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AGRICULTURE.
AGRICULTURE. (No. 8.) LIME AND BONES. TENANT farmers, liable on short notices to be turned out of their holdings, or, what they dread perhaps still more, to have their rents x-aised, are not likely to expand much capital in bones and lime. This fact is so obvious that Welsh landuwners cannot be ignorant of it, and yet they per- sistently decline to make twenty-one year leases the rule instead of the exception. A yearly tenant who limed and bone-manured his land liberally; who drained wet places, and kept watercourses, ditches, and drains well open; who cut and repaired fences and kept up gates who made roads through his farm, and main- tained his house and buildings in good repair who procured good machinery and saved manual labour by erecting a water wheel, windmill, or turbine who grew turnips and mangels; who fattened stock, and sent his children to first- class schools a yearly tenant who acted in this way would be looked upon as a lunatic by the public, and would very soon be told by his land- lord that his rent was too low by half. When he had spent say £10 or C15 an acre on the land he would be removed, or his rent would be raised equal perhaps to ten per cent. on the amount he had expended of his own capital. There are landlords-but they are scarce—who would neither evict an improving tenant nor raise his rent, but a good business man engaged in agriculture can- not invest his capital without the security afforded by a long lease. Farming, without lime and bones, is very much like the children of Israel's brickmakii) g without straw-thankless labour. The only thing required to complete the tenant's hope- less condition is that his homestead should be erected, as thousands of homesteads in Wales are erected, on the side of a hill, and that the fertilizing qualities should be washed out of the farmyard manure into blocked drains! The results will be disease in his household, much labour in carting the ruined manure upon his fields, and scant crops. The loss of manure entailed by the position of the farmyard of course cannot be attributed to the farmer nor, in the present state of education in Wales, can ho be severely blamed for his indifference to that loss, and his neglect to minimize it. The average Welsh farmer at once understands the loss of a dead sheep or of a sovereign m money, but he fails altogether to realize the far greater loss of rain-drenched manure, bad seed, or underfed cattle. It cannot be expected that a tenant who does not zealously guard his farmyard manure from deterioration will be the first to recognize the need for careful treatment of lime and the desirability 04 liberal expenditure in bones. Indeed the agriculturist whose education has been I neglected can only with great difficulty be made to understand that the material for the supply of crops must be regularly put into the soil or the time will come when that material will be exhausted and the land will become valueless. Lime is scarce and dear in many parts of Wales, but the wasteful treatment to which it is subjected might induce a stranger to think it was obtained free of cost. The process of slaking is C) often left to the rain, and the lime is then not used until it. has lost most of its caustic qualities. A paragraph on this subject from Professor TANNER'S useful little work needs to be enforced on Welsh farmers with all the emphasis that can be commanded. There are two methods," says the author referred to, by which caustic lime is slaked. One of these is a bad and wasteful system, and the other is a good and economical plaa. It is a too common practice for lime which has been drawn for manure to be distributed over the land in small heaps and left there until the rain has slaked it. This not only leads to much delay, but as the slaking takes place gradually, much of the lime has been acted upon by the carbonic acid of the atmosphere, aud much of its power lost before it is brought into use. Compare with this the care taken by a mason when slaking lime for mortar no delay is allowed, it is done qnickly by adding sufficient water, and then it is heaped up and covered from the air by sand. Some farmers adopt the same plan, and as soon as the heaps are made iu the field a water cart carries round the water required for the proper slaking of the lime, and it is then heaped up and protected from the air by a covering of erth. For building pur- poses it is necessary to slake the lime thoroughly j and without loss, aad it is equally so for use as a manure. The only difference is that the loss is more easily detected in the case of the builder, but it is equally a loss to the farmer wbether he knows it or not. Time is, after all, an expensive manure before It is got upon the land, and it is unwise to allow it to waste." On the side-land farms of Wales lime is a far more expensive manure than on the level tracts of England, but the tenants of those side-land farms who carefully study how to make the most of the lime they pur- chase are certainly a small minority. Instead of covering up the slaked lime, and afterwards liar-1 rowing it into the laud before its power has been abstracted by the atmosphere, the custom is to leave it on the fields until the weather has made it almost useless. That poor farmers should purchase lime, drag it laboriously up steep .fields, and then fail to make the best pos- sibla use of it, is one of those extraordinary facts which can only be explained by the cultivator's ignorance of the properties and uses of the article he is dealing with. Lime, for obvious reasons, is far more generally used in Wales than bones. The yearly tenant knows that lime will assist him in getting out of the land, for a time at any rate, more than he puts into it. He will make the soil hungrier in the long run, but if landlords prefer yearly tenants and a certain territorial power, rather than leases and improving estates, the tenant must accommodate himself to the con- ditions of his position, and must study how to get crops without permanently improving his holding. Half-inch bones are a costly manure that lasts, and consequently one that yearly tenants seldom use anywhere, and still more seldom in Wales. In some parts of the Principality not only are bones not put upon the land, but they are care- fully collected and sent away into England to be manufactured into manures, which do not find their way back again. The custom in Wales of I sending away store stock which has hardly done growing is one that makes the greatest drain upon the land with the least return in the shape of manure. The bones sent away every year in the skins of animals are an item too often lost sight of by farmers who are slow to believe that Wales is as capable of improvement as the once bleak region north of the Tweed. There are towns in this part of the United Kingdom from which many tons of old bones are sent away every year instead of being ground and administered to the land. It does not require a practical farmer of great experience to under- stand that Wales is not in a position to send away bones in large quantities without feeling their loss. It may be said that more than an equivalent for the bones sent away is returned in lime, superphosphates, andothermanures. It is,however, greatly to be feared that this is not the case except in rare instances. There are, of oourse, intelli- gent landowners, leaseholders, and freeholders, who deal generously with the soil, and who have found that it requites generosity with profitable crops, but the bulk of cultivators are yearly tenants, who risk nothing and reap nothing. They I would not be justified in risking anything under a system of tenure that not only leaves them at I the mercy of the landlord but makes them the victims of accidents which happen with sufficient regularity to prevent any reasonable man from calculating on their non-occurrence. The 0 waste of farmyard manure, the mismanagement of quick lime, and the exportation of bones in one form or another are points well deserving the attention of farmers and landowners in every part of the Principality. If the soil of Wales is^less kindly than that of England and Scotland, Welsh farmers should be more and not less careful to utilize every artificial aid for its improvement. If the English farmer finds it necessary 0:1 rich soil to husband his farmyard manure, to carefully slake and apply lime, to import bones, and to assiduously till the ground, then the Welsh farmer surely cannot afford to dispense with these things on poor land which has been neglected for generations. It is true that Wales is not hke Kent or Norfolk, but Wales can be indefinitely improved by the mere application to agriculture of those ordinary business principles, without which nothing can be done in trade or commerce. i If the soil of Wales is not naturally rich, the way to improve it is not to waste manure and. to let things drift, but to grapple with the conditions of the case, and study what is most likely to succeed. There are disabilities, but there are also .advan- tages, and it is absurd to think that with security for the investment of capital, and freedom from game, the tenant farmers of Wales could not put upon the country a different face than that it now wears. One great drawback to agriculture in Wales is due to the impression in the minds ot tenants that good farming docs not piy. There is in every district at least one or more enter- prizing men who take the lead in cultivation, but their neighbours, instead of following their ex- ample, look upon them as dangerous people, whose evil courses are only to be studied to be shunned. ——-—<-————-
LOCAL AND DISTRICT NOTES.
LOCAL AND DISTRICT NOTES. The proposal to supply the town of Aberystwyth with water from what is known as the lower spring in The Melindwr has failed. A letter was read from Messrs. BAILEY DENTON, on Tuesday, which settles that point. Whether the course recommended by the en- gineers will be adopted is a question that cannot be settled now. In the meantime it has been decided to gauge all the springs. The advocates of the Flats were very vehement on Tuesday and tried to make the worse appear the better reason. The inhabitants of the town will surely see the wisdom ot putting an end to these fortnightly discussions. On the 8th and 9th of August next, a bazaar will be held at Borth, in order to liquidate the debt on the new Church recently erected. The amount of debt is large, and very substantial help will therefore be requirell by the committee. At the last meeting of the Aberystwyth Board of Guar- dians it was stated that the amount of the deficiencies in stock which the MASTER had made good reached the sum of kll4 5s. 3d. Mr. Mouius DAVIES said the House Com- mittee considered the amount which the MASTER had to pay was very high, and they did not see their way to accepting a higher tender." Did they or any of them wish to see their way to accept a higher tender? The MASTER of the Workhouse, it must be admitted, has been made a scapegoat for everybody, and it is to be hoped some means will be found of showing him that in public esti- mation he is almost as much sinned against as sinning. Of course there is a good deal of very righteous indigna- tion now, but is it quite right that all the burden of this JH114 should fall upon a man who has been acquitted of everything except carelessness which has resulted in kind- ness to the poor, whilst the Clerks and House Committee who have been equally careless escape scot free. The Llanbadam School Board decided at the last meet. ing to take proceedings in the County Court for the re- covery of arrears of school fees fro Li- people well able to pay. « *• The meeting of the North Cardiganshire Agricultural Society, held on Monday last, for the fixing of prizes, &c., was not very well attended. It was suggested by Mr. FRYEI, in a letter that Classes A and B should be merged in one. That this merging of classes is desirable and will ultimately be carried out is a foregone conclusion, but whether the country is ripe for the change now is open to question. The alteration proposed was clearly quite within the scope of the meeting, as the fixing of the prizes would get rill of classes or create classes; but it would be well, as the CHAIRMAN said, that the change should be dis- cussed at a large meeting. The meeting was"adjonrned for a fortnight, when the discussion will be resumed, and of course if it is shown that the amalgamation of classes will be for the good of the Society, it will be carried out, if not this year, next. Mr. C. J. NAYLOR has refused to contest the Mont- gomery Boroughs in the Conservative interest. The number of inmates in the Lampeter Workhouse is now nineteen. The Workhouse was objected to with great success for many years, but now it has been built the CHAIRMAN and the Board are wisely determined to give it a fair trial. There is far more in a good Chairman than most Boards of Guardians imagine. One of the re- lieving officers at Lampeter has only 187 out-door paupers to attend to. Lampeter will show a rate of pauperism that will do something towards reducing the high average which at present casts discredit upon Wales. At the last meeting of the Lampeter Board of Guar- dians, the INSPECTOR was ordered to report on the sanitary condition of the whole Union. One of the members stated that in Cellan there are many cottages unfit for human habitation. It is to be hoped that the Board will gradu- ally close these dens of disease and pauperism. There is no other way of securing better houses for the poor. It is a wonder ministers of religion do not oftener deal with the home life of the poor. Dirty people!and people who live in houses unfit for habitation cannot well be re- ligious. A most unjustifiable statement was made at the last meeting by one of the members of the Dolgelley Board of Guardians respecting the INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES. We publish the serious imputation, because it was made at a public Board, and in order to refute it. If suppressed in our columns the charges would nevertheless have been cir- culated far and wide. That a public officer should be lightly charged with accepting bribes is intolerable, and ought not to have been passed over as quietly as it was. If a mem- ber of the Board knows an official accepts bribes he ought to bring a formal charge in a regular way. If he only believes" he should keep his beliefs to himself. A man's reputation ought not to be tampered with in this way. The desire to cast aspersions upon public officials seems to be spreading. The total cost to the Dolgelley Union of the GIBBORNE trial has been the large sum of £ 2,206, an amount abontequal to that which is thrown away every eighteen months in out-relief. The Local Government Board insist upon Rural Sani- tary Authorities appointing medical officers who are ex- pected to send in annual reports, which require careful preparation. In many unions, and among them Dol- gelley, the salaries paid to these officers are so utterly inadequate that the work they were intended to do is not done, nor is it pretended to be done by the officers. There is nothing more unsatisfactory than the rural medical officer s position under the Sanitary Act. To refuse to accept the wretched salary offered would induce other practictioners to settle in districts too poor to maintain the medical men already resident. To aceept the office means to do work, or to neglect it, which would not be overpaid at five times the sum offered for it. The Local' Government Board insists upon the annual reports, and as half the officer s salary is refunded they are able to exercise effective pressure. < The enforced attendance of children at elementary schools has done a good deal to make education unpopular, especially among poor people, who, to say the very least of it, find it convenient to keep elder children at home to nurse the younger. To be compelled to send children to school at first appeared a most unwarrantable interference with the right of people to neglect their families; and even yet there is a good deal of opposition to contend against among the more ignorant section of the community. a,-a Some time ago it was proposed by a member of the Aber- ystwyth School Board to give a small sum out of the funds of the school toward? a prize fund. The Rev. Canon 1 PHILLIPS, chairman of the Board, opposed this grant, and it was defeated. Last Friday the Llanbadarn School Board, presided over by Mr. J. G. W. BONSALL, unani- mously resolved to make a grant of £ 5—the sum asked for, by the way, at Aberystwyth—for prizes, to encourage the children to attend regularly. We dealt with the non- sense talked at the Aberystwyth Board on this subject, about a year ago, and only now refer to the course then pursued to show our readers that Llanbadarn School Board, with a rate much heavier than that of Aberystwyth, think it good policy, and a profitable investment, to spend £ 5 in prizes. There can be no question that it is far better to lead than to drive in this matter of attendance at school, and the ratepayers of the Llanbadarn School Board district will, we firmly believe, by this small grant, infuse a spirit of emulation into the children and their parents that will favourably affect the amount of govern- ment grant. It is not flattering to Aberystwyth School Board that Llanbadarnfawr should take the lead in a question of education. There is nothing that will tell so rmickly upon the poor as a few books publicly presented, and accompanied by words of praise and encouragement. It was most wisely provided in the Education Actslitliat a portion of the school funds could be spent in prizes, and we trust Aberystwyth will soon be the only place in Wales where this gentle way of securing the attendance of children and the co-operation of parents is not in force. l'he School Board at Llanbadarn is rapidly filling the schools, and what at one time it was feared would prove to be discordant elements work together without any sign of friction.
LOCAL AND DISTRICT.
LOCAL AND DISTRICT. PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS.—By Lord Carnarvon from medical practitioners in Carmarthen, Carnarvon, and Anglesey, in favour of conjoint Boards, and of a direct representation of medical practitioners on the general council. PETITION FOR LIQUIDATION.—T. Evans, of Nant Mill, Nant Farm, and Penyfron, Minera, Wrexham, farmer and corn dealer John Griffiths, Carnarvon, shipbuilder Evan Evans, Cardigan, licensed victualler and glazier; William John, Market-street, Llanelly, Carmarthen, draper and milliner. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE PENRHTN QUARRIES.—Mr. Roberts, the district coroner for Carnarvonshire, held an inquest on Wednesday, June 5, at Bethesda, on the body of Samuel Lovatt, aged forty-five, a single man, living at Rhiwlas. On the previous Friday morning he was at work at the quarries, when a large mass of rock and earth fell upon the gallery where the deceased and others were at work. The deceased received serious injuries to the head, and with another man, who was also badly hurt, was carried to the quarry hospital and attended by Dr. Williams. Deceased died from the effects of his injuries on Monday morning. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned.
ABERYSTWYTH.
ABERYSTWYTH. WEDDIXG.—On Wednesday, at the English Baptist Chaptel, the marriage of the Rev. T. E. Williams and Miss Lizzie Morris was solemnized by the Revs. J. A. Morris and Griffith Parry. The bride was given away by her father, Mr. Richard Morris, North Parade. Although the wedding was private, the chapel was crowded with well-wishers of the bride and bridegroom. The bride re- ceived many handsome and costly presents. THE BOARD SCHOOL (BOYS).—The result of the draw- ing examination in connection with the Science and Art Department, held in this school on Monday, March 11, was received last week, when it'was found that out of 100 boys presented, 4!) gave satisfactory evidence of having been taught drawing, 37 were proficient, and are entitled to a certificate, whilst 10 were marked "excellent" and will receive a prize and certificate. PENPARKAU NATIONAL SCHOOL CONCERT.—A concert was held at this school in the evening of the 4th June, under the presidency of Mr. J. James, Dolau. The pro- ceeds of the concert were intended to enable the boy, Morgan Jones, who some time ago lost his arm in the Slate Works of Messrs. Ellis and Owen. Aberystwyth, to get sufficient schooling to prepare himself to discharge the duties of a clerk in an office, and thereby earn his liveli- hood. There was a large attendance. The exertions of Messrs. G. H. Thomas and D. Lewis, who were the chief originators of the movement, were crowned with success, owing undoubtedly to the fact that they had been able to secure the valuable service of the young ladies at Mrs. Penllyn Jones's Ladies' Collegiate School. The ac- companists were Miss Turner, who did most work, and was greatly applauded, Misses Mcllquham, and Mr. Wheatley. A vote of thanks to the chairman was pro- posed by Mr. R. Richards, and was carried unanimously. A vote of thanks to Mrs. Penllyn Jones for her kindness in assisting the concert was moved by Mr. G. H.Thomas, and was carried unanimously. The following was the pro- gramme Pianoforte solo, '*Jessie's Dream," Miss Turner; song, Mr. Charles Davies chorus, "The Singing Lesson," Juvenile Party; duett, "Mountain Streams," Misses Thomas song, Y Gardotes Fach," Miss Delia Hughes; song, Miss David Phillips, Trefaes; pianoforte duett, "The Fairy Duett," Misses Evans and Jones; trio, "The Hills resound," Misses Cole, Hughes, and Nowell; song, Bugeiles y Wyddfa," Mr. Cha.s. Davies; song, "The Swiss Toy Girl," Miss Ellen Lloyd Jones; song, Shon Dafydd," Miss Annie E viti-is song, Salva Italia," Signiora P. Chambeaud; duet, Topsy Quad- rille," Misses Mcllquham; song, "The Christian Martyr," Miss Delia Hughes; chorus, "Fairies dance," Juvenile Party song, We don't want to fight," Mr. Aykin; song, Mr. D. Phillips, Trefaes; song, "The monkey," Mr. E. Edwards; song, "One bright summer morning," Miss Annie Evans; duet, The gipsy countess," Miss Thomas and Mr. Charles Davies chorus, Singing 'neath the old apple tree," Juvenile Party; song, "Tha yellow beaked blackbird," Miss Ellen Jones duet, "The two sailors," Messrs. David Phillips and Charles Davies; song, "The minstrel boy," Miss Annie Evans. "God save the Queen." PETTY SESSIONS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5th.—Before David Roberts. Esq. (mayor), John Watkins, Esq. (ex-mayor), J. W. Szlumper, Esq., and John Rees, Esq. Drunk and Begging.—Thomas Morgan and John Jones, alias David Williams, were charged with being drunk and begging, on Monday, June 3, at Trefeelian.-P.S. Evans said that the defendants were going into houses and ask- ing for money, and they also stopped gentlemen on the road, and exposed sores in order to get money.—The de- fendants were sent to gaol for twenty-one days. Adjourned School Board Case.-ltichard Humphreys, High-street Court, was proceeded against at the last Court for not sending his child to school. It transpired the boy had slept in outhouses, &c., where he had been found by the police. The boy wes sent to the workhouse, and ran away from there. The case was adjourned last week in order to see about his going to an industrial school, and to do that it was thought advisable to proceed against him under the Industrial Schools Act.—Fined 5s. Transfers.—The licence of the Shipwrights' Arms was transferred from John Jones to John Rees. The licence of the Skinners' Arms was transferred from Chanes Mytton to James Ellis. Larceny. William James Fishguard, tramp, was charged by Anne Morgan, washerwoman, Trefechan, with stealing a waistcoat.—The complainant said she washed a waistcoat, which was put in her yard and left out at night. There were other things she missed, but this waistcoat was the only thing found in his possession. The other things were found in another yard. The waist- coac might be worth sixpence.—P.C. David Jones said that about one o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, he saw the prisoner at TrefechaE hiding near a stable door. He had a bundle under his coat, which, he said, contained his old waistcoat. Locked him up on suspicion of stealing the waistcoat.—Sentenced to Carmarthen Gaol for a month. COUNTY COURT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5.-Before Homersham Cox, Esq., judge. Richard Lewis, Little Darkgate-streel, Aberystwyth, v. John Rowlands, London.— Ihis was a case in which plain- tiff sued the defendant for 1:37 0s. 7d., being principal and interest on a note of hand, insufficiently stamped. The defendant refused to pay because the note of hand was insufficiently stamped. Plaintiff said he had received £ 4 10s. interest on account of the money lent to defend- ant. He received interest in March, 1874.—Cross-examined by Mr. A. J. Hughes After he received the note, he gave it to Richard Lewis, his cousin. He gave him it about four years ago. The bill remained in his cousin's hands some time. It was returned to plaintiff about two years ago. From conversations he had had with defend- ant, he knew defendant was aware his cousin had the note. The interest was paid to plaintiff's cousin, and plaintiff got it from him. Got the money from his cousin the same day. Could not swear it was the same day. Gave his cousin the note because he thought he was dying. There was some ill-feeling between plaintiff and his cousin respecting the possession of the note. Still he said that the interest paid to his cousin was given to him the same day it was received from the defendant.— Richard Lewis said he was a cousin to the defendant. Received a sum of money from John Rowlands. The money was E4 10s. Received it four years ago last March. It was interest on t;29 due to the plaintiff. When he got the money he handed it over to the plaintiff. Defendant said that he would pay up the principal as soon as he could. Iu September, 1875, remembered de- fendant had an auction. Plaintiff asked witness to attend that sale and to buy something. Bought a filly for £ 29 and paid for it in gold.—Cross-examined Was on very affectionate terms with plaintiff. Had never been other- wise than friendly. Paid the interest, £4 10s., to the plaintiff, who received it. Plaintiff was living with witness at the time. The reason why he gave witness the interest, seeing that he held the bill, was that plaintiff wished to have it, and it was due to him, because he lent defendant the money. Gave plaintiff the money to keep him pleased.—Re-examined At that time the note was given to him. He was one of the plaintiff's nearest relations. By the Judge Did not give defendant a receipt when the E4 10s. was received.—His Honour said he thought if the defendant had had that money he was not disposed to allow any mere technicality to stop him from having to pay it. His Honour said that it would be well to ad- journ the case and see if the parties could come tu a settlement.—Judgmentfor. £ 17, withoutanycosts.—Mr. A. J. Hughes for defendant, Ind Mr. G. Jones for plaintiff. David Morgan v. C. Evans.—This was an action for kll" 5s. for tack for sheep on Ffoslas Farm.—David Morgan said he saw the defendant about taking some sheep on tack. The price asked was i;4 10s., but the price ultimately fixed was £ 4 os._ There was ample grass. Was to take care the sheep did not stray.—lohn Morgan, brother to plaintiff, said he ^knew his brother took 49 sheep. Saw thein grazing.^ There was plenty of grass.—Chas. Evan, said he and his partner took the 49 sheep up to Ffoslas. Plaintiff was to look after them, and did not do sn. Ldt them near the farmhouse, and told some of the servcuts ) that he had left them there to graze. Went up with Joftr! Davies on other occasions, and saw the sheep pasturing on Esgair and other lands. Took fifteen sheep home on one occasion when he went up. Saw David Morgan, and told him that they had taken those sheep away. Com- plained to David Morgan that he did not take care of them. Tcld Morgan that the sheep would have to be taken away because they were wasting and graying. Had to kill them, and it was a ss to them to have to kill them then. (-!ross- examined. The sheep were worth a penny a pound less. examined. The sheep were worth a penny a pound less. Offered the money to Morgan and offered to have the matter decided by two men. Killed the first sheep about a week after they were taken up. Had seen the sheep be- tween the time they were taken up and the time fifteen were brought away to be killed. Went up with John Davies to see the sheep on the Monday, but "they were not brought down to be killed until the following Mon- day. When he saw the sheep on the firs Monday did not notice any depreciation in the sheep but could not find the pasturage which had been promised, and they went and told him so. The conversation with Morgan was in the stable. Told him there was no pasturage and that they were straying. Morgan said he had never lost any sheep. The reason he took the fifteen sheep was that they were wast- ing away. Did not go to fetch them, but to see how they were getting on, but finding they were deteriorating he brought them home. Knew the farm well, but could not say how many animals had been kept on the land for three or four months previously. Another fifteen sheep were fetched on the following Wednesday week. A third fifteen was fetched in another week. Did not kill all the sheep at once because his business would not allow it. Bought some sheep from Morgan in Sept. last and saw the farm then. The pasturage was good then.—John Davies, butcher, said he was partner with last witness. Made a bargain with Morgan to keep the sheep until the end of January, 1878. The defendants were to begin to kill sheep at the Christ- mas market. After the sheep were taken up, went up the following Monday to see them. Some of them were on Esgair and others on Ffoslas farm. In another week went up again, and thought they would not mend. Went on the next Wednesday and took fifteen away, because it was no use to keep them there. When removed the sheep were a little worse than when they were taken there. Toole < fifteen or twenty sheep the second time, and the remainder on a third occasion. Each time the sheep were found to be trespassing. Complained to Morgan on the first Mon- day that he did not keep them on the farm. The grass was very bare.—Cross-examined Sheep from the moun- tains wandered, but he expected them to be looked after. Gave an extra price to Morgan to look after the sheep. Was with Charles Evans when the bargain was made. Would swear that there was a loss upon the sheep.—John Jones, farmer, Penybwlch, remembered the sheep coming to Ffoslas. Went to Esgair Farm on the Thursday, and saw some stray sheep were there. Was told they be- longed to defendants. This witness testified to the tres- passing.—His Honour s opped the case, and said that the defendants could have seen the pasture.—A verdict was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.—Mr. Griffith Jones appeared for the defendants, and Mr. A. J. Hughes for the plaintiff. John Theophilus v. Thomas Poicell.-A Queer Case.- This was a claim of .£1 2s. 8d. for meat. The defendant said he did not dispute the debt, and it was stated by Mr. Griffith Jones, on behalf of defendant, and as soon as the bill was delivered, he credited the defendant with the amount.-His! Honour said it would not hurt defendant to have a verdict given against him for the amount he had paid, without any costs whatever. Defendant's solicitor said that would do. Claim for Work one,Tohn Theophilus sued Eliza- beth Richards for J67 19s. for work done. Mr. Griffith Jones appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. A. J. Hughes for defendant.—Plaintiff said he had nearly paid £ 9 in all. He received £1 7s. 4d. on account, and had sent two or three bills. There were six sashes, doors, glazing, paint- ing, &c.—Defendant promised to pay him the remainder when her son's wages were paid.—Mr. A. J. Hughes asked for an adjournment, particulars of items of the expenditure to be given. Ejectmeut Casc.-This was a case brought by the Rev. Evan Evans, rector of Llanfiliangel, Corwen, against William Samuel, shoemaker, Bridge-street, Aberyst- wyth.—The Rev. Evan Evans, rector, Llanfiliangel, Corwen, said that he was interested in No. 5, Bridge- street. The house had been re-built, and the rent was £28. He was to be considered a May tenant, but as the house was not finished till August, lie was only charged the apportioned rent from August to November. Served him with a notice to quit, which was to expire on last May twelve months. That was waived, as defendant promised to pay rent more regularly. Previous to last November defendant was served with another notice. The defendant had paid rent to him for about feuiteen years. The house had been let to David Jones, to be entered upon when Samuel vacated the house. The rent was paid until last November, and there was now a distress in for the rent up to May.—William Samuel said that he occupied the house a.*> plaintiff's tenant on the same condition as his father, who was a November tenant. Was still plaintiff's tenant. But in one sense he took it from David Jones. Mr. Evans promised to re- build the house, which was very old and hardly fit to live in. Took the house from David Jones.—David Jones said he took the house from the plaintiff and let it to Samuel until November.—His Honour said that the de- fendant should leave.—It was ordered that the defendant should leave on the 24th June, with apportioned rent up to that date. Evan Edwards v. David Hughes.—This was a claim about a gate, worth £ 3 10s.—Evan Edwards, the plain- tiff, said he was a farmer at Cwmerfin. There was a dis- tress on the goods of one Evan Pugh. At the sale bought a gate, for which he gave 15s. This gate had since been taken possession of by David Hughes, who, it appeared from a long conversation, had prior to the sale bought the gate from Evan Pugh.—Thomas Jones said he levied upon the effects of Evan Pugh. He sold the gate to plaintiff for 15s.—David Hughes, the defendant, said that Evan Pugh owed him money, and before the distress promised to sell him a gate and table. After the sale a brother of Evan Pugh's came and said the gate could be had. He therefore took it, and it remained in his possessiyn from September to March. Plaintiff then met him and asked him wherebe had taken his gate.—The plaintiff was re- examined as to whether the gate was bought for the auctioneer, who valued it at £ 3 10s.—David Hugehs in his examination said there was a conversation with the auc- tioneer, who asked him to take 5s. for his bargain, which would be 25s., as he allowed Evan Pugh £1 off his bill for the gate.—Evan Pugh, Cwmsymlog, said that a distress was in for tithes. He sold the gate to David Hughes two months before the sale, and arranged that Evan Edwards should buy in the gate and some furniture. After the auction witness sold Evan Edwards goods equal in amount to the money paid for the furniture and the gate.—E. J. Morgan was called, and said that Edwards did not buy the gate for him. Valued the gate at S3 10s. Did *ot know before the sale there was a gate there to be sold.—Judgment for plaintiff.—His Honour said the parties had agreed together to prevent the tithes being paid. The arrangements were of a most iniquitous nature, but he must obey the law. Claim for Wages--Anne Lewis, sued Albert Lewis Jones for wages from 7th of June to 10th of November, amounting to JM. Had received £ 1 in small sums. She also had another sovereign. Agreed with him again from November to May, for JE4. Remained with him until February, when he gave up business. Had received none of the latter sum. The balance due was more than £ 4.— Anne Jones, wife of the defendant, said that her husband was only manager of the hotel after he had failed. Did not tell the girl that her husband and herself were servants.—Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.—Mr, Griffith Jones appeared for plain- tiff, and Mr. J. W. Thomas for defendant. An Application. -Mr. Hodgson, the deputy judge at the May Court, heard three several interpleader cases, in which John Owen, Talybont, was defendant, and his son, John T. Owen, claimant. The question was whethar the effects of John Owen, which had been seized by the sheriff of Cardiganshire, had been bona fide sold to his son. The Judge, after hearing the cases, said that he would reserve judgment. Later in the day he communi- cated his decision to the registrar, in favour of the son, John Thomas Owen.—-The registrar accordingly entered judgment in each case for John Thomas Owen, with costs. —Mr. Woosnam, solicitor, Newtown, attended the Court on Wednesday, and contended that judgment ought not to be entered against his clients without having given him an opportunity of attending the Court when judgment was entered, and produced a letter from the deputy judge, who stated that he gave judgment in favour of the son, and costs, in two cases only.—Mr. Griffith Jones, who ap- peared for John Thomas Owen, said it was too Jate to raise the objection, as the minute-book was conclusive, but as it was the intention of the judge not to grant costs in one case, he would do all he could to carry out that in- tention and it was arranged that the minute-book should be. entered. Rowland Evans's Bill of Sale.—Tha facts of this case, which must by this time be well-known to our readers, need not be again recapitulated. An application was made as far back as 1 ebruary, 1877, on behalf of Mr. G. T. Smith, the trustee of the estate, to set aside a bill of sale given by the debtor to Mr. J. W. Thomas, his solicitor, to secure 4:500 which bill of sale, was subse- quently deposited with the London and Provincial Bank, Limited. The matter did not come on for hearing until April last, when the Deputy Judge, Mr. Hodgson, de- cided in favour of Mr. Thomas and the bank. Mr. Griffith Jones appealed to the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, who sent the case back to the County Court to be re-heard. The case accordingly came on for re-hearing before his Honour on Wednesday.—Mr. Griffith Jones appeared for the trustee, and Mr. J. J. Atwood for Mr. Thomas and the bank.—Mr. Jones stated the objections against the bill of sale, which were chiefly that the bill of sale, which had been executed a week before the petition in liquida- tion was filed, was void, on the ground that it was made with the intent to delay or defraud creditors, under the statute of Elizabeth; that it was a fraudulent preference within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act; that it was an act of bankruptcy that the furniture was in the order and disposition of the debtor when the petition was filed that the affidavit of the registration of the bill of sale was insufficient. The affidavits filed in the matter were read. Mr. Rowland Evans was cross-examined at great length as to whether he was a trader.—Mr. Atwood called Mr. Collins, who said that the stock-in-trade left after the sale-.Tuly, 1876-wts not worth more than Lio.-Cross-exaiii"ned: He could not say how much of the goods mentioned in the s:de book had been bought in.—David Daniel Davies was called and said in 1876 he was clerk to Mr. J. W. Thomas, and that he took a bill of sale to the debtor to sign, which he refused to do, but susequently called at the office and signed it.—Mr. Atwood then addressed the judge on behalf of his clients, and contended that the debtor was noe a trader, that the bill of rale was not an act of bankruptcy, and that it did not come -thin the fraudulent preference clause.—The Judge said lie would not call upon Mr. G. Jones, and set aside the bill of sale on the ground of fraudulent preference. He said he never saw a clearer case. The debtor, who was then pressed hy the hank for a bill of sale, "preferred his own solicitor," to quote his own words, and that solicitor in a week after put on the file a petition for the debtor. As his Deputy, who had not the same experience of the world as himself, had given a decision the other way, no order would be made as to costs.
1 rORTMADOC.
rORTMADOC. FAILURE OF AN ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH A Vr.ssrx. On the 2nd June an attempt, was made to launch a fine vessel, built by Mr. Simon Jones, sideways from the quav. We are sorrv to say that the attempt failed, the vessel hanging over the quay in a perilous position with its keel injured. "Mr. Simon Jones, aided I by crowds of volunteers (for great sympathy is felt for him) suc- ceeded on Saturday in moving it irom its dangerous position, and she is now in a fair way to being ready for launching at the next spring. Mr. Simon Jones succeeded in launching sidewnvs two vessels previously built in the same ouav. RURI-DECANAI. MINTING.—A rnri-docanal meeting of the Deanery of Eilionydd was held at the Magistrates' Room, Port- madoe, on the 27th May. The Kev. J). Kdwauls, RJJ., pre- sided. 'ihe business commenced bv appointing lay and clerical delegates for the Church Extension Society. The nev. J. M. Jones, curate of Portmadoc, was elected as the clerical representative of the Deanery. A vote of thanks to the late clerical delegate, the Rev. H. G. Williams, curate of Llanys- tumdvry, was proposed, and the motion was carried unaniinouslv E. Seymour, Tv Xanney,and -Nll-. D. C Joue. Mynydd Ed- nyfed, were re-elected lay delegates for the Deanerv. The sub- jects for discussion were the following: "The Sunday School Union," and the localization of the "Dawn of Day/' for the Deanery of Edionydd. After some discussion a resolution was car- ried to the effect that the Sunday school teachers in the Deanery should be invited to attend an afternoon service, at which a address will be delivered by a clergy man. That after the service the clergy and Sunday School teachers adjourn to the schoolroom where Sunday School subjects can be further discussed. The first meeting to be held at Llanystumdwv, on Saturday, .Julv 27 A committee was formed for carrying out the proposed phui of localizing the "Dawn of Day." The meeting then terminated. PETTY SEfcSIOXS, FRIDAI MAY 31.-Before Messrs. Owen Griffiths and John Jones. A Dog Case.— Mr. J. T. Mulrpaean v. Margaret Jones.—Mr. William Titterton proved the case, and defendant, who did not ppear, was tined 55.. Drunken a ?xs.—P.C. Thomas Williams v; Hugh Thomas—De- fendant was ctiargedgwith being drunk at Portmadoconthe 29th ] May.—Defendant admitted the offence, and was tined -Is, and 3s. co.,its.-P.C. John Roberts v. John Roberts for the same jffence at Criccieth on the 23rd May.—Defendant admitted the att'ence, and was fined 2s., with 12s. costs. J s>au!t.—Joyce Ellis v. Thos. Cad waladr.- Complainant said j that on the 21tll May defendant went to her house, and made a listurbance, and kicked at the door. He raised'his hand to strike complainant, but her mother went between them and prevented him.- Defendant was fined 10s., and 13s. costs. Breach of the Education A cf.—.Mr. John Jonei, clerk of the 1 Criccieth School Board v. Watkin Williams, for not sending his children to school, and for unlawfully employing them. Com- plainant said that on the 2nd May defendant's sou William, aged eleven years, was in charge of a donkey and cart. The bov very rarely attended school. He was also similarly charged on ac- eount of his son Itobei-t. -Tlie cases were adjourned for a month to see if the defendant carried out his promises of improve- ment. Ejectment.—Thomas Lewis v. Griffith Griffith.-Ir. Owen 1 Jones said that defendant touk the premises from his tenant in May, 1S76, and he (witness) let the premises to defendant as yearly tenant, six months' notice to be given on either side, at 1*20 per annum. On the 12th November last he served notice copy of which was produced, on defendant to quit on the 12th May. He sold the premises to complainant.—Complainant said ( he had purchased ttie premises (the Queen's Vaults, New-street Portmadoc). Defendant paid him ajquarter's rent on the 33th May, but refused to leave.—Warrant of possession to be given in 21 days.
DINAS MAWDDWY. ]
DINAS MAWDDWY. FAIR.—On Monday, 2nd of June, the annual cattle and hiring J fair was held. There was a good show of horses and cattle, but the prices asked were so high that few exchanged hands. How- ever, as the weather was so fine, a large concourse of pleasure seekers came in during the afternoon, and the "Try your strength and other booths seemed to reap a harvest even be- yond anticipation. All passed off pleasantly.
CARNARVON.
CARNARVON. SUDDEN DEATH NEAR CARNARVON.—Dr. Hunter Hughes, the district coroner for Caniaivonshire, held an inquest at Llandwrog, on Saturday, June 1, on the body of Wm. Roberts, aged 71, a farmer, living at Gwernafalau. Between seven and eight o'clock on Thursday night the deceased, who appeared in good health, went into the stable to groom a horse. A nephew followed him in about a quarter of an hour, and found him lying dead on the stable floor. It was at first thought that he had been kicked by the horse, but there were no marks of vio- lence upon him. A verdict of •' Death from natural causes was returned. CHARGE or MALICIOUS Wor.vni.vG.—On Saturdav June 1 before Dr. Millar, Mr. Powell, and Mr. De Winton,' Thomas Hughes, quarryman, was charged with maliciously wounding Hugh John Thomas.—Deputy Chief-constable Protheroe pr.7- secuted, and Mr. C. A. Jones defended.—Both parties hail from Penygroes, and on Monday night, when on the road between Penygroes and Llanllyfni, they met, both being the worse for drink, and a quarrel ensued. Xo blows were struck, but the defendant returned with a number of other men and struck the complainant a heavy blow over the eye with a sharp instrument. -Dr. Griffiths, Penygroes, gave evidence to the effect that he had examined the prosecutor, and had found two incised wounds above both eyes, the first being an inch deep, and the other half-an-inch deep and an inch long. The wounds must have been inflicted with a sharp instrument, such as a two- bladed knife.—Prisoner was committed for trial on a charge of unlawfully wounding, bail being accepted for his appearance, himself in 420, and two sureties uf £ 20 each.
CARDIGAN.
CARDIGAN. THE RAILWAY. Owing to unforeseen circumstances, the cutting of the first sod has been postponed. TOWN COUNCIL, THURSDAY, MAY 30.—Present: The Mayor, Alderman Thomas Davies, Councillors Asa J. Evans, John Lewis, Lewis Evans, Rev. William Jones, William Woodward, O. P. Davies, and W. W. Smith. The Water Supply.—The Mayor reported that the im- provements to the source were being carried out.—Mr. Woodward promised to have all specifications ready by next week. --The Mayor reported that he had received the Counsel's opinion on the rates, but the professional gen- tlemen had nut had time to go through it. Resolved, on the motion of Alderman Davies, seconded by Mr. Wood- ward, that the case be handed to the professional gentle- men, and that they draw up their report by the next meeting It was resolved that Mr. John Davies's (solicitor) account in connection with the opinion be paid at once.- Some salaries were ordered to be paid, and the proceedings terminated. ° PETTY SESSIONS, THURSDAY, MAY 30.-Before the Mayor and Thomas Davies, Esq. Cruelty to a Horse.—Watkin Jones, Trecregin, Llan- granog, was charged by Inspector Everitt, of the Royal Society, on the instance of Inspector Roberts, Cardigan, with unlawfully and cruelly working a horse in an unfit state in a certain cart in Cardigan on the 25th of April.— Inspector Robert Everitt, sworn, said, that in consequence of information he received, he went to Llangranog, and examined the horse in question, and found it exceedingly lame. The fetlock joint of the off forefoot was much overshod, with considerable inflammation about the joint, the coronet of the hoof was very diseased. The animal was totally unfit for work, and in his opinion the hoof would ultimatelyconie k)ff--Defelidant said the horse the same condition now as when he bought it, two years ago, and if the horse was turned out into a field, and got a heavy feed of grass, be had hard work to catch him.- The defendant was fined 5d., and 21 18s. costs, the animal not to be used again until a veterinary surgeon could certify him to be in a fit state.
DOLGELLEY.
DOLGELLEY. THE DOLGELLEY MURDER.—A human leg, which has been identified as part of the body of Sarah Hughes, for whose murder Cadwalladr Jones was hanged at Dolgelley gaol in November last, was found on Monday night, June 3, in the Arran river, near Vrongoch Factory. The murderer, it will be remembered, dismembered the corpse after it had been buried some weeks in a. field adjoining his house, and all the parts, a leg excepted, were found in the nver. It is a curious coincidence that the missing limb should have been found within a year to the very day that the deceased was murdered. A WEDDING.—On Friday, the 31st May, a marriage was solemnized at St. Mary's Church. The bridegroom was Mr. John Simon Parry, printer, and the bride Miss Elizabeth Jones, eldest daughter of Mr. Rowland Jones, bootmaker, both of this town. Mr. Parry being a mem- ber of she choir of the Church the service was full choral, and the singing went remarkably well. After the cere- mony, the wedding march was played on the organ by Mr. Crossley, the organist. In the afternoon the newly married pair drove to Bala, from whence they poceeded on their wedding tour. CALVIMSTIC METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS MEETING.— This Cymanfa was held on Friday, May 24. at Salem Chanel. There was a larze number of persons nrespnt. In the morning the various classes were examined in the History of Xoah, St. Paul and his Travels, and the Mosaic Law. In the evening all the singers joined to- gether in the nging, which was exceptionally good, led by Mr. O. O. Roberts. The excellence of the singing, to- gether with the {correctness of the answers given at the examination on the different subjects, prove that much good must have accrued from the preparations made by the schools for the Cymanfa. SPECIAL SESSIONS, 31ST MAY.—Before Lewis Williams and Edward Jones, Esqs. Jicngincj. — Mr. Charles Edwards v. Thomas Murphy.—Mr. Charles Edwards said The prisoner was begging at Dolserau, on the previous day.Sentenced to seven s'-imprisonment at Ruthin GaoL SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST. Charge of$teali:.j < an Umbrella. Owen Jones v. Thomas Hashes. Prisoner was charged with having stolen an umbrella on the turnpike road between L'anelltyd and Traws'fynydd, with TIt! marks upon it to indicate the owner of it. and with having disposed of the umbrella at Dol!!eIley w Jnnnett Jones, examined J am the wife of Owen Jones, of Brynceinlyn. Llanelltvd I lost an umbrella on Tuesday last. I was going home with Mr. Mair, of Dolmelynllyn, in his dog- cart. I started from Dolgelley between 2 and 3 that evening. I saw my umbrella at Llanelltyd last. I had it in my hand. I put it on the front seat of the dog cart-Elizabe h Jones said I am the wife of Evan Jones, of the Goat Inn, Dolgelley. I saw the primer on Tuesday last at alpout four o'clock in the after- noon. Hect-rie to my Inn's;. He said was he hard up, and had oand an umbrella on the Trawsfynyddroad. He asked me to buy it. I said 1 di(lliot wantsucti a thing. He begged me to take it, and said I should make it known. I gave Is. 6d. I said it was worth Is. fid. for p eking it up. He said he was going away. I knew the prisoner before. — P.C. William Jones, examined—I apprehended the prisoner from information I received at Machynlleth, upon a charge of stealing the umbrella I produce. I got it from M s Jones, the last witness,-on the Wednesday following. Prisoner said he did pick it np. and that he had sold it at a public house at Dolgelley, and that he had Is., a pint of beer, and 2s. for it. Prisoner said he would have run after the car, but that it had gone too far; he thought it had dropped from the car.—Case dismissed, costs to be paid by complainant.
LLANIDLOES.
LLANIDLOES. MONTHLY COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS (UPPER DIVI- SION), THCR.SDAY, MAY 30.-Before William Thomas and Thomas Foulkes Roberts, Esors. Transfers.— Application was m:ide by Elizabeth Morgan and Sarah Morgan lor the transfer to them of the licence of the Angel Inn, in the borough of Ll;;nidl<ies, from Thomas Jones — o Granted.—The like application for the transfer of the licence of th" BeLm Tavern, Cu,iiibel:in, in the parish of Llaneurio- to Elizabeth Ingram, widow, and relict of Pryce Ingram, lately'de- ceased, who was the person licenced iw the said tavern.— Granted. Maintenance of Parents.—Richard Owen v. David Hilghes.- This was an anplic ;tioii for an order on d-fendant to contribute tow;ird-the suppo'-t of his p rents.—R: hard Owen said I a n v= jr 0fi »r for til's divi- on of the wtown and Llanidloe jr 0fi »r for til's divi- on of the wtown and Llanidloe Poor Law Union. John Hughes and h's wife, the father act J mother of the defendant, became ch.-inreable to this UnPia j nbo.it nine Months ago, and are so now. They receive Gs. weekly. Defendant is carpenter, and earni 4s. a day, and re- ce;.es 7s. a week from prt perty in which he has as Interest— alt> getuer £ 1 lis. per week.—An order was made on defendant .or ij.ayment of Is. weekly, complainant to bear his own cost- « -'Mt'O/i Beerhouse.—Application was ni-de bv Samuel Kees lanulord of the late Junction B jwi.ouse, to b" flowed to sell the tock of beer now on his premises. Applicant disclaimed t'i,, petition referred to beL w, sent to the Home Secretary. Apt.cation refused.—It will be remembered that Samnel'Rees fined at tiie Petty Sesions, 25th April, ISTtS, for drawing a jell of beer on Good Friday last, and disqualified'from m lding an innkeeper's licence, inasmuch as he was fined twice before in eighteen months, and his licence endorsed each time, and the house was also disqualified. A petition to the Rccresarv of :tate against the decisional the magistrates, purporting 10 be from Rees. had been returned to the Bench.—Rees, as wc have said now denies that he sent up the netiiion.
INEWTOWN.
NEWTOWN. JP'iE ^NATIONAL^SCHOOLS.—On Sunday..T-aCe 2. the on tories at the Newtown Parish Church were in aid of these schools. The sum of k7 was received. Y 'LICE CASK. lv»bert I ..Ies was cnar^e'/I on Wed- lie ay, May 29th, with having assaulted his wife, and \v;, s bound over to keep the peace for three months. Jlr.nucTiox IX THE Puice OF GAS.—At a meeting of the Directors of the Gas Company oa Friday. May 31, it wa- decided to reduce the 1 rice of gas to consumers 5d. per thousand feet.
Family Notices
BIRTHS. MARRIAGES. & DEATHS. M A R R I A G E S MORGAN'—May SOth, at \S*iiton-S': iiare Welsh Presby- t, -,n Chapel, London, Humphrey Evans, of Amhers-road, St.»ke Newington, London, son of James Evans, Troedrhiw- I near Aberystwyth, to Mary Jane, only child of Ai-irmm Morgan, Esq., of 13, Farleicn-road, btoke Xewir.arton, London. Li KrnpooT—Jnne 4th, at|Walton|Church,'Bootle, Liver- pool, John Watkin Lumley, timber merchant, to Catherine p only daughter of the late Mr. Kurfoot, Abergele. PA < t! i Y J ON KS—May 31st. at St..Mary's Cilurcll, Dolgellev, t. ziie Rev. R. Jones, rector of Llanvcil, Bala, and the Rev. ilughes, Mr. J. S. Parry (late of Denbigh), to Miss Eliza- 1 erh Jones, daughter of Mr. Rowland Jones, Bridge-street, Dolgelley IvKiv -DAVIES—June 5th. at Rehoboth, Corns, by the Rev. W. Williams, minister of the place. Mr. Owen Recs, Printing W>rks, Dolgelley, to Miss Laura Ellen Davies, Rhianfa, < orris, the youngest daughter of the late Rev. D. Davies, C'orris. N ILLIAMS—MORRIS—June 5th, at the English Baptist Chapel, Ahi ed-place, Aberystwyth, bv the Rav. J. A. Morris, Welsh J'aptist minister, assisted by the R?v. Griffith Parry, Welsh C dvinistic Methodist minister, the Rev. T. E. Williams. Eng- Lsh Baptist minister, Aberystwyth, to Elizabeth (Lizzie), j o mgest daughter of Mr. Richd. Morris, North-parade, Aber- si wyth. DEATHS. Rn ;n:TT -Iay 31st, at 12, High-street, Welshpool, Charlotte, daughter of Thos. Brettell Barrett, sunreon. Hi.OWN—June 3rd, aged 36, at Dyfiryn, Merionethshire, Archibald Brown, Esq., M.A., Ball. Coll., Oxon, younger son < t the late J. Sharp Brown, Esfj., of 6, Bertie-terrace, Lea- mington and formerly of Comber House, Leamington Cox -Miiy 28th, aged 54, at the residence of his sisters, 7, ti'.ieen's-terrace, Aberystwyth, James Cox, of H. Nl.'s Customs, Dover. DAVI ;:S—May 20th, aged 10 months, at Moor-street, Aberyst- w: th, Richard, son of Charles Davies, tailor. DAN-, 23rd, aged 87, at Trewyn Farm, Corwen, Mr. John Davies. ELI.;S—May 24th, aged 86, at Llanrhydd-street, Ruthin, Anne Ellis, widow of Edwù. Ellis, coachman. EVANS-May 29th, at Aberystwyth, Mr. P. M. Evans, The Strand, Holywell. GRIFFITHS—May 2Sth, aged 61, at Marine-terrace. Aberyst- wyth. Elizabeth Griffiths nf lf.. r^K.. • ° "1., .Ln. VJ.I,.LI. U11UUIUB, farmer. HAMKR--May 2Sth, aged 26, Annie, the wife of Mr. David Hamer, Sub-Inspector of Schools for the counties of Carmar- then and Brecon, at Llanidloes, JENKINS—May 2sth, aged 65, at Little Garth, near Welshpool, Capt. Griffith Jenkins, C. B., Indian Navy. JENKINS—May 28th, aged 67, 31r. John Jenkins, Alltgou, Llan- e i Cho. JONKS—June 1st, nged 74, Mrs. Gwen Jones, wife of Mr. John Junes, tailor, Meyrick-street, Dolgelley. JON»:S—May 13th, aged 19, at Mnrsli-grove, Huddersfield, Con- stance, daughter of Edwd. Jones, Welshpool. Jo^>:s—June 2nd, aged 74, Mr. Thomas Jones, Penarth, New- town. LLOVD—May 31st, aged 73. at Brvnllys, near Bangor. David Lloyd, late slate inspector of the Penrhyn late Quarries. MA'I-—May 30th, aged 05, Nlr. Richard Mapp, Scafell Cottage, Lh nllwcbaia rn. OWEN—June 3rd, agedrS4, at Traveilir, Anglesey, Mary, widow of Thomas Owen, Esq. OWI:N—June 2, the wife of Dr. R Llugwy Owen, late o^Llygwy Cottage, Acrefair, at Llandudno. PRY; E—June 2, aged 24, Henry Pryce, grocer and provision dealer, Lower-green, Llanidloes. ROBERTS—June 3rd. aged 24, Mr. John Lloyd Roberts, youngest son of Mr. Thos. Roberts, Brynbrith Farm, near Corwen. ROGKR.S—-May 28th, aged 00, at his residence, the Rev. John Rogers, Stariage Park, Radnorshire. W) th, at the Brow, Rhuabon, Henriette Char- lotte, widow of Sir Hugh Williams, Bart., of Bodeiwvddan, and only daughter of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn.
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE. By Press Association Telegram. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THI RSDAT. At this day's market there was a very small attendance, and English wheat was a turn in favour of the buyer. American sold at rather more money than last week.
BRISTOL CORN MARKET, TKI RSDAY.
BRISTOL CORN MARKET, TKI RSDAY. The arrivals were small of wheat, and liberal of barley and maize at market to-day. The supply of English wheat was moderate, and sales were only effected at is-. decline. Foreign in slow x-equest, and the turn in buyers' favour. Maize, barley, and oats very dull, but not lower in price. Weather fine.
BRISTOL CATTLE MARKET.—THCRSDAT.
BRISTOL CATTLE MARKET.—THCRSDAT. There was a fair supply of beef, including American, and a steady stle, at 84s. per cwt. best, and 75s. to ,.88. middling. Fair show of sheep trade quiet; at 9d. to 9,d. per lb. best wethers 8-kl. ewes lambs, 10d. to Is. per lîJ. Tnere were 3,000 store cattle, and a heavy sale, at a reduction fiCO pigs, at 10s. (id. to lis. per score.
SHIPPING.
SHIPPING. Week ending June 6, 157S. .I. ,I.I. "I.r- -r- ABERYSTWYTH. Arrived—I. E. Taylor (ss), Richards. Bristol Jane Morgans, Milford Pheasant, Watkins, Milford. Sailed.-H. E. Taylor (ss), Richards, Liverpool; Jane, Morgans, Milford. ABERDOVEY. Arrived.—Margaret Jane, Parry, Cork. Saded.-N.ina, Nichelsen, Archangel.
FUNERAL OF EARL RUSSELL.
FUNERAL OF EARL RUSSELL. The remains of the late Earl Russell were interred on Tuesday in the family vault at Chenier, Buaks, beside those of his first wife. The chief mourners were the Duke of Bedford, the Hon. Rollo Russell, the youthful Earl Russell, Lord Charles Russell. Earl of Minto, Marquis os Lansdowne, Admiral Elliott, &c. The Queen sent a wreath to be placed on the coffin. Vis- count Torrington and the Earl of Bradford were in attendance as representing her Majesty.
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SPEAKING OF CHAPMAN'S ENTIRE WHEAT FLOCR, a writer in the Christian World says—"Many of the first physicians of the day are prescribing no other medicine for their little patients, and it is astonishing sometimes how children who hare pined on a diet of fine white baker's bread, will thrive when fed on well cooked porridge made of this 'Entire Wheat Flour. Sold by Chemists in 6d. and Is. packets, and 3s. tins The prejudice against the use of the organ in churches still survives in Scotland. A member of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, has addressed the assembly in strong condemnation of the use of instrumental music in public worship. He said that vocal music, the fruit of the lips, was the only authorized method of praise. It was in accordance with apostolic practice and precept, and so it continued until the Man of Sin, amidst his growing corruption, attempted to in- troduce the whole of the Temple* services-sacrificeF, priests, incense, and last of all, instrumental music. These remarks are said to have been received with ap- plause. THE NORTHERN BANK.—RE W. CoxxoR.-In the Man- chester county court, on Monday, June 3rd. Mr. Gobbeti. who appeared on behalf of the trustee in this bankruptcy, made an application to the registrar to fix a day for the bankrupt's examination. He said that part of the ac- countant's report was already in his hands, and it was hoped that the whole of it would be ready in the course of the present week. Since the last sitting a communication had been made by the bankrupt to one of his committee, and Mr. Connor had expressed his willingness to make a full disclosure of his estate. Arrangements for that pur- pose had been made for him to see Mr. Addleshaw and himself (Mr. Cobbett), the solicitors for the trustee, at an early date, and it was hoped that such disclosures would be n. -tde as would obviate the necessity of a long publfc examination. He was instructed to ask his Honour that morning to make an order that the bankrupt should within ten days file a list of all his securities in the hands of cre- ditors, giving the name of the creditor in each instance a description of the securities, and the date of their receipt by the creditor holding them He made that application on the joint representation of Mr. Butcher and Mr Mar- chantson, the accountants, both of whom said the'infor- mation already given was wholly insufficient to enable them to inquire into the bankrupt's affairs as they ought into. The order applied for was granted, and the bnukrr.pt s public examination was fixed to take place on Monday fortnight. CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. -Approximate return of traffic receipts for the week ending 2nd June, 1878. Miles open,Passengers, parcels, &c., kl,972 mer- chandise. minerals, and live stock, £ 1.934; total for the week, £ 3,80G. Actual traffic receipts for the correspond- ing week last year. Miles open, 178|. Passengers parcels. &c.. £ 1^985; merchandise, minerals and live stock. £ 1,801; total for the week, £ j ;S0. Aggregate from commencement of half-year to this date iT4 288 last year, £ 73.830. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Two letters on Aberdovey School Board are held over. Also TTP and Down the Coast; Cricket Matches Rainfall Concert at Llanvchaiarn Derwenlas. Portmadoc, and Corris news. e intend shortly to enlarge, when the omission of so much news well be avoided. WORTHY OF ATTENTION.—This subject is scarcelv worthy of the attention of a newspaper. Our correspondei fc has sent us much more worthy contributions than this NEJFO.—The nuisance may be great, hi1- von? letter is dicl tinctly libellous. an l, m -■ ove-, w i'dd cause a system of espionage to be estaV:=hed, nor w uld the 11! effect? end there.
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his example is not more extensively followed by other members in making suggestions.