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WEEK BY WEEK. -^Iwysifem will shortly open a commodious mission -cl"*irc'i in the rapidly- jro wing district. cf Senghenydd. I KiHffoGeoijja Il. put the Prince of Wales feathery on, ha silver coins to> denote that the metal of which they weva made was from the Welsh mines. W& understand that the Bishop of Llandaff h&sofftfeftlhe living of Heur-de-lrc to the Rev. T. Ed wards, curate of BadwM, so that he will not ga to Llanferres, in the Diocese of St. Asaph; "Sfter all. So JcWiy Welshmen, 6tate« the "London Celt,0 nave settled down recently in Chancery- lane, London, and among them the "Bonesig" Eluned, from Patagonia, that the famous street is, now called "The Welsh colony." To-day is the centenary of the landing of the Fretich at Woodick, near Fishguard. The EVENT WJII be celebrated with much eclaffc by the great grandsons and granddaughters of the met and women who outwitted the Gauls on that occasion. A number of furnaces and twenty tin-plate nsl^'it vigorous action in the Briton Ferry dyrtrict cwitrast very forcibly with a descrip- tion of the place in 1804, beginning with- the calm retreat and refreshing shades of Briton Fonry Dr. Joseph Parry says he has discovered a perfefet prodigy of a pianoforte player in Mr. A. M. Setter, a young man from the Rhond-da Valley. Mr. Setter will play Bach's chromatic Fantaesiain D. Minor at the last of the doctor's lecture^ at Cardiff on Monday night. It is not often Welsh bards are sent to penal servitude. On-. of the tribe, however, had the misfortune of being sent to Van Dieman's Land. He was one David Daviez, better known as "Da-i'r Cantwr," from his work of sincing ballade; in fairs. "Dai" wiote several ballads in dursuoe vile. A curate coming down Pervlan hill the other t^a*v mgt by J an aged irishwoman, who fortbwi+h went on her knees and asked for his reverence's blessing. I am not of your faith, my-gnod woman." said the curate, kindly. "Had cem to ye for bein' desateful," said the old woman, petting up angrily. A fine founding is being erected on the Bangor- road. rear the railway station, at Carnarvon, u ni'-j, wheri completed. will be the book were- house of the Welsh Calvinistio Methodists, for supplying the Churches and members of the connexion with denominational literature and other pubUcatiome. The manager will be the Rev. D. O'Brien Owen. The bnnch of vacancies caused at Llaneljv by the dAILth of Mr. John Jennings are being gradually filled up. The clerk to the magis- trates has been appointed, the chamber of coai- merce has 'elected a new auditor, and the hoypifSl has a new secretary. The borousrh cqumtul and the school board have yet to make their choice. The edition of Welsh lyrics which Mr. Lewis Jones, of. the University Ccilege, Baijgor, has prepared, under the title of "Caniadau Cymru," w;ll be issued to. subscribers next week. The bookis well printed, and bound in limp vellum. it has 330 pages, with a long introduction and, biographical notices by Mr. Lewis Jones. This handsome volume will be followed by a cheaper edition,; which will be issued to the publio at 3s- 6d. LlaneBly Nonconformists are going in head- long for orchestral music. At Capel A Is, the mother of "Tndopendia Fawr" in the district, there -6 a capital orchestra which takes part in the The ~example"ihas now been fol- lowed by Moriah Baptist "Chapel, where an orchestra was tried for the first time yesterday. The experiment, We are told, was most suoews- ful, so that the orchestra-will become a per- manent institution at Moriah. Father Fitzgerald; who. is protesting against the way the SfoanseA guardians treated an appli- cation of hisfor tfro. sister* to visit the Roman Catholio children at the- cottage homes, is a grandson of Daniel O'Connell. What the reverend- father dislikes as much as anything is the suggestion of one guardian that the appli- cation should |ie £ >c the table for an indefinite period—say, tall priests married. He also said nuns werc-members of a secret eocietv An applicant for the postfioh of probationer nurse at the Merthyr Workhouse sent to the guardians on Saturday a testimonial frcm a Bap- tist minister, in which the reverend gentleman thus descanted on the girl's merits:—"I have very great pleasure in testifying to the winsome- ness of her manners and the excellency of her character. By her unvarying courtesy and spotless purity," by her native superiority and Christian graces, she ha?r justly won universal esteem." Few men know as much of Llandaff as Mr. Morgan Morgan, the obliging verger of the cathedral. He remembers three bishops and twice 8tI many deans. He relates the history of tha sacred edifice with great warmth of affec- tion, and is seldom away from the precincts of the cathedral. It is said that on one occasion, when a difficulty had arisen with regard to soqput matter, it was intimated to Dean Vattghao. that the verger had expressed an opinion in vuch-aad-such a way. "Well," replied the dean, "Morgan is generally right. Let it be 80." An Army Reserve man pleaded hard for another chance at Ross Police-court on Satur- day. It was a simple case of drunk and dis- orderly, and the defendant, with aoba in his voice, said,, earnestly: "Give us one more chance, Mr. Hawkshaw, and put a fine on me. I am anxious to turn over a new leaf. You riever give me a chance, tOo give us cne now." The Chairman: You will have to pay 15s., in- cluding -nots or fourteen d-ays, in default. Defendant: Give me time to pay The Chair- man Not a day. Defendant: Then I will go and eat it out. You can always tell a man's bent by the pistes he knows. One man marks location by saying "nesr such-and-such a chapeE" another will ;ay, "Yes; I know; three doors from such- and-such a public-house." The mayor of Newport'? thoughts run in still another direc- tion-In the police-court last week there were explaining to his worship where the Lord Raglan Hotel wai situate, and Chief-constable Sinclair Inid it was fifty yards from the Town-hall. "Oh! I know," paid the mayor at last; "where the sweet-shop it now." "Next door," responded the chief-constable, drily. "John o* Geny" was some years ago one of the most noted characters of the Newcastle- Emlvn district. One market day evening he was driving home with his brother, both bein# in an advanced FtGge of inebriety, leaving the old horse to find its own way. Both, it may be explained were deacons, and on the way, ooncwence rousing the brother to a. sense of the impropriety of thoir conduct, the following colloquy ensued :—"John," said the brother. "Humph!replied John. ".John. we are not doing our duty, we nre not setting an example to the young men." Humph!" responded John. "Johii,. if. we go on like this we shall not pet to heaven and play on the golden harp." "I don't care," responded John, at length, "if we can get a pint there, if it be a jewiaharp." Apropos of Principal Owen's appointment to St. pavi&.s, it is well worth pointing out that Appleby, School, Westmoreland, where the new bis hop once .held a post as mathematical master, was fjpm about 1870 to 1886 supplied with a sviccesaSon of Welshmen, who occupied this post on Mr. David Jenkins (of St. Fag^n's), St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and thirty-fifth wrangler, 1870. was there for many years;- Then came the new bishop straight from college. He was at Appleby for a couple of yetht or mjere. Mr. Owen was followed by Mr. Dtvid Sajooel, M.A., now headmaster of the ^bmryfiwith County School, who held the poet for eix yettf&. If Welsh mathematicians did gopd. terijee at Appleby School, that old Elizahethan i<HNi<i&tion pud back a little at least of the debt due to Wales. Two of Bishop Owen's pupils worked for some time in the Principality. Mr. T. J. Serwell, a mathematical first of Oxford, was for some time master at (Jowbndge Sohobl, and Mr. Anthony Hodgson, another^-Oxford marthematical Srst class man. held a p«rt at Christ's College, Brecon. It is worth stating that Mr. Hodgsen had Mr. John Morris Jones, M.A., professor of Welsh at Bangor College, under his charge when the latter was a pupil at Brecon College. Professor Morris Jones also studied privately under Mr. during the long vacation wnen reading irathematics before entering the University of Oxford. Mr. J. W. Sewell (scholar of Quern's Oxford), ap. old Appfeby pupil of Mr. Samuel's, was mathematical matter at Ystradmeurig for some time after hiv .graduation. A good stoiy. is told of. Principal Owen, the of St. David's. About three years ago he and Mr. Tobit Evans were travelling together up the, coast. At Barmouth four or five people entered the saone 'jomparc- ment. one of whom flat in a corner opposite the principal, and, taking him to be eome ooscwe countrv curate, commenced a. lively discussion on tithes generally and the oonduct of the Penibryn anti-cithers ifi particular. Yes," said, tfie" (rtraoger, "yes, I admit you are arguing ▼ery fairly, aid I agree with <* great deal .of whaifc you say—thoroughly a^ree with rou, I might say; but it is that Dean of St Asaph who has been deceiving the country." The ■ -principal winced a little, and glanced at Mr. Tobit Evans, but contrived to remain calm, when Mr. Evans (who, being a Quaker, is an anti-tither) interposed by saying that he did not care much for the doctrine* of either the Dean of St. Asapfc or Mr. Gee-in fact, believed both were bad men. The stranger defended Mr. Gee, and continued to agree with his friend opposite (the principal), but poured upon the poor Dean of St. Asaph several volleys of red- hot cannon-balls—he was the evil Remus of the Church in the artful, subtle, but in- sidioiw advocate who sbphistioally led the Tropic astray on this great question, and so on. Drffryn Station was at last reached, and the stranger alighted, but not before shaking hands with his two companions, and remark- ing. "Bsit I dq not know who von are." The principal zmially replied. "Well. I am. some- time:, called the Dean of St. Asaph!" Had the strantrer been shot he could not have turned paler. He-became speechless, but pressed the principal's band as the train moved elowly a war. He turned out to be a local bird of :»s A D<w church will shortly be opened in Cafcttoa. Wôbh Home Rule has come at last-in foot- ball. Lord and Lady Bute have arrived at Dum- fries House, their place in Ayrshire, from ■Mount Stuart, Roth«ay. where they had been residing for several months. A parish magazine has been enabled by a smart compositor to print the opening line of the hymn, "All people that on earth do dwell," as fellows, "All people that on earth do well." So far as we know—we have long ceased to be certain on such subjects—Mr. James Hur- man holds the 1897 record for early asparagus. Two bundles last Saturday week at his country house. Llwyncrwn-that is the challenge. Recent decisions of the Welsh Rucbv Union would lead one to think that a referee may be lawfully mobbed in Swansea, but not in Cardiff. We prefer to think, however, that the Welsh body has found its backbone, and we hope it will grow thick and still stiller. Judge Owen was puzzled last week. He had to fix the value of a sheep-dog. Goodness knows what a sheep-dog is in these days," he mused. "People call anything a, sbeep-dog- u from a greyhound without a tail to a lurcher with a tail." Despite the vagueness, his lord- ship put the value at a B5 note. The ancient Celts of Wales and the Scotch Highlanders had the same name for the east wind, viz., "gwynt traed y meirw" ("the wind that blows on the feet of the dead"). (See "Cymru Fu," p. 400. and Fiona Macleod'e "Sin-Eater," p. 84.) The dead are buried with their feet eastward; hence the name. A clergyman in North Pembrokeshire wrote to a brother clergyman in the same county and mentioned in his letter, "I daresay you have heard that Principal Owen h'm been appointed to the See of St. David's. What do you think of his appointment?" A reply came by return of post: —' 'We can get at him, is one of our- selves, and no starch." A young man and youtsg woman arrived at Bridgend the other morning and sought the oftioo of the registrar for the purpose, of gettin,r married. They mistook the office, and presented themselves at the door of the county- ccurt, where they were met by a genial clerk, who, in response to their application, told them that they only "courted" people there, not married them. "And this is the next point with which it will be necessary to conclude," remarked the Rev. Pedr Williams, gracefully helping himself from the carafe last Sunday evening at Viotoria- road 'Congregational Chapel, Newport, where be had taken for his text I. Peter iv., 1, "Arm yourselves likew;se with the game mind." People smiled, because they translated "point" into "pint." A thin young curate, who is pleased with his own educational career, was out dining the other right, and embraced several opportunities of accidentally referring to the fact that he was educated at Jbiton. At last the host. wtio thought the fact bad been sufficiently empha- sised, broke out after the third bottle, "Brought up a' Eton, eh? Well, to look at you one would think you had been eaten and brought up." An old employe in this office holds rather a unique position in the Army. The other day the teachers' examination of the National Phonographic Society v;as held in London, and Quartermaster-sergeant R. W. Evans (depot S.W.B., Brecon) passed and won his teacher's dipjoma. The quartermaster-sergeant is one of the three out of the entire British Army who have attained to such a. proficiency in Pitman's photography. Cardiganshire men, or their desecridintz, like Scotsmen, are found in all quarters of the globe. A lineal descendant, for instance, of Davies, of Castell Hywel. may be met with any day in Barry. He is the Rev. Vaughan Evans, the curate of that ambitious little village. For that matter, though, Cardiganshire folk think they have a, sort of hereditary right in Barry, for was it not founded by Da.vid Davie., onoe M.P. for that county. A unique education problem vexes the souls of the school attendance officers at Cardiff. They have on their hands a youth who can only be controlled by a new Education Bill all for himself. He is twelve years old—an age at which most boys give themselves the airs of men—but this one absolutely refuses to go to school unless he can wear petticoats. The boy is determinedly obdurate. He will not go to a boys' school, and he cannot go to a girls' school. The arrangements for the forthcoming meet- ing of the Guild of Graduates at Cardiff on April 21 are now almost, complete. Messrs. D. E. Jones, R. H. Pinkerton, J. Austin Jenkins, and Charles Morgan are acting as the local committee. Mr. Owen M. Edwards, the retiring warden, haa promised to deliver an address, and, as he was unavoidably absent from the guilld meetings held at Aberystwith and Bangor, much interest will be attached to his preseaoe on this occasion. A young Haverfordwest man who had had, his broken arm set in London thought from the pain the bones were moving. So Mr. Ernest Baugh, of the Relay Office, brought the Rontgea rays into play, and discovered in the arm a large metal screw. It appears that the broken bone had been scarfed and joined in the ablest manner, and the pieces fastened by an iron screw and some silver wire. Around the frac- ture the growth of spongy new bone could also b3 distinctly traced. The revelation has re- lieved the young man from considerable anxiety. A small company of fishermen were seated in a. Cardiff hostelry. They were telling narratives about fish stories. "The most exciting day's sport I ever had," said one, "was when I was out in America. I was with two others; each had two rode, and we were simply pulling out fish as fast as ever we could put in our lines. I forget," he added, in a thoughtful tone, "what those fish were." "Whales," suggested an Englishmen, with an attempt to be sarcastic. "Whales said the Yankee, with a deprecating wave of his hand, "why, man, we were baiting with whales." Nothing like havinnr a satisfactory excuse. David Jenkins explained to the Aberystwitii magistrates on Saturday that Friday morning was very wet, and that in the absence of his wife he attended to the household duties and then went out. Feeling pain; he consulted a doctor, who prescribed two or three glasses of whisky. Following up the whisky with a few beers, he had no further recollection of anything. To help to remove this mental haziness, the bench fined the poor man 5s. and costs for being drunk and disorderly. How the Cardiff Corporation must bemoan its lost opportunities. Cardiff would now be making a handsome profit out of the gasworks if it had taken the opportunity off-ered it a few years ago; the town would now be the owners of Turner House if the corporation and other members of the free library committee had accepted the offer of Mr. J. Pyke Thompson twelve years ago. Cardiff refused, and if Mr. Thompson had lived a few days longer Penarth might have become possessor for all time of a really valuable public collection of paintings, &c., building and sIte thrown in. Happy Penarth; silly Cardiff. We need not go all the way to India to find plague and famino working shoulder to shoulder. When the committee which manages the Dowlais Colliers' Disablement Fund met last week it was mentioned that when the house of a Geemingly well-to-do collier who had applied for assistance was visited by two members of tho committee they were surprised to find the place almost denuded of furniture, which the neighbours explained bad been eold by the man in order to obtain the necessaries of life. Moreover, the eoourgo of typhoid fever bad fallen upon the house, and in the family of reven persons no fewer than six were stricken when the com- mitteemen made their investigation. Even as he who drives fat oxen need not himself be fat, so it appears that everybody who works at a. colliery is not a colliery work- man. An old man in peculiarly distressing: circumstances applied to the Dowlais Colliers' Disablement Fund Committee for relief. He had worked for forty-eight years under the Dowlais Iron Company as a pit repairer, but the committee, while satisfied with his bona fides, oould pot by the rules under which the fund is administered assist him, because a man who repairs a pit is regarded as a general labourer. The applicant was therefore referred to the manacrcrs of the Iron and Steel Workers' Providant Fund. So that it doesn't always need a lawyer to draw fine distinctions. Warm support is given at the Cardiff Docks to the proposal to celebrate the Long Reign by erecting a permanent Seamen's Hospital worthy of the second port in the world. It is to be hoped that there will be a good atten- dance at the public meeting which the mayor has called at the Town-hall to-morrow after- noon to consider the matter, and no doubt a long step towards the realisation of the project will be made. This is a subject in which Lord Bute takes keen personal interest. The last ,time the suggesticyh of tmch a permanent hos- pital was on the boards—it was some years ago —Lord Bute promised a site and a donation of £12.000, At the time, however, the manage- ment committee did not feel sufficient confi- denoe to push the matter through to a finish. Dare we say that the London "Daily News" had its thoughts in Lampeter when penning the following paragraph:—"There is peculiar inte- rest just now in a short passage from one of a series of articles contributed the year before last to the 'Daily News' by our special correspon- dent who went to inquire into the condition of the English Church in Wales. Speaking of young Welshmen, the sons of parsons of small rlteans, who had managed to get a university education, but who eeemed to have no career before them, our correspondent said 'I wish I felt at liberty to sketch one or two -of these wobblers between Nonconformity and Estab- lishment, as described by my companion. It was very droll to hear of two young discon- solates, both sons of deacons, sitting on a fence smoking briarwood pipes and discussing the future in the chummiest and most sym- pathetio way, and to hear that when next they met the one who had emoked by far the most disreputable pipe of the two had developed into a Church dignitary, with curly-brimmed hat and apostolio gaiters, and that he is now ojje rJ the doughtiest defenders of the Church. Lord and Lady Aberdare have taken a house in Pont-street for the season. Lampeter College will be seventy years old on St. David's Day. The college is named- St. Davids, and ia in St. David's Dioceae. Welshmen residing a.t Port Elizabeth have decided to celebrate St. David's Day by a ban- quet in the Town-hall. It's a lie," said an Irish wit at the Cardiff County-court last week, "he did not see me; we simply met in the street." It is anticipated that Dr. W. de Gray Birch's "History of Margam Abbey" will be ready for issue before the end of the month. Members of the Cardiff Police Force are to be allowed free practice at the corporation gymnasium. Evil-doers should take warning. Eight years ago to this week the work of reshaping the parish church of Cardiff was com- menced. JLne restoration of the tower is now on. Eben Fardd," who died thirty-four years a^o, was the greatest alliterative bard Wales erer produced. His greatest "awdl" ("The Destruction of Jerusalem") was written when he wae only nineteen—Pope's age when he wrote tihe "Essay on Criticism." What have the women of Dolgelly been up to? Miss Griffiths, of Arianfryn, has started a society for the purpose of converting the women of the county from dyeing their hair and paint- ing their faces. And this in the county which gave Mr. Tom Ellis birth and a Parliamentary seat. Councillor Brain, the chairman of the Cardiff Finance Committee, has been oanvasaed by about 140 applicants for a vacancy in the rate- oollecting department, and be felt almost tired. A clause disqualifying candidates who canvasa may be expected in the next corporation ad- vertisement. Salmon fkhing season is now at its height in Pembrokeshire. On the Western Cleddy not many ish haye been taken with the rod, but plenty are <bang caught with net, spear, and gaff by tine poachers who infest the fishing- ground in the neighbourhood. Although trout are not in season till March 2, quantities are being caught and sold. A "Wielsh Nationalist" pours his ire as follows:—"According to the new calendar of the University College of Soum Wales, there are 94 periodicals 'placed on the table in the library. Among those 94 there are English, French, German, and Dutch masrazines, but not a single Welsh periodical. And this at the Welsh University in the capital of Wales." West Monmouth bulks largely in the trial of Mr. Rhodes. Mr. Warmington, Q.C., the ex-ineinber for tho division, has a fine London practice, but it is doubtful whether he ever had such a. pleasant tit-bit as has fallen to the lot of his political successor. Sir William, as counsel for the prosecution in the Transvaal raid inquiry, has been inllegal clover. In a. religious sense Porthca-wl is a sad backslider. A chapel was started there about forty years ago, but when the walls were eight feet high the work was stopped for lack of funds, and the chapel is lower now than when it was left. Two places in Which preaching was regularly done years ago have also gone awry. One is now a store-house and the other is partly taken down. Mr. Evan Owen, an old inhabitant of Haver- fordwest, who has just died at the workhouse there, often talked about an experience of his which was decidedly unique. He was on one occasion walking near the Merlin Bridge when he suddenly disappeared from sight. He had fallen into a disused coalpit of considerable depth, the shaft-mouth of which had become overgrown. The remarkaiblo part of the inci- dent was that Mr. Owen was rescued unhurt. In falling his mackintosh became inflated, and made his impromptu .parachute-like descent less serious for him than it might have been. Possibly the rate collectors of Cardiff now realise with bitterness what it as to ask for bread and to receive a stone. These good people complained to the finance" cimmittee they wete only getting ninepence an hour overtime, while, as a matter of fact, they were earning rather more than that during the day. The finance committee thoughtfully rubbed its chin, and, by questions, elicited the information that the collectors only worked 38j hours a week. By a master-stroke the hours were increased to 42, and now the ninepence an hour for overtime compares favourably with the day rate! Principal Owen, by virtue of his office, is also ,Rector of Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, and is the second rector of that parish within living memory Who has been elevated to a bishopric. The other was Dr. Ollivant, vioe- prindifpal of Lampeter and Bishop of Llandaff. Dr. Ollivant used to spend his holidays at Llacgekr Vicarage, and it was there he laid the foundation of his knowledge of Welsh. In church he was in tihe habit of praying for his sick parishioners by name—-the name by which each was commonly known, and not by the Christian and surname. Thus, he would say, "Let us pray for 'Betty Blanllain,' 'Peggy Brynllwyd.' &o. The oldest rwrishioners at Llangeler letill remember Dr, Ollivanes voice and features. It is a striking fact thaft the Welsh element in Cardiff is singularly free from crime. At the assizes and quarter sessions the Welsh in- terpreter, Mr. A. H. Thomas, J.P., is always in attendance, and his services are constantly in requisition. Not so at the Cardiff Police- court. There the only interpreter is M. Antonio Radmilovich, who speaks most of the European languages with ease, and whose praise as an interpreter is in all the courts. At the last assizes in Cardiff M. Radmilovich struck up an acquaintance with one of the juniors on circuit, and who, M. Radmilovich declares, speaks the best Italian it has ever been his lot to listen to. The youn^ barrister in question is Mr. Yaughan Williams, the clever son of the great judge of that name. The .Us-uii fathers at Pantiasaph, in .the Vale of Clwvd, are becoming keen antiquaries. Not only has one of the inscribed stones recently described m the "Archseologia Cambrensis by Mr. Edward Oweu, from a manuscript of the celebrated Lewis Morris, been discovered, unfortunately in a mutilated condition, but within the last few days Father Nicholson has come across an inscription of which the only words decipherable are Nomina The discovery is of unusual interest, for the inscription, which appears to date from the period of Roman occupation, marks the exis- tence ot a Roman military official whose duty was probably to guard the high road running from Deva, (Chester) to Comoviitm (Conway). An account of the find, with illustrations, will apjiear in the next number of tho "Archaeoiogia Cambrensis." Having failed to legislate awav mail's thifet. the council of the Free Churches of Cardiff thinks it is now time for the preacher to have a go. Open-air services are suggested for th< benefit of the thousands of people (many of Mr. Alfred Thomas's supporters among them) who go forth to Rumnev on Sundays to drink. It is a brave idea. Imagine an army of navvies and dock labourers walking three miles along a dusty highroad, and then. just as they were able to quench their thirst, to get their attention s.rrested by a thrilling temperance sermon. There they would stand in the broiling sunshine, enthralled by the speaker's eloqr»nce, until at last. touched by the iniquity of their action, they would turn upon their heels and retrace their steps, converted, thirstv men. U the plan is carried out we trust the sermons will not be dry, otherwise we dare not think of the exoessei that would follow. Commenting on the proceedings at a recent meeting of the "Union Society," the "Cam. bridge Review" speaks warmly of the ability of Mr. Cecil H. Morgan Griffiths, of Carmar- then, as a speaker and advocate. It gayg "Mr. Morgan Griffiths, is a Welshman, gave an impartial view of the causes of the Penrhyn dispute—a view which we thought very necessary after the partisan statements of Mr. Byrne (opener) and the denunciations of Mr. Paul (oppoeer). This clear and fluent sum- mary of the case wPfJ followed by an investiga- tion of the moral justification of Lord Pen. rhyn's action. Mr. Griffiths' racoess may have (been due to his special knowledge of his sub- ject, but it was undeniably a success." Talcing into account that Mr. Griffiths did not advo- cate the general "popular" view. he must have contributed much to get a majority of nineteen on his side.
AN APPEAL TO BRITISH PATRIOTS,
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AN APPEAL TO BRITISH PATRIOTS, THE FBENCH INVASION OF 1797. A hundred years ago Last trod an alien foe On British soil; Full, of their martial fame The French to Fishguard eame, As stubble in a flame. Our homes to Bipodl. Why did they halt and turn ? The stubble that should born Resistance gave; To bring about their fall Our men and women all- Just like an iron wall— Stood firm and brave. This courage when tihey saw, They merely were but straw To such a blast; "Arms down on Good wick Sand Before my stalwart band Was Cawdor's stern demand, "Or breathe your last." Then, at our hero's bid. Surrender there they did For dear life; And now we in glad lay, So long a time away From that auspicious day, Recall the strife. Britannia, we appeal With patriotic zeal To thy great heart;' Our aim to grace the dar" Do thou facilitate, And of thy rich estate Kind help impart. Send the event to shine From Memory's noble shrine The ages down; Ask Sculpture from her throne To speak of it in stone, Or let some local boon Our efforts crown. lUsbguud. T D. SYMMONS.
,, MONMOUTHSHIRE ASSIZES.
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MONMOUTHSHIRE ASSIZES. ABERGAVENNY FORGERY CASE. EBBW VALE MANSLAUGHTER. The winter assizes for the county of Mon- mouth were opened at the Shire-hall, Mon- mouth, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Day, who took his seat accompanied by the high- sheriff (Colonel K. H. Mansel), the chaplain (the Rev. Francis Bedwell), and the Mayor of Monmouth (Lord Llangattock). The escort was formed by one of the Newport companies of the 2nd Vol. Bat. S.W. Borderers, of which regiment the high-eheriff is oolonel, under the command of Captain LI. Phillips. The following gentlemen answered to their names, and were sworn on the grand jury: Colonel the Hon. F. C. Morgan, M.P., Sir H. Mather Jackson, Bart., Mr. S. C. Bosanquet, Mr. F. J. Mitchell, Mr. J. M. Bannerman, Captain Bees, Colonel J. A. Bradney, Mr. Arthur Evans, Mr. R. Lay- bourne, Mr. H. H. Clay, Mr. C. M. Crompton- Roberts, Mr. Geo. G. Griffin, Mr G. Willis, Mr. E. J. Phillips, Mr. J. T. Price, Colonel Ramsey, Colonel Lyne, Captain W. Smythe, Colonel Walwyn, Mr. D. W. Jenkins, Mr. A. A. Williams, Alderman E. Grove, Mr. Phineas, and Mr. F. B. Yaughan. THE CHARGE. His Lordsihip, in charging the grand jury, said he was happy to be able to congratulate them on the light nature of the calendar. There were, however, two charges of killing, but in one ca.se-that of Diana Pritchard, who was charged with killing her illegitimate child by depriving it of nourishment—it appeared to him that there was no case made out, because the child had an affection of the throat, which prevented it from taking nourishment. The case was sent to the assizes on the coroner's inquisition, but the magistrates, when the oa.se was taken before them, did not send it for trial. In the other case of manslaughter— that of Price Williams, charged with killing Henry Latham—it seemed, from the deposi- tions, that the death occurred from the un- lawful act of the prisoner, and, that being so, the grand jury would have no difficulty0 in returning a true bill.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER WITHDRAWN.
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CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER WITHDRAWN. Diana Pritchard, aged 31, who surrendered to her bail, and appeared in the dock in a very distressed condition, was charged on a coroner's warrant with the manslaughter of her child, Samuel Pritchard, on December 3, at BedwelIty.—Mr. Ram said, on behalf of the Crown, he would offer no evidence.—The defendant was, therefore, discharged.
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TEN YEARS' FOR A JvOlmiOUS FORGER. William Smith Porter, aged 51, described in the calendar as a solicitor, but who was stated in the course of the case to be a solicitor's clerk, pleaded guilty to three counts charging him with forgery, at Abergavenny, on Sep- tember 26, viz., forging and uttering a banker's cheque for the payment of £ 1,300, with intent to defraud Lloyds Bank (Limited), also with obtaining from Mr. Arthur Daven- port. at Lloyds Bank, seven £5 notes and J310 in cash on the forged cheque, and, on the same day, with obtaining also S45 in cash and 29 blank cheque—Prisoner, who had been pre- viously convicted, once having a. sentence of twelve months' imprisonment, and once a sentence of five years' penal servitude, handed in a written statement for the judge to read.— Mr. Corner, who appeared for the prosecution, said after the prisoner left Abergavenny he forged one of the cheques he received there for a sum of$1,750, and put it off at Lewes. —His Lordship said prisoner was not a man to whom any leniency ought to be shown, and his statement rather aggravated than otherwise his guilt. He would be sent to penal servi- tude for ten years.
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THE ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER AT EBBW VALE. Price Williams, on bail, aged 44, an over- man at the Ebbw Vale Blast Furnaces was charged with feloniously killing Henrv Latham, at Ebbw Vale, on the afternoon of Saturday, J-muarv 2. Mr. W. Daniell prose- cuted Mr. Ram defended. The deceased man Latham was employed at the Victoria Blast Furnaces, where prisoner was an overman. On the day in question Latham applied to the Erxsoner, as "gaffer," for nia "time," as B wished to work at four p.m. Deceased follow™ Williamsf -about, and toroa* tened violence if he did not comply with his request. He (deceased) was in drink, and ultimately put his fist up to prisoner's face. Blows then passed-—some of the witnesses declared that prisoner struck the first-and at length both men fell to the ground, the deceased man being undermost. Whilst he was getting up, it was alleged that prisoner kicked him. and he fell backwards, his head striking a piece of iron piping. Death occurred almost immediately, from an effusion of blood on the brain.—For the defence, it was urged that the prisoner only acted in self-defence, and, so far from his striking the deceased when he was on the ground, prisoner was struggling to get away from Lathams grasp. What was descrilied as a kick was, the defence contended, only an accidental touch with the boot whilst prisoner was struggling to get away.—In the result, the ;ury, after his lord- ship had summed up, found the prisonei not guilty, and he was acquitted. MISCELLANEOUS. Henrietta. Taylor, aged 23, pleaded guilty to forging a request for the delivery of drapery goods, at Abergavenny, on November 20, with intent to defraud Edgar Chark; Morgan. There was a previous conviction.—iSec'iente to fifteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Julia Kenefick, aged 50, described as a laundress, was found guilty of stealing a pair of boots, the property of Charles Bagnall Roe, at Abergavenny, on February 16. There were ten previous convictions for shop-lifting. —Sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Joseph Farren, aged 36, a labourer, pleaded guilty to wilfully, breaking a. plate of glass, valued at £ 16, in the shop of Messrs. Green- house and Scrivener, at Newport, on February 15. and was sent to prison for four months. George Flew, aged 42, a dealer, and Thomas Richards, aged 18, a hawker, were charged with obtaining a. sum of B15 10s. by false pretences from William Wathen, a small farmer, of Bream, on February 8, at Mon- mouth. Mr. Corner prosecuted; Mr. Gwyn James deIended.-Both prisoners were found guilty, and Flew was sentenced to eighteen months' and Richards to twelve months' im- prisonment. William Pomfrey, 22, labourer, and Ernest Pomfrev, 17, brothers, pleaded guilty to three indictments of house-breaking at Newport during January of this year. The elder pri- soner, who had a long list of previous convic-, tions against him, including a term of three years' penal servitude, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The younger prisoner was ordered to come up for judgment when called upon. The court was adjourned1 till Monday.
SECOND DAY.
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SECOND DAY. These assizes were continued at Monmouth on Monday, before Mr. Justice Day.
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CRIMINAL ASSAULT. John Williams, &ged 66, a shipwright, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal assault upon a, girl named Ida. Hannah Akerly, aged twelve years and five months, at the parish of Aberystruth, on November 27 and other dates.—He was sent to penal servitude for six years. This concluded the criminal business.
A COLLIERY NUISANCE.
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A COLLIERY NUISANCE. The civil action of Preece v. Brown was taken before his lordship and a common jury. Mr. Corner appeared for the plaintiff, and the Hon. Alfred Lyttleton for the defendant. The action was brought by Mr. Benjamin Preece, iron and brass founder, of Coleford, against Mr. Amos William Brown, proprietor of the New Hawkins Colliery, at Coleford, to recover damage which was alleged to have been caused to Eastborne House, the property of the defendant, by reason of the working of the colliery. There were two other defen- dants joined, namely, Arabella Brown and Martin Henry Trotter, executors of the will of the late William Brown, father of the defen- dant, Amos William Brown, who was in partnership with his son during the time that the alleged damage was committed. Plaintiff's case was that he purchased a plot of land from his father-in-law for B300. and erected Eastborne House, the total outlay for house and land being £ 1,500. The damage complained of was occasioned by the defendants setting up a. spoil bank from their level, the refuse from which in wet weather flowed down over the plaintiff's land, cover- ing the lawn and drive, and also by their impeding the roadway with large stones and broken wag-ons.-Plaintiff, on being called, said he found that there was a. great deal of difficultv in letting the house in conse- quence of the "colliery nuisance." His Lordship: What is the meaning of a. "colliery nuisance"? I suppose a colliery does not enhance the value of property in a neighbourhood. At the same time, people are entitled to sink collieries. Plaintiff raid he meant the flow from the spoil-heap and the deposit of old wagons. He estimated that he bad lost in rental about J350 a year for six years. The property waa sold ultimately for £ 960.—In cross-examina- tion plaintiff admitted that the gross rateble value of the property was JB28 per annum.- His Lordship, in summing up, remarked that none of the tenants who had occupied the house during the alleged nuisance had been oalled.-The jury retired at 6.30, and in forty minutes returned with. a verdict for the plaintiff, £ 20 demages.-His Lordship gave judgment for costs against the defendant.
BRITISH TROOPS IN INDIA.¡
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BRITISH TROOPS IN INDIA. THE RAVAGES OF DISEASE Major-general R. L. Dashwood, speaking on Friday evening at a meeting in London, pre- sided over by Sir James hills-Johnes, V.C., G.C.B., and R.A., dealt with the state of things which had followed among the British troops in India. and elsewhere since the sus- pension in India and other foreign stations of what are commonly known as the C.D. Acts. The official figures quoted showed that since the abolition of these Acts in India the diseases had increased to a very alarming extent. Having referred to the report of the Commis- sion, and pointed out the terrible ravages of the disease and the great evils produced by their effect at home on the population, the speaker went on to say that the present dis- graceful state of affairs was due primarily to the clamour of a certain olase of people, of whom Mr. Stansfeld was the high priest, and who on pseudo-religious and morbidly senti- mental grounds opposed the Acts. These people utterly ignored the health of the pre- sent or future generations. They were pleased to describe our efforts to mitigate these evils as legalising vice, or Stat?-aid to vice, whereas it would be fairer to call them efforts to minimise the evils result.n^ from vice. It was most. deplorable that the Government in 1888 should have surrendered the regulation, and have shown such a want of moral pluck and backbone. The reason, probably, was political. During the last four or five years several members, r-otably Sir R. Temple, Major Rasch, and Colonel Lockwood, had brought the matter before the House, but had received very little support. The proper remedy was that, in the interests of both men and women, the regulations should be rein- forced in India and other foreign stations, but more strictly and generally than before, and thit the Government of India should be given a free hand. He hoped that the prasent movement might help to bring home to the people of this country the magnitude of the evil which the policy of crGelty and fatuous felly lately pursued had brought about; that it might lead before long to these matters being treated on a basis of humanity and common sense. But before this was possible it was absolutely necessary that the majority of those who had a hand in the ruling of this country and others who are in a position to lead public opinion should divest themselves of their garments of cowardice and cant, and don those, instead, of honesty and courage.
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CANADIAN REGIMENT FOR THE ARMY. The movement in favour of the repatriation of the "100th Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian Regiment" has made rapid progress in the Dominion. More than 200 petitions have already been signed, and all classes of the population have united in the expression of a general desire for the restoration of the old title and the linking of the regimen^ to the country of its origin. The earlier 100th Regi- ment was disbanded in Canada in 1818, and in 1858. during the strain caused by the Indian Mutiny, a fine battalion, 1,200 strong, was raised in Canada in a few months. On January ID, 1859, the Prince of Wales presented colours to this battalion at Shorncliffe, and referred to it as 'the spontaneous offering of the loyal and spirited Canadian people." The military connection thus happily established between the Colony and the mother country has since been severed, and in the course of Army reforms the regiment was associated with an IriA battalion and received its territorial title from Leinster. There is every reason to believe thai the pro- posed restoration, coupled with a distinctive uniform bearing the Canadian badges of the beaver and maple leaf, would enable the regi- ment to be locally recruited by means of a depot at Ottawa, or Halifax. The Secretary of State for War and the Commander-in-Chief have alroarlyproniised to give favourable con- sideration to the scheme.
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MYSTERY OF THE DESERT. The far north of Queensland has been the scene of many tragio occurrences, but few are more sensational than the last recorded in that diatriob. It seems from the newspaper accounts of the tragedy thai a drover named John Forbes set out in company with a mate, Thomas Mar- tin, to take a mob of 14,000 eheeip from a station on the Lexby River to the IIa.milton River, in the Boulia district. After travelling a long stretch over desolate eandy country, with a scanty vegetation and infrequent water holes, Forbes found himself at last in a locality be- tween the Flinders River and Eastern Creek. The country was a succession of sand ridges, with clumps of spinifix bere and there. It was decided that Martin should ride forward and look for water, while Forbes remained with the sheep, many of whioh had already died. Martin rode away, and no human eye saw Forbes alive again, but some days later a black boy named Howard came across the of the drover lying out on the plain. Within a radius of a few miles the oarcase3 of 14,000 sheep lay rotting. The surroundings showed the sufferings of the unfortunate man at the last. A dark stain on the sand indicated where he had killed a. sheep to assuage his thirst by drinking the animal's blood, and four miles away from the overlander's corpse lay the car- case of his horse, still saddled and bridled. After examining the tracks the black boy re- ported that the man had become lost in trying to round up the sheep, which had broken away.
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STRANGE INCIDENT AT A LONDON THEATRE. About one o'clock on Sunday morning Fire- man Hardy, employed at the Metropole Theatre, Camberwell, saw two men leaving the saloon- He challenged them, whereupon one of them made uee of an offensive reply, and at the same time struck him a violent blow on the side of the head with an umbrella. They closed, and in the struggle that ensued Hardy was pushed down the stairs. He blew his whistle, which brought several scene shifters, who were engaged on the stage, to his assistance, and who found him lying at the foot of the stairs severely in- jured. In answer to questions put to him he replied, "They have gone; two of them. It was then noticed that the special exit door was open, through which the men must have made good their escape. Dr. Graham fecott, of 2, ColdhaTbour-lane, was summoned, and ordered Hardy's removal home. where he was exammed and found to be suffering from a fractured collar bone and contused wounds on the right side of the head and on the thigh. The police were at once called, but in the meantime Hardy's assailants had disappeared, and up to a. late hour on Sunday night had not been arrested.
SAD DEATH OF A CHAPLAIN,
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SAD DEATH OF A CHAPLAIN, The Press Association Eastbourne correspon- dent telegraphsIt was reported on Thursday to the Eastbourne police that the Rev. Josias Grant Mills, chaplain of St. Thomas's HospitaL London, waa missing, and on Friday morning Chief-constable Plumb received the following telegram from Seaford, Sussex: —"Mills found dead to-day under Seaford Cliff. Body at Wel- lington Hotel, Seaford. Send friends at once to identify." The Press Association learns upon inquiry at St. Thomas's Hospital that Mr. Mills left town an Monday for Eastbourne to visit some friends and also to go to Seaford. A telegram was received at the hospital early on Wednesday from the rev. gentleman stating that he would return late on the same evening. As lie failed to do this. however, the friends at Eastbourne were communicated with, but they. not knowing his whereabouts, communicated with the pdlice. Mr. Mills was, apparently, in the best of health when he left London, and last Sunday he took the services at the hospital as usual. At the inquest a medical witness said that deai*. was due to a. fractured skull, apparently, caused by falling from a height.—The jury re- turned a verdict accordingly, adding that there was no evidence to show how the fall occurred.
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GALLANT RESCUE AT ICIXIFORD HAVEN. On Friday morning a heroic act was witnessed in the dock at Mil- ford Haven. It appears that a boy named Frank Petit, son of Captain Petit, of the trawler General Roberts, NII from the dock wall into the water, and had disappeared twice when Fred Uglow, son of Mr. Uglow, Custom House officer, apprised of the accident hastened to the spot, jumped into the dock, and succeeded in keeping the lad above water until a life-buoy and rope were thrown to him. In recognition of Uglow's heroic conduct a. subscription was raised among the people about the dock, which resulted in the sum of £3 12s. being presented to him. -=
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PROPOSED NEW PIER FOR CARDIFF.
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PROPOSED NEW PIER FOR CARDIFF. "WHAT THE TONNAGE DUES PRODUCE. ADVANTAGES OF THE PIER. DIRECT ROUTE TO THE WEST OF ENGLAND. The construction of a. low-water pier t at Cardiff for the acoommodation of passenger and merchandise traffic is of such immense importance to the town that we do not feel inclined to allow thoise who have large monetary interests in competi- tive docks at Barry to mislead the ratepayers of the Welsh Metropolis by a wilful misrepre- sentation of facts. We do not blame the directors of the Barry Company for doing all in their power to attract trade to their own docks. It is their duty to do so in the interest of their shareholders, but if the inhabitants of Cardiff are wise in their generation they will do nothing1 which will prevent the Bute Com- pany providing, at any rate, equal facilities at their own docks and. charging the public 50 per cent. less for the accommodation which will be provided for them than the Barry Com- pany are now empowered to charge. It is a small proportion of the population of Cardiff who know how the passenger traffic at the docks commenced. About 30 years ago No. 1 Pon- toon was constructed by the Marquess of Bute for the purpose of facilitating the goods traffic between Bristol and Cardiff, thus saving the long railway journey round Gloucester. Then began the passenger traffic, and several tugboat owners took out licences. The extraordinary development of that traffic in recent years and the construction of another pontoon in order to accommodate- it must be within the know- ledge of most of our readers. This provision was made by the Marquess of Bute and the Bute Docks Company with- out any obligation compelling them to supply it. Srili the accommodation was deficient, and Sir William Thomas Lewis, in response to repeated applications, stated that the company were prepared to spend mure money if they could get some small return on the outlay. Then came tho question of oharge- 11lg the toll to which an objection was raised in 1896. WHAT THE DUES PRODUCE. I During that agitation it was stated repeatedly that the dues received from steamers using the pontoons was amply sufficient to repay the company for the outlay whioh they had made. A contemporary which never misses an oppor- tunity of advertising and benefitting Barry at the expense of Cardiff stated on Monday that the Bute Docks Company receive as muoh as £100 a week from the owners of passenger steamers. It goes on to state "if the average were only JB15 a day there would be £2,250 for the season-a. sum equal to 5 per cent. on £45,000 capital. The figures are nearer .63.000 per season: 5 per cent. on £ 60,000." The statement that receipts of the Bute Docks Company were over J3100 a week, adds our contemporary, has never been challenged. If we have not given the exact figures we (have on several occasions pointed out that the estimate given was absurd. 1 We are now in a. position to state exactly what the tonnage dues at the landing stages at the pierhead realised during last season..They were as follow:— 1. Total earnings at the two pontoons, in- cluding Marchioness, from 23rd March to 19th October, ;n tonnage dues, J3976 0s. 3d. 2. The average weekly receipts for all tonnage dues received for vessels trading to the two landing stages for the summer season was only £32 10s. 8d. per week. 3. Average weekly earnings on receipts for the two landing stages for the whole year of 1896 was £19 4s. 3d. per week. 4. The largest weekly receipts in 1896 was ttie week including the August Bank Holiday, when the earnings were JB55 lIs. 9d. Now, these figures have been taken from the Bute Docks Company's books, and they prove to what lengths, in the way of exaggera- tion—to use the mildest possible term—some interested supporters of the Barry Company will go in order to influence publio feeling agajinsit the Bute Docks Company. The amount of capital expended on the two pon- toons and the approaches has been something like £25,000, upon which there has practically been no return to the company. The receipts ha.ve gone almost entirely in maintaining, lighting, and working the stages, and on some occasions a portion of these expenses have been met out of the general revenue account. The conclusion whioh must be arrived at is that the Marquess of Bute a.nd the Bute Docks Company have provided accommodation, principally for the pleasure of the people of Cardiff, without receiving any return. Now the same company is being asked to provide another pier, at a. ooet of £70,000 to £100.000, on the same terms. However generous the Marquess of Bute may be, it is scarcely to be credited, that his trustees ■Would sanction such an expenditure without some satisfactory- source of revenue. It is alleged that there are other receipts coming into the ooffers of the Bute Docks Company besides the tonnage dues. For instance, it is stated that they get 6d. per ton on all coal put on board the steamers, but not a word is said about the services they render for that charge. The wagons are brought down by the railway companies; the Bute Company have then to take them round to the Esplanade, discharge the coal into wheelbarrows, and put it on board in that way. Anyone who will consider for a moment what labour this entails will come to the conclusion that 6d. per ton is. not sn unreasonable charge. As a matter of fact. it does not pay for the services rendered. At the proposed new prior other arrangements will be made for puttincr coal into the bunkers of the steamers, and the charge, as the Bill chows, will be 2d. per ton, and a id. per ton for weigh- ing. So much for this source of income. The question of water supplv is a. small matter, but here again we are informed that the allega- tion that the company get a profit of 6d. por 1,000 gallons is untrue. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEW PIER. As lone ago as 1887 the Bute Docks Com- pany obtained powers to make a pier on the West Mud, and, without a.ny bother whatever, obtained power, to charge a. toll. It was, how ever, found that owing to the height of the ground above the low-water level it would bn impossible to get steamers alongside at any state of the tide. The scheme was consequently abandoned, but when last year the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce ursred upon the Bute Dooks Company the necessity for better accom- ,modation Sir William Thomas Lewis went fully into the question, with the result that powers are now being sought to make a low-water pier on the foreshore oppoeite the Roath Dock. In this position-the only one, which will give the company a sufficient depth of water at low tide —the pier will be accessible to all the railway companies serving the port. Ordinary pas- sengers can be taken to the head of the pier- that js, the seaward end—from the east and west by the Great Western, and from the north by the Rhymney and Taff Vale Railway Com- panies. It will be readily understood that a. structure bearing two lines of rails and a couple or more loaded trams at the same time must bs substantially built, and as far as passengers from outside Cardiff are concerned there will be no difficulty in the way of approaches. Neither will the toll cause any bother, inas- much as it will bo included in the fares. With the means of approach for Cardiff passengers we shall deal later on. But it is not as a pas- senger pier alone that the new structure will be of advantage to Cardiff. A portion of it will be set apart for merchandise traffic, ^and is likely to increase the import trade of waxditf very considerably by the facilities which, will be offered for the rapid, transit of vegetables, fruit, and other perishable goods to the Midlands and other populous consuming centres. There is now a large trade in goods of this claas carried on at the Bute Docks, the produce of Cornwall, Scilly, the Channel Islands, and the northern districts of x raaice being brought to Cardiff-
TRADE WITH THE WEST OF ENGLAND.
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TRADE WITH THE WEST OF ENGLAND. It must not be forgotten either that powers have been obtained for the construction of a new deep-water pier at Weston, whioh, with the proposed pier at Cardiff, will put South Wales in direct communication with the West of England, not only a.t all states of the tide, but in the winter as well as the summer months. The existing pier at Weston termi- nates in a current running four to seven knots an hour. In summer it 18 often difficult for steamers to get alongside, while ic winter such a feat is often impossible. This at present makes » winter boat service impossible, but the new Grand Pier, which will commence opposite Regent-street, and be oarned straight through the bay for a. mile and a quarter, will get into practically still water, thus enabling boats to get alongside in almost any weather. At Weston there will 00.. 13ft. of water and at Cardiff 12ft. of water at the lowest state of the tide, so that boats can be run right through the year, and greatly shorten the dis- tance between. South Wales and the three Western Counties of England .which are only approachable now in winter, via Bristol, both for passengers and merchandise. Another great advantage is that the sea route will be only miles, oompared with tweOve miles from the old pierhead, and the narrow entrance channel to the Bute Docks will also be avoided. The danger which besets passengers at present is that the pleasure steamers have frequently to dodge in between heavily-laden cargo steamers leaving the dooks, and although, according to orders, they can only proceed up or down at hallf speed accidents ha.ve only been avoided by extraordinary care and precaution. WHERE BARRY COMES IN. But the Barry scheme have a similar scheme in view. Two of their directors—Mr. Archi. bald Hood (vioe-chairman) and Mr. Robert For rest—and Mr. W. B. Gibbs, of Cardiff, are directors of a company which is seeking powers to construct. another pier at Weston. That pier, if it be ever made, will end just at the same point as the present one. and will, conse- quently, be subject to the effects which now prevent steamers getting alongside. But the Barry Company are determined, when they have their deep-sea entrance ready, to make a bid for passenger and goods traffic, to the detriment of Cardiff. If an import trade of any impor- Moe it established at Barry it will be the fault of the people of Cardiff, by refusing the offer whioh the Bute Docks CoaPP*0^# tt* j to construct a low-waster pier, provided I, allowed to charge 1<J. per bead on JJJ using it, as against 2d. which the Baf1', At I. pany are allowed to levy at any ■ docks. I
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HOW THE NEW PIER MAY APPROACHED. øfl. It has been said that the proposed pier at Cardiff would not be used the difficulties of approaching it. Apart p i fact that a sufficient depth of water found elsewhere, is it reasonable to that the Bute Docks Company would such an outlay as they intend to make » JOM was little chance of the publio patronisa1^ jf pier ? A glance at the map will show Jv not so difficult-to reach the new pier ^h. may imagine. For the districts of "Two*. Cathays, and Splott, which lZ&I n half the population of the town, it if Jhhw' as easily reached at present as the and there can be no question that wh0?rftU' pier is opened the facilities will be improved. Those who reside in the # off Newport-road and Castle-road ca» J tC tram and 'bus service as far as the Station, and then by crossing to the JjpPj,' rj Adamsdown can use another service of J** yT right down to Lower Splott—in fact, to f1.d L W a quarter of a mile of the pier. This 1#*». busses, whioh starts from the corner of r^t street and Bute-terraoe, will also serve tricts of Canton, Riverside, and the inhabitants of which will be brought S by tram. The residents of Cathavs app, be the worst off, as they have to walk from St. John's-M^f to Bute-terrace. But it may be takPk1 granted that if the pier ig made the tra company or their successors, whoever may be, will see that accommodation i* y ( vided for those who use the boats. Th^J| poration, for instance, propose to run el*^ trams through Clifton-street and Tin-S**wj k? <L over Splott Bridge, and down to the Portmaamoor-road, which, again, is ° M IjrS quarter of a mile from the pier. If the PS* warrant it, the Rhymney Railway will undoubtedly convey passengers for boats from their station in Newport-road 'xj* > ij on to the pier. In tliia case, as in every 1^ J where passengers are carried by train, io toll will be charged in the ticket. Peof^J, business at the Dooks, and who desire ST" LW over to W a-ton at mid-day, will, undoubW^J find it troublesome to walk across to pier, but it is hoped some means will discovered to overcome this difficulty.
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A WORD OF WARNING. § Knowing the interests at work in def^ the objects of the Bute Company, and nising the fact that the toll is only Id. I Qt 2d. at Barry, the corporation aod the > payers of Cardiff should consider well advantages to which we have referred y they compel the Bute Docke Comp3»f ,i £ *> withdraw that portion of their Bill which **2 if passed, give them power to construct the pier. That it will be withdrawn unless company are enabled to charge a petixny i V is practically certain, and this is the V0* I 1 which the enemies of Cardiff are endest* > to force upon the company. The thus*! come when the No. 1 Pontoon must be ren«^ 'V It is not likely that the Bute Docks Coi»P^ i&C will go to the expense of that renewal xlfi3% they receive some reasonable remuneration. fW the accommodation then, without the new P will be lamentable indeed..
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OPINIONS AT THE DOCKS II¡ ¡ The general ojunion at the Docks is that Jt. agitation now being carried on against the P"^ posal to levy a toll in connection with the Bute low-water pier is a case of "playing J gafllery." Business men do not although they contend that special facih,y V* should be provided to enable people &t i\ Docks to travel to and from the pier. I0 v*# versation with a "Western Mail" represent1"^ jjift one gentleman said he preferred the gL landing-stage for this very reason—because V were no facilities for getting from the Dc«>*ff the Moors. If the Bute Company, ho#4 ran a tramway in connection with the i 'I would wllingly pay 3d. per journey f01" convenience afforded. So far, therefore*. opposition is not to the impost, but to vehicular facilities. Another geintJe^f i expressed himself in favour of a toll. companies make a charge," he said, "and V not the Bute? We cannot expect the authorities to lay out large sums of money p out getting some return; and if people 5 X use the pier they must pay for it." 5L gentleman pointed out that the proposed pier would benefit Cardiff in & variety of '4 X He believed it would be the means of '1 ing the Taff Branch Railway into a pO^, line, with stations at Canton, Llandaff, • Park, Roath, and Splotlands—in fact, the would be encircled by a railway, which isJ^J# the thing that was wanted. The the toll he described as frivolous and able.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE j.1. ,JL…
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE j.1. ,JL CARDIFF. TRADESMAN RENDERED WORRY. T i '(JI1' A sensation was caused in yf diff, and the vicinity on Monday morniOft^, the news that Mr. Laban Pearce, shoeo* Swiss-chambers, had been found hanging^. rope attached to the ceiling of his A reporter who was on the spot soon w' discovery found that assistance had. rendered in time to prevent the attempt a fatal termination, a niece of Mr, nately having gone to her uncle's roo^» h with praiseworthy promptitude cut the Directly afterwards Police-constable ( who was on duty in Queen-streefc. facti.: called in, and upon hearing the -fr at onoe sent for Dr Penrose, who, up°a ing, pronounced Mr. Pearce to be of uflj gr mind and not under proper control, *° Mfc dered his removal to the workhouse. S( Pearce was conveyed there in a cab. so far recovered as to be able to walk_ V| the cab into the building without Dr. Sheen, the medical officer of the instatu^^ saw him, and afterwards told our reporter J Mr. Pearce would be detained, and after brought before the magistrates be sent to the Bridgend Asf*h Mr. Pearce is a bachelor, but sinoe the | of his brother, who, it will be remembered. killed some time ago whilst crossing the, j,y I Yale Railway, he has had the charge <* I nephews and nieces. It is thought tb** # R tragic death of his brother, together with I! tic trouble, had weighed upon his mind o» 1 I
INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION ***…
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INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION MONMOUTHSHIRE. A meeting of the Monmouthshire diate Education Governing Body was Monday at the County Offices, Newport, man E- Grove presiding.—On the moti^ Mr. T. Parry, it was decided that the tatives of the county council should of expenses paid when attending the meetinfT:^ the Welsh Central Board.—The scholars oommittee reported that regulations for scholarships had been aaopted, and mended that they be printed.—After cussion, the regulations were agreed sites and buildings committee recornxfl^P'y'a the acceptance of the Marquess of generous offer of three acres of land near fort for the erection of the Ebbw Vale rhe site was more accessible to the living ait Cwm, Victoria, and other Most of the guarantee money had been. scribed. They also recommended the tanoe of Lord Tredegar's offer of » Cross Keys for the school there, which. *& most eligible and convenient one.—The was adopted.—Upon the production. {of plans of the Tredegar County School approval the Chairman happened to that the building was a very plain plans were deferred.
WELSH HISTORICAL MANUSORl^j;';
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WELSH HISTORICAL MANUSORl^j In the oomse of 1894 the Manuscripts Commission undertook, at request of the Treasury, to superintend preparation and publication of a catalog? Jj f manuscripts in tne Welsh language in various private libraries and Mr. J. Gwenogfryn Evans, who pointed to carry out the work, is at 'fv >t a.ble to report three important catalogued—-the Mostyn Hall manuscrip^o Conway manuscripts, and the Lland^ manuscripts'; wihile five othet*—the College manuscripts, the Chwilog mano*cr*Jllj« the Peniarth manuscripts, the Plashea scripts, and the Welsh manuscripts, '^th- at tne British Musemm—axe being dealt as expeditiously as possible. Ot&er tions exist at Shirburn Oastle, Wynnstay, Gwysaney, Llanrwst, L&n" %c Cardiff, Swansea, the Bodileian Library* iSJ There is also a considerable colleotioo London in the possession of Sir JáIm M.D. —————.————— "f
DEA-TIt FROM MISADVENTITS*…
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DEA-TIt FROM MISADVENTITS* SWANSEA, An inquest was held on Friday at St. Swansea, on the body of Thomas 'v fitter, aged 60, who died on nesday, presumably from the ft > of poison, as already appeared from the evidence that the was given to drink, and used to bring jj»bl of beer home with him. He was in of keeping chloride of zinc in beer bo^-j the house, and on the night in que^t b*f ? took a bottle containing this chemica» bedroom instead of beer, and drank in the night. He was ill nine days a^ed and, although medically attended, t recover.—A verdict of "Death venture" was returned.,
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