The London Welshman

Home News. ANGLESEA. Mr. J. T. Badrick, Central Telegraph Office, London, has been appointed postmaster of Holy- head. CARNARVON. By the kind permission of the Constable of the Castle (Sir John Puleston), acting through his deputy (Mr. Charles A. Jones), the Gorsedd of bards will during the Carnarvon National Eistedd- fod hold its sessions within the walls of the historic building. The Mayor (Mr. W. A. Darbishire) has also kindly undertaken to provide the stones required for the sacred circle. Colonel Thomas Gee, of Liverpool, the eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Gee, of Denbigh, and Mrs. Gee, a daughter of the late Sir Henry Tate, have taken up their residence at Caerhun Hall, in the Vale of Conway, the seat of Lieutenant-General Gough, the Governor of Jersey. Colonel Gee has taken a lease of Caerhun for at least four years, and has already installed the electric light and built a billiard-room. The annual inter-collegiate cricket match, Bangor v. Aberystwyth, was played at Bangor on Monday afternoon, and provided an exciting finish. Aberys- twyth made 61 in their first innings and got Bangor out for 42. In a second time, Aberystwyth were dismissed for 34, which left Bangor with 54 to win and only 43 minutes to do it in. This difficult task, amid intense excitement, the home team accom- plished, with ten minutes to spare, Morris Owen scoring the winning hit amid enthusiastic cheers. W. Bayne carried out his bat for 32. At Pwllheli Police Court on Wednesday a young man named Edward Pierce was charged with having assaulted a young farm servant named Jane Williams at Abererch Station. Mr. Alfred I. Parry, who was for the complainant, said the stationmaster was not strong enough to tackle the defendant, who caught the young woman by the throat, but the Rev. D. Jones, the vicar of Abererch, happened to be near, and he came to the rescue. He pulled defendant away, charged him with being a coward, and told him if he wanted to take somebody on he had better take him. Mr. Richard Jones, a representative of the Nantlle Vale on the Gwyrfai Rural Council, moved at Saturday's meeting that a request be made to the local authorities of Carnarvon, Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Bangor, and other places on that coast to exercise their influence against using tiles for roofing dwelling-houses in those towns. He said that some of the leading residents of the places named had expressed to him a desire to see houses roofed with slates, it being said of tiles that they were unhealthy and unsatisfactory as roofing materials. The proposal was defeated by twelve votes to nine. DENBIGH. With the view of encouraging the study of the Welsh language in the County schools of Denbigh- shire the trustees of the late Sir Henry Tate, at the suggestion of Colonel Thomas Gee, have presented to each of the schools a copy of Y Gwyddoniadur (Encyclopaedia Cambrensis) at a cost of consider- ably over ^50. The trustees, if approached on behalf of the other counties, would, it is believed, be prepared to make a similar gift to each of the other intermediate schools in Wales. FLINT. The Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire (Mr. Hughes, of Kinmel) has added to the magisterial roll of the county the names of Dr. R. Moreton Prichard, of Rhyl, and Mr. J. B. Linnell, of Prestatyn. Dr. Prichard is one of the leading medical men in Rhyl, and for a number of years was a member of the Board of Commissioners and of the Urban District Council. Mr. Linnell is well known in the district as Lady MacLaren's agent. GLAMORGAN. Dr. Spencer Low has prepared tor the Local Government Board a lengthy report on the sanitary condition of Merthyr. He describes many of the houses as unfit for human habitation, and states that the great want of the district is improved dwelling accommodation for the working classes. A far reaching decision affecting the position of colliery checkweighers was given by the Bridgend bench of magistrates on Saturday, when a check- weigher at the Aberbaiden Colliery, Kenfig Hill, was removed from his position on the ground of his interference with the men outside his duties as a checkweigher. The decision raises the question whether checkweighers may also act as Federation officials. Sir John Llewellyn has just received a large box of trees as a present from the Forestry Branch of the Canadian Government. Always deeply interested in arboriculture, Sir John has had the trees planted in his magnificent grounds at Pen- llergaer, and it will be an interesting experiment to see if they will grow as well in this country as in Canada. The varieties of trees sent were :-Fifty Manitoba maple (acer negundo), fifty green ash (fraxinus viridis), and a hundred Dakota cottonwood (populus monilifera). MONMOUTH. A pathetic double tragedy took place at Henllys, near Cwmbran, on Saturday. A lad of four years fell into a deep pond and the mother jumped into the water to save her son. Both were drowned. Some six weeks ago Mr. A. Davies, 2, Bristol Street, Newport, Mon., while making excavations found a Bristol farthing. The coin is inscribed on the one side, "A Bristol Farthing, C.B. 1660," and on the other side, The Arms of Bristol." These farthings were issued by the authority of Charles II., and are fairly numerous, a thousand or more of them being known to exist. The value of the individual specimen referred to is at the outside one shilling. Pengam is a miniature city of bridges. The new bridge over the Brecon and Merthyr Railway is so much wider and stronger than the old one that it will prove of great service to the public. The large bridge over the river leaves little to be desired. The footbridge recently erected at the Rhymney Station removes a source of great inconvenience and danger. Before being erected at Pengam this foot- bridge had done good service at Bargoed. The rapidity with which it was taken down and re-erected was a matter of just pride to those who were con- nected with the work. Some thousands of passengers now pass over it weekly, and are free from any danger of hearing the warning cry, Look out for the engine."