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Births, Marriages, & Deaths. Announcements of Births, Marriages and Deaths are in- serted at a uniform charge of Is each, unless such words as No cards, No flowers' are added, when the the charge will be 2s 6d. All announcements must be authenticated. Postage stamps may be sent in payment Lists of Wedding Presents are inserted at the rate o Is 6d per inch in depth, MARRIAGE. LAMBERT — MONKS.—At the Parish Church of Downend, Gloucestershire, on September 20th, by the Rev. E. Jones, curate, Thomas Lambert, eldest son of Charles Lambert, of the Rbadyr, Llaubadoc, Usk, Mon., to Alice Monks, fourth daughter of the late Alfred Monks, of Holly Cottage, Downend. MORGAN-BILLI-;GHANf. -At St. Mary's Church, Usk, on September 26th. by the Rev. E. W. W. Pugli, John Charles Morgan, elder son of the late J. Morgan, of Usk, to Edith Maud, eldest daughter of the late John Billingham, of Usk.

Why we should Support Unionist Candidates. Electors! Support the Unionist Party, in whose hands the interests of our brothers in all parts of the world will be safeguarded, and the maintenance of our predominant position in South Africa will be assured. Fellow-countrymen! let it be known that we are at one with our loyal brethren across the sea; let there be no suspicion of agree- ment with the poor, miserable, Radical Little Englanders. At this critical time there is but one course to take, and that is to sup- port the Unionist Government, and to con- solidate our glorious Empire. Electors will you be represented in Parliament by Radicals who take the Enemy's side ? If not, Vote for the Unionist Candidate, and be true to your Country. A Liberal Min- istry will be willing to re-consider the rela- tions of the South African Republic to England, and even to revoke the Convention of London. Electors! is it for this you have shed British blood and spent British treasure-to haul down the Union Jack at Bloemfontein and Pretoria, and hoistt he Enemy's Ensigns? If not, Vote for the Unionist candidate. Working men I the correspondence of Radical M.P,s with the enemy, their speeches, actions, and votes show that the party of a small England, of a shrunken England, of a degraded Eng- land, is not dead. Kill it now by your contempt, your manly patriotism, and by your votes for a United Empire, and sup- port the Government that gave you the Compensation Act and the Conciliation Act. Agriculturists Vote for the Party that gave you the Agricultural liating Act, which grants relief from unjust and exorbitant rates to those engaged in agriculture, of n tD 0 about £ 1,700,000. Electors of the Mon- mouth Boroughs Vote for Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, and meet him at the Town Hall, Usk, on Wednesday next, at 8 o'clock. Readers, one and all I Read and digest the Supplement which we are presenting to you with this issue.

To the ELECTORS OF THE Southern Division of the County of Monmouth. Gentlemen.- Her Majesty having, on the advice of her Ministers, dissolved Parliament, a General Election throughout the country has become l necessary. Having represented the Electors in this I district for over a quarter of a century (namely, twenty-six years), I think I am justified in assuming that I have earned the confidence of all classes, and have a thorough knowledge of all interests in this important Constituency. The War in South Africa, which was forced upon us in defence of the lives and rights of our fellow-countrymen, is now, I am thankful to say, drawing to a close. I shall support any measure of final settlement which will aim at the establishment of a Government in that Country under the British Flag, with the equal advantages of law, justice, and security which are enjoyed by the rest of her Majesty's Colonial possessions. I am a strong supporter of the Imperial Policy of the Unionist Party, and will welcome and assist any measures such as the Australian Com- monwealth Bill passed last Session, whereby the bonds of Union between the Colonies and the Mother Country have become strengthened. I shall cordially support any scheme her Majesty's Government may bring forward in connection with War Office Reform which will tend to place our Army in such a complete state of efficiency that in the future our country may be ready on the shortest notice, both as regards men and material, to cope with the aggressive action of any other Power. I will also support any Departmental Reform which will be the means of assuring to our gallant soldiers better care when suffering from wounds or sickness. I further sincerely hope that our Voiuuteer force, which has so distin- guished itself during the war in South Africa by its patriotic and unselfish assistance, will receive its due reward by being placed in a more favor- able position in our Military system. Much useful Domestic Legislation has been passed by the Unionist Party since the last Election in connection with Labour, the Housing of the Poor, Conciliation in Trade Disputes, Education, and Local Government, the last especially in Ireland. I hope in the future to see still further extensions in these directions. I trust at an early date to see a system of Old age Pensions established on a satisfactory basis. I will cordially support any scheme which will relieve the Aged Poor without interfering with the good work performed by Friendly Societies and olher beneficial institutions. If you do me the honour to return me again to Parliament as your Representative I shall use my best endeavours to uphold the integrity of the Empire, the welfare of the people, and the interests of the district I represent. I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, FREDERIC C. MORGAN. Ruperra Castle, Sept. 25th, 1900.

To the Parliamentary Electors of the Northern Division of the ) County of Monmouth. PLASDERWEN, ABERGAVENNY, September 22nd, 1900. GENTLEMEN,— Parliament having been dissolved, the country is called upon to decide whether it will continue its support of a strong and united Government, or will place the reins of power in the hands of a discredited and disorganized party. This decision is of unusual importance in view of the facts that whichever party is returned to power will have to deal with the important question of the settlement of the recently annexed South African territories, and that if this question is handed over to a weak and disunited party, we may lose all for which we have fought. Having been invited by a large and repre- sentative body of Electors to contest this division, I willingly place my services at your disposal. Should you be pleased to return me to Parlia- ment as your representative, I shall loyally support Her Majesty's Government in their Imperial Policy, and shall advocate the safe- guarding of the rights and interests of all British subjects in whatever part of the world they may be. To that end I shall support a strong foreign policy, and shall vigourously press for all reforms necessary to the perfection of our Naval and Military Defences, and for a fuller recognition of the just claims of our Militia and Volunteers. I shall support all measures calculated to encourage the expansion of our Trade and Com- merce, upon which the prosperity of our industrial populations, and also our existence as a world-power depend. The recent additions of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State to our Empire will undoubt- edly add greatly to the volume of the Trade of this Country in general and the prosperity of this district in particular. I am fully alive to the importance of the Agricultural interests of this Country and the rights they have to every consideration. I am not in favour of any piecemeal or class legislation, which places Monmouthshire on a different basis from any other Counties in this Country. I am in favour of the reconsideration of the whole question of the incidence of Taxation with a view to an equitable distribution of the burden. While recognising the rights of capital I also recognise the rights of labour, and will heartily support all beneficial measures calculated to im- prove the position of the working classes. Finally, if elected, I shall endeavour to repre- sent the best interests of the community as a whole. I am, Your Obedient Servant, DE F. PENNEFATHER.I I

Dr. Davis-A lieu at Newport. THE TRUTH ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA. A CONVINCING SPEECH. At the Tredegar Hall, Newport, on Friday night last, a mass meeting was held at which Mr. Davis- Allen gave an address on South Africa, in the course of which he effectually dealt with the false- hoods Radical speakers bad disseminated in the Borough and elsewhere with regard to Mr. Cecil Rhodes and the Chartered Company. Councillor J. Liscombe presided, and, in his opening remarks, urged that they must do all they could to bring about the return to Parliament of Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, who, with his great experience of South African matters, would be a great help to the Government in the settlement which was to come. (Cheers.) Mr. Davis-Allen, who was enthusiastically received, said: — I appear before ypu under somewhat false pre- tences, because I notice it was announced that this meeting, which is held under the auspices of the South African Association, would be non party, but the bills were drawn up before the dissolution of Parliament was announced, and I defy any man now to address a publio meeting of this description without touching upon party politics. To show how infectious the spirit of party is, let me remind you that a short time ago a meeting was held in the town on behalf of the Forward Movement. That is a movement to deepen and widen ;the spiritual life of the people, and should commend itself to all of us. But looking over the report of the meeting in the Argus what do I find ? The subscription list was read over and I see it was headed by Mr. Spicer with 150. The Chairman thereupon called upon them to vote for Spicer." If the Rev. Dr. Pugh could say Vote for Spicer on the announcement that Mr. Spicer had given £50, I cannot be blamed if I say before I sit down, "Vote for Dr. Rutherfoord Harris." (Cheers and laughter, i Now, most of us are of opinion that Mr. Rhodes is a great man but in the eves of Mr. John Burns and the Morning Leader," a section of the late Trades Congress, and the "South Wales Argus," Mr. Rhodes—if they mean what they say--is much more than a great man for them he is A SUPER-HUMAN POWER of quite Satanical might and wickedness. (Laugh- ter.) Accoiding to them the British Government and the Unionist Party, together with a goodly y section of their own party, are as clay in his fingers. South Africa lies in the hollow of his hand, and I really believe that neither Mr. John Burns nor the editor of the S.W. Argus" goes to sleep at nights until, like our maiden aunts in the daYIi of the Rugeley murderer, they have peeped under the bed, and satisfied themselves that the dreadful man is not there. But though they have not yet found Mr. Rhodes under the bed, they appear to be firmly conviuced he is somewhere behind the General Election. They believe this quiet, toiling, silent man, with fingers 6,000 miles long, are pulling the strings of this General Election. Else how are we to explain that for days past the Morning Leader." and now our own green-tinted echo of it, have been systemati- cally trying to frighten the electors of Newport with a bogey labeled" Mr. Rhodes"—trying to persuade them to seek refuge from his dark designs behind Mr. Spicer's coat tails? If this be not the true purpose of the wild talk which the organ of Newport Radicalism has lately been perpetrating about Mr. Rhodes then I can guess at only one other. You may, perhaps, have heard that a ueighbour of yours, Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, is trying to wrest from Mr. Spicer the representation of the Monmouth Boroughs. (Cheers.) Now you can't please everybody, and there are accordingly a few people up and down the constituency who would rather that Dr, Rutherfoord Harris did not wrest the representation from Mr. Spicer. THEIR PUZZLE is how to prevent him doing so. Dr. Harris has in a pre-eminent degree all the great qualifications usually sought for by practical men in a candidate for their Parliamentary suffrages. He is not a carpet-bagger, but a local man with a large stake in the commerce and industries of Newport and the sister boroughs. We have Lord Rosebery's word for it that of two candidates, fairly equal in other respects, but one a local man and the other residing in London, they should choose the local man. kcheers). When Dr. Harris came down to Newport first he was labelled a carpet-bagger." Now, if as honest men, you apply the term at all, to whom would you apply it ? (" Spicer.") More than that I am rightly informed that, Mr. Spicer has expressed his pleasure at the fact that he had no local interest whattver. Dr. Harris has the requisite leisure to devote to the interests of the constituency. He has more than the common share of brains and energy. And, most importantly, he has acquired by long training on the frontiers of the Empire, the knowledge and aptitude requisite to enable him to deal with those problems of Imperial statesmanship which have taken, and must needs retain, the first place in the mind of this People and Government. Such ia the man whom our "friend the enemy" has got to beat between now and the 9th of next month. And how hard they find their task they confess in the way they have set about it. (Hear, hear.) How have they set about it? And in particular how has their local organ set about it? Mr. Chairman, the way they have set about it is creditable neither to their intelligence nor their sense of fair dealing. They have seized upon the well-known fact that throughout the great achievement which added Rhodesia to the Empire and threw it open to British capital and BRITISH LABOUR, Dr. Rutherfoord Harris was Mr. Rhodes' lieutenant and right hand man. Now, Mr. Rhodes has been, as first class men in the region of public affairs have ever been, a target for virulent abube, lying slander, and unscrupulous misrepresentation, and it has occurred to our friend the enemy that it would be good electioneering tactics to divert some of the mud thrown at Mr. Rhodes to his old comrade and co-worker, Dr. Rutherfoord Harri. So it comes to pass that, for example, you were entertained with that very foolish cartoon of Mr. Rhodes barring the door of Rhodesia to the British working man in favour of the Chinaman. I want to bring home to you the real purpose and intention of these libels upon Mr. Rhodes' character and work. They are inspired by the hope that on the principle of "like master, like man you will apply what is said of the founder of Rhodesia to the Unionist candidate for the Monmouth Boroughs. It is not a very honest trick, and it seems to me to be an affront to the intelligence of the working men of Newport, But I pass that by in order that I may at once accept the challenge to judge of Dr. Rutherfoord Harris by Mr. Rhodes with respect to the matters in question. I accept the challenge, but not the conclusions you are asked to apply to it. Let us begin with Chinese labour and the Radical allegation that Mr. Rhodes is seeking to import it into Rhodesia to the exclusion of British labour. That allegation, as you are aware, was promptly met by Mr. Rhodes' cabled message to Dr. Harris, in which he roundly asserted that he was AGAINST THE USE OF CHINESE LABOUR. I (Cheers). For fair-minded men this was conclusive. But for our Radical opponents it served only as an opportunity for a fresh attack and a new innuendo. "Oh," said they, "Mr. Rhodes' cablegram was only a private message for local consumption." And anyhow," they added you can't take the word of a man who by a Parliamentary Committee was accused of having practised deceit in connection with the raid." Well, Mr. Rhodes' enemies are entitled to make full use against him of the weapon provided in the report of the South Africa Committee they are entitled to make fools and Pharisees of themselves, as they have done abundantly, in the use they make of that weapon—(hear, hear)-hut even so, they are not entitled to say the thing that is not," even of Mr. Rhodes, and this is exactly what they have done. (Hear, hear). They have given out that the message to Dr. Harris, repudiating the charge of seeking to introduce Chinese labour into Rhodesia, was a shifting false- hood told for the purposes of this election. Now, on the face of it, the message was nothing of the a sort. (Cheeya,) On the face of it. it was a repetition of a declaration already made in and to South Africa. This was put beyond challenge when it was discovered that aw important word— the word publicly "—had &eew dropped out in the transliteration of the cablegram. As actually sent by Mr. Rhodes, the ctrS&'ltegram reads—" I I have already publicly tnld all ttte Chambers here I am against the importation of Shiaeae labour." Clearly, then, the message was not. devised far local consumption, bur was a repetition in brief of Mr. Rhodes' formal and public declaration against the introduction of Chinese labour, a protest made to the Chambers of Commerce of South Africa. (Cheers.) For those who know the A.B.C. of South African politics, however, the allegation that anybody having authority was seeking to introduce Chinese labour (or Abyssinian labour, as the story is now) needed no refutation. IS was I FALSE AND NONSENSICAL on the face of it. I say without fear of challenge that with respect to what we oversea call the Asiatic invasion," Briton and Boer, Mr. Rhodes ( and Mr. liruger are of one mind—We will have iiozie of it. (Cheers.) And in this resolve we are at one with most of the self-governing Colonies. At the conference of Colomal Premiers convened in London by Mr. Chamberlain during the Jubilee of 1897 this great question of the Asiatic invasion came up for discussion, and the Imperial Government was uiven clearly to understand that wherever in the Empire white men could work and breed, the over-running of the soil with coolie labour would not be tolerated. Least of all would it be tolerated in S,)uth Africa, where the problem set by the indigenous coloured races is already sufficiently difficult aud dangerous without com- plicating it by the wilful introduction of yet another coloured race. Before I leave this fable about Chinese labour let me say how much I rejoice-may I say how much you rejoice?—in finding that the organs of ultra-Radicalism are agreed with us in the POLICY OF PROTECTION for British labour within the frontiers of the Empire. I could almost forgive them their venomous attacks on the men—Dr. Harris and his great chief—who have done so much to enlarge those frontiers, in view of their adhesion to the policy of preferential treatment of British labour and by con sequence of the products of British labour. You are all doubtless aware that when the question of a Constitution for Rhodesia came up for discussion in 1894 between Mr. Rhodes and the Imperial Government, Mr. Rhodes fought hard to procure the insertion in the Constitution of a clause providing that the Customs dues on British goods entering Rhodesia should never exceed a certain prefixed revenue tariff, leaving Rhodesia free to levy on non-British goods a tariff as high as she chose. Lord Ripon, the then Colonial Secretary, opposed it, but on.the accession of the Salisbury Ministry, and largely as the result of Dr. Harris' skilful handling of the negotiations, the clause was adopted and to-day Rhodesia is free to follow Canada in according to British manufactures a patriotic preference in her markets, If the Argus and those of its readers who at the expense of Mr. Rhodes' good name have been upholding the preferential treatment of British labour in Rhodesia should object, Oh but we don't go as far as Mr. Rhodes' clatise," I reply, But you have gone a& far." For there is no logical halting place between protection for British labour and protection for the products of British labour. I pass now to the second of the stones thrown at Mr. Rhodes in the hope and design of hitting his old friend and fellow-worker Dr. Rutherfoord Harris. Mr. Rhodes, we are told, is in a conspiracy to enslave the black man and to cut down the wages of the white man and we are told to go to Kimberley for the proof. Well, let us go to Kimberley. I have lived in Kimberley for years. I lived in XIMBERLEY IN THE OLD DAYS when the streets from Saturday night to Tuesday morning were littered with drunken black men, and when it was not safe for women to go out into the streets after dark because of the drunkenness rampant in them. If there be any man in this room who was there in 1888 he knows that I state the facts (a voice That is right). The mines were reduced to a state of bankruptcy. I have also lived in Kimberley when it was the most orderly town under the British flag. Poverty has now, to a large extent, disappeared from its streets, and its industry has reached a pinnacle of perfection. How was that accomplished? Iu the first place by compounding the black man. I say there is nothing more beneficial for the black man than the compound, and he says so himself. Mr. Davis-Allen here described fully the conditions of life and terms of service of the natives, who have voluntarily contracted themselves into residents in the compounds, into which a drop of intoxicating liquor was not allowed to go, and then went on It had been alleged by John Burns, and re-echoed by the Morning Leader that since Mr. Rhodes has controlled the interests there has been a continued shrinkage in the wages. I hold in my hand the Government returns of wages given year by year. I find that the wages of white workmen in 1891 in the De Beers mines was from X4 to E6 10s. per week, and that has fallen to S3 10s. instead of X4, and to £6 instead of X6 10" It has remained steady at that as Mr. Rhodes said it should. The last record was for 1899. There had been no shrinkage whatever. (Cheers.) But that is a very bald way to put it. You have to take into con- sideration not only the number of sovereigns a man receives per week, but the purchasing power of the sovereign, and that is what is contiuually forgotten in your disputes in the country. I have known places where £60 per month would not buy as much as your 30s. per week. (Hear, hear.) And what has happened in Kimberley? It is mainly due to the order Mr. Rhodes has substituted for chaos that the PURCHASING POWER OF THE SOVEREIGN has continually increased so that what would have been bought for a sovereign in 1890 can now be bought for 10s. Well, now, as to the black man. There has been no alteration in the.black man's rate of pay for the last seven years. It stands steadily at 21s. per week with lodging. But you say, He does not get it." Mr. John Burns says so, and the Argus I suppose, says ditto. (Laughter.) But the black man does get his wage. I spoke of the protector of natives just now. He is a highly- paid official, a man of character and standing which is beyond challenge in the Colony, and his sole business is to be in and about the compounds. The law of the Colony, like your Truck Act, requires that the nominal wage shall be paid in fuU. Any debts at; the stores in the compounds, and any debts which natives may incur, must be recovered by civil process of law. You may not take it off their 21s. But this is not all. To show you what the result of this method of dealing with the Kaffirs is compared with that before the compound system was introduced, let me quote from the Government report of Advocate Sampson, Q.O., on the economical state of i be Transkei in 1897. During the year some 30,000 Kamrs, residing in the Transkei, went—not were driven "—to Kimberley and Johannesburg, and returned with from 10 to 15 sovereigns each. From the same report it appears that during the year 1897 a sum of X-300,000 was invested in farming implements and cattle by the Kaffirs of the Transkei who had worked in the Kimberley and Johannesburg mines. (Cheers). Let me now say a word about the condition of the white working- men. In 1890-the very year he (Mr. Rhodes) completed the amalgamation of the mines—he said that he must have his workmen better housed. and that he would build decent houses in what would be a model village, and would charge 4 per cent. on the money invested as rent. The designs were no sooner in his hands than he called for contracts for what is known as lienilworth, for the employes of the De Beers mines. I have seen Chatsworth and others of your model towns, but you have nothing to match Kenilworth. Mr. Davis-Allen then passed on to the question about to be submitted to the judgment of the electors, namely, the choice of a representative in Parliament. He said If Mr. Spicer combined all the virtues of his leaders in himself, I should ask you to VOTE FOR DR. RUTHERFOORD HARRIS. I Why ? The Chairman began by giving you a clue to the reason why. We are now on the brink of the settlement of South Africa. The war, costly in treasure and in men as it has been, was an easy task compared to that which now faces this nation. What form of Government are you going to intro- duce into the late Republics ? What rectification of the irmitiers is mfeceemry, sa that in the event of a renewed attempt to thFo-w off British rule we may not" be blocked in our own passes? How are- you going: to treat tie enormous question of what laws be paramount iv' South Africa? How are going to' treat the Ma ck man what ure to be bis relations to his employers what is 't» be the position of the-barbarian black in this new State we'at'e going to- build up? The British nation has never been face to face with a more 'j arduous questlJ" If the solution ia to he effected ¡ on It perrnLlltJllt it canuonlv be1 at tlat hands of a Governrnentabnt whose ciiii be no doubt in the mincfe of our Dutch f< ilow oo lonists. Leti rue read to you out of the mouth of .a very eminent Boer of the late Oraage Free- State — Chief Justice1 De Villiet-ai-wlio stood only seconoE to his brother in the esteem of Soutb Africa; For reaa ons we have still to discover, and which the present generation may nei*&r fully laarn, he joined tL-e, rit-iilks of those who elrfew the aword against Majesty: He let us aito the sscret. Writing UX Mr. Fischer, who was the go-betwee:&< of tJJtø Orange Free State and the Transvaal in thfmew intrigues-which issued in the ultfinat'um, he Please impress upon 0bm Paul what I Hhinlfe to be an important fact, that the present Ministry will not always last. By giving way now, we (the- Boers) do iiot do so ill perpetuity, but we feel: surer that I A LIBERAL MINISTRY" WILL Big" WIIiLfflWJi to consider the relations of the South African. Republic to England, and even to revoke the' London contention." The Boers were firmly con- vinced that if only things went right for them, at. this election and a Liberal Ministry were returned to power, they would get back all they have lost. This is not rumour. If you talked to Mr. Ivruger- to-day, to Mr. Reits, to Mr. Steyn, you would findi they were firmly of the opinion that if this country only returns. a Liberal majority-to Parliament, all they have fought for and lost will be handed back: to them. If it so happens that the Liberal Party is returned to' power, I have no hope of a perina- nent pacific settlement in South Africa. Now that the Boers are not wrong in the estimate of what the return ofl tbe Liberals to power would do for them, that they are not wrong in their convictions that the Liberals-would attempt to undo what has been done, we have had proof during the last day or fo. Yesterday's "Times" contains a letter from Mr. Massingham, a late editor of the Daily Chronicle," iir which he says that Mr., Herbert Gladstone and Mr. Asquith are wrong in their statement that a Liberal Government would pursue the policy of this Government. Mr. Massingham states that they would do nothing of the sort- They would accept the annexation as an act of war and take steps to undo that act in the settle- ment. "The Manchester Guardian'" repudiates the policy of Sir Edward Grey and patriotic statesmen of that calibre, who, if agaiir returned to power, would start where the present Government left off. and complete the settlement om the bnes laid down by Lord Salisbury. (Loud cheers.) The return of the Liberal party would, therefore, bring us face to face with r, A GREAT NATIONAL CATASTROPHE. (Hear, bear). It wouM carry into South Africa ft renewal of the attempt to thrust the British flag out of that part of our Empire. Therefore, without any further review of the qualifications of Dr. 1ILitherfoord Harris on the one part, and1 of Mr. Spicer on the other, I say Mr. Spicer ii, or should be. disqualified in the eyes of a patriotic elector as being associated witn a party in undoing work so strenuously effected by Mr. Chamberlain- and his allies in South Africa. (Loud and prolonged cheering), I call upon vou one and all before I sit down, to vote for Dr. RlItberfoord Harris at the coming poll, and to do your utmost to secure his return. (Great applause). Mr. G. R. Martyn, J.F., moved a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Davis-Allen for his excellent speech. Councillor L. 1-1. Hornby seconded, and it was accorded with acclamation. Mr. Davis-Allen briefly responded and proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Councillor Liscombe for presiding. Councillor Parry, J.P., who was very enthusiastically received, seconded the vote, which. having been accorded, Mr. Liscombe briefly acknowledged, and the proceedings, which were- enthusiastic and harmonious throughout, were? brought to a close with the singing of the National Anthem.

Adoption of Br. Rutherfoord Harris. ) On Tuesday afternoon a representative meeting of the Conservative party of the Monmouth Bor- oughs was held in the Tredegar Hall, Mr. F. Phillip*, presiding. Mr. F. Phillips- explained that is was necessary to adopt a candidate, according to the constitution of their association. It had been stated that he had been adopted some time atro, but the following resolution, passed on April 19th, 1898, was a com- plete answer to that charge: "That this meeting fully endorses the recornmendation of the executive committee, held on January 28th, invitiuw Dr. Harris to contest these Boroughs, and was strongly of opinion that he would make an excellent parlia- mentary candidate" (applause). Dr. Harris was, he was sure, the, best candidate thev could have found for their party, and he would be the best member possible for the Monmouth Boroughs. He had great pleasure in proposing the following resolution That this meeting of the Conservatiytt and Unionist party in the Monmouth Boroughs, having heard the speeches and addresses of Dr. Rutherfoord Harris in this constituency, cordially adopts him as their candidate at the forthcoming election." (Applause). Mr. Laybourne seconded the resolution. Messrs. G. Mundv, of Usk, J. C. Phillips, T. Parry, G. Geen, C. Pearce, G. R. Martyn, and G. Morgan, also supported the resolution, which wa* carried, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

Dr. Harris opens the Campaign at Newport. CLEARING THE DECKS. Seldom has such a demonstration been wit- nessed in Newport as that which took place on Wednesday evening, when Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, the Conservative and Unionist candidate for the Monmouth Boroughs—comprising New- port, Monmouth, and Usk—rose from his bed of sickness to answer in person the calumnies that had been levelled at him by some Newport. Radicals when he was laid low. For hours before his train was expected the station yard was crammed with eager men and women, and when that space no longer afforded standing room, the crowd spread down High Street and Cambrian Road. A strong south-westerly wind blew, and the rain poured down, but the elements made no difference to the excited and patriotic crowd, who bore all their discomforts good- humoredly, and whiled away the time with jokea and songs. Banners, and festoons of flags stretching across the streets, met the eye in all the principal thoroughfares, and the effect was considerably enhanced by the white and coloured lights displayed, the fireworks, and the search- light. The train steamed into the station punc- tually at 7.40., and it was but the work of a few moments to take the horses out and attach ropes to the carriage waiting outside the station into which Dr. and Mrs. Harris, accompanied by i),Ir. Fred Phillips and Mr. Longstaff, stepped. A hundred men took the place of the horses, and, preceded by a number of stalwarts bearing torches and rnagnesiuiii lights, moved slowly towards the Tredegar Hall, amidst a perfect roar of cheering. The searchlight on the roof of the Westgate Hotel came into play as the crowd approached Stow Hill, and soon a desperate struggle ensued to follow the Doctor and his party into the Tredegar Hall. Before long the solid line of policemen, stationed inside the principal entrance announced to the hundreds still outside that the hall was crammed to its utmost limit. Language cannot adequately