The North Wales Express

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NORTH W AL:S TEACHERS' CONFERENCE. MR. ERNEST GREY, M.P., ON EDUCA- TION IN WALES. The annual meeting of the North Wales District Union of the National Union of Teachers was held at the Public Hall, Wrex- ham, on Saturday, Mr T. Burnell, Criecieth, the new presi- dent, referred., in his opening address, to the death of Mr T. E. Ellis, M.P., whom he de- scribed as a great friend of education in Wales. The teachers' organization had been making rapid strides during the last few years, both nationally and in North Wales. He felt that, as a district union, they could do more in some respects than the National Union could do. He said this without any intention of disparaging the general organ- ization. Alluding to intermediate educa- tion, the chairman said that the system adopted in Wales would stand as a model for England to work upon. It had been sug- gested that the intermediate schools should be u&ed for the first two years by pupil teach- ers, but he would rather see intermediate schools made the place of instruction of the pupil teachers during the whole of their pupil teachership. The difficulty was to get them to the intermediate schools. At best they could be but half-timers. If there was any advantage in the pupil teacher system at all, there was everything in favour of it being thorough-going, and thoroughly equipping the pupil teachers for their work. He did not see why the elementary schools should not be as well fitted out, and as well staffed as the intermediate schools (hear, hear). The children of the working classes were quite as much entitled to a thoroughly good education as those of any other class. I It had been suggested by the Association of Managers and Governors of Schools, for the working classes of the United Kingdom, that "the primary education required for the children of the working classes must, on the whole, cost more in the future than it had done in the past" (hear, hear). While he agreed with that, he felt there was much that passed for education now-a-days that was not worth the money paid for it. A lot of of money was thus spentthat might be better f utilised. He did not begrudge the money j lavished on intermediate education, but more should certainly be forthcoming for the working class schools (applause). I Mr W. Tegarty, in the sixth annual report, said the membership now numbered 495, as against 477 last year. In the course of the report the Council expressed regret that the I efforts to obtain representation for North Wales on the executive of the Union had poved unsuccessful. I A vote of thanks was passed to the secre- tary for his report, which, with that of the treasurer, was adopted. Mr Cadwaladr (Festiniog) was elected vice-president, Mr H. I A. Tilby (Rhyl), treasurer, and Mr Tegarty hon. secretary: t The Mayor of Wrexham (Mr R. William- bon), who was accompanied by Councillor E. Hughes, the Town Clerk (Mr T. Bury), and Mr W. J. Russell (headmaster of the County School), welcomed the conference to the town. In the afternoon, Sir Robert E. Egerton I (chairman of the Wrexham School Board) presided over a well-attended public meet- I ing. In an interesting address he advo- cated the employment of none but trained i teachers, and Government inspection of all j schools. J On the motion of Mr Allen Croft, se- conded by Mr Tilby, the following resolution was adopted "That this meeting consid- ers that the time has now arrived for the adoption by Schools Boards and Voluntary managers of the principle of annual automa- tic increments in the salaries paid to their teachers." Mr Tegarty moved a resolution regretting the action of the Government in withdrawing Articles 37 and 42, the former of which pro- vided that no pupil teacher should be em- ployed in A school in which there were less than two adult teachers. Mr R. Lloyd (Ruthin) seconded, an.d the motion was carried. Mr Ernest Gray, M.P., suggested that Welsh school authorities should obtain the funds necessary for the better equipment of their schools by increasing the attendance to the extent of 15 per cent. In Scotland, the average attendance was 84 per cent., in England nearly 82, in Wales 76, and in Den- bighshire 72. He quoted from a report furn- ished to the Department by Mr L. J. Ro- berts, Her Majesty's Inspector, the words: —"The chief cause, above all others, is the apathy of the parents and the public." In his opinion, one of the causes was that in many cases the local attendanoe authority had jurisdiction over too small an area, and he would prefer to see the enforcement of attendance taken out of the hands of the local authority and transferred to the de- partment, and the attendance officer ap- pointed by the State, and paid out of the local rates. After drawing an unfavourable comparison between the English system and tha,t prevailing in Switzerland, Saxony, and other parts of the Continent, he insisted that more vigorous methods of enforcing attend- ance should be adopted, and asked all to unite in the efforts which were now being made to raise the age of exemption (ap- plause). He next alluded to the careless fashion in which the Welsh schools were staffed-, and asked why the children of Swan- sea,Cardiff,or Wrexham should run the race of life more heavily handicapped than those of Birmingham, Nottingham, and London. In competition, those who had been taught by incompetent teachers were shouldered out by those who had had a better training. One third of the teachers cfWales were cer- tificated, one-third were uncertificated adults and one-third were children. They were building a magnificent superstructure of intermediate and university education en that foundation. Their intermediate edu- cation wts far from realising the aspirations of the Welsh people (hear, hear). In the first place, they had squandered too much on bricks and mortar. Patriotism in Wales had become very largely hamletism. They had gone on building school after school, and to find the scholars they dragged them out of the elementary scheflfey Scholars were received into intermediate schools at too early an age, with thg result that there was overlapping of the work. A large amount of money had been frittered away in scholarships. They did not so jkuch want so many hundred free scholarships, giving simply free education, as a smaller number of living scholarships which would enable the parents to dispense with the earnings of their children until they reached the age of eighteen (applause). Much of the inefficiency and much of the failure in Wales was due to the lack of a strong and solid foundation. Mr L. J. Roberts, in proposing a vote of thanks to the chairman, and also to the speakers, took exception to some of the asser- tions of tke previous speaker, but agreed that the intermediate schools took awav many children from the elementary schools before they were ripe for the step, that the attendance was deplorable, and that the staffing was not what it ought to be. Mr W. J. Russell seconded the vote of thanks, which was carried unanimously, and the proceedings terarinated.

Sunday Trading at Llandudno. PROSECUTIONS UNDER THE HOWS DAY OBSERVANCE ACT. At Llandudno Police Court, on Monday, before Dr Bold Williams and other .justice^ Hector Lithgoe, of Cross Lane, Salford, was charged' with having on Sunday, May 14, worked'at his trade of joiner. Mr S Bell in appeared to prosecute on behalf of the- police, who have recently been instructed' by the Standing Joint Committee- of Car- narvonshire to put into force throughout the county the provisions of the Lord's Day Observance Act. The defendant pleaded guilty, and said he was not aware that he was not allowed to work. In places to which he had been before he had always had to work on the Sunday.—Mr Bellis said the defendant a,nd seven joiners were at work at the London Restaurant, which was being refronted, and the sound of their hammers could be heard distinctly in the street, and even in the place of worship across the way. The defendant said he had arranged to stop at ten o'clock, and as a matter of fact they ceased work before five minutes to ten, when the sergeant came to speak to him.— A fine of a shilling and costs was inflicted. Rowland Williams (Bodvsgallen), Harold Kendrick, and William Healey were sum- moned for selling milk on Sunday, May 21. Mr S. Bellis prosecuted and Mr E. E. Bone defended.—Mr Bellis said the cases were brought under an Act passed in the reign of Charles H., and intituled "An Act for the better observance and keeping holy of the Lord's Day,, commonly called Sunday." It provided that "no tradesman, workman, labourer, or any other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, busi- ness, or work for their ordinary calling upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, works of necessity and charity only excepted." The third section of the Act forbade the cry- ing or selling of miln between 9 a.m and 4 p.m. The defendants were charged under the first. section of the Act with working on the Sunday, by delivering milk.—Mr Bone pointed out that the defeitdants were sum- moned for selling milk.—Mr Bellis: Yes; that is labour. Kendrick was charged with delivering milk at 9.20 in the morning; Row land Williams at ten in the morning, and Healey at a quarter to four in the after- noon. The offences were committed within the times prohibited by the Act. An exa- mination of the summonses revealed the fact that the defendants were charged with sell- ing milk, and not with working, and Mr Bellis then asked for the summonses to be amended.—Mr Bone pointed out that the charge as opened by Mr Bellis was totally different from that he was prepared to meet. It involved an important point to these men in their calling. He was not speaking in any anti-Sabbatarian spirit. Mr Bellis said he wished to go on the first section of the Act .—Mr Bone suggested that the charge wouldi be similar to that in the preceding case, "That the defendants did unlawfully do or exercise certain worldly labour of their ordinary calling." The Ohaimjan said) tthe Bench had -agreed to amend the summons, and the cases would be adjourned to the next court to enable Mr Bone to get up his case.

LOCAL AND GENERAL In the British Army there are said to be about 15,500 Roman Catholics, nearly 12,000 being Irish. By a. great fire in the .Elswick Ordnance Works, Newcastle-on Tyne, on Sunday morning, three of the largest shops were demolished, and damage estimated at £ 200,000 was done. A vast quantity of valuable material was destroyed, including several guns, completed and uncompleted. Two or three thousand men will be thrown out of work. Are nightingales unknown in Wales? A correspondent, in a note of astonishment, assures the "Daily Mail" that they must no longer be regarded as aliens, for the villagers of Llanengan, near Pwllheli, now sit up half the night to drink in th: ravishing strains of one that pipes its song in the woods of the rectorv. A Welsh bull was led into the House of Commons by Mr Bryn Roberts on Thursclay night, and created much confusion. Mr Roberta said, with much severity, "the in- structions to the troops in the Soudan were to kill everybody dead or alive." Even the Speaker slipped behind the chair to laugh. In view of Sir J. T. Brunner's letter to the "Times," in which he disposes once for all of the malicious fiction that the late Mr T. E. Ellis exploited his constituents for his pecuniary advantage, the "Liverpool Mer- cury" makes the pertinent suggestion that "the rector of Flint's next sermon should take the form of a humble apology." The Duke of Devonshire, in opening an exhibition of work, on Friday, at the Im- perial Institute, London, said the old system of apprenticeship was being re- placed by systematic, scientific, artistic, and technical education. In these days there were comparatively few masters and foremen who could spare time for that in- struction which was formerly imparted. A shocking murder was committed early on Friday morning at a house in High street, Swansea. A German seaman, named Henry Pelican, accompanied a woman, named Ellen Waltham to the house, and while there a quarrel took place about some change for a sovereign. The woman attempted-to run upstairs, when Pelican drew a knife and >tabbed her in the stomach'. William King- dca, dock labourer, who occupied the house, came to Walt ham's rescue, whereupon Peli- can attacked Kingdom with the knife, one thrust from which stabbed Kingdom under- neath the heart, causing almost instantan- eous death. Mr xi. Hughes presided on Friday over a meeting of the Conway and Colwyn Bay joint water supply board. Mr T. R. Mawdsley attended to explain an important scheme promoted by Gwalia Limited, f(! the con- struction ef i, reservoir above Dolgarrog and below the Cowlyd Lake for the purpose of storing up water power. It was stated that the ccmpanv had brought up the water cower in tha Porth Clwyd and Dolgarrog streams, and this they proposed to use for various purposes, but chiefly for that of generating electricity. The Board agreed to visit the site of the proposed reservoir and afterwards discuss the proposals made by the company. It is a mistake, according to the "Liver- pool -uercury") to suppose that the entries at the National Eisteddfod for the Welsh novel this year constitute a record. Six- teen compositions make a goodly show, it is true but good as it is it compares badly with the 27 voluminous works which entered for a similar competition at a former Cardiff Eisteddfod now 20 years ago. Consider- able interest will be felt in the present com- petition, however, owing to the fact that the prize ( £ 50) is a larger one than has hitherto been offered, and that for the past dozen years tfc full prize has never been awarded owing to lack of sufficient merit. Although the National Eisteddfod for the present year has not yet been held, arrange- ments are being discussed for the festival of 1901, which, in accordance with the usual rotation, will be held in South Wales. Merthyr desires to have the Eisteddfod for that year, and the local society of Cymmrod- orion are arranging for a strong representa- tion at the meeting of the Gorsedd Commit- tee at Cardiff next month. The National Eisteddfod last visited Merthyr in 1881, and a balance of £ 100 that remained on that oc- casion is still in hand. On Friday the Assessment Committee of the Conway Board of Guardians met in the Guild Hall. The appeal of the London and North Western Railway Company against the assessment of their lines and stations in the union, including Llandudno, Penmaeu- mawr, Conway, Llandudno Junction, and Cohvyn Bay, was heard, and the committee unanimously agreed to uphold the valua- tion of Mr William Marshall, of.London, upon which the assessment had been based, with certain minor corrections. Mr Mar- sna~ gave seme interesting figures as to the valuation of the railways in the union. The present valuation, he said, was R29,852, only slightly higher than that of 1890. At the Conway County Court on Thurs- day Sir Horatio Lloyd h:ad before him a claim by John Henry Wilde, of Llandudno, against the Little Orme's Head Limestone Company Limited, for L7 15s, wages detain- ed and damages for alleged wrongful dismis- sal. The plaintiff contended: that he was dismissed because he declined, in the capa- city of checkweighter, to act unfairly to the quarrymen:, and he admitted having made various allegations in reference to the way in which the quarry was managed. On be- half of the Company it was stated that there was absolutely no truth in the plaintiff a at- tentions. The Judge said theaUegations which) had! been imported into thecase di not really affect the question of dismissal, which was the question he ha j-Zl;ssed held that the plaintiff was not dismissed, and judgment was given for the defend* Company, with costs. Mr Chamberlain has received Sir Milner's report on the conference a „ fontein between himself and Presi ger on affairs in the Transvaal a grievances of the Uitlanders. It is ,.ff that the official account does no materially from that cabled by Reuter III matters cf principle, but that there are var- ious differences in matters of detail, some of which are not unimportant. f tailed report now completed shows tba some of the points raised were strongly de- bated, the result being that Sir Alfred Mii- ner informed President Kruger that he (Sir Alfred) had come to the conference in the hope that he might be able to report to Her Majesty's Government that measures were about to be adopted which would lead to such an improvement in the situation as to relieve Government from pressing for re- dres= cf particular grievances, but he did not feel SM what°he^bad indicated as theextreme length to lhich be might at some future time be willing to go htm ginVere- ■m^Tit "was sufficient to 3 « » men. w eoT1ep At the final meet- porting in that sense. Alfred Milner in- f^m^ PrSdent K^ger that in his view fin effect of what had happened was that, both parties were in statute an e Fro™ was received1 with apparent ^eoncS Kruger was present but remained silent. '-<1-'r It is stated that test matches in the Solent between the "Britannia" and the "Sham- rock" will take place from the 16th to the 20th of next month. The torly Closing Association have re- solved to organise a national testimonial to Sir John Lubbock for his long and untiring work on behalf of shop assistants. Captain Dreyfus is now on the way back to France. He embarked on board the French cruiser "Sfax" at seven on Friday morning, and sailed about the same hour on Saturday morning. The Medical Officer of Health of Llandud- no states that the town is remarkably free from cases of infectious sickness, and that during the month of April last the death rate per 1000 of the residents was remarkably low —namely 6.5. The nomination for South Edinburgh to fill the Parliamentary vacancy caused by the death of Mr Robert Cox, took place on Wednesday, and the polling has been fixed for the 19th inst. Major-General Wauchope is the Unionist, and Mr A. Dewar the Lib- eral candidate. The Rev Professor Blaikie, the biographer of Livingstone, one of the chief promoters of the Pan Presbyterian Alliance, and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of^ the Free Church of Scotland, died at North Berwick on Sunday at the age of 87 years. The result of the plasterers' ballot, which was declared at Westminster on Saturday, shows 4559 votes for acceptance of the terms. arranged at the London conference, and only 368 against. The men will conse- quently return to work immediately the employers have officially withdrawn the lockout notices. In the House of Commons, on Friday night on the vote of zE4,482 to complete the sum for the Foreign Office, Sir Charles Dilke, strongly criticised the Chinese policy of the Government, and the fashion in which the Waima incident had been allowed to rest. Lord C. Beresford, Conservative, said the Government had uad two policies-the open door and spheres of influence; but what they had really been doing was nothing at all. They had been deceiving the country. At a meeting of the committee. of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at Lon- don last week, Commander T. H.Willoughby, R.N., the inspector of the Western District, was suspended, pending inquiry into the statements which had appeared in the public press that he had been fined for travelling on the London and North Western without a ticket. The total area of cultivated land in Wales continues to decrease year by year. Com- paring the years 1898 and ib97, corn crops have declined from 402,257 acres to 379,448 green crops from 117,369 to 115,024, and permanent pasture .from 1,930,332 to 1,923,829, Cloversainfoin, and grasses under votation have increased from 374,038 to 380,558. The total acreage under crops and grass in Wales has fallen from 2,833,190 to 2,826,774. Mr Daniel Phillips presided on Friday at the meeting of the Conway Rural District Council, held at the Guild Hall, Conway. The Council resolved to apply to the Local Government Board to send down an in- spector for the purpose of holding an in- quiry for the purpose of deciding whether the Cowlyd Water Board could not be com- pelled to supply the whole of the parishes of Llysfaen and Glan Conway. The annual report ot the churches of the North Carnarvonshire (Arvon) Congrega- tional Union, which has been compiled by the Statistical Secretary (the Rev R. Peris Williams), contains the following figures:- Chapels and preaching stations, 63; minis- ters with pastoral charges, 33; ministclrs without pastoral charges, 7; communicants, 7585 Sunday scholars, 7412; deacons, 311 I listening and children, 5970; number of church members that died during the year, 119; total of the congregations, 13,555; seating accommodation in the chapels for 24,575; manses and chapel houses, 51 church collections during the year, L10,838 3s 5d; amount of chapel debts paid during the year, zC-9078 12s Id; the present debt upon chapel buildings, &c., £ 21,196 8s 2d; total collections, E12,911 15s 6d value of 2 the property of the denomination in the In the House of Lords on Thursday, Lord Salisbury, after briefly referring to the honour which her Majesty had conferred on Lord Kitchener in recognition of his great achievements, moved "That the House will be ready to concur with the other House of Parliament in making provision for the dignity thus conferred, in accordance with the terms of her Majesty's gracious mes- sage." The Earl of Kimberley, while cor- dially concurring in the motion, alluded to the feeling which had been excited by the manner in which the body of the Mahdi was disposed of, and said he thought it was mat- ter for some regret that the way in which the remains were treated was not in con- sonance with the feelings of the people of this country with regard to the disposal of the dead. Lord Salisbury replied that he believed Lord Kitchener did what he thought was necessary for destroying a painful sup- erstition, and in that object, at least, all could agree; and he did not think Lord Kit- chener could be blamed if he was thinking at the time, as he was bound to think, of the opinions of the vast population which surrounded him, and forgot for the moment what might be the opinion of the people of London. The motion was agreed to. Lord Rosebery opened a church-house at Epsom on Thursday afternoon. In reply- ing to a vote of thanks, his lordship ob- served that his speeches lately had-led to controversy, and he had been asked by Mr Balfour and Mr Morley to explain what he meant by saying that he wished to obliterate the last thirteen years, and return to the condition of things which prevailed in 1886. His explanation was that it was not in the main a. political reason, but that it meant that he would then be thirteen years younger Touching upon ecclesiastical affairs, he said in considering questions of ritual, they were apt to forget the essentials. They often saw in Epsom tramps and vagabonds, the helpless and the hopeless, the moral cripples of the nation. Here was work for the Church; if she was to vendicate her claim to be the true Church, she muste look afttr the benighted and the poverty-stricken, she must mould the nation, leaven the nation, raise the nation, or history would record ber to have been a failure. It is stated that a demand for immense qpantities of Welsh flannel exists in Lon- don and other large towns, but that the Welsh weavers will not move a finger to sup- ply it. They prefer to let English manu- facturers delude customers with a spurious imitation of Welsh flannel. An enormous quantity of "Welsh" flannel is bought in England, and it would be curious to discover where it is made. Much of it is manufac- tured in Rochdale, and when London flan- nel dealers speak of "Welsh" flannel they always think of a certain manufacture for which the Lancashire town has acquired, it appears, quite a notoriety in the trade. This Rochdale "Welsh" flannel is made from the refuse of the coarsest English wool, mixed with what is called "waste and noils." Sev- era lof these dealers lately stated on oath before a judge and jury that the manufac- ture of pure Welsh flannel from real Welsh wool in Wales was very little carried on at the present day, and a few of them who knew of the existence of pureW elsh flannel asserted that there were not three factories in Wales that could turn out 15,000 yards of, flannel in a year. Baron Christiani, who assaulted President Loubet at Auteuil, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Colonel Picquart has now been finally re- leased, it being decided that there is no charge against him. The Rev Towyn Jones has left Wales for a short sojourn in the South of France. It is gratifying to learn that the rev gentleman continues to make excellent progress to- wards recovery. The subscriptions towards his testimonial are still flowing in, and the total is now somewhere about JE350. A young Blackburn farmer, named Jack Richmond on Tuesday accomplished for a bet of £ 85 the feat of running all the way from Blackburn to Blackpool, a distance of thirty-one miles. The distance was accomplished in five hours and twenty minutes. Miss Eluned Morgan, the daughter of the Bonwr Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, has been ap- pointed to succeed the late Rev A. Matthews as editor of the 'Dravod," the weekly journal of the colony. Mr Mendelssohn Parry is at present at Danville, Pa., and from a letter by him which appears in the American papers, the "dates" for the forthcoming visit of the Dr Joseph Parry Concert and Operatic Tour to the United Staes are being taken up "eagerly and rapidly." In the Mathematical Tripos list published at Cambridge on Tuesday, Messrs G. Birt- wistle, of Pembroke, and R. P. Paranjpye, of St. John's, are bracketed equal for the Senior Wranglership. Mr Paranjpye is a Hindoo, who gained the Government of India Scholarship at Bombay in 1896. A tornado has caused widespread havoc and great loss of life in the States of Wis- consin and Minnesota. A number of towns suffered severely. The total number of fatalities is net known, but the number killed in the town of New Richmond alone is estimated at 200 and the injured at 1000. The tornado was followed by a terrific down- pour of rain. Dr Lawson Tait, the eminent specialist, who was recognised as the pioneer cf abdo- minal surgery, died at Llandudno on Tues- day, aged 54. He had been surgeon to the Birmingham Hospital for Women since lo71, and was prominently identi- fied in that city with the municipal and sanitary improvements inaugurated by Mr Chamberlain. The French Ministty were on Monday defeated in the Chamber of Deputies, on a resolution in connection with' the conduct of the police during the occurrences of Sunday, by 321 to 173 votes. The Premier and the other ministers thereupon left the Chamber, and M. Dupuy afterwards pro- ceeded to the Elysee, and placed in the Pre- sident's hands the resignations of himself and his colleagues. On Saturday, in the Court of Appeal, con- sisting cf Lords Justices A. L. Smith, Rigby, and Vaugh'an Williams, the case which was tried at Carnarvon before Mr Justice Dar- ling and a special jury was mentioned. The plaintiffs had entered an appeal from the decision of the court below, and the proba- bility was that it would be in the list for -Monday. Mr Williams applied that the appeal might stand over for a time for the convenience of Mr Marshall, Q.C., who had been retained in the case', but who was at present in a remote part of the country with a relative who was dangerously ill. The ap- plication was granted. Miss Emily Jones, Church street, Wrex- ham, met with a serious accident on Satur- day night. She, with fjfhe Misses Palm, daughters of Dr. Palin, Wrexham, was cycling round a sharp corner at. King's Mills, near Wrexham, when she collided with a gentleman cyclist. Miss Jones was first conveyed to King's Mills public house, and afterwards taken home, where she was me- dically attended to. It was found that the young lady, who was unconscious for a long time, had fractured her collar-bone in two places. A contemporary says —A movement has been started to establish a Welsh or Cymric chair at Marietta College, Ohio, to offer instruction in Welsh or Cymric history, language, literature, and kindred subjects, conduct original research into the influence of Welsh or Cymric'thought, culture, and achievements upon civilisation, to study the ethnolngy and archaeology of the race, ana to collect and preserve Welsh or Cymric music literature, and art. It is proposed to endow the chair with a minimum sum of 50,000 dollars, and of this amount 30,000 dollars, have already been provided. It is intended, df possible, to secure a Welshman as the first occupant of the chair. The question of free speech was again under discussion at a meeting on Monday of the Rhyl Urban District Council. Deputa- tions had waited upon Mr S. Smith, M.P., and Mr Lloyd'-George, M.P., with the view arranging a compromise. It was suggest- ed that the Council should agree to define a certain portion of the sands as being free for the holding of meetings; but on Monday the Council declined to limit its authority. and decided to send a deputation to London to defend the claim of the Council to have the full control of the foreshore. It was explained that in taking this course the Council had no wish to prohibit meetings of a reasonable character, but merely desir- ed to retain the discretion contemplated in the Provisional Order.

NATURE'S SWEET RESTORER. Who can describe the terrible condition of the man whose sleep is broken and irre- gular, or worse still, who oannot sleep at all? How all the bodily powers fai! How all pleasure in life has vanished! How life becomes a burden! Terrible indeed is the condition of the man who cannot sleep! He would give all he possessed to be able once more to enjoy that "Balmy sleep! nature's sweet restorer!" And he can get it. Gwilym Evans' Quinine Bitters, The Vege- .9 table Tonic, has been tried and proved to be the best tonic ever discovered! It strengthens the digestion, -purifies the blood, braces the nerves, and gives tone to the whole system. Read the following testimo nial: Pyle, Glanmorganshire. Dear Sir.—When I re- turned h6me a short time ago, after several weeks' hard work, I felt utterly exhausted and in need of a good tonic. I was recom- mended to try GWILYM EVANS' BIT- TERS. I did so, and am astonished at the result, for I find it invigorates the system tnd enlivens the spirits—in fact, it is making a new man of me. I am, Sir, truly yours GURNOS JONES. If your occupation is an unhealthy one, if you are exposed to the weather, or work long hours in close rooms; if your constitu- tion is weakened, or your health under- mined or if you are in any way not "up to the mark," use Gwilym Evans' Quinine Bitters. It never fails to strengthen the weakened system, to brace the nerves and fortify the constitution. Sold in 2s 9d and 4s 6d bottles See the name "GWILYM EVANS" on Stamp, Label, and Bottle, as there are numerous imitations. ( PROPRIETORS QUININE BITTERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED. XXANELLY, SOUTH WALES.

University College of North Wales. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. The eighth lanual report on the experi- ments conducted by the agricultural defpart- ment of this College with crops and live stock in five Nort h Wales counties during the past ychr has just been issued. The ex- tr^are^ ?ith in much detail in ? shouJd Prove extremly useful to agriculturists. The effects of different Manured on various crops are fully shown aud^compared. A copy of he report BrntrorV ?1!. by Professor Winter, Norfh Wales g€ aJI aPPlicants ^om

THE CLOSING CEREMONY. The closing ceremony of session 1898-9 11 be held at the College! on Thursday next, w en an address will be delivered1 by Mr J. m o?' B-A. Lecturer on Education, on i. 1 andl the State." It is hoped that the President of the College (Mr W. Rath- bone) will preside. Following the closing ceremony, a garden party, given by the President and the, Principal, will be held in the College grounds.

The Proposed Light Railway i for Anglesey At a special meeting of the Dwyran Dis- trict Council, on Saturday, to further con- sider the proposed light railway for the dis- trict, a letter was read from Mr Ellis Grif- fith, M.P., stating that hd would be pleased to give the project every support. The Clerk (Mr J. H. Thomas) was instructed to write Mr Griffith thanking him for his letter, and adding that possibly his services would be needed at a future date. The Carnarvon Corporation wrote stating that they would be glad to co-operate* with the District Coun- cil in the matter provided a scheme could be devised that would improve the traffic bEL. tween Carnarvon and Anglesey. It was re- solved to reply that the scheme was not yet sufficiently matured to need the co-opera- tion of the Town Council.

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