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Notes from South Wales.
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Notes from South Wales. (From our Special Correspondent.) Exportation of Coal. The other day I was enabled to peruse a copy of the last annual report issued by the Home Office in regard to the coal output from Great Britain. It contains some striking figures. The total output, for instance, was as follows England, 161,000,000 tons, Wales, 35,000,000, Scotland, 35,000,000, Ireland, 105,000. The best coal, judging by the average price per ton, was raised in Pembroke, the value at the pit mouth averaging i is. per ton. Durham, of course, is the largest coal producer in England, while Glamorgan heads the list in Wales, and Lanark, in Scotland. There are, in all, 833,629 persons employed in the mines of the United Kingdom, the average output per individual being 284 tons. In, England, the average out- put per individual is 278 tons, in Wales 263 tons, and in Scotland, 341 tons. The City of Cardiff. A Cardiff pawnbroker is advertising "city pledges" in the columns of a local evening journal. This sounds rather humiliating. A Growing Industry. The fishing industry at Milford seems to be growing, and at the present rate of progress, will rival that of Hull or Yarmouth at no distant date. For instance, nearly 100 tons of fish were sent away daily from the Pembrokeshire port during October last. Lest we Forget. In Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire alone, 82 families were evicted from their holdings in consequence of their audacity in voting against their landlords' known wishes." Mr. W. Llewellyn Williams in the Manchester Guardian. Welsh University "Reform." The speech made by Sir Marchant Williams before the Cymmrodorion Society at Cardiff was not very impressive Sarcastic it certainly was, but the average man in Wales wants to know how caustic speeches of this kind are going to help the cause of "Welsh University Reform ? Smart. There was a particularly smart joke in the London Globe the other evening. It seems that at Carnarvon watches have been presented to school children who have attended ten years, eight-and-a-half years, and seven years respec- tively, without missing a day. Whereupon the Globe remarks- "One would have thought watches would have been of more use to scholars who had not attended regularly." Lied dda Smith and Sons. Much interest has been created in Wales, as in other parts of the United Kingdom, in the announcement that Smith and Sons are relin- quishing their tenancy of the railway bookstalls in the new year. It is evident, however, that this celebrated firm of newsagents are going to make every effort to retain their customers. I learn that they have already acquired a well- known bookseller's establishment in High Street, Swansea, and similar acquirements are likely to take place in other Welsh towns. tied of Our Fathers. A friend who was present at the recent Nelson and Trafalgar Centenary at the historic Kymin,
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MAEROD NEWYDD CYMRU. Aberafon.—Mr. Aaron James. Abergafenni.—Mr. J. C. Gwatkin. Aberhonddu. —Mr. J. Wallace Hedger. Aberteifi.-Mr. Thomas Watkins. Abertawe.—Mr. Gwilym Morgan. Aberystwyth.—Captain T. Doughton. Bangor.—Mr. W. Bayne. Caerfyrddin.—Mr. H. E. B. Richards. Caernarfon.—Mr. W. A. Darbishire. Caerdydd.—Mr. Robert Hughes (Arglwydd Faer. 2il flwyddyn). Castellnedd.—Mr. Walter E. Rees. Casnewydd.—Mr. John Liscombe. Cidweli.—Mr. H. E. Smart. Conwy.—Dr. R. Arthur Pritchard. Dinbych.—Mr. Robert Owen. Fflint.-Mr. J. L. Muspratt. Gwrecsam.-Mr. E. Berkett Evans (3edd flwyddyn). Hwlffordd.-Mr. H. J. Emlyn Price. Llanfyllin.—Mr. William Ellis. Llanidloes.—Mr. W. George Longton. Llanbedr.—Mr. C. Evans. Llanymddyfri.—Mr. J. P. V. Pryse-Rice. Merthyr.- Mr. Enoc Morrell. Pontfaen.—Mr. John Pickard. Pwllheli.—Mr. W. Anthony. Penfro.-Major A. F. Beddoe. Rhuthyn.—Mr. T. H. Roberts. Trallwm.—Mr. Edward Wyke. Trefaldwyn.—Mr. H. Jones. Trefdraeth.—Captain D. Mathias. Trefynwy.—Mr. A. Edwin Jones.
SOUTH WALES BUSINESS NOTES.
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SOUTH WALES BUSINESS NOTES. [In this column it is our intention to bring before the notice of our numerous readers the features of various businesses calculated to prove of use and assistance to them. Proprietors of shops, hotels, &lc., desirous oj such publicity should communicate with us.] SUPPORT WELSH INDUSTRIES. -jay's, JI8, Queen Street, Cardiff, are again prominent with their excellent Xmas photo cards. Prices per dozen, complete, is. 9d, 2s. 6d., 3s., 3s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 5s. 6d., and upwards. Send photo and remittance.
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in Monmouth, says that he has never heard anything more impressive than the singing by the people present of Rudyard Kipling's lines to the tune of the well-known hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save God of our fathers, known of old— Lord of our far-flung battle line- Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget My friend added that he should like to see a translation of these beautiful lines in Welsh, and as he is a constant reader of the LONDON WELSHMAN, he hopes to see such a translation in its columns by one of our readers. Grossly Unfair. Mr. Samuel Jones, the chairman of the Holy- well Liberal Association, has done good service by bringing to the public notice the anomalies of Welsh mining royalties. For instance, there was no reason, remarked Mr. Jones, why the Duke of Westminster should receive royalties amounting to about £ 10,000 a year from Halkin Mountain, when he did not contribute one penny towards the relief of local taxation. No wonder the audience to whom Mr. Jones addressed his remarks shouted shame," when they heard this statement. Then there was the Hanmer family, who received in royalties from the Bettisfield Colliery as much as the wages of the whole of the colliers amounted to. Land values should certainly be taxed. Summer Holidays. Some months ago, I advocated a revision of the summer holiday period. I contended that the summer holidays ought really to commence in June, or July, and not necessarily be con- fined to the month of August. It is interesting to note that the views expressed in the LONDON WELSHMAN are meeting with approval. For instance, the Aberystwyth Town Council re- cently passed the following resolution unani- mously That in the opinion of this Council, it is desirable for some action to be taken by the local authorities of all seaside and health resorts to petition the directors and principals of private colleges and schools, and also education authorities throughout England and Wales, to commence the summer holidays a month or so earlier than the date now in vogue, and so minimise the overcrowding unnecessarily caused in the season at the popular health resorts of the country, and that with that object in view, the Urban District Council's Association be appealed to take the question in hand, and to bring the matter to an issue in the interests of such Local Authorities." It is to be hoped that the resolution will be successful in its object. Evading the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. As readers of the LONDON WELSHMAN are aware, Monmouthshire is, owing to a strange anomaly, excluded from the working of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. The consequence is, that whilst all the public-houses in Cardiff, for example, are closed on Sundays, those at the Monmouthshire village of Rumney, which is some two miles from Cardiff, are open on that day. Consequently, crowds of thirsty men may be seen every Sunday going from Cardiff to the village in question to get drink. Accom- panied by a friend, I went to make an inspection on a recent Sunday afternoon, and the scenes we witnessed were a disgrace to our much vaunted civilisation. Dozens of working-men were walking from Cardiff towards the Mon- mouthshire side, and dozens were returning on the same road towards Cardiff. The former, not having had their fill," were as yet sober, but the latter were practically all drunk. Some of them had fallen down helpless on the roadside. Others were being conveyed homewards in cabs singing (?) at the top of their voices. In the space of 45 minutes we counted no less than some 40 drunken men. And if we had remained a couple of hours longer we should have seen those whom we had just observed going out for their drink returning homeward more or less in the same beastly condition. It would be safe to calculate, on this basis, that 1,000 men on an average go out every Sunday from Cardiff to Monmouthshire in order to have drink, and assuming that each spent is. 6d. to 2S., this would mean from ^70 to fQ\oo frittered away. Seventy per cent. of these Sunday tipplers are generally attired in their working clothes. I am told that similar scenes, on a smaller scale, are to be witnessed on Sundays in other Glamorganshire towns bordering on Monmouthshire. Seasonable Poetry. The wet and stormy weather has brought the usual crop of colds in its train, and South Walians have been speculating largely of late in balsams and the like. Perhaps the Editor of the LONDON WELSHMAN will forgive the writer for breaking forth as follows When November winds moan sadly, Round my cottage in the lane, And the rain beats down so madly On the little window-pane ? Then it is that dreamy fancies Flutter round the poet's brain, Like poetical romances Of the summer o'er again. Hark I hear the linnet calling Hush I hear the, hum of bee No,-it is the water boiling For a double dose of tea O'er the poet, fate so cruel, Influenza's spell has shed, And they're making sago gruel, Ere they say,—Go into bed Gadewch e fan yna.