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Ben. Evans & Co., SWANSEA. Highly Important and Most Interesting Display OF BRITISH & CONTINENTAL C A OUin 110 i Persooa]1y Selected in the Paris, IflOlllUlvO | London and other Markets. BEN. EVANS & COMPY. WILL COMMENCE THEIR BRAND SHOW OF SUMMER FASHIONS TO-MORROW, SATURDAY, MAY 11th. When there will be displayed one of the LARGEST and MOST ATTRACTIVE COLLECTIONS of BRITISH and CON- TINENTAL FASHIONS, NOVELTIES, and NEW GOODS, it has ever been their privilege to place before their cus- tomers. BEN. EVANS & CO. will gladly send, Post Free, a Copy of their Illustrated Fashion Book. But the Stocks on view are so large and varied that it is quite impossible to give a detailed description, and no adequate idea of the Unique Character of the Goods can be obtained without a personal visit, which is most respectfully invited. Ben. Evans & Co., Ltd., Swansea. ROYAL CAMBRIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. A GRAND B A Z A A R USDER THE PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA, AND REPRESENTING THE BRITISH EMPIRE, WILL BE HELD IN THE ALBERT HALLS, SWANSEA, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, MAY 21, 22 & 23,1901 CAFE CHANTANT IN THE MINOR HALL. ART AND FANCY WORK EXHIBITION. THE BAZAAR WILL BE OPENED EACH DAY AT 2.30. SEASON TICKETS for 3 days 3/6. TUESDAY 2/6; after 6 o'clock, I, WEDNESDAY 1:- THURSDAY 1- [01071 FIRST-CLASS HOTELS. ROYAL HOTEL, SWANSEA FIRST CLASS FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL. EXTENSIVE BANQUETING HALL A1) BALL ROOM. TABLE D'HOTE LUNCHEON DAILY, ^rom 12.30 to 3.0 p.m. MANAeXRS :— MR. AND MRS. FRANK DICKENS. Telephone 56. BRIGHTON —GRAND HOTEL. Centre of f< splendid Ms frent. Electric liifbt throughout. Lift to all floors. Sea water swimming bath. Inclusive terms (if desired) from 12s. daily, or 3} guineas weekly. For Darticnlars lippi, to Manager. SHIPPING. IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. SWANSEA TO JJELFAST AND GLASGOW. First-class JPaasenger STEAMERS are intended to Sail from SUED No. 1. SOUTH DOCK BASIS, SWAKHEA, To Belfast every Wednesday p.m. tide. To Glasgow every Wednesday & Friday p.m. tide. Fabbs: Belfast Cabin, 17/6 Steerage, 10,1. Glasgow 20/ 11 12/6 Return Tickets,Flare-and-a-half, available for Six Months. SPECIAL SUXXBR RKTUBK FARES Belfast 20/- available for 1 month. I Glasgow. í- „ 14 days. The Best Route to Portrush, Giants' Oanseway, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to the Isle of Man, via Belfast. Most direct r..ot6 for Glasgow International Exhibition. Illustrated Guide Book and all information free from M. JONBS BROS., Albion Chambers, Swansea. SWANSEA STEAM TRAWLING, PURE ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO. Are supplying ICE at the following PRICES :— 1/- per cwt. (ex store). 1/3 „ (delivered Swansea). 1,6 „ „ (packed free on rail). 5 cwt. lots at 6/- delivered (7 packed f.o.r.). 10 cwt. lots 10/6 delivered (12/6 f.o.r.). All Orders to Factory, Prince of Wales Dock. Telegrams Trawling, Swansea." THE Company's Trawlers will commence landing FISH on the 15th APRIL, at the PRINCE OF WALES DOCK. when the Catches will be DISPOSED OF by PUBLIC AUCTION every morning. Further particulars can be had on applying to the Managing Director: P. MOLYNEUX, 0997] SWANSEA. SUN INSURANCE OFFICE FOUNDED 1710. Sum insured in 1899 exceeded £ 435,000,000. For all particulars apply to the following Agents SWANSEA Nir. H. G. Solomon, Tannery Chambers, Gower-street. Mr. Tiiivers Walters. M Messrs. Li. C. HiguHin & Co., 1, Nur<h;imp>oii-j)la<5e. Messrs. H. J. Goss k. Co 59-60, Wind-street. n Mr. J. A. Bi-hop, union Chambers. Unien-street. Aberavon Mr. Davin E. Jones. Manibles Mzs. Alic- Ornn. Neat h Mr. John E. Richards. BntcnFervy H. H. Hunter. Pontardawe Divid Smith. Port Talbot Enoch Thomas. Reynoldstoae H. L. Prichard. 13495 A VIES' BALSAM OF HONEY for Coughs. Colds, Asthma, Tightness of :he Chest, <tc.— Preptpd oniy by J. DALIES, M..f.S. Dispell■■> £ 1 Cheatis:, 30, H'orb-street. «»ans<s*. 11*10 BUILDERS.—Billheads, Memorandums I Business Circulars and Cards,Time Sheets, Estimate Books, and every cf Commercial Printing at the CAMBRIAN Office, 58, Wind-, street. ENTERTAINMENTS. G RAND THEATRE SWANSEA Lessees and Managers—Mr. H. H. Morrell and Mr. Fredk. Mouillot. MONDAY, MAT 13th, 1901, for six nights only, 1,185th performance of the charming comedy, from the Garrick Theatre, London, entitled- MY FRIEND THE PRINCE, by Justin Huntley McCarthy. To commence at 7.30. Box plan at Gwynne H. Brader's, 17, Heathfield-street. Telephone 291. WYLLIE MCCOY RECITALS. Humorous, Dramatic. Pathetic, from Standard Authors. ALBERT MINOR HALL, SWANSEA, MAY 13th, 1901. Under the support of the Mayor and the Mayoress, Lord Windsor, Griffith Thomas, Esq., Sir John T. D. Llewelyn, Bart., and the leading Clergy and Gentry. Tickets and Prpsrammes at Messrs. JOHN BRADER & Sox, 9, Wind-street, or at doors. Recital, 8 p.m. Carriages, 9.45 p.m. Doors open, 7.30 p,m- [2201-10-5 w AIP. IN SWANSEA! The Siege will take place at the ALBERT HALL, commencing MONDAY, MAY 13th, 1901. Positively for one week only Every evening at 8 o'clock. Doors open at 7.30. Special Day Performances- Thursday and Saturday. Open at 2.30. Commence at 3 o'clock. F^st visit to Swansea of the one and only A- ETON'S life-*ize ANIMATED SCE:SES of PASSING EVENTS. Under the: distinguished patronage of the Worshipful Mayor of Swansea, and the elite of Swansea and district. 500 ANIMATED SCENES soo. THE CHINA & BOER WARS. Her late Majesty's last appearance in public. The grand funeral procession. The return of our brave volunteers. The handy man in China &ZIQ o. Africa, Ihomas A. Edison at work in bis own laboratory. Home life of the King and Queen at Sandringham and Windsor. The Great Fight, JOHN BULL v. KRUGER. Second for John Bull—America. Seconds for Kruger—France and Russia. Animated local scenes, with changes each evening. The splendid band of the 1st Glamorgan Volun- teer Artillery (Bandmaster Hanney) will play selections at every performance, by kind per- mission of Col. J. W. Williams (commanding) and officers of the 1st, G V.A. PRICKS OF ADMISSION 2S., Is. 6d., Is. & 6d. Seats may be booked in advance at Brader's ^Proprietors, The Edisonograph Co., 100 St Martin's-lane, W.C. Business Manager, Mr. Edwin Croueste. 101087 EXCURSIONS. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Excursions will run as under :— THURSDAY, MAY 16th, Half-day Trip to CARMARTHEN and TENBY from Neath, Swansea, &c. For times, bookings from other Stations, Week- end Excnr.-ions, see bills aad pamphlets. J. L.WILKINSON, General Manager. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1896. ADVERTISEMENT OF DISSOLUTION BY INSTRUMENT. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the PERSEVERANCE LODGE, 365 of the SWANSEA VALLEY DISTRICT, MERTHYR UNITí, PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION, held at the HALF MOON INN. High-street, Swansea, in the county of Glamorgan, is dissolved by Instrument. rexi-tered at this Office, the 1st day of MAY. 1901, unless within three mouths from the date of the Gazette in which this advertisement appears, proceedings be com- menced by a member or oth r persons interested in of having any claim on the funi.s of the Branch to set aside such >iis.-olutiun, and the same is set aside accordingly. E. W. BRABOOK, C:iief Registrar. 28, Abirsrdon Strer-f, We-1 minster, the 1st day (,f May, 1901. C2197-10.5 EVERY facility at the "CAMERIAN" Office for executing ail kinds ot Printing. Exoei!e.ice iu Qualitv and Moderation u Price always studied. Estimates free. i EXTENSION OF PREMISES. GREAT CLEARANCE SALE NOW ON. I BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. C:-=-CC-. =- EDDERSHAW & SON, COM-PLETE HOUSE FUHNISHERS, HIGH STREET. SWANSEA. PUBLIC NOTICES. LLANRHIDIAN PARISH CHURCH. RE-OPENING (after Restoration), ON TUESDAY, MAY 14th, 1901. THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S will preach in the morning at 11 o'clock THE VEN. ARCHDEACON OF CARMARTHEN at 3 in the afternoon and THE REV. ANTHONY BRITTEN, Vicar of Gorslas, in the evening at 7. Collections at each service in aid of Restoration Fund. There will be a PUBLIC LUNCHEON at the Schoolroom after the Morning Service. Tickets, 3 6 each. Following the Afternoon Service there will be a PUBLIC TEA. Tickets Adults, Is. eanh: Children, 6d. each. f01077 NOW OPEN. THE SHAFTESBURY HALL, SWANSEA. —| Free Cookery Lectures AND Gas Exhibition. LECTURES THIS DAY and EVERY DAY until FRIDAY, 17th MAY, inclusive. MISS M. E. BETTS (FIRST-CLASS DIFLOMEE). The FAMOUS DAVIS OVENS will be on view, and may be had ON HIRE at small quarterly rentals from the SWANSEA GAS LIGHT CO., LTD. The EXHIBITION will remain open each day from 11.30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission Free. THE SWANSEA HORTICULTURAL AND GARDNERS' ASSOCIATION. FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES IN THE SWANSEA MARKET, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1901. BAND of HIS MAJESTY'S 2ND LIFE GUARDS ENGAGED. Schedules may be obtained of the Secretary, Mr. A. B. DAVIES, 01036 J 58, Wind-street, Swansea. GOBOUGH OF SWANSEA. SWANSEA CORPORATION ACT, 1889. WILLIAMS PLACE. PRIVATE STREET WORKS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a Meeting of the COUNCIL of the BOROUGH OF SWANSEA, held on the 17th day of April, 1901, it was resolved :— That the Specifications, Plans and Sections, Estimates and Provisional Ap- portionments, relating to the Works of Sewering, Levelling, Paving, Metalling, Flagging, Kerbing, Channelling, Making I Good and Providing Proper Means for Lighting a certain Street called and known as Williams Place, in the Borough of Swansea, or any part or parts of such Street, be approved, respectively, and that the necessary notices be published and served in the manner prescribed by the Swansea Corporation Act, 1889. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the said Specifications, Plans and Sections, Estimates and Provisional Ap- portionments (or copies thereof, certified by the Borough Surveyor), will be kept deposited at the Office of the Borough Surveyor, No. 13, Somerset-place, Swansea, for the space of One Month, from the 10th day of May, 1901, and will be open to inspection at any time between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. AND NOTICE is HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that during the said month, any owner of any premises shown in the said Pro- visional Apportionments as liable to be charged with any part of the expenses of exe- cuting the works, may, by written notice served on the Corporation, object to the pro- posals of the Corporation on any of the grounds mentioned in Section 121 of the said j Act. And any such objection will be heard and determined in the manner therein provided. In default of any such notice of objection being served, as aforesaid, the Corporation will proceed to execute such work in accord- ance with the said Specifications, Plans, and Sections, Estimates, and Provisional Appor- tionments, and will charge the expenses there- of upon the owners of the premises shown in the said Provisional Apportionments to be liable as aforesaid. Dated this 10th day of May, 1901- JNO. THOMAS, Town Clerk. Guildhall, Swansea. [01083 COEDFRANC SCHOOL BOARD. TO BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. TENDERS are invited for the ERECTION of a new BOYS' SCHOOL at Skewen to accommodate 440 children. Plans and specifications may be seen at the offices of the Board's Architect, Mr.J. Cook Rees, St. Thomas'-chambers. Neath. and hills of quan- tities obtained on and after the 13th, upon pay- ment of X2 2s., which amount will be returned upon receipt of bona fide tender. Sealed tenders to be sent to the undersigned on or before the 30th instant, endorsed Tender for Boys' School." The lowest or any tender not necessarily ac- oepted. CUTHBERTSON and POWELL, Clerks to the Board. Water-street, Neath, 6th May, 1901. [01078 NEATH AND DISTRICT HORSE SHOW AND PARADE. MAY 23, 1901. I For Schedules apply to ELLSON ALLEN, Hon. Sec. Neath. [020 MEMORIAL TO THE LATE BELOVED QUEEN VICTORIA. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED BY MAYOR OF SWANSEA. £ s. d Amount previously acknowledged 99 12 6 Simon Goldberg 110 E. Rice Daniel 110 Alex. Si e air 0 10 6 Mrs. Picton Turbe yiile 5 0 0 Tom P. Parsons 0 10 6 Ed H Plint 0 10 6 Wm. Davies. 11. S James' Gardens. 110 John F Harvey & S..ns 0 10 6 Ci>1 J. R Wrig t 5 0 0 Joseph D'vi s. G lion 110 J. Clark- Ri iiard 5 0 0 Trafford Mit-ln M Dl, Gors(-in,,n 0 10 6 The Ho,. Od,, Vi, a 0 10 6 Wm. T. 01-1r 1: .33 -e 0 10 6 Wi km n of Hato pr Works 0 8 3 Wo krnen of Hafod Silver Works 0 8 3 Swansea Cricket & Football Club 10 0 0 GWYN jy ALL, NEATH.1 THURSDAY, 30TH MAY, 1901. GRAND MORNING CONCERT munificently given and arranged by JJ^JADAME ^DELINA J)ATTI (BARONESS ROLF CEDERSTRCM), assisted by the following Eminent Artistes (who also give their valuable services):- Miss MARIANNE EISSLER (Solo Violin), Miss CLARA EISSLER (Solo Harp), Mr. PENDEREL PRICE (Tenor), Mr. SANTLEY (The Celebrated Baritone), and Mr. WILHELM GANZ (Solo Pianoforte and Conductor). Numbered and Reserved Seats, JE1 Is., 10s. 6d., and 58. Plans may be seen and Tickets obtained at Mr. Whittington's, Wind-street, Neath at Messrs. Brader's, Wind-strept, Swansea; Messrs. Thomp- son & Shackell's, Queen-street, Cardiff; and at Messrs. Stockvood & Williams', Post Office Buildings, Bridgend. The PROCEEDS will be applied in aid of the poor of Neath, the Swansea Hospital, and the Porthcawl Reat. Railway Tickets at Reduced Fares on most of the Local Railways. The Secretary will be happy to select Tickets (if so desired), for persons residing at a distance, on receipt of Cheque or P.O. Order. Doors open at 1.30; Concert at 2.30 p.m. EDWIN C. CURTIS, Hon. Secretary. Town Clerk's Office, Neath. [01066 111 For Hordes, Cattle & Dogs. I CALVERT'S CARBOLIC SOFT SOAP Cures Mange, Greasy Heal, Itch and other Skin Diseases, destroys parasites, and keeps away flies. ——— A sure insecticide for Plants. 1 & 2 lb. Jars, 1/- & 2/- each. F. C. CALVERT & Co., Manchester. Ie. I' I "1 t. t. I" 4 IMPORTANT. ADVERTISEMENTS RECEIVED AT THE OFFICES. No. 58, WIND-STREET, SWAN- SEA, UP TO 11 O'CLOCK ON THURSDAY NIGHT. THOSE POSTED ON THURSDAY NIGHT WILL NOT BE IN TIME FOR PUBLICATION ON FRIDAY MORNING. TELERHONA NUMBER 36. TELEGRAMS Cambrian N ewspaper, Swansea TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Delivered in Town Is. 3d. per quarter Post Free (United Kingdom) Is. 9d. „ (Foreign). 2s. 6d. Payable in advance.
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CQrhc (Eambrian. FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1901. GREAT BRITAIN'S DANGER; THE REMEDY. The industrial supremacy of Great Britain is just, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, now a subject of national im- portance. We all know that Great Britain began the Nineteenth Century with peculiar advantages in respect of trade, agriculture and industry, that as the century advanced these advantages placed her far in the van of industrial and commercial progress, and that in its last quarter she felt the increasing pressure caused by the advances of her rivals. It is, therefore, with no little interest that we examine the address-a full report of which is given in other columns-delivered by Dr. Turpin, Principal of the Swansea In- termediate School, before the Teachers' Guild, on Saturday. It is a thoughtful and instructive address. It deserves the serious consideration of all who have the educational, industrial and commercial welfare of this country at heart. Dr. Turpin is an authority on the subject of which he speaks, and the facts and figures he gives us prove how careful has been his investigations. Much that Dr. Turpin lays emphasis on is corrobo- rated, though somewhat indirectly, by Mr. Panton, President of the Cleveland Institu- tion of Engineers. Mr. Panton recently declared that "both on the Continent and in America they have gone far ahead of us." Mr. Louis Cassier, in the magazine which bears his name, sought a short time ago to explain the causes of the comparative retro- gresaion of this country. When the English manufacturer makes what he thinks a fortune he buys an estate, and becomes a country gentleman the American ironmaster, on the other hand, puts his millions into new works." And again. "In machine-shop methods Britain has fallen behind Germany, and America has shot far ahead of Germany." In Great Britain "the education preparatory,to entry into manu- factories, industries and commerces is lamentably defective." Two of the passages quoted in explanation of Great Britain's commercial and industrial retrogression strike us as specially worth considering. The cuccessful manufacturtr "buys an estate and becomes a country gentleman that is to say, he gives up work and takts his capital, or a large part of it, uut of the business. When that happens the capital so withdrawn ceases to be capital in the economic sense, it is no longer used aa an implement of producliulI, but merely as an ■ i.xtrument for the i-nj.»ymein oi life. It is spent, not in work, bin in play, or what is the same thing, display. I ht ihie with- drawal of energy and casual must, be a oluw to any industry is helf-ev ddl1. We are cOli-I cerned with its relation to the national life, i'tie successful manufrtcU'er d pis ihe ideal .hat prevails in the soci ty ihat attracts him it is an ideal in which work with a serious I purpose finds little place, though exertion by way of sport or pastime is one of its prominent elements. No one who has given serious thought to the relations between social and national life will listen to any doctrine that would tamper with the ideal of a peried of leisure as the result of a life of bard work of any kind, and this, the most natural of all ideals, cannot be realised without some withdrawal of capital from productive use. But it may be doubted if any great society has long remained healthy without retaining the belief that leisure cannot properly be given wholly to recreation or be void of occupation having a serious purpose. Of the best society in this country it may truly be said that in this reppect it has maintained a very high tradition for several centuries. The conditions of modern trade and industry, however, make possible a standard of luxury unknown to former generations, and there is some danger in our day that capital withdrawn from its produc- tive function may be used, not so much to raise the normal standard of thought, know- ledge, and conduct among the more fortunate, as in raising the fashionable scale of mere material comforts and enjoyments. This is a matter beyond the scope of legislation or of the direct action of the nation through its representatives. If there is any way in which national action can help to guard against evils, which if subtle are none the less real and powerful, it is to be found in the remedies by which a second cause of industrial decline must be cambated. We have quoted the opinion that the education preparatory to" industrial life is defective. Probably the weakest point in the British educational system is to be found in the general instruction available for the classes from which come those who should be in every branch of life the leaders. Of late the public has been surprised by many decla- rations from those who know concerning defects in the general and in the technical training of British Officers; those who cate to examine these complaints in detail may study the excellent papers on the subject contributed some time ago by to more than one magazine by Dr. Miller Maguire* than whom in this matter no one is more competent to speak. It is hardly too much to say that the ordinary British officer as received by the Army authorities when they first take charge of him has not the marks of a first-class all-round instruction he rarely has the real command either of his own language or of any other language, ancient or modern; he has not often mastered any science; only in rare instances has he so learned how to study that he can set out to teach himself with profit. With materials thus ill-prepared the Army aurhorities can hardly be expected to produce great resnlts in the short period of technical schooling which precedes the grant of a commission. The consequence is that in the after period of military life serious study is almost un- known. Its place is taken by short periods of the examiner. But the young men who are to become the officers of the industrial army are little better, if as well, prepared. Their general instruction has usually been so poor that they are ill-prepared to confront the special sciences that are the bases of a first-class technical schooling. Yet it is on the intellectual grasp of its leaders that the fate of an industry depends. If they have the knowledge they can insure the technical training of the workman, provided the work- man has bad a good foundation in general instruction at school. But if the leaders are not men of high general instruction, and of the special knowledge which requires that general instruction as its foundation, the iD- dustry cannot be saved by technical schools for the workmen. In the snccess of the effort to improve the general instruction given to the class that produces leaders in all branches of life lies the best hope of salva- tion from the dangers of luxury; for the manufacturer who has made his fortune, if he is in any true sense an educated man, will hardly go to swell the ranks of a mere apolaustic society.
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-+ A WISE. DEOISIOlt;. The country has been spared the humilia- tion of a general strike in the coal trade. At a representative meeting on Wednesday the men abandoned the proposal, contenting them- selves with agreeing to call a conference to decide whether it should be revived if and when the wages are reduced in any district through the operation of the export duty. That section of the masters which was repre- sented at another conference also declared against a cessation of work, and suggested that the Government should raise the money they hope to get from the new tax on the total output of the collieries last year, and meanwhile submit the new fiscal policy to the consideration of an impartial tribunal. These decisions have been welcomed on all hands. The men had everything to lose and nothing I to gain by a strike, which would have para- lysed the industries of this country almost beyond recovery. Grievances, real or imagi- nary, are more susceptible to constitutional than to arbitrary methods—a fact which must have largely influenced the wise decision of Wednesday. Furthermore, a strike would have alienated from the men whatever sym- pathy they had in the country, and public sympathy is not to be ignored. While there is much to be said against the tax, there is much to be said in its favour, and it is a matter for regret that so many wild assertions have been indulged in. A strong case has been weakened by irrelevant and groundless arguments; it is practically destroyed by the resort to threats. Fortunately, the threats of a general strike have ended in a wise and statesmanlike atti- tude on the part of both coalowners and miners, and well may we feel relieved. Mr. A erou Thomas, in the House of Commons on Monday night, presented a good case against the tax, and in this issue of "The Cambrian" is published a very able article in favour of the import. The views advanced in these two instances are as wide apart as the poles, but they none the less form the only food upon which the country can possibly be educated on a very intricate question.
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-+- The Glen-Spey Distillery, situated in the finest Whisky-producing Distriot of Scotland is the property of W. and A. Gilbey. This Whisky is made entirely from hamo-gro-wn Barley and is kept abeolutely unblended in His Majesty's Bonded Warehouses to ma- ture, and sold by W. and A. Gilbey's agents in ElVWY town at 5a bd. per bottla.
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NOTES & NOTIONS. The three guncarriages which were used in the funeral of Queen Victoria, are to be de- posited in the Tower, Edinburgh Castle, and the Dublin Royal Hospital respectively. Sir Griffith Evans, who has for many years been a prominent figure in the Calcutta eofurte, has come home on another holiday. He has for a long time been a member of the Viceroy's Council, and when he is at home in Wales is a J,P. and D.L. of the county of Cardigan. Lcrd Bute. who returned to town the other day after a brief eojourn in Jerusalem, is in- teresting himself in the ereotion of a new Roman Catho-lic Church in Oban. Work is proceeding at Mountstuart House, Rothesay, which the King is expected, to visit in the au- tumn. Wales is miserably represented at the Glas- gow Exhibition. According to the "Mail," there is only one solitary firm represented. It is Coiy Bros. and Co. (Limited), South Walee Coalfield, Cardiff, who have a block of coal weighing between three and four tons, and samples of coal, bricks, clay, and ce- ment. The "Gardener's Chronicle" has lately de- voted some of its space to an open discussion of the question: "Are primulas poisonous?" Opinion is divided upon the subject, but Mr. J. Whiffin, of 11, Lynton-terrace, Chelmsford- road, Southgate, Middlesex, who occupies the responsible position of gardener to a gen- tleman of private means says they are poison- ous, and that he has suffered himself from handling them. Churning ia obviously not congenial to a dog's instinot, but the Carnarvonshire magis- trates do not think that it necessarily in- volves cruelty. This is the effect of the judg- ment in the case heard a fortnight ago, in which a farmer was oharged with cruelty to a dog by foroing him to tread on a wooden slajiting disc, which provided the motive- power for ohurning. The use of the chain, however, i8 to be discontinued, and the dog is to be kept in good physical health. The Swansea Recorder very frequently con- gratulates the borough upon an absence of crime in the locality. On Saturday at the Swansea Police Court, Mr. Wm. Walters, the chairman of the sitting magistrates, did likewise. He said the community could not but congratulate itself on the general condi- tion of the district and the absence of cases which, as "here was no reason assume that the police were not doing their duty, repre- sented an absence of criminal offences. The "Rothesay Chronicle" says:—The late Marquis of Bute's estate has had large lines on the contents bill of the daily rewpsapers1, "Windfall to the Exchequer," and the no- tices in the papers implied that the Chancellor would receive fully £178,000. As a matter of fact that sum has already been paid, but it is clear that that is only an instalment of the duty exigible in respect of the vast estates of the deceased nobleman. In such a case two or three years will be allowed for the pay- ment of the amount, and the total will not be much short of half a million sterling. An old champion of Gregorian music and the composer of the best known tune to Top- lady's hymn, "Rock of Ages cleft for me," has passed away in Richard Redhead, who, in the old Margaret Chapel, replaced by All Saints' Margaret-street, introduced Gregor- ian tunes in the -lays of the Rev. F. Oakley. Hp was born at Harrow in 1820, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, under Vicary. He was All Saints till 1864, and since then has been organist of St. Mary Magdalene. Paddington. Besides "Rock of Ages," in "Hymns, Ancient and Modern," among his best known works were "Laudes Diurnte" and his setting of the "Miserere." Mr. Luoy has in the Sunday "Observer" a delightful description of Sir Michael Hicks- Beach's great speech on the coal-tax, which will be read with much interest locally, from the fact that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is related to Lady Llewelyn of Penllergaer, and spoke in Swansea a few years ago. Mr. Luoy speaks of the speech as one of the very few which have influenced votes in Parlia- ment, and he adds:—"As usual with Sir Miohael, the speech was unadorned by now- ens of oratory. It was akin to its subject- matter by reason of its resemblance to the action of the miner at work. As he quietly went on, you could almost hear the steady, regular stroke of the pick, broken now and then by the noise of the falling mass of phan- tasy and misrepresentation irresistibly dis- lodged." Misa Marie Corelli, at the ladies' banquet at the Whitefriara Club on Friday night, made the first public speech which she has over perpetrated. We all know how clearly and how forcibly Miss Corelli can write. She speaks just as clearly and as forcibly. Her delivery is that of the practised orator, her enunciation that of the trained elocutionist. Miss Corelli's speech was the brightest epi- sode of an evening enlightened by speeches from the chairman, Mr. Winston Churchill, alan Maclaren," the Lord Mayor, and Mrs. C. N. Wilkinson, who spoke with a clever- ness and vivacity which showed that, like Miss Corelli. her cleverness is by no means confined to the form of expression which has made her so widely popular. A novel conference has taken place at St. George's Hall, Westminster. It was a con- feremoe of husbands affected with drunken vives, and the object was to form a husband's protection society. The attendance was not large, the reason aseigned being that many sufferers would not attend for fear of ex- posure. Harrowing tales were told of homes wrecked by drunken wives. It was decided to form a husbands' protection society against drunken wives, and a resolution was passed in favour of amending the Bishop of Win- chester's Bill so as to reach drunken wives. We would ask: What about the drunken hus- bands who roll home from the clubs, after having been ejected from the public-houses, somewhere in the small hours of the morn- ing? Isn't there much more room for a wives' protection socie/ty against these do- stroyers of a 'appy The Welsh Regiment has been figuring largely in the publio eye of late, but' how many readers know the meaning of the word "Miami," which appears on the colours of the regiment ? This honour was won 89 years ago on Sunday last by the 1st Battalion at the 41st in the American War of 1812. In the Battle of Miami River, General Proctor, with the 1st Battalion of the 41st, numbering abotit 50 men, with an equal number of Can- adian Militia, and about 1,200 Canadian In- dians, attaoked the American forces under Generals Harrison and Clay, gaining a com- plete viotory, and inflicting a loss on the enemy in killed, wounded, and prisoners of 1,200. The British loss was 100. The feature of the battle was a magnificent bayonet oharge by the 41st. Led by Brevet-major Muir, they swept the Americans out of their batteries, though not without a severe strug- gle. That the morale of the regiment has not deteriorated was amply proved at Drietfon- tein. At the last meeting of the council of the Eoyal Institution of South Wales (Swansea) it was resolved to memorialise his Majesty King Edward VII. to become the patron of the institution, in the place of the late Queen who was patroneee for Aver 60 years. Sir George Newnes, Bart., the member for the borough, was requested to be their interme- diary, and the following letter has been re- ceived by Sir George in response to his ap- plication — "Saiulrii gham, April 30, 1901. "Sir,—I have submitted your letter of the 11th inat. to the King, and I am now com- manded, in leply, to inform you that his Ma- jesty is pleaded to accede to the request con- tained therein, and give his patronage to the Royal Institution of South Wales.—I have tit** honour to bo, sir, "Your obedient Servant, "J. M. PROBYN, General. "Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse. "To Sir George Newnes, Bart., M.P." -==-=- The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have ar- rived at Melbourne, where they were received with much enthusiasm by the populace. Exhibited in the architectural room of the Royal Academy are the competitive designs for harbour offices at Swansea, by Mr. J. A. Minty, and of St. Peter's Church, Oyster- Mouth, by Mr. E. M. Bruce-Vaughan. In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Balfour informed Sir George Newnee that the decision whether the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York would take the titles of Prinoe and Princess of Wales rested en- tirely with his Majesty. Mr. A. B. Markham, M.P., who supported Sir George Newnes' candidature for Swan- sea. has carried out his threat and lias re- peated in public certain charges he made in the House of Commons against Messrs. Wern- her, Beit and Có., in connection with their dealings in South Africa. Litigation is to follow, and the result will be watched with considerable interest. As is already known, the disputes between the Corporation and the Cray wateT works contractors have been subject for arbitration. It is now understood that the questions in dispute are to extend to the law courts owing to the few men put on the job and the like- lihood of the work thus taking years beyond the stipulated period for completion. The Corporation, it is said, have been served with a writ. The "Time's" critique of "Tangled Trini- ties" says: "It is not an abstruse theological treatise, though it does turn upon orthodox views of Christianity, not altogether unjus- tified by the heroine's experience of Church folk. The story sometimes drags, but the working of that untutored mind and the repressed ebullition of ardent passions are well brought out in & drama ending in shadowy tragedy." Among the names of the successful candi- dates at the last final txamination of the Incorporated Law Society, is that of Mr. D. L. Evans, of Swansea. Mr. Evans served his tfffie as artioled clerk to Messrs. Moy Evans and Thomas. We understand it is Mr. D. L. Evans' intention to practice at Swansea, Yfffcalyfera and Brynamman, of which last Aamod place he is a native. According to an announcement made by Lord Windsor, the Lord Lieutenant of Glam- organ, three squadrons of GImorganishire Yeomanry are to be raised in the county, one of which is to be for Swansea. Each trooper producing a horse will be given a bounty of £5, and will receive Is. 6d. per day forage allowance for it during the time he is out at the annual training. During that time he will also receive 5s. 3d. per day for himself. He will have a free kit, uniform and saddhlery. Of coarse, non-commissioned officers will be< paid on a higher scale. The uniform will be khaki. The Yankees are treating us with a delight- ful version of the famous escape of Mr. Wins- erton Churchill from the prison at Pretoria. According to a New York message. Baron de1 Ginsberg, for eight years chief of the Trans- vaal secret police service, speaking at New- haven. said that the Boers allowed Mr. Win- ston Churchill to escape', and that he was detailed to take snapshots of Mr. Churchill in the act of escaping. The Baron said that during Mr. Churchill's recent lecturing tour in America he threatened to publish these pictures, whereupon Mr. Churchill brought his tour to an end. Mr. Lucy, in the "Strand," this month, has an interesting note on the question of prece- dence. Mr. Gladstone, with the weight of the Empire on his shoulders, was, we are told, never oblivious to it. At a time when he was Prime Minister he halted once at thfe door after leaving a dinner-table, waiting for a comparatively unimportant member of his Cabinet to pass out first. The noble lord demurred. "Yes," said Mr. Gladstone smil- ingly, "we are both in the Cabinet, but you are of the baronial rank." And so the First Minister of the Crown, the greatest person- ality of his age, gave the pass to the blushing baron. Mr. Aeron Thomas, M.P., made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on Mon- day night. It was on the much-debated coal- tax. Few me nin South Wales have a more: thorough and practical knowledge of the coal industry than Mr. Aeron Thomas. He al- most invariably makes himself master of the subject he takes up. whatever its nature. You may talk t(1 him on a great variety of questions—particularly industrial and com- mercial—and he will evidence a good know- ledge of them all. His speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday night was as instruc- tive as it was thoughtful and forcible, and it left a very favourable impression on all who heard it. We stated last week that it would be un- fortunate if some compromise could not be arranged between the Swansea Harbour Trust and the opposers of the Harbour Bill. It is gratifying to record that at a special meeting of the Parliamentary Committee of the Har- bouL" Trust, held for the purpose of dealing with various points raised by petitioners against the Harbour Bill, agreements were come to which it is hoped will remove all serious opposition. The report that Lord Jersey is opposing the Bill it seems is not true. So far from there being any dispute with respect to the value of the land, an agreement has been arrived at on practically oJI matters. On Monday, May 13th, at the Albert Minor Ball, Mr. Wyllie/McCoy will give one of his humourous, dramatic and pathetic recitals tfcoan standard authors. Mr. McCoy is an accomplished elooutionist. He has already inaxle for himself a splendid reputation. "The Western Daily Press" thus refers to him: only does he possess a commanding in- dividuality and attractive personality, but he brings to bear in his reoitals a multitude of qualities that are seldom found in one per- son." The Cardiff "Echo": "He is an actor as well as a reciter. Every item was a gem of its kind." Mr. MeCoy should be favoured with a. crowded audience on the 13th inst. The recital promises to be a rich, intellectual and artistio treat, and should not be missed. "All who take an interest in the Welsh lan- guage," writes "C. K. S." in the "Sphere," will hear with regret that the great dic- tionary of that language, edited by Canon Sylvan Evans, and published by Spurrell and Sons, of Carnarvon, now bids fair to collapse for want of funds. It has reached the letter E, but there is no one to pay the printer's t £ ll for that letter. So far the dictionary has beeai subsidised by Lady Llanover, who has devoted some B300 a year to it. The death, however, of this most enthusiastic Welshwoman, has rendered it impossible to go on with the work any further." "C. K. S." uivites wealthy Welshmen on the other side of the globe to come to the rescue; and the cause is well worthy of the support of wealthy Welshmen at home. Lady Llanover herself, it may be remembered, was a Welshwoman only by adoption and grace. The annual report of the Swansea District Independent Order of OddfeLows, M.U., has just been issued, and a perusal of it must af- ford interesting reading to all who belong to an Order having an adult membership of 837,040, and accumulated funds of the stu- pendous amoun of £10,406,826. The total membership of the Swansea district is 5,307, and this includes 479 juvenile members, 50 hon. members, and 25 widows. The accum- ulated funds it £41 796 4s. 6d. The increase in membership is 21—not so high as anticipated—an■; be ?ick and funeral funds of the various lolges show a more gratifying advance of £1, 1{8. 9d. Over £6,354 was paid out in sick id funeral benefits dur- ing the year, •" I1 O accident compensation fund continue usefulness to members, who unfortun:1 e 1 v had sustained ac- t dents. The, t is signed by the chief officer2 Messr- vV- Williams. Provo G.M., John Harris, Pre v..G.M., Jos. Thomas, dis- trict treasurer; yrri Pees Rees, Prov. C.S. The Swansea Corporation has decided to join the movement for recognising Wales in the Royal Arms. The Swansea Gas Company has decided to reduce the price of gas in October, "if no unforseen circumstances should arise." The Ear] and Countess of Jersey have ar- rived in Lowndes Square from Middleton Park, the family seat in Oxfordshire, and are expected to remain in London until Whitsuntide, when they go to Osterley Park, their place near Southall. Madame Mary Davies, who, on the death of Edith Wynne, succeeded to the proud title of "Nightingale of Wales," has definitely re- solved to retire into private life, and will henceforward devote herself entirely to teach- ing. Mr. L. J. Bessent has succeeded Mr. H. Da- vies to the chairmanship of the Mumbles District Council. A wise selection has been made. Mr. Bessent takes a keen and intelli- gent interest in the welfare of Mumbles; he has already done good work as a local coun- cillor, and he possesses every qualification for the chairmanship. GAS. And so debate dragged on towards The witching hour of dawn, Long past the hour when churchyards, like The members, 'gin to yawn. And grasping owners of retorts Are wishing, in a mass That every ton of coal produced I' Such quantities of gas. —"Globe." A movement is on foot in Swansea, for the formation of a shooting club. Negotiations have been entered into with a view of acquiring; a portion of Notts* Range, behind the Cwm- donkin' Park, for the purpose, and it is ex- pected the Hon. Odo Vivian will become the club's first president. The membership fee ia one guinea, and those desirous of joining are requested to communicate with Mr. W. T. Kent, St. Helen's-avenue, or Mr. Woodward, High-street. On Saturday next a presentation will be made to Lady Eva Wyndham-Quin by the la- dies of Glamorgan. The gift will be a dia- mand tiara, and will be in recognition of the pluoky part Lady Eva took at the last elec- I tion when her husband was re-elected for South Glamorgan whilst the major was in South Africa with the Glamorgan Yeomanry. Beyond the fact that this circumstance gave rise to the movement, it has been divested of all political character. It ie simply a mark of personal appreciation, and how general that feeling is can be understood by the fact that there are 1.500 subscribers to the testi- monial, all amounts, large or small, being equally welcomed. The presentation will be made at the Angel Hotel, Cardiff. Fifty-six years ago last Friday died the author of a. poem which has more often at- tracted. the parodist perhaps even than "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls" or "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Hood's "Song of the Shirt," with its sad little re- train, and the wonderful pun in the last line of these four— And underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling. As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the sr<rmg! made more stir, perhaps, when Mark Lemon decided to publish it in the pages of a hum- orous periodical, than any poem of its. size has ever been able to call forth. Everyone was talking about it, and discussing the marvellous pathos at the command of a wri- ter chiefly distinguished previously for such wit and humour as is to be found in the verse and drawings of "Whims and Oddities." Hood was only 45 when he died, but in the 25 years in which he was writing he managed to publish a quantity of work truly prodigi- ous. Most of it was at least in the thirties found readable; some of it, as the song just quoted, will be immortal; some of it was very poor atuff indeed. The "Song of the Shirt" was published only sixteen months before the death of the author; yet in those months Hood had written, for his own mag- azine. whioh he started immediately after the "Soflg of the Shirt" had appeared in "Punch," the "Haunted House" and the "Bridge of Sighs." By a strange fate it had happened that although Hood's earlier at- tempts to write serious verse would, if they had met with encouragement, probably have resulted in the addition to our literature of even more excellent work than the "Song of the Shirt," nothing would please the public but his puns. His best work has come to us, ao to speak, by accident. Boewell, who recorded Dr. Johnson's vig- orous opinion that the man who would make a pun would pick a pocket—a sentence par- odied by a well-known wit. who remarked a few years ago, that the man who would com- mit a murder would ride a bicycle—still be- lieved himself that "a good pun may be ad- mitted among the smaller excellencies of conversation." But punning of late has fallen on evil days. People never speak of puns aa puns, but vaguely as bad puns. Hook, Lamb, and Sydney Smith—all contempor- aries of Hood—were all first-class punsters. Yet an atte'mpt to do the kind of work that brought them fame would not be tolerated to-day by the reading public. "Soapy Sam" was perhaps the last of the great punmakors; Mr. Gilbert might possibly have succeeded him if the public had wished it. But not one of these brought to their punning the same power and imagination as did Hood. Letters from the front contain an account of an act of daring which has much local in- terest attaching to it. Captain Kyle of Kit- chener's Fighting Scouts rode out amidst a. blinding thunderstorm in the attempt to re- inforce Captain Strong. Finding the Brak River full, without asking a single man to attempt to cross it he stripped and swam over to the other bank, thus showing by ex- ample what his men had to do. The whole ftquadron caught on, and no man murmured, but went for it. Although the river was bank high and flowing like a mill stream, they got through. Had it not been for pre- vious delays there is not the slightest doubt that Captain Kyle would have saved the val- uable lives lost with Capt. Strong's party. The squadron down to the lowest amongst them, honour and respect him for his dash- ing ride and ewim. Capt. Kyle is a brother of Mrs. John White (wife of the managing director of Messrs. Ben. Evans and Co.), and Mrs. Morgan Davies, and is a native of Car- marthen. A letter has been received from the Board of Agriculture declining to grant Swansea. a permit for the importation of foreign cattle on the ground that the trade anticipated was not such as would justify the employment of a veterinary surgeon giving his whole time to the duties. The reasons for the refusal are really remarkable, and quite .in keeping with the conduct of the Board of Agricul- ture in this matter. It was clearly and dis- tinctly pointed out at the local inquiry that the Harbour Trust were prepared to relieve the London authorities of the cost of a veteT- inary surgeon. Then why, in th name of all that is sane, should this point worry them ? There are often "wheels within wheels," and there is probably more local—or Welsh—op- position to this cattle scheme than appears on the surface. A number of Swansea's lead- ing commercial men are convinced that the scheme would prove a success; local publio opinion is almost unanimous that the scheme is urgently needed, and that it would not only benefit the promoters, but the people generally. If the Board of Agriculture really mean what they say, then the permit may be regarded as a foregone conclusion. The Harbour Trustees are prepared to guarantee and pay for the services of a veterinary sur- geon. Therefore, the Board of Agriculture have no alternative but to grant the permit. That is the common-sensa view to take, but, unfortunately common-sense is not a super- fluous commodity in some of our Governmen- tal Departments. Sir !oice Newnes, M.P., and Mr. Brynmor Jones, K.C., M.P., who h-ve actively inter?rt then selves iu the rgitstion for the ptrnn c. y b relied upon t to ceise agitatir g. i g-u ncant that more foreign meat has ? 11 roc ived in Swan- se t and district from i rpool during the past few weeks than at n previous period.