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♦ Home News. ANGLESEA. There were stormy scenes at the last meeting of the Holyhead Urban Council, when the application of the Pierrots, supported by a largely signed peti- tion, was read asking for the use of the beach for b performances. Resolutions from twelve religious bodies were received against the application. Mr. Campbell said the Council was evidently under the dictation of chapels. He proposed that no ministers, parsons, priests, or curates be allowed to dictate the Council's business to them. Mr. R. Roberts said that the chapels had been pulled by their noses into the sending of these petitions by certain mem- bers of the Council whom he could name. Mr. Josiah T. Griffith proposed that the application be laid on the table. Mr. Gordon Roberts proposed that the Council approve of the performances. By eleven votes to six the application was laid on the table. BRECON. Mr. Arthur Stuart Williams, youngest son ot the late Judge Gwilym Williams, was at Brecon on Monday afternoon appointed Chief Constable for Breconshire. Six out of fifty-eight candidates had been selected by the Standing Joint Committee. The six were married men with two children each. As far back as last summer it was decided that the Denbighshire, the Montgomeryshire, the Pem- brokeshire, .and the Glamorganshire regiments of Imperial Yeomanry should form a brigade camp this year at Llangammarch Wells, Breconshire. The grounds on which the different regiments were to camp were chosen at the time, but it was not until this week, when the work of laying out the camps had begun preparatory to the assembly of four regiments on Monday next and the following day, that it was found that the sites on which the Denbighshire and Glamorgan Yeomanry were to encamp were on bog land, and the men in charge of the work, as they were placing the tent poles in position, finding to their surprise that the land would not hold them, the matter was immediately reported to the proper quarters, and the reply came cancelling the arrangements for the training of the Denbighshire and Glamorgan Yeomanry at Llangammarch. Already it has been decided that they shall encamp at Port Talbot, where the Den- bighshire will proceed on Thursday next. CARMARTHEN. On Wednesday a married man named William Morgan, residing at Pontyberem, committed suicide by jumping over Dryslwyn Bridge, Carmarthen, Into the river. It is stated that he had been suffer- ing from religious mania for some time past. CARNARVON. The Bishop of Bangor has preferred the Rev. W. D. Roberts, rector of Llanddyfnant, Anglesey, to the junior vicarage of Bangor, in succession to the Rev. T. Edwin Jones, Holyhead. The new junior vicar has had much experience of both English and Welsh congregations, having served as curate at Port madoc, Llanfairfechan, and Llandudno. In the last parish he was conductor of the musical festival for the rural deanery of Tindaethwy. FLINT. For the third time in succession the Manchester ^Battalion of the Boys' Brigade (numbering about °°o) have decided to make Prestatyn their head- quarters for a week's camp at Whitsuntide. At the same time and place the Adelphi Lads' Club walford) will be under canvas. GLAMORGAN. It is stated that the late Miss Griffiths, ot Dylais- ?-ch, Vale of Neath, has bequeathed ^40,000 to charities. The Dean and Chapter of Llandaff have offered t V^' Kempson the post of consulting architect post ^at'le(^ra^ Mr. KemPson has accepted the v j.he Powell Duffryn colliers in the Aberdare have dropped the victimisation question, 1 lcb they added to the non-Unionist matter on ich they struck work, and decided to return to the pits. A double tragedy is reported from Bracelet Bay, umbles, where the bodies were discovered of oenT Arthur Loxton, clerk, of Leslie Place, Toh-nSea' anC^ ^issie Jenkins, of 8, Bushey Park, Bristol, who are believed to have com- mitted suicide together. MERIONETH. Llanif^deatJl Mr. Thomas Jones, Brynmelyn, at .^erfel, Bala, took place on Tuesday morning age of 69 years. Mr. Jones was of Merionethshire's Liberal veterans, having done excellent work towards the capturing of the seat from the Conservatives in the sixties and seventies when Mr. D. Williams, father of Mr. Osmond Williams, the present member, was the leader of the party. In connection with Thomas Ellis, Mr. Jones was recognised as his political father. He collected the first guarantee for his expenses when his name was brought before the county in 1886. Mr. Jones was a J.P., a member of the County Council since its establishment, and served as chairman in 1892. He also served the public on various boards and councils. As a platform speaker he was fluent and powerful he had addressed political meetings in every town and village throughout Merioneth. He carried on an extensive business as a flour and corn merchant at Corwen and Bala. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and three sons (one of whom is a missionary at Lushai, India, the Rev. D. E. Jones). MONTGOMERY. On Wednesday Mr. A. J. W. James, well-known in North Wales commercial circles was found by his wife hanging from a beam in the cellar of his residence at Newton. She cut him down, but after gasping three times he expired. On Monday he met his creditors ot Shrewsbury, when he disclosed an indebtedness of £ 25,000. This seemed to have unhinged his mind. PEMBROKE. A pauper has died at St. David's and left ^100. Some time before her death she effectively appealed to the sympathy of a local Guardian by telling him that she was entirely without bread.
MR. LLOYD=GEORGE DEFENDING…
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MR. LLOYD=GEORGE DEFENDING THE WELSH NATIONAL COUNCIL. The Right Hon. Lloyd-George, M.P., devoted a considerable portion of his speech on the second reading of the Education Bill to defend the clause establishing the Welsh National Council. He said the criticisms of this part of the Bill were based upon a total misappre- hension of what the clause really meant, and at the same time it was clear that this clause would play a great part in the agitation against the whole Bill. It seemed to have been assumed that the clause was simply a conspiracy on the part of the Nonconformist councils of Wales to secure the control of education, to be in- dependent altogether of the control of the Imperial Parliament, and to trample upon the rights of the Church of England. What were the real facts ? The clause was the result of a conference summoned by a Welsh corporation. The Lord Mayor of Cardiff was in the chair. This gentleman had been a Tory candidate, and his motive in summoning the conference was a purely educational one—to decide whether the Government should be appealed to to set up a purely educational council to administer primary and secondary educa-tion in Wales. Men of all parties and creeds in Wales were summoned. The four Anglican bishops were summoned, and three were present. The two Catholic bishops were summoned, and both were present. Every Conservative candidate for a Welsh seat was summoned, and a good many were present. In a conference so representative a resolution was unanimously passed in favour of asking the Government to set up a central council for the control and direction of Welsh education. Wales was a very small country, and too loyal to attract the attention it otherwise would attract. Anybody who wished to make a little party capital could always say anything he liked about Wales, because his audience was almost certain to be ignorant of the facts of the case. But Mr. Balfour and Mr. Wyndham ought to have known better than to endeavour to make a misrepresentation about this matter. It might be imagined from Mr. Balfour's speech that this was a step towards an independent Parliament for Wales. Mr. Balfour: Yes, so far as education is concerned. Mr. Lloyd-George did not think that Mr. Balfour should criticise a clause in a Bill until he had read it. He could not have read the clause if he was still under that misapprehension. As a matter of fact, the only function of the Council would be to administer an Act passed by the British Parliament, and it was grossly unfair to mislead the country on a matter of this sort. Welsh opinion was almost unani- mously in favour of this clause; there might be differences in detail, but these they were going to thresh out among themselves. When he said themselves, he did not'mean simply the Welsh Members. A conference was to be held at which every section of opinion would be represented, and if it was thought that the clause as it stood would be unfair to any section, they would have no hesitation in accepting amend- ments and putting further guarantees in the Bill without leaving the matter to be settled by Order in Council. The opposition to this clause did not come from Welsh Conservatives or from Welsh Churchmen, but from the noble lord who represented Maidstone—Lord Castlereagh. Not a single Conservative candidate protested against it, and he sincerely hoped that the Opposition would not take advantage of the fact that Wales was but a small country in order to thwart a scheme which all parties in Wales were anxious for in the interests of Welsh education. To call a scheme which would simply co-ordinate all branches of education a disruption of the Empire was simply part of the gross and futile exaggeration which had gone on about the whole of this Bill, and it was also an illustration of the barren and stupid leadership which had left the Conservative party without a single representa- tive in Wales.
WELSH TEMPERANCE WORK.
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WELSH TEMPERANCE WORK. The Welsh Parliamentary party met at the House of Commons to receive a deputation from the temperance associations of North and South Wales. Sir Alfred Thomas, the chair- man of the party, presided, and the following Members were present :-Messrs. Herbert Roberts, Brynmor Jones, Ellis Griffith, William Jones, D. A. Thomas, David Davies, W. Brace, Sidney Robinson, Ivor Herbert, Keir Hardie, Llewellyn Williams, Clement Edwards, and Lloyd Morgan. The deputation was intro- duced by Mr. Herbert Roberts, who stated that their object was to emphasise the claim of Wales to special temperance legislation. They asked (I) that special provisions dealing with the Welsh licensing valuation should be intro- duced into the Licensing Amendment Bill of the Government in 1907 (2) that special facilities should be given for passing into law the Welsh Sunday Closing Amendment Bill. They felt that it was essential that they should as temperance reformers in Wales unitedly decide upon what they wanted, and having done this that their views and wishes should be clearly stated to the Government. The instru- ment for doing this was the solid phalanx of Liberal Members returned from Wales to West- minster, and the object of the deputation was to bring this instrument into direct touch with the deep convictions of the great majority of the people of Wales upon this subject. The objects of the deputation were further impressed upon the meeting by the Revs. Morris Morgan and Tertius Phillips, repre- senting the United Kingdom Alliance W. A. Edwards (rector of Llangan), Hugh Jones (of the Baptist Union), J. T.. Rees (Congregational Union), John Owen (Festiniog, Calvinistic Methodist), and Miss J. B. Evans (Dowlais), representing the South Wales Temperance Association; the Revs. J. A. Rees. (Church of England Good Templars' Association), and Thomas Jones (of the London Welsh Wesleyan Circuit). Sir Alfred Thomas, in reply, cordially thanked the deputation for their presence, and assured them that the Welsh Members were in full sympathy with the views they had ex- pressed. No effort, he said, would be spared to achieve the objects which had been so ably and temperately placed before them. A vote of thanks to the Welsh Members for their cordial reception of the deputation terminated the interview.