Penarth Chronicle and District Advertiser

FOOTBALL. J Since the meeting with Newport two more defeats have been registered against Penarth, and if things go on as they are at present, out (.f the six fixtures remaining on the card, the Fenarihians will be lucky if they pull off three. Never did a leam go through their engagements with much more brilliant or con- bisteut play than Penarth up till almost recently. But a series of itccidents, as we pointed out last week, have brought about so much absenteeism that, to use a Yankee expression, The whole show seems falling to pieces."—Bath, Abergavenny, Cardiff, Gloucester, Leicester, and Dewsbury still remain to be played, and as most of them are strong coml inations, it is very difficult to see anything but a very black look out for our town team. With Hubert Alexander, Hutchings, Shepherd, Gibbs, Dai Evans, and others away, the team cannot perform what, under the circumstanccc, would be almost miraculous prodigies. The visit to Lhnelly was a signal proof of this. With a mere skeleton of a team Penarth did quite as Nell as anyone could reasonably expect. The Llanelly critics, however, did not show those sportsmanlike and generous qualities which should characterise all tiue lovers of football. They made very much of their victory and talked about, Badger waltzing around Herby Morgan, but of course no mention was made 0; the fact tha6 Penarth were playing with only half a representative team. The match with Barnstable on Monday last was fairly well attended. The repute of the Devonshire cracks had reached Penarth before them and the manner in which they received our men when on tour tended to make tham popular up here. They are certainly a fine lot of men and well deserved their victory, on Monday, oi ten points to nil. Their for- wards deservo notice. Pearce the six feet five-man, Toller, Thomas, and indeed nearly all the others are both powerful and fast men, and put in some really fine work. The backs, too, showed up well-Stoyle is a good sample of Devonshire muscle. Down at Barnstaple our forwards kept the Devonshire men on the defensive most of the time, but on Monday last, the ups which represented Penarth were entirely out of the hunt- They are both slow and unskilful— perhaps they entered the field with too much confi- dence, but at all events they never attempted to put in vigorous work till the match was lost- Our back division were assisted by Selwyn and INTorrr :u Biggs. Selwyn Riggs, on the whole played a good game; but the quartette could do nothing with tha ball when they got. it. (Jleraence was about the only man in the team who played up to his reputation. On Monday ..evening the Devonshire men were entertained by the Penarthiaus at the Penarth Hotel, and a most enjoyable evening was spent.

Representation of South G-lamorgan. SELECTION OF A CANDIDATE. A meeting of the executive committee of the South Glamorgan Conservative Association was held at the offices at Cardiff, on Saturday afternoon, for the pur- pose of selecting a candidate to contest South Glamorgan at the next election. Eventually it was resolved that, subject to the approval of the geaeral body of Conservatives and, the Liberal Unionists, Major Windam Henry Wyndam-Quin be invited to contest the division. It is understood that Major Wyndham-Quin, who is first cousin and heir pre- sumptive to the Earl of Dunraven, is prepared to ac- cept the position, and that he will receive the support of that nobleman, who is one of the most popular landed proprietors in South Glamorgan. Major Wyndham-Quin will ur questionably make a strong candidate. He is the eldest son of the late Captain W, H. Wyndham-Quia, of Dnnraven Castle, Bridgend, and of Clearwell Court, Gloucestershire, by his wife, a daughter of the late Admiral Sir George Tyler, of Ccttrall, near Cardiff. The late Captain Wyndham-Quin was the second son of Mr Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, of Adare Manor, in the county of Limerick, who married, in 1810, Caroline, the only daughter and heiress of Mr Thomas Wyndham, of Dunraven (in consequence of which marriage he assumed by sign manual the name of Wyndham in addition to and before that of Quin) and succeeded to the peerage on the death of hi father, who, in 1822, bad been created first Earl of Dunraven, and Mount Earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and who formerly was born as Viscount Mount, Earl and Adare and Baron Adare, in the peerage of Ireland. The isfcue of the marriage were :— (1) Hdwin Bich^rd Wyndham, bo*n in 1812, who &a Vi«ooun6 Ad»rt, becawe M.P. (ikworgaushire, m the e&riy pftrt if century, «i<| irho married in 1836, Augusta; daughter of Mr Thomas Goold, and had iEsue-Windham, Thomas, the present Earl of Dunraven, who was born on the 12th of February, 1841. (2) William Henry, who was the Captain Quin above referred to. í Major Wyndham-Quin is, therefore, first cousin of the present Earl of Duarayeii, and heir-presumptive ( to the Dunraven Estates, a large portion of which is within the boundaries of the South Glamorgan Division. Major Wyndham-Quin was born at Dun- raven Castle in 1857, and is now in his thirty-ninth year. He spent his younger days &t Dunraven and Clearwell Court with his grandmother, the Dowager Countess of Dunraven, whose memory will always be revered in the districts of Bridgend and Clearwell. Major Wyndham-Quin was educated at Cheltenham and Eton. He afterwards joined the 16th Lancers, and served for some years as aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He volunteered for the Zulu War, but peace was proclaimed before he got to the front. In 1885 he married Lady Eva Bourke, one of the daughters of the late Earl of Mayo, by whom he has issue. He also served as aide-de-camp to Lord Connemara when we was Goyenor of Bombay. On his return from India he was appointed adjutant of tha Gloucestershire Yeomanry, with whom he has become immensely popular. He is a good, all round sports- man. Major Wyndham-Quin is a nephew of Colonel J. Hobarc Tyler, of St. Hilary, Cow bridge, the popular chairman of the South Glamorgan Conserva- tive Association.—Western Mail.

Penarth Church of England Temperance Society. A most successful meeting in connection with the above society was held in the National Schoolroom, on Thursday evening last, Mr John H. Jones, solicitor, presiding. The meeting was exceedingly well attended, and a lengthy programme was .gone through fin a manner that reflected credit on the various performers. The Chairman in his able and humorous address, dwelt upon the good influences exercised by the Society, and exhorted all the young1 people present to unite themselves to Mr Roberts and his colleagues in a really good. work. Messrs DavieS 11 9 and Fargher proposed the usual vote of thanks. Appended is the programme—Pianoforte Solo, Mr Tonkin Solo, Miss C. Ellis; Solo, Mr Samways j Solo, Miss E. Waits; Solo, Mr Perry Pianoforte Duet, Misses Baggett; Solo, Nellie Webb; Chair- man's Address; Solo, Miss Coney; Solo, Mr G. Pawley; Solo, Miss E. Watts Duet, Mr and Miss Perry; Solo, Mr Samwa/s Pianoforte Solo, Mia Jones; Solo, Miss E. Webb; Addresses by Air Davies and Mr Fargher; God save the Queen.

Gossip. On dit that there will soon be a railway station at Lower Penarth. This will be one of the numerous advantages resulting from the opening up of that part of the town. The Penarth F.C. have made an unfortunate and fatal departure in playing outsiders. Many a time and oft have they been sorely pressed and exercised in raking a team together, and the many refusals in the past to include Cardiffians in the 15 have been commended. That other teams do the same is no justification. The only blot on the team's escutcheon this year will soon he forgotten if Penarth return to the spartan determination to do or die on their merits. Once more I must call the Estate and the Council's attention to the death trap by the Zig-zag. Because there's a peculiar providence watching over children that's no reason why we should wilfully shut our eyes to the existence of so dangerous a spot* King John in rebuking Hubert for murdering Arthur said. H How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds make ill deeds done." A&Y-ain in the same poet's words The very place puts toys of desperation without more motive in to every brain that looks so many fathoms to tbe sea, and hears it roar beneath." If our town- clerk said we were morally but not legally responsible for any fatality through imperfect fire apparatus, surely we are morally in a more parlous state in this respect- Now that we are about to make a circuit round Penarth it would not be impertinent to discuss hoff to make the cliffs an almost Utopian resort wherein as tha French say "to take the air," or as the Orientals have it "smell the air." On account of phenomenally active denudation the cliffs crumble away to an alarming extent, and the deep fissures and sudden landslips up to the Seven Sisters are not cal- culated to give a sense of security to pedestrians. To obviate this the cliffs could be cut down at an angle of 45 degrees, and a butress built to save the super- strata. Here was a solution to the unemployed question during the late rigorous weather. This being done judicious planting, of shrubs would hida the fencing, and then the erection of seats—not three -would give the 'so?tlJ de grade. A mmiafe viovo second to none in. the Principality could be made. One accessory has beeti, left out—the band KAUA and Cogan Military Band- There is no use mincingf matters- Were the place properly advertised, properly laid out and pioretly managed, Penarth would eclipse all South Wales watering places, and bring much needed grist to the mill, It may be argued that vandalism is too rampant to permit of this- Cannot lawlessness be suppressed ? Could not a man or men be specially appointed for this purpose ? Weston-super-Mare is a living object lesson to ule