The London Welshman

Notes and News. MR. KEIR HARDIE, MJP., is the Parlia- mentary champion of the Zulu. SOME club gossip has it that it was by an accident that Sir George Newnes' name was left out from the birthday honours list. THE Right Hon. D. Lloyd George will retire from the presidency of the Welsh Liberal Council. A movement is on foot to aPpoint Mr. D. A. Thomas as his successor. THE Parliamentary attendance of Welsh tiiembers is very meagre these days. This not to be wondered at. as the Government .as practically monopolised the whole of the ^ttie to discuss the Education Bill. ON the whole the Welsh clergy are favour- able to the recently published Ritual report, f hey consider it will be the means of bring- llj§ reforms from within, which if accom- plished at an early period, may succeed to Postpone the Disestablishment cruEade. EARLY in August the new pier and landing a, Fisilgltar(i Wi]j ])e in working order, his will be the new G. W.R. route to Ireland, • 11('h will materially shorten the traveller's Journey to Q.ueenstown or Killarney. 11 EXCUSES for holding eisteddfodau are J^ercms, and last week we noticed that the g J Oct- of holding a large eisteddfod at ^ennybridge was in order to liquidate the ebt on the cattle market. We presume they had already secured a village pump and parish hearse. LAST Saturday Baron Glantawe returned to his home in Swansea. This was his first appearance in his native town after receiving the King's favour, and a huge crowd turned out to welcome him. As stated previously, Mr. A. G. Legard, the chief inspector of schools for Wales, will attain his age limit of 62 at the end of this year, but it is rumoured in educational circles that he has been granted an extension, and permitted to hold the office for some time longer. DR. GOMER LEWIS told a good story about a Welsh minister at Sennybridge eisteddfod last week. It became neccessary for him to announce a text in English and the only Bible that could be obtained was a Welsh one. The text was Gwr dau-ddyblyg ei feddwl, sydd anwastad yn ei holl ffyrdd," and the translator gave it out—"A man double in his mind is up and down in all his roads." The following letters have passed between the Senior Deputy Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Wales and Lord Knollys with reference to the celebration of the birthday of the King :— Dear Lord Knollys,—May I once more, on the part of the University of Wales, offer the most humble and loyal felicitations of its members to His Majesty the King on the auspicious occasion of the celebration of his birthday?—I have, &c., "ISAMBARD OWEN." Dear Sir Isambard,—I have submitted your letter to the King, and I am desired to express his warm thanks, through you, to the University of Wales for their loyal con- gratulations on the official celebration of his birthday.—Yours very truly, KNOLLYS." The new labour paper "The Majority" will not appeal to Welshmen in general. In the first number, issued on Tuesday last, it has an article on old age pensions, and states that Mr. Keir Hardie will press this subject to the fore-front of current politics during the coming parliamentary sessions. The "labour" element in our public life is not burdened with over praise these days and the doings at Poplar will, we fear, be used with success at forth-coming elections against Labour candidates. Will Judge Bryn Roberts be transferred to the North ? That is the topic in legal circles these days. Mr. Moss has been appointed to succeed Mr. Horatio Lloyd, but Mr. Bryn Roberts is stated to be very anxious to return among his own tribe in the north, and would be glad if Mr. Moss could be transferred to the Glamorgan dis- trict. Mr. Moss knows the miner very well, and it is thought he would be more at home among the working class section than Judge Bryn Roberts. Last Thursday Sir Marchant Williams and Mr. Ellis J. Griffith, M.P. attended at the Welsh Club to entertain the members and to receive applications for new membership. Sir Marchant still retains his old London connection and attends most of our public Welsh gatherings here, and when any com- mittee is called to deal with Welsh Educa- tional matters the popular Stipendiary is sure to be there. WELSI-I preachers are often charged with preaching one another sermons, but now that the Gramophone is so extensively used why not save the expense of securing any brother that may be suspected of being a plagiarist, and introduce the Gramophone Gospel Services. Mr. RICHARD HUGHES of Llangollen cele- brated his 100th birthday this week. Mr. Hughes is a gardener, and is in a hale and hearty condition. TIGERS and leopards are evidently the family pets of Mr. J. D. Rees. In the House of Commons this week he asked the Secret- ary of State for India to inquire regarding the indiscriminate offer of rewards, in that country, for their destruction. He contends that as they keep down the head of deer and sounder of pig they ought to be protected. The member for Montgomery's official logic is a new feature in this present dull house. A PROMISING Welsh violinst made his debut in London last week. Mr. Haydn Gunter is about 20 years of age, and up to a few years ago worked in the coal mine. His playing was of a high order, and fully justi- fies a keen interest as to his future in the musical world. ———— MR. MOSELEY, the famous educationalist, is arranging a series of cheap trips to America for British Teachers. A Return second class ticket across the Atlantic will be pro- vided for Y.,5, and all travelling on the American railways will be at the rate of one penny per mile. Application for tickets will have to be made through the usual Teachers' Associations.