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UP AND DOWN THE COAST. I PERRY WINKLE ON EDUCATION. It is n K. oft'n th it th J Winkles have troubled themselves wit) ma te s belonging to the sects, and un'ike some people, I have n tear that religion is a thing that can be got rid of. I b ie e that the Eternal Being is able to keep His own" now as in the past cycles but I am of opinion that men can I-lay the fulness of time they may even say that they will not have a certain blessing. As George Eliot makes one of h;3 characters remirk, When a man turns a bless- ing from his door it falls to them as takes it in," and if the men of this age will not take in the blessing of education, we know Him, with whom a thousand years is as one day, and education can wait till men are ready to take it in, and in the ineantinle- Thou spirit of sectarian hate, Go forth and do thy best to slay Be, as thou art, a gloomy fate < That shrouds in night the children's way. Be fair of face and smooth of tongue,— t Be coid as death and false as hell; And as thy hollow praise is sung, Each note shall sound the children s knell. By time-worn platitudes and cant. Persuade the people stones are bread Teach them the only thing they want Is power to follow where tbey're led. Lm'" creeds and dogmas may be wrong, And i et, again, they may be true PerpLexing cries confuse the throng, And hide the simple truth from view. But long as sun and stars give light, And long as earth its course shall roll,— It surely never can be right To damn a mind to save a soul. Truth still remains on earth, and when Church and Dissent nave fought out their miserable battle it will still be true that religion is the main thing after all, let it be taught when and how it may. PORTMADOC HARBOUR.. I have been at Portmadoc on more than one occasion, and it has always struck me that if the tradesmen and other inhabitants of that place had sufficient "go "in them, a good deal could be done towards improving the trade of the town. We all know that the harbour is not all that can be desired," considering the increased trade; indeed it is to be feared that due care is not taken to provide necessary accommodation. Since my experience of the Aberystwyth Harbour, I am allowed to know something about harbours in general, and as for general trade, the Winkles have always made trade their peculiar study, and one of their maxims has been "never let politics interfere with your busintss relations." Throughout Wales we want more manufacturing, for the simple reason that manufactures increase wealth. We have all heard that he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. Now, grass in this case is raw material, of which beef, mutton, hides and wool are the manufactured article. It does not require an Argus-a gentleman who has one hundred eyes-to see that towns where manufacturing is carried on have a better chance cf being wealthy than places whsre this is not the case. Again, all towns that have anything in the shape of a harbour have better chances of making wealth than places not possessing that advantage, because ports have the means of obtaining raw material on more favourable terms than inland towns. What we want is to get into the habit of making things instead of buying them from other towns ready made. This is by way of introduction, and I should advise the people to look out, ase we must all pull together and see if something cannot b done to get the harbour into a good state. TO JOHN JONES, TREGARON. When I read your letter I came to the conclusion that Tregaron, after all, is not hopeless; but there is a great deal to be done there. You have no Local Board, and a Board of Guardians, after all, is not the sort of body to direct the affairs of a town like Tregaron. I have no particular fault to find with the guardians, except perhaps that they do not sufficiently realize the great importance of their duties they are not as careful to act according to strict rules as they might be, and besides, my dear Jones, you may depend upon it that no town ever succeeds until there are a num- ber of men in it who are always thinking what they can do to promote its prosperity. We want more public spirit: men who will toil on year after year for the good of the public, repeating time after time the lessons thev wish to teach until somebody learns them. When you" were at Aberystwyth last week you must have noticed what a great improvement has been made in the footpaths, under the direction of Mr Vaughan, the town surveyor, who na- turally enough is proud of his work. Well, if I were to tell you all the struggling there has been to get Aberystwyth into its present condition you would be surprised. and we have a good deal to do yet. Block View must fall though the proprietor seems anxious to wait until his lease has nearly run out. He could get a decent price now but he unwisely think he will get more offered for it every year whereas the fact is he will get less. Then again we have a place called Piascrug which we intend to plant with trees and name the "Ladies'Walk." Then we are going to widen one of the entrances to the town, and we are going to build some baths, and there is some prospect of starting two or three new branches of trade, and we are going to build some nice houses for winter residents, to say nothing of completing the drainage, improving the water supply, completing the harbour and lots of other things. Y ou may depend upon it that in a few years you will require a guide to show you your way about, as we shall rebuild most of the town if we get the Bill we are now promoting in Par- liament. I don't tell you these things to dishearten you, but to give you courage, because a long while ago Aberys- twyth was almost as bad as Tregaron in some respects. ASSISTING THE WELL-TO-DO. Some time ago a Ratepayer" asked a few questions respecting the Grammar School Buildings which have been occupied rent free for some years on the understanding that anumber ofitown boys were to be educated gratuitously. Put- ting the rent at jElOa year, a very moderate sum,and allowing that the building has been occupied seven years, the town has lost £70 which it can ill spare, especially as the build- ing is not occupied, I presume, by a pauper. There are jobs of all siz-s, and this is a little job, but we don't want jobbery of any sort, and the sooner we have a satisfactory clearing up of this question the more pleased I shall be and the sooner I can turn to afftirs of greater moment. Why on earth should Mr A, B, or C have possession of publie property for nothing unless he has a right to it, and if he has a right to it why does he not say so ? Now, there are gentlemen in the Town Council who are not afraid of either this man or that, and I should like to know how soon we are to have the JE70, because the educating of town boys for nothing is all a farce, and the elO a year would pay a deserving lad's fees at College. These little affairs make me exclaim with the poet 'Tis a very good world to live in To lend or to spend or to give in, But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known. There seems to be a class of people like the daughters of the horseleach who are always crying "give, give" but it is some satisfaction to know that Great fleas have little fleas, Upon their legs to bite ,em And little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad infinitum. When I read lines like the foregoing I am thankful that the world has been blessed with poets. TO BE A1 TENDED TO AT ONCE. A correspondent writes :—Dear Sir,—The trees in North Parade have some very nice iron guards round them but the trees have in some cases outgrown the guards and the lesult is that if something is not done before long some of the largest trees will be utterly spoiled. If you will look at them tile next time you visit Aberystwyth, perhaps you will he able to suggest something."—I have seen the trees and they are being ruined rapidly in two or three cases I question whether the wood is not permanently injured already. Five minutes would settle this matter if some one would please to remember it at the next Council meeting. It would be indeed a pity if the trees in North Parade should get to look as bare and desolate as that poor post of mine a little higher up. One post may be borne, but a row of them would drive me mad. A SAD FAREWELL. I humbly confess that at one time I was weak enough to think that we should have a reading room in the town, but the hope has become fainter and fainter, until at last it has died out altogether and all that is left for me to do is to bid the memorialists who attended the council meetings on several occasions a Ion,, and sad farewell. As men who nrofess the Christian religion and throng to churches and ch&P^;? Sundays it is a melancholy fact that a reading room is more than the continued efforts of the inhabitants of the town can accomplish. Let us beoutspoken at once and. confess that we do not care a rap either for the souls, minds, or bodies of anyone who is not a member of our little Zoar, or Hermon, or Ebenezer, or Zion. or whatever other name we may have chosen. It is all very well to pray for the re- demption of mankind and leave their education in the hands of the Devil and his ministers. A very small amount of prac- tical work is worth a lot of talk even when that same talk assumes the form of a prayer. The Devil works and Chris- tians talk: that is all the difference. One reading room for the town is beyond the combined power of all the well. meaning men in it. Oh, we love our fellow men and we she. — tiu<± of ignorance and wickedness, but the work must be done by wishing or else it must re- main undone. I bid the reading room farewell and will wait until a more convenient season. THE M A.RKET8. Step by step—slowly, but surely, we are approaching the completion of the long-talked-of market question. The stalls are yet in the streets and hawking U still allowed • but this is a matter that appeals to the pocket, and there. fore it will be done depend upon it, we shall have the streets cleared, for in this eminently religious age busi. ness has the best of it, by a long way. I hope no- body will think that I am raring a single word against re- ligion—I am only regretting, as every thoughtful man must regret, that there ;s so little of it. Somebody once wished that he had a forty-parson power to chant the praise of hypocrisy, and if he had lived in this age he might reamna.b!y have wished for hi.: power to be doubled. THE OPEN DRAIN ON LEWIS TERRACE. An Afflicted Father says he has had to lish his little boy out of this drain on two occasions. There are three ways in which the nuisance can be got rid of. 1st. Let two or three children get drowned there. 2nd. Catch a member of the Town COULCU, tie his feet together, and drag him from the top of the dram to the bottom: this is sure to have effect »t once, especially if an alderman should be operated upon. 3r<?. 1 ru e to present a memorial « £ ting at iVe;v Town Co«ncl. Rmember
CARNARVON.
CARNARVON. [This paper may be obtained at Carnarvon, of Mr J. Williams, Bridge-street.] THE CARNARVON TRADESMEN'S ASSOCIATION.—It seems that this association has become a. power here. At their meeting held last Monday night it was proposed and car- ried unanimously to promote a railway from Llangefniew, Angle-tea, to meet the ferry boat, Carnarvon. They also propose to buy the ferry steamer that runs between Car- narvon and Tanyfoel, and it seems that the present owners are willing to sell it. Should that be done undoubtedly it would be a great advantage, both to Carnarvon and the middle part of Anglesea. It has been arranged already to keep a steamer running every week between Liverpool and here, and the traffic has increased so much of late that it is intended to build a larger shed as a store room on the quay here. If the plans are carried out a steamer will run daily this summer between here and Liverpool. BOROUGH POLICE COURT, MONDAY, MARCH 23RD. —Before the Mayor (James Rees, Esq.), and Griffith R. Rees, Esq. Caution to Lovers.-Mary Evans, dressmaker, a damsel of about twenty-one, was summoned for assaulting Miss Roberts, of about the same age. It transpired that Miss Roberts said something rather low about Miss Evans to a young sailor," and Miss Evans was so much aggravated that she in company with another youug woman went to meet Miss Roberts coming from church in the evening, and demanded an apology. She wai not willing to give it; therefore Miss Evans gave her a good thrashing, pulled her hair, and otherwise abused her. Several witnesses were cajlttd on both sides. The Bench considered the case proved and fined Mary Evans 2s. 6d., and 7s. costs, as a caution. Drunkenness.—Hugh Pritchard, a carter in the employ of Mr Thomas Bugbird, was charged with being helplessly drunk while in charge of two horses and cart on March 18. P.C. J. Roberts said that he found defendant in the cart in Pool-street, lying down and no ene to drive the horses, and when he and another officer took him into custody he became very violent and tried to assault them but he was too drunk to do much. He had been left out on bail. He admitted the charge and was fiued 10s., and costs. Deserting the Militia.—A young man named Owen Hughes was brought up by P.C. William Jones, of the Anglesea constabulary, charged with deserting the Carnar- vonshire Rifle Militia. Fined 40s., and costs. He failed to pay and was committed for one month. T CARELESS NAVIGATION. On Saturday, March 21st, a Board of Trade inquiry into the stranding and leaking of the schooner Elizabeth was held at Carnarvon, before Lord Newborough and Mr J. D. Whitehead, two of the county justices, Vice-Admiral Patey and Captain Harris sitting as nautical assessors. Mr Alan Stewart, barrister, appeared for the Board of Trade, and the master of the vessel was represented by Mr J. A. Hughes. It appeared that the Elizabeth was a schooner belonging to Carnarvon port, her registered tonnage being 97 tons, and her official number 4,189. She was built at Pwllheli in 1836, and was owned in 14 different shares by a person of the name of Thomas and others; the master, Charles Parry, who had no certificate, owning twelve shares. She left Liverpool on Thursday, December 11, bound for Bel- fast, with 162 tons of coal (consigned by Simpson and Davies to Spenning and Co.), and a crew of five, all told. All went on well until the third day of the voyage, when it was found that the vessel was making a great quantity of water. Joseph Williams, the late mate, said that on Saturday the wind changed from N.E. to S. W., and the vessel was fetched in as far as the South Rock Lighthouse, on the Irish coast, which was reached about six o'clock on the Sunday morning. The witness denied that the vessel was run oa the rocks on purpose. The rock they struck upon was the Cannon Rock, about half a mile N.E. by E. of the lighthouse. They all left the ship and rowed in their ooat to the lighthouse, where they remained about an hour and a half, and then went back to the ship. They were nrt cast upon the rocks by wind or sea, or intentionally, and witness did not know any reason why they should not have gone straight on to Belfast. With the help of some boats from the shore the ship was afterwards got off. She had struck at low water, and it was about high tide when she was got off. After getting her off, there was no percep- tible increase of water. She was brought into Cloghy Bay, and reached Belfast under sale on Monday morning, being towed up the Lough by a steamer. She was put on the mud for two or three tides, and her cargo discharged. No leak could be found, and on the following Sunday she reached Bangor in ballast. He did not know whether she was insured. The captain admitted to witness that he had made a mistake with the chart, which was defaced.—In answer to Captain Harris, witness said the vessel bad only one boat, and that was not in a very good condition, the gunwale being damaged. John Ellis, the boy on board the Elizabeth at the time of the casualty, said he had served with her about six months. He was on the lookout just before the ship struck. The captain, whose watch it was, had gone down below after telling witness to keep a good lookout. A man named Richard, from Menai Bridge, was at the tiller. After the captain had been below for about half an hour, witness finding they were going too close to the light, called the captain up. The captain came on deck immediately, and tribd to gyb her, but she got on the rock, which was not visible until she struck on it. Fearing the vessel would go to pieces, they took to the boat, and pulled to the light- house, which was about half a mile distant, leaving the vessel with all sails on. Whilst in the lighthouse they saw boats putting off from shore for the vessel, and they then re- turn 3d to her, and succeeded in getting her off the rock. Four extra hands were shipped to take her to Belfast. Mr Hughes briefly addressed the court on behalf of the captain, pointing out that she was brought into port without loss of cargo or injury to crew. The following j udgment was delivered by the court:— The following judgment was delivered by the court:— "The court having heard the evidence in this case, is of opinion that the schooner Elizabeth has been carelessly navi- gated by Mr Chas. Parry, master, he having been below when he should have been at his post, his vessel being then in close proximity to the South Rock Light, which for some time previous was clearly visible. For this neglect of his obvious puty, whereby several lives were jeopardised, the court holds him in default, and adjudges that, under the power con- ferred upon it by section 436 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, he shall pay all the costs of this inquiry."
FFESTINIOG.
FFESTINIOG. [This paper may be obtained at Festiniog of Mrs J. H. Morris, Four Crosses,Mr R. Parry, Festiniog Village, Mrs H.T. Roberts, Market Place, Four Crosses, and Mr W. Williams, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Festiniog. I Y RHEILFFYRDD NEWTDDION.—A chymeryd y gweith- rediadau allanol yn safon i farnu, y mae yn ymddangos fod cwmni y London and North Western am gael y blaen ar yr eiddo y Great Western i'n cymydogaeth. Tra nad oes swn na chaib na morthwyl o gyfeiriad y Bala. Y mae o 150 i 200 yn rhagbarotoi o gyfeiriad y Bettws; a moddion yn barod, fel y clywsom, at gychwyn y twnel mawr dwy tilltir a hauer o gyfeiriad Dolyddelen. Gobeithiwn, er hyny, nad yw ein haelodau seneddol, Robertson, Pale Hall, Holland, Glanwilliam, a Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., prif gefnogwyr y llinell, yn anghofio y gwaith a gychwynwyd ganddynt mor effeithiol yn y brwydrau rhagbaratoawl yn y Senedd y flwyddyn ddiweddaf. Nid oes betrusder genym pa linell a wna fwyaf o ddaioni i Ffestiniog, a ohredwn fod y brwdfrydedd a arddangoswyd pan basiwyd y mesur yn proti yn amlwg mai llinell y Bala ydoedd y favourite. Y mae yr anhawsderau tirol'yn llawer mwy o gyfeiriad y Bettws ond gwych o beth yw digonedd or mamon ang- hyfiawn i gyfarfod pob anhawsder, ac oddi eitbr i linell gael ei chychwyn nid sail dda sydd y gwelir hi yn orphenoL Pan y deuant gwna y Ffestinogiaid groesawu y ddwy yn galonog. J J CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.-Talodd y cwmpeini uchod ym- weliad a'r ardal yma ddiwedd yr wythnos ddiweddaf. Yr oedd y cynulliad nos Wener yn boblogaidd; a'r perform- ance, meddir, yn un mor boblogaidd, yn gymaint felly, nes y bu yn rhaid cael oedfa wedi hyny nos Sadwrn yn yr un lie. THE CREATION. 11-Oddi wrth hysbysleni amryliw gwel- af fod y Portmadoc Philharmonic Society gyd amryw ddad- ganwyr galluog eraill, i ymweled a'rgymydogaeth yr wyth- nos nesaf i roddi eatganiad o oratorio Haydn. Gobeithiwn y bydd iddynt lwyddiant. CYFRINFA ST. DEwr-Bu y gyfrinfa uchod yn dathlu ei phen blwydd y Sadwrn diweddaf. Ynyprydnawn gwnaed yn dda ar y te a'r bara brith oedd y boneddigesau wedi ei ddarparu yn ysgoldy Llwynygell. Deallwn fod amryw o frodyr gwahoddedig o gyfi infaoedd eraill yn gwneud i fynu y cwmni. Yn yr hwyr cynbaliwyd cyfarfod cyhoeddus o dan lywyddiaeth Mr Daniel Williams i areithio, dadleu a chanu a'r oil, wrth gwrs, yn ffafr yr egwyddor o lwyr' ymwrthodiad a'r diodydd meddwol. Hawddamor i'r gy- frinfa i gyrhaedd pen blNydd ar ol y tro hwn. I)A.MWEI.NIAU.-Cymerodd un neu ddwy o ddamweiniau le y dyddiw diweddaf yn chwarelau Llechwedd a Rhiw- bryf-l'r, ond heb fod o nodwedd beryglus. Anafwyd ael- odau y rhai anffodus yn dra phoenus. Ar y cyfan y mae llai o ddamweiniau nac a welwyd er's llawer o flynyddoedd yn yr amrywiol chwarelau; a diau fod hyny i'w briodoli i ofal da y gweithwyr a'r goruchwylwyr.-Cofnodydd.
PENRHYNDEUDRAETH-
PENRHYNDEUDRAETH- [This paper may be obtained at Penrhyn -eudraeth of Mr Edwards, stationer.! FESTINIOG UNION, TUESDAY, MARCH 24TH.-Pre. sent Mr W. E. Morris (in the chair), Mr John Jones, Ynysfor, ex-officio; Messrs John Parry and Henry Llewelyn, Ynyscynhaiarn, H. R. Thomas, Penmorfa, William Williams, Llanhhangel y pennant, William Wflliams, Tynanney, David Williams and John Yaughan, Festiniog, Hugh Jones, Trawsfynydd, Evan Evans, Maentwrog, Morgan Jones, Llanfrothen, E. J. Wil- liams, Llanfair, and Samu< 1 Vaughan (clerk). Financial.-Total amount paid in out-door relief during the past fortnight, R305 5s. Id.; cheques signed for the current fortnight, £ o05 balance in treasurer's hands, £ 899 8s. Id. Number in the house, 40; for the corresponding week last year, 52 vagrants relieved during the fort- night, 2. Miscellaneous.—The bill (£20) sent in by Mr John Thomas, Carnarvon, for examining the books of the union with a view of finding out the inequalities of the balances in the different parishes of the union was considered. The uardians thought it rather high, and it was agreed that a fiiViil16 i drawn out and offered in payment of the claim. The disp,ite between the Union and the Festiniog Sprnw.?' ?r appeal against the rltin* 1 ,u TS If whole matter was referred to MrW■ l,s.es910n.3* j1.0 stir»:ine 0f M l!»Sy Sart;
PORTMADOC.
PORTMADOC. [This paper may be obtained here of Mr D. Lloyd, bookseller r Mr D. Humphreys, The Repository, High-street, and Mr 0. P. Williams, 5, Bank-place. J • FIRST LAMB.—The first lamb killed this season at Port- madoc was purchased by Mr Robert Jones, Glanrafon, Portmadoc, butcher, of the Itev. Thomas Jones, Eisteddfa, and it was a very fine one. The whole carcas was sold to Mrs Thomas, Sportsman Hotel, Portmadoc. LECTURF,Oll Monday evening, March 23rd, Mr Richd. Sayers, an escaped slave, gave a lecture, under the patron- age of Major Casson, at the British School, on the history of his life sang his uative songs, and exhibited several in- teresting views taken in America, Africa, aud India. There was a good attendance, principally children. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS -On Monday evening, March 23rd, at the T,)wn Hall, Portmadoc, the American Ex- Slave Singers gave their entertainment. There was a large attendance. PERFORMANCE OF THE CREATION.—It will he seen by a reference to our advertising columns that Haydn's Oratoria The Creation" is to be performed at the Tabernacle Chapel, Portmadoc, on Tuesday evening, March 31st. The names ef the vocalists, Miss H. Magor, Eos M irlais, Mr Evan Morgan, and the Portmadoc Choral Society, with Mr J. Roberts, as conductor, and of Mr E. W. Thomas (accompanist to the North Wales Choral Union) as accom- panist, are a sufficient guarantee that a treat is in store for the people of Portmadoc and neighbourhood, who will gladly avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing this oratorio.
BORTH NEAR PORTMADOC.
BORTH NEAR PORTMADOC. LECTUItE.-On Tuesday evening, March 24th, Captain Thomas Jones, Portmadoc, gave an interesting lecture at the Congregational Chapel, Borth, near Portmadoc, on the Travels of St. Paul." There was a good attendance, and the lecturer, who spoke for two hours, went through his address with success. The proceeds were applied towards liquidating the Chapel debt.
PWLLHELI.
PWLLHELI. [This paper may be obtained here of Mr Francis Evans, book- seller.] BOARD OF GUARDIANS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH' —Present: Messrs Thomas Prichard (chairman), John Thomas Jones (vice-chairman), the Revs. St. George Armstrong Williams (ex-officio), and John Hughes, Messrs Evan Evans, Lewis Williams, William Hughes, William Griffi, h, Griffith Griffith, Richard Owen, Richd. Evans, Thomas Ellis, Hugh Griffith, Griffith Jones, Llangian, Griffith Jones, Aberdaron, John Morris, Foulk Griffith, Richard Roberts, Owen Owens, Evan Williams, Theophilus Thomas, John Parry, Thomas Turner, Wm. Roberts, Llnnaelhaiarn, Richard Parry, Wm. Roberts, Bryncroes, Richard Jones Prichard, and R. O. Jones, clerk. ( Financial.-Total amount paid in out-door relief during the past fortnight, 2325 6s. 31-; number relieved, 1.378 amount of cheques signed for the current fortnight, £ 32o; balance in treasurer's hands, 2500 15s. 4d.; number in the workhouse, 53; number for corresponding period last year, 61; no vagrants relieved during the fortnight. Salaries of the Relieving Oncers.—Applications from these officers for an increase of salary was considered. The Rev. John Hughes proposed, aud Mr John Morris seconded, that the matter be decided this day. Mr John Thomas Jones moved, and Mr L. William& seconded, that the matter be adjourned to the new Board. There being nine in favour of the amendment, and only four for the original motion, the amendment was carried.
DOLGELLEY.
DOLGELLEY. PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY, MARCH 24TH'-Before Lewis Williams, and John Vaughan, Esqrs. Drunk-Hugh Lewis Pugh, of Cefn-y-maes, Brithdir, doctor of medicine, was summoned on the information of P.C. Parry for this offence committed in Queen's Square, Dolgelley, between tea and eleven o'clock on Friday even- ing, the 20th of March. The charge was admitted, and the defendant was fined 5s., and costs. Money paid.—Robert Griffith, of Unicorn lane, Dolgelley, labourer, was charged by Inspector Jones with drunkenness on the 18th instant. The case was proved, and defendant was 2s. 6d. and costs. Tlfe money was paid, UNION CONTRACT.—At the last Board of Guardians at Dolgelley several tenders for the supply of groceries to the Union House for the next half year, and also samples were sent in for selection by the Guardians, and the tender of Mr Richard Jones, of New Shop Dolgelley, was ac- cepted.
BORTH-
BORTH- WRECKAGE.—A mast and rigging came ashore between Borth and Moelynis, on Monday evening, March 23rd.
ABERYSTWYTH
ABERYSTWYTH ENTERTAINUENT -On Friday (this evening), as will be seen from an advertisement in another column the Great American Ex-Slave Singers give their entertainment in the Corn market. ENTERTAINMENT.—An entertainment was given by the Star Lodge," of Good Templars in the Templar Hall, on Thursday, March 26th. Bro. R. A Junes, L.D., occupied the chair, and the following programme was successfully gone through :—song, Bro. W. Jenkins duet, the Sisters Edwards; song, Bro. D. Phillips; song, Bro. H. Bubb duet, Sisters E. L. Jones and Mr J. Owens song, Mr J. Edwards son?, Mr W. H. Jones bugle duet, Mr W. H. Jones. and Mr Edward D. Jones; trio, the Misses Edwards and Miss J. Edwards. Other friends of the order took part in the proceedings.
TALSARN-
TALSARN- EISTEDDFOD.-It will be seen by advertisement that an Eisteddfod is to be held here on June 19th. Various prizes are offered.
MACHYNLLETH.
MACHYNLLETH. BOARD OF GUARDIANS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH- —Present: Mr R. GillArt, chairman; Mr C. F. Thrus- ton, ex officio Mr Evan Jones and Mr Edward Fees, vice-chairmen; Messrs Lewis Williams, Evan Hughes, Edward Morgan, R. Williams, the Rev D. Evans, Messrs James Meredith, Robert Edwards, R. Evans, G. Griffiths. Statistics, t-c.-The master reported the number in the house to be 33-8 males, 12 females, and 13 children; vagrants relieved during the past fortnight, 20; number in school, 7 out-relief for the past fortnight-Machynllth, per Mr Thomas Thomas, 243 to 216 paupers; Darowen district, per Mr D. Howell, L70 14s. 7d. to 353 paupers Pennal district, per Mr John Jones, 262 6s. 3d. to 330 paupers balance in the bank, £319 7s. lOd. Calls on the Overseers,-The Clerk was instruettd to have circulars printed calling the attention of the overseers to the rule made by the Guardians, that all calls must be paid on the first Wednesday in each month. Election of Guardians.-The Clerk said the Board coull then appoint persons to assist in the election of Guardians, which would take place on the first week in April.—The Chairman Is there to be au election, then?-The Cle.-k We assume there will be an election unless some one will withdraw.—The Chairman said it would be well to have it to the discretion of the Clerk to engage, in the event of an election, such persons as he thought would be necessary. Clerk's Salary.-The Board decided to pay 21a to the clerk of the Assessment Committee for services rendered during the year ended on the 25th March, 1873. The List of Paupers.-The Clerk asked if the Board in- tended to print the list of paupers in the union as had been usually done.—The Chairman asked the cost?—The Clerk paid it was between 25 and £ 6.—Mr Thruston said he quite agreed that the lists of paupers ought to be printed, but they were not of the slightest use unless they were accu- rate. He had seen that in three or four instances the ages were put down carelessly. One woman was put down as being six years older last year than she was the year before. The relieving officers ought to be told t) be more particular, for the age of the paupers was considered by the Guardians in giving rtlief.-The Chairman said the Clerk could com- municate with the relieving officers, but there would be sure ts be some discrepancies in the lists.—The Clerk said that the proofs had not been submitted by the printer ene year, and that perhaps would account for some of the mis- takes. -Mr Thruston thought the relieving officers had not been as particular as they could have been.—Mr Edwards said they ought to have the facts in the lists.—Mr Thrus- ton Otherwise the lists are no use.- The Clerk was then instructed to communicate with the relieving officers, and also solicit tenders for printing from the printers in the union. A Reasonable Excuse.-Acase came.before the guardians in which a pauper had not sent a child of seven years of age to school. It was stated that the child was kept at home to nurse a bady of one year old while the mother went out to work and earned about 8s. or 9s. a week. The husband was ill in bed.—Mr Thruston said there were some instances in which the strict carrying out of the law would be an injustice, and this case seemed to be one. The child did not seem to be idling and loafing about but was help- ing to nurse, and that enabled the woman to earn some monev, If the guardians made the child go to school, there would be a probability of the whole family coming upon the union. Th relief could be given periodically, and the relieving officer could call every fortnight, And report to the Board when the husband recovered. If the child was not sent to School then, the relief would be stopped.—This course was agreed to. Estimate of Calls.-The Board decided to accept the esti- mate prepared by the clerk for the half year ending Michaelmas, 1874. The following are the monthly calls:- Scuborycoed. 235, Penegoes, JE46, Machynlleth, £ 71, Isy- garreg,24,Uchygarreg, £ 24. Llanbrynmair, £ 82, Cemmes, £ 53, Darowen, £ 52, Pennal £ 63, Llanwrin, £ 53, Towyn 1:202. SANITARY AUTHORITY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25TH. Present: Mr C. F. Thruston (in the chair), Mr R. Gillart, Mr E. Rees, Mr James Meredith, Mr Evan Jones, Mr Edw. Morgan, Mr Richard Williams, and Mr Griffith Griffiths. The Return of Sickness and Deaths.-The Clerk mentioned that the Local Government Board had applied to Dr. Pughe, the medical officer of health, for a return of sickness and deaths in the district for the quarter ended December last. The Clerk pointed out that the medical officer was not ap- pointed until the end of that quarter, and consequently he could not be called upon to prepare a return. The Board directed the Clerk to inform the Local Government 3oard of that fact. The Inspector's Report.-The Inspector reported as fol- lows Gentlemen,—I have the honour to lay before you my final report on the sanitary condition of the district. I have been engaged as sanitary inspector for the last fif- teen months, and have brought before you 655 cases, which I considered injurious to health. I beg to make an expla- nation respecting the use I made of the word' «ases.' I do not mean houses; but the word is of a wider meaning. Sometimes there are four or five houses in the same case, viz., where houses are attached, belonging to the same par- ties. and where the complait t is common to all the houses. Such I considered to be one cas J. A there was sometimes more than oce complaint against the same plaoe, the num- ber of the complaints wou'd really be much greater than the cases or the houses. The total number of com- plaints was 1,117, or nearly two complaints to each house. The following is a list of the number of cases reported, and the number remaing not remedied in each parish :—Scubo- rycord, reported, 5{; remaining, 29; Pennal, reported, 37 remaining, 22; Cemmes, reported, 62; remaining, 30; Penegoes, reported, 72 remaining, 4.5 Llanwrin, 48 reported, remaining, 43 Darowen, reported, 109, remaining, 84 Llanbiynmair, reported, 136; remaining, 137 Isygarreg and Uwehygarreg, reported, 67, remaining, 48 Machynlleth reported. 71 remaining, 23. (The re- port also shows the number removed as well as the number of occupiers of houses who have had to leave on account of overcrowding and dilapidations.) Besides the foregoing, three cases of indecency came under my notice,where grown up persons of different sexes slept in the same room one at Llanbrynmair, one at Darowen, and one at Penegoes. All the cases have been attended to. I cannot pledge myself that the summary is correct as the cases stand now but it is as they were when I last visited them. On account of my not being able to see s^mti of the cases recently, the probability is that the remedied cises are considerably more in number, and consequently, the remailoiing cases less. I know many places where operations were in con- templation or already commenced when I was there last, but I have not put down any as remedied unless they were either finished or in a very advanced state. I beg to call your attention to the plan of the town that I have to lay before you and I wish to poirt out that I consider the present system of drainage totally inefficient to carry away the sewage, and will always be without water or some other contrivance to keep the drains free from sewage deposit. I have made several examinations at various points, and I have almost without exception found many inches of deposit in the drains. They are un- doubtedly flushed well when there are heavy falls of rain, but that is a thing we cannot depend upon, for perhaps during many weeks in the summer not a drop of rain will fall, and then it is most needed. The effluvium that arises from some of the open gratings is almost unbearable and if we were to insert traps instead of open gratings that would no doubt have a tendency to augment the evil. If we confined the noxious gases to the drains we should also exclude the pure air from the sewers. You will see on the plan that the houses at the top of Maengwyn-street are without any means of disposing of their waste water other- wise than by throwing it into the street or carrying it aWiiy into the fields. I also beg to call your attention again to the doubt I hold as to the purity of the water from the pumps in the town; doubts arising not from any test or analysis of the water, but from the locality of the pumps. They are situated in many instances Hear privies, &c., and as a well dug in the ground drains the surrounding land for a considerable length, I have fears that some of the liquid from the cesspools &c., finds its way into the wells of the pumps. On the termination of my term of office I beg to tender my sincere thanks to you as a Board for the kind way you have treated me, and also for the valuable suggestions made by certain individuals as to the best mode of carrying out what could be looked at from one side as a disagree- able duty. 1 am conscious of having gone against the opinion of many people by carrying into execution what I thought was necessary for the public good and I have been looked on by some as an intruder on their rights. It gives me, however, some consolation to think that I have always been in harmony with the Board and that I have done something for the benefit of the public. If anything in my reports or plans should be unintelligible to my successor, I shall be most happy to give any in- formation in my power.—I am, &c., JAMES LLOYD "— Mr Gillart said Mr Lloyd had certainly brought a plan in a very concise and clear manner.—Mr Rees did not think the present Board should take the drainage question in hand, but leave it to the new one.—Referring to the Inspector, Mr Gillart said he had given real satisfaction to the Board. His term of office had expired, and he (Mr Gillart) did not know whether the Inspector intended to apply for the ap- pointment again, but he (Mr Gillart) would say that the Inspector had supplied the Board with concise and proper reports, and had also made a plan of the town, which was a thing the Board very much needed, and upon the whole he had given satisfaction.—Mr C. F. Thruston should certainly say that Mr Lloyd had en- deavoured to do, and had done, as he himself termed it, a disagreeable duty in a very fair and proper manner. Be- fore he commenced he (Mr Thruston) had told him if he did the work without f,ar or affection for anybody, he would find it to be a disagreeable duty; but he certainly had done it well. He might have given offence to some people, but as a rule he had done his work well, and very satisfactorily. If be wanted a testimonial at any time the Board no doubt would be happy to give it. Did he propose applying for the office of inspector again ?-The Inspector said it was his wish not to do so. After promis- ing to finish the plan by varnishing it, &c., as it is to be hung up in the Board Room, the Inspector said he was very proud of the manner in which they had spoken of him that day. He was afraid that at times he had made mis- takes, but he always had endeavoured to do what was right.—Mr Lloyd then handed our the papers, books, and letters he had received and after some discussion it was agreed to advertise for a successor, three days a week being considered sufficient time to attend to the work. The Clerk's Salary. -After s"me discussion, Mr Rees pro- posed that the clerk's salary should he £25 for the year just ended but on Mr James Meredith's proposing 220 the former sum was withdrawn, and the motion for t20 was agreed to as the salary for the past year, and also for the ensuing year.
LOCAL AND DISTRICT-
LOCAL AND DISTRICT- The triennial election of the Llanfihangel Upper School Board (the first formed in the Aberystwyth Union) has been fixed by Mr H. Hughes, the returning officer, for the 7th April. We regret to have to inform our readers that Mr Parry, of Llidiarde, is suffering from an attack of illness. Mr Parry is a most active magistrate for Cardiganshire, and was formerly chairman of the Quarter Sessions for that county. A four-foot vein of high-class coal has lately been won in a new sinking at the Llanharran collieries, belonging to Messrs Richards, Power, and Co., of Cardiff and Swansea, Openings have been made on an extensive scale for work- ing it. A screw-steamer, named the Temple, built by and for Messrs R. Roberts and Co., of Trefriw, North Wales, and intended to ply between Liverpool and Trefriw, has been launched. PETITIONS FOR LIQUIDATION.—J. Owen, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, innkeeper. J. Evans, Welshpool, Mont- gomery, jeweller. J. Minster, Bridgnorth, milliner and draper. 8Mr Rupert Kettle was to sit at Chester on Monday, March 23, to arbitrate on the notice given to the Mold colliers of a reduction in wages. The living of Llanrhyddlad, Anglesea, has been offered by the Bishop of Bangor to the Rev D. Silvan Evans, B.D., the well-known Otitic philologist and antiquary. BANGOR ROYAL EISTUDDFOD. Lord Penrhyn has acceded to the request of the committee to become one of the. presidents of the forthcoming Bangor royal eisteddfod. Lord Mostyn will probably preside one day. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., is another president; and the commit- tee purpose asking Mr Disraeli to put in an appearance. The friends of international arbitration held a soiree on Wednesday, March 25th, at Cannon-street Hotel, London, in honour of Mr Henry Richard, M.P., who gave a very encouraging account of the reception his views met in his recent continental tour. Mr Mundella, M.P., pre- sided. THE HIGH SHERIFF OF MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—In ourrcp port of the Assizes it was stated that a pair of white gloves WaS presented to the Judge by the High Sheriff, D. H Mytton, Esq. Of course this wai a mistake. The High Sheriff for the present year is T. O. Lomax, Esq., of Bodfach. THE BALA AND FESTINIOG RAILWAY COMPANY.—The ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Bala and Festiniog Railway Company was held at the offices of the Company, Upper Brook-street, on Monday, March 23rd, Mr Samuel Holland, M.P. in the chair. The formal business of the meeting was transacted, and in consequence of there not being a quorum of shareholders present the meeting stood adjourned. RECEPTION OF THE WELSH FUSILIERS AT PORTSMOUTH. —Among the decorations at Portsmouth, on the welcome of the Fusiliers, we see that outside the National Provincial Bank was observable an inscription complimentary to the 23rd Fusiliers—a shield, surtounded with leeks, and also a harp, which attracted the notice of the gallant regiment. In addition to this were the words. 0 blaen pwy a giliant ein gelynion. 0 blaen y trydydd ar ugain (23), Before whom shall the enemy fl..e? Before the 23rd," and under- neath were the words, Duw cadw'r Frenhines." This was designed by Mr W. Payne, of the Bank, Portsea. THE LATE MIRS PERRY.—The death is announced of Mrs Perry, a lady well-known in Shrewsbury for her many acts of charity. Mrs Perry was the eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Eyton, vicar of Wellington and J rector of Eyton, and was left a widow by the sudden death of Mr Perry in 1854. Having a few years ago given up her country residence, Bryn Tanat, to her married daugh- ter, Mrs Perry has latterly resided entirely in Shrewsbury, and her demise will be severely felt in most parts of the town and in the parish of St. Alkmoud's in particular. The Rev. Mr Kittermaster dedicated his Shropshire A mis ani Lineages to Mrs Perry, as a descendant of the Plow- dens of Plowden, and the Eytons of Eyton. THE CbOTHES OF THE CARDIGANSHIRE POLICE.—On Wednesday, March 25th, the committee appointed by the Quarter Sessions to consider the question of effecting a change in the style of dress of the Cardiganshire constabu- lary, met at the lown Hall, Aberystwyth, and the changes agreed upon will be submitted to the magistrates at the forthcoming Quarter Sessions. LLEYN AND JEIFIONYDD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the members of this society was held on Mon- day, March 16th, Mr Owen Griffith, Cefn Coch, in the chair. There were also present-Messre Ellis Roberts, Ystmullyn, Owen Edwards, land valuer, John Thomas Jones, Parcian Mawr, John Roberts, Gwnhingar, David Rowlands, Bryndewin, the Rev. J. W. Ellis, W. E. Morris, and R. O. Jones, secretaries, &c. The accounts, as audited, were presented and passed. Votes of thanks were warmly accorded to Mr David Jones, auctioneer, Tremadoc, and the several collectors of subscriptions last year in Lleyn and Eifionydd towards the funds of the society, and to Mrs Jones, Tycerrig, Talsarnan, and Mrs Owen, Meillionydd, who kindly consented to adjudge the butter at the last show. Mr John Jones, Yynsfor, near Penrhyndendraeth, was elected president for the ensuing year, and Mr John Savin, Bodedgroes, near Pwllheli, was elected vice-president. It was resolved that the next show should be held on Thurs- day, 27th August, at Tremadoc. The best thanks of the meeting were accorded to the landed proprietors and others who supported the last and previous shows by axhibiting extra stock and giving extra prizes to the farmers, and also to the president and vice-president for acting as such and supporting the society. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. At a special meeting of the subscribers, held at Pwllheli, on Wednesday, March 25th, there were present—Messrs R. Lloyd Edwards, Nanthoron (in the chair), Owen Evans, Broom Hall, Love-Jones Parry, Madryn. Owen Edwards, Pwllheli, W. E. Morris, Port- madoc, the Rev. D. Pugh, Abererch, &c. On the motion of Mr Love-Jones Parry, seconded by Mr Owen Evans, it Was resolved that the motion agreed to at the last meeting, to exhibit the stallions at the beginning of May instead of at the annual show be confir.t.ed, and that the owners of stallions will be required to produce certificates on the annual show day, that th" h. '1' have attended regularly during the season at Pari f. ielteyrn and Tremadoc, and that the exhibition akes plao- at Pwllheli on the first fair in the month of May. TIIH following extra prizes, offered by Mr Love-Jones Parry, were accepted-For the best black bull, not exceeding t wo years old, two guineas; the best yearling heifer, two gasneas; the best cow, not ex- ceeding eight years old, tl.re guineas and for the best bull, not exceeding three years .■! i. three guineas. DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE AGRTCULTURAL SOCIETY. —The annual meeting of Hie general committee of the Denbighshire and Flintshire; Agricultural Soc.ety was held at Rutbin on Monday eve- ir;g, March 16, under the presi- dency ot Mr J. Scott Bankn* (Major West, the president for the year, being from borne). There was a large atten- dance from both counties. It was stated that the society was not in a position to spend any large amount in extra prizes during the coming y,ar, for last year it spent k63 in excess of the receipts, and the balance in hand at the present time only amounted to E105 17s. 8d. Considerable discussion took place as to whether the annual show should ttf in August or Sept-mhei, but it was finally agreed at should to be held on the 22nd of September next, at Kuthm. The judges were chosen, the majority of them Deingre-elected but amongst the new appointments were u Thompson, Clavton-square, Liverpool, for cheese l _u^ > .and Mr Bromley, of Lancaster, for horses.—A TnifoaT i8p -etT >scuss'on to°k place on a motion by Mr Infl 'to Jt111 Halli "lh* th* for Welsh sheep ba equal to the prizes offered for other breeds. The majority U Peetin? there was less of expense and Se Vnnld hplIlf vj rheep' and that therefore the prize should be less. Mr Jones's motion was reiected bv twelve votes to ten. Mr John Roberts, Genias, Bodfari proposed "That no portion of the funds of the sonietv be in future applied for ploughing matches," which was carried. Various alterations were made in the premium list, with a view to the general benefit of the society. THE ALLIANCE LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The report of the directors of the Alliance Life and Fire Assurance Company, for the year 1873, prepared for pre- sentation to the Annual General Court on the 25th instant shows that the premium income of the fire department for the year amounted to £ 195,414 12 s. 6d and the interest on the fire reserve fund to E9,227 184. 7d,, together E204,642 lls. Id. The fire claims (in which ample provision is made for all outstanding claims at the end of the year) amounted to k83,387 119. The surplus on the year's account was k65,368 14s. Id., in aldition to which 224 346 129. lOd. has been received for interest on the share capital and transfer fees. The fire premipm income has increased in the quin- quennial period just ended, from £155,725 17s. 6d., to £ 195,414 12;1. 6d., while the fire reserve fund and profit and loss account have been increased in the same period from E98,178, at the close of 1868, to £ 236,478, at the close of 1873, or from 65 per cent, to 121 per cent, of the fire premium income. In the life department in the year 1873 the company issued 311 new policies assuring £ 245,675, yielding in annual premiums £ 7,831 9s. 5d. The life ]ire- mium income (new and renewal) of the year was 293,269 12s. 3d. and the interest on the life assurance and annuity fund Z41,125 6s. 10d., making, with registration fees, 2134,429 4s. Id. The surplus in this department is E26,393 7s. Id., to be added to the life assurance and annu- ity fund, which is now C938,6)6 2s. 4d. Of the capitd of the company (five millions), the sum of 2550,000 has been paid up. The total funds in hand amount to £1,768,617 Od. 7d., of which £ 1.701,47611s. 3d, is under investment, yielding at average interest of JE4 10s. lljd., per cent. per annum. The dividend recommended is at the rate of Ell 16. 4d. per cent. in the paid up capital of 2550,000, and there will remain the sum of 234,754 to be added to the fire reserve and profit and loss accounts for the year. It will be proposed to elect Mr N. M. de Rothschild, M.P., and Lord Edward Cavindish as auditors. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. [WEATHER PERMITTING.] Sir W. W. Wynn's Hounds will meet on Friday, March 27 Gallantry Bank Saturday, March 28 Knolton Monday, March 30 Penley Tuesday, March 31 Oswestry Race Course Saturday, April 4 Holly Bush At 10-30.
THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM…
THE DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTS. On Wednesday, Maroh 25th, the Rev. William Roberts, aged seventy-three years, formerly pastor of Penpark and Ferwig Baptist churches, died at his residence, Gloucester House, Marine-terrace, Aberystwyth, after an illness arising out of a paralytic seizure, about twelve months ago, since which time he has suffered greatly, but it was not until the Friday before his death that any alarming symptoms mani. fested themselves. The Rev. W. Roberts wa'3 born in a farm house by the sea side, in the parish of Clynog Fawr, in the year 1802. His parents were Baptists, and the well. known Rev. William Roberts, Clynog, Calvinistic minis- ter, was his uncle. In early youth the deceased did not get a very good education, but having a strong desire for learn- ing, he applied himself to study with considerable success, and when he was about eighteen years of age, he joined the Baptist denomination. He was baptised at Pontycrim by the Rev. Simon James, who was well known at that time in Carnarvonshire, and who died in Cardiganshire. Mr Roberts began to preach in 1822, at the earnest solicita- tion of his friends, being then tweatv years of age. After preaching there a considerable time he joined Fenni Academy, now known as Pontypool College, in the year 1824, where he spent the usual terms under the tutorship of the Rev. Micah Thomas, and is said to have made good use of the advantages which were placed within his reach. When his terms were finished, he received three calls to act as minister, and accepted that from Llanfair-Caereinion, in Montgomeryshire, a church established by the late Mr Jones, of Newtown. The Rev. W. Roberts was ordained in 1827, and, after two years' successful work he removed to Penrhyncoed and Talybont, as successor to the Rev. Simon James, and was the means of building a chapel at Goginan, where he preached in addition to the other two places. While he was minister at Talybont, he resided at Aberystwyth, and frequently walked twenty miles and preached three times on the Sunday, visiting in the same day Talybont, Penrhyncoch, and Goginan. I ab loan Aberduar addressed the following lines to the deceased gen- tleman on the occasion of the long illness which was caused by over work :— Cyfaill yw Roberts, cofiwn, Dolurus dan boenus bwn Achwyn heb fawr o iechyd, Dan ei bwn mae hwn o hyd Mae'u dost beth wel'd pregethwr Mor ddawnsis-gampus a?r gwr, Dan faich o dyn aefchyd Was lor cain, am amser c'yd. This illness lasted seven years, and during that time he was seldom able to preach. In August, 1836, however, he went to Cardigan, where the church was in a very low state,and without a pastor,but was waiting for the Rev.D. Rees, of London. At this time the Rev. W. Roberts had fully recovered his health, and after the arrival of Mr Rees at Cardigan, Mr Roberts took charge of the two neigh- bouring churches Penpark and Frigwig. Here he built another chapel, and it was paid for on the day it was opened. Having laboured here with great success until 1842 he removed to Tredegar, where there was a large chapel under a heavy debt, but he paid this off in a short time, and built still another chapel at Trefel. While re- siding at this place he underwent great domestic afflictions, for he buried two wives and a son. In the year 1851 he again returned to his former sphere of labour at Penpark and Trewig, where he remained until the end of his minis- ) terial labours, about four years ago; since which time he has lived at Aberystwyth. As a preacher he was very popular, and he was also remarkably successful in freeing chapels from debt, having obtained upwards of £3,000 to- wards this and similar objects. He baptized more than 3,000 into the church, and worked zealously on behalf of Home and Foreign Missions. His third wife survives him. On Tuesday next his remains will be interred at Peaihyn- coch in the same grave as the Rev. Simon Jones, who baptized and ordained him.
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The first Parliamentary division of any party tigniticaiico took place on Wednesday, when Sir C. Dilke's Bill for extending the polling hours was opposed by Government, and defeated by 201 to 126. There is an error in our sum- mary of the debate on another page. Sir C. Dilke offered to confine the operation of the Bill—not to the mefcronolis -but to the large towns. "opoiib The Prince des Visines, of Romsey Abbey, figured as de- fendant on I'llC.^V) wiVQh loth, IIJ two causes, heard before Judge Gale, in the Romsey County Court. Mr Edward Stares, coal merchant, the plaintiff in the first case, said the prince-against whom judgment had been previously I given—had told him he was writing a book, aud was in re- ceipt of £.)00 per annum; he resided in a large house, keeping a good establishment. The case was adiotirned. In the second case—that of A. S. Soffe against the prince—Mr Shenton appeared. A similar case was heard at t:he last sitting of the Court, when his Honour, although Mr bnen- ton showed that the prince was keeping hi3 carnage ancl horses, and lived in a grand way, declined to commi con- sidering sufficient proof of means had not beeni gi e but ordered a payment of £ 5 per montu, wnio ot been obeyed. On S £ the ends of justice, after a severe OJn» le fendant, the judge made an order to oorn^ pnnce 0r ^SntSpeared^for the defendant, who wis likewise ordered to be committed for twenty-one days in another case. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS. 1874. Great Western } £ 95,118 West Midland r 1873. South Wales J £ 93,623 London and North-Western £ 152^04(3 Shrewsbury and Hereford j. 1873. Shropshire Union j £ 147.394 CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. Approximate return of traffic receipts for the week ending March 21> 1874- Mileg open)178. Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 1,02b; merchandise, mineral?, and cattle, £ 1,906, total for the week, £ 2,932; aggregate from commencement of current half-year to this dale £ 32,GOD. Corresponding week last year. Miles open, 178. Passengers, t-c., £] 062 merchandise, &c., £ 2,003; total for the week. £ o, bo; aggregate from commencement of current haU-year to thia date, £ 32 208. BRECON AND MERTHYB RAILWAY (61 miles open.)—Re- turn of traffic for the week ending March 22nd, 1874:-ras- /l>ixrc1. s: i n 9s. 10d.; goods and live stock, £ 9J9 4s- 0.1-: total, £ 1,258 13s. lOd. £ 20 12s. 8d. per mile per week. Corresponding week last year (61 miles open.) Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 190 lis. 9d. goods and live stock, £1008 12s. Od.; total, £ 1,199 3s.[9d. £19 138. 2d. per mile per mleek. --Aggregate from 1st Jan. 1874, £ 15,750 9s. 8d. ditto 1873 £ 14,242, 5s. Id. Increase for this week ZC59 10i. Increase for 12 weeks £1,508 4s. 7d.
LLANRHAIADR)
LLANRHAIADR) LECTURE -The R,v. Ahel Parry, Liverpool, delivered -i lec- ture on G ""I 'cmp!:tri'Slll, at the Wrsleyan Chapel, on March filial Jones was in the chair. The chapel was well SOCIETY FOR THE PROSECUTION OF FELO',S. This society held their feast ..t the Sun Inn, on Friday, March 20ih The dinner, which w-s all that coa d be wished for, was served at four o'clock by Mr and Mrs Humphreys. Amongst the guests were the following: -Messrs J. S. Foulkes, Clynog and Llwyny- main (hairmtn), A. Evan", Tynjmaes (vice-chairman), R. Richards, Tyny^'raur, E. Buckley, Glaniwrch. J. Edwards Caewawr.HI. Hushes. Cefnhir, R. H. Charles, D. Edmunds', Srt ,v Thomas Jones, C. Pierce, Frongoch, T. Morris, Pwll- v' Mo,"s' Cefnyrodfa, J. Davies, Frondeg, J. Lewis, S F?', !"1.1'?;, Evlns' Trewern-isaf, J. Edwards, Brvntoch <?°rh Ga^tell'noch R. Jones, Tanyfoel, J. Davies, Rrvnrlri.liw •es 1?entre' Thomas> Cainant, J. Roberts^' tv!b MnVh' hi'-Davies- Banhadla, D. Jones, Cefaalaniwreh, &c!^ ♦hinnth Th« f fire™oved the usuaI list of toasts was gone vpnr • F Rohlr°tTmp of?cfrs were el6cfced for the ensuing year. E. Roberts, Gastellmoch, chairman, J. S Foulkes, Clynog, treasurer, W. A. Pu.-he, Llanfyllin, solicitor, R. H. Charles am J. Edwards, Caemawr, stewards, and the following persons were elected to bo the permanent committee :-A. Kvans lyn IMPS, Evans Trewera-i^f, E. Buckley, Glan- nvrch,, 0. P erce, Frongoch, E Rogers, Gaesiengyn. Tae Llan- lhaialr Berwyn brass band were m attendance and played several piee, s in excellent style, under the able conductorship of Mr D. Burn, to whom much credit is due, for the band is improving wonderfully. A very pleasant evening was spent.
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:LLANFYLLIN COUNTY COURT, THURSDAY, MARCH 19.-Before J. M, Davies, Esq Deputy Julve. There were fitty-five cases for this court, but most of them were settled before Oliver V. Pugh Esq., Registrar. Amongst those heard before the judge were the following: Paying His Sweetheart's Rent.— David Edwards v. Wil- liam Matthews. This was a claim for £ 1 12-s., money lent. Mr W. A. Pugh appeared for the defendant, and said that the plaintiff in this case was some time ago engaged to be married to the sister of defendant's wife, who then occupied a house at Llanrhaiadr. On the 1st of January, 1872, the plaintiff met his sweetheart and her two sisters at Llan- rhaiadr fair, and then gave the amount now claimed as a present to his sweetheart to pay her rent. He now sued the wrong party. The Pontiff deposed I had lent money „ef wife, on several different occasions. I the monetNTT ta:ir.on the lst January, 1S72, and lent ZLT -ru l clai.m t0 Harriet Matthews.-Cross- exannned he three sisters were present when I lent the ITY't ? Irn 56(1 to be married to Eliza- beth. I did not k low that the money wasjto pay her rent. I told Mrs Matthews that I expected her to pay me. John Griffiths deposed: Mrs Matthews came to me and asked why I wanted to write a letter to her about the money owinc to David Edwards. I said I did not. She said I borrowed 21 12s. from him but there was no one present when he gave it, neither is there any paper between U" so he can't prove it."—Harriet Matthews said: I did not borrow any money from defendant. I 8aw him giving £ 1 12,. to my sister Elizabeth at the Llanrhaiadr fair to pav her rent We went with them to Mr Humphreys, the Sun, and paid the rent with ,'hem, and here is the receipt. The plaintiff was engaged to be married to my sister. Elizabeth Hum- phreys said: 1 received £ 1 12s. from David Edwards at Llanrhaiadr fair to pay my rent. He was then engaged to me. He had promised to settle 1:20 on me, but would not do it afcer, and the engagement broke. (Laughter). Pla ntiff nonsuited. John Jones v. Thomis Garland.Mr W. A. Pughe appeared for the plaintiff, and said this was a claim of £5 151., being a balance of a long and complicated aectunt, and he thought it would be much better if it was referred to arbitration.—His Honour: Does the defendant agree to this?—Mr Garland Yes, I quite agree with it.—The case was then referred. Mary Griffith Williams, Portltywaæn, v. Robert Dai-ies.- The son of the plaintiff said that they obtained judgment against defendant for £ 3 12s. 6d. some months a^o. He understood that the defendant had had a sale, and should like to know what was done with the money.-Mr Pughe said the defendant was in very good circumstances at one time, but he had got into the hands of mining speculators and buiideis, and was now without any effects whatever. The whole account of the sale was in his (Mr Pughe's) office, and the plaintiff could examine it at any time. "-Ad. journed until the court aft-T next. Roberts v. Davies.—Mr Pughe said this case was some time ago referred to Mr Tudor; but the award was not brought in within the time stated in the Act, and I wish to apply to your Honour for the time to be extended.Both parties are agreeable to this. The time was accordingly ex- tended to the 26th March. THE PROPOSED LOCAL BOARD. An adjourned public meeting was held at the Town Hall on Friday evening, March 20th. Mr C. R. JONKS occupied the chair, and said that at the last meeting it was resolved to ask Mr W. A. Pughe to explain the provisions of the Local Gov ernment Act, and that meeting was adjourned until to-day for that purpose. He had now great pleasure in calling upon Mr Pughe. Mr PUGHE said-I may state now that this meeting is not a legally constituted meeting to adopt the Local Govern- ment Act, as the Act states that meetings are to be adjourned from day to day. This meeting has been adjourned a fort- night so before we can pass any resolution to that effect it will be r, quisite for twenty ratepayers to sign a requi. sition to the churchwardens, and they will have to adver- tize a public meeting of ratepayers as they did before. However, Mr Pughe explained the provisions of various Acts of Parliament, especially the Public Health Act, 1872, in a most lucid and exhaustive manner. He then proceeded to explain the d fference between the Urban and Rural Sanitary Districts. He said as we were situated at present the Guardians had all the sanitary control of the district, but their authority referred principally to drains, and what- ever expense they incurred was to be paid from the poor. rate. The Board of Guardians had power to appoint a committ;ee. bnt if a committee was appointed the members would act simply as agents for the Board of Guardians. If the Local Government Board was formed the rates on land and tithes would be one-fourth of what they were on houses, and the Board would have the management of the roads, public buildings, lodging houses, water supply, drainage, and everything else. A district rate would be levied for payment of officers and for sanitary purposes, but a special ra- e would be levied for paving, lighting, &c. The members of the Board would remain in office for three years. The Rev. Canon WILLIAMS said—We are very much in. debted to Mr Pughe for the very lucid explanation he has given us-(hear, hear)—but as this is not a legal meeting I should think the best thing to do would be for the Chair- man to take the sense of the meeting whether we wish to adopt the Local Government Act, and then, if we do, to correspond with the Local Government Board whether they will approve of it. The place is rather small, and we don't know yet whether they will allow us to adopt it. We cer- tainly should have more control in our own hands if we had a Board than if the Guardians were to do the work for us. Mr JOHN JONES thought it would be well if they ex- pressed their opinions on the matter. He understood that after an application was made for adopting the Local Government Act, certain time would be allowed for rate- payers to appeal, and if so it would be premature to ask the Local Government Board .to approve of it, as they could decide on appeal. Mr OLIVER V. PUGH said that sanitary improvements they certainly should have, and it was of importance to know the best way to get them. Mr W. A. PUGHH: said-It is a very common practice to ask the Local Government Board with reference to the ap- pointment of a Local Board. Mr CARRICK said he understood that a Government In. spector was sent over here some three years ago, and that he gave it as his opinion that the parliamentary borough should be made a local district, and that gentleman was also of opinion that this town did not want drainage. If so, he (Mr Carrick) should like to know by whose authority this movement had been now started. Dr WILLIAIIS-IT was entirely on my authority. I, as medical officer of health for this district, have reported this town to the Board of Guardians, and consider that it wants drainasre worse than any town I have known. A VOICE—According to the rate of mortality published some time ago it was only fourteen in every thousand here, whereas it was near y double that number in some other towns in North Wales. After some further observations from other parties, Mr KYLE proposed and Mr EDWARD EVANS seoonded, that this mee'ing request Mr Pughe to write to the Local Government Board to make all necessary enquiries about the basis upon which they would grant an Act for the town, and report to a future meeting. Mr EVAN WATKINS said it svemed to him that the only objection against allowing the Guardians to drain the town was, that except the two town Guardians, they were not immediately connected with the place. This, he thought, could easily be remedied by getting the Guardians to ap- point a committee from the place to manage the thing for them, and he proposed that a request be sent to the Board of Guardians to appoint a committee, say of eight members, to superintrnd the drainage of the town. Mr LLOYD. Tynytwll, said he thought Mr Watkins's proposal a very feasible one, and that it would meet all they required, and he seconded it as an amendment. The two proposals were then put to the meeting, when six voted for the amendment and twelve for the original motion, many in the meeting not voting either way.
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HOPE, NEAR WELSHPOOL PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL.—On Tuesday, March 17th, the choir in connection with this place of worship, agisted by friends from Welshpool, gave a public enter- tainment, when the following programme was gone through in an efficient manner: — The accompanist was Mr Edmunds; the conductor, Mr Parry; solo and chorus, God save the Queen," Mrs Hariis and chrrir Christmas anthem, Choir; song, "Driven from home," Mr Daviesl; duet and chorus, Angels welcome," Mrs Harris, Miss Pngh, and Choir; The shining1 way," Choir; song, "Your Mission," Miss Pugh; "We'll wait till Jesus comes," Choir solo and chorus, Eternal life my cry," Mrs Harris, Miss Pugh, and Choir. Interval; during which the Rev. T. Evans, of Welshpool, delivered a very appropriate address on singing. Second part:—" Oh we are volunteers," by the Choir; duet, "Sweet little wild Flowers; Mrs Harris and Miss Pugh duet, "All's well," Mr Lloyd and Mr Parry; Angels wait ing," Choir song, Out of great tribulation," Mr Davies; "Angels ever bright and fair, Mrs Harris Never be afraid," Choir" Musical dream," Mrs Harris and Choir. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the chapel was comfortably filled, and though this was a first attempt at anything of the kind, it was considered a L'rand success, and many hope it will net be the last. The proceeds are to be devoted partly to the purchasing of b iciks and partly to the Trust Fund. PI-inted by R. H. VENABLEB; and Published for the Froprietors at the dwelling-house of JACOB JONES H'gh-sreet, B&la, in the county of Merioneth; of JOHN GIB ON, H. Queen's road, Abprystwyth, in the county of Cardigan nd of DAVID LLOYD Portmadoc, in the county of Carnarvon. Friday, Marci 27th, 1874.