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V—MENDING OF MERTHYR.
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BT 0 0 5 GEO. R. SIMS. 1 0 0 1 V—MENDING OF MERTHYR. Merthyr has improved her housing accommodation. Why should Dowltl13 wait ?" These words reach me in the hum of general conversation as I shelter from a heavy rainstorm with some local friends, wall for a tram -Srii-h -room inside. I have seen something of Dowlais, gathered a general impression of it in a short tour of the bad property, the worse property, and the worst property, under expert local guidance, and I am on my way to Merthyr. I gather from the remark that Dow- lais is inclined to think that Merthyr is more concerned with Merthyr than it is with Dowlais. Dowlais, for all I know, may have suffi- cient control of her own affairs. Put the remark of a Dowlais man, who is one of my kindly escort, sets me thinking. iiig. The crux of the re-housing question is in the wards of Dowlais, Penydarren, and Cyfarthfa, where slums abound, but some of the worst areas cannot be cleared because there is no housing accommoda- tion for displaced tenants. The Town Ward has not a very con- siderable insanitary area, but suffers to some extent in its figures through the number of common lodging-houses it contains. Wherever I go in Merthyr town h) search- of useful knowledge I am tild there are great improvements. Many °j them I see for myself. In some of tho old spots that had an unenviable leputa- tion houses of a good description, built on modern lines, have been erected or are in course of erection. are m course of erection. So far as I am able to judge, the majo- rity of these houses axe arranged to suit the requirements of the class most in need of new accommodation. But quite unofficially one block of buildings is pointed out to me in which the conditions are stated to be very 6 much the same as those obtaining in a set of model dwellings erected some time since with a great flourish of trumpets in one of our London boroughs. I met a year or two ago a costermonger '"who had been evicted from an insani- tary area, and who had been fortunate enough to be accepted as the tenant of a flat in one of these model dwellings. I asked ray friend what he had Hone with his donkey, which used to walk tnrough nuj parlour in the old home and I stable itself in a back yard, and also how he arranged in his aristocratic residence for the accommodation of his barrow. He explained to me that he left his I donkey every night with a friend, who for a consideration kindly made it up a bed in his back kitchen. As to his ¡ barrow, he tilted that up in the court from which he had been evicted. He had I llad "the office," as he called it, that though the area had been cleared, the Council were not likely to do anything with it for a long time to come, as they hadn't got the money." I Relieved on these points, I asked my old friend of the costers' court how he liked his new abode. '"Oh, it's all right, sir," he said, "and wonderful convenient." I can lie in bed I in my bedroom and cook mv breakfast at the kitchen fire with one hand, and if anybody knocks I can open the door of my sitting room with the other." The story is worth telling, for its sequel illustrates one of the dangers of over haste in the dishousing of the poor even in the interests of sanitarv reform. The costermonger's prophecy: that he would be able to leave his barrow in the -old court, was amply justified. The area from which hundreds "of families had been evicted, some of them to go into the workhouse, and others to drift into congested criminal areas, remained untouched by the house- breakers for two years. At the end of that time it was seriously proposed by the body which had caused the area to be cleared of its occupants that some of I the houses should be re-let, as there was no immediate chance of re-building them That is the difficulty Merthyr is faced I with in some of the outlying wards A wholesale clearance of the worst areas would mean a dishoused population to build new 4 accommodauon for whom would involve a large outlay and take a considerable period of time. New accommodation would have to be provided, because there is no old pro- perty unoccupied of a better character than the slums. But Merthyr has made a good begin- ning tho centre. She has still some- thing not to be proud of in Caedraw and the two Isles of Wight; but she states officially with regard to her outWi^ horrors that "it is.hoped that the no! Housinrr Bill promised bv the Govern- ment will, by enabling us to acquire land more easily and to borrow at cheaner a^foA."tiTnUlate US m°re €ne^° action. +u?2 h<5 £ "f.tie Borough of Mer- fVf^S iu' P^ydarren, and C>farthfa where the children perish and the conditions in which a portion of the population live are destructive alike to body and soul, rests on the action of the Government! That is to say it Tests with legislation of a Socialistic character to make the municipality master of the situation. I have twenty years' experience of Government housing schemes. I have been before a Royal Commission to give evidence and I have for the last quarter of a n'constantly in touch with the people m the slums and povertv areas of the British capital. I am not, therefore, speaking hastily areas of the British capital. I am not, therefore, speaking hastily ,orwithoutSympathy for the badly-housed ^hen I say frankly that I think it™t bad thmg for the owners of property of labour" tS it should be necessary for an Act of Par Lament to be before land inThe neighbourhood of such huge industrial enterprises as those of Merthyr can he acquired at a reasonable price decent housmg of the toiling masses The conditions in the homes of the masses in Merthyr are responsible for an appalling rate of mfant mortality offiocr oE Wlth L Why should the remedy for an evil which—taking it entirely outside the humanitarian point of view-is a racial and an Imperial peril be left for Socialism to take in hand? I do not say there is any idea of an appeal to Socialistic legislation in Mer- thyr's official pronouncement; I only put forward my own idea that an appeal to tho State to do something which will cheapen building sites for working-class dwellings can but tend to the tighten- ing of the meshes of the Socialistic net in which capitalists, mainly through their own short-sightedness and care- lessness, are now wriggling. I have seen the conditions in the worst wards of Merthyr. and, with a full sense of the gravity Of the words, I have no hesitation in saying they are a disgrace to Capital and a degradation to Labour. It is intolerable that this curse to the i community should be allowed to continue I on io plea that nothing can be done i U! i1 ° ^Ka';e Cflmcs to the rescue. cannot sr-y lacking tho knowledge which would justify me in assigning the a.r.e how far in Merthvr tho property °w ners are responsible for the scandal. + ° Knmv that in other industrial les in South ales there are owners -io,s a _,<! in the way of reform, and that of the worst property is 1)+ Jy c!le eml)loJcrs of a working popu- o ajii, tor ivhom only insanitary dwell- t}!^ ar° ?Vadable. I also know that j are instances—glaring instances— J in m inch wealthy employers are carrying <-• o lelat-ions of landlord and tenant perilously near to an impudent evasion I of the law. II Ve come to these districts we will iOOK the facts straight between the eyes, smce they concern not only those respon- ■^bie for tliem, but the v/hole community, for the whole community will have to sufier if, owing to the neglect of duty by individuals, laws are passed which in tneir working will injuriously afFoct the ratepayer, the. small trader, the private citizen, and all whose capital is invested in industrial enterprises. Merthyr has furnished me with a text which lias led me far bevond the confines of the borough. It is only fair to say that in Merthyr itself the improve- ment that is claimed is to be seen, and it is only justice to say that the conten- tion of the municipality that it is ham-! pered in its desire for further improve- ments by special difficulties is borno out by figures and By facts. But lialf these difficulties would dis- appear if the big employers of local labour would assist in the solution. It would not only be to their credit, but to their interest to do so, and they could come to the rescue on the sound business lines of what has been happily called "Five per cent. philosophy." 'lear after year," says the official report on the health of the people, "the older districts "-that is to say the insanitary clistricts-" exhibit an exces- sive mortality." sive mortality." This means that hundreds of human lives are being sacrilied year after year in Dowlais and the other bad districts by the failure of the capitalists employ- ing labour to rescue that labour from foul and filthy dwellings, which are death traps and murder holes. In using these plain words I run the risk of being charged with exaggeration and sensationalism. My answer is tha.t the statement is not mine, but that of the medical officer of health for the borough of Merthvr Tydfil. He words his statement diffe- rently, but it amounts to the same thing. Merthyr, owing to the housing conditions. in the older districts has an excessive mortality." "The death rate is still abnormally high, and, as will be shown farther on this, as in former years, is mainly duo to the excessive infantile mortality that prevails." (Annual Report for 1906.) Merthyr does not destroy its refuse, but it destroys its children. And to stay the massacre of innocent children Merthyr must wait until the Government brings in a Bill which will enable the municipality to "acquire land more easily." In the meantime, in the annual report of the medical officer of! health, 1,055 houses are tabulated as more or less" unfit for human habita- tion."
VI.—THE SEAMY SIDE OF SWANSEA.
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VI.—THE SEAMY SIDE OF SWANSEA. A happy remembrance of pleasant ways and pleasant people, of busy streets and fine buildings, of breezy by-ways and slums perched high enough to be Hygeias if man had been as considerate as Nature, a blaze of sunshine and a blur of rain, and, in the heart of all that prosperity and good citizenship mean, one scene that has seared itself into my memory, never to be effaced until all things fade in the great forgetting. There are houses in the courts and the rows of the poverty area that can hold their own for unpleasantness with the slums of any city. There are back-to- back dwellings and hovels on the hills looking out on to a wilderness of refuse and huge rubbish heaps masquerading as miniature mountains. In one room in a terrible den a family take their rest, where it is not wise to stand upright unless you want to bring down portions of the ceiling. In another private residence, in which the scheme of general dirtiness must have caused its occupants much trouble to carry out, a woman is weeping tears of alcohol, seated in the baby's cradle, and her husband is contemplating her with apparent envy. He explains that she has had more than her share of the contents of some beer bottles which are balancing them- selves in their emptiness on a table -with three legs. Indistinctly, but with an heroic attempt at emphasis, he also volunteers the information that she has fallen into the cradle, and he has left her in it because she is safer there than on the only chair in the place, which stands near the fire. In a courtway in front of some dread- Ii j10?868' a young woman, with a face • j j35 considerable time aV?v. contact with soap—possibly with an idea that it might contain ingredients harmful to the complexion- is standing at the door of a room in which some weatherbeaten fowls are pecking the potato peelings that lie about the floor. This young woman has on a dress which brings to my mind the question so delicately put by Theodore Hook to a WZS n° ^^nd his laundress: i y°? get y°nr dirty t H°°k' and 1 f€el "dined to ask the young woman where on earth she found her rags. and there are both in the slums that Swansea still has to her debit-thare can be no question as to the bad condition of the property on which some of them are residing. are It is old property and probably as bad when its occupants went into it a* it is now. Possibly it was worse, for there is a very vigilant system of inspection Swansea, and all that can be done 2 being done. 1S I Here, again, is the difficulty which where you will, in London or in the provincial towns, or in the rural di<^ Not long a,,o one of the :worst houses because it -was bevond all ,°*ansea. repair, was clSed aU t6mP°™ry The family, consisting of a man Unableanto ^find^fre^h' eVJ^- within their means, they were^ompdlS to go into a common lodging-house. The common lodging-houses for married couples are not at all desirable places for people who wish to retain a
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few shreds of self-respect, and the mixed lodging-houses of Swansea, if I may judge from the one I see, are in no way superior to the general run. There were four beds for married couples in one room. The space between each bed was that required- by the Act. But the partitioning intended to screen bed from bed consisted of three narrow boards coming out from the wall, and the whole of the passage between the beds in the centre of the room was open and unscreened. A conscientious officer thinks twice' before he closes a house, if the effect of the closing will be to force respectable people into a mixed lodging-house of this kind, or of a kind even more terrible, which I have yet to describe. The evicted tenant whose case I have quoted is a working man. There is nothing against him. The house that he had the misfortune to rent was the cause of his having to take his wife—a respect- able "oman-to live amid surroundings which must, in the long run—it would be nearer the truth to say in the short run-—end in moral degradation. Here we have an instance of the injury done, not only to the poor, but to the whole community, by the failure of the great body of citizens to appreciate the perils of indifference in the matter of the housing of the people. Society pays in the end for the physical and moral degradation of the masses, and it pays in hard cash. The payment is compulsory; for workhouses and gaols and lunatic. asylums, and is voluntary for hospitals and charitablo institutions. Unfortunately, tho bulk of the people who pay are in no way responsible for tho evil for which the payment is a penalty. Let us visit another area in this district of difficulties. It is a low neighbourhood in a lofty situation. It is so lofty that from the back doors of, one lot of houses you look out upon the; roofs of the row below. This arrangement has its incon- veniences, especially when the sanitary! authorities have insisted upon the top! row being repaired and certain out-! houses in the front of it being pulled' down. Standing in the front yard of the top row an elderly lady with grey hair and the attitude of a warlock, extends a' denunciatory finger. "Look at that," she exclaims to my companions, who are known to her, being! men in authority over her. "Look at that, and say if it's right that a Christian being and a respectable married woman shouldn't be able to come out of her front door without some- body else's bricks and mortar and rot- ting rubbish falling on her poor old head ?" Tho lady lives in the court below. She has come up above to protest. The repairs to the yard above her residence: have not included the building of a wall at the edge. There is nothing but a scaffold-pole placed across the end of the sloping yard to prevent the people living in the court below receiving a landslip) by instalment. With the assurance that a wall shall be built and the grey head preserved from further premature burial, my companions lead me gently from the hanging garden on the hills down to the level land that lies by the waterside, and is known as "The Strand." It is there that I see the scene that has burnt itself into my brain and that haunts me as I write. When Maxim Gorky wrote his terrible book "Creatures That Once Were Men," he drew a picture of a low Russian lodging-house that was horrifying in its realism. Not once, but a dozen times, in the doss houses of The Strand did I wish that Maxim Gorky had been by my side to see "Creatures that once were women." The sun is shining as we go down the Strand, and three or four women are lying stretched at full length asleep by the dead wall, through the arches of which here and there you can see the black sides of a ship. Young women, bareheaded and blowzy, and with bloated faces, are sitting on the kerb exchanging bestial banter with rough-looking young men. Inside a drinking bar, apparently catering specially for the dreadful denizens of the doss bouses, a number of men of the lowest type are lounging. They are quiet enough, but the scene is gruesome in its silence and its drab monotony of hue. The faces of the women who are drinking with the men are not good to look upon. From the bar I pass into a women's lodging-house close by, and there, accustomed as I am to Zolaesque human documents, I shrink back. My first impulse is to go out again quickly from this Devil's darkness into the wholesome light of day and the sunshine that is the smile of God. With swollen lips and staring eyes, with distorted features and faces, some of them loathsome with disease, these creatures that once were women sit-a dozen of them-in a long low room, lit at one end- by a gleam of sunshine that comes through the open door, and at the other end by the dim red glow of a coke fire The faces lit by the red glow are terrible, but oh, the horror of those on which the sunshine falls! And among this terrible wreckage of womanhood, flung by the black waters of the River of Sin upon the Strand of Shame, are girls of twenty who are old already, with the bleared eyes and bloated features of the dram drinker.! Their admission card to the hospital is already blotched and scarred upon their fearful faces. That this social and physical pestilence should be concentrated is well. It is safer far that it should be where it can be kept under systematic supervision- far safer than that it should be scattered to the four quarters of the town. But its existence, even where it is, is a deadly peril. There will come a day when such a peril will no more be permitted to pollute the by-ways of a citii than the sufferers from the infectious diseases now tabulated by the medical officer of health for isolation will be allowed to move at will among their fellow-citizens. (To be continued next week.)
WALKED ABOUT AT NIGHT
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WALKED ABOUT AT NIGHT CURIOUS INCIDENT AT A NEATH HOSTELRY. "William Donogham, of Cardiff, was charged on remand at Neath on Monday with stealing 30s. in gold from Henry Preeca on the 3rd iuct. Preece said he was a collier, living at the Caera-u, Maesteg. The prisoner was his brother-in-law. Last Wednesday they came to Neath, to look for prosecutor's wife, who had been away since a week last Saturday. He and prisoner slept oni Wednesday night at the House of Lordg Inn. In hie pockets were £7 lOe. m gold, besides silver. Prisoner knew he had this money. At 6.30 on Thursday morning the landlord came to the bedroom and asked. Wind of you has been walking about during the night? There are only two lodgers in me house, so it must have beten one of you. Prosecutor jumped out of bed and, opening his purse, found that £ 1 l(te' was missing1. mJ2hner WaS 40B- aT!d costB' or
IFAIR DAY SHEBEtlNlNG I NEAR…
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FAIR DAY SHEBEtlNlNG NEAR FISHGUARD. I Margaret Thomas, Bengal, near Fishtmard an elderly woman, was summoned hv Superintendent Brinn for selling beer ariri spirits without a licence, and Stenhen Young, James Oomoch, Thomas Griffiths and Edgar Child were summoned for aiding and abetti-ng the offence. Police-constable^ wa+T J(tfttor8t<>n) awi PhuliPe (Mathry) watohed the premises on June 11, Letterst™ Pair, and, dressed as farmers, made a raid. They found some of the men with passes of beer in their bands, and on search- to f .tbe Premises discovered four jars COTI- ,*>eer and four bottles of spirits; also affile basbel. of malt- Th« on the themselves, eaid it was all S £ dif "r fair-days tha^ LATEW it.Jhad 1101 VERR W at her n'eig(hbo<llrs would be rejoicing SJf caught, because they had ♦ report hcr before. ^^Hdaots Pteaded guilty. Thomas was coets, and the men i& 1 beer ail<i spirits and-the. vcwftli 'Ordered to be oonfisoaitcd
EISTEDDFOD AU.I 4
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EISTEDDFOD AU. I 4 SUCCESSFUL GATHERING AT HENDRE. The fourth annual chair eisteddfod was held at Hendre, Pantyffynon, on Saturday. There was a crowded attendance, and the eisteddfod was a great success. Four choirs competed in the chief choral competition, and three children's choirs entered. On the whole, the choral singing was very good, and the winning choirs unquestionably merited the high and unqualified praise of the adjudi- cators. A new fea-ture in this eisteddfod was penillion singing, to the accompaniment of the harp, and the award of the adjudicator clearly showed that the best soloist is cer- taiiily not necessarily the best" pen- illionist." The following are the chief awards:- Children's choir (" Y Mac Cyfaill i Blant Bychain."). Three choirs competed—Hendre (conductor, Mr. Henry Daviesi, Caersalem, Leanedy (conductor, Mr. D. W. Lewis\ a.nd Ammanford (Mr. Edgar Hopkins). The prize was awarded to the Ammanford Choir. Penillion Singing.—1st, Richard Morgan, Brynamruan; 2nd, divided between George Harris, Cro:\3hands, and Edgar Thomas, Pontardulais. 1) £ or the beft poetry (Pryddegt), not to exceed 300 lir.es. The adjudicator announced "Unig" as the successful competitor. He turned out to be the Rev. W. Alfa Richards, Birchgrove, Llansamlet. Mr. Richards was then chaired according to the ceremonies of the eisteddfod and congratulated in verse by a hact oi bardie friends. Chief Choral Competition-" He saved them out of their distrpcses (D. Jenkins).—Thc prize included a silver cup to the successful conductor. Four choirs competed, and sang in the following order; Llandebie (con- ductor Mr. Evan Thomas); Hendre, Panty- ffynon (Mr. Rees Jones); Moriali, Llanedy (Mr. Isaac Lloyd); and Llandilo (Mr. J. Simon Da vies). The prize was awarded to the Llandilo choir. -I CHILDREN'S CHORAL COMPETI- TIONS ON MUMBLES PIER. The children's choral and solo competitions which took place on the Mumbles Pier on Saturday proved very attractive. Ten choirs had entered for the chief competition, as follows:—Fforestfacn Forward Movement, jMorriston; Zoar; Young Choralists, Aber- id::re; Carmarthen-road Junior Choir; Bryn- liyfryd Junior Choir; Calfaria, Morriston- F.rynant, l.andorc; Brynhyfry<1 United; aild Fabian's Bay, St. 1 nomas. The test piece was that of the National Eisteddfod, "The Stream and the Flower." The result was: 1st priz^, Fabian's Bay; 2nd, Brynhyfryd; 3rd, 1'forestfach; 4th, Bryn- ant. Solo for girls under 13: 1st, Morfydd Lloyd, Aber&are; 2nd, A&y Watts, Morrist>o;n; 3rd, Annie Walters, M&nseiton. Solo for boys under 13; ist> D Lodwig, Swansea: 2nd, I'iew- Jones, Abcrdare; 3rd, W. G. Thomas, a^nwen. Boys under 16: Fred Brooks, Bt. Thomas; 2nd, Levns Ilart, Watmwen; 3rd, Aneurin Jones, aunarlwyd^ Girls under 16: ls|' amded between Edith Thomas, Fforestfaca, and Maggie Davics, Llanelly; 2nd, Mai 10Tn, ^rlWr> gt_ ord( Bessie Griffrtbs, Llanelly, EISTEDDFOD AND PRESENTATION aT QUAKERS' YARD. An eis-teddfod was held at Quakers' Yard on Monday. Aw&rc18 Soprano solo, Mi'"8 /Williams, Ponty- pridd. Contralto solo, divided between Miss Lizzie Davies, and another. Tenor solo, Mr. Ted ^mith, Treharris. Bari- itone solo, .n,tha Sen-shenydd. Trio, Mr. W. Gmht-ha and friends, Treharris. Duet, Messrs. a-nd Smith, Troharris. Open recitation, Broad, Troedy- rhiw. Juvenile ^hplr'pJabe^acle, Treharris (conductor, Mr. D- Mixed choir, Graig Calvin istic thodist, Abercanaid. Male voice, Trehar s (conductor, Mr. Fred Evame). A During the P<d'n^.r- H. Oonnell was the recipi«nt .•^ I Humane Society medal for saving the We of a ohild in a dangerous part of Eiver Taff. EISTEDDFOD AT BRIT Under the Baptist Church, Brithdir» 1 eisteddfod was held on Mondaj. the /New Tre- degar; presided, » „ R.'uai«ators were: -Music: Messrs. 'J^tf^von, and D. R. Jones, A.C., BaJ^- ^nations: Mr. W. H. Rees, schoolmas Tredegar. Chief awards:— «jfoble Boy of Baritone solo. or Truth": D Griffiths, Bargocd- Open recitation • • wis, New Trede- K¥.„or solo. "TiKl"0"8 last Song", j fi«bb. "gssss c-oM", Ml„ sts?mrr.°- -ai««««>« Enchfl Bristol. Quartette, "Lead rae, baviour M. Alsopp and Party, Abertillery- Duet, "Two Sailors = A. Parry and Dan Jones, New Tredegar. Chief choral Huddersfield": Brithdir United M,r- A. Davies). Champion solo: a7i^>et^^en A- Parry, Ivew Tt& » » d Mies Jones, Fochriw. performed the eeoretarial duties CARMARTHEN & NATIONAL. Over £ 1,300 National i? euarante«s towards invitme d 1 Eisteddfod to Carmarthen in 1^ ^leetors, who met on Monday under the presidency of the ™a.Q %L^?poin't«d a eub- oommiteee to mad6 J?8'Jhe applica- tion whioh has to i71 th ^e National Eisteddfod Association the course of a few weeks.
CONFESSION OF BIGAMY.
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CONFESSION OF BIGAMY. haverford^71^ AND HIS TWO' WIVES. At Stratford Police-court OT1 Friday ^aac William 46 a caretaker> of Oliver-road, Walthamstow, was charged on his own oonfeseion.with bigamoosiy ing Lizzie Wride, his lawful wife being th/n and now alive. The prisoner on Thursday went t Bridge-road £ £ eTution^ up for bigamy. He was eautioned and he then said:— I wish to tell the truth. Ahnm April 9, 1885, I married Alice Ann Dizney at tho Congrcgationaj ow? Haverfordwest, South< with her at J^ncniey, and one fe'he went away from home. Fo°e Jay after I received a letter from her me to send her box and clothee. IaS™ Plied with her request, as. she did not wish to have anything do with me. From that time I or heard anything of my wife. saw On April 3, 1907, I went through a of marriage with Lizzie Wride at and lived with her nntil July 2. l on my sister-in-law, and dieco^^ed my wife was alive ajid was Plaietow, and I went down W what I had done. I had no idea wihen I went through the form of marriage-with Wride was alive. The priscmer was remaaided, and allowed bail.
I-iTROUBLES OF ST. ANDREWS…
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TROUBLES OF ST. ANDREWS PARISH. CARDIFF CHURCHMEN TO WAIT UPON THE BISHOP. For some time past, as has been evidenced by tho proceedings at the annual vestry meetings, the relations between the Vicar of St. Andrew's, Cardiff (the Rev. Dr. Nicholson) an A his parishlone^ have not been very happy. A meeting of the churchwardens and sidesmen of St. Andrews and the daughter ohurch of St. Teilo was held on Monday even- in-g at the Oath ays National Sohool. Mr. F W. Brett (churchwarden) presided, and after a. discussion, it was resolved to afik the bishop to reocive a depntotion, who, failing other arrangements, will ask him to a,ppoint a com- missioner to investigate the affairs of the parish. The following were appointed on the denuita.tion: Messrs. F. W. Brett, Edwaird Edwards, B. Winfield, and E. Silcox, amd Dr. Oyril Lewis.
PITIFUL CRY OF "SAVE ME !"…
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PITIFUL CRY OF "SAVE ME YOUNG GIRL DROWNED IN THE RIVER USK. The Newport coroner (Mr. Lyndon Moore) held an inquest on Monday respecting the death of Catherine Donovan (14), the daughter of Timothy Donovan, 15a, Charlotte-street, a gaaworks foreman, who was drowned in the River Usk at Newport on Sxinday. River Usk at Newport on Sunday. Catherine Leverham, a little girl who was with deceased at the time, eaid she wae wash- ing her hands in the river, leaning over a stage a.t Powell's Wharf, when she slipped and fell into the water. She was carried away a short distance on a flood tide which had just turned. Witness added that deceased struggled and cried "Save me." Police-sergeant Friend stated that the body vras recovered with grappling irons. The Coroner emphasised the need for all children learning to swim. A verdict of "Accidental drowning" was returned.
TEACHING OF WELSH. +
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TEACHING OF WELSH. + MR. VEALL COMPLAINS OF A CIRCULAR. Mr. Veall had another kick at tho Cardiff CymmrodorioIl Society on Monday, at the monthly me-at.ing of the city council, when he asked Mr. Lewis Morgan (.chairman of the education committee) the following ques- tions, according to notice:— (1) Whether, as a member of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion, he was a party to the circular issued by that body and signed by Alderman B. Hughes, president, and distri- buted among the school children, on Jnne 7, 1907, simultaneously with tbe circular of the j education, committee asking parents to vote for or against their children being taught "Welsh in the Cardiff sahools? (2) Whether he agrees, as chairman of the education committee, with Paragraph 7 of the circular referred to. which in large type asserts. Welsh can be taught in Gar- diff Clemen tary schools without dropping any other subject? It does net interfere in the slightest degree with the educational organisation nor the efficiency of the schools, but, on the contrary, increases the efficiency of the schools. The teachers in the schools testify to the accuracy of these statements.' (3) Whether he, as chairman of the educa- tion committee or as a member of the Cardiff Cyramrodorion, approves of this ex-parte statement being made, even by so illustrious a body as the Cardiff Cymmrodorion, con- sidering that teachers were expressly for- bidden to use their influence on one side or the other in this canit roversy, and whether he will endeavour to find out those teac-hers oa" u who have departed from their instructions and given their approval to the viowis of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion?" Mr. Lewis Morgan: I am much indebted to Mr. Veall for his kindncas in sending me these questions yesterday. Several Members: "What! yesterday?" "Shame!" and laughter. Mr. Lewis Morgan said he had no idea that S"eh a circular had been sent out until his notice was drawn to it by Mr. Veall, and he was not a party to it. It was sent out by Alderman Eobert Hughes, and not by the Cymmrodorion. With regard to the second question, he had to say that the last state- ment in it was the result of all inquiry made by Alderman Robert Hughes when he went round the schools before the council had given an instruction to the teachers not to participate in the controversy one way or the other. lie would 1101. like the council to run away with tho idea that, after the council's instruction, the teachers had broken through the instruction. As to the second question, Mr. Lewis Morgan read out the report of the ohiei inspector on his inquiry into the matter, to the effect that a portion of the time given to other snbjects was curta-iled in order to include Welsh. Alderman Eobert Hughes: Will y-u read he report from the Eadnor-road Boys' acnool. c-Wv, Lrw|?r»™: The reply from that thit it l3ut it is perfectly clear recimres gojne explanation, as the cuITIculum and time-table were supposed to bo full. before the Welsh was taken Mr. eali: It is as true as this circular. Mr Lewis Morgan: In eome schools appa- rently they are able to teach Welah with out any inconvenience, whilst in others there is apparently inconvenience I think it is clear that the views on the point differ according to whether the teachers in the various schools are in favour or against Welsh. Referring to the third question, Mr. Lewis Morgan said he did not think that any member of the corporation had aright to ask him for any explanation by reason of his being a member of the Cymmrodorion or any other outside body. (Hear, hear The only part of the question which really affected him wae as to whether he, as chairman of the education committee, would take steps as to what teachers had departed from their obliga- tion. He had already explained that he was satisfied, unless he had some evidence to the contrary, that since the resolution of the council no action had been taken, either for or against tho question, by the teachers. Alderman Robert. Hughes said there was a sting in the questions, which imputed some- thing rather strongly against some teachers. He wished to ask whether, if Mr. Veall was aware of any teacher who had transgressed, he would have the moral courage to bring the case before the proper committee, and not pass judgment upon the whole of the teachers by innuendo? As far as the circular was con- cerned, ho (Alderman Hughes) took full responsibility for it and for its accuracy. In further reply to Mr. Veall, Mr. Lewis Morgan bai-d that he referred to teachers as individuals, and not as a body, when he said that statements had been made by the teachers as to the accuracy of the statements made in the circular. Alderman Hughes said it would be in the recollection of the council that the etate- the circular were made by him from his emt in the council chamber as a result of the visit. of Mr. Jackson, (director of education) and himself to the schools. Mr. Veall: Then why do you say "the teachers" when you only mean some of the teachers?" The matter then dropped. ALDERMAX HUGHES ATTACKED. A meeting of the committee of the British League was held in the Y.M.C.A., Cardiff, on Monday evening, the president (Mr. F. H. Lambert) in the ohair. The Chairmian proposed the following resolution :— In view of the unfair and misleading statements made in the English and Welsh circulars issned by Alderman Robert Hughes on behalf of the Cardiff Qymsmro- dorion with a view of influen-cdaig the vote of parents in the recent plebiscite with Tegard to the tcachin-g of Welsh, this meeting of the comm-ifcteo of the British League requests Councillors Veall, Ren wick, Vivian, and Gaskell to raise the question at the next meeting of the council with the view of getting a freeh vote taken, before which parents ehall be officially nrfviscd as to what school subjects must be Welsh to be MM. He thought the i^ng of ^cular was a breach of the honourable understanding t>1't oarent<s were not to be influenced by u £ tdt that A.'T iSfhert Hughes's action in issuing the SJular, signing it on behalf of the Cardiff Cymm rodori on, after the understanding which had taken place a. thS council, was absolutely indefensiole. Mr. J- W. Farraj seconded, and the resolu- tion was carried unanimously. NEW DEPARTURE BY THE WELSH CHURCHES. Several of the TVelsh churches in Cardiff have instituted evening classes for the teach- ing of Welsh for the benefit of Sunday Sol scholara £ ^oeGte^Cri3 h'ave t>e'en engaged in some insta-noee, and some of the classes have been very aucceasful, especially so at Mininy-trtreet Congregatdona,i ohuroh, where the first class was formed. The promoters of tie movement, however, feel that more cooperation is needed, and that the time has arrived when an attempt should be made to bring the classes up to the requirements of we Board of Education as grant-earning classes. The matter has bem-enthusiastically ta.ken up by the Cardiff Welsh Sunday School Union, and arrangements have been made to interview the education committee of the Cardiff City Council prior to bringing the master tmder the notice of the Board of Education.
MARRIED ON 3s. A WEEK.
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MARRIED ON 3s. A WEEK. BREOONSiHIRE MAN'S HANDSOME EARNINGS- Evidence was given at Hay P, -iaotirt on Monday of a married man earning only 3s. a week and board and lo gi.ng. Edward Jones, farmer, Ton' i J;03:1" Hay, was charged with assaulting Mary Ann. Morris, who said her husbaaid from whom she llved apart, was in defendants employ. Hi, were 3e. per week, with board a.nd lodging, and she went to the farm to collect it weekly at her husband's request. She lived on this money. Defendant, she alleged, ill-uged her on June 22 when ahe called for the wages. Defendant said he simply pushed prose- cutrix out from the house becauee she was abusive. Dr Trumper (chairman), to prosecutrix: You were asked civilly to go, and you would not. If you had come to my place like that I should have pushed you out just the saino. The case was dismissed. I
ICAPTAIN SCREECH'S PLEA.
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CAPTAIN SCREECH'S PLEA. PERMITTING DRUNKENNESS AT A SWANSEA INN. Captain Screech, landlord of the Ship and Oastle Inn, the Strand, Swansea, was sum- moned at Swansea on Monday for supplying drink to intoxicated persons. Mr. L. Riobtardis appeared for the police, and Mr. R. T. Leyson for the defendant. Police-constable Itayes said that on Tues- day, the 28th of June, he saw two men drink- ing in the bar a.t the defendant's place. They were the worse for drink, and called defendant's attention to them, and defen- dant said: They are all right, boy." The men left, and then became disorderly in the street, one being locked up. Defendant, on being told of this, eaid: "I think iie wanted to be looked Up owing to^ his arm. They were all right when in here." Mr. Leyson called witnesses, who staled that the men were not served, but draink that the men were not served, but draink other people's beer. Defcndajit was bed £5.
OUR NATIONAL LIFE. 4
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OUR NATIONAL LIFE. 4 STIRRING APPEAL BY REV. FATHER VAUGHAN. The Rev. Father Vaughan preached before a crowded congregation at Brompton Oratory on Sunday, and took for his text, "Whence ehall we buy bread that these may eat?" He graphically depicted the scene of the feeding of the multitude on the lake-side at Galilee, interspersing his narration with charac- teristic comments and allusions to modern society and society's ways. He could not do better, he said, than put before them a simple day from the life of Christ, and con- trast it with the lives lived by society to-day. What a contrast, he continued, between the active, yet simple, life of the Master and the wearisome round of the society devotw! How dull the life on the house-boat compared with that on the fishing-boat on the Lake of Galilee! Christ was a laughter- loving Lord; one could not be dull in His prcsenoe. The poor had hearts as well as the rich, the only difference being that they had them in the right place. Continuing, the rev. gentleman j insisted on the need there was of organising work and of building up character into, a structure of lasting beauty. He said there was much for all of them to learn from a. sample dRy out of the life of 33 years spent long ago by their Divine Master. On the memorable day of the multiplication of the loaves a-nd fishes they were assured of the methodical process of our Ix>rd's charity. He went among them, attending first of all to the diseases of their bodies, then proceeding to the cure of their souls; finally came the story of the multiplication of the food, followed by a night in the solitude in prayer. Father Vaughan urged all who busied them- selves in works of philanthropy to study Christ s method of doing good. His charities were organised. Father Vaughan spoke approvingly of cancer research, hospital work, and prison reform. Want of eharacter was the malady from which the nation was suffering. The symptoms of the fatal disease were observable, like ca.ncer itself, among all classes of the community. What, a wast of seriousness there was to-day among m.en and women! If they did not believe this, let them look at their lending libraries, and' ask what books were wanted. Go and see what filled the theatres most; find out what pa.pers had the largest sale. Success was not the measure of virtue, and money wa.s not the end of life. In conclusion, Father Vaughan recom- mended the work of the rescue homes. He did n.ot think he could put before Empire- lovers a work more worthy of their charity than that of helping to convert Empire- loafers and destroyera into Empire-builders a.nd supporters. He appealed to them to see the need of our poor children, lost to the Church, lost to the Empire. They wanted to convert them from being derelicts into useful citizens and loyal sons and daughters of the Church.
- SOLICITOR FOUND SHOT.
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SOLICITOR FOUND SHOT. HEARTBREAKING STRUGGLE WITH REVERSES. Pathetic letters were read at the inquest held on Saturday on the body of Mr. H. Carter, aged 74, a leading Nottingham solici- tor. Mr. CaTter, a widower, and ex-president of the Nottingham Incorporated Law Society, was found by his gardener in a sitting posi- tion in a chair in a garden two miles from his residence. Blood was oozing from a wound in the head, and he had been dead several hours. A revolver was lying near him, with two barrels discharged. Mr. Carter had been depressed lately. His son-in-law, also a Nottingham solicitor, stated that he knew nothing of Mr. Carter's business affairs, as he was very reticent. Three papers found on Mr. Carter were read by the coroner, who stated that they were like entries in a. diary. The first, darted June M, rea.d:— Disasters and misfortunes have accumu- lated so heavily that my heart eeema ae if it would burst. The more I struggle the worse things seem to get. I cannot endure it much longer, and it would be better by far if I were dead. I don't know what I am doing a.t times. The second and third letters read:- My heart is breaking, and I must say good-bye to all my dear ones. Perhaps when I'm gone things 'will be better. July 4.—My brother lias been, and all I can say is, "There is no hope." A verdict of Suicide during temporary insanity was returned.
SLANDER ON CLERGYMAN
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SLANDER ON CLERGYMAN BY IRRESPONSIBLE AND IMPE- CUNIOUS GIRL. Before Mr. Justice Phillimore on Saturday Mr. Montagn Lush, om behalf of the Rev. C. P. Koelle, vicar of Langley, Slough, Bucks, moved for judgment in an action brought against Gladys Mary Phillips, who, counsel etatMi. was under age and a schoolmistress in plaintiff's parish. The action was brought to recover Rome amount of damages in respect of a slander of the vicar which she had uttered alleging that he had been guilty of improper conduct towa-rds her. Plaintiff was, therefore, obliged to take these proceedings to vindicate has character, and lie asked for an injunction to prevent a repetition of the defama/tory statement as well as for eome damages. Mr. Lush read an affidavit by plaintiff, in which he said there was not a shadow of foundation for the slander, and counsel added that defendant had filed a statement of defence, in which she denied having uttered the words complained of, and alter natively put in a plea of justification An order wis made upon her to certain letters which would "isoloso great light on the case, S 9hft f ^R>Wn to comply, and the Mister v, .? failed her statement of defence. struck out mitted it wks° not^us^ °f defeBdant' tiou unless thorw grant an injunc- elander. a reI)etiUon of the said^no^d^^i111™01^' in giving judgment, this kind injured charges of ™ i ? a ministe" religion, and it on Plaintiff that he had pmc- x- eauiy at his own expense to put this matter straight. His lordship gave judgment for 40s. damages, and granted an injunction against a repetition of the slander by an irresponsible and impecunious girl.
"WELL, I NEVER."
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"WELL, I NEVER." WHITCHURCH WOMAN'S WAY. Mrs. Panny Laws, of Whitchurch, summoned at Mandaff Police-court on Monday Mrs- King, who lived next docs', for assault.. Complainant, who is a Russian, and speak English, had her husband t^> interpreter. She alleged that KlTj? jj&vre given notice to leave the house, wa3 applied to the agent for the hou^e^, when accepted as the new tenant. invited him to she saw prosecutor's hnsb^'>^band. Laws comeou± a.nd the door, did not, reply 1>ut•J^a3^ssarea came out, Later on defeffidaat^^de ^Tlin/inX greeted this evidenoo w £ "Wen 1ear!" Mm Lawk started that the ci^ reached on Friday, when a big stone was'f thrown at her. Mr. H. W. Morns (on behalf of Messrs. TTirold Lloyd and Cross) cross-examined as to the asearalt, biit ^clerk said that Mrs. Laws had declared herself in fear of the defendant, and on that account the latter would have to be bound over. Mr. Morris agreed, and the charge of assault was not proceeded with, defendant being bound over in the sum of £ 5 to be of g-ood behaviour for six months.
FUNNY CASE AT LLANELLY
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FUNNY CASE AT LLANELLY JEWISH RABBI AND HIS MOTHER- ,TF IN-LAW. At Llanelly County-court on Monday (before his Honour Judge Bishop) a Jewish rabbi, named Isaac Solomon, apphea 1 iri.1 «I a case in ,Uoh Br. D. J. Williams for £ 7 2s. 6d. m respect. professional services. money?—It is not due. He rM tie hOT9e I As soon as the doctor cam inoth€r.iT1.]aw_ said that she Wl^ 0" ,fnting): And then he His Htrnour (niterrupw^^ ) ne killed her for yoa.(La fcha.t j WOuld Mr. Solomon: I ^t, and he ^plXf be responsible for Pdyu pn&ci, 7ninf' ,r evidence his Honour found as. a week.
THREE COLLIERS KILLED ,NEAR…
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THREE COLLIERS KILLED NEAR DUDLEY. a heavy fall of coal has ocourrnrf at •Warrens Hall Colliery, Windmill End Wor- cesterahire, and three miners were buried beneath the ayaianohc. buried Bescue parties immediately starts to work, tat the unfortUlIlate men were not recx>vc^ until nest moj-ning, when in eS case life wns found to be extinct. P6:—Samuel Timminga, of Dudley; Reder of Edward Poberts. The faJ.1 was dne to e, 9I1'bø1denœ. whiah MIW" 96 oollapsa of the suppmta.
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