Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

BAGILLT. OPBN-AIB SBBVIoB.-On Sunday afternoon at the Boot, an open-air service was held, the preacher being the Rev. Lewis Owen, superintendent of the Bagillt Wesleyan Circuit. NONCONFORMIST HABVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICES. —The services of thanksgiving for the harvest oommenoed, under the auspices of the Free Church Council, on Monday evening at Bethania Wesleyan Chapel. The Rev. J. Washington Jones opened the service; the Rev. L. Owen preached an appropriate sermon, and Mr Robert Thomas closed the servioe. On Tuesday night a prayer meeting was held at Bethel Baptist Chapel, when the Rev. J. Lewis presided, and part was taken in the service by the Rev. R. Jones, Mr John Jones, Twr, Mr S. Jones, &o. On Wednesday evening a prayer meeting was held at Salem Independent Chapel, and to-night (Thursday) a similar icrvioe will be held at the Tabernacle Chapel. BAGILLT EISTEDDFOD, Adjudication on the Essays on the "Eldest Son" (St. Luke xv., 25). Three essays were sent in bearing the noms-de-plume: 41 Venomia," Pennant" and "Nil Despeiaudum." -11.4Yil lIesperandum-This essay has been well written in good idiomatio Welsh indeed the style throughoat is excellent and far superior to that of the other two competitors, but it betrays evident signs of haste and harry, and his treatment of the subject is very far from being adequate or exhaustive. He hits off clearly enough some of the more prominent features in the Elder Brother's' charaoter, but the analysis of the springs of action and the deeper motives leaves much to be desired."— II Pennant-This is a very good essay, and the author has evidently taken much trouble with it, its composition must have involved a great deal of miscellaneous reading. He starts well, and writes clearly and forcibly, but seems to have exhausted his energy at the beginning, for there is a gradual but very peroeptible falling off towards the end. His exegesis does not appear to be very sound and acourate, nor do I agree with his exposition and interpretation of the real meaning of the parable; this idea that the Elder brother' is merely a reflexion of the ohataoter of the Pharisees is inadequate to say the least. The weak point of this essay is that it dwells too much upon what is merely particular and accidental in the I Elder Brv-tiier's c! aracter, and does not seize upon these traits whiou a e universal and applieable to all i.. ken 1 1.4itu irrespective of time and oiroum- e uuGos.■" enomia-Thim is decidedly the best erBay; the author has a clrar conception of the meaning of the parable a a whole, and of the lessons which were to be inoulcated by it. The style is not so good as that of the other two, and the handwriting and punctuation are far from being good, but the accuracy of the interpretation of the real meaning of the parable, and the depth of insight into the charaoter of the Elder Brother' far more than compensate for the inferiority in these rispecte. The author has mapped out the whole field well and clearly before beginning to write, and there runs, in consequence, a unity of thought and purpose through the whole essay; it is not a collection of separate remarks, having little or no connexion with one another, but a complete harmonious whole. At times the writer sutlers from a tendency to excessive quotation, and to the introduction of somewhat irrelevant disoussion, but the essay as a whole is excellent and well deserving of the prize."—J. 0. DAVIES, Oounty Sohool, Holywell, September 27th, 1898. BAGILLT LIGHTING COMMITTEE. CLAIM FOR AN UNFULFILLED ELECTION I PROMISE. After the meeting of the Parish Council on Tuesday evening at the Board Schools, the Bagillt Lighting Committee had several matters under consideration. Mrs Graoe Hughes, of White Horse Cottage, Bagillt, olaimed J61, rent of lamppost on her property. In the letter making the claim, the writer stated, Gentlemen, inasmuch as you as a Council have promised to remove this lamp-post and not having fulfilled your promise, I hereby claim the above .rent."—The Chairman said there had been no arrangement made to remove the lamp-poet, nor had the matter been officially before the Committee. It was, he said, very probable that the '^promise was connected with eleotion dodges," and of course it was well known that no relianoo could be placed on the fulfilment of a promise made under such eiroumstanoes.-It was resolved that the matter be left in the hands of the Councillors for the East Ward, with power to act. Mr Edwin Roberts reported that the removal of the lamp near to the Welsh Independent Chapel, to the opposite side 01 the roui had beeu a deoided improvement. Complaints were made of the lamps In Bagillt, and the Clerk was requested to cjmmunioate with the Gas Works authorities. The use of incandescent lighti on lamps near to the ohapels, as an experiment was discussed and the Clerk was directed to authorise the experiment being made. SHOCKING FATALITY TO AN INFANT. On Tuesday afternoon a shocking fatality happened to a child named Edward Thomas Griffiths, aged 18 months, son of Mr John Griffiths, Ivor Cottage, Bagillt. The child left the house along with two Bisters, and rambled on to Station-road. When on the station side of the gateway of the Cambrian Brewery, a cart laden with hay drawn by a horse, led by a youth named Robert Edwards, came out of the Brewery Yard. The child at the moment was close to the side of the road, and the carter immedi- ately on passing the child heard a scream; he stopped the horse and going to the rt:ar of t'ie cart found the child lying on the road, the cait wheel having passed over its head, and scattering the brains over the road. He lifted the child up, and Mr E. Davies, Gadlys, the owner of the oart, came up and took the child from the carter. As there was no one at the moment present to claim the child he laid it down and remained with it until it was taken up and conveyed home by Mr Higginbotham (unole of the deceased child). The aooident was witnessed by Thomas Williams, (hay trasser) Gletoh, who was, however, unable to reach the child in time to prevent the oart going over it. The cart and load of hay weighed 1 ton 6 owt. The child it appears got away L from the house whilst its grandmother was attending to her husband who is an invalid, its mother at the time was working at Bedol. > An inquest was held at the Dee Inn, this (Thuls- day) morning before Mr R. Bromley, county coroner. THE MINERS' FEDERATION AND THE COMPENSATION ACT. THE FIRST AWARD AT HOLYWELL COUNTY COURT. wfBoSr j*™ wa? made for arbitration under the* Compensation Aot, 1897, by John «« Carnarvon Castle, Holywell, the respondents bein* the Bettisfield Colliery Co., Bagillt. Mr W Wynne Evans, of Wrexham, instructed by the Denbighshire and Flintshire Miners' Federation, appeared for the applicant. Mr Wynne Evans stated this was the first request for arbitration under the Workmen's Compensation Aot, made in the district. He appeared for the plaintiff, as he might call the injured man, and he was glad to say there would be no real contest, inasmuch as a submission to an award had been filed the day oefore, and of which he got notice from the learned registrar of the Court that morning. Under tie circumstances, the procedure to be followed was that he had to apply formally to bis honour fo» an award and order for payment of the costs. The faots were briefly as follows:—John Evans, the man claiming compensation, was injured on the 19th July, and notice of the accident and claim for compensation was given on the 18th of August. He proposed to go pretty folly into the rules for such a claim for oompeneation, as there were other oases coming on. He really appeared for the Denbigbshire and Flintshire Miners' Federation, who had taken the case up on behalf of the injured man. His Honour: This is a formal application for arbitration by the Court ?—Mr Wynne Evans: Yet. Continuing, he said- The aooident happened on the 19th of July last, and notioe was given on the 16th of August to the Bettesfield Colliery Co. of intention to claim com- pensation for injuries received. That notioe was sent by Mr Edward Hughes, secretary of the Federation, and was to the efieot "Please take notice that on the 19th day of July, John Evans was injured by a fall of coal, which ktooked a prop down and struck him on the leg, whilst he was in your employ." That notioe was not acknowledged and it was repeated on the 27th of August. On the 29th August, Mr Higginbottom, the managing director of the Bettisfield Colliery, wrote With reference to your olaim for compensation, I beg to inform you that the claim cannot ba entertained as notice of injury was not given as soon as practical, as provided by the act." He (Mr Wynne Evans) was consulted and he wrote to the respondents laying the case before them and referring them to oases that had been recently taken under the aot. The respondents adhered to their contention of the notice not having been served at the proper time' Application for arbitration was accordingly filed and served at the proper time, and proofs prepared of the evidenoe he was to produce. However, on Monday, he received from the respoudent's molicitors-Mesirs. Peaoe and Ellis, King-street, Wigan-a letter dated October 8th, stating that they had been instructed by the North Wales Mutual Indemnity Sooiety in the matter. They had no wish to put Evans to the trouble and expense cf fighting the matter, and had given notioe of submission to the claim of 10s. a week from the 2nd of August, being 15 to be paid up to next Tuesday. If the man would call at the colliery on Wednesday that amount would be paid him. On receipt of that letter, he wired Messrs, Peaoe and Ellis I Yonr letter received will apply Holywell to-morrow for order and costs." That morning he had intimation from the Registrar of the Court that notice, required by the Aot, of sub- mission to the award had been filed. The procedure apparently to be adopted in such cases was laid down by certain rules, which he proceeded to recite and which related to the issuing of the order of award in the event of the respondent submitting, and the signing of the same by his Honour, in or out of court; also as to the costs recoverable from the respondent and the taxation of the oosts by the Registrar. The form of award was also recited. Mr Wynne Evans, asked his Honoui to make an award in that foim, and to direct under what saale coats would be recoverable, and subject to taxation by the Registrar. It was problematical when the plaintiff would be able to resume work. The doctor had said the injured knee would require time. His Honour: The respondent will have to watoh th it and g t reports. Air Wyune Evans: That is the case. His Honour: Under the oiroumstanoes I had better say scale B. On the assumption that it will be six months payment nnder the award it will come under scale B. If it continuet- for a longer period the respondents can matH' application for a commutation. I grant the app.i t.axi according to the submisdun of the rspoude:t, a id direct coats to be paid by the It d It u»r auale B, subject to taxation by the rc,

» PANTASAPH. THE PANTASAPH ART CLASSES. On Thursday last a meeting of the Committee of the Pantasaph Centra Technical Classes, was held at St. Glare's Convent. There were present the Right Hon. Lord Mostyn, C.C. (chairman), Mr R. Sankey, J.P., Holywell; Rev. R, Davies, vicar of Gorsedd; Mr P. Mostyn Williams, orgari,i!l>{ secretary, and the Rev. Mother, local Bec:e I'j.. Apologies for absence were received from Air L.. JL. Oope, 0.0., Saithaelwyd, and the Rev. J. Davies, vioar of Whitford. The purpose of the meeting wat to consider the interests of the classes and the subjeots taken for study during the ensuing session. It was stated that the subjects included, freehand drawing, elementary andadvanced; model, elementary and advanced design, advanced perspective geometrical drawing physiography; botany; dress- cutting. The number of students entered for the classes was over sixty, and was an inorease upon the number last session there was also an inorease in the number of external students. The Committee examined the apparatus supplied for the physiography olaes and its completeness was favourably com- mented upon. It was found to be more eonvenien, to have the physiography class on Monday evenings and the change from Thursday to Monday was agreed upon. The drawing class was arranged to be held on Saturday, by Mr W. Welsh, from 10.30 a.m., to 12.30 p.m., and from 1.30 p.m., to 3.30 p.m. The dress-cutting class will be opened after Christmas, notice of which will be given. The arrangements for the annual distribution of medals, prizes and certificates, gained in connection with last year's olasses was considered and it was deoided that the distribution take place early in December. It was also decided to invite Lord Kenyon, Chairman of the Flintshire County Counoil, to attend the distribution. The Committee examined the speoimens of work returned after exhibition at South Kensington Museum, a portion of the work submitted was still ou exhibition, having been forwarded from South Kensington to Leamington. It was remarked that by the way the work was progressing this session the results would not fall short of those attained last year by the olasses. The attendance claims and also the necessary papers relating to the medals, prizes and certificates gained were signed by the managers present.

GOOD HEALTH WITHOUT DRUGS. 4.—MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. Mothers who would keep their children in good health should give them moroing and evening Dr. Tibbies' Yi-Cocoa made with hot milk. Delicate men &nd women who have weak lungs, to be hale, robust, and healthy should use Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa morning and evening, and all men who have to be expored to the bleak uncertainty of our trying dima e should fortify themselves before they faoe tlie- daily toil with Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Ooooa, and they can then brave the fory of the elements with equanimity. The writer speaks from personal experience and from observation of beneficial effects on others. Tea opens the pores and temporarily exoites, coffee stimulates the action of the heart, whilst Dr. Tibbies' Yi-Coooa gives strength, stamina, and builds up and strengthens the lung tissues. It is indeed a wonderful food beverage. Nothing has ever been discovered that can approach it in giving lightness of heart, joy of life, fleetness of foot, and that general feeling of comfort which only oomes from a full capacity to enjoy every pleasure, moral, intellectual and physical. Dr. Tibblea' Vi-Coooa can be obtained from all Chemists, Grocers and Stores, or from 60, 61, and 62, Bunhill Row, London, E.O. Merit, and merit alone, is what we claim for Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Ooooa, and we are prepared to send to any reader (a postcard will do) who names the Flintshire Observer a dainty sample tin of Dr. Tibbles' Yi-Coooa.

Eppg,is COCOAINE.—Cocoa-Nib Extract. (Tea-like).-The choicest roasted nibs (broken up beans) of the natural Cocoa on being subjected to powerful hydraulic pressure, give forth their excess of oil, leaving for use a finely flavoured powder— "Cocoaine," a product which, when prepared with boiling water has the consistence of tea, of which it is now, with manv' beneficially taking the place. Its active principle brfMa gentle nerve stimulant, supplies the reeded energy without unduly exciting the system. Sold only in labelled tins If unable to obtain it of your tradesman, a tin will be sent postfreefor 9 stamps.-James Epps and Co, Ltd., Homoeopathic Chemists, London. SxABTLrira NEWS is daily coming to hand of sad accidents murdera and minor criminal offences, but it is astounding that thousands of people die in our midst every week and no notice is taken of the fact. Yet such a terrible calamity could be prevented if more stringent attention Was paid to the tews of health. If people would only deal seriously with slight; ailments they would not develop into fatal diseases. L„ware4 ?iU3ands °? People killed yearly simply through neglect. Holloways PiUs and Ointment can prevent as Well as cure disease, and if they were used according to directions there would soon be a decrease in the death rate. They can be obtained from aU chemists and medicine vendors

ST. ASAPH. SCENE IN ST. ASAPH POLICE COURT. At St. Asaph Sessions on Monday, Mr Madden, barrister, instructed by Mr Bromley, Rhyl, on behalf of Mr James Maurice Smith, commercial traveller, formerly of Soutbporfc, and now of Rhyl, applied to the benoh to discharge an order made four years ago against his client to contribute £ 1 per week towards the maintenance of his wife. Mr W. H. Churton Chester, appeared on behalf of Mrs Smith to oppose the application. The case had been adjourned for applicant to supply the name of the person with whom it was alleged Mrs Smith had committed adultery, also dates and places of the alleged acts of adulte y.—Mr Madden said he was personally sorry to have to bring into the matter the name of a pro- fessional gentleman, who would be oharged with offenoes of a very terrible and disgraceful charaoter. Whatever privilege Mr Rudland, for that was the name of the gentleman in question, might have had as a professional man, he had sacrificed entirely, but whether he would seek to justify his visits to Mrs Smith at all hours of the day and night, when she was living apart from her husband, on the plea that he was attending her professionally, he could not say. In 1892 Mrs Smith commenced proceedings against her husband in the divorce court, and after putting him to a lot of expense, dropped the case at the last minute. Since the last hearing the other side had again commenced divorce proceedings against Mr Smith. Proceeding to deal with the facts of the case, Mr Madden said if this woman bad not com- mitted adultery, if this creature (pointing to Mr Rudland) Here Mr Rudland got up, and in a very exoited manner addressed some words of protest to the bench. At the same time Mr Ohurton ap. pealed to the bench for protection for Mr Rudland. The observations indulged in by Mr Madden were most unfair and ought to be prevented.—Mr Rudland (excitedly): I will not stand it from him.—The Chairman (Major Birch): You must be quiet, or else you must leave the Court.—Mr Rudland: I would sooner leave it than be insulted.—The Chairman: Leave the Court, sir.—Mr Rudland resumed his seat, whereupon the Chairman asked Mr Madden to moderate his language. Several witnesses were called to speak as to the frequent visits of Mr Rud- land to Mrs Smith, and to his staying until the early hours of the morning, but none of them could eay that they had witnessed any act of familiarity.—For the defence, Mr Churton said Mr Smith was now living in adultery with another woman, and was the last man to Lave brought a case of this kind. Mr Rudland and Mrs Smith would swear most positively that there had never been the slightest act of famili- arity between them.—After consideration the bench said they were satisfied that no adultery had been proved, and the oase would be dismissed.

A READER'S GLEANINGS. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM A RATTLICSNAKIIMore than once in California I had narrow escapes from rattlesnakes. At one time, in conjunction with a friend, I was camped in the valley of the Shasta Plains, working a claim. The temperature of the valley, always hot, sometimes resembled that of the torrid zone, while the ground was of a peculiarly dry, rocky, and slaty nature, a state of things, I need hardly remark, highly favourable to the develop- ment of the reptile kingdom. Our tent was pitched rome 50 yards distant from the scene of oar mining operations; it was just big enough to allow room for our bedding, with a small intervening space. We slept upon the ground on skins, my pillow consisting sometimes of a heap of spare cloth- ing, often only of my boots. One afternoon, while engaged on our claim, a hail from a stranger who was passing at the back of our tent caused us to throw down our tools and hasten to ascertain what he wanted. A single glance explained matters. lialf in and half out of the tent was a huge rattlesnake, his bead buried among the heap of clothes that formed my pillow, underneath which he was rapidly coiling himself. Of course he was killed in an instant. Mv escape was providential, for on retiring to rest at night the presence of my head upon the clothes would have disturbed the creature aad brought upon me certain death. The snake measured about six feet in length, alld possessed no fewer than eight rattles, proving it to be a full-grown one, eaeh rattls as the story goes, representing a year of the reptile's existence.—Household Words. As AFRICAN FUNERAL.—On the evening of the first day's journey we stopped at a village called Itimba, near the point where tbe Congo begins to narrow down foom a breadth of nine or ten miles to a few hundred yards. Here at. Itimba we found the people just about to proceed to the obsequies of a dead 5«!low-townsman, an old man, apparently of some toe:&! s'tanding. The chief and his subjects were in some perplexity. Of late years it has become de rigeur," since guns were introduced into the Upper Congo regions, to fire a salute over the body of a defunct parsn". especially if he be of any distinction; and the in hi t: mt 6 of this village possessing only one pitiful el (I 1: lock amongst them, and that terribly out of jrcjj;, i, were hesitating when we arrived as to what course th> > should p"r—r—<vi,< 1 j.-y should charge and ii f-a this o, "1, iiud risk its bursting, or whether (.!■<• <v !,(Mid be allowed to wend his way to t,i>e land of < iu urihonouredand unsaluted. Seeing th ir perpkxiU, Lieutenant Orbao volunteered to fire <JT a round of twenty cartridges from his Winchester." The chief and people were delighted. Could there bo r,;>ter honour for tb, deceased than to receive his farewell salute at the hand t of a wbf-, 1"1"n, with his wonderful gun, from Mpu', o-tlie ioits region beyond the sea-the LTiiktiown-I erl r p" heaven itself? (forare not these white men son. of heaven!) So thought the old chief, as he led us to see the corpse. With an earnest, pleading tone, he took our hands in his, and said Oh, you who are going home !"—and be pointed to the pale and peaceful evening sky—" You will send him back to us, will you not ? You tell him his hut is waiting for him, his wives will prepare his manioc white as cotton cloth, and there shall be Malafu in plenty, and a goat, killed. You will send him back, will you not ?" This expression of feeling quite took us by surprise. Ordinarily the African chief is so stolid, so thoroughly material, that one never expects from him anything like sentiment or poetical ideas. We tried as gently as possible-for be appealed to both of us in his distress-to explain at once our utter inability to reanimate this hideous corpse with the breath of life, and to encourage him with vague hopes that all was not in vain, but he shook his aged f;ri/.7.1ed head sadly at the confession of our power- essness face to face with death. The body of the dead man bad been previously smoked and dried over a slow fire, so that the flesh, except upon the hands, was shrunken and reduced to a leathery covering round the gaunt bones. The face had been gaudily painted with scarlet, yellow, and white pig- ments, and the whole body was encrusted with the red dve of the camwood tree. Round the nose and mouth was wrapped a band of cloth, and gay* patterned cottons swathed the body. For some reason the hands were quite plump and well covered with flesh, as if in life. The dead man had been placed in his grave in a sitting posture, many layers of native cloth lying under him, and ready to cover him up on the top were piles of cotton stuffs received in trade from the far off coast, and representing to these natives a considerable amount of wealth. In the vague, half-determined notions which the people here have conceived as to a future existence, every. thing in the Spirit World is supposed to be a pale copy of thmgs existing on the earth, so that for this reason they put cloth, vessels of pottery, and, in the case of a chief, dead slaves into the graves, in order that the deceased on arriving in the Land of Shades may not appear unprovided with the necessary means of making a fresh start in a new life.—Sp&ial 00. respondent of the DalL; Tel graph.

I ALREADY FEEL 20 PER CENT. BETTER. la, HANOVER SQUARE, BRADFORD, Jan. yth, r8tp. GENTLEMEN,—I am thankful for the bottle of "Gwllym Evans' Bitters" you sent me by your Bradford representative. I have only taken a few good strong doses, and I already feel 20 per eent. better, but having suf- fered from Ague for some months in India I do not expect it to work wonders at once. To-day, while dining in the town, two of my friends remarked that I was looking much better. I told them that the cause of it was my taking your Quinine Bitters," when a gentleman sitting opposite asked me the name of it. I was very pleased to tell him, and also where he could get it in Bradford. He has been suffering from Indigestion, and I hope "Gwilym Evans' Bitters" will do bim as much good as it has done to me. With every wish for their success, I am, Gentlemen, Toon faithfully, t. C. F, r!!Q

OAERWYB. TRUND=BTORX.-A thunderstorm broke over this district on Tuesday night last, but was of short duration only. The night being very dark, the lightning appeared most brilliant. Rain fell in torrents. A CAM. TO THH PAMULTB.-Tbe joint Baptist churches at Caerirys and Lloo, have given an unani- mous oall to Mr Edwin Jones, Bangor Baptist College, to become their pastor. Mr Jones, who has received other important oalls elsewhere, has deoided upon coming to Caerwjs. He will oommenoe his ministry at CaerwyB the first Sunday in November. HABVBSI Ta&NKSGMNG.-On Tuesday night last a harvest thanksgiving service were held in St. Michael's Church. This service was in English, and there was a very large congregation, every available seat being occupied. The service was fully ohoral. The special psalms were the 616th and 67th, which were ohanted to Jaoob'a and Barnby. The hymns were 881, 382, 384, and 366 (Ancient and Modern). The musioal part of the service was beautifully rendered by the choir. Mr J. E. Evans, presiding at the organ. The prayers were read by the Reotor, and the lessons by Canon Fletcher, of Wrexham. This gentleman delivered a very lucid discourse from Psalm 126, and 6th verse, They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." On Wednesday morning there was a celebration of the Holy Commanion at 10 o'clock, and in the evening at 7-30 a Welsh service was held, when there was a large congregation. The singing was thoroughly Congregational, and muoh enjoyed. The pulpit was oocupied on this oocasion by the Rev T. D. James, Chaplain of the Welah Church at Chester. The rev. gentleman delivered a powerful sermon, whioh was most attentively listened to. The collections on both ooouiolllwere equally divided between the Denbigh Infirmary and the Diooesan Churoh Building Sooiety. The ohuroh had been moat beautifully adorned for the occasion by Mrs & Miss Williams, Glasfryn; Mrs Rees, Rectory; Mrs Evans, Fox & Elounds; Mits Thorn, Sun Hill; Miss E. Matthews, and Miss Jones, Weat View.

Football. WIRRAL AND DISTRICT 'LEAGUE. DIVISION I. RESULTS UP-TO-DATE. e-Goals. TEAll. Flayed Won Lost Drawn For Agst. Pts. Flint. 6.. 5.. 1.. 0 26 6 10 Caergwrle.. 3., 3.. 0.. 0 9 3.. 6 Buckley T. 4.. 3.. 1.. 0 13 6 6 St. Oswald. 4, 2 2 0 13 13 4 N.Brighton 4 2 2 0 7 8 4 Wirral Rlv.3 1 1 1 6 11 3 Mold Town 2 1 1 0 4 3 2 Rhos Eagle 4 1 3 0 11 8 2 Holywell.. 2 1 1 0 6 6 2 Buckley V. 3 0 2 1 5 7.. 1 Llay Hall.. 5 0 •• 5 •• 0,, 2 31 t* 0 Nsxr SATUBDAY'S FIXTOKBS LLiy Hall v. Flint Caergwrle Wanderers beat Llay Hall Swifts rn Saturday last, in a Wirral League match, by 4 goals to one goal. Buckley Town met New Brighton last Saturday, ia a Wirral League match, at Buekley. The result was a win for the homeeters by 3 goals to 1. Mold Town were disappointed by Wirral Railway on Saturday last, a telegram being received at Mold, from the secretary of the Wirral team, stating that his eleven had missed the train at Birkenhead. Holywell Reserve meet Buekley Victoria Reserve in the let round of tho North Wales Coast Junior Cup competition on Saturday next. Mr Bellamy, Mold, is the referee appointed. The visitors play in blue and white; Holywell in red. • • • The sequel to the misoonduot of the three Rbyl playero-.Loww. Williams, Alfred Vaughan, and W. J ones-whioh introduced such an nndesireable spirit into the matoh Rhyl v. Llandudno, on September 17th last, has proved to be 28 days' suspension to the first-named, and a oamtioning as to their future conduot," to Vaughan and Jones.

Till: ",CHAUFIOt-TS STILL WINNING. Rhos Eagle Wanderers, the winners of the Welsh Junior Cup, were tbe visitors to the "ohamioal town" on Saturday last, and they gave a gcod account of themselves. The matoh was a Wirral League fixture. The home team started well, Bentham scoring early. The Wanderers equalised during a rush in goal. Flint now pressed, but the visitors' backs played a fine game, and the Flint forwards were a bit weak in front of goaL Parry scored for Flint. The visitors were playing a very pretty and effective game, and Jones, the home oustodian, on one oooasion only just managed to rave by tipping the ball away with three of the vuitora at close quarters. Flint right wing got away, and Davies scored another goal for the vimt, rs. The visitors' oentre now got a nice shot in, and the ball was going straight for the goal- keeper when Lloyd accidentally touched it, with the result that it passed the goalkeeper and lodged in the net. The Wanderers played with renewed vigour, but could not soore again. The home forwards made some good progress, but in front of goal they got mixed." Each and all seemed to be over anxious to soore, aud they would do well to remember that such selfishness is not a characteristic of good football, and deoidedly not the way to win. In front of goal, give the ball to the m*ri in the most favourable position. The visitors' left back played a grand game, as did their forwards. The Flint half-baoks oleared well; the baoks, too, played a good game, but they rambled too far from goal. Robin Jones, in goal, tackled everything that came and conld not be blamed for tbe two tbat reaobed the net.—Final result: Flint, 3 goals; Rh, s, 2 goals

LIGHTING-UP TABLE. All Cycles and other Vehicles in this district must be lighted up as stated in the following table. The time given is local time only; by Greenwich it is about ten minutes ceruer P.K. Thursday, October 13. 6.17 Friday, Ootober 14 6.16 Saturday, October 15 6.13 Sunday, October 16. 6.11 Monday, Ootober 17 6.10 Tuesday, October 18 6.8 Wednesday, October 19 6.7

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ST. WINEFRIDE'S WELL. Through the continuance of the fine weather, visitors stiil frequent the Holy Well, and t' e services are being continued daily. We are able to give details of some more oases wherein the recipients of oures confidently believe that the benefit came to them through immersion in the Holy Well. MRS. OATHARINE MOORE. Pioprietress of Vale View Hotel, Avoea, Co. Wioklow, olaims to have been oured at the Well on or about the feast of St. Michael, Sept. 29, this year. This lady had her leg broken in a trap accident in the year 1892. Though the bone was set the leg never rompletely reoovered. Much standing or walking brought on pain and swelling. She was often unable to sleep at night through the suffering it caused her. She bathed several times in the Well and was so confident of her cure that she tested the soundness of her limb by a deal of walking with the most eatisfaetory results, no pain or weak- ness was appreciable. CURE OF MISS JULIA MURRAY, Also of Avoca, Co. Wioklow. Here we have another case of a broken limb, in the person of another lady from the same town as Mrs Moore, aforesaid. This too was the result of a carriage accident, which happened in 1895, the cure taking place in 1896. Miss Murray's statement in her own words ahall appear in our next issue. A CHALLENGE TO FR. BEAUCLERK. The English Churchman, in its issue of the 6th inst., has the following paragraph:—" The Weekly Register reports I Father Beauolerk,' the priest who resides at Holywell, as having said the other day that a Mrs Mary Ann O'Gtorm&n had during the previous week visited St. Winefride's Well, Holywell. I Between forty and fifty years ago, when about six years of age. she went completely blind. Her mother brought her to the Well, and she was bathed three times in the water, and her sight was restored. Her sight oontinues perfect up to now. In consequenoe of that oure her father became a Catholio.' Now this if, indeed, a wonderful event, if true and therefore I ohallenge Father Beauclerk' to give me the full address of this lady and her father, in order that the oiroum- stanoes may be inquired into. To restore a woman's sight after being blind nearly half a century is such a wonderful event that it ought to be fully proved, or else doubting Protestaoti will think it never happened.-VIGILANT." Fr. Beauolerk in answer to the above challenge, writes, that the ttatement made by him of the case of Mrs Gorman, was incompletely reported. Mrs Gorman was not oured after 60 years of blindness, but after 3. She went completely blind at the age of 7, and recovered her sight, wbioh she retains to this day at the age of 10, when she was brought to tte Well by her mother.

LLOO. TEA PABTY AND OONOERT.-The annual tea party and oonoert were held at Lloo Chapel on Wednesday last, and proved the most suooessful gatherings ever held. Tea commenced at three o'clock, when a large number of people availed themselves of the privilege and enjoyment. The ladies presiding at the tea tablea were, Mrs Jones, Waen farm, and Miss Jones, Penfforddllan, assisted by Mies M. Jones, and Miss S Davies Mrs Evaus, Rose hill, and Misses M. and M. E. Evans, assisted by Misses F. and H. Simon; Mrs Hughes, Fforddlas, and Misses M and H M Hughes. The above-named ladies deserve much credit for the excellent arrangements made for the tea and the satisfactory manner in which they were oarried out. In the eveoing, a oonoert was held, whea Mr U Bromley, C.O., Holywell, presided over a large audience. The programme inoladed- Pianoforte solo, Miss N Jones; address, The Chair- man; song, Maiden's prayer,' Miss Kate Williams; song, 'Neges y blodeuyn,' MisB Jennie Roberts, aong, Y Bugail,' Mr D T Simon isong, 4 Poor old Joe' (encored), Master H Hughes; song, Gwlad fy mebyd,' Mr T H Simon; pianoforte solo, Mies E Ellis, A L C M duet, Larboard watch,' Meters D T Simon and W Jones; anthem, I Dyddiau dyn sydd fel glaawelltyn,' The Chapel Choir, oonduotor, Mr W Jones rong, I Gwraig y naorwr,' Mr J H Savage; recitation, I Yr olehrag fach,' Miss S Parry dialogue I Rhanu'r Doisen, I Messrs G A Jones, J E Evans, and T H ionom aatboro, Buaid ou,, Chapel Ottoir; song, Mary of Arg-yle,' Mr D T Simon pianoforte solo, 'Fairy Barque,' Miss M Banks; song, «Tis hard to give the hand,' Miss Kate Williams song, Laud of my fathers,' Masttr Hughie Hughes song, I Pwy fel fy roa.m,' Miss J Roberts; pianoforte solo, Mits Lily Williams; recitation, 4 Mordaith Bessie a Came,' Miss Sallie Parry; 8ong. «Arv G^ Mr TH Simon; finale, 4 Mae henivlaYf y nhadau, Mies J Roberts took the solo. At the close of the oonoert the Rev S P Jones, Caerwys, pro- posed a vote of thaoka to the tea-makers and their assistantsfor the valuable services rendered during the afternoon; to Mr Bromley for his very genial presidency of the concert, and to the artistes for the pleasure they had afforded the audienoe.

-Art the people now living in tne vroria, any 1,400,000,000, could find standing room within the limits of a field 10 miles square, and by aid of a tele- phone could be addressed by a single speaker. In a field 20 miles square they could all be comfortably seated. LALANDE, the French astronomer, when the Revolu- tion broke out, only paid the more attention to the heavenly bodies; and when he found, at the end, that he had escaped the fury of Robespierre and his fellow- ruffians, he gratefully remarked, I may thank my stars for it." IN a recent test on the limits of hearing, the vibra- tion of a powerful metal stem actuated by steam reached 72,000 per mmute, which is said to be the faintest sound that can be heard. But it should be re- membered that the vibrations of the female tongue sometimes reach 720,000 per minute, and they are not very faint either. THE Rev. Mr. Hangmore, of Catsliage, Leicestershire, was a singular character. Hediedon January 1, 1776, possessed of the following effects E700 per annum and £ 1000 in money, which, as he died intestate, fell to a ticket-collector in London. He kept one servant of each sex, whom he locked up every night. His last 8ployment of an evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs, and fire his gun. Going one morning to let out his servants, the dogs fawned upon him suddenly, and threw him into a pond, where he was found dead. His servants heard him call for assistance, but, being locked up, they could not aid him. He had 30 guns, 100 pairs of breeches, 400 pairs of shoes, and 80 wigs, yet always wore his own hair; 58 dogs, 80 waggons and carts, 80 ploughs, and used none; 56 saddles and furniture for the menage,, 30 wheelbarrows, so many walking-sticks that a toy- man in Leicester offered him £8 for them, 60 horses and mares, 200 pickaxes, 200 spades and shovels, 74 ladders, and 249 razors. THE LAND OF NOD.-There is a kingdom whose boundaries are within the reach of every man's hand, on whose frontiers no heavier entrance tribute or im- port duty is exacted save that comprised in the pay- ment of two score inflections of the eyelids-or forty winks; a kingdom into which the majority of humanity travel at least once in every twenty-four hours; though the exact time—the precise moment- at which that voyage is commenced is not, and never has been, known to any man alive. Whether we are transported by some invisible agency —on the wings of spirits or in the arms of genii-whether we go to the kingdom or the kingdom comes to us, we cannot tell. Why or how or when we came there we know not; yet, almost invariably, when the tribute of the forty winks has been duly paid, we find ourselves wandering in the Land of Nod—the Kingdom of Reconciled Impossibilities. Locomotion in this king- dom is astonishingly rapid; we run without moving and fly without wings. Time and space are counted zeros; centuries are skipped at a bound continents and oceans are traversed without an effort. We are here, there, and everywhere. (J rey-headed men, we are little boys at school, breaking windows and dread- ing the vindictive cane. Married and settled, we are struggling through the quickset hedges of our first love. Crippled, we race and leap blind, we see. Un- learned, we discourse in strange tongues and decipher the most intricate of hieroglyphics. Unmusical, we play the fiddle like raganini. We pluck fruit from every branch of the tree of knowledge; the keys of every science hang in a careless bunch at our girdle we are amenable to no laws; money is of no account; Jack is as good as his mastpr; introductions are not required for entrance into polite society; the most glaring impossibilities are incessantly admitted, taken for granted, and reconciled,—"J&tch Picturesby Sola. t-e

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HALKYN. The HOD. Mrs Cecil T. Parker and Mr Wilfrid Parker sailed on Saturday for South Africa, on board the Uriion steamer Goorka. The Hon. Mrs. Parker J «xpe«ti to be home again by Obrielmas:

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK, HOLYWELL. Mr Arthur Evans, son of Mr Robert Evans, of Rhyl, late of the Shrublands, Chester, and formerly a director of the Welsh Flannel Mills, at Holywell, has been appointed manager of the National Provincial Bank, at Holywell.

Births. LANo=T-On the 11th inst., at 42, Ainslie-street. Barrow-in-Furness, the wife of the Rev Walter Lanoeley, of a son. Marriages. EVANS-JONES-On the 10th inst., at the Register Offioe, Holywell, Mr Evan Evans, PenyJlan Llanasa, to Miss Catherine ijones, Bryn yr odyn, Newmarket. FBTBB—PIGGOTT—On the 6th inst., at Christ Church, More ton, by the Rev W J Spick, assisted by the Rev Joseph Spiuk (brother), William Fryer, Kinnerton, Flintshire, and Leighton Hall, Neston, Cheshire, to Kate Piggott, eldest daughter of G Piggott, Chapel House, Moreton. HUOHBS—JONES—On the 8th inst., at the Register Office, Holywell, Mr Edward Hughes, near Bethania Chapel, Bagillt, to Miss Mary Ann Jones, Rosemary Cottage, Bagillt. JeBBS-PA.BBY- On the 8th iiast., at the Register Office, Holywell, Mr Edward Hughes Jones Bank Terrace, Newmarket, to Miss Sarah Parry) Tyddyn Uoha, Llanasa. LBIGBTON-J ONES-On the 8th inst., at the Register Office, Holywell, Mr John Leighton, Gadlyi Lane, Bagillt, to Miss Hannah Jones, near Wesleyan Chapel, Bagillt. Deaths. JOKES-On the 9th inst., at New Brighton, BagiUt, Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Mr Alfred Jones, aged 26 years. MAsozz-On the 8th inst.. at Prospect House, Rhosesmor, Joseph Cecil, eon ot Joseph and Frances E. Maeon, aged 2 years. MORGAN-On the 5th inst., at Mariner's Terraoe, Bagillt, Beatrice May, daughter of Mr Thos. Morgan, aged õ months. Puzon-on the 6th fest, at Main-street, Buckley, Mary, infant daughter of Mr Jonathan Prioe, agid 22 days. RIGBy-On the 9th inst, at Church view, Buckley, Hector Chesney, infant aon of Mr Ernest George Rigby, aged 1 month. RIL=-OA the 9th inst., at High-street, New- market, Ann, wife of Mr Peter Riles, aged 45 years. RUBY—On the 7th inst., at Allen Square, Holywell, Ellen, widow of Mr Patrick Riley, aged 83 years. Wnsos—On the 9th inat., at Shamrock House, High-street, Holywell, Agnes, wife of Mr Edw. Wilson, chemist and druggist, LongtoD, Staffs., aged 38 yeari.-R.I.P. [IN MitMORTA .] In loving memory of our dear son and brother Alfred John Harper, who entered into rest Oot. 14tb, 1896, aged 19th years. Fondly remembered, sadly missed. Sleep on Dear Alfred, these tears are not for thee, But for the void which here will ever be A selfish love that staggers neath its cross, Glad for thy gain, yet weeping tor our loss. N.H.

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troublous time of the election. Many new can- didates are mentioned, some of whom will un- doubtedly by their education and position com- mand great influeuoe with the electors, but it is yet too early to state definitely who the new candidates will be. BAGILLT FREE CHURCH COUNCIL AND THEIR CANDIDATES. A meeting of the Free Church Council of Bagillt, was held at Bethel chapel, on Tues- day evening, when candidates were seleoted for the Holywell School Board Election. The Council considered that Bagillt Nonconformity should be represented by two members. The seleoted candidates were Mr Thos. Jones, Down hill (Wesleyan), one of the retiring members of the School Board, and the Rev. J. Lewis, Bryntirion (Independent).