Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

AN ANTIPODEAN EISTEDDFOD. On Saturday and Monday, March 26th and 28th, the Blackstone and Ipswich (Queens- land, Australia) Eisteddfod was held, under the conductorship of the Rev. R. H. Roberts (younger son of Nefydd). There were six sessions-morning, afternoon, and evening of each day. In the chief choral competition, for choirs of not less than 60 nor more than 80 voices, the prize-Y,100, the Paling Challenge Cup, and a gold-mounted baton for the conductor-was won by the Black- stone and Ipswich Cambrian Choir. Mr. Leonard Francis was the leader. The pieces selected for competition were the following (1) Hark, the Deep, Tremendous Voice" (Haydn); (2) My Love Dwells in a Northern Land (Elgar), unaccompanied; and (3) Come, Pretty Wag, and Sing (Parry), un- accompanied. There was a second prize of £ 25, and a third of J615. The prizes were all of substantial value, the vocal solos run- ning at two guineas and a guinea each. The Eisteddfod was held in a spacious marquee from 2,000 to 3,000 people being in atten- dance at the respective sessions, and "it is anticipated," says the Brisbane Courier, that the Eisteddfod Committee will come out with a substantial credit balance." The Official Programme of the Eisteddfod is a book of 52 pages and cover, containing many full-page illustrations. The first illustration is a reproduction of a photo- graph of the leading spirit in the movement —the Hon. Lewis Thomas, M.L C., who was one of the "presidents at the meetings, and who was the donor of the chief choral prize. Mr. Thomas, it appears, has been closely connected with these Eisteddfodau for more than 20 years, and it is computed that he has contributed to the prize fund during these years more than a thousand pounds. Other generous helpers in days gone by," says an abridgement of an article from the Queenslander, given in the Official Pro- gramme, "included Sir S. W. Griffith and the Hon. R. Edwards." A point that will give satisfaction to Welshmen is that an institution to which they are so much attached should in these days when it is hoary with age be exercising in far oN Australia so salutary an influence in promoting not only music and literature, but art and science as well. One great result of the Eisteddfod movement in Queensland," proceeds the abstract from which we have already quoted, "is the Annual Austral Festival which takes place at Toowoomba every 9th November. The seventh Festival, the prize-money for which exceeded Y,500, was held last year. Eistedd- fodau have been held at Blackstone, Ipswich, Maryborough, Townsville, Charters Towers, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Gympie, and Bunda- berg, and smaller ones at Goodna, North Ipswich, Torbanlea, Howard, and several at Blackstone, between the dates of the bigger ones. Festivals have been held at Too- woomba annually since 1903, at Warwick, at Esk, and at Sandgate." We congratulate our compatriots-with whom we are calon wrth galon "—upon the excellent results which are accruing to their love for Hen Walia Wen."

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rooms, dispensary, drug store, and waiting rooms, it includes arrangements for the manufacture of aerated waters. Although the hospital was established earJy in the last century, the present building is not more than between 40 and 50 years old. In connection with the sanitary condition of Monmouthshire collieries, the Lancet reports that a few months ago Mr. J. W. Davies, M.R.C.S., medical officer of health of the Ebbw Vale urban district, drew attention to the insanitary condition of the underground workings of some of the Monmouthshire collieries, and in a report which he subsequently sent to the Local Government Board he particularised several fatal cases of some form or other of blood poisoning contracted, in his opinion, in the collieries. It appears that Mr. Davies has been persistently refused permission to inspect the colliery workings in order that he might investigate for himself the existing conditions. The Home Secretary has now appointed a committee to report upon the matter. The members of the committee in- clude Mr. J. S. Martin, I.S.O., and Mr. C. L. Robinson, two of His Majesty's inspectors of mines, together with Dr. D. Rocyn-Jones, medical officer of health of the Monmouth- shire County Council, Dr. N. N. Wade, of Risca, and Mr. Storrer, veterinary surgeon of Abergavenny. The following resolution, which was adopted recently by the Gaelic League of Dublin, cannot be said to be of that hybrid character which is sometimes termed "lin- sey-wolsey That this Committee, re- presenting the Gaelic League of Dublin, expresses its grave dissatisfaction with the action of the Senate of the National Univer- sity in ignoring the demand that Irish be made an essential subject for matriculation, and in relegating it to a position of stereo- typed inferiority, while other subjects, such as classics or English, or geography and history, are made compulsory; that we call the attention of the people of Ireland to the insult that has been offered them by the utter disregard thus shown for their demand as put forward by the General Council of County Councils and the various elected representatives of the people throughout the country; and we trust that not one penny of the people's money will be given to the support of a University the governing body of which has proved itself so hostile to the aspirations of the Irish people." Ein hiaith, ein gwlad, ein cenedl! is not a parrot cry, and he who flouts the heart- sprung aspirations of the patriot invites an unsparing rebuff. We quite approve the action taken by the League.