The Cardiff Times

LOCAL BANKRUPTCIES. The Cardiff Bankruptcy Court was held on Tuesday, before the Registrar (Mr Harry Cousins.) Speculations in Property. William John Waite, of Rhoose and Clifton- street, Cardiff, lately carrying on business as a grocer and provision merchant, had gross lia- bilities of X21,366 4s 2d. of which £4,367 9s lid was expected to rank. The assets, including E4,366 19s lid surplus fr6m securities in the hands of creditors fully secured, were £1,367 9s lid. For some time, debtor stated, he had been engaged in the buying, selling and conver- sion of leasehold premises, being financed upon the mortgages of the properties as the money was required. In this manner he became owner of a number of premises in the centre of the city, which are sublet to professional and commercial gentlemen. At the date of the re- ceiving order he was the owner of the following three houses at Carlisle-street, upon which there were first and second charges amounting to £1,329 10s two houses in King s-road, subject to charges amounting to £1,800 leasehold pre- mises in Queen-street, upon which were first and second mortgages amounting to £ 3,550 two houses in Arran-street, and two in Car- lisle-street, on which there were mortgages amounting to £ 2,400; premises in St. John- square upon which there were mortgages of £ 8,750; and a house in Sophia-street, upon which there was a charge of £410. If these properties could have been realised there would have been sufficient to pay the creditors 20s in the S,, but the mortgagees were now in possession, and were receiving the rents. In May, 1907, he transferred his grocery busi- ness in Clifton-street to a limited company, which was voluntarily wound up in February last. the liquidator selling the business to debtor's son. Debtor, was now employed ae an assistant by his son. and stated/that his faliure was entirely due to an action brought against him at the time he was engaged in building operations in-St. Johns-square. The mortgagees took possession and he was unable to realise any- of his other properties. He started speculating in property with Eloo, and bought his first lot for £1,300, his father lending him JE200 or C" and the rest being obtained on mortgage. This lot was subsequently sold for EI,W. When he started speculating in the centre of the town he had about £800 capital. In further examination defendant denied that the turning of the business into a limited company and its subsequent disposal after voluntary liquidation to debtor s son was all a scheme to keep the business in his hands and to prevent it being seized by creditors. His son, who was 22 years of age, got the money to buy the business from his grandmother. The examination was adjourned until July 13th to enable the debtor to furnish a further statement in regard to the mortgages. Mr J. B. Stephens appeared for debtor. Sequel to Slander Action. Charles Henry Hay man, Blosse-road, Llan- daff North (checkweigher), with liabilities ex- nected to rank of E157 14s 8d, and-a deficiency of £ 125 18s 7d, attributed his failure to-small profits, want of capital, and stoppage of credit through a slander action. In January last pro- ceedings for slander were taken against him, and judgment obtained against him in Cardiff County Court for jE21 and costs. The examina tion was provisionally closed. Inundated with Summonses. David Evans, Pembroke House, BlaengaHp, grocer, who had liabilities expected to rank of 11,015 9s 6d and a deficiency of E660 Os 7d, said, in reply to the Official Receiver (Mr Geo.DaTid), that he was apprenticed as. a grocer, and com- menced business at Barnesbury, London, in partnership with a cousin, coming in 1906 to Blaengarw to manage his brother s business, which he continued to carry on for the widow after his brother's death. In June, 1907, six months after the latter's death, he married the widow, and since then had carried on the busi- ness in his own name. He did not know what had become of the London business, which never yielded a profit. He had given credit freely, several of his (working-class customers having debts of over £ 30- He hadassigned book debts amounting to X210 for f29 10s. Since January, 1907, he and his wife had had no less than 106 County Court summonses and three wrtt3 issued against them; they had also had 34 executions levied upon their effects, nearly all of which hfcd been paid out. The examina- tion was provisionally closed. Dead Wife's Debts. John Howells, Victoria-street, Caerau, collier, for whom Alderman J. T. Hughes appeared, had liabilities of R137 17s 8d, and a deficiency of £ 63 17s 8d. He alleged as the causes of failure debts incurred by his wife of which he knew nothing till after her death last year. His wife had nine years ago con- tracted a debt with a Gilfach Goch grocer for 48, which remained unpaid. The examination was provisionally closed.

PONTYPRIDD. At Pontypridd Bankruptcy Court on Tues- day, Wm. Hy. Blackmore, labourer, rear of Ynysyngharad-road, Pontypridd, gave as the reason for his insolvency that he had met with accidents and was unable to follow his employ- ment. The liabilities were returned at JE54 15s, and the deficiency 444 15s. The examination was closed.

NEWPORT AND THE ASSIZES. At a meeting of the Newport Parliamentary Committee on Tuesday, it was reported that all the judicial authorities whom it was pro- posed to interview on the question of remov- ing the Assizes from Monmouth to Newport, had not as yet been spoken to. The question was deferred.

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A QUESTION OF STIPEND. EGLWYSILAN CLERGY STAFF. Rector Replies to Criticism. The rector of Eglwysilan Church, the Rev. J. Lloyd Rees, granted our Pontypridd represen- tative an interview on Tuesday regarding the charges made at a vestrv meeting of the inade- quate provision of assistant clergy at Taff'a We11.' The \>ósition,s\dft'" t1U{''rééÏor''<rrs that there are six churches in the parish of Eglwysilan. and I have four assistant clergy and two licensed laymen to discharge the work. The services at the parish church at Eglwysilan are undertaken by myself there is a curate at Cilfynydd, one at the Senghenydd English Church, and one in charge of the Senghenydd Welsh Church, while one curate and a layman are allocated to Taff's Well and Nantgarw. The desire at Taff's Well is that a curate should be in charge of that church and another at Nantgarw. But the whole position resolves itself into one of the provision of stipends for two curates. If the stipend j could be found then I would willingly appoint another curate, for the larger my staff the | better it would be for me. I have only £ 120 for disposal for one clergyman between Taff's Well and Nantgarw, and my salary does not allow of my allocating a portion of that for an additional curate. Explaining the provisions made for the clergy, the rev. gentleman stated that he could not apply the grants made to one district to the benefit of another district. The grants were made specifically for the needs of the respective districts. The Rector said the '♦ South Wales Daily News report of the vestry meeting at Taff's Well was a fair one, and then went on to say. with reference to the statement at the meeting that the curate at Taff's Well officiated at Senghenydd, that it was only on one occasion during his rector- ship-a period extending over six .-years-had the curate officiated at a service at Sen- ghenydd.

FARMERS AND GOVERNMENT. The monthly meeting of the Cowbridge and County Farmers' Club was held at Cowbridge L Ion Tuesday, Mr T. D. David (president) occupying the chair. It was agreed to support the Margarine Bill, promoted bv Mr Kilbride, M.P., which has already been before the House ef Commons twice. A resolution was passed thanking the Government for their Agri- cultural Development Fund and asking that a portion of this fund should be allotted to Wales to be controlled by a Welsh Department of Agriculture. Mr Hedger Wallace introduced a discussion on the Agricultural Holdings Act. A sub- committee was appointed to consider 'and report on various features of this Act.

TEMPERANCE CATERERS. Mr E. Thomas, Cardiff, on Caravansery. At the National Temperance jDaterers' Asso- ciation Conference, at present being held at Douglas, a paper was read on Tuesday by Mr E. Thomas, ex-Mayor of Cardiff, on Cara- vansery Ancient ahd Modern." He contended that the fashion of drinking intoxicants was rapidly passing away in every country he knew, which should encourage the society in the work they had undertaken. He predicted that they would shortly have the whole cater- ing business of the country in their hands. A resolution was passed requesting the Board of Trade to use influence with the railway com- panies to secure reduction in the rates for car- riage of food.

MORTALITY RETURNS. The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality in the 76 great towns of England and Wales last week averaged 12'6: London 12, Brighton 10, Portsmouth 10, Ipswich 11, Norwich 14, Plymouth 10, Devonport 8, Bristol 9, Birmingharrl 13, Aston Manor 9, Leicester 7, Grimsby 10. Nottingham 13, Derby 9, Birkenhead 11, Liverpool 16, Bootle 6, Bolton 11, Manchester 18, Salford 19, Oldham 20, Burnley 9, Blackburn 14, Preston 16, Hud- dersfield 12, Halifax 14, Bradford 11, Leeds 10, Sheffield 14r York 10, Hull 11, Sunderland 15, South Shields 14, Gateshead 10, Newcastle-on- Tyne 11, Cardiff 11. Edinburgh 12, Glasgow 16, Dublin 18, Belfast 16.

COLLIER AND BAILIFF. William #ronow, a Llanbradach collier, was summoned for assault by Thomas Abel Davies, a certificated bailiff; also for damage to furni- ture. Mr Goodfellow prosecuted. The evidence indicated that prosecutor went to defendant's house to levy a distress and marked a quantity of furniture. On the following Tuesday, 8th June, he found that a mirror, a table, and a couch had been badly damaged. Defendant pushed witness about the house and struck him on the shoulder. Defendant, who denied pushing prosecutor, was fined Is and 15s costs, and 25s damages, or one month. The assault case was dimissed.

ROLLED DOWN MOUNTAIN-SIDE Mr Powell (deputy coroner) held an inquest at Aberavon on Tuesday touching the death of Thomas LI. Thomas, labourer (43), of Picton- street, Aberavon, who died on Sunday last. Dr. J. Pryce Roberts said deceased told him that on Tuesday night of last week he went to sleep on, the side of the mountain at Corlanna, Aberavon, and rolled down, being found next morning by some boys. Deceased had sustained a fracture of the spine. A verdict of Acciden- tal death was returned.

"Base Ingratitude." BOARDS OF GUARDIANS INDIGNANT. On Tuesday at Penarth the 18th annual con- ference of the South Wales and Monmouth- shire Poor Law representatives was opened. Alderman F. J. Beavan, of Cardiff, presided in the absence of Major-General Lee, R.E., J.P., who will occupy that position to-day owing to the fact tht Mr William Brace, M.P., will be unable to at'tend. The Chairman, referring to the report of the Royal Commission on Poor Law, said that after perusing the minority report very carefulty he was convinced that it was Socialistic in its tendency, and he did not think they were ripe for that yet. In reference to the Vamp ques- tion, as to which representations had been made by the Pontardawe Union in favour of urging legislation, he had long made up his mind upon the course that should be taken. More than once, at the Poor Law g-athering in London, he said that one of the first elements to enter into the treatment of tramps was that of uniformity, and that could only be secured by the Government taking the matter in hand. (Hear, hear.) It was not a question for local bodies, but required intelligent, careful, and effective treatment by the Government itself. (Hear, hear.) Both the minority and majority reports of the Commission were agreed that Poor Jjaw matters should be managed by elective bodies, but both said that Boards of Guardians should be abolished and their duties entrusted to county and county borough councils in sections—children to be treated by the Educa- tion Committees, the sick to be treated by the Health Committee, and old people to be treated by the Old Age Pensions Committees. Person- ally he was absolutely convinced that if the miaority report recommendations were adopted people would soon find that poor law adminis- tration would cost five or six times more than it did to-day. (Hear. hear.) Mr J. Sumner Uury, clerk to the Clutton Board of Guardians, read a paper on the re- p Jrt of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law. Mr John Thomas (Neath) described the minority recommendations as revolutionary and impracticable. The majority ideas were also experimental and costly. As in education we desired the return of the old School Boards, we would in the f-iture yearn for the return of the Boards oi Guardians in the event of the change in the electoral body being brought about. (Hear, hear.) Mr John Williams (Brecon) considered that greater confusion would result if the recom- mendations were adopted. The Chairman said he regarded it as base ingratitude that, with the exception of the minority report, hardly a word had been said iin acknowledgment of the self-sacrifice and persistent labours of Boards of Guardians over many years. (Hear, hear.) After criticising the statement that no interest was taken in guardians' elections, Alderman Beavan de- clared in conclusion, I have not a smattering of interest or respect for either one report or the other." (Hear, hear.) Councillor Wm. Jones (Cardiff) gave his ex- perience of the Cardiff Council, where the work was heavy and exacting enough at present, While the new machinery would be more costly. It was intimated that a resolution Would be brought forward to-day embodying the opinion of the conference upon the reports of the Com- mission. Mr Sumner Durv was heartily thanked for bis paper and subsequently Alderman F. J. Beavan and Messrs 1. Dutfield (Newport), and J. W. Johnson (Swansea) were appointed on the executive of the Central Poor Law Con- ference in London.

WEDDING AT CADOXTON-NEATH Mr Frank H. Gaskell & Miss Violet Charles There was a large and fashionable gathering at the Parish Church, Cadoxton-Neath, on Tuesday on the occasion of the wedding of Mr Frank Hill Gaskell, solicitor) Cardiff, and Miss Violet Charles, only daughter of Alderman and Mrs H. P. Charles, Westfield, Neath. The guests included representatives of all the lead- ing families in the district, while large numbers came from Cardiff. The church, had been artis- tically decorated, and the service, which was fully choral, was performed by the Bishop of Llandaff, who was assisted by the Rev. Canon Buckley (uncle of the brid) and the Rev. J. D. James, vicar of Cadoxton. The bride, who drove to church in a motor-car with her father, was attended by the folowing bridesmaids, namely, Miss Madeline Jones, Aberavon Miss Doris Lewis, Neath (cousin of the bride), Miss Gwen Jenkins and Miss Peggy Jenkins, Briton Ferry Miss Buckley, Llandaff (cousin of the bride) Miss Andrews, Swansea Miss GaskeJl, Cardiff (sister of the bridegrpom) and Miss Ervine Sutton, Neath. Mr J. C. Gaskell. the bridegroom's brother, acted as best man, and the groomsmen were Mr J. W. Gaskell, Mr G. W. Gaskell, Mr Jack Jones, Cardiff; Mr F. Edwards, Graig, Neath Mr Reg. Charles (brother of the bride), and Mr Percy Thomas, Penarth. At the church the bridegroom had as a bodyguard a posse of 12 Army and Navy veterans, who appeared in uniforms similar to thosis worn by At CH^laeS, Hospital. The bride wore a. dress of white satin la Tosca en Princesse, with embroidered panel worked with floss silk. crystals, and pearls, the bodice and sleeves being draped with real lace caught with large pearl cabochons, and a full Court train of real lace, interlined and veiled with silver tissue, finished at either corner with true lovers' knot and horseshoe, embroidered with silver and studded with nails of pearls and crystals. She wore a coronet of orange blossoms myrtle and white heather over an em- broidered veil. lent for the occasion by her mother. She carried a bouquet of exotics, with trailing foliage and white satin ribbon. Six of the bridesmaids were attired in pale La France rose pink satin, charmeuse Prin- cesse gowns with tucked chiffon, and chemis- ettes embroidered with floss silk, the gowns being entirely pink, and black crinoline hats in the Romney style, massed with pink rose- buds and waving grass, while Miss Lewis wore a dainty hat of pink kilted ninon, edged with lace and trimmed with pink rosebuds and pink ribbon. The bride's going-away dress was of palest French grey kid cloth. After the ceremony a reception was given by Alderman and Mrs Charles at their residence, and a large number of guests attended. Later in the day the bride and bridegroom left for London and a motor tour in Scotland. The bridal bouquet was made by Messrs Case Brothers, florists, Queen-street, Cardiff, who also supplied the bridesmaids' Empire sticks and guests' bouquets.

FOR THE BLIND. A most successful garden party was held in the beautiful grounds of Mrs C. Morgan, at Birchwood Grange, Penylan, on Tuesday after- noon, in the interests of the Cardiff Institute for the Blind. There was a large gathering, and, with the delightful weather, everything passed off most pleasantly. In the grounds there were stalls containing work done by the men and women at the Institute, and a number of the women were employed making chairs, baskets, &c. These attracted a good deal of attention and the stalls were well patronised. Miss E. M. Morgan and Mrs Francis, together with a number of other ladies, were in charge of the stalls.

SUNDAY TRADING. In the Divisional Court on Tuesday, before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Jelf and Ä. T. Lawrence, the case of Bellingham v. Man- inhinck, a case from Aberavon, came on for argument on appeal. Mr Jellicoe, who ap- peared for the appellant, said she was a married lady who had been convicted by the Aberavon justices for exercising her worldly calling on the Lord's Day under the Lord's Day Observance Act. The appellant was de- scribed as a sweet vendor. The lady was con- victed as the principal, but she was merely looking after the business for her husband. He submitted the appellant was only a servant and could not be convicted as a principal. The appeal was dismissed with costs.

"SATISFIED EVERYBODY." In the King's Bench, on Tuesday, the case of Eyre v. Bottomley and others was mentioned to Mr Justice Channell. Counsel for Mr Eyre said the case had been put in the list for the purpose of allowing the statement that the parties had come to an arrangement which had satisfied everybody, and, with his lordship's permission, the record would be withdrawn on terms which would be handed in to the associate. Counsel for the defendants, Bottomley, Campbell, and Hooley, agreed. Replying to Mr Justice Channell, counsel said the cases which had been adjourned pending the trial of this action had been removed from the list.

LINER'S ROMANTIC "CARGO." An unprecedented incident in connection with the Canadian matrimonial market has just come to light. On the last sailing of the Allan liner Corsicanf-om Liverpool, she had on board no fewer than 16 brides for the Dominion, all described as young and pretty." Although strangers to each other, the ladies' mutual secret leaked out shortly after sailing, and the remainder of the voyage was spent by them in arranging to exchange visits when the knots had been tied.

SWEATED TRADES BILL The Grand Committee of the House of Com- mpns on Tuesday concluded consideration of the Sweated Trades Boards Bill, and it was or- dered to be reported to the House of Commons after the addition of a new clause proposed by Mr Churchill inflicting penalties upon a shop- keeper or trader employmg anyone prosecuted under the measure upon terms that left no margin for profit except through the use of labour at less than the minimum rate.

Whilst Mrs Mary Madden, of Frederick-street, Newport, was taking her neighbour's child, Rosina Mary Hopkins (13 months), to the doctor on Saturday it died in her arms, and at an inquest on Tuesday the coroner's jury re- turned a verdict of Death from convulsions." The child had been a weakling from birth.

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