The Weekly News and Visitors' Chronicle for Colwyn Bay Colwyn Llandrillo Conway Deganwy and Neighbourhood

LIST OF VISITORS. Until the approach of the summer season 1895, the lists of visitors will not be collected (as has been done throughout the past summer), but any lists left at the Central Library, Station Road, Colwyn Bay, not later than one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, or sent by Wednesday night's post to the Weekly Neais Office, Conway, will gladly be inserted in our issue of the following F riday.

COLWYN BAY. PENSION EDELWEISS. (Misses Retemeyer.) Miss Hayes, Birkenhead Miss Bamford, Liverpool Mrs Holland, Wakefield, Yorks Miss Foster, Edgbaston LOCKYER'S PRIVATE HOTEL-BELLE VUE, MARINE ROAD. Mr and Mrs J. Evans Roberts, New York Mr and Mrs Macleod, Ilkley Mrs Lockett, St Ann's-on-Sea Mr and Mrs Malkin, Hanley Misses Lees, Manchester Mrs. Wood, Manchester Wave Crest, Lawson Road-Misses Lever Wm. Entwistle, Esq., Crumpsall Hall, Crump- sail, Manchester Miss Entwistle, do Nurse Braithwate, Liverpool Ben Lomond, Wynnstay Road- Mrs and the Misses Thompson Cardigan House, Greenfield Road-Mrs Hunt Colonel Foster and family, Hornby Castle, Hornby, Lancaster, governess, 3 maids, and footman Miss Knox, Hornby Canon Warneford, All Saints' Vicarage, Halifax Rhos and Abbey Houses-Mrs Morgan Mrs Logan Wright, family and maids, Cheshire

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. To FAIRPLAY.- The publication of your letter re "mud-throwing" in election contests, would, we fear, only arouse still further that unfair antagonism you so rightly deprecate.

COLWYN BAY. SUNDAY SERVICES. Parish Church, Llandrillo.—English Services, 11.0 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Welsh Service, 9.30 am. Mid-day Celebration of the Holy Communion on the 1st Sunday in the month. Rev W. Venables Williams, M.A. Oxon., Vicar Surrogate. Mr. I Bernard, Organist. This interesting Old Church, built in the 13th century, is It mile from Colwyn Bay, on the Llandudno Road. St. Paul's Church, Colwyn Bay.-All Seats are free. English Services: (Sundays) 8 a.m., Holy Com- munion 11 a.m., Service and Sermon 3.30 p.m., Litany (except on the last Sunday in the month, when there is a Children's Service at 3.0 p.m.) 7.0 p.m., Service and Sermon; Sunday School, 3.30 p.m. Welsh Services 10.0 a.m., Service -knd Sermon in Mission Room; Sunday School, 2.30 p.m.; 6.0 p.m., Service and Sermon in Mission Room. (Week-days) Daily Services at 11.0 a.m. and 7.0 p.m.; Holy Communion on Saints' Days, after the 11.0 a.m. Service, and on Thursdays. Sermon on Wednesday nights. Singing Practice on Friday nights at 7.30 p.m. Children's Meeting on Mondays at 6 p.m. The Clergy: The Rev Canon Roberts, B.A., Vicar. The Rev Meredith J. Hughes, F.R.H.S., and the Rev J. H. Astley, M.A., Curates. English Wesleyan-St. John's,—The Avenue.-Next Sundav morning 11.0, evening 6.30, Rev H. H' M'Cullagh, B.A., Tranby, Colwyn Bay. Prayer meeting, morning 10.15. Sunday School, afternoon 2.30. Wednesday evening, 7.0., Rev H. H. M'Cullagh. English Presbyterio.n. Next Sunday morning, 11.0.; evening, 6.30, Rev Robert Rogers, Abergele. Sunday School, afternoon 2.30. Monday evening, 6.15, Band of Hope. Wednesday week-evening- service, 70. Thursday evening, 7.0, Young People Bible Class; 7.45, Y. P. S. Christian Endeavour. Rev John Edwards, Pastor. English Con,gregatioital.-Morning, 11.0, evening 7.0. Sunday School, afternoon 2.30. Monday evening, 7.30, Christrian Endeavour Society. Every Tuesday, 3.15, United Meeting for the promotion of Scriptural Holiness. Wednesday evening, 7.30. Rev Thomas Lloyd, Pastor. English Baptist Church.-Next Sunday: morning, 11.0; evening, 6.30. All seats free. Rev. H. T. Cousins, F.R.G.S., Colwyn Bay. Sunday School, afternoon, 2.30. Wednesday evening, at 7.30, Prayer and Bible Reading; all are cordially invited, presided over by the Rev H. T. Cousins, F.R.G.S., Pastor. Society of Frien ds.-Meeting for Worship, every First Day (Sunday) morning, at 11.15, at a room in Central Buildings, facing Station Road, Colwyn Bay, Open to the Public and Visitors. Congo In stitute.- Divine Services, Sunday, 11.0 a.m.; 2.30 p.m.; and 6.30 p.m. Tuesday evening, a Prayer Meeting at 7. Services will be conducted by the Director, one of the Tutors, or some other Minister, and occasionally some of the students will take part. All are cordially invited. Visiting hours for friends and visitors every week day. from 2.30 to 3 30. MARK MASONRY.—At Rhyl, on Monday, Novem- ber 19th, at the annual installation in connection with the Lodge of Mark Masons of North Wales, the R.W.P.G.M. (Bro. Colonel Hunter, of Plas Coch, Anglesea) installed Bro. James Burwell (Colwvn Bay), P.G. Organist and Bro. T. B. Farrington (Conway), P.G.S.O. THE HIGH SHERIFF OF LANCASHIRE'S DINNER. —On Thursday evening, November 15th, the High Sheriff of Lancashire (Mr J. W. Radcliffe) entertained to dinner at the Northwestern Hotel, Liverpool, the Grand Jury engaged at the Liverpool Assizes, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, the High-Sheriffs Chaplain, the Under-Sheriffs, the Clerk of Assize, the Associate, and the Judges' Marshals. THE LORD MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL'S DINNER.— The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, on Friday evening, November 16th, gave his first banquet, at the Town Hall, in honour of Her Majesty's Judges. The gathering was a large and brilliant one, the guests including, besides His Lordship, the High- Sheriff of Lancashire (Mr J. W. Radcliffe), members of the Bar, the Grand Jury, and upwards of a hundred prominent citizens of Liverpool, amongst the names of whom we noticed those of Mr Ellis Lever and Mr William Bostock. The dinner was well served by Messrs Gait and Capper, the musical part being ably rendered by Miss Ethel Halliburton and Mr W. Sweetman, with Mr W. A. Hollis as accompanist. The floral display was a most excellent one, consisting chiefly of chrysanthemums from Elm Hall, the residence of the Lord Mayor. The plants from the Botanic Gardens were very effectively grouped in the rooms and on the staircase. The Police Band played a selection of music on the arrival of the guests. The toasts were as follows :— "The Queen," "Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and the other Members of the Royal Family," "Her Majesty's Judges of Assize," "The High Sheriff," "The Grand Jury," and The Bar of the Northern Circuit, and the Members of the Legal Profession." COLWYN BAY ADVANTAGED BY THE CONGO INSTITUTE. Although some half-informed people are inclined to cavil at the presence of the African native students as a detriment to Colwyn Bay as a pleasure resort, it is a fact that many people have visited the town through first having seen its many attractions mentioned (in high-class publica- tions, in most instances) in connexion with the Congo Institute. Thus, Colwyn Bay's notoriety is increased (which means that its popularity is ultim- ately enhanced)by the many descriptive articles ar- ising out of the presence of our coloured brethren from the" Dark Continent." One of the latest of the sixpenny illustrated weeklies, and one which, by sheer merit, is fast increasing its hold upon high- class circles, St. Paul's, on November 17th con- tained an interesting article, accompanied by nine capital illustrations from photographs taken last year by the Rev W. Hughes, F.R.G.S. These illustrations are entitled as follows Students of the Glamorgan Institute, Cameroons "The Rev Joshua Dibundu's Chapel at the Cameroons, built by the Natives;" "Students of the Congo Training Institute, at Colwyn Bay, Wales "The Rev Joshua Dibundu and his family, Cameroons;" School at Bell Town, Cameroons;" "Mrs Martha Ricks, Liberia;" "A Chapel at Clay Ashland, Liberia, with Martha Ricks and three of her friends standing by the doors Ricks' Institute, Liberia and Residence of Martha Ricks, Liberia." The article mentioned, which is advertising Colwyn Bay's attractiveness in households hitherto unaware of the advantages it possesses, reads as under THE CIVILISING OF YOUNG AFRICA. BY EDWARD JOHN HART. It is a far cry from the little Welsh village of Colwyn Bay to the basins of the Niger and the Congo from that attractive halting-place on the direct line from Chester to Holyhead—whence, if one views it from the woods beyond the village, the eye is gratified by a vision of bright yellow sands, pale blue waters, and charming residences, lawns gay with multitudinous wild flowers, and the varied greens of oak, beech, elm, and pine, all speaking of peace, health, and beauty, and all seen through a luminous atmosphere and a bracing air-to the great mysterious waterways of Western Africa, steaming under a tropic sun, and edged with reeds and palms, and the hot and gloomy forests and fever-breathing jungles, where still wander the lions, seeking their meat from God. Colwyn Bay is a name to conjure with amongst hundreds of our dark-skinned brethren anywhere from the Ivory Coast to the Congo; but, to descend from generalities, the Rev W. Hughes, F.R.G.S., a Welshman, and the father of the Congo Colony in Wales, was a missionary in West Africa at the time, and before Stanley founded the Congo Free State. He was sadly impressed by the amount of sickness and mortality amongst his white fellow-workers, many of whom only reached the sphere of their exertions to find themselves incapacitated from work by illness- an illness which, in a majority of cases, had a fatal termination. The missions were terribly expensive in monetary outlay and the waste of still more valuable lives, while the results were meagre and dissappointing, Small wonder that the Christian- ising and civilising of the African West Coast proceeded but lamely, when the work had to be carried out by white men in a climate in which Europeans cannot for long work and live. In course of time Mr Hughes himself was pros- trated by climatic sickness, and, to save his life, was compelled to return to England. During the voyage, and his long convalescence after arrival, he was nursed and attended to with great devotion by two African boys whom he had saved from the fate of slavery. Noticing how well they adapted themselves to the change of life and locality, and how quick they were to learn the works of the new people amongst whom they found themselves, he conceived the germ of what was a really very great idea-it being no less than that of "civilising Africa through the African." The practical outcome of Mr Hughes's cogita- tions was the establishment of the Congo Training Institute at Colwyn Bay, which exists for the purpose of bringing native youths from Africa to this country to receive an educational and indus- trial training, in order that they may return to their own land as missionaries, not only of the message of Peace, but also of the arts and crafts that will conduce to the moral and physical well-being of their own people. African lads are brought from the Congo, New and Old Calabar, the Cameroons, Liberia, and various other localities. The dimensions of the building, however, and the smallness of the funds forthcoming at present for the support of the Institute, only allow for the accommodation of fifteen boys at one time. After receiving a year's schooling, they are apprenticed to various useful trades, each boy being allowed to select his own —the trades most in favour being those of carpentry, printing, and tailoring, and that of the dispensing chemist. The generous Welsh people round and about Colwyn Bay are so sympathetic towards the Institute that never in a single instance have they accepted an apprenticeship- fee for the students, and in a similar spirit of generosity the great shipping firm of Messrs Elder, Dempster, and Co.—or as it is now, Alfred Jones and Co.-give the boys a free second return passage from Africa to Liverpool, and the St. Tudno Steam Company do the same from Liverpool to Colwyn Bay. Nothing could be more practical, and, at the same time, more elevating, than the policy of this unique educational agency. The students, while treated with the greatest kindness and considera- tion, lead the simplest of lives-well nigh as simple as they would lead in Africa. They are neither petted as interesting converts nor paraded for the purposes ot filling collecting boxes. Their training is all with a view to an African, not a European, career, and having been brought under gentle and elevating influences, having been mentally equipped with all that will enable them to be teachers and bearers of the message of Peace and fgoodwill, they return to the Dark Continent able to build a house, or mend a boat, or sew a garment with any man able to attract their kinsfolk and familiar friends, and the strangers within their gates by their superior handicraftmanship. It is intended that these missionaries shall be, as they are now, to a great extent self- supporting. But the most astonishing result of the Colwyn Bay experiment has yet to be mentioned, and there are probably few stay-at-home people who will not be surprised to hear of training-schools and technical colleges in West Africa, most of which are affiliated with, while some owe their existence to the initiative of, the Welsh establish- ment. The name of Mrs Martha Ricks will be familiar to most readers of Sf. Paul's by reason of her coming from Africa to visit the Queen, by whom she was most graciously received some little time ago. Mrs Ricks, or Aunt Martha," as she is usually called in her own land, is a very well-known figure in the religious world of West Africa, and the Ricks Institute in the Negro Republic of Liberia, which is connected and co-operates with the Institute of Colwyn Bav, is so named in honour of the late Mr Moses Ricks, a brother of Aunt Martha's husband. The Rev R. B. Richardson is |the principal and with him is associated the Rev John S. Washington, as superintendent of the Industrial Department. The Institute, which stands on one of the most fruitful and beautiful spots in Liberia, possesses 11,000 acres of most valuable land, forty of which are already under cultivation, and produce coffee and vegetables in abundance, The coffee is sold for the benefit of the work, and it is expected that the Institute will soon be self-supporting. At present there are thirty-six bright and intelligent boys at this college, who, under the care of the President, Mr Richardson, Mr Dana Kana, teacher of Arabic, and Mr Washington, have proved themselves both obedient and industrial. The place is kept beautifully neat and clean, and the chapel, work- shops, etc., bear testimony to no little labour and industry. The boys work for about four hours every day at their industrial pursuits, and for five hours in the school, the evenings and the Sabbath being devoted to religious training. They send the most promising of the students to Wales for further training, and are particularly desirous that some of their boys shall there undergo a four years' course of carpentry and printing, in both of which departments more extended tuition is required at the Ricks Institute. In Liberia alone there are forty-six public schools, and at the town of Clay Ashland, which has a population of about 500, there is a girls' school, in the recent establishment of which Mr Moses Ricks was largely instrumental. "Aunt Martha" was anxious to name the school Victoria Institute, after Her Majesty, of whom the old lady cherishes such loyal memories, but it had been previously arranged to call it the Russell Institute. There are five institutions on the West Coast of Africa co-operating with that of Colwyn Bay, and these are, in addition to those already named The Pembroke Institute," The Alfred Jones Institute," situated at Bugama, New Calabar, and The Glamorgan Institute," situated at Aqua Town, the Cameroons, under the guidance of the Rev Joshua Dibundu. Dibundu and his brethren, since they left the mission schools, have themselves established eighteen mission stations in connection with the mother Church, with a schoolmaster and a preacher at almost everyone of these branches, each school averaging about eighty scholars. Already the mother Church numbers eight hundred members, while there five hundred members of the branch stations. The Rev Joshua Dibundu (whose portrait appears among the illustrations) is, in a word, a very Napoleon of the theological world of West Africa. No easy time have the pioneers of the Church in this virgin soil. They have to traverse appalling distances on foot through the jungle, or by boat on the river. They have to convince the young, and what is yet harder, the old chiefs (who are far more timid and superstitious) that the innovations they propose are of themselves good, and likely to result to their advantage. Everywhere they have to talk, preach, and exhort till they succeed in drawing public opinion to their side. Then, having bought their land, and had the agreement registered and signed in the presence of the chiefs ot the nearest consulate, the real physical pioneer- ing begins of cutting and clearing the bush, and setting up some kind of temporary buildings, as a visible and tangible sign of the commencement of the work of civilisation. To return again to the Welsh Alma Mater, it should be said that a new wing, with accommoda- tion for fifty students, will be added to the Institute as soon as funds are forthcoming; that it is intended to establish an institute for the education and training of African girls on similar lines to the existing one for boys. Such work as this-at once practical and Evangelical—should need no special recommendation to any and all who love their fellow-men nor is eulogy required for the workers who, from such humble begin- nings, have achieved such splendid results.