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Swansea Nelson Tea Pensioners. The Swansea, sufferers) by the collapse of the Nelson Tea Widows' Pension scheme are Mrs. M. Davies, 110, Terrace-road; Mrs. J. lowlands, 51, Orange-street: Mrs. Hart- uold, 9, Dynevor-plaoe; Mrs. S. A. Branch, Norton, Mu-ibles; Mrs. Harries. 8, West- bourne-place Mrs Roes, Midland-terrace, MorriBton; Mrs. A. Davies, 18, WaJter-ter- race; Mm. Afiles, 31, Courtney-street, Man- seltou; Mrs. E. Davies, 19, Llangyfelach- stroet; Airs. L. Owen, 67. King Edward road; Mrs. E. A. Evans, 86, Rhondda- street; Airs. A Tucker, 60, St. Helens avenue Mrs. H. Evans, Railway Inn, Rut- land-street; Mrs. S. A. Reeves, 3, Fisher- street; Airs. M. A. WTilliams, 35, Park-ter- ra.cc; Mrs. A. M. J. Martell, 7, Ffynone- street; Airs. H. Lewis, 195. High-street. All these lose 10s. weekly. Among those who lose 5s. weekly are Airs. L. Alain, 3, Lower Otto-street, Hafod Mrs. A. Bartl'ett', 144, iihyddings Park-road; Mrs. E. Bailey] iOl, Norfolk-street; Mrs. E. Lewis, 23, Upper Union-street; Mrs. A. Abel, lUTJones- terrace; Mrs. Al. Bevans, 94, St. Helen's- avenue. Mrs. A. Charles, 56, Tumble-row, LIannoo, Llanelly, also loses 5s. a week.

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HOTEL PROPRIETOR'S FAILURE. Bankruptcy Examination of the "Tenby's" Landlord. At Swansea Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, before Air. Registrar Home, the public ex ammation was held of Thomas Hedges Vinni- eombe, of the Tenby Hotel, Swansea, whose gross liabilities amounted to £2,591 45., of which £1,4gJ 17s. lid. is expected to rank, and, after deducting assets, the deficiency was estimated at £1,06C¡ 7s. 7d. "Bad trade ia the hotel and heavy hotel expenses' were the causes assigned for the failure. 1!r. W. S. Andrews appeared for the trustee, Mr. George Isaac appeared for a creditor, Mr. Wilson Paton represented Messrs. I Alisopps, Ltd., and himself, and Mr. Stanley Harvey (Messrs. Davies and Harvey) ap- peared for the debtor. Examined by the Official Receiver) debtor said he commenced business as hotel pro- prietor at the Tenby Hotel on the 16th March, 1904, with £300 cash. Debtor bela the Tenby Hotel under a lease for 21 years at an annual rental of ;65(X), exclusive, subject to a mortgage dated 25th March 19^4, toO a firm of brewers, to secure a sum of £ 500 and j their account for gcxxis sold and delivered. The total amount aue to the mortgagees on the 2nd December, ,904, appears to be j .31,104 7s. 3d. With the exception of a ftiw debts, amounting to about £50, practically the whole of the debtor's liabilities are trade debts contracted since he has been in the Tenby Hotel, but a claim of JES50 has since been lodged in respect of damages awarded against the bankrupt (in an action in which he was plaintiff) for broach of contract to purchase an hotel at Henley-on Thames. Asked by the Official Receiver what ex- perience of the hotel business he had, debtor said he kept an hotel in Kent, one in Tver ton, and one at Weymouth. The last named was sold, and after everything was settled up ho cleared a little over £ 2,(XX). Before he took over the Tenby, he as looking out for a business, and meanwhile it cost him and his family from £15 to £16 a week to live. He had bought South African chares, and had lost money bv them. Whsn going into the Tenby he drew a cheque for £1,200. and the rest was obtained by mortgage. The sum of £ 1,300 was fixed for the goodwill and the lease. His hotel expenses came up to about £1,900 a year, and in February he found that the beer trade was a giving-away trade, that was to say, the percentages of profit were so low that nothing oould be made from it. The prices were fixed before he went there, and different from the ordin- ary hotel rates. Answering Mr. Andrews, debtor said he took over the Tenby from Mrs. Edwards, and was not buying for Messrs. Alisopps but for himself subject to their mortgage. Messrs. Alisopps bought the furniture then on the premises. At this stage the examination was ad- journed.

J Neath Colliery's Breach of Con- tract Case. At Neath, on Friday, the Main Coujery Co. stimmoned Thomas Joseph, and 49 others for breach of contracts, alleging the men absented themselves from December 19t' to January 11th. Mr. C. H. Kens- hole prosecuted, and Air. Ed. Powell de- fended. At the outlet Mr. Powell applied for an adjournment, saying that unless this case was settled summonses would be iesued against the companv claiming damages in the aggregate for £ 600. Mr. Richards, the aggregate for £600. Mr. Richards, M.P., and Mr. Onions intended conferring with the company to see if an amicable settlement was possible. Mr. Kenshole said these threatened proceedings had nothing to do with the present case at all- The magistrates, being informed that an ad- journment would not be likely to cqnduco towards peace, refused the The justices decided the cas-e should pro- ceed. Mr. Kenshole said that the Company claimed £3 from each man, making £150 in all; but the total loss to the Company was ;G 1,379 16s. 2d. Mr. Vaughan Price, ceneral manager of the company, and Mr. "Thos. James, man- ager of the colliery, I';aid the men in the Graigola. Seam were in no way affected by the differences between the employers and the men in the Victoria Seam, which differ- ences were submitted to arbitration. Mr. Powell sought to show that as the management had admitted that they could shift men from one seam to the other the workmen in the Graigola Scam were affected by the dispute in the Victoria Seam. "Both witnesses for the company stated that the men were shifted only by mutual arrange- ment. Eventually the magistrates considered t.he matter a difficult one to decide, and they intimated that they would give tbeir decis-! ion a fortnight henoa.

CANADA AND GREAT BRITAIN. Truth About Our Relations with the Dominion. I "It is viilmoat impasELble to tell the whole truth as a man sees it about any question in whiicii Ornada and Great Britain are jointly concerned (says a writer in the "Alior/ung Pc«s,t") without running serious ri.de of defeating the object which every honest- Briton 1ms at heart, namely th-J tightening of those hands which constitute the strengh of t be colonv and add enomiously to the power and prestige of the Mot-ber Country. Anything k.vb than tihe whole truth may h3 politic, but that is an aocurs-ed word, utterly 11 n-British a.nd responsible ff>r Itilf the trouble in the world. "But because it extremely hard for j.ny man to escape from the influx nee of hf., own environments, and to tell the truth untingvd by local prejudice, unwarped Uv political bias, it is necessary to warn any reader of this article that the writer of it Jus lived for nearly twenty yeare in Ccmada. and lias twice been chosen by t.ho Conserva- tives to contest for them a i'fX),t. in ths Dominion Commons. Ae against this fact let it b? remembered that the writer bar; always stood openly and avowedly as a Briton wiio puts the interests of the Empire before tlios»i j of any part of it, and then the chancier of the witness being known the value of his evidence may be weighed. "The question to be considered, put baldly, is; 'W7iat has been the effect Oil Camda of the War?' A dozen men chosen haphazard from among us would give as many different answers to this question, and every sinble one of thorn would be right, in part. Aly answer will be like th?j»s, and no more. Un- donbteclly the services referred to did not generate loyalty in Canada in Canada. So much at lcGst is sure. That loyalty was foil grown when the occasion for ito display arose and had already been proved on more than one occasion, and never more conclusively than during t.he Venezuelan, aff&ii. At that time Sir lliobert Tuppar, Alinister of Justice. and the Hon. W. H. Alontague, Secretary of State, bot.h in our Conservative Cabinet, ad- dressed a monster meeting in Montreal, and as on-? of them has admitted since they r.d- dre-3-sed it with sonne slight narvo<UKnass ar; to the probable temper of the people. Can- ada had no part in the quarrel then to the j fore exeunt as a- child of the Empke, and the audience to be addressed was perfectly aware of the complications which had arisen, be- tween Great Britain and the Staters, Montreal, the richcet. and most assaii.jMe city in Oan- ada, would be the first to suffer and would most severely. Sir Donald SaMtb was in the chair, hiineeif one of the richest men of Montreal, and hiis peers 1ll wealth were among the audiien.ee. and yet there was never any note of limitation from t^e owning to the close of that meeting. 'With an en- thusiasm which, as Sir HibBeri put. it, 'fairly lifted the ro>f the men of Alcntre-al declared their indention of standing by the Empire; and by that they meant war if their Alother Country could not obtain the fullest justice without it. "So it liats always been. The younger seas abroad have always been ready enough to fight from the time of the lTmted Empire 1 Loyaliiiie until to-dav, at least as rœch- as thsir elder brothers at home, in so much that any danger there may be to Erapire seems to he rauier in their readiness for an appeal to arms than in the possiibuity of their flinching from sacrifice. If loyalty was not the result cf Canada's service in South Airic.1. naither was her military spirit the result of episode in her history. As becomes her breed ohe hid both those iiintinets in the Great Rebel!ion and in rhe Venezuelan s.it;ur 1S0 she showed her national military Sjparit in the time of her Fenian trouble, in the sup- presfctam of the Riel rebellicn, said ltotabiy in her contribution of some thirty thou sand volantesrs to the forces engagsd in the Aden- can Civil War. In 1885 sne made eereiul offers of men and oiiicsrs for service in Egypt. These offers were declined. "If Canada's services in South Africa did inytihiag to affect the character of the Do- minion's people it was in the direction oi, removing a grievance, of affording a n-eoes- t>iry vent for her eager spiait, and of teaching her a valuable lessen. Canadians had voiuii leered lor Imperial service, imd hl4J., be^n diaippaintad in tJleir aaiibition to sesrve while a smaller colony had ohta.in:0fl tnte coveted honour. In 1899 her services were accepted, and the Mother Country acluxowledged th(.r \&liM) in most generoiis fashion. BritKili scldiets it is sometimef^ hinted thai for rKusons of policy those services were al- most too generously appreciated, tiiat the colonists ware made too much of, so that a danger arose of turning a young jiecple's head and of tilling its mind with an erroneous imipretasion that discipline and long training were of little value compared to t.ne magni- tioent raw material ajtd mother wit. of our colonial irregulars.. "Surely this is a mistaken visw. It may that the colonists saw with t.he clear eyes of bovs the red tape with which Great Britain's srong men axe sometime bound; tliat they were oocasionally lndiigniiit at tho folly of some voangster from the Militia; that having an experience of war lamiUxt to their own siiort and couiparat i vel y rastnobed share in it, they regarded the science of it from a narrow point of view, remembering tne sur- prises into which a bufihinan woula not. li t ve blundered and ovc>riooking the h-Ct that the Boers, the finest individual lighten, ever opposed to Great Britain, faaled just because, liaving no discipline, they could never take full advantage of tlieir successes; but the Canadiins at any rate canie back, as they state freely, ready at any t.m.e to serve agam under Imperial officers- "What better proof could the Canadians have given of their appi^^i3^^01} of tne \aluo of training a.nd of a reaJ soloier thaji they gave reoantlv in the cuciplorable Dundonald incidentv People a.t home cannot, of coume, realise the overpowerii"vg mauence of politics in every branch of m Canada, and there- fore they cannot estimate accuracy the, value of the demonstration m favour oi Lord LWonald aft^-r Iws dmmsual any more than they can appreciate the national and ^ver^i character of tlie h>ydtv which m 1899 a bled a Coneervative Opposition to forcethe J, m Ks (rtmk, u> ± U.' South Africa, j f2» '»»<• bought for Sir Wilfrid Laurier a continued lca^- of power at the late ele^f. ^uictanc- to troo™ to South Africa and his snare of re- epdSbiiitv foi" the DundoiuM uicident have neither been forgotten nor f«pen. "If tlie Britisii Jt rf"ws> which to us re- presents tlie people, was not .<;<> busy coining psaJme of pnuse for tne Premier wiio 150:, tried to throtU'3 Uvnaaian loyaltv to to ll oolleagne AL-. Tarte and "the | Frcnriimen who read La Patne pealms cf praise which used/umong the English-! sixiakLnz voters as to5timo.ni&:s m favour of tlie Liberals, nuSht, l^'l>iy. to-day be- ruled by the party %f}^\i<>rced blJ Wilfrid's hand in 1399. C"a-nad"'1- m <>r<ifr t-o euc- ceed in life, whettier you are a policeman or a colonel, you mast belong to the pirty in power. If' von e.o not, you will lose your job if you ever hold one; you certainly will never obtain one, however capable you may k0-'In spite of this doplomhle etat/? of affairs men of all pohtlCS, of f21 rank6 in life with everything to lose and nothing to gain, joined open.y m a demonstration which, while it bore .estimony to their re- gard for the genev* who wa.s going, con- demned as openly the irovernment under which tlie demonstrators had to .stay. Mon who had not learned o really value discipline and proper miliary training, of whicn Lord Dundondd was the advocate, ,youk> not. have taken this risk, ^ut «urely tW who sug- gest tliat our vounp solo;ers v ere somewtwt, spoiled bv an over-mdulgen.. >Ur.er Ooun-.ty are but iW coaches m the art of war. "Since th<e war a gieat wa,ve of sat.isi ed ambition has gone ai1- t-hrough our land. \\e wanted to prove ^-urselv'^ we wa_Tj;d to prove that we were chipw of cie u\>i llock. we were anoo.is tl..it the Mother Country wante<l iu> and thought- us worth having, wc .^lieve tlot the. e things have been to We cind not. go about the world reminding people, and especiallv cur dear ^der bra^rs wi-en thev came to visit, us, that we had produoed such men as >Tele»ns Giptam Hallowell, j Sir Provo Walli«. ^ia{ulor: ami 'Ohe&i- prake' fame, IcgHs, of Lucluwv or Fenwick Williama, of Karf, and a hundred others, but now, as the pooP'f s3,y> .Y^f, J\ave to'; ajid, natural vanity a hi-he pacified, our people have come back Irom their service more tolerant of the doar elder broLhers asrs. more proud of the mighty clan to which they IvdoaK, knowing of thetr own know- ledge t.hat our Ivondon is no small city and full of freshlv s>>\vii ideas which only need judioioue fostering to boar mifihiy fruit.

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SWANSEA HOUSING PROBLEM. How the Rates Affect the Rent. "Another rate has been put on us, and we must raise the rent," says the landlord. Quite a large number of him have oeetf making that remark. It's a rather good way of affixing responsibility. Individually, the Swansea County Council is palpably com- posed of mild-mannered, inoffensive persons, and, collectively, it's a good object to kick. Let us examine this thing quietly, and see how the rates really affect the rents. A real live councillor (a landlord himself) sheds illuminations on this point, which, on tb8 face of it, seems to have the effect of reoder- mg very precarious the landlord's plot. "Whatever other reason there may be fOIl th", increase, Tents ought not to go up on ac- count of the rates," the councillor emphatk caclly observed. "I'll give you an illustra- tion cr two from my own houses, and I harw a number." The councillor produoed assessment tables, and, having borrowed a pencil and a sheet of paper, proceeded to, as he put it, "work th. ttHlJg out" for the reporter. "The rise in the rate," said be, "bae not been more than Is. in the £ for the last ten years. For the last seven years you may take 8S'. in the £ as the mean; sixpenoe was added this year; the rate6 now stw>d at 8s. lOd "Take one of my houses. The rent is 4s. 6d. a week; the ratable value P,6 10s., At 8s. in the £ the rates would be Z2 12s., less compound of 30 per oeant., 15s. 'M.— -01 16s. txi. "Now one shilling in the £ increaeed rate on a ratable value of P,6 10s. would be equal to 6s. 6d., less 30 per oent. compound—4«. 4d. Thus the owner will have 4s 4d. more tc pay, which is just îd. per week. "The water rate remains untouched. "Or," continued the councillor, 7arming to his task, "take a non-com pounding c&ee. Above 5s. 6d. a week there's no compound- ing. A house at 6s. per week has a ratable value cf JE9. At 8s. in the £ the rates would be £ 3 12s. Say that the rates are a shil- ling more than the average of the last seven yeans, then the additional rate would be about equal to 2d. per week. "In the case where tenant pays rates, and repairs are done by the landlord (Table 4) with a house at, say, J620 rent per annum, the ratable value wou'd be JE16. At 8s. in the y'j tne rate6 would be x>6 8s. When an ex- tra shilling in rates is added, the difier^aoe would be only 16s., which is 4d. per week. "The summary is this," went on the coun- cillor,, rising from his figures, "that in the case of the 4s. 6d. rented house, the landlord pays Id. per week incrceased rates, or, in the non-compounding case, at 6s. a week he pays 2s. per week. "But we find that many owners rise .jeir rents by 6d. per week; this can only be justified in a house rated at j350 a year, Pad the rent of which would run to 18s. a. w^ek. "Or, to put it another way, to justify an increase of 6d. per week in rent, rates would need to rise by Ss. in the £ for the 4s. 6d. a week bouse, and by 4s. in the £ for the 6s. house I "There's no knowing what may happen, of course; but it's safe to say that such in- creases are not probable, especially with Mr. Livingston on hand." After some delicate persuasion %be land- lord admitted the palpable fact tliat if all rates were paid by the tenants, they would be less likely to show so utter an indifference as at present to the serious businesses with which they entrust the Corporation. It really looked as if this was a reform th3 worthy councillor did not very earnestly desire (?) It seems the rule is for the landlord to pay rates in all cases where l-ie ratable value is under £8, and in nearly all cases up to J616 if rent is paid weekly. Conversation on this matter with a gentle- man who had, in disgust, sold considerable property on Mount Pleasant, because it en- tailed endless worry and anxiety, and paid only 21 per cent., revealed the curious fact that increased rates meaps depreciation in the sellability of property, and, ae the con- verser put it, "What's the use of having property if you can't sell it when you want to?" Rather prettily and dramatically he then described the dialogue be tween wouki-be seller and buver. Buver "What's the ground rent? What a the rates?" Seller: "Oh, ro and so." Buyer: "Oh, good gracious! The rates are too high to buy at that price! I didn't allow for that rate!" "He won't buy. The house is left on your hands. You take it out of the tenant. "You are a reporter—have you ever at- tended property sales? Haven t you beard the auctioneer say, 'Now, gentlemen, this ia a good property to buy, of low ratable value.' Now why does he say that?" "I don't know," innocently admitted the reporter, and the dramatic one replied "Ah 1 because he knows he will get mora money for itl"

Swansea Wedding: Jones-New- combe. A very pretty wedding was witnessed at St. Paul s Congregational Church, Swansea, on Thursday morning, the contracting parties being Miss Bessie Jones, second daughter of Mr. and Airs. D. E. Jones, Bryn-y-Mc-r-road, and Mr. C. H. K. Newcoinbe, solicitor, Swansea. The bride looked charming in a dress of ivory crepe de chine over silk, and tulle veil over a wreath of orange blossom, and carried a beautiful shower bouquet. She was given away by her father, while the bridesmaid* were Aliss Rose Jones (sister of the bride), who were a cream voile dress and picture hat to match: and the Misses Irian and Dylys Nicholas (little daughters of the Rev. Ed. Nicholas), in white silk frocks and hatt, and carrying baskets of flowers. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Ed. Nicholas, while the duties of groomsman were carried out by Mr. Frank Newoombe (brother of the bridegroom). Subsequently a reception was held at the bride's home. The happy couple afterwards left for the west of England. The presents were numerous and costly. The flowers wera supplied by Mr. W. Newcombe, Hanover- street.

Swansea Lad's Alleged Ill-treat- meat, Mr. Edward Harris, solicitor, Swansea, is acting for the parents of the deceased 1..1 Gallivan, who is said to have been iIl- treated on board the Russian ship Hiram whilst on a voyage from Swansea to liini- dad, and inquiries go to show that the Board of Trade has as yet gone no further ilian to say that the complaints are having its attention. The interview, published in the "Daily Post." with Mr. Naerup has had a reassur- ing -effect, and the public are now inclined to agree with bun that the story originally published w«>* "highly coloured." Supt.. Téilf; of the Board of Trade. Swan- sea, knows nothing of the affair beyond the act. that the root tier of the lad called apsa him. When the Hiram is expected to reach Haniburg is not known in SwauMa. Till then no investigation can take plat*, and if it docs it will probably be through >.he foreign Office and the Russian Consul at Hamburg.

Swansea Board Resumes Sittings, Two More Licenses for Investiga- tion, Swansea Brewster Sessions were continued c- Friday the magistrates present being Mesars. Howel Watkins (in the chair), \v. Rees, W. Thomas, J. W. Jones, I1. Rocke, D. F berts, and W. Lewis, junr. CASE OF THE "ROYAL GEORGE." Mr. Horatio Watkins referred to the case of the Royal George beerhouse, Bond-street, which was referred to the compensation au- thority on Thursday. Mr. Watkill5 saad ho had other witnesses to call with regard to the necessity of the house.—Mr. Howel Watkins said Mr. Watkina vrould have an opportunity of placing the marker before the liceii ;;ng authority. RHYDDINGS HOTEL. A good ho us i doing a geed trade, was Capt. Colquhoun's observation regarding the Rhydciiagsj Hotel, licensee David Jarvis, of the ratable value of £70 (seven days). ■ The presiding magistrate said the land- lord had suggested minor alterations. A^r- Lleufer Tuomaa appeared for the licensee. BROOKLANDS HOTEL. The polico thought the sanitary arrango- Cionts of the Brooklands Hotel, Oxford- street, not so satisfactory as they might be. •—Capt. Colauboun stated that this seven days' license. or the ratable value of £120 (licensee, W. Evans) was useful,^and had proved eepeciaily so during the Bath and West Show.—Mr. R. Watkins thought the bottle and jug department should be more d: -net. "CALEDONIAN," WESTERN-STREET. It's only a cottage said Capt. Colquhoun, "With respect to the aledonian beer-tioiisd, Western-street (sis daye), the ratacle value of £2.5, tied to Messrs. Hancock and Co The licence is Richard Reynish. Ob- jection was taken to the back-door and it was mentioned there were other houses near ind four of the houses belonged to the same tcmpany.—Mr. R. Watkins also objected to the renewal.—The licensee said the trade was £8 a week and accommodation was pro- vided for visitors. "LORD NAPIER." Anothsr bix days' beerhouse, the Lord Napier, Western-street, also owned by Messrs. Ilaticock and Co. (for whom Messrs. B. F. Williams and Gaskell appeared) was Heart taken. The ratable value is £60 and the licensee, T. S. Beynon.—Capt. Colqu- hound did not think the house was required and when he went there the door leading into the lane was held up by an old poker against the wall. "You think none are requ>ed in this part of the world?" asked Mr; Williams. "Not in :his street," said the Chief Con- stable. Warrant Officer Davies said the premises had been improved. The licensee said the trade was £14 to JE15 a week. NEW OXFORD INN, OXFORD-STREET. With respect to the New Oxford Inn (six days) of the ratable value of £34, tied to Messrs. Crossvrell and Co.. Capt. Colqu- boun said the house was small with poor 6. jitary arrangements, NO OBJECTIONS. It was intdmated that theTe were no ob- jecti^-s to the following off-beer licenses, viz. Argyle-street, 81, Western-street, Low-■t Oxford-street. Brunswick-street, 87 and 88, St. Helen's-avenue, wine, spirits wd beer off in Han-cver-street. Mr. R. Wat. kins said lie objected to four other off licersas. The question of the renewal of the license of the Royal George was referred to the Compensation Authority, and that of the Vincent Inn was adjourned. All the others were renewed. There are eight other houses wichin one hundred yards, and he thought one house would do in place of the New Oxford, Builders' Arms, and Wyndham Arms. Mr. J. Viner Leader (for the owners) asked Mr. Watkins if there was not accom- modation for visitors. Mr. Watkins &aid they mignt take people m*Mr. Leeder: That is of your little jo1ies.. The license is one of MX days, is tied to Messrs. Hancock and Co., and the licensees is Edgar R. Rogers. The rateable value is £2ó. Mr. R. Watkins said there was another license in the same street, and alleged mueii of the business was canvassed for. He also nhiected to a bank of earth, which reduced the depth of th9 wall. The lam? lory told him he wanted the earth there to keep the tree alive. Mr. B. F. Williams; Otee of Wooaman, spare that tree." BUILDERS' ARMS. The Builders' Arms, Oxford street, has a seven days' liconse, of the rateable value of JS54, the licensee being Catherine Gra- ham. The house is tied to Messirs. Han- cock. "Two houses belonging to the same own- ers, and within 150 yards five houses be- longing to the same owners, said Captain Colquhoun. "The house might well be re- sommendcd to get some of Balfour's patent ioothing medicine." (Laughter.) Mr. B. F. Williams: What is that? Chief Constable: It is taken from the blood of licensed victuallers. (Laughter.) "You are getting allegorical now," said Mr Williams. Warrant Officer Davies, Inspector West, and Mr R- Watkins did not think the honsa Va\lrsCiThomas, daughter of the licensee, 6aid the takings averaged £ 10 or £ 12, ajid £ 20 in summer, and a numoer of people came from the country to visit the hospital °nWHYND ARMS, WHYNDHAM- STREET. The Whvudham Arms beer-house (seven dave\ tied to the Swansea Brewery, of the rateable value of £ 25, was next considered. Arthur Necrews is the licensee. Mr. J. Sankey, who did not cress-examine the police witnesses, said nothing had been said against the house. It had a good trade, was kept clean, and was m good condition The trade of the house was stated to le £ 12' LONGLANDS HOTEL. The Longlands Hotel (seven days), Rt. Helen's, was described as a very usefjl house." The rateable value is £ 165, the li- censee is John Evans, and the house is free. "A good and useful house," said the Thief Constable. WE ST BOURNE HOTEL. The Westbourne Hotel, Hospital-square, is also a seven days' licence, and is free. The rateable value is £160, and Mr. T. H. Cheetham the licensee. The Chief Constable spoke in similar 'SBVN^IOTHOTEL. The licensee of th3 Brynymor Hotel, Rrvnymor-road (seven days) is Samuel Dark, wd the rateable value of this free house is t'nc, There was no objection. DU KE-STREET OF F-LICENSE. fh, wine, spirit, and off-license, Duke- Ireet was objected to by Mr. Watkins on he fround of being used for bottle and jug ousincss," which was simply a htore. The license, said Mr. Watkms, was never in- tended' for that. There wers two other, brewery companies who neld similar licenses, w who did not supply small quantities off. Tha licensee is ^i>u?U1'-€n' arK* tiie rateable value is ^43. The license is six ^Mr. Watkins said the premises were tjn- ""tLq Chief Constable thought the house a &sef"11 one. nr Mr. H. Watkins said for the past 15 years it ''a-' been carried on under the present conditions. It was stated the family traac averaged 030 a week. bottle and jug trade ivtftaged £10 or £12 a week. DECISIONS. After lunch, the Chairman announced that Lce. _6 heaH that morning were "rantol with the exception of the Caledon- ian beerhouse, Western-etreet, and the New Oxford, Oxford-street, which would be re- ferred to the compensation authority. BRUNSWICK INN. There was IJ0 objection to the Brunswick (n. Puke-etreet (six days, tied to Messrs. Hancock and Co. The licensee is Mr Ct. S. ore mi, and tho rateable value JB36. 5T. GEORGE'S HOTEL, WALTER-ROAD Thifi is a six davs' license and the ratable I value is £100. Mr. H. Leakey is the li- censee, and the house is tied to Messrs. Robertson, Burton. The Chief Constable did not think the house required. There were three other ho!wwithin 100 yards, and although it was called a hotel ho did not see any signs of food or beds. Mr. L :son (for the applicant) You pass this Lke the Levite, on the other side. (Laughter.) The Chief Constable: I pass by the doors. You don't go inside?—I have been in. For a friend?—Yes, not for drink myself. (Laughter.) By Aft. Viner Leeder (for the owners): He believed none of the houses paid very well in that road. The magistrates granted a license near there 16 years ago, and fit must have ueen required. He did not think the house wanted. He would not call it structurally deficient, but it wanted repair- ir*' ?rd cieanly papered and white-washed. I Mr. Leeder Don't you know some of the grand old boys prefer a house without un- comfortable swager. The Chief Constable thought people liked to co into -<■ clean house. Mr. I ceder suggested that perhaps there were people whom the witness more re- specf," j than himseL went there. The captain replied smiling that he could not admit that. Warrant Officer Davies said the back want-ed paving. Mr. Leeder You want it paved? Witness: It is not for me to say.—Then why grumble? Inspector Gill thought the trade better since the present tenant went in. He thougnt the trade was picking up. 'ur. Leyson: Perfectly correct. (Laugh- ter.) J v Inspector West did not think the house was wanted, and in this Inspector Nicholas agreed. Mr. R. Watkins thought the house struc- turally unsuitable. "There is no call in the neighbourhood for beer and skittles." Mr. H. Leakey said the takings were be- tween £16 and J318 a week. Mr. E. Leeder sa.id the house was the oldest in Walter-road, ani on that side was the only licensed house from High-street to Sketty. He would undertake that necessary repairing notices should be served in a week. Mr. W. Hughes and other witnesses gave evidence ar. to the necessity of the house. TENBY HOTEL (SEVEN DAYS). A good house pnd well kept, was said in I regard to the Tenby,' Walter-read, of the rateable value of £4aa. WHITE ROSE (SIX DAYS). 1 This house is assessed at JE82, and is tied to the Swansea United Brewery Captain Colquhoun objected to the sani- tary arrangements. Mr. J. Sankey undertook this work should be done. NO OPPOSITION. TheM was no objection to the off-license I nf of the rateable value of £ 42, and tied to W. J. Rogers. UPLANDS HOTEL. Ints hotel has a .six days' license, and is tied to Worthington and Co. Thos. Cham- bers is the licensee, and the rateable value is £13D. Captain Colquhoun said there was a pri- vate passage at the side, and the difficulty v. as if a drunken man tvas there, on whose property was !ie? Mr. Leyson (for the applicant): Yours. (Laughter.) 'Unsuitable and unneoeasarv," r-amark^d Mr. R. Watkins. CRICKETERS' HOTEL. Good and useful house, though the sani- tary arrangements are not quite sufficient. Mr. B. F. Williams said if the bench wished, it should bo done. The rateable value of ths house is JB120, and it is tied to Messrs. Hancock. Sophia Williams is the licensee. PENMAEN-TERRACE OFF-LICENSE. Mr. R. Watkins objected to the renewal, on account of there being 20 steps in front a.nd 29 at tho back. I The rateable value is £21, the licensee J. Thomson, and it is tied to Messrs. Hancock and Co. OTHER HOUSES. The renewals of the Mountain Dew, Wat- kin-street off-license, and Farmers' Arms, Gibbertt Hill-road, and Manual-street off- license were then dealt with fhori.lv. DECISIONS. After retiring the ChairJnan intimated that all the licenses heard after lunch would be renewed, the Royal George, Walter-road conditiona! upon the place being; put in pro- per order (Air. Viner Leeder gave the assur- ance), and subject to the sanitary arrange- ments at the Uplands Hotel. This concluded the heading of the 92 cases in the selected area, and tho nett result is that seven licenses have been refused and eight referred to the Compensation Commit- tee.

Swansea Painter's Failure. At Swansea Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, Thomas Henry Foy, painter and decorator, of 4, Plymouth-street, came into court with nett liabilities a.t JB182 19s. 5d., of which JH143 2s. lid. represented the deficiency. "Bad trade and bad debts" were the causes assigned for the failure, and debtor admitted that he commenced business in Swansea 17 years ago without capital, and in November, 1887, he was adjudged bankrupt in the Car- marthen Court. His liabilities at that time amounted to i;127 13s. 4d., and a dividend of Is. lCd. in the £ was then paid. From that bankruptcy he was still undischarged. He lost money on contracts at the Colisseum and Sailors' Home. He told Messrs. Clarke and Dovey that In had "a splendid stock," but had no intention of misleading, but he never said that he had "a nice house of furni- ture" as that belonged .0 his wife. He knew he was insolvent six months afro, but thought he woull pick himself up. The only debt over J320 was to his landlord for rent, but he did not think it necessary that ho should tell his landlord that he was an undischarged bankrupt. Official Receiver A serious thing for you. The examination was closed.

.W Municipal Pure Milk Supply." A "Municipal Pure Milk Supply" has beeai raided before the Swansea Council once or twice, but has usually been relegated again to the Limbo of forgotten thifllglS. Saves" the "Hcispital" on the question:—■ "The advice of Dr. G. F. AleCteary in his address to the Association of Mcdical "Officers of Health on 'Reform of the Milk Supply' will do-ubblesjs commend iteerf to thcee who bevieve in the policy of 'thorough' as well as td adherents of the doctrine that those who with a thing- well done must do it themee-ives. In a word Dr. AIcGlery's oonrduokm is that if towns want pure milk they must get it for themselvcG instead of depending on outside bodies to get it for them. To this the critics cf the municipal trading' will doubtless have something to say, yet it cannot bo denied that pure milk is as necessary to the public health as pure water, and even more neces- sary than electric tramways. Under exist- ing arrangements official control comes unto operation too Late in the day. Mjik or other food stuff may be inspected on its a-rriv al in our large towns, but. the sources of siipply are for the most pa.rt outside the municipal authority. "And 'it is here that the most serious rusks are encountered. What is to be desired i. first, prevention of pollutioji at the source of supply secondly, protection from the risk of contamination "during transit and distribu- tion; and thirdly, sale of milk at a uost which makes it obtainable by tiie poorer members of the. community. What io wanted is such a continuous control ill) will secure distribution of the milk in the pure stete it is yielded by healthy axid well-kept oow«: Poeeibly thai; is attained in some eases by private'enterprise, but. even when well organ- ised this, as a recent ca.e in th ? Law Courts has shown, nitty fail of sueoess. Official authority if properly <s.up<ported would, it is urged, prove more effective. That its adop- tion should !>e urged by those whose work introduces them to the private and public mischiefs which follow th? introduction of impure milk into a community is not without i significance. The question is a practical one. and is not to bo decided by appoa.ls to economic theory.

Welsh Education Conference in London. I A private conference on the. educational situation in Wales wa.s held at the West- minster Palace Hotel, London, on Friday, amongst those present being the Bishops of St. Acaph, St. David's and Bangor, Sir John Williams, Lord Kenyon, Mr. Brvnrnor Jones and others. No definite decision was arrived at but there was marked good feeling throughout.

BEAUFORT FAILURE. Details of the Net Losses Required At the Swansea Bankruptcy Court on Fri- day, before Mr. Registrar S. Home, the ex- amination in re the Beaufort Tinplate Works' iailure was resumed, Air. Daniel Phillips being the admitted partner in the concern. Air. J. C. Woods (who had been appearing for Mr. David Roberts, the trustee) was un- able to be present; Mr. Rupert Lewis repre- sented the Beaufort Tinplate Company, and Air. David Harris acted for Air. Daniel Phil- lips. In view of the absence of Mr. Woods, the trustee intimated that he should ask for a further adjournment. Mr. Lewis obtained from Mr. Phillips an explanation of a discrepancy between the date of a loan, for £69123 7d on the part of a clerk named Jones and the bill stamp by saving that the bill was postponed in order to carry interest. The loan, however, went through the books at the time, and the pay- ing in slip for the bank was produced. The Official Receiver said that the defi- ciency" account showed a net lose from Decem- ber, 1901, to the date of the receiving order of £.31,075, but the particulars of that had not been supplied. Debtor I could net answer exactly how it was lost. The Ofhciai Receiver: No. but you have been asked for a statement showing how t-his ligure has been arrived at. The examination was again adjourned.

TELEPHONE AGREEMENT. Post Office Comes to Terms with the N.T.C. An important document containing terms of an agreement between the Post. Office and the National Telephone Company, by which the agreement ol 1901 is extended till 1911, was issued on Thursday. In an accompanying memorandum, Lord Stanley, the Postmaster-Generai, states that, on December .31, 1911, the National Tele- phone Company's system throughout the country will be taken over fy the Govern- ment. The terms on which the property of the The terms on which the property of the company is to be purchased Ùe as fodows :— (1) No payment to be made for goodwill j or profits, except- in the case of the private wire business A the company, for which the Post Office license is not required. (2) The plant to be acquired at its work- ing value, on "tramways terms. (3) Three-fourths or, ll the company is willing, the whole of the purchase money can be paid in annuities, which are not to run more than twenty years. It is stipulated that so long as the com- pany's license remains in forte intercom- munication without charge ic to be allowed between the company's, and the Post Otuce system, and no preference or favour to be shown to the company's subscribers. SWANSEA'S POSinOiN. For the present it is difficult to say whe- ther the Swansea Corporation service will be placed in the Game position as the Na- tional For the present the Government proposal is to buy up the National service, under ordinary conditions tne general license of the latter expires in 1911, but in eases where local authorities have set up a rival system, the National Company have secured extended licenses. In Swansea the company's license is co-terminus with the license granted by the Postmaster-General u the Corporation, and expires m 1920. The action pending again;t the comply on the intercommunication question is not affected by the Government proposals.

BEVOLYER AFFRAY IN BRISTOL. Swansea Man Arrested: Further Details. Regarding th». shooting fracas at Bristol, for which a Swansea man, Charles Richard Vale, has been arrested for attempting to murder William Wilson, an eye- witness gives a thrilldng account of the affray. She says that Vale and Wil- son, together with a young woman, were engaged in conversation at the corner of Alfred-street, when suddenly Wilson caught the young woman by the hand and tried to get her to his home, No. 35, Alfred-street, at the same time calling out, "Run, quick, quick, police," or words very similar. When they had gone about 40 or 50 yards, and were still three doors from Wilson's hmsø. Vale, who was following, Ó6 alleged to have fired the first shot. He was ch.jn standing by trie side of a general dealer's shop, and Wilson and the young womn were at the main entrance.. The -hop- keeper s wife, who was in the doorway, saw a flash pass, and thinks it was this sh jt which inflicted the wound, because Wnlson immediately turned on his assailant, *• h0, before pulling the trigger, shouted, "N'-v.. now, now!" and closed with him, Kf ¡ falling to the ground. It was whilst t' ty were there that the second shot was fired, the bullet narrowing missing the shop- keeper's wife and embedding itself in the keeper's wife and embedding itself in the doorpost. Thoy continued to struggle fiercely, Wilson, apparently, with the ob- ject of gam ug possession of the revolver, and, although he was bleeding profusely from the neis, he succeeded in forcing Vahj to take to tbe side door, where a report was heard foi a third time, and where marks of blood were still observable en Thursday. Here another man, who had I come up, wrested the revolver from VaJe, who stood awaiting the arrival of the poidce, whilst Wilson walked about calling for someona to fetch a doctor. Then Wilson was taken to the infirmary, and Vale, who is a, married n'an, into custody. SOSlE ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF INTEREST. In connection with the story surrounding V ale s connections with the young woman <wm he is sa.id to have wronged in Bristol, jt is asserted that when slit was in Swansea last week he tirployed two women, who not cniy threw the letter from the accused into cniy threw the letter from the accused into mourning coach in which she was riding, u*^ had previously endeavoured to get the undertaker to deliver the letter. On the day c'] L-o funeral they also had the little child ^he :nti:nacy at the cemetery with them. Ihe Ciiiid is now about four veal's of age. -NO reason is assigned for Vale tendering his rasigoation at the Morfa Works.

ATTACK ON WELSH PLAYERS. Welsh Committee to Ignore the Charges. At Thursday evening's meeting of the jvelah Union Committee, a letter was read front the president of the Union, Sir John T. D. Llewelyn, relative to the damaging allega- tions made respecting the conduct of Welsh players in the Liverieith match. Sir John referred to the newspaper interview with the referee, in the course of which the latter had in effect stated that there was no justification lor the charges made against "the Welsh piayers by a correspondent who had signed II 'nmself "Grey Stewart" and others. In the circumstances Sir John asked tho committee to consider the expediency of obtaining from the referee an ofhciai statement on the sub- let, a^nd also of inviting an expression of °pinion from the Scotch Union. For if any Welsh player did misbehave, it was <hc duty r>f the committee to take cognizance of 'He fact: whilst on the other hand false charges as these seemed to be should be ^alt with and refuted. After discussion, in W"hich expressions of appreciation of Sir John's letter were given, the c-mmittee de- cided to take no action on the ground that n^t a single one of the allegations had an official source, or hrd been supported by any one identified with the Scotch Unipn. Con- Seduentlv it was deemed the more dignified course to ignore them altogether. 0

HONEST TRADING AT SWANSEA. Receiver and Creditors' Trustee Compliment Bankrupts. At the Swansea Bankruptcy Court on Friday (before Air. Registrar Home). In James Fursland ana Wm. JJ. Davies, trading as "Fursland, Davies and Co. of Alexandra-road, lately carrying on business at 23, High-street, cycle agents and dealers in india-rubber goods, debtors came into court- with gross liabilities amounting to £ 1,835 17s. 5d., of which £ 1,873 lie? 5d. is expected to rank assets, J81,054 Os. lOd. leaving a deficiency cf JE;819 10s. 7d. "Bad trade, heavy trade expenses, and want of I capital" were the causes assigned for the bankruptcy. Debtors commenced business in October, 1901, they told the Official Receiver, in partnership with a. Mr. E. Slocombc, Furs- land putting £&00 onto it, Davies £80, and Slocombe nothing. The last named died in September, 1904', and the business was af- terwards transferred to Alexandra-road. Asked whore he had the £ 500 from, Furs- land said that he had £ 900 in Anderson and Cox, the Ri-iondda and Swansea Bay Rail- way, and the Swansea i inance Co. shares. Official Receiver Of your own savings?— Yes. Receiver: And now all gone?— Every penny of it. Debtor explained that ho was for years manager f Alessrs. Anderson and Cox, whnlst Davies wa<s their representative. Official Receiver Was this started as an opposition business?—Yes. ^urther questioned, debtor said the move was made into Alexaudra-road in order to save rent"and rates. The Official Receiver observed, "Verv good of you," and at the close said it was a satisfactory case, as debtons had brought into court a large sum of money, ajid had not, lcke most debtors, he was sorry to say, who came into that court, divested them- selves of all their asserts. Mr John F. Harvey, the trustee, endorsed the Official Receiver's remarks,, and said he wr. authorised by the creditors to say they regretted debtors' position. The examination was closed at once. icisj ni 9

Evan Roberts in the Avon Vail ey Mr. Evan Roberts opened his mission in the Avon Valley on Friday at Cymmer, in Hebron Chapel- A large number of visitors from all parts of the country were in evidence at the after- noon meeting, the attendance including about a score of ministers and clergymen. Mr. Roberts was accompanied by Miss Mag- gie Davies, Miss Annie Davies, and Miss S. A Jones. Prior to their arrival the meet- ing d proceeded beautifully at length, the tinging being particularly effective. A woman read the second chapter of Acts, giving an account of the Pentecostal dowepouring, with remarkable expressive- ness. And her accomplished execution gave quite a tone to the suosequent portion of I thes meeting. A good deal of beautiful singing marked the opening stages of the proceedings. An Englishman onoa seemed to think there was too much singing, and when the I people were giving an impressive rendering of "Wrth gofio'i riddfanau n yr ardd" ("Re- membering the agonies of the garden"), he interposed, but Mr. Koberta quietly re- m. d, 'Sting on, friends." The Englishman, however, persisted, and eventually obtained the mastery, "I have come here to see the Saviour," was his re- mark. The missioner was at once on his feet. "Did you understand the Welsh hymn, I' friend?" he queried, and the Englishman replie' in the negative. "Well, then," rejoined Mr. Roberts, in a kindly, but firm tone, "you sat down, please." "Sing on, friends." he added to t! congregation; "that (referring to the hymn) is the most Divine thing we have."

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-k Swansea Chupch Conversazione. One of th.3 most successful conversaziones in connection with local Church work this year was that of Holy Trinity, Swansea, held on Thursday evening, in the Albert Hall. The room, resplendent with decorations in cheery shades of muslin, and a choice selec- tion of palms and plants, held as many, if n°t more, people than on previous years, i he. tablee, all presenting a. bright and dainty ap- pea ranee, were wall arranged. The tea, which was very well catered for, was rcn- dercd doublv enjoyable by the charming, selections played by Air. Hulley's Band dur- ing the time it was being partaken of. The ladies, who presided at the tables were Mrs. Last, Mrs. Herschel Jones, Mrs. John White, Ntis, Symons, Miss Cook, Miss Nash, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Sydney Davies, Mrs. Goodhall, Airs. James Jenkins, Miss Down, Miss Thomas, and Aliss Highmorc. After tea a miscellaneous ooneoot was greatly en joy ad. b Great credit is due to Mr. Beddoes Nash, who, as secretary, was responsible for the arrang*emen l s. Those who acted as stewards were Messrs. J. Johns. Jas. Jen- kins, Andrew Mattey, and R. J. Evans, who with a few others were untiring in their efforts. The event was the most successful that has been held for years in connection with the parish.

r- Swansea Bankrupt s "Unsatis- factory Case." At Swansea Bankruptcy Court on Friday, before Mr. S. Home, L.L.B., registrar, in re S. Aiendelssohn, draper, Page-street, debtor could only explain the disappearance of a-ssets of about £ 4(X) by saying that it must have gone in medical and other expenseis con- sequent on his having to go into a sanatorium. Questions were put to debtor of conversa- tions made to creditors as to his financial position, but in one case he cienied that ever such a conversation was made, and in another that he did not remember. '> The Registrar: All this-is imaginary. Debtor: It may be so. Further examined, debtor was told bv the Official Receiver that it was dishonest of him to realise his assets at a sacrifice to pay per- sonal bills.. Debtor: When a man is ill, he tries get l>etter. Official Receiver Not at the expense other people. It is seldom we have m tus court a case whore a man so recklessly -pe his creditors' money on hirrwe.lf. ^ou admit in your deficiencv account £ 115 of -vfur crcri-" to & money by'staying at a sariatonum at Sandgate, a. voyage to America, and doctor 6 bills'! Debtor: Yes. 6ir. Asked if be could justify that, ueb or re- peated that he thought he would get better. The Rfigistrar charactenseo it at, an uu. satisfactory case, and adjourned it sine die. Mr. Edward Harris appeared lor the debtor.

Banquet to Sir Griffith Thomas. The date of the public banqUot to gjr .l C a r Griffith Thomas, ex-Mayor ot Swansea, has been fixed for Thursday, Alarch 16th, at the Hotel Metropole- The price of the tickets will be 7s.'6d. each, and they will be allotted in the order appli- cations are received.

The niagnificent French liner, x\miral Tal- landouae de Lamorraix li^ |n the East Dock,, Swansea, discharging copper bars and matte, from South America. She carries some 8,009 tons, and is pro- bably the largest French vessel to enter the bably the largest French vessel to enter the nort.

r __n COINCIDENCES IN MUSIC. Composers Who Resurrect For- gotten Airs. M>asiaa (Port Talbot) writes :—"Yaar xIf note on "Bluebell'' and the origm °! l^put'T tort are-chamber leads me to r^irnn A our readers tltat the history of music H (j|, thesxj ooj,nckle«oas and recurrences. ,11^. 16 a v*ulSvlJ- iiamemor^bie air of )N iit„ie eafl' tares, and we need not end of its day, but other over- "g, o,e«-iK.r<j4«ned, or over-shouted ball-ads hay fc, cojorved a Ix-Wer f3,te. The old Chnat y *V tlKl^ boots aaie full of geme of simple meiodv, m<>t of them founded on old English a!f • OI,Rom- <rf the.-e old ^ngs htn tree.ted m a line singer is reonarkabJe. I hcurd thet late Alme. ilelie Cbk for tlie hrst time shortly atter she came to this cooni-ry. When ahe hnd charmed a large and critioal aucbenoe, with her euparb singmg of "Ent-reat me- not to leave thae," she gave a.s an encore •Gemvieve.' I had never heard the song before, and it ttraek me as parti- cularly melpdaous, with just that haunting refrain which lingers long in the memory. With the gifted singer's beautiful velvety I voice and delightful style, the simple song .sounded like the work of some great ballad- writer. Next day I aisked Alme. Cole vhere she had g'Jt the song, and srie told me it was an Cold iiiin«?ta^; eong stie had known for ycxre. Certainly site made the s.oog iier owii; no one saaj it at all so well. I decided to got 'Geniv'.ove' for a friend who vsi'ied things of the kind. It took some hunting, but eventually, in a mu/iic shop, where there were piles of old. song booss I found 'Genivieve' in 'No. 2 Aloliiiwk Alinstrel Song Book.' published quite thirty years before. The ft&rig Iras cf course been re-written, I think, by Stephen Adams. l'hat particular voce! infliction of the South African war time 'Break the News to Mother,' was< tounded on an air of Rossini's. Touching this same ballad, a street singer used, with ghastly appropriateness, to select it, as a parting song to transports leaving for the .veai of war. Afojfc of tlie Tommies f^OMEed to like it, and it- iisuaUy brought a c-howt'.r of coppers to the wharf. But tlib song, common wrenched thing as it was in sentiment, how it used to strike human cords that tluobbed with pain! On board the transports I bid a foil opportunity to cjb- tcrve the effeict. I remembLT well oise day during this di&mal jx^rfonnance I saw a young officer, the merest bov. turn away from the tnde of the ship "witTi tears on his fat* and an expression of piin that m-as utterly piti.'s-ble. Ala*! poor iad, he never came home but lay down to his last long rest on honour's goiy bed, where so many the land's high hearts are (sleepMng. I said to the pavement prima doant witli tlue brassy voice—it was 'the voice of the siren' as it is Heard on foggy coasts—'Why do you sing Gueh things ab that to men going to war ? Why not tiing some.thing cheerful ?' She answered 'Oh, they like it; if they didn't they vv:<uld net chiich so many coppers, would they?' I can only suppose she thought they regarded it as 'Tony Lumpkin's female relatives regarded the novel 'the more it made them cry the mors they liked it.' But the signs of anguish I 6aw on more than one occasion, made me vv.ii the ballad-bellowcr had a trifle more tact- and less lung. "As to the 'oog»3' of noiabLe coonpopers, •t i& quite conceivable that- these men may unccnDciously repeat some ether composer's work. A bu.sy musician who hears much music, a great deal of it quite out of the way. may have some odd bits stored up a long time in the recesses of his memory. These he bring* out in his own work years after be hus hoard them, and he honestly believes they are the inspirations of his own genius. It will be very readily admitted that the iate Sir Arthur Sullivan was a genius,, whose work was quite original and entity admirable; yet it is asserted that ha nad his to, of unconscious recurrence. Al- though there is a 'Lost Chord' in his own compositions, it is possible Sir Arthur may have uncontioioitsiy fcxind chords belonging to other people, if we play over a little impromptu by Schoalofif called 'C'Miadence.' ¡ we shall t-hink of certain passages of the '?'1ik,ado,' composed long after Sdhowloff's work. Some maricims say that the 'Police- man't; Chorus' in 'The Pirates.' and th:1 anvil chorus' in 'Trovatorf;' are not (tempo apart) without a certain familv likeness I know one work crf Chopin's, the Ballade in F rnapr (op c8). which seems to me to SU(Y, gest the sestet in 'Patience.' Alany other [-In]ong rimilirities have been noted', but I do not rom ember them at the moment,. The&e cvn only have been suggestions conveyed in the coincidental v.av I have alluded to, a trick of nteinorry and not a deliberate crib. Of course, when one hears. 'Afartha' for the fimt time one is qui.te knocked over by the nr?t 1-a.rs of 'The Laet Rooe of Suiprrer until it is found fliit there ifi no attempt at a crib, and that Flotow put. the melody into his opera and acknowledged the source of the added beauty. One particular air in a eae- oes^-fu! light opera by a friend gTei.tly puzzled me till the next- time I heard the music of 'the Daughter of the Regiment- and then T ceafad to wonder: tlie air smote my ear like a rrusieal slodge-hammeT. "W'a.t may well strike anyone as most. marvelious in music is that such an enor- monns mim-ber of cha,nges have been rung on the few mtes that form the ground-work of music; it nny well be regardsd as one of the wonders of t.he world. It is surprising that repetitions uiK'onscious-lv occur? There are, of course, quite a number of 'oompoeers, ba.i-rpnbri.ined and impudent, who quite rooUv adopt the offspring of other men s bnains and bring them up—or out as taeir 0"\vn: and seme of th-ero do it so cie\erly tba 1 thev are not d^ectod by the genetral public. In the 'Infel!'no of musicians cribbers should be condemned to play the cribbed airs perpetually on broken-winded barrel organs!"

=- I Swansea Valley Pit Incident. A journey of six full tranis was being landed at the mouth of Ynisc^dwvn Drift, Swansea Valley on Friday afternoon, when on.. "nhitchcd it by gome means ran wi.e y ack down the drift, becoming a wreck one hunctroo yards below, and causing a fall that stopped about 500 men from com- mg out that way. The workmen were able to reach the sur- -ace safely through the return airway and up cast pit, and no one was injured. A collier lad walking up, about ten yards below, narrowly escaped. Work was not expected to be interrupted 1 long.

-¡ Swansea Metropole Hotel Dividend The report of the directors cf the Swan- sea Hotel Co., Ltd., owners of the Hotel Aletropole, shows an expenditure last year on capita! of £ 66,114 IQs. Id., and a net profit on the year's working of J33,920 145 lid., from which has to be deducted interest on Debentures, JB2,025, which has beey paid, leaving with the balance of £ 175 lis. 6d from last account, and deducting interim dividend of 5 per cent. per annum paid to 50th June, 1904, £ 1,524 8s. lid. available fo" dividend. Out of this amount tne directors recom- mend that 5 per cent. be written off cost of turniture, and 10 per cent, off carpets, ab- sorbing £ 3S4 16s. 8d., that -0131 9s. 6d. be I I written off the preliminary expen&es, and that a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half- vear be paid on Preference and Ordinary shares, carrying forward the balance of £ 461 5s. Sd. subject to directors' fees.

"There never was n ti.vn^ in the history cf the Dominion when the Mother Country had a. better chance of cvjiksolidating that union jwith thi« oi>lony which she is supposed to desire, and yet sometimes, in spite of official gt:o;h. the people wonder whether they really know what .t,rigla.itrl wants. Does she prefer a pOOlr and someÛmes troublesome daughter 'in elrq, to a rich and friendly son-in-law 'in jWQse?' l>ce.s ehe want to keep Canada at all ccsts, or ar? thefre anv terms on which «lie would be glad to «e' Canada wed with Uncle Jonathan" That match will never i^lre place, .say the Canadians; but if Great Britain docs not wish it, why does she keep hammerirg at Canada about Canada's neglect- to contribute towards the defence of the of the Empire; why does she withdraw her ships from either coast as it is rumoured that she ie about to withdraw her soldiers.? Ca.n it be that t'his is the retcrt, courteous to her loved Sir Wilfrid's refusal to contribute to- wards the defente of the Empire? Docs she pit him on t-hd back with one liand and slap our faello with the other? Ilsti uhe forgotten that there are Britons as well as Frenchmen in the Dominion, Frenchmen who manage to swing the elections here, but who know full well how completely they wo.uld be, merged and obliterated' if tliey went over to the States ? "I am writing, it is true, from the meet British portion of Canada, but the bitterness which will be felt here is that the little leaven of old country soldiers and sailors to be withdrawn from our midst will require all the loyalty to balance it which made old men and boys volunteer 'en masse when England wanted them. Great Britain has a grievance agadnet Canada, in that Canada contributes nothing towards the Xavy which protects the Empire. But the Conservative Party in Canada has the seme grievance, I understand, against the party whose leader committed Canada to this petition, thoiigb even the Conserva- tives may differ -considerably as to the way in which Canada's contribution should be made, and may demur altogether to such sweeping afrsertions as have been made re- cently in British papers. "Canadians hold that they have contributed towards the defensive measures of Empire. It was Sir John Colomb himself who spoke of the Canadian Pacific Railway 26 '3, work of imme:nf«e value in warMr. Austen Chamber- lain, who in the Commons described the P.e02itl-c cable as 'a, great Imperial undertaking of strategic importance,' a London jour- nal, which spoke of our men as 'a, reserve of Etiemgth for the. Afother Country.' But above all t hie. we know, whe^t Gro^t Britain wiU not recognise, that. as compared with the vast country we are trying to develop for the Empire we are a beggarly, poor people at present, and the writer know? well that there are intensely loyal Canadians who are as anxious as any Briton to see the States come back int. ottie Anglo-Saxon fold, who equirm sometimes at the attitude in which Gresfc Britain courts them; Canadians who sorted under the admiinistra-tion of the Behiing Sea avrard. who thank God that they do not contribute towards tlie mainten- ance of the sealing patrol, who are not jubil- ant over all the incidents connected with the ATiskan boundary arbitration, who cannot believe tha.t it is better that tlie British postal department e-hould make a few extra dollars than that, the education of Canada should be undertaken by British, rath r than by American magazines, and who yet would gj;idly listen to any scheme in which tbeir money eoud be iros-t profitably spent for defence of that Empire to which they are so proud to belong. "If Great BriUiin is in earnest in her reside to hold on to her colony it. f-hbuld be worth her while to try to understand Ca.n.- adian politics or to refrain from showing any partisanship in caimcctio-n with them. a.nd getlemnen who compute orur contributions to Empire might remember Out the most tax-ed n~1a.11. of all is he who, having borrowed on his Britifh property to invest money in build- ing up another annexe of Empire, ha« to pay taxes on tlie i^aine capital in the two places."