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r r METEOROLOGICAL NOTFTS. SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. '< t4 u • £ 2 S 3 3 s t £ S as 2 2 J »S fe £ ° u w z 8 P-i fMorni'g 9 «C | 8 37 0 31 8 4? 8 51 ^Eveni'g 965)859 953 9 10 99 Apr. & lHeight 3i 3129 2 32 H 31 8 22 0 (Morni'g 10 i\ 1 9 22 10 16 I 9 35 9 il TuesdyJETa 10 38 9 16 10 40! 10 1 9 55 Apr. 30 tHeight 29 4 | 27 10 31 0 | 30 6 20 6 Wednes- f Morni'g 1 11 9 10 11 11 6 day Evjnng { 11 29 j 10 41 II 35 — —• May. 1 (.Height 1 27 3 I 26 4 ] 28 11 Thurs- ("Morning I — '1 18 — | J day, X Evening J \2 11 It 57 12 12 | — | — May 2 (.Height f 26 8 24 11 27 31 I /"Morning 12 44 I — 12 51 | I Friday ) Eveni^ 1 37 | 12 40 1 34 — j — y JvHeight 26 6 24 11 27 2) | Satur- (Mora' ng 2 16 1 201 2 14 J day, < Evening 33 T 56 | 2 50 I — j TVTay 4 (.Height 23 2 26 6 | 28 11 | ( „ f Morning 3 .361 2 30 3 24 Sunday ETening 4 11 3 0 3 54 — — May o eight 30 6 23 7 31 3 Uoath Basin East Dock Sill {Alexandra Dooc (Dock Sil

BAROMETRICAL INDICATIONS. Appended is a chare of the barometrical readinrs for the 48 hours ended Sunday midnight, as regis tered at the Western Mail Office, Cardiff. The instrument ia 33ft. above sea level.

WEATHER FORECAST. j SATURDAY'S F»RJ»CIST. J SATCBDAT'S WHATHB*. North-westerly winds, North-westerly winds, strong to fresh; showery; fresh fine. squally colder. | The fereewrt of the weatber throughout the Wert 8f England and South Wales ror to-da* (Monday) is as followsSoutherly to westerly winds, milder, but becoming rainy and unsettled.

TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. DATK TEMPERATURE. IMai. ;Min. Mean RAINFALL Tuesday 123 56 45 50*5 0*26 Wednesday |24 58 45 5'"5 O'OO Thursday 25 59 46 52-5 0*70 Fridav 26 54 33 43*5 0'26 Saturday 27 51 44 47-5 0*03 Sunday 28 54 46 50-0 O'OO Monday 129 56 4S ) 520 Q-QQ Th a T o muersture re promen ta azt-re me reading of the In ermometer for 24 hours ended 9 a.m., taken in tbe shade at Cwrt-y-Vil, Penarth. The Rainfall registered at Cwrt-y Vil, Penarth, for the 24 bo urs ended 9 a.m.

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NOTES. BY "OBSERVER CARDIFF, Monday Morning. Everybody wants to know, you know, what in the world Mr. Tom Ellis could possibly have said to Mr. Robert- Bird to send him home in such a fluster right into the a-rms of the fashionable complaint. Our punning Poet is ready with a suggestion. Bird to London flew to see Ellis in his majesty— Went to Asquith trembling fear If he'd help the Party here. Ellis vowed they should not pop it On the Cardiff he could stop it Talked about a broken Reed- Thought the prospect poor indeed; Till at lencth on quivering pens, ah, Out flew Bird and in-flu-enza! A correspondent inquires whether the Cardiff Resratta Committee will take time by the fore- lock and endeavour to obtain the presence of the Prince of Wales's yacht Britannia at their annual affair in the autumn. If this could be arranged the event would be certainly » most popular one, and, if the yacht is coming to Swansea, the two engagements mitrht possibly be run together with benefit to both clubs. It is. I suppose, too large an order to hope for the uresetice of his Royal .Highness as well as his beautiful yacht. The annual banquet of the South Waled Press Benefit Society takes place next Saturday night, and promises to be ail interesting function. The society has been in existence for a dozen vears or so, and brig, had a most useful and prosperous career. It aims at encouraging aelf-help amongst its members, and has already, olaced not a few of them on the high road to that modest independence which every man longs for as the accompanist of his old age. Such a society as this. deserves the warmest encouragement of the public, especially in these days when thrift and the like are EO widely and constantly under discussion. At the Theatre Royal this week the powerful melodrama, "A Lion's Heart," will' be per- formed. The boom at the Grand will be per. petuated by the performance of that favourite burlesque opera, "Little Christopher Colum- bus," which drew such delighted crowds on ita previous visit to Cardiff. Those who bave not seen it should by no means miss this clever and sparkling play, written., as most readers will recollect, by Mr. George R. Sims and Mr. Raleigh, and containing, amongst other fea- tures, some extremely olever and catchy songs. The old adage, "All things come to him who waits," seems to have found its fulfilment at Gloucester at any rate. The "Chronicle" of that town makes the following announcement:- "We hear that payment was recently made to local traders, cf a fast and final dividend, under a deed of inspection executed by a debtor for the benefit of his creditors no lese than 31 years ago, April 1,1864." One of the most characteristic features of the age in which we live is the intense desire for raoid and effective communication between distant points, and the marvellous success of applied science in its endeavours to cope with the popular demand. Wonder is not a modern commodity, and when, fbr instanoe, the "Evening Express" announces the result of a race ere the ground has ceased to vibrate be- neath the hoofs of the winner, few people give a thought tb the marvellous; alliance between electricity and abeam, which converts what would have been deemed a miracle in the time of our grandfathers into the merest common- place to-day. Nor have we arrived at the goal. Mr. Preece's' experiments are familiar, at any rate, by name, and how he has suo- ceeded in telegraphing without wires, whilat, as ? a still more marvellous feat, it ia stated that messages may before long be telephoned through the medium of a sunbeam-though this refine- ment of science is not likely to be A much service in the climate of Great Britain! Per- haps we shall be more thankful for the pri- vileges of the age in which we live if we glance for a Second at the devices of the pre-electric epochs. We can do this pleasantly bv an extract from a most readable article in the aurrent issue of "Cassiees Magazine," a beau- tifully-printed and illustrated technical monthly issuing from Chandos-street, Covent-garden. One of the oldest methods of conveying news "was by means of beacon fires. Caesar, in his "Commentaries," relates how, during the invasion of Gaul, the inhabitants gave warning of his approach by burning such fires at night. These signals were called "huchees." In the daytime the old Gauls re- sorted to cries. Thus, a number of men, stationed at certain intervals apart over a long stretch of country, would shout their warnings from one to the other. This species of mouth- to-mouth telegraphy answered so well and the dispatches travelled so quickly that Cresar states h ow,between the rising and setting of the sun. the natives could send a verbal message a distance of over 50 leagues. The beacon system remained in force in this country till a. com- paratively recent date, and everyone will re- collect how vividly Macaulay has introduced it into his "Armada." Though the method is no longer in vogue, traces of it linger in the numerous "beacons" and similar names which still hold their place upon the map. An improvement on the beacon idea was the semaphore, the immediate predecessor of the electrio telegraph. The old semaphore stations consisted of two stories, and the index signals of wood or light iron were mounted on the top of a pole on roof. A ladder ran up this pole, so that the signals might be reached and moved by hand. The telegraphers were pro- vided with telescopes, and there was always somebody on watch on the roof to note signals made at the neighbouring eitations. The pro- gress of a message ait night was naturally slower than the day trasmission. The words were fewer at night, also, because the small lan- terns affixed to the indexes could occupy only a certain number of positions without being extinguished. As far back as the seventeenth century a French savant combined a clerer apparatus, permitting of the transmission of a message from Paris across the Alps to Rome in the then incredibly brief time of three hours ,and this without anybody knowing the nature of the message between the Italian and French capitals. The project was, how- ever, in advance of the times, and led to be abandoned, just like the penny post intro- duced in London during about the same period. ? One of the cruellest things one can do, either to a place or an individual, is to trifle with its name. The Post Office and the ranlway have been great offenders in this respect, especially in Wales. The latest victim of a particularly senseless species of persecution is the pretty little village of Dinas Powis, anent which the "Barry Dock News" says:- "Patriotic Welshmen naturally feel to some extent incensed at the fact that the name of one of the railway stations on the Barry line is spelt in an utterly meaningless manner, and it is surprising that some kind-hearted individual has not long since sought to convince our com- mercial neighbours of the error of their way in this respect. That 'Dynas Powis' possesses no historio meaning is evident, whereas historically and philologically, 'Dinas Powis' reveals a heroio significance of which every Welshman is naturally proud. We have reason, however, to hope that the mystery with which the Barry Companys version of this interesting village will, in course of time, be satisfactorily removed, for the new joint authority, the Llandaff and Dinas Powis Highway Board, have adopted the more feasible interpretation in their official seal, and that some day the Barry officials may awake to a siense of the injustice they have perpetrated upon one of the most cherished of local historical place names." As there is only a Y wrong, I feel sure the company will reotify their blunder. If not, Y not ?

A PRISON LIBRARY. A WELSH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY AT WORMWOOD SCRUBS. Mr. Tighe Hopkins contributes an article to the "Leisure Hour" on "Prison Books." De- scribing his visit to the library of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, he says:—"In the department of fiction I found Scott, Thackeray, and George Eliot—comely volumes in the bindings in which you or I might buy them—and a host of lesser lights, from Ba-llantyne to Jane Worboise. The adventure story, I noticed, was in good quanti- ties, as also the literature of travel. Light and popular science was there in abundance, and Very favourite works, I was informed, were the 'Popular Educator' and the 'Technical Educa- tor.' Gibbon, Mil man, Macaulay, Kinglake, and Green were among the historians; Emerson and John Stuart Mill among the philosophers. Biography ranged from the 'Life of Napoleon' to the works of Smiles. Theology had as pro- minent a representative as Newman in his early sermons. Poetry began with Spenser, and ended I know not with whom. Natural his- tory was not neglected, and in the field of belles lettres the literary essay had several distin- guished exponents, from Addison onwards. There was a volume on the philosophy of Shak- speare. Periodical literature-always in great demand among those prisoners who like a big miscellaneous volume to nibble at-included 'Chambers's Journal' and the. 'Leisure Hour.' The educational books pure and simple, primers, readers, and so forth, were many in number, and I ques- tioned the chaplain about them. He told me that a certain kind of educational book is con- tinuously in demand among his convicts, not a few of whom find their best recreation in the diligent pursuit of some form of intellectual stidy. The learning of shorthand, for instance, is a rather favqmrite pastime, and those pri- soners who devote themselves to it seldom give up until they have attained a degree of pro(fi- cmcy in the reporter's art. Others take a fancy for languages, and. one prisoner of some social celebrity was named to me who had ac- quired in prison a more or less grammatical acqi aintaaice with four European tongues, not one of which he had any knowlelge of at the date of his sentence. In the nine months of his soiourn at Wormwood Scrubs he had learned encugh to translate and construe, sentences in French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Having said this, I need not add that the reference library is well supplied with dictionaries. One of these. fetched down for me from its shelf, was a cWoleh-English and English-Welsh Dic- tioraiy.' I had never seen a 'Welsh-English and English-Welsh Dictionary' before, ana am curious to know in how many public and private libraries in the kingdom a copy is to be found. One peculiar mark is borne by every volume in this library, which stamps it sadly as a 'book for prisoners.' This mark, a black circle with the broad arrow ini the centre, is impressed on evry available inch of space- on every page of every book. Margins a.nd the blank half-leaves bet (ween chapters carry this uely sign. The reason was explained to me. It is, that no scrap of unprinted paper may be available to prisoners far the transmission of secret messages. The book which a. prisoner is allowed to keep foc a week in his cell he may not, during that week. exchange for the book of any fellow- prisoner but such exchanges are occasionally effected in chapel, on the exercise ground, or elsewhere, and a marginal allowance of in- finitesimal extent on any page suffices for the I writing of a letter or message in cypher."

Mr. D. J Roberts, a native d Llansamlet, has accepted a call from the English Congre- gational Church, Maria-street, Neath. Mr. Boberts will enter upon his duties on the second day in May. At Bridgend Police-court on Saturday Ifeary Rogers, ostler. waA charged with unlawfully wounding William Sutton, landlord of the Red Lion Inn, on the 17th inst. The magistrates, after hearing the evidence, reduced the charge to one of common assault, and defendant was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment.

Shot by Her Sweetheart A YOUNG WELSH GIRL MURDERED. The Murderer Surrenders to the Police and Makes a Full Confession of His Guilt. A young woman, of Welsh parentage, 21 years of age, named Jane Youell, living with her parents at 41, Delaford-road, South Bermondsey, was murdered by her sweetheart shortly before midnight on Friday. The man afterwards gave himself up. THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED. Our London correspondent telegraphs: — South Bermondsey is one of the -numerous suburbs of the Metropolis, and is situated on the south side of the River Thames, and, though far from fashionable, contains many a respec- table villa residence and mansion. For the most part, however, it is the abode of the work- ing classes, and in this locality, some fifteen years ago, came to reside William Youell and his family. They took up residence at 41, Delaford-road, and consisted of the husband, wife, and five children, the eldest of whom was fifteen and the youngest five. Youell originally resided in Birkenhead, and W38 a guard on the London and North Western Railway. His many travels took him to Abergele, Flintshire, North Wales, and, at a village within a few miles from this place lie met Emily Williams, the daughter of a respectable tradesman. Friendship quickly ripened into affection, and within a short time he had made her his wife. This was thirty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Youell took up their abode at Mold, and here two of the children, daughter and son, were born. Four years later the family left for Birkenhead, and here they remained for some years, three more children being born to them at this place. Business necessity caaised Mr. Youell to remove to London, and fifteen years ago he came to town, and took up his abode at 4f, Delaford-road, where he has remained ever since. STORY OF THE CRIME. It was here that a terrible tragedy was ich enacted late on Friday night, a tragedy which frcm its painful and distressing character threw the Residents of South Bermondsey into a state of the greatest excitement and indignation. The victim' was You ell's j oungest daughter, Jane, who only last week attained her majority, and, being the only unmarried daughter in the family, she was the hope and pride of all, and assisted her father and mother, the former of whom now occupies a good situation as night watchman. She followed the occupation of a dressmaker, doing her work at home, and was a bright, intelligent young woman of a cheerful temperament. Extremely fair and possessing more than the average of good looks, Miss YoueH naturally had many admirers, but, so far as can be ascertained, she gave none encourage- ment, being much more concerned about the welfare of her parents than the attention of any young man. A little over six months ago there came to reside with them, as a lodger, a man named James banning, who gave his age as 34, and describing himself as belonging 10 the Army Medical Corps, and as having been engeged in the late Nil-e Campaign, receiving for his ser- vices the medal and bar. He was also under- stood to be employed as a medical attendant at an establishment in the West End, and to have under treatment or contrail a number of patients who suffered irom delusions From the time of his first going to Delaford-road he paid somewhat marked attentions to M;ss Youell, but nothing serious appears to have been thought of this, the disparity in the ages of the couple being considered a bar to any- thing like a love attachment. Miss Youell her- self, so far as can be ascertained, gave him little or no encouragement, though she occa- sionally went with him for a. walk, and he was in the habit of accompanying her occasionally when she went on an errand for her parents. Canning is a stoutly- built. well set-up individual, and described as of a somewhat taciturn disposition. He was regarded as a quiet, respectable and inoffensive man, and was, in fact, looked upon almost as one of the family. As late as eleven o'clock on Friday night—only half an hour before the commission of the crime-he accompanied Miss Youell to the Barkworth Arms, which is situated near, for the purpose of obtaining the supper beer." They both chatted freely with the manager and others in the housey and appeared to be in the brightest and best of spirits. Canning, indeed, is described as having been exceptionally genial, having the previous few days been somewhat moody and contemplative. On leaving the house both bade several people "Good night," and they then appeared to have walked straight back to Delaford-road. The family shortly after their return retired, and Jane soon fol- lowed, but after she had reached her room Can- ning knocked at her door and said that he wanted to converse with her. She went down to the kitchen with him, and there he com- menced talking to her. What transpired will, probably, never be known, but suddenly he knocked her down and walked out into the passage. She got tip and followed him, when he again knocked her down and cut her throat with a razor, almost severing her head from the body. The ill-fated girl shrieked for mercy and her terrifio screams woke the whole neigh- bourhood. Miss Youell rushed into the street, and her cries awakened Mrs. Giles,' who lived next door. She threw up her bedroom window, and saw the young lady in a most pitiable plight. Jane, on seeing the lady, cried, "Oh Mrs. Giles, do come; he's J stabbed me." They were her last words, as, immediately afterwards, she fell back dead. APATHY OF THE MURDERER. Mrs. Youell at this moment rushed up, but too 1atle. She faw Canning hurriedly leave tha house as her daughter fell lifeless to the ground. The murderer, as will be seen by the police report, immediately gave himself up, stating that he had hoped she was dead. He was at the time in a state of great mental excite- mmt. Whether the murder was deliberately planned or was the outcome of a sudden burst of frenzied and jealous passion can, of course, at present only be conjectured. The couple are said to have never been engaged, nor do the distressed parents believe that their daughter ever regarded Canning's attention as anything more than the ordinary courtesy which might be expected from an occupant of the same house. The injuries inflicted on the poor girl were of a terrible nature, the head being half severed from the body. The fact of her having walked out into the street and called for help is almost incredible under the circumstances. It goes without saying that the parents and other mem- bers of the family are heartbroken by the terrible nature of the crime and the loss they have sustained. In the neighbourhood the greatest sympathy is expressed on all hands. The prisoner Canning is said to have main- tained a stolid and cool demeanour since his arrest. Tho razor with which the crime was committed has been, it is stated, in the prisoner's possession for some considerable time. At Soutbwark Police-court on Saturday James Canning, aged 34, was charged with the commission of the crime. Alice Youall, cousin of the deceased, said she wa3 upstairs when deceased was called, and she recognised prisoner's voice. She had seen prisoner and deceased several times. Mr. Giles having also given evidence, Dr. John Marshall said he was called to the house shortly after two on Saturday morning. Deceased had been dead two hours. She was then sitting with her back to the door of the wash-house fully dressed. Her throat was severely cut, and death was due to hemorrhage. Prisoner gave himself up. He said to tho police-constable, "Take me to the station. I have killed my girl. I murdered her; the girl I love. I hope she is dead. I did it with a razor. She has given me a lot of trouble. Here is some of her blood," shewing his hand. When charged he said, "You dont want any state- ment from me to-night. What time did she die? God have mercy on her soul. I will die for her." Police-constable 260 M said he was on duty in the Marlborough-road at twenty to twelve on Friday night, when the prisoner ran up to him and said: — "Take me to the station, policeman; I've murdered my girl." The officer said "What girl ?" He said, "My sweetheart. She made me love* her, and then she turned on me." Said the constable, "Where did you murder her?" and he said, "At 41, Delaford-road." Then the constable took him to the police- station. To every witness the prisoner replied to the question "Have you anything to ask?" with a sullen "No." Cornelius Mountague, inspector of the M Division, said he was on duty at the Grange- road Police-station at five minutes to twelve on Friday night, when the prisoner was brought to the station. In reply to the charge made by the constable the prisoner sa-id "Yes: I've murdered her, the girl I love. I hope she's dead." Shortly after he asked, "Is she dead ? I did it with a razor. She has given me a lot of trouble. Here is some of her bloou (showing his hand). Prisoner was charged, and said, "You don't want any statement from me to-night. What timf did she die? God have mercy on her soul! I'll die for her." The man when he made these statements was quite sober, but very excited. The accused was remanded for a week.

WALES'S WARDROBE. AN ESTIMATE OF HIS TAILOR'S BILL FOR A YEAR. A Transatlantic contemporary, having re- cently favoured its readers with what professed to be an account of the Prince of Wales's dress bills, a writer in "Cassell's Saturday Journal," who claims to speak authoritatively on this sub- ject, in discounting some of the statements for which the American journalist is responsible, says: "As a matter of fact, the 'First Gentle- man in Europe' does spend a great deal of money with his tailors, it should be remem- bered, nevertheless, that much of this is for uniforms. The Prince is popularly supposed to possess 70 military uniforms— and this total is about accurate. When we remember that a cavalrv outfit may cost J3150 as a low estimate, and that subalterns entering a line regiment rarely begin with a lower disbursement than JB50 or JB60, the amount that tbe Prince's uni- forms have cost him is easily to be guaged. The Prince, of course, possesses for the most part colonels' uniforms, but as a. field marshal he is compelled often to renew the terribly expensive outfit suited to that rank; and it is in this fine tunic that he appears at most military oeremonials, and at Royal weddings or other great occasions of State. In addition, he pos- sesses many naval uniforms, and the dress of a large number of German, Russian, and Aus- trian regiments. Putting aside the question of uniforms, upon which his Royal Highness cannot spend less than £ 300 or £ 400 a year, we come to his ordinary dress. It is admitted universally that very few men in town manage things with more taste, or have a quicker eye for a good cloth. There are youths, no doubt, whose tailors' bills are far larger than the Prince's, for he is by no means extravagant, although exceedingly particular about his clothes. Nor does he pay absurdly fancy prices, as many people suppose, being charged at the usual ratts of a West-End house. This means that a frock coat may cost him twelve guineas, a dress-suit somewhere about fifteen, trousers four guineas, and an ordinary 'ditto' suit from eight to ten guineas. When he is in town, and not in uni- form, the frock coat is invariably worn by the Prince. No doubt, during the London sea- son, he 'consumes' a large number of these articles-perhaps two a month, of which one will be a light grey. And it is a. habit of his never to wear a coat two seasons running, even if it has only been used two or three times by him. As lie is in town perhaps six months in the vear, his total of 'frocks' may be set down roughly at twelve. In dress suits he is sup- posed to be particularly extravagant-but this is not really the cast. Any man about town has five or six dress-suits a year. The Prince may 'have a dozen, but the story told in a contemporary recently, that he had one a week, is pure nonsense. When the Prince is going to Newmarket, he often wears a 'ditto' suit, with a light coat over it. In 'ditto' suits, perhaps, his total would astonish the humble man who pays his tailor 230 a year, and considers that heavy. It is certain thait he never wears one of these suits more than two or three times, and his stock of them is tremendous. Of shoot, ing-suits for the autumn, he has an immnese variety, using a different style of dress for battue work to that adopted for ordinary work with the dogs. Here alone for country dress he can scarcely spend less tran a hundred pcumds a year. In the matter of hats, it is a vv ell-known fact that the Prince has three a fortnight, also buying a large num- ber of bowler tnd square black hats for country use. At Sandringham there is a hatroom, with a man whose chief duty it is to keep the Prince's hats in a high condition of polish. Those large scarves which are now worn with a frock-coat often cost half a guinea There are scores of up-to-date youths who have 50 pairs of gloves i p«r annum; three dozen shirts would be re- garded as an absolute minimum. So far as the Prince is concerned, he never wears a pair of gloves twice, and in this, and the matter of boots, he is unquestionably the best-dressed man i.n the kingdom. When the haberdasher is -settled with, there remain a large number of items necessary to the completely-dressed man. Of riding-breeches, at seven guineas a pair, the Prince must have half a dozen pairs in the ccurse of a year. He will have aho two )r three sets of flannels—though he does not often wear them—and a large number of blue serge suits for yachting. In the winter he prefers a dark beaver overcoat, but he has a sable-lined fur coat which cost "him over 500 guineas; and his lighter garments and covert-coats are very nvDC-rous. The a bow list does not pretend to be anything like a complete one. It gives merely the foundation of his Royal Highness's wardrobe, from which it will be seen that he has little change out of seven or eight hundred pounds when he comes to settle up each year."

HATED WOMAN. HOW THIS MISOGYNIST KEPT THEM AT A DISTANCE. Probably the most confirmed misogynist who ever lived was a wealthy old bachelor who has just clied in Vienna. After his death a. bundle of documents was discovered among his belong- ings, labelled "Attempts made by my family to put me under the yoke of matrimony." In this packet was 62 letters, the dates ranging from 1845 to 1893, a sufficient »-oof of the tenacity of his relations. So afraid was this strange man of even sitting near a woman that whenever he went. to the theatre he booked three seats, in order that he might have one on either side of him empty. When travelling in a railway carriage he was always careful to smoke a large, foul-smelling pipe, to keep away intruders of the female sex. In his will he said, "I beg that my executors will see that I am buried where there is no woman interred either to the Tight or left of me. Should this not be practicable in the ordinary course of things, I direct that tney purchase three graves and bury me in the midale one of the three, leaving the two others unoccupied."

The Tin-plate Trade POSITION OF THE TIN-PLATE UNION. A general meeting of the Llanelly district of tin-platers was held at the Athenaeum-hall on Saturday night. Mr. J. P. Jones presiding. The attendance was disappointing.—The Chair- man, in opening the meeting, said it was ttio duty of every tin-plater to take an aotive inte- rest in the questions at issue with regard to the board of control and the allegations made against the general secretary of the Union—two subjects which were to come before them that night.—Mr. John Thomas (Aberavon) said he would like to refer to several things. First, with regard to the correspondence which 'had appeared in the press; and, secondly, to the position or the circumstances in which he was placed at the council meeting the previous Saturday. With regard to the latter, in the report of the council meeting, which appeared in the Cardiff Radical paper they were told plainly that he alleged that the executive passed a resolution on the 14th of October, 1893, to ask the masters to offer a 20 per cent. reduction. The person who was trying to create that impression had done so in order to gain the confidence and the good feeling of the trade. But he knew of no man that had made the allegation before it was in the paper named. He did not know who gave the report to the representative of that paper, whefiier- it was the defendant in the case or a friend. At the council meeting he was told that the Llanelly district were under the impression that he had made this allegation. There was no charge whatever against him at tliie council; he was simply asked to make his own statement. He made that statement, but the general secretary wanted people to believe that he had said what he had not said. N6 one had ever said that' the executive passed a resolu- tiofi. The only thing said was that they had talked about it. He would tell them what the discussion was at the meet- ing of the executive in October, 1893. It was the new executive, and the council at Cardiff had passed a resolution to the effect that the executive were to take drastic mea- sures to bring about a reform and to tiring the trade out of the circumstances that it was in at that time. There was a drastic measure propose*!—"ThaV-an attempt be made to deal with the restriction of make, with the co- operation of the masters, on the basis of a small concession." He was opposed to the principle, in the first place, but they discussed the details at that meeting to which he was referring. Some wanted the "drastic measure" to take the form of opening the make, making it unlimited, breaking the 36-box rule and allowing everyone to do as much as he liked. But they did away with that. The next thing was that they as an executive should approach the masters of those works where the "make" was violated, and ask them to pay for only 36 boxes if the men made 38 or 40. But the executive would not have that. Another suggestion was to put this prin- ciple into ellect by asking the masters to offer a reduction of 20 per cent, their reason for putting it so high being to frighten the men. There were so many men out of the Union just then, and the object was to bring those men into the Union, and the only way was to frighten them into it As an executive, how- ever, they would not have that, but the prin- ciple was carried, only to die, as he had stated in his letter in the "Western Mail," of natural causes." But what had that to do with the present position at Llanelly? For himself, he did not know. He heard there was a letter in the "Western Mail" on January 9, but failed to see it. He was told that in this letter certain charges were made against him. Thereupon he wrote to the author ask- ing him what was the charge contained in the letter. The reply came back in the form of an apology—' 'If I have charged you with any- thing wrong." The charge, it appeared, was based on something he was alleged to have said at a meeting at Aberavon. well, he did say those things, but the report in the "Industrial World" was not altogether complete, and was calculated to mislead. He did not blame the Llanelly men more than any other men, but he did gay that, he did not agree with trying to punish the men. He advocated reasoning with them. He made a remark in a letter to Mr. David Davies, and tha.t gentleman had given it to the press. What he said in the letter was "People had been preaching for two years that the only thing to bring Llanelly people back to the Union was a reduction in wages, and that some had gone so far as to advocate asking the masters to offer a 20 per cer.t. reduction to frighten people." If they a.t llanelly were under the impression "that he had said that the executive had passed a resolution advocating a reduction of 20 per cent., well, he could only say that that was not the impres- sion at Aberavon. He thought he had made the matter clear enough, and would answer any questions.—The Chairman thought that Mr. Thomas had completely justified the position he had taken up.—A question was put as to a certain resolution' which Mr. Thomas had said in one of his letters in the "Western Mail" was passed by a majority of three.—Mr. Their, as, in reply, said only three had voted against the motion to which he had referred.— Mr. Oliver Owen asked if a resolution was carried to ask the masters to offer concessions. —Mr. Thomas said that the resolution passed was the one he had mentioned—"That an attempt be made to deal with the restriction of make, with the co-operation of the masters, on the basis of a small concession."—The Chair- man referred to the action of the general secre- tary, who, when the masters asked for a 25 per cent. reduction the other day, advocated a joint conference. At that conference the sec- retary, who should have helped them, never opened -his mouth.—Mr. John Thomas (Pontar- dulais) said he was present at the council meet- ing on Saturday, and there Mr. John Thomas (Aberavon) admitted that what he had written in the papers had no foundation whatever.— Mr. John Thomas hotly denied this. Invited to give his views upon the board of control, Mr. Thomas said he believed in one, but whether they had a board of control in the present movement was another question. The first motion towards the formation of a board of control came from the exeoutive, and the employers were the foster-fathers of it, and they had fostered it because the executive asked them. He did not believe in American competition, and looked upon it as a bogey. It was not American competition that had brought the trade to its present serious position. They were simply srffering from the depression that was affect- ing every other indust-y all over the world.— Mr. David Evans (of the Old Castle branch) spoke strongly against the board of control. Was it not enough for them, he asked, when they saw that Mr. Rogers was one of those at the head of the movement ? The general secretary 3ome time ago advocated a reduction in wages in order to kill American competition, but to- day he was advocating raising the price of tin-plates. Was there any consistency in that ? According to the board of control, oae-third of the mills -vere to be stopped, and if this were done there was a danger of them stopping for a long time. They must take united action, and stand as one man against any further reduction. What had the present reduction done ? For the moat part it had gone into the pockets of the meroliants and the rest into the pockets of the masters.—Mr. Evan Roberts spoke in favour of 4 he board of control, after which Mr. James Evans fiercely attacked the conduct of the general secretary.—The meeting closed with votes of thanks.

The in nial coir.°rt of the Llanelly Higher Grade School for Girls was held on Friday night the Athenseum-hall. On Funday morning the dead body of Mrs Mar" wife of a labourer at the Llanelly Chemical Work*, was found at the bottom of the Old Furnaoe Pond. A portion of her clothing was seen on the bank by some passers by, and this led to the pond being dragged, with the result that the body was recovered. Mr. W. M. Cooke, sanior magistrate for Mar> ltbone, died on Saturday morning at his residence at Wes'tbourne-terrace, from heart complications, following influenza.

CARDIFF GASWORKS. I THE NEW BUILDING, 1 I (From a design by Mr. H. Moiley, Engineer and Manager!) J

Principality Parlets. I GOSSIP AND CHATTER OF OLD GWALIA. A Column of Notes of Wales and Welshmen of Interest a.nd In- struction to All. It was ten years ago to-day that Dr. Thomas Rees, of Swansea, died. Lord Tredegar was 64 years old on Sunday" and he is still the sprightliest bachelor in Mon- mouthshire. Lady Swansea and the Hon. Misses Vivian have been staying at the Hotel du Prince de Galles, Cannes. A man at Bridgend Police-court said, "Lei me speak in Welsh, please, because I dont understand the law." Mr. Rees Hopkin Rhys was on Saturday re- elected to the position of chairman of the assess- ment committee of the Merthyr Union. Two Welsh members—Mr. Alfred Thomas and Mr. Rathbone—are backing a Bill to pro- hibit the sale of liquor to children under six- teen. Councillor Robert Hughes, of Cardiff, had been invited to speak at the great meeting of the trade at St. James's-liall to-day, but business engagement prevents his attending. Cawl. like Christianity, is an importation into Wales, and both landed first in the "Vale of Glamorgan, the former at Porthcawl, from which event the place has derived its name. A Christmas Evans sat on each side of the nreccntor at the Welsh Baptist Chapel, Bndg- end, on Sunday. The other occupants of the "set fawr" comprised wo Davids and a braco of Johns. A woman entered a. Cardiff ironmonger's shop on Saturday and asked to be shown some lamps. Several were shown her, and she said, "I like those with clear stomachs, as they show what's inside them." Mr. George David tackled the estimates at the meeting of the special committee at the Cardiff borough treasurer's offices on Saturday in a manner that made some of the members of the finance committee "sit up." One of the best imitators in Wales is the Rev. Owen Jenkins, Congregational minister, of Llangefni, Anglesey. His masterpiece ilt "John Jones, Blaenanerch," the preacher who covld shout "iawn" for five minutes without choking. A debtor at Tredegjar Bankruptcy-court, asked to account for the non-production of cer- tain receipts for railway carriage, said that he was in the habit of putting them in his pocket amongst a lot of coppers, and they thus got "bamboozled" about. In proportion to their number in Wales, the Unitarians have a greater number of J.P.'s than any other denomination. Only the other day two new Unitarian J.P.'s were added to the list, one of them being Mr. William Jame*, B.A., of Llandyssil. "What Ï8 that man a-doing on the top of that stick ?" asked a Cardiff five-year-old child. "That is a telegraph pole," said the sister, "and the man is gathering fruit." "What fruit?" asked the child, and the big sister replied. "Electrio current, dear." Mr. Robert Bird is becoming overwhelmed with trouble just now. Already in despair at finding a Radical candidate, he has now re. ceived the resignation of a. disgusted member of the executive committee. Mr. Morris Roberts-Jones, one of the few Radical candidates now wheedling the Cardiff Liberal Thousand, has an article in "Young Wales" on Eminent Welsh Lawyers." The article is read with mixed feelings of what a mass of legal "swag" it suggests. Those good people who formed a conspiracy in the absence of Canon Thompson from the Church Defence meeting at Cardiff may be relieved to know that the good canon has been from home for & fortnight in consequence of an imperative order from his doctor—Dr. Vachell —that be wanted rest. Hafod is a. name frequently met witk ia ad parts of Wales. It means a summer abode or house, and is a reminiscence of the time when Welshmen in olden days used to leave the lowland, with their flocks, for the hilly districts. This is how Hafod, in the Rhondda, and the place so called near Swansea got their names. Economy is not always wise. For instance, Mr. R. E. Charles, chemist, Brecon, writes thus:—"In to-day's column you spetll Llannon with two n's only. The parish derives its name from Non, the mother of St. David, thus it should be Llan-Non, which implies the Church of Saint Non. Llan-on implies the Church of the ash trees." Before the establishment of coal and iron works in Glamorgan the county was much more woody than at present. Thus old people will tell you that the whole district from Pontypridd1 up to Penderyn was covered with oak and other trees, so that a squirrel could travel the whole distance without once touch" ing the "ground. Citizens of Llandaff speak sorely of the fac* that nearly two hundred years ago an effort was made to remove the see of Llandaff to Cardiff, on account, principally, of the ruinous condi- tion of the old cathedral, and partly because "the inhabitants of Cardiff had beautifyd tbe church of their elegant town and supplied it with an organ"! Sir Edward Reed says he has been asked by one or two people to stand again for Car- diff, but he has received no official intimation. Naturally. The inner circle is composed of one or two individuals, and, as neither the executive nor the Thousand nor even the selec- tion committee meet, there is no possibility of official intimations of any kind. The late Mr. John Fenton, who lived at Glynymel, Fishguard, came of a distinguished family. Bishop FeTrar, the Carmarthen martyr ;j Sir Geoffrey Fenton, one of Queen Elizabeth's. leading statesmen, a.nd coloniser of Ulster; Dr. Roger Fenton, one of the translators of the Authorised Version of the New Testament; Edward Fenton, a great mariner in the reign of good Queen Bess (the "Ned Fenton" of Shakspeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor"); Sir William Fenton, Croinweus Irish Secretary; Lord Brogbill, a. Cromwellian general, and Robert Boyle, founder of the Royal Society, aM all ancestors of his. A good deal of fossil history is to be gleaned from the poems of old Welsh bards. Thus we learn that the "red, white, and blue" colours which are now identified with our military history were the favourite colours of the old Welsh Princes. In "Englynion y Beddau" (tenth or eleventh century) we have this refe- rence:—"Though he once wore robes of blue, red, and white, and rode fine and beautiful steeds, Owain now lies buried in Llanheled." Green and white, illustrated by the leek, were also favourite colours. Prydydd y Moch" (1160-1220) describes "Llewelyn ap lorwerth" as "Clad in the robe of Royalty, A robe of green and white silk." The Welsh word "hwyl," the sing-song, switchback kind of rhetoric adopted by cer-, tain Welsh preachers, is, according to the "Church Times," a oorruption of the English word "howl.' The E.C.U. organ has drawn a nest of hornets about its ears. Canon Silvan Evans is credited with being the author of the following englyn to "tobacco." When the four-dactyled thing, however, was shown to the "office poet," he pronounced it apocryphal. This is how it trots: "Dail gwern, dail uffern, dwl effaith—debyarf Oedd 'dybttco' unwaith; Os diawl roes y dail ar waith Diawl elo a'r dail eilwoith." The ubiquitous Norsemen left traces ir- Pembrokeshire, not only of piratical descente, but of some few settlements. Milford a-ndl Haverford remind one of the Norwegian, fjords or deep sea-locks, which the Haven re- sembles, a.nd Skomer, Skokholm, Gateholni, and Caldy are olearly Danish in origin. These names have been given by mere plundering bands, though they would be unlikely to sur- vive hut only settlers could have built villages a little wav inland and enclosed patches of ground. Fishguard is Fish-garth or garden, and Haaguard contains the same word. Frey-1 strop is tbe village of Freya, the Norse God- dess, and Hubberston is, doubtless, the tun or homestead of Hubba, perha-ps, of the iden- tical Hubba, whose stow or place still exists near Barnstaple, in North Devon.' Tenby may be Dane-by or Dane's homestead. Some Mser however, that it is the «wne as Denbigh—Din- bach, the little fort.