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WEEK BY WEEK. The Bean of Llandaff and his family are eiaying a.t Hfracombe for some time. A man from Weston-super-Mare who recently removed to Dinas says he notices a marked difference in the twe places! There is the same difference between Landore and Brighton. Dr. Griffiths, the Unitarian minister at Pontypridd, who was refused the use of the Bridgend Town-hall fcr the holding of Sunday services, has succeeded in obtaining the Drill- hall there. A note from Mr. Ananias Jones says that in consequence of allo"r,)ng fi>-herrq £ n to use the minnow the waters of Roath Park lake have gone down a foot owing to the large number of trout taken out. This is one .of _JHi\, Kensit's jokes. "At Coventry Jjisketj why~the.High Church people turned to tie east; and got the reply from a young man. 'Because God is there.' That young man evidently did not oome from London." Colonel Macdonald chooses the day on which the Peace Conference began its proceedings to declare that England is within sight of con- scription, and that it will be a good job when it comes. That's the worst of soldiers. They can't play at make-believe. A Welsh missionary in China-the- Rev. Hop- kin Rees—writes home to a friend —"The other Sunday I received fifty-three into communion, and ten tiw Sunday following. This makes 116 w thin three months, and sounds like tile old Welsh revivals." Lady Rose Leigh, who was born in 1866, is a twin sister of Lady Cowley, who, it will be remembered, obtained a divorce from Earl Cowley a little more than a year ago. They ar>i the youngest of the Marquess of Aber- gavenny's rather large family. Green at a wedding IS beld hy the Sup3rst;. tic US to herald death. This remark was made to the writer at a wedding in Cardiff ia-st week, and the one who made it. pointed with a ehudder to .th.- green in the dress of the briflj- n-aid. Two days later the young brjde'e lrother died. Miss Maggie Davies sang at. her first concert in America, last, Friday night week. and the reception was truly American. That is to say. it was warm and. colossal, for Jt included a basket of flowers,' which must have been bigger than the fair singer herself. It was a superb collection, beautifully arranged, part of the design consisting of a harp.. A good reason is given br "tap CarrJiffj Orchestral Society for not competing 3t. the Cardiff Eisteddfod this year. It is such an exceptionally strong organisation that it lays itself under the charge of pot-hunting when entering for competition, and its entrance keeps smaller societies away. For this reason the society has passed a :elf-denying ordinance "to give the others a chance." Mr. Duncan Macdonald. of Merthyr. attended the complimentary banquet given to Colonel Jfacdorald {n London recently, and after the cerercony reminded that gallant officer that he was once. a comrade in an Iuyerness company" of Volunteer?. The colonel was delighted to meet one of the friends of hisea r]:l¡ days. and an mtere:stn1g conversation about the past took piece between the two. Htention was drawn the other day. says the Newport "Argus," to the impecuniosity of an Irish baronet, against whom an order for ejectment was marlc for rooms in a humble quarter of Cork because of the non-payment of one shilling a week. Baronets in distress are not rare. The other weak there were housed together in the Newport Model Lodging-house a Scottish baronet and two Oxford graduates. Two of the Metropolitan stipendiary magis- trates are Welshmen. The senior of them—Sir James Yaughan—was born in Cardiff, and Mr. A. R. Cluer (who sits in the South Western Court) proclaimed his nationality on Thurs- day by grieving over the fact that some of his Welsh countrymen in London are given to selling margarine for butter. Mr. CLuer was born in London, and lives in Kent. Out cf four members of the Cardiff Cabs Committee appointed to confer with the tram- way committee with respect to the Grange- town service, Councillor Robinson was the only one who attended a special meeting held yes- terday, and out of fourteen members of the public, works committee Alderman Jacobs and Councillors Robinson, Veall, and Fox were the only representatives of the town present. D.D., a mermaid, the Crucifixion, a star. a. tree, a coat-of-arrus, a ship, bracelet, and er signs galore were among the cabalistic designs tatjoea on the brea&t and limbs of an old, grey, grizzled man of 74—James Burns— •who ;Has accused of theft at Newport. Divi- nity, mythology, theology, astronomy, botany, heraldry, navigation, jewellery, and mili- tarism is a queer craze singly, but when you take, the whole together and the South Sea paganism of tatooing alw it is passing strange. A man who considers that this column is rather given to frivolity asks us to mention that in epistylis simulaus and other vorticeliids the process of total conjugation is.not strict.y total; the, nuclei a-nd most of the. endoplasmic [material of the microgonidium pafes into the macrogonidium, bilt a shrivelled residue is left -not quite dead. but fatally injured—so that ilie difference between total and partial conju- fation is one of degree. The above is correct. a.nd will, no doubt, open the eyes of some readers. A correspondent writes to tell us that "the four new American locomotives which will be supplied to the Barry Railway Company wid cost £1.800 each. a.nd will be delivered about the close of the year. The price of an English- made locomotive is about £2.800, so that the Barry Company will save £1.000 on each, and they will be delivered about nine months sooner thaii if they were made in England. This btatement is rather in excess of those already published, for hitherto the saving on each engine has been stated to be JE500. In these days, when bishops complain of being troubled by the practice of some of their clergy, it is interesting to hear of an example of unwearied zeal during the closing hours of life. A Radnorshire clergyman, over eighty years of age, and much enfeebled, continued up to a few weeks ago to carry out his duties, but at last, being unable to walk even a few yards to the church, was carried there io a Bath chair. and conducted his service in a sitting position. The fact was communicated to the bishop of the diocese, and a curate was at once sent to take charge and spare the devoted vicar. One of the attractions of the Paris Exhibi- tion next year is an artificial volcano. It will be 32fift. in height and 485ft. in diameter. The trip to the top is to be a real educational force, owing to the ordering of the vegetation, which has to repreS3:lt the flora of varlOUs latitudes. There will be eruptions at intervals, followed by a flood of lava. To us in Wales the above mill be of no interest. With "Morien" and John Stome on hand we get more volcanic ciuptions, likewise .lessons on flora and fauna. dragons, and ferns, than we wa.nt, and the after-lava flow of devastating newspaper cor- respondence amounts to Pompeii and a few more. They were considering in the Cardiff Police- Jourt the other day whether a woman shcJuld ba treated under the new Inebriates Act. "Can you swear." asked the stipendiary, looking at Inspector Durston. "that she is a habitual drunkard?" The inspector hesitated. "No, eir." he said after a while, "not habitual: she has only been here twenty-nine times." That settled it. and shows that under the Act the hopeless but intermittent drunkard gets no chance, although the case is just as much in need of treatment. 8'0 that the people who drink as a. regular thing, but only go in for a. "burst" very, often instead of all the time, ehould make an effort to get on the rocks. They will then receive help instead of penalties. No sooner have the London papers, after years of hard praotice. grown accustomed to write eisteddfod without stumbling than they are'upset again. "What is a Feis CooilP" asks the "Sun," wringing its hands, and then it answers itself in this engaging fashion: "It does not sound anything very attractive, but Dublin has been having a high old time with- one this week. Practically it is an eisteddfod. and it is only a confirmation of Shakspeare's oft- questioned dictum that, a rose under any other name would smeli as sweet. Some very fine musical works have been presented, and to-day will be devoted to public competitions and the presentation of prizes to the winners. An in- teresting feature of the Feis is a rrize compe- tition for singing in the Irish language. A cabman was driving along Cathedral-road towards town when a collie dcg ran behind the vehicle and barked furiously. The driver slashed at the collie with his whip, and with such good judgment that the lash en- circled the dog's body and became securely fastened into a knot. With a yelp the animal started, and, pulling the whip out of the driver's hands, did not stop until it had covered a few hundred yards. The driver dismounted and attempted to recover his property, but directly he approached the dog drew farther away, and at no time were the two nearer than fifty yards. Then a bright idea seized the cab- man. He returned and mounted his cab. and by this means attempted to overtake the dog. but the harder he drove the harder the dog ran, and when last seen they were well on the way to St. Fagans, the dog with the whip trail- ing behind steadily increasing its lead. A plaintive appeal is made by the "Sunday Companion" last week. It has found out that there are Ln St. Mary-street four public-houses tide by side, then six shops, and again three more public-houses, and two doors higher up etill another, and several more in the rest of the street, which is described as of average length. "Are there not in Cardiff" asks the "Companion'—"are there not m Cardiff some earnest temperance people who will agitate for the. abolition of at least some of theso unneces- sary public-house??" Yes, plenty. We don't know any abolitionist who wouldn't get 11P and eay at once and as often as you like that be doesn't want one of them. and, therefore, that. they are not wanted at all. But, really, isn't this "unnecessary" idea overdone? There is a simple way to test the necessity of a public- house. and that is to ¡t.)k if it pays. If it isri't "wanted" it won't be open long. for the land- lord goes to the bankruptcy-court. 'cr A learned German doctor has discovered that 'bodies are preserved by gas. This is why anarchists don't, die till they are executed. Even in the event of the Peace Conference agreeing to abolish war, it. is not expected that the decision will in any way modify the usual hostilities in Mary Ann-street, Cardiff. A cuckoo visited Canton yesterday, but didn't stay long. It was distinctly heard in fhe vici- nity of i-t. John's Church, and is probably the furthest the bird has ever ventured into the town. While filling up a gap at Porth Eisteddfod on Monday "Gurnos" candidly remarked that he was only killing time; but, he added, "it requires a good deal of ability to kill time and not to butcher it." A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Mr. Kemeys-Tynte, of Halswell House, Bridgwater. and Cefn Mably, Cardiff, and Dorothy, the youngest daughter of Major-general Sir Arthur and the Hon. Lady -Ellis. What the small boy will think when he finds that all tho Welsh, school boards have amal- j gamated into one association it would be inte- resting to know. It will, no doubt, give him a fright, and make him think it means more lessons. A school examiner in the North had a rather startling reply to one of his questions the other day. He inquired of a class of girls who was the patron saint of Edinburgh, whsn a httle lass promptly responded, "Lord Rose- bery." But the others need not feel cast down. They can still say that Sir William Harcourt is the patron saint of Nantyglo. Barry is putting the Local Government Board up to a few things. When the Barry District Council's 1896 Bill was before Parliament the Local Government Board opposed certain new clauses for progressive municipal government, but these are now embodied in the new Bill introduced by the Local Government Board itself. What is that about learning wisdom from babes and sucklings? From time to time we have been reminding the public that the tallest policemau in Lon- don is a, Cardiff, man. We don't intend say- ing so any more. for William Anger, the seven- footer in question, and who has lately been deforkfep^a' at the Alhambra, has just been penalised for travelling underground. without a ticket. One would think that with his length of limb Anger wouldn't bother about waiting for trains. If the efforts of the young people in the Barry Congregational chapel are successful, a number of crippled children- from the London slums will be brought to Barry Island for a holiday in ilie summer. The rent of a house has been promised, and some furniture will be given or *lent, but. a sum of JE20 is required to meet tne other expense-. Mrs. Edna Waite, Rosemont, Barry, is now busily engaged in getting this sum together, and it is to be hoped' she will get it. In the beautiful gardens of Conway Rectory there is an interesting relic of the late Sir George Osborne Morgan. His father was rector of the parish, and during his boyhood Sir George cut his initials into the bark of a large walnut tree, with the date "1840." The tree flourished during his life, but the year of his death it was blown down by a heavy gale. The rector found this interesting memorial, and preserved the portion of the trunk, with the initials:which he has surrounded with an orna- mental fence. An archaeologist writes:—"The selection of Merthyr for the Cambrian Archajological Association gathering of 1900 is gratifying, but it is early yet to name the distinguished noble- •man under whose banner the Society .s expected to range. At the Ludlow meeting it was suggested by a member that Lord Bute should be approached, and I am not divulging secrets in adding that Sir William Lewis's influence was early sought, and is to be still more directly solicited. Cardiff district being named as one gathering place, and Caerphilly Castle a. place of meeting for one day." Bangor's episcopal residence has never been an ideal place, and the "World" now sayS that "the palace at Bangor and its grounds have been sold on very advantageous terms by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for building pur- poses. As a residence this 'palace' left much to be desired, and Bishop Williams does not regret ite loss. He at present is renting two htmses—one at Upper Bangor, and the other at Pwllheli. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are .negotiating for the purchase of Glyngarth, a fijie modern house, with nice gardens and pretty grounds, which is situated on the Anglesey side of the Menai Straits, just oppo- side to Bangor. This will be the future epis- copal residence if terms can be arranged." One of the youngest of the new Fellows of the Royal Society is Professor Cctawy Lloyd Morgan. He is professor of biology and geology at the University College, Bristol, and principal of the same college. As a geologist Professor Lloyd Morgan has done a consider- able amount of original work in Pembroke- shire and the Bristol district. His chief claim to scientific distinction, however, rests upon his careful experiments and observations on the habits, instincts, and intelligence of animals, and his critical study of the true biological significance of the facts and their bearings upon gome of the most fundamental problems of organic evolution. The three volumes which he has published on these sub- jects are of very high merit. There is no sign of growth, about that memorial to the very Late Prince Llewelyn. Yet if all the speeches and the resolutions made about the memorial could be collected together and placed into a heap under a tall and wide glass case it would make as impressive a memorial of tlie great Prince-and also of the uselassuess of talk—as one could possibly wish. A thousand pounds and a piece of '.and are offered to the Calvinistic Methodists of Carnar- vonshire by Mr. B. R. Ellis. Bronant. near Car- narvon, for the founding of an qrphanago. The institution, if established, will not be con- fined to' orphans of Calvinistic Methodist parents, though it will, no doubt, be associated with the denomination. Mr. Ellis is the son of the late Rev. Robert Ellis, Ysgoldy, a pro- minent member of the Hen Go,ph of a. gene- ration ago. It Mt infrequently happens that if a novelist introduces a startling j^ct into his work a doubt is cast upon his bona-fideS. A case 111 point is brought to light, by Mr. R. Eustace, who write.; to the "Athenaeum" as follows: — "I notice in your review of The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings,' by Mrs. L. T. Meade and myself, that you throw a doubt upon the feasibility of a goblet of fine giacs being shat- tered by a note of music accordant with its own. May I be permitted to say that such is not only theoretically, but practically, possible, and has been frequently done, the glass being thrown into such violent vibrations that the adhesion of the molecules can no longer stand the 6train? I believe it is on record that Madame Patti herself broke a glass globe by her own voice in the same manner." A? wnal, two preachers conduc^ i a chapel arniversary in Breuoaahire on "Sunday. In appealing for help nt the night service, the steward informed the congregation that the morning preacher was a twopence halfpenny better preacher than the afternoon one, the collection teing that mmch greater in the morn- ing. But tha afternoon rsacher promptly vindicated his reputation by saying that, as a lady had supplemented the afternoon collection by handing in JSl. he might claim to be the better preacher by nearly a sovereign. The steward accepted too correction, and said he would have been glad if the sermon had been prolonged for another half hour. The pro- ceeds were to be devoted towards re-seating the chapel, and he thought that the more uncom- fortable the hearers were on their narrow seats the more likely would they be to respond to the effort to secure new seats. The practical appeal sant the collection up to the desired amount. As a rule reporters are too busy to indulge in practical jokes*. But a story connected with the Llanelly National Eisteddfod shows that even these dignified folk can sometimes unbend. Half a dozen of them arrived in Llanelly on the same train.and found the place crowded. One of the pressmen, a serious man of rather severe mien, waflked right up to a police inspec- tor and said. with indignation. "What do you mean. sir, by' insulting respectable people?" The inspector stared with both eyes and gasped. "What on earth's up?" "Up!" rejoined the pressman, "why. that we should be held up to public opprobrium the moment we step into your town. Tcall it downright disgraceful, and I shall certainly get the matter inquired into." "My dear sLr," said the amazed inspector, "explain what's happened." "Why that!" ex- claimed the pressman, pointing to the bills posted up e/verywhere enjoining the public to "Beware of pickpockets"—"that's what's the matter. H-ere we are, fine, respectable pick- pockets coming here to earn a living in a quiet and unostentatious way, and you people stick bills all over the -— "Now. then, move on move on, please!" THEX AND NOW. What did they drink, those bards of old Who sang on plain and mountain top? When "?Iabon" rovelI o'er moor and wold Think ye he supped on ginger pop? And what of Gwalia's warlike druids— Were.they content with lemonade? Ah, no; they quaffed far other fluids In mrany a. fiery border raid. When Jvor Bach, flying o'er the hills, The marches filled with trumpet calls, Was it with liquid from the rills He Scaled the Norman's castle walls? Did Llewellyn ever turn his back On Saxon' foe or Spanish wine? Or Owen Glendower refuse his sack Or-e'en the vintage of the Rhine? Those men have gone, and otlier days HaJve-dawned o'er Cambria's mountains; Our ways are not our fathers' ways, Though living still the fountains Th?t filled with winding light the plains, av Harlech's men once trod. Who fought 'gain-t Sassenach and Danes For country and for God. And who are Gwalia's leaders npw- And who the loudest sing;;? The "temperance" man with turbid brow Who'd guide us all by strings Through prosy paths and darksome roads, Where strength and valour dies, And quendl all life in "moral" codes That moral man denies. One swallow doesn't make a. summer, but I when the swallow is backed up by Mr. Frank Beavan's white hat we can begin getting out our summer things. Mr. Beavan's white hat made its welcome appearance yesterday. They have been laughing in Canton about I the paragraph which said that someone had heard the cuckoo near St. John's Church. A neighbour called round to say that it is all right, and that he has got the cuckoo to prove it The bird is part of a clock. Since all sections of the Celtic family will be represented at the National Eisteddfod this year it doesn't seem quite fair to leave out Sambo Jones, the negro. There are three rea- sons why he should be included. Hrs surname is nearly always Welsh, he sings well, and he looks black at all anti-Celts. An old soldier in Newport is campaigning against starvation with a pension of 4d. per day. He went before the Newport Guardians to ask them to allow him a trifle more from the parish bag. The guardians declined to allow the old man anything, and he was told he must come into the workhouse. This offer the soldier of the Queen declined, and he is still holding the fort of existence with his 4d. a day and anything else the neighbours may throw to him. "Do the priests in Ireland know the Irish language?" asked one of the Welsh deputation of a Dublin man last week. "Yes, pome of them." was the reply, "but they will not admit it. or they will get sent to the country dis- tricts where the Irish language is spoken, and they prefer the cities and the towns, so they are—most of them— 'mum' on the language question. They may, however, wake up a bit, now that Cardinal Logue, Primate of All Ire- land. is going to take the chair at the Oireachtas. As it was. so it is' A correspondent in a contemporary says that the site of the "Wes- tern Mail" offices was, years ago, a bog, which was used by the inhabitants of Cardiff after the River Taff had been diverted, "as a recep- tacle for refuse of all kinds!" That may account for tha* stale jokes, lame poetry, anti- quated anecdotes, fowl bones, and dragons' tails which arrive here in such profusion to crowd our waste paper baskets and ash tubs. It is so difficult to break the population of an ancient habit. The famed purity of the water from the Brccon Beacons, of which Cardiff has been for- tunate enough to secure a full measure, is every now and then brought to notice by the longevity of the people of Cwmtaff Valley. A few days ago one of the old inhabitants died at the advanced age of ninety-two. This was Mr. Llewelyn Davies. the farmer, of Abercar, wfl known as Llewelyn y Gof. Mr. Davies was a familiar personage on the Cwmtaff road, having throughout his long career visited Merthyr every Saturday. So long lived are the people of the valley that one old gentleman—he exceeded the age of the Abercar farmer—used to say. in the words of the poor old centena- rian woman of Llangennech, that he had been forgotten. Dr. Gurnos Jones pretends to have a poor opinion of Cardiff. "Cardiff," he told the Porth Eisteddfod on Monday, when, as usual, he was the life and soul of the gathering, "is not the metropolis of Wales according to a very. modern geography I have. Cardiff was a little village somewhere near Cowbridge. Cardiff is only an upstart of yesterday—a mushroom, and, like all upstarts, on good terms with her- self. and shakes herself by her own hand. No great man ever came from Caidiff. The metro- polis of Wales, as every true antiquary knows, is Carmarthen." And then, after enumerating the many great men produced by Carmarthen. from Merlin to Sir Lewis Morris, "Gurnos" added. "And I could not conduct an eisteddfod if I were not myself a Carmarthen man." A serious question rent the Merthyr Board of Guardians in twain on Saturday. The Government auditor is in Hereford, and the union ledger is in Merthyr. It is necessary that the book and the auditor should be brought together, but how to do it was a matter which gave the board much anxious thought and feverish speech. The auditor himself had lightly suggested by letter that the book should be sent to Hereford, but half the board stood aghast at this. One member cer- tainly hinted that the clerk's clerk might take the book to the auditor, but this idea was promptly scouted; and by a bare majority of one—so important was the matter regarded— it was decided to tell the auditor to come to Merthyf to fetch the book. Which seems rude. Welsh Nonconformists are asking whether cur French neighbours have given up the jdea of attacking this country by means of sub- marine ships and torpedoes, and intend instead to bombard us with tracts and sermons in Exeter-hall style. An advertisement in the trad,) journal known as "The Grocer has the following peculiar request:—"An Important French Firm ask good and serious agents-into the United Kingdom and its colonies for tinned goods, sardines in oil and in tomatoes, vegetables in preserves and Pates. Write with references to" -Me.srs. So-and-so, Nantes, France. Why must the agents be serious? Is there some subtle affinity between sardines and seriousness, tomatoes and temperance. Pates and piety? Again, it is more than hos- pitable for a firm resident in France to invite agents "into" the United Kingdom and its Colonies. An interesting discovery of a 211b. cannon ball has been made in clearing away an old farmhouse at the south end of Marthyr Tydfil. The farm wa-s known as the Morlanga, and dates from village and Cromwellian days, when the Mardy. a row of cottages, and the Star Inn, with church and parsonage, composed pretty nearly the early framework of the iron metro- polis. It :J a subject of discussion as to the history of the cannon ball. Cromwell destroyed Pontygwaith Works in the vicinity, and his troopers stabled their horses in the old church. One of the men was married in the village, and the Star was the scene of rejoicing. It was a fact that Cromwell used guns made at a Car- marthenshire ironworks, as noted in Carlyle, but there are doubts concerning the cannon ball being of his armoury. Bacon, the pre- decessor of the Crawshays at Cyfartlifa, made cannon for the Americans, which were shipped at Cann6n Wharf, Cardiff. Did he turn out 21- pounders also? A curious picture has found its way to Cardiff under a train of circumstances more or less typical of the change of thought now going on in the Church of England with regard to some of her doctrines and some of her so-called martyrs. During the reign of Henry Vin. not even Cardinal Wolsey played a more prominent part, in the changes which made that reign memorable than Thomas Cranmer, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, who acted as Henry's friend and adviser in the divorce of Queen Catherine, and who was afterwards during the reaction after the Reformation burnt at Oxford. His portrait in oil, limned by a contemporary artist, for many years hung in a rectory near the town of his death, but changes took place, and some forty years or so ago the then rector having embraced the High Church views, then beginning to spread there, relegated the portrait of the archbishop to a garret, and placed a portrait of a shining light of the newer school of thought in its frame and place, and after several vicissitudes the picture is now at Cardiff, and may be seen any morning before noon at Mr. John Storrie's place in the Queen-street Arcade. Cardiff. An excited multitude of men and women, accompanied by a magistrate and a commis- 'sioner of oaths, crowded into this office last night. One of the fair sex said right off: "We are here about the Canton cuckoo. It was I who told you I had heard the cuckoo in the vicinity of St. John's Church, and to-day the scandalous statement appears in your paper that the cuckoo I heard was a cuckoo clock. It was nothing of the kind. It was a real live cuckoo with a natural voice. My next door neighbour—stand out. Mrs. B.—will tell you she heard it, too. and she heard it this morning last of all. I have also been round to the other neighbours, and I have only brought here those who have heard the cuckoo near the church. They are all prepared to make their statements on oath, and we insist on your hearing it done and telling the public you are satisfied that the bird was a bird and not a clock." Here the little woman called up the solicitor; and the solicitor drew forth a large bundle of legal forms setting forth that the signatories had heard a real cuckoo near Can- ton Church. The oath was administered singly and severally to the deputation, and each mem- ber of it signed the documents, which were singly and severally witnessed by the magis- trate. The papers were then committed to our charge with the injunction that they were to be printed in full in "Wales Day by Day." After this the deputation sang "God Save the Queen," and consented to withdraw. The death, which occurred last week. of Mr. William Evans, of Ilkley, Yorkshire, one of the veterans of the British iron trade, appears to have passed almost unnoticed in his native Wales. He was one of the notable band of pioneers and chiefs which hailed the Dowlais Ironworks as its academy and training-ground, and numbered in its ranks the late Mr. John Vaughan (of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co.. Mid- dlesboroueh), the late Mr. Edward Williams, the late Mr. William Jenkins (of Consett), Mr. G. J. Snelus, F.R.S., Mr. Enoch James, Mr. Edward Riley, Mr. Edward P. Martin (the first head of the vast concern), to name only a few metallurgical giants. The late Mr. William Evans was selected over thirty years ago to undertake the management of the then cele- brated works of Bowling, Yorkshire, which, with the Low Moor Works, Bradford (controlled so ably by Mr. E. Windsor Richai>ds), the Farn- ley. and the Monkbridge Works, was distin- guished for the manufacture of the best York- shire iron, and also carried on, to a limited extent, the manufacture of crucible steel. Mr. Evans retired from the management of Bow- ling some twelve years ago. Since them the best iron trade in the "broad acres" has more or less suffered partial eclipse by the success- ful competition of steel, and it became desi- rable only three or four years back to reduce the area of the supply. Fur this purpose the iron business of the Bowling Iron Company was merged in the Low Moor Iron Company, which still carries it on. MF. Evans was better known to the la%t than to the present genera- tion of iron manufacturers. He was one of the old school, with his full share of the conser- vatisjoi. kindliness, and geniality by which it was characterised, and had lived for the last dozen years or njgre in comparative retirement a.t Ilkley. 7
- DEPLORABLE SANITATION INLLANDAFF.
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DEPLORABLE SANITATION INLLANDAFF. HOW A DISTRICT COUNCIL AIDS PUBLIC HEALTH. Rather more than a year ago the Llandaff and Dinas Powis Rural District Council entered I a strong opposition to the idea of extending the Cardiff Borough boundarie?. It will be remembered that the corporation laid some sired upon the fact, that under their western sewage scheme they would be able to provide good sewerage to the rapidly increasing district of Poutcauna. which is just on the present borough boundaries, and within the parish of Llandaff. To this the Llandaff District Council replied that they were providing a sewerage system of their own for the district, which would be much better than anything the cor- poration could provide. At that time the dis- trict counc'l displayed considerable im- patience aud anxiety about the matter. They had everything r«s.dy. and were waiting to proceed. That was the statement that they laid before the commissioner at the inquiry. This impatience has not bean pain- fully apparent. Several months elapsed before they placed the contract, and the work has been allowed to drag so much that at the present time. although the date stipulated for completion of the work has been passed for several weeks, the most important part of it is still untouched, an abominable nuisance is allowed to exist, and already there has been an outbreak of diphtheria. Hitherto the houses or the district have been drained into ce-s-pits. The most serious of these is placed in the garden of a house is Pontcinna-road. The mouth of it is about eleven yards from the back doors of two houses and eeveral feet less than that from the pantry windows. Originally this cess-pit was built to accommodate two houses, but as the number of dwellings grew the demand upon it increased and at Jasi, eight houses were drained into it. How such glaring b-eaches of two public health provisions could have been passed by the district, council is one of the most pec.iliar features of the strange course pur- sued by the council. But the existence of the (tM-pit is not the most serious phase of the matter. It is cleansed periodically by men who come with a pump -n the night unie, but not cften enough There is no pro>>er covering to it. no ventdating frhaft is provided, and the consequence is that the pit overflows even :n dry weather, and a very bad stench ari-es from it. Oh Monday and Tuesday in this week, when visited by a. "Western Mail" representative. water was standing over the wooden door of the pit. and bubbles (evidences of the fermenta- tion beneath) Were constantly rising to the surface. It is true that during the winter months there is not so much cause for com- plaint. but for some time past now the nuisance has. in the natural course, been accentuated considerably by the influence of the warm weather. The result is that. as we stated above, there has been an outbreak of diphtheria in the neighbourhood. The fact that the work is not pressed for- ward so much as it might be is not because tho authorities have received no complaints. for letters of remonstrance and appeal have been sent to the surveyor and the medical officer of health for the district repeatedly during several months past. We give below two letters from the medical officer of health. The first, is in answer to a letter from one of the inhabitants, and is as follows:- "January 3. 1899. "Dear Sir,—In reply to yours of to-day's date, I beg to say that I have seen Mr. Fraser respecting your cesspool. He tells me that, owing to its position, sur- face water gets into it and so causing overflow. Of course, all are anxious to do all in our power to prevent nuisances, but it is most difficult in a case like yours, when there is so much wet weather. Mr. Fraser will call to-morrow morning to see what can be done.— Yours faithfully, "R. PRICHAKD." It will be noticed that the medical officer of health credits the surveyor with blaming the surface water for the overflow. As the open- ing is only about 3ft. by 2ft. 6in. it does not seem that the surface water caught by such a small area can be very great. Nothing is said of the fact that the pit was made for two houses, not eight. However, there was further correspondence, and the last communication from the medical officer of health is as follows — "May 7, 1899. "Dear ^ir.—I was sorry to learn from you! letter that your child was so ill. but very glad to hear when I called at your house last night that an improvement had set in. The drainage of Pontcanna has given the council a great deal of trouble and expense. I know of no autho- rity who would have treated the matter so libe- rally. We are now pushing on with the drain- age scheme as fast as possible. It would have been carried out long ago but for the dog-in- the-manger obstruction of the Cardiff Corpora- tion. No serious nuisance shpuld occur under the present system if the contractor does his work as he is paid to do. If yon or anyone else should zes negligence in this matter please inform me or Mr. Fraser—privately—and we shall see to it at once. It is impossible we can see every defect in such a large district.—Yours faithfully. "R. PRICHARD." It may be noted, in passing, that the desire for private communications follows an inti- mation that unless the authority shows more activity, letters will be written to the papers. But why blame the surface water in January and the corporation in May. when the Llandaff and Dinas Powis Rural District Council had their scheme in hand at least two years ago?
"A SPLENDID P ..!UPER,"
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"A SPLENDID P .UPER," V-OUHCILLOTt GOOD AND THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. At Saturday's meeting of the Cardiff Guar- dians. the Rev. J. R. Buckley (vice-chairman) presiding, Mr. Price-Jones, in accordance with notice, proposed a resolution in support of the principle contained in a circular letter from the West Ham Union, advocating that no reci- pient of out-relief should be disfranchised. It was, he contended, a hardship to many work- ing men who, through stress of circumstances beyond their control, applied for relief, that they should, in consequence, be deprived of the rights of citizenship. The operation of the law in this matter was at present cruel and un- just. Mr. W. J. Hall seconded the motion. Mr. Thatcher argued that the existence of ex- treme cases afforded no justification for the change proposed. Mr. Good was in favour of the resolution, and, in reply to Mr. Thatcher, expressed the opinion that splendid, though impecunious. members of the aristocracy should be dealt with as paupers. As a.n instance of a splendid pauper, he mentioned his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who had never earned any- thing, a.nd could not be said to have been a wealth producer. (Laughter). Mr. Thatcher: That is not the point. Mr. Alexander: Yes. it is. (More laughter.) Mr. Good (continuing) said the cases mentioned by Mr. Price Jones were those of workers and wealth-producers, whereas the Duke of Cambridge, never having worked or produced anything, was. he re- iterated, a splendid pauper—(laughter)—and yet he had received out of the public purse huge sums to which, in justice, he was not entitled. And take the nembera of the aristocracy. They had never done a day's work. but they were in receipt of considerable sums in out-relief. Onlcer*. in the Army a.nd Navy who had seen no active service, or very little, retired at middle age, and in full blood, and they like- wise were provided with out-relief. He would accept Mr. Thatcher's arguments if only he would commence at the top instead of at the bottom. (Laughter.) The motion was then put and carried, 2C voting for and 17 against, as follow:—For: The Revg. W. H. Brady, John Williams, and E. S. Roberts. Mrs. Mullin, Mrs. Lester Jones, Messrs. F. J. Beavan, Price-Jones, John Enoch. Ehomas F. J. Beavan, Price-Jones, John Enoch. Ehomas Evans. W. J. Travers, A. Good, D. Brown. W. 8. Crosgman, Sam Jones, R. Proud, W. J. Hall, E. J. Cross. R. A. Lewis, T. Thomas (Barry), and Eli R«es. Against: The Rev. H. Williams, Messrs. David Morgan, D. Loagher. William Evans, D. T. Alexander. O. Williams. R. Suther- land. J. Thomas. O. Thomas, William Lewis, David Evans, J. L. Jenkins, T. Jenkins (St. John), J. R. Llewellyn, Lewis Rees, Rees Thomas, and H. J. Thatcher. Miss Rees Jones, Mr. C. F. Sanders, and Mr. Evan Watkins were neutral. A TRIBUTE TO THE SANATORIUM. Mrs. Mullin proposed that the best thanks of the hoard be tendered to the health com- mittee of the Cardiff Corporation for the skil- ful way in which eighteen children from the Ely Schools, now cbnvale-cent. had been treated for scarlet fever in the sanatorium.—Mr. Price- Jones seconded the resolution, which wis adopted.
CLAIM AGAINST A BBIDGEND PUBLICA*.I
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CLAIM AGAINST A BBIDGEND PUBLICA*. An action which has caused considerable comment locally was heard at Bridgend Police- court on Saturday (before Mr. R. W. Llewellyn and other magistrates). Mr. Isaac Griffiths, the proprietor of the York Hotel, Bridg- end, was charged with committing an assault upon James Thomas, Langdon's Farm, Pyie.— Mr. Allen, for the prosecutor, alleged that Thomas went to the hotel in company with some friends to transact some business, and that, as Griffiths was writing out a cheque for a man named Jones, Thomas warned the latter to see that the amount of the cheque was duly entered on the counterfoil, whereupon Grimtha ] gave him a back-handed blow, damaging his lip.—Mr. T. J. Hughes, in the cross-examination of witnesses, elicited that Thomas made use of the remarit, "See that you get a receipt, or you may have to pay the amount again." and that Griffiths did not strike Thomas, but ejected him from the house.—The Blench, without hearing my evidence for the defence, dismissed the ca.se..
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NEW WORKMEN'S INSTITUTE AT MOUNTAIN ASH. OPENING CEREMONY BY LADY ABERDARE. The new workmen's institute and public-hall at Mountain Ash. which has been described as the best of its kind in South Wales exclusively owned by workmen, was formally opened on Monday by Lady Abcrdare, in the presence of a. huge number of people. Her ladyship wai accompanied on her visit by the Right Hon. Lord Aberdare. The projection of the new hall may be said to be due to the unaided efforts of Messrs. Nixon's Navigation Company's work- men. The public-hall, 92ft. by 62ft., will seat 1.250 adults. The large stage, with proscenium arch and ante-rooms, accommodates a choir of 200 voices. The hall and stage together, crowded by a, political or workmen's mass meet- ing, will contain 2,000 people. Underneath are the reading-room, library, club-room, lpcture- hall, and three committee-rooms. An exceptional feature are the baths, consisting of swimming bath, four plunge baths, a shower bath, dresa- ing-bjxes, and lavatories.—The opening pro- ceedings were presided over by Mr. W. S. Davies, manager of Messrs. Nixon's collieries.— Alderman W. Jones, the secretary, stated that the committee had had great difficulty with the site question, but through the intercession of the present Lord Aberdare the company had given up their rights, and Lord Aberdare leased the ground for 99 years at the nominal rental of lis." a year. They had received handsome subscriptions also, including £500 from Messrs.. Nixon's Company, and £50 from Lady Aber- dare, and promises of books had been made.—"O Fryniau Caersalem" having been sung. Mr. David Edwards handed a silver key, beautifully inscribed, to Lady Aber- dare, who said she had much pleasure in opening the institute. Her ladyship expressed her great admiration of the energy and public spirit of all those concerned, and congratulated them upon their great success. The proceedings were continued in the hall. The Mountain Ash Male Voice Party, in charge of Mr. D. J. Morgan, deputy-conductor, gave a, splendid rendering of The Destruction of Gaza." On the proposition of Mr. W. P. Bowden. a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Lady and Lord Aberdare for making the journey from London for the purpose of opening the institute. Lord Aberdare, in returning thanks, expressed his great admiration of the efforts of the men in providing such a splendid institute, and referred to the opening of the old Town-hall on the 4th of June. 1866. when there were only three persons present, which was a big contrast to the present occasion, when the great hall had almost as many as it could hold. He remembered somewhere about 35 years ago when, at the first g:-eat meeting of the United Sunday School, the then vicar asked the late Lord Aberdare to suggest a motto, and he gave the following: -"Out of the depths I have sought thee." Human agencies might be energetic and do many tilings, but he would venture to say that nothing could be done without the help of higher agencies, and he suggested that the following; motto be adopted for that insti- tute:—"O'r dyfnder y llefain arnait." He thought the motto would be a truly appro- priate one ill a colliery district like that where the people were mainly working in the depths of the earth; and he congratulated the people upon the success of their undertaking. His lordship further thanked the people for the beautiful key, and said that it was her lady- ship's sincere wish to reach the hearts of the people of Mountain Ash, and it was her desire to do all in her power towards alleviating the suffering and improving the condition of the people of the district. Various votes of thanks followed, and the proceedings closed by singing the National Anthem. A miscellaneous concert was held in the even- ing.
THE CARDIFF HIBERNIA SOCIETY,
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THE CARDIFF HIBERNIA SOCIETY, GREAT FALLING OFF IN MEMBER- SHIP. The languishing state of the Cardiff Hibernia Benefit Society suggests the query whether the vast majority of the Irishmen of this town are re illy a thrifty people. The Order was set on foot 54 years ago. When local Irishmen num- bered 2,000 there were 400 members enrolled. Now the 2,000 has increased to something like 20.000 the society's membership has decreased to less than 200, and the outlook is by no means promising, with old men a burden upon the funds, and young ones, who should be the main stay, holding entirely aloof. The annual fete and gala held on Monday on behalf of the funds may do something to rehabilitate the society. The members, in their picturesque regalia, in the morning paraded the principal streets, holding aloft pictures of liberators and friends of the Irish raoe, the great O'Connell, Manning, and others whose example and teaching might well be followed at this junc- ture. Stirring national music was played by St. David's and St. Peter's Bands, the officers pre- sent including William Dacey (president), Thomas O'Leary (secretary), Martin Quigley (treasurer), and J. Donovan. J. M'Carthy, Michael Macnamara, and William Reardon (stewards). There was also a contingent from Barry. Before proceeding to the fete at the Sophia Gardens Field a halt was made at St. David's Church, where a service was conducted by Father Alphonsus Van Den Heuvel. and joined in with much devotion. Father Alphonsus preached from the text, Th;.s is My commandment-that ye love one another as I have loved you." He pointed ont vliat Socialism could not claim the honour of form- ing combinations so united as theirs, for the ideas underlying them were derived from and festered by the Catholic Church, which had always been faithful to the principles of her founder. He rejoiced they had such a society, and hoped it would increase, and that Catholics would always attach them6elves to a Catholic Society Clerical advice is supposed to have special weight with Roman Catholics, and especiaily with Irish Catholics, and here, if ever there was one, is a case in which it should be fol- lowed.
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MADAMEi PATH'S CONCERT. Madame Adelina Patti made her first appear- ance this season at the Royal Albert-hall on Thursday evening, receiving an enthusiastic greeting from an audience of vast proportions. Thronged, indeed, in almost every part was the great concert-rcom at Kensington-gore, and the famous singer, who seemed in the best of health and spirits, was, of course, made much of by her countless admirers, who, eager to listen as long as Madame Patti would consent to pour her songs into their ears, pressed their claims upon the smiling prima donna in the usual way. Such opportunities of enjoyment come all too freely, and amateurs wisely make I the most of them, though in the .ase of the diva it would certainly seem as if Time himself, captivated by the splendid gifts of the great artist, had decided to grant a special exemption from his unwelcome attentions. Delightful it was on Thursday evening once more to hear Donizetti's familiar Cavatina, "0 Luce di quest' anima," so engag- ingly decked out with all those graces of style that Madame Patti ever brings to it s interpretation, while in another favourite operatic excerpt, Caro nome," from Rigo- letto," the singer's eloquence, fluency, and neatness of execution did not fail as of yore to impress and charm her audience. Encores had ti be conceded as a matter of course; so after the first song came Mozart's Batti, Batti." to be followed later by Lotti's Pur dicesti," which was exquisitely touched by the gifted singer. Later tu the evening Madame Patti offered a deeply pathetic and moving rendering of Handel's Angel's ever bright and fair, providing, indeed, a lesson for the younger generation of oratorio singers, who may wpn pay close attention to her reading and treat- ment. of this beautiful excerpt. Applause was renewed again and again until Madame Patti returned to the platform to sing" Home, Sweet Home," in her most expressive manner, before she departed, carrying away with her numerous handsome floral gifts. Among other enjoyable features of the concert was Mr. Edward Lloyd's splendid impassioned delivery of the serenade. When the Orb of Day reposing," from Weber's Euryanthe." Miss Maud Santley and Mr. Herbert Grover also contributed songs; while Miss Leonora Jackson and Miss Adela Verne, two of the youngest and most talented artistes that grace our concert platforms, achieved notable success with their violin and pianoforte solos. Mr. H. C. Tonking. presiding at the organ, appropriately saluted the heroine of the evening with Mendelssohn's Wedding March," and the duties of accompanist were discharged by Messrs. Wilhelm Ganz and F. T. Watkis.
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CALVINISTIC METHODISTS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CONCLUDING CONFERENCE. The General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales continued its deliberations on Thursday in the FitzClarence- street Chapel, Liverpool, the moderator (the Rev. Evan Phillips, of Newcastle Emlyn) again presid ng. The sitting having been opened with devotional exercises, and the minutes of the two previous meetings having been con- firmed, Mr. Thomas Owen (Aberystwith) submitted the report of the Sunday School committee, dealing w th details of "fields of labour" examinations. In reply to the Rev. Thomas Levi. Mr. Owen said that the statistics of the Sunday School committee did not agree with those of the statistic ans which were received on the previous day. Instead of a, decrease of 2,000 in the number of scholars in Flintshire, the com- mittee's returns showed a, decrease of only 216, and. instead of a decrease of 300 in North Cardigan, there was a slight increase. He believed that the committee's figures, which were sent in every two months, and checked, were trustworthy. The Rev. David Roberts, of Rhiw, the senior examiner, presented a report on the con- nexional examinations held last month, show- ing that out of 77 candidates only 25 had passed. The maximum number of marks was 200, and the three highest candidates were (1) Miss Grace Thomas, Pentraeth, Anglesey, 139; (2), David William Davies, Tylorstown, 131; and (3) R chard Evans, Blaenau Festiniog, 130. Con- siderable discussion ensued, and deep regret was expressed at the unsatisfactory result of the examinations. The Rev. John Morgan Jones submitted the following resolution in regard to the proposed "End of the Century" Fund:—"That this assembly warmly commends the proposal to mark the clcfte of the century by a hand- some connexional collection as a thank- offering to God for His guidance and care through past years; that we are of opinion that the fund should reach at least £ 100,000, that it should be devoted to purposes to be hereafter determined, that we trusit that the North and South Wales Associa- tions will take the matter up heartily, and that a committee be appointed to draw up a scheme to be submitted to the associations." The Rev. John Hughes (Liverpool) seconded, and the resolution was adopted without dis- oussion. The Rev. W. O. Jones (Liverpool) submitted the report of the educational committee, which contained details of an inquiry which had been made by the committee through the medium of the monthly meetings into the state of ele- mentary and secondary education throughout Wales, jrominence being given to the grievances that many Nonoonformist children were com- pelled to attend Church of England schools, and that the conscience clause had until lately been a dead letter. Most of the replies given showed that pretty presents and favours of all sorts were made use of by clergymen and their assistants to attract to sectarian schools and to proselytise Noncon- formist children, and the children were often forced to attend church on special occasions. The committee expressed a strong feeling in favour of the retention of the Welsh Central Board. A resolution expressing the strong opinion of the assembly that a clause in the charter of the university empowering theology being made a part of the B.A. course should be put into operation was carried. On behalf of the communications committee. The Rev. Griffith Ellis moved a series of reso- lutions (1) emphatically protesting against the publication of the "Daily Telegraph" on Sun- day and rejoicing to learn that the Sunday issue of the "Daily Mail" had been discon- tinued; (2) deeply regretting that Sunday sail- ings had been arranged from Liverpool to various places on the North Wales coast, and from Swansea to places in the South-west of England; (3) recording the alarm of the assembly at the various signs of the decline of Sabbath observance in Wales, one of which was the recent playing of a. football match by a Welsh club, though not on Welsh soil, and trusting that the evil w-ould not be allowed to spread; and (4) disapproving of the action of the Cardiff Town Council in opening their museum and art gallerie3 on Sundays.—Mr. William Morgan (Pant, Dowlais) seconded, and the resolutions were passed. The Rev. W. Rees Dav:es moved, and Mr. William Thomas (Aberystwith) seconded, another resolution protecting against the Sun- day concerts at Bangor, Llandudno, Aber- ystwith, and other Welsh towns.-This resolu- tion was also adopted. The chapel was well filled in the evening, when the Rev. T. J. Wheldon (Bangor) delivered the annual Davies Lecture on the -ubject, "The Holy Spirit According to St. John."
DEVIL'S BRIDGE TO BE REMOVED.
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DEVIL'S BRIDGE TO BE REMOVED. A quarterly meeting of the Cardigan- shire County Council was held at the Town-hall, Lampeter. on Thursday. Mr. J. C. Harford, Falcondale, presiding. —A letter wis read from the Local Government Board refusing to appoint an arbitrator to adjudicate upon the financial difficulties which have arisen between Cardigan- shire and the two other counties (Carmarthen- shire and Pembrokeshire) affiliated to the Car- marthen Lunatic Asylum.—The Surveyor pre- sented plans of a new stone bridge of three arches over the chasm to re-place the present- Devil's Bridge, near Aberjstwith. at an esti- mated copt of £ 2,500.—The matter was again referred to a committee.—Mr. C. M. Williams presented the report of the finance committee, which recommended that a county rate of 71d. in the £ be granted for the year, together witn intermediate education and technical instruc- tion rates of id. each.—The annual budget showed that during the past year the receipts had totalled £20.430, an increase of JB286 over the estimated receipts, and the expenditure had amounted to £19,097, or JE689 less than the esti- mated payments.
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ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT AT SWANSEA. H. Walter Nicholson, of 6. Norfolk-street, was brought up in custody (before the Swansea magistrates) on Saturday morning, charged that, being a clerk or servant of the Swansea United District of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, he did fraudulently embezzle and steal the sum of £25, the moneys of his em- ployers. Mr. Leeder. for the prosecution, explained that the case was one of the embezzlement of a specific sum of £ 25. It was one portion of a series, possibly, of similar offences, but he was only anxious to offer sufficient evidence that day. and than to ask for a remand. In the interests, perhaps, of the defendant himself, a remand would be absolutely necessary. The defendant joined in the application, say- ing that he would like to have a chance of seoing the hooks and of explaining matters, which would make it very much lighter for himself. He asked for bail, and said sureties had promised to attend. The Magistrates granted a remand till Thurs- day, and said they would release defendant on bail, himself in £ 50 and two sureties in jE25 each.
FIRE AT TINTERN.
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FIRE AT TINTERN. At about two o'clock on Saturday morning a messenger came for the Chepstow Fire Brigade, and in a little over half an hour the captain got his men together. They were soon at the scene of the fire, which was at Tin tern. The office of the postmaster, Mr. Pugh's grocery stores, and two large dwelling-honses were all in one huge blaze. The premises are situated on the bank of the river Wye, so there was plenty of water, but the fire had got such a hold that the whole place was gutted before the flames were mastered. The houses, shop, Ac., are the property of Miss Roberts, and it is believed that her premises and Mr. Pugh's effects are insured. Of conree, there are quantities of stamps, orders, letters, &c.. destroyed, and much trouble and inconvenience will be ex- perienced.
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WORK IN THE HOUSE Of COMMONS, VOTING AND ATTENDANCE V LOCAL MEMBERS. *effi The House of Commons has been e industrious thia session. While there divisions up to Easter, there have been 89 e.yL^ making 159 up to Whitsuntide, or 37 more last year. The attendance of members, as dit- division lists show. has been exceedingly c\LjaJ able and unusually good. The voting Of members was as follows:- WALES. W. Abraham (Rhondda), 20; M. «jliS Davies (Cardiganshire), 81; T. E- (Merionethshire), 34; S. T. Evans (GlaJB^^f, shire). 44; E. J. Griffiths (Anglesey), 26; Howell (Denbigh District), 79; A. C. Owen (Montgomeryshire), 56; Sir J'J' _eroi>* I (Carmarthen District. 33; D. Brynmor J (Swansea District), 43; W. Jones (Oarn shire, Arvon). 120; General Laurie (Peinp gjf District), 71; J. H. Lewis (Flint District), 96' jg; J. T. D. Llewelyn, Bart. (Swansea To*0'* jjj, D. Lloyd-George (Carnarvon District), 74; rLjjjL- Maclean (Cardiff). 16; Sir P. C. J. Miltile (Radnorshire), 40; J. Lloyd Morgan (Carxnar;tí1ti:- shire. W.), 68; W. Pritchard Morgan Tydfil), 29; C. Morley (Brecknockshire). Moss (East Denbighshire), 45; J. Philipps (Pembrokeshire), 65; Major Jones (Montgomery District), 78, D- (Glamorganshire, Gower), 12; J. B. (Carnarvonshire. Eifion), 84; J. H. (Denbighshire, West, Vale of Clwyd), 88; Smith (Flintshire), 62; Abel Thomas marthenshire, E.). 33; Alfred Thomas ganshire, E.), 82; D. A. Thomas (Merthyr Ty 95; Major W. H. Wyndham-Quin South), 91. MONMOUTHSHIRE. s l0; The Right Hon. Sir W. Harcourt (West), Q R. M'Kenna (North), 81; Colonel the Hon. Morgan (South), 41; A. Spicer (Monmouth trict), 89. ■
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GLAMORGAN VOLUNTEER IX CAMP, .rØ.¡1 On Sunday the 1st and 2nd Glamorgan y, lery Volunteers proceeded by special trai11 j Plymouth, where they will go under canvas a week on Staddon Heights, where they wli!iCb'4 trained in the use of the heavy guns {fV,- they will be called upon to use if the should require their services. The headq*12!» companies of the 2nd Glamorgan asse*11 ^e(,i early, and marched, about 300 strong. the command of Colonel Fisher, to the G1| Western Station. Here they were detachments of the outlying companies Penartli, Earry, and Bridgend. The 1st GlaP'^ j gan Volunteer Artillery, whose headqua^f.)j are at Swansea, left by a train at 7.55 £$'.■ picked up detachments of other eompaOieS Landore, Llansamlet, Xeath, Briton Ferry, The men presented a serviceable appeara^(^ and seemed quite fit for the heavy work W they will have to perform during the week- (BY A PLYMOUTH CORRESPONDENT- 'ilia Bba<l<ion Hoigrhta, near PlvmOHtii, j^,j| Sunday presented an animated spectacle- two Welsh brigades and one Gloucester (j'r of Volunteer Artillery marched in for a training. Already the Devon Militia Art*1 ^jf* were on the scene, being either accomffl in the fort or quartered under canvas, arrival of the 1st Gloucester Volunteer Artil' ■■ from Bristol, and the 1st and 2nd Glamol*^f Volunteer Artillery, from Swansea and rjispeotively, «:part ironv th3 regular Art"1 '"(j- there and at Bovisand, four well set UP fairly strong brigades of gunner Voltint^J^' were brought from their several headqna^j. by special Great Western trains, due at road at 2.0 p.m.. 3.15 p.m.and 4.0 p.m- <■ North-road London and South Western took charge of the specials, and steamed over the new line to the South Heights at Turnchapel. There were a number of but ultimately everything* was satisfa^0^ accomplished. During their stay on Heights (until Saturday next) the v ill be exercised in quick-firing and h^^y armaments at Bovisand, and on Wedne'- they will be brought across to Devonp0^ participate in a combined naval and nuh parade in the Brickfiale's, in honour 0 Majesty's eightieth birthday. The parties of all three brigades arrived on day evening. Colonel Sir Edward Hill, k- is in supreme command of both brigade^. other officers are:—1st Glamorgan; n, J. W. Williams, Colonel A. S. Gardner, j{. Captains F. W. Kendal, J. M. Davey, Kempthorne, F. Bradford, and G. T. Gre^gj Lieutenants J. L. Dunn and L. R. Second-lieutenants S. W. Thomas and B. Beor, Captain and Adjutant C. E. Bads', £ j}. and Surgeon-lieutenant D. A. Davies, -p., 2nd Glamorgan.: Colonel H. O. Fisher, g. Lieutenant-colonel E. C. Fry, V.D., Major Thomas, V.D., Gaptains J. J. Hancock,$. Brain, F. G. B. Cooke, M. H. Ingram, J*' Stallybrass, H. J. Simpson, and W: Lewis, Lieutenants W. B. Bradley. ajit* Grover, and E. Gunn, Second-lieut«B f. A. L. Moon, Captain and Adjutant £ W. Dent, R.A., and Surgeon-lieutenants j, J. R. C. Simons and C. H. D. Mon jjy M.B. The last brigade to arrive, after 5.30 p.m., was the 1st Gloucester teer Artillery, under Colonel-comm^11 of F. C. Ord. The approximate streng^^ji. each of the three brigades is:—1st Glani°r5gi- 220; 2nd Glamorgan, 349; and 1st 420. All three brigades retain the old-fash10^ 0( busby, and provide their own uniforms °^0#' their own funds, and are, consequently, derfully well found. Each regiment. possesses a band of more than average & Tt Altogether, the three units looked very .Ltbet on marching into camp, although the was anything but propitious.
MEETHYE GUAHDIANS AND AITDITOB.…
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MEETHYE GUAHDIANS AND AITDITOB. a At the weekly meeting of the Merthyr of Guardians on Saturday, Mr. John presiding, the Clerk said he had written auditor with reference to sending on the ,yjjj# ledger to him. so that he might reasons for surcharging the guardians (fifi relief given in cash to colliers durinf?. strike. Mr. Dolby afterwards wrote Bridgend saying that he was not then but be had since written from Hereford mating that he was now in a position the entry.—Mr. Thomas Morris the Rev. J. Hathren Davies seconded. ledger be sent to the auditor at Herefofr^jjS charge of Mr. James's clerk.—Mr. David {p^ thought that the auditor should > Merthyr to enter his reasons for the surcO in the book, and he moved, as an £ that, the ledger be not sent to Hereford- ■■ T)a\id Evans seconded. and asked clerk whether the surcharge would in°W the whole of the relief given in money-' Clerk replied that for the present it only the relief given in cash in the Part,10ot*1' cases objected to by the Powell-Duffr.V1 pany.—Upon a division the amendment ^e( carried by thirteen votes to twelve.—A was then read from Mr. Dolby formally ° (b* ing a surcharge of £ 26 18s. 5id.. beinZ^ifl amount of out-relief iu money given to Cc -fit- able-bodied colliers on strike.—Replying ■ Joseph Owen, the Clerk said it would be V t,ure to appeal until the guardians heard the Local Government Board.—A preceP^jjftt^' received from the Breconshire County for £ 269 9s. 4d.. payable on the 30th of ^o^- The seal of the board was affixed to a gage deed for a loan of £ 1,700 from the Works Loan Commissioners, bearing int*r J5$?•' 2j per cent.. :n respect of the erection 0 kitchen block at the new infirmary.
NEW CHTJBCH AT TALGAE®^^)
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NEW CHTJBCH AT The Lord Bishop of St. David's dedicate gg, Friday the new church erected at Taii? situate in the parish of Capel CynoO- church has seating accommodation for 1 !>'■■■' is built in accordance with the the Incorporated Church Building which contributed £ 25 towards the fund. The kneeling boards, seats, vent* aud the heating apparatus of the chur^ \'t been carefully arranged. The Bishop ascension of Christ a's the subject of a 1 «\i<>* ful and eloquent discourse. The »!* hawddgar yw Dy bebyll" <"0 how ain*?lfed Thy dwellings") (Dr. Parry), was rend j wri- the choir. The ohurch, which was ereZ Mr. D. Lewis, contractor. Talgarrcs^ ol»<* designed by, and built under the the Rev. T. M. Williams, vicar of