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WEEK. BY WEEK. Lort; and Lady Emlyn have taken a hoase near Slough. Otice on a time—in 1666-a John Thomas paid' ten shillings tax on "colemines" at Aberdare. Some 12.000 naosentrer^ made the ascent of Snowdcn by the mountain tramway last sum- m-r. It is remarked that one of the features of temperance conferences iu South Wales is the absence of Baptist ministers. Little Boers will soon be learning English on Welsh slates. The first consignment -of Welsh elates for the Transvaal haa just been hhipped from Portmadoc. liaif the doctors who went out to South Afrif") with the Welsh Hospital have died of fever—all of them fins men and a credit to their profession. An old joke cropped up in a new guise in the Cardiff Police-court yesterday. Did he strike you in your own premises?" asked the solicitor. No, sir, on my nose," was the reply. A curious kind of land tenure is mentioned in the Cardiff Records." Christopher Mathews held "Penrhyw Menych" "by the will of God," paying yearly s'x shillings and eight- penes. Some lawyer did that. When the late Mr. C. R. M. Talbot was going over his estate one day during an election, he came upon a servor, and asked him whether he was a Liberal or Conservative. "Not one of 'era, sir," wa.s the reply, "I'm the mole- catcher." So methodically is everything now done in the Cardiff School Board offices that applicants for positions under the board are warned that their applications must be written on foolscap papsr. If an ordinary note-paper letter arrives everybody is upset. Sir Henry Harben, who once fought Sir Edward Reed for the representation of Cardiff and came near to winning, is one of the new councillors in Hampstead Borough. Rear- admiral Bickford is one of his colleagues, and Sir Walter Besant took a keen interest in the contest. A story current about the Bishop of London just now represents him as a bored listener to a windy speech. Turning to a fellow-sufferer, lie said, "Do you know that speaker? "No," was the answer. "I do," said the bishop; "he speaks under many aliases, but hia name is Thomas Rot." The eisteddfod easay has grown into a for- midable affair. The prize essay of the Rev. E. W. Davies.^ Ton. Ystrad. on Welsh Indus- tries" contains 600 closely-written foolscap pages, and weighs, with the binding, 121b. One of the adjudicators took a fortnight to read it, All this is not surprising, as the subject demands encyclopaedic treatment. There is no end to the joke started by the Liverpool Eisteddfod committee when they published the Welsh motto for Truth against the World in such a way that it read The Husbands against the World." It was all dons through printing "gwyr for gwir," and now an English paper has printed it gwer," so that it reads, The Suet (or fat) against the World." The temptations of the high wages now pre- vailing in the Welsh coal pita are attracting all cJas?e3 and a fair sprinkling of nationalities. In the Rhondda Valley Spaniards and Italians are to be met with. and in the Plymouth Col- lieries the 'atest comers have been Jews. Ply- mouth, used to attract the Jews in the old imnwolrk3 days; cne named Fligalsteiu was a well-known worker at the rolls. Since the appointment of Bishop Watkin Williams t'o Bangor the Dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph have been amalgamated for ordina- tion purposes, the ordination services being held alternately at the two cathedrals named. A movement was started to combine the two dioceses in another direction by holding the annual diocesan conferences alternately, but the clergy of Bangor objected, and the project was allowed to drop. It is stated that Sir William Huggins has been nominated to succeed Lord Lister in the presidency of the Royal Society. It will be recollected that the great physicist was presi- dent of the British Association on the occa- sion of its Cardiff visit. His distinguished wife is second in energy and eminence in the line of celestial chemistry only to her hus- band, who. though seventy-six years of age, is as eager in research as ever. Dr. Wayland, of Philadelphia. U.S.A., in a fine vein of sarcasm, asked the following ques- tion :—" What does Ghoughphtheightteeau spell?" "Well." said the doctor in answer to his own question, "according to the following rule it spells 'potato.' Gh stands for P. as in the last letters of hiccough; ough for 0, as in dough; phth for t, as in phthisis; eigh for a. a" in neighbour; tt for t. as in gazette; and eau for o, as in beau. Thus yon have The Welsh Congregational chapel at Brecon known as the Plough has a history dating back to 1650. The present pastor, the Rev. Dr. Bowen Jones, is both venerable and ver- satile. In addition to the possession of a high degree of pulpit power, he is an effective plat- form speaker, an authority on all matters per- taining to Welsh music, and for the past six- teenyeal's has edited "Cenad Hedd." If spared until the 1st of August next Dr. Jones will have completed half a century in the ministry, and it is then his intention to retire. In its quarterly notes on Roman Britain the "Antiquary" refers to Cardiff and Caerwent as follows:—At Caerwent the excavations com- menced last year have been duly continued this season, principally under the charge of Mr. Thomas Ashby. The building with a central peristyle—it is not a "courtyard" house of the Romano-British typ^—has been more fully expired, and other buildings examined in whole or part. Many features in these are puzzling, especially the variations in level. which suggest that what is now a fairly flat hill-top must in Roman times have been very diversified. Among the smaller finds are two tiny fragments of inscriptions, much pottery, some coins, wall-plaster. Ac., and some iron slag, supposed to indicate some kind of wór ing" in that metal. The excavations will b continued next year, and certainly they deserve to be continued. Further west. at Cardiff Castle, the removal of the great earthen rampart on the cast and north side of the Outer Ward has revealed plain traces of a Roman fort. and indeed probably of two forte. The work has been proceeding for three years, and has now reached, not perhaps its archaeo- logical conclusion, but, at any rate. a very interesting position. When a bishop has to summon the clergy together to elect two proctors to attend con- vocation he has to word his letter as fol- lows:— CITATION TO RECTORS. VICARS, AND PERPETUAL CURATES. RICHARD, by Divine Permission Bishop of Llandaff. To our well-beloved in Christ the Rectors. Vicars, and Perpetual Curates of our Diocese, Greeting: By virtue of a mandate to us directed. We do hereby citfe and monish you and each of you, to appear before us. our Vicar-Gcneral. his Surrogate, or other competent Judge in this behalf, at the Con- sistory Court within the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. in the City of Llan- daff'and County of Glamorgan, on Friday, the Nineteenth day of October. 1900, at Twelve o'clock at noon. then aJictthere to elect two sufficient Proctors on the behalf of the Clergy of the Diocese of Llandaff, to appear at the Convocation and Congregation to be held before the Most Reverend Father in God. Frederick, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury. Primate and Metropolitan of all England, his Substitute, or Commissary in this beh'alf. in the Chanter House of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. London, on Friday, the Second day of November next ensuing. with continuation and prorogation of days then following, and places, if it be necessary to be rlone. to treat upon arduous 8i*d weiirhty affairs, which shall concern the state an4 welfare, public good, and defence of this Kingdom, and the subjects thereof; and tn do all such other matters and thincrs as shall be then and there required. Given under the Seal (which in this behalf we use"i this Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred, and in the eighteenth year of our consecration. A quiet-looking man got into the train at Swinrlrnv this w-eek and his retiring d-"sno«itiin struck the other passengers. A few attempts to draw him into conversation did not suc- ceed until someone at last mentioned a Welsh Vshor). Then the auiet man spoke. That bishop." he said, with evident feeling, "is the best man living." His interruption was by thi- time so unexpected that the other passengers, including a clergyman, a couple of merchants and two ladies, looked round surprised. The quiet man noticed their demeanour, and went on to speak. gently, and in sad, mellifluous voice. "The chief bitterness of -life," he said. "is that you can't live it over again in the light of the knowledge that grows with the years. One gets to know so many things too late and then to know is to regret. Look at my case. As a boy I robbed orchards, and was seat fr-.m school because I stole from the o'hor hoys. I became a clerk on a salary so small that, it was a crime in itself, and led to other crimes, and I was sent to prison. Since then I have been back to that place twice, and would doubtless have ended my life there hut for the bishop of whom you spoke just now. He took me in hand, made me live at the Palace, treated me as a brother, and for the last four years I have heen living in a way. to earn his respect which I would rather die than lose." All the passengers became deeply interested, and the rest of the conversation was reminiscent and encouraging. At New- port most of the passengers got up to leave, and were standing round gathering their wraps, when the quiet mac. with a "beg par- don" to ;h'9 one ar-1 "Sorry to trouble you" to anoth:r, brushed past hurriedly, knocking again.st one and the ofier in his haste, and with a "Good afternoon" jumped out and wai eeen no more. And in that little bustle th^ quiet man had emptied nearly every pocket in the crowd and made probably his best haul for weeks. Grangetown was the ward mostly concerned in the mayoral wrangle at Cardiff, and. indeed, the whole three members were mentioned for offioe. Mr. Brain is the present mayor, and the other two members were invited to follow. Now that the new Money-lenders Act has come into force we shall probably find the IT.ouey-lenders taking to selling coal. They won't be allowed any more to charge 50 per cent. for lending gold; but they can make 190 per cent. profit on coal and win applause for it. A literary society in Llanelly. so the "Guardian" says, is to discuss at its next meet- ing, "Is Welsh a good language to swear in?" Having once inadvertently trod on "Idriswyn's" I-et corn we can confidently affirm that the Welsh language is adequate for all reasonable outbursts. Evidently the Rev. Robert Thomas, of Llan- erchymedd, is a man of humonr. and even his annual reports DO the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association contain flashes of wit. He reported this week that Anglesoa had always been represented in Parliament by its own sons—it had not returned one Conservative from the days of Adam down to the present time. Tht connexion continued to sustain great losses in the removal of workcrr—Heaven and Liverpool being the two places which did Anglesea a great deal of harm. A thrill of awe ran through Barry's Restau- rant as thres highly respected gentlemen from a neighbouring town ruahed in, and the leader called out hurriedly, "Coffee for tea and two for one!" The young lady behind the counter gazed with rcnpectful awe at the speaker, and tried to shake out the sentence into an intelligible form. One of the gent.le- men came to the rescue when he had finished laughing, and said, "You see, miss, we're in a big hurry to catch the train. My friend means coffce for two. and tea for one." The late Mr. Frank Buckland, the well- known inspector of fisheries and distin- guished naturalist, once purchased a young otter from a fisherman between Abercych and Llechryd. The otter had Heft its mother's aide too early, and knew not what to do with itself. Mr. Buckland took it to London with him, and brought it up in his museum, where he studied its habits for a long time, and afterwards wrote a charming account of his protege, which at last, however, deserted its kind master for the London sewers. Now that the people of Wales are moved by feelings of sympathy and admiration for the brave devotion which has led to the sacri- fice of so many valuable lives in the Welsh "Hospital in South Africa, the moment is not inopportune to suggest a movement for raising a national memorial to Professor Tom Jones, Dr. Herbert Davies, Sister Sage, Mr. Eames, and last. but not least. Professor Hughes. They are all heroes of whom Wales has reason to be proud, and it would be a fine and fitting thing to perpetuate in some tangible form the memory of them. One of the most tragic stories in Welsh history is the career of Captain Kemys. the friend and companion of Sir Walter Raleigh. It was Kemys who attacked the Spaniards on the River Cronoque; he was beaten, and returned to Sir Walter, who, foreseeing death and disgrace, upbraided his faithful hench- man. Captain Kemys took it so much to heart that he went below to his cabin and shot himself. A boy, hearing the shot. came to the cabin-door, but the captain called out, "All is well, boy!" Then finding the wound was not mortal, he thrust in his dagger to the hilt, and so they found him. Lady Llangattock, the hostess of the Duke and Duchess of York at The Hendre, Mon- mouth. is the daughter of the late Sir Charles Maclean, ninth baronet, and of Emily, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Jacob Marsham, D.D., canon of Windsor. The name Maclean—originally M'Gillean—was derived from a celebrated Highland warrior, the pro- genitor of the race named The Gillean." from the proficiency with which he wielded the battle axe. He stood at the side of Alexan- der III. at the Battle of Largs, while his son, Gillise MaeGilloin, fought at Bannockburn. Lady Llangattock's brother, as stated by our special correspondent last week. is the present chieftain of the Macleans. A gift of a most interesting kind has just l>een made to the ancient Pa-ish Church of Whltfcrd—the burial place of Thomas Pen- nant, the eminent Welsh author—in the shape of a ewer of beaten brass, by the Rev. J. Bull. of Whitford, Chester County. Pennsyl- vania. as a memorial of his ancestress. Sarah Roberts Bull (nee Thomas), a descendant of an old Whitford family who lived at Upper Downing. One of the earliest settlers in Penn- sylvania was one of the Thomases, who received a tract of land, which in its physical contour much resembled that of his native Cymric parish, so that he christened it Whit- ford, bestowing other Welsh local names upon different portions of it. Colonel White showed our Haverfordwest correspondsnt yesterday two interesting souvenirs of the war 'n South Africa. One was a gift badge with the arms of the Orange Free State on it. This was taken off a dead Boer. The other curio was a narrow strip of ribbon in the colours of the Transvaal. Both of these mementoes were sent home by Colonel White's son, who took part in the war. The ribbon was one of three thousand worn by as many Boer wotren around their necks when our troops entered Pretoria. Our men wanted to get these curios to carry home. and so there was an exciting chase after these three thousand girls. who would not give the colours up without a good-humoured struggle. Everybody who has been to North Wales always speaks afterwards of the exquisite scenery surrounding Festiniog. A local patriot holds that these surroundings are favourable to longevity, though he has to go back one hundred years for his evidence in the follow- ing extract from a newspapar of the last cen- tury:—"The late Lord Littleton, in a letter written from Festini, in Wales, to his friend Mr. Bower, gives the following very singular relation:—Not long ago there died in this neighbourhood an honest farmer, who was an hundred and five years of age; by his first wife he had thirty children, ten by his second. four by his third, and seven by two concu- bines; his youngest son Tfa-s eighty-one years younger than his eldest, and eight hundred persons descended from his body attended his kfuneral." A correspondent writes:—"In reading the newspapers for the last couple of weeks one has been struck by the abnormal number of suicides and attempted suicides which have been reported. It may not be generally known that Cardiganshire has an unenviable notoriety for suicide. In the district from Lampeter to Llandyssil and extending towards the sea coast more suicides have occurred during the past fifty years than in any other part of Wales, if not the whole of Wales put. together. It is a noteworthy fact that this dis- trict is the stronghold of Unitarianism in Wales, but whether that creed has anything to do with the suicides is a question one cannot answer. It is quite possible that they might be explained on ethnological grounds. In this district also the land question, especially up 1 to the election of 1868, drove many farmers to distraction and several to self-destruction. Some corespondent, possiblv. may be able to give you statistics of suicide in Mid-Cardigan- shire. They would be highly interesting." Although now paying a dividend of 180 per cent.. Bwllfa Colliery has had a chequered existence. At one time it was the property of Mr. Menelaus and Mr. George Martin, of Dowlais, and Mr. Rhys. of Llwydcoed—three of the shrewdest men jn the county. Accord- ing to the "Merthyr Express," "the affairs of the colliery have not always been so pros- perous. The fortunate people are those who purchased stock at 'dirt, prices'— £ 10 shares for 12s. 6d., for example—and held them just to see what would turn up. In fact, they have been in the deep trough for so many years that! even this huge dividend—180 per cent.—will hardly squars past losses." It is fair to the company ani to colliers generally that this should be publicly known, as the publication in our columns of the dividend led to con- siderable unrest amongst colliers, who natu- rally enough concluded that. scale or no scale. they were not getting a fair. proportion of share. Many years ago the lease of a plot of land for the erection of a Welsh Baptist chapel in Glamorgan was secured in a peculiar manner. The landowner, a fine type of the fox-hunting squire, though a genial landlord, had for some reason repeatedly refused to grant the necessary land for the chapel. The minister was advised to consult one of the sub-agents. He did eo. and the sub-agent suggested that the minister should attend the meet the follow- ing week and pretend to be greatly interested in fox-hunting. On the appointed day the minister turned out, and was one of the most demonstrative of the company. By and bye the squire inquired of bis agent who this man was. and was told that he was a minister with the Baptists. "Well," said the squire, "he appears to be uncommonly fond of hunting." "Oh, yes, sir," said the agent, "he does not. seem to think of much besides." Is that so?" Yes," replied the agent. and he has one little favour to ask of you. He would like to have a plot of land to erect a little chapel." By all means," said the squire, heartily, and the chapel was built and it stands to-day. As a rule. we associate the 5th of November with fireworks and destruction, but in Caer- went the people have made the date memorable for the restoration of the ancient church, a priceless rclic of the past. The south nave wall, with its arches, had gradually fallen out- wards to the extent of more than eighteen inches. Thus the building was naturally in a dangerous condition, and this portion of the fabric had to be taken down and re-built. It appears that the mediaeval builders, although making use of the Roman building material at hand, did not take the trouble to build from the Roman foundations, some five or six feet deep, and had it not been for three large stone props built up,in all probability when the chapels were demolished or fell in (owing, pro- bably. to the same caused the nave would have collapsed some centuriey ago. This wall. with its arches, has, however now been re-built on a secure foundation, the roof has been restored, and the nave thoroughly repaired in a most careful and conscientious manner by Mr. W. Clarke, of Llandaff. under the direc- tion of Mr. G. J5. Halliday, to whom the work of reparation was entrusted in 1893. Seven Radicals in succession have been olectei to the mayoralty of Newport. The real founder of the University of Oxford was a Welshman, Asser Menevenais, who wrote the life of Alfred the Great. Alfred paid the bills. Lord Dunraven is such an enthusiastic golfer that he has laid out a course at Adare Manor. under the superintendence of Ben payers, of North Berwick. From 1755 to 1830 William Edwards's bridge at Pontypridd was the largest single-arc.ii bridge in the world. Then a bridge at Chester broke the record. William Barlowe, a native of Pembrokeshire, was the first to observe the difference between iron and steel, and the first who wrote on the nature and properties of the loadstone. Are there any pearls in the Conway in these days? Suetonius said that one of the chief reasons he had for subjugating Wales was to obtain possession of the pearl fishery of the River Conway. When the coaiowner is not squeezing the collier and the collier is not squeezing the coalowner both are squeezing the public. Just now the public is getting a particularly hard time. At a sale in London a few days ago a fine medal of the Eastern Glamorgan Volunteer Infantry, awarded t:) Thomas Lewis, the best shot of the regiment, 1807, realised the sum of £ 15. Llantwit Major is winning new fame from the discovery that its traditions and drainage system date from the same far-off age The only thing is that the traditions don't hurt. Coaiov.ners and coliiers are ccnspirng to 'lety up the price of coal. But there is one consolation—if they succeed in forcing up the price again, we will be able to light a fire with our feelings Protestantism is not strictly hereditary. The Cardiff archivist's great-grandmother, when a child, sat on John Wesley's knee, and Mrs. Hobson Matthews is eighth in descent from the sister of Walter Cradock. Cato pawb! A defeated candidate at Swansea municipal elections told a reporter that any time he con- tested another election lie (the reporoer) might come to him and claim a £5 note. He regarded it as a self-imposed penalty against folly. Surprise is expresseu over the case in which an able-bodied seaman is alleged to have lifted a 1001b. projectile to hurl at his superior officer. Twm o'r Nant" once carried three sacks of wheat tied together, weighing 5001b., back and fore from the road to a house In Ruthin. The masterpiece of Ellis Owen Ellis, R.A., was his "Oriel y Beirdd" ("Bard's Gallery"), wherein about a hundred Welsh bards are delineated It is crayon work. measuring 4ft. by 2ft. It was finished in 1861. and was bought for a. hundred guineas by Mr. W. Morris ("Gwilym Tawe"). A Baptist minister and Congregational mini- ster in the Rhondda were comparing notes as to their stipends. I can't see," said the Con- gregationalism why you get more than I do. The congregations are about the same in number and strength." Yea," was the reply, "but you forget that they always pay extra for working in water." The Flora, the cruiser in command of Com- modore Groome, which visited the Welsh Colony in Patagonia last June. has a Welsh chaplain on board—the Rev. D. Richards, M.A., a native of North Cardiganshire. His brother the Rev. T. Richards) is curate of the Welsh Church, Cardiff. Chaplain Richards is an old friend of Chaplain Morris, of Victoria fame. A Welshman just back from America has a high opinion of the American boy. He once asked the five-year-old youngster in the housa where he was staying, "\v no was the first man?" "Washington," said the lad promptly. "No, no," said the Welshman; "the Bible says that Adam was the first man." "Oh," said the lad. "I wasn't thinking of furrinera." A learned member of the Cambrian Archaeo- logical Association propounds a new theory to account for the occasional stones of value found along the Cardigan shores. "The idea that the sea brings them from the Mediter- ranean coast," he says, cannot be enter- tained. You find the same gems now and then in exploring Roman camps. They came with the ballast brought by the Romans when they traded to Britain for its lead and tin." Merionethshire is over-populated—with Jongees. At the quarter sessions eleven of the jurymen were named Jones, and out of these seven were John Joneses. The other man was called Hughes, and he was made foreman. The prisoner's name was John Jones too, but, though there were seven John Joneses on the jury besides the other four Joneses, John Jones, the accused, was con- victed It ought to be possible to prove Mr. Edward Lloyd a Welshman, for while he is Lloyd on one side he is Hopkins on the other, and the two are good old Welsh names. Mr. Lloyd's mother, Miss Louisa Hopkins, to give her maiden name, was, like her sixteen brothers and sisters, a good musician. When seventeen years of age she was elected one of the first King's Scholars at the Royal Academy of Music, and Brinley Richards was also elected the same time. Sir William Preece in his reminiscences calls attention to what many readers must have seen (though dying out now), viz., false or imitation windows. "A very objectionable form of taxation" (remarks the great elec- tTician) "was enacted in 1695, and lasted until 1851. when it was repealed. This was the window-tax. I remember well the taxing agent surveying one house and reoording the number of windows, upon each of which some- thing had to be paid annually. My present house in Wales has several blank windows blocked up to evade the tax." A well-known peer who once accepted the hospitality of a mayor and corporation found that he could get nothing to drink at the dinner except water and teetotal drinks. It was explained to him that the mayor was a teetotaler, and during that year everybody had to drink what the mayor drank. Some time later the mayor and corporation accepted an invitation to dine with the peer, and when the mayor asked for some water to drink the waiter aaid, "There's no water here, sir; nothing but intoxicants. Shall I help you to champagne?" Of course, the peer was teaching a lesson; outside that the one action was just as reasonable as the other. Maria James was a poor Welsh girl who emigrated to America, where she spent her life as a nurse in various families. A volume of her poetry was edited by Dr. A. Potter, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. The book is entitled Wales and Other Poems." The following stanzas betray Welsh homesickness glotified:- I heard Jehovah's praise In Cymru's native tongue, And hung upon the artless strains— In rapture hung. 'Twas in that tongue that first I heard the voice of prayer, Beseeching Heaven to take us all Beneath its care. "Land of my fathers! ne'er Shall I forget thy name- O! ne'er, while in this bosom glows One transient flame." History repeats itself even in the animal kingdom. It is well known that the late Welsh bard "Tegid" was fond of birds, and that when he was on his deathbed a black- bird settled on a tree outside his bedroom window and sang most beautifully. When the bard's remains were being lowered to the grave a blackbird again lighted in the church- yard yew tree and burst forth into song. A still more remarkable story is told of some birds kept by the late Mr. Francis Stanier, of Peplow Hall, near Market Drayton. Mr. Stanier was a millionaire and a well-known philanthropist, and was very fond of birds. He had some favourite American and Japanese geese, which he fed with his own hands, and which were kept on a pool near the Hall. He died about a fortnight ago, and. strange to relate, during the last hours of his illness these Ijirds, numbering over 100, flew round his bedroom window, beating their wings against the glass. They would then fly over the roof of the house, and all the time they were uttering a weird, screeching noise. In almost the last moments of the squire's life the whole flock of birds disap- peared, and not one of them has been seen since. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who is a brother- in-law of Sir John Llewelyn, impresses an observer a.s being silent, self-contained, and masterful, as one engrossed with the cares of office, who dees not trifle, and will permit no trifling in thoso around him—essentially a strong man, "ne would say. A trim and well- groomed apjjcarance. a short and alert step, a determined poise of the head, over all a dominant quietness, and there you have some of the external characteristics of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of yesterday, and. doubtless, of to-morrow. But this silent, reserved man- in London—displays (says "M. A. P.") a riiffcr'ent side to his character when at his country seat. With the tenants and the farmers of the district he is a great favourite; they will tell you he is geniality itself. Even in London there is a kind heart beneath the stern exterior. While he held office in a former Ministry one of the messengers in his depart- ment offended seriously in some way, and Sir Michael, with the instinct of a disciplinarian, reduced him in grade, with the order that he was never again to be promoted. Three years later 81* Michael with the rest of his colleagues was going out of office. A day or two before be surrendered his seals he gave a dinner at his residence, and after the guests were gone be was told an. official messenger bad called and was waiting to see him. "Show him in." saM Sir Michael. The man on entering explained fhat he was the messenger whom Sir Michael had reduced. With some hesitancy he went on to say that if Sir Michael left office and allowed his decision to remain unaltered ne would suffer a life-long punishment. Would Sir Jfichael stretch a point in his favour? After replying to a few terse questions the man left. Next day he was reinstated in his old position, the bad mark against his name was removed, and Sir Michael made it clear to the permanent officials that it was his wish the messenger's lapse should in no way stand againcl his future advancement.

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CHAPTER V.

EISTEDDEOD AT CARDIFF.

---------THE FISHGUABEUBOSSLARE…

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CAE TUT F ELECTRIC LIGHTING…

THE STORY OF A COAT.

AFFAIRS OF A PENYGRAIG CONTRACTOR.

"Y DDRAIG GOCH."

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DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER.

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THE PEMBROKE BOBOUGHS PETITION.

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