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BIRTHS. MARRIAGES, DEATHS. Notices ef Births, Marriages, and Beaths are charge'' Is each if aot exceeding iO weids, and Id. for each additienal word. In all oases the Notice mest be authenticated 8V the signature and address of she sender. MARRIAGES. PICKFORD—JORDAN.—On June 3rd, at St. Mark's Cliu-ch, Newport, Men., by the Rev. T. Ll. Lister, Vicar, assisted by the liev. Daniel Lewis, Rector, of Caerphilly (Rural Dean), aiul the Rev. G. 3. Williams, Vicar of Ely ((ilam.l, John Pickfortl, of The Fields, Newport, :\InIJ.. to Matilda, -laucrhter of Robert- Jordan, M.E., Newport, Mon. No cards. YOUNG—WOOD.—Of. May 30, by fpeoal licence, at St. John's Church. Newinjjton, Hull, by the Rev. W. Ward, M.A.. William H. Young, chief officer of the s.s. Galileo, and eldest son of Thomas Young, Esq., of Caerphilly, Wales, to Beatrice, youngest daughter of Captain J. J. Wood. DEATHS. DAVIES.-On Wednesday morning, at Ynvshir, Thomas Da vies, late Wholesale Cattle Dealer, of Ynyshir, 64 years of age. Friends please note funeral takes place on Monday, 8th June, at Porth Cemetery. HARRIS.—On the 4th inst., at 127, Craddock-street, Cardiff, Mary Jane, widow of the late Jained Harris, Journalist, aged 46 years. Funeral Mon- day, Twelve o'clock. Gentlemen Only. JAMES.—On the 4th inst., at Park Farm, St. Pagan's. Jane, the beloved witfe of Thcmas James, aged 83 years. Funeral on Monday, 8th inst at Three o'clock, for > Llanilterne Church. Friends please accept this the only intimation. Funeral Directors, Stone Bros., 5, Working-street. Cardiff. PALSER.-On June 4th. Cecilia Paieer. wife of Frederick Retteridge Palser, aged 46, of 91. St»cey- road. Public funeral leaves residence four p.m. Saturday. Friends please accept this intimation. 1HOMAS.- On June 4. at One a.m., at his residence. Pleasant Vie-v, Trealaw, Isaiali Thomas. Funeral leaving fov Cymme.- at Two .('clock, Monday. Friends, please accept this intimation.

TEMPERArURE AND RAINFALL. J)ATI rKMPZSiTBRiJ. Max. Min. Mean JRaikfail Saturday !30 64 40 52'5 O'OO Sunday 31 — — — ooo Monday 1 62 41 51.5 0*00 Tuesday 2 62 41 5 "5 0 00 Wednesday 3 6« 46 57*0 C"05 Thursday 4 68 46 57"0 0 05 Fridar 5 68 48 58"0 0"00 i'he Tetuuers.r.nre renreaeuifi extremereadins? of toe fherroomecer for 24 hours ended 9 s,.ik., taken ia the sh«deat Cwrt-y-Vil, Penarth. The Rainfall registered at Cwrt-jVil, Penarth. for hr»T2r« ^M.rri.

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Feathers and Fluff [BY AI7TOLYCTJS.] A member of our staff, who is a specialist on smells, says that the stendh of the Taff just now exactly resembles the odour of the town water at the time of the recent scare. People who cross Cardiff bridges should adopt the same precaution as that of the Londoner when he eats his morning eg-g—hold the nose. The puiblio meeting re telescope for Cardiff last n-ipbt was not large, but it was very enthusiastic from first to last, and it has ap- pointed a committee that will leave no stone unturned to remove the difficulties (greater than soma imagine) that still lie in the way of (iarrving out Dr. Frank leu Evans: s ex- ceedingly generous proposals. The "Morning Leader" gives Madame Patti the credit for -N,tadain., Clara Novello Davies's Ladies' Welsh Choir. S&ys this "pink 'un," speaking of the great prima donna, With cliaracteristic or ginatfty sh? also brought with her from Wales a choir of Welsh ladies, who, in Welsh national costumes, sing very charm- ingly Welsh songs, Madame Patti herself wielding the baton." Even her Majesty's judges are liable toirake slips of the tongue. Judge Owen venter-day asked a defendant how he knew he viai under 21 years of age. "You weren't present at your birth, you know," he added. Suddenly remem- bering, however- that people are sometimes pre- sent even at their own births, lie went on, "Yes, I suppose you were present, but you weren't competent to judge." In other words, the new-born babe did not pull out his watt h, take down the almanack, and make an entry of this insignificant event in his oiary. As most of us failed to do this apJU our rata' day, it is onay correct to a-tsunie that none of us knows his birthday. For six months the Radnor-road Board School girls will be in clover. No corporal punish- ment is to be allowed there for tha.t spice of time, and the youngster.* may be impudent, come late, leave early, refuse to work, and gene- rally play Tom Tiddler with things. The school board have laid down this order, as the result of the consideration of a complaint against the lieitd-mistress, Miss Rule, of excessive caning. The Cardiff Sohool Board do some queer things. This last is one of the queerest. It is now a rule that Miss Rule Aall rule her school without the aid of a rule. The "O.P." calls attention to the matter thus Behold a paradox most odd From Radnor-road Board School Although no longer they've the rod They still have got a Rule! Deep and widespread will be the regret at ttw aniouncement made this morning of the death of Mr. Daniel Owen, J.P., of Ash Hall. Mr. Owen had so often rallied from previous severe illnesses that it wm confi- dently hoped he would again recover mu"h of his former health and strength. But this was not to be, and as this morning broke he passed quietly away. To those who would knew something of the character of the de- ceased I omtnenl a perusal of his life story in other columns. It is full of romantic in- cident. As a lad. whilst in feeble health, h« p.ade up his mind to emigrate, and left for Australia. His f.rst night m Melbourne he spent under a. eucalyptus tree. Eight years later he returned to Walts a rich man, having assisted to erect most of the public buildings of Melbourne, and leaving behind him an honourable record. What was the secret of Mr. Owen's suo&MS? It may be found in his application of the verse, Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might." Mr Owen's example is an inspiring and en- nobling one. To the last it was his boast th3Jt he was. above all things, a Welshman, loving hns fatherland devotedly, clinging to the old tongue, and, a'bove all, loyal and true to the fast lessening circle of friends of his youth. The story of such a man carries with it a mora; more powerful than that conveyed by half the romances ever penned. The Rev. Dr. Fergus Ferguson suggests that colporteurs should be sent to Kpsoni in the hope tha.t. perhaps, the Prince might be in- duced to try for a higher race than the Derby. In that way. too. thoy nnght be the means of withdrawing the Farl of Rosebery from the turf, and if that were attained it would afford great joy to the Liberal party and the Christian peopie of ail denominations. It is useless to hope to draw men from the turf whilst they are Derby winners. The Radical and Nonconformist party must wait a few years until the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Rosebery have got thoroughly dis- zusted with the racecourse, by reason of sue- cessive failures. That's the time to convert a. man, if he needs it. Or, if the Radical party deem it such an iniquity to breed race- horses, why are they so anxious to choose him as their leader. Their principles are mere sentiment. They haven't the courage to act up to their convictions. My esteemed weather correspondent, "Observer," who corrected us all the other day over the drought business, writes again. This time he springs upon us a new kind of test for bodily ailments. This is what he says: — You receive my rain record with incredulity, and that does not surprise me. The inaccuracy of the impressions of many people as to the nature of the prevailing weather is simply astonishing; for instance, the local papers continue to write of the late", 0 months' drought when it is a petrified fact that rain fell in quantity on no less than sixteen days in the two months. You can rarely get a man who is out of sorts to make an unqualified admission that the weather is quite nice. how- ever pleasant it may be; on the other hand, if a man has a good word for the weather on a dirty day you may know that things are going well wi-th him. From a man's description of the weather one may ofrten diagnose his complaint. How can we expect weather prophets to give us correct forecasts of approaching changes when it seems that we cannot agree on a common definition of the meteorological conditions occurring around u,,? I have known the gentleman who does the weather report in the 'Western Mail' to pub- lish his ailments in the most innocent man- ner. Thus 'threatening thunder' (sic) means a sore head; 'dull and depressing' means liver; and 'unpleasant, drizzly weather,' acute dyspepsia, and so on. The fact is that a haibi,t of scientific observation and description- is only acquired by prac- tice, and a correct appreciation of prevalent meteorological conditions, does not come naturally to everyone, though everyone may think it doeos. It may bs said generally that weather tales are about as trustworthy as fish tales, and should be accepted cum gran.o salis." Yes, that is a good summing up, "Observer."

OUR BIART. TO-DAY. 1896.—.June 5, Friday. Sun rises 3.47, sets 8.9. Weather forecast :-Lightl, variable airs; changeable thunderstorms locally. High water :-Ca.rdiff, 1.42—2.16. Swansea, 12.47—1.17. Newport, 1.41-2.11. Cardiff events :— County-court, 10.0. Police-court, 11.0. Waterworks Committee, 11.0. Health Committee, 3.0. Royal Visit Committee. 5.0. Finance Committee. 7.30. Museum Committee, 8.0. TEN YEARS AGO. 1886.—June 5, Saturday. Wreck of the Caterina Doge, from Cardiff. Gift of a banner to the Marquess of Bute Court of Foresters by the marquees. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ASO, 1871.—June 5, Monday. "There continues to be in Paris a bitter feel- ing of hostility against foreigners. Poles are mo.4 hated, Belgians next, Americans next. Englishmen are popular."

FALL OF ROOF MAN KILLED IN A FERNDALE PIT. Eai-ly on Wednesday morning a fatal acci- dent occurred at No. 5 Pit of Messrs. Davis and Son's colliery, Ferndale. Wrhilst a man named John Wil'liams. a native of Aberaman. and' lodigring at Long Row, Blaenllechau, and hie companion, a lad, were engugedl in pulling a tram of coal, a piece of coal came in contact with one of the timbers which was protecting the roof, wttiich, unfortunately, caused the top to fall and completely buried the man. The boy was ba.dly injured, and it was not until a few hours afterwards that the fall was sufficiently cleared to get a.t the man, when it was found that the poor fellow had been killed outright. Medical a.id was soon obtained, and the hid is progressing a.s favourably as can be expected. T'he majority of the men came out and conveyed the unfortunate victim to his late home.

LOCAL AMUSEMENTS. "MOROCCO BOUND" AT CARDIFF. Mr. Arthur Branscombe is coming to Cardiff next week with a specially capable company to the Grand Theatre for the production of that amusing musical absurdity, "'Morocco Bound." All the charm of the original piece is main- tained, but the necessary furbishing has been duly attended to, and the wit of the comedians flashes upon absolutely up-to-date topics, to which may be added the inclusion of a number of new songs and dances. To Cardiff theatre- goers it is sufficient to state that the company includes Mr. Jolm Wilkinson, Mr. H. G. Duprez, Mr. Sam Haroourt, Mr. Wallace Kingston, Mr. Andrew Higgineon, Mies Kate Sinclair, Miss Pbfllid Blair. Misg Edith Arm- strong, Miss Jennie Richards, and Miss Jessie Broome to emphasise the fact that the produc- tion will be not onlv meritorious but complete. The engagement is an important one, and should draw large houses to the Grand Theatre next week. PERFORMANCE OF "FAUST." A magnificent rendering of Gounod's cele- brated opera, "Faust," was given by Mr. Valentine Smith's excellent English O^pera, Company at the Grard Theatre. Cardiff, on Thursday evening. Mr. Valentine Smith's interpretation of the tide role was an excep- tionally fine one. his singing being faultless- Miss Maud Colefield, as "Marguerite," pour- frayed the character with much expression, her vccal abilities being clearly shown. Mr. A. Edmunds gave a o1¡1)ilt-wl representation of "Mephistopheles," whilst Mr. William Deners as "Valentine," Miss M. Sadie as "Siebel," Miss Temple as "Martha," and Mr. F. H. Hughes as "WagTier," created good impres- sions. This (Friday) evening King for a Day" will be again produced, and on Satur- day evenine Tli- Bohemian Girl" will be given. On Sunday evening the company will bring their visit to a close with a sacred con- cert.

NEW COAL CHARTER. ATTITUDE OF CARDIFF MER- CHANTS AND CHARTERERS. "Fairplay," commenting on the attitude of Cardiff people on the new coal charter, The Cardiff people, charterers and colliery proprietors, are much less disposed than the London charterers to come to terms with the Documentary Committee; indeed, they quite set their faces against the new charter. They held a private meeting at Cardiff on Thursday afternoon last week, when it was decided, after prolonged discussion, to re-appoi'nt the local committee who have dealt with the new charter up to the present time, for the purpose of con- ferring with the London charterers—who have agreed to receive them in London on Thursday afternoon and hear their views-to see what can be done in opposing the action of the shipowners, the committee to pcsi-:e3« full executive power. But it is understood that the London charterers will not join the Cardiff people in their obstructive tactios, being satisfied that shipowners are seeking the redress of real grievances and not acting from caprice. As many are puzzled to know why there should be such a striking difference be- tween the attitude of the Cardiff people and the London charterers, it may be well to show here how the divergence has arisen. The principal London charterers are depot owners having enormous foreign bunkering transactions with shipowners, with whom they naturally desire to maintain good relations. Some of the Cardiff charterers are speculators who take up contracts on fine margins erf profit, or even no margins at. all, reckoning to recoup themselves under dirty charter clauses. An instance could be named in which a large contract was recently concluded at t figure leaving a positive loss per ton on freight and cost of coal: how is the speculator in this case to make ends meet, to say nothing of securing a profit, unless by meatis cf the pickings pro- vided for in dirty forms of charter? Theee are conditions that weigh greatly ab Cardiff, and they go far to account for the kec-n attach- ment displayed in that port to dirty terms- The Cardiff colliery proprietors side with the local charterers partly because both are on the spot, and partly because they want to prevent the 2d. per ton wharfage nn cargo ultimately failing on themselves. This accounts for V "solidar ty" at Cardiff. But the London char- terers rule all the coal trades, and they are WL'-1' disposed to meet shipowners in establishing ? form of charter purged of conditions that have long been felt by owners to be grievously one-sided and unjust."

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Bill Banter's Budget < AN AWFUL AND ANARCHICAL SUGGESTION. It is Time to Stamp These Scientists Out When Electricians Begin to Meddle With Our Weather. "Not having seen 'Arpur round the last week or so, yours truly were feeling grave anxiety about his safety, when he turns up this morn- ing. having been engaged in a report upon 'tho weather for the amusement of the general purposes committee. "How are them leports bearing now?" I asks, seeing the lines of care upon the Chief's brow. "Pretty thick at present." he answers, rather mournful, "there's about fifteen been polished off, but them committees are still thirsty." I never paw a man sta.))d so erect beneath an awful burden as 'Arpur. He are trans- formed into a walking report, a,n animated statistic, by these here committees of our cor- poration. First thing when a committee meets the chairman asks, "Is 'Arpur doing- any report for us to-day?" ".No, nothing particular—a matter of fifty pages or so." "Ah," says the chairman, "then I begs to move that he be in- structed to report another fifty to the. next meet- ing. "W hat on?" asks a. curious member. Then the committee spends the morning finding subjects. And1 so it comes that 'A'rpur disappears now and agaan, completely hid beneath the accumu- lation of reports. Then struggling heroic to the surface, he strikes bravely for the shore, leaving a trail of concluded reports behind him. ,But when they sees him coming, throwing finished reports to right and left- with desperate energy, them committeas dutllp" him into a new and deeper ocean, and the unfortunate engineer sinks again ga-spinir for air. "What are your opinion of the weather?" I inquires, seeing a truck with the report coming up behind!. "As far ais I have been able to ascertain with accuracy, Bill," says 'Arpur, "it is hot." "And you ha,ve reported to that effect?" "And you have reported to that effect?" "Couldn't do otherwise," he says. "I must add a few pages explaining that the rain t. is morning have cooled the atmosphere consider- able, but that more weather may be expected during the next month. You eee the com- mi-ttee won't believe in any heat unless I prove it to them by investigation andl stat sties. I reported three weeks ago tha.t it was hot, ar.d the committee wants to know whether the heat continues." "Must be an awful burden, this here weather," I remarks. "I am a,fra;id it's changing," he replies, "and they will be ready with a demand for an amended and re-considered report." We were discussing this particular earnest when M Guffin comes up hurried, demanding whether we had heard the latest news about the weather. The orator were attired ready for all emergencies. His headgear were a Trilby straw, protected by an umbrella. He carried a dust coat over one arm and a mackintosh upon the other. A pair of white sand-shoes peeped from his coat pocket, whilst for the day he wore a. pair of leather gaiters and balmorals. "Blank me!" bo says- perspiring very free. "Blank me! the care cf the constitution are an awful responsibility in face of the Anar- chical suggestions in this morning's 'Male.' It. are a blanked sight easier to get ready for the krimmatorium than to live. If I can ictily last until our Burial Board ha.s prepared for my disposal properly I sliall be 'appy." "Good heavens, what has happened? As tho bloke buried in the Swineseye Parish Churchyard, asked, thinking it were Judgment Day when they dug hÍJII up for that restora- tion business," says I, noting M'Guffin's note- worthy aspect. "Ah," says M'Guffin.. very sorrowful, "there's never one trouble in vhis here world without a host of others fol'iow ing-. Them medical volumes I have been taking recent have shown me how near a bloke is to eternity continual unless he goes in earnest and strong for safe- guarding his health. I am living now strict according to medical rule, but I'm afraid it are too late-not a blanked bit of use to try to live these days. I ibave bidi Mariar fare- well particular tamest, for I never knows vhat day may be my last." Would you like a report upon the sub- let?" asks 'Arpur, very kind and sympa- thetic, for M'Guffin were distressed. "No use!" says he. inore mournful still, "Them medical volumes tells me my life hangs on a thread. The heat are liable to prove fatal, they says, unless I takes particular care to preserve the coolness of the head. I takes the hint. No sooner hfwe I done so than it rains last night, and the book tells me it is easier to acquire a fatal chill through getting damp than anything else. I guards against the chill, and then the sun comes out. The volume says that too much raiment dvring heait aire liable to assist my sudden calling off through apoplexy. So I comes out prepared for all weathers, and no sooner have I guarded careful against surpriaes to my eon stituotion than I find. this in the Mail.* Blank me, I'll give, it up! What are life? The keeping ov a. miserable frame together at a. vast expenditure of Persimmon winninigs, when every force, in man and nature are try- ing to destroy it! Are life worth living? No, according to t'hem medical books it's not." Tfhe unfortunate orator arranges his oryats upon the railings careful to graduate his ap- parel at the shortest notice for any sudden change in the atmosphere, looks at. the sky all roundi searching and critical, and, having satisfied himself as to Jhis present safety, un- folds the "Male" and shews us very sorrow- ful the latest suggestion of the enemy of mankind. It were a letter from that there Sidney Walker, of the Cardiff Electrical Works, announcing that he were upon the track of a. system by which any man could fight the weather clerk and fix the ram and shine to suit himself. "There! says M'Guffin, "that's the kind of thing we're coming to. Are blokes of that sort fit to live? 'Command of the clouds,' he says! Eevry man his own cloud-maker! What are the possibilities of this here awful thing? iou reads your household doctor, and discovers warmth alfe necessary to your existence. You makes a bir! of sunshine with a weather- machine. No sooner have you done so than youir neighbour frowns and fetches his rain- maker into the yard and chills you to the mar- row with it, deluge? What are your fate? Death through shock to your constitution. Have you prepared for oold weather and for rain? You meets a blanked1 cyclist busy manu- facturing hea/t because he hasn't got his mud- guards with him. The result? Immediate dissolution through overstraining of your sys- tem in heavy garments by removing that there-, cyclist! Have yon gone to the I country for fresh air, fixed up ■regardiing temiperiiture accrdang to hygienic ruleR': You meets a market gar- dener busy inviting a thunderstorm to kill you and shov<- up his cabbagv. blank me! Ata life worth living after Sidney Waiker's letter? No: blank me, blank him, -blank everybody. No!" Sorry I am M'Guffin are in this hopeless frame of mind. Trouble art bringing him rapid to insanity.

INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT BELFAST The week chosen for the annual conference of the Institute of Journalists, which is to be held this year in Belfast, is the week beginning Monday, August 31, and ending Saturday, September 5. Tuesday aaid Wed- nesday will be the days for the principal busi- ness meetings, but the general proceedings will fill the entire week. The president of the year (Mr. J. A. Willox. M.P.) will occupy the chair throughout tfhe. conference. The president-designate (Mr. J- M. Maclean.. M.P. for Cardiff) will preside at the anneal conference dinner. The members of the con- ference will have special facilities for travel- ling to and from Belfast for the conference, and also for visiting places of interest in Ire- land, immediately before and immediately after the conference week.

1- -r-- ;t- --I DEATH OF MR. DANIEL OWEN, T f J.P., OF ASH HALL i Our readers will learn with deep regret of the death of Mr. Daniel Owen, J.P.. of Ash Hall, near Cowbridge. For several days he has been lying in a critical condition at his residenoe, suffering from a complication of disorders, the chief being congestion of the lungs. He was attended by Dr. Naunton W. Davies, his eon-in-law, and Dr. Price, of Cardiff. For some time the deceased gentle- man lay in a semi-conscious condition, and the end came at 4.40 this morning. His death will be deeply regretted by his wide circle of friends. Mr. Daniel Owen was the son of Mr. David Owen, of New Forest House, Glamorgan, and was born in 1829 at Llan- harren, so that he was in his 68th year. BIOGRAPHY. The life-story of Mr. Daniel Owen, of Ash Hall, is one of deep interest, and should serve as much a-s any romance that was ever written "to fire the hearts of new endeavourers." The proverbial "silver epoon" was absent at Mr. Owen's nativity, but it was more than re- placed by the sterling qualities, the grit, the energy, and the determination that combined to raise Mr Owen from the lowest rung of the ladder to a position of affluence and honour in the ranks of his countrymen. It is a thousand pities Mr. Owen's life has not been given in exteneo to the world, for many of its earlier episodes read much more like pages from a novel than the sober narration of a matter of fact career. Daniel Owen was born at the farm of Tre- nos-uchaf, Llanharran, Glamorganshire, on the 27th of May, 1829, and the deceased gentleman had thus entered on his sixty-eighth year. Little Dani'el did not remain long at Tre-nos, but in latest life he still retained a vivid recollection of the place. On the last day of 1835, when the lad was eight years old, his parents removed to Merthyr, passing on their way a huge monster, which greatly dis- concerted Daniel, and proved to be nothing else than Trevethick's unwieldy steam engine, which, as everyone knows, was a pioneer amongst locomotives. The Owens did not stay long at Merthyr, but removed thence to Pontypridd, where little Daniel became the pupil of one of those old soldier school- masters so common in pre-board school daJ-, Of Daniel Macfariane all his scholars stood in wholesome awe. When a lad transgressed Macfariane would remark, "Come here, m'anv.'yli," and would then produce fo-r the urchin's edification a "leather strap two inches wide, and wic.h the end split up into five or six throngs, a foot or eighteen inches long." It was by such means as this that our for- bears grew up to be manlier men than we are likely to see in a more sentimental age. "I can imagine," remarked Mr. Owen, "my hand smarting even now from the effects of this terrible instrument of torture." At nine years of age Daniel Owen had bid adieu to the primitive education of the period, and commenced to earn his own living. It was at a woollen factory, and the date was Octo- ber 9, 1839, the self-same day on which the first dock at Cardiff was opened. Daniel's first wage was twopence per day, afterwards increased to fourpence; but what was lacking in money was made up in hours—fourteen of them for every day, with three half hours for meals! A year later Daniel's mother died, anti the event made on the boy a very painful impresdion. "1 took my little sister in my arms to the room where our mother lay. She was white and weak, and there was a world of grief and pain and overwhelming misery in her poor broken voice as she wailed out of her heart, '0 fy mhlant anwyl, beth ddaw o honoch?' How I sobbed. I was only eleven years of age, but the death of my mother made the world grow dark, and my heart was racked with our first great trouble." After some years' apprenticeship at Llan- harran and Pontypridd the outbreak of the gold fever turned young Owen's thoughts, like those of so many other of his fellows, to the Antipodes. His health was far from good, and he was advised to try his fortune in Australia. He determined to do so; but his father opposed it with all his force. He begged and implored, he brought his son the savings of hi's life— £ 70 or £80-offering Daniel every penny if he would only re- linquish his intention. Little did the heart- broken father imagine that in the far off Anti- podes his eon would win weajtth and honour, andl by and bye re- turn to him to be the pride and comfort of his old age.. Tears and entreaties were hnavailing, and at length Daniel left for the "sunny south," taking boat from Cardiff to Bristol, and leaving his sorrowing parent on the landing stage in the sad assurance that he would never see Daniel again in this world. At Bristol the young emigrant had to wait a fortnight for his ship, following the easy-going fashion of the time?, and he has left us a vivid account of the outward voyage, which he made in company with a friend, one J ohn Thomas, of Llantwit-Major. of Llantwit-Major. It may be noted as a curious incident that on leaving Pontypridd with a jar of butter young Daniel's landlady remarked to him, "There, Mr. Owen, be sure t-o bring back the jar to Wales filled with gold." "It was a dieam then" (remarked the narrator), "but in the course of time it was realised, and in later years I had the felicity of hearing the con- gratulations of my old landlady on having accomplished what seemed at one time un- attainable—the jar was filled to the brim with gold The outward passage was. slow and unpleasant, and it suffices to say that, at length, Daniel Owen and his friend landed at Melbourne, the date bei ng- January 22, 1853, the voyage having been accomplished in 159 days. (Mr. Owen, it may be remarked, seemed incapable of for- getting a date.) The youths lost no time in seeking employment. Jolhn soon obta.in.sd a comfortable situation, but Owen was less fortu- nate. and spent his first nighi beneath the southern cross under a eucalyptus tree infested (though he knew it not) by snakes. Having obtained more comfortable board and lodgings at the high rate of £ 2 a week (washing extra), Daniel sallied fOlih in search of work. Days passed unsuccessfully, and at length he inquired of a man breaking stones at the road- side what he earned. "Ten shillings a yard." "Is there any chance for a job?" "Oh, I have no doubt you can get put on." After further search he lit on the timber-yard of one Mr. Punch, in Burke-street, and here he was en- gaged to tidy tlhe vacd at ten shillings; "my first earnings awav from home." Further up thA street was another timber- yard, Mr. Johu Morris's. Applying there for work Owen was asked if he had been a<-customed to horses. True to his habit of never refusing a job he instantly replied "Yes," though he had rever so much as adjusted a horse-collar in his life! He "was shrewd enough to know that the great essential in obtaining work is to show a willingness to do it," a hint that might with benefit be taken by a good many aspirants in our day. Daniel gave satisfaction and wa-s put on other jobs, and a little later obtained a situa- tion aind.er the Port Philip Gold-mining Com- pany in Collier-street. Here he had to take charge of the stores and provisions, groom the horses, and attend to miscellaneous commis- sions, as well as act as coachman for the managing director amd his wife. an office he fulfilled without risking the necks of his em- ployers, though he knew nothing of driving! Living w" very dear in Melbourne at the time, so Daniel concluded it would serve his purpose better to dwell in a tent, which he ■accordlirtgly proceeded to do, and found it cheaper by far. But the tent had its draw- backs. so he removed to an iron house, and had a dire conflict with the rats that infested it. till he brought strategy to work and came off conqueror. Under his employers, the Port Phili/p Com- pany, Daniel Owen steadily rose, true to nis unvarying rule never to decline any kind of work that offered. "Daniel, can you paint ?" asked the director. "Yes. sir," "Well. I want you to paint some railings and a gate." Daniel strolled down the street, got some hints from a-(naint seller, returned, and dad the job. His emolover was pleased and asked h in if he could do any brickwork. "Certainly, sir," and a room was lined with brick, though n-ot without difficulty, surmounted by the aid of a friendly Guernsey man. A job in garden- ing came nexit, and Daniel set to work go suo- I ce«sfully that every tree he planted irrew! Daniel Owen had now commenced to save. nnd we next find 'him starting in business on his own account. Within a year of his landing it! Melbourne he was in the timber trade, and fortune and his own sterling abilities wpeedily favoured him. He made a successful purchase, and almost immediately found himself the owner of a r-afridly- increasing business. An unusually profitable investment in timber soon gave him a 'vantage ground that, he was not slow to seize, and, as time went on, he contracted for the supply of timber for the erection of the MR. DANIEL OWEN. I Houses of Parliament, the university, the free .library, the Jewish Synagogue, the Roman Catholic cathedral, and many other important structures in Melbourne. In fact, it is not too mucih to say that all the earlier of the fine structures in this noble city were built of timber fiom the yards of the young man who, but a short time before, had found a shelter beneath the friendly eucalyptus! All this time Mr. Owen had by no means forgotten the land of his fathers. He had contributed a number of letters to the "Baner," and the "Gwron," and deeply regretted when pressure of business oominelled him to re- linquish the.m. Indeed, worry had begun to tell on Mr. Owen's health, and he was ptrsuaded to pay a visit to Tasmania, but before he did so he attended a, meeting of his brother Welshmen and delivered a speech on emigration in the vernacular, which was extremely well received and reported as delivered in the "Age," a friend of Mr. Owen's correcting the proof of what was to the compositor doubtless a savage and barbarous tongue. On the passage to Tasmania Mr. Owen fell in with a stout man of pleasant face and manners, who turned out to be a Mr. Macdonald, son of the head gardener to the then Marquess of Bute, and a close friendship sprang up between the parr, which only termi- nated wvlk Mr. Macdonald's decease. Whilst in T a.s m-ami a Mr. Owen heardl a man reading the speech to which we have alluded. He asked to be allowed to read the remainder him- eel-f, and did ,,0. "When I looked up after finishing my auditor was silently weeping. J. found rut afterwards that he was an ex-con- vict. His name was David Evans, and at one I COTTAGE IN WHICH MR. OWEN WAS BORN. I time he was one of the most popular preachers in South Wales." lit was at this time that Mr. Owen came across traces of some of the Chartist leaders, as well as of Dai'r Cantwr and Shoni Scubor Fawr, two famous champions in the 'Beooa Riote, who were sentenced to a term I of twenty years' transportation; but as the narrative has already appeared in these columns we need make no further allusion to it here, save that it supplies one of count-less illustrations of the deep interest Mr. Owen displayed throughout life in all and every detail connected with the Principality. Returning to Australia, Mr. Owen went about good deal in business, and had not a few most exciting adventures. Several of these were connected with sharks and snakes, and Mr. Owen telis one peculiarly thrilling narrative, how when he awoke in the night he beheld a huge black snake coiled up on the bedclothes. For a while I never stirred, and was afraid to disturb my wife, who was sleeping peacefully, utterly ignorant of danger. There was only one thing to do. With the utmost stealthiness I slowly drew my feet Pp, taking all precaution against dis- turbing the sleeping reptile. I succeeded in creeping out of bed, and then quietly stole from the room, hurried down to the kitchen, and armed invself with a strong pair of tongs. Making all haste back to the bedroom, I was I much relieved to find that everything was as i left it. The snake was still in coil, and my wife had never t-tu-red. Pausing a moment to steady my nerves and to prepare for a good grip, I quietly opened the tongs, and then with a swift and sure movement caught the ■ snake close to the head. I shall never forget that grip. Every muscle of my body seemed concentrated on the tongs, and it was fortunate that it wai-s so, lor the hideous thing made the most desperate attempts to get loose. It con- torted itself with powerful energy, but the grip I had taken would, I verily believe, have J > I ASH BALL, COWBRIDGE. -J¿ 11t- held a tiger. The snake wound itself in all manner of ways, and the repulsive touch of its wriggling tail as it lashed against my body filled me with such shuddering that it was a wonder my strength did not fail. The despera- tion of the situation, however, held me to- gether, and, heedless of the hysterical shrieks of my now fully awakened wife, I carried the reptile to the backyard, and there I had my revenge in the violent and speedy death of the now exhausted snake." In lÖbÖ the rush for gold to Queensland took thousands thither, amongst them a number of Mr. Owen's employes. This seriously embarrassed him, for of course trade was temporarily paralysed. However, his mind was quickly made up: he himseif repaired to the diggings, and was soon doing an extensive business in that quarter and the interior generally. Next year Mr. Owen was seized with a desire to return to Wales, and commenced preparation for the disposal of his property, finally sailing for home on the 24th of May, 1860. The return journey was marked by storms so fearful that neither the crew nor passengers ever expected to see their homes again. How- ever, after a terrible and memorable experience, the wind lulled and the battered ship reached London on the 26th of August. Mr. Owen was ever noted for his fondness for cats, and a handsome specimen to which he was much attached endured a.11 the perils of the voyage home. He was offered much money, but re- fused to part with his favourite. "I was de- termined," he sand, "to take her to my native home just as I had taken her mother from Pontypridd to Australia." Comfortably settled in the old country. which, a poor youth, he. had left but eight years b&tore, M-r. Daniel Owen was now a. prosperous and wealthy man. He spentt some portion of his time in visiting various in- teresting- parts of the kingdom, and also turned his serious attention to farming, for which he had a strong natural bent. Reacquired land at New Forest Down and other localities, where he prosecuted suc- cessful experiments. He also erected a resi- dence at tlhe place just mentioned, which he left in 1866 to take possession of Ash Hall, where he resided until his lamented decease. This pioiperty he vast.ly improved, and became, indeed, a striking example of the man who is blest in making two blades of grass grow wherti only one had grown before. As in trade so in agriculture, whatever Mr. Owen put his hand to prospered and multiplied exceedingly. Mr. Owen never made a speciality of ex- hibiting 'his stock, but at the Royal Agri- cultural Society's Cardiff show, his exhibits were warmly commended. In 1872 a cup was offered by the laite- Sir Walk in W illiams Wynn for the best cultivated farm in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire. Mr. Daniel Owen was not succesisful in securing the tropin-, but one of tlie judges observed to the successful com- petitor, "Had Mr. Owen more land he would have run you very hard." have run you very hard." gut Mr. Owen found time from his occupa- tions as a country gentleman to engage, in more purely commercial pursuits. Thus he secured a seat on the directorate of the London and Provincial Bank, and, in 1877, in conjunction r with Mr. Lasoeiles Carr. acquired the business now known as tli £ Western Mail, Limited.. Mr. Owen was ever ardently identified with the Conservative cause, and was one of it,- pillars m South-east Wales. During times of political excitement he encountered wwrse lively adventures, as in tlhe candidature ttf Mr. Ivor Guest, in 1874, when he spoke with vigour in I favour of that gentleman. In the Rhondda, Mr. Owen and the other constitutional workers found preacherdom in arms, and had to retreat before showers of stones from a mob of in- furiated zealots. The last few years of his life were spent by Mr. Daniel Owen in peace and comfort a.t Ash Hall, cheefed by the presence of his wife, by whom he had issue a soni Mr. Tudor Owen. and a daughter, married torDr. Naunton Davies, all of whom survive him. Up to the last Mr. Oweh continued to evince that deep interest in Wales a.nd things Welsh that characterised the whole of an intensely practical and active life. A more ioyal Cymro never breathed, nor was he, like some patriots, deaf to the best interests of his Fatherland. All that made for the true welfare of Wales, in whatever department, found in him a. warm sur»oorter and a consistent friend. The Princi- pality is the poorer for his death, and for to come young Welshmen will enter on the battle of life with energy^ all the more ardent for remembering the bright ex- ample. the manly career, the singleness of aim, and the sample" patriotism of Daniel Owen, ai Ash Hall. f

FROME ELECTION, MAN TO BE CHARGED WITH PEP SONATION. The Frome correspondent of the Centwl News telegraphs:—John Taylor, the man. charged on Tuesday with impersonation, has been re-arrested by order of the returning officer, and will be brought up at Bath on Friday. The prisoner made serious accusa- tions against two of Mr. Barlow's sub-ttgents.

JABEZ BALFOUR REMOVED PROM WORMWOOD SCRUBS TO PARKHURST. A Newport (Isle of Wight) telegram reports that ,J abez Balfour arrived at Parkhuret Prison on Thursday afternoon on transfer from Worm- wood Scrubs. He was stated to be looking well, and to be the stoutest convict now at Parkhurst.

CYCLIST'S DEATH. RAN INTO A HORSE IN THE DARKNESS. Maurice Jones. aged eighteen, son iof a Kettering shoe manufacturer, died on Thurs- day morning from shocking injuries received in a bicycle accident on Monday night. He and his brother were returning on bicyclcs from their Whitsuntide holiday in Hertford- shire, and had reached within two miles of their home. when Maurice, in the dark, ran into n. restive horse at the bottom of a hill, and was terribly wounded in the head and face. He died without recovering conscious- ness.

LONDON FIRE. TEA DEALERS' PREMISES GUTTED. Shortly before six o'clock on Friday morning a destructive fire broke out a't Horse Shoe- Alley, Park-street, Borough, on the premises pf Messrs. Appleton, Machin, and Co., tea. dealers. The building was gutted, but the premises adjacent were saved. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED AT LEICESSTER. At an early hour on Friday morning In- spector Caminada, of Manchester, assisted by iiocal officers, arrested ait Leicester Joseph Hurst, aged 26, a bricklayer, late of Stockport, and Martha Ann Goddard, aged 22, a factory hand, on a charge of murdering a child, aged twelve months, whose body, with a cord tied around the neck, W<.1) recently found in Roch. dale Canal. Prisoners were removed to Man- chester. ..&

CARDIFF'S WATER. THE PROVISION OF VENTILATORS AT LLANISHEN. A meating of the waterworks committee of the Cardiff Corpcration was held at the Town- hall, Cardiff, on Friday morning, under the presidency of Alderman David Jones.—A dis- cussion took place v»ith respeot to the water pollution that ocourrsd in the town last week. After some suggestions had been made, the committee resolved to fix Seven additional automatic ventilators, with a view to prevent- ing any further fermetation of waiter in tlie closed reservoir a't Lla.nuhen. i—.Mr. Mildon thought it a great- pity that forty or fifty of the inhabitants of Cardiff discovered a defect in the water before any of the officials knew if it.—The Chairman suggested that the inhabitants of the town used the water more than the officials did.

ALLEGED WOUNDING. TREALAW Mf-N AND A LADY PIANIST. Frank Ward, ironfounder, Trealaw, was brought up in custody (before Mr. L. Gordon Lenox and Councillor Roberta) at Ponty- pridd Police-court on Friday morning, and charged on remand with wounding Miss Caroline Amos, a pianiste engaged at the Prince of Orange Hotel, Trealaw, on. Thurs- day week.—Polioe-inspector Gill stated tha.t he had received! a telephone message from Dr. Weitcher on Friday morning gtatrng that the woman was very much better and that he did not apprehend any danger at present. —Prisoner was again remanded to Ystrad Pclice-oourt on Monday r-lxt.

EMPLOYERS LIABILITY. MORE CASES AT CARDIFF COUNTI- COURT TO-DAY. At Cardiff C'ourrty-t/our. on Friday hid Honour Judge Owen heard a case in which a painter, named James Powell, of Barry Dock, sued the Barry Graving Dock and En- gineering Company for JB25 as damages for personal injuries sustained by him at the dock on Dfcembar 25. Mr. Arthur Lewis (instructed by Mr. Henry Jones, of Cardiff) appeared for the plaintiff: and Mr. C. M. Baiihache (instructed by Mr. W. H. M. T ngledew) for the defendants.—Mr. Lew:8 said defendant was engaged along with other. namttinig a- vessel, standing on a- platfornr"/ put on tres-eis. A trolly was used for con- veying steel-plates past the painters, and by some means a plate came against the t-resaels and upset the rpflatform, plaintiff sustaining considerable bodily injury. — After seve ral witnesses had be-em examined, his Honour said the liability oi defendants had not. been proved, and gave judgment for defendants, with coots. The costs, however, would not bo enforced. His Honour also heard another case under the Employers' Liability Act. It was one in which Henry Raffertv claimed damages against the Mercantile Pontoon Company (Limited), and from the evidence adduced it seemed that on the 20th of February Ita.rferty (a labourer) wa.s instructed by the foreman of the pontoon company to do something to a crane. In order to carry out these instruc- tions, it was necessary for lum to mount a triangle shaped platform, and upon returning he stepped upon one end of some loose planks, which were laid across the narrow end of the 'triangle. The planks tipped up, ami Rafferty, who was under the impression that the planks were fixed, fell a distance of 13ft. 6in. He sustained injuries to ono of his wrists and one of his knees- and was laid up for eight weeks. Mr. Arthur Lewis (in- structed by Mr. Henry Jones) appeared on behalf iof the plaintiff, and Mr. C. M. Bail- hache defended.—The latter gentleman con- tended that the planks were not a portion of the plant proper, and that it was an incau- tious act on the part of -the plaintiff to get upon the planks a.t all. They had never been fixed, and were simply used for storing ropes. He urged hit; point that the employers were in no way liable.—Mr. Lewis, however, claimed that the mere faot of the platform being in- secure rendered the employers liable, and his Honour thought the plaintiff was entitled to recover. He, therefore, gave judgment for the amount claimed (£25), with costs.