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NOTES BY THE WAY.

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NOTES BY THE WAY. Itis Worship the Mayor of Welshpool and Miss lIowel1 (Mayoress) were among the invited guests Mansion House Ball, given by the Lord ayor of London, last (Friday) evening. # A > serious fire is reported to have broken out on ectaesday at Shrewsbury Asylum, which contains Present about 800 patients. Although the fire ^gade succeeded in confining the flames to the laUndry, considerable damage is said to have been done. Th are comparatively few careers which offer that 0{ ^^tt^fejpaterial for the biographer than With one 6 ir. David Davies, of Llandinam. Welshme °r aspect of Mr. Davies's life most ac'equate'1 lnore or ^ess fam^*ar> ^ut 1,0 Jished l110^06 of the whole has yet been pub- beijjo. Preparation of a biography is now of L1 n. ertaken by Rev. D. Lloyd Jones, M.A., anfl the 1Ilarn' w^0'as a near relative of Mr. Davies throg h ni^n^8'er °f the chapel which he attended qualiff should be exceptionally well me<i for the work. The O gotnerv ar^er Sessions for the county of Mont- 5Um^ ^ere held at Welshpool on Thursday, Mr ing ^eys-0wren, M.P. (deputy-chairman), presid- i^ere were five prisoners for trinl. Bertie ^abour f a^°Urer' was sentenced t° six in oaths' hard pQo.^ °r assaulting a married woman; Edward arSed with stealing ducks, wm acquitted theft' a^a^nst James Bebb, who was r liarged with 0s%Va',Tas thrown out by the grand •:ry James H-as Was convicted of malicious v oanding, and Was Saente»ued to nine months' hard hil)our. There whi l S° an amushig assault case from Berriew, n"ich was dismissed. Til -F Til -F a Bri f °^0w'no piece of information is culled from qjos^.8 conteTnPorary, and, to say the least, is t" ost amusing, especially to our Welshpool friends, 0rn 'tprove entirely new :—" Mr Solomon ftitei-6^8' certainly one of the boldest 55Q Prisers in the Principality. He has purchased obieaCreS °f land iu South Kfirmouth, with the a»d place out na summer resort aj80 eve'°ping it for building yiurposes. lie has ,ote,8Unk t^ousar'ds of pounds rrpon land, houses, a lorries, &c. in Welshpool, and has put down vi(je e? tramway, such as he proposes to pro- ,a armouth. He has further undertaken to ^sed f& Pavilion at Welshpool, and allow it to be plitc C°S^ ^°r annua^ Eisteddfod, the for 6 ° *>G USe<^ at ot^er times throughout the ve'ar t concerts, &0." This we do know = so far as a fajr ,Way or light railway from Welshpool to Llan- pliSh18;0nCerned' t^iat at Prer < nt it is not an accom- g0iiee ^act; that the Eisteddfod has come and find6' Ut> W6 '10Pe' to comR again; that we cannot pou ^D^.°ne fortnna-te enough to sink thousands of is 8 Welshpool! and, further, that Welshpool kiiow leaning of Pwllheli, where wo Bri^i^. ^nc^rewa has been speculating. Oitr jjle t0 f^euds must como further north to learn eal meaning of Welsh place-names. the p° qUestion of admitting the representatives of t e p ress to the meetings of the locril governors of jj ntermediate Schools is to be discussed at the elrt meeting, Well, this is a matter that ought to e been decided long ago, and without any dis- sIonalmost. The members are, in a way, public t) Vants, and, therefore, their doings should be .t0 t'ie Public Press, and, if need be, public CISnl. It is only the other day that the Parents te e scholars attendhig these schools elected three Presentatives on the local body, and what they acanfc tn°st is to know how their representatives be r^afc tkey say. and what they do. This can only s ° )ja,ined by reading fair reports by impartial per- for a simple cor.r of the minutes is no crite- Tn 1 lv'ill 1 rePv to a 'jaestion which we anticipate tj-Ue- -G rnac'e at the meeting when this "important" "tlon comes to bo discussed, \ve may sav that en have gnf7!ciont: common sense to refrain ,(1 n reP°rting auyi.hing which might prove detri- *tal to ihe interests of those who have to pay he Piper. t.» \y regret to ?:. v that the announcement in these po "]Wns some ago to rJie effect that Welsh- ho'- ]W0Uld be u'adf> a centi'e for the Cambridge jjj •" ^Xaminar,i' >nn was, to say the least, premature ab 8 cllaracter. The University authorities require trict' candidates or £ 25 in'fees from any dis- as^ hef°re consenting to hold an examination, and • the e°Dly candidates entered were nine boys frotn Grammar School, the scheme has to be glven up. The Cymro states that Mr Daniel Owen, the Welsh novelist, continues in a very weak condition and suffers much from depression of spirits. It states that seme of Mr Owen's numerous friends are desirous to open a fund and to make a presen- tation to him as an expression of national sym- pathy with him in his long and trying illness. t*:}.; The Court of Governors of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, will meet on Wednesday next at the College, when a new president will be elected in the room of the late Lord Aberdare. The only nomination received is that of Lord Rendel, of Hatchlands, who has been nominated by 126 members of the Court. There being no other nominations, Lord Rendel will be elected without opposition. His appointment as president will create a vacancy in the list of vice-presidents, which will probably be filled by the appointment cf Sir Lewis Morris. The twenty retiring members of the Court, with one exception, offer themselves for re-election, but seven additional nominations have been received. These include the names of Rev E. O. Davies (Garston), Professor Young Evans (Trevecca), Mr Osmond Williams (Penrhyn- deudraeth), and Professor Hugh Williams (Bala). Seven additional nominations have been sent in for the thirteen seats vacant by retirement on the Council, including those of Dr Isambard Owen, Mr Thomas Jones (chairman of the Merioneth County Council), and Mr J. Gibson (Aberystwyth). We are glad to hear that although there was not a very large attendance of buyers at the sale of Mr. Macfie's hackneys at Wrexham, some of the lots bringing less than perhaps they might have done,, still Mr. Macfie thinks fair prices were realised, the competition being quite keen for some lots; and there is every prospect of a large and satisfactory business being done at Wrexham next year, when Mr. Lloyd intends to begin a special sale of pedigree horses, at which he hopes to have the support of all the breeders of the surrounding districts. A somewhat painful case came before the Aberystwyth Guardians on Monday. From the statements made at the meeting by some of the guardians and the officers it seems that a man who recently resided at Penllwyn went to the Infirmary, and was admittted as an indoor patient. After remaining there for a fortnight, he was told that his case—one of consumption—was regarded as incurable, and under these circumstances he could no longer remain in the Infirmary. Notwith- standing, it was asserted, the entreaties of his sister-in-law to allow him to remain in the Infirmary a day longer than the time mentioned for his dismissal, in order that he should be con- veyed home in a closed carriage, he was obliged to leave. He entered the Workhouse on a Friday afternoon, and ere Monday morning dawned had breathed his last. We give a full report of the discussion, a perusal of which will better explain the feeling shown by the members than any sum- mary it were possible for us to squeeze into the margin of a paragraph. In the last number of Wales a pleasantly written sketch of Aberystwyth—attributed to the pen of the Editor—covering four pages, is published. In one of the concluding paragraphs he remarks;- About the public spirit of the inhabitants of Aberystwyth I am not in a position to speak. The University CoIl!!le of Wales is, of course, the work of the whole of Wales. The terrace now unbroken from one end of its curve to the other, shows that no efforts have been spared to make the sea face of Aberystwyth as lovely as nature and human labour can make it. More, undoubtedly, will be done. The traditional birthplace of Dafvdd ab Gwilym, the greatest of the poets of the Welsh golden age is in the vicinity, aud Aberystwyth will doubtless, ere long, be graced by a statue of the poet of human lore and of the beauty of nature." It is to the .last few sentences of the above extract that wé would draw the attention of the people of Aberystwyth. Just now there appears amongst Welshmen a general upheaving of national feeling in favour of the erection of monuments to the departed heroes of their country and every locality that thinks it has a claim—however slight that claim might seem to other eyes—is asserting its right to be considered as the worthiest recipient of the proposed gift. Whether Aberystwyth has any rivals or whether she has not, it is essential that she should at an early date take steps to secure for herself the honour of having erected in her streets a statue of the greatest of the poets of the Welsh golden age." In a letter addressed to the Aberystwyth Town Council, and which was read at their last meeting, Mr. Jones, Postmaster, called attention to the con- fusion that arose through there being two terraces in the town bearing the same name, and suggesting that South Marine Terrace should be changed to South Shore. The matter was referred to a com- mittee, who no doubt will give the suggestion of the Postmaster every consideration. Certain houses in Mill Street, Aberystwyth, have been condemned, and instructions have been issued by the authorities to serve notice upon the owner. To say the least these dwellings are not ornaments to the town and the sooner their place is taken by a better class of building the better it will be for the locality. Mr. Balfour has written the following letter to the Editor of the Rural World :—" Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, N.B.—Dear Sir,—I am obliged tofyou for your letter on the subject of Mr. Price's motion on Agricultural Distress. Had the persons you refer to been more familiar with Parliamentary procedure, they would have realised that if Mr. Price's motion had been carried its only effect would have been to turn out the present Govern- ment-who are pledged to do all that is possible to relieve agricultural distress—and to replace them by the party who, during three years of office, have, so far as I know, done nothing for agri- culture, and whose leader in the House of Commons declared that he regarded with satisfaction the present low prices of agricultural produce.—I re- main, yours faithfully, ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR." The Drych, the organ of the Welsh in the United States, announces the death of the well-known Welsh bard" Dewi Glan Dulas" (Mr. D. W. Morris), which took place at West Pawlett, Ver- mont, in his forty-second year. Mr. Morris, who was a native of Beddgelert, resided for many years at Corris previous to his departure for America about fourteen years since. He won several bardic prizes at local, provincial, and national csteddfodau in Wales, and he also won three bardic chairs at American eisteddfodau. He was on a visit to this country last year, and was present at the Carnarvon National Eisteddfod. # Among the list of contributions by Welsh counties to the British ani Foreign Bible Society we find that Merionethshire contributed £590 4s lid; Montgomeryshire, .£342 6s 5d; Cardigan- shire, £431 6s Id; Carnarvonshire, £1,044 3s lOd and Radnorshire, £66 8s 5d. Mr. Ellis is due in London on the 26th inst. after a voyage to the Cape. *#* A London contemporary says Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., left London on Thursday, via Naples, for Western Australia, Mr. Morgan, who was the pioneer of gold mining in Wales, is going to Coolgardie for the purpose of examining certain mining propertits in that region. He is taking with him a staff of men and a quantity of machinery. Though the agricultuml depression has been universal throughout the country, the value of laud in Wales lias not decreased in anything like the proportion il has in England. Since 1879 the value of land in agricultural counties in England has decreased from 20 per cent, in the Midlands to 39'1 per cent. in Essex. In Denbighshire the decrease has been less than 15 p rcent., in Cardi- ganshire less than 1 per cent., in Carnarvonshire only 0'1 per cent., while in Carmarthenshire there has been an increase of 1'8 per cent.

WELSHPOOL.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS.

CAERSWS BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

THE NEW MANAGER OF THE CAMBRIAN…

LLANMEREWIGr.

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