Barry Herald

TIME TABLES. AUGUST 1901 BARRY RAILWA X. Sundays amjam am ain am am a m,a ni(a mip ml pnj ninipmi pm pm p>n| Vol Inm Saup-u pm pin pinlpm »m p m amla mlp mlpmlivn put pmipm Brylld.. 3-V.. 1015). 111501 135 2 7.. 1315 423 Sal, 5 7 ,o! yi6 5 655 8 0 I 920 .128 k>8 «15 720 830 Barry 52? 615 71.5 755 847 921 102o;il 0'll55|l2l5 130 212 2:{0|320 352 V2s!5 5|512 « 0 610 7 0 3 S IS43 !)25 10 0 855! 95-» 191311421333 520 725I835 Bry Dk 528 619 719 8 0 841 925 1024,11 41115!): 12i'> 131 216 2:i4|324 :«5H 432 5 9i516 6 4;614 7 4 H 9 's47 929 10 4 859' 95!) ia7u4^!3:i7 524 729;839 Cd.it'n 5S1 (!52 722 8 3 844 928 1027| II 7 12 2'125? 137 21!)i237j327 359 4:>5j 151 jfil7 7 7 K12 850 932 10 7 9 2!10 '■? 1220^149 340 527 732!842 D'sPws 53# 057 8 7 849 933 1032| 1112jl2 7 1257 142 22H 332.. 44o| 1524 i«22|yi2 817 855 1012:-# 7'10 6 I225ll54!:mi5:« 737'«47 Oogan 5417 2.. 812 854 933 1037jlU7jl2l2. 1 2 147i22»| 337.. 445j20|529! !627 717^822 9 0 1017 912,!1011 1230 159 :i50 537 742 8,12 Or'fftn 547 7 8 734 817 9 0 944 1043;1123|l218, 1 8 153:23">!240,:J4>,411 451 IS 25;535 613 633)723 825 9 6 944 1023 918:1016 1236!2 5;356 543 748 858 Cardiff-551 712 738 821 9 3 049 104811128)1223' 113 153 245.251 j34=ii4145rt) > :n!540 822 037'727 829 910 948!1027 922)1020 124012 9 4 0 547 752,9 2 Clce rd' 824 0 S'9 52'1051111.31' 1116 2 1 248 •>57'351l420 459'5 :U'n43 1 I ..I 1 I I.. j. I.. am am am am.a n,a in p <n > n > n p u ;> n ) n <> n pm nuijtfo' > illsi'.|p n pmjpm pinl'im p m o m p m a mlp m pm pm pm'pmipmlpnilp m Clcerd 830015 1015; 11 oj 12 5 I > U7 >>7'3 7 *.3ri 418]5 .->51) >12 otv i 1 Cardiff 6 0 722 835 920 10>0 11 511210 11". 15 ? ->31 312 (12 4 4 423 510 54i '>17 «35!715-S 5 340 9 0 922 10 0 1040 11 0 1025 1250 230 415 555 630 920 943,9 53 Orgt'n 6 4 726 839 921J10i4,11 &] 1214 117 I5'i 235 316 f45] 1427 514 5V) S21 |71:)|8 0 9 4)926 10 4 11 4 1029 1254 234 419 559 634 924 947 Cosran 6 9 730 844 92T 102911114 1,319 122 2 1 21t 3>1 351 ,432 519 554 <!26 1724 314 9 9,931110 9 1048 11 !) 1034 125!) 239 424 6 4 639 929 952 DsPws 614 734 84!) 934 1034 111!) 1224 127 2 (! 215 325 355 437 522 559 531 |721 31!) 914 93611014 1053 1114 1039 I 4 244 429 9 614 034 957 Cdxt n 519]739 854 939 1039 1124 1223 132 211 251 3'U 4 114171442 529 o 4 53'! <543' 731!S24 353 919 911! 10'. 1058 111 1044 1 9 249 434 014 649 939 102 10 9 Bry Dk 622)742 857 942 1042 1127 1232)135 214 23 I 33 H 4 +14201145 532 6 7 53 ) ti5l 7'i7iS27 355 922 944j 1022 11 1 1122 1047 112 252 437 6171652 942 105 1012 Barry 525 746 9 1 946 1046 1131 1235 130,218'258 333 4 3,421! 452 535 nil 61 i i>55( 7 4LI831'9 0 92»> 943! 1026 U 5 112« 1051 116 256 441 621 656 946 109,1016 Brylld 9V) Ill:i5 1210 113 3 2 41? 45'i 51 Vs it 617 7f.l '9 4I 1055 3 0 44.5 62517 01.. I A LATE TRAIN will leave Barry every week nisrht (Saturday excepted) at, 1130, arriving at Cardiff at 1150 Returning from Cardiff at 12, arriving at Barry at 12 20 The 2.48, 3.51, 4.59 and 5.43 trains to Clarence Road, and the 3.37, 4.18, 5,5, and 6.12 train from Clarence Road do not run on Saturday BARKY AMD PONTYPRIDD AND VALE OF GLAMORGAN RAILWAYS. t, T, a m l' a-m I1-'11 Pm P"' t am pm pm pm am pm pm 1)1)7 harry I nd 2 25 5 20 7 48 4 30 7 35 Forth 8 38 1 37 6 23 8 58 2 53 5 45 8 40 hairy i, 1 53 1 55 435 7 40 Hav°(1 8 42 1 41 6 27 9 2 2 57 5 49; 8 44 Harry Dock: 41 1- 34 5 29 7 57 8 4 1 D9 4 39 7 44' Pontypridd 8 48 1 47 6 33 9 8 3 2 5 55, 8 50 ^adoxton .7 44 1 37 5 32 8 0 8 7 2 2 4 42 747 Treforest 8 52 1 51 6 37 9 12 3 7 5 59 8 54 J5? }243 5 38 8 6 8 13 2 8 4 48 7 53 Efail Isaf 8 58 1 57 6 43 9 18 3 13 6 5 9 0 i;fWjfrauf -? J ,12J4 SJ? oi'8 24 2 19 4 59 8 4 Creittiau 9 3 2 2 6 48 9 23 3 18 6 10 9 5 w/ "010 ? r « t 8 22 8 29 2 24 5 4j 8 9 Wenvoe 9 13 2 12 6 58 9 331 3 28 6 20 9 15 I TW°re^n '"s « o « 2 8 28 8 35 2 30 5 10 8 15 Cadoxton 9 19 2 IS 7 4 9 39 3 34 6 26 9 21 ont} pridd •••8 16 19 63 8 32 8 38 2 34 5 14 8 19 Barry Dock9 22 2 21 7 7 9 42 3 37 6 29! 9 24 Portv 5 S J J 0?? 8 45 2 40 5 8 25 1>,arry 9 26 2 25 7 11 9 46 3 41 6 33 9 28 1 rth 8 25 1 18 6 u 8 41 8 48 2 43 5 231 8 28 Barry Islnd9 30 2 29 3 45 6 37] of.t- n„ Sundays Sundays R,rr„ 1 -7 n pm pml am H mlpm Stations Jim ami ami pm Ipmiprnipm'pm pm pm RhorL 7 7 in n JriiS ori -n 75aln ° 3 °|637 BrillgRn i •• dep 750 830 11 8 1 25 340 523 730 910 125f» 433 8 S Aherfhiw 7 n n S 1 -R O 3'11 7 3 7 644 So,lfch"rn,lownRtl 758 839 1116 1 33 348,431 738 919 1 3 441 813 7 i J n 48 • 41 356,_)54 812;1111 311 648 Llantwit Major,, 8 8 850 1126 1 43 358 541 748 930 1 13 451 823 Gileston 7 15 0 8 11 5_ 24o 4 0 008 SI9,1115 315 752 Gileston 814 857 1132 1 49 4 4 547,754 937 1 19 457 829 Llantwit Major 7 2l 0 15 I I 59,2o2j4 7 6 5 830:1122 322 759 Aberthaw 818 9 1 1136 1 53 4 8 551 758 941 1 23 5 1 833 Sourhcrndown Rn 7 3- 10 2.) 12 9 3 2 417 615 838a 132 332 7 9 Rhoose „ 823 9 6 1141 1 58 413 556 8 3 946 1 28 5 6 838 Btidgend ar -j7 39 10 32 12 16 3 9j424!622 9 5j 113913391716/ Barry 8291913( 1147J2 4'419,6 2 8 8^953 1 34 5121844

PARRY RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS The total returns from passenger, goods, and mineral traffic (including receipts of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway) for the week ending August 10th, 1901, amounted to £ 6,271, being a decrease on the traffic of the corresponding week last year of £ 1,113.

W. H.HOOPEB & CO., 99-100,_HIG H ST., BARRY. £ tOMPLETE JlUNERAL JiURNISHERS AND DIRECTORS. FUNERALS CARRIED OUT UNDER IVIR HOOPER'S SUPERVISION, ncluding ALL ARRANCEMENTS FOR CRAVE D MASTER. ——— Memorial Cards, Wreaths, & Tablets, Telephone :—National, No 64. I, Private Address, 2, Hilda Street, Barry. SEEDS. SEEDS. SEEDS. Agricultural, Garden and Flower SEEDS AND SEED POTATOES IN GREAT VARIETIESI, Send for Catalogues to-: W. E. WALKER, Queen Street & North Road, CARDIFF. NAT. TELEPHONE, 818 POST OFFICE, 509. THOSE ABOUT TO FURNISH ARE INVITED TO Inspect my Stock of Furniture r4- GOOD SELECTION AND REASONABLE PRICES. 4$ tJ. H. ABBOTT, 39 & 41, HOLTON RD. 21 Q-RAVING J^OOK gTREET, BARRY DOCK' JOHN RICHARDS Family and General Butcher. CORNED BEEF. PICKLED TONGUES Customers Waited upon Daily. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED To. A TRIAL SOLICITED AT D AV 1 L kSl Corner Holton Road & Pyke Street FOR gTATIONERY, J1ANCY QOODS. rpOBACCOS, N EWSP APERS AND PERIODICALS. ACCOUNT BOOKS, FANCY AND GENERAL STATIONER GOODS. Best Quality in tlte Trade. Unequalled Value. Albums, Purses, Photo Frames, Local Views, Ink stands, Letter Racks, &c., a Splendid Assoitment. X3- PIPES & TOBACCOS IN GREAT VARIETY. THE NOTED CIGAR DIVAN. Try our Manilla, Mexican, and Havana Cigars HANDBILLS > CAREFULLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGH- OUT TOWN AND DISTRICT BY HENRY THOMAS (Blind Harry), 42, MOREL STREET, BARRY DOCK. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE- OF ARMS, LEGS, HANDS, EYES, LEG IRONS, SPINE SUPPORTS, TRUSSES, LADIES' BELTS, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, CRUTCHES, etc., etc. Maker and Repairer: ALLEN PEARCE, 7, Charles Street, Cardiff Aurl 35 and 36, Brortdmead Arcadp, Bristol. JCdvertisement gcale. MALL PREPAID ADVERTISEMENTS. One Three Six Ins. Ins. Ins. 2d Words or under ..0 6 1 0 2 0 Over 20 and under 30 0 9 1 3 2 3 Over 30 and under 40 1 3 2 0 2 9 Each additional 10 words 0 4 0 8 1 0 LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ADVER- TISEMENTS. Parliamentary Addresses 6s. per inch per insertion Prospectuses of Public Com- panies, and Local Authori- ties Notices 4s. per inch. per insertion Local Election Addresses 4s. per inch. per insertion Auctioneers' Announcements 3s. do. GENERAL TRADE ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 tc 3 insertions Is. Od. per inch 4 lo 5 insertions 0s. lOd. 9 to .3 insertions Os. 9d. 16 insertions Os 7d. 1, I 02 insertione 91. Id. f ($1is£clhtneous. ANTED, a HOUSEMAID; mufjt have good WANTED, a HOUSEMAID must have good VV reference.—MRS BCTCKLAND, 90, Holton- road, Barry Dock. A Respectable GIRL WANTED for GENERAL WORK must be competent, and not undor 20 years of age.—Apply 3, Romilly-road, Barry. COMFORTABLE FURNISHED ROOMS TO J LET FRONT SITTING-ROOM aud BEDROOM. —Apply X, BARRY HERALD Office. WANTED, DAY GIRL or GENERAL SERVANT.— Apply 7, Charles Place. WANTED, STRONG GIRL, about 16.—Ap- ply 67, KiDgslaud-crescent, Barry Dock. LADY'S BICYCLE FOR SALE.-Cheap to immediate purchaser.—Apply, Miss DAVIES, 201, Holton-road, Barry Dock. 201, Holton-road, Barry Dock. WANTED, a s;ood Strong GIRL.—Apply, Mrs HILLS, 39, Quarella-street, Cadoxton. AN ACCOUNTANT is prepared to POST, BALANCE, or AUDIT ACCOUNTS by Single or (Double Entry; Evenings.—Write P. W., BARRY HERALD Office. RENTS.—Advertiser, who has had Management iA) of Properties in this district for the last Teu Years, and can prove experiencing the lowest percentage of voids for the period named, is OPEN to UNDERTAKE MANAGEMENT and COLLECTION of RENTS of PROPERTIES for Owners in and around Barry.—For Terms, apply A. T. WHITE, 69, Porthkerry-road, Barry. MRS LUCAS, Nurse and Midwife, 7, Graving Dock-stieet, Barry Dock, MRS HOWELLS (late of Newport), 24, Regent- street, Barry Dock, Experienced Midwife and Nurse satisfactory recommendations. CYCLES CYCLES!! — Immense Bargains. Free II- ''IfSsgr' lustrated List, containing 1,500 New and Second-hand Machines from 30/- to f5. Marvellous Bargains in 1901 Machines. Five Hundred New Machines, 1901 Make, from f,2 17s 6d. Single Machine at Wholesale Prices. Accessories of every description at half usual Price. Large List Free, any address. Agents Wanted. Trade supplied.—WARRILOW & CO., Cycle Manufacturers, Weston-super-.Mare.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS NOTICES should be sent in on or before 10 a.m, on THURSDAY to ensure insertion in the next issue. BIRTHS. FISHER.-On the 3rd inst, at 22, Sydenham-street, Barry Dock, the wife of Mr Fisher, waterman, of a daughter. WooD-On the 3rd inst, ,t 74, Dock View-road, Barry Dock, the wife of Mr Wood, of a son. WESTALL-Un the 9th inst, at 12, Newland-street, Barry Dock, the wife of Mr Westall, of a daughter. DONOVAN.—On the 12th inst, at 1, Everard-street, Barry Dock, the wife of Mr Donovan, of a son. DEATHS. DIXON-On the 8th inst, at Eastbrook Hall, Dinas Powis, Albert Edward, youngest son of Mr Henry I-aac Dixou, of Stumperlow Hilll, Shef- field, and of the tirm of Micintosh, Dixon, and Co, solicitors, Cardiff, aged 36 years. DAvIEs-On the 8th inst, at the Horse and Jockey," Twynyrhoden, Wenvoe, Mary Davies, aged 77 years. ANTHONY—On the 7th inst, at 10, Arthur-street, Belrry Dock, Humphrey, son of Mr George Anthony, dock labourer, aged one year. DAVID—On the 8th inst, at 16, Redbriuk-crescent, Bairy Island, Ann, widow of Mr Thomas David, general labourer, aged 73 years. JAMEs-On the 8th inst, at 112, Queen-street, Barry, Agnes, daughter of Mr Thomas James, coaltipper, aged two years. PARIsH-On the 11th inst, at 12, Phyllis-street, Barry Island, Daniel Lloyd, son of Mr Samuel Parish, dock pilot, aged six years. SWAN-On the 12th inst, at 35, Broad-street, Barry George Howard, son of Mr Howard Swan, engine driver, aged ten years. LLOYD—On the 9th inst, at 45, Palmerston-road, Cadoxton, Gladys and Clara (twins), daughters of Mr Thomas Lloyd, insurance agent, aged four months. TIEBNEy-On the 10th inst, at 77, Morel-street, Barry Dock, Willim, son of Mr Thomas Tierney, dock labourer, aged eight months.

JAMES JONES & CO. UNDERTAKERS, AND FUNERAL CARRIAGE PROPRIETORS, 67, HOLTON ROAD, BARRY DOCK. Open Cars, Hearses, Broughams, Shelliblers, and Belgian Horses. The only Funeral Carriage Masters in the District where Horses are kept exclusively for Funerals and Hired Out to the Trade. FUNERALS COMPLETELY FURNISHED m Superior Style with every Requisite, including 111 Fees and Expenses, according to the fixed Charges regulated to suit all Customers, with a strict regard to Economy in every detail. rife ONLY FIRM in the District who does al their Engraving and to the Trade on th Premises. COUNTRY UNDERTAKERS SUPPLIED THROUGHOUT. RELEGRAMS— JAMES JONES, UNDERTAKER. BARRY. J NEW PATENTS List of local and county inventions specially compiled for this paper by Messrs E. P. Alexander and S HI, Chartered Patent Agents, 19, Southamp- ton Buildings, London, W.C., from whom all general information relating to patents can be obtELiiied free of charge J. Lenderyon. Brook wood, Rogerstone, Monmouth A simple improved elutch mechanism for electric arc lamps. July 10th No., 15399. CADBURY's Cocoa. ABSOLUTELY PURE, THEREFORE BEST. t Entirely free from drugs orany foreign admixture. Most Sustaining, Refreshing and Invigora- ting. CADBURY'S Cocoa is "aperfect food," and is described by theZ/(mce<as representing "the stan- dard of highest purity." When asking for Cocoa, insist on having CADBUBY'S (sold only in insist on having CADBURY's (sold only in Packets and Tins) Mother „ Cocoas are sometime* MlbiûMW for tbo øb of extra prefit '1.

NOTES AND COMMENTS A CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUIToV. IT is one of the paradoxes of politic, c t lio-tic and abroad that revolutions arc work of Conservative Parties. The clo.su;- debate on the financial votes involve, a i- > i- stitutioual change of the first importance, <D 1 of which it is impossible to forecast. the e;i 1 Hbre is a eountry of which the total revvu i > derived from taxation is £ 122,000,000. It is absolutely without precedent in the history of England that more than half of this sum i}f £ 122,000,000—that is, £ 68,000,000 of taxation -should be voted in a single night witllOat discussion. Yut this amazing incident occurred in the House of Commons on the night of the Stli August. -;r We speak of this as a revolution. It is 110 mere revolution in procedure, leaving the balance of power very mild, as it was before. It is a far-reaching constitutional innovation. A Conservative House of Commons in obedience to the mandate of a Conservative Government, has abdicated its functions as distinctively as James II. abdicated when lie threw the Great Seal into the Thames and ll >d the country. During the seventeenth century, and down even to our fathers' llays. the struggle for predominance in our constitu- tional system betweon the two Houses of Parliament raged round the right to discuss financial votes. It was no contest for a bartvn privilege. The discussion of a vote entails the right to reject it. The practice of the House of Lords, since its capitulation upon this point, of passing money bills without detailed comment sufficiently attests this. It is of the very essence of our system of government. Only through the right of criticism and rejection can the representatives of the people retain control over Ministerial expenditure. Since it is the necessity of raising supplies that drives Sovereigns and their Ministers to consult Parliament, a House of Commons which in an evening sitting obediently votes supplies en bloc might logically be dispensed from further attendance, This is what actually did happen under the Tudors and the Stuarts. History is begin- ning to repeat itself. The changes in the relations of the Ministry to the House of Commons, introduced under recent Tory Governments, all make in this direction. The House meets, even in years when a foreign war necessarily entails an increase to its ordinary business, at a later (lite than in the strenuolls days ot Ir. Gladstone. It takes, or father it has forced upon it, exceptionally lung holidays. The rights of private members, which are in some respects on the footing of the grievances the discussion of which consti- tutionally precedes the grant of supplies, are whittled down to nothingness. Such criticisms as are allowed to the Opposition are listened to by Ministers with the same air of contemp- tuous indifference as that with which, as a well-known Bishop onco complained, hereditary peers tolerate episcopal oratory Finally, the guillotine of the closure extinguishes debate altogether. The House of Commons is no longer a parlement, it has become a registry o fiice. One consequence of this change must be to increase the power of the House of Lords. Tho;o who have watched the constitutional trend of Lord Salisbury's policy have long discerned this as one of its principal aims. Tli excessive number of peers decorating his Ministry are an indication of it. In the theory of the Constitution the two Houses are co- equal, the control of supplies being practically the only distinguishing feature. This control abandoned, the House of Commons will take a subordinate place. The fixity of tenure which the peers allow to themselves, though not to their tenants; social influence, which in a plutocratic age increases with each marriage of a noble Bareacres with an American heiress the largosses and condescensions of the noble dames of the Primrose League, which lead the electorate to regard candidates for the House of Commons as mere hucksters for the barter an i purchase of votes; the increased extrusion of brains by wealth, which has been one of the consequences of the acceptance from the Tories of single-member constituencies-all are roads travelling in the same direction. To parody the familiar lino of the poet, ''The Commons Member waneth and the Peer growi more and more." The only hope of salvation, it is lamentable to confess, is that the taxpayer may be aroused to the expensiveness of the new departure. The fact is not without bearing on what has been said above, that a clear note of warning has been sounded by a peer; not an hereditary noble nor a promoted borough- monger, but a public servant whose work of nearly five-and-thirty years at the Treasury merited the distinction bestowed on him by Mr. Gladstone. Upon the second reading of the Finance Bill in the House of Lords Lord Welby delivered an able review of financial history since the accession of the late Queen in 1837. He divided the whole period into three financial epochs. Of these the first, from 1837 to 1887, was a time of great pressure upon the taxpayer, followed by a gradual recovery after the Free Trade system had been established. At the outset of that period, after a long series of Tory Govern- ments, 71 per cent. of the entire taxation was levied on the working classes, and only 23 per cent. on the wealthy. The balance has since been redressed, chiefly by Liberal Ministries, until it now figures out att-1 per cent. and 40 per cent. respectively, which shews there is still work to be done. The second period, from 1887 to 1897, chiefly under Tory Ministries, is characterised by increase of taxation, particu- larly by an increaso of £ 11,;)00,000 in ten years in military expenditure. The third period, from 1897 to 1901, shews, apart from the war, a rapid growth in the same direction. "In the fourteen years from 1887 the ordinary military and naval expenditure has doubled." The Tories now propose to "broaden the basis of taxation" by putting new duties on articles of which four-fifths are consumed by the working class. What will the working classes then think of a Tory majority which can vote £ 68,000,000 of national money without discussion 't

Salaries of all Government officials in Klondyke have been considerably rais d, a i l a Da«s> n cor- respondent says that the humblest clerk in the Gold Couiinissioner's office now leo-ives jECOO a year.

THE COUNCIL AND ITS CON- TRACTORS. BARRY CARPENTERS' DISPUTE. On Wednesday the Public Works Com- mittee of the Barry Council considered the 0 allegation made at a general Council meet- ing that Mr J. Prout, the contractor for public buildings now being erected on Barry Island, violated the Council's fair trade clause by employing carpenters at 8!d in- stead of 9d per hour. Mr Prout attended, and stated that the Master Builders' Asso- ciation, of which he was a member, refused pay more than 8d an hour. The local carpenters and joiners nearly two years ago commenced an agitation for an increase of wages, and were still on strike. Ninepence an hour was paid by one or two master builders in the district, who employed few men, but the majority of the employers paid 8d an hour.-It was decided to hold a special meeting on Friday, when Mr Prout and the local secretary of the Carpenters' Union will be present.

-n_ SLIM SNIPERS OF THE TRANSVAAL BARRY CYCLIST TROOPER'S EXPERIENCES. A letter received by Mr H. Lyle Leitch from a former employee of the Board of Trade surveyor's office at Barry this week is very interesting reading. The sender is Sergeant J. Howells, English Composite Cyclist Company, and he relates his adven- tures from the time of landing. The country agrees with him, and he appears to enjoy it. The following is the letter :— Vereeniging, Transvaal, "14th July, 1901. On landing we joined a train and went straight to the front, and I can assure you we've been on the go ever since. We took charge of 250 prisoners at Cape Town, and brought them up country to various refugee camps. They had been prisoners at Green Point, Cape Town, from 9 to 12 months. At Brandford we had 44 more prisoneas, who had just been captured, and our orders were strict as to taking care that none would escape. None did. "We were 6 days 10 hours getting here from Cape Town, and twice on the way the Boers hovered round, but, with the exception of a few stray shots, they would not close in, The first and second nights in camp we had to turn out, but both ended without any- thing serious being done. It is a different thing being out here fighting to what it is reading the newspapers a" home. (¡ The Boers are in small crowds from 12 to about 300. They won't fight, but snipe us from the top of kopjes 800 or 1,000 yards off, and as we go up one side they go down the other. We turn out three or four times a week, but it's always the same- nothing but being sniped. Once or twice we've got amongt them, but unless you put a ring all round them they won't stand. Up to the present they seem well mounted, and have rifles and ammunition, but they are short of food and clothing. In my opinion, the war will be over about the end Septem- ber. Of course, that's a guess but out here it points that way. Anyway, there is a lot more hard work to be done on our side before we can say 'Finis.' "I am glad to say I am having a rare pic-nic--enjoy the life very much, and feel stronger and better that I have for years. We ride the cycles over all sorts of country: sometimes it's on the railway, sometimes wagon tracks, Kaffir paths in fact, any- where where they think there is a Boer to be found. My own has been over a number of kopjes, and I had the honour of carrying the first dispatch, carried by us, 33 milea. I did it alone, and it took me 4l hours- different to our 15 or 16 an hour at home. The veldt is our bed, with two blankets. Our rifles are always loaded, and we never move without them. There are no houses, shops, roads, or streets here, and very few people, except Boer refugees, Kaffirs, and soldiers. I have managed to get promoted to sergeant, and am doing my best to keep up the reputation you so kindly gave me before I left."

PENARTH RECTORY. REV F. A. BICKMORE LEAVING. An arrangement has been made between the Rev F. A. Bickmore, M.A., rector of Penarth, with Lavernock, and the Rev John Thomas, rector of Elton and Helpston, near Market Deeping, North- amptonshire, to exchange livings, and the consent of the respective patrons, Lord Windsor and the Bishop of Peterborough (in whose diocese Elton is situate), has now been officially announced. It will be remembered that nearly three years ago the Rev F. A. Bickmore succeeded the Rev W. Sweet-Escott at Penarth, and during his residence there he has taken an active interest in church work, and his departure will be greatly regretted by the parishioners. Mr Thomas, the new rector ill a Welshman and a bilinguJst. He went through his theological course at St Aidan's College, and was ordained deacon iu 1882, and priest the follow- ing year. He has held curacies in Carnarvonshire and at Swansea, subsequently removing to Shrop- shire and Hampshire. The late bishop Thorold of Winchester had a very high opiuion of Mr Thomas, whom he preferred to the living of Eastleigh in his diocese. In 1896 the then Bishop of Peter. borough presented him to the rectory of Elton. All that now remains to be done is for the Bishop of Lhindaff to consent to Mr Thomas's presentation to Penarth, and to make arrangements for his instiu- tion and induction, which will probably take place in the autumn.

Fraud at Barry. Edward Berrington was this (Thursday) morning sentenced to even days' imprisonment for false pretences towards Harry Press,greengrocer,holton- md.