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TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. A Ratepayers' Association has been formed at Llandudno. Lord and Lady Mostyn celebrated their golden wedding on Wednesday, June 20. Several detachments of North Wales rifle volunteers went into encampment at Rhyl on Wednesday, June 20. On Wednesday, June 20, Eisteddfodau were held atWhltland and Crymmach, South Wales. The new post-office at the top of Pride-hill, Shrewsbury, is now open for the transaction of business. Mr. Richard John Lloyd Price has been appointed a magis- trate for the county of Carnarvon. The annual Beeston Castle Festival was held on Monday, June 18, and Tuesday. On Monday 6,100 and on Tuesday 4,050 persons were admitted to the grounds. „ The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the degree of Bachelor of Divinity on the Rev. Alfred Jones, vicar of Carring- ton, Chester, in recognition of his services to theChurch. The Committee of the Calvinistic Methouiat College at Bala have resolved to place a bust of the late Dr. Parry in the Library On Sunday morning, June 24th, c.t thfe Roman Catholic Cath- edral of St. Werburgh, Chester, the Bishop of Shrewsbury ordained Mr. Thompson, of Congleton, secular priest, and Brother Clement, O.S.F., a regular priest. It is said that a dowry of £ 500,000 will .pass with Miss Crawshay, a daughter of the great ironmaster of South Wales, S -Irr on her approaching marriage, to 31r. A. Williams, barrister, also a native of Wales. The quarterly session of the Carnarvonshire Independent Association concluded on Thursday, June 21, at Penygroes, under the moderatorship of the Rev. E. H. Evans, Carnarvon. A lad of twelve, named David Evans, died on Wednesday, June 20, at Llandaff, of hydrophobia. He was bitten two months ago by a dog, which showed signs of rabies and was shot. By an explosion in the Tunnel Pit, Aberdare, on Thursday, June 21, one man was killed by after-damp, while trying to rescue his comrades. Two men were also severely burnt. A Chester lady, Mrs. Massie, wife of Admiral Massie, who is staying in France with her husband, has been thrown from her carriage and seriously injured. The Lieutenant and officers of the 106tli Light Infantry now garrisoned at the Castle hold their annual athletic sports a* the Roodee on Thursday, June 21. „ On Tuesday, June 1!), the Rev. Canon Tarver gave the first oi a series of readings in the old Refectory, Chester, on belialf of the fund for the erection of lobbies within the principal en- trances to the nave of the Cathedral. The St. Asaph Choral Association held its Annual Festival in Denbigh New Church, on Thursday, June 21 eighteen choirs took part in the Festival. The Dean ot Lichfield preached at the English, and the Dean of Bangor at the Welsh service. Dr. Thomas R. Fraser, of Knutsford, Cheshire, has been appointed bv the curators of Edinburgh L m\ ersity to succeed Professor Sir Robert Christison in the chair of materia medica, vacant by Sir Robert's resignation. The fourth annual meeting of the London elsh Charitable Aid Society was held on Wednesday, June 18,at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Lord Penrhyn presided, and amongst the speakers were the Hon. Frederick Hanbury Tracy, M.P., Mr. Puleston, M.P., and Mr. Richard Davies, M.P. The guardians of the Carnarvon union have decided to present their chairman, Mr. Robert Jones, Hafodycoed, with portraits of himself and Mrs. Jones, in recognition of the services he has rendered to the union during the long period of 35 years, and his twelve years' occupancy of the chair. A successful fete was held at the New Recreation Grounds, at Crewe, on Saturday, June 23rd, under the auspices of the Alex- andra Cricket Club. The prizes amounted to upwards ofCIM in the various contests, for which there were 320 entries. The weather was exceedingly favourable, and the attendance of visitors unusually krgg. On Tuesday, June 19, as a joiner named Ellis Jones Was standing on a foot ladder at the Carnarvon Market Hall, the ladder slipped :in<l he was impaled by an iron meat hook which buried itself in his left thigh causing a deep and terrible wound. He is reported to be slowly recovering from the effects of the accident. A special meeting of the Dwvgyfylchi Local Board was held last week at Penmaenmawr, for the purpose of conferring with NJ r. Murray Browne, Inspector of the Local Government Board, on the subject of improved sewerage for the district. The result of the conference was an undertaking on the part of the Board to employ an engineer, and to lay their proposals before the Local Government Board. A new Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel has been erected at Northop. Mr. Humphrey Jones, of Mold, was the architect, and Mr. J. Astbury, Northop, the contractor. At the opening services which were held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 19 and 20, sermons were preached by the Revs. David Davies, Bar- mouth, J. Ogwen Jones, Rhyl, and T. Gray, Manchester. At the annual general meeting of the Salopian (Building) So- ciety, held on Monday, June 18, Mr. C. D. Craig proposed that the directors be requested to call two general special meetings as directed by the royal charter for the purpose of giving the proprietors power to dissolve the society. After a good deal of discussion the motion was carried by a majority of one. On Wednesday evening, June 21, Rich. Harris, son of Mr.Harris, Llyn Adan. in the parish of Llandilo, Talybont, left home after his return the same day from the Swansea Normal College, and as be was away all night search was made the next morning, and he was found by his father lying dead in a wood. It appeared that he had hanged himself by a rope to a tree, and that the rope subsequently broke with the weight of the body. His Highness the Maharajah of Burdwan has forwarded to the Lord Mayor a draft for £ 20, as a subscription in aid of the wives and relatives of the men who suffered in the recent mining disaster at Pontvpridd, and promises to remit a similar amount next m.til "for the use of the brave men who so grandly and heroically risked their lives in the rescue of their unfortun- ate comrades." The members of the first battalion of Cheshire Rifle Volun- teers went into eainp at Hooton, on Wednesday, June 20, the tents (of which there are 60, besides four large marquees) having been pitched on the previous day. Lieutenant Colonel King is in command of the battalion, with Major I-Ioriier second in command. Captain Brodrick is the adjutant. The volunteers will remain in camp for a fortnight. A meeting of the members of the Cheshire Agricultural Society was held on Thursday, June 21, at the Crewe Arms Hotel, Crewe, Mr. Holdl)(1urne presiding. A site was selected in Crewe on which to hold the next annual show. The secretary brought forward a list of upwards of 70 new members, and their names were entered on the list. The secretary announced that the total subscription list for 1877 amounted to Z516, as compared with L379 for the previous year, which showed an increase of £138. On Wedneday, June 20, a labourer named Joseph Stanley was drowned whilst bathing in a reservoir at Buckley, belonging to the Brick and Tile Company. On the following day Harry Young about eighteen years of age, a breaksman on the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, was riding at Buckley Station nn a buffer between two waggons when he MI under them and was instaneously killed. On Sunday morning, June 24th, George Japhefc, aged seven years, and Rose, aged three years, children of George Pulling, baker, Trafford-street, Chester, left home for school. Instead of going to school they wandered along the canal, and when near the Northgate the girl tripfl to get a stick from out the water. She fell in, pulling her brother with her, and both were drowned. At a meeting of the Abergele and Pensarn Local Board held on Tuesday, June 19, the Rev. Isaac Williams, of Bronparc, said that the University College of Wales was not required at all. There were plenty of good grammar schools all over the country. Oxford was brought near to them by railway, and the colleges there were amply endowed. Despite this gentleman's authori- tative dictum, the Board resolved (with but one dissentient) to memorialize the Government for a grant to the College. The Lait Tunes states that at "a meeting of the Shropshire Law Society, the Bankruptcy Bill and Mr. Cavan's County Courts Bill were discussed. As to the Solicitors' Examination Bill the single clause to which, the members of the new Law Society took unanimous objection was that which proposes to re-enact the existing law in regard to granting dispensation from passing the preliminary examination before entering into olerk- ship. Shropshire solicitors evidently think, and not without good reason, that every person seeking enrolment in the ranks of the solicitors' profession should be compelled to subject him- self to this very simple educational test." On Tuesday, June 19, a Polish Jew, named Charles Kirustvke, was brought up before the Cardigan magistrates on the singular charge of being drunk and refusing to leave the county prison. The-charge was preferred by the Governor,who said that on the prisoner's refusing to leave he had been taken to the lock-up. The prisoner's defence was also of a singular character. He said he had walked from Haverfordwest that day, and intended con- tinuing his walk in the cool of the evening, but seeing lights in the building he imagined it was a chapel, and thought lie would walk in and stay till the service was over. The magistrates discharged him on condition of his leaving the town at once. At the last meeting of the St. Asaph Board of Guardians, the Medical Officer of Health, in making a report upon the circum- stances attending two deaths, which had occurred in the neigh- bourhood of Bodelwyddan, said that all the land around Vaynol V.iwr was waterlogged. Large dykes were cut into it like the Lincolnshire dykes, in order ■to drain the water off, but they got choked up with decaying vegetable matter, and consequently rendered the water very impure. It was stated that the Sanitary Committee had no power to remedy this state of things. They could neither compel the proprietors to clear out the ditches, nor pay for a supply of pure water from the Llanefvdd Water Works, although the main pipes from those works, pass through the place. The obvious course for the Committee to pursue is to apply to the Local Government Board for the powers they need. The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Chester Female Penitentiary was held on Thursday, June 21, under the presi- dency of Canon Blomfield. The subscription list showed a falling off of nearly 4?1 t ft was stated that the number of in- mates had been small. For some weeks there had been but three in the house. The matron, Miss Marsh, made a favourable report of the behaviour and progress of the women under her charge. The secretary (Mr. J. Jones) said that the demand for household servants was so much greater than the supply that people were willing to take them without a strict investigation into their moral character, and the consequence was that many yonng women who would formerly have applied for admission to penitentiaries were able to go into service.

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