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FAIRS FOR MAY. Llangyfelach 1 | Narberth 13 Caerleon 1 Ty'nywaun 13&25 Llandelay 1 Penybont 13<S14 Ammanford 2 Talybont 14 Abergwilly 4 Llandilo 14 Cowbridge 4 | St. Clears 14 Troeiiyrhiw 4 Three Crosses 14 Whitland 4* Abergavenny 34 Brecon 5 Carew 14 Blackwood 5 Llandovery 15 St. Clear's o* Llanarthney 16 Cayo 6 Hav 17 & 18 Laugharne 6 Reynoldstone 17 Kittle 6 ] Knighton 17 Cast.leton 6 Newbridge-on-Wye 17 Litt le Newcastle 6 Brynmawr. 38 Aberystwith 7 & 18 Llandaff 18 Llant-lly 7 I Lettenton 18 Bridgend 7 Brechfa 19 Lampeter 8 4 20 Quaker's Yard 19 Swansea 9 Carmarthen 19* G'yn Neath 9 St Nicholas 19 Pontypridd 9 Fishguard 19 Presteign 9 Mandebie 20 Btiilt.h 11 I Newport 20 Newcustle-Emlyn 11 Khayader ,.20& <7 Monmouth 11 & 19 Llanboidy 2l Pembroke 11 & £ 5* Trecastle 21 Crickbowel! 12 Eglwyswrw 21 Llant.risant 12 Maenciechog 22 Blakeney 12 Uak 25 Haverfordwest 12 Crymrovch Arras 26* Llansawel 13 Llangaddock 28 Canton (Cardiff) 13 Talgarth 31 Neath 13 428 I Tlios. marked thus tr-" monthly markets.

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A" ~j^"EW STORY BY A NEW WELSH A UTHOR. I 1 ANOTHER ¡ ) STERLING SENSATIONAL STORY Will Commence in the WEEKLY MAIL ON JUNE 13TH. t is entitled, "JpATHER OR SON?" And is from the pen of JgRNEST JgOWEN T) OWLANDS. BARRISTER-AT-LAW, SON of Mr. BOWEN ROWLANDS, Q.O., M.P. for Cardiganshire. } f/| PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTION OF THE STORY. The Father and Bon referred to in the title are Montague and^udor Raymond, the farmer being" middle-aged, handsome landed proprietor, and the latter a young fellow just completing his education. The agent of the estate is a man named Lazell, who is never so happy as when evicting tenants, robbing his master, and speculating with the money thus stolen. Tudor Raymond falls in love with the new house- keeper—a young lady whose bearing and education show a superior position In Jife. Father and Son differ on almost every conceivable topic, and when the latter informs his sire of his intention to propose marriage to pretty Ruth Mil- rain the father confronts him with a marriagecerti- ficate purporting to be the record of his own mar- riage with Ruth. In disgust,Tudor leaves for London,and thence for the Continent. The next day Ruth is found dead in a wood, killed by a pistol shot. Who committed the murder ? The inquest on the body brings little to light. A detective (the comic character of the story) enters Montague Raymond's employ. In his Sxarehings he finds a silver-mounted pistol in a drain pipe. While lurking near the spot" in the wood, he en- counters Ruth Milrain in the flesh, but before he can speak he ill stunned by a heavy blow, Lazell's character begins to be discovered. He threatens Montague Raymond with a revelation. Meanwhile Tudor Raymond has been induced to return to England. The detectives are in no hurry to arrest him, much to his surprise. Again the question is raised Who committed the murder ? Montague points to his son, Tudor Tudor points to Lazell; and Lazell points to Montague as the culprit. The unravelment of this extraordinary situation is ably effected, as a perusal of the story will testify. "RATHER OR g O N?" BY JjTRNEST BOWEN ROWLANDS, BARRiaTER-AT-LAW, COMMENCES PUBLICATION IN THE "WEEKLY MAIL" ON JUNE 13TH. Business Addresses. I TO OUR READERS Should you have any difficulty no obtaining the EVENING EXPRESS, please communicate at once with the Publisher, EVENING EXPRESS Office, St. Mary- ktreet, Cardiff. Notes by Spinnaker Boom." Buy th" Evening Express ROATH. J. MARTIN. Post-office, Broadway. A. J. WHITE. 120, Broadway. H. TALBOT 52, Broadway. W. R. THOMAS 3, Clifton-street. W. WfLMAMS 16, Pearl-crescent. C. H. SHELTON 30, Shaksoeare-street, D. ROWLEDGE 80, Castte-road. THOS. SANDERS.. 110, Ca:1tle-road. J. LOCKE. 8, Mackintosh-place, W.J.BLAKEMORE, 8, Meteor-street. Racy Tales. 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SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. H Q I S Ball! § 5 § g q 5 £ 5 § O 50 CU Thura- ( Morning. 6 10 5 5 5 59 5 18 6 20 day, ■< Evening 6 o3 5 29 6 23 5 42 5 37 May 7 (Height 35 11 33 11 36 5 135 0 25 0 I Morning. 6 66 ] 5 52 6 46 | 6 4 6 8 tyiaay. » Evening m 7 18 6 15 7 9 6 26 6 23 8 | Height 37 1 33 3 [37 7 35 4 25 9 Satur- ( Morning 7 40 6 37 7 31 6 47 6 53 day, 1 Evening 8 1 6 59 7 53 7 7 7 7 May 9 ( Height 37 4 33 4 37 10 35 4 25 9 SnnrUv ("Morning. 8 22 7 20 8 14 7 27 7 35 in Evening 8 42 7 40 8 34 7 47 7 49 May iu ( Height 36 7 32 7 137 1 34 8 25 Q vr„„ 1 Morning. 9 I 7 59 8 53 3 7 i 14 Evening 9 20 8 18 9 12 | 8 28 8 28 May 11 Height 34 10 31 1 35 4 33 7 23 5 ( Morning. 9 39 8 38 9 32 8 49 8 52 luesdav) jjjvenjr|g 9 57 8 68 9 52 9 10 9 8 Mav j Height 32 6 29 3 1 33 0 132 4 21 6 Wetlnes i Morning. 10 15 9 18 10 12 9 31 9 31 day, < Evening | 10 34 9 38 10 32 9 52 9 49 May 13 { Height 30 0 27 5 I 30 6 j 30 6 19 0 *Hoath Basin tEast Dock Sill. lAlexandra Dock. 4Doek Sill.

BAROMETRICAL INDICATIONS. Appended is a chart of the barometrical readings for the 48 hours ended Wednesday midnight, as registered at the Western Mali Office, Cardiff. The instrument is 33ft. above sea level. TUESDAR. WEDNESDAY, 1 a.m. Aoon Ulidn't 1 ca.m, Noun ,ilidn't 30.5; ;5 •3 3 •2 -2 30'0 •••••••••••• ••••»•»••••• —itssssst o .9 •7 — -7 e '6

THE RAINFALL. The rainfall, as registered at Tredelerch, Rompney- liill, near Cardiff, for the 12 hours ended 9.0 p.m. last night, and for each 12 hours of the past week. wa as follows 9 p.m. 9 a.m. Total. Wednesday 29 "05 -37 '42 Thursday. 30 '05 '00 '05 Friday 1 "38 06 '42 Saturday 2 00 -00 -00 Sunday 3 -00 -00 '00 Monday 4 -00 "00 '00 Tuesday 5 '00 '00 "00 Wednesday 6 '00 — — Total for the week '89

THE TEMPERATURE. Extreme readings of the thermometer for 24 hours ended 9.0 p.m., taken in the shade at Tredelerch, near Cardiff. Minimum. Maximum. Mean. Thursday. 53-0.57-0.65-0 IVidav 50*0 53'0 51'5 Saturday 45'0 fc8'0 51'5 Sunday 38'0 69'0 58-5 Monday 46'0 59*0 62'5 Tuesday 42*0 58'0 50'0 i Wednesday. 45'0 58'0 51'5

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"Spinnaker Boom." A man who lives in the Rhondda asks me to tell him in confidence what" Morien's age is. He wants to know because it will settle a bet between my correspondent and the village shoemaker. The latter, who knows the arch- druid intimately, says he is thirty-five, while my corresponded insists he is at least sixty. It is probable that the shoemaker is judging from appearances, which are occasionally deceptive, while it may be my correspondent makes his estimate from Morien's" writings, which are as truthful as his personal appear- ance. I have no precise information about Morien's age, because it has always been kept suoh a dark secret, not even Morien's most intimate friends being allowed to know; I -but I am glad to say I dhave at last found a i crae wmch enables me to unravel the mys- tery. In his sympathetic biography of the late Rev. David Williams, of Fairfield, Morien makes the remark, I knew him all his life." Now, as Mr. Williams was born in 1816, and was, therefore, seventy-five years of age, and as "Morien" knew him all his life, Morien must be at least a lit tie over seventy-five. The probability is that he is somewhere about eighty-two or eighty-three. Long life to him. Surely it is time the people of Barry should see to building for themselves a hospital. The place is large enough to support such an institution, and the number of accidents would justify the expenditure. I believe I am right in saying that since the new railway has been laid the number of accidents at Barry has been phenomenally large, but this is not all. Sometimes it is almost manslaughter to bring an injured man all the way to Cardiff, where the nearest hospital is situated. There were two accidents yesterday, and in one case the man 'bled so mueh an he was being carried from one place to another that he died by the time he reached Cardiff. Then there is an injustice done to Cardiff. If a Barry man dies in the Cardiff Infirmary Cardiff has to bear all the cost of the subsequent inquiry, and if the deceased is not a ratepayer in the Barry district Cardiff will have to bear the cost of burying him. This doesn't add to the dignity of Barry, and if the people of that place care for position they had better see to the matters of which I have been speaking. In view of the sentence yesterday passed on Captain Verney, member of Parliament for North Bucks, deputy-lieutenant for Anglesea, and member of the London County Council, it may not be entirely uninteresting to quote a paragraph from a speech delivered by this gentleman at a meeting of the London County Council some time ago. Here it is:— If tlieru was one thing more than another that the people of London were looking to them for, it was some improvement in the purity of public morality. He hoped the council would not grant a licence to any music-hall unless satisfied that it was a useful centre of amusement, and untessthey had taken means to a3Ctrlain that it was not being used to degradepublic morality, to bring contempt upon uprightness in the country, and to degrade and lower the name of Englishmen among foreigners who come to our shores. Whatever rpight be the p'rivate rond.net of members of the council or the view they took of the conduct of their friends, they did not wLh to see public vice rampant in London. And in the interests of public morality Captain Verney has ieft us. • There are times when it is a pity some men are not sent to prison without the option of a fine. One of such cases cropped up at Newport yesterday, when a boarding-house keeper and a shipping matter were charged with ill-treating a young Norwegian sailor. The defendants appear to have beaten the young fellow in an unmerciful fashion. They broke the knobs off their sticks with the thrashing they gave him, the captain beating him about the back and the boarding-master on the head. An eye-witness said the Nor- wegian was beaten worse than anyone would beat a dog, and when he bad been rendered almost prostrate he was thrown over a rail on to the deck of the ship and beaten again. A fine of a few pounds was allowed to cover the offence, but it is a pity the savages were not sent to hard labour for a while. There is not much improvement in the football split," but it is significant that the ranks of the reformers" have been strengthed by the support of some good men who were looked upon as certain to swear by all that the Cardiff committee did or said. In another column will be found two letters and a report of an interview with Mr. A. J. Davies. This gentleman speaks up for him- self, but the letters have a peculiar interest of their own. Mr. J. S. Dewar, the present secretary of the Penarth Club, jealous of the fair fame of his committee, and anxious that no one should think they had been plofctingto weaken the position of the Cardiff Club, writes to say that the matter of ejecting or electing in connection with the match com- mittee has never been discussed by the Penarth committee. Perhaps not, but it is, to put it as mildly as it can be put, rather curious that Mr. Dewar's letter should be followed by a letter from Mr. R. A. Lewis, the late secretary of the Penarth Club, who says he has been asked to stand for a seat on the match committee Evidently there is some- thing amiss down Penarth way. # Poor Mr. Wheatley People want him to bear all the obloquy of the misdeeds of every one of the corporation committees, and this morning one enraged gentleman is heaping abuse and sarcasm on the unfortunate town- clerk, as if this poor man had been guilty of the most unheard-of crimes. Claims for torn coats in consequence of the barbed wire which a beneficent corporation has laid down all over the town in order that the course of true love may never run smoothly, and that man might be taught to walk in the middle of the road, have been coming in at such a furious rate of late that the com- mittee has set its back against the wall and decided to fight them all. Therefore, when Mr. Charles Halmont asked for ten shillings for damage done to his coat, he was told he could take any proceedings he liked to enforce his claim. This filled Mr. Balmont with fiery wrath, and he has been writing to the papers to suggest that Mr. Wheatley likes to parade bis wig and gown in the county court It has rather surprised me that Mr. Wheatley has not been blamed for delaying the com- pletion of the waterworks scheme, and he certainly ought not to be let off for letting so much dust fly about the streets. Monmouthshire doesn't ache to see work- men fairly treated. It is pretty generally agreed now that the most effective way of dealing with sweaters is for all public bodies to take a stand against the rule of always accepting the lowest tender. A system which depends for its success on the cutting down of prices to the minimum is bound to prejudi- cially affect the workman. This has been recognised by the Government and a large number of public bodies, and in many parts of the country it has been decided to deal only with those employers who treat their servants properly. In Monmouthshire, however, the county council prefers to go on in the old sweet way of sweating and downright cruelty. Perhaps this is not very surprising when we consider that the Monmouthshire County Council is composed of a large heap of teetotal fanatics—the steelest-hearted people in the world. It There is singular appropriateness in build- ing the new fish market on the Hayes. There is an old saying—I hope Dr. Rhys Griffiths won't start another controversy on this innocent and well-intentioned remarkLthat fish is good brain food. It is evident, there- fore, that our local governors want to focus all the educative forces in the town to the Hayes. The fish market and the library naturally go together; indeed they are un- separable, for without the brain produced by one the other is useless. The sooner the better this new fish market is completed, for the present place for selling fish is neither an ornament to the town nor very comfortable to the fishmongers and their customers when the rain comes down. It is a very long time since I was round that way, but I am in- formed that the Batohelor statue is develop- ing scales. w In the matter of health Cardiff shows up very well this week. Taking the twenty- eight large towns, the average death rate was a little over twenty-six per thousand of the inhabitants, and as the rate at Cardiff was only twenty-two no one has much cause for grumbling. Bristol, however, is by far the healthier of the two towns, the death rate last week being only seventeen per thousand; The worst of the twenty-eight towns last'week was Sheffield, with its enormous death r'»te of seventy per thousand. This is very unusual, and is, I suppose, to be ascribed to influenza, which has broken out in a very vi' ulent manner in Sheffield.

THE TRADE OF CARDIFF. Probable Diversion of Shipments from Barry. During the past few days rumours have found currency in reference to certain nego- tiations which, it is believed, if brought to a successful issue, will add considerably to the trade of Cardiff. The greatest secrecy is maintained in reference to the matter, but, from what we can gather, there is a proba- bility of a large quantity of coal which is now sent to Barry being diverted to Cardiff. Some gentlemen who profess to be cognisant of the nature of the negotiations do not hesitate to say that if they are carried through Barry Dock shares must depreciate in value in con- sequenoe. Such an arrangement as that to which we refer will be another argu- ment in favour of additional dock aooommo- dation at Cardiff. By reference to the above paragraph it will be seen that negotiations are now proceeding which may result in the diversion of a consider- able amount of the co il shipments of Barry to the Bute Docks. For nearly two years the Barry board of directors—almost all of them large freighters— have worked together with little or no friction for the benefit of their joint undertaking. There have, however, been occasions upon which some feeling has been intioduced in consequence of supposed preference being given to particular freighters. Whether these little bickerings have brought about the negotiations to which our financial editor refers or whether some advantages have been offered to freighters to transfer their favours to the Bute Docks we can- not at present say, but that an important diver- sion of traffic may soon take place is very probable.

MR. GOSCHEN ON THE RECENT FINANCIAL CRISIS. The Lord Mayor entertained the governor and directors of the Bank of England at a banquet at the Mansion House on Wednesday evening, the Chancellor of the Exchequer being among the guests. The other guests were the Duke of Fifes the Hon. Evelyn Hubbard, Mr. G. C. Arbuthnot, Sir John Pender, Sir R. Jardine, Sir John Lubbock. Sir R. N. Powler, Sir Henry Isaacs, the chairmen of the loading London and Provincial Bank-, the chairman of the Siock Exchange, and a large num- ber of ladies and gentlemen. The LORD MAYOR ventured to suggest that on no occasion in its history of 200 years had the Bank of England been encounieieu with greater circumstances of difficulty than during the recent crisis, and a collapse must inevitably have taken phiCrf had it not been for the courage, deter- mination, and patriotism of the governor of the bank. Mr. GOSCHEN, who was received with cheers, reminded the Lord Mayor that in the ancient days Chancellors of the Exchequer were not so much called upon to submit their financial proposals to a critical public. (Laughter). Well, he longed to say that with regard to the proposals of the present Budget voluntary schools would be perfectly s ife in the hands ot the present Government.. (Cheers.) He knew that this was a controversial topic, and, there- fore, he would avoid it. and say nothing about it. (Laughter) Now, the prosperity of the public >surse wnJ intimately concerned with the prosperity of individual purses, and he saw before him a number of gentlemen in whose pro-perity he, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, was largely interested, because if the bankers and merchants of London did not have a prosperous year, he would feel the re-nction in diminished returns and revenue. The Imperial Income-tax found amongst them its most colossal victims. (Laughter.) The ubiquitous stamp duties dodged them at almost every turn, and the death duties were not entirely foreign to them. He, therefore, ven- tured tosuggeat that the prosperity of the com- mercial community meant the continued prosperity of the public purRe. If they went back in their profits the same revenue would not accrue to the public exchequer, but if they transacted their business on a sound basis ot credit those catas- trophes which limited their profits would not occur, and he, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, would be able to take his humble share in the reward of their labours. (Laughter.) That depended on a sound system of credit and a sound system of banking, and that gave them the opportunity of expressing the obligation which he believed the country owed to:t,lle wise management of the Bank of England during the recent crisis. A tribute had been offered to the governor of the Bank ol England for the manner in which he had conducted its forces, and if 6f!ything would give an added charm to further rait-e the credit which Mr. Lidderdale deserved in the eyes of his countrymen, it would be the modest way in which he referred to his own services. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Goscheh) had expressed what he believed to be the obliga- tions of the Government and the country to the Bank of England, and, not only to the Bank of England, but to all those other great institutions which had associated themselves with itat a moment which he believed to have been one of some peril to the credit of the country. He hoped that the joint action which was then taken would not be a spasmodic step, taken at 1\ moment of crisis and peril, but that in ordinary times it might pos- sible for the bankers of London to co-operate and consult and come into closer connection with the Bank of England. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman proceeded to say that he was yearning to lay before an intelligent com- munity some of the proposals which were in his breast, but he hesitated to intrude such topics upon an assembly half of which belonged to a sect he suspected cared for gold more than paper. (Laughter). But he might say one word upon a subject which women as well as men understood —the one pound note. He believed most women, would prefer the glittering image of their Sovereign to the autograph of the cashier of the Bank of England--(lHUgliter)—and,though some mightmain- tain that the one-pound note would be a most popular method of currency, there were a large number of persons who, for aesthetic considera- tions, would prefer the sovereign. Most London men preferred the sovereign to the one-pourid note. but he was button-holed by various classes of men—men some of whom said there was nothing else so convenient to send from one end of the country to the other, while otheis called the notes dirty, and said they were likely to spread in- fection, though he had not heard that Scotland was less healthy than any ether part of the kingdom. (A laugh.) For his own part, he preferred the sovereign to the one-pound note, unless by the issue of the note a great national object could be achieved. That was the point on which, when the time came, he would argue the matter with the bankers and the public of the country. He was as much opposed as anyone could be to anything which could tend to weaken the currency indeed, his views on that point were so strong that he was amused indeed at a recent most audacious sally of electoral mendacity which accused him of anxiety to reduce the currency of Great Britain to the level of the greenbacks of America. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he knew the responsibility which rested upon anyone who bad to deal with the currency of the country. He wanted to see it stronger and not weaker than it was at present. He was not content-and he doubted whether many bankers were content, unless they were cairieu away by an optimistic principle—to see our stock of gold so limited as to leave us liable to be affected by a sudden desire on the part of our neighbours abroad for seizing gold. He believed he would have the support of all classes in endeavouring to strengthen the gold reserve. (Cheers.) We ought not to be liable to feel a kind of tremble run through the whole of the United Kingdom as the result of some com- paratively limited Continental demand, and it would be a great satisfaction to him if, with the help of the banking interest, he could succeed in devising some system which would give greater stability and greater exemption from thoso periodi- cal panics which occasionally hampered our com- merce. (Cheers.) Hetruetodthatthe prosperity of the country during the coming year might be such as, not only to fill the public exchequer, but to continue to spread wealth and happiness in all parts of the country, and he hoi I'd that in hat pros- peri 7 all classes might have their part. He further trusted that, while those who heard him th"t even- ing realised profits, other classes in the country might realise continuous work ut satisfactory wages, and that the revenue might continue to derive its force from people able to bear the burdens placed upon it, and satisfied that the sums raised from it were so expended as to increase ita strength, to maintain its honour, and to advance all those social objects in which this generation was EO deeply interested. (Loud cheers.)

Death of a Gas Specialist." Mr. William Richardson, the eminent gas engineer, died at Birmingham on Wednesday. He was born in 1797, and was associated with Murdoch and others in the development of illumi- nation by means of coal gas, and subsequently took a high place in the profession of gas specialists.

Three Men Drowned at Bristol- information was given to the county police at Bristol on Wednesday that three young men who went out for a row on the Avon on the previous night had not returned to their homes. Inquiries were set on foot, and their boat was found, bottom up, at, Conham. Later on oars were also discovered in the water, aud no doubt is now "ntertaioed about the men being drowned.

MONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. LOCAL VETO APPROVED. .t I FAIR CONTRACTS DISCUSSED. A quarterly meeting of the Monmouthshire County Council was held at the Town-hall, New- port, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Edwin Grove presiding. There was a large attendance of mem- bers. VOTE OF CONDOLENCE. The CHAIRMAN proposed a vote of condolence with the family of the late Mr. Wm. Conway, one of the representatives of the Pontypool Division. —This was seconded by Alderman S. S. BOSANQUET, and agreed to.—frlr. Peter Eckersley, who had been elected vice jjlr. Conway, took his seat, and was appointed on several committees. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNORS. The Chairman and Alderman Cossens were appointed to represent the council upon the board of governors of Monmouth Grammar School, and Mr. D. Jones and Mr. D. Thomas as representatives for the West Monmouth School. STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE. The report of the standing joint committee and the accounts, amounting to £5,373 12s. 7d., were passed. The seal of the council was ordered to be affixed to a mortgage of £350 out of the police superannuation fund for Pontnewydd Poiice- station. The CHAIRMAN said he was happy to say, although this was the third loan which bad been effected since the formation of the council, they had all been raised—the first for the asylum out of the county fund, and the two last out of the police superannuation fund. Mr. HARRIS said he noticed by the report that the chief-constable and four other officers did not accept the new scale of police pensions. He would like to know the reasons. The CHAIRMAN said they were clearly within their rights in so acting, and they need not give any reasons for wishing to remain under the old scale. i Mr. BROWN said he noticed frona the report that for a whole quarter there was only one case before the magistrates for the Monmouth Petty Sessional Division. He wanted to know how the salary of the magistrates' clerk would be affected by it. The DEPOTY-CLERK said it was understood that the salary would be revised. JOINT COUNTIES ASYLUM. The report of the committee of visitors of the jomt counties asylum at Abergavenny was brought up by Colonel IJYRDE, who moved its adoption. The cost of maintenance, he observed, was now 6s. lid. per week. The farm produce last year amounted to £ 1,133 7s. 8d., and the receipts torn out-counties and private patients were JE1,159 19s. —The adoption was seconded by Councillor Mordey, and agreed to. LOCAL BOARD FOR ABEHCARN. Mr. J. R. Jacob moved that that portion of the parish of Mynyddislwyn comprising Aber- earn be constituted an urban district for local board purposes.—Councillor G. H. Jones, in seconding, expressed the hope that the wishes of the inhabitants in the rural portions of the district would be considered.—The motion was agreed to. FINANCIAL MATTERS. The report of the finance committee was brought up by Alderman POWELL, who moved its adoption. Mr. T. PAKR? said he found from the statistics that the average rate in the county for the past five years had been Sid. in the £ per ye tr, but the rate now asked for was only 3id in the j6. There had, therefore, been a saving of 2!d. in the £ as compared with the amount asked from the.datepayers during thepaat five years. Alderman POWELL (chairman of the finance committee), in answer to Councillor Jacob, said he was sorry he was unable to support Mr. Parry in the suggestion conveyed by his remarks. It was quite true that there was a reduction in the rates, but that was not due to anything that the county council had specially done in the matter. The difference in the rates was due to the Exchequer contributions, which were now paid to the county in aid of local rates. He did not see that the county council was saving any money as compared with the regime under the quarter sessions. If anything, the expenses were rather higher, but the council was doing the best it could. TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION. The technical instruction committee, of which Mr. Thomas Parry has been appointed chairman, reported that a sum of J6600 would be advanced to the borough of Newport as grant. The report also stated:- Our present opinion is that the application by the Monmouthshire Chamber of Agriculture for a grant of J6500 per annum to assist agricultural education is a reasonable request, but we have deferred coming to any decision until we have received further information to guide us. We have appointed the following gentlemen to be a sub-committee to confer with the chamber and other farminR associations in the county-viz.. Alder- man Rolls. Councillors Bosanquet, Grove, T. Parry, and Parfitt, and Principal Jones and Dr. Yeats. It further went on to state that deputations had been received from agricultural associations and science and art classes, and a scheme would shortly be prepared. THE WEST MONMOUTH SCHOOL. A report was presented from the joint education committee, which, dealing with the new school west of the Usk out of the funds of Jones's Charity (Monmouth), stated :— The matter of recommending a site for this school has caused us most anxious and serious, as well as lengthened, consideration. We have carefully weighed the whole of the faci s and figures placed before us by the various deputations on June 4 and June 24,1890; also the fact that Newport will 800n b« COlIstituted & county borough, therefore forrninga separate and inde- pendent county and we have unanimously resolved to recommend that the West, Monmouth School should be placed at or near the town of Pontypool. Wefeel that thi 3 position would give facilities for scholars all the way frolU Blaenavon, say to Cwmbran, alld that the Eastern Valley and other railways afford such travelling conve- niences as to make this situation the most desirable one. Several of the members of the council, espe- cially thope from the hills in West Monmouth- shire, thought the location was an inconvenient one, and Alderman Griffiths gave notice that he would move to' have the name of the school altered from "West Monmouth" to "Central Monmouth" or "North Monmouth."—Alderman Cossens said the education committee would still consider the claims of other parts of the county in connection with the new school under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act. THE LOCAL VETO BILL. Mr. HABHISON, in accordance with notice, moved :— That the members of this council trust that the Bill now before Parliament for local veto in Wales may become law. and are gratified to find it proposed that this, a border county, should share in the provisions of such Bill, and that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Local Government Board, and to the members of Parliament for the county. He sincerely hoped that the motion would be carried, especially as Monmouthshire was even more Welsh than somepxrts of Wales, Alderman GOLDSWORTHY seconded. There was no amendment and the motion was agreed to without discussion, there being only two dissentients. FAIR CONTRACTS. Mr. HABBISON, in accordance with notice, moved:— That clauses be inserted in all county council con- tracts requiring that the contractors qhall. under penalty, observe the recognised customs and conditions as to rates of wages and working hours that prevail in each particular trade in each district, and that the con- tractor shall, under penalty, be prohibited from sub- letting any portion of his contract, except where the committee concerned specifically allows the sub-letting of such special portions of the work as would not be produced or carried out by the contractor in the ordi- nary course of his business. He had, he said, been asked to bring the motion forward by the tin-plate workers, and he thought it was time that the council and all other local authorities should set an example, so that there should be no sweating and grinding the blood out of the poor. Mr. BROWN seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN asked if it would not be as well to wait till the Royal Commission had sat and made suggestions. Mr. JACOB supported the motion. Mr. KENNARD, as a large employer of labour, said that he could not agree to the motion. Labour was cheaper in the outside districts than in small towns, and he did not see if he took a con- tract in another town why he should be forced to pay men from a town where they usually worked the higher wage. Colonel BYRDE said the principle of Trades Unionism was agreed to by some members and not by others, and he did not see why the county council should be asked to take one side. Alderman EDWARD JONES, as a large employer of labour, thought the sweating was at present on the side of the men and not the masters—in Mon- mouthshire, at all events. On a vote being taken, 11 voted for the motion, 2iJ against, and 7 were neutral. COUNTT COUNCIL ELECTIONS. A motion made by the CHAIRMAN, asking th< President of the Local Government Board to altf the date for county council elections from tie middle of January to the middle of March, WI! agreed to.

DINAS POWIS HIGHWAY BOARl. The monthly meeting of the Dinas Powis t;a;h- way Board was held at St. Nicholas on Wedrnsday afternoon, Mr. O. H. Jones, J.P. (Fonmon oatle), presiding.—The Chairman said negotiations were in pi osjress in connection with the taking Iver of the Barry Company's private road.—-Lettes were read from the county council office offerng £206 16s. 8d. towards the maintenance of t'e roads, footpaths inclusive, and a further coitribution of £100 per mile, or £5ô 16s. 4d. for 1,00 yards, towards the Barry and Cardiff public red, subject to certain conditions.

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THE IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE. ADDRESS BY SIR F. ABEI*. [FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.") LONDON, Wednesday. The spring session of the Iron and Steel Instla tute opened to-day at the Institute of Civil Engineers, Gr. at George-street, Westminster, Sir Jamps Kit^on occupyiug the chair. Among those present wereSir Frederick Abel (president-elect), Sir 1. Lowthian Bell, Lord F. Cavendish, Sir John Ramsden, Sir Bernhurd Samueison, Lord Arm- strong, and delegates from all parts of the United Kingdom. I ANNUAL REPORT. The SECRETARY (Mr. Jeans) read the report for tho past year, 1890. This stated that the past twelve months should be notable in the history of the i, sritute in respect ot the large increase th-it haci been made in the membership. The council, referring to the autumn meelingof last year in the United States, which had been alike instructive, agreeable, and successful, said it had been especially interesting and advantageous, not only for the interchange of courtesies and the com- parison of experiments and practice between tile metallurgists of the two Continents. but it had been productive of a much more extensive series of papers and discussions than had ever before been published by the insti- tute in respect of any autumn session. The finan- cial statement showed that the institute had £8,000 standing to its credit. Sir JAMES KITSON, in moving the adoption of the report, said they had learnt from their visit to America that the resources of that continent were inexhaustible, and, whether with Protection or with Free Trade, the United States were, in his opinion, bound to develop those resources and to be in the course of that expansion a great manu- facturer of iron and steel. It seemed to him that the community at large in the States v ould be better for Free Trade and open competition. The furnaces in the States were producing a larger quantity of iron than we produced in this country, but there were compensations in practice in our greater economy of production, and in the better quality of our materials. He thought one word of warning was needed in regard to the important point of the price of fuel. In the United States fuel was abundant and accessible, and coal and coke in the iron districts were lower in price, more accessible, and of equal quality to the fuel obtained in this country. Having inti- mated that the next autumnal meeting would probably be held at Birmingham, the president, in conclusion, said he was afraid that during the past few months the great boom of prosperity which was anticipated two years ago uad been somewhat discounted, and it was quite evident that. English iron and steel manufacturers would requite all the knowledge and ail the inter-com- munication of ideas which the institute could afford them to enable them to hold their position. The report was adopted. VOTE OF THANKS. On the motion of Lord ARMSTRONG, seconded by Mr. WHITE, Chief Constructor of the Navy, a vote of thanks to the retiring president was carried. ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT. Sir FREDERICK ABEL then took the chair and delivered his presidential address. He described Ills advancement to the position of president to a desire on the part of,the members ot the institute to furnish fresh testimony of the high esteem in which those who were labouring to advance and perfect the manufacture of iron and steel held their fellow labourers whose aim was to apply purely scientific research to the attainment of fresh knowledge. He then went on to give an interesting account of the intimate connection of the chemical and physical sciences. When fir"t, as the youthful successor of the illustrious Fara- day in the professorship of chemistry at the Royal Military Arsenal, not very long before the out- break ot the Russian War, it became his ambition to demonstrate the value of the analytical and scientific chemist's work in connection with the manufacture of war materiel, the metallurgic operations at Woolwich Arsenal were limited to the production of small castings of brass for fittings of gun carriages and to the casting of bronze ordnance for field service. In those days our most powerful weapons were the 68-pounder smoothbore, used with a charge ot lSlbs. of powder, and throwing a spherical cast iron shell weighing 481b" containing 21b. 9oz. of powder; and the 13in. CRst iron service mortar used for bombardment, for which the spherical shell weighed 2071b. and the projecting charge was 201b. of powder. The positions which these pieces then held were now occupied by 8in. rifled howitzers, throwing a wrought iron or steel shell charged with a much more powerful explosive than powder; of 12in. breeehloading guns of 45 tons weight, with a charge of 2951b. of powder, throwing a projectile of 6821b. weight; tha 80-ton 16in. muzzle-loading gun, with a charge of 4801b. of powder and a projectilo weighing 1,640Ib., and the 110-ton breech- loading gun of l6lin. bore, which threw steel projectiles weighing 1,800Ib. with a powder charge of 9601b. The cost of the production of small-bore guns in those days ranged from dE25 to JE20 per ton now our rifled steel breechioading guns cost £170 to £200 per ton. It would be difficult to find a pirallel, at any rate outside organic chemistry, to the extent and variety of chemical and physical research to which the study of the structure and properties of steel had given rise. Alluding to the investigations with regard to the properties of nickel-steel, he said that the fact was little known that the Admiralty authorities experimented a year ago upon nickel- steel plates 4in. thick with very promising results, and the further trials of plates produced by several makers, containing different proportions of nickel and treated in different ways,had since been pursued, with the result that the manufacture and treatment of plates of that mate- rial had already advanced considerably. In connection with the subject, hecould not refrain from referring to the new and high and scientific interest which nickel had acquired in the eves of the chemist by recent discoveries, and who could say, he added, that in these results, so remarkable from a scientific point of view, might not lurk the germs of a metallurgic-process for the extraction of nickel frum poor ores ? VOTE OF THANKS, At the close of the address a vote of thanks wag accorded to Sir Frederick Abel} on the motion of Sir JAMES KITSON, seconded by Sir ISAAC LOWTHIAN BELL. PRESENTATION OF MEDAL. The President then presented the Bessemer gold medal to Lord Armstrong for hi8 eminent suc- cesses in connection with the iron and steel indus- tries. Lord ARMSTRONG said the only drawback he had in the pleasure he felt at receiving the mark of honour the council had conferred upon him was that he considered the honour should be shared bv others. However, he had pleasure in receiving that gold medal, partly in his own individual capacity and partly as representing bis associates at Elswick. A PAPER. Mr. W. P. JACQUIS (late of the United States Navy and ordnance engineer of the Bethlehem Iron Company) read a piper on the recent progress in the manufacture of war materiel in the United States, and The meeting was adjourned at an early hour till to-morrow morning.

PROPOSED LAMPETER COLLEGE MISSION. ACTION TAKEN BY SWANSEA CLERGYMEN. The following circular has been issund from 40, Trafalgar square, Swansea, by the Rev. L. J. Hudson a-id the Rttv, A. A. Mathews :— Dear St,—A desire has been expressed by several Lllmpete: men to establish a mission in connection with tb-*ir old college, as has already been done by several colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as by somt: d our public schools, and OIl their ,half we beg fO subm-t the proposal to your kind conslderatioll and sympathy. The object contemplated is two-fold—partly to pssist the work of the Church in large and needy parishes by utilising the services of students who intend totake Holy Orders as lay readers prior to their ordina- tion, and partly by providing for such students the great advantage of preparatory practical training md insight into their future work. It is obvious that in the case of those who have already taken their degree, and are still too young to be ordained, the value ot a year or two's work in a thoroughly well-organised paristi under a competent clergyman must be very con- siderable. It is proposed. tlJ ,t ;,be scheme should also include the servkes of those undergraduates who might wish to spend their vacations in preparing themselves for their future work in the ministry. And as the scheme affects not only Lampeter men, but will benefit the Church senerally, we trust that others besides old members of St. David's College will be found ready to further its progress, especially t'hose nterested in the Principality- Before starting the mission, it is neces- sary to have an expression of opinion from Lampeter men, as well as promises of monlary support. In the event of the replies being favourable, it is decided to convene a meeting at Lampeter on the eve of degree day, June, 1891. We desire to state that the scheme has obtained the hearty approval of the college board j the bishops of the four Welsh dioceses, as well as th* Bishop of Chester, gave their appeal to the movement some time ago. Soliciting the favour of an early reply, not later thua June 1, we are, &0,. Rev. JJo J. HUDSON. m Rev. A. A. MATHEWS. 10, Trafalgar-square, Swansea.

Presentation of Medals at Brecon Barracks. At Brecon Barracks on Wednesday Colonel Paton, commanding the 24th Regimental District, pra sonted Sergeant-major Dickey, 1st HrecktJllcl Volunteer Battalion S.W.B., and Quartermaster- sergeant Burrows with long-service medals. The troops were drawn up in line of quarter column on the barrack square, and Colonel Paton highly complimented the two recipients. Colonel T. Conway-Llovj and other 'ilunteer officers were present.