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BRECON.

TO CLOSE AND NOT TO CLOSE.

SWAN WELL PATH, ETC.

"INDIGESTION LOWERS VITALITY"

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BEULAH.

LLANGORSE.

THE WAR.

BRECKNOCK ARRIVE AT GIBRALTAR.

RECRUITING AT THE FAIR.

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BRECONSHIRE WAR ITEMS.

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BRECONSHIRE WAR ITEMS. The collections at the lectures given by Mr Lancaster at Hay, Glasbury and Talgarth amounted to JE13 5s. 10d., of which tlO has been given to the Breconshire Belgian Fund, the small balance being kept towards the meetings. Part of this X10 was paid in by the Hon. R. C. Devereux and the remainder by Mrs J. Mills. Lieut. J. D. D. Evans, of Ffrwdgrech, has been promoted to the rank of captain in the Mont- gomeryshire Yeomanry, as from October 16th. The Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, which includes a Hay Troop, is stationed in an Eastern county. The appointment of Mr H. Donne Hughes, of Brecon, and Mr Jno. Williams as second-lieuten- ants in the Brecknockshire Territorial Battalion, South Wales Borderers, was gazetted on Friday. Lord deFreyne, late lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) has been gazetted captain and Mr R. Mylne Ford second- lieutenant on probation, in the 3rd South Wales Borderers. Mr R. S. P. Rawlins is also gazetted a second-lieutenant on probation in the 3rd S.W.B. (Itfterve Unit). The "London" Gazette of October 27th contained the following announcement:—Supplementary to Regular Units or Corps (Infantry) The South Wales Borderers, David Hughes Morgan, late captain 3rd Battalion, to be captain. Captain the Hon C M Hore-Ruthven, D.S.O., of the Black Watch, who has been wounded in France, is a nephew of the Hon. Charles Hore-Ruthven, of Vaynor House, Cefn. He is 34 years of age, and joined the Black Watch in 1898, being gazetted captain in 1906. He was formerly an aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, and served in the South African campaign. He has two brothers at the front, the Master of Ruthven, who is brigade- major of the Guards, and the Hon. Alex. Hore- Ruthven, V.C., who came over with the Indian troops. The Rev. R H Chambers, headmaster of Christ College, Brecon, invites old members of the school who are with the colours td send their names, with rank, corps, &c., to him or the Rev. A E Donald- son, at the College. Lieutenants S N C Webb, A R Peel, and C B Habershon, South Wales Borderers, have been pro- moted captains (the two former to remain seconded). Lance-Sergeant A Farrer, from the Devonshire Regiment, has been made a second-lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers. Mr S H Berger has been given a lieutenant's commission in the 3rd South Wales Borderers. Capt. T P Thomas, Bank House, Brecon, is now the commanding officer of the Depot, R.A.M.C. of the Welsh Division, at Cardiff. He has been tationed at Cardiff for some time. Lance-Corporal J Williams, who was up to the outbreak of the war stationed as a policeman at the Brecon Depot, has returned home from the front, suffering from a wound in the leg. Sister B Downes-Powell, eldest daughter of the late Rev James Powell, vicar of Llandilo'r fan, Breconshire, whose experiences as a nurse in a mili- tary hospital at Newcastle-on-Tyne were described in the Brecon County Times" of October 8th, is still having a very busy time. For example, on the night of October 25th, 130 wounded Belgians were admitted to the hospital; on Tuesday the 27th, 58 British; on Thursday the 29th, 125 British; on Friday the 30th, 210 Belgians, and on Saturday the 31st, 150. The many friends of Quarter-master-sergeant Charles Weaver Price, of Brecon, will be interested to know that he has now joined the Royal Field Artillery at Hythe as quarter-master-sergeant or staff-sergeant for a course of instruction on a new Vickers-Maxim gun, to be used on motor-cycle service. Mr Price left the 7th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, at Seaford, Sussex, on the 31st ult. The following wounded non-commissioned officers and men of the South Wales Borderers, whose casualties have not been given in other lists, were admitted to hospital on the dates named :2nd Eastern Hospital, Brighton (September 26th), 6863 Lance-corporal H. Meyrick, 8415 Private H. Plaster Chatham Military Hospital (September 25th), 9346 Private A. Key, 9361 Private W. B. Lewis 4th Southern Hospital, Plymouth (Sept. 26th), 7816 Private L. Brooker, 9392 Drummer E. Connery, 8877 Private W. Dallon, 8203 Priyate R. Davies, 7311 Private R. Driscoll, 8413 Private F9wlerf r »iYwte -TS!fc 8473 Drumme* W. JehkitiS, 8341 Private G. Jones, 8777 Lance-corporal t. iCeefe, 8475 Serge^t W; A. Wjlliam8 Military Hospital, Colchester 87J§ F. Bartlett, 7359 Private S. Robson, Hi Roullier 1st Eastern Hospital, Cambridge (Sept. 23rd), 7411 Lance-corporal A. Law, 9212 Private A. Payne 2nd Western Hospital, Manchester, 11066 Private C. F. Martin Connaught Hospital, Aldershot (September 25th), T945 Private F. Murch, 11129 Private H. Griffiths 2nd London Hospital, Denmark Hill, 16289 Corporal T. Porter, 8570 Private G. Sims American Women's Hospital, Paignton (September 27th), 7699 Private G. E. Coggins, 10975 Private H. L. Cole 1st Scottish Hospital, Aberdeen (September 27th), 9381 Private H. J. Fitzpatrick, 9060 Private A. Meaden; 2nd Southern Hospital, Bristol (September 23rd), 7413 Private T. Allen, 6472 Private H. Hardy, 9423 Private F. Jarvis, 7006 Private H. J. Stickler, 8962 Private U. Watford Leeds Hospital (September 30th), 8103 Private A. Dadley, 8222 Private R. Parker. The following are the officers now posted to the Breconshire Territorials Reserve Battalion at Brecon.-Col. Tamer, in command Major Gwynne Powell; Capt. and Adjutant Pagbe Morgan, Capt. H. Graystone, Hay Capt. E. Anbrey Thomas, Bnilth Capt. C. F. Gilbertson, Yskadgynlais, Capt. W. B. Dixon, Lient. P. A. Hill, Crickhowell; Lieut. R. B. Sparrow, Talybont Lient. Ernest Jones, Oefn Lieat. Vigars, Lieut. Canton, Lieat. D. J. Williams, Lieot. Guy Dobell, 2nd Lieat. Reginald J. Owen Builtb Welts, 2nd Lieat. J. F. Thomas, 2nd Lieut. Edgar Morgan, and 2nd Lient. E. C. Phillips. Tbrongh the kindness of Messrs Phillips and Sons the proprietors, the Belgian Refugees in the borough and county have free access to the Wheat Street Cinema, Brecon. It is reported that Corpl. Prosser son ot Mr W. ProBser, Ccfnbrynich farm, who is in the South Wales Bordererp, has been wounded at the front. The remainder of the First Brecknock Territorial Battalion to the number of 170, who were not required to go on foreign service, returned to Brecon to join the Reserve Battalion on Monday. They were conveyed from Neyland by special train and arrived bete at 2 30 p.m. ander the command of Lient. Vigars. They marched from the station, headed by their bugle band (ander Dram- Major Fred Morgan), to the Drill Hall, where they were given their billeting papers and then dismissed for the day. The total number of men now in the Reserve Battalion of the Brecknock T.F. is about 700. Ex.Col. Sergt. West, of Devynock, an old 24th Regiment man, has been appointed Sergt. Major of the Brecknock Reserve Battalion aud Serp-t.-Major Griffiths has been appointed Quarter Master with the bon. rank of lieutenant. Mr H. G. Garnett is gazetted a lieutenant in the 3rd South Wales Borderers. Amongst "London Gazette" notices of the 2nd inst. in reference to the Glamorgan Yeomanry are the following:—To be a lieutenant (temporary), J. H. R. Dowues- Powell, late lieutenant Imperial Yeomanry, as from September 17tb to be second lieutenants, Mr H. A. Christy and Mr Q. C. Strick. Mr W. C. Turner, son of Mr 0. Tamer, of Brecon, whose remarkable experiences as an aviator with the British Royal Flying Corps in France we published last week, has again writiten home giving the welcome intelligence that he Rafely accomplished his return to France with the now Bleriot Aeroplane which he bad been entrusted to take over. NOTABLE BRECON SUCCESS. Mr G. W. Ashby, of Haileybury College and Brecon, son of Colonel G. Ashby, C.B., although only seventeen-and-a-quarter years of age, entered for the Sandhurst examination held at the end of September, and, in spite of having to compete with candidates his seniors by two years, beat sixteen successful and eighty-six unsuccessful competitors, and is already at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. During the summer holidays Mr Ashby read daily with Mr LeBrocq, of Brecon.

Llyswen Building Fatality.

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DULAIS BROOK.

INSURANCE OF FIRE BRIGADE.

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To the Women of Breconshire.

Brecon Golf Club.

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CEFNCOED.

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