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LLANDUDNO OCCASIONAL NOTES.

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LLANDUDNO OCCASIONAL NOTES. Season 1833 has gone the way of all its prede- cessors. Practically speaking it has beeu as 11 dead as a door nail" sinoe about the middle of September. We do not suppose the proverbial "oldest inhabitant remembeis the season fall- ing into quietude with such a sudden flop a9 their year. Taking the summer through, 111 e are not far wrong in stating that August was the only month to brae about as compared with previous years. In the middle of September the clerk of the weather proceeded to put on his very worst behaviour, and off went the visitors in shoals. But it is not quite no bad here as that versatile organ, the Rhyl Journal tries to make out. Looking over the editorial columns of our respected comten)portry last Saturday as usual for something spicy, we were not a little amused as well as amazed to read the folowing There are still a few visitors in the town and the lovely weather of yesterday was instrumental in enticing at least a hundred people on to the front. At Llandudno on Wednesday, between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning, there was not a single person on the promenade, with the exception of some visitors from Rhyl. It is very considerate on the put of Rhyl to lend Llandudno a hand in this way." Quite characteristic and very nice of the Journal to allude to us in this way. We suppose it is intended as a joke, and that we must regard it as an incidental escapc of RHYL GAS, But we should like to know how our esteemed friend the editor of the JOllrnalreconciles the above quotation with the following, which is clipped from the same issue and within an inch of it in the same column :—" The Pi omenade is being prepared for the storms and blasts of winter. The sand hoardings have been placed round the grass plats and on the foreshore, and altogether the locality of the Promenade has a most wintry appearance." At Llandudno no sand hoardings" have appeared, and the place has not a most wintry appearance." We would further remind our contemporary that Llandudno ii still blessed with two bands to entertain the remmant of visitors who remain and that theatrical business is lively at St. George's Hall. We do not pretend to say that there it a living for the two bands-that has not been the case for the past five weeks but thanks to the KEEN TERPSICHORE AN FIGHT raging in LlaDdudno they are still here, although this evening the two bands will say, like the General in the Pirates, At last we really go," and the residents will have a few months' rest from the fc'erlastinu fiddling that has prevailed all the summer, both morning, afternoon, and night. By the way, whilst on the subject of music, we may as well quote the following from the gossip oolumn ot a Blackpool pjjier:— "Mens. Riviere, the popular conductor ot the Llaududno concerts, evidently understands the value ofdress in connection with entertainments. His latest happy thought was to have a Japanese night, when he and the members of his orches- tra were attired in Japanese costume. It seems a pity that a good orchestra and talented vocalists should not be sufficient of themselves to attract good houses, without the necessity of I the musicians having to dre8 up l'ke wxwork ligareg. Anyway the experiment tfas a$-rent Bucoesg financially. How funny they must have looked! I wonder if the dresses really hailed from the land of the Jap fas a matter of detail they were Chinese] or were they only an arrange- ment of art muslin and gaudy curtains. Concerts will indeed be lively if the musicians are to dress according to their music, appearing say in kilts on a Scotch night, and the conductor wielding a shilielaghfor abaton onan Irish night,and sooti. From music to marriage is not a very bi; jump. We stat8 this to haul in a few lines to the effect that another sign of autumn is the near approach ot "WEDDING BELLS" in Llandudno. Lust autumn there was a Srolific crop of liap events" between this ate and Christmas. This auspicious state of things promises to prevail again in 1893. Five were published at St. George's last Sunday morning! May these and all the others loom- ing in the near future live long and prosper. PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW." There was quite an interesting as well as devotional demonstration at the English Presbyterian Chapel last Sunday. The Rev. C.T.Astley naturally alluded with feelings of emotion and thankfulness to the handsome cheque for £ 1900 received during the week from Mr Robert Davies. Bodlondeb, Bangor. The rev. gentleman' caused a smile by remarking that he was in bed, half asleep t and half awake when the morning pose arrived, and Mrs Astley dangled the cheque over his head," and he was very soon quite wide awake. But there was another good piece of news to relate. That morning (Sunday) he had received another cheque for £ 100 from a generous lady. They could now from the bottom of their hearts sing Praise God from whom all blessings flow." We need hardly add that the congregation sang it with great heartiness. We believe that the debt on the building has now been cleared off. MUNICIPAL FINANCR LLANDUDNO AND HER NEIGHBOURS. Llandudnoite3 can congratulate themselves on the healthy state of the town's finances. Not so the Rhylites. The Rhyl Journal deplores the state of monetary matters there in the fol- lowing wail:—"The town of Rhyl is in any- thing but a satisfactory financial condition. We are overdrawn at the bank to the extent of £ 6000—the equivalent to about eight months' rating receipts. A new Z3000 loan is in course of completion, which will doubtless be instru- mental in reducing the overdraft, but which, at the same sime, will be an additional 'diag' upon the resources of the town. The new loan is another revised exemplification ot the old saw —' Robbing Peter to pay Paul,' and how the town will come out of all its obligations it is not easy to surmise. There is a deficiency ot £ 4062 on the general revenue accoant, ZI-525 on the gas revenue, and £2637 on the water revenue. These Lre significant items and oannot be passed over. There is, however, an amount of £ 2900 owing to the town on the general district rate account, and R1330 on the gas and water busi- ness. Last Monday, cheques to the IImount of E1122 were drawn. The outlook is anything but hopeful' but we trust for the best, and should be exceedingly gratified at seeing a way out of the monetary obligations in which the town is involved. The bank authorities are gettinsr impatient, and are mortgaged very heavily, and yet a pacific reservation reigns sup: eme, and the ratepayers are kept in blissful ignorance as to how the affairs of the town are to be set right." In contrast to this, the minutes of the last Finance Committee at Llandudno show a credit balanceat the banks on revenue accountoIA;4768 and on capital account £2724. On the June quarter there is scarcely JE30 owing for water and gas I Perhaps we can GIYK aRYL A WBINKLK on this head. Some enterprising member of the Commissioners there should move that five per cent. discount be allowed on all gas and water aocounts paid fourteen days after delivery of the demand notes. This would probably improve matters in that department at Rhyl, as it has done here. Now, Mwrog, there is another chance for you to distinguish yourself in your local legislature. Our other seaside neighbour PLUCKY LITTLE COLWYN DAY," sometimes criled "Handudnos attractive daughter," also appears to be groaning under financial burdens in addition to that little affair about the foreshore. At the meeting of the Local Board, on Tuesday, it transpired that between 300 and 400 ratepayers want to defer payment of half the current rate until March next. Mr 3. Bevan clearly pointed out that this could not legally be permitted. Mr Thomas Parry favoured the two instalments idea but this would involve double work for the officials and the probability of losing a considerable propor- tion of the March instalment, as it goes without saying that lodging-house keepers are not usually flush of ready cash iu the spring. We must, however, compliment Colwyn Bay upon its energy and go." For a comparatively new seaside resort we consider it the most enter- prising plaoe on the North Wales coast. Our joniot neighbour sets Llandudno an example in this direction. Even our Town Improvement < Association, started with a nourish ot trumpets and half-a-dozen committees, I appears to be languishing, if indeed it is not already "ON ITS LAST LEGB." ( One hears nothing of it, except that the secre- tary has been unable to collect any sinews of I war." The Association did some excellent work and could continue to do it; but of course bricks cannot be made without straw. NEW ROAD TO ST. TUDN08. I We understand that Lord Mostyn has pro- mised to give the land for either of the proposed new roads to St. Tudno's Church, and that a meeting of the promoters will be held at the National School next Monday evening, in order to take steps to definitely place the matter before the public and solicit subscriptions to carry out this important work. "RICHARD K AFLOAT. I Mr Richard K. Fox comes here every summer and is, as the song says, "a well-known man." He intends to build a yacht that will lick creation. At any rate the New York Daily Veite hints this in the following par. Mr Richard K. Fox intends, when he returns to America, to have a steam yacht constructed about the fcize of the Yankee Doodle' or the Norwood.' It will be built on an improved plan, which will give it more speed than either the 1 Yankee Doodle,' 'V amoose,' or Norwood.' He will name the boat Erin Go Bmgb,' and when com- pleted, if her speed is satisfactory, Mr Fox will match her against any yacht afloat for £ 1000."

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