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Comments and Criticisms. f m BY "C U CHFARF." After all, there is some relationship between locality and greatness. Coun- cillor F. J. Beavan, J.P., the mayor of Car- diff, and the Rev. Aaron Davies, D.D., were born in the same house at Tredegar. Local historians may amplify this coin- cidence by proving that other men of mark drew their first breath in this same house. I have had placed in my hands a number of "Poems on 'The Land of Promise,' by "Dyfed," the Rev. E. Rees, a Welsh Dis- senting minister, but not a disestablisher, rendered into English verse by G. R. G. Pughe, vicar of Mellcr," and is gratefully dedicated to the ladies and gentlemen who kindly patronise the Mellor Church bazaar. The ladies and gentlemen of the Blackburn district must be very thankful to be so thoughtfully warned of Cardiff's many chaired bard's harmless character, for it would be a dreadful thing if only a mere microbe of what must be to the mind of the translator a false doctrine was to pass into the minds of his bazaar patrons with the honeyed lines of "Dyfed's" poetry. I sat down for a pleasant hour with "Dyfed's" poetry in an English dress, and his translator has been fairly successful in his work. The selection or subjects has been confined, as the title suggests, to those based upon the Rev. E. Rees's visit to the Holy Land, and are, THEREFORE, pre- I sumably. racy of the soil, particularly the verses to the "Bedouin Arabian": This determinate defrauder And a merciless marauder Boasts a princely pedigree. III Onward hies, unsandalled. marching. Careless of the scorpion's sting, Throug-h the perilous and parching Desert, this despotic king. Straight he stands as any palm tree, Wielding with an iron hand Over his ancestral country, The stern sceptre of command; Dewdrops of the evening twilight Deck the turban which he wears, And in his foul tent at midnigho On his victim's food he fares. Serious readers would find much pleasure in reading "The Hills of Canaan," "David's Grave," and "A Place of Weeping," and the Vicar of Mellor will, I hope, provide other examples of Welsh poetry at other times than when he is troubled with the organisation of a bazaar. In future I must regard it as a mistake to treat the bandying of words that pass between Cardiffians and Swanseaites when they meet as harmless banter; otherwise, no check) upon so useful an undertaking as that of battling with tuberculosis would be risked by the medical men of Swansea, because the central committee is located at Cardiff. It does not matter that the whole movement was engineered at Car- diff, and that the conference held here was convened by Councillor Thomas Andrews, J.P.. the then mayor of Cardiff. Patients from the Cardiff district will be considered unduly, it is said, and there must be a sepa- rate organisation for Swansea. All this is very sad, indeed, and I hope a generous spirit will direct the persons in authority to refuse to endanger the work they have in hand, and give the Medical Society of Swansea a lesson in generous feeling by granting the request that is being made to them. Nothing varies as much as the value placed upon personal salutations. There are tho-e who must give their opinion of the wealiior, the war news, and all the latent family incidents wherever and when- ever you meet them, and great is their chagrin if their involuntary listeners show any signs of having "another appoint- ment," or a desire to inform them that they have heard the same things before. Again, another person will scarcely give his nearest friend the least indication that he has any opinion in particular upon any question in the world, although he may hold most pronounce'! views upon ques- tions that are uppe^nost in the public mind. The difference arises entirely from temperament, but if any class is more in- different than another concerning saluta- tions of courtesy it is the artisan class. I cannot speak "lth any particular knowledge about the rules that obtain among Metropolitan artisans, and those of teouthwark more articularly, but at their last meeting the Southwark Guar- dians accepted the resignation of their carpenter because ona of his ''superior officers" refused to wish him "Good morn- ing." I would have been less surprised if the cause of offence hed been the describ- ing of anyone placed in authority over him as his "superior officer." A foreman may be tolerable,- not because he is superior to the ordinary hand, but because someone must be responsible for the order of the work that has to be done, and he is generally the oldest hand in the shop. There is no British institution where an air of superiority is so quickly dispelled as in a British workshop, unless it be in the ranks of journalism, and for this reason chiefly I share my admiration pretty equally between the two. I usually avoid comparisons, but occa- sionally the temptation is so overwhelm- ing that I yield to it, as most mortals do., I have no quarrel with conviviality when it is balanced with other diversions of more solid value. I have commented upon the lack of interest in evening school classes at Tirphii, and their utter failure, through not having a- single scholar for six consecutive evenings. In yesterday's "Evening Express" I road: — A banquet in connection with the Primrose Lodge of the R.A.O.B. was held at the Dynevor Arm. Tirphil, last niaht, when a large number of the fraternity sat down to an enjoyable spread and a plea- sant evening." I will spare the rend-- any further com- ment upon the two incidents I have referred to. The heavy mortality from diphtheria in Glamorganshire is fgain demanding atten- tion, and the quart rly report of Dr. Williams, the medical officer of health for the county, shows that some of the most populous districts in the county are entirely unsewered. This serious sani- tary shortcoming is iot to be found in the mushroom villages that have sprung up at the time of the coal booms we have had, but in some of the oldest industrial centres of Glamorgan-hire, viz., Clvdach, Cwmavon, and Aberkenfig. At the latter place Dr. Williams describes the outbreak as the most fatal he had seen for many years. Out of a toLl of 38 cases, thir- teen, or 33 per cent.. proved fatal. Whilst passing thrc- gh this village last week I noticed a pur ';c refuse receptacle fixed below the level of a roadway that had not been cleared away at four o'clock in the afternoon, an-i the children who were then passing home from school were amusing them.- elves by pushing each other into the noisome collection, to the evident satisf.; '.ion of the local policeman, for he con: ntedly watched the fun. Most of the children evidently belonged to cleanly omes, judging by their general eonditir but that each child I saw ran the r- k of carrying home diphtheria germs any sanitary expert will readily admit. The physical situation of Aberkenfig is disadvantageous enough to public health without adding to it by the neglect I have describe J, and, perhaps, the I responsible health authority of that neigh- bourhood will look into the matter before I the contagion spreads to the populous valleys that are near at hand.

BOXING. ,r TERRY MCORMACK AND HARRY SLOUGH MATCHED FOR J., 75. Harry Siough, of Leicester, and Terry M'Cormack, South Wales, will box the best of fifteen tv.o-minute rounds at 7at. 8ib. for zC25 a-side and Mr. Tom Wickwar'a JE25 purse. The contest takes place at the Mafeking Gym- nasium, Leicester, on Wednesday next, December 11. THOMAS JAMES (ABERAMAN) AND BEN LLOYD (PONTYPRIDD) MATHCED FOR £100. These Welsh boxers have ratified a match to box the beat twenty rounds, each of three minutes duration with 4oz. gloves, for X50 arside and best pur"e procurable, at a place to be mutually agreed upon, on Boxing Day, December 26.

Glamorgan Barrister's Action. J MR. RHYS WILLIAMS V. KODAK (LIMITED.( The following appeared in our Pink Edition last night — In the King's Bench Division of the High Court (before the Lord Chief Justice) on Fri- day the hearing of the case Ehys Williams v Kodak (Limited) was resumed. The plain- tif, Mr. Rhys Williams, of Miskin Manor, South Wales, it will be recollected, was a barrister, and he sued the defendant com- pany. Kodak (Limited), to recover damages for alleged breach of a warranty said to have been given by them in respect of certain photographic films, purchased from them by the Photographic Association on behalf of the plaintiff. The defendants denied the alleged warranty, or that there had been any breach of it, and also said that the goods were not bought by the association on behalf of or as agents of the plaintiff. It appeared that in 1900 the plaintiff was going with his uncle, Mr. Morgan Williams, to Uganda, to shoot big game and see the country. In order to raise money for some local chari- table objects plaintiff intended to give lec- tures in regard to his adventures, illustrated by magic lantern slides. To obtain pictures for the latter he wished to take photographs, and went to the Photographic Association, of which he is a member, in order that they might procure materials for him. The association accordingly, it was said. on plain- tiff's behalf, purchased from the defendants a camera, which, it was admitted, was an excellent one, and thirteen spools of photo- graphic films, each spool containing twelve films. Mr. Williams went to Uganda with his uncle and a cousin named Griffith Williams, and took a number of photographs, which, when they came to be developed, produced results which were absolutely useless for his purpose, due, it was suggested, to defects in the films caus" by faults in their manufacture. Defendants denied that there were any defects in the manu- facture of the films, or that they were defective when supplied to the association. They attributed the bad results to the films having deteriorated by reason of bad packing, the effects of climate, bad handling, &c. Mr. Danckwerts. K..C.. and Mr. Raven ap- peared f(M- the plaintiff, while defandants' counsel were Mr. Moulton, K.C., and Mr. D. M. Kerby. Mr. Le Couteur gave some sirther evidence on behalf of the plaintiff, and pro- duced some invoices and orders.—In croW examination he said the association was a limited company. which was formed in May, 1899. According to their contract with the defendant company, they undertook not to aell by retail under retail list price. He had about this time about 70 similar complaints to plaintiff's of the films supplied by the defendants, some of which had* been used in taking views in London and the neighbour- hood. Re-examined: Their members came and asked them to get such and such a thing. They sent to Kodak (Limited) for it. and sup- plied it to the members, and kept the dis- count. Their members knew they got the dis- count. Plaintiff's case having closed, Mr. Moulton said he would call his wit- nesses without a speech, but, of course, he formally took the point that there was no case against the defendants, because here there had been a sale to the association, and a re-sale by them to the plaintiff. The com- pany were, therefore, not liable to the plain- tiff. Mr. George Davison, managing director of the Kodak Company, said he was an expe- rienced photographer of fifteen years' stand- ing. His company sold to the Photographic Association, treating the latter as dealers. They should know no customer with this kind of transaction except the association. They allowed them the ordinary dealers' terms. If they had known that Mr. Rhys Williams was the real purchaser they would not have allowed these terms. They concluded the asso- ciation re-sold to anybody who came to pur- chase. They should not have sold direct to 111', Williams on those terms. The company sold a vast number of films. It ran into mil- lions a year. They had proportionately few complaints—very few indeed. In his judgment it was not possible that the defects in these films were due to defects in manu- facture. The films were tested, and spools of them were set aside. The lot of films to which these belonged when tested were found satisfactsry. The spools which had been set aside of this hatch werc quite good. He thought the defects were dus to the films having been exposed to damp or warmth or both, or they might have been badly kept or pressed. There was no dirt on the cellu- loid sheets on which the emulsion was put. Sir William Abney gave evidence, as an expert, to the effect that the defects in the films were due to climatic causes. Mr. Senior, a Fellow of the Chemical Society, a member 0f the Institute of (lnd the manager of the Kodak Factory at Harrow, detailed the manner In which the films were manufactured with a view of showing that it was impossible that the defects could have been caused by dirt. as plaintiff suggested. They had no bad batches about the time theBe films were made. None of the films showed manufacturing defects. The defects were caused, some by friction, some by pres- sure or by the films being exposed to moisture or heat, or hoth, or to deleterious gases. There were no finger-marks (on them. Mr. Robert G. Bolton, a lecturer, said he had travelled every part of the world, and in what wa-s known as the "damp belt" which went round it there could be such changes of tem- perature as would affect the films in the manner ùescrihcr1. He took photographs, and the f)1ms when taken out of the wrapper should be used at once and developed imme- diately on the spot. He always had had his films packed in a particular manner, but on account of the difficulties in these latitudes he bad had to give them up and take to plates. The Lord Chief Justice, in giving judgment, said he would not decide the question of law whether the plaintiff could recover 1'rr¡nl the. defendant company direct, as it was not neces- sary to do so, because the plaintiff had not made out his case on the facts. He was of opinion that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the films were not commercially suitable films at the time they were supplied to him. It was for the plaintiff to show that the defect in the films was due to some improper manufacture, and that they were not proper films when delivered to him. and this the plaintiff had failed to do. There would, there- fore, be judgment for the defendants, with costs. Judgment for the defendants accordingly.

A Maesteg Dispute. WHO OWNS THE ROADWAY? Crowbar Brigade Formed. A dispute is now pending between the Maes- teg District Council and the Great Western Railway Company respecting Hermon-road, Spelters. The railway company have a siding running over this road, which has not, hccn used for lUflUY years. The rails have been raised, and it is said that the public have had an uninterrupted thoroughfare over this road for over 30 year3. The landlords on each side of the road have let the land for building pur- poses, and there are now over 100 houses and shops. Correspondence has been passing between the council and the railway eOinpany respecting the matter for over tl¥1 years. The council recently decided to improve the road, and are now constructing a stone bridge over the river which the road crosses. The bridge will cost £600. On Thursday and Friday the railway com- pany sent about 40 platelayers to re-lay the rails on the road which they had apparently abandoned. A special meeting of the council was held on Friday, when it was decided to form a committee to bring the matter to an issue. The committee agreed to take a "crow- bar brigade" and raise the rails which had been ne" iy laid, and deposit them on the rail- way property. The railway company then stopped their men and covered the rails they had laid with turf. There the matter stands. The council will meet again on Tuesday.

ABERAYRON HARBOUR DUES DISPUTE The case of Messrs. Phillips, Morgan, and Co. v. Williams came up for judgment on Friday in the King's Bench Division of the High Court (before Mr. Justice Walton), the question at issue being the le:al tolls and charges which are permitted by the Aber- ayron Harbour Act of 1807 to be made by the lord of the manor on coal, &c>, landed at Aberayron. Mr. Carver, K.C.. and Mr. Bullen appeared for the plaintiffs, who are the lessees of the tolls fiom the lord of the ipanor; and Mr. Bray. K.C.. and Mr. Griffith Jones for the defendant, Captain John Williatas, a coal merchant of Aberayron. Before giving judgment Mr. Justice Walton said he had experienced some difficulty in dealing with the point raised by Mr. Jones for the defendant-that, Alban Gwynne was no iongcr lord of the manor, and could not sue in this case, as there had been an assign- ment of his interest to both nrat and second mortgagees. He. therefore, postponed giving judgment in order that certain documents ehould be put in.

Another Little War. A telegram from Bonny, in British Nigeria, ea.ys I—Column III.. forming one of the four British detachments engaged in the expedition against the powerful Aro tribe, met with deter- mined resistance on Monday. There were seventeen casualties in the column. Captain lies was wounded, though not dangerously.— Reuter. The men enRaged in fighting for the British Jue native levies. office red by Englishmen.

Fermented Wine. ITS USES AT COMMUNION. Alleged Persecution at Cardiff. CHARGES BY MR. TENNYSON SMITH, The Temperance Ironsides ttave been holding their annual meetings this week at Liverpool. Mr. Tennyson Smith was present, and in seconding a resolution, proceeded to show how the principles of the Ironsides were being adopted by the Churches, giving as an instance the declaration of the question, signed by most of the Free Church ministers of Liver- pool, which actually adopted the very phrases formulated by the Ironsides in their constitu- tion. He also justified the plan of making specific revelations with regard to the com- plicity of certain Churches with the drink traffic, believing that agitation was necessary to awaken the conscience of the Christian Church to its duly. He then related an inci- dent which caused a sensation in the audience. He said that at the Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Chapel. Cardiff, two members had been pub- licly dismissed from the Church because they declined to partake of intoxicating wine at the communion table, and that for months past a young girl sixteen years of age had been persecuted in this Church for the same reason. He said that the minister, the Rev. Charles Davies, had repeatedly requested the young lady to rccept a transfer to another Church, where unfermented wine was used, and that eventually, wearied of the treatment uhich they had received, the whole family had left the Church and the district. Mr. Tennyson Smith said he would shortly pub- lish the whole details of this scandalous case, and said that if they hefa their peace in the face of such transactions the very stones would cry out. THE REV. CHARLES DAVIES'S REPLY. »Vhen the above report was shown to the Rev. Charles Davies, the respected pastor of the Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Chapel, at Car- diff. by one of cur reporters, he smiled, and without any hesitation explained the slender groundwork upon which the charges of "per- secution" and "public dismissal" from the Church hav) been based. "Our Church." he said, "has been using fer- mented wine from the' commencement. A member and his wife had been attending the church in the days when Nathaniel Thomas, a strict teetotaler, was pastor. Tliey went afterwards to Woodville-road. where unfer- mented wine is used, and came back to the Tabernacle by letters of transfer four or five years ago. Somewhere about the beginning of this year they called attention to the wine question, but the members of the Church decided to leave matters as they were." "You have no voice in the matter, I pre- sume?" "Personally, as a total abstainer. I would rather that unfermented wine was used, but it is the Church which has to be consulted. and that consists of about 500 communicants." "What about the public dismissal?" "There was nothing of the kind. The mem- ber and his wife refused to partake of the Communion, and we had to strike their names off the roll. Unless we did that there would be no discipline in the Church. I suggested that they should take their letter back to WoodviTe-road. The man is still a friend of mine. He is a teacher at a Baptist School in Cnihays, and attends the Tabernacle services svery Sunday morning." "What about the persecution of a young girl of sixteen?" "She was baptised, and the very Sunday she was received as a member she refused the cup. That was against the rules of the Church. [ pressed upon her the advisability of going to some church where unfermented wine was used. In the meantime her father obtained work at Maesteg. and the family removed there. That is all the persecution. Mr. Tennyson Smith knows the facts, because he was at my house at the time and I explained to him everything that had taken place. The Rev. Nathaniel Thomas was an abstainer. out fermented wine was used for the Com- munion service during the whole of his time. [ have been an abstainer from alcohol, j drinks for 31 years, and I would personally [ike to see unfermented wine used, but when Lhe Church says the old rule shall be adhered :0 I am helpless. Mr. Smith promises to publish the whole ietails." I shall receive them with the greatest equanimity. I am sorry Mr. Smith has nothing better to spealt about."

COLLIERY DEVELOPMENT AT SWANSEA. At a meeting of the sub-property committee of Swansea Corporation on Friday a letter was read from the Great Western Railway Com- iiaay, stating that they were not at present Jrepared to make any overtures with respect- to the purchase of coal under their line near rown Hill. The committee further considered :he question of leasing coal to Alderman W. Evans, and decided to grant him the lease, ;xcluding the coal under the Great Western in e. The coal mines, the first ,sod of which is to be cut to-day (Saturday) at Cefygyfelach torms a portion of the Penllergaer Estate. Sir lohn and Lady Llewelyn, Miss Gladys Llewelyn, the Mayor of Swansea, and Sir John Jones Jenkins have promised to be present. [t is proposed to sink two shafts to the Graigola Seam. Mr. William Thomas (Aber- clare) has been engaged for the designs for machinery and surface arrangements, and is arranging for an eventual output of 2.000 tons 1 day. The extent of minerals taken is about 1,000 acres.

WELSH NATIONAL MUSEUM. At a meeting of the Swansea Welsh Society held at the Royal Institution, Swansea, on Friday evening the question of the proposed national library and museum for Wales was jiscussed at some length.—Mr. Lieufer Thomas, shairman, moved the following resolution: — That, in view of the acknowledged impor- tance of well-equipped museums as handmaids :o historical and scientific study and research iad their edueruional possibilities a3 a means of popular culture, this meeting desires respectfully, bvearnestly, to urge on the Town Council of Swansea that it should forth- with adopt the Museums and Gymnasiums Act of 1891, with the object of immediately estab- lishing a museum of natural history and antiquities, and that it should also appoint a committee to watch the interests of Swansea with regard to the movement for the estab- Itshment by the Government of a national library and museum for Wales." Mr. Thomas argued that the question could only be decided by arbitration on the lines upon which the Bites of the Welsh university colleges were settled. He thought, however, that what would be really better than three arbitrations would be a small statutory com- mission empowered to go into the whole ques- tion whether the national library and the national museum should lie separate institu- tions or one, and whether the grant should be distributed among two or three towns or given to one.—-ML'. Glascodine seconded the resolution, which was supported by Colonel Morgan, Councillor Chapman, Mr. C. H. Perkins, and Mr. T. M. Evans, and carried.—A deputation was appointed to wait on the Swansea Town Council. -r-

WAR ON CONSUMPTION. A meeting is to be held at Haverfordwest on Friday next in connection with the South Wales and Monmouthshire branch of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. The business is to inaugurate a sub-branch of the association for the coun- ties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, and Cardigan, to be called the Western Sub-branch. Earl Cawdor (lord-lieutenant of Pembrokeshire) will preside, and amongst those expected to take part are the Bishop of St. David's, Lady Kensington, the Yen- Archdeacon Williams. Sir John T. D. Llewelyn. Bart., Dr. Garrod Thomas (Newport). Dr. Rawlingfl (Swansea), the Mayor of Haverfordwest, Dr. Powell (New- castle-Emlyn), Dr. Price (Carmarthen). Miss M. E. James, and many others. Dr. Paterson (Cardiff) will give a short lecture, illustrated with lantern slides, on tuberculosis and sanatoria for its treatment. Dr. Douglas A. Reid (Tenby) is convening the meetintr. with Dr. Eldon Pratt (bon: secretary of the South AVales Branch).

Vaccination Finee. At Abertillery Police-court on Friday Joseph Partridge, greengrocer, and Frederick Wintle, insurance agent, were summoned to show cause why they had not paid fines, amounting to £2 10s., imposed on March 31st last, for failing to comply with the Vaccination Act. The local Anti-Vaccination Society defended, and raised a plea of conscientious inability. The Bench ordered distress warrants to be issued, to be suspended for a month, or, in default, seven days' imprisonment as first- class misdemeanants.

Fatal Colliery Accident at Penygraig. At the Pandy Pit of the Naval Collieries, Penygraig, on Friday afternoon a collier, named Shaarach Adams, was killed by a great fall of stones. The deceased, who was a well- known inhabitant of Penygraig, and a highly- respected member of the Pisgah Calvinistic Methodist Chapel for the last 25 years, leaves a widow and six children.

STEVENfV BRaAD. Nourishing. Gives an appetite. e8554

Billiards. ♦ 4 the Game of the Expert and the Amateur. SPECIAL TO EVENING EXPRESS." FIRST ARTICLE. Principle of the Screw Back." Did it ever occur to you that of all games billiards is pre-eminently the most popular? I will tell you why. In all the others-cricket, football, athletics, &c.-for the one that takes an active part in them there are a hundred who, though they count themselves devotees of one or the other of the branches of sport, simply look on. But in billiards every man who takes an interest in the game-and I put the question bluntly, who does not?—playa. or tries to play it. I know you will find no exaggeration in what I say, for it comes in the train of 30 years' practical experience of all the promi- nent English sports and pastimes. Therefore, I put it to you again, billiards is the gport par excellence, almost as much out of as in season. This being so-you see I am bent upon having my own way—I will proceed to talk tc you about it. If I ask you, my readers, in the bulk what kind of shot you best like to see, and, of course, to make, I am very nearly certain that the majority of you would own to a distinct partlalityfor the "screw-back," "pull-back," or "recoil" strokes-just whichever you like to call them-that bring a ball back towards the player. Taking it for granted (I take most things for granted when I say them) that you do, I, therefore, pander to your weakness in their direction' by showing on the annexed diagrams some shots partaking of that nature. All of these may be tested [1.nd worked out on the billiard table. And, with the end in view of making them more than passingly instruc- tive, I will say something of each one in turn. The Principle of the" Screw." First of all, however, I will deal with the principle or theory of screwing a ball back- that is, giving retrograde motion to it. Many of you-I daresay, most of you-who play billiards can "bring a ball back." But can you tell how you do so? In my time I have asked hundreds and hundreds of really useful amateur cueists this question, and I cannot recall a single instance of the correct answer. Some have ascribed it to a pulling- back of the arm and striking the cue-ball as low down as possible, others to a jerking of the cue; in fact, every conceivable cause ex- cept the right one. All, I must say, have agreed that a low stroke on the cue-ball, or player's ball, is necessary. In this they are correct, for it is the essence of the stroke. Being struck near the base, the ball turns over towards the player instead of rolling over in the direction that it is travelling. Unless something else is imparted into the stroke, however, "bottom" on a ball will not make the ball recoil. It will go ahead even if striking an object-ball, more slowly and a less distance than if struck at the centre or high up, but all the same it will travel onwards. Weight is the other element which, combined with a low stroke on the cue-ball, will make the latter come back towards the player as it strikes another ball. A tight gripping of the cue (clutch it heavily with the wielding hand) as you feel your cue strike your ball-mind, not before, but as nearly as possible at the moment you feel that you are making contact with the cue-ball -will double the weight of your cue. Try it, and see for yourselves. Up to a foot and a half away from the cue-ball you ought to be able very quickly to pull-back from an object- ball. Most amateurs grip the cue before the contact of the cue with the cue-ball. They still screw-back, but at the expense of control over the object-ball, which is always struck twice as hard in this manner as it needs to be. The Diagrams. I will now say something of the strokes that I show in the screw-back line. No. 1 is a pretty one. in which left "side" (that is, pocket "side" for the right baulk- pocket into which the cue-ball goes) and a three-quarter ball contact between the two balls is required. Strike the cue-ball low down, gripping the cue smartly, and the pocket will be penetrated the while the object- ball* goes out of baulk. No. 2 is a straight screw-back losing hazard of a common kind. The only thing about it worthy of particular is the getting of the object-ball to the middle of the table (where it should always, if possible, be left following the making of a losing hazard) from the lower "bump" or "shoulder" of the left middle pocket. No. J shows a screw-back cannon, in which the cue-ball is made to take two cushions en route to the second object-ball. A plain-ball (one without "side"), and the recoil are all that are necessary to make it. On the second diagram will be found a pretty screw and "side" stroke in No. 4. The player's object is to bring both the object-balls together along the right top-side cushion. Screwing back nearly straight on to the top- cushion, the left "side" tells as the cue-ball strikes there, and it runs on to the object- white to cannon. The red, meanwhile, goes through baulk, returning as per the dotted lines—a pretty stroke, which leaves a most favourable position. No. 5 is the gem of the party, but one of the most difficult shots it is possible to imagine. I have seen few but the great professional players who can accomplish it. Its great ex- ponent is that fine cuest, William Spiller. He will place two balls along a cushion so close together that it is not easy to ttll they do not touch (and we all know how hard it is to screw- back from the ball that ia very closely situated to the cue-ball, do we not?), and with a long, sweeping stroke of the cue, bring the ball he strikes back and into the corner pocket. No short, snappy stroke, as would usually be the means of making the player's ball run back to him when the balls are but a few inches apart, will do in this case. Instead, the cue must be sent clean through the cue-ball, catching it on the right side as near as pos- sible. I do not recommend the stroke, how- ever. It is beyond the compass of most, and I have merely introduced it as a noteworthy example of what may, in the most expert hands, be achieved in the connection of the sparkling screw-back strokes. Stfevenson-Dawson Controvers y All the billiard world is agog just now with the Stevenson-Dawson controversy. The con- sensus of opinion is decidedly averse to the latter. He has made himself very unpopular by refusing to entertain Stevenson's challenge and then resigning the championship without a struggle. What is worse for Dawson, too, is the incontrovertible fact that Stevenson (who is now invested with the championship mantle, Dawson having let it go by default) is playing better now than ever he did in his life. On the other hand, Dawson has done none too well in any of his matches. Of course, the outcome of the quibbling between our two greatest players will, in the end, lead to a game between them. May I be. there to see it. Yet, if only to teach Dawson a much-needed lesson, the latest effusion from Stevenson's pen makea mighty pretty reading. DOUBLE BAULK. Future Articles. [" Double Baulk" will contribute an article every week, and it will appear in the "Evening Express" on Wednesdays. An announcement as to the Christmas week article will appear later.]

ROMAN C'TTHOLIC ENTERPRISE IN CANTON. A few weeks back Bishop Hedley, in St. David's parish, laid the foundation-stone of new schools, to be built at great cost and upon the same lines architecturally as one of the latest and best equipped of the local board schools, to satisfy the requirements of the Board of Education. A large site belonging to Bishop Hedley, in King's-road, has for twenty years been reserved and set aside for the purpose of a new church, and X500 had been collected and was in hand, but the scheme has been tentatively deloyed again through the intervention of "My Lords," who for some time have insisted upon more accom- modation at the schools adjoining the existing Church of St. Mary, in Wyndham-crescent, and finally they sent an ultimatum to the rector (Father Cody) that if more accommoda- tion was not immediately provided they would be compelled to stop the grant. That would mean, of course, the extinction of the schools, and to save that Father Cody has put up a temporary iron building for Church purposes on the King's-road site, so that St. Mary's Church, after alteration and adaptation, may be utilised for school purposes. The tem- porary church has accommodation for 400 wor- shippers. is now completed, and will be opened before Christmas. The LSOO in hand has been swallowed up in the temporary venture.

I MR. LLOYD-GEORGE'S SPEECH AT DERBY. r We are requested to state that at the Liberal Conference at Derby Mr. Lloyd-George, in a speech referring to the Liberal party, said:- There was something more than the existence of the Empire. It was that which had given distinction to the Empire, which had made the Empire greater than Empires of the past. It was British. Liberalism." In the necessarily condensed report which appeared the qualifying sentence, "It was that which had given distinction to the Empire, which had made the Empire greater than the Empires of the past," was omitted.

GLAMORGAN WATER SUPPLY. The following appeared in our Extra Edition last night:- Dr. Williams, county medical officer, in the course of his quarterly report, which was con- sidered by the sanitary committee of the Gla- morgan County Council on Friday, referred to the importance of county councils having large powers of supervision and control in respect of the question of water supply in thein areas. He considered it very desirable that a complete report on the water supplies of the county should be prepared. Dr. Morris moved that Dr. Williams be requested to furnish such a report. He thought they should consider whether there ought not to be one very large reservoir which coujd supply all the other reservoirs in the county. The "motion was carried.

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Welsh Ministers. THE SENSATIONAL CHARGES. Committee's Investigation, The meeting between the conunittee appointed by the Congregational Federation of South Wales and the Rev. J. E. Flower took place at the Memorial-hall, Farringdon-street, London, on Friday. The meeting lasted five hours, and the proceedings were strictly private. Those present were the Rev. W. I. Morris, Congregational minister, Pontypridd; the Rev. J. Morgan Jones, Calvinistic Methodist minister, Cardiff; the Rev. E. Edmunds, Swan- sea, secretary to the Welsh Baptist Union; the Rev. Thomas Law, Memorial-hall; Mr. Robert Bird, J.P., Cardiff; Mr. Albert Spicer, J.P., London; Mr. Shepherd, Cardiff; and Mr. Shepheard, L.C.C., London, who acted as arbitrator. On the conclusion of the pro- ceedings the following official statement was issued to the representatives of the press:- The committee had a very lengthy in- ference with the Rev. J. E. Flower, who made a statement of his case, and ultimately agreed to the following:- I did not mean to distinguish between English and Welsh Churches as a whole, nor did I mean to make a general charge against the Churches of Wales, but only in regard to isolated cases, the existence of which I regret. I am sorry I used words which seem capable of the construction placed upon them.' The committee expresses its satisfaction that Mr. Flower has seen it right to adopt this course, and entertains the hope that the Churches in Wales will also accept the explana- tion.—(Signed) Robert Bird, W. Edmunds, J. Morgan Jones, Thomas Law, W. I. Morris, Albert Spioer."

Fatal Skating Accident. Ottawa, Friday.—A skating party from the Government House broke through the ice on I the Ottawa River to-night. Miss Blair, the daughter of the Minister of Railways, and Mr. I Albert Harper, Assistant-Deputy Minister of Labour, who went to the rescue, were both drowned.-Reuter.

COAL, COAL, COAL! ftpt your Coals direct from the collieries. Send for price list to Morris and Lead- beter, Colliery Proprietors and Agents, 28, Fitzatan- road, Cardiff. Nat. Tel.—Cardiff, 1,026; Newport, 277, 254. 254a, 1,523; Post-office, Newport, 561. e9463 At Liverpool Assizes on Friday Joseph Patrick Kenny, a collier, of Tyldesley, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for stabbing his wife about the head and face. The prisoner deserted the woman just before her confine- ment, and was exasperated because she com- mun^cated with the relieving officer.

Transvaal Captures. KITCHENER'S REPORT. British Mobility. END WITHIN VISIBLE DISTANCE. The following has been received from Lord Kitchener — PRETORIA, Thursday (12.10 p.m.). General Bruce Hamilton reports that he made a night march on the 3rd of Decemb-er from Ermelo with a portion of General Spens's and Colonel Rawlinson's columns, following the spoor of the com- mandowhieh had broken to the south- west when the columns moved on Ermelo. Yesterday he completely surprised and captured the laager on Oshoek, taking 93 prisoners and 96 wagons, A portion of the commando encamped at a distance escaped. Hamilton reports that great credit is due to Colonel Wools Sampson, his intelli- gence officer, and the 8th Mounted Infantry, who pushed on with great dash. Colonel Dawkins reports that, working with Colonel Colenbrander in the northern district, he has captured 104 prisoners after an action, in which four Boers were killed; also wagons, stock, &c„ of Badenhorst's commando. Botha's Force" Cordoned." A "Standard" telegram from Pretoria of Thursday statea :—Although numbers of the enemy have broken to the west between the investing columns, the majority of Com- mandant-general Botha's force is still cor- doned. It is hoped that the 100 men secured by General Bruce-Hamilton are the prelude to a. more considerable haul. ity* The Attack on Botha. SANDSPRUIT, November 30. The line of blockhouses (cables Mr. Bennet Burleigh) is progressing rapidly towards Ermelo. The Boers only attempted a feeble sniping yesterday. I joined Colonel 'Spens's column, which crossed the Blesbokspruit to-day. We came on on and occupied Blauwkop, close to the Vaal River. Some skirmishing took place, and our forces managed to get upon the trail oi Britz's, and, possibly, of Louis Botha's commandos, esti- mated at about 800 strong. It is stated that that number, with many vehicles and much stock, retired- hastily in three main lines south-east towards the Elandsberg. Successful New Tactics. The capture of the three lasers, with 250 Boers, is greatly due, says the war correspon- dent of the "Morning Post," to the new tactics of having temporary fixed bases, from which mounted troops make sudden ra,ids. There are evidences that the termination of the war is within a visible distance. Laffan, in a, telegram from Pretoria. received on Friday, attributes the captures in the south-east of Orange Colony to a system of advanced fortified bases, from which mounted troops act unhampered by transport. Captures are made by means of forming forti- fied laagers and making sudden raids and night marches from them. Blockhouse Successes. BLOEMFONTEIN. Thursday. During the last few days parties of Boers have made sever:d unsuccesl:1fnl attempts to cross the railway between Bloemfontein and Heilbron. The enemy, who came from both sides ci the line, were repulsed by the block- houses. three of theifr attempts to break through being frustrated in different places in one night. Colonel Pilcher yesterday captured eight Boers, and Colonel Lean tool, two more pri- soners in the south-east of the Colony.—Press Association War Special. PRETORIA, Friday. A force of Boers made an attempt to cross the railway line a little to the east of Belfast on Tuesday, bnt the enemy was repulsed by the blockhouses and an armoured train, and some of their horses and mules were cap- tured.—Central News. Attack on a Blockhouse. MAFEKING, Tuesday. A blockhouse, six miles north of Ramatbla- barna, "was attached by 150 Boers at dawn on the 28th ult. The enemy were driven off after twenty minutes' brisk firing, and retired to the south-east. The British had three slightly wounded Four Boers were seen to fall.— Reuter. [Ramathlabama is a small place on the railway from Mafeking to Buluwayo, not far north of the former.] The Supply of Horses. Agents for the British Government -have recently placed large orders for horses and mules in the United States. Eight transports, carrying from 10,000 to 15,000 animals, are ready to start. This is the largest number despatched at one time since the war began. Increased shipments are likely to continue for several months to come.-I,affan. The Cape Government is requisitioning on payment 1,070 riding horses from Cape Colony. Owners are prohibited from selling horses except to the Government.—Laffan. Reliefs from India. The 1st Battalion of the Black Watch and the 2nd Battalion of the Essex Regiment sailed from Bombay on Friday on board the trans- port Armenian for South Africa.—Reuter. Gen. Waiter Kitchener. General Walter Kitchener arrived at South- ampton on Friday morning by the Union- Castle liner Norman. British Casualties. The War Office on Friday issued its monthly paper showing the casualties in the South African Field Force during November, and the total casualties reported since the begin- ning of the war up to and including the past month. The figures for the month are as follow: — Killed: Officers, eighteen; non-commissioned officers and men, 143; wounded (not including wounded prisoners), officers, 46; non-commis- sioned officers and men, 389; died of wounds, officers, eight; non-commissioned officers and men, 50; missing and prisoners, officers, six; non-commissioned officers and men, 71; total of killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners, officers, 70; non-commissioned officers and men, 603. Of this total the killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners in the Brakenlaagte engagement amounted to 23 officers and 210 non-commissioned officers and men. The total killed, wounded, missing, and pri- soners 8ince the commencement of the war, including November, is: Officers, 2,459; non- commissioned officers and men, 32,634. During the war 2,612 officers and 60,262 non- commissioned officers and men have been sent home as invalids, and the total reduction of the field force from all causes, including invalids, is 81,750. The net reduction in strength of the British Forces, taking into account those who re-joined the colours, is 23.471. Of this total the deaths in South Africa have been 893 officers, and 17,455 non- commissioned officers and men. Local Casualties. The War Office on Friday night issued the following: Progress Report: 2nd South Wales Borderers.—Lieutenant Hodgson better. December 3.

LORD TWEEDMOUTH AND HIS PARTY Lord Tweedmouth, speaking at the National Liberal Club on Friday night, said the Govern- ment was played out, and that .the country would be better for a change. The time had come to lay aside academic discussions as to the brigin and conduct of the war, and to direct attention to the settlement, which, he considered, could best be brought about by a Liberal Government. Lonely furrow-ploughing must cease. There would be many good horses to enter Lord Rosebery's plough, and many good men to help him on with the har- ness, if his lordship directed the plough in ,the right direction. The mutual boycott of separate sections must cease. They had got to democratise the Liberal party in order to consolidate it. and he held optimistic views as to its being able to rise Sphinxlike out of its trial as beautiful and as useful as ever. The ordinary labouring man was not a Socialist, and he thought the Liberal party could join together with a true Labour party with great and mutual advantage.

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By the Way. Captain W. H. James, Royal Engineers, hal been appointed to the War Office for duty. The King has sent a number of pheasant( shot by the Royal party in Windsor Greal Park this week to the Windsor Royal Infir- mary. Among the passengers by the Union lineP Norman, which arrived at Southampton from the Cape yesterday, was General Walter Kite chener. The court-martial to inquire into the Salmon disaster opens this morning 011 board his Majesty's ship Severn at Harwich. Handel's "Samuel" was capitally rendere-J by the choir of Philadelphia Chapel. Morris- ton, at the Swansea Albert-hall on Thursday! evening. The orchestra alone was weak. Thomas Sanders, a labourer at the Roatb Dock, and living at 120. Cathays-terrace. was treated at Cardiff Infirmary on Friday nighC for a broken shoulder sustained at hie work. He was not detained. Mr. A. Mansel Edwards, of Porth, violinist, has secured the Glamorgan County Council Scholarship, valued at 40 guineas per annum, tenable for two years at any college of music, for the beat performer on any instrument. The Mayor of Swansea on Thursday evening and the Hon. Odo Vivian on Friday evening opened a bazaar and sale of work in aid o.' Kilvay Church, St. Thomas, Swansea, in whicfc parish the Rev. J. G. Matthias is carrying 01 an excellent work. A very successful gathering organised by the teachers of St. James's Church Sunday School, Tredegar, has been held in supporl of the Bishop of Llandaff's Million Shilling Fund. The Rev. T. Theophilus, R.D. (vicar) explained the objects of the fund. It is expected that Major-general Baden Powell will return to South Africa next week, his health having greatly improved during hU rest in this country. Nearly the whole of his time has been devoted to arrangements in connection with the South African Consta- bulary. A marriage has been arranged which will be welcomed by Roman Catholics everywhere, and will take place at the end of January between Miss Clare Vaughan, elder daughter of Colonel Vaughan, of Courtfield, Ross, and Mr. Leonard Lindsay, secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal. The ceremony will take place at Courtfield, and Cardinal Vaughan will officiate. On Friday Arthur Browning, aged Severn teen, of 79, Edmund-street, Leominster, waa admitted into the Cardiff Infirmary suffering from a badly-crushed arm. It appears that he was engaged in fitting up some new machi- nery plant at a works at the Docks, when his arm got caught in the belting of a machine in motion. He was attended to by the housq surgeon, and was detained. The destiny of Cardiff Fish Market is the "talk of the town" just at present. This morning an "Express" representative walked into the sanctum of Mr. Molyneux (the manager) and asked, "When is the market to be closed, Mr. Molyneux?" The expert, whe wore a particularly pleased expression, replied, "We shall close on Sundays, as usual, and on Christmas Day." "The table of the House, which Mr. Disraeli described erroneously as 'a solid piece of furniture,' is in reality," writes Mr. Furniss, "like so many arguments which are flung across it—perfectly hollow; and one evening when the Press Gallery was full I was allowed to sit inside the table. I looked straight into the faces of the Ministers and those on the front Bench, and heard not only every word, but the asides and whispers as well." The Young Scots Society, which was estab. liehed in Edinburgh early in the year, numbers many students of the northern metropolitan university in its ranks. It is now proposed to form a branch in Glasgow, and as the object of the society is the promo. tion of advanced Liberal principles Glasgowl students are interesting themselves in the matter. Addresses have been promised by Mr. Lloyd-George, M.P., Mr. A. Bonar Law, M.P., Mr Dewar, M.P., and Mr. Rowntree. Dr. Rentoul, M.P., speaking at the banquefi of the Royal Temple Yacht Club of London and Ramsgate in the Hotel Cecil, described the speech of the Prince of Wales at the Guildhall as equalling, if not surpassing, any speech liq had ever heard delivered in the Guildhall. He said 'that without the least exaggeration; even though there were present two men whom they considered the typical great orators of the nation-Lord Rosebery and Mr. Chamberlain. They, therefore, had in their coming King a man of extraordinary marS. and extraordinary power. Tenders were opened by the CardifC Uniforms Committee on Friday for clothing for the jmployes in several of the comporation departments. The committee were guided in their selections by Mr. F. H. Jotliam, who acta as honorary expert to the corporation on those occasions. The following tenders were accepted: -Finance, property and marketf. and lighting departments, Mr. Colle, Dnke. street, Cardiff: health and port sanitary, public works, and public carriage departments, Mr. B. H. Yeo, Cathedral-road; waterworks committee, Mr. F. J. Treppe and Sons, West- gate-street. A vote of thanks to Mr. Jothami for. his services was passed. In a few days the Prince and Princess of Wales are to be the guests of Lord and Lady Mount Stephen at Brocket Hall, which lies within three miles of Hatfield. For many years Lord Mount Stephen was a woollen manufacturer in Aberdeen. He emigrated exactly 50 years ago to Canada, where 119 became president of the Canadian Pacifia from its commencement. His title, which ha received in 1891, was taken from British Columbia. Lord Mount Stephen has a seat ini Scotland—Faskally Hoti#e, near Pitlochry. Brocket Hall was built by Sir Matthew Lanitt in the latter part of the eighteenth century. It is a house with a classic history, for under its roof the first Lord Melbourne frequently entertained the Prince Regent, and in it on the 18th of October, 1865, ibMd Palmerston. died. Although the visit of the King and Queen to Ireland is not expected till the middle of April, .extensive preparations in Dublin Castle have already been begun for that event. The King and Queen will reside at the Viceregal Lodge, while the Lord Lieutenant and Countess Cadogan will occupy the State apart- ments in the Castle. The guests of their Excellencies during the Royal visit to Dublin. will be so numerous that many of the rooms in Dublin Castle which have been assigned- to officials for departmental work will be temporarily transformed from offices into bedrooms for the accommodation of the members of the Viceregal Court. whose rooms will be appropriated to the dis- tinguished visitors of their Excellencies who will be attracted to Dublin by the presence of the King and Queen.

Ping Pong Tournament at Cardiff. A ping pong tournament—the first of ita kind in Cardiff—was held at the Lecture-hall, Windsor-place, on Friday evening, in aid of the Blind Institute. The hall was crowded with followers of the pastime. The competi- tors numbered 46, and included fifteen ladies. Several prizes were awarded, the winners being Miss Jones. Miss W. Evans, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. T. W. E. Scott. In addition to the tournament a sketch, entitled "April Pools," was performed by the Dewsbury Trio, and helped to add to the fun of the evening. Ov<» £ 10 was collected m aid instittitMMk