The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

NORTH WALES ASSIZE CIRCUIT. WE are threatened, it seems, with a return to the arrangement temporarily adopted in part of 1875 and 1876, when Chester Assizes were held at the com. mencement instead of the close of the circuit. The consequences would be a serious. increase of trouble and cost in many civil cases, which cannot be heard, for want of time, in the county to which they belong, and which are now taken at Chester. Unless, with the proposed change, the length of time allotted to Welsh Assizes is also increased, of which, we suppose, there is no likelihood at all, the remanets would have to be heard in Liverpool, or, more likely, in London. A contemporary says:—In future, if the present intuitions of Her MAJESTY'S Judges are realized, Chester will precede the towns of North Wales in the assize fixtures, not because any advan- tage will result to the bar or the public, but simply, as far as a reason for the change can be discovered, be- cause one of the Judges will be saved a short journey. It is not characteristic of English Judges, any more than of other distinguished public ser- vants in this country, to consult their own convenience before the public advantage, and, in spite of the remonstrance which was addressed to them in 1876, we cannot help thinking that the facts of the case are unknown to their Lordships. It is to be hoped, therefore, that steps will be taken to bring the views both of the bar and the public before them, so that they may be induced to revert to the old ar. rangement, by which cases that could not be heard in North Wales were remitted to Chester. Happily, erious crime is so rare in Wales, that the time ordinarily allowed for Welsh assizes is only three days, and there is always a risk that the civil cases set down for hearing cannot all be tried in that short period. Only one Judge sits, and to him falls the civil as well as the criminal business; so that it is evident the risk we have mentioned is anything but a remote one. In 'fact, to give an example, there were two cases at Carnarvon in the spring of 1876 which came under this category, and our own columns from time to time bear witness to the fact that much of the assize business of North Wales has to be transacted at Chester. The consequence is, that a strong bar assembles in the City, and the business is transacted with as little inconvenience as can be associated with the removal of a trial from the county to which it properly belongs. If the opportunity of hearing remanets at Chester is abolished, suitors will be com- pelled to seek for justice at Liverpool, where the business is already so great that something like a block is the result, or in London, where, of course, the expenses would be greatly increased.

♦ POLITICS IN CARDIGANSHIRE. AFTER the Conservative victory in Cardiganshire about three years ago, the Liberal party seriously set about the work of organization, which had unquestionably been greatly neglected for many years previously. A central committee for the county and sub-committees for districts were formed subscriptions were obtained the regis- tration was more strictly attended to and in other respects arrangements were made for re- trieving the disaster which gave Mr. T. E. TLOYD a seat in the House of Commons as the member for Cardiganshire. It will be remembered that at the time Mr. T. E. LLOYD was returned for the county, Mr. DAVID DAVIES, Llandinam, was returned for the boroughs in the place of the late Sir T. D. LLOYD, who retired. The work of or- ganization is now so far advanced that it is felt the time has come for choosing a candidate, and with this end in view a meeting will shortly be held at Lampeter. It is not probable that a candidate will be finally decided upon until the district committees have had an opportunity of discussing the opinions and chances of any gen- tlemen mentioned as likely to contest the county in the Liberal interest. It has been rumoured that Mr. DAVID DAVIES is willing to surrender his seat for the boroughs and to take his chance against Mr. T. E. LLOYD in the county. An arrangement of this kind would find great favour with gentlemen anxious for a seat in Parliament, but not willing to incur the heavy c' expenso of a county election, especially as the issue is not absolutely certain. The originators of the rumour that the Borough member is will-! ing to throw himself into the county breach wisely abstain from giving reasons why Mr. DAVIES sboald take a step that, to say the least of it. would cot him five or six thousand pounds. Not only do the originators of this rumour abstain from advancing reasons why Mr. DAVIES should risk his seat to save the pocket of some unknown aspirant for Parliamentary honours, but they are careful not to divulge the authority on which the rumour is based. The fabricators and circula- tors of this local H distribution of seats may not be uninterested in hearing that Mr. DAVID DAVIES, M.P., is as perfectly satisfied with his constitu- ents as his constituents are with him, and that he has not the slightest intention of doing any- thing to sever a connection which is mutually agreeable. There is not the slightest reason of any kind why Mr. DAVIES should be expected to add the risk of expulsion from the House of Commons to the other great services he has rendered the county. It is impossible, in discussing the merits of probable Liberal candidates for the honour of representing Cardiganshire in Parlia- ment, to ignore the claims of Mr. E. M. RICHARDS, whose defeat at the last election was certainly not due to doubtful Liberalism. Whoever the Liberal candidate may be, he can never represent the Nonconformists of the county more completely on all points than they were represented by Mr. EVAN MATTHEW RICHAKDS nor is there at this moment a gentleman who can be named more likely to command general confidence than the late member. We are not in a position to say that Mr. RICHARDS, if asked, would undertake another campaign, nor are we sure that he would be successful inim attempt to obtain possession of the seat; but that he is fairly entitled to the re- membrance and support of the party is clear. It is very doubtful whether anyone likely to come forward, now the boroughs are out of the question, would create anything like the amount of en- thusiasm that would follow on a declaration being C, made that Mr. E. M. RICHARDS, at the request of the Liberal party, was prepared to con- test the county against Mr. T. E. LLOYD at the first opportunity. The Liberal candidate, to have a chancb of success, must be prepared to vote for the disestablishment and dis- endowment of the Established Church in Wales. The disruption of the church may be brought aJ)out by internal dissensions, but the Liberal candidate will b3 expected to speak with no uncertain voice on disestablishment as an integral part of the Liberal programme. Not a few of the more thoughtful Liberals are doubtful whether the country is ripe for disestablishment, and only make it an article in their political creed on the ground that Wales should lead the van in this question. It is felt that Cardiganshire ought not to return a Liberal member who is not pre- pared to vote for every measure that tends to protnote religious equality. It is to be hoped that the x liberal party will not be too anxious to decide finally .upon a candidate at the Lampeter meeting, and that even at the risk of Conserva- tive sneers the matter will be left cpen until the way to even something more than united action is clearly seen. Of course events at any moment might transpire that would precipitate an election, but there is nothing in the political position to favour the supposition that a dissolution of Parliament is imminent. The Conservative Government is still vigorous enough to do noth- ing for a year or two, and therefore hurry in deciding upon a candidate is not necessary.

MONTHLY SALES OF LIVE STOCK. LANDOWNERS and tenant farmers in Cardiganshire are slow to avail themselves of the advantages offered by the sale of live stock by auction at the monthly fairs held at Aberystwyth. The custom of the country is for butchers and middle men to go round the farm houses chaffering for cattle, j Sometimes a butcher spends a day in buying a 0 single animal, but his time is not worth rauch, and his profits are large; besides, the plan kills competition. This suits the butcher, and strangely enough is not objected to by the farmer, in whose mind sales by auction are inseparably associated with change, loss and ruin. Butchers, of course, cannot be expected to advocate monthly sales by auction, for the simple reason that they have no desire to be brought into competition with the great buyers of stock for the English markets. These buyers again will not come down to Aber- ystwyth monthly on the mere chance of picking up a few animals after no end of haggling; but if they knew that two or three hundred head of cattle would be offered by auction every first Monday in the month, at a stated time, and knocked down to the highest bidder, they would come and bid to the full value of what was offered. In these days time is of too great im- portance to men engaged in large businesses for them to spend it in going about Wales from one farm house to another looking for stock, which in other districts they can find ready to hand in the market places. One reason why farmers are poor in this district is that they deal with middle men on credit instead of coming to markets and re- ceiving money for their produce before they re- turn home. It is, perhaps, unreasonable to expect that small farmers of limited experience and edu- cation should lead the way in a change of this kind, especially as the advantages, though very real, are not obvious to the bucolic mind. It is not difficult to see that any change which increases the number of buyers and intensifies the competi- tion for an article, must benefit those who offer that article for sale. That the establishment of monthly sales by auction of live stock have in- variably benefited farmers by placing enhanced prices within their reach is luckily not a matter of mere assertion, but of actual fact, proved in a hundred districts where they have been estab- lished, sometimes after repeated failures. The question at Aberystwyth is how to make these sales popular. In some places, with this en din view, a committee of country gentlemen and farmers pledged to support the fairs, has been formed and succeeded in overcoming the natural dislike to a strange method of conducting business. A committee of this kind formed in the district of Aberystwyth, and with its members pledged to sell their stock by auction would in a short time do more to popularize the sales than Mr. G. T. SMITH has been able to do from the time he first began the attempt until now. That the sales will be advantageous to the auctioneer is un- doubted that they will be profitable to the dealer by enabling him to save time is certain and that the farmer will make a profit out of them is clear, seeing that the competition will be keener than it is now. At first, however, there must be some slight risk of lower profits than those obtained under the old plan. The risk is certain, but the actual loss, we believe, is doubt- ful. To meet this risk and to reduce to a mini- mum the chances of loss is the reason for form- ing a committee of gentlemen, whose knowledge of stock sales by auction would enable each mem- ber to speak and act with confidence in adopting them himself, and recommending them to others. There is, in the town, it may be pointed out, a Markets Committee, formed of members of the Town Council, but what that committee ever did to improve the markets and fairs is a mystery, and will remain a mystery, in all probability, as long as the Corporation exists. The markets and fairs at Aberystwyth are not encouraged either by the Town Council or the tradesmen, and yet, within certain moderate limits they are successful. That much might be done to improve them is certain. One way, at any rate, to improve the monthly fairs is to secure the establishment of sales by auction of live stock, and this cannot he done without the co-operation of gentlemen who ought not to hesitate in coming forward to pro- mote a change that would affect town and country beneficially.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT NOTES. Mrs. LEWIS PUGH PUGH, of Abermaide, near Aberyst- wyth, we regret to say, met with an accident one day this week through the running away of a horse. She sustained a simple fracture of the leg. At Lampeter Board of Guardians on Saturday last one of the members produced a large black beetle, and asked if that was not the Colorado beetle. The Colorado beetle craze has reached a point not seldom equaled, and it would be interesting to know where the terrible insect has been fiiding any time this last three hundred years. With a little nursing, and a good deal of writing up, the beetle may be turned to advantage now Parliament is prorogued. The medical ofBeers and nuisance inspector of the Lam- peter Rural Sanitary Authority presented reports at the last meeting of that body. These reports, which are! published in another column, show that the people are living in houses not fit for human habitation that fever has been somewhat fatal; that the death rate is high that the villages in several districts are badly supplied with water; that often when the water is plentiful it is not clean. No greater satire on the boasted religion and civilization of the ave could be found than that afforded by the reports read at Lampeter on Friday last. f Towyn Local Board had brought before them at tteir last meeting the question of the promenade pier. The CHAIRMAN seemed to think any discussion about the erection was premature, as there would not be much of the pier left in twelve months. ARTEMUS WARD once said it was well not to prophesy ualess you know. The advice was sound. What will the prophets of evil say if the pier does staadJ The water question is agitating Towyn among other places. The Loeal Board of that favourite resort have been written to by the Local Government Board, and have returned an evasive answer. If there is any dirty water in the distriet, and it can be had cheap, the inhabi- tants are sure to drink it in preference to clean water at greater cost. The Aberdovey Gas Works not long ago were offered sale, and it appears they will shortly be in the market again. The question is whether the Local Board ought to purchase these works. The company is represented as willing to make a considerable sacrifice in order to get rid of a property that pays five per cent. If the representa- tions are borne out by facts, the Board could not do better than make the purchase. Aberdovey deprived of gas would be dreary indeed. Mr. J. F. JONES, the medical officer of Towyn, is paid a salary of B10 a year. He finds that part of his duties consists in keeping a Bet of books, and, at the last Board meeting he said could not keep these books for a salary of £10. We should think medical officers who are paid 210 per annum are not supposed to keep anything except perhaps a knowledge of the Board meeting at which the cheque for the B10 is handed to them The Machynlleth Parochial Committee met on Tuesday last. Perhaps the Borth Committee will begin to move in a month or two. The difficulties of the Tregaron Board of Guardians, in their efforts to build a workhouse, are beginning. Some time ago the contractor failed. About that time it was discovered that the river was carrying away the land on which the workhouse stands, and that if something was not done to protect the land the building would be washed away before it was finished. To crown. these evils the Board now discover that the contractor's sureties o co-contractors, for it is doubtful whether they are one or the other, do not seem disposed to complete the building. In their extremity the Guardians have written to the Local Government Board. That the workhouse will have to fee finished; that the Guardians will wish they knew something about business; and that the ratepayers will have to pay an unnecessarily heavy bill; may be reckoned upon as certainties. Public bodies, for their usefulness or otherwise, depend a good deal upon the way they are presided over. Tregaron Board of Guardians is no excep- tion to the common rule. The drainage of the town was well carried out by the Rural Sanitary Authority, which consists of the same members as the Board of Guardians, only they are differently arranged. It is intended to erect a new church at Bryncrug, about three miles from Towyn. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last week, a successful bazaar was held in the Market Hall in aid of the building fund. The stipend of the curate, B120 a year, will be provided by the Eccle- siastical Commissioners. The new church will cost about E800, and towards this sum the Diocesan Church Exten- sion Society contribute £100. The annual flower show was held on Wednesday at Glan- llyn, where Sir W ATKIN and Lady WYNN deiight to gather round them their neighbours, while at the same time they encourage the cultivation of flowers among the people. The advantages of fostering a taste for flowers, and a de- sire to keep neat and well-cultivated gardens, are obvious, and it would be well if a larger number of country gentle men followed Sir WATKIX'S example in this respect. It is to bhoped, too, that the efforts of the worthy Baronet and Lady WYNN will be more widely appreciated by the cottagers in future years. The Rev. JOHN JONES has resigned the vicarage of Llanfihangelgeneu'rglyn. The rev. gentleman was ordained deacon in 1820, priest in 1821, by the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S, and vicar of Llanfihangel in 1844. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S, and is worth £300 net, with a house. The population of, the parish, which includes Borth, is 3,581. The progress of the movement for establishing Dr. WILLIAMS'S Endowed Girls' School at Dolgelley will have been watched with interest by our readers in that neigh- bourhood, and they will be glad to see an advertisement in this day's paper, which shows that an early opening is anticipated. A Head Mistress is advertised for, and her services will be required from the 1st of January, and the School, it is hoped, will be opened on the 1st of February. The salary of the Head Mistress is to be at least CI20 a year, exclusive of board and residence. Fines were inflicted on Wednesday last at Aberyst- wyth in several cases of street obstruction. The difficulty of walking or driving through the streets has long been notorious. The concluding portion of the proceedings of the Welsh Congregational Union at Portmadoc is reported in this day's issue. In laying'the foundation stone of a Memorial Chapel in honour of the late Mr. AMBROSE, Mr. HENRY RICHARD gave some interesting statistics of the progress of accommodation for religious worship in Wales. From 1851 to 1871, he said, 110 new Episcopal Churches had been built, and 132 re-built or enlarged; and during the same period 581 Dissenting Chapels had been built, and 734 re-built or enlarged. The building and enlarging of places of worship has greatly exceeded the increase of population in the Principality. » At Portmadoc County Court, Mr. H. D. ROBERTS, who had been a schoolmaster under the Beddgelert School Board, sued that Board for 910, balance of Government grant alleged to be due to him. The plaintiff was engaged at 240 fixed salary, and the whole 'of the Government grant, and the question which arose was, whether an addi- tion to the grant, in certain cases of small population, made in 1876, whereas the agreement with plaintiff was in 1874, was to be handed over to the master. The matter was referred to the Education Department. At the bazaar to be held at the Assembly Room, Church-street, Aberystwyth, on Thursday and Friday, August 30 and 31, one of the prominent and interesting features will be an oriental stall supplied direct from India by Mr. LEWIS PUGH PUGH'S brother, who resides in CaL cutta. The interest centred in this bazaar is much greater than in ordinary cases of church restoration, owing to the fine architectural features of the building at Llanbadarn, and its great age. There is not an inhabitant of Cardi- ganshire, whatever may be his religious beliefs, if he re- veres the past, who will not come forward, and assist the Rev. JOHN PUGH, the vicar of the parish, in his effort to complete the work of restoration. An ancient building of this kind is a national monument everybody ought to assist in preserving. The sum of 22,000is a large amount to raise, but if generous help is forthcoming on the 30th and 31st, the money may be obtained. J On Saturday morning last the largest ship ever built at Aberystwyth was safely launched from the yard of Mr. J. F. Evans, the builder. 4: At the Aberaeron regatta, on Wednesday, the chief prize for four-oared boats was won by a crew of the Aber- ystwyth Boating Club. Only two boats competed. After the races there-were some athletic sports. Mr. BAGNALL, a visitor staying at No. 6, Victoria-terrace, carried off the prize of E5 in the hurdle race. Great credit is due to Aberaeron for the arrangements and for the way they have supported these sports.

The death is announced of Mr William Longman, a member of the well-known publishing firm in Paternoster Row. The annual meeting of the British Association was opened on Wednesday, August 15, at Plymouth. The President, Professor Alien Thomson, delivered an in- augural address, the subject of which was the Development of the Doctrine of Evolution. The name of Mr. Darwin drew forth repeated cheers, and an enthusiastic approval is said to have been given to the statement that nobody could long pursue the study of science without becoming an evolutionist. The colliers at Nantyglo and Blaenau, South Wales, who are on strike, for an advance of fifteen per cent., have been offered an advance of ten per cent. The majority of the men are in favour of accepting it, but no definite reply has yet been given.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT. "V' AVe beg to repeat the statement made some time ago, that the announcement of engravings to be sold on the coupon system, appearing in this paper from time to time, are ordinary advertisements, which are inserted in the usual course of business. The Illustrated Spot-tins/ and Dramatic News contains an engraving of Beaumaris Regatta. The moment chosen for the sketch is "the Challenge Winning." On the other side of the Straits the mountains rise into the clouds- PRESENTATION.—Mr. Griffith, the "Gohebydd" of the Welsh press, has been presented by his countrymen with an address and a purse containing £734, in acknowledg- ment of the long and valuable services rendered by him in the promotion of Welsh national m-titutions and objects. We are authorized to say there is no truth in the report that Brogyntyn, the seat of Lord Harlech, will again be called Porkington. GOOD TEMPLARY IN WALES.—We understand that great preparations are being made in prospect of the annual session of the English Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Wales, which will be held in Wrexham on the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th September. A large public meeting and demonstration will be held in addition to iLe business meetings of the session. DEATH OF THE REV. C. BOUTELL.- \V e regret to announce the death of the Rev. C. Boutell. who was announced to read a paper on Certain Early Effides and other Monumental Memorials of North Wales," at the forthcoming meeting of the British Archaeological Association at Llangollen. The Athenccum savs :—" Mr. Boutell was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and took his B.A. degree in 1834. He" was shortly after- wards incorporated at Trinity College, Oxford. He first made himself known as an antiquary by his works on brasses (' Monumental Brasses and Slabs.' 1847, and Monumental Brasses of England and Wales,' 184f). These were followed by his 'Manual of British Archaeology, and his most successful book, Heraldry, Historical and Popular.' In 1867 he published a more popular treatise— 4 English Heraldry,' and in 1869, Arms and Armour.' Mr. Boutell, we believe, was in his 68th year. BANGOR ADMIRALTY COURT.—Mr. Horatio Lloyd, on Monday, August 13th, gave judgment in the case of the Dunsandle, of Newcastle, and the Eryri Timber Com- pany, Carnarvon, in which the latter were sued for de- murrage on a charter party from Quebec to Carnarvon. The case, which was sent down from the superior courts, has been before the court some months, his Honour having given a special day at Chester for its hearing. He now held that the owners of the Dunsandle were not re- sponsible for the loss of time when loading at Quebec, and gave judgment for £ 25. He had nothing to do with the question of costs beyond the day s hearing at JBangor, which would be allowed thp defendants. THE LATE IR T. D. LLOYD.—At a meeting of the Newcastle jmlyn Board of Guardians, Mr. J. M. Jones, Rhvdlewis, in the chair, a resolution was passed expres- sive of the htartfelt sorrow of Guardians at the lamented death of their late chairman, Sir Thomas D. Lloyd, Bart.. Bronwydd. Mr. J. M. Jones, who has been an active .1 vice-chairman for upwards of t'.venty years, was unani- mously eleeted chairman, and Mr, S. Davies, Cilfallen, vice-chairman,

BIRTHS. MARRIAGES. & DEATHS. BIRTHS 8th' at tie residence of hei father Queen's St&SKr" E T' H°ghes' "SSioSJSA lhC KCT-w- B- M"ks> Brytttimn. wi £ sysssw?y!r.s* °'cm- *"• DEATHS. ARMSTRONG-Aug. 5th, aged 40, at his residence, Holt HalL noar Wrexham, Thomas eldest surviving son of Dr. Am! strong, Late Principal of Farndon Hall Academy Cheshire NewSw^Ug'llth' aged 32, Mr. Wm. Oswald Brayne, New Inn, DAVIES—Aug. 6th, aged C4, Mr. Richard Davies. weaver Cwm- belan, near Llanidloes. E^wArds—r;>, Mr. Wm. Edwards, of Trefynant Cottage, near Ruabon. Ev AXS-Aug. 3rd, aged 14 months, David, son of Mr. Isaac Evans. carpenter, Penygraig, Llanidloes. GEORGE Aug. 8th, aged 53, Mr. Thos. George, miner, Lluest- wen, near Llanidloes. 52.th' at Broneirion Cottage, Llandinam, Fanny, relict of the Rev. John Jones, of Talsarn Jw^rA^- 7th> aged 24> Ann> *ife of Mr. Robert Llovd Jones. Wylfa, Carno. °aTii *•». J°Fj^arHU £ n73 ^ed 7 wec;ks' M-tr?aret Ann, daughter of Mr. Llanidloes! Crown 211111 Anch01 Inn. Long Bridge-street, LLBr«)kdnf H?11 at, resideice °f her daughter, Brookland Hall, Welshpool, Anna, relict of Thomas Lucas, Esq. 31ILLs-Aug. 10th, aged 72, Jane, wife of Ir. Edwarci Mills, Bwlch Inn, TAYLOR-Aug. Oth, aged 11), JLne, -econd cIalighter of Ir. Edwd. Taylor, of 18, .4.lbion-terrace, WATSON-Ang. 8th, aged 60, at Hamilton-square, Birkenhead, Margaret,, widow of C D. Watson, Esq, of 27, Hamilton- square. Birkenhead, and Brvmaugoleu Bala WILLIAMS-Aug. 7th, aged 30, Mr. Wm. Williams, miner, Church- street, Llanidloes.

CRICKET. ABERYSTWYTH V. VISITORS.S^ATEHT^R^^R^ Saturday, August 11, at Gogercklan, the seat of Sir Pi vse Pryse who, with his usual kindness, gave refreshment on" a liberai scale for the inner man. As will be seen by the score the match was most exciting, Aberystwyth winning by only one run. The weather was fine, the cricket good, and a most eniovale dav was spent by all Score:— TT ™ X ABERYSTWYTH. C. H. Thruston, b Robinson 17 b Eyton g R. D. Lewis, b Robinson 2 Morris Davies, c and b Robinson 40 not out 45 J. Hughes, c Watkins, b S. Prince 4 st Prince, b Robin- T „ son 0 Gilbertson, c Parland, b lung. C b Salisburv 1 £ ) A. J. Hughes, h Robinson 10 c Sub., b Salisbury 3 L. P. Pugh, b Robinson 5 0. Jones, b Robinson 0 1. W. Gilbertson, b Eyton 3 x>" 5°S,er^s' no" °!L 8 ht wt, b Robinson. 9 P. P. Pryse. c and b Eyton 0 Extras. 6 Extras 6 101 85 ViflTORS. T. Eyton, b Lewis. 2 F. A. Prince, b Lewis 14 J. B. Robinson, 1 b w, b O. W. Watkin, run out 0 Jones ;•■■■: A. E. Prince, b Lewis 2 T. Lloyd Tamberlain, b Salisbury, c O. Jones, b Lewis. 44 A. J. Hughes. 8 E. King, c and b Morris F. W. Prince, net out 0 „ Payies 11 Extras 0 Capt. Parland, b O. Jones.. 2 G. Pemberton, b Lewis 5 100

LAMPETER. BOARD OF GUARDIANS, ly.IIUY, AUGUST 10TH.- Present: Mr. William J ones, Llwynygroes, chairman, the Rev. R. Jenkins, vice-chairman, Mr. J. P. V. Pryse, and Mr. T. H. R. Hughes, ex-officio; and Messrs. John Rees, Cellan, Joseph Morgan and James Edwards, Lampeter, Evan Jones, Llanfairclydograu, W. Jones, Llangybi, David Davies, Llanwenog, David Thomas, Llanwnnen, John Lewis, Silian, David Richards, Trenlan, David Davies and John Davies, Llanybyther, Daniel Jones, Llanfihangelrhosycorn, John Lloyd, Pencarreg, David Lloyd, clerk, Herbert Davies and Abel Evans, medical officers. Statist? es.-Otit-relief administered during the past fortnight: per Mr. D. Parry, in the Lampeter district was, i;46 3s. 6d. to 193 paupers. Mr. John Jones did not present a return. Number in the house, 3. The Workhouse.—The tender of Mr. Samuel Davies, junr., for the supply of window blinds for the Workhouse was accepted. Publication of Notices.-The Clerk laid before the Board a claim for the publication of notices under the Education Act pursuant to directions received from the Education Department. The Clerk was directed to ask the Local Government Board if the Guardians could legally pay the claim. The Colorado Beetle.-One of the Guardians presented a black beetle to the Board about the size of a small wall- nut and asked if it were a Colorado Beetle ?—The Board answered the question by a hearty laugh. Education.-A meeting of the School Attendance Com- mittee was held at the conclusion of the parochial busi- ness, Mr. T. H. R. Hughes in the chair. The Clerk re- ported that the Llanwnnen ratepayers had passed a reso- lution requesting the formation of by-laws. The by-laws had been accordingly made. They were presented to the Board and the Clerk was directed to forward them to the Education Department. Sanitary Reports.—Mr. W. Rees, the inspector of nuisances presented the following report:— I have lately visited the majority of places in the Lampeter Union, and I find a great improvement since my appointment four years ago. Recently I impressed upon everv householder the advisability of using the purest of Water, and am sorry to say that in some parishes the people have to go nearly a mile for it. It is especially so in the parish of Llangybi, where the villagers suffer much in consequence of the absence of a good supply of water. In that parish there has been a severe case of typhus. I believe three in the same 2ioi!*e oied of it. I attri- bute the outbreak partly to the want of good water, and partly to overcrowding. I have used disinfectants and caused the house to be whitewashed. The inhabitants of the cottages on the Derry Ormond estate suffer very much from want of water. I have spoken to the agent about it, but I believe nothing has been done. A great improvement has been made in the parish of Llanfair, by removing dunghills to a greater distance from the houses, and by making the windows so that they can be opened. There have been two cases of typhus in this parish, the first being in one of the cottages COllyertwJ from an old dwelling- house of Pentre farm. The parties Junk vlie disease was brought from Carmarthen. Some of the cottage:" are in a dilap- idated state, requiring thatching and thele vellinK of the ground to prevent the accumulation of putrid wakrs. There is also an open pump before one of the doors. The well contains the car- cases of dead rats, which have been hunted into it. and thus a nuisance is caused. The well, however, contains excellent water, and therefore it would be a good thing to have it properly repaired and cleansed. Another case of fever broke out at Gwn- dwnglas, in a house in a bad state of repair. I had the place disinfected. There has also been a case of typhus fever at Pen- carreg. There has been a great improvement in this parish, aa well as Llanfihangel-rhosycorn. Llanvhvther is now free from all cases of fever. Llanwenog and Llanllwni have had one case each. Mr. Abel Evans, the medical officer of health, reported as follows Gentlemen,—I beg to send you my report for the last half-vear ended the 30th June. I am glad to say it has been very bdthy during the first quarter, with the exception of Dolygwn, in Pen- carreg parish,-where typhoid fever appeared. Five persons were attacked by it, and two of them died.* The house stands on low level ground with no fall, consequently during the winter » good deal of stagnant water mixed with liquid refuse was to be seen in the yard close to the pine end of the clweIlmg honse. That I believe is the cause of fever. I gave instructions to have the yard filled with gravel so that it might be kept dry. Mv in- structions were observed at once. During the past three months the district has not been so healthy. The cold weather of April and May brought on several cases of pulmonary affec- tions. In the month of June scarlet fever of a malignant form appeared at Tynwain in Llangybi parish. Four children took it and three died. This house consists of two small rooms on the ground floor filled up with beds and other furniture, so there was not sufficient air for a family of six without some sort of ventilation. The windows were very small. The floor which was of mud was damp.. Water plentiful, but not fit for domestic purposes. I directed the Inspector to disinfect the place, and told the family to get water from some other place. I also told them to prevent visits from strangers. By these means I believe the disease was stamped out. At Talwvnarlas. Llanfair, a case of mild typhoid fever appeared. This is also an old thatched house with mud floors. I found the dung heap, upon which all kinds of slops were thr-wn, opposite the front door. I had that immediately removed. The water at this place is pretty fair. At Parkrhos village I found the houses clean, but there are one or two pigsties not in proper order. I wish to call vour attention to a house occupied by John Jones, where I found an open drain containing stagnant water and pig manure at the pine end of the wall. The pigsty is in front of the house and not many yards from the door. I found the houses at Pencarreg, on the whole kept better than I expected, though there are some that ought to bj llmewashed. A cow-house and pigsty belonging to a shoemaker on the road from Lampeter to Llanybyther causes a nuisance. I have the same complaint against the Toy Bush. The water at Pencarreg is pure and plentiful. I cannot say the same of Parkrhos. The houses at Pentrellanfair were former] y farm buildings, but are now converted into dwelling-houses for the poor and working people. The houses are sadly in want of re-thatchin<r. as in wet weather tha water trickles down the walls to the floor. At Llnno-vbi Tvcam occupied by an old woman ninety years of Re, is sadlv'in'want of external repair. Glandwr, occupied by Thomas Davies has a great deal of stagnant water and liquid refuse in the yard be- hind the house Water at Llangybi h pure and plentiful." Glanrafon, in Silian parish, is too small and dark. In fact the house ought to be demolished. Llwyngoris, PenVarreo- Parish ought to be re-thatched ornot inhabited. In those threeVsrishes I only found two privies. Since writing the above report I find that during the six months 77 births and M deaths were re- gistered m the district The former was at the annual rate of •28 per thousand, and the latter at 20. Six of these d«ath< were the result of zymotic diseases 3 typhoid and 3 of sctrlet fever. p Mr. Herbert Davies, the medical officer for the Llany- byther district, reported as follows :— .Gentlemen, beg to f.it* that during the quarter ended uiine, ISK, many cases of diseases of the respiratorv or^an* such as p.eurisy pneumonia, and bronchitis occurred, but were not very fatal. Eleven cases of typhoid fever of a severe -vnp occurred in the district Five were in the parish of Llanllwui and six 111 Llanwenog parish. One of the Llanllwni rases w«a brougiio irom the Ironworks; .mother from Carmarthen A case 01 typhoid was carried from Glamorganshire to New Court Llanwenog. Another case was contracted at Carmarthen -in,i was the origin of the rest of the cases at Llanwenon- Two of th« Llanllvvni patients died, one after removal from th; district. The other patients have all recovered. I am happy to be ah if tn state that at present the district is free from any endemic and epidemic diseases.

SHIPPING. Week ending 4,15, 1877. J 0 ABERDOVEY. Arrived.—Seven Brothers, Bowen, Dunclalk; Catherine yltiX8' y E- Taylor (s)' Aber- T Saijcd-catherine Morgans, Jones, Donf gal; Xn^o-pf ystwyth'. quay; HenrT E. Taylor (- ), Richards, Aber- A BERYSTWYTH. Diligent, Edwards. Cork H. E. Taylor Iss) Richards Bristol; Chr'stiana, Thomas, Csrdiean • Thomas, Rees, Saunders foot. S(tiled.-Hope, Jenkin, Quebac; John James, C'lryton Llanelly; Jane, Morgans, Milford; H. E. (ad Richards, Liverpool, y "h