Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

NORTH WALES DIARY. Care is taken to make the Diary as complete and accurate as our information will admit: but we do not guarantee its completeness or accuracy, nor do we hold our selves responsible for any errors it may contain. MAY. SATURDAY 9. High Water at Carnarvon: 10.11 m., 10.31 e. Pay day: Llechwedd, Diphwys and Graigddu (Festiniog), Llanaelhaiarn Sett Quarry, Port Nant Sett Quarry, Talysarn. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon, Bala, Bettwsycoed Board of Guardians: Carnarvon. Highway Board Bala. Fair: Bontnewydd (hiring). SUNDAY 10. High Water at Carnarvon: 10.50 m., 11.10 e. MONDAY 11. High Water at Carnarvon 11.30 m., 11.50 e. Petty Sessions: Caersws, Wrexham, Car- narvon. Local Board: Holywell. School Board: Llanrwst. Fairs: Eglwysbacb, Dolgelley. TUESDAY 12. High Water at Carnarvon: 12.10 e. School Boards: Llangollen, Towyn and Aber- dovey. Local Board Colwyn Bay. Fairs: Denbigh, Clynnog, Trefriw. WEDNESDAY 13. High Water at Carnarvon: 12.31 m., 12.53 e. Boards of Guardians: Forden, Machynlleth. Local Boards Mold, Holyhead. Fairs: Denbigh, Llanfechell, Pwllheli. THURSDAY 14. High Water at Carnarvon 1.16 m., 1.40 e. Board of Guardians: Llanfyllin." Fairs: Penmorfa, Bala. FRIDAY 15. High Water at Carnarvon 2.9 m., 2.41 e. Board of G uardians: Bangor. Fairs: Bettws, Carnarvon, Conway, Sarn- feillteyrn. SATURDAY 16. High Water at Carnarvon: 3.16 m., 3.56 e. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon. Board of Guardians: Bala. Fair: Menai Bridge. SUNDAY 17. High Water at Carnarvon: 4.39 m., 5.19 e. MONDAY 18. High Water at Carnarvon: 5.53 m., 6.24 e. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon, Llanrwst, Wrex- ham. Local Boards: Dolgelley, Abergele. Cricket Match: Llangefni (Carnarvon v. Llan- gefni). Fairs: Bettwsycoed, Rhos. TUESDAY 19. High Water at Carnarvon: 7.52 m, 7.16 e. Petty Sessions: Llandudno. Fairs Bodedern (hiring), Llanrwst. WEDNESDAY 20. High Water at Carnarvon: 7.36 m., 7.56 e. Board of Guardians: Caersws. Board of Commissioners: Llandudno. THURSDAY 21. High Water at Carnarvon: 8.14 m., 8.32 e. Cricket Match Carnarvon (Carnarvon College v. Carnarvon). Fair: Penygroes. FRIDAY 22. High Water at Carnarvon 8.47 m., 9.5 e. Pay Day Llanberis. Board 0" Guardians: Corwen* Fairs Nevin, Pwllheli. SATURDAY 23. High Water at Carnarvon: 9.22 m., 9.39e. Pay Day Votty and Bowydd, Llanaelhaiarn SetL Quarries, Port Nant Sett Quarries, Board of Guardians Curnarvon. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon. Fair: Criccieth. SUNDAY 24. IiiI: Water at Carnarvon 9.5G m., 10.12 e. MONDAY 2.). High at Carnarvor.: 10.30 m., 10.49 e. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon, Cerigydruidion, Wrexham. TUESDAY 26. 1-figh Water at Carnarvon: 11.8 m., 11.47 e. Petty Se.-sion.-i: Llangollen. Fair: O^rwys. Town CoM-CC:is Wrexham, Llanfyllin. WEDNESDAY 27. High Water at Carnarvon 11.48 m. Boards of Guardians: Forden, Machynlleth, THURSDAY 28. High Water at Carnarvon 12.11 m., 12.33 e. Board of Guardians Llanfyllin. < Cricket Matcii: Bangor (Carnarvon v. Bingor). FRIDAY 29. 11 High Water at Carnarvon: 12.58 m., 1.27 e. Pay Day: Bethesda, Dorothea, Cilgwyn. 1 Board of Guardians: Bangor. Petty Sessions: Corwen. Fair: Holywell. SATURDAY 30. High Water at Carnarvon: 1.58 m., 2.32 e. Pay Day: Oakeley. Bwlch Slaters, Rhosydd, Cwtybugail, New Welsh Slate, Wrysgan, Rhiw- goch, Maenofferen. Local Board: Festiniog. School Board: Festiniog. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon. SUNDAY 31. High Water st Carnarvon: 3.9 ro., 3.48 e. JUNE. MONDAY 1. High Water at Carnarvon 4.28 m., 5.8 e. Petty Sessions: Carnarvon, Wrexham, St. Asaph, Conway, Llanrwst. Local Board: Dolgelley. Fair: Dolgelley. TUESDAY 2. High Water at Carnarvon: 5.6 m., 6.18 e. Town Councils Carnarvon, Beaumaris. Harbour Trust: Carnarvon. Petty Sessions: Llanfyllin. School Board: Mold. Board of Guardians Holyhead. Local Boards Bala, Penmaenmawr. Fair: Ruthin. WEDNESDAY 3. High Water at Carnarvon: 6.48 m., 7.14 e. Town Councils: Bangor. Conway. Petty Sessions: Machynlleth, Flint. Highway Board: Mold. Board of Guardians: Caersws.] Fairs: Bala, Mold, THURSDAY 4. High Water at Carnarvon 7.39 m., 8.4 e. Local Board: Llangollen. Cricket Match Llaugoed (Carnarvon v. Llan- goed). School Boards Barmouth, Dolgelley. FRIDAY 5. High Water at Carnarvon: 8.26 m., 8.48 e. Boards of Guardians Corwen, Conway. Petty Sessions: Towyn. Local Board: Newtown.

jpiURNISHING SEASON, 1891. HUGH WILLIAMS, CABINET MAKER AND COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHER, CARNARVON, Begs to announce that his EXTENSIVE SHOW ROOMS have just been replenished with an enormous NEW STOCK of the most approved and varied Designs for the Season." 00- LARGEST & MOS7 CHOICE SELECTIONS W, EVER SEEN IN NORTH WALES OF W DINING, DRAWING & BEDROOM FURNITURE, BEDDING, CARPETS, LINOLEUMS, PAPURHANGINGS, ø" TOILET WAlE, AND w EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSEHOLE EFFECTS. &iF Parties Furnishng will find it to their advantage to inspect tie Stock before purchasing. Prices and Quality caniot be beaten anywhere, ALL GOODS CARRIAGE PAID. c516901

TO CORRESPONDENTS. I A SUBSCRIBER, (Dolwjddelen).—The matter had better be dealt with locally.

tUbi9h FRIDAY, SIAY 8TH, 1891. — ■ ♦ THE COUNTY COUNCILS- Ou-n reports of the quarterly meetings of Welsh County Councils furnish ample proofs of the continued vigour which marks the administration 0: local affairs owing to the infusion of new and democratic blood into the local governing bodies. So ex- uberant, indeed, are the energies of the County Councils, that there is an almost irrepressible disposition amongst the members, not only to discharge their proper functions as successors to the Court of Quarter Sessions, tut also to set everybody and everything light, including school boards, boards cf guardians, licensing justices, railway companies, the Board of Trade, and even tie Imperial Parliament. There is no particular harm in many of the attempts mide by the Councils to intermeddle with natters which at present are outside their sphere of action. But if they desire to see their functions enlarged —and a judicious enlargement of them is much to be desired ror many reasons-they might profitably reject that the servant in the parable who was faithful over a few things was made riler over many things whilst he who neglected to make proper use of the little that had been entrusted to him was deprived even of that little. In Denbighshire, the disposition to survey mankind from China to Peru" has been checked and, on the whole, the Council devotes its energies to business with commendable concentration. Precious time was, however, wasted over a paltry squabble between the Council and the Denbigh Corporation with reference to the hall at Denbigh. The whole dispute arises out of petty sectarian and partisan jealousy; and it reflects but little credit on the two bodies concerned that they should be unable lto agree upon a code of rules as to the etting of the hall for public gatherings of every description, excepting only such as the hall is structurally unfit for. At the same time, it is a matter for congratulation that Air LTJMLEY and Mr ISGOED JONES were able to induce the County Council to patch up a temporary peace. In the Carnarvonstire Council, what attracted most atrentior. was a speech by Alderman JOHN" DAYIE* with reference to the scheme of the Joiiat Education Com- mittee. With all dus respect to Mr DAVTES. we venture to think that, VIP attacked one of the strongest points of the scheme. We feel convinced that the feeling of the country is in favour of establishing as many sclools as the funds will allow. The scleme proposes to postpone the establishment of the smaller schools until the degree of support given to the larger schools shall have been ascertained. This is £ prudent proviso, which we think ought to satisfy both those who plead for many small schools and those who cry for a few large ones. To Carnar- vonshire people, the statement of Mr DAKBISHIIIK that the county is leading the whole civilised world in the matter of agricultural education wil be very gratify- ing but it is to be feared that the statement belongs to the realm of the ideal rather than to the actual word. I Anglesey people, atanv rate, may claim that their representatives have voted nearly as large a sun in proportion to the population t'wads promoting agricultural instructim in the island. The members show ther zeal on behalf of education—though we are afraid that their zeal in this particular lase is not according to wisdom—by pushing forward the em- ployment of policemen as school attendance officers. This, by the way, is a matter tor the Police Committee and the School Boards and not for the Council; and perhaps it is not astonishing that the Council should make mistakes when trying to deal with matters outside its control. The same re- mark applies to the attempts of the Council to fetter the discretion of the licensing justices. We believe heartily in Local Option; but until the new system shall have been established. the justices are in duty bound to exer- cise a judicial discretion in licensing matters, uninfluenced by the resolutions of public bodies elected to deal with other affairs. The provision of county buildings is a matter well within the scope of the Council's powers and WL doubt not that after a little more discussion, it will be decided to erect a County Hall on a central and accessible site. The Merioneth County Council discussed a great variety of subjects, such as mixed trains, the eight hours question, Sharp v. Wakefield, the rateable qualification of guardians, reform of the jury system, &c. Many of these subjects are of great interest, and they were ably discussed. Moreover, the proper business of the Council was placed first on the agenda and transacted before pro- ceeding to the abstract resolutions. But it is impossible to deny that the consideration of such matters by the County Councils is a grievance respecting which debating societies have a right to complain.

IT is said that Dr Jones Morris, of Portmadoc, has been selected as the Unionist candidate for South Carnarvonshire, in opposition to Mr Bryn Roberts. But to invite is one thing to comply is quite another. Hotspur was as great as Glendower at calling spirits from the vasty deep; but would they come? Mr Marchant Williams was asked to stand for :the Carnarvon Boroughs in the Unionist interest, and he came and saw, and then-went back to London. Mr Rice Roberts has frequently been requested to champion the same cause in Anglesey but Mr Roberts knows a thing or two," and Anglesey Unionists are still without a candidate. Lord Penrhyn's eldest son was selected tC oppose Mr Rathbone in the Arvon Division; but nothing came of the selection. Is it presumed that Dr Jones Morris, of Portmadoc, is either less alive to difficulties or more sanguine of success in leading even a forlorn hope ? We trow not. This last piece of electioneering intelligence need not disturb Mr Bryn Robarts in the least degree, if true but we have very good grounds for believing that the report is altogether un- authorised.

FOR Wales, the political duty of the hour, as we have had occasion frequently to point out, is to secure the English working classes in support of her claim for Disestablishment. And she will succeed before long. Public opinion over the borders is rapidly changing to the side of Welsh Dissenters. Many thanks to Lord Salis- bury for the powerful help he has lent the present agitation by his new Tithe Act. This is what the Labour World says of recent anti- tithe proceedings in Cardiganshire An auctioneer covered from. head to foot with rotten eggs, and consequently emitting an unpleasant odour of hydrosulpburic acid, has been the chief spectacle of the week in the county of Cardigan. A singular comment on Lord Salisbury's Tithe Act, under which farmers and parsons were to live happy ever after. So long as the Welsh have to pay tithe to a clergy they detest, malodorous auctioneers are not unlikely to be found wandering over the roads and mountains uf tile rrincipaiiiy. Tiig remedy is obvious. Disestablish the Church and apply the tithes to such public objects as the people of Wales approve."

THE Rev Dr Charles Edwards has just resigned the Principalship of the University College of Wales (Aberystwyth) deeply to the regret of all concerned in that hitherto very successful insti- tution, We are not surprised at the step now taken, Ever since the death of his revered father, the Calvinistic Methodists have looked to Principal Edwards as the successor par excellence at Bala. This feeling has grown steadily and strongly meanwhile, so that there is now quite a consensus of opinion among the religious body of which Dr Charles Edwards i& so distinguished a member that he would better serve his country and countrymen at BaJa than at Aberystwyth. Whether the Council of the University College will be able to induce the Principal to recon- sider his decision remains to be seen. Rumour, however, has it that he has finally made up his mind to accept the 'pressing and unanimous call to occupy the chair so long held by the late Dr Lewis Edwards with national distinction, and in which he was of such signal service, not only to his own denomination in particular, but to his country generally. Although the loss to the University College, where Dr Charles Edwards will leave a glorious record behind him, will certainly be one not easily made good, great indeed, we believe, will be the advantages con- ferred upon Wales to have him at the head of a theological college which may before long develop into another Mansfield. The sudden illness of Principal Edwards, at Llanidloes, is, we trust, not very serious, and the public will heartily wish him a speedy restoration to his usual good health. In the meantime, the names of Mr Owen M. Edwards, of Oxford, and Pro- fessor Angus, of Aberystwyth, are mentioned in connection with the vacant Principalship, should Dr Charles Edwards decide not to recall his resignation.

SIR GEORGE TUKVKLYAN delivered a stirring speech on Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Liberation Society. He has long since fully grasped tha chief political situation amongst Welshmen, and was one of the earliest of Liberal leaders to acknowledge and encourage the pre- eminent claims of the Principality to be rid of the State Church that has drawn so long and so heavily upon its resources. The old taunt, once so familiar to our ears, that the Disestablishment agitation in Wales was all owing to the persistent interference of Dissenting ministers, is but seldom heard nowadays. When it comes it is almost sure to be from some English cleric or English member of Parliament whose arguments I for the retention of the Church in Wales smack very much of ancient history. That the cry of ministerial interference is thus almost exclusively confined to outsiders is doubtless due to the fact that Welsh clergymen-bishops, dean-, and downwards, have taken a leaf from their opponents' book, and are themselves quite as interfering on the other side, just as opportunity affords and according to the lights given them. That State-churchmen should decry interference on the part of State-church opponents is pretty much like the proverbial pan culling the kettle black. Sir George Trevelyan, however, strikes the nttil on the head when he tells us that these We'sh Dissenting ministers are but doing that which it is their bounden duty to do. "It is said," he remarked, that if people only left alone the Church in Wales for another genera- tion, they would kill out Di.-sent in the Princi- pality. The Nonconformist ministers of Wales are political warriors, and why should they not be. when they are fighting for the life of the churches, which are as dear to them as their own. All the religious endowments of the country and the prestige of State connection, not in Wales only, are conferred on one religious body in order that it might be able to extinguish all the others, and as long as that is ) the case then political action on the part of the I churches that are threatened becomes not only j a necessity and an obligation, but [an absolutely { religious duty." Mr S. T. Evans, the member i for Mid-Glamorganshire, was another speaker at the same meeting, and was trenchant, as usual, in his exposure of the anomalies created by the existence in Wales of a church that had been, and now was, strongly against the current of the feeling of nationality."

TOWN AND COUNTRY NOTLS. LADY FLORENCE DIXIE replies in the Scottish Leader to a letter by Mr Samuel Smith on the voting franchise for women. It is a vigorously expressed epistle, extending to a column and a third, and she opens it somewhat saucily in this lashion: The guidance of public opinion is what Mr Smith believes himself born into the world for-what a pity! Mr Smith has come too late. He should have been born 200 years ago." In another passage she says, But we women, married, unmarried or widowed, claim our liberty on a higher and a nobler ground-that of natural right. We are human beings, not machines. We are unrepresented, and therefore cannot compel reform. We know that at any time retrogressive legislation may take from us the sops ot freedom which after years of toil we have won; but we know that once we are enfranchised, that natural right cannot be torn from us. We claim it as a lasting security for our liberties." TV ho are the masters ? A London correspon- dent, writing on Monday, observes:—Yesterday, about 1 p.m., Rotten-row and Hyde Park-corner were thronged with a crowd of the aristocracy, who had come out for church parade." Every article of their apparel was of too dainty a nature and too perfect a fit to allow the wearer to indulge in any species of labour. And it would be doing the gay throng an injustice to suppose that any of them would for a moment suppose that the words By the sweat of thy ibrow," Sec., bore the slightest reference to them. About 3 p.m., the park was filled with another throng. The sons of toil" had assembled in their thousands and tens of thousands," nearly all classes of artisans being represented—the Government workmen, from Woolwich, alias the "Woolwich infants," the well dressed amalgamated tailors," the railway men, and the river men, and ever the miserable looking refugees from the East End. These are dregs of every nationality of Europe. A miserable lot driven by persecution to the one country that opens its ports to them. The immense procession took nearly an hour and a half to pass. Twelve platforms had been arranged. N o. 6 platform was most popular; as it was there their tribune," John Burns, was to speak. The object of the gathering was to endeavour to get Parliament to pass a law limiting the working day to eight hours. The workmen of nearly every nation have adopted the programme. The gathering passed off quietly; and as I returned home, I could not help thinking of the two throngs, and wonder who really are the masters. The Spectator observes:—No popular writer in England would venture to depict a person such as Captain Verney while.the most daring of French or Russian analysts of secret crime would have hesitated before the surprise involved in Mr Hurlbert's successful ,defence-that he once had in his service a secre- tary who personated him through months of evil adventure, wrote a hundred and fifty letters in a handwriting exactly like his employer's, and then vanished into the impenetrable cloudland of the United States. No such stories are to be found in print, and however much we may regret it, it is impossible to be surprised at the interest they excite, or to hope that, for good or evil, the next story-and they crop up as if the demand helped to produce the supply-will not be similarly devoured. It will be, we way rely on it, for mankind will study mankind to the end of time, and those whose lives are lived within limits will feel the interest of astonish- ment, or horror, or curiosity as to the lives of those who in any way-usually it is a fright- fully bad way, but not quite always-have stepped, or rushed, or fallen, outside the lines. The Pall Mall Gazette observes :-One of the most painful things about the charge to which Captain Verney has now pleaded guilty is that he was a man whose character stood very high and whose professions were very exalted. One of the very last occasions on which he addressed the House was the debate on the Slander Law Amendment Bill of last year. This was a bill to make it an actionable offence to impute un- chastity to a woman. The bill passed its second reading by general consent almost without dis- cussion. But Captain Verney moved an amend- ment to insert the word person" instead of the word woman." It is a very serious thing, he said, that it should be on the Statute-book that the law of England recognises that it is not an offence to charge one sex with unchastity." Mr Gully and Mr Kelly opposed the amendment as unnecessary, the latter pointing out that to a man an imputation of unchastity was generally a trifling matter, sometimes even regarded as a compliment, while to a woman it was a most seiious matter. But Captain Verney would hear of no such 11 man of the world views. The Criminal Law Amendment Art was passed in 1883 and Capten Verney, in his charge to the grand jury at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for Anglesey, made some observations, which are not devoid of piquancy at present, when it is remembered that some months previously he had taken a house at Kennington, for a particular purpose. He directed the attention of the county, through the grand jury, to the Criminal Law Amendment Act passed last session, according to which offences that pre- viously had ;been rather leniently dealt with, should in jfuture be severely punished. There were two points in that Act to which he desired to draw public attention. One was that the age of consent had been raised from 13 to 16, that in cases were unlawful intercource had taken place between a man and a girl under 16, the ex- cuse of the man that the girl gave her consent would not be consider, and the man would be liable to be severely punished. Another point was that heavy penalties were attaced to the use of any building, or any part of a building, for any immoral purposes and that not only the tenant of such a building, but also the owner of the building, who might live hundreds of miles away, if he was cognizant of the fact that the building was used for immoral purposes, was liable to severe punishment. It therefore behoved all who had cottage or house property to be perfectly certain that tint property was not improperly used.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT. Several reports and articles are unavoidably held over this week.

Mr J. Paton, of 29,Newry-street, Holyhead,has patented improvements in cycles and in spring candlesticks.

The last number of Black and White contains an excellent reproduction of Mr Phil Mirris's portrait of Miss Eiiis-Nanney, now exhibiting at the Royal Academy.

Yn y rhifyn nesaf o'r Herald Cymraeg Llechreuir cyhoeddi nofel tiewydd, jzait ysgrifen- ydd -NI.ereli Simon y Saer," o dan y toitl:- Pwy ? neu, Trech Arfaeth na Bwriad."

It is gratify!ag to know that Mr T. E. E!list M.P., who has just returned home frcai South Africa, is much improved in health. He attended Africa, is much improved in health. lie attended at the House of Commons on Monday.

Sir John Puleston has become a subscriber of Li Is towards the Sailor's Rest, Pwllheli, through Mr Thomas, who started and worked up the institution to its present state of usefulness.

At the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, a widow named Sarah Jane Walker, recovered £75 damages for breach of promise of marriage from Robert Owen, ship-broker, Water-street, Liver- pool.

The report of the North Denbighshire Building Society shows a considerable improvement on those of the last four years. The membership numbers 8087, being an increase of 110 during the year.

A South Wales correspondent learns on reli- able authority" that the Queen will visit Merion- shire during the summer, and that Mr Oakeley, of Tanybwlch Hall, will place his mansion at the service of her Majesty.

¡; We are authoritatively informed that there is no truth in the statement that the Rev Eynon Davies, pastor of Finsbury Park Chapel, has been offered the pastorate of the largest Congrega- tional Church in Scotland, as successor to Dr Goodrich, Glasgow,

The reputation of Lake Vyrnwy is being made by two ladies. Ten brace of trout to a rod is not at ail unusual. The lake was opened at the latter end of March, and on the 23rd inst. the record showed 1040 fish, weighing 94,2721bs; The ladies did not catch all this amount.

Among the presentations at the Drawing Room onWedcesday were Mrs Francis GarfordBrenton, daughter of Sir J. Puleston,M.P.,on her marriage, by Lady Plowden, wife of Sir William Plowden, Liberal member for Wolverhampton, and Miss Florence Swetenham, second daughter of the late Mr Swetenhrm, M.P., presented by Mrs Brenton.

It has been decided to appoint a biological sectional committee of the Menai Society of Natural Science and Literature. It is proposed that this committee shall arrange for at least two special meetings of the members of the society for the consideration of matters of local biological interest, and at least two field meetings for the same purpose.

The report of the progress of the Ordnance Sur- vey for the year ending on the 31st of December, 1890, has at last made its appearance. Complaint is made respecting the slow progress of the one-inch sheets for Wales and Monmouthshire. Merthyr and Newport are still among the neglected places in South Wales, while the j counties of Anglerey, Carnarvon, Merioneth, Montgomery, Cardigan, Radnor, Brecon, Car- marthen, and Pembroke have not been so much as touched.

NEW DENBIGHSHIRE MAGISTRATES. — Mr Henry Dennis, New Hall, Ruabon, and Mr John Morris, of the firm of Messrs Morris and Jones, Liverpool, have been placed on the commission of the peace for the county of Denbigh. CARNARVONSHIRE JOINT EDUCATION COM- MITTEE.—A meeting of this committee was held on Wednesday, at Carnarvon. Mr A. H. D. Acland, M.P., presided, there being also present Principal Reichel, Mr D. P. Williams (chairman of the County Council), and Mr Issard Davies. Tha scheme affecting the endowed grammar schcols at Bangor and Bottwnog came under discussion. CARNARVONSHIRE AND ANGLESEY IN- FIRMARY.—Weekly report, Tuesday, May 5th. —In-patients, 15 total number of out-patients admitted since October 25th, 1890, 956; total number of out-patients admitted during the past week, 55; home patients, 52. Visitors for the ensuing week, Mrs Lewis (Gartherwen) and Mr W. E. Thomas. Hon. physician for ensuing week, Dr Richards. Hon. surgeon for ensuing week, Dr Richard Jones. J. E. Thomas, M.B., house surgeon. VALE OF CONWAY CHORAL UNION FESTIVAL. —The seventh annual festival of the united choirs of Bettwsycoed, Capel Garmon, Dolwydd- elen, Llanddoget. Llangelynin, Penmachno, Pen- trovoelas, Trefriw, and Yspytty Ifan was held on Monday at St. Mary's Church. Bettwsycoed. The preachers were the Revs W.Williams, rector of Dolgelley, and T. Prichard, rector of Llanel- idan. The Rev H. Jones, St. Asaph, intoned the services. The conductor was the Rev O. Jones, Pentrevoelas, and the organist Mr R. W. Davies Festiniog. The growing popularity of Life Assurance is well exemplified in the case of the Standard Life Assurance Company, whose new annual business amounts to about one and a half million. The cause of this phenomenal success is to be attributed to careful management, liberality of dealing, and the confidence of the public in a concern whose accumulated funds exceed seven and a quarter millions sterling. Intending assurers are recommended to apply for terms to any of the local agents, or to Mr J. D. Ainslie, the local secretary, No. 20, Water Street, Liverpool.—Advt. SHOW OF ENTIRE HORSES AT BANGOR.—This annual show, in connection with the Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Agricultural Society, took place at Bangor on Friday. In the class for agricultural stallions, to cover the Carnarvon- shire district of the society, there were no entries. The prize for agricultural stallions, to cover the Anglesey district, was awarded to Colonel Platt, Gorddinog. In the class open to stallions calculated to produce roadsters, hunters, or carriage horses, there were two entries, the prize going to Mr David Evans, Rhoscellan Fawr, Cardiganshire. A NORTH WALES GOLD COMPANY.— In the case of the North Wales Gold Exploration Com- pany v, Seaver and others, which was in the list of cases for hearing before the Lord Chief Jus- tice of England and Mr Justice Matthew, sitting as a divisional court, on Monday, Mr Cecil Chap- man said that in view of the decision in another similar case a short time ago an agreement had been arrived at that the appeal should be dis- missed with paid into court to be paid out to the solicitor of the respondents, Mr Richard Seaver and Co.—Their lorcships con- currei, and an order was made accordingly. WELSH MEMBERS AND DISESTABLISHMENT.— A largely attended meeting of the Welsh Liberal members was held on Thursday evening in the Conference Room at the House of Commons. In the absence, from slight indisposition, of Mr Stuart Rendel, the chair was occupied by Mr Dillwyn. A committee of five members—Messrs Stuart Rendel, Dillwyn, T. E. Ellis, S. Evans, and Lloyd George, together with the two whips of the Welsh party, Mr A. J. Williams and Mr David Thomas—was appcinted to consider whether any and what means could be devised for bringing into greater prominence the ques- tion of Welsh disestablishment, and the means by which further information upon that question can be furnished to the constituencies. TANDEM MEET AT BANGOB.—In response to an iuvitation issued by Colonel Henry Platt, there was a tandem meet at Bangor.on Tuesday, the drive being to Gorddinog, Colonel Piatt's seat at Llanfairfechan, where luncheon was served. Tandems were sent by Sir R. Williams-Bulkeley, Bart., Colonel H. Platt, Mr J. Rice Roberts (master of the Anglesey Harriers), and Misa Lort, the latter of whom drove a pair of Welah ponies. The other equipages included those of Sir Charles Isham, tha High Sheriff of Anglesey (Mr II. Poole), Mr Harry Clegg. Captain Stewart, Mr Chadwick. Captain Griffith (Plas Brereton), Lieutenant Platt, and Miss Rayner, of Tres- cawen. LAUNCH OF A STEAM YACHT FOR THE HON, F. G. WYNN— Messrs David J. Dunlop and Co., engineers and shipbuilders, Port Glasgow, have successfully launched from their yard the screw steam yacht" Mira," built trom the designs of Mr G. L. Watson, Glasgow, to the order of the Hon. F. G. Wynn, Glynllifon Park, Carnarvon. The dimensions and general particulars are as f0110ws :-Length:on load water line, 154 feet; breadth moulded 21 feat 6 inches; depth moulded, 13 feet 3 inches; tonnage yacht measurement, 326 tons. The general practice of cutwater stem has been departed from in the construction of the lira," a straight stem having been adopted, the head being tastefully fitted with bow carving showing sheild and scroll after the manner adopted in the straight f-tem troopships. The stern, which is elliptical, is fitted with li^ht but handsome carving. The rig of the yacht is that of ?t two masted schooner, having lower and topsail yards on foremast, with bowsprit, for use on long voyages. Among those present at the launch were the Hon. Fred. G. Wynn. the Hon. Charles and Mrs Wynn, Mr J. P. de Winton, Mr G. L. Watson, Mr De Win ton, Mr G. P. Rayner, Mr Dunlop, Miss Dunlop. &c. As the vessel left the ways she was gracefully named Mira by the Hon. Mrs Charles Wycn. Immediately afterwards the yacht was moored alongside the to receive her engines, which are of the triple axpansion type, having cylinders 14, 22, and 36 inches diameter, and 24 inches length of stroke. ind are fitted with all tb latest improvements to ensure the utmost efficiency in working.

Mr Osborne Morgan, M. P., presided at the last meeting of the Cymmrodorion Society in London. Mr A. N. Palmer, of Wrexham, read very interesting paper on Wat's and Offo's Dyk