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THE LLANELLY HOSPITAL, AN INCREASE REPORTED IN THE RECEIPTS. The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Llanelly Hospital was held on Monday night, Mr. Daniel Williams, J.P., chairman of the management committee, in the chair.- The annual report read by the secretary (Mr. D G. Rees, solicitor) showed that the ordinary receipts amounted to £ 1.191 16s. 10d., as against Cl.054 Is. 3d. in 1902. As against the increased income was to be placed an in- crease of expenditure, due to the cost of main- taining the recently-built operating theatre and the appointment of an additional trained nurse. The committee acknowledged sums of £ 100 each from Mr. Gwilym Evans, D.L., Westfa, and Mr. Benjamin Evans. D.L., Llan- fair Grange. Acknowledgment is also made of a £100 legacy from the executors of the late Mr. John Bevan. The fete and gala organised at Stradey Park by Mr. Henry Studt resulted in an addition of £210 Is. 5d. to the funds. Mr. Studt had promised to organise another fete. to be held in August next. The children's ward, presented to the hospital by Mrs. H. C. Buckley, would be completed before the winter. During the year 179 patients have availed themselves of the benefits of the hospital, and 103 opera- tions were performed.

LLANELLY HARBOUR BILL. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE BANK ¡ OF ENGLAND. Negotiations between the Llanelly Harbour Commissioners and the Bank of England are ? still proceeding in reference to the pro- visional agreement drawn up by the Bank. The commissioners have suggested several alterations in this document, and the chair- man has returned to Llanelly after a confer- ence in London. A private meeting of the commissioners was held, and further con- sideration given to the matter, and on Monday the chairman and clerk proceeded again to London. The Bill, which has already passed through the House of Lords, is expected to come before the House of Commons Cpmmittee shortly. Petitions pray- ing to be heard against it have been r deposited by the Bank, Messrs. Richard Thomas and Co., and the Mynydd Mawr Railway Company. If the negotiations now going on are successful the Bank will with- draw their petition.

AN ECHO OF ELY RACES. The trickery took place at Ely Racecourse last Monday, and the sequel at Llandaff Police-court on Monday. Sergeant Williams stated that he saw a man named John Hudson, of Tudor-road, Cardiff, exposing tawdry gilt chains for sale. He would drop the chain into a piece of paper and then pretend to also drop a couple of half-crowns. The whole he would offer for sale for 2s. 6d. The first purchaser obtained the chain and -three half-crowns, but he was a confederate. Seventeen subsequent purchasers found that they had only got coppers instead of half- f; crowns. This was the fate of the sergeant, who speculated 2s. 6d. When arrested Hudson was pelted with chains by disappointed pur- chasers. Hudson did not appear, and the ZZ which he left on deposit to secure bail was forfeited.

GAMES IN CARDIFF PARKS. Up to the present cricket and football on the Cardiff parks have been unrestricted, with the result that the grounds are so crowded that not only does the turf suffer, to the players' detriment, but the public have been endangered. In a report to the committee on Monday, the parks superintendent recom- mended that football should not be played after March 25. and cricket should not be played before May 6. Further, that in each park the number of pitches be limited, so that the ground can be kept in good order and the teams have sufficient room to play with- out inconvenience. The committee accepted the principle that they should exercise some ontrol over the games, and appointed a sub- committee to draft regulations and also to consider the possibility of making bowling- greens.

SWANSEA AND THE ASYLUM. ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS IN LONDON. Sir Hugh Owen sat as arbitrator in London on Monday for the purpose of dealing with the position of Swansea regarding the Glamorgan County Asylum. Mr. Balfour Browne, K.C., and Mr. Rhys Williams (in- Ktructed by the town-clerk of Swansea-), ap- peared for the Swansea Corporation; Mr. S.1 T. Evans, E.G., M.P., and Mr. Rowland Vaughan Williams (instructed by Mr. S. H. Vaughan Williams (instructed by Mr. S. H. 3tockwood) appeared for the Glamorgan County Council. The proceedings arose from the question that has been debated in the county for some time past. Owing to the overcrowded state of the asylum at Bridgend, the county coun- cil had asked the county boroughs of Cardiff and Swansea to make other provision for their lunatic patients. Cardiff has already separated, upon terms settled at arbitration, but the Swansea. Corporation objected to separation. The question put to the arbi- trator was whether Swansea should be sepa- rated, and, if so, upon what terms. The county council urged that there should be separation, but not upon the terms given in the case of Cardiff. On behalf of Swansea it was urged that if the county borough had to withdraw from the asylum it should be upon the terms given in the case-of Cardiff. We learn that imme- diately after the Cardiff award was made, several officials retired upon pensions, and in making the award these pensions were ubt taken into consideration, as they had not arisen, and, therefore, Caruiff made no con- tribution to them. It is contended that in tribution to them. It is contended that in any award affecting Swansea the county borough should bear part of the cost of these pensiena, but on behalf of Swansea it is objected that some deduction should be made for the share that Cardiff would otherwise have borne. Dr. Stuart (medical superintendent of the asylum), Mr. W. E. R. Allen (from the county council office), and Mr. Robert Fisher (accountant to the Glamorgan County Coun- cil), having made statements, counsel engaged laid the arguments before the arbi- trator, who reserved his award.

EMBEZZLEMENT AT CARDIFF. William Rees, aged 25, was brought up on remand at Cardiff Police-court on Saturday (before Messrs. T. H. Stephens and Joseph Howard) charged with embezzling 12s. 6d. belonging to his employer, Frederick Green. Bees was engaged at the Roath Park Dairy, Albany-road, and it was alleged that prisoner had collected the money from a customer and had not accounted for it.-Prosecutor stated that prisoner received a salary of £ 1 ls. per week, and a commission of 3d. in the £ for all money collected.—Prisoner's defence was that he was supposed to have commission on fresh business which he introduced, and he had been unable to get money due to him on that account.-The admission was made by John Jenks, book-keeper to prosecutor, that Rees was entitled to 7a. 3d. in this respect, but. as a fact, said witness, the defendant had lost more custom than he had gained. In any case, he would not have been entitled to the 7s. 3d. till next month.—Questioned by Mr. G. F. Forsdike. for the prosecution, the witness said that defendant did not acquaint him that he had retained the 12s. 6d. concern- ing which he was charged.-Defendant admitted to the bench that he had appro- priated this sum, and Rees, who wore the South African medal with a number of bars, was fined the mitigated penalty of 203., or fourteen days.

A COOL THEFT AT CRUMLIN. "Do you see that lump of meat there; I am going to have that," said Charles Morgan, a Crumlin collier, to a friend on Friday, point- ing to a 261b. piece of beef which was hanging I outside the shop of Mr. George Jones, butcher, Crumlin. Without stopping to consider what he was doing, Morgan took the meat off the hook and carried it home. When charged with the theft at Pontypool on Saturday prisoner said he was drunk at the time. Regarding this as a somewhat feasible excuse, the Bench let him off on payment of a fine of 20s., with the alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment.

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LICENSING LAWS. I CHARGE AGAINST A PENTRE LAND- LADY. Mrs. Cecilia Griffiths, landlady of the Bailey's Arms Hotel. Ton Pentre. was sum- moned at Ystrad Police-court on Monday for having supplied beer to a drunken man on the night of the 5th of May. Mr. Arthur Lewis (instructed by Messrs. W. R. Davies aud Co., solicitors, Pontypridd) appeared for the defendant. Police-constable James stated that he visited the hotel and saw a man, named Harry Duckins, very drunk. The attention of Mrs. Griffiths was called to the man's condition, and witness asked why the man had been supplied with drink. Mrs. Griffiths replied that the man had been in her house earlier in the day, and he was refused liquor then. Duckins having left the house, Mrs. Griffiths turned to the barmaids and asked who had supplied the beer, and a Miss Matthews replied, "It was I who served him." In cross-examination by Mr. Lewis, the wit- ness denied that Duckins picked up a half- pint of beer belonging to another man. Mrs. Griffiths, the defendant, said she had only been in the hotel since April. She had taken the lease of it, which had a little over ten years to run, and had paid £2,000 ingoing, j The licence had only been temporarily trans- ferred pending the result of the present in- qniry. When the police informed her of Duckins's condition she said that the man had not been served, and she turned to tho barmaid. Mi&s Matthews, in the presence of the constable, and asked if she had served him, and she said decidedly. No." It was not true, added the witness, that Miss Matthews had admitted to the police that she had served him. Superintendent Cole: Then the police evi- dence is untrue. The Witness: Yes. Mr. Thomas, veterinary surgeon, Ystrad Chondda, stated that on the night in ques- tion he was with a friend in the hotel when Duckins came in, and Mise Matthews refused to serve him with drink. The man then took up his friend's half-pint to take a drink out of it. when the police came in. The case was dismissed on payment of costs. CHARGE FAILS. At Ystradgynlais on Monday Elizabeth Wil. liams, landlady of the Star Inn, Ystrad- gynlais, was summoned for permitting drunkenness oil April 26. Mr. Jeffreys. Brecon, prosecuted, and Mr. Viner Leeder, Swansea, defended.—Police-sergeant Jarrett visited the house with Police-constable Smith, and saw a man named David Davies in the back kitchen drunk. When asked for an explanation defendant said she had been away from home in the afternoon, and Davies was not in the house when she returned. She added that defendant must have come in when she was in the back yard.—Several witnesses were called for the defence to state that the defendant had only just entered the house.— The case was dismissed. MERTHYR LICENSING CONVICTION. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday Sarah Evans, landlady of the New Duke Inn, Bridge-street, Merthyr, was summoned for keeping open her house for the sale of intoxi- cating drinks on Sunday, the 22nd of May- Mr. J. W. Lewis defended.—Police-constable Griffiths gave evidence as to seeing several persons go to and come from the house. Upon leaving his place of concealment he caught a woman, named Mrs. Jones, with four small bottles of rum and two small bottles of whisky upon her.—Mr. Lewis pleaded for mitigation of punishment on the ground that his client had been the licensee for at least twenty years without any com- plaint having been made against her before. and the Bench simply imposed a fine of £5 and costs.—Jane Jones, the woman already referred to, for being unlawfully on the pre- mises was fined 10s. and oosts. BRYNMAWR LICENSING PROSECUTION. At Brynmawr Police-court on Monday (before Alderman William Roberts and others) Mrs. Esther Joan Henry, landlady of the Hafod Inn, Llanelly, was summoned for keep- ing her house open during prohibited hours on Sunday, the 8th of May; and Herbert John, groom, Clydach-street, Brynmawr, was sum- moned for being on the premises. Mr. T. Gwynne Powell, Brynmawr, appeared to prosecute. When her attention was called to a glass of beer which John had in his hand, Mrs. Henry said she did not know he had been served. The landlady was fined 20s. and costs, and John 5s. and costs. BLAENAVON LICENSEE SUMMONED. At Blaenavon Police-court on Tuesday Richard Pugh. landlord of the Railway Hotel. was summoned for selling intoxicating liquor to a drunken person, namely, John Morgan, a Crimean veteran, on May 1. Mr. H. S. Lyne, Newport, prosecuted, and Mr. T. Wat- kins. Pontypool, defended.—Police-constable Reed said that at eight p.m. he saw Morgan staggering about the street, and afterwards enter the New Railway Inn, but the landlord refused to serve ^iim. He then went into the Railway Hotel, a.nd shortly afterwards came cut with a bottle of beer in his hand.—In his address for the defence Mr. Watkins stated that Pugh had kept the house for nine years without receiving a single complaint, and he considered that it was the police-constable's duty to have warned Pugh not to supply Mor- gan.—The defendant, sworn, admitted serving Morgan, but said that he thought he was sober at the time.—Three witnesses corro- borated—The Bench dismissed the case. ABERDARE LICENSEE FINED. At Aberdare on Tuesday John Rees landlord of the Red Cow Inn, Llwydcoed, was summoned for permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises on the 14th inet. Mr. W. D. Phillips defended. Police-constable Emmett deposed that he visited the house on the 14th inst., and there saw three men who were under the influence of drink. Mr. Phillips admitted the offence, and said his client was doing all he could to properly manage his house. The defendant was fined £3 and coste.

CARDIFF CLERK IN CUSTODY- CHARGED WITH STEALING BANK- NOTES. Henry W. Lacey, of Cardiff, was arrested at Slough on Sunday upon a charge of stealing bank-notes to the value of £24, the property of Messrs. Spillers and Bakers (Limited), of Cardiff, by whom he had been employed as clerk. He was brought up at the Slough Police-court on Monday (before General Little. C.B., and Captain Higgins) and for- mally charged. Police-sergeant Pearce. of the Bucks police, asked the magistrates to direct that the pri- soner should be handed over to Deteotive- j inspector Rankin, of Cardiff, who was in court. The Magistrates wanted to know how JEM could be made up in bank-notes. Detective-inspector Rankin explained that there were two Bank of England notes for JB10 and two Irish notes of £2 each. Asked whether he had any reason why he should not be handed over to the inspector, prisoner replied; "No," and he was accord- ingly handed over.

AS "DRUNK AS TINKERS." Three women of ill-repute, named Annie Sheady, Annie Harvey, and Catherine Rees, appeared at Barry Police-court on Monday charged (before Major-general Lee and Mr. D. T. Alexander) with being drunk and disor- derly at Cadoxton on Sunday. The defendants having procured a 41rga.Ilon oaék of beer, they took it to an open space at Cadoxton Moore, and drank the whole of its contents in less than half an hour. When Police-ser- geant Ben Davies and Police-constable Rhys Price came upon the scene the women were as "drunk as tinkers" and were behaving indecently, and had to be conveyed to the police-station. Deputy-chief-constable Giddings stated that this was Sheady's thirtieth appearance, and Harvey was cautioned at the previous court for improper conduct. The women were fined 20s. each, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, with hard labour.

LOSSES ON SPECULATIONS. A meeting of the creditors of Thomas Owen Brown, builder and contractor, Pleasant View, Ferndale, was held on Monday after- noon at the offices of the Official Receiver at Merthyr. The debtor's statement of affairs showed gross liabilities amounting to JM.985 10s., one creditor for £8,477 14s. 5d. being fully secured. The liabilities to rank for dividend were set down at £1.5202 17s. lid. The assets, including a surplus of £442 5e. 7d. from the security in the hands of the credi- tor fully secured, were returned at £1,594 17". Id. Preseure by creditors and losses on speculations—having leased a site for an hotel and being unable to obtain an offer for it after spending on it about £ 1,000—were the causes to which the failure was attri- buted. The debtor submitted to the meeting an offer of a composition of 15s. in the £ which was accepted, Mr. C. E. Dovey, Cardiff, being appointed trustee, with a committee of inspection.

SMALL-POX AT CARDIFF. Yesterday Mm. Emily Cogin, 46 yeare of age. living at 222, dive-street, Cardiff, was found to be suffering from small-pox. The case was notified by Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Broad, who. accompanied by Inspector Vaughan, had the woman removed to the small-pox hospital. The clothing was either destroyed or disin- fected, and the family were re-vaccinated. Mrs. Cogin was on intimate terms with Mrs. Robinson, of 2Q'J" CUve-street, who wae re- moved, with thijae of her children, to the hospital aboat a fortnight MO. ->

ASSAULT WITH A POKER. GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST A CARDIFF WOMAN. Margaret Gomer, the Cathays woman, who has been remanded on bail for some weeks on the seriou3 charge of wounding a little girl. named Agnes Kennedy, on the head with a poker, with intent to inflict serious bodily harm, on May 7. came before the Car- diff bench on Tuesday, when the charge was investigated. The little girl lives with her parents nt 22, Cathays-terrace. and the prisoner was a lodger at the same house. Mrs. Kennedy said Gomer came into her room about half-past two in the afternoon and complained that her own little girl, Nelly, had been to fetch some meat, and had brought 31b. instead of ilb. Mrs. Kennedy said she would go out and change it, and almost at that moment Ehe heard her little girl Agnes cry, "The poker's j in my head, niajnmy." I went and tried to take the poker from my child's head," Mrs. Kennedy went on, but it was stuck too tight." Mrs. Gomer said, I didn't mean to do it, and didn't mean to hurt Aggie. I meant it for Lily," and then I said, Call Charlie Parker; my Aggie is killed." He came in, and I saw him lift my poor child off her feet and take the poker out. It was her own kitchen poker," she added. The two little girls were standing close together by the door, and if the poker had been thrown at Lily it might easily have struck Aggie on the way. Mrs. Kennedy did not see the blow, but her elder daughter. Margaret, aged fifteen, said she had seen Mrs. Gomer snatch up the poker and "shot it out of her hand at my little sister," who is four years old. The poker, which was produced, is a round rod without any knob. Dr. Brownlee, house surgeon at the infir- mary, said the child when admitted was suffering from a small punctured wound in the skull which exposed the brain. The weapon had probed about an inch into the brain. The little girl had been an in-patient until Saturday last. and for some time was in a precarious condition. The wound was quite healed, but the child might suffer from fits in consequence. He did not consider it would have taken very much violence to throw an instrument of the weight of the poker into the child's skull. Prisoner, when charged by the clerk, replied. "I did not intend to hurt the child. I chucked it to frighten my own child." Prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes, bail being allowed.

THE T.V.R. PENSION SCHEME ENGINE-DRIVER RETIRES ON A HANDSOME ALLOWANCE. Shortly after Mr. A. Beasley took up the position of manager to the Taff Vale Railway Company, Cardiff, he originated a free pen- sion scheme, from which men belonging to the uniform staff are eligible at the age of 60. to a retiring allowance varying from a minimum of 7s. a week to a maximum of 20B without any contribution from themselves. On Tuesday afternoon, one of the employes of the company, Elias Thoronghgood, com- menced to participate in this fund to the extent of 20s. a week, which sum he will receive during the remainder of his life. Thoroughgood has been in the employ of the Taff Vale Company since 1853, and has been engaged successively as lamp-boy, carriage and engine cleaner, fireman, and driver. During this time he never had an accident. The fact that Thorougbgood was in future to receive 20s. a week from the fund was made known to him by Mr. Vassal (chairman of the company) at the conclusion of an ordinary meeting of the board of directors at Carditf on Tuesday afternoon. There were also present Mr. Charles Thomas (deputy-chair- man), Mr. Vyvyan Robinson, Mr. C. H. Gray, Mr. H. J. Simpson, Mr. Weston-Stevens, Mr. A. Beasley (general manager), Mr. Edward Edwards (secretary), and Mr. T. H. Riches (locomotive superintendent). Mr. Vassal also presented Thoroughgood with a gold watch and chain, on which was inscribed:—" Pre- sented to Elias Thoroughgood by the directors of the Taff Vale Railway Company on his retirement from their employ after 51 years' faithful service. May, 1904. On the back the monogram "E. T." had been engraved. Thoroughgood, in returning thanks, said he was sure that the gifts would be appreciated as much by his fellow-workmen as by himself.

SOUTH WALES TRAMWAYS. CARDIFF. RETURN OF OARS, PASSENGERS CARRIED, AND RECEIPTS. T.1IIt waaV !— I No. of Passengers. Receipt*. cars. carried. L s. d. I Sunday 44 30,886 136 4 8 Monday 127 130,669 601 12 5 Tuesday 121 83,830 360 8 9 Wednesday 106i 85,214 375 3 2 Thursday 102 73,891 317 13 6 Friday 101 68,923 295 7 5 Saturday 1174 102,003 440 3 5 Total 709 575,416 2,526 13 4 Daily cars averaged sixteen hours per day. Receipts for the corresponding period last year, £2,096 3e. Hid. Of the 709 cars run 106 were workmen's. NEWPORT. &ETCBN OF TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR WEEK ENDED MAY 28. -P £ s. d. Monday 172 19 2 Tuesday 95 4 1 Wednesday 107 15 3 Thursday 76 0 6 Friday 77 4 4 Saturday 120 6 11 I Total 649 10 3 Corresponding period last year, JE579 189. lid. Total number of passengers carried, 152,388.

HAFOD YOUTH'S BANKRUPTCY. A somewhat unconventional case of bank- ruptcy was investigated at Pontypridd Bank- ruptcy-court on Tuesday (before the registrar, Mr. James Spickett), in which John Davies, I nineteen years of age, who bad carried on business as a. grocer, provision dealer, and draper at 4, Temple-buildings, Hafod, appeared in order to undergo his public examination. The debtor, it appeared, commenced business when only sixteen years of age, and after three years' trading his liabilities amounted to £454 9s. 10d., divided amongst 65 unsecured creditors, the deficiency being £402 lls. 10d. He attributed his want of success to the recent strike at the Hetty Pit, Hopkinstown, and to bad debts incnrr-ed during its twelve months' continuance. The debtor stated that he com- menced business with a capital of f,40 lent to him by a'brother-in-law. The Registrar com- mented strongly on such enormous credit being given to a debtor of Davies's age.—Mr. J. Bryant, who appeared for the debtor, con- curred, and said he thought that his client was not to be blamed so much, the fault lying with the creditors.—The examination was' closed.

A WAYWARD SON AT BRECON. Asked at Brecon Police-court on Monday the reason why he had not sent his nine-year-old son to school, a man named Roger Prosser replied, "I have tried my best, and I have even gone from work and carried him there more than once."—Attendance-officer Hughes said that Prosser, junior, had attended but fourteen times out of thirty. He had known both father and mother carry the boy to school, and be had seen the boy strike his mother whilst she was carrying him.-Prosser said he had used the rod to his son. "What sort of a rod?" asked Alderman Lewis Williams. "A birch-rod," was the reply. "You should use a nice little ash-plant if you want to make an impression," remarked the Alderman. Defendant was fined, with the costs, 78" the Mayor remarking that if the lad didn't attend school he would be sent to a reforma- tory.

A TRIPLE CHARGE AT MERTHYR. At Merthyr on Monday John Owen was charged with being drunk and refusing to quit the Park Hotel, Penrhiwceiber; also with doing damage to the amount of XI 10s., and, further, with assaulting Police-constable Jones whilst in the execution of his duty. Mr. W. J. Shipton appeared in support of the pro- secution. Because he was refused to be served the prisoner picked up some vessels and broke mirrors and other things in the bar. Upon being turned out he threw a stone through the front window, and after being taken into custody he was very violent, and kicked the police officer. For the first offence he was fined £ 2 and costs, for the second a similar amount, besides being ordered to pay the damage, and for the assault £10 and costs, in default five months' imprisonment.

ALLEGED SHEEP-STEALING. John Jones, farmer, of Penypark. Llan- tarnam. was charged at a special police-court at Caerleon on Tuesday with stealing two ewes and two lambs, the property of Mr. Stephen Baker, Lodge Farm, Llangattock, on or about May 9. Mr. Baker gave evidence, after which the accused was remanded until June 9 at Cwmbran, and was admitted to bail.

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MUCH MARRIED WOMAN. I SINGULAR CASE HEARD AT TREDEGAR, At Tredegar on Tuesday George Jones, Caerphilly, was summoned by Mary Jane JonEs. Tredegar, for desertion, and an appli- cation was made for a maintenance order. Mr. T. Hughes, Ebbw Vale. was for the com- plainant, and Mr. Harold Lloyd. Cardiff, defended.—Complainant stated that she had been maried three times. She was married to the defendant in August, 1899, and had two children. Her husband had pawned her wed- ding ring and sold the ticket for a shilling. Since Boxing Day he had only given her £2 5s. He introduced her on one occasion to a woman from Caerphilly, and represented that she was his cousin. Complainant on a later occasion went to Caerphilly to see her hus- band, and he told her it was fortunate she came. as he was about to put in the banns of marriage with the lady he lodged with. Com- plainant told him she had no objection if he would pay towards the children. He returned to Tredegar, and lived with her a few days, and then returned to Caerphilly. Complainant had since ascertained that he was married to the Caerphilly lady. In cross-examination by Mr. Harold Lloyd, complainant said she could not swear her husband was dead when she married Jones, but she had heard no tidings of him for seven years. His relatives resided at Tredegar, but she had held no com- munication with them on the subject.—Mr. Harold Lloyd informed the bench that he had proof the woman's husband was still alive.— The Bench dismissed the case, and it was understood that affiliation summonses would be issued against the defendant. Mr. Lloyd- remarking that it was clear he must pay towards the children.

AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK. EARL OF ONSLOW'S ADVICE TO FARMERS. Speaking at the Essex Agricultural Show at Chelmsford on Tuesday, the Earl of Onslow (Minister for Agriculture) said that, 30 years, British farmers should devote their energies to the production of those perishable articles which were naturally protected by the seas around our island, and in order to obtain therefrom the maximum benefit they would have to study and. if need be. copy the methods of their neighbours across the water and obtain the best possible rates from the railway companies. In regard to the present agricultural outlook, his lordship expressed the opinion that there would not be a very heavy wheat crop, because not much wheat had been sown, but, so far as grass pasture and keep were concerned, he had never seen England looking better, and. with fine weather for the hay and corn harvests, farmers would have a better year than they had had for the past few seasons.

CARDIFF MAN IN TROUBLE. ALLEGED THEFT OF BANK-NOTES. At Cardiff Police-court on Tuesday Henry W. Lacey, 49, who formerly lived at Bangor- street, Cardiff, and was employed for some time by Messrs Spillers and Bakers (Limited) as a clerk, was charged with stealing Bank of England notes of the amount of £10, on March 4, 1903, notes for a similar sum on May 25, 1903. and notes for £4 on July 23, 1903, the property of the firm. Mr. A. C. Macintosh prosecuted, and Mr. Harold Lloyd defended. Detective-inspector Rankin having stated that prisoner was received in custody from the Slough police, he was remanded in custody until Thursday. No application was made for bail.

VIOLENT BARRY PRISONER. A labourer, named George Fergueson, of Sydenham-street, Barry Dock, against whom there is a long list of previous convictions, was brought before Major-general Lee and Mr. D. T. Alexander at Barry Police-court on Monday, charged with being drunk and refus- ing to quit and assaulting the police. Mr. A. Jackson, solicitor, appeared on behalf of Mr. E. Williams, landlord of the Victoria Hotel, Barry. It was shown in evidence that the prisoner went to the Victoria Hotel whilst in a drunken state on Saturday evening, and be- cause he was not supplied with drink he be- came abusive. Police-constable James Fuller was called in to eject the man, when Fergus- son assumed a violent attitude, and made a savage attack upon the police-constable, strik- ing him repeatedly. The police-constable was also struck by the prisoner after he had been conveyed to the police-station. Major-general Lee: What is his record? Deputy-chief-constable Giddings: He has been up 29 times, sir. Major-general Lee (to Fergusson): You will go to prison for a month's hard labour.

BIG COLLECTION AT DINAS POWIS. A big collection was made at the Dinaa Powis Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Sunday in aid of the debt and the organ fund. The total amount collected during the morning and evening was £902. The debt on the chapel building fund was JE750. An interesting story attaches to that collec- tion. It appears that the Dinas Powis Wes- leyans, wishing to free their pretty edifice (which was opened a year ago) from its debt of £750. resolved to hold a bazaar next autumn. One eventful evening the bazaar committee met to discuss details, and at the meeting one of the members, moved by a for- tunate impulse, "went for" bazaars and such- like methods unreservedly. The result was a proposal to raise the amount by subscription. About £600 was promised on the spot, and later it was agreed that, instead of the usual lists, the money should be placed on the plate at the anniversary. The collection, as already stated, reached £902.

A ROWDY SWANSEA MAN. At Swansea on Monday Evan Jones, 36. Singleton-street, lately a holder of a licence in the town, was summoned for dis- orderly behaviour at the Lord Nelson Inn, Calvert-street, refusing to quit, and assault- ing the landlord and landlady. The defen- dant went into the house and called for a glass of whisky. He became abusive, and struck the landlord in the eye, and after- wards assaulted his wife. The defendant declared the prosecutor ought to be prosecuted for cheating after tossing for drinks. Mr. Leyson said there was not a word of truth in this statement. Jones was fined 20s. on each summons, £3 in all, or in default 21 days' imprisonment.

COURT-MARTIAL AT CARDIFF. Major Bayliff, adjutant of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Welsh Regiment, sat as president of a court-martial held at the Cardiff Barracks on Tuesday. Major Taylor, adjutant of the 3rd Welsh, prosecuted on behalf of the War Office. The prisoner was a private, named Frank Morris, and th^chargts against him were five in number, ftz., fraudulent enlist- ment, desertion, losing hie clothing and other regimental necessaries, using insubordinate language to a superior officer, and attempting to escape when unde" arrest. Evidence was given in support of each charge, and prisoner made no defence and did not plead any miti- gation of his offences. A report of the pro- ceedings of the court will be forwarded in the usual way to the G.O.C. of the Western District, Devonport, for confirmation, and then returned for promulgation of the sen- tence of the ccurt.

YEOMANRY AT LLANDOVERY. Colonel Stirling, brigadier commanding the Yeomanry camp at Llandovery, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, was the umpire in operations which included an attack by three squadrons on a position held by a fourth. The C squadron of the Glamorgan Imperial Yeomanry, with the maxim gun, went ahead towards Brecon, and took up a defensive position some six or seven miles from camp. They were attacked by the other three squadrons, and in spite of their smaller numbers, the Cardiff squadron held their grpund very well. The verdict at the close of operations was honours easy." The Mayor of Llandovery (Councillor J. Rees) has collected a sum of about twenty guineas with a view of offering cups to be competed for by the Imperial Yeomanry. The competitions will be in the form of steeple- chases, and the chief item will be entitled "The Llandovery Town Races."

VIOLENT BARGOED COLLIER. At Caerphilly on Tuesday (before Mr. C. H. James. Dr. Maurice Evans, and Mr. E. W. M. Corbett) David Thomas, collier, Bar- goed. was charged with being drunk and dis- orderly, assaulting Police-sergeant Nicholls, and with damaging the police-omcer's uniform to the extent of 11s. 9d. Mr. Roberts-1 Jones, Cardiff, prosecuted on behalf of the police. Police-sergeant Nicholls stated that his attention was called to the conduct of the defendant after he had been ejected from the Junction Hotel. He spoke to Thomas, who | sprang on his back and threw him to the! ground, his (witness's) head coming in contact i with the pavement. Having got up, Thomas again struck him. and, with tbe assistance j of Polioe-constable Smith, defendant was handcuffed and taken to the police-station at Caerphilly. The prisoner was sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, amounting in fell to three] months..■ i I

SECONDARY EDUCATION. DISCUSSED BY EXPERTS AT CLIFTON. Welsh secondary education was one of the principal topics discussed at the general meeting of the Association of Assistant Mis- tresses in Public Secondary Schools, which took place on Saturday afternoon at the Clifton High School. Mies C. L. Laurie (Cheltenham) presided. Miss C. M. Layton (County Intermediate School, Cardiff) opened a discussion on Welsh secondary education—the intermediate sys- tem—giving a retrospect of the work in Wales for the last ten years. There were two or three very pressing problems. One was to find adequate funds for the working of the many schools. Another problem was the edu- cation of the girls who afterwards went to teach in the elementary schools. The Welsh had looked upon education with imagination—they simply worshipped it. Yet, in spite of that, ten years' work of the wheels had only turned those people into very practical critics of the schools. Miss Hughes. of Glamorgan (late principal of Cambridge Training College for Secondary Mistresses), said that. perhaps, the chief blot on the Welsh intermediate schools was the way in which the dull schools had not been kept in any sense of tho word dual, but had practically become mixed schools, to the great detriment, she thought, of the girls and of the women teachers. She believed profoundly in mixed education, but she believed it should be really mixed—that the head should not always be a. man. She thought they were suffering from the rapid democratising of education. She herself was a thorough democrat, but they had done it very rapidly, and would suffer for some time. Secondary education in England and Wales would be to -i. considerable extent controlled for some yeara by people who had never had secondary education themselves and did not know what wasmea-nt by secondary education. One advantage they had in Wales was that the very lowest classes had a great desire for education, whereas in England they had to create that desire. That was one reason why, despite the mistakes which had been made. the intermediate schools had done, and were doing, great work, not only in Cardiff. Swansea, and Newport, and such large places, but in the small mining towns. Miss Hughes urged secondary teachers to take a<ction regarding the arrangement of scholarships, and to give authorities the benefit of their expert knowledge. The views of the county councillors were vague; they were constantly called upon to organise education of which they themselves confessed they knew very little, and she thought expert knowledge outside the county councils ought to come in. If the teachers did not take action they deserved to be punished. • PEMBROKE TECHNICAL INSTRUC- TION COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Pembroke Technical Instruction Committee was held on Tuesday at the Shire-hall, Haverfordwest. A commu- nication was read from the University Col- lege, Aberystwyth, offering a lecturer on poultry for £10 per centre, the instructress remaining in each centre a week or ten days. There was only one application, from Manor- bier, and it was resolved to hold the lectures in abeyance till more applications were received. There were no applications for lec- tures on cookery and laundry work. Arrange ments were made for coarsee of horticultural lectures at Milford, Lampeter, Hebron, and Newport, and an application was made for Tenby. There were nine applications from all parts of the county for the six dairy scholarships offered, and as there were plenty of funds in hand, amounting to £319, it was agreed to grant scholarships to the nine applicants of £8 each. Miss Williams, Saundersfoot, was granted a scholarship for cookery, laundry, and housewifery at Bristol. Two scholarships were granted for horticul- ture, one at Neyland and tho other at Whit- land. TEACHERS' MEETING AT MERTHYR. A general meeting of the members of the Merthyr, Dowlais, and District Local Associa- tion of the National Union of Teachers was held on Saturday afternoon at the Brecon- road Infants' School, Merthyr. Mr. R. G. Price, the president, occupied the chair, and in the course of an address remarked that the leaders of the working men had been educated under the school board system, and he claimed that to this system oould be credited the formation of Trades Unions. He was sorry to note the veiled threat given recently by a member of the Glamorgan Educa- tion Committee in directing the teachers to remember that they were employes. He thought such a. reminder quite unnecessary, because the school board members of the past would testify that the teachers had always been ready and willing to carry out whatso- ever instructions had been given to them. Referring to a suggestion that probationers should henceforth be trained at the county school and kept there by their parents, Mr. Price said he feared this would mean that the sons and daughters of working men would be practically excluded from the teaching pro- fession.—The meeting decided to make special efforts this year to help the Benevolent and Orphan Funds by arranging a series of con- certs.—After tea the members re-assembled to hear a paper by Dr. Thomas, the medical officer of health,—Dr. Thomas observed that he had recently had a.n opportunity of study- ing a list of the abstentions of teachers from school during 1903, and it would probably surprise them to know that one-sixth of their number were absent on account of illness over a month, involving a loss of about 3,000 working days in the year. Dr. Thomas also referred to the subject of school ventilation. ABERDARE TEACHERS. MR. TOM JOHN AND GLAMORGAN COM- MITTEE. The usual monthly meeting of the Aberdare teachers was held on Monday evening at the Town Board School. Mrs. Jenkins (Cwmdare School) occupied the chair.—Mr. Tom John (vice-president of the National Union of Teachers) delivered an address upon the best means to be adopted by way of contributing to the Benevolent Fund Sooiety. At the outset Mr. John alluded to the fact that Wales had not distinguished itself last year so far as contributions to the Benevolent Fund Society were concerned. Mr. John proceeded to suggest the holding of concerts and bazaars, which were channels of great utility. There was ample jtistification for unity amongst teachers in Glamorgan at the present time. The report of last Tuesday's meeting in the "Western Mail" of the Glamorgan Education Committee revealed a great deal of what he (Mr. John) considered to be very immature conclusions on more than one subject. including that in respect of the peremptory dismissal of a teacher on the ground that she would not accept a peripatetic commis- sion. The speaker thought that there was something very farcical in two lawyers agreeing that working class parents mnst educate their sons and daughters in the probationary stage of their papil teacher- ship aspiration. Only persons absolutely ignorant of the conditions of domestic effort which had to be made in the homes of the working classes oould have so callously passed the resolution in question. His friend Mr. T J. Hughes had spoken in a manner in which they (the members of the committee) were characterised as the employers, and the teachers' profession as the employes. The profession only recognised the people as their employers, and the sooner the Glamor- gan Education Committee came to the same sensible conclusion as to their status the better it would be for the cause of educa- tion and the development of intelli- gence among educational administrators. (Applause.)

NEIGHBOURS' FEUD AT ABERDARE. At Aberdare on Tuesday a hatch of sum- monses were heard in connection with a neighbours' feud. The complainants were Mrs. Elizabeth Polkinghorn and her two daughters, who summoned John and Mary Lewis (husband and wife) for a series of assaults. Croas-summonses had been issued. Mr. W. Thomas appeared for the Polkinghorn family, and Mr. W. Kenshole represented the other party.—After hearing certain features of the evidence, the Stipendiary intimated that the case of Elizabeth Polkinghorn, who had been assaulted by John Lewis, was the most serious of the charges; ahd it was decided that the case in question should be first heard.—Replying to Mr. Thomas. Mrs. Plokinghorn said that she had been violently struck in the face, and was rendered uncon- scious for eome time. The foregoing was corroborated by several witnesses.—Mr. Ken- shole finally admitted the assault, and pleaded provocation.—A fine of 20s. and costs was imposed. A consultation thereupon took place between the advocates, who decided to withdraw the other summonses.

MAN'S JAW FRACTURED. At Caerphilly on Tuesday Timothy Murphy, collier, Llanbradach, was summoned by George Roberts, a hitcher at the LIan- bradach Colliery, for assaulting him on the 20th of May. Mr. C. S. Goodfellow, Caerphilly, prosecuted From th) evidence it transpired that a. quarrel took place at the bottom of the shaft on the morning of the day in question, and on arriving at the pithead on the way home Roberts was accosted by Murphy, who fiercely attacked him. Dr. M'Kenzie, Caerphilly. said the com- plainant had a fracture of the lower jaw, caused by a, clenched fist. In answer to the bench, the doctor stated tha.t it was probable that the complaioact would be permanently disfigured. The Bench iøuØe4 II of as<L QOfft*,

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