Weekly Mail

TEMPERANCE IN SCHOOLS. CONFERENCE OF TEACHERS AT HEREFORD. In the Cathedral Library, Hereford. on Saturday, Bishop Percival presided over a crowded conference of county councillors, tehool correspondents. head-teachers, and <tthera in-terested in elomentary education And temperance from all parts of the dLoceae, the subject being The Use of Temperance Beaders in Elementary Schools as a Breach of Moral Teaching and Training." The bishop was of opinion that in this country tumcient systematic thought and study ia not given to the moral training of our ohildrem Lady Biddulph (of Ledbury), who elated that this movement was promoted by the Chil- dren's Projection League. pointed ont that the subjects of physiology and hygiene were eompuLsorily taught in the schools through- cut the Colonies and in the United &tatee of America.; here in the Old Country it was left to voluntary effort. Mr. AIdis, chief inspector of aohools. indi- cated the importance of introducing only such books as the children would take inte- rest in. The only books wanted were those written by those to whom God had given the talent to write books. The moat deadly, dull book he had ever read was one which had been gone through by a committee of religious temperance reformers. The Rev. C. T. Wilton (Foy) advocated Mr. ? Radcline Cooke's .remedy, that the cider should be made so good as to fetch a shilling a gallon, and then farmeil; would not give so much to their men. (Laughter.) Mr. J. Newton drerw attention to a new English temperance reader, of which Lord Roberta had ordered 10,000 for the Army schools and Lord Kitchener had adopted for use in India. Mr. Golley. head-master of Leominater British School, dwelt on the multiplicity of subjects in their curricula, and the need of strengthening the school staffs. There were already three readers in use. Mr Sbambrook. head-teacher. Gorwetey. Forest of Dean. emphasised Mr. G&lley'e remarks, and quoted the refusal of the education committee to make his st&ff ade- ouate. Detailing the sublets which were com- pulsory, he asked his Majesty's inspector which subject the teacher could systematically neglect. Prebendary Hawksaaw said that the chil- dren at his schools brought cider with their dinners, although most of them were members of the band of hope. Mr. J. V. Davies. head-teacher, Wellington. "aid he had stopped the cider coming to his echool. but wished to be able to put something in its place. Mr. Rider. heM-teacher Scudamore School <th3 largest in Hereford), ashed why this sub- ject could not be made cptionaJ. The Bishop said he was glad to hear that 200 tempera-nce readers had been ordered for Scudamore Schools. His hope was that in the growing elasticity of our school system there would be more opportunities of intro- ducing this subject. A resolution was carried unanimously expressing a hope that the use of temperance readers in elementary schools might be encouraged by the locaj education authority. The bishop sarbaeqoently entertained the company to tea at the PaLace.

WELSH MINERS IN AMERICA. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE ELLSWORTH COMPANY, In a letter to his brother at 81. Middle- street, Trallwn, Pontypridd. Sidney J. Jonea gives his experience of working at the EUa- vorth Collieries, near Pittsburg. and states that wagee were not half eo high as they had been told. The men who wrote home, and said they were getting £5 per week were not telling the truth. The company only paid 2) dollars per day for company work, and the men paid Ei dollars to learn to work a machine. He and his "buttif" had bad to BU coal at 36 cents, or is. 6d. a ton English money. A report received by mail from America. rtnd dated Pittaburg, December 2, Bays:— Papers in 15 suits against the ElKworth Coat Company, of this city, wore entered to-day ) by United States District Attorney James S. Young, alleging violation of the Alien Con. tract Labour Law in bringing to this oottntry Welsh minera to work in the company's mines at Ellsworth, Pa. The district attorney's ofnce at Ellsworth, Pa. The district attorney's ofnce is now at work on the formal complaints in the case, and will probably file them with- in a few days. The suits have been prepared carefully, and it is expected they will be hotly contested. The penalty for violations of the Alien Contract Labour Law is l?DOO dollars in each case. A Baltimore report of November 30 «a,ye:— Twenty-two of the Welsh miners who were ordered to be deported by the immigration authorities at Washington. D.C., have Miled irom. Philadelphia for Liverpool.

HER ONLY FAILING. "I have come to aee you once again, and I intend to do a month. You will have to Jock' me up." Thie was Ann Dann'e saJnte to tjhe constables on reserve duty at the New- port Branch Police Station at Pill at one a.m. She was drunk, and, despite all entreaty and persuasion, including an eecort to her lodgings, she returned to the police-station and ineiated on being locked up. It was just her usual custom. Thia was her fortieth appearance. She had been at the Inebriates' Home at Brentry. and also in a convent fbr a few months, but. eo far as her weakness for drink was concerned, the police saittthe wae irattriBvafble, This wa< her CWIY"fiiiling, they- said. She kept her houae when sober as clean ae a pin in pa<)er.—"Why did you leave the convent?" asked the magis- t)ratea.—"The life was too monotonous. It mtOO solitary for me. I went there of my owtt fre?wt! and I left of my own free will." —TtKt Chairman of the Bench: Well, Mrs. Dunn. you asked for a mouth, and I am afraid we must oblige you. Yoa will spend woot Christmas in Usk PrMom.

JACK ASHORE AT NEWPORT. INDISCREET GENEROSITY SHABBILY REQUITED. At Newport Police-court on Friday, middle-aged man, named George Redmond of 103, Shiftesbury-street, w<n placed i the dock and charged with stealing a j65 note, the property of Albert j Christ aneen, en Thursday. Lhristiauden is a. Danish seaman, bnt had served on the British steamer Mercia. He waa paid oif at mid-day on ihursday with .ESS ICa., and whilst walking out of th<* g"ippln: omcc encountered Red- mond. He went to a public-house and sto d Redmo-,d 'l' drink. Then he took him to a cook-shop and treated him to a dinner. They still kept together, Redmond doing wcU out of the stranger in port, who gave him 14a. towards arrears of rent which he complained of, half-a-crown to get tea, and took him to the Ship Hotel and treated him. and then engaged a cab to go to the Empire. There he (Christiansen) found that he hadn't sum- cient mocey to pay the fare without chang- ing one of his JE5 notes. He. therefore, handed one of the notes to Redmond, who eaid he would get it changed. But he did not return, and Police-constable Maunders arrested him in Corn-street. more than an hoar later, with JM 18a. 9d. in hit posses- sion. The Bailor was taken to the police-station. when Bedmond was brought in, and, still being iif a generous mood, sajd, "AH right, let's have what money you have got" (mean- ing the JE3 18s. 9d.), "and I'll forgive you the rest." But the police would not allow this course. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and aaid he was very sorry. He was drunk at the time, or be would not have done such a thing to a generous friend. He himself, as he said, was a. donkeyman like the prosecutor. a,nd treated people in just the same way when he got ashore. ashore. In the result the Chairman of the Bench (Mr. Moeea Wheeler) aajd the magistrates con- (Mr. Moeea Wheeler) aajd the magistrates con- sidered it & very dirty, shabby act. and, in j view of the fact that prosecutor did not wish to press the charge, and also out of sympathy for his wife, the Bench would not award hum the full sentence. He would, however, go to prison for three months.

CONSECRATION SERVICE. LADY LEWIS'S REMAINS REMOVED TO CEFN. The Bifthcp of UandafT ou Friday conse- crated at Cefn Cemetery a piece of ground hitherto unconsecrated. which has been pur- chased by Sir William Thomas Lewis, and in which the hou. baronet has just had built a massively constructed mausoleum. The con' secration rite was marked by a gratifying absence of any public obtrusion upon the privacy of the small group gathered to take part in its celebration, the only persons present, in addition to the Mshop and the registrar (Mr. F. J. Smith) being Sir William Lewis. Mr. Trevor Lewis, the Rev. C. A. H. Green. Mr. W. T. Rees. Maeaynynon; Mr. R. T. Beet, GIandtre; Colonel D. B. Lewis, the Rector of Merthyr. Mr. A. P. Jones, and Mr. John Roberts, chairman of the cemetery com- mittee of the urban district council. Mr. H). C. Lewis was prevented from being present by a severe cold. In the course of the service the hymn, "0 God our hetp in agea past." was sung. and at the conclusion of the consecration, the comn containing the remains of the late Lady Lewis was removed from the old family v&ult in which it had been temporarily placed upon the occasion of the fuaer&l last year, and transferred to the new mausoleum, three lovely fresh wreaths, provided by Sir William and his children, being deposited thereon. The mausoleum is capable of receiving twelve bodies, and in the centre of the land surface a beautiful St. Andrew's Cross of Aberdeen granite has been put up.

COMPLAINT AGAINST THE POLICE. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday James Edwards was charged with being drunk and inoa-petble in Bargoed-terraoe, Treharris, on Sunday night.—Police-constable John Jones stated that he sa.w the prisoner staggering and knocking up against people, so he appre- hended him and locked him up for safety.— Mr, Meredith protested against the arrest and detention in custody of the prisoner, and called several witnesses who were with Edwa.rda a-t the time the constable collared him to show that he was walking towards home quietly, and was quite capable of taking care of himaelf.—Dr. Roberts, who examined the prisoner at the police-atation. was also called, and he said that as a result of several teats he came to the conclusion that, though Edwards had evidently had something to drink, he was not drunk.—The Bench, however, convicted, and imposed a nne of Is. and coats. With reference to Mr. Meredith's protest, it was explained by Superintendent Townsend that if bail had been tendered the prisoner would have been released; nevertheless, the Stipendiary expressed the opinion thai after he had been seen by the doctor he mighty ha.ve been allowed to go home, since hia address was known to the police.

ENGINE-DRIVER ASLEEP. Jamee M&kepeace. Ml engine-driver employed by the Rhymney Iron and Coal OaInpany ai the Gilfa<oh Pit. Bargoed, was summoned &t Caerphilly on Tuesday for going to sleep whilst in oha-rge of his engine. —Mr. G. P. Charles prosecuted for the company, a.nd Mr. J. W. Eva<ns. Aberdare. defended.—Evidence was c&lled to show tha.t Makepeace was caught sleeping in the engine- r<t?m whilst in charge of a pumping engine, 1 which was used for the purpose of pumping on an average 50.0CO gallons of water from the pit.—Defendant admitted the offence, and Mr. Evans pleaded for leruency, as Makepeace had been working for 23 hoars at a stretch on the Sunday previous. The engine-room wae very hot. and defendant couM not help himsaIf.—The Magistrates, in imposing a nne of 10s. and costs, said they had taken into consideration Ms previous good conduct.

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CARDIFF ELECTRIC LIGHT. SIIBSTANTTAL INCREASE IN THE REVENUE. At a, meeting of the electric and lighting committee of the CajdiC Corporation on Tuesday approval was given to the extension of the power station at Roath. in order to meet the increased demands of the electric lighting department. The coat of the build- ing will be £9,000; but no estimate could be given of the cost of the plant until the ex- tent of the increased demand waa known. Alderman Ramsdale opened & discussion by asking what capital the tramways depart' ment had in this venture, and alao what capital the lighting department had in it. He had it that the electric lighting departs meTtt found plant for the tramway depart- ment on the one hand, and the tramway department for the electric lighting on the other hand. He would like to know the posi- tion relatively. The Chairman (Alderman Carey): It is rob< bing Peter to pay Paul. Mr. Charles Bird: Is it not right that we eell to the tramway committee? The Chairman: That ia so. Mr. Ellis explained that the capital for supplying electric lighting in the tramways department was jMO.MM, acd this waa not so high as it appeared in the blue book. If the lighting committee and the trams committee divided up the capital between the two de- partments a mixture of aoconnta would be created. The lighting department had to bor- row their money from the Local Government. Board, and the tramways department from the Board of Trade. In reply to Mr. William Evans, the olectrlca.1 engineer that the tramways committee would pay interest on the plant, but he also pointed out th&t had they only required pl&nt for tramway purposes they would not have needed so much land. For tramway purposes they would have required only four email engines and four boilers, as required origi- nally, but year fhfter year they would nnd that the pt&nt for lighting purposes was in. creasing rapidly, eo that eventually the elec- tric lightimg would more plant than the tramways. The Mayor remarked that they must credit themselves with the whole of the capital cost of the undertaking, whether it was for tram- ways or electric lighting. Alderman Ramsdale further said that Alder man Trounce came before the committee with some startling statements, which were not borne out by the facts. Mr. Ellis, in reply to a question by Mr. Charles Bird, aaid tha.t the charge made by the tramways committee to the lighting corn. mittee was a prontaNe charge. The Chairman made the interesting state- ment that two years ago the revenue from lighting was JE9.000; thia year they had anti- cipated a revenue of .E27.000. but they had reason to believe that the revenue would be £33.000.. Mr. Ellia reported that in the month of November there were 948 consumers whose premiers were connected with the mains. The total number of unite generated at tho lighting station during the month of October waa 177.291. The estimated revenue from street lighting w&s .£466 2a., and from private supply .E2.728 18s. 6d. Mr. T. W. Wailea wrote stating that his company (the Mount Stuart Dry Dock, Limited) wished to bring to his (Mr. Ellia'e) notice the satisfactory results of the instal- lation supplied to the company by the cor- poration. They were well pleased with the result of the year's working, and saw nothing to prevent it being similarly, successful in future. The question of proceeding with the electric lighting of an ihcreaeed number of streets was discussed and referred to a. special meet- ing. an exception being made in <!he case of Clifton-street, the lighting of which will bo proceeded with as soon ae possible.

NAVAL HERO'S LOST ARM. INTERESTING CLAIM BY ,A CARDIFF MAN. Aldermen P. W. Carey <md David Jonesi, as justices of the peace for OardiC on Tuesday had an interesting duty to perform in the form of signing a decla.ration as witnesses to a daim ag&inst the United States Govern- ment made by Henry Adams, late of the United StMe8 Navy. and at present residing in Cardiff, in respect of the loss of hia right arm on the occasion of the bombardment of Oha.rleeton, in 1B61. The vetcHtn is at preeemt in receipt of a. pension of 40dols. per month. bat he Imd recently discovered that 50dols. per month is noor p<tid in such cases as his, so that he is now claiming the eactra lOdols. per month for the firtui'e. and also 2,040dols., being the arrears due to him in respect of that lOdols. The decla-ra-tibn raji as foUows:— 1. Renrtr of th* T:nitod 81&- Navy, solemnly and truthfully swear that my arm was shot off at Charleston on board the warship Clipao. I was a loader of the gun. I forget the name of the doctor who attended me, bnt I think it was Johnaon. I was taken from Charleston to Port Royal Hospital, and from there to the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. From the Naval Asylum I was discharged ajid fur- nished with an artincMtl arm, with am elbow. I further solemnly swear that my arm waa ajnputated at the elbow-jotnt. and that no re-amputation has been performed. I received my artiScial arm from the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia in 1865 or 1866. Alderman Ca,rey, when American Consul at Cardiff, brought Ada-jms over from Dfracombe, and the alderman sta-tea that he waa never served by a more faithful servant. After signing the declaration, AMerman Carey humorously remarked. "Well. Adams, you are worth more money aJive than doad."

ALLEGED FOWL STEALING. At Cardiff Police-court on Tuesday (before Messrs. T. H. Stephens and F. J. Veall) Morris Joseph Resoloeky, fourteen, and Joseph Reaolosky. 45, were charired with steaJimg a crate cont<tining 32 live fowls, valued at -E2, from No. 6 Platform at the Great Western Railway Passenger Station at Cardiff on December 12. Prisoners were father and eon. They were defended by Mr. Harold Lloyd, and Mr. Arthur Vachell prosecuted for the rail- way company—The facts alleged were that on Saturday last three crates of fowls were received at the Great Western Railway Parcel Omce from the Cork boat. Two of the crates were consigned to prisoner, and the third to Mr. A. G. Bryant. The older prisoner came for the two crates supplied to him, and when Mr. Brya-nt called for his crate it was found to be missing. Under the powers of a. search warrant prisoners' premises wer-a searched and a crate—alleged to be the one mis8ing-was found in a stable, with another crate on top. covered with sacking.—Several of the company's servants gave evidence for the prosecution.—One of them admitted, in answer to Mr. Harold Lloyd, that Besolosky. sen., when he called for the fowts. said he was mmMe to write, but he apoM very good English, and could be understood without dif- ncuIty<—B*iIway-mspeetor Matthews arrested prisoner, wito replied. "It you cam prove it, all right, then."—The younger prisoner, arrested at the shop and residence of his father, a<ud to Detective-inspector RaBtnn, "I loaded them up when fa-ther was paying Ss. carriage ior them. I only took what I was told to take by the porter." Ttr. Harold Lloyd, for the defence, crfped that, although the crate got into the pos- session of the prisoner, it was without any felonious intent on their part.—Ultimately the Bench nned the elder prisoner .610 and costs, and the other prisoner they bound over under the First Offenders Act.

WIFE DESER AT BLAOKWOOD. Two wife deserters came up for judgment at Bl.Mkwood Police-court on Friday. Edwin Brooks, a collier, who was arrested at Oacrau, near Maesteg. deserted his wife and three children in January last, and. according to the story of Mr. J. H. Grifnths. the warra-nt ofncer to the Newport Union, had cost the ratt- payers over JS30, and JB11 10s. of this money was still owing.—Prisoner asked for another chance, but Superintendent Porter pointed out that there were four previous convictions against him for similar onences. and that the police had experienced considerable trouble in tracing him on this last occasion.— The Bench gave him the option of paying a JE15 nne, but as he failed to &nd the money he was sent to prison for two months. The other recalcitrant father wa<s Thomas Davies. who left his wifa and nve children chargeable to the Poor-law funds of the New- port Union on the 3rd of October last. Prisoner, who waa arrested at Mardy. had incurred a public indebtedness of JB2 10a., Mid he was now nned £5, or a month in default, which he smilingly tooK.

BRECON POACHING: HEAVY FINE. At the Brecon County Police-court an Friday Charles Price, carpenter, of Brecon, was sum- Pl,yc,-j '')" in pursuit of game in the night timo on the estate of Mr. David K.ans.. f'frwdgrech. ihe defendant admitted the offence. Mr. D. T..TeffrHI. who prosecuted, remarked upon the seriousness of the caee, and stated t <tn tH of th'e '3rd inet. Mr. Evane's keepers heaird the soMtd of shooting in a wood on the estate. They went in the direction of the sound, and saw t&e defen- dant comin!? ont of the wood. Be ran away, and they caught him, and found in his pos- session a gun a,nd thr-ee pheasants. They bad previously seen him throwing something away, and going back to the spot found two more pheasants. The defendant, against whom there were several previous convictions for poaching, was fined JE10, and 15s. 6d. costs. He was aJso bound over in the som of £10Jwi two sureties of .M eMh not to conpnit ainother ofraooe duriut the naxt momtht.

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MR. T. PONSFORD'S FAILURE, MEETING OF CREDITORS AT NEW. PORT. As reported in the Extra Special and later editions of ysaterday's Evening Express ":— An adjourned meeting of the creditor)) of the estate of Thomas Ponsford, of Glen View, Maindce, and Pembroke-chambers, High-street, Newport, merchant, was held on Tuesday at the Westgate Hotel. the OBiciaJ Receiver (Mr. G. R. Llewellyn) presided. There was a conaiderable attendance of creditors. Mr. Lyndon Moore appeared for the debtor, and Mr. J. E. Rowlands, solicitor. Swansea, ap- peared for the sisters of the debtor, who under the scheme of arrangement nrat sub- mitted had offered to find £5.000. to enable the debtor to pay 2&a. in the JE to all unsecured creditors, but who now found that by ulterior circumstances having a-risen their oner and the scheme could not be carried through. It will be remembered that when the nrat meeting of creditors was called, and the pu&- Uc examination of the debtor held, the sum- mary of the statement of anairs disclosed gross liabilities amounting to .E65.740 Ms. 9d., and liabilities expected to rank for dividend amounting to ;S2,002 IGe. 8d. According to the debtor's statement, these lia-MIitiea were really covered by a surplus of aasete. Ee alao submitted a scheme which was that members of his family were willing to guarantee the payment in cash of JE5.000 (conditional upon having transferred to them security for the re-payment of that amount), wMc.h he considered would be sufficient to pay his unsecured creditors 2Cs. in the .5. Kit family had (if this scheme were accepted) agreed not to prove against his estate for the aum of .6981 13s. 6d. The Omcial Receiver, reporting on thM toheme, said the unsecured liabilities as Nhown in debtor's own statement of affairs amounted to .64,964 17s. (including the family claim of JE931 13s. 5d.). and. with regard to the value of the aaseta. it was very problematical whether anything would come into the estate from the various mortgaged properties in retpeot of an item marked, Surplus from securities in the haada of creditors fully- oeoured, .E25.855 78. 2d." The remaining aeaeta would not, in his opinion, realise mora than JB1.COO. The terms of the debtor's pro- poeaj were (said the Omcial Receiver) resMon. &ble H the debtor's estimate of the Iia.bilitiea expected to rajik for dividend waa not OMeeded. but no definite opinion could be given upon tha.t until all pjrova.ble claims had been lodged. Should the provable olaima amount to a sum which would reduce the divMemd payable to the creditors to leaa than 7a. 6d. in the .B, the scheme, in hia opinion, would not be approved by the court. At the outset of Tuesday's proceedings the Deputy-oSicial Receiver read several addi. tional claims, bringing up the total number of creditore estimated to 50 and the total fumottnt to J619.SQ9 Us. 5d. Ttte OatoiaJL Beo<d?<n- et?M th? m<t<tttn? ?MMt been ?d?dttmed for three weeka to ena.bl? the debtor to investigate certa-in large claims. whi<:h he contenided h?d been improperly admitted by the Omcial Receiver, and, if neceaa&ry, to amend the achemo of arrange- ment. He anderatood that the debtor or his eolMitor had had an opportunity of inspect- ing the guarantees upon which the large claums in question were baaed, and no doubt the debtor had been advised by hia solicitor on them. The Debtor (Mr. Ponaford) No; I have not been advised. The Omcial Receiver asked Mr. Poosford not to interrupt the proceedings. None of the claims, he went on to say. had been with- drawn. He had received from Mr. Ponsferd certain lettera a'nd a copy of a very long amd&vit which he had Sled, objecting to the proceedings, but nothing further had tran- apired which would ja<?tify him (the OfBci&l Receiver) in altering his decision for the admission of the proo'Es or in any way !o postpone the business for whMh the creditors had been called together that day. He (the Omcial Receiver) proposed to ta.ke the opim'm cf the meeting aa to the scheme submitted, and if it was not a<ooepted by the meeting, the creditors could then resolve that the debtor be adjudicated a bankrupt. Mr. Lyndon Moore, who appeared for the debtor, remarked that as the creditors for the largest claim—the bank—were not disposed to concede anything, and in view of the fact that their proof had been admitted, it waa. he thought, useless approaching any other credi- tors with a view to getting a achemio adopted. He was not in a position to aubmit any other Ulan the original scheme. The Official Rec&iver asked if anyone else proposed the adoption of the scheme. He. however, would say at once that the echeme in the form if was submitted could not be accepted by the court. Mr. Ponsford: Not for me to pay.20B. in the JB to my unsecured creditors? The Omcial Receiver: Yoa must, if you please, Mr. Ponaford, leave youraelf in my hands. Your remedy, if you disapprove of anything, is to go to the court. Mr. Poneford: I have disapproved from the nrnt of th whole proceedings. The Omcial Receiver said if the echeme waa mot accepted by the meeting, the next thing to do was to pass a reeo'lution of adjudica tion, and on behalf of the general proxies which he held he proposed that Mr. Pomford be adjudi- cated a. bankrupt, ajod that application be made to the court for am adjudication. Mr. B. WillajM Mcooded. acd the motion was carried. Mr. W. S. Wa.teon t.ben proposed that Mr. C. E. Parsons be appointed trustee. Mr. WillaaM seconded, ond all agreed, though Mr. Pomeford. the debtor, held up hi« hand against the motion. It was agreed that the following gentle- men should be a committee of inspec- tion. viz., Mr. W. S. Watson (Birmingham *and District Bank). Mr. W. A. Baker (ironmonger). Mr. W. J. Cappef (provision merchant). Mr. A. C. Mitchell (London City and Midland Bank). and Mr. E 0. Baddeley (Nicholas and Co., timber merchants). When the Official Receiver announced that that wa< all the buainesB. The Debtor said: I heg to appeal against all thM. and I would like to read aomethiag bearing on the matter from "Willia.mm on Ban1trupt<:y." page 73. Whilst, however, Mr. Ponsfort waa reading the extract the creditors dispersed.

SWANSEA HARBOUR TRUST. GRATIFYING INCREASE IN THB IMPORTS. A monthly meeting of the Swansea. Harboult Trust was held on Monday, Mr. Grimth Thorns:, mayor, presiding. The chairmam moved a vote of condolence with the family of the late Colonel John Crow Richardson in their bereavement, saying by his death the only representative of an old Swansea family had been removed from the Trust. Sir Joha Jones Jenkins seconded, and the resolution was carried. Mr. Glyn Price, in moving the adoption of the iina.ncc minutes, said the imports 'or the month had been 13,000 tons more than in the corresponding month of last year. In the exports of coal and patent fuel there was gb falling on'. Sir John Jonea Jenkina said trade, consider' ing the weather, had been very satisfactory, and a considerable quantity of tin-plate* had been exported.—Mr. Beck supported and the report was adopted. The Chairman proposed and Alderman WatkiM seconded the adoption of tne report of the executive committee. The executive committee reported that to carry out repairs consequent upon the damage done to the dredger No. 1 during the gale on September 11 they had contracted with the Prince of Wales Dry Dock Company, and the company had completed the work but that certain additional repairs were now considered necessary, and the committee having invited tenders recommended that the came company do the work for JE645. They recommended that the electrical engineer be instructed to light the main running lines on the north side of the Prince of Wales Dock and the new warehouses. They recommended that a lease be granted to the London and Swansea Fuel Syndicate (Limited) of land at the torth- east corner of the Prince of Wales Dock for a period of 21 yeara at a rental of JESS. Messrs. David Harris and J. G. Cork werw appointed to revise the voters' list in con. nection with the Harbour Trust election. which was nxed to take place on the 29th inst.

CARDIFF TOWN COUNCIL. Mr. Chappell at a meeting of the Cardiff Town Council on Monday referred to a health and port sanitary committee from the hon. secretary of the Royal Institute of Public Health as to provincial lectures on health sub- jects. The circuta-r, he understood, advocated the holding of lectureo on public health ia various places in the town, but, as it was stated that such lectures were given at the University College. CardiB. the suggestion was not entertained. There were, in his opinion, plenty of people among the working classes who wpnid like to have an opportunity of attending tbeee lectMM, and on that mce&tms he moved that the matter be referred back for further consideration.—Alderman Jacobs seconded this, and the motion was carried. Mr. F. J. Be-,tvan hoped that the public worka committee, when considering the proposal to widen Cowbridge-road between Market road and Glamorgan street, for the purpose of doubling the two pieces of single line between Alexandra-road and Pecy. peel-road and Radnor-road and dive-road. would take into account the council's nnan- cial position.—Alderman Ramsdale (chairman) stated that the committee had fully and care. fully considered the matter. Mr. Arthur Sessions asked if the chair* man of the electric committee was pre- pared to recommend the electric lighting of Corporation-road, which was badly needed, and of the Gra-ngetown district generally.— Alderman Carey (chairman of the committee) replied that this matter was to be fully gon< into by the committee at an early date.

PAUPERISM IN WALES. The Government returns show that during the month of October there were 718,927 persons in receipt of relief in England and Wales, against 700,404 in the corresponding period of last year. Of theae, 225,870 were in receipt of indoor relief and 493,057 in receipt of outdoor relief. The ratio per thousand of the population waa 6.7 for indoor and i4.t for outdoor relief. The figures relating to WaJoe are:— Indoor. Outdoor. 1st Week 7,1K.4<,402 2nd Week 7,!15.4<.40t SrdWcek. 7,!84.46,!74 4th Week 7,408.46,708 Compared with the Cgnre* for the correspond- ing month of last yea,r, there was a. great dea,l of aQcto.a.tion, ajst will be seen by the following, which giveo the totaJ numbera of pa.upera relieved:— 1902. 1MB. 1st Week 6!,M2 S!,S5< 2nd Week M.800 S.TH Srd Week 53,938 5!,7M 4th Week 5:,B67 MU4 So tha.t. whilst there was a decrease of 284 in the nrst week, of 81 in the second week. and of 180 in the third week, there was an increMO of 247 in the fourth week.

SIX MONTHS FOR STONE THROWING At Tredegar Police-court on Tuesday Michael O'Neil, 39, tramping labourer, WM placed in the dock on a charge of unlawfully wounding Mary Gibbon, at Tredegar. on December 1. Mr. B. Spencer. Tredeg-ar, waa for the prosecution. It was stated that prisoner came into the Talbot Inn. kept by the hns< band of the proaecutrix. created t di** turbance, and was ordered to leave. He re- fTMed, and wae ejected. Prisoner, when out- side, became violent, and threw a atone, which atruck Mrs. Gibbon on the head M she WM peMuadinsr him to go away.—Dr. Brown <*id the woman was from a wouad 08 the rieht temple extending to the bone. For a time her life waa in danger. Prisoner expressed his sorrow, aad aaid h< was in a passion at the time.—He was com- mitted to prison for am months, with hard laboe?.

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AGE OF COMPETITION. LORD WINDSOR AND THE NEED OF EDUCATION. The annual distribution of prizes to the apils of the County School. Pontypridd, was ade yesterday evening by Lord Windsor. The Headmaster (Mr. Rhys Morgan. M.A.) in presenting his repOTt for the past yeaj', said the numbers in a.ttend&nce at the school during the period under review had been the highest, the devotion of the pupila the beat. and the scholastic successes the greatest in its history. Five pupils passed the London matriculation as against three the previous year; fifteen g&ined the senior certinoate of the Central Welsh Board, with 30 distinctions; 22 secured the junior certl- nc&te. with 38 distinctions; and one exhibi- tion. bad been gained of tenable at Ashford School for three years. Lord Windsor and Mrs. Williams. Miekin Manor. then distributed the prizes to the pupils. A drill by the junior girls followed, and was thoroughly enjoyed. Lord Windsor, at the outset of hie speech. congratulated the boya and girls who had carried off the honours that evening, and added that he might, perhaps, say a word or two to others in that hall who had, perhaps, passed the age of competition. He was very glad to hear from the headmaster, in his interesting report, that it was a particular object of the teaching staff of that school to deal with the subject of education in the widest possible spirit. They had been told that the teaching of science was given a prominent place in the school, and it aeemed to him that at a. time when one of the chief questions which was in the thoughts of all at this moment-and that was, what t!he exact condition of our commercial supremacy or our commercial success was in Great Britain-that the teach- ing of science was one which assumed a, posi- tion of great importance. (Applause.) But, If we were to madntain the supremacy of Great Britain in the commercial competi- tion of the age. we must take care to make our ship watertight all over; we must stop every crack that could cause & leakage; we must trim our sajis and steer our comrae in so far as we were able to bade the adverse tides and the cross-currents that we might encounter, and make our port in the shortest possible time. (Appla-Use.) The state of what was called the educational problem in this country was one which immediately con- cerned them aJl. (Apptaase.) What he j thought they woald be agreed upon was that whether it was the most important pturt of our genera.1 equipment or not, we would all be agreed, he thought, that it was almost impossible to exaggerate its importance—that it was almost imposmMe to guage the exact amount of disaster we would suner it we neglected it—neglected it, that wee. in comparison with those who were competing with us. (Applause.) It was well known that 50 or more years ago Great Britain started her great manufacturing industries well ahead of all the nations of the world. We held a position then of suprema-ey that in the nature of things could not possibly last for ever. He remembered not long ago speak- ing of this subject to an eminent man. who said to him that the moment at which our great commercial supremacy began to decline might be traced to the great Exhibition of 1961. No doubt, it was a nne thing for us then to hold out a friendly welcome—the hand of friendly welcome to all foreign nations-to invite them to come to our store- house of knowledge and apparatus, and, with a. certain amount of vainglory, to ask them to step in and see how clever we were. (Laugh- ter.) Our foreign neighbours did come in, and it was idle to <mppoae that they would not take advantage of tha,t, tnd so soon as the Paris Exhibition of 1M7 the English Com- mittee's report drew serious attention to the way in which England was being overtaken gradually by the superiority of the inven- tions of foreign countries. That, he feared, applied to us more than it did then. To some extent we were the masters of our own fate. (Applause.) Upon us depended to a great extent whether we were foreseeing enough- prescient enough-to equip ourselves for what the future might have in store for us. and whether, in a word. we would be content to slumber in false security or whether we would be ready to move with the times, and raise our own education to that point at which it! would be no longer possible for foreign coun- tries to reap the rich reward of our former enterprise by improving the inventions made in this country, but that we would be able to carry out those inventions and improve them ourselves and take our part in the great competition of the world. (Applause.) Well. it was reaJIy to the youth of thi:* country that we must look to uphold this Supremacy. What could not be done was, that we should be able to hold our own without sticking hard to work. (Applause.) Some wise man had said that genius was, after all. an innnite capacity for taking pains, and whether that was absolutely true and correct or not. it was true enough to teach us the lesson that brilliant abilities and great cleverness and great aptitude for learning were not in them- selves sumcient to c&rry us to success. but that they mtMt always be com- bined with that aystema.tic tuition, that systematic taking of pains, and that thus only could the people of this country maintain the proud position which they had made in the past. (Applause.) He would not have them for one moment to imagine that commercial prosperity—the making of money—or the consideration of the relative position of our wealth to that of foreign countries was the chief object of education He would not for a moment ignore wha t would be recognised by everyone as one of the moat valuable phases of education, and tha.t wao the cultivation of the mind for its own aa.ke. No one, either young or old, who had touched the fringe of literature or of science or of art would fail to agree that it opened up at once the possibility of inte- rest and enjoyment which they never imagined the world contained. (Applauwe.) In conclusion, his lordship congratulated tea/chers and pupils upon the successes aAta.ined in the Pontypridd County School. The proceedings were brought to a cloae with the usual votes of thanks.

RABBIT COURSING. The quarterly meetings of the Eastern Valleys (Mon.) Free Church Council were held at Bethany Methodist Church, Pontnewynydd, on Monday afternoon, the Rev. S. 0. Mprgan. B.A.. presiding over a good attendance of delegates.—Police-superintendent James (Pont- ypool) wrote stating tha.t the police were pay- ing particular attention to rabbit coursing at Llantamam, and in one instance, with the assistance of Inspector Johnston. of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, succeeded in & prosecution against two men for cruelty by overcrowding rabbits in a box. The police attended all coursing matches, but, unfortunately, there was a good deal of cruelty at coursing matches which the law could not reach. He was informed that -there was to be no coursing-at LIantamam this season, as the owner of the Sold was claiming too much.

CHARGE WITHDRAWN AT NEATH. Mr. W. H. David at Neath Borough Police- court on Monday mentioned the case of Walley and Davies, asking the magistrates to strike out the case. He said that the defendant. Mary Ann Davies, of Water-street, Neath. had assaulted Miss Walley, who was the headmistress of Alderman Davies'e Schools, but she had apologised, expressing her sincere regret. In the circumstances, the complainant and the rector (the Rev. A. F. Evans) thought that the better coarse to pmr&ue would be to withdraw the charge. —The Magistral concttrred. and the oc*T<pe was withdrawn.

GOCHFARF'S NOTES. COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS. The narrow escape of her Majesty the Queen from a burning bedchamber invites more precautions by houseowners at the commencement of the winter season, with the view of ascertaining whether nre- plaoes are in good order or not. The nrst theory advanced for the cause of the fire at Sandringham was that some irregu- larity of the electric installation at the palace was accountable for the serious trouble which alarmed the whole nation when it was reported, but the nrst rumour was ill-founded. Nevertheless, electric wires can cause firing accidents, and periodical inspections of installations are a necessity. It has been ascertained, I however, that the outbreak of fire was due to the concrete bed of a stove being of insunicient thickness. It has become a general custom to use slow combustion stoves in bedrooms, but they are gene- rally nxed on the indifferent concrete which was originally only intended to resist an occasional live coal falling from I a nreplaoe, and not for the constant beat which mos): stoves give out, and the moral of the Sandringham fire is that these modern aids to comfort should only be used when nxod by a competent beating engineer. It is signincant of the feeling of endearment with which the King is universally regarded that certain press correspondents are discussing the moat Pon cl suitable complimentary cognomen to apply to him, and also the propriety and sources of the many that were employed at the time of his accession to the British throne, and particularly on his recovery from his recent serious illness. We have had a Royal Confessor and a Coeur de Lion among our male rulers, and Good Queen Bess and Victoria the Good among our Queens; and since the purport of the Kin?s tour of the Royal Courts of Europe has become known there is a pretty common agreement to name him Edward the Peacemaker. I see that the inhabitants of that county of broad acres, Carmarthenshire, lay claim to having been, through its standing joint com- mittee, the originators of the happy term. Well, may he live long, and become more worthy of his proud prestige oi being the ARpstle of Goodwill among nations every day of his life. The <tnce honourable and important onice of portreeve of the ancient borough of Aberavon is at a considerable discount. now that the claimant to its departed privileges is compulsorily detained in Brixton Prison for an act of contempt against the Court of Chancery. Thei shades of the once proud holders of the oSce must be considerably disturbed by the experience of their present successor in being subjected to the authority of a London judge, for there was a time when a fuUy-nedged portreeve was, within the limited area of a borough, both chief magistrate and lord chief justice com- bined, and would have laughed at the pretences of a judge in Chancery, or, indeed, at the commands of the Sovereign of the rea;!m, unless he held his omce by the goodwill of the head of the State, which was not always the case. The whirligig of time has worked great changes since the Norman lords nomi- nated their portreeves. Aberavon's once neighbouring borough of Kenng is buried by sand dunes, and its records were rele- gated to a dark room in a Maudlam inn, but I am not sure that the names of any of its portreeves remain. Aberavon has obtained a new lease of life through the commercial enterprise of its twin town Port Talbot, but ita "portreeve" has played the part of a Rip Van Winkle, who missed his opportunity of lighting for his status when Aberavon's local governors sighed for and obtained a brand new mnyor in the year 1861. If any other evidence were needed to mark the high respect in which the late Mr. David Richards, of Maindy House, Whitchurch, was held by his acquain- tances, then it was forthcoming in the enormous cortege which assembled at his funeral on Saturday last, in spite of one of the heaviest ramstorms of this year. It is not ey to estimate all hia good qualities, but the dominant one, un- doubtedly, was his wholeheartedness in all thai he did—whether by the simple but suggestive act of shaking a friend's hand, in speaking the best he could honestly say of a neighbour, in carry- ing out his everyday duties, or in aiding a movement which commanded his good opinion. He seemed to live in a per- petual glow of good nature, which readily communicated itself to less sanguine people when they met him. His whole life was an inspiration for good in the circle in which he moved. Sir W. T. Lewis, who counts the value of every moment in the year, proved by his presence at the funeral that he regarded Mr. Richards as being no ordinary person. A most remarkable increase of activity in work has been demonstrated by the Young Men/s Christian Associations of SouthWales during the last few years. A stronger sense of the importance of reach- ing non-Church attending youths ia deve- loped by their promoters, and one of the most gratifying congregations of wor- shippers I have witnessed for a long time is to be found at the lecture-hall of the Y.M.C.A. at Cardiff every Sunday night- a congregation that has practically been recruited from the streets after the ser- vices at the regular churches and chapels have commenced. On Saturday last a popular Saturday evening entertainment, which is intended in a secular way to supplement the devotional Sunday meet- ings, was inaugurated, and' the patro- nage extended to it by just the class of lads it is intended for proved that its promoters know their work well. cMudents of the manner of managing and training boys can learn much by turning into these meetings on either of the nights mentioned. A more exact study and classi&cation of the idiosyncrasies of boys and girls will be bound to yield very profitable results. Child study has of late years been actively carried on in America and other coun- tries. These psychological researches are well known to educationists, and religious teachers should show as keen. an interest in mastering them as they do in the latest phases of the higher criticism. Problems in child study may be looked at from dif- ferent points pif view, but a. fuller under- standing of how to develop their sense of moral and spiritual responsibility must foltow such study. It increases know- ledge of child life, and tends to cultivate a fellow-feeUng with the child as an object of terest..

MU<S!C FOR CARDIFF PAUPERS. At ineeting of Cardiff WortchocBe Visiting Committee on Tnwday (Mr. F. J. Beavan pre- siding) XP. W. J. Hall asked if anything had been done with regard to his little suggestion to provide music for the old people in "J" bloct:, who were without such entertainment the whole year through. Miss Bleby: I have it in hand. It is waiting over Christmas. The Chairman: That is a capital service Miaa Bleby is tendering. Mi.M B!eby: amongst others, nret-class vioUaists have promised to come here. (Hear. hear.) Mr. Hall, it will be remembered, introdaoed the matter at the last meeting. His idea is to invite amateurs to play for the aged and iunnn. aad thus relieve the monotony of their existence. j

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