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FoR years and years people have been talking of what should be done to make Carmarthen a bright and attractive town and a good residential place. That is the desire of the inhabitants, it would seem, and yet it is difficult to believe it, considering how their "representatives" act. So far from anything being done towards this end, there appears to be some danger of the town being reduced to a state in which sanitar- ians will pronounce it unfit for human habitation. Over a large part of the town for five, six, or seven weeks people have been spending so much time and exertion in searching and begging for water that they have considered themselves lucky when they could carry home enough for culinary purposes. The state of drains and back premises in many places-we do not speak of the higher streets alone-is simply horrid. Although it is winter, the condition of things is unfavourable to health, and what is permitted in winter will, through similar mismanagement, be permitted in summer. It is all very well to say the season has been very exceptional, and it cannot be helped. If the Carmarthen ratepayers choose to believe that in the progressive towns around various kinds of business have been practically suspended for six or seven weeks through want of water, that all means of securing cleanliness of private premises have been cut off, and that kitchen boilers are allowed to burst over the town, for want of water-then we can only commend the patience and philo- sophic resignation of the ratepayers. PEMBROKESHIRE can boast of more than one county club," which is fairly well known in this district; but not a few of our readers are -very possibly ignorant of the fact that London has its Pembroke County Club." And a fine, healthy, and useful club it is. It maintains a union and regularity of communication among Pembrokeshire men in London which cannot fail to be pleasant and serviceable to them in more ways than one. Last year these "exiles" in the Metropolis had their first annual dinner, which passed off so agreeably that the members of the Club have resolved to repeat the happy experiment. This year's dinner will take place at the Holborn Restaurant, at 7.30, on Saturday, Xarch 30th. The number of the tickets is not unlimited, and so it is hoped that applications will be made early to save disappointment. The lion. sees. are Mr T W Ormiston, 11, Wilmot- place, N.W., and Mr John R Meyrick, 382, Holloway-road, N., while'Mr T A Prickett, 112, Gower-street, W.C., bets as treasurer. There is every reason to expect that the dinner this year will be still more successful than it was on the last occasion. There need be no difficulty in bringing together a good attendance. The number of Pembrokeshire men employed at Chatham Dockyard alone would form the nucleus of a decent little colony. More than one of the men who began life in the Yard at Pembroke- Dock have attained distinction from home as mechanicians. Pembrokeshire men are equally successful, and by no means thinly represented in other departments of London life. There are for instance, Mr Freeman Lloyd, the noted sporting journalist, Mr Adams (of whom we epoke last year), the successful headmaster of the most successful elementary school in Great Britain, if not in the world, and many others Who might be named. We heartily wish the Pembroke lads a happy meeting at this their second annual dinner, and trust that a report of the proceedings will reach us in good time. THE Times had an article on the political out- look the other day, in which it promised the Conservatives two South Wales seats at next election, namely, Radnorshire and the Pembroke Boroughs. It is too bad that the little London journal should steal ideas in this way from the Welshman. A week or two ago we ventured to say that the Pembroke Boroughs seat was the only one in these Three Counties which the Conservatives had a fair chance of capturing, although their cause is not quite hopeless in the county of Pembroke, or even in West Carmartbei-i shire with so popular a candidate as Mr. W. J. Buckley. The result of the County Council elections at Tenby, Pembroke, Haverfordwest and Pembroke-Dock go far to prove that what we have said respecting the growth of Conservative feeling in the Boroughs. But there has been too much party manoeuvring. It commonly happens that mischief is done by introducing politics into the election of local representative bodies, and it has been so to some extent in the present case. At Pembroke- Dock, for instance, things have gone wrong. Dr Stamper, a Conservative, has succeeded in retaining his seat, and we are glad of it, for be is a very useful man. On the other hand Mr. I. Smedley, a Liberal Churchman, notwith- standing his signal services to the public, has somehow been defeated by a Conservative Nonconformist. Mr. Smedley is one of the best financiers in the county, and has been indefatigable in his advocacy of Pembroke- Dock interests, besides being a champion of the best interests of the ratepayers through- out the county. Surely the County Council will not fail to elect Mr. Smedley an alderman on the first opportunity that offers. AT length there is a rift in the black cloud of depression, and things begin to look a little hope- ful for the farmers. People who have stock to dispose of, at any rate, find the prospect brighter than it has been for some years. Good sheep run up to tenpence a pound, and, in fact, we have seldom, if ever, during the past lieven years seen better prices than are now offered for mutton. Cattle, too, have greatly advanced as compared with what they were a short time ago. There is a hrisk demand just now for an almost unlimited jsupply of store cattle for the Yorkshire trade. At St. Clears market on Wednesday (where, accord- ing to an eye-witness, there were three dealers to every bullock ") this demand for stores was tremendous. The few fat cattle procurable were bought up at about eleven shillings a score, atid bulls were sold for nine shillings. Unfortunately, the high price of mutton is in some degree owing to (the great mortality among sheep. In many places they perished by thousands during the late storm. Most experienced men, including dealers, believe that the increase in prices will continue. As regards sheep there can hardly be a doubt about it, and it is probable in the case of cattle like- wise-

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