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Notes and News. MANY of our politicians have gone abroad for their well-earned holiday. Mr. Lloyd- George is travelling through Germany studying that country's old age pension system. MR. W. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS is studying the draft of the new Disestablishment Bill on the golf links at Llandrindod, but will be present at Llangollen Eisteddfod to confer the degrees on successful ovates. SIR JOHN RHYS was one of the speakers at the International Congress of Historical Science, which was held at Berlin last week. THE Lambeth conference has just con- cluded its sittings, and the resolutions passed—78 in number-cover a great variety of subjects. Is the Church becoming less attractive as a profession for our young men? The Lambeth Conference recommends that Christian parents be urged to encourage their sons to dedicate themselves to the ministry, in view of the decline in the num- ber of candidates for holy orders, and where means are lacking they should be available from an ordination fund. THE King has been pleased to appoint a Royal Commission to make an Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions connected with or illustrative of the contemporary culture, civilisation, and conditions of life of the people in Wales from the earliest times, and to specify those which seem most worthy of preservation. The Commissioners are Sir John Rhys (chairman), Professor Anwyl, M.A., Professor C. Bosanquet, Mr. E. Vincent Evans, Alderman Robert Hughes, Rev. G. Hartwell Jones, D.D., and Lieut.-Col. W. Llewelyn Morgan, R.E. The Secretary is Mr. Edward Owen, of the India Office, S.W., and the Assistant Secretary Mr. Philip Edward Thomas. SWANSEA has improved greatly in respect to its local press within the last year or two. Its two dailies—the Daily Post and Daily Leader are now exceedingly good value for a ha'penny, and will compare favourably with any ha'penny daily in the United Kingdom. TALKING about the press, it is interesting to note how the London press is losing its influence outside the British Metropolis. The provincial dailies are often smarter than the London papers. For instance, the Western Mail often contains foreign and other news a day before its London contem- poraries. IN the course of the next few years there are likely to be further journalistic develop- ments. There is a scheme, for instance, for a daily paper for the Rhondda Valley, with its teeming population of some 160,000, and a new daily is shortly to be started at New- port. — — .1 Mr. Merlin Morgan and his Lieutenant at the Cardiff Semi-National Eisteddfod. THE Swansea Male Voice Party created a record in Bank Holiday week by winning three first prizes, viz., at Carmarthen, Tony- pandy, and Cardiff. There is a very general feeling at Swansea that such an achievement should be suitably recognised by means of a public celebration in which the Mayor and leading townspeople should participate. OUR South Wales correspondent writes: The signal success of the London Welsh Choir at Cardiff Eisteddfod has greatly raised Mr. Merlin Morgan and his excellent band of singers in the estimation of the Welsh home public. It is very evident that Mr. Merlin Morgan had trained his men thoroughly. This is the secret of success in music like everything else—thoroughness." GREAT satisfaction is felt in Wales at the appointment of a Royal Commission to in- quire into the ancient monuments of Wales. There are many interesting monuments in the Principality requiring protection. Un- fortunately there are many historic buildings which have been destroyed, notably Owen Glyndwr's old Parliament House at Dolgelly. PORTHCAWL and Barry Island are becoming increasingly popular seaside resorts. Never in the history of these two places have there been so many visitors as is the case this summer. Porthcawl is becoming known as Cardiff-on-Sea, owing to the great number of Cardiffians who spend their holidays there. SIR JOHN RHYS, the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who has been appointed chairman of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales, has already had a wide and varied experience as a com- missioner. He was secretary of the Tithe Inquiry in Wales, which the late Sir John Bridge was appointed to make into the anti- tithe riots in the eighties and he has served on the Welsh Sunday Closing Commission, the Welsh Land Commission, the Mosely Commission, and other bodies of a similar kind. Sir John's homely manner has often misled people who are not acquainted with his wide learning and his keenly analytical mind. IT looks as if heavy rents and rates are going to cripple Cardiff. House rents have "jumped up" 20 per cent. in the last six years, and they are still going up." The exorbitant rents charged for shops in the main streets is causing many tradesmen either to have their establishments par- titioned off," or closed. IT is difficult to foresee where all this is going to end. The next seven years are likely to produce something like a com- mercial panic in Cardiff, and hundreds of tradesmen will find it impossible to get a living there. The high rents are leading to overcrowding, and the last report of the medical officer shows the birth rate to be decreasing, a very disquieting fact. In the meantime the incompetent City Corporation are piling up the municipal debt, and are actually talking about building a gorgeous Fire Station to cost some £ 20,000. Could municipal stupidity go further ?