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Responsible Representation at Con. presses. I understand Mr. Hayes is a newspaper editor. Therefore, with that fact in one's mind, it is not difficult to travel back a decade or so and call up the struggles witnessed at our own Trades Union Congresses between what was called the old and the new Trades Unionism. The last great struggle between these sections took place at the Cardiff Congress, when Messrs. Broad- hurst, Burns, and Hardie last appeared in the capacity of delegates. In conse- quence of a standing order passed then no one unless engaged at his trade or hold- ing an official position in a society affiliated to congress is eligible as a dele- gate. This step was taken because some of the most sagacious and experienced leaders of the movement were persuaded that unless it was done it would be im- possible for the Trades Union Congress to hold together much longer. Whether that be so or not, no one will deny that the Trades Union Congresses are now much more truly representative in char- acter than they were in those days. A man responsible only to himself may safely propound a hundred and one schemes or policies that he would not think were within the range of practica- bility were he responsible to a society. But when the responsibility of speaking in the name of a society is upon him it sobers him down to the advocacy only of such schemes as the society he represents will be prepared officially to support.

Non-Unionism in the Legal Profession. Are all British citizens supposed to be equal before the law ? If so, what has the law to say to the following case, published in the London Daily News" "A very unusual incident occurred at the Clerken- well County-court. The plaintiff's solici- tor informed his honour that he did not wish to introduce prejudice, but he felt it his duty to state that the gentleman who was robed to act as defendant's solicitor had not paid his qualifying fee for 1904 yet, and, therefore, wad not entitled to practice.—His Honour: Is that correct? —The defendant's solicitor: Yes, it is.— His Honour Then you are not in the law and I cannot hear you, and your legal friend has done a public service in drawing attention to the fact." We have had some scathing lectures because of our con- tention that no man has a right to take the advantages of a Trades Union without paying his dues to that institution, and when a little persuasion has been brought to bear upon a non-Union man or non- financial member of the organisation to convince him of the error of his ways it has been difficult for some writers to find language strong enough to condemn what they are pleased to term Trades Union tyranny. I have heard it declared that the most perfect Trades Union society in the world was that connected with the legal profession. I confess to have occasionally thought that myself when engaged upon litigation work. But until I read this case I had no idea how complete it was. Will not this non- Union solicitor bring an action against the solicitor who reported him and the judge who declined to allow him to work ? Were he a courageous non-Unionist workman he would be complimented upon his pluck in refusing to be driven to join a society against his will, and sympathised with by some people because of the trouble and annoyance he had been caused. If it is wrong for Union workmen to bring pressure by refusing to work with a non- Union man, surely it cannot be right lor this Union solicitor and judge to act as they did in the above case. Let me put the alternative proposition. If it is good law and justice for this judge and solicitor to do what they did, how can it be wrong for Union workmen to do the same P It will be appreciated also that they struck against the non-Union solicitor without notice, and as a result the employers of the non-Union solicitor must have been seriously inconvenienced. I am looking forward with interest to what those writers who have so strongly condemned the workmen for adopting this mode of procedure in connection with their Trades Unions have to say upon this case of Trades Union compulsion. The particular case will, doubtless, have no influence with them in deciding the right or wrong of it; it is the principle of interfering with the liberty of the individual that, presumably, has moved them to protest against the workmen when they have operated against non-Union men upon similar lines.

Small Coal and Bye-Products. May I call the attention of coalowners, workmen, and business people generally to the report just published of the evidence given before the Royal Commis- sion on Coal Supplies? It is well worth perusal and careful study. The question of small coal is exhaustively dealt with, and that the subject is one of importance may be accepted from the fact that some of the chief colliery firms in the Princi- pality are at present giving great con- sideration to the matter. The Powell Duffryn Company, who have an energtic chairman and managing director in the person of Mr. Joseph Shaw, have recently erected at great cost a coal-wash- ing plant of the most up-to-date pattern, which creates what would practically bo of little worth into a valuable power- raising agent. At the Llanbradach Col- lieries, whose managing director and chairman is Mr. Lancaster, they are about to erect a. complete block of coke ovens, with bye-product appliances, through which they will be able to utilise to the fullest extent every grain of value contained in small coal, and, as the evidence in the volume just published deals with this side of the coal trade, it should not fail to be of interest and value to all those who are in any way connected with the industry.

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PERSONAL PARS. PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE. The far-sighted shrewdness of the late Sir John Voce Moore—Lord Mayor of London in 1893—who in hie will directed his executors to a-ccumulate a sum of £6,000 for ten yearn, with a view to the possibility of his family running into rainy days. naturally re-calls the extraordinary story of Isaac de Thellus- son, who came from Genera and settled in London in the eighteenth century. His business as a merchant prospered so well that he died worth nearly six millions sterling. The bulk of this he tied up for two generations with the proviso that if no heir was left to his family at that time the money should go towards paying off the National Debt. Whereupon his immediate heirs went to law and wrangled over the will for three generations. —— Thellusson'a wife died of a broken heart. Thellusson's portrait was shot full of holes by his disgusted children. Parliament passed an Act forbidding anyone to bequeath money to accumulate for more than twenty- one years. The lawyers ate up most of the fortune. But even thus Thellusson'fl descen- dant, who died last year at Doncaster, ieft an estate of over £194,000. The appearance at Copenhagen of King Edward and the warships with which he set sail will have a significance for Denmark very different from that with which the advent of British fleets a century ago «as invested. In 1801 Nelson and Hyde Parker submitted Gopenhagen to a bombardment, and in their engagement with the Daniah fleet, of three-and-twenty ships of the line, captured or destroyed eighteen. Six years later England became privately possessed of the secret of the Treaty of Tilsit signed by Napoleon and the Czar, by virtue of which the Danish fleet was to attack England. It is ancient history now how the Danish fleet and capital were swiftly assailed; how eighteen Danish sail of the line, fifteen frigates, six brigs, and twenty-five gunboats, with an immense quantity of stores, were captured by Admiral Gambler and Lord Cathcart. Great Britain was blamed for the attack, for not until ten years had ela-psed were the contents of the Tilsit Treaty made known to the world. The victory caused some heartburning at home, too, for the attacking forcea destroyed the cathedral rt Gopenhagen and three hundred dwelling- houses, a circumstance greatly deplored in this country. Count Lamsdorff, concerning whose posi- tion rumour is so busy, has been the confi- dant of three rulers of Russia—ot Alexander II., Alexander HI., and now of Nicholas II. He owes hia patent of nobility to a curious circumstance. His grandfather was tutor to Nicholas 1., and ruled the future monarch with as great severity as any Czar ever lorded it over his subjects. Old "Papa Lamsdorff," as they called him, was a fire- eating soldier, and no kid-glove pedagogue, and the Czar-to-be used to catch it from anything that happened to be near his hand. "I wonder," the young Czarevitch once said, "I wonder if God Almighty will judge him for the execrable education he has given me?" Nevertheless, the spankings which the general had given the young man seem to have pleased the latter's father, who was eo well satisfied that upon his heir's wedding day he made hie tutor a count. The family of Lamsdorff has remained of the highest consideration to the Romanoffs ever since. Of one feature of Korean campaigning we have yet to hear. None of the special cor- respondents has said anything about the tigers! There is a saying common in the country, "One half of the year the Koreans hunt the tiger, and the other half the tiger hunts the Koreans." It is a true saying. The man-eater attains a great size along tha east coast and throughout the entire belt of country northwards as far as the forests on the Yalu, where the Russians are under- stood to be making themselves at home. While Lord Curzon was staying at Chang An Sa, the principal of the Keum Rang San monasteries, it was found that at least one tiger patrolled the quadrangle nightly, ready to snap up unconaidered trifles in the shape of future Viceroys of India. It need not be added that biped burglars in the locality are quite a negligible quantity. Chang An Sa, over which the tiger kept guard, by the way, is the Korean name for "Eternal Hall of Peace"! -—— The Duke of Connaught's new appointment is a curious working-out of a desire on the part of the Duke of Wellington. Just before the birth of the now Inspector-General, Wellington went to Queen Victoria, with the injudicious suggestion that the Prince Consort should be made Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in succession to himself. The Queen was too prudent not to see how tremendously unpopular and dangerous such a step would have been. Nevertheless, she was highly gratified by the proposal, and when a few weeks later her third son was born she remembered the Duke, made him one of the little one's godfathers, and oalled the child by his name. One of the most extraordinary fictions prevailed as to the relations between Welling- ton and the Duke of Connaught. It lasted twenty-one years. The Duke was born on the eighty-first birthday of the old general. Popular report had it that the veteran, at the christening of his godson, set aside for him a golden casket containing jewels and the title deeds of an estate. The casket was not to be opened until the Prince reached his twenty-first birthday. The spice of romance and mystification with which the matter was invested fasci- nated the public. One artist made a painting of the subject. It was engraved, and thousands of copies were sold. Many a home in this country and the Colonies has one now. It was called The First of May," and depicted the Duke of Connaught in the act of unsealing his treasure. The twenty-first birthday came and went, the papers were full of the story, and the picture sold like hot cakes. Then came an official announcement. There was not a word of truth in the whole story! —— Independence is alike the most prominent feature of the music and musical career of Dr. Elgar, who is the first English com- poser to have attained the honour of a festival devoted to his own music. Although as a boy he Bang in the choir of which hia father was organist, he had none of the regular conservatoire training, and, indeed, was only able to make music his profession when he had earned his bread in other ways. He is a man of very wide experience in many ways of life, a ke-en golfer and cyclist, a great walker and a practical agriculturist. His houses in the Malvern district are sur- prisingly lacking in conventional musical "shoppy" traces, and only look like the homes of a man of culture. Most remarkable oi all, perhaps, is that Dr. Elgar utterly eschews long hair and the disorder of "artistic" dress. The house of the Earl Amherst is as old as the thirteenth century; for, as Burke has it, Gilbertua de Hemmehurst occurs in Pipe Sell, in the year 1215, while Rogerus de Hemhurste happens in the Chartulary of Bayham Abbey in the time of the second, or third, Edward. Yet in the twenty-fifth year of Edward III. the name is recorded as de Amherst. Since then the family has included a Serjeant-at-Law, who was Serjeant to Queen Elizabeth, and other famous lawyers; a cele- brated Field-Marshal, who was the first Ba.ron Amherst; an Ambassador and Governor- General of India, who was the firgt Viscount, and several other more. or less noted soldiers and sailors. Himself, William Archer Am- herst, of Aracan, in the East Indies, third Earl Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale of Holmesdale in Kent, and Baron Amherst of Montreal in Kent, was Dora (says Jehu Junior in Vanity Fair ") eight and sixty years ago, though he still looks quite young. He began life at Eton, and real life in the Coldstream Guards; with whom he served in the Crimea, winning a glorious if severe wound and a thrice-clasped medal at Inker- man. Since then he has been an officer of Volunteers, and is a deputy-lieutenant and a justice of the peace and other worthy things in Kent, which county he loves and has lived in all his life. He is also a knight of justioe of St. John of Jerusalem, and before he was summoned to the Upper House he served his county as a member of Parliament for twenty-one years, representing first West Kent, and afterwards Mid-Kent, about eight thousand acres of which county he owns. Outside Kent he is known the world over as Pro-Grand Master of the English while he has been Grand Master of Kent for four-and-forty years, and, with the double exception of Lord Leigh and the Duke of Devonshire, he is the oldest Provincial Grand Master in England. So popular and so good a Mason is he that hie King, who was then Grand Master, appointed him to the ofQce of Deputy Grand Master of England, eight years ago, and when the great figure of the late Lord Lathom df&. appeared from among us five years ago he was promoted to the great office which he now so worthily fills. In the discharge of his Masonic duties he combines much dignity and urbanity with that most useful quality, tact. He is also remarkable for great quickness of perception, as he hag shown on many ooeasions of difficulty and doubt; so that he is altogether, and most rightly, popular in the craft. Outside Freemasonry he is a sports- man so keenly devoted to shooting, fishing, and golf that he spends a great part of the year in his shooting qnarters in Sutherland- shire, while he has excellent golf links of his own in Kent. He is altogether a worthy, i upright, rather reserved man of aw-ch dignitt*

EDUCATION ACT. CONFERENCE OF COUNCILS I AT LLANDRINDOD. NO ADVANCE TOWARDS A SETTLEMENT. A conference of the representatives of all the county councils of Wales was held at Llandrindod Wells on Tuesday for the dis- cussion of the Welsh education policy. Mr. Humphreys-Owen, M.P., who pre- sided, uttered his personal protest against the Act, which had been passed against remonstrances, protests, and declara- tions of singular unanimity. These protests had been emphatically confirmed by the appeal to the country which was made only a month ago. The result of that appeal waa the return by great majorities of the national party in the county councils. Until the Act was amended it would be impossible to have peace in the administration of the Act. If there was one subject upon which Wales was agreed it was the subject of eduoation. (Applause.) He protested against the Times" publishing an anonymous letter which was reeking with slanders against the education system of Wales. It was the duty of any great organ of public opinion not to allow articles of that sort to enter into its columns unless the writer gave his name, dates, and places. (Cheers.) Lord Kenyon, in acknowledging the invita- tion to attend, said he did not propose to attend as he did not feel that he could give his vote in favour of any of the resolutions placed upon the paper in thcir present form. THE FIRST RESOLUTION. Alderman T. J. Hughes (Bridgend) moved the first resolution, which was worded as follows :— That this national conference of duly appointed delegates, directly representing Welsh county, borough, and urban councils (all being educational authorities charged with the administration of the Education Act), (a) re-alfirms the protect persistently made by its representatives in Parliament, and now confirmed by the united voice of Wales at the polls, against such of the pro- visions of the Education Act as perpetuate sectarian domination in public elementary schools maintained entirely out of public moneys and impose sectarian religions tests as a condition of the appointment of head- teachers in such schools; and, further, (b) records its unalterable decision to so administer the Áct as to minimise the in- justice resulting from defects, without inflicting any avoidable hardship upo £ .,non- provided schools; and, finally, (c) pledges itself to resist strenuously any and every attempt to compel the Welsh councils to become the instruments for the enforce- ment on their constituents of oppressive demands which involve inroads on the funda- mental rights of British citizenship and invade the sacred domain of conscience. He felt it a. great honour, he said, to address such an historic gathering. Never since the thirteenth century had Wales been so united, north and south, east and west, as it was in this conflict. They were not there as Car- marthen, Pembroke, or Merioneth men, but as a solid phalanx of Welshmen prepared to act up to their traditions. Efficiency was not a matter of money. There were three aspects to it—money, management, and head teacher. They would see to the money, and, as far as the council would allow, they would see to the teacher, but the Act did not allow them to see to the teacher, and the county councils under existing circumstances could not discharge the duties cast upon them by the Act. The Act did not allow them to get rid of present incompetents. They, the members of the Welsh county councils, would not be willing instruments for the oppres- sion of their own people, not even in the face —and God forbid he should say so—of mili- tary intervention. Wales was ready for the war. (Cheers.) Mr. D. P. Williams, chairman of the Car- narvonshire County Council, seconded, and remarked that the slow process of disestab- lishment had been at work in Carnarvonshire. A CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS. Mr. C. Rogers (chairman of the Radnorshire County Council), who did not support the resolution, said that he wished Lord Kenyon was present as a strong advocate of com- promise. What he wished to speak of was the administrative and not the political side of the question. It seemed to him that the objection to the concordat arose because it placed, nolens volens, the provided schools under the Cowper-Temple Clause. If there was any compromise in the air be would feel inclined to say that the abolition of the Cowper-Temple Clause did not apply to the late board schools. He would be pleased, with Mr. Frank Edwards or anybody else in the county, to draw up some sort of agreement which would apply to the provided schools in the county. Personally, he was not afraid of popular control. As the owner of a private school, he would be very glad to apply to the County Council of Radnorshire for per- mission to bring this school into line with others. (Hear, hear.) He believed some scheme of this kind would be for the benefit of the children. Dr. Griffith (chairman of the Pembrokeshire County Council) spoke of himself as one who had come from the extreme west, and was proud of what had been done at the reoent county council elections. Mr. Hoyd-George had been down to Pembrokeshire, and his spirit had remained there. The Education Act had changed the face of Pembrokeshire entirely, and to-day they had a Liberal majority of 34 or 35. (Cheers.) There were only about twelve Conservatives left. They were united on this question, and said, "No compromise." SPEECH BY MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. Mr. Lloyd-George, M.P., whose rising was the signal for great applause, said he had hoped they might have had a lengthier and a more varied discussion on this resolution, which was an exceedingly important one. After all, the conference was not a political one. (Cheers.) It was a conference of repre- sentatives of the county councils of Wales, but under the present circumstances it was bound to take a political complexion. The last elections were fought on a fighting politi- cal policy, and, naturally, they had come there as a council of war to devise the best means of fighting out that fighting policy. That being so, their Conservative and Unionist friends could not complain of the character of the discussion, whioh had to that extent been a one-sided one. He wished that every Conservative delegate that had been appointed had attended, in order, like Mr. Oolston Rogers, to express their views clearly now. If that compromise failed it was not the fault of the Welsh county councils—(cheers)— and if now they were compelled to face the disagreeable necessity of fighting this Act it was not because they did not in the first instance, at any rate. seek the ways of peace, but because the proposals offered from that very platform a year ago had been practi- cally rejected with contempt, and thus they were met, undoubtedly, to devise the best method of defeating the aims of an Act of Parliament which they considered oppressive to the consciences of the majority of the people they represented. He had a letter in his hand which showed why they thought this was so. All schools in the kingdom, whether denominational or board, had to be main- tained in future exclusively out of public funds, subscribed to by the general body of ratepayers. A LETTER. Now, there appeared an advertisement for a teacher for a school of that character, and this letter was sent to one of the applicants. The writer said:—"We need a thorough Churchwoman and communicant. The children attend a choral Eucharist on Sundays and saint days at nine a.m."—which, be it observed, was within school hours.—"The mis- tress is expected to attend on Sundays as well as week-days, as a matter of example, and to loyally support tihe teaching of the Church. We have daily services and frequent celebra- tions of Holy Communion-indeed, almost daily—and, while I recognise that teachers who are conscientious are kept somewhat busy, I should prefer a teacher who would value these privileges"—(laughter)—and after this the writer invited the unfortunate appli- cant to write a private letter stating whether she ooold work with the Church. Now, that Wall not a Church school. It was a school maintained out of the public funds, and every ratepayer in the parish, whether Church or Nonconformist, had got to subscribe towards it3 maintenance, and a school that every child, whether Cfaurrih or Nonconformist, was bound to attend. It was monstrous that under those conditions it should be possible for any manager to demand a test of that character for a public appointment. ("Shame.") Take an illustration—at Aber, in Carnarvonshire, where the bulk of the appointed teachers mnst be qualified in the usual way and must be communicants of the Church of England. The disqualification for being manager there was tl>p.t a man should be a bankrupt, a criminal, or a Nonconformist. The curious thing about it was thus, that if a man became a lunatic he was not disqualified, but if a man became a Methodist or Congregationalist or Baptist he was at once ruled out—(laughter)—-and they were called upon in Wales to administer this Act and to levy rates in order to uphold it, to sell the goods of their fellow-religionists, and to send to prison men because in their heart and conscience they could not see their way to insult the creed to which they owed everything they had. (Cheers.) As long as that Act remained on the statute book of the country they would not get the Welsh county councils, at any rate, to administer it. (Ixjud cheers.) The Prime Minister had many graces, he had many attractive qualities, but if he had known England as well as he knew Scotland—(laughter)—he would n«*ver have conducted that Bill through the House of Commons. In fact, we were suffering because we were not Scotsmen. (Laughter.) To ask them to do that in a country that owed most of all that is good in it to Nonconformity was to ask Ahem to do too roroeh. (Cheers.) While Gbnroi7 leu hard anbecribed HhnnWhr. and many of them had done their share nobly, in the work of education in Wales. still, what had done most for education in Wales waa the fact that Nonconformity had trained the people to work continuously and to subscribe liberally for public needs, and to invite them now to carry out this affront to Nonconfor- mists was a thing that no self-respecting nation would tolerate. (Loud cheers.) They were charged with being lawbreakers. They did not break the law, but they declined to become the instruments of carrying out an oppressive law. (Applause.) If they wanted to administer that law, if they insisted upon it. let them come and do it themselves. (Cheers.) At a-ny rate, they in Wales would not turn the rack. (Applause.) There was no danger of Wales becoming A NATION OF LAW-BREAKERS. but there was a danger that every law- abiding community had to avoid, the danger that it should become so docile that it would bend without protest to an Act forced upon it, against its will, and which outraged the truest sentiment of the mass of the people. (Cheers.) The nation that was so poor spirited that it would do that had no future of honourable service for humanity, and as he believed that Wales had a great future in store of good work he declined to believe that Wales would submit without making the strongest protest in its power and utilising every constitutional means at its disposal to put an end to this Act. and to frustrate its operation until the determina- tion was arrived Lord Kenyon and Mr. Colston Rogers č.f both suggested reasons why the compron. "e failed. They had not been able to appreciate the true reasons. These gentlemen believed in a spirit of fair play, of common-sense, and of neighbourli- ness, which made it difficult for them to apprehend the reasons why the clergy had refused to accept the proposals which the councils made to them a year ago. They were prepared to meet the other side in this controversy, and made perfectly fail' proposals, so fair that his friend. Mr. David Da vies, of Swansea, who had come there to curse, remained to blef«R. (Laughter.) Did they recede an inch from the position they then took up? Not at all. They made the offer to the four Welsh bishoprics, and only one of them was prepared even to meet them. ("Shame.") They represented practically all t11" county councils of Wales, who would have to find the funds for running the Church schools. These bishops were prepared to receive their morey from the councils, but would not meet the representatives of the councils even at a table to discuss terms of peace. These were Christian ministers, who had the spiritual charge of the people of this country. There were many things in the history of the Church that, she had good reason to be proud of; there were many things, too. of which she had good reason to be ashamed, but not one of her acts redounded less to her credit than the conduct of the three bishopries of Wales that declined to meet the representatives of the people, who were officially their flock, to discuss with them the means of conducting the business of the nation and conducting the education and training of the children of the nation. There waa one bishop who met them, and met them fairly—the best fighting man in the lot. (Cheers.) The best fighters were not always the worst men a t coming to terms. (Cheers.) Let them fight as long as the fight was on, but if there was any reasonable prospect of settling it in any way, it was always best to do so. He felt personally inclined to make concessions that would not commend themselves to his judgment, and he waa prepared to press them upon his friends in the interest of peace. Peace was a great object to a. small nation like theirs which wanted to ?o on building. They did not want to be sulking in the streets and quarrelling with the builders, but, then, do not forget that all the conditions laid down by the Bishop of St. Asaph were accepted by them, but the clergy could not be persuaded by their most trusted leaders to surrender this last rag of power that was left them. He (the hen. member) had been exceedingly ANXIOUS TO COME TO TERMS. He had seen bishops and clergy and laymen of all ranks. (A Voice: "And archbishops"— laughter). Yea. and archbishops, but reluc- tantly he came to the conclusion that as long as the clergy represented, as they did now, one side of the controversy, no compro- mise which any self-respecting community could abide by was possible. (Cheers.) The first condition of an honourable and abiding settlement was to drive the priesthood out of its entrenched positions in the schools. (Renewed cheers.) Then, when they got them out of the way they would meet Mr. Rogers and Lord Kenyon and the laity of the Church —(Mr. Rogers: The managers.")—the nation would take counsel together, and he had no doubt as to what would happen then. If the Government had only four words to the Seotch Bill that conference would not haare boon held. There would have been no inquiry at Carmarthen, and no mandamus. The lawyers would suffer, no doubt. They and the parsons would be eliminated. and, per- haps, that would be a good thing in its way. (Langhter.) The words he referred to in connection with the Scotch Bill were: "This Bill shall extend to Waes." (Cheers.) He did not say it was the best solution, but it would be a way of accepting anything fair and reasonable. It would give them popular control, and when they were given that he had sufficient confidence in the common sense of the Weteh people to believe that things would work out all right. He joined the chairman in protesting against the vile letter which appeared in the Times." Nothing ruore slanderous had ewr been wrrttetf. Then in regard to facilities and right of entry this was very important, and whatever they had to say let them say it there. Popular control they would get; the battle had been won; the thing was settled. The Government might flounder for some time and keep in office until they were kicked out, but it did not matter how long they stuck there—popular control would be given by this or the rert Govern- ment. Sectarian tests most be abolished. They could not always keep the eyes of a nation on one controversy. But the clergy never slumbered. (Laughter.) Personally, he was against right of entry, and disputed the right of any denomination to it. No denomination had any right to invite the public to bufld a mission-room or a Bcfcool- room for it. It was right that they should consider right of entry outside school hours. Tha clergy 6a.id: "No; we must get it inside eohcol hours, because the children will not attend." If the parents of the children did Dot wish them to attend, why should they be forced to do so? (Hear, hear.) They muet not grasp too greatly at advantages for themselves. There was one word in Lord Kenyon's letter which he did not like, and which he protested against. His lordship hoped they would not be seeking advantages for themselves. Non- conformists were only fighting for equal rights. (Cheers.) Facilities outside, but inside there was danger. If evety denomination claimed this right what would happen? The children woaM be split up into sections— Methodists to the risht, Baptists to the left. (Loud laughter.) His friend Mr. Frank Edwards said that in that way the Oongregrationaliats would be upstairs and the Churchmen down below. (Renewed laughter;) And this would be d0'1e three or four times a week. It was not desirable that the chil dren should be split up at all. Let them teach the children to act together, to agree together, and learn tD be proud of their common citizenship. (Cheers.) He wanted a settlement which would put an end to strife; which would commend itself to the common sense of the people, and which would humiliate no creed, but which would be of such a character as to be a testimony to the forbearance, sense of justioe, and charity which all creeds professed to teach and follow. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) THE SECOND RESOLUTION. Alderman John Parry (chairman of the Merionethshire County Council proposed the second resolution, viz.: — That this national conference of Welsh educational authorities, while sincerely anxious to co-operate in any effort to arrive at a just solution (for example, on the lines of the Welsh intermediate system), with suit- able adjustments of the deadlock created by the Education Act. declines to accept any amendment of its provisions which will not (a) effectively ensure complete popular control of all schools and colleges main- tained out of public moneys; (b) prevent the imposition of sectarian or theological tests as a condition of the appointment of members of the teaching staff; (c-) prevent the right of entry for sectarian teaching during school hours, and (d) forbid the employment of the teaching staffs for the giving of cec- tarian instruction in the schools. Alderman Hichard Martin (Swansea) seconded, and, speaking of a compromise, said that they did not seek any advantage themselves, but did not want anybody else to get an advantage. He attached great import- ance to that conference, because it was going to have a great influence upon the whole country. It was by resistance to unjust laws that the country had arrived at its present position. The Rev. J. Phillips (Pembrokeshire County Council) and Alderman Raff an (Newbridge, Mon.) also supported. Mr. Morgan Hopkin (Swansea) rose amid derisive shouting, but accepted the invitation to go on the platform. He said that he repre- sented a constituency in which there were numerous Roman Catholics, and Mr. David Davies had jokingly said that he was the only Roman Catholic at the conference. (Laughter.) He was most anxious, as a democrat, to see eye to eye with Mr. Lloyd-George, to end the wretched wrangle, and to educate the poor of the country. He appealed to his hearers to be generous and charitable and to respect the creeds of others. They (the Liberals) were strong and had swept the country, but let them be generous in their strength. Roman Catholic priests devoted their lives to the education of the children. He believed that Mr. Lloyd-George was genuinely anxious to settle thia question. Roman Catibolics and Church of England people should be con- sidered from different stand points. (Cries of "No, no," and "Treat all alike.") At the next general election tiiey weald ha** to Bake terms with John Redmond. (Laraghter and cites of Mr. Boiiiai^piiwWiff saying, "I appreciate your kind bearing, and thank God I had the pluck to stand before such an audience." Alderman Morgan Tutton (Swansea) also supported the resolution, and read the reso- lution of the Swansea Town Council, which did not provide for co-option. The Rev. Fuller Milla said he was thoroughly opposed to the right of entry. As Noncon- formists they took care of their children and flaw that they had religious teaching of the proper kind. (Applause.) Notwithstanding the appeals to charity and various other senti- ments, he asked them to vote against the per- mission to the clerics to enter into the public schools of the country. Alderman Jacob (Monmouthshire) declared "to the victors the spoils." They were entitled to ask more now than twelve or fifteen months ago. A LIVELY DEBATE. Mr. David Davies (Swansea) sakf that it was the interest of every Welshman to promote the peace of educational matters in Wales. Someone had said tha,t the bane of Noncon- formity had been compromise. The bane of Welshmen had always been that they had failed to agree amongst themselves. He was confirmed by all that had happened since the last Llandrindod Conference in the view that there were the elements of a permanent settlement in the concordat. The real secret of the failure of that concordat was, not the men who were present, or the views of the men who were present, but the men who were absent. (Hear. hear.) He hoped the door had not been closed to a final settlement, and it should be an instruction to the permanent body that it should always be opert to receive proposals towards peace. If he (Mr. Davieg) thought of Conservatism and of the success of his own party he would wish to perpetuato the strife. (" No. no.") Mr. Lloyd-George: We would scrub the floor with you. Mr. David Davies: This education question may help Liberals to win the next general election, but it will not enable the Liberal Government to remain in power long. Mr. Iilo/d-Geo'ge in rpply said that Mr. David Davies was an electioneer, and eo was he. If they (the Liberate) wanted to sweep the country at the next general option, the best thirty was to prolong the strife. Nothing would suit them better than that the present Government should add to its long list of follies. He was glad Mr. Davies had spoken, because he did not like a one-sided conference. He must have noticed the difference in the temper of that meeting and the meeting held a year ago. What had happened since then? All their proposals were rejected; there was a mandamus and threats of imprisonment by the Government. Those things did not tend to make peace. The responsibility was not theirs (tJie Liberals). It was inevitable that the spirit of any high-spirited people who had hoen exasperated to such an extent should be roused, and he would think less of his countrymen if they did not express their righteous indignation. The resolution simply stated what right of entry they would not allow. At 3.30 in the afternoon a child was in the schools by compulsion, but at 4.30 the child was there because the parent wanted him to be there. If people preferred their Catechism • to the Bible he respe-cted their religious opinions, but his opinion was that if they conceded the right of .entry outside school hours to parents who wished it, and not to children who were forced there by compulsion of the law. his opinion was that such an overwhelming proportion of the community would he so satisfied with Biblical instruction that the right of entry would prove to be obselete. He was not speaking witlmut Colonial experience. It was proved in New South Wales and else- where. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and was carried with but one dissentient, Mt Morgan Hopkin. Alderman Dodd (Llangollen) read the fol- howmg telegram from a prominent heed- master at Llangollen :—" All primary teacher' lilt Lkangollen emphatically dissociate them- selves from letter in yesterday's Times." (Loud cheers.) THE THIRD RESOLUTION. Mr. 8. N. Jones (chairman of the Monmouth ehire County Council) proposed: — That the chairman or the vice-chairman of each constituent council, and the chair- man or the vice-chairman of its education committee (to be chosen in each instance bv Such council and committee), be appointed an executive to watch the developments of t)>^ situation from the Welsh National stand- point, and with power to appoint an emer- gency sub-committee, a secretary or secre- taries, a treasurer or treasurers, to con suit counsel and to advise the Weteh councils from time to time, as they shall consider expedient; that aJl members of Parliament for the Welsh constituencies be asked to acr aø members of the executive; and that a. national campaign fund be, if necessary, inaugurated at the discretion of the execl1- tive. This was seconded and carried. NATIONAL PETttflON OF RIGHTS. Mr. Herbert Lewis, M.P., mcved:- That the executive he asked to prepare a national petition to Parliament setting' forth the case for Wales and praying for the amendment of the Education Act, and that each constituent council be asked to seal such petitions for presentation in such a manner as the executive shall suggest. The idea of this, he said, was to emphasise the unity of WaAee upon this great question, a.nd this petition of rights from Wales would be a historical document. Mr. Wheatley Cobb (chairman of the Breoonshire County Council) seconded, and the resolution was adopted.*

FREE CHURCH COUNCILS. JOIN IN THE FRAY AT LLAN- DRINDOD WELLS. A oomferenoe, largely representative of the Free Church Councils of Wales, was held at Llandrindod on Tuesday afternoon, unde^ the auspices of the Central Wales Federation Principal Edwards moved the following »eeo- | lution; < That this conference rejoices at the strenuous and determined effort made by the Progressive party throughout Wales tc securo the return to the councils candidates favourable to the Welsh national education policy; congratulates each county on the splendid victories achieved at the polls and the overwhelming majorities secured; and calls on the councils to spare no effort to carry into effect the clear a,nd unmistakabit mandate that they have received, namely, to secure complete popular control of ail schools maintained by public funds, the abolition of all sectarian tests imposed on teachers, the prohibition of entry into the schools on the part of any for the purpose of sectarian teaching, and, in fine, no com- promise of any vital principle of the Welsh national policy, but a united and indefati- gable effort to secure for the whole of the Principality, and, ultimately, for the whole of England, a comprehensive, just. efficient and unsectarian Fystem of national edaca tion. Mr. Wainwright seconded, and the resolu- tion was supported by Dr. Clifford, who stated that no member of the executive of the National Council ooukl go behind the six resolutions passed at Newcastle until they again met their constituency next March. The resolution was carried unanimously. EVENING MEETING. A public meeting was held at the Albert- hall in the evening. Mr. Frank Edwards, M.P., ptesidea, supported by Principal Edwards and a number of Nonconformist ministers. Dr. Clifford, M.A.. spoke in support of passive resistance. Referring to Scotland s Bill, he said that Scotland was democratic. Wales wished to be democratic, and England meant to be democratic. The Act was denomi- national and not democratic, and, therefore, they opposed it. They should not forget that Edward III. was a passive resister. He refused to contribute to the Pope of Rome. They, therefore, had a respectable ancestry, and even a kingly one. There was not a great reform that had not been heralded by passive resistance in some form or other. He pointed out that the claim for satisfying the Romanists must be swept away. The claim was that the Romanists should have some special re-arrangement of the educational system. The State had no right to give any exceptional treatment. It was the business of the State to treat every man fairly and justly, to make no difference between man and man except on national grounds. With regard to the question of right of entry, they were in the fa<ce of danger once mora. The temptation would be strong in them to compromise, and once more they must refuse to compromise at aJl. (Applause.) The Bishop of St. Asaph's compromise was principally that of getting denominational teaching into every board school. That was its substance. In the demo- cratic schools it was proposed that the priest should have the chance of entering with hie oatechiems, has crnoiftx, his other sym- bolical paraphernalia, with his incense, per- haps—he did not know—but certainly with his nonoense. (Laughter.) It was wrong to permit this right of entry. They might depend upon it tha.t when he got there it would be a pre- paration for additional claims until he got supreme command. Along those two lines— exceptional terms for Romanists and the right of entry—danger lay. It generally waa the of&ce of the State to unite l eop-le, not to divide than. In the poMcy of the last two years what did they and? Prior to the Education Act the AneUeans and the Free Chnroh Council were inarching along many roads together. Prospects were bright, and hopes were felt that there might be some arrangement between the representatives of the State Church and the Free Churches by means of which they would work together to get rid of drunkenness, gambling, and lust. What had been the effect of tho introduction of this Act? It had introduced a suspicion between Free Churchmen a.nd Anglicans that would take half a century to eliminate. The usual votes of thanks concluded the meeting, which was 91, a very euttroviaetio 'okmctKf

MINOR MATTERS. ¡. POLICE-COURT AND OTHER PICKINGS. At Devynook Petty-sessions Watkin Joseph, road surveyor, was charged (before Major Morgan and Mr. Thomas) with having been drunk on licensed premises and was fined 10s., including costs. Police-sergeant J. Powell proved the case. Mr. Whitworth, manager of the Cardiff Cemetery, reported to the burial board on Tuesday that on Palm Sunday 100.0CO people visited the cemetery, and not a single case at pilfering or complaint of any kind was re- ported. The board considered the report to be very satisfactory. At Tredegar Police-court on Tuesday Mary Capel, a young married woman, of Tredegar, was fined 4as.. or fourteen days, for being drunk while in charge of a child ten months old. The woman had to be carried to tha police-station and the child given into the charge of another woman. She was so violent at the police-station that she had to be held down. Defendant said she had been made drunk in a house she had called at. Thomas Ellis, haulier, who had been arrested at Liverpool by Police-sergeant Davies, was on Saturday brought before the Neath borough jnstic-es and charged with deserting his children, leaving them charge- able to the common fund of the Neath Union. Mr. Edward Powell prosecuted on behalf of the guardians, and Warrant-officer Gabriel said that £6 was due. Defendant was sent to prison for a month with hard labour. At Swansea Police-court on Easter Monday morning Mr. C. R. Trueman appeared to hear the decision of the bench in respect to hie application for a further summons against Mr. D. R. Knoyle, accountant, in connection with a cheque. Certain correspondence was produced, and it appeared that the matter had been laid before the Publio Prosecutor. The decision of the bench was against grant- ing the summons asked for. A man named Thomas Harry Manson was charged at Cardiff Police-court on Tuesday with being drunk and disorderly at the Riverside Station of the Great Western Rail- way at Cardiff on Easter Monday, a.nd also with assaulting Clifford DIlCk, a servant in the employ of the company. Mr. J. S. Lean- ing, solicitor, Cardiff, appeared for the Great Western Railway Company.—Defendant was fined 10s., or fourteen days. There was a sheep in a fancy draper's shop, at 67, Iligh-street, Rhymney, on Sunday about 11.15 a.m. A hound ram was straying in High- street and saw his shadow in the plate-glass window. He made a dash at it and smashed the pane, which was 7ft. high and 4ft. wide, into atoms. The animal was badly cut about the head, but he soon made himself scarce. The shop is occupied by Mr. Abrams, and owned by Mr. John Curtis, the damage done amounts to over £5, but is fully insured. At the last Brynmawr Licensing Sessions the justices refused to grant a renewal of the licences of three houses, viz., the King William IV., The Beehive, and The Old Post Office. The ownera of these houses on Tues- day appeared at the Brecomhire Quarter Sessions and appealed against the decision of the Brynmawr justices. In each case the appeal was allowed. Mr. Arthur Lewis appeared for the appellants, and Mr. John Sankey for the respondents. At Swansea Police-court on Saturday Mary Jane Miller and Mary Ann Webber, now living at Greenhill, but said to be Cardiff girls, were charged with having a purse con- taining 10s. in their possession, supposed to have been stolen.—Police-constable Howard said he saw Miller rip up a purse and throw it into a gutter. He found she had 10s. in her possession. He apprehended both, and Webber said" You will have a job to find a prosecu- tor."—Defendants were remanded in custody for a week. At Tredegar Police-court on Tuesday Oliver Lloyd, 26. collier, New Conisborough, York- shire, was placed in the dock charged with breaking into the shop of James W. 0 Connor. jeweller, New Tredegar, and stealing there- from a large quantity of jewellery, including 25 silver watches, twelve silver albcrts, three rolled gold chains, twelve gold wedding rings, tvro gold koepers, 36 diamond dress rings, two silver brooches, one gold medal, and 56 9-carat gold rings, the total value being £115, between the 1st and 2nd of February last. James Harries, whose place of abode did not transpire, was brought up in custody at Aberdare Police-court on Tuesday, where he was charged with breaking and entering No. 19, Gloucester-street, Aberdare, early that morning. Police-constable Evans deposed that the defendant was found at the house early in the morning. When asked at the police station how he had entered the house. Harries said iliat lw bOO been on the. spree for the last fourteen days. and that he did not know what he was doing." He was remanded for a week. An interesting function took place on Tues- day at Caerphilly, when Mr. R. R. Morgan, solicitor, was presented by Mr. 1" T. Hicks, on behaif of the chamber of trade, with a ailver tea service, on the occasion of his retirement from the secretaryship, which he has held for three years. The items of the programme were contributed by the rector and Messrs. J. E. Evans, Wm. Thomas, J. Howells, J. Gregory, J. Gaines, John Morgan, J. IL Phillips, ld. Henry, John Gibbon, T. A. Phillipe, E. A. H. Hughes, and 8. J. Roberts. Between the hours of 2.0 and 6.0 o'clock a m. on Tuesday the Swan Hotel, Penygraig, was entered by thieves. It seems that they found a turn.sc.r6W on the premises, and with that forced open every drawer in the bar, except one in which some £ZO of Friendly Societies' money was kept. They then prooeeded to the kitchen, where they forced open a cheet of drawers, in which they found a. watch and a gold albert, which was held by Mr. Thomas Morris in trust for his orphan grandson, and about 23s. in money. Two lade named Herbert Crick (16) and Howells (14), of Aberkerffig, were charged at Bridgend on Saturday with rifling the pockets of Edward Jones, collier, Aberkenfig, on Good Friday. Prosecutor was engaged in a foot- ball match at the Rhead Field, Aberkenfig. and when the game had ended he was in- formed that his clothes had been interfered with. As a result of a search he found 3s. missing. Police-constable Johnson arrested the prisoners, when they admitted that Crick had 2s. and Howells Is. Prisoners were bound over under the Fii«t Offenders Act, and fined £1 each. An elderly labourer, named James Phillips, Bteying at the Globe- LodgiIíg-house, LLanarth- Btreet, Newport, was, it is alleged, in a very vicious mood at Newport on Saturday night. According to the story of two women, named Emily Evans, of 31, Emlyn-street, and Annie Swainlaud, of 24. Liana rth-street, he was pas- emg down Dock-street aoout half-past nine o'clock, and, seeing the former woman in a doorway, he, it is alleged, knocked her down ond kickcd her. Mrs. Swaizla-nd, who went to remonstrate, wa_, so she saya. served in much the same way. At an occasional court held at Newport on Monday, Phillips vraa remanded till Wedn-fday. David Hughes, collier, Aberavon, was charged at the local police-court on Tuesday with being drank while in change of his child. -Sergeant Rees deposed that he was in Cardiff-road between eleven and twelve o'clock on the night of the 26th ultimo Hughes was carrying a child about two years old, and fell upon the child, who waa ultimately taken home by the mother.—The defendant pleaded tha.t it was only a "slip," but Ms story was not believed, and he waa ordered to pay a fine of 10s. and costs, or twenty-one days' imprisonment. At Aberdare Police-court on Tuesday Wm. Johnson, of Troedyrhiw, was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Monday. The defendant admitted that he had been drink- ing, but he could not advance any satisfac- tory reason for the assault which he inflicted upon a police-constable as the latter tried to convey him to the lock-up.—Johnson (who bore a very unkempt appearance) was ordered to pay a fine of 10s. and costs for being drunk, and a penalty of J610 and costs, or two months' imprisonment, for attacking the constable. The annual meeting of the Monmonthehire County Licensing Committee was held at the Sessions-house, Usk. on Tuesday, when there were present Messrs. 8. C. Bosanquet (chair- man), Alderman Williams, F. J. Mitchell, E. E-ickards, and W. H. Powell.—Mr. Lionel Dunn, B.L., applied, on behalf of Mr. P. L. Lloyd, of the Swan, Abergavenny, for the con- firmation of the provisional grant of a licence for the Argoed Arms pending the erec- tion of a new house on the opposite side of the road, the old house having been objected to by the police as structurally unfit at the Blackwood Licensing Sessions. There was no opposition, and the licence was granted.—Mr. A. H. Dolman, solicitor, Abertillery, applied on behalf of Mr. Edwin Ernest Price for the confirmation of the grant of removal of a grocer's licence from Commercial-street to Carmel-etreet, Abertillery, which was granted. The special transfer licence sessions were held at the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Tuesday (before Dr. Taylor and other magistrates). The transfers were granted, subject to the pro- vision of sanitary accommodation, which the justices held to be necessary In several cases. Mr. F. G. Forsdike produced plans of projected alterations for the improvement of the sani- tary accommodation of the Victoria Hotel, Queen-street, and the abolition of the con- venience which is now used by the public.— The Bench approved of the plane, Dr. Taylor remarking that what was proposed would effect a great improvement in the district.— Mr. FoTsdike: A large portion of the public will miss the accommodation, sir, but they will be able to get it on paying for it. (Laughter.)—Mr. Forsdike produced plans of alterations at the beerhouse. 69, Nora-street, and plams also of improvements to houses in other localities —The plans, it was stated, had been in for some time, but Dr. Taylor said it was unfortunate the magistrates had .< ottly just seen them. Under thoee circum- ■tMTunn vtm etettamd.

LAUGH & GROW HUMOUROUS PARS EVERYWHERE. Nice Conductor: There are plenty in the car ahead, gentlemen. Irate Passenger: That seems to be 8" ding joke with you fellows. The Butler: What makes the missis 11 a bad humour this morning? j} The Maid: Some woman told her # last night, a.nd she'. forgotten it. The Bailie: Now, Pat, yon are charg^|J striking Mike Rafferty three severe blo" the head. How did that come about? Pan: Well, you see, sur, the spalpeen the 3inse to dodge when I struck hf that's how it happened, sur. Hibbler: Does your wife help you & work? ^0 Scribbler: Yes, indeed! She goes ottt on her friends while I am writing. ) —— Mrs. Muggins: I wonder why she et<rf ried him! Mrs. Buggins: She had an idea, that dII her dear girl friends wanted him. Mrs. Crumps: I wish to see Professor < magundi, the astrologer. I wish to to-morrow will be a lucky day for me to on a journey. wiA? The Professor's Servant: Very •orry, professor is dead. He waa killed in a accident. '— Fair Reader (at circulating library? • > you tell me what is the difference betw4*^ romantic and realistic novel? Experienced and Elderly Librarian*' well, in a romantic novel the hero and get married at the end, and all their t*° are over; in a realistic novel the bero. heroine get married a.t the commeocf" and all their troubles begin.

A TIRESOME JOB. gjf Little Girl tat window): Mummy, 4i4 make cows? Mummy: Yes, dear. And the trees?" "Yes, dear." "And lions and tigers, mummyP" Mummy (tired of it): Yes, dear. He everything! Little Girl (a.fter a pause): Fiddlu.. making flies, mummy!

WHOM HE LOVED. j An uncle of mine employed a butler. He and his wife were a sedate and they lived in a cottage near the They had been married many years they increased the shadows in the they admired and adored the boy the$6 to them. In fact, they spoilt him. W child was about four years old, my uncle one morning down at the stables, and oj p of making himself agreeable, said to child, who was playing, "Whom do you love best in the i naturally expecting him to say hia j mother, particularly considering how i worshipped him. But the answer r | "Me, in my best clothes."

AT THE LINXS.. jjjj I A distinguished amateur came to 1 with the air of one who has only to and see in order to conquer. "Haw, caddie," he said. "Yes, sir." "What, is the length of this holer "Two himdred yr.rds, sir." .t >' u "Raw. I see. Ju&t a drive and a He addressed the ball, swung, a,nd d 11 a couple of yardE. It "Noo," said the caddie, noo for to 0' a putt!"

THE PREACHER'S MODESTY, "I am a stranger here, sir. Can yod me to the churcu?" "Oh, yes-Tound the corner; "What sort of a preacher have they "A very good man." "Interesting ?" "Intensely eo. "Eloquent?" A "Very" ¥0^ "The best preacher in the I suppose?" "Unquestionably." jA "What's his name?" "Ah! my friend, that is a question modesty forbids me to a newer!"

TOO ANTICIPATORY. Two young women met in a RegeP*tj £ shop recently. After they had dec.l» £ <r glad they were that they had met, tn» versation proceeded: "Oh! Blanche is diowm "You don't say so!" "She had a burning "Poor girl!" JB* "As I was going to B»y, BhuMhe te—Jif "Ah! she always -wm dselicayte!" F J "Yea: brct I was going to nay .V "Give ber my love atnti tell her I b.¡ will &oon be out." < "Pardon me, hut I was going to say- A "Who is her doctor?'' |R "Pardon me, a^ain; I began to 9 Blanche is down in Cornwall with be* f She had a burning desire to go the* she went yesterday."

A SMART BOT. A story is told of a South African who, hearing a commotion a.t the back Of & house, hurried out to find hia little (T joying Irrmeetf immensely by Kaffirs round the yaTd with a red-hot After a severe lecture from his youngster promised never to do it <fr day or two later the same heard, and the same youth was found c- havoc with the self-same poker. How dare you? said the judge. But, father began the eulpr*- "Didn't I tell you-" But, father-" "Don't 'but father me, air!" f tJÍ. The youngster, however, convinced ffi* satisfactorinees of his explanation, ..A be silenced. But, father," he said, it's o&lf P this time!

POVERTY-STRICKEN F A)11f;1, —— 01 DEATH HASTENED BY W A](1 NOURISHMENT. jjjitf A pitiful story of a povert-strickeo was related on Saturday at Eglwys Carmarthenshire, when Mr. Thomas coroner, held an inqueet on the body ip, » Mary Thain, the wife of James TO labourer living at Ebenezer Cottage. iØ ¡it/I' parish. The husband, who had not to work for some mouths past owing fy, effects of an accident to his arm, tl**J present at the inquiry, it being state he had gone on foot to Nnrbeth to parish co £ n." According to the deceased and ber husband ;ind four C*1 jjf'j (tho eide°t thirteen years of age) had tlt (1 at the cottage on 63. a week, the relief allotted to them by the The eldest girl told the jnry that their jFj fast was bread and water; dinner, butter and tea; and supper, gruel.. meat (bacon) occasionally on Sandfly9- tJ-t,r,l The Coroner: What did your motbef Witness: Nothing. It also transpired that the parish was sent foi- oetween three and four on Thursday afternoon, but did at the cottage until Good Friday Vj On hie arrival he found that the been dead since ten o'clock on Th v? night.—The coroner read a letter doctor to the effect that he did not Tt?Z telegram asking him to attend to Ljj until late on Thursday, and that went there on Friday he found the dead. In his opinion death was doe failure, caused by bronchitis and a4* The jury returned a verdict to that and added a rider that in their fof*. had been hastened by want of < nourishment, and that the doctor have attended sooner than he did aft** sent for. 1

THE SALTMEAD TRAC$P*, MR. GEORGE R. SIMS AND "HATLESS STRANGER-" 1# 'I Mr. George R. Sims. in his notes g P', "Referee," says':—"There is one Hea about which I am somewhat concernedL. I lost it mysteriously one Saturday some months ago in Cardiff, and o»«^ covered that it had gone on the Sunday ing, when all the shope were closed. ftfTj a.bout the town hatless, endeavouredto,^ a hatter and bay another, and succeeded, but ever since then the 0{ > papers have been filled with account* hatless stranger' who is suspected concerned in the Cardiff mnrder. The must have found a hat somewhere or have been caught. I cannot help if he found mine, and is now wa-lki^jfrf in it. As my name is inside the jLg. might lead to unpleasant complication

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