by such exhibitions of blackguardism. At Cardiff, for example, the match between the Hibernians and Canton Quins produced such a scene as the following, to quote a local journal :—" The Hibernians assaulted a spectator, ten or eleven kicking and punching him because of his having declared that the try was a fair one." At Aberdare the match between the local club and Neath resulted in several players being seriously injured, one of them nearly losing an eye. In another place where rough play prevailed, a player had his nose broken. Jews in Glamorganshire. It has often been a matter of conjecture as to the number of Jews in Glamorganshire. That the number is increasing there is no doubt. The other day I happened to come across a copy of the" J ewish Year Book," and accord- ing to this authority there are some 1,300 Jews in Cardiff, about 1,400 in Merthyr and Dowlais, some 500 in Swansea, and about 200 in Aber- dare. This would mean a Jewish population of about 4,000 in the county alluded to. The Squire of Llandinam. A good deal of interest is being taken in the future career of the young squire of Llandinam —Mr. D. Davies. It seems to be generally taken for granted that he will seek Parliamentary honours at some future date. If so—where ?

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Notes from South Wales. '