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Twenty=Five Miles an Hour I y Motor Scorching in the Conway Valley. Manchester Automobilist Fined. Mr E. W. Rowcliffe, besides being a partner in one of the biggest firms of solicitors in Man- chester, is one of the best known motorists in the country. Amongst other positions he holds the presi- dency of the Manchester Automobile Clubhand some time ago he was elected a member of the legislative committee- over which no less a personage than Sir Francis Jeune presides- appointed to consider the momentous question of speed as it affects automobiles. Mr Rowcliffe is a lover of Welsh mountain scenery, and his figure at the steering wheel of his century tricycle is probably as familiar in some of our North Wales coast towns as it is in Manchester. While staying in Colwyn Bay in March last, he made frequent tours in the district, and on the 13th, he, in company with a friend—Mr Percy Higson, member of a well-known firm of chartered accountants in Cottonopolis—took a run up as far as Bettws-y Coed with the intention of doing the journey round the bridges," as most people know this highly favoured route. On the way he appears to have fallen foul of a number of sober-minded people, who have no sympathy with the more modern form of loco- motion, and who averred that he was travelling at excessive speed. The result was that Mr Rowcliffe figured before Mr JeJf Petit (in the chair), vJr E. O. Buxton, Mr E. Jones Williams, and Mr Robert Parry, at the Bsttws-y-Coed Sessions on Saturday, on [t, charge of furious driving. Mr Rowcliffe was represented by Mr David Jones (of the firm of Messrs David Jones and Roberts, solicitors, Llanrwst), and pleaded not guilty f-upenntendent Rees, of Conway, prosecuted A Furious Speed. Hugh Roberts, a gamekeeper, in the employ of Mr Thomas Marriott, J.P., was the first witness, and his testimony was to the effect that on the 13th nit., while in company with two other men, he saw the defendant's motor-tricycle coming from the direction of .Conway, near Dolgarrog. The car was going at a furious rate-from 20 to 25 miles an hour—and as it rounded a curve in the road it met a carriage. One of the two horses attached to the htter, shied, and scampered away. H., believed the defendant slackened his speed to some extent before reaching the carriage, and he was under the impression that the man at the steering wheel shouted whoa!" to the horses once or twice, but as soon as the carriage was passed they pioceedad on their way without stopping. Cross-examined by Mr David Jones, witness said he knew nothing whatever about motor cars, and he could not say at what rate the trams (ravelled between Lliiurwst and the Junction, but he guessed that the tricyole went at the pace he had mentioned, because he hid been used to horses which sometimes travelled at the rates of from 8 to 10 miles an hour. He did not time the car. He did not think the driver of the carriage spoke at all to the defendant. Faster than a Train. He saw many motor cars driving along the road but he had seen only one which went faster than that of the defendant; it went faster than a train even. There was a recess alongside the road and it was there he stood while the car passed. He had run i> there so as to be out of its way. By the Bench: I never heard the car give a warning, but I could hear some noise before it came into sight. R. H. Williams, surveyor to the Llanrwst Rural District Council, gave corroborative evidence, and added that he had no doubt whatever that the tricycle was going at 25 m.les an hour, ha had never seen one going at such a speed in that district, though he saw many such vehicles travelling along the road. Cross-examined One of the horses in the carriage appeared to be very, restless. I don't kn(w whose carriage it was. I did not time the car. Robert Thomas, rate collector, Liverpool House, Trefriw, also gave additional testimony much to the same effect In reply to the bench he observed that the road at that particular spot was about six yards wide, while the car would be about; three feet wide Defendant's Evidence. Mr Rowcliffe gave evidence in his own behalf, His tricycle measured 3 feet 6 inches in width over all. He remembered the day in question but he had no recollection whatever of the par- ticular carriage eferred to, as he met so many vehicles that day. He was associated with a number of automobile institutions. He was the president of the Manchester Auto- mobile Club, and a member of the legislative committee appointed to consider the question of speed limit, and at all functions where he had taken any part he had always advocated care on the part of car drivers. Personally, he had always taken the greatest care, especially in ronnding curves, when he invariably gave warn- ing of his approach by means of a horn, and slackened his pace. He emphatically stated that during the whole of his journey on the day in question, he never exceeded the regulation limit He had three brakes to his tricycle, two rim brakes, and the engine brake, and he could pull up within a few yards. He was well inured to horses and it was his custom to always speak to rest-lean horses on his approach, as he thought they grew more quiet on hearing a human voice from the car. His engine went at 1,200 revolu- tious a minute, and it created such a noise that to the uninitiated it gave the impression of going at a great rate of speed when it really rode along very moderately. He bad taken part in the thousand-mile motor car run and always been used to motoring, but his speed had never previously been brought in question. Killed a Dog. Replying to Superintendent Rees, Mr Rowcliffe said he bad killed a dog on the way that day, but the animal simply rushed at the machine and tried to bite it. The owner of the animal wanted zC-6 for it. He had not collided with a carriage in Conway, but a vehicle had driven into his tricycle while going dead slow along the curb stone. He had since instituted a claim against the owner for damages. Mr Percy Higson, a chartered accountant from Manchester, gave corroborative evidence. After a brief consultation the Bench imposed a fine of t2 and costs, including witnesses' expenses, the Chairman remarking that the three witnesses who gave evidence for the prosecution were independent, respectable men. Mr David Jones asked the Bench to state a case, as his client meant to appeal. -¥-

Glasgow's municipal tramways system is now operated entirely by electricity. The last horse car was withdrawn! last week.

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Conway in Years Gone By. Noteworthy Features of the Parish Church. ARTICLE X. BESIDES those already me-i-itioned, there are many other noteworthy features of the old parish church and its surroundings. Amongst thlem is ithe carved-stowe erected inside the budding in memory of Mary, Arch- bishop Williams' mother. She died on October ioth, 1585, on the birth of twins. On the eastern side of the chancel there is a tomb, upon which the fOiHowing inscription is marked: "Robert Wynne, Yswain, a. gluddwyd y 3oain o Dachwedd, O.C., 1598." (Robert Wynne, Esq., who was buried on the 30th ,Nbv., '1598, A.D."); Yma y gorwedd 'corph Robert Wynne, Rhagfaer Conwy, Ysw., mab i Thomas Wynne, yr hwn a fu farw yr i6eg o jD'achwedd, 1664" ("Here ilieth. 'the "body o;f Robert Wynne, Esq., first Mayor of Conway, son of Thomas Wynne, who died on the i6tih of November, 1664"), while on a memorial stone above the altar the- foillow-rng words are found: "John Wynne, Ysw., a, gladdwyd y igeg >0 Dachwedd, O.C., 1637." ("John Wynne, Esq., who was buried on the 16th of Nov., 1637, A.D.") On a gravestone of bl'ack marble situated in the south-eastern corner, the following in- scription will be observed: "Yma y gorwedd corph John WilHams, o'r Brynmor, Ysw., ped- werydd mab Syr Gruffydd Williams, o'x Pen- ihyn, Barwm'ad, yr hwn a ymadawodd a'r ■fuchedd fhon y 25am o Orphenaf, yon y 63ain o'i oedran, a blwyddyn ein Hrarglwydd, 1706." ("Here lieththe body of John Williams, Esq., Baron, of Brynmor, fourth son of Sir Gruffydd Williams, of Penrhyn, who departed this life on ithe 25th of July, in the 63rd year of his age, in the year of our Lord, 1706"). There are many interesting memorial stones in the chapel also. The Church tic Is There were formerly four bells of beautiful tone in use in the church tower, but there are only two in general use now. The first was de- stroyed many years ago, while the second got oult of order on the coming of age of the late Sir Thomas Mostyn. The big bell is 12ft. in circumference round the bottom edge; three feet hrigh, and upon it the followin'g words are inscribed in fast obliterating letters: "Ave fi- delis dila werburga sanitissyma felix in chore virginum "Oro pro' novis fiominum and "Johes Burchynshaw albbas Cestre." It appears that 'this bell was brought there from St. Wer- burgh's Monastery upon the disestablishment of the Papist places of worship. John Burchen'shaw was created an abbot in the year 1493, but about 12 years afterwards he was reduced to his former position owing' to some political quarrel. He was, however, re- appointed aJbbot in the year 1530, and he after- wards (kept this office until his death in the year 1535- The living is tin the hands of the Plas Isaf family. Stocsio." The old inhabitaras of Conway practised nu- merous curious customs, and some of them were carried on until the eighteenth century was far advanced in age. There are still alive many who tell with en- thusiasm of the time when. "stocsio" was in vogue. On Elasiter Sunday crowds of young and old used to march in procession to the top of Twt- hill, with branches of furze in their hands, and from this point of vantage they were in the habit of declaring the programme which was to be clarried out on the following day. The duties of "te-ler" devolved upon the man who had last taken unto himself a wife in the town. After perching himself upon a pile of stones the "teller" used to read out in stentor- ian tones the following announcement: "That lalH men over 60 years of age should make his ap- pearance Ion the public streets before six o'clock on the iolltvwing morning, while those under 40 years of age are expected to. show themselves before four o'clock, and that no one under 20 years of age shall go to bed at all Ithis night on pain of punishment." After 'this announcement had been given, a solemn hearing, the assembly would relieve themselves with a .soul-stirring shout and imme- diately disperse—the younger generation to plan their schemes of ribaldry and horseplay for the night and the elder people to their homes to safeguard whatever vehicle's they pos- sessed in tthe ,event of their being in demand on the following day. Early on Easter Monday m'orning the stocks were prepared at the ibottom end of the main street. All offenders to the edict declared on the pre- vious day were then, conveyed hither on carts or wheelbarrows, some of t'hem heiingbrought out of their homes by main force. On being placed 111 the stocks the prisoner was iasked a numiber of impertinent and silly questions, and if the answers were not satisaotory he was im- mediately bedaubed with filth, while the crowd jeered and sooffed. Eventually he would be relea-,sed and followed home by a disorderly crowd, who performed all manner of tricks upon his person. This proceeding would be carrieO,, on -for hours, and the assernJbly afterward's used to give themselves up for the remainder of the day to playing bald against the Walls of the old castle. The staid Methodists eventually succeeded in putting a stop to these games, 'and they are now nothing but an item in the history of Conway in years gone by. (Conclusion.)

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Ancient Abergele: Its Old Story Retold. ARTICLE I. Two hundred and twenty-four miles to the north- 'vest of London, with its millions, there is situated on the North Wales coast one of the most romantic and beautifully situated seaside resorts in the United Kingdom. It is but little known as yet, as the capitalist and his speculative genus has not so far observed its claims to de\e!opment, nevertheless, Abergele- for such is the charming village we refer to—has an undoubted future before it. The village has been built in a picturesque valley within about half a-mile of the sea-shore, and it derives its name, in all likelihood, from the fact that it is situated upon the banks of the little river Gele, which hereabouts empties itself into the Irish Sea Yet, there are some old writers who contend that its assumed niine was given to it in conse- quence of the large numbers of leeches which at one time were found in the turbid waters of the little stream, the word leech being gele in the vernacular. To ciiu,4erate the many natural charnis of the villa?,?e ?irid d;strict in dctail would be -Invidious, that to the botanist, but one cannot help i-emai kinp ideologist, and the historian it is an ideal holiday resort. Its fertile and various soil has for centul ies been noted for its curious and variegated growths the suriounding mountains afford excellent scope to the geologist and mineralogist while the historian can really revel in the romantic pages ot history which is unfolded in its ancient tales ot byegone glories. To revert to its geographical situation, an old theme tIft quoted by its oldest inhabitants is that the sea is gradually eating its way nearer to the mountains. It is said that at one time the village was quite two miles from the sea, whereas, as we have obsen ed before, it is now but a little over half-a-mile. In support of the elders' contention, a badly- hewn verse of Welsh poetry, which is to be found inscribed upon a memorial stone in the parish churchyard wall, is quoted The verse runs to the following effect Yma mae'n gorwedd, Yn mynwent Mihangel, Wr oedd a'i annedd Dair milldir i'r gogledd." To the uninitiated we should explain, in brief, that this means that the lettering records the resting-place ol a man who dwelt three miles to the north of that spot. At present there is scarcely a mile dividing the stone and the sea. Early History. It appears that this district was of more than little renown at a very early period, because it lies within close proximity of the old Roman main road to Chester, and there is every reason to be- lieve that the old British highway made by Beli ab Dyfnwai Moelmud. known as Y sarn ar y mor," ran in the immediate vicinity. Not far from the village stands Castell Mawr, or, as some call it, 11 Castell Gawr," an old military headquarter. It was very favourably situated for defensive purposes. On the north side its walls overlooked a precipice of nearly 200 feet in height, and the approaches were guarded with strong lamparts and deep ditches-one of which is known to this day as the Roman ditch." In all probability this old structure bore the brunt of many a terrific struggle between the Roman invader and the native Cymric races, and there can be but little doubt that the sui rounding earth mounds mark the resting-place of many a valiant defender. Some years ago a number of Roman coins were unearthed within gunshot of the castle, and this appear s to afford a proof that the Romans were at one time stationed near at hand. In .the year 1848 about nine pounds of Roman coins were found buried in curious Roman earthen- ware utensils in a field on Fronyberllan, near Glany weirglodd. Amongst them were some bearing the inscription of Philip of Macedonia, Caesar, Nero, Trajan, Antonius, Pius, etc. Again, in 1862, while a farm s rvant was ploughing in a field about a mile-and-a-half to the right of Aber- gele he came upon a number of "old crocks and rusty pans," a number of which he foolishly sold as old iron for a few shillings. Fortunately, t owever, a girl friend of his took a fancy to a few and these were found to be brass dinner plates of Roman make—properties of perhaps greater value than anything which the average historian boasts as his possessions. It is said there were originally some fifty of these fine old curios, but there are only five pieces in existence at present, one having been lost a few year s ago. The five now remaining consist of a cup Ii inches high, which wouid contain about two ounces of liquid a dish of about an inc 1 in depth, with a width ,,f 6-x inches a strainer-ladle, twelve 4 inches long; a saucepan two inches high, which would contain about eleven ounces; and another saucepan of about the same size, but of a different style. The third of these was formerly in the possession of a tenant of Jessamine Villa, Abergele, and the others were owned by the late Mrs E. M. Hum- phries, of the Cambrian Arms, Pensarn. (To be continued.)

The National Memorial to Mr. Gladstone. St. DelnioVs Theological Library. A FEW more weeks will see the completion of the Hawardien memorial to the late Mr Glad- stone, which forms part of the national memor- ial to the late Liberal leader. It takes the form of a permanent building for the accommodation of the splendid St. Deiniol's Theological Li- brary, -the formation of which was the chief in- terest of the right honourable igentleman's de- clining days. At present the 'books, which number upwards of 30,000. are housed in the temporary iron structure which Mr Gladstone erected, and on the shelves of which he person- ally arranged the books in two great classes— theological and. general, or, as he styled them, "Divinity" and "Humanity." The new 'building has cost about ^10,000, and has been erected by Messrs Bailey, of Hawar- den, from the plans of Messrs Douglas and Min- shull, Chester. The library will be housed in two large rooms, with galleries, each 30 feet in length, and there will be rooms for the warden (Rev A. G. Joyce) and studies for students of using the library. The style of the building is Gothic, -and it is constructed of Helsfey stone. The foundation stone was laid nearly three years 'ago by the late Duke of Westminster, in the presence of Mrs Gladstone.