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CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT GOWERTOX.
CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT GOWERTOX. SPEECHES BY AIR. J. T. D. LLEWELYN, LIEUT.- COL. WRIGHT, AND MR. ROGER BECK. The fourth annual banquet of the Gowerton Conservative Club was held at the Club on Saturday night. Lieut.-Colonei J. R. Wruht (President) occupied the chair, and was supported by Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn, Mr. Roger Beck, Mr. D. Picton Mr. J. C. Vye-Panninter, Mr. T. P. Martin, Mr. Charles VVils .n, Mr. R. B. Christopher, Mr W. Bright, Mr. D. tewis, -ur. o. Fimiemore, Rev. A. Jordan, Rev. J. Or. Mathias ( Iwydd), Mr, W. Shaw, Ac. The company was proceedings were most enthusiastic. The excellen provided by the Club, under the superintendence of Mis ^Shaw, the Steward's wife; and the room was arUstically decorated, and the proceedings generally abl>° a £ d ythe Banquet Jackson, the energetic Honorary Committee. After dinner, the loyal and patriotic toasts were entliusiasti- cally drunk, and received with musical honours, Ml. F. W. p-opo^l ••, Annj.. K.p, and Auxiliary Forces They could claim for themselves that in their national history they had achieved a name of which thev were proud and which other nations might endeavour to emulate and it only remained for them, as they had received the charter full of Ufe and inspiration from their forefathers, to can-v it forward during their lifetime, and then hand it on unsullied to their sons and daughters. Tne President, who had a most enthusiastic reception, re- sponded to the toast. In the first place, he said they might congratulate themselves that they belonged to that party in the country which was not only willing but anxious to strengthen the position of the Army and Navy and Reserve Forces. The times were critical, and it was not impossible for them soon to be face to face with an enemy. Therefore, he maintained that the Government that put them in a position to meet the enemy should be upheld, not only by Conservatives, but by all true born Britcns. (Applause.) He trusted that warlike operations might be averted, but he had been informed, as an officer commanding a brigade of volunteers, that such a contingency as that to which he had referred was not absolutely impossible. The Army had been under a cloud lately. They were told by competent authorities that it was not in a position to fight. But whoever gave out the bad swords and bayonets, it was the Conservative party that had brought the matter tc the front—(applause)—that had been the means of having it thoroughly enquired into, and had pledged themselves to see that our soldiers Had proper weapons placed intu thelr hands. (Applause.) And, further, as tô the Navy, they had to supply guns for the very ships which the Liberals had built. Therefore, they had to find more money than the Liberals, and what was mure, they were willing to do It. (Applause.) It was the Conservative Party that had also put the Auxiliary Forces, to which he had the honour to belong, in such a position that if necessity arose they could cope with any emergency. (Applause.) Mr. R. B. Christopher, in proposing "The Bishops and Clergy and Ministers of all Denominations," said that during his life ime this diocese had had in Dr. Thirlwall one of the ablest scholars of recent times. The present prelate was a hard-working bishop, who mingled much with his clergy. The work of the clergy was to be seen of all men, and they had to thank them for the position of the Church. (Applause.; Statistics showed how.thejnumber of churches had increasea, and church work generally had improved. TheNonconformists were also doing their work. Many of them, not want Disestablishment. The Church was ^uilt oil a rock and could not be disestablished. The prejent was not the time to agitate for a separation of Church and State. It might have been in the past, but certainly not now, when the Church was doing her duty, and acting up to her responsibihtes. Rev. A. Jordan, in responding, trusted that with i^aid! to Disestablishment a false alarm had been ai;std and that Church and State would never be disunited. (Applause.) Thev looked charitably upon their Nonconformist friends, and at all times he was willing to extend to them the right hand of fellowship. The Nonconformists, he was sure, were doing a wood work 111 Gowerton, as well as the Church. Those who opposed Disestablishment recognized the fact that the Conservatives were the great support of the Church but, at the same time, many Liberals were also in favour of the Estab- lishment. The extreme Radical party maintained that the Conservatives were opposed to progress, that they were too fond of old customs and ideas. So far as the Church went, he hoped that was true. There were many who wanted change simply for the sake of change, and it was because the Church was a noble and ancient institution that they were so anxious to pull it down. He hoped, however, that the Church would be united to the State so Ions as this Empire continued to exist. (Applause.) Mr. Roger Beck rose, amid loud applause, to propose the toast of th<t evening, that of The Conservative Cause." The toast covered such an immense field of debatable ground that in discussing the question at all, one ou:ht, as far as possible, to banish all personal feeling and irritation, and look at the question rather from the point of view of true Britons and true subjects of Her Majesty the Queen. Alluding to the founda- tion of that club, he said the seed they had sown in Gowerton in faith and hope, and an earnest feeling of duty, for the benefit of a few of their fellow men, who thought with them, had crown up, and was bearing fruit. When the corner stone was l*id thev saw springing up a band of brothers who felt with the, and co-operated in the work they undertook. Their club still stood the sole representative of any political body in Gowerton. The Conservative cause was one that he and others who had come to the district had taken up, because they felt it their duty to do so. They had acted in no spirit of arrogance, and with no desire to clash with existing interests but they had their opinions—they might be right, they might be wrong —and theyihad attempted to give them a footing in Gowerton. (Applause.) Their cause, they believed, was not altogether unworthy of such an establishment, and such a band of sup- porters. What was the Conservative cause ? It was said to move slowly. It was not a party of progress, but it stood on a simple and plain foundation. Its platform was a very small one. It WAS simply the right of every man to do what he liked with his own, provided that in doing what he pleased with his own he did not endanger the well-being of the com- munity. What did the party of progress say ? It said that the land belonged to the people. If that was so, no man's bouse could be safe, because the stones and the lime used in it were derived from the land that belonged to the people. Wnat should he say of the Conservative party ? That it had stood in this little island as firm a protection to the country as the silver streak of sea, which girt our shores, had been our natural protection against any foreign invader. (Applause.) Havinir remarked that the Conservative party hud a clearly- Hflfined foreign policy, which strengthened our relations with foreign powers, and having also spoken in justification of the ftnvM-nment policy in Ireland, he said the Conservative cause was a crand cause, and one that should be upheld, although it was branded in the old days by the name of Tory. There was a time when children ran away at the name of Tory. (Laughter.) They did not do that in Gowerton now-(laughter)-and they felt that their cause was certainly a growing one in Wales. ^Mr^D^Picton (Llangennech) having made a long and elo- quent speech in Welsh, Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn rose to reply, and was received with loud and long-continued applause. He said the Conservative cause had every claim to be acknowledged and recognized by that assembly, and by almost every assembly that could be named, for he considered that it had, indeed, a. good record. The present was the third session in which the present Govern- ment had had a useful existeuce, and he proposed briefly to review what it had done for the country under most trying cir- cumstances. The Government, during the first year of its existence, passed three important Acts, two of which directly benefitted the working classes. The first was the Allotments Act, which had not taken so much root as it would take «ventually, but which had been put into operation in many large and important centres. The second Act, of the utmost importance to the colliers of the country; was the Mines Regulation Act, which was recognized in the House of Commons, in generous speeches, by such men as Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., and Mabon. The third Act was the Protection Act for Ireland, which, through a misnomer, was sometimes described as the Coercion Act. He said emphatically that the Coercion that went on was not the Coercion of the educated classes, but of the uneducated classes against their friends. It was the tyranny of the Land League, not the tyranny of the Government, applied to the people of Ireland, but the tyranny of those who were determined to try and make all government impossible in that unhappy country. Meanwhile, the Government pursued its course quietly, firmly, and steadily. The protection it had given to the law-abiding classes had produced results worthy of attention, and he was anxious that they should master the figures he was about to quote. The first step taken was the re- form of the procedure of the House of Commons, and he gave instances shewing the necessity for the measure that was passed in 1888. The second important piece of legislation was Mr Goschen's Conversion Act, by which the ratepayers had bene- fitted to the extent of upwards of £2,000,000 a vear. That was a saving to the country, under which the great increase in the armaments, which, it was said by experts, was necessary for the pr tection of trade, might, perhaps, be carried on without any increase in the taxation. He hopefully anticipated that that might be one great effect of the conversion. The third Act, passed in the last session, was the greit Act of Local Government, under which they had recently become entitled to exercise their votes for the expenditure of the County's rates. The scheme was complete in every way in which a ratepayer pmilri claim that his voice should be heard in the countrv Hitherto, they had had it only partially pxtended to them now it was completely extended, and they had the good old constitutional principle of taxation and representation going together. He next dwelt upon Lord Ashbourne's Act, under which the present Govern- ment had extended to the sister island the principle by which occupiers may become, on easy terms, owners of land. It was argued that the present troubles in Ireland were connected with land, and therefore if they had, in that country, a large extension of the present proprietary scheme, so that a large number of peasant proprietors should become owners, they would do away with the agrarian difficulty. In 1887, before the rules of nrocedure were passed, an enormous number of unnecessary speeches were delivered in the House of Commons. Many spokr because they wished to see their names in the newspapers, and were anxious that their constituents should newspapers, and were anxious that their constituents should read their speeches. He was far from complaining of that, but what he dut cumDlain.of was the unnecessary speeches, their length, and the number of them. The speeches were not all delivered in good faith; and he found that in 1887, the Opposition-was called to order by the Speaker 612 times. The Speaker was strictly impartial; he was chosen from the Liberal ranks, and enjoyea the confidence of both sides of the House, and he would Ilot have called these speakers to order without having strong and grave reasons for so doing. He regretted to say that the Breaker was obliged In the same year to order the withdrawal "^Proper expressions, no less i than 52 times. In 18^, alter the rales of procedure had been passed, they h„if tvle numtJief Opposition had been called to order only °f times, and that the 52 withdrawals offensive t^"dVgip™Pe'' expressions had been reduced to 8. Therefore. important effect in enabling the So^e to carry tnrough business in a better and more ousiness-like way The Loral Government Act was said to have been the; greatest Act of the .century it was one that cave (mDortant eclat to the Conservative Government, or rather to the Unionist Government. It was an Act in which HIP RRREATASI aestetaiitie given by such men as Lord SaXlSa^rS Who f^l^rdittvfn01186- -He feared that this year there would to adittralty in carrying on the useful legislation which the Government had in hand, when he found the senior metnbei for N.■saying that he thought the Opposition 3^°. f nnhii/h in £ possibly coulS to render the transaction of public business exceedingly difficult in the present Parhani (A voice: •« Shame?') He feared they would experience great difficulty in carrying through useful and remedial legislation. y wanted to have the business of the House done in a business-like way, but how could they expect that wntjn they had not only the Irish memberr, but men of experience, re- sponsible politicians like Mr. Labouchere, followed by the ex- treme tail of the Radical party, doing all they could to make legislation impossible. He hoped, however, that tne gooa sense of a large number of the Liberal party would Ieay so to revolt against that, that they would use their efforts to see that business was properly conducted. It had been said that there was a great deal of improvement going 011 in Ireland, and that was undoubtedly the case. There was a de- crease in pauperisni and evictions, outrages and boycotting, and an increase in trade, an increase of that which did good, and a decrease of that which was harmful. In 1888, as com- pared with 1887. there was a decrease in pauperism to the ex- tent of 7*5 ifi-door paupers and 1,546 out-door pauptrs. As to the evictions and outrages, comparing three-fourths of the year 1887 with a corresponding period in 1888, there was a decrease in evictions from 1.4\8 to 5-2, M<i in outrages from 548 to 3bi. Agrarian, crieae was also less met year by 200 cases than In any year sinett 1870, and boycotting had decreased by 79 per cent. All that was verv satisfactory, and it was also a source of satisfactk-m to know that trade was increasing. The increased shipment* over 1887 were Cattle, 31,762; sheep, 37,171; swine, 72,513 horses, 2,049. The Registrar-General reported that there were 86,000 acres more under corn, clover, and hay- showing. increased confidence—and the Post .Office Savings Bank showed the large increase of £ 230.043. lhey had reason to belief* that the time was approaching when«e"ig.overnment would a position to extend some form|ot local self- governns^rit toi Ireland, something int'i of that w.ch had beea&»«4nded to England, C ^tgirt then b able to ca»y ehrough the reforms so much need# in Ire. nd. Then, when the obstruction that took place iet the Hous. of Common* was removed, and legislation became possible, be- ween this and next year, tome steps might be taken to ameliorate the condition of Ireland in such a way as to place her on perfect equality with this country. (Applause.) Mr. Llewelyn proceeded to make some remarks upon a question which, he understoo, I, was at present exercising a good deal of feeling, and into which he was anxious that full enquiry should be made. He referred to the question with regard to the Royalties paid in this country for minerals. To whom do the minerals belong ? Why do they belong in this countrv to individuals, and in other countries to the State ? These were questions often asked, and it would be well if tbev were to make them- selves masters of the facts. The Bine Book he held in his hand, on mining rates and royalties, shewed that in most countries minerals were owned by the State, but not in all. In England, for 700 years past, the mines and minsrals had been principally in the hands of private individuals, but not always. In some instances they were in the hands of private individuals, and in some cases they were in the hands of the Crown. It seemed that originally the minerals were owned by the State. In many countries, however, the State had parted with them to private individuals, and in this countrv they had been so parted with for hundreds of years past, and were constantly bought and sold freely in the open market. The Conservative Govern- ment, he went on to say, had instituted an enquiry into the subject, and he hoped that that enquiry would elucidate the question whether the restriction of trade had not almost, if not entirely, arisen from the undue profits made by the middle man. (Applause.) Another question was that of the rating of minerals. Were they properly rated was a question to be clearly solved. If they were not equally and fairly rated, then they ought to be. He had consulted men who had made the question of rating a speciality, and he believed that minerals were rated in precisely the same way as other works. If that was not the case, certainly let them be so ratea. ine Govern- ment, in the enquiry it was making into these questions, shewed that it was full v alive to the interests of the working men, and desired that there should be a clear understanding as to the true ownership of the minerals, and the proper rating of 9 them. Concluding, he said the Government had effected a great deal in the past. Important work had been done, and if only they had fair play, If the Opposition opposed legitimately, and did not obstruct, he believed that their future legisla- tion would be for the benefit of the people. (Applause.) He felt that their club, in that important centre, would exercise a most important influence in any election in the future. (Ap- plause.) They were in a position to educate their neighbours upon political questions. They had good reason to claim that the work done by the Conservative Government, since it had been in office, was such as to deserve approbation, and if they used their influence to spread light and knowledge upon these matters, they would materially assist in the return of a Conser- vative for that division of the County. (Loud applause.) Other toasts followed. The proceedings were interspersed with vocal and instrumental music, and a most enjoyable evening was spent.
+. FOOTBALL.
+. FOOTBALL. SWANSEA v. NEWPORT.—On Saturday the Swansea team journeyed to Newport for the fourth time this season, and met the home team. Not much excitement was centred in the fixture, consequent upon the uncertainty of the All Whites," and the fttct that they had a very weak team. A large number of enthusiastic supporters, however, accompanied the team, and were unfortunate enough to see the colours lowered con- siderably. The weather was fair, and Newport started hostilities by kicking off from the Ballast end. Play settled down near the half-way flag, and became of a give-and-take character, but it was evident that the Usk lads were superior to the visitors, especially in the loose. Nothing was scored in the first half. W. H. Jones, Orrin, Bevan, Meredith, C. Thomas, and Hier Davies were conspicuous for good play. In the first part of the second half play was very determined and even, the forwards on either side working like Trojans. W. H. Jones made a grand run and looked like scoring, but was floored in the nick of time. Jewitt made a shot for goal, but did not succeed. This compelled the All Whites" to touch down. After the drop out both sides went to work with a will, the tackling being simply grand. Swansea was penned ll1 their own territoiy when C. Thomas dropped a goal, and shortly afterwards Webb crossed the line, but failed to improve upon the point. Swansea appeared to lose all heart, and then play was characterised by passing of a nature which was slovenly to a degree. Jewitt got the oval from a return, and was awarded a free" in a good position, but, unfortunately, owing to carelessness on this part, this privilege was not allowed by the referee. Dauncey new made a strong run, but was overtaken by the visiting flyer" when within an ace of scoring. Hereafter the Usk men had matters all their own way as far as the scrums" were concerned, but the defence of the Swansea backs prevented further scoring. "No side" was shortly afterwards called, leaving the ball in the centre. Final score :-Newport, 1 goal (dropped), 1 try, 4 minors Swansea, nil. CARDIFF v. NEATH.—A splendid game was witnessed be- tween the above teams at Neath. Up to half-time Neath led by two tries to a goal and a minor, and it was only by dint of hard work that Cardiff managed to pull the match out of the tire. The Neath forwards were in grand form, and raced over the ground very smartly. The game ended in a win for Cardiff by 2 goals, 2 tries, to 2 tries, 2 minors. The tries were obtained by J. Davies and D. Jones for Neath, and by C. Arthur, Biggs (2), and another. CARDIFF HARLEQUINS V. LLANELLY— Played at Cardiff, ending in a win for the tin-platers by 1 goal, 6 minors, to 2 minors. ENGLISH CHALLENGE Cup.-Several important football matches were decided on Saturday. In continuation of the contest for the English challenge Cup the Blackburn Rovers met the Wolverhampton Wanderers at Crewe, and were de- feated by three goals to one. The Metropolitan Association were beaten at Glasgow by a local team, and at the Oval the 3rd Lanark R.V. were victorious over the Corinthians by three goals to one.
—— SWANSEA RURAL SANITARY…
— — SWANSEA RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. The fortnightly meeting of this Board was held at the Union Offices, on Monday, at two o'clock in the afternoon. There were present, Mr. H. D. B. Dillwy 11, in the chair; and Messrs. J. T. D. Llewelyn, F. S. Bishop, J. Naysmith, A. H. Thomas, W. H. Edwards, Rees Harries, 1J. Owen, Wm. Thomas (Lan), John Davies, R. Jenkins, P. Glynn Price, O. Walters, Walter Lewis, and W. J. Lewis. NOTICE OF MOTION.—Before the business commenced, the Chairman, in strong terms, referred to the rejection of the report of the committee on water supply at Llansamlet at the last meeting. It was a serious nr attar, and after the unanimous manner in which the report had been drawn Up, and the want of sanitary measures and increased water supply was so necessary, he was quite surprised at what took plaee, and regretted that he was unable to have been present. If they shirked their responsibilty it would be impossible for them to oppose the Swansea Corporation in their efforts to absorb Llan- samlet in the borough. He would, therefore, give notice that he would again bring forward the question at the next meeting of the Authority. LLANSAMLET ARKEABS,—A conversation having taken place on the arrears of calls due from Llansamlet, Mr. A. H. Thomas proposed that no proceedings be taken against the Llansamlet overseers for arrears.—Mr. Bishop favoured this proposal, as the overseers bad paid over jEZOO into the bank within the last fortnight.-Ultimately it was decided to postpone the prosecu- tion of the overseers until after the next Finance Committee meeting. DUTIES OF SURVEYOR AND INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES.— The minutes of the last meeting having been read and signed, Mr. F. S. Bishop brought up the report of the committee on duties of Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances, as follows Resolved, that in the opinion of this committee it is desirable that the office of the Inspector of Nuisances be separated from those of the Surveyor, that Mr. John Thomas retain his duties at the present salary of dE180 as Surveyor, that an Inspector of Nuisances be appointed at a salary of 30s. a week, and that he be allowed one assistant at a salary of 21s. a week, these two latter officers taking tne place of the two sub-inspectors now employed." Mr. F. 8. Bishop explained that the committee considered, as the Surveyor had so much to do, and that as the area of the district was so large, that he should be relieved of the Inspectorship of Nuisances. As to the latter office, they wanted a higher class man. A long conversation ensued, and the Chairman having appealed to the Medical Officers on the subject, Dr. Morgan expressed an opinion that there was much time lost by referring to the Surveyor on questions of sanitary urgency. His opinion was that Inspectors of Nuisances should be appointed for different districts, and be directly responsible to the Authority. It was eventually agreed that the ft rst part of the report in reference to relieviiij; the Surveyor from the Inspectorship of Nuisances be adopted, and «l«o appointing three districts, and an Inspector of Nuisances for each district at a salary of 30s. a week, the Surveyor to report '„\l" districts at the next meeting. STORAGE TANK AT RAVENHILLThe Chairman said it would h« remembered that the storage tank at Rave■■ hill had been ^aceTlW yards too low on the road. They had received an offer for land higher up on which to erect a tank, but the amount required for it was £ 140. This he characterised as an exorbitant sum, and eventually the Board agreed to refer the matter to Mr. R. Jenkins and himself, so that they might look up the old agreement and see what could be done. NEW ButiDINGS.-Oql the motion of Mr. Naysmith, in the absence of Mr. Llewellyn Davies, the resolution passed OIl the 11th February, requiring the buildings at Brynhyfryd to be set back, was rescinded, Mr. Lowes, the owner, having satisfied the requirements of the Authority. FEVER AT SKETTY.—Dr. Griffiths, Medical Officer, said that he had the painful duty of laying before the Authority several cases of infectious disease as having occurred during the last fortuight in the village of Mtettj. Cases of diphtheria and enteric fever were also reported at Brynhyfryd Seeimr the spreading character of thefever, it was suggested that to thn school must be attached the cause of disseminating th f e tion, and as the fever in two of the places, viz., SinVleton Lodge and 8, Roseland-terrace, had assumed a virulent tvne h« was strongly of opinion the managers of Sketty School should be recommended to close their school for the period of a month. This was recommended to be done at once, for a period of one pwmXLWYD REBERVOIR.-The agreement for land for the rwmilwvd Reservoir was then considered. Mr. John Said he would like to state that a Yestry meeting held /^vdach had instructed him to inform them they were of at Clvdac scheme should be divided.—The Chairman ^pimontha was 0ut of order, and that the Vestry ought r'! vJ n?ov7d earlie, in the matter. They could put in an to have mov Local Government Board Inspector, and then*!?he refuses to pass our plan, they must go without then, if he retus fres[l seiien3e 0t their own. "CONTKACTTFOR SCAVENGING.-The contracts for scavenging CONTRACTS FOK after some conversation, they were were then considered, ana, a Turner No. 2. W. were then considered, ana, a Turner No. 2. W. Turner No^ W ^evan No. 4, W- Thomas No. 5. David DaviesNo. 6, David Davies; No 7«»nt»rt' and before contract No. 8 was gone int a«iVin read a letter he had received from Liansamlet estry, asking the Authority not to enter into any arri moving of refuse from that district, because^su L]a^lsam, were unnecessary.—The Chairman said that all t _f Vestry seemed to consider was that anything in the p sanitation was superfluous. The result had been that rate had gone up ulltli it was rate had gone up until it was the highes in the district, the members of the Authority had come to the conclusion tnat they ha i responsibilities, and they had intended to them. Last year the Llansamlet Vestry had made a similar pica, and the Board had listened to it, with the unfortunate result that the death rate had gone up.—Mr. Walter Lewis quite agreed with the remarks of the Chairman, but he thought it was his duty tc bring the matter forward.—The con- tract was eventually given to W. Turner. CWMGELLY CEMETERY.—The Authority then proceeded to consider the proposed purchase of additional land for this cemetery.-A letter was read from Mr. Evan Daniel stating that, in accordance with the wish of the Committee, he would agree to sell the land on the plan adjoining on the north side, at the same rate per acre as the previous sale, viz., jESO per acre. -After a long discussion, the offer of Mr. Daniel was accepted, subject to the approval of the Local Government Board.-The consideration of the report of the Surveyor, on the Glais water supply was adjourned.—On the motion of Mr. A. H. Thomas, the application of Mr. John Rosser, of Trallwm-road, for a half- inch service pipe for private supply was Granted The remainder of the business was of £ formal character and plans of proposed new buildings were submitted bv^ Mr M Moxham, Eaton Town nineteen hou^sTMr Joseph Davies' Gorseinon Station, ten houses Mr. William Rosse? Tir Robert Powell, one house Mr. John Harris, BonyS'on hm^e Mr. Thomas James, Wem-road, Morriston, two housed
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AN UN-LOOKED FOR DEFICIT. The overseers of township in their annual report express a regret at having to raise the Poor rate 4d. in the pound Thev state th-it the Government has tmmlly pal(i to Corporation of bhefheld about £ 20,000 per year towards the borough fund, this being the contribution towards the cost of the police. Through some mistake either of the Government or the Town Council, or of both, no provision for its continuance beyond September last 'had been made. The new arrangements for payments towards local burdens by county councils do not begin to aoerue natil the 25th of March, the result being a loss of £ 10fi00 to the town, and a deficit of £ 6,000 in tbe borough fnad, instead of several thousand pounds balance as was con- templated.
--IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. In the House of Lords, on Monday afternoon, the Earl of Milltown introduced a bill for providing further security from attacks of personal violence. Earl Beauchamp was appointed to act as Chairman of Committees during the absence, through illness, of the Duke of Buckingham. Lord Stratheden and .Campbell moved a resolution declaring that the Colonial Con- ference of 1887 had been productive of good results, and should be made the basis of further measures tending towards Imperial security. He urged that efforts should be made to establish a system of Imperial Federation, but disclaimed any desire to definitely bind the Government to any particular course. Lora Knutsford (the Colonial Secretary) admitted the great interest and importance of the subject, and asserted that the British empire bad probably the least systematic organisation of any empire of ancient or modern times. To unite the color.ies themselves, and to strengthen the ties between them and the mother country, was not a mere dream, but was a legitimate object of Imperial statesmen. He was, however, of opinion that any proposals tending to alter the existing relations should in the first instance come from the colonies themselves. The motion was negatived without a division. The Lunacy Acts Amendment Bill passed through Committee, and the Arbitration Bill and the Commissioners for Oaths Bill were read a second time. Questions were asked by the Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Dundonald with reference to the condition ot affairs at Lake Nyassa, but the Marquis of Salisbury could give no additional information as to the action of the Portuguese in the district. The House rose at a quarter t ast six. In the House of Oori mons, on Monday, Speaker took the chair at three p.m. The Great Western Railway and Llanelly Railway and Dock Companies Bill was read a second time, and referred to a select committee.—Mr. T. Ellis I beg to^ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department wneiner tug attention has been called to the sentence of five years penal servitude passed by Mr. Justice Grantham upon James layior, at the Cardiff Assizes, fur an indecent assault; whecn-erin the morning papers of the following day the sentence is statea to be eighteen months' imprisonment; which of the two periods the convicted man is undergoing, and whether he can account for the discrepancy.—Mr. Matthews Attention has been cauea to r" this case. The original sentence of penal servitude was passed by inadventence, and was corrected the same day by tne learned judge, who imposed a sentence of eighteen months imprison- ment.-Mr. D. A. Thomas again put questions to the Home Secretary relating to the recent appointment of superintendent of the Merthyr police.-Mr. Matthews (Home Secretly), m reply, said he had no doubt there were other men in the torce qualified to take the office of superintendent. Any against the superintendent should be addressed in e nrst instance to the chief-constable, and if there was reason to suppo. e that proper cognizance was not taken of the c P airvt, then there was an appeal to the Court of Quarter Bes;310 • ffe had made no inquiry into the state of popular feeling, aid not conceive it to be part of his duty to do so. He had no official means of getting at what popular feeling „ question would be at Merthyr and Aberdare, ™ was surprised to find that he was understood to have entered into any such engagement as that now stated by the hon. oer. —Later in the evening, Mr. L. L. Dillwyn expressed his opinion that the Home Secretary had promised an Matthews denied the accuracy of the hon. member s SUNDAY CLOSING IN WALKS.—Mr. S. Smith asked the secre- tary of State for the Home Department if he could state why the return Yo. 391, of September, 1888, entitled, Drunkenness on Sunday (Convictions)," for the first time include drunken- ness associated with more serious and flagrant crimes, whereas previous returns of this kind were confined to cases of a simple nature; and was the discrepancy in the some of the Welsh counties to be attributed to a mi PP sion on the part of those whose duty it was to s pp y information of the questions submitted tothero-—™- • Wortley (Under-Secretary for the Home Departmi J'• not correct to say that the return 391 of 1838 in° the first time cases of drunkenness associated with mo crimes, whereas previous returns of this kind we.re,c° .11 cases of a simple nature. The return of 1888 includes ancles of simple drunkenness unaccompanied by disorderly Many of such cases were not included by the maJonty 0 d e local authorities who made the return in obedience to of the House in previous years. The returns granted in many Session; prior to that of 1888 are, I r? £ .rf valueless. A reference to that of 1884 shows that it P P to give information a £ to the number of convictions o pe arrested for drunkenness on Sunday. That re(lu _:„natfiiv mation addressed to the local authorities was, union. ambiguons, since it left it doubtful whether cases o drunkenness, for which nobody could be arrested, oug included, as well as cases in which the dilinquent rfi. had been, arrested. Bome local authorities reported m ance with the exact terms of the order of the is. n(.ee(}e4 cases only in which persons were arrested and then pr10 Qnvjc against to conviction, while some included all cases or tion for drunkenness. In granting the return for thought well to state clearly the Acts under which tne was asked for, and by ohe wording of the address to m cages clear that all convictions were to be included, not on'y where the law allows arrest, but also in those where it aoe Also to make the return include the years 1885-6-7. In the case of Wales the total of convictions for Sunday drunkenness 1885-6 are considerably larger in the return of 1888 than_!Lrn return made for those years. This is due to the latter re being framed on a wider basis, and invariably including a turns of convictions for simple drunkenness. en Sir J. Fergusson, in reply to Mr. S. Smith, who called attell tion to the gambling hells at Monte Carlo, said it wo going beyond the duty and functions of the Govern^ foreign interfere by making representations on such matters in i s countries. In answer to Sir J. Colomb, Lord G. Hamilto the latest telegram received from the Commander-in-^» the Mediterranean spoke discouragingly of any prosp raising the Sultan. The Admiralty had requested a sa company to report on the position, and also on the nKe of raising her. Questioned by Sir G. Campbell, Bar Worms said the Government had no intention of han^ding Western Australia to a handful of colonials. No scheme up by the Colonial Office could come into effect until it na specially legislated upon by bill in that House. Up0" port of Supply being brought up, Sir Chailes Russe: ference permission of the House to make an explanation with ret to the Attorney-General's speech on Friday evening fesP°r = the production of Pigott's letter. He read the correspon^ which had passed between himself and Sir Richard W1}.jje which he declared it was incorrect to say that he ha• slightest knowledge of Pigott's letter discrediting his tcstim J until after Pigott had left the country. To this Sir R. ™eos t replied that if he had made a mistake he would frankly correc it; but he was under the impression he had offered Sir Charles Mr. Soame's letter of the 15th, containing a reference to Pigott's letter, of the 11th November. Sir Charles read his reply to the Attorney-General, in which. while objecting to the latter's method of conducting the case from apparently political feel- ing, he disclaimed the imputation of dishonourable motives to him. The Attorney-General acknowledged Sir C. Russell's repudiation of any imputation upon his conduct, and then replied with some warmth to Sir W. Harcourt's speech, which he alleged attributed dishonourable conduct to him. After some remarks by Mr. Asquith, Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. John Morley, and others, the report was agreed to by 143 to 76. In the House of Lords, on Tuesday afternoon, Earl Bea_u- champ moved the second reading of the Licensing Act (18"«> Amendment Bill. The Bill proposes to enact that justices em- powered to grant licenses for the sale of liquor at railway stations shall not do so unless waiting accommodation is Pr vided for passengers in some room or place other than that which intoxicating liquors are sold. Lord Brabourne opp08, the second reading, on the ground that such legislation woi be almost certain to be attended with public inconvemence. The Earl of Crawford opposed the Bill. Earl Brownlow con- tended that it would be unjust to provide that a refresbmen room keeper should lose his license if a railway company ov whom he had no control failed to provide proper aeconimou tion for travellers. After some remarks from the Earl Of Kimberley and a brief reply from Earl Beauchamp. the bill was withdrawn. Lord Harris gave particulars of the effect ofrecenl changes in punishment upon the discipline of the arm and argued that the present system worked in a satisfactory manne The House rose at twenty minutes to six. The House of Commons met on luesday afternoon. de Worms informed Mr. Labouchere that Lobengula, the hi of the Matabeles, had granted to Mr. Rudd a concession o mineral rights throughout his dominions on condition that was granted an armed steamer, or, in lieu thereof, £ 500, whic^ Lobengula probably required for the protection of his own country. Mr. Rudd had solicited the co-operation of Her Majesty's Government in accomplishing the object of the co cession but the Government had expressed no approval of > > and had no power to disallow such a concession. by Nlr. Conybeare. Lord G. Hamilton explained that the dis- charges of workmen at Keyham and Devonport dockyard were due to the completion of the work for which the men wer temporarily engaged. In reply to Mr. Bryce, who calico attention to a report of oppressions perpetrated on Armenian Christians in Asiatic Turkey by Turkish officials, Sir J. Fergusson said Her Majesty's Ambassador would continue to represent to the Sultan and to His Majesty's Ministers un- officially any individual cases of hardship and oppression 01 which he might receive well-established evidence. Mr. Sexton enquired what progress had been made with reference to the promised enquiry into the treatment of prisoners. Mr- Balfour said he had been in communication with representa- tuves of the Scotch, Irish, and English Prisons Board, and wa« inclined to think that the best plan would be to ask those gentlemen to serve on a Committee, with two other persons who would have the confidence of the public. The House afterwards went into Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates, and several votes were agreed to. The sitting was suspended at five minutes to seven. On the House resuming at nine o'clock, Mr. Sydney Buxton called attention to the slave trade in East Africa, and proposed that an address si should be presented to the Queen that she would he pleased to take steps for calling together a conference of the Powers, in order to devise measures for the suppression of the slave trade under the regulations of international law. Among those who took part in the discussion were Sir J. Kennaway, Mr. Alfred Pease, and Sir W. Barttelot. ——
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. THE CORN TR IDE.-The temperature, while still rather low [or the season, seems to be gradually rising; we get more mi'*1 days now than in February, which is a healthy sign, reversing the tendency of February itself, which was a colder period than tne opening month of the year. The present low price 01 bailey is so universally ascribed to the exceptionallv bad colour and light weight of 1888 grain that there is little reason to fear a general discouragement in sowing, especially as good to fine barley is run after, and commands a remunerative price. Oats are in a somewhat different position, and tend more and more to be grown exclusively for the farm's own wants The foreign oats which swamp the market are by no means exclusively light grain, 3041b to the quarter. Although the estimated sup- plies of breadstuffs from all sources for the past week have been from eighty to a hundred thousand quarters below estimated consumption wants, the tone of the trade for English wheat has been in nowise improved. The indiscreetly heavy threshings of corn already wanting in condition during the rainy periods of February and early March have inundated many of the local exchanges with grain which millers find it difficult to make any use of at all, and can in no case employ until cleverly mixed with drier and strong foreign grain. -The London average for the week ended Tuesday last was 31s. 4d. tper quarter on sales of 2,171 quarters. Owing, therefore, to the abundance of untit samples, it by no means follows, from the above averages, that millers are having a good time." Oil FmH we hav0 fieard many complaints that the profits a £ ?n?.* w'lat they were before Christmas, really satisfactory English wheat beiug both difficult to secure, and of comparatively high value where offered. A thirty-sbiHinX average, in fact, represents no real preponderance of samples at that price, but it stands for the compromise between the JJJ- ferior stun at 24s. to^s. per quarter only and the useful nnll- ing which makes 33s. to 36s. per quarter. Foreign wheat has fluctuated 6d. down, and then 6d. up again, for Califorlllar" since the srh instant. Good sorts of Russian wheat have been more steadily held, but of inferior the offerings are now larg*, and a decline is frequently allowed to clear. Indian wheat is, on the whole, a httle firmer on the week the new crop is net expected to equal the yield of last year. The price of Australian strikes us as low, considering the inability of that continent to ship any m ire wheat between now and 1890. The receipts of wheat and "ou,r i -London for the week ended with Friday comprised 36,2^.0 quarters of foreign wheat (3,033 quarters Dantzig, 1,008 quarters Pillau, 24,572 quarters Black 8ea, about 5,000 quarters Persian, and several small quantities from other sources), which, with 3,158 quarters English, and flour equal to 25,12 quarters, made a total supply equal to 64,508 quarters of breadstutts. Hellers of cheap foreign barley, after some days of weakness, put on a bolder front, and on Friday and Saturday were not ready to part with grain for quite so low a price as they would have accepted from Monday to Thursday. In the home counties there are still several markets whereat the barley deliveries are of sufficiently good quality and colour to keep the average wen above 30s. Oats and rye show no substantial change from a week ago, while beans and peas are an exceedingly inactive trade. During the past week 22 wheat, 6 maize, 1 barley, and 5 bean cargoes have arrived at ports-of-call, ugainst 1 wheat, 13 bean, and 4 maize cargoes in the preceding week. The floating bulk of breadstuffs stands at 1,856,000 quarters of wheat, and flour, reckoned as wheat, being 166,600 quarters diminution from the preceding week. For the first time sinee the new year the quantity afloat is smaller than a twelvemonth since.—Mark Lane Ezpregs.
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LONDON GAZETTE. (From Friday Night's Gazette). THE BANKHUPTCY ACT, 18N>.—RECEIVING ORIIF.KS. — Edw. Andrew, jun., of Beniew, Montgomeryshire, butcher and maltster. Thomas Williams, Globe Shop, Cefn-Coedycymmer, Brecknockshire, flannel dealer and general dealer. J. H. Arnold Cock, the Farm, near Swansea, farmer and dairyman. Morris Joseph, G-uildford-street, Cardiff, wholesale jeweller. FIRST MKETING AND DATE OF PUBLIC EXAMINATION. — Edward Andrew, the younger, Berriew Montgomeryshire, butcher and maltster. First meeting, April 1, at 1 p.m.at the Offical Receiver s, Llanidloes; public examination, April 4, at 11 a.m., at the County Court, Newton. NOTICES F DIVIDENDS.-William S. Barr, trading as Barr Brothers, Mary-street, and L:>wer Cathedral-road, Cardiff, merchant taikvr. Final divideiid, 4s. 3d. in the pound payable at the Official Receiver s, Cardiff. George Matthews, Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, ironmoncer. Final dividend, 2s. 9id. in the pound; payable M-uvh 25, at 39, Broad-street, Bristol. Wm B. Sharp, Cowbridge-road, Canton. Cardiff, grocer. Final dividend, 8jd. in the p und payable at the Official Receiver's Cardiff. Robert Davies, Glanrafonddu, Tamygrisian, Blaenau Festiniog quarryman and farmer. Final dividend, 8;-d. in the pound; payable April 3, at the Bankruptcy Office, Crypt Chambers, Chester. ADJUDICATION'S. — William Jenkins, of Nantlier, Ponty. cyminer, Glamorganthire, hotel keeper, and lately colliery owner. John Williams, Castle-street, Merthyr Tydvil, builder and contractor. Thomas Williams, of Cefn-Coedycvmmer, Brecknockshire, flannel dealer and general dealer. Charles M. King, Newport, Mon., innkeeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVKD.—John Snape, Thomas Dickens, and John Corbett Long, trading as the Hirwain Crucible Steel Company, at Hirwain, Glamorgan, steel smelters and steel- casting manufacturers J. C. Long retires.-Thomas Seth Jones and Edward Rees, trading as Jones, Rees, and Co., at Cardiff, colliery store contractors.—Robert Greenish, John Dawkins, Frederick Robert Greenish, and Thomas Randel Dawkins, trading as Greenish and Dawkins, at Haverfordwest, drapers, 1 and general shopkeepers. R. Greenish and J. Dawkins retire. John Gane, Herbert Jackson, and Herbert Joseph Goss, carrying on business as Gane, Jackson, and Goss, at Swansea and Cardiff, chartered accountants. (From Tuesday Night's Gazette. ) RECEIVING ORDEK.—George Christopher Henry Best, Talbot- street, formerly trading High-street Arcade, both Cardiff, watchmaker and jeweller. FIRST MEETING AND DATE OF PUBLIC EXAMINATION.—Arthur A. Leek. Clifton-street, Cardiff, lately of Market-street, Ponty- pridd, boot and shoe dealer. First meeting, April 8th noon, at the Official Receiver's, Cardiff, public examination, April 9th, 10.30 a.m., at the Town-hall, Cardiff. NOTICES OF DIVIDENDS.—Howard H. Mackness, Church- road, Canton, and Bute-place, Bute Docks, grocer and ships' store dealer. Final dividend, Us. 3 £ d. in the pound, payable 4 March 28th, at the Official Receiver's, Cardiff.-Thomas M. Jones, Pontwelly, in Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, coal, brick, and lime merchant. Final dividend, 2s. 7d. in the pound, pay- able April 4th, at the Official Receiver's, Carmarthen. ADJUDICATIONS. George C. H. Best, Talbot-street, formerly trading High-street Arcade, Cardiff, jeweller. — Judah J. Tumpowhky, Broadway, Cardiff of Pontlottyn, Glamorgan- shire; aiso of Rhymney, Monmouthshire, jeweJlerand outfitter.
♦ COMMERCIAL FAILURES.
♦ COMMERCIAL FAILURES. According to Stubbs' Weekly Gazette, the number of failures in England and Wales gazetted during the week ending March 23, was 179. The number in the corresponding week I of last ye ir was 188, showing a decrease of 9. The failures I were distributed among the following trades, and for com- I parison we give the number in each in the corresponding weeks I of 1888 and 1887. I 1889. 1888. 1887. Builders, Building Mitteria-ts 21 23 27 Chemists and Drysalters 5 3 1 China, Glass, Earthenware 1 1 2 Confectionery, Toys, Fancy Goods 5 2 — Corn, Coals, Minerals 3 11 2 Drapery, Clothing Textures 20 37 11 Farmers 9 10 9 Furniture, Upholstery 5 6 6 Horses, Vehicles 3 3 4 Jewellery, Watches 2 1 5 Leather 15 11 2 Metals. 10 ft 5 Paper, Printing, 3 10 6 Provisions 33 37 19 Wines, Spirits, Beer, Tobaccos. 23 24 14 Miscellaneous. 2. 4 10 179 188 123 The number of bills of sale in .England and Wales regisxercu at the Queen's Bench for the week ending March 23 was 533. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 282, and the corresponding weeks for the three previous years 25 230, and 206. The receiving orders gazetted number 102, showing an increase of 15, and the number of registered deeds of arrange- ment was 77, an increase of 6. In Ireland there were 66 judgments registered, a decrease of 40 bills of sale 7, showing an increase of 3 bankruptcies gazetted was 3, an increase of I, and the registered deeds of arrangement 6. an incrense 01 • The Scotch returns show that we have ublished 1« re^„„f protests, a decrease of 19, and 34 failures, being an 10. The totals for the portion of the year to Marco a, a bills for sale registered for England and Wales, 2i77, crease of 557 the receiving orders gazetted numoeir 1.. decrease of 47, and the registered deeds of arrangeme an increase of 169. In Ireland the totals are an(j a decrease of 26J; the bills of sale 120, a decrease or u a « the bankruptcies gazetted number 2S, a decrease ot registered deeds of arrangement, 6, an increase o • land the totals are recorded protests gazetted 27-, a decrease of 50, and the failures 353, a decrease of 11-•
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HIGH WATER IX SWAXBEA HARBOUR FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1889. dh.b HEIOHTfe NSARBST MID-DAT. WATKk. nn Dock S. Dock~^s- of the Jluiith.! Gr'nwii 1, eill, Hf.-tide Hf.-tide J = Mean P. V Basin Basin Time. Dock. CILL. j CILL.1 g 1 ——— ———— APRIL. )A M P.M. F. I. F.I.f.! Monday 1 6 51 7 8 38 0 27 0 256.sg Tuesday 2 7 20 7 43 32 4 26 4 2410 <1> Wednesday. s 7 59 8 1* 31 0, 2; 0 23 6 ,g-; Thursday 4 8 30 8 46 20 6 23 6 22 0 Friday ft 9 2 9 IS 27 11 21 11 20 5 S3 „ Saturday 6 9:14 9 2 26 i: 20 1 18 7 Sunday 7 110 13 10 3>1 24 3 18 3 I 16 9 Monday 8 111 8 11 40 21 0 17 0 15 6 S Tuesday 9 0 0 0 16 23 0 17 0 15 6 P"! Wednesday 10 0 55 1 36 24 3 18 3 9 Thursday U 2 15 2 52 2C> 3 20 3 is o Friday 12 3 26 3 06 2s 5 22 5 2u 11 Saturday 13 4 23 4 43 30 2 24 2 22 8 Sunday H 5 .1 5 -2 31 8 25 8 21 2 L.'S Monday. 5 41 6 1 32 3 26 3 24 9 >' ;q Tuesday if fi 21 e ,o as 3 2J 3 25 9 Wednesday — 17 7 t 7 24 33 6 27 6 26 0 tS'i Thursday i« 7 4-5 8 5 32 1 2^ 10 25 4 J=- « Friday 19 8 26 8 ^8 31 6 2» 6 24 0 Saturday 20 9 12 9 36 30 0 24 0 22 6 Sunday 21 10 1 10 30 28 0 22 0 20 6 <0 §5f Monday 22 11 311 36 26 2 2,) 2 18 8 2 i- Tuesday 23 0 0 025 25 8 19 8 18 8 Wednesday. 24 1 6 1 4.1 26 5 20 5 18 ll oj?* Thnrsday 25 2 24 3 1 28 1! 22 1 20 7 i^jlS Friday 26 3 33 4 2 39 9 23 9 22 3 ,c: oA Saturday. 27 4 27 4 49 30 10 24 10 23 4 -rtjs Sunday 28 5 8 5 28 31 6 25 6 24 0 jSt -Z Monday 29 5 47 6 5 31 8 25 8 04 o "S 5 Tuesday 30 6 24 6 41 31 9 25 9 24 3 £ -J ll ofXShDocI the South nnck is 18 inches above the em of the South Dock half-tide basin. thInhX^ The inner cill of th« Xorth l- 'k ,,l t I „ cill of the North Dock half tui u^in! MOOVS PHASES. FUUMCOONR''LFTLI' IN L9P'M' LAST QUAR" 22NI1' P"M' 1 un moon, t.un. 10.19 p.m. New Moon> 30tJl> 2. a.m.
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GLAMORGANSHIRE ASSIZES.
GLAMORGANSHIRE ASSIZES. J NISI PKIUS COURT.-FRIDAY. [Before Mr. Justice Cave.] A COWBRIDGE SOLICITOR AND HIS CLIENT. — The evidence in the case of Mr. Thomas Bees, solicitor, Cowbridge, v. Mr. John Williams, hay merchant, Cardiff, in which the plaintiff sought to recover JE43 for professional services and advice, was continued. The defence put forward was that the services were to 00 rendered without charge while the defendaut counter- claimed the sum of JE511, which he alleged he lost through the plaintiff's negligence in not recovering the amount from Messrs. K. Jones and Son, auctioneers, Bridgend. Mr. Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., M..P., and Mr. Abel Thomas appeared for the plaintiff, IND Mr. B. F. Williams, Q.C., and Mr. Jeffreys (instructed by Mr. J. H. Jones, Cardiff), for the defendant. The jury, consi- dering their verdict, deliberated for over an hour. They found forthe plaintiff to the amount of £11185. 4d.,and recommended that each party pay their own costs. They found that the counter claim did not hold.—His Lordship gave a verdict to that amount without costs. WAGON HIRE.—Joseph Heald and Co., Wagon Works, East Moors, Cardiff, sued Bullett and Co., merchants, Cardiff Docks, for the sum of £:!5 15s. 7d., being the amount due to them for the hire of 20 eight-ton wagons.—Mr, Abel Thomas (instructed by Mr. J. H. Jones; appeared for the plaintiffs. The defend- ants were undefended.—-After the evidence of Mr. Heald, judg- ment was given for the plaintiffs. A SEQUEL TO THE CARDIFF EXHIBITION.—Messrs. Hudson and Kearns, printers, London, sued Philip Shrapnel, late manage? of the Cardiff Exhibition of 1888, for the sum of £52 2s. for printing the posters and other work in connection with the exhibition. The defendants had paid JE43 5s. lid. into court. Mr. Howell Jeffreys (instructed by Mr. J. H. Jones) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Abel Thomas (instructed by Jones, Macintosh, and Dixon) appeared for the defendant. Thecourt rose at five o'clock, leaving the case unfinished. CROWN COURT.—FRIDAY. [Before Mr. Justice Grantham.] CARDIFF AND ."OUTH WALES MANURE COMPANY (LIMITED) v. Q-ASH.—Mr. Bjwen Rowlands, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. Abel Thomas (instructed by Messrs. Morris and Son) appeared for Plaintiffs, Mr. B. F. Williams, Q.C., and Mr. Upward (instructed by Mr. J. H. Jones, Cardiff) for defendant. This was an action for an injunction from trading. Mr. Abel Thomas informed the Judge that the matter Tiad been arranged. Defendant agreed that a judgment should be entered for plaintiffs without damages, each party to pay their own costs. LAWRENCE AND CROCKER V. JAMES WOOD AND SON, CARDIFF.—This was an action for breach of agreement.—Mr. Abel Thomas (instructed by Mr. T. Phillips) appeared for de- fendants, and Mr. Marshall (instructed by Messrs. Ingledew, luce, and Vachell) for defendants,—Mr. Abel Thomas said that plaintiffs carried on business at Cardiff, and they thought it would be a good speculation in the jubilee year to print what they called a Jubilee Time-table. They believed that the ven- ture would probably bring in a large number of advertisements, *nd that the sale of the sheet itself would result in some re- ceipts. Plaintiffs arranged with defendants' manager to set up and print 500 copies of tte monthly time-table and advertising sheet for 12 months-tbe first issue of such sheets to be printed and delivered to plaintiffs two days before the first of October. Plaintiffs went about and got advertisements for the sheet. They then went to the defendants, but learnt that defendants absolutely refused to print any of the sheets, so the present notion was brought. Afterwards plaintiffs arranged to have the time-tables printed by Waterlow and Sons. They now claimed for the loss sustained in not bringing out the tables in the months of September, October, November, and December, 1888.-His Lordship, on ascertaining that the agreement between plaintiffs and defendants was unstamped, said that it was valueless, and, after a brief conversation, a formal judgment for defendants was given..„ THE CARDIFF EXHIBITION. The plaintiff was the promoter of the recent Cardiff Exhibition, the defendant IS bandmaster of the celebrated Grenadier Guards Band.—Mr. B. F. Williams AND Mr. Abel Thomas, instructed by Messrs. Jones, Macintosh, and Dixon appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Bowen Rowlands, Q-C., M.P and Mr. Arthur Lewis, instructed by Mr. Draper, of London, represented defendant.—Mr. Abel Thomas read the Pleadings, which stated that plaintiff, who was the manager of the exhibition, claimed damages for non-fulfilment of a con- tract by defendant: That the Grenadier Guards Band should play on the 12th, 13th, 14th, and loth September, at the Cardiff AND South Wales Exhibition." Plaintiff also said that defend- ant falsely represented he would bring down the band. In de- fence, defendant urged that he did not undertake the contract AS alleged, and that it was a condition precedent that defend- ant should get the consent of the commander-in-chief and of the War Office.Mr. F. B. Williams rehearsed the circum- stances of the case. At the time of the exhibition Lieutenant ■GODFREY had promised his band—evenings—for the purposes of exhibition, subject to the approval of the War Office authorities. That permission was, however, withheld, and it WAS intimated for defendant in one of the letters which passed between the parties at the time that the engagement was not CONSIDERED to be of sufficient public importance for the band ■9 £ O outside its own district."—The Judge asked where was Plaintiff's contract that defendant would come to Cardiff.—Mr. • F. Williams cited the correspondence with defendant. Mr. Phillip Shrapnell, manager of the Exhibition, AS called and gave evidence. — The Judge said the Postscript in one of defendant's letters—and the postscript 8RE, like the postscript of a lady's letter, was not the least important part of it—(laughter)—expressly STATED that he could not agree that the band should come to Cardiff until he got the permission of the War Office, and defendant never got that permission. My opinion is that there i& no contract on the Part of defendant that he would come. What was the £ QRLT of the jury ? Witness To give medals. — Mr. ROWLANDS Gold medals made of brass ? (Laughter.) PLAINTIFF They were not gold. They ,^ST' ,AN<? class. The highest, I think, was 9s. 6d. (Laughter.) .-The Judge: What was the cheapest? — Just under 4s. each, but they cost considerably more, because the dies were Bowen Rowlands addressed the jnry for the defendant.—The J udge summed up. He said that defendant, GIVING permission at all to plaintiff to advertise the band, HA<FRUN VERY great risk, and that entirely for the benefit of Plaintiff. It was quite clear that this Cardiff exhibition was ?°T IN ITG inception a popular exhibition. The main question the jury was, did plaintiff suffer damage froni defend- ant's band not being able to come to the exhibition? The jury TURNED a verdict for the defendant. CROWN COURT.—SATURDAY. (Before Mr. Justice Grantham.) OUJJ Y SCOTT.—This action was of a sporting character, F N HIS Lordship taking his seat, Mr. Abel Thomas (who was the plaintiff in the case) informed the court thai the R}8? HAD been settled, and asked that judgment be entered for P'aintiff for £ 60 without costs.—Mr. Arthur Lewis was for the E~Endant and agreed.. ^SEQUEL TO A PONTYPRIDD SHOOTING CASE.—The action of R^-VID ROBERTS y, Thomas Morgan was taken.—Mr. Arthur was for plaintiff, and defendant appeared in person.— ™R- Arthur Lewis in opening the proceedings, said the action 'L«S GUN ^IFATENED to fire it off, and did fire it off. The result WAS to inflict UPON the plaintiff such injuries that he was laid CONSIDERABLE time; that he lost practically the use of^ one-of his ARNIG, AND RENDERED himself totally incapable of following his STION or of glining a livelihood. Y The learned counsel de- TAILED the facts of the case at length.—The plaintiff, in the of his evidence, showed his arm, and said the doctor told HIM it would never be of any use.-The Judge advised him VER to despair It was extraordinary what recuperative POWER nature had in such cases. Let him give it a little gentle exercise every day, and he would be surprised at the result. If THOUGHT he was never going to get well, it never would, By 'R' -MIWIS Had tried hawking. He had been in a club and got PI,KA WEEK FOR three months. He had paid 3s. a week to the ciUD. While this lasted he and his wife lived upon it.—The N That must be a very bad club. If you had joined the Inn 8 0R Oddfellows you would have had something as JONG as YOU lived.—The witness: I was bound to join this, it A Workmen's club.—The Judge Well, it really ought to be 'NTO by employers of iabour and owners of mines. There WBAT V WHERE the charge is nothing like so much as that a MN TIT OR LS- They get 12s. or 14s. a week for six last something else during the whole time the illness RIIO* • Haven't vouany Foresters or Oddfellows' lodge in your RLCT.?"-WITNESS I don't know.—The Judge Well, that is a lodfr X'IF THAT is all vou get. You should belong to a better Further evidence having been given, the Judge, in H 'LNK up, SAI(J SEEMED to him that defendant's contention thonwh H NOT MEAN to shoot was borne out by the fact that, F hethreatened, he put the gun on the counter. It was a INS- I 'IKELY view of the case. Still, he was responsible for LS HEAD and temper, and the effects on that occasion.— 'A K URY then retired, and after about five minutes returned wit.n A verdict for plaintiff, with £ 20 damages.—The jury gave their fees to the plaintiff. K ANR> ANOTHER V. JOHN BI.AND AND CO. — In this ACTI°N.the plaintiffs reside at Bute Docks, Cardiff, and Austria, A' THE defendants are timber merchants at Cardiff. The piaintut s claim was for £ 84 ls. 2d., balance of freight and charges in respect of a cargo of timber conveyed on ooard the barque Cavaliere Tvanissevich, on a voyage from L Card'ff- The defendants admitted that the sum of F -JINT'H WAS DUE to the owners of the vessel for balance of THLVR THE7 did not admit the plaintiffs were such owners. IO^!F° COUNtER-claimed, alleging damage by breach of bill IT HIS?' of the goods mentioned oil the bill of lading not oeing delivered. Defendants counter-claimed £ 80, the 5?" AS the plaintiffs said was due. Mr. Bowen Kowiands, Q.c., M P AND ML. D_ LEWIS (INSTRUcted by Mr. T. « were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Meager (in- WIIIDNNT ?SRS" Ingledew, Ince, and Vachell), was for the J AFTER considerable legal argument a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs. VIKS-—IN this action, John Rees, of Swansea, was plaintiff, and the Rev. E. A. Davies, of Llangennech Vicarage, Carmarthenshire, was the defendant.—Mr. William E ^"STRUCTED by Mr. Howells, Llanellv) appeared for the lormer, and Mr. Benson (instructed by Messrs. Robinson Smith TU ?°N' ANSea) was for the defendant.—The plaintiff claimed RIE YR! OF certain colliery plant, iron ore, lately AT the JR* °"'ER7' Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, or in lieu I %NNT'P • having been given, which the Judge ARFMOIR AJS A most confusing nature, his Lordship gave judgment tor defendant with costs, saying there was no founda- tion for the action whatever. NISI PRIUS COURT. — SATURDAY. „ (Before Mr. Justice Cave.) HUDSON AND KEARNS v. P. SHRAPNELL.—On his Lordship taking his seat, the action brought by Messrs. Hudson and Kearns, printers, London, against Mr. P. Shrapnell, manager of the Cardiff Exhibition, was resumed.—Further evidence was taken, and Mr. Abel Thomas having addressed the court for THE defendant, his Lordship gave judgment for the plaintiffs for £ 6 14s. id., in addition to what had been paid into court, with costs. TUSKS v. BLAND.—The plaintiff, who is an oven builder. of Willesden (formerly of Cardiff), brought an action against Mr. Alfred W. Bland, baker and confectioner, Newport, Mon., to recover £5? FOR goods supplied and work done. There was a counter claim amounting to £ 57.—Mr. Arthur Lewis and Mr. C. J. Jackson (instructed by Mr. George David) APPEA^/1^ the plaintiff, and Mr. Abel Thomas (instructed by Mr. William Wade, Newport) for the defendant.—His Lordship gave judg- ment for the plaintiff for £ 43 14s. 7d. with COSTS. COLE V. THE SWANSEA CO-OPF.RATIVK BUILDING SOCIETY. -In this case Mr. Abel Thomas, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that intricate points of law were involved, and he thought it would be very much better that the case should be tried in London. There was only one witness to be examined. —Mr. H. De la Beche Dillwyn opposed the application but subsequently the facts were agreed to by the parties, and the legal points will be argued in London. THE RESTITUTION STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. PIRIE AND COMPANY.-The plaintiffs are the owners of the steamship Restitution, and the defendants, Messrs. Pirie and Company, are merchants in London.-Mr. Clement Higgins, Q.C., and Mr. Benson (instructed by Messrs. Downing and Handcock) were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Abel Thomas and Mr. David Lewis (instructed by Messrs. Ingledew, Ince, and Vachell) for the defendants.—The facts as stated by MR. Higgins were practic- ally agreed to.—It was decided that the legal arguments should be taken by his Lordship in London, and the court rose. This concluded the business of the assize.