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Friday, Dcccmber yth, 1900. THE new Parliament met for the lirst time on Monday, the customary inaugura ceremonies being carried through. Mr Gully was re-elected speaker. All the Irish Nationalist members absented them- selves. IN the debate on the Address it is stated that the question of farm-burning in South Africa and Mr Chamberlain's connection with public companies will be raised by "the Opposition. SPEAKING at a dinner given to the mayors of the new municipal boroughs of London, the Prince of Wales said that, though he was disappointed that all the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Poor had not been carried out, he felt sure that, with the assistance ot the London mayors, a great and difficult subject might possibly be solved. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH has been elected Chancellor of St. Andrews Univer- sity, in succession to the late Duke of Argyll, who held that position for forty- eight years. LORD WOLSLEY left fle War Office last Friday, on the termination of his extended period of service as Commander-in-Chief. THE North-Eastern Railway men have decided to demand an advance of 10 per cent in the wages paid to guards. AT the Yorkshire Assizes on Saturday Edward Crosby, lately the sub-manager of the South Cliff (Scarborough) branch of the York City and County Banking Com- pany, was sentenced to six months' im- prisonment with hard labour for falsifying the boo':s of the bank. SEVERAL fresh cases of the arsenical poisoning —one fatal-have been notified in Manchester, where altogether between 1,000 and 2,000 patients have been treated. Another case was {admitted to Chester Infirmary. THE fishing boat Renown, of Lowestoft, was sunk about a mile off that port on Monday in collision with the steamer Sardinian, of London. Three of the crew were drowned, and the remaining six were saved by means of life-lines and the steamer's boat. Two more outrages are reported from the East End of London. A policeman has been murdered during a struggle, and a man has been arrested. At Limehouse a woman was shot while defending her son.from a gang of Hooligans. IN the case of Charles Everard Canharn, in custody on a charge of murdering his wife and child at Nottingham, the coron- er's jury have returned a verdict of "wilful murder." JAMES JOSEPH BERGIN, grocer's assistant was indicted at Liverpool Assizes on Mon- day charged with the murder of his sweet- heart, Margaret Morrison, by shooting hjr at Bankhall on October 27th. He was found guilty with a recommendation to mercy, and was sentenced to death. THE two convicts who escaped from Borstal Prison are still at large. They have burgled two houses in Sittilgbourne, taking clothes from one and food from the other. A CONFERENCE convened by the Llan- dudno District Council, and representing most of the public authorities in North Wales, was held at Conway on Saturday to consider the administration of Crown property in North Wales. Mr Herbert Lewis, M.P., presided. VERY successful sales of fat stock have taken place during the last few days at Col. Platt's Home Farm at Talycafn and at Wrexhain. THE Queen has accepted the resignation, through failing health, of the 'Bishop of Exeter. AN operation has had to be performed on the Bishop of London, whose condition is now reported to be entirely satisfactory. THE Dowager Countess of Dartmouth has died at her son's residence, near Huddersfield, from concussion of the brain, the result of a fall. THERE were great rejoicings at Cwrych Castle, Abergele, last week to celebrate the return home of the Earl of Dundonald. THE death is announced of Mr Daniel Macaleese, Nationalist M.P. for North Monaghan. He was returned unopposed at the general election. ACCORDING to the Exchequer returns from April I to December i the National expenditure amounted to nearly the sum of 18,000,000, compared with the sum of ^"74,000,000, in the corresponding period of last year. The receipts were under ^70,000,000. THE Canadian contingent which went to Windsor on Friday marched through London on the following day to the Mansion House, where they were inspected by the Lord Mayor. THE Rev. Canon Herbert Rvle, D.D., president of Queen's College, Cambridge, has been appointed to the Bishopric of Exeter. Dr Ryle is the second son of the late Bishop of Liverpool. LORD KITCHENER sends from Bloem- fontein further details of General Paget's action near Bronkhorst Spruit. Lieut.- Colonel Lloyd, of the West Riding Regi- ment, was killed, and five other officers wounded, thirteen men being killed and 59 wounded. THE pursuit of De Wet continues, and General Knox's force, including the ad- venturous Colonel Pilcher, are now on the wily Boer commander. LORD ROBERTS is due at Durban to-day, at Capetown on Saturday, and will sail for England on the nth on board the Canada. ABOUT midnight on Saturday a disastrous collision occurred off the Skerries between the steamers Voltaic and St. Olaf. The latter sank, and two of her crew, belonging to Garston, are missing. The others scrambled on board the Voltaic, which returned to Liverpool with two holes in her bows. THE management of Penrhyn Quarries on Saturday issued notices that the work would be reopened for men on Decembet- 5th, a reservation being made for closing them again in the event of disturbances or exhibition of violence, or intimidation to contractors and workmen. IN the French Chamber on Monday, General Mercier made an extraordinary speech, summing up the possibilities of an invasion tof England, which he described as our eventual adversary." He admitted our naval strength, but pointed to the Transvaal as an example of military weak- ness, and concluded by advocating the consideration of a plan of attack he himself had prepared. THE Paris newspapers are strong in their denunciation of the Kaiser for refus- ing to see Mr Kruger. The latter is said to be very much depressed. fie was expected to leave Cologne for The Hague 011 yesterday. TWENTY persons have been killed and sixty injured by a collision on the Mexican Central American Railway. PRESIDENT M'Kinley's message to Con- gress, deals at length with the Chinese embroglio, but for which America's rela- tions with the Powers are happy." THE Secretary of the United States Treasury reports an unusually prosperous year, the surplus of receipts over expendi- ture being placed at twenty-six million dollars. The Spanish war tax is to be reduced. THE Kalgan expedition has returned to Pekin. Count von Waldersee reports that the expedition has been very successful, several thousand regular Chinese troops, under two generals having been driven in wild flight from the province of Chi-li to Shansi. A NUMBER of Boer families at Lorenzo Marquez, maximum 600 men and 1^0 women and children, contemplate emigrat- ing to the United States. A TREATY has been signed with Nicara- gua giving to the United States the necessary rights for the construction of the projected inter-oceanic canal. THE Swiss Government has made its award in the boundary question between France and Brazil, the later being given about 147,000 square miles of the contested territory, and France about 3,000 miles on the north side of the- Tumuc-Humac range. THE Filipinos are now surrendering in t, large numbers, and it is believed that the revolt is now practically at an end.

Modern Phariseeism in an Ugly Form. THE cause of temperance and sobriety is surely commendable enough to make progress without recourse to the methods and bigotry of irrational extremists. Sensible and right-minded men invariably rejoice at its advancement, but we think the ridiculous fanaticism shown of late in certain parts of Monmouthshire calculated to incite the utterest contempt of many who would otherwise be well-wishers, and thus the temperance cause receives a check through the foolishness of its professed adherents, who are frequently least its friends. By all means 1.t the cause of temperance, or even total abstinence, be allied with that of religion the principles of both are quite consistent and might well be associated with each other, so long as the bounds of good sense and reason are not violated. But in certain parts of Monmouthshire, the practice has been initiated by advanced teetotallers of expelling from the Sunday school the children of persons who may be in any way engaged in connection with the drink traffic. The child of the greatest wastrel or drunkard, would we suppose, be welcomed, whilst that of a steady and upright man who does his best to conduct his trade properly shall be expelled. Probably exceptions will be made in the case of those "respectable and thriving" grocers, many of whom are office bearers in the chapels and churches, and who are also holders of grocers' licenses,—the most mischievous means ever devised for the encouragement of secret drinking, and the ruin of thousands of workmen's wives and these modern Pharisees would affect the greatest horror of the idea of visiting the sins of fathers upon children in a.tender age, and having absolutely no help for the circumstances in which they live. On that score wnatever the sins of the average publican, we are persuaded that the offspring of these modern pharisees of Monmouthshire will inherit a much worse prospect if they have to be visited for their parents' hypocrisy.

Curious Ideas about Crown Property. A CONFERENCE of some importance was held at Conway last week to consider the administration or control of Crown pro- perty in Wales, and it was instructive in so far as it showed the depth and pro- fundity of the knowledge of certain leaders -v_ of opinion on so dry a subject as fore- shores and common lands. If it demands days of labour, stationery, and formality to recover the value of a cancelled shilling stamp, it need cause no surprise that a moderate amount of red tape is necessary to govern that indefinable space between high and low-water mark. Being the property of the State or public, perhaps a few courses of officialism may be the only safeguards from local rapacity; for it is a remark- able fact, not only as regards Wales, but other parts of'the kingdom, that as possession of public property gets entrusted to a more local -ownership, the more liable it is to be stolen, or confiscated, or bartered. As instances, take Conway, Aberystwyth, Carnarvon, and other cor- porate towns, which once during this century owned most valuable landed pro- perty, and which had been squandered away on the law suits and litigations of the last generation. Whatever Govern- ment may be in power, the authorities can always be approached, and are always amenable to reason when the public interest is concerned. There is something very refreshing in Mr Herbert Lewis' vision of the restoration of Wales to its primeval state of sylvan beauty and solitude. But what of Mr Kneeshaw's delicate lamentation over the mischief by railways tearing along our shores. A railway track is by no means ugly, and with a little taste is easily made pretty even along the shore line. Has it ever struck Mr Kneeshaw how hideous an inland main line would have been in North Wales if most of the way would have to be underground. Penmaenmawr for instance would scarcely have been heard of but for the line skirting the shore. _r- "W_

Local and District News. Funeral of an old Bangorian- The funeral took place on Saturday of Mr Robert Roberts, who was for many years post- master of Bangor, and who had served upon the Town Council and other publ.c bodies in the city. It was of a public and Masonic character. His Honour Judge Bowen Rowlands at Work- Mr Bowen Rowlands, who has been appointed Judge of the County Court Circuit No. 7, wh-ch includes B.rkenhead, Warrington, Northw.ch, and Le.gh, sat at Leigh for the first time this week, and was cordially welcomed by Mr W. Greaves Lord, barrister," Manchester, and Mr C. Buckley, solicitor, on behalf of the Bar, and by Mr Cannon, reg.strar, for the officials. A Koljwell Bankrupt under Examination Samuel Roberts, trading as John Roberts and Son, of Holywell, also appeared for h-s ad- journed examination. The debtor's liabilities amounted to ^1,136 and his assets to £529, leav- ing a deficiency of 6,546, He attributed his failure to want of capital and bad trade. The trustee pointed out that the debtor had put his book debts down as good ^169 10s 6d, doubtful £17 15S fid, total £294. Up to the present, how- ever, they had produced only £ 2 14s 6d, and there were fresh claims in for £ 100. The ex- amination was again adjourned. Another Flintshire Failure- At Chester Bankruptcy Court this week Leigh Howell, ironfounder, of Bagilit, attended for his public exam-nation.' The gross liabilities were given as 612,496 the liabilities to creditors fully secured £ 3,000 odd; the liabilities estim- ated to rank as Z,9,3-,2 and the deficiency as £8,966. A Ministerial Call from Festiniog- The Brynbojvydd Congregational Church, Blaenau Festiniog, has unanimously decided to invite Mr G. Davies, of Ferndale, one of the senior students of the Brecon Memorial College, to undertake its pastoral charge in succession to the Rev. W. P. Hughes, of Dolgeliey. Distinction for Lord Kenyon- Lord Kenyon is gazetted to be one of the Lords-in-Waiting in Ordinary to Her Majesty in the room of Lord Harris, resigned. Not altogether Accurate- The claim put forward on behalf of the Liver- pool Eisteddfod Committee to the effect that the stated surplus of 6400 on the recent ,.steddfod at Liverpool is a record, with the exception of the surplus at the Wrexham Eisteddfod, wh.ch amounted to £ 800, is unfounded. The surplus in connection with the last National Eisteddfod at Bangor amounted to Z492 15s 2d. The National Eisteddfod of Carnarvon in 1877 pro- duced a surplus of [1,400, and even Mold in 1873 over £ 700. University College of North Wales- At a recent meeting of the Day Training Col- lege Committee, Mr H. Bulkeley Price in the chair, the following report of Mr-Barnett, Her Majesty's Inspector of Training Colleges, was read: "This College is doing most valuable service in preparing students for work in Wales. With material often unpromising, it produces excellent results. The Day Training College is liberally treated and wisely administered. Everything is done to give life and reality to the technical work, very interesting experiments being organised from time to time. The forma- tion of a Volunteer corps will add greatly to the general efficiency of the training." The com- m-ttee sanctioned the delivery of a special course of lectures on elocution by Mr H. Rich- ardson. A Ministerial Call to London— The Rev Rowland Rowlands has accepted the pastorate of the Gohebydd Welsh Church, Stoke, Newington, London. Mr Rowlands has previously laboured for a quarter of a century among the slate quarrymen of Bethesda. Welsh Liberals in Council— A meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Welsh National Liberal council has just been held at Shrewsbury, under the chairman- ship of Mr J. R. Jacob, of Newport. The prin- cipal business was the arrangement for the an- nual meeting of the Council, which is to be held at Pontypridd in January, at which Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman is expected to be present. A Million Shilling Fund for the Welsh Church The Bishop of Llandaff has announced his intention of opening a million shilling fund at the commencement of mext year in aid of Church extension and additional clergy in his diocese. -8:ol. A Millionaire having relatives at Festiniog- A lawsuit is likely to arise in connection with the estate of the late James Tyson, the famous millionaire. A writ has been issued by th" Queensland Government against the Queens- land trustees as administrators of the estate, for the recovery of £ 68,482, as succession duties The Government claim that Mr Tyson was do- miciled in Queensland, and that they therefore are entitled to the death duties in respect of the estate in the other colonies. Dr Joseph Bridge wins a Slander Action A lay clerk named Thornborough, formerly at Chester Cathedral, brought an action for slander at Liverpool Assizes aga;nst Dr Bridge, the Cathedral organist. The case excited great interest, the witnesses and spectators in court including many of the Cathedral dignitaries. Plaintiff appeared in person, and Mr Pickfotd (for the defence) said he had spoken to plaintiff, who had agreed to judgment for the defendant w.th costs. The Judge sanctioned the agree- ment. No Christmas Beer for Indoor Paupers- Discussion took place this week at meeting of the Aberystwyth and Ruthin Board of Guar- dians on the question of supplying the -nmates with beer on Christmas-day, and in each case the decision was against the use of beer. A Gloomy OuMook at Penrhyn Quarries It is said there is very little likelihood of any I general response to the invitation of the chief manager of the Penrhyn Quarry to the men to return to work. It is estimated that three- fifths of the men have already left the d:str:cc in search of work, and that the majority of the remainder contemplate following their example- Practical Generosity by Lord Kenyon-- Lord Kenyon, of Gredington, has issued the following circular letter to h's tenantry:—"Dear sir,—I am insuring under the Employers' Liabili- ty and Workmens' Compensation Act the farffi labourers on my estate, whether in my own em- ploy or in the employ of those who hold farms under me. I should be glad if you would let my agent know the number (approx:mately) of labourers, whether related to you or h red men, you employ on your farm. In my calculation* I have estimated the labour employed at £ 1 pe arcre per annum.—Yours truly, KENYON." Frank Lloyd's Great Sale of Fat Stock- There was an exceedingly large supply of stock at Mr Lloyd's great Christmas sale on Monday at Wrexham. There were over 200 prime fat bullocks and heifers, and 450 fat weth- ers and gimmers entered. The quality was quite up to the average and the trade was splendid. the prizes were won as follows:-Nortli Wales champion challenge cup, for the best butcherS beast, won by Mr II. Dennis, Ruabon, with a- grand an mal, which realised £ 34 10s; neatest and best lot of butchers' beasts from one owner, not more than twelve to be judged, Mr C. Mur- less, Bersham-hall, averaged £ 20 each; pair of fat bullocks or heifers, Mr H. Dennis, sold for £27 15s and £ 23 5s; four butchers' beasts, fed by a tenant farmer solely dependent upon farming, Mr Job Lea, Gwersyllt Old-hall, realis- ed £ 72 > heifer or bullock with not more than two broad teeth, Mr Dennis, £20 5s; fat cow, over three years old, Mr Robert Griffiths, Rua- bon, £ 30; pen of five Scotch wethers, Mr Den- nis pen of five Welsh or Cheviot wethers, Mr M. Darlington, Ruabon pen of five Shropshire. Clun, or cross-bred wethers, Mr W. H. Lance- lot, Gresford. Sheep sold well, ranging up to 57s each. Several useful dairy cows were dis- posed of at prices which reached up to ¡;ztJ 2S 6d. ♦

Abergele. I HAVE been asked to insert the following report The fourth meeting of the Wesley Guild in connection with the Wesleyan Church was held on Tuesdav, Dec. 4th, when a lecture was delivered by Rev D. Thomas, minister, on 'The Life ot Christ,' illustrated with the lantern. Mr Tames Hughes Jones acted as manipulator. The slides were hired from Mr Leigh, Bridge-street, and were of the lirst order. They were praised by all- A hearty vote of thanks was given to the Lecturer, an also to Mr Hughes Jones for his services. The guild has never been so well attended as this season- rite room was full on Tuesday evening." Sale.Ilr George Perkins held a very successful sale by public auction at the Hesketh Hotel on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Lecture.—The Rev 1). Thomas gave a very in" lercsiing lecture on The Life of Christ," in tbt: schoolroom^ of the Wesleyan Chapel on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance. Abergele Mutual Society.—In connection witil the above society the Rev-Shankland, of RhyL delivered a very interesting lecture on Shells at the County School on Wednesday evening. Lantern Entertainment. -Success again attended the efforts of Mr Thomas Leigh to entertain the President of the St. George and district. On Wednesday, in the new hall, an excellent lantern entertainment was given. The subjects consisted of the Boer War, decorated 1 .ondon, the loss 01 [I. M.S. Victoria, &c. Portraits of our generals al the front were loudly applauded as thev appeared on the screen. Although rain fell heavily all tle evening, there was a very good attendance. At the conclusion Mr Leigh thanked the audience for their cordial support, and a pleasant evening terminated with the National Anthem. Sudden Death of the Head Gamekeeper of Gwrych Castle. -Some consternation was caused in and about Aber,gele on Saturday morning las" by the news that Mr Dexter, the head gamekeeper of the Earl of Dundonald had been found dead i" the woods that morning by his own son. It "ap- pears that he was going his rounds on the previous night, and it is supposed he missed his footing and fell on his head a depth of nine feet, and dead1 ensued from the dislocation of his neck. A mediea1 man was soon on the spot. The deceased \I seen going home between u and 12, and from the position of the body it was apparent he haj' tumbled down some steps near his house. He led a widow and children. The Earl of Dundonald attended the funeral at Llanddulas Churchyard.

Bettws=y=Coed. St. Mary's Church. -English service*, December 9th, 2nd Sunday in Advent. Holy [011 ,iiiiiiiioii, 8-30 a.m.; Mali/is and St-i-i;ioll ,I i-i 5 Vcnitc, Macfarren Is,ilijis, Turle, Felton, Luther and Lemon Beuediclitc, Musgrave Bcm'dtctu> Mornington; Hymns, 49, 217, 532,G. R. Ashley F.Gld.O., Organist and Chorister.

Colwyn. Literary and Social Society I'lic,'t tiic meeting of this society will take place at Assembly-rooms on Monday next, when vicir speaker, the Rev J. Meredith Hughes, Bryn-v-Maen, will give a lecture on the historv «' the district. Death.—It was with feelings of regret that the news of the death of Master George Poufj „ Saunderson, youngest child of Mr and Mrs Saunde son, of the Red Lion Hotel. The child was °n „ 16 months old, and much sympathy is lelt for parents in their bereavement.