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THE PANORAMA I The Esplanade, Porthcawl. makes a capita! skating rink, and it has the attraction or being cheap. The Rector of Coity's many friends will be The Rector of Coity's many friends will be glad ta know that he has quite recovered his normal state of health. On Sunday he was able, for the first time for six months, to offi- ciate at Coity. The Kenfig Society has taken its title from a suggestion made when the Swansea Welsii Society paid a visit to the famous old city. This Kenfig Society has become the inner circle oi the Swansea eisn Socieiv v« ^icli luis Penar Griffiths as its president. Some one has discovered that the ilid-GIa- morgan constituency is very much the shape 01 Ihiill b lie. ilU. CllO A. j/ •- ing the thumb and the Liynri, Garw, Ug- more, and Gilfach Valleys respectively the four timers. In that :3(' Bviugend take." the palGl. Mr. Vernon Hartshorn suffers the penalty of having an uncommon name by hearing it pro- nounced in different ways—even by platform orators. The Federation candidate for Mid- Glamorgan pronounces Lis name Hurts-horn, not Hart-shorn, and he ougnt to know some- thing about it. Tke Garw challenges any other valley in Glamorgan to produce challenge shields for singing, ambulance, and Scriptural know- ledge. The Garw Male Voice Party, the Blaengarw Ambulance Corps, and the Zion Engl isii Baptist Sunday School are all proud holders of these trophies. Mr. Tudor Rees at a meeting of young Liberals in Nantymoei said, although he was the hon. secretary or the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, yet if the Progressive members of the House of Com- mons could not now together," he thought they deserved to hang singly. Wales was first represented in the British Parliament in the year 1 "40. The two first members for Glamorganshire were Mr. George Herbert for the county, and Mr. John Bassett, of the Inner Temple*, fcr the boroughs, these including Cardiff, Cowbridge, Llantrisant. Kjenfig. Aberavon, Neath, Swansea, and Loughor. I Sir Samuel Evans is not the first Noncon- formist judge. Lord Justice Lush was a, Baptist, and married a Baptist minister's daughter. Sir Samuel succeeded Mr. Chris- topher Talbot as member for Mid-Glamorgan. Between them they sat in the House of Com- mons for eighty years. The new judge 3 por- tion was a fourth of the total. Sir Samuel Evans's rapid promotion has taken the people by storm. A Mid-Glamorgan orator reminded the meeting that their late member was made Solicitor-General two years ago, that he was knighted a few weeks laiter, and was now made a judge. I'll make ytfu a bet," continued the speaker, '"that Sir Samuel Evans will be Lord Chief Justice before May, and Lord Chancellor betore August!" Argus." in Justice," devotes two columns to a criticism of the election address of Mr. Williams Brace. M.P., which il characterises as "a glib concoction of the worn platitudes of Radicalism, which come gurgling from the mouths of superficial politi- cal reformers like buttermilk from a jug. Its emptiness is so obvious to the serious thinker that it makes him sick and weary." Darw, mun there's pot calling kettle for you! A contemporary has the following squibs on Mid-Glamorgan: — Here's a puzzle stout and r?nk For each political organ Is the Master of Elibank To be master of Mid-Glamorgan? HARTSHORN VXD OIL. Though oil the Liberal Whips may pour On Hartshorn's head for fear of scenes, Poor Hartshorn's troubles are not o er. Since there i.- one who'll Gibbm beans. Mr. W. Griffiths, of West Plas, Coity. has just done the Bridge; Football Club a very good turn. The Qu:i ila Ground was under the auctioneer's hammer on Saturday, and the committee of the club feared that it might be purchased for building purposes, and lost as a football and sports sround. A deputation waited upon Mr. Griffiths last week, and he readily consented to purchase the ground. At the auction sale the field was knocked down to him for £ 910, amid the applause of a num- ber of members of the football club committee. We understand Mr. Griffiths.^who isone of the Hfiost staunch supporters of football, has pro- mised a 21 years' lease ct the ground to the club. At Dunraven Castle there are several pieces etub. At Dunraven Castle there are several pieces of fine tapestry which are said to be of \V elsh manufacture, and Mr. J. T. Dare, of Porth- cawl, suggests they may have been made at Bridgend. He savs: — "It is not generally known that the building now the Bridgend Brewery was in the year 178u or 1790 a factory with the latest and best machinery in exis- tence at that time for making tapestry lhe material manufactured was supplied to the best families in the country, even Royalty. Probably the tapestry at Dunraven Castle was made there. The business was 5"aTT1<n on bv a Mr. Robert Dare, father of the late Mr. Frank Dare and Mr. Edmund Dare, of Ogmore Mills, Bridgend." I Time was when Cowbridge played an impor- tant part in Welsh affairs. and it is recorded that so far back as 1635, when Charles 1. was making his fatal experiment of ruling without a Parliament, a "griev- ance meeting" was held in the Vale of Gla- morgan borough with reference to the Com- mission from the Court of Chancery for making an assessment of the counties of Wales. Chester, and Lancashire, which pre- ceded the levying of the impost ship nsoney." In this connection it is interesting ;to note that Arthur Lloyd, the then under- sheriff, in a letter to the sheriff (Watkin Lmighor) applying for ''special considera- tion" for his services in preparing the assessment, deplored the hardships he had endured "in wearing out my boots and clothes, hindrance and 10«8 of time at home, and spoy lng: of my gelding for ever, which stood me in CS. The under-sheriff closed his appeal bv expressing the wish that God may send you and me well in this trouble- some office, and to go out of it in safety." I

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