Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. B ) a.m. Pm- P-m- P-m. Pm- ABERYSTWYTH Dept. 8 15 £ 30 1 15 l 15 6 25 WREXHAM Arr. 12 52 5 B .8 o 43 6 47 JO 26 CHESTER- „ 1 20 ? ? n ? on 5 12 20 LIVERPOOL (Landing Stage) „ 2 2° 7 B 0 7 20 8 0 MANCHESTER (Exchange) „ 3 2 8 B 10 JLL2 J H WOLVERHAMPTON „ 2 13 6 2o BIRMINGHAM „ 2 38 Wednes- 6 53 LONDON (Paddington)- 5 20 days only 10 50 A. Passengers by this train are allowed one hour at Shrewsbury for lunch. J3 Yia Dolgelley. Passengers wishing to travel by this Train should ask for Ticket via Dolgelley when booking. 11 Passengers are requested to ask for Tickets by the GREAT WESTERN Route Every Information respecting Great Western Train Service can be obtained of Mr. J ROBERTS, 25, Terrace Road, Aberystwyth, or of Mr. G. GRAXT, Divisional Superintendent. G.W.R., Chester. PABMMJTON STATION. J. L. WILKINSON, General Manager.

NOTICE TO FARMERS. M. II. DAVIS AND SONS, ABERYSTWYTH, Have received their Stock for the Season of CIII-AFFC UTTERS, PULPERS, ETC. H. W. GRIFFITH, BOOT AND SHOE WAREHOUSE, 7, COLLEGE GREEN, TOWYN, MER Agent for the noted K and Cinderella Boots. MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT 1, GREAT DARKGATE STREET, ABERYSTWYTH. MRS. J. W. THOMAS MILLINERY, BABY LINEN, AND UNDERCLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT. « Hats and Bonnets Cleaned and Altered. CENTRAL PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO. Speciality :—Stamp Photos. Charges Moderate. JAMES McILQUHAM, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GLASS, CHINA, AND EARTHENWARE DEALER BRIDGE END STORES, ABERYSTWYTH. TEA, BREAKFAST, AND DESSERT SERVICES. STOURBRIDGE AND OTHER GLASS. Iverything'down to the lowest Culinary Articles. One of the Largest Stocks in Wales to Select from Contractor for Hotels and Public Institutions. Special attention given to Badged and Crested Ware. Services Matched, no matter where purchased. Goods Lent out on Hire. .N EXPERIENCED PACKER KEPT. Inspection invited and your patronage respectfully solicited H t (Eadbury's eoeoa ABSOLUTELY PURE, THEREFORE BEST. FREE FROM ALL ADMIXTURES, SUCH AS KOLA, MALT, HOPS, ALKALI, &c. The Standard of Highest Purity.Tlie Lancet. H "IST on having CADBURY'S (sold'only in Packets and Tins), as other Cocoas are sometimes H substituted for the sake of extra profit. H

Dtb Of tbt Qun. THE news of the death of the QUEE was received throughout the district with feel- ings of profound sorrow and regret. The latest bulletins had been of a nature to pre- elude all hopes of recovery, and when the announcement of her death was made, it was simply the confirmation of a foregone conclusion. But public grief throughout the length and breadth of the land was none the less profound. Meetings of public bodies and social festivities were im- mediately abandoned or suspended; and testimony everywhere abounds of the /C shock which the event Ms occasioned. The hand of death within the last year has been busy within the Royal home before the] final summons came. Of her own family she ost Prince Christian Victor, in the unhappy war in South Africa and the Duke of Saxe- Coburg, One of her most intimate personal friends, Jane Lady Churchill, was taken suddenly from her at Christmas. These repeated shocks,, coming upon a frame enfeebled by her very devotion to her public duties, lowered her vitality and prepared e way for the end. It is sad to think that she has not died as she is said to have wished. It is said that her life was troubled at its close by the untoward events which have for too long prevailed in South Africa. And she has, alas! been taken away at an hour when her long and glorious reign was momentarily eclipsed by a ghastly war-cloud. It is with legitimate pride, even at this darki hour that we recall the fact that her Majesty grew up under Liberal teaching and imbibed from the statesmen who edu- cated her those great principles which have guided her and stood her in such good stead during her long and unparalled reign. Nominally and actually the Queen reigned and did not govern yet, without conflict orj I even friction, she exercised, under limited! forms, great and salutary political authority. The story of the life of Queen Victoria is practically the history of that wonderfulj century the end of which so absorbed our thoughtsand constrained our mindsto dwell so much upon the great and lasting movements1 its eventful and stirring years had witnessed in all departments of life.

POULTRY FOR EGG PRODUCTION. FARMERS and cottagers would do well to pay .<; heed to what experts like Mr. EDWARD BROWN, the general secretary of the National Poultry Organization Society, have to say on this question. In addressing a meeting last week, M» BROWN said that in the course of 30 years' experience he had never known so I [great a scarcity of eggs as during the last few months. He began twenty years ago to advocate the extension of the poultry industry in the country. The main purpose of their Society was to improve the poultry and to increase the number of fowls kept industry in the country. The main purpose of their Society was to improve the poultry and to increase the number of fowls kept upon the farms of the country, and he claimed that he and those who had helped in that work had been to a large extent successful, because in the year just ended it might fairly be said that the production of eggs in Great Britain was, in value, £2)000,000 greater than ten years ago. That was something to have worked for. In that direction there had been a great advance, and he believed it would grow enormously, because it must be borne in mind that a farmer could add to the stock of poultry upon his farm without displacing anything else, and in so doing he could add to his income in a very acceptable way. In the county of Lancaster he knew a man with only 130 acres who last year hatched, killed, and marketed 20,000 ducklings. As he had reared poultry in a large way for many years, and was in a prosperous condi- tion, he was justified in assuming that he found it profitable. What that poultry keeper was doing on the large scale was being done upon a smaller scale, and they had therefore to look to a large extent to the farmers of the country for producing greatH quantities of eggs. Proceeding to speak of the care and keeping of poultry, Mr BROWN said special dangers were to be guarded against. They were comparatively few, and perhaps the most important was that of tainted runs. If they could solve that difficulty they would have solved a great deal of the problem of Successful poultry keeping. In this connection, in order to tneserve the requisite amount of plant life, j u the run, he suggested that only half of it I Ibould be used at one time. The adoption TS 'f of what was known in America as the I scratching-shed system was calculated to ensure success in egg production, and he had employed it himself for nearly three with considerable advantage. It promised opportunity for developing poultry keeping that he had never realised before. The principle was that in addition to the roosting place there should be a covered shed larger than the roosting place where the birds could be under cover and obtain protection against the inclemency of the weather. Fowls kept in confinement had not the same reserve of vigour as those with full liberty. The scratching-shed had several purposes. In the first place it kept the hens dry. The shed should be well built, and should face the south or south-east, in order that the birds might get as much sunshine as possible. The run should be narrow, not square. Another advantage of the shed was that it compelled the hens to work for their living, because,, like human beings, hens were always better if they had something to do. They would probably lay better than if very thing were provided for them, because Hexercise woald keep down internal fat, and herefore contribute to egg production. Discussing the question of feeding" Mr BROWN said it was a great mistake, with: Shens in confinement, to give wrong food.! He had noticed that fowls were largely given maize or Indian corn. That was the worst! kind of food that could be given for egg production. Maize contained 75 per cent. of heat force, to which was to be added the heat contained in the fat of the maize. It was altogether impossible for the animal to gjultilise it, and as a consequence the body was being worked at double pressure. If they wanted hens to lay well they must be kept in a lean condition, and hence maize was one of the worst things that could be given to them. A small proportion was useful, but it should be avoided as a staple food. Overfeeding was a great drawback kto egg production. It was a mistake to sup- pose that fowls kept upon a farm must lay better than those kept in confinement. The act was that the smaller poultry-keepers in this country got a larger number of eggs per day from their fowls than large farmers because they selected their birds. They should set before themselves the idea of their hens laying 200 eggs a year. and in order to do that they must pick the very best. Mr BROWN said he recently made a journey to Russia in order to see how it was possIble that thb poultry-keepers there could send 120 eggs to this country for 4s. 6d., Hand he found that the hens were nevier fed Hit all, but picked up their own living upon he peasants's farms, and therefore egg production was carried on at a much cheapel ráte than in England. If a hen laid 80 eggs Ha year she just paid for her keep, but if Hthey could bring up the number to 160 eggs Hshe gave a profit equal to her cost. In that they saw the importance of developing the individual quality of their hens, Last yen1' the average importation of eggs into Great Britain, apart from Ireland, was 56 per head of the population. Considering the great Hgrowth of imports, it might have been expected that there would have been a fall in prices, but this is not found to be the! cftse, affording further evidence of increasing demand. The teaching of poultry culture His now assuming a more permanent form, Band many of the county coupcils pro- providing classes of a practical character both at fixed centres and in the local districts. In those counties where the ground has not alroady been prepared by lectures, that system of teaching is necessary, but it can only be carried out up to a given point, when more advanced instruction is required. In Wales there is yet much to be done in this irection, and it is to be hoped that our County Councils will do all that in them lies to encourage the development of this im- portant branch of industry,

FARM-BURNING. AUSTRALIAN PROTESTS. At a public meeting of the Peace and Humanity Society of Victoria, held in the Assembly Hall, Melbourne, on the eveningfi ot December 12th, the following resolution were carried unanimously by an audiene representing all sections of the community. The Peace and Humanity Society o Victoria protests, in the name of God and 0 humanity, against the continued employments of Australian troops, in South Africa in the barbarous and ruthless work of burnino down homesteads and crops, and that, too, of Christian peoples; of confiscating their property, of making bare their lands, and offfi waging war on women and children and turning families out destitute and homeless. 1 the Peace and Humanity Society declares 3j he compelling of Australian citizens to take w in creeds such as these—deeds expressly J repudiated by ti e Hague Congress—to be a 1 blot upon Australia's manhood and honour and a shame done to freemen. The Society protests that the time has come to recall our troops from Sooth Africa"- The Peace and Humanity Society farther protests against the recent employment of 400 Australian troops, with Maxim guns trained upon the place of meeting,, to overawe and threaten liberty of discussion in the assembly of the Afrikander Bund at Wor cester, in Cape Colony. The Society denounces this as an outrage against that freedom of speech Mld discussion which is one of the boasts of Britons, as a shame done to Australians associating them with military despotism,, and as a wrong to free citizens of a sister, colony under the British ago The Society declares smch acts to be raught with danger to our own freedom in resence of the increasing truculence of the spirit of militarism." The speakars quoted etails from the letters of chaplains and soldiers of the Australian contingents, and said an indelible stigma had been put upon Australia in compelling her citizen soldieas to take part in the acts in question.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. 1 ♦ I IN MEMORIAM. I VICTORIA. jl i8i9<"i90i. I Her court was pure; her life serene; I God gave her peace her land reposed | A thousand claims to reverence closed 1 In her as Mother. and Queen. H" By shaping some august decree 1 Which kept her throne unshaken still, || Broad-based upon her people's wi11. And compassed by the inviolate H Tennyson. 1 Elsewhere we publish detailed report ir Welsh of the Queen's last houis. H Nearly a dozen fresh cases of beer poison- ing were-reported at Manchester on Tuesday. H Saturday, March 2nd, has been fixed as the date of the County Council Election for HMo.n tgomery. H Queen Victoria has left six children, thirty-one grand-children, and thirty-six Hgreat grand-children. H It is singular, to note the dates of the deaths of the Queens of England. Queen Elizabeth died in I603"Queen Anne in 1702, Hand Queen Victoria in 1901--eaeh. at the beginning of a new century. H The Queen will,, of course, be buried by thE: side of the Prince Consort in the mo/U- Hsoleum at Frogmore. There .wiH" however. be a funeral procession through Londou. Hand the body will lie in state at St Paul's HOathetlral. IS We would direct our readers" H:ttention to Han interesting review of police work during ■the past centui y by the Chief Constable,, in our report of the Cardigan Standing Joint Committee. |U This week we have to record the deaths of (Mr William Scott, of Cardiff, Mr David ■Thomas, J.P:, Aberystwyth,. 3,nd Mr Ebenezer Williams, J.P., Broncaradog. H Had Queen Victoria lived six hours longer jfjjshe would have passed away on the eighty- Mfirst anniversary of her father's death. No other death of importance is to be noted in connection with 22 January though on that day, Bacon, Lord Verulam, was born, Mool- Htan was taken in 1849, and Rorke's Drift held in 1879. if Upon the death of the Queen the Princel gjiof Wales immediately succeeds to the throne, Hind yesterday a meeting of the Lords of the Privy Council and other members of that Haugust body, and also the Lord Mayor, alder- men, and councillors of the city of London was held, at which the accesion of his Majesty was recognised and allegiance sworn, and rearrangements made for the proclamation of the King in the metropolis and throughout the Empire. j| The superstitions, (says The Daily Chron- Micle) with reference to dates might welllaok with alarm for the death of the Queen on the days within the twenties of January. If was Hon 23rd January that her father the Duke of Kent died, just six days before George III. Ion 29th January, 1820. To come to later times, it was on 20th January, 1896, that Prince Henry of Battenberg who, by his iving under the same roof with the Queen 111 his married life, had become quite a son to her, died on service in Africa. Those who read the grim coincidences of dates, will not forget that it was in January, hought not in the gloomy twenties of January that the direct heir to the throne in the second generation, the Duke of Clarence came to his untimely end. Public interest in the case of the Rev W' 0. Jones, the dismissed Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister of Liverpool, continues unabated, as shown by an overflowing meet- ing in the County Hall, Walton, on Monday evening, to protest against his treatment by the Liverpool Monthly Meeting. The chair was occupied by Mr R. O. Williams, of Holt- road, who said that there were grave doubts as to whether the committee who had invest- igated the case had approached it with unbiassed minds, or had obtained the evidence in the best way. Mr W. Roberts, of Bootle, moved a resolution demanding for Mr Jones a full copy of the evidence agains im, and urging the Monthly Meeting to send a message to the Quarterly Association in favour of an open trial such as asked for by Mr Jones. He remarked that Mr Jones's friends did not intend to lay down their arms until justice had been done. There was room to fear that many similar acts offfi jinjustice had -been doi.e during the lastH century, and that the system had sent mar y in, minister broken-hearted to his grave. MrHj Jones, however, had proved too strong, and had refused to break his heart or go away toEf* America or elsewhere. He believed the Committee of Inquiry had acted conscient- iously but had been misled, and that tl.em Fault was with the system which took it forfiL granted that an eminent minister waslf( necessarily a competent judge. Thesej§L •emarks weie received with applause, and t -he resolution was carried unanimously. 1 h{'['¡¡- = It was reported last week that Principal Viriamu Jones, who has been spending his hristmas vacation in London, has aga.in se-ffered a relapse and that he is confined to his room at the Grosrenor Hotel. The Lord President of the Council has appointed Lord Tredegar and Dr Isambard Owen to be life members of the Court of the University of Wales,, in succession to the late Marquis of Bute and the late Principal Edwards. The report that the Cambrian Railways. Company are making a bid for the ML. and M. Railway has been received with much apprehension throughout the county, and feeling has already run so high that steps are being taken to avert this by inducing the Great Western Co. to treat few its purchase. Dr William John Edwin Daviesr son of Mr William Davies, J.P., first Mayor of Battersear of Bryngwyn, Borth, Wales, was married at St. George's, Blooms- bury, last week, to Miss Jessie Peers Boyd- Carpenter, eldest daughter of the Bishop of Ripon, Dr Boyd-Oarpenter himself officiating. It is officially announced that the Queen has approved, on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, of the name of Samuel Thomas Evans, M P., for appointment to the rank of Queen's Counsel. Mr S. T. Evans is an old student of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, ar.d is the first to have reflected1 distinction on his alma mater by taking silk. The eighteenth annual report of the Aberdovery Literary Institute is most encouraging, and would reflect the greatest credit upon towns of much larger size. The issue of books for last year shows the ratifying. increase of 279 ever that of the Hprevious year. The Aberdovey Institute is quite a model of its kind, and there is not another town in the county which can boast Hof anything equal to it. H It is announced that Sir Watkin Williams ■Wynn, Bart., commanding the 15th Yeomanry Brigade, consisting of the Den- Hbighshire Hussars and the Montgomeryshire ■Yeomanry,, has intimated to the War Office Hthat he will raise another company of Im- Hperial Yeomen and keep them in Wynnstay HPark, Ruabon, until they are thoroughly crJujpped and the arrangements for their de- gjparture are completed. H At a meeting of the Manchester City J uRtiees to be held to-morrow a resolution will be submitted by Mr Herbert Phillips in 1 the following terms :—" That considering the prevalence of the vice of intemperance Mand the widespread misery and crime of which it is the cause, it-is most desirable that the Government should, at as early a date as possible,. introduce into Parliament a com- Hprehensive measure dealing with the reform 1 Sof the licensing laws." I It is possible (says M.A.P.) that the vVelsh versatility of Lord Tredegar will fflsoon open up a new industry in Wales. mAmong his intimate friends there are a few who are quite pronounced in their Welsh patriotism, and to these he sent out Christ- mnas cards in the language of Paradise, ■which, of course (says a clerical contributor, Hwhose nationality is obvious), was Welsh. One, at least, of the recipients, who is the abour Alderman of the Monmouthshire County Council, was unable to obtain a. HWelsh greeting card in reply. He could Khave had one at any of the Welsh towns 'Hand villages west of Newport, but, surely, Hthis is a question which will bear looking ■into by the Welsh Nationalists j|| There was an important gathering at week on the .occasion Hof the opening of a new higher grade school for girls and new buildings for the dual intermediate school. The various functions were presided over by Mr Osmond Williams, ■M.P., and the speakers included Sir G. W. jjgKekewieh, the permanent secretary to the K Board of Education, who performed H ceremony of opening the new buildings, Mr K Humphreys-Owen, M.P., Principals Roberts I and lleichel, and others. 1 Sir G. W. Kekewich said that in Wales lone at present had secondary as well as 1 (elementary education been brought under he same central authority. It was surely Hto the advantage of all the grades of education in Wales that they should be under a central authority. It was also an R advantage that the Central Welsh Board, which had done most admirable work in onnection with secondary education in Wales, should be brought into direct |j connection with the State authority. He was much struck with what the Chairman | had said about the quarry men's admirable j I contribution of £ 700 towards the building i I fund. It showed that the people themselves I undo It showed that the people themselves. Htook an enormous intei est in the welfare of f | the schools and in the provision of the i | schools. As to the debt he was not quite | sure that there was any harm in it, for it j was not all together wiong that the coming generation should be required to pay some generation should be required to pay some g small part of the cost of the schools erected f ainlv for their benefit. Whatever was 1 done, he hoped that the technical education 1 mgiven in the school would always be, as he | believed it now was, suited to the needs of ■the locality. That was the essence of a. good scheme of technical education. While giving a generally good education in most technical subjects the industry of the locality I. should preponderate in the making of the scheme. 8 There are signs that the increasing burden of taxation has begun to be felt, and that in la way which will prove extremely awkward for the Government. During the last few months the Chambers of Agriculture, at the instigation of powerful landlords, have been sending up resolutions to the President of the Local Government Board asking for a renewal of the Agricultural Rating Acts. The English Act will expire in March of next year unless it is renewed by the Expiring Laws Continuance Act during the coming session of Parliament. It is believed that the present idea of the Government is to keep back the final report; of the Local Taxation Commission as long as possible, and to provide for the renewal of the Agricultural Rating Acts in the mean- while. The municipalities have already begun to pass resolutions against the con- continuHiice of an Act by which agricultural land escapes one half of its legitimate f burden at the expense of the urban I population." The fact that a resolution against the Act has already been passed by Hrywood and that a similar one has beeb r dut down for the consideration of the M ;nc) ester City Council has attracted the attention of some of the London Pro- gressives, and it is understood that vigorous let ion will be taken in view of the coming elections. The inhabitants of Lcmion lose it lr-a.-t £:-100,000 a year by the Act. A roup of Liberal members of Parliament is dso concerning itself with opposition to the and it is recognised by, some of the Donservative town members that they cannot vote for the renewal of the Act at a I, iime when the pressure of taxation is seeming increasingly heavy,