Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times

4 — Tha intervention of the Earl of Yarborough has resulted in the adoption by the Grimsby Federated Owners' Protecting Society (Limited) of a Re- solution agreeing to refer to an arbitrator, to be appointed by the Board of Trade, all questions in despute between owners and men :iu the Grimsby fishing trade. If the men concur to the unrestricted arbitration proposed, the vessels, which have been laid up for thirteen weeks, will at once go to sea and the decision of the arbitrator is to be retro- spective from the date at which work is thus resumed. CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. — Approximate return of traffio receipts for the week ending Sept. 29th, 19C1. Miles open, 250. Passengers, parcels, horses, carriages, dogs and mails, .63,927; merchandise, minerals, and live stock, £ 3,440 total for the week, £ 7,367; aggregate from commencement of half-year, £ 109,370. Aotual traffic receipts for the correspond- ing week of last year Miles open 250. Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 3,814; merchandise, minerals, &o., £ 3,200; total for the week, £ 7,014 aggregate from commencement of half year, £ 104,659. Increase for the week, passengers, parcels, &c., £ 113; increase, merchandise, minerals, &e., £ 240; total' increase for the week, £ 353; aggregate increase, passengers, parcels, &c., £3,688 aggregate increase, merchandise, minerals,:&c., £ 1,023; aggregate in. crease from commencement of half-year, £ 4,711,

MARKETS WELSHPOOL GENERAL, Monday.—Wholesale price: Butter, Od to Is 2d per lb; eggs, 13 to 0 for Is; fowls, 3s Od to Os Od; chickens, 4s Od to 4s 6d; ducks, 5s Od to Os Od; rabbits, Is 6d per couple. LIVERPOOL CORN, TUESDAY. — Wheat, quiet rade, at about Friday's rates to a farthing lower. 1 Californian, 5s 10id to 5s lljd 2 Kansas, 5s 6Jd. Beans, Saidi, 30s 6d to 30s 9d. Peas, 6s 4d. Oats, slow, new white, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; old, 3s Od to 3s 3d. Maize, slow trade, about 2d under Friday, new mixed, 4s lljd to 5s Od. Flour, unchanged. LONDON HAY AND STRAW, TUESDAY.—Prices :— Good to prime hay, 95s to 112s 6d inferior te fair, 80s to 90s good to prime clover, 95s to 110s; inferior to fair ditto, 80s Od to 90s mixture and sainfoin, 85s to 105s Od straw, 28s to 40s per load. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET,MONDAY.—Numbers: Beasts, 1,575 sheep, 7,403. Qaotations:- Beat 4 beasts, 5|d to 6d seconds, 5id to 5|d; thirds, 41d te 4: 5!d best Scotch sheep, Od to 71l other serts, 51d to 6^d lambs, 6d to 7d per lb. The supply of cattle was larger than last week, showing an increase of 313 beasts and a decrease of 2,208 sheep and lambs. Demand slow for classes at about late rates. BIRMINGHAM CATTLE, TUESDAY. — Short sup- pliea all round, and demand quiet. Prices ruled as follow :— Beef, Herefords, 61d to 7d; shorthorns, 6dto6Jd; bulls and cows, 5d to 6d; calves, 6d to 8d wethers, 71d to 8Jd ewes and rams, 5^d to 6d lambs, 7d to 7f d per lb. Bacon pigs, lOsOdte OsOd; porkets, lis Od to lis 6d sows, 011 Od to 8s 6d per score. SALFORD CATTLE, TUESDAY. — At market Cattle, 2,645 sheep and lambs, 8,649; calves, 164; pigs, —. Quotations :—Cattle, 5d to 6^d calves, 5d to 7d; sheep, 6d to 743d; lambs, 61d to 7^d per lb; pigs, 011 Od to O. Od per score. Supply of cattle, sheep and lambs smaller, large supply of calves. CORK BUTTER, Thursday.—Priroesfc, -8; prime s firsts, 88s; seconds 82s kegs, —s thirds 75a kegs —s fourths 70s; fifths —s choicest—s; choice —s superfine 92s; kegs —s; fine mild 74s mild s choicest boxes 93s choice boxes, 87s; 145 cwt of fresh butter A, 99s to 97s B, 82s te s factory seconds, —. Total number of firkins, 224. OSWESTRY CORN MARKET, WEDNESDAY. — The following were the quotations:—White wheat (eld) 48 Od to 4s 2d white wheat (new), Os Od to Os Od per 751bs red wheat (old), 4s Od to 4s 2d red wheat (new), Os Od to Os Od per 7blbs old oats, 15F! Od to 15s 6d new oats, lis 6d to 12s 6d per 2001 bs; malting barley, 17s 6d te 20s Od; grinding barley, Os Od to 14s Od per 2801bs. OSWESTRY GENERAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.— Quotations :— Butter, is Id to is 2d per lb; eggs, II to 12 for Is beef, 7d to 8d mutton, 7d to 9d lamb, 9d to lOd veal, 7d to 8d pork, 6d to 8d per lb fowls, 4s Od to 5s Od per couple ducks, 5s Od te 6s Od; rabbits, 2s 2d to 2s 4d per couple potatoes, 201bs a h; carrots, Id to lid; onions, Id; radishes, Id per bunch; lettuce, Jd cabbages, 2d to 4cJ; cucumbers, 3d to 6d cauliflowers, 2d to 4d each gooseberries, Id to licl per quart; rhubarb, Id to 2d per bsndle; watercress, Id per bunch cherries, 6d to 7d per lb; strawberries, 6d to 8d black currants, 4d to 5d per quart; peas, 8d per kernel; mushrooms, 3d to4d per lb; apples, 9d to Is per 100; pears, 6d to 9d per 100; hedge nuts, 2d cob nuts, 4d to 6d per quart; Walnuts, 6d filberts, 6d per lb; kidney beans, lid to 2d per lb; plums, Id to 2^d per quart; blackberries, 2d per quart. OSWESTRY WEEKLY OATTLE FAIR.—There wa. a good supply of stock at the Smithfleld on Wednes- day, and a good clearance was effected. Beef was an improved trade, other stock sold at about previous rates. Messrs Whitfield and Sows sold 207 cattleand calves, and 1,240 sheep; Messrs Hall Wateridge and Owen sold 85 fat cattle and a number of sheep Messrs Whitfield and Rogers, sold a large quantity of stock, as did also Mr T Whitfield, Junr. Prices ruled as follows :-Beef, 6d to 61d per lb; veal, 6d to 7d per lb; mutten, 61d to 71d; lamb, 61d to 7d per lb pork pigs, Os Od to Os Od; per score. ELLESMERE, TUESDAY. —Quotations as follows Wheat (new) 128 Od to Os Od per 225 lbg; malting barley, 16s Od to 18s Od per 280 lbs; oats (new), 10s Od to lis Od per 200 lbs butter, Is 01 to Is 2d per lb; eggs, 10 to 12 for la fowls, 3s Od to 4. 6d ducks, 4s Od to 5s Od rabbits, Is 8d to 2a Od per couple; damsons, Is 6d to 2s 3d per 901bs apples 33 6d to 5s Od per 901bs. WHITCHURCH, FRIDAY. — Wheat, 4s Od to 4s 2d per 75 lbs; barley, 3s 9d to 4s 4d per 70 lbs oats, 2s 8d to 3s 6d per 50 lbs; eggs, 10 to 11 for Is; butter Os lid to Is Id per 16 oz; fowls, 3s 6s to 4s Od ducks, 4s Od to 4s 6d per couple potatoes, 10d to 0s per score; beef, 6d to 8d; mutton, 6d 8d • lamb, 7d to 9d veal, 7d to 8d p->rk, 7d to 8d per lb rabbits, 0s Od to Is 8d nei couple apples, 2d per quarter; damsons, Is 6d to Is 9d per meas'nre. BRADFORD WOOL, THURSDAY.—Without being at all weak as to fine wools this market to-day is characterised by a hesitation on the part of users which is checking business. A struggle is taking place with regard to prices, and opinions are con. flicting as to the issue. Consumers complain that so far the inquiry from the retailer through the wholesale houses has not so increased in volume as to justify any such increase as has taken place in the raw material, and spinners state that although they have been compelled in self-defence to either sell at some slight advance or not at all, they can- not get rates proportionate to the iprices of tops in Bradford or the value of wool in London. With such difference of opinion business in the raw material is for the time somewhat checked, but holders maintain a thoroughly firm attitude, and in a few exceptional cases have even to-day raised the rate for best classes of 60's merino to 20id. Another advance is mentioned in strong orossbreds, and 40's have been quoted at 8Jd, with 36's at 8d. This strength in lower crossbredsis one of the most satisfactory features of the market, as it indicates a large consumption, notwithstanding an apparently inexhaustible supply. In English wools the slight improvement which has recently taken place seems to have gone as far as it will go, and any attempt to further raise rates keeps buyers out of the market. Bright classes, however, still maintain the improved values, and the slightly better inquiry for half-bred wools and some demi-lustre torts from the Midland counties is fairly well maintained.

NE WS IN BRIEF. Two workmen's compensation cases came before Sir Horatio Lloyd in the Flint County Court on Friday. In one the question was raised whether a boy who lost his leg through an accident while be was taking his breakfast, near the boilers, at the new Flint colliery, could be said to have been injured in the course of his employment. The Judge answered the question in the affirmative, and also held that it was just as lawful for the boy to take his food in a warm place as in a cold one. An order was made upon the plaintiff's empluyers to pay 4a. per week. At Carmarthen, on Friday, General Sir James Hills-Johnes, V.C., presented South Africian War medals to men of the Active Service Contingent of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Welsh Regiment. Dr Lapponi declares that there is no foundation whateyer for the report that the Pope is indisposed. His Holiness is in good health, and discharges all his daily duties as usual. The Premier of Tasmania has written to Sir Wilfred Laurier, with a view to obtain supplies of Canadian salmon for stocking the rivers of that Colony. The Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries had already arranged to send a shipment of salmon eggs to New Zealand, and the eggs for Tasmania will go at the same time. The Maharajah of Jodhpur went to Windsor on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of visiting the burial place of Queen Victoria. His Highness, who, as well as his suite, was in mourning, was met at the railway station, and conveyed in one of the King's carriages to the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, where he placed a wreath upon the tomb of her lato Majesty. A British naval force is concentrating in the Persian Gulf, and it is believed at Bombay that. fresh trouble is impending at Koweit. Turkey is reported to have 30,000 troops at Busra with the alleged intention of marching them across Arabia to suppress aisaffectiou in the Yemen. This ex. planation is not believed, and it ia announced at Bombay that the Turks wish to seize Koweit. Arabi Pasha landed at Suez on Saturday morning. Lord Londonderry has just replied to a correspond. ent on the subject of foarpenny telegrams, stating that the matter is having his very careful con. sideration. An attempt is about to be made to reopen the Moatyn Colleries in Flintshire, which were flooded out some eighteen years ago by an inrush of water from the sea. At that time the collieries employed about a thousand men, but the result of the flooding was to bring the prosperity of the district to a sudden close, and the colliers left the district and found work in Lancashire and Yorkshire. About 100 more Jesuit students are expected to arrive at St David's College, Mold, from Lyons. This building they previously occupied about four years ago. The college is for the training of Jesuit priests, doctors, solicitors, and other professional men, and is connected with a much larger college of the same character in the South of England. Viscount Peel, ex-Speaker of the House of Com- mons, will address a great temperance demonstra- tion in Dundee o* October 8. The Heraldo (Madrid) announces that on the return of the Queen Regent Admiral Valcarol will submit to her a report asking for the necessary means for naval defence, and proposing in the event of a refusal, that the navy should be dissolved. Severe fighting is reported to have taken place between Venezuelans and Colombians, in which the former had 300 men and four guns captured, while 600 were killed and wounded in the engage- ment. The weekly meeting of the Bethesda quarrymen was held on Saturday. There was again but a small attendance, owing, it is said, to the absence of many men in search of work elsewhere. Mr Brewer, a member of the General Amalgamated Labourers' Union, was the principal speaker, and strongly urged the qnarrymen to remain firm. A serious outbreak of diphtheria and scarlet fever was reported at Friday's meeting of the Holywell District Council. The Independent Order of Rechabites (with up- wards of 250,000 members) and the National De- posit Friendly Society (with a membership of 70,000) have both decided not to take any part in the con- ference convened by the Royal hearts of Oak Friendly Society on the question of old-age pensions. This raises the membership of the societies which have repudiated the conference to more than three millions out of a total membership of three and a half millioDB. In consequence of the outbreak of small-pox, Dr Wood, the head master of Harrow School, has sent a circular to the parents of the boys in the school informing them that all the boys, by medical advice, are to be vaccinated. There is no unpleasant sequel to the Anglo. American University sports. The victors (says the Standard correspondent) are modest in their trimmph, and the vanquished gallant in defeat. There is more bitterness between Yale and Harvard than between both against Englishmen. The spokesmen for the English competitors acknowledge defeat se gamely that there is general recognition of the hard luck which prevented their taking one or two more wins and breaking some records. English endurance is thought to have made as good a display as Yankee versatility. A shooting contest took place on Saturday at Aber, between teams representing the Bangor Artillery Volunteers ard the detachment of the Queen's Bays stationed at Bangor. The contest resulted in a victory for the Volunteers by 49 points. It is officially announced that the Welsh National Liberal Council will hold its next annual meeting at Wrexham on Oct 25th. It ia understood that the date has been fixed to meet the convenience of Lord Tweedmoutb, who will be the principal speaker at the evening meeting. There arrived at Holywell from France on Friday evening a community of Dominican nuns. They have taken up their abode at The Vrou, tlie residence of the late Mr R Sankey, whose siste'r has placed the house at their disposal. The prospect of an early settlement of the dieput e in the fishing trade at Grimsby appears to be better. On Saturday the Earl of Yarberough and Lord Heneage had interviews with the Owners' Federation and the leaders of the men, and it is thought that a joint conference may be arranged. A boat containing twelve persons capsized on Sunday in shooting the rapids of Lake Killarney A Dutch officer and two boatmen were drowned."

I LIBERALS, WAR, AND IRtSH. "NO LONGER ANY ALLIANOE." i Mr Asquith, addressing a meeting of his con- stituents at Ladybank on Saturday, refened to the war, which he said was a just war, and one which we were fighting with clean hands. He, however held that in its conduct the Government had shown a lamentable lack of foresight. He criticised the speeches of Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain at the Blenheim meeting, in which reference was made to the advisability of reducing the Irish Parliamentary representation in proportion to the population of the country, contending that if a scheme of redis- tribution were to be adopted, it must not be a partial or punitive measure, applicable to Ireland alone, but must extend equally to Great Britain. There was no longer any alliance between the Liberals and the Irish Party, and he had for some time held the opinion that the Liberal Party ought not to assume the duties and responsibilities of Government unless it could rely on an independent Liberal majority in the House of Commons. Mr Munro Fergusson, M.P., ex-Whip of the Scottish Liberal party, has telegraphed to Mr Cecil Harmsworth, Liberal candidate at the North-east Lanark election, at follows:—" Sincere sympathy with you in your defeat, which gravely affects our position towards those who openly threw over their allegiance to the Liberal party."

PRACTICAL EDUCATION. THE TRAINING OF FOREIGN WORKMEN. The question of the training both by general and special education of the British workman is fraught with difficulty. Though there are many stand- points from which to view the question—from the point of view of the apprentice, from that of a trades-unionist, from those of an educationist, from the master's or a consumer's view, and last, and certainly the most important position, from that of a patriot. For the present let us take the side of tho towns. man and patriot, and the more so sinee our com- mercial prestige is just now at so critical a, stage. It is of national importance that trade should remain with Great Britain, and ? is of local import. ance that local trades should be fostered and the workmen efficiently equipped. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well" is a saying that may well be taken to heart. The best work each day should be the ideal to be attained, and te this end parents question—" Is my boy to be an appren- tice when he leaves the primary school ? If so, will it be better for him to go where he can see the best work done, or to attend a school where he would be taught to do the best work ?" Often a lad leaves sohool and goes to work in a phop where he cannot see eveiy kind of work, and fre- quently never sees the best quality, in consequence he becomes but an indifferent artisan What, then, can be done for him ? This is a question of vital importance to the nation, and the answer given by a certain distriot of Austro-Hungary, having Prague as a centre, affords plenty of matter for the mind to ruminate on. Lying among the mountains near Prague are the following towns:— Population Industry Gorlitz 80,000 Iron Goods Haida 3,000 Glass Reichenberg 30,000 Textiles Tnrnau .1 6.500 Jewellery Tratenau 16,000 Linen Although Prague is central and contains excellent trade schools, yet each town provides schools for its own inhabitants, and acts in accordance with the principle laid down by the Austrian authorities, viz <—" The trade-schools must be where the workers are, and not at the nearest large town (a dictum opposed to centralisation). In these places boys go to the primary school, and must have passed the equivalent of Standard VI before they can go to the trade school, at which they stay from the age of 14 to 21. Haida, a centre of the glass industry, has a trade school accommodating about 150 students who are taught drawing, painting, glass engraving, porcelain painting, chemistry and physics, projection, pottery work, modelling, arithmetic and book keeping. There is a library and museum on the place. Turnau's principal industry is goldsmith's work, and the polishing and setting of jewels. The town contains four Volksschulen or primary schools, the Biirger school, and a winter continuation school, as well as an Imperial trade school. In this last there is a four years' course, for nine hours a day, six days a vv^ek, for about 40 weeks per year. The principal subjects taught are drawing (freehand, trade, geometry), modelling, study of vase and ornament, mineralogy, technology for gold workers, jewel working, mounting, and engraving, garnet work. The practical work takes up exactly half the time. A student here has a course of drawing which finishes by allowing him to make his own decorative designs, a course of modelling in clay and plasticine, a course of mineralogy introducing crystallography and the important jewel-bearing minerals. There is a library of books on the craft in French, German, and Austrian, and even some English books, e.g., the Artist and the Studio. The students to the number of about 80 pay no fees, and always 'take good positions when they leave The school costs about JE1100 annually. Trautenan is the centre of the Austrian linen industry. The schools here are—(i) Commercial school for 60 pupils, (ii) Trade continuation school for 230 pupils, (iii) agricultural and flax growing school for 36 students, and (iv) Handicraft school for 60 pupils. In the flax school pupils are taught flax culture and do practical work on the college farm, and also visit other farms. The handicraft school teaches wood and cardboard work mainly in preparation for the other schools. At the Reichenberg High Commercial School there is a counting house with all types of European moneys for the lads to handle, copying presses sets of account books, a library, a laboratory, with microscopes, to test the genuineness of wares, and a museum. The fees are about £10 per annum for a course of four years. The curriculum is similar to all the other schools. The Imperial trade-school has 565 pupils, distributed as follows The Higher Technical has 332, there are 80 students in the Master Workmen's School, and 153 in the Building School. The building contains dyeing laboratory technological machine rooms, and electrical labora- tory, a museum of colour materials, also a building and machinery museum; in the basement is a gas motor, and we also find a water pump, a dynamo pulverising-mill, and muffle furnaces, etc, The Weaving school of Reichenberg has abcut 175 uobolars for a two years' course. One room con- tains 45 hand looms, a second larger hand-and-foot looms, while a third has still larger looms. There is also a machine-loom room containing looms made in Manchester. The pupils begin with coarse plain cloths and advance to rich Smyrna carpets; they are taught drawing till they can design for them- selves, and can graphically describe the work done by each part ef the machine; they cut all the cards for the loom. The fees are 35s per annnm, 38 4d entrance fee, 8s 3d for materials; and poor scholars are exempted from these. The school receives state aid. Gorlitz is the Birmingham of Silesia. Its princi pal manufactures are cloth, cotton, iron railway waggons, and buildicgs; its schools are-Royal Building School, Machine and Engineering School Handworker's Continuation School, and Town Industrial School for girls. The two former are under one roof, yet quite separate. Fees are X8 per annum, with X2 for materials in the building department, and z63 yearly in the machine school- work lasts nine hours per day. The cuiricalum in the Building School includes statics and stability study of materials and construction, plans and pro jections, form study, building laws and police retu lations, estimates, etc. That of the machine school Ht timilarly complete. Each school has library and museum; and special sums of money are set aside for one of the features of the training, viz. the making of excursions. From the above it is evident that no town is too small to provide means of training for its working men, and this system is preferable to an apprentice. ship, for at the school the youth is practised in every branch of work, instead of taking it up just as it is ordered without any sequence of progression. England alive to its responsibilities can certainly maintain its premier position. Let us hope the process of awakening will not be lengthy. JAMES DELATILLE. -———

KING AND AMBASSADOR. THANKS OF THE UNITED STATES. The King received Mr Choate, the American Ambassador on Friday, who sought a special audience that he might express in person and in the most earnest manner" the acknowledg- ments and thanks of Mrs McKinley and the people of the United States for the constant sympathy manifested by the King in their recent trouble. The Ambassador also intimated that he was instructed to thank the -King and Queen in the most special and emphatic manner" for their touching message of condolence on the day of the late President's funeral. The King and Queen left London on Friday night for Balmoral. Great precautions were taken to ensure the safety of the journey, and it was arranged that men should be stationed within hailing dis- tance of each other along the whole route of nearly 600 miles.