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PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS.
PARLIAMENTARY ITEMS. The Common's amendments to the Sale of Goods Bill were agreed to in the House of Lords on Friday, and the Shop Hours Act (1892) Amendment (No. 2) Bill passed through committee. In the House of Commons, on Thursday, Mr. T. Ellis gave Mr. Cobb statistics concerning the control of 311 parochial charities taken at random all over the country, from which it appeared that of this number 107 would not be directly affected by the Parish Councils Bill. A Bill to amend the law relating to the licensing of beer-houses has been prepared and brought in by Mr. Herbert Lewis, Mr. Herbert Roberts, and others. Its object is to give to the licensing justices the same discretion in dealing with beer-houses and cider-houses which they now possess in regard to fully-licensed houses and other places of refresh- ment. The Home Secretary announced in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, that he had declined to sanction an Anarchist meeting proposed to be held on Sunday next in Trafalgar-square. The views and objects of the group having been brought to his knowledge, he came to the conclusion that the meeting was called for an unlawful purpose. His decision had nothing to do with the selection of Trafalgar-square as the place of meeting. In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Earl of Morley moved the appointment of a committee to consider and report upon the application of the betterment principle, stating that the other House had declined to institute a similar committee to act conjointly with that he now proposed. He thought, however, there was nothing in that circumstance to prevent them undertaking an inquiry on their own account. After a discussion, in which the Earl of Onslow, the Duke of Argyle, Lord Hobhouse, the Earl of Kimberley, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Halsbury took part, the resolution was agreed to by 35 to 22. On the order of the day for the third reading of the Employers' Liability Bill in the House of Commons, on Thursday, Mr. Chamberlain charac- terised the measure as a most mischievous one. He objected to imposing on employers liability in respect of matters over which they had no control, and contended that the Bill would have an infinitesimal effect upon the number of accidents caused through negligence of workmen. The Bill would do some good in giving compensation in a larger number of cases than would receive it under the old law, but it would still leave many cases unprovided for. He spoke strongly in favour of contracting out, and pointed out several evils that would, in his opinion, result from the prohibition of voluntary arrangements. Mr. Asquith, in a spirited reply to the points raised by the previous speaker, defended the Bill as making a substantial improve- ment in the position of workmen. The Bill was eventually read a third time, and introduced into the House of Lords and read a first time on Friday. THE MAGISTRACY QUESTION. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter on the magistracy question, which was submitted on Thursday evening to a largely-attended meeting of Radical members presided over by Mr. Storey, M.P. The Prime Minister acknowledges the resolutions forwarded to him on behalf of Radical members of Parliament. To the proposition that the magisterial bench ought to be fairly representative of all classes and opinions Mr. Gladstone heartily assents, and he adds that he is sure the Lord Chancellor has endeavoured to give effect to it. With regard to the resolution of the House of Commons on the appointment of magistrates, Mr. Gladstone, speaking for himself as well as for the Lord Chancellor, admits the fact of long delay, and contends that it has been inevitable. After the letter had been read, a reply was drawn up and addressed to Mr. Gladstone. THE CHURCH AND THE EDUCATION POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. An important new departure in defence of Church interests was inaugurated on Thursday at the House of Commons. Between 30 and 40 leading Conserva- tive members met on Thursday afternoon in one of the committee rooms, under the chairmanship of the Right Hon. E. Stanhope, and among others present were Sir John Kennaway, Sir Richard Paget, Mr. Talbot, Mr. Rankin, Sir Francis Sharpe Powell, Mr. W. St. John Broderick, Sir C. Pearce, Mr. Wharton, Mr. Hays Fisher, Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Boscawen, Mr. Stanley Leighton, and Mr. Knatch- bull-Hugessen. The chairman and subsequent speakers expressed serious apprehension concerning what they regarded as the encroachments of the present Ministry, and especially of the head of the Education Department, upon Church rights and interests in connection with voluntary schools and other matters. Allusion was also made in adverse terms to the policy of the Local Government Bill, with regard more particularly to parochial charities. Upon the question of voluntary schools, it was felt to be desirable that there should be at the House of Commons a recognised organisation to invite and receive communication from voluntary school teachers and managers who consider themselves oppressed or threatened by Mr. Acland's line of action, so that a case might be matured for presentation, if necessary, to Parliament. After some discussion a representative and influential committee was formed, also a sub-committee, to consist of Mr. Stanhope (chairman), Sir Francis Sharpe Powell (vice-chairman), Mr. Talbot, Lord Cranborne, Mr. W. St. John Broderick, Mr. Tomlin- son, and Mr. Stanley Leighton, with Mr. Boscawen and Lord Wolmer as honorary secretaries. » Dr. Evans, a Local Government Inspector, made a thorough survey of the whole of the Leeswood district on Thursday, in reference to its deficient water supply, and also the insanitary state of several portions of the district. Dr. E. Williams, medical officer of health, and Mr. Edward Jones, sanitary inspector, accompanied the inspector in his investi- gations. At the Thames Police Court, on Wednesday, Frederick Ashley Adams, stated to be a solicitor and deputy clerk of the peace for Denbigh, residing at 81, New Bond-street, surrendered to his recognisance to answer a charge of obtaining credit under false pretences and by means of fraud.-Mr. Mead committed defendant for trial, and accepted Madame Pearson's bail. William Robinson, sweep, Bangor, against whom there were several previous convictions, was on Tuesday committed for a month for being in unlawful possession of 32 couples of freshly killed rabbits. Another man got away, and the police have no doubt that it was Owen Williams, a notorious poacher, who on Tuesday made his 75th appearance at Bangor Police Court. Shortly after three o'clock the other morning the men on duty discovered flames issuing from the goods yard of the Rhyl railway station, and on going there found that a quantity of firewood and other com- bustible material had become ignited. The Rhyl Fire Brigade were soon on the scene. After playing for some time upon the flames the fire was estinguished before any serious damage had been done. At Denbigh, on Friday, R. Roberts, E. M. Jones, and E. Hughes, all of Brookhouse, were summoned by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire for hacking thirteen trees on the farms of Eglwys Wen, Kilford, and Cotton Hall. Roberts was also charged with damaging four telegraph poles on the Ruthin-road. Defendants pleaded guilty. Roberts was fined X5 14s. 8d., including damages and costs for the two offences, and the others 32s. lOd. each. A wave of evil fortune is sweeping over Spain. The catastrophe of Santander, the crime at Barce- lona, the trouble at Melilla, floods in Alicante, and destructive fires at Cadiz make up a many-thonged scourge. At Santander public anxiety is anything but re-assured by the statements of experts that the cases of dynamite which remain intact at the bottom of the sea in close proximity to the town are liable'to explode sooner or later. Divers are engaged in the task of fishing them up and removing them outside qhe harbour. i
LLANGOLLEN COUNTY COURT.
LLANGOLLEN COUNTY COURT. This court was held on Monday, before his Honour Sir Horatio Lloyd, judge. There were about 50 plaints of the ordinary character, and half a dozen judgment, summonses, none of which, however, possessed but little public interest. RICHARDS V. SIRRELL. In this action Edward Richards, grocer and boot dealer, Castle-street and Bridge-street, Llan- gollen, sued George Sirrell, pensioner, Hill's-lane, Shrewsbury, for P,4 balance due on a promissory note originally drawn for £ 8.—Mr. R. S. Richards appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. E. Foulkes Jones for defendant. After some preliminary discussion between the advccates and the judge as to the position of matters at the time when the case was adjourned at the last court, plaintiff stated in evidence that a note of hand forZ8 had been drawn out, signed by George Sirrell and Mrs. Watson in his presence in the Golden Lion. This money was to pay the licence of the Golden Lion for Mrs. Watson, to whom he (plaintiff) had sub-let the Golden Lion Vaults. Being questioned as to why Sirrell should interest himself in Mrs. Watson's affairs, witness said he was strongly under the impression that they were courting. (Laughter.) On January 2nd he went to Shrewsbury for the money, and defendant paid him 4-4 on account, and promised to pay the rest in a quarter. A letter he received from the defendant repudiating the debt was signed in the some handwriting as the signature to the note.—Cross-examined by Mr. Foulkes Jones: He had failed to find the agreement for the tenancy between himself and Mrs. Watson. He produced the excise licence for 1890 for the Golden Lion, which was in his name. He sent the money the following day through the post to pay the licence for Mrs. Watson. Mrs. Watson failing to pay the rent, he put in a distraint. She left in January, 1891, and he then took possession. The licence was never transferred to her name. He still said that Sirrell was at Llangollen on the 10th of October, 1890. Mrs. Watson was present at the time. She paid £ 2 when she went in for beer, glasses, &c. She also gave him two pigs value 30s. Did not send the note to Shrewsbury to be signed. Mrs. Watson owned him money, but this note was not in consideration of that.—By his Honour: At this time, Oct. 16th, 1890, Sirrell joined Mrs. Watson in the promissory note. His Honour pointed out that it must be shewn that the consideration had wholly failed. If defendant had a counter-claim, that would have nothing to do with the note.—Re-examined by Mr. Richards Plaintiff said he saw George Sirrell sign that note in the Golden Lion He was positive about it, and he had lost a lot of money by Mrs. Watson. He had got nothing by the distraint, as the furniture were carried away in the night. He had paid Y,5 to Island Green Brewery, 28s. in rates, and 30s. to Mrs. Miriam Jones. George Sirrell, called by Mr. Richards on hearing the note read, admitte d having signed it, and having paid £ 4 on account of it.—In reply to Mr. Foulkes Jones, defendant stated that he signed the note in the National and Provincial Bank in Shrewsbury, where he had taken it to show. The banker told him after he had signed it that it was a promissory note. He sent it back to Mrs. Watson, and asked the meaning of it.-To his Honour She said it was a promissory note for money for her.- Examination continued He was not in Llangollen on Oct. 16th, 1890, and he did not go there until a Sunday in January. He had never signed any paper of the kind in the Golden Lion.—Wm. Jones, Llangollen Mills, said he was the assignee of all the plaintiff's goods under a deed executed in 1891, which was now put in. This concluded the case for the plaintiff.-Ellen Watson, in reply to Mr. Foulkes Jones, said she was a cook. In September, lSgO, filtA -n-ifti to take. the Golden Lion for Z14 a year without the yard, or X-16 a year with the yard. He said it was a good house and doing good business. The licence was to be free to October. In October she told plaintiff that she could not pay the licence, as there was no business in the house. He suggested that she should find security, and a promissory note was mentioned. The note was sent to Sirrell by post to Shrewsbury without her knowledge, and she had a letter from Sirrell asking what was the meaning of it. After seeing Sirrell's signiture to it, she signed. She did not believe she owed defendant anything, but thought he owed her something. His Honour, in summing up, pointed out that there was no answer in point of law to this claim. It was quite clear that Mrs. Watson had enjoyed consideration for some time at least from October to January, and she might have enjoyed it for the whole year but for other intervening circumstances, for which she herself was responsible. He could not consider the degree of consideration. These two persons had deliberately signed a promissory note, and they must have known what they were doing. He must give judgment for plaintiff, but no costs would be allowed beyond the usual court fees. J. C. EDWARDS V. HOLME AND KING. Plaintiff in this action was Mr. J. C. Edwards, the well-known brick and tile manufacturer of Trefy- nant, Ruabon, and defendants Messrs. Holme and King, contractors, Liverpool. Plaintiff sought to recover £ 37 6s. lid. for goods supplied, while a counter claim was filed by defendants for C26 12s. 8d. for labour expended in taking down work done in Garston, near Liverpool, with defendant's bricks, which had been condemned. Plaintiff denied lia- bility. Mr. R. S. Richards, Llangollen, was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Layton (Messrs. Layton and Springmann), Liverpool, for defendants. The advocates by arrangement agreed to proceed first with the counter claim. Mr. Layton opened the case at considerable length. The case possessed a number of interesting points, and occupied about five hours in the hearing. We regret, however, that owing to unusual pressure upon our space this week we are unable to give but a very meagre report. The gist of the case, however, is as follows:- Defendants in March of last year ordered a quantity of first-class blue pressed bricks from plaintiff. These, they alleged, were used with others in the erection of pilasters in the gas works at Garston. Shortly after it was noticed that water oozed out of them, the defects being not apparent until the bricks were worked. The work was condemned by the engineer, and bad to be pulled down. They had to get bricks from elsewhere at an additional cost. The question to decide was whether the bricks supplied were first-class bricks and equal to sample. For the defendants the followiug witnesses were called :—Fred. Caulton, C.E., Liverpool, Wm. Gough, porter for defendant company, Richard Harding, inspector of brick works, Ed. Allen, C.E., Higher Tranmere, and R. Carter, Garston, engineer. —Mr. Richards said that when the bricks were received at Garston and examined, there was in law an acceptance. He would also prove that the bricks were 3-L in. and not 8 in. as stated, the correspon- 4 dence throughout referring to 3-1 in. Plaintiff was 4 prepared to meet defendant as an old and good customer by supplying him with 500 bricks of the same quality in place of those 'which he had condemned. E. Lloyd Edwards, son of plaintiff, G. W. Spurring, accountant, and J. W. Bishop, manager ot the works at which the bricks were manufactured, having given evidence, and point of law having been discussed, his Honour, at five o'clock, said he would reserve judgment, and forward it to the registrar. » "CADBURY'S COCOA has, in a remarkable degree those natural elements of sustenance which give the system endurance and hardihood, building up muscle and bodily vigour with a steady action that renders it a most acceptable and reliable beverage.Health. WARNING.-When you ask for RECKITT'S BLUE see that you get it. The Manufacturer begs to caution the public against imitation square Blue of very inferior quality. The Paris Blue in squares is sold in wrappers bearing their name and Trade Mark. Refuse all others.
CHIT-CHAT, PRIM & PITHY.
CHIT-CHAT, PRIM & PITHY. Mr. Tom Mann has definitely made up his mind not to enter the Church. A labourer named Smith, of Halifax, on Tuesday murdered his wife and committed suicide. Owing to the prevelance of measles, the Cefn and Rhosymedre schools have been closed by order of the authorities. The bishops of Llandaff, St. David's, and Bangor, were last week visiting Bishop Edwards at the Palace, St. Asaph. Lord Dunraven was on Tuesday elected president of the National Union of Conservative and Constitu- tional Associations. Sir J. West Ridgeway has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in the place of Mr. Spencer Walpole. Mr. Gardner, Minister of Agriculture, was unable to fulfil his engagements at Oswestry, on Wednesday, owing to an attack of influenza. The Rev. O. Lloyd, of Corwen, has received a call to the pastorate of Calvinistic Methodist churches of Rhuallt and Penycefn, in Flintshire. Mr. Francis Musgrave, manager of the Mold Branch of the North and South Wales Bank, is about to retire from the bank after 50 years' service. Mr. W. H. Thomas has received instructions to build, in Well-street, Cefn Mawr, a bank for the local branch of the North and South Wales Bank. A Belfast builder named Rea, who died recently worth considerably over £ 100,000, has by his will left almost the entire amount to local charities. Walter Banister, one of the Chesterfield backs in the second round with Derby Junction in the English Cup football competition, died on Thursday from injuries received in the match. A new organ erected at Siloh (C.M.) Chapel, Carnarvon, was opened on Thursday, with a recital by Mr. J. Williams, organist of Christ Church. Councillor J. R. Hughes presided. On Tuesday morning a student at the Downton Agricultural College, Salisbury, named Reginald Bles, of Westbourne, Kersal, Manchester, died from injuries sustained in a Rugby football match on Saturday. Auditor Ackerman's report on the Chicago Exposi- tion, which has just been issued, shows that the fair was a decided financial success, the net assets remaining, after deducting all liabilities, representing $1,862,482. The Gwersyllt and Summerhill committee have decided to make efforts to continue to give relief for another week as the colliers will not receive any wages for that time. Relief was given for the 45th time on Monday. The Congregational churches of St. Asaph and Waen have given a call to the Rev. W. M. Jones, of Rhesycae, to become their pastor, in place of the Rev E. M. Roberts, who has removed to New Tredegar, South Wales. The death was on Monday reported of Robert Jones, an inmate of the Merthyr Union Workhouse, in his 103rd year. Jones, who was a native of Llanddewi- brefi, was for the greater part of his life a shepherd on the Welsh hills. The Press Association understands that the Queen has been pleased to appoint Mr. Alexander Peckover, banker, a wealthy Liberal and Nonconformist, as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in the place of the late Mr. Townley. Hern Armand Le Gay, who taught French at Hotl Academy, and the Ladies' College for the first six months of this year, has been chosen by the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha as a French tutor to his three unmarried daughters. Influenza- in an exceedingly acute shape is making many victims in Posen and East and West Prussia, the disease in many cases developing into inflam- mation of the lungs. At several manufactories one- fourth of the workmen are on the sick list. Writing to a Lancashire correspondent, Mr. Acland says that if clergymen and others do not cease inducing persons from claiming free education, the Education Act will have to be altered, so that people may have free education without claiming it. Josiah Hughes, a farm bailiff, employed at Cororion, was on Friday night found dead in a field adjoining the house. He had been suffering from a severe attack of influenza, and to this his death was attributed. He was a widower, and about 50 years of age. The Rev. John Roberts, Tai-hen, has been elected moderator of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, the Rev. Thomas Gee, of Denbigh, having withdrawn his name. The association will next meet at Brynsiencyn, on April 25th, 26th, and 27th. Mr. David Owen Parry, a victorious leader in many of the greater Welsh choral competitions, and conductor of the Liverpool Musical Society, and the Birkenhead Choral Society, is, we regret to hear, seriously ill, owing to an affection of the chest and lungs. The interment of the Rev. David Williams, who for upwards of half a century has been identified with the Welsh Congregationalist ministry in and near Bangor, took place on Monday afternoon at the Glanadda Cemetery, Bangor, and was of a semi- public character. -) On the body of a man who had died suddenly at Blackburn railway station was found a business card bearing the name of Frederick Atkinson, tailor, Liverpool." The gentleman whose name was on the card wishes it to be stated that he is not the person who died so suddenly. The members of the French Cabinet resigned their portfolios on Saturday after a stormy discussion in the Chamber on the policy of the Government. Both M. Dupuy and M. Casimir Perier, when approached by the President, have declined the responsibility of forming a Ministry. The Rev. D. M. Rees, pastor of Summerhill and Broughton Presbyterian Churches, has received and accepted a pressing call to the pastorate of Park- j)lace, Tredegar, South Wales. During his brief pastorate here Mr. Rees has made himself exceedingly popular with all classes. The inhabitants of Talsarn and the locality were startled on Saturday morning at the news of the sudden death, in his eightieth year, of Mr._ Jenkin Jenkins, postmaster. He had been driving up towards Nantcwnlle, and his horse turned into Xilun- dainfach, and Mr. Jenkins was discovered dead in the trap. The Carnarvon Rural Sanitary Authority resolved on Saturday to abandon the proposed scheme for obtaining a water supply for Llanllyfm, Penygroes, and Talysarn from local sources in favour of a scheme to obtain the water from Dulyn as reported upon by Mr. Evan Evans, the county surveyor, and he was instructed to prepare the necessary plans. The last number of the Salopian and Montgomery- shire Post, which was started about 12 years ago for the promotion of the Conservative party in the Oswestry division of Shropshire and m Montgomery- shire, appeared on Saturday week. It is understood that the now defunct paper was largely subsidised by the local Conservative leaders in the district. It was announced at the North Wales C.M. Association, held at Aberdovey last week, that Mr. Edward Jones (Plasypant, Llanarmon) and his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Jones, had handed over, free of debt, a. schoolroom for the use of the Calvinistic Methodists, and to be the absolute property of the connexion. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the donors. Crimean and Indian Mutiny veterans to the number of about 300 were entertained on Saturday night at a banquet at the Park Hall, Cardiff, the fund raised by public subscription in the town being sufficient to carry them from their homes, to billet them in Cardiff for the night, to entertain them, and to keep them in the town long enough to attend a church parade on Sunday. Welsh movements in Manchester sustain a great loss by the death on Sunday morning of Mr. Hugh Rowland, the active partner in the firm of Sparrow, Hardwick, and Co. Born at Llangefni in 1834, Mr Rowland went to Manchester at the age of twenty-one, and from humble beginnings rose to a high position in commercial circles. In 1884, Mr. Rowland was placed on the Commission of the Peace for the city. He was an earnest Liberal. According to a return issued on Tuesday, there were 13,619 convictions in 1892 for drunkenness in England and Wales between Sunday at noon and midnight, whilst at other times there were 145,384 convictions. The number of convictions of licensed holders permitting drunkenness on Sundays was 70, and 894 were convicted for similar offences on other occasions. Liverpool, with a population of 517,289 had 444 convictions for Sunday drunkenness, and 8051 at other times, and Manchester, with a population of 605,368, returns 315 Sunday convictions and 4859 convictions on other days.
ROYAL BEEF FOR LLANGOLLEN.
Thursday Evening. The Stock markets are very quiet. Lady Louisa Percy, the eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess Percy, died last night. Negotiations have been opened, according to the New York Herald, between President Peixoto and the Brazilian revolutionists with a view to arrang- ing peace. Diptheria is very prevalent at Festiniog, but is abating. The influenza epidemic is general in the neighbourhood of Connah's Quay,and already several deaths have taken place. The unexpected death took place yesterday morn- ing of Mr. John Hughes, Oakenholt, Flint, the Liberal registration agent for Flint Boroughs. He was about 48 years of age, and leaves a widow and one son. In the Queen's Bench Division,to-day, Lord Arthur Hill, Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., and Mr. Justice McCarthy, M.P., were condemned to pay £ 600 to Messrs. Sugg and Co, the costs of gas fittings at the Irish Exhibition. The venerable Archdruid Clwydfardd attained his 93rd year yesterday. He is in perfect possession of all his mental faculties, and enjoys splendid physical health and strength. The occasion was celebrated by a family reunion at Aberg. Ie. Congratulatory letters and telegrams were very numerous. A shocking accident took place at the Hafod Col- liery, Ruabon, yesterday. A 'young girl, 17, named Sarah Williams, and a youth (about 13) named Richards, the son of the landlord of the Plough Inn, Rhos, were engaged filling a waggon underneath the screens, when by some means the waggon was put in motion, and both were run over. The girl was killed on the spot, and one of the boy's feet was cut clean off. 4 ROYAL BEEF FOR LLANGOLLEN. We are pleased to announce that our respected and energetic townsman, Mr. John Edwards, butcher, 19, Castle-street, has succeeded in purchas- ing a splendid heifer from her Majesty the Queen. The animal, which is of the Devonshire breed, has won the first prize at the Royal Cattle Show. This is the first instance that a Llangollen tradesman has ever bought royal prize meat. The beast will probably arrive in Llangollen at the latter end of next week. Mr. Edwards is very proud of his acquisition, and assures us that the meat will not be of that extremely fatty nature that is frequently the result of fattened animals which are killed at this time of the year. We congratulate Mr. Edwards on his pluck, and also his son. Mr. Richard Edwards, on the successful manner in which he carried out the purchase. ♦ LORD SALISBURY IN S. WALES. PRONOUNCEMENT ON DISESTABLISHMENT. Lord Salisbury's visit to South Wales began on Monday, when he reached Newport in the evening from London. On Tuesday his lordship addressed a meeting in connection with the annual conference of the National Union of Conservative and Consti- tutional Associations at Cardiff, and again yesterday, after being presented with a number of addresses, when he referred to the disestablishment question. He said he knew well that any onslought on the four dioceses of the Province of Canterbury which were situated in Wales would mean at no distant date a similar attack on every part of the Established Church of England. Their interests were indisso- lubly bound together the destiny of the one would be the destiny of the other and he felt bound to struggle to the utmost to resist an attack which was at once sacrilegious and unjust. (Loud cheers.) Parliament had the power to do anything, but it had no more right to take away the property of the Church in Wales than it had a right to present it to the French Republic. The only ground that would be a pretence for the disestablishment of the Welsh Church would be that the Church of England was in a minority throughout Wales. Did they know that ? The Government had sedulously refused to take any census of the state of opinion in Wales, and he was disposed to think that they did not wish the state of the religious opinions of the Welsh people to be fairly examined into, because they knew the result would be fatal to the object they had in view. (Cheers.) If they wished to carry such a measure with the minimum of disagree- ment, surely if they believed they possessed such an argumentative weapon that Churchmen were in a minority in the Principality they would use it. If they were unable to say that, that condemned them at once; but if, believing that they were able to urge that argument, they abstained from doing so, it proved to him that they were still haunted by the belief that by creating disunion they could increase the Liberal vote. Their opponents were proceeding in this matter not by argument, but by the simple utterance of the words Vee victis," which was a very dangerous argument, because it was capable of being retorted. His party did not believe that these enterprises against the Welsh Church would succeed. + On Thursday a remarkable fatal accident took place between Coedpoeth and Bwlchgwyn. A waggon, belonging to Messrs. J. F. Edisbury and Company iErated Water Works, Wrexham, was being driven along the road at a spot where the field upon one side is below the level of the highway. The horse suddenly fell towards the field, overturning the waggon. The driver, Mr. Belmont, escaped, but a boy, named Thomas McDonough, residing in Mount- street, was so severely crushed by the overturned waggon as to die immediately. The jubilee of the chief manager of the North and South Wales Bank was utilised by past and present officers to mark their sense of the valuable services contributed during that lengthy period by Mr. R. Meredith Jones, a member of a family well known to local readers. Mr. Jones has been presented with an oil painting of himself, a gold repeater watch, a writing case, and an illuminated address. The gathering, on Saturday, was thoroughly representa- tive, and the proceedings throughout testified to the high regard felt for their chief manager by all sections of the bank officials. The final tie in the international tug of war at the naval and military tournament at Hengler's Circus, Liverpool which took place on Saturday, between Scotland and Ireland, was accompanied by consider- able uproar. Objection was raised to the presence of two new men in the Scotch team who had not taken part in the previous ties. The Irishmen, however, did not press the point, and the contest proceeded. The first tug was won by Scotland and the second by Ireland. Considerable excitement followed and deafening cheers were raised when the Irishmen showed signs of pulling their antagonists over the line. A spectator here rushed into the arena, and helped the Irishmen to win the game. The referee then declared it no pull," but the Scots declined to again contest, and demanded that the Irishmen should be disqualified. The referee said the Irishmen could not be held responsible for the action of an onlooker. They had acted generously towards the Scotsmen by not insisting on the withdrawal of their two imported men, and he ordered the teams to try again. As the Scotchmen declined to do so, the Irishmen were, amid wild excitement, declared winners. At this point the tournament was brought to a speedy conclusion by the audience breaking into the arena. 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