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Notes from South Wales. (From our Special Correspondent.) An Interesting Fact. There are now over 100 Free Church Councils in Wales. Berried HoIly. A feature of this season's holly is the great profusion of berries. It is said that this in- dicates a more than usually severe winter. Christmas Holidays. In most of the South Wales towns, drapers, clothiers, ironmongers, and boot-dealers will close from Saturday night until the following Thursday morning, and the grocers from Saturday night until Wednesday morning. Walks Over. Mr. Osmond Williams, Mr. David Davies, and Mr. Vaughan Davies are likely to have "walks over" for Merionethshire, Montgomery- shire, and Cardiganshire respectively, at the forthcoming election. Ditto. Mr. Llewellyn Williams is also likely to have a similar experience in Carmarthen Boroughs, and so great is the indignation amongst Liberals and Conservatives alike at Pembroke, owing to the late Government's action in regard to the dockyard, that Mr. O. Phillips will probably have a walk over there too. London Glamorgan Society. I understand that this Society has now a membership of nearly 200. Mr. T. Leason Thomas is, evidently, a very energetic secretary. Absolutely Wrong. "We are told," writes the editor of the Western Daily Press (Bristol), "that clwch, clwch, is an appropriate exclamation. We em- ploy it on the assurance of a correspondent that it is a perfectly proper phrase." Indeed, it is not! "Clwch, clwch," forsooth!" Hen Wlad fy Nhadau. The Standard describes the Welsh National Anthem as a "song," and the Manchester ZD Guardian describes it as a "hymn." Mr. Tom Morgan. South Walians noted with pleasure that Mr. Tom Morgan conducted the Polytechnic Military Band at Queen's Hall, London, on Sunday week. Mr. Morgan is a Llanelly boy
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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, &°c., desirous of such publicity should communicate with us.] To MINISTERS, SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERIN- TENDENTS, &c.—Magnificent Stock of Presenta- tion Books, &c., for sale.—Scholastic Trading Co., 37, St. Mary Street, Cardiff. RUPTURF.-The Steelless Easifit Truss is most comfortable. Send for particulars. Allen Pearce, Surgical Appliance Maker, 23, Charles Street, Cardiff. PHRENOLOGY.—Professor E. Rees, the eminent and popular Bilingual Phrenologist, can be consulted daily at Celtic Corridor (opposite Infirmary), Cardiff. CHRISTMAS READING.—Readers will find a capital selection of second-hand books at Eggar's, 1 A, Frederick-street, Cardiff. Very cheap.
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Notes from South Wales.
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who has come very much to the front in the musical world lately. Another "London Syndicate." A London halfpenny morning says :—" To mine for gold, silver, and lead, a London syndicate has purchased sixty-eight acres at Penrhiw, Anglesey." Hum I hope they'll find some. 'Tis Done. 'Tis done Close up the football grave, For Gallant Wales has made a stand, The men of Harlech rose and saved The honour of the mother land —Daily Chronicle. Master Percy Hughes. At the notable War Memorial Concert at Cardiff on Saturday night Master Percy Hughes' pianoforte playing evoked the keenest enthusiasm. Master Percy Hughes has, un- doubtedly, a brilliant career in front of him. Dying Out. The old Christmastide customs are rapidly dying out. Even the bands of "waits" and carol singers are things of the past in many of the towns. Welsh Radical Rector. All the Welsh clergymen are not Conserva- tives. The Rev. Mr. Edwards, M.A., rector of Llangan, Glamorganshire, for instance, is a strong Radical, and has spoken at some of the local Radical meetings. All Sorts and Conditions of Men. The attendance at the Wales v. New Zealand match on Saturday included a judge, one member of Parliament, the leading British tenor singer, one knight, and several barristers, editors, clergymen, and Nonconformist ministers. A Fallacy. Many thousands seem to think that if they could destroy the Bible and drown God's ministers they would achieve a glorious victory and become masters of the situation But never was there a greater fallacy."—Rev. John Matthews, Swansea. London Newspapers and Welsh. Monday's London Daily News placard announcing the Welsh football victory finished up with the words, "Hen Wlad fy Nhadau." I am told that Cymry am Byth appeared on Saturday night's London Evening News placard. Truth. To elevate Sir Alfred Harmsworth to the peerage, is to give what prestige and sanction that position involves to the most demoralising influence known in British journalism and politics since the beginning of the reign of the press." So remarks the editor of the Brecon and Radnor Express. And what he says is very true, too. The "British Peerage" will soon attain as much ridicule and contempt as an American D.D." Welsh Singing. Alluding to the singing by the vast assemblage at the Wales v. New Zealand match on Saturday, the descriptive correspondent of the Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury wrote It was magnificent to hear 10,000 voices rolling out 'The Land of my Fathers all in perfect time and tune, and even Bluebell' became something better than a mere music-hall ditty when sung by this great choir. Truly, the Welsh nation are as great masters of song as they are masters of football." What is the Difference? A theatrical journal remarks The prejudice of the Church towards the stage seems to be gradually dying out. During a recent week, over three hundred and fifty clergymen of various denominations witnessed the performance of Joseph and His Brethren at the London Coliseum." Personally, I see no difference between the performance of Joseph and His Brethren at the London Coliseum, and the performance of the late Dr. Joseph Parry's cantata bearing the same name. The latter has been performed in character many times in South Wales by choirs chiefly composed of church members, and it is quite as much of a theatrical performance as the one at the London Coliseum. ¡ Theatrical Performances. In regard to the prejudice of the Church against the stage, no right-thinking Christian objects to really high-class plays with a moral tone; what he does object to, and rightly so, is the low kind of play which is, alas! so fre- quently seen in many of the theatres at the present day. In the course of a powerful sermon at Alexandra Chapel, Swansea, the other Sunday evening, Dr. J. A. Rawlings said :—"You have only to read the bills on the walls, as I fre- quently do it is sufficient to read them to form some opinion of the character of the amuse- ments of the people. At any rate, you read of one of the great playwrights of this country who said the other day that what most of the people seeking amusement wanted was tomfoolery. Theatre managers had said to him that it was no use putting on the stage a good Shakespearean play it didn't pay How many (added Dr. Rawlings) "could frequent the theatres and music-halls without being robbed of some of the best things in life, without having the sense of C, what was beautiful and pure spoiled within them." Dr. Rawlings is perfectly correct. It is at the kind of thing he condemns to which the prejudice of the Church is directed, and not to really good theatrical performances. A Merry Christmas. In concluding this week's notes, I wish the many South Wales' readers of the LONDON WELSHMAN, a very happy Christmas. But, at this season of "charity and goodwill," let us not forget the poor. In the "Queen's Carol," pub- lished on Monday, on behalf of the Queen's Fund for the unemployed, Algernon Charles Swinburne contributes some appealing lines, which, I am sure, will bear reproduction here :— Winter friend of health and wealth, Hailed of goodly girls and boys, Slays the poor by strength and stealth, Makes their lives his lifeless toys. One boy goes galloping over the moorland, Wild with delight of the sunshine and speed, Blithe as a bird on his bleak, bright foreland, Glad as the wind or his own glad steed. One. with darkness and toil fast bound, Bound in misery and iron fast, Drags his nakedness underground, Sees the mine as the world at last. Winter, lord of laughing Yule, Winter, weeping on his dead, Bids us ease his iron rule, Bids us bring his poor men bread.