South Wales Daily News

II BIRTHS, MARRIAGES. DEATHS Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Is each, if not exceeding SO words, and (id for each extra 10 words. BIRTH. I PRILL Ps.-At No. 7, Brynhill-crescent, Swansea, on the 2nd inst., the wife of P. Walter Phillips, of a daughter. 5163 DEATHS. DAVIES.—On April 1st, very suddenly, at 134, Rich- mond-road, David Enoch (Daff) Davies, aged 43. Funeral 3 p.m., Thursday. No flowers GLASBROOK. On the 31st March, 1894. Thomas Glasbrook, Esq., J.P., Norcon House, Mumbles, aged 48. Funeral private. 5167 GRIFFITH.—On March 31st. Howell Griffith, Groes, Margam. Public funeral Thursday, at 4 p.m. 88 PHILLIPS.—On the 2nd inst., at Castle Hill, LL-inefly, Elizabeth Phillips, widow of the late Jenkin Phillips, The Glynn, New Quay, Cardiganshire, aged 83. No wreaths. 116 WATKINS. -On the 29th March, at Emlyn House, Brynmawr, Maggie, the youngest daughter of the late Mr Thomas Watkins, postmaster, aged 12 years. Private funeral, Brynmawr Cemetery, Wednesday.

TUESDAY, APRIL-3, 1894. STRIPPING THE COUNTERFEITS. THAT the intense love so zealously professed by Tories and Liberal Dissentients for Local Self-Government in any form, so that it be different to Irish Home Rule, was a hollow sham and pretence, was sufficiently obvious to all who intelligently watched the language and tactics of these strangely- assorted allies, inside Parliament and without. Believe their protestations, and there were no truer or more ardent wor- shippers of the "Divine principle" of Local Self Government within her MAJESTY'S Dominions than they. They idolised it with all the abandoned fervour of an idolator bending awe-struck before his fetish. But, as for Irish Home Rule, their abounding loyalty and patriotism revolted at that because it was contrary to the spirit and usages of the Imperial Parliament." Their plea was a dissembling and hypocritical plea from first o last. They hated every form of true Local Self-Govern- ment root and branch and with the subtlety of unprincipled Opportunists, adopted for the occasion the pleadings of one form of it to undermine, if possible, the arguments in favour of another. The principle of Local Self-Government is un- changing everywhere; its methods only vary. That a community knows best what is best for itself, locally, is a proposition so self-evident that even the most hardened dialectician would have found it necessary to swallow a double dose of original sin before he could summon sufficient hardi- hood to traverse the statement. Even that most pedantic and uncommonly positive disputant, GEORGE DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, Duke of ARGYLL, when discharging Scotch fire and brimstone upon the heads of his former colleagues—Mr GLADSTONE and the Liberal leaders-for their advocacy of Irish Home Rule, thought it necessary, with ostentatious display of technicalities of phrase, to explain that his wrath was being discharged against Irish Home Rule. and not against Local Self-Government, or the supervision and management of its own local affairs by a community whether in England, Scotland, or Wales. He said that there was all the difference in the world between giving Local Self- Government to a people like the Irish amongst whom the tendencies of popular feeling were "centrifugal," and giving it to another, the Scotch, for in- stance, in whom these tendencies were "centripetal." The meaning of the duke was-but a man with the quarterings of eight centuries upon him cannot be expected to use the every-day language of common mortals-that as the Irish people showed a tendency to fly off from allegiance to the British Government they cannot be given Local Self-Government; but any other of the nationalities of the United Kingdom, the Scotch by excellence, who evince a tendency to cling closer to Imperial unity, shall be granted Local Self-Government as a reward for good behaviour. It is thus that a people like the Great Britons are swaddled and coddled and petted by its Tory Dukes and Lordlings who act the part of dry nurses to a Democracy which have not yet arrived at the years of discretion. An instructive and apt commentary upon the Duke of ARGYLL'S teaching and upon Tory policy generally was sup- plied by some remarkably significant proceedings in the House of Commons last night. Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN, the SECRETARY for SCOTLAND, had given notice that he, yesterday, intended to move that in addition to the existing two Standing Com- mittees of the House of Commons, a third committee should be appointed "to deal with all Bills relating exclusively to Scot- land, which may, by the order of the House, be committed to them;" and that this Standing Committee do consist of all the members representing Scottish constituencies together with fifteen other members, to be nominated by the Committee of Selection." Here was a proposed experiment in Local Self-Government, a mere tentative and preliminary experiment, based upon the very principle for which Tories and Liberal Dissentients professed ¡ such unbounded love and proceeding upon the lines and aiming to secure the end, along which they swore—and almost as vehemently as the army in Flanders-they were most anxious to travel and to reach the goal, when they so fiercely opposed the Irish Home Rule Bill. And not only this, but the people for whcee advantage mainly the proposal was last night made, are a centripetal" people to borrow the fantastic pedantry of the Duke of ARGYLL. The Scotch are as loyal as the Welsh to the Crown and to the Central Government. So that all the conditions were present which the Tories and the Liberal Dissentients demanded prior to conceding Local Self- Government to any section of the people. We have said that the proposal of Sir GEORGE TKEVELYAN was made mainly in the interests of the Scottish people, but ita adoption would, however, largely advantage the nation as a whole. The con- gestion of public business in the House of Commons has for years been a crying evil and a scandal to free Legislative Government. As Mr CHAMBER- LAIN said in what he now sneeringly, but with biting satire against himself, calls his "Radical days —"We have to deal with obstruction in the House of Commons. We have to deal with the system under which the greatest legislative assemblage in the world has begun to lose its usefulness, and in consequence to lose its influence. And that result—the speedy passing of needed measures—can never be accomplished so long as the Imperial Parliament is burdened with an ever-increasing amount of petty detail, with which it is incompetent to deal, and which ought to be referred to other bodies." To lighten the House of Commons of its ever-increasing burden of detail, with which it is wholly incompetent to deal, because, as a Legislative Assembly, it knows nothing whatever about nine- tenths of the questions brought under its notice, Mr GLADSTONE again and again suggested the adoption of a system of devo- lution, by which certain specific matters should be given in charge to committees of members who had special knowledge of the questions, and who should consider them exhaustively and report thereon to the House of Commons. This was the meaning of Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN'S motion last night. He pro- posed that all Scotch questions should by a resolution of the House of Commons pass over to the members for Scotland, and fifteen other gentlemen appointed by the Committee of Selection, for examination and inquiry and that they should report their view of the various matters for the con- sideration and decision of the House. Mr CHAMBERLAIN was once an earnest advocate of this view. Indeed, he went further, and thought that in time Local Councils might have entrusted to them the duty of preparing legislation— legislation on national as contrasted with Imperial interests." Sir GEORGE TREVEL- resolution, as we have seen, did not go a tenth part as far as this. But Tories and Dissentients who, notwithstanding all their loudly vaunted mouthings in favour of the principle of Local Self-Government, dis- trust the people utterly, saw in this resolution, or ptofessed to see rather, a step in the direction of giving Local Self-Government to the whole of Scotland and they opposed it with all the fiery zeal of monopolists, who see their privileges waning. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, the Tory member for Wigtonshire—one of the comparatively few Tory members sent from Scotland to the House—gave notice of his intention to pro- pose an amendment, to the effect that referring Bills to a Committee of members who were supposed to know most about the subject matter of the Bills, would be contrary to the spirit and usages of the Imperial Parliament." The Tories enlisted themselves under Sir HERBERT MAXWELL'S banner with almost fanatical earnest- ness. Tory Whips were sent out and every effort that could be made was made to bring every Tory and Liberal Dissentient to the House to vote against Sir GEORGE ( TREVELYAN'S resolution and to defeat the Government for their audacity in attempt- ing to give even such a small measure of Local Self-Government to Scotland. What an edifying commentary this is, and if the people of the United Kingdom would only open their eyes and take an ethical view of political tactics and methods, what a repulsive commentary it is, on Tory conscientiousness and consistency When BENEDICT swore that he would die a bachelor, he did not know, so his plea went, that he should live until he got married. But the Tories knew, when they swore—in order to give more effect to their opposition to Irish Home Rule— that they were earnest lovers of Local Self- Government that they hated every form of Local Self-Government, which would be effective and real, with all their heart and soul. Even the very small and tentative experiment which Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN proposed last night, and which, in its practical and,operative form, has been really in existence for years, they opposed to the utmost when Legislative sanction was sought to be given it. Sir GEORGB TREVELYAN said in his last night's speeeh that within ten minutes after any Scotch measure was taken in the House there was a regular stampede from the House of all but members from Scotland. None but Scotch members were left, and none but Scotch members spoke. This has been a notorious fact for years. But when it is asked that the Scotch members shall be appointed a Standing Committee on Scotch business, and make their investigations in one of the Committee-rooms, and then report to the House, so that the general and pressing business of the nation should not be de- layed, Tory professors of Local Self- Government tell us that this would be contrary to the spirit and usages of the Imperial Parliament." Fudge

HARBOUR TRUST ONCE MORE. CARDIFF Harbour Trust Committee met yesterday and—remitted the sub-committee's report to the whole Council. The sub- committee informed their confreres that an absolute condition precedent to further progress was the pledging of the borough rate for making up any deficit in Trust revenue; that each of the parties approached had assumed such a pledge as security for payment of the price agreed, and that the Bute representative had explicitly demanded it as a condition of negotiation. This is only what, at the outset, was to have been ex- pected it is no new discovery nothing to be surprised at the sub-committee might have called for the pledge before they began their tour of inquiry, so that the report carries matters no further. The interviews, whatever may become of the Trust pro- ject, have incidentally opened up once more a very wide question, and, therefore, have not entirely failed. They have outlined a Greater Cardiff, extending from Rhymney river, on the east, as far westward as the confines of Barry; a great combination of interests covering such an extent of local territory as will create the largest port in the kingdom and be worthy of the commercial prospects ahead. The sub-committee, as the result of their negotiations, have not presented a scheme of Harbour Trust, but have indicated what might be in the way of municipal com- bination, and when the borough is extended to Barry the inclusion of Llandaff and other contiguous places to the borough will do away with difficulties as to water and drainage which have heretofore been troublesome. As to the Harbour Trust, there is nothing—beyond an estimate that acquisition of existing docks: will entail raising seven millions sterling-, I yet to discuss. The idea that this sum can be raised at 3% per cent. is an hypothesis and before rate-pledging can be profitably discussed, it will be requisite to know what are the present earnings of the properties that are to cost this enormous sum. Moreover, the proposals, so far as any have yet been made, are upon an idea that the dock properties shall be purchased on the basis of the average earnings of the past three years—to which the Taff Vale chairman, representing Penarth Dock, has already notified his unwillingness to assent. When the General Purposes Committee meet to discuss the pledging of the rate the members will want an answer to the question, "What Such an answer is not discoverable in the reports as yet available, though these are very interesting and valuable, evidencing hard work on the part of members of the sub- committee. Harbour Trust we have advocated for more than 30 years, in the interests of the town and trade but a Har- bour Trsut weighted with enormous capital, spent in acquirement of properties at prices far beyond their real worth, would be hugely detrimental to the town and trade if the borough rate were pledged. Before the Council assent to pledging, it will want an estimate of price, with many other par- ticulars which the committee have not yet obtained-such, for instance, as the further sum that would be needed to make addi- tional docks, or float the estuary.

CARDIFF MUSICAL FESTIVAL. SIR JOSEPH BARNBY'S NEW WORK. A communication reached Cardiff on Monday from Sir Joseph Barnby, stating that he is making progress with the new cantata for tbe Cardiff Musical Festival, and is very well satisfied with what he has already done. This statement fur- nishes a complete denial to the rumour that Sir Joseph will not be able to accomplish his work.

WALES AND THE MUSEUMS. The Welsh members complain that the Principality receives no share in the grants for National Museums of the United Kingdom. An opportunity will be taken on going into Committee of Supply of urging the expediency of making provision in this respect for Wales, similar to that made with respect to Scotland and Ireland.

CARDIFF EXHIBITION COMMITTEE. A meeting of the provisional committee was held at the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Monday even- ing, under the presidency of the mayor (Councillor W. J. Trounce), when the report of the guarantee sub-committee was received. It was suggested that Mr W. A. Morgan should call the guarantors together on Friday evening next, in order that they might be able to send in a tender for the Bristol Exhibition building?, Saturday next being the last day appointed for the receipt of such tenders; but Mr Cook pointed out that a week or so longer would make but little difference, as he had ascertained that the Bristol people were likely to have some difficulty in disposing of their buildings.—It was ultimately agreed to call guarantors together on Monday evening next, at 8 o'clock.—Votes of thanks were subsequently passed to the mayor and to Mr Cook, the secre' tary, for their services on the provisional com- mittee.

DEATH OF MR T. GLASBROOK, SWANSEA. THE INQUEST. The members of the Glasbrook family are receiving on all hands the deepest sympathy in the loss they have sustained in the death ot Mr Thomas Glasbrook, J.P., of Norton House, near Swansea, under circumstances reported on Monday. The inquest was held at the hospital, on Mon- day morning, before Mr Edward Strlolc. There were present—Mr John Glasbrook, Mr David Glasbrook, brothers of the deceased, and Mr Woods, solicitor, who watched the proceedings on behalf of the family. Mr G. Thomas was the foreman of the jury.—Mr John Glasbrook identified the body as that of his brother, who was in his 48th year. The horse he rode at the time of bis death he had been hunting with all winter and riding daily. The animal was rather restive.—Mr W. L. Pennell, a clerk in the employ of Mr W. Pike, said the deceased at 8.15 on baturday evening went to the Rutland mews for bis horse, ,which he had put up there. The horse was brought out of one of the stalls. Mr Glasbrook mounted it, and then he rode away quietly at a walk. He had often seen the horse, which seemed quiet enough.—loan Small, a boy, said about 8.30 he was on the Mumbles-road driving with a boy named Thomas, and when at Vivian's stream he saw a horse, which was a gentleman's, trotting along, sud. denly break into a gallop. He faid to his companion, "Surely, the horse has run away," and he stopped the trap. Then the horse jumped from one side of the road to the line, and, lowering ita head, tbe rider was thrown off on to the rails. The rider, he had since discovered, was Mr Glasbrack. The horse ran off first towards Swansea, and on being turned went towards the Mumbles. The Mumbles train was not near at the time, and he saw no bicycle or anything else likely to frighten the horse. A trap had passed the horse just before the accident,—Mr Morris, of the Gower Inn, said a little after eight on Saturday night he was driving his trap on the Mumbles-road, when the last witness told him a man had been thrown from his horse. He got out of his trap, and saw the deceased lying on his back across the rails. He lifted him on to the bank. He was uncon- scious, but breathing. Blood was oozing from bis II mouth and ears, and his face was so covered with blood that though hA struck a match, he could not recognise him. Witness drove to the Oxford- street police station aud gave information to the police and he drove back again, while the police followed with the ambulance. On his return to :the deceased he failed to detect him breathing.—Mr L. Thomas, in the employ of the Great Western Railway Company, spoke to being called to the deceased after the accident, and staying with him whtle the last witness drove off for assistance.—P.C. Harris spoke to taking the police ambulance to the acene of the accident. When he arrived Mr Glasbrook was dead. He conveyed the body to the hospital.—Dr. Griffiths, the house surgeon at the hospital, said the body arrived at the hospital at 9 p.m. on Saturday. He had made a superficial examination of the corpse, and found a slight superficial wound on the right side of the forehead, and bleeding in the mouth and ears. From that he should say deceased probably had a fracture at the base of the skull, and death would be due to an injury to the brain. This would be quite consistent with a heavy fall.—The Coroner briefly summed up, expressing sympathy with the family at a death which was evidently due to an accident.—The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death." The funeral takes place at noon to-day (Tues., day), and will be private.

CARMARTHEN QUARTER SESSIONS. INDISPOSITION OF THE RECORDER. There was no business to be transacted it the Carmarthen Borough Quarter Sessions on Monday. The Clerk of the Peace (Mr J. H. Barker) had received a letter from the Recorder (Mr Arthur Lewis) stating that be was indisposed and that there was illness in bis family. The formal adjournment of the oourt was, therefore, announced by the Mayor (Mr H. Cadle).

SUBSIDENCES IN THE RHONDDA. MAGISTRATES DESERT THEIR COURT. Among a large number of other buildings which are in danger of collapsing owing to subsidences -caused by underground mining in the Rhondda, the St. James-hall, Pentre, where for some ysars past tbe Pontypridd stipendiary and local magistrates have been accustomed to hold a weekly police-court. The building is now so greatly cracked that the magistrates have resolved that no more courts shall be beld therein—at any rate until it is strengthened and repaired—and consequently tbe police-court, which in the ordinary course of things would be held at Pentre next Monday, will be held in Pontypridd. Meanwhile, the magistrates are on the look-out for some other building in the Rhondda where courts can be held, and it is hoped that one of the old chapels in the district can be secured for that purpose.

LOCAL PETITION IN PARLIA- MENT. In the House of Commons on Monday the Hon. F. C. Morgan presented a petition from Catholic parents and friends of children attending' the elementary schools of St. Michael's and St. Mary's, Newport, in favour of altering the law in, regard to the school board rate.

CADBDRT S COCOA. — A Cocoa possessing valuable flesh-forming qualities and iinpartingstrengtfc Rnd stavinir power. Health 1170 A NEW STORY, by Harry Blytb, will be commenced in the Cardiff 'limes and South Wales Weekly News" on Saturday next, entitled "Her L.tfcu^ig^ jraA.n

GELLIGAER ENDOWED SCHOOL. INQUIRY ON BEHALF OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS. THE GOVERNORS V. THE COUNTY SCHEME. On Monday, as instructed by the Charity Com missioners, Mr W. E. Lefroy, assistant-commis- sioner and barrister-at-law, of London, concluded an inquiry at the Gelligaer Endowed Schools, under the Endowed Schools and Welsh Inter- mediate Education Acts, 1889, respecting the subject matter of the scheme providing far the intermediate and technical education of the inhabitants of the county of Glamorgan, particularly with respect to the foundation of Edward Lewis for a school at Gelligaer." Mr J. Theodore Dodd and Mr J. H. James, instructed by Mr John Davies, soli- citor, of Merthyr, and clerk to the governors, appeared on behalf of the latter; Mr J. E. Shepherd represented the guardians of the Bed- wellty Union Mr F. Treharne James appeared on behalf of the guardians of the Merthyr Union; Mr Lyne, of Newport, on behalf of the Mynydd- slwyn School Board and the Rev. T. Jesse Jones, rector of Gelligaer, appeared on behalf of a committee appointed by the vestry. Mr Dodd raised a preliminary objection to the scheme propounded by the joint education com- mittee. He considered that, according to the reading of the Act which he cited, the scheme was utterly and thoroughly beyond the power of the Welsh Education Committee. Under the scheme the committee might specify the educational endowments within their county which in their opinion ought to be used for the purpose of such scheme, but they had no power to deal with these endowments. They might specify them and give their opinion with regard to them, but they had NO POWER TO TRANSFER THE ENDOWMENTS. This contention was strengthened by section 13 of the Act. He further contended the scheme was ultra vires with regard to the commissioners themselves with respect to the 1869 Act, and the adoption of it by the commissioners could noD of course be binding upon thegovemors. Thelatter objected that under the county scheme not a single shilling derived from the Lectureship Lands," one of the endowments referred to, would be secured to the poor, and that in all probability they would obtain but little out of i their own property, the greater part, if not the whole of it, going to the richer classes. He pointed out also that though the county scheme proposed to take away the whole of the endow- ment from Gelligaer and transfer it to the county, yet it did not provide for taking over the ,liabilities of the present governors. The present gross income of the endowment (independent of the annual value of the school buildings) was about 21,050 a year, which would largely increase in the next 20 or 30 years owing to the letting of the coal under the charity lands. Yet the county scheme proposed to allow an annual grant of only £1,300, or, if necessary, a sum not to exceed £ 1,500. Moreover tho governors, under the present scheme, had greatly assisted THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS throughout the parish of Gelligaer, a sum of J6200 being paid to the Gelligaer School Board towards the maintenance of the Higher Grade School at Pontlottyn, besides giving money prizes annually to female pupil teachers and mont. tresses of the elementary schools throughout the parish. In addition, the governors gaves cholar. ships and exhibitions at training colleges and elsewhere to the amount of JB60 per annum and this would all be lost if the county scheme were enforced. Briefly, the objection of the governors to the county scheme were that it was a perver- sion of the property of the poor. Dr. James, representing the Monmouthshire County Council, then gave evidence, saying that those he represented considered that the parishes of Bedwellty and Mynyddislwyn, which at present were allotted jB70 in exhibitions, should have that amount increased in proportion to the increased value of the charity. The income from the charity, he considered, in a few years would amount to between;C3,000 or £ 4,000 a year, and it would be very unfair if these parishes, which were within four miles of the schools, and comprised a population altogether of 9,000, should not benefit pro rata. He considered that the children from Bedwellty and Mynyddislwyn should benefit pro rata in any scholarships thatmight be inserted in the scheme. He did not think the county scheme was sufflolen t, ttnd was of opinion that the scheme put forward by the governors WAS MUCH MORE SUITED TO THE DISTRICT. Mr William Griffiths, J.P., representing the Bedwellty Board of Guardians and the Bedwellty Local Board, gave evidence that it was the con- viction of those he represented that it was of the highest importance that the endowment should be retained in its entirety in order to maintain the school in a position equal to any in the Principality. Mr John Davie.?, clerk to the governors, gave evidence with regard to the number of boys attending the school, amount of fees received, expenditure, etc. At present they were spending a little more than their income. Mr Roger Jones, the headmaster, next gave evidence with regard to the work of the school. Mr Gwilym C. James, chairman of the board of governors, followed with evidence respecting the public meetings held in the district in favour of the governors' alternative scheme and against that proposed by the county committee. He thought they ought to be allowed to work out their own destiny, and when they had funds available he had no doubt they would be glad to band them over to the county for the benefit of education generally. Mr John Jenkins, a parishioner of Gelligaer, and formerly a member of the sliding-scale com- mittee, said he had studied the county scheme, but he would "rather have the will in its entirety. He thought the money ought to be kept in the parish, and believed that the charity would be much better administered by the governors than by the county committee. Mr Thomas Beavan, colliery manager of Vochriw, said the inhabitants of that parish were unanimously in favour of the governors' scheme. Mr Thomas Boberts and Mr Evan Evan, parishioners of Vochriw, corroborated. Alfred Phillips, a member of the Rhymney and Pontlottyn Chamber of Trade, stated that the people of those districts were unanimously in favour of the governors' scheme. David Hopkins, vice-chairman of the Rhymney and Pontlottyn Chamber of Trade, and Mr David Jones, corroborated the last witness. Mr D. S. Jones, grocer, of Bargoed, gave evidence that the feeling of the people at Bargoed was unanimously v in favour of the governors' scheme. The Rev. J. P. Williams, LL.D., of Pont- lottyn, and a vice-chairman of the Gelligaer School Board and one of the guardians of Mer- thyr Tydfil, said he considered the county scheme WOULD BE A GREAT INJUSTICE ,to the parish both in regard to the scale of fees and the appointment of assistant masters. The colliers could not afford to pay the fees. Mr Charles Henry James, C.E., on behalf of the guardians, said he considered the manage- ment of so important a. trust should be placed in the hands of those whom education had fitted to deal with it, and although a member of the school board at Gelligaer he scarcely thought that body, judging from the reports of their proceedings in the public Press, wtre entitled to So large a pro- portion of governors. He thought one or more governors shonld be appointed by the University of Wales, the Cardiff College, the senior inspector of schools, and the lord-lieutenant of the county. Mr Evan Thoma3, miners'agent of Pontlottyn, represented the Rhymney Valley Miners' Association, which he said was opposed to the adoption of the county scheme, and wished to retain the benefits of the charity for the three, parishes interested. Mr E. P. Martin, general manager of the Dowlais Workgj stated that there was every reason tj believe that the population of Gelli- gaer would rapidly increase in the near future. He was strongly in favour of the governors' scheme. The Rev. Canon Wade said the original inten. tion of the dcnor of the charity waa to relieve and to educate. He pointed out that THEY HAD TO PAY A SCHOOL BOARD RATS in the parish of Gelligaer, and under the circum- stances he thought that were there any funds available from the charity, afteriproviding for the wants and requirements of the school, it should be devoted to relieving the rates. clerk to the guardians and to the Gelligaer School Board, gave evidence in support of the governors' scheme. The Rev. "I. J. Jones, rector of Gelligaer, who was next called, said he objected to the county scheme as it had not made provision for placing the school in a position to be a stepping-stone to the University. So far as the governors' alter- native scheme was concerned, if it:was adopted' as the result of that inquiry he should be riad, pro- vided the school was placed under the county scheme for purposes of examination. He also laid great emphasis on the^necessity of showing the children of fchs Valley £ consideration than had been shown them in the past. Mr T. C. Thomas, schoolmaster, of Bedlinog, said that he was in favour of the school being placed under the provisions of the Welsh Educa- tion Act, and for this reason he supported the general principle of the county scheme. No further evidence was tendered, and the .in- quiry then closed. The commissioners will report; in due course.

THE GREAT CUBE FOR CultNs.-Mundayw Viridine-Still further testimony. A Chemist writes :— Will you send me a bottle of your Viridine ? It. is for- my own use. I get plenty of corn cures of the aa/mo. colour, but none of them appear to equal yours. No one ought to say his corns are incurable untilne has "Psed •' Viridine." Thousands have oePQ cured, most, uf whom had suffered for over 50 >ears. Betoaieo, imitations. Sold in bottles bst Is 2d, by the proprietor, J. Munday, IBKh-3tf«8t Cardiff, *nd all Chemists. 1079

CARDIFF HARBOUR TRUST. SHALL THE RATES BE PLEDGED ? OPPOSITION TO THE PRO- POSAL. The Cardiff Harbour Trust Committee met at the Town-hall on Monday. The Mayor (Coun. cillor W. J. Trounce) presided, and there also attended Aldermen W. Sanders, R. Cory, T, Rees, T. W. Jacob, and David Jones; Coun- cillors J. White, B. Munn, R. Johnston, Waring, E. W. Shackell, M. Morgan, J. Tucker, Noah Rees, and J. Ramsdale.-The report of the sub-committee was again discussed, and the point debated at length whether the rates should be pledged on account of the scheme, and the assist- ance of experts obtained in determining its practicability and advisability. The report has already appeared in the South Wales Daily News. The MAYOR said they had arrived at a period in the history of Cardiff when it was very desirable that they should consider a question of some magnitude. The desirability of establishing a harbour trust at Cardiff had already been deter. mined, and they had made some progress in the matter, although it had taken a little time to draw up the report they submitted that morning. The sub-committee had given a vast amount of time in order to elucidate every matter necessary in considering this great question. He referred to the actions of other great municipalities in re- spect to harbour trusts, particularly Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and the Tyne, and thought they should equally husband the resources of Cardiff, and try to set other commercial districts an example in this respect. The crucial point that morning would be the question of pledging the rates if the scheme was adopted. Other bar- bour trusts were progressing most favourably after borrowing money on the security of the rates at 3y2, 4, and 4% per cent., and Cardiff ought to be in a much better position, seeing that they could borrow at 3 per cont. They »hould be able to obtain a surplus on the transaction which might be applied to the development of the dis- trict. There were BETWEEN 5,000 AND 6,000 MEN OUT OF EMILOTMENT in Cardiff, and it was their duty to do all that was possible to employ them. Alderman CORY: Are you sure there are so many unemployed ? The MAYOR Yes, there are that number out ot employment within the borough boundary, and it is our object that there shall be established docks which shall not only develop manufactures and industries, but bring to our port such im- ports as we have never had before. It was, he added, unnecessary to go further into details, for they had received various reports from the com- mittee. The Board of Trade approved of harbour trusts, and the great interests of the district were ready to co-operate in the matter. It was now for the committee and corporation to come to some definite conclusion by which their past efforts might be crowned with success. He proposed that the report of the sub-committee be adopted. Alderman D. JONES said if they adopted the suggestion that the rates should be pledged, it would be the duty of the corporation to amal- gamate with Barry and Penarth, whose rates must also be pledged. The MAYOR said that was the view he took of the question. Alderman JONES asked had the committee con- sidered that the property was generally held to be good enough in itself to tempt speculators to invest their money ? WHY WAS IT THEY WERE ASKED TO PLEDGE THE BATES if this were so? Councillor SHAOKELI. said if they, as a cor- poration, bought any large concern,such as water- works. gasworks, or tramways, they would be bound to pledge the rates to the shareholders. Alderman JONES said in the case of gasworks other people would be ready to assist, but in the present matter the margin between the rate at which they could borrow and the possible profit was so narrow—half or three-quarters per cent.— that a year's bad trade or mismanagement might involve a heavy expense on the rates that were pledged. Alderman SANDERS asked if the sub-committee bad come to any recommendation ? Councillor SHAOKELL pointed out that on the last page of their report they stated that the time had come when they should have the assistance of experts, but that before this step was taken they should have the opinion of the council as to pledging the rates. Aldermfcn SANDERS thought they should hava> those matters before them which had satisfied the members of the sub-committee as to the desirability of this course Councillor JOHNSTON said that the sub-com- mittee bad exhausted the powers given them, and therefore asked that experts be appointed to report whether the scheme suggested was a feasible ons. Unless this was the opinion of the experts the pledging of the rates would not come in. At the same time the parties concerned would not disclose their books, earnings, and whole business to others than accredited parties appointed by the corporation, and only on the assurance that their interests were protected. Alderman REES said the first question was whether the committee were prepared, in the light of the information received, to recommend the council to pledge the rates ? The MAYOR said there was no doubt that there should be security over and above that of the actual property. It had been done in many cases, but if they borrowed at 3 per cent., and the property paid 4% per cent. he did not see where the responsibility would fall on the rates. Alderman JACOBS: But are you sure that they aro paying 4 per cent. ? Councillor JOHNSTON If they are not prepared to hand over the property at 4 per cent. we don't touch it. Our recommendation in a former report, approved by the committee, was THAT THE PROPERTY SHOULD BE BOUGHT TO PAT 4 PER CENT. The MAYOR: That would be the point de- volving on the expert to determine. Alderman CORY Jeaid they believed that the export and import trade would increase and augment the 4 psr cent. Councillor MORGAN wished it to be clearly .understood that he did not sign the sub- •committee s report proposing to pledge the rates of the town, though he Rgreed to the principle of a harbour trust. There was a great deal of difference between Bristol and Cardiff. The former had not a quarter of the docks' value. Glasgow did not pledge the rates of the town for' its harbour trust, and it was the same with Liverpool, though a proposal bad been made there to do ao. His idea was that they should borrow upon the harbour dues, and that the docks property was sufficient security for the loan. He did not ^understand the mayor's reference to between 4-,000 and 5,000 unemployed. Did he propose that the corporation should immediately employ those men ? The town was now indebted to the extent of a million and a half—(Alderman Jacobs A million and a quarter)--ind when the Bill they were now promoting was through, the indebtedness would be two millions and a half. They had a very narrow profit, and though the Bute Dooks had been well managed, they paid a dividend of but 2% per cent. Did they think the corporation could manage them more efficiently? And supposing they had six months' depression in trade, or three or four months of strikes, what were they going to do ? They would also have to deal with the working men of the town, who would want to be managers, and would play ducks and drakes with it, and he believed that then THEY WOULD FIND THEMSELVES IN BANKRUPTCY. The MAYOR was sorry Councillor Morgan had not greater confidence in the working men. They had inadequate accommodation at Cardiff for its ever increasing trado, and if the necessary facilities were t> not forthcoming, what would 1become of their ever-increasing population ? He repeated that they had at least 4,000 or 5,000 unemployed, and it was their duty to develop their trade so as to give employment. The Glasgow Trust property was worth £ 9,000,000, and it cost them £ 3,000,000. (Councillor Johnston They have written off £ 3,000,000). Security would be given on the dues of the harbour when they arrived at a successful posi- tion, and that would be at no very distant date. } Bristol had advanced rapidly since its harbour I was managed by a public body. j Councillor JOHNSTON said that the port of Bristol called on the ratepayers for £ 6,000 per j annum, but they received £ 26,000 from the port in return. Mr Morgan's statement was entirely incorrect. Bristol docks [were of greater value than those of Cardiff, and if he had read the reports of the committee he would not have made j that statement. Councillor MORGAN I stick by it. Alderman REES said he could hardly accept, though he could not controvert, tbe statement of the mayor that there were between 4,000 and 5.000 unemployed in Cardiff. Did that include the incapacitated and the loafers ? Was it not possible to formulate a scheme whereby the corporation contribute a certain amount, say £100,000 or more, towards A GENERAL TRUST FUND, under which they would be shareholders. That would not be so formidable because 2d in the £ would not hurt them much if they could get something out of it. Councillor JOHNSTON I don'b think the Board of Trade would sanction an amalgamation of that sort. Councillor RAMSDALE: It all depends on one thing. Are we prepared to pledge our rates, be- cause. if not, it is useless discussing the question? Alderman JACOBS pointed out that tbe corpo- ration would have a bare majority on the harbour trust body, and if they were alone responsible he id not see why others should assist in tho management. Councillor JOHNSTON submitted that they would not own the property any more than they did that which they dealt with already. Councillor MORGAN thought the rates might, as a result, be raised another 5s in the 2, and that those who derived their incomes from house pro- perty might be ruined. Ooonoillor JOHNSTON: The amount of mis. understanding about this is astounding. We pro. pose a scheme whereby we shall make A SAVING TO THE TOWN OF £60,000. Alderman SANDERS Is that in this report^ Councillor JOHNSTON said it was in a former one. If they could not buy the property as paying 4 per cent., they would not touch it, and they could borrow the purchase mon?y at 3 per cent. Alderman SANDERS said until the information on which the sub-committee formed its con- clusions was before them, and reasonable proba- bility was shown that the rates would not be called upon, he protested against this matter being played with. Councillor JOHNSTON replied that the resolu. tion in a former report of the sub-committee Recommended the corporation to take over properties which, for the last three years, had paid 4 per cent. per annum, and the obligation would be very light. Alderman SANDERS asked to be shown what satisfied the sub-committee that the properties were likely to pay that in future. If they were not disposed to give the information, he failed to see the reason of the committee being there at all. Councillor TUCKER said it was one of their strongest arguments that the working of the last two or three years would enable them to take over the property at the lowest possible valuation. Alderman JONES But will they deal on Jthe three years ? Alderman CORY said that was a sine qua non, and they could not go into the matter before they had the valuation. He had yet to learn that although they had a number of workmen on the management they could not take part in the management as well as they did in Bristol. Instead of increasing the rates by 5s in the £ he did not see why they should not GET RID OF THEM ALTOGETHER. Councillor TUCKER said Alderman Rees and Alderman Jacobs had made practical sugges- tions, but if they worked on them they would not receive the enhanced value of the land they ex- pected to take over. Bristol had taken a new life since the formation of its harbour trust. In reply to Alderman Jones, the MAYOR said, according to the proposal of the committee, if they took over a. property at 4 per cent. and it only paid 2 per cent. on £100.000, they would only pay £50,000 for it. Alderman SANDERS said that when the struggle was proceeding over tbe Roath Dock and Barry Dock Lord Bute stated in evidence that it did not pay to make new docks. He again asked for the information on which the sub-committee made its recommendation. Councillor JOHNSTON said the sub-committeo had given their ideas as practical business men. Did Mr Sanders think that Lord Bute or the "Barry Dock people would open their books to the committee ? Alderman SANDERS It is ridiculous to ask them to. Councillor JOHNSTON added that they were prepared to do so if the committee or experts accredited with security from the corporation applied for the information. They had to give the promise and lay down the lines on which they were prepared to deal with the property. Councillor SHACK-ELLSaid some members forgot that the indebtedness cf the town would bo counterbalanced by THE ACQUISITION OF THE ENORMOUS PROPERTY which it was proposed to take over. It was time to consider whether they would pledge the rates of the town or nob. Then, when they had ascer- tained the cost of the scheme and the prac- ticability of it, they would go to the town council and ask them to consider whether they would _pledge the ratea of the town to carry it out. He proposed— That the time has now arrived when the services of financial and enneerillg experts should be secured to report as to the practicability of carrying out the sug- gestions of the harbour trust committee in reference to the enclosure of the estuaries of the Taff and Ely rivers and the existing dock accommodation of the port of Cardin, and submit an estimate of the cost of the same. Alderman CORY seoonded. Councillor RAMSDALE said Sir William Thomas Lewis had laid it down that without the pledging of the rates the property could not be taken over, and, until that was done. itwas nselessemploying experts. He was not yet sufficiently assured as to the advisability of the proceeding to consent to pledging the rates. Councillor SHACKELL withdrew his proposi- tion. Councillor RAMSDALE moved the following amendment :— That copies of this report be printed and circulated among the members of the corporation, and that a special meeting of the general purposes committee be convened by the mayor for the purpose of considering the matter of passing resolutions thereon. Replying to Alderman Sanders, Councillor JOHNSTON said that the whole of the information obtained by the sub-committee had been placed before the committee in previous reports, except one item of information which was spontaneously given, and then withdrawn, by an agent. It did not affect the principle. He moved that the recommendation of thesub-committee be adopted. The MAYOR seconded. A lderman SANDERS said they would be acting most injudiciously if they passed the resolution without receiving the information on which the sub-committee based their report. Alderman REES thought it would be better to ask the committee to receive tha rapori, and go into the matter again at the general purposescom- faittee. Councillor WHiTR remodelled the resolution to read that the committee received the report and recommended that the council should say whether the rates should or should not be pledgad as pro- posed in the report. Councillor Ramsdale's amendment was seconded, and on being put to the vote, there were eight for it and five against. It was then carried a3 the substantive proposition, and the committee adjourned.

DEATH OF MR DAFF DAVIES. We regret to record the death of Mr David E. Davies, of 134, Richmond-road, Cardiff, under painfully sudden circumstances, from heart disease. Mr Davies was apparently in his usual health on Sunday, and was in his garden shortly before seven o'clock. A little later he was found dead in the dining-room of his residence. Mr Davies, or, as be was popularly called throughout South Wales, "Daff," was a commercial traveller, and one of the most kind-hearted and popular men on the South Wales ground. He was a Freemason, and also took a keen interest in the philanthropic movements promoted by com- mercials, and was instrumental in assisting many brother commercials, who through ill-health or misfortune had fallen upon hard times, and also in succouring the widows and orphans of deceased | commercial travellers. In Cardiff he was widely known and respected. Mr Davies married one of the daughters of Mr Wm. Jones (bookseller, Duke-street). His wife survives him, with whom the greatest sympathy is felt in her sad bereavement. The funeral of the deceased gentle- man will probably be on Thursday, at the New Cemetery, Cardiff.

ROYAL WELSH LADIES' CHOIR. PRESENTATIONTO MRS NOVELLO DAVIES. On Monday the Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir em- barked upon another singing tour. At 12.15 they started for Birmingham, where they gave a concert at night. To-day (Tuesday) they siugtwicein Wolverhampton, and thence go to Manchester, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Southport, Preston, Wigan, and other Lancashire towns. Their tour will last nearly a fortnight, the choir expecting to be back in Cardiff by Saturday, the 14th instant. On the journey to Birmingham on Monday the members of the choir presented Madame Clara Novello Davies, the energetic conductress, with a beautiful and valuable necklace of gold and ewels.

STEALING LETTERS, SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MERTHYR BOY. On Monday—before Messrs North, Smyth, and Jenkins—at Merthyr Police-court, John Pugh, a colliery boy of 15, was charged with stealing letters belonging to Gabriel Freedman, furniture dealer, Dowlais. The prosecutor, during the past three or four months, had missed a great number of letters and some heavy remit- tances, and he complained at last to the post-office authorities.—Ann Samuel said she lived opposite Mr Freedman, and on Friday morning she saw the prisoner push a stick into Mr Freedman's letter-box, and pull out a letter. On Sunday Police-Sergeant Phillips arrested the prisoner, who said he did take the letters. He did not know how many. He found upon the prisoner a revolver and a bunch of keys, including a skeleton key. Superintendent Thomey asked for a re- mand, which was granted for a week.

CARDIFF SUNDAY SOCIETY. OPENING OF AN ART GALLERY. On Sunday the Art Gallery of the Cardiff Sunday Society in Duke-street was opened to the general public for the first time. Although the fact had been little advertised, the attendance was most gratifying. From three o'clock until five the room was full and there could not have been less than 250 visitors. Beyond this the class of visitors was most encouraging. They consisted of every order of the community—artizans, clerks, busi- ness men, merchants, together with a large sprinkling cf ladies. From this time forward the gallery will be open free on Sundays, and it is intended to erect a turnstile so as to get an accurate total of the number of visitors.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT, Five men were in a boatofi Ballingtoy, near Ballycastle, on Saturday evening, when the craft I capsized. James McLoughlin and a man named McFall were drowned. The coastguard rescued the remainder.

THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THB SUN is a. saying credited to a variety of illustrious authors, from the time of Solomon to the present day. It is a fact that many inventions lookp.1 upon as modern are of ancient origin. The telephone, which recently caused such a furore of excitement, was in ancient days a means by which the high priests worked upon I the credulity of their disciples. The Pyramids of Egypt and other wonders prove that this generation has a great deal to learn. 8 Holloway's Fills and Oint- has a great deal to lear* ) ment, however, were not anticipated by our fore- I fathers, and to-day they stand alone as the best cure the world possesses for aU the ills that humanity is beir to,

NEWS IN BRIEF. | The great majority of the new bonnets ar4 being made without strings. There is a, rumour that Mr Henschel is shortlS, to set to music a Jibretto of Mr W. S. Gilbert. -M Report has it that Mr Gladstone is the autot, of several tragedies which are still in manoscrip M It is understood that a new Roman Cathol" I Bishopric is about to be established in the Nor of England. The funeral of Lord Hannen has been take place at Norwood Cemetery at half-past o'clock to-day. 3B The Lord Chancellor left London on Sat for two or three days' rest at his new house Virginia Water. jfipH The Lancet is of opinion that what is <§|ff *■ times called love is rather a form of than of sane emotion. "Ik k Carlyle once described lecturing as the damnable occupation the devil had suggested j this march of intellect age. „ In consequence of its great success, IØ t Augustus Harris has decided to extend the seaii4, of English Opera at Drury-lane. The yacht Sunbeam, with Lord Brassey at. board, arrived at Gibraltar on Saturday, sailed in the afternoon for Portsmouth. A son of Mr Wilson Barrett owns a pa in Los Angelos, California, and another is editor of a journal in Yorkshire, England. Mr Bryn Roberts, the member for the Eifi Division of Carnarvonshire, addressed during 11111 past week several meetings of his constituents. Mr Basil Field, who has an interesting articW on fly-fishing in the new number of the Fortrl nightly," is convinced that fish talk with eacfr other. General Booth has returned to London from bit, tour in Wales. The celebration of his jubile4 begins with a great meeting in London ten d. hence. The Rev. J. Machreth Rees, the Secretary <4 the Welsh Disestablishment Campaign Coorf mittee, is reported to be recovering from serious illness. The Duke of York will open the ROF4 Horticultural Society's Exhibition in the Inn« Temple Gardens, which is fixed to take place oi May 23rd and 24th. Diplomatic Johnnies and Colonial bounders^ is how Mr John Burns alluded in the House of Commons last night to the features of the perial Institute. A new five-act drama, bearing the title A Miner's Luck, was to be produced last night) at Pontypridd for copyright purposes. Mr FranX A. Edwards is the author. Mr William Andrews, of Hull, whose volume( on Old Church Lore" and Curiosities of th( Church" are well known, is about to issue similar work on Curious Church Customs." A Reuter's despatch from Port Said says: The Inch Line steamer Inchisla, which weø. i ashore in the Suez Canal, has been got off. TM canal is now clear, and traffic has been resumed^ According to present arrangements, he Majesty, accompanied by Prince and Princes* Henry of Battenberg, will arrive at Windsor Castle from the Continent on Saturday, April 28th. Mr Thomas Brown, superintendent of th Eastharn section of the Manchester Ship Canali died on Friday in the Royal Southern Hospital Manchester, where he recently underwent ait operation. The three principal Welsh vocalists now before the public—Miss Anna Williams, Mr Edward Lloyd, and Mr Ben Davies—are all engaged foi the Triennial Handel Festival, to be held at th4 Crystal Palace in Jun9. a At Heywood, on Saturday, a coroner's jury i| returned a verdict of "Death from alcoholic ? poisoning in the case of an unknown man, who difd at the Heywood Police-station, after found unconscious in the street. "The Grand Old Mystery Unravelled" is the title of a collection of original cartoons and pot* traits of Mr Gladstone which Mr Harry Furnisai has been preparing since he retired from the staff of Punch, to be published in a. few days. Lord Rosebery's accession to the Premiership has caused a great run on his life of Pitt in tb8 "English Statesmen series. In the Bookman'^ monthly list the" Pitt" figures among the books which have sold most briskly at the shops. The Rev. Rhys Jones, Cefncoedcymer, has accepted the unanimous call of Bethany Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church, Ammanford, ttf become their pastor, and commences his ministra* tions there about the beginning of July next. A Liverpool gentleman writes to the Timd, stating that while staying at Lugano three yea*$ ago Kossuth remarked to him, "Your grea#f danger (in England) ia Socialism. X say* make neJ. terms with Socialism. You must stamp it out." 1 The King of Dahomey has been tenderly dealt with by the French Government. He has beeø: transported to Martinique, one of the Antilles West Indian group, where he will spend thlf remainder of his days. He has with him fou. wives. It is probable that the Drawing Rooms a Buckingham Palace will be held on Wednesday, May 2nd, and on Friday, May 4th. It is ex* pected that the first will be held by the Queers and the other by the Princess of Wales, for be6, Majesty. The remains of the late Bishop of Meath were removed on Sunday from Penrallt, the residence of his son, Principal Reichel, of the University College of North Wales, and conveyed to Holy. head, en route for Dublin, where the internment; was to take place. Professor J. F. Bridge has already completed the vocal score of his work for the forthcoming Triennial Festival at Hereford this year. The title he proposes to give it is "The Cradle ol Christ," and it will be described as "a short Christmas pastoral." Messrs Novello have now published the Welsh patriotic song and chorus "ODelyn fyNywlad* 0 Harp of my Land '), composed by Mr John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) expressly for the International Eisteddfod held last autumn at the World's Fair, Chicago. Miss Hannah Jones's singing of the old ballad, "Wapping Old Siairs," in the opera bearing that name now being played at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, appears to be gaining in popu- larity, and promises to be the most attractive number in the opera. Mr R. Williams Wynn, the unsuccessful ? candidate for Montgomeryshire, has issued aJ4 i address, in which he thanks his supporters foi their work and votes, acknowledges the courtesy *■ with which he was treated by his opponents, and T expresses his readiness to again contest the seat. j A leathern bag, Containing £ 4,200 in French 1 bank notes, was found on a seat in the interior ot I a Clichy-Odcon omnibus on Thursday afternoon. j The receptacle and its contents were found by the conductor after all the passengers had left. Thert was no letter or paper in the bag to give a clue t to the owner of the money. Miss Minnie Cunningham, tbe charming dancer and singer, is seriously ill. Her well- known song, "The art of making love," was both written and composed by herself, and she is alsfl the author of It's naughty but it's nice," a song which greatly assisted Miss Lottie Collins ill earning her present reputation. At the International Medical Congress Rome a new treatment of pulmonary tubercolsis; consisting in the constant inhalation of the essence of mint and the external application of creosote and essence of mint in alcoholic solution, was described by Dr. Menelln, an Italian delegate, who claimed that he had by this treatment effected 39 cures. Mr Cornelius Vanderbilt works as hard and as regularly as the average business man. He ia at his desk in New York at tea o'clock every morning, and is kept busy until late. At night there is always something to do if there is no social engagement. H& watches every detail of the thousands of miles of railroad controlled by his family. Cambria has a letter in Saturday's Musicat News suggesting that there are three gentlemen at present in Wales who would be probably qualified to act in the capacity of external examiners in musio for the University of Wales, viz., Dr. Roland Rogers, of Bangor, Dr F. R., Greenish, of Haverfordwest, and Dr. Reynolds, of Oswestry, all Doctors of Oxford. The Rector of Merthyr commented somewhat severely on Sunday night upon the action of tha two men who endeavoured at the vestry to postpone the question of restoring the parish church, and he intimated that, if they had succeeded, a faculty would nevertheless have been asked for, and they might have been put to con- siderable expense—from £50 to JS500. An American play that is coming to England^ The Tornado, has a strange scene in a dissectin room. On the operating table is the shrouded form of a woman, and a surgeon proceeds to operate before his class of students. As he draws back the winding sheet he exclaims, My God, it is Ellen "—his wife Of course he dis- I covers that she still hves, and brings her back to consciousness. The secretary of the Tonic Sol-fa College nounces the following new elections, &c. » Associates: Advanced certificate: J. L. Davies, Aberystwyth. In harmony analy- sis: W. M. Phillips, Cardiff; H. G.' Phillips, Haverfordwest. In musical com- position R. J. Richards, Swansea; W. Hill, Maesteg; and Hannah Jones, Swansea. In musical and verbal expression: J. Richards, Rhondda, In staff notatioa T. Daniel; Llanelly.