South Wales Echo

FACTS AND FANCtES. It would harcHy be proper to say that the murderer who is hanged ia treated with gre&t murderer who is hanged is treated with gre&t cord-iabty. No Shirt. is the new chief of the Umatilla Indians, Shoutd he be aHowfd to -visit the wbtte settlements ? The suitor who gets the mitten isn't liMy to pronounce the contest an engagement with soft cloves. It's wett to have a ]arge bank account, but not such as it takes f'olumns of the papers for weeks to give recount: of. The breath of winter may be cotd, but it is not h:)lf "o et']d as the g)anee of the man you strike for the toan of half-a.-dolia.r. IIotpi-keppi'rs in the mountains, who are growl- ing ov,.r unpaid bourd bills, should remember that they live in owe-zone. CaUer Wondpr if I can see your mother, littin boy? Is she en?a?ed?—Lit*;]eBoy: Engaged? boy? Is she engagec} ?--Litt]e Buy: Engaged? Whatcher givin' us ? She's married. Patient Oh, doctor, I fee! that I am utmost at death's door ].)octor (cheerfuHy) Ob, don't fear We'll pull you through. Men are not in this worid according to what they knjw, but, recording to what they can make oLhfrs think they kuow. Cipanlines rray be nxt to godliness, but the soap ao vert ¡sf-men t can crowd the reI igious notice into an obscure corner on the i-nside page. A Geor;i1 man has paid for a farm with the youn? doctor he hasfirmty estaoiished in business. Why is :f:uie," :1k8(1 SquiggsJ tbtt you 11 m-ver Sfe a<1vertl'<ed Rown9 fnr otd ladies ?" Be- cause," rep)!ed Mrs Sqtiiggs, there would be no sale for tht-iii." Bride (axchn.nging bridal costume for travelIing su.t) Did I appem' n'-rvcus at aH dnrill the CermllOIlY, CJara:1 (,-nviou.,Iv) A htt;e at iu'st, dear but not after George had said Yes." vision (?v?r ycur dau?ht?r' reading ? Mrs Park C-rt.iiniy, my df-ar It )s quite iiecpss at the -etit (fty. I nevfr let ht-r read a book written -in until I've  it over ca  Y. by i woin, What ? You are t,wen ty-fi v'> ypar-! o!d to- a youllg told me a yfa:' ngo. just b.-fore the wedding, that you were'.niy twpnty. I have a.d ra¡.¡:dly i!tnce I m'Arrtbd," rfphed the yonng- wife wearily. P:'eceptrRss I think you might as well ttke yonr danghter ont. of our J\bby. Hf.rr!!y a day p?ses that- she dce?n't make a, /?n<.Kp?.that is the t?tkof the whoi?schoo'.— L'i; M.d?,y We! n'.a.yhe if she's got so fitr (,Ivi,iiee(i aionpr as n).'kin' one a d.T.y, she prob'iy don't need to stay in school any longer. Pmdenca is one of the virtues that naturally g.) with a.E:c, but sometnnes it is developed early. said a thong-f¡tful nioliler, your U::c'e \Vd)!:un wtit be ti-i-,3 to-d-ty, and you )!tu-;t wi'<h your fac' Yes, ma." said the ':¡rifty Tiion.a.s but s'po&eu he don't come. then ?'' Orator Wli-re else but .n the gr¿.:<t country of which I spe,1k will you tiud in one spoe suet) producta as marbie, iron, o!ay, chnik, copper, it-ad, slate, glucose, fruits cf !)![ kinds, Hax, hen'p, and aU i.nn(-r of gra.ins ?—Man in the Audtencu In my boy's pocket. I want to see that letter," sa.:d the wife, with a. determined air. "Wh'.t letter?" ,-tsk(,.(i her bm;h:tnd. "That one you jnt I know by thu handwriting thac it is from a woman, and 'cm torned pal.. when you read )t. I will see )t! Gtve tt to me, sir I" Here it is. It's your mUti- ueJL's bit! Do You WANT TO BE LovEO.—Don't Hnd fanlt. Don't oonLradiet o,v¡.n )f you're sure YllU aie right. Don'c be !qui<tive about thR of evt-n your most intimate fri'-nd. Don't under. rare anything you (lon't it. Don't I h?!='vo that RV<'rybodye'se in the wor!d is huppier than yon. Don't conclude that you have IHwør hf.d any oppothmities in ycu'' life. D'n't b"!i&vf all the l'vil you hear. Don't reoeat gossip, II enm if it does interest a crowd. D'))''t; po uotidy on the p'ea. that everybody knowf you. Don't b.¡ rude to inferiors III >social (Jv,r 0: unde).' (lup3s. Don't express a pusitive opinion unle-;s you pcfi'. (-y iiii,lef6tillia what you are ab-jut. Dun'u jftr .tt ..mybody's l'eli¡ons UelK-f. I The Labaurer. For a in his fihtin ire there is never tiw 12'101'y :h:\t £,10\'1", When r<.shen he arid the poets arise to sin the work tie has (fooe. But io visions llUd8r of siglit, 10, the crown is Apollo's. Wiiite stands he yet in his grime and sweat to wrestle for fruits of the sun. CLiii an enc'my wither his cheer ? Not you, ye fair ye1!ow fl0\Verin ladies Who join with your lords to jar the chords of a b'scmheroicandetog', 'Tis the fa,)terin? friend, an in.tcimatp!an<j,may drag' :t great sou! to their hades And 1'll1n¡;fj him fa.r frotc a beam of sta,r till he he:trs the deep bay of the dog. Apparition ia there of a monster task in a policy new fashions The Wi))ni:)ger course than the rule of force, and the lured to run in a Ha would bend tough onk, he would stiffen the reed, point reason to swallow the passions, Bid Briton-; awake two stepi to take where one is ft trouble extreme ot the ¡ef; ts he nerved w)th the labourer's reso- )uce hope tha.t by him ':ha.U be written, To honour his race, this deed of grrace, for the wf,ak from the strong rnade just; That her sons over sea" in a r.tiy of praise icay be- head :t thrice vit.t)iz"d Britain, Ashine with thf-lightof the doing of right, at the gates of the future in trust. <jrEORGK MEREDITH.

Sad Scene in a Rhondda Chape). DEATH OF COUNOLLOR !OH!S W I I S. We regret to announce th.i death, which took phtCe About h:df-paat ten on Sunday evening, of Councillor Idris Wiitiams, assistant overseer and reghstrar of marriages of the parish of Y cotrady. fodwg. He was apparnntly in good heatth on Sunday, and attended the Forth Wdsh In- dependent CiiApetm the 1110rniug, the school in tho afternoon, and opened the services at the chapel at six o'clock in the evening. Having read a chapter and prayed, he descended the pu!p)t stairs and sat on a chair juat: below the ratings of the pulpit p!atforu' Nothing unui=ua! was in his at the time, but when the Rev. Mr Morns, pastor of the chape!. rose to give out a hymn he discovered that Air WHHatts had tsken with him the hymn-book. The rev. gentteman leaned over the raihnga and touched Mr Wittiams. whispering at the same time to him that he hall taken away the hymu-book. The ùeoeased geutlemall then inslantly up and returned the book. The minister perceived all -t,tera,' iou in 1\11' lppetraiice, but as he knew that Me Wdhama suO'?red from head- :).chf, he inferred that lie wa:, attacked by that eomp)aint. The rev. gentiemau proceeded to about 10 mi?uce-i h'? observed Mr W)i)iams faHiDg ",idew;¡v3. A number of the deacons imme- diately'stepp.d forward, and having lifted Mr Wniiama found that he was almost unconscious. The services wi-re at once brought to a e)ose. Dr. as.,¡",tant, who been sene for, arrived shortly atter, and the deceased gentleman was afterwards cn,rri?d out of the chapel and conveyed home in a lie was being only semi-conscious. He told his wife just before he was rmoved in the vehicle that hb would soon, r'Vf)V<-r from tiie attack. About c&n o'ciojk, how- ever, he beeume quite unoon-cious, and h:Uf-an- hour tater he breathed his làst. For the past few we-ks he had a of in d¡tfrent of the oil the Parish Councds Act. It is stated that he had been recently by his medical prtet-itioner to abandon etect]onee:ing, as such work would p)a.ce too much siirain upon him. He [eaves a widow and two sons and three daughters. The eldest is the wife of the Rev. W. James, p?tor of the and the Recond d;tua''ter 'smarried.totheRev. D. S. Jone-i, of (J'.yuderwen. Pembrokeshire.

HORRIBLE CHILD MURDER IN NORTH WALES. An atrocious murder of an intant hM juat been reported to the police at Rhy!. On Sundayllight a Mr Dfnson. of Plits-latn Owm, dlRcovered a bundle m a lirge brick oven in the back kitchen of his house. Th)s was found to contain the body of a new-born child. I's throat was cut right I across, and the windpipe was severed. A servant. named Priscilla Roberta, confessed that the chi)d was hers, and she is now in oustody in a pre. carious condition.

Rhosidda Chape) Dispute.! 4 i PONTYPR!OD M:N!8TE?AL SCANDAL RESUMED HEAn:N3 AT SHREWSBURY PLA!NT!FF AGAiN UNDEH EXAMINA TION. Mr A1:J'Jl 'l'bona, Q.C., M.P., sat at Shrews- bury again on Monday hearing further evidence )ntho?ct.tonbroughtfors!andt-rbytheRev.G. J.Wi!im.ms, IateofP)ntypridd,andnowCou- gregatioii-,il minister, of Bryntt'g, near Wrexham. nst the Rev. W. 1. Morris, of Pontypridd, also a. Co!'gr(:gat!onat minister, damages being !aidat.S500. MrJ.P.Cartwright.Chescer.was for thf pla.intlff, and Mr S. T. Evans, M.P. (instructed by Mr W. R. Davies, Pontypridd), for defendant. The attendance included a large number of witnesst'S, among whom were Mr W. W)]'.)ams,J.P., Pontyprtdd;Rev. J. W.timms, Hafod and Rev. J. Vyrnwy Morgan, late of Pontypridd. On the re-opening of the proceedings, Mr J. P. Cartwrigbt said he had an application to make to amend the statement of claim by adding to it certain statement-! contained in tha statement of claim in the actton against Etiis Roberts. Mr S. T. Evans rep!:ed that this was not an apphcation to amend but to add, and was reatty an entirely new cause of action. The piea,d)ngs were aH closed, and what was proposed was to introduce what was entirely a new charge of hbeJ. The Arbitrator remarked that he had the same pow<-r to amend as a judge. Me Evans rephed that a judge would never amend by adding what v/as an entirely new cause of action. Mr C-trtwright said it was not an entirely new cause uf action, but \Va" a matter which had arisen in the conduct of the case. Mr Morris, the deft-ndant, had now admitted that he forwarded a copy of a letter to Mr Ellis Roberts, and if the plamtiff had known that before he would have introduced it mto the statement of claim againt Mr Morris. The very object of that reference was to sect!ea!I the questions between the part)ea. The judge indicated that by the reference, and it would be very hard to Mr W!)!ian)8 to h" va to bring a new aebton. TneAi'bitra.tordfciinedto amend. The Rt-v. G. J. Wtliiam. the p!aint)Cf. hehig recatted, said ho received a postcard. wh)ch he understood to announce his recognttion to the church at .Bryn t"g', and there were M.nniver"'ary services to be hetd, but they were entu'eiy distinct from the recognition meetings. T!io anmvers.n'y meetings were nxed long before he was "eal!ed." There were no specia! services fixed until after the recognition mealing. The anniversary and tecognition meetings wete quite cl IS t ¡net. MrEvans: And how about your ten.v!ng Tongwyniais ? You said upon the last occasion that you did not remember whether youbad ever applied to that churoh fora transfer, and th:t you wern not aware that the tran-'fer had been refused. Y'ju a)so said that you could not swear whether you instructed Messrs Morgan and Mate to apply for the transfer and to take pro. ceetlings if it was refused. ThePia-.ntiS: Yes. Mr Evana H:tva you since refreshed your memory; and do you wish to say :'nythu)g more? PiaintiS:Ihavenothit)gtoa.dd. Mym-mory is exactly as it was then. Mr Ev.tns Do you remember whether you ever threatened the OtfiCAl" of Tongwyntais Church, through JYI"f;srs Morgan and Ma!e, with proceedings if tuny did not g've you the Jectpr of transfer ?-I do not remember. Mf Evans Do you stili say that the reason of your leaving there was Hi-hea!th ?—Yes, there was no disturbance when I ]eft,noth[ug more than I have already stated. The church didnot comp!am against me. Did yuu ask the church or any oSoiat of ]t recenttytogivoyou a. certincatR tl)O causf; of your leaving ?—Yes, I did. MrEv:ms: Did Messrs Morgan and Mat write at your request demanding the transfer? Th.-y wrote. I did not instruct them to threat }Jrtlceed JIJgs.. Mr Evans put in a bettor from Messrs .L r and Mate to Mr George Hyphen, secretary uf the cllure!: at 'l'¡,ngwynbi, in wh¡[¡ thr,y stated that they iiad besn instructed by Mr W)!Ii:'m3 to write for this transfer. Tuc I know that I had a conver"a- tion with them on tho subject, but I never instructed thc-m to write in the way they did. MI' Evans: If you did not instruct them this staten'.pnt in their letter must be untrue ?— P!a!ntin':Ido not say that it is entirely. MrEvansreadas&coud iettcr.inwhtch Messrs Morgan and Male satd Mr Wiiliams had cal!ed again, and wasmuchsurpnsed to hear thatMr Stephen had not forwarded to him thf; bettors of dtsnassal, and untess they were forwarded at once orasahsfactory reason given I FBOCKEDiNGS WESK TO BE COMMENCED, butitwa-;sincere!yto be hoped that Mr Stephen would not compel them to take that course. Did you tett Messrs Morgan and Ma.)e' that the tlmt the transfer lla.d notbeeusenttoyou?—! never instructed them to threaten the proceed- ing?. I did not sea the letters they wrote nor anyoftherephes. Mr Evans said notice h?d been ?iven to pro- duce tho repHps. Mr CMtwright sa.Id they would be in the bauds of the solicitors. and not the p!aintiS. MrEvans: Did you yourself before you .n-trueted your snHeitors write to Mr Stephen donanding your letter of transfer ?-I do not Is that fdl you can say?—Yes. Mr Stephen did not write to me deciiiiiiirt in the name of the church to give me a transfer. I am positive of tho. The tetter produced is !n:ny handwriting. It is a letter from me, duted June 24th, 1832, a.nd addressed to Mr George Stephen. It is in Weigh. (Translation read) Arvon House, 17afo< June 24th. J892. Dea.r Brother,—Yom.s to [i.m.t. I am Hurj)!isfd at themibrotherty tone of Its COUlents, especially when you say you i" the name and in beha)f of [he church a,t Amon. it y"" "'e? wr.ting o.. beh:),h- of yout-se:flshould not be ?'Much surprised.?houghl never save you a.nyc:wse to do sn,b)udoinK .such in behalf of the chntch-? uuuiber of people proies?iK to be the ]ivi:n: .uhcipies of .<e.? ?hri?-1 musr. s?y tha.t I am really surprised. You knew perfectly weil that tirs W aud mys")f brought our Jettera of ctj.sm!sa! from Hafod a.nd Ulat I i" t.h" usual way, a.s minister of the chute!) :tt the time bem; rea.d tne same to the church, awl that you eutered ouruamM down in the account of the Ainon <uuc)' for the foUowmg assncia. tion. The lell"rs Me now lu my possession, a.nd the church a.t Bethesua. Hafod, ea" prove theira.uthanticity. Were you M a church, o ó:hor.t of common souse (I,S to receive me as your tender in tue House of God. Md a,t the-.a.me time not. ben. member Mion?t you? Do you dare to <?y th.?, mv dear ?ue ts not, a. member for the simple re?on th:.t'it wa-s no? conve.uent .or her to communicate t Ainon for ix month.? lhavcuot the least, desire for :wy ,it w:th either yo'ir.elf or the church, a.nd tha.t wa.? my chief r.-a.soa for keepu? a.wa.y from them M I did. I suppose, to escape the ,,oii,e(jtieiiee of cert.a.m Mtiona ..f yours towards me, you are trying to get my moral cha.ra.eier under your feet, Md a.re of the conscteuce to use your influence a. a, secrete yot ('In'lst's to r<M.c,. your ¡tim. irs W. aud mvself 41i-,ill be very aon-y to he competfed to u-,c a.iy further moau. to obtiUn the ctLer. a.nd to prevent such ?course I ,?y"??t Tuesday, July 5.1892,to seud the .?me.-W,th bro?herlv remem- brMtc.yours.&e.. G. i. WI,LLIA51S. ?? ?ecre'?A?'n Baptist Chapel, Tonf:wynla.?. The pbuntiif. replying to Mr Ivan, said he h.id not remembctf-d thut letter. Mr Evans It is extremely strange that an thisimportaubcorreapond?nee anou!d be?.ngon .nd th?t you shoutd have forgotten ? about )t. You s?y in this letter th?t vou ?outd be very s<.rry to use further m?ns b?t that you wou!d crive him until ,J uly 5th. C..u you connect that in &n) wty with the fact that between tne 5th ?nd the 8bh Ju)y yon in?ruc?d MM? MorK? ?nd M?letowriM to Mr Stephen ?-iheP)amt.if: I know tlitt there waa some correspondence. Replying as to 'the paYiDg oS of some of the debts in the bankruptcy, the plaintiff said he believed hia wif? h?d since p-ud off some, but he d.dnot know which. Th" b?kruptey w<.s m r"pec of traI1RatiOI1'¡ of h.mse f and h.s wife, a..d h.. m?de h.mseif icspons.Ne for them ?. Mr-< Witii?ms made the payments out of her '"?r'ther re-'exMnined, witnest repeated his account of the manner in which he had been '"?r'ther re-'exMnined, witnest repeated his account of the manner m wh.ch he had been recei?d a member of the Enghsh Con?r?- tion?! Church, Pontypr.ctd. dnrn? the p?..or?e f.f thf H?v Vvrnwv Morgan. It was after Una ?-. M Mor? ?L defendant. lent hnn the ? g?atS Year Book. and .hat he (wjiness), pr?r?h?????? XnTo ?t-t?? ??P?? church, but he had INTRODUCED A SERVICE AT THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Rhydfelen. li,htd'P. i;t'?! .?jrf??. ?'" ?"?. ,.??\r':? ??S?S?????? in ?nY ConE.re?o"a.t church. He mamt?ned ?? he?uced such letters. ????? ??rp w? an Mcefta.nce and recognihot! of the ?1.? ?n.?? of the p.rt?ut.r d.nom?. '?r S. T. Evans Yes. on his own representa.- ?'?he Arbitrator ?"1 that it had been proved over And over ar<ain that plaintiff h:¡c] b'ien' accepted by a number of Congregational churches M a gentteman who cMne -ihere &,j a preacher, meaniM thereby th&t those churchea accepted I him, so far as those meetings were concerned, as a-proacber. He (the arbitrator) would assume thn,t ho had been mvited to preach by someone in w tii tilo. l\It. T. Evans Yes, at, his own request. LI): AheiThoma.s: That is cert-uu]y the eVldenee .'() f;r. M:H.T.Evans: An Wf) have Raid of l\11' \Villi'IIlIS Ii! tlmt he was !lot recoguised as a by the church of which he j a IfH'mbBr. The Arbitrator hetd that the letters coutcitnut be putinascvtdeoce. Rupiying to Mr Cartwright, witness said thit Whenf'ver it was nfcessary he had administered tbe communion at the churches at which he had and he h3.d also of lite omnlUnion at the GJl1grt:g,üi0l1ál Church, PontYP!'1(ld, on Febru!\I'Y llth, and Aprit 8t.h, 189t. Ho had t'epn in the habit of lecturing at tht* N"w Town- h.lit, from October, 1895, nntit M.trch, 1894, all(I he was itivariably deCicrlbed on thepogter.s:).s"Rev." He delivered the)eoturea nearly every week, and the subjects inotuded uch as Stums," "The House we Hve in," etc. THE RHONDDA CHAPKL DISPUTE. ihedispuf,eatthei<ionndai}apt)st<Jh3.pet with reference to the £6 receipt occurred about 18 months after the payment of the money, hnd the III qui.ry was instituted at the, instance of Daniel Thomas. He (witness) attended, and explained the matter to the deacons, who aftprwarcls can,e to a resolution (pro. doced), :t:id gave him this documem:— We. tha undersigned, do so]emnly declare on behalf of the Rhondda. Bapttst Church that we sh:dl not say or do anything to injure the character of the Rev. G. J. Wi))iams as a mtnister of the Gospel aiso that the misundpr- standin between the above church and Mr WiJhams ]s settled sattsf&ctoriiy to both parties, and that no reference to the misunderstanding sha.U be made by other party in fntnrf.—On behalf of the church, signed by D. W. Thomas, secretary John Wi!list:ns. Daniel Thotna.s. Thomas Wahkins, and Sumuet Thomas. June 24th. 1889." Ul' Abel Thomas Was the misunderstanding With reference to the JS6 receipt?—Yes. How was it settled ?—That no further mention was to be made of the matter by either aide. But what did you tell them ?—I gave them the exp!a.na.tion that I gave to you the other day, that I was entit!ed to J37 15s and not to .86. Did you admib to them that you had made a receipt or got a receipt; made for :S6, although only ft 10 was paid?-Yes, I did. Was Mr Morrs, to whom you gave the B4 10", in this meeting?—No. It was afterwards ehcited that witness went with Mr Daniel Thomas to Dowlais to see Mr Morris. After the adjournment: ff't- luncheon pIfunttS was again re-exammed by Mr Cartwl'lg-ht, and S:tid there had bnen no penuanent p-i.st.or of the EI\¡çlish GiJIgTPg¡\tlOn:¡,! Church at Puntypr:dd Stnoe the Rev. Vyrnwy Morgan ldt. T':e beer business was an agency of his wife's, a.nd not his, a')dt!)e!icence.wi))ehwnsgrantedinl890,wns not renewed after its expiration in Juiy, 1S91. He iirst enterf-d imo corre-.pondenon with diP church at Bryutfg in December. 1393, a"d he co)i:n."nf;f{ his duties there on the22odofApri),1894. Hehadbeenm-'mbRrof Association of for 14- y,'ars, and that. was a similar as-ociation prMticaDy, tott)eE.tst; Glamorgan Assoc!- t'on of C'ongregattonalists.. Hf cea'ed to be a. member of the Baptist Association w!)en he joined the Congr<gationn,)ist.<. Hewasnotexjteiied.butsentu) his resignation, in January, 1895, to the the Rev. 1', Dw ies, A b,ramrm. Th'tt was before lie joined the (Jongregationah.-its. H)s object jn trying to join the East Glamorgan Assoeiai ion of Conf;n'ga!,ionaiists was to put.h:m.etfona simitar footing to the position he occupied with thnBapt.ists. Mr Abet Thomas: What (liffei-ene, (lid it make whether you were a member of the Kast Ghuwrg-;Ul Association of Baptists o)' not. ? Were you recognised as a minister with the B:tptist,>" whether you did or did not belong to the associa- tion ?- Yes, 1)rcclse,y so, it was MORE A MATTKR OF FOMI I tl)an ariyth Icuuidbeamcmberofthe n:'oej¡Hiou qu)to Indepeudeni; of my having a, church. Itev. J. ?vIorgan then calh>d. nnd ('xaIlJinerl by Cartwrtght, said he was now pastor uf a chun'h at York-road, Lambeth, and Was pastor of the EngliHb Cingrega- tionatChurchacPontypridd. fiecommencedhia duties at Pontypriddou the first Sundayin Aprif, 1892. and was)n charge of the church in Ja.iuary. 1893. He made the acquaintance of the piaintiii after he had ,,¡:tt:eù in Pontypridd. The plaint;itI Ind 2on1e discu!-J"iou with h1'"11 af,; to j(Jjnmr, !11S chllrch, and s'ated that he wished to joi)!. 1-1 ntentionnd the tact tl) Me W.R. Davids, the 8pc:et:!u'y of the chute! .nd 'd:o a.-ked the r1ainti!f if he liqd made up his mind iothejnattef. He (witness) a'so sp"ke to the RI)\ J. R. Jon,,s, p.'tsi.or of the Welsh T.'tbern:tC!e Baptist Church at, Pontypr¡cId, :tnd asked him whnt !In knêw of Mi.' W; He spoke to the Rav. J. R..Jow-s inc)rethanuuneinthRtii;it.tf'r,tndnr-kt?dh))nt(j e'All upon iMc When t'e (witness) brought the matter ijeh're Mr \V. R. D.tvl-.c3, the of t!)(, c!)tlccll, it wa,, Cii:tt lie (witness) should wr)i:e to the R';v. J. Towyn J!lnes and the R'èV. 1'. RholJ(1d:¡ \Villl:ull", to a"k them what they knew of the plaintiff, and also to ascertain wiwthel' what M).' WiHttun: had toid him was true as fnr as they OiMddtemetnbHr. Thf-y wrot.e back recon'tnending hin). M'- S. T. Ev.:m objected on tht- grnund that the !9tters could be produced if they had been wrattElIl. Witness, continnin, said he had handed the let: (Ors !)ver to Mr W. R. De),v)es. Mr W. R. Da.viea I never received them. Witness s.ud he had shown them to Mr \V. R. D?viea :),t :n)y r&te. The result w?s th?t Mr W]!hams was received a member of the chute! \V[th the consent of the deacons he w&snotninn.ted at one church meeting 'tnd received :).t the other. Mr Abel Thomas Nominated as ivi).,tt ? Witness: of the church. He was then reeonnnended to the church to partake of the Lord's Supper on the following Sunday. Mr Ca.rtwright What wa.a sa.id at the nomina- tion by you ?-I simply said thftt the Rev. G. J. Winiam\ who hr.d left; the Baptist (leiioyii wish t.t join our und to become a mfnnberofthochnroh. Was there anything else said beyond tiiat ?- No. I anid at; the eVt'l/jn service that I hoped he would have a..speedy and a prosperous settle- ment the CongregacIOUl1.lists. What etae ?—That WM a)!. Mr Abe! Thomas: What d1'! you mean by "a spefdy and prosperous aettie[npnt,Thathc w,,)tll,i "n 6nd n pustorato witu the Congrega- tional ists. And would it be understood as such by the congt'HKat)on ?—It: WM meant so by me, and I thought WM understood so byaP. Mr C?rt.wr:Kht \V.is anything said aboui; his preaching ?—What I have s?id inotudes 'hut. But did you say it in any dttf?ren!: forni ?—No. Mr Cartwr:¡,ht \V.is anything said aboui; his preaching ?—What I have aid inotudes 'hut. But did you say it in any different forni ?—No. I said I hoped he wou!d be as succdssÎul amonr, u he h.id been at D:jw!:us. Were there nt. that, titttn any ministera who werp members of t!JH church ?—There wa's one !c.d :t. membr;r-Jmn. Thomas. Was he admitted a mell1b8r in your time?—No, b"nr' my time. This happen.:d in Jf'nuary. fmd you remained )n the church untti June ?—Yea. T7pon tho Hlpwbcrship competed did you aasiet Air \Villi:¡,ms in obtahiixg 'iuppt'.M?—! did. I biihevfyou person.t!iy wrote )'tInny 1(.ttp!,s, and !)e wrote ottters with your pe:'ntission?—I cajt't: s?y I wrote m?ny, but I wrote somp. H<id you receivd niany repiies ?nd handed tlll-rn over to bin) ?-I received some. You were ,ware thi.t. he was recaiving these supplies ?—Yes. And therefore you considered that after what ha.d been done by you at y,>ur church he was entitted to preach as a member of the church ?— Tha,t Dnt for what happened at your church he would hav:- been entitled to preach a a £<1pt,ist minister? —Yes, he resigned expressty to jom us. And when you left, you teit hi:n there with an amhoricy from the church to preach ?—Yes, that Wit, mv view. I Mr Abei Thomas You thought he was recog- nised as a preacher by the church ?-The siience of the church grave me a. right to assume it. Of course 1 cannot say WH'T WAS PASSING IN THR MINDS OF TUTE DMACOKS aid some of the members but I know he was ''eeo?n) !ed by some as H. pLeacher, and certainty ho\7asbyme,n.nflth!).tist)owlini.roducedhitn. You do!)'t say that the member-! elected him as a. preacher but as a member on!y ?—I cannot see how they eouki have receivf-d him except as a preacher and a member. Be)))g a minister to anober Nonconformist that. gUAt\)tno to m" that he w:<.s fit to preach with us. Reu1yil1g- to .Mr Oartwright, \Vil:nés" said thatthe plaintiff wished to join the tiona! As;ocHltion, and he (w)tnnss) put hint in the wny to do )t. The onty object of his joining wouid that he mlghb become IAte(I with his brethrep. Mr Abe) Thomas Is it only mmisters who are member-! of the Ezisr, Gititiorgzxii (JongrpCM.tional therl- are lavmen us It would mean, of course, a fuller úí lll sttndlyng. OI'Os.8x¡\minr1 by Mr S. T. Evans Is your '7iew this, that nothing more need be done to a than is done to reconisp member?—My view is that simple di'soi)))eship involves n, right to preach to whomsoever likes to hear. Then tt comes to this, thitt Mr Williams had as milch right to preach-neitlier more nor 1es< as a,ny other mentbar of the church a.t Ponty- prtdd ?—No in his c:\se there was a g)ea.ter right, for he was by no means it novice, and had ha.d large expertenee in preaching with another Then had other members of the church at Pontypndd a.n equal i-)ght with Mr Wiluams to be recognised as a preacher?—Mr Willi:iins had a p;re&tt'r right, for he wa.s tutty ordained by denomination. Was anything more done in Mr WiHiams's case than woutd he done in the case of any other member?—Nothing more was necessary, for he had been a preacher. Asked a. to the difference between a local preacher and an ordained preacher, witness said that the latter had been fully and open!y ordained to the ministry, and the former had not. A )ocal preacher could. however, administer the f't-diua.nce. Mr James Thomas and Mr Dunmore Edwards were both local preachers at Pontypri.id Church. Did you do anything to recognise Mr WiHiams :Maprt-.<cher? D?dyou ask hnntotake part m the set vice?—I did not. Dtd yo:t authorise him to use the notepuper of the church w)th the names of the pastor, the secretary, and the treasurer of the church upon it ?—I don't think I did. D'd you ask for permission to authorise him ?— No. Then, as far as you know, he used that note- paper without your authority or the authority of the church ?--A, tar as I know, yes. Die! you authorise him to issue circulars in yout name ?—I gave him a general reference. H.'tve you ever cumptained to churches of bis taking undue hbertipa with your name ?-Yes, I was afraid he was exceeding the authority I gave hitntousethatgeneralreference. SofarasI cuu)d gattier from whn.t I heard, the nature of the better st-nb to the churches did not exactly corres- Do you mean that he had altered the circn!ar? —I don't: suggest that. What did you give him an authority to do?— You produce the circular and I'U te!I you. I don't reiiiember. Did you authorise him to send to Mr Joseph Evan.s, of Oswestry, in your name, asking for a s')pp!y?—I did not. iluve you ascertained that he did .so ?—I have. I that one of the ca.-<p3 where. ]n your opinion, he exceeded the authority which you gave turn ?- Yes, I think that !s one ca,se. Did you write to Evans. "Iciiig for a copy of the Rev. G. J. Wdhams's letter ?-I did. DI(i you gt,t it ?-I di(I not. Did you ever authorise h)m to write this letter (produced) to Mr Evans ?—Witness having read the letter, said I NEVER AUTHORISKD HIM TO WRITE THATL'cTTER." You observe that that letter !s written on the notfpaper of your church, and purports to be a recommendation from you to Mr W. R. Davies ? -Yt-s. D:d you over anthorise him to write in your name and Mr \V. R. Davies's name, as secretary of the church ?—No. Did you authorise him to write letters pur- porting to come from you, asking for supplies from him ?—Yes possibly that may have been so 111 0118 fir two Mr S. T. Evans next put before witness another better. Witness sa.)d he had not authorised the plantiff to print that. Were you aware that he was writing such letters on paper with this heading?—I don't think I was. Would you have permitted tt ?—I don't think I wouid. Have you any ]dea. how came be to get letter paperof that sort?—He may have had it in my house. Would you gve him!. auch notepapfr with Mr W. lIame in the head lUg not. It is possible that my wife may have given it him, but I cannot say. You wrote a to the Rev. W. Morris on the 1st of August, 1894- ?-Yes. And in that letter you sa.y I am sorry to hear about your present trouble. The first I heard of it was at C")wyn Bay. It is a. pity something' cannot ba don- to keep it out of court. From what I have heard I am afraid the R"v. G. J. Wi!!iams hss been taking undu" liberties with my name ai)iODg the churches ?''—Yt-s. Some of those undue !)bertif-s you have told us of. 1-1;ivo, you told them pJ) ?—I think so. Examined as to platnt'rf's attpmpt to enro! as a. member of the East Gl-,iniorgaii C(,nf,,re- gationa! AssuciatiolJ, witness said that he saw the rc'-uit of the application in the pttbHc Pr<:s?<. Mr Wiihams seemed Piainttu' totd hi'n he th.iu?ht that ho had seen it in the newspapers. Subsequently ptaintitf rt-cctved a leUr.,t' from the secretary (Rev. D. Ev.'fns, Btirry Port). It appeared in the p,')per.-i t!t(, (I.v foll(,wjiig nioeting that he had been reji'cted. Piaintiff wa, annoyed at his rejection, and attnbuted his rejection to the fact that he (witness) had not attended the meeting of the ass')C!attO). Witness added I shou)d Hke to say th:1t 1'('a8011 why the plaintiff was not askfd tooSnoiate )u the church at Pontypridd was that I did not consider lie could do so in the B'gllsh 1:w¡(Il;\ge. Mr iS. T. Evans Then <bd you authorise bun to say, in the circu'ar issued ]n your name, that Mr WDhams gets hiKh praise in the churches zi, a )n 'Ye]sh iii(i ofthoursti'-ank?"—I did not authorise him t.-) put that in. S'tbsequendy witness said Of it 181;0 diffi<llt to remember now. 1 may hfLve done so. I based my recomn.endatton !?ugMJy upon the gaveri to tlie 1)1-,tilltiff by thf Rev. J. Towyn Jones and others. Witness s:ud thKlhehad never put any ques- tion to the church as to rece:vmg the phtintii!' as preacher. H,3 had catted him the rev." when introdnoin;? him, and he would havo expected if it was wrong- that soineone would have got up to contradict him. Mr S. T. Ev;-iis n) you realty af-k the arbitrator to believe, when you called him "rev. that you expec that anyone would hd.ye gout up there and thf:), in ft. eom- muuion service, to r:,c1ict you ?—Yes, )f it were ?? R'<x;).mined 11y lr OUH'/l'Ight Witness said that Parttcut?r Baptists dectinfd to grant letters of transfer, and for that reason no tetters were asked for in the c.<se of Mr and Mrs WiHiams. l'ov. Dr. P.tn Jones, Congregational minister, Mostyn, said he had heard the evidence of the iast witness m to the way the plaintiff w&s into the churc: Mr Car¡,wright Is that the ordinary way for receivings prt:tciK'r, having regard to the fact that Mr \Villiam" had b¡.en an ordained minister of the httter body, and was never expRHed ?— I thmk ir. was more formal and regular than we do el1fJrall y. I put the question to you more as an expert tt.-u. anythi))? e)se. How lonp: have you been a minister of the Con?rc?ationa) body ?—Twenty- S)x ye.irs. Cross-examined by Mr S. T. Evans, witness s.\id that, if n, man ttad ceased to be a member for 12 months of any Chr!St:an church and then joined the Congng.\t.lOna.1ists, he wou!d oer- t.unly not be received, either as a member or prMchM-, without prol),ttion.: Witness added that he had received many members from B<(pdst churches without Jetters of transfer. Ask'd as to what occurred if a member b"cnmo bankrupt, witness said there was no definite ru!e, each church acting for itself in tbn matter. When a member of the church wished to become a preacher, and to be re,(,ogii se(I as such, the church discussed the matter, and invited him to preach on probation. Then there would be a further discussion as to whether he was a tit and proper person, and if the Church decided that) he was, he went to c:ege. Witness did not recognise ordination at all. He was 'iherat in that respect. He did not know of a single instanca where a )uan h.T.d been recogmse'i as a preacher, without his bein? asked to take parb in the service-! of the church. He considered that att was done that was necessary by the church at Pontypridd to recognise Mr Wdiiams as a, prcaohbr.—MrS. T. Evans You are a. sort of re)igious Anarchist.—Witness explained that he hact not. as had beeu stated in that court, recom- mended thep!aint)S as a minister, for he did not The proo?din?s were then adjourned to 11 o'cfock this Tue'-day) morning.

THE TIN-PLATE TRADE. Thettu-pLtto or!s)s has caused a. deep sensation I in the Li.meIIy district, a.n<i it is the topic of universe conversation. The Western mi)is cpp,sed operations on Monday after a Z4. hours' but Mr Trubsha,w, the u.'ma,gu)g partner, inade it quite ciear that the cessation of opera- tions was not a. threat bearing upon the claim of the masters for a, reduction ot 25 per cent. Fortnuateiy, feeling so far between tho f;'rnpJoyers and employed has mt become strained, and the resolntion of the !nen :\t S,\turaay's meet;ng, a.ppomtmg a deputation to wait upon the masters, has been well received, und from what our correspondent has gathered it appears that the emptoyers are prepa.red to meet such a deputation and discuss the question.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A FAMOUS ENGINEER. The Westminster coroner, Mr Trotitbeek, held an inquest; 'm Monday afternoon on the body ot Sir Daniel Adolphus LlIg", Knight, civil en- gineer, of .Ltmehurst. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who died suddenly in a. hairdresser's shop on Friday !a.st. Thpjuryreiiurned a verrtiot of Deith from hyneope." Thedpceased entleman was associated with the ]ate Al.. d°. r..(>f'P'¡ in (l'signiDg and constrnctwg the Suez C;waJ, and was knighted upon the reconi!nenda,t)on of Lord Bcaconsne!d, who is s:ud to ¡}¡Ive been advised by Mr Lalle in the purchase of the canal shares by her Majesty's Government.

A3S!ZE-COURr ACCOMMODATE AT SWANSEA. .c In view of the fact thn,6 the Giimorg,,ansbire Assizes open nt Swansea next week, che n?Y ? the high shet'i<f,tneutider-shp.)g,thetowt)Ci.? :nd Mr G)a.ood)ne. with his Honour '?"?'t! Gwilyni Wit)i?ms, who w&s sitting m the ??,.? Court..be]da.eonferM)c",on Monday resp?cc'? the recent a.)t;era.t)ons tuade m the court..—'? ?e WiUiums erttteised the &ite!-itt)on, &nd sft'd ? distance between witness and jury was too gre.ed —The Mayor said the alteratton which callSlt this WM suggested by Mr Justice KennedY,ø' was u)tima.te!y decided to ret&in the jury 'c? oJd p]a,oe, and to make minor a.ttora.tioos ?- are hoped to meet the requirements.

A STAG HUNT tNCtDENT. I -.1 r) P- CoL Somerset, who resides ne&r Bsraet, r „ tost two of his staghounds, the victims singutar nushap. A stag, started near En" j;o ninde its way to Ha.d!ey Wood, and thence ji) the Great Northern Ka.i)w?y. The "?)lf<! fottowed, and two of thfm were caaeht a.nd ? ??? ins?ntiy by M up goods train. Three ?'o? instantly by an up goods train. Three 0 ood pack pursued the stag through the Green tl1<! tunnel, but before they reached the other Ile- express tr&'n to Leeds overtook thern and ktv.%f one of their number. The stag made its ic, into Hadtey Wood Station, climbed the eul det menc, and gained the road. The I-emall' )I Seel of the pack were, however, soon on the ý 3p;am, and the stag was ultimately caught a. Park. Northnw. ??,??*? '? _—??'nA? Printed a.nd PubHsaed by the Proprietors. ?. ? DUNCAN & SONS, aH05, St. Mary', Westga.te-itreet in the town oi OMdUt, 'a the C

LiTTLE OLGA. Miss Orkney had just finished packing her trunk for Newport. Far be it from us to particularise all its splendours of evening dress, driving costume, and exquisite seaside toilet. Suitice it to say that everything was perfect in its way. "I really fhink," said Adela Orkney, pausing to consider where the tennis-racket could best go, that 1 must have been born under a lucky planet. Here I was despair- ing of any better place to pass the summer than Uncle David Hopwood's farm, up in the Berkshire hills, when I chance to meet Rosamond Brewster in a store; and gel; a real, genuine invitation to go with her to dear, delicious Newport. expenses a!I paid, and nothing to do but to look pretty and iii--ke myself generally agreeable to Rosa y 11 and her mother. I wish I knew what hotel the Fcclestons stop at when they are there but of course I shall be sure M meet Captain Rodney, and this time I mean to make a sure :hing of it. I don't like this hovering en the outskirts of society, like the peri peeping into Paradise, and it's high time my market was made." She smiled at her own enchanting refec- tion in the opposite mirror. Gold-haired and beryl-eyed, with Hitting dimples in cheek and chin. and the sweetest of little straight aoses—sureiy. with such weapons as these she might well be assured of conquer- ing Fate. But in that very instant the boarding' house maid knocked loudly at the door, and a rosy child rushed tumultuously <nto the room and precipitated herself into Adela's arms. She would come right up, miss, said the maid. '"She told me you were her sister. "So I am," defiantly cried the child, a fa.ir-haIred, hazel-eyed little thing of four years old. I am Olga Orkney. Ain't I. Dell ? ;Kiss me, Dell. Aren t you glad to see me ?' Adela stood, as it were, transnxed, as the little creature wound and twined itself about her in vehement caresses. "Olga:" she said, "where did you come from 1" Her features were set, her voice strangely unlike itself. "Aunt Jo is dead." explained Olga, push- ing the clustering naxen curls out of her <yes, and there was no money left. They said I was to come to you. Oh Dell, arent you glad to see me '<" (with quivering lip and eyes suffused with tears). I've nobody left but you and you're my mister, you know." Adela's delicate face hardened mor& and more. Not your sister," said she only your half-sister. My father married a com- mon seamstress when my own mother died, and—and you are her very image Your Aunt Josephine was her sister, and she undertook to take charge of you. I don't see why you should be here. No, you needn't take off your things. I leave this place to-morrow there is no place for you." But I can go where you go, Dell," pleaded the bewildered mite. Adela shudered at the mere idea. No, you cannot said Adela, sharply I am going to Newport with some fri e n d, But what am I to do, Dell ?" I haven't the least idea." said she. You must return to H.ohday village that's the only thing that is at all practical. The selectmen will look after you it's their business." 1 should like that," said Olga, her face brightening. I was so happy with Aunt Jo And perhaps I could live with Lily Sconeld and her sisters, and play amon<y the buicercups all day Lily's father is a selectman." Olga slept on the sofa In her sister's room that night, and the next day she was sent to the depot, with money enough to pay her fare, and a note to the conductor of the train that connected with the Holiday village si-age line while Adela herself, in an exquisite dove-gray cashmere dress, joined the party who were travelling, per palace car. to Newport by the sea. Little Olga went smiling to the nearest selectman. She had often played with his little girl, and she leaned against his knee as he opened and read Miss Orkney's succinct letter of instructions. Waal. 1 declare said he. running his eye a second time over the lines to make sure that he was not mistaken. Wife. look here What d'ye think of a fine lady that sends her little sister back—to the poor- house—sh Them Orkneys never had no heart," responded the selectman's better half. And poor Josephine Jones always said that Adela was the worst of the lot. Poor little dear as she stroked Olga s hair. Well, I may as well harness up and take her there," said the selectman. And little Olga, fancying that she was going for a ride, climbed joyfully up into the mud-splashed old buckboard, her hat ribbon !°tuck full of dandelions and wild geraniums. I declare," said the selectman to his wife afterwards, "it was the hardest day's work I ever done leaving that child there. She run a good ways arter the wagon, callin' me to stop-not to leave her there in the poorhouse, but I whipped up old Bess, and made like I didn't hear." Mrs Popkins w!tl be good to her," said his wife. She's a kind creetur the very person for matron in a place like that. But the idea of Adela Orkney puttin' her own little sister on the parish I can't get over it." Nearly two weeks had elapsed, and a suitry July sun was throbbing dJwn on the dusty road that led from Holiday-hall into the village, and Mrs Eceleston held up her lilac-lined lace parasol to keep off the intru- sive beams. I don't think I can stand this dulness long," sighed Mrs Eccleston. She was a stately, elderly lady of the Martha Wash- ington style, with white hair brushed up from her face, and a lovely toilet of lilac silk. Not even to please you, dear Alicia. I hate Newport, but even Newport is better than this dead and alive sort of existence." "Bat, my love," pleaded her companion, a richiy-dressed matron in black satin and opals, if you carry out this extraordinary caprice of yours and adopt a child out of the poorhouse, that will be something to amuse you.' "I love children," said Mrs Eccleston, serenely. "And if Rodney is really bent upon marrying this pretty friend of the Brewsters. I shall be more lonely than ever." A poodte, now, suggested Mrs Darrow, or a little South American monkey. Some people think that even a parrot—" Oh, I prefer children, said Mrs Eccle- ston. "Poodles, indeed and parrots Do tell your coachman to drive faster, Alicia, or we shall never get there. My gracious me, what in the world is chat ? The horses h;.d shied violently at some- thing that suddenly emerged from the blossoming hedges close to their very feet. "Please give uiearide!" shrilled out a sweet high-pitched little voice. "Iverun. away, and I want to gee to the depot." Mrs Eecleston stared at the deep brown eyes and tangled yellow curla. "Heavens she cried, "how lovely the sprite is I Who are you, child, and where h&ve yon run from T' "From the poorhouse," whispered Olga, with a startled glance around, as if unwil- ling to entrust her secret even to the birds m the hedges, or the !)utH;r9ies fhat soared in the sunshine. I hate the poorhouse I won't stay there Please, please take me to the deoot. I want to go to New York." Chih( what on earth could you do in New York ?" cried Mrs Eccleston. :L don t know, murmured OIga. her head drooping like a brr.ken Hower. "Some one would be kind to me. But I can't stay in that place." Mrs Mccieston looked once more at the child, then she glanced toward her fnend. -I aon't see but that the natter is settted.said she, taking Olgaint-oherlap, and nestling the yeilow head against her shouidtjr. Here is the child that I am to adopt. Little one, will you come and be my little girl Olga looked wistfully at the white-haired old lady. t love you said she, with a child's sweet, unreasoning conndence. "Yes, I will be your little girl." So it happened, through this strange chain of circumstances, that Mrs Eccleston hap- pened to be sitting on a verandah in one of the most exclusive hotels at Newport, with Olga playing at her feet. She knew all the child's simple history now she was quite certain that the beautiful New York girl in whom her only son was so interested was the heartless creature who had abandoned her own little sister to the tender mercies of the Holiday villas" But a man in love is a man under a sp,ll," she said to herself. "Unlesshesees and hears for himself he will never believe a word against her." So she had come to Newport in a quiet, casual sort of way. and sent her card to the Hotel de la Mer, where her son was sojourning. I can't endure those I)ig, noisy caravan- series," wrote she. su you'lt tind me here, mydearRodney. Imaystayaweek.orl} may stay a month. It depends upon how the sen air agrees with my little new jdaughter." Captain Rodney Eccleston smiled as he read the pencitled card to Miss Orkney, The dear little mother," said he. So she has really carried out her whim of adopting a daughter. I wonder how she would like to have two Miss Orkney smiled, and cast down her bervleves,thr<seglittering orbsof greenish b!ue. fnnged with golden lashes. Rodney Eccleston w&s always saying those lead- in" things, yet he had not yet formally proposed. I- it.'s sure to come. dear. Miss Brewster had j'Hmarked. Depend upon it, it isamere question of time. He's madly in love with you. I can see it in his eyes." Will you call there with me ?'' asked Ecclcscon. Oh. certainly assented Adela. And very lovely she looked as he led her that af';ernoon into the cool dimness of Mrs Ecclestone's parlour at the Casa Posada. Mother, said he, let me present you to my friend. Miss Orkney." "Charmed, I am sure," said the old lady. adjusting her lorgnette. I've got one of the family with me already. Jump up, Olga," to a naxen-haired fairy dimly visible in the back-ground, as she played with a superb English wolf-hound, "and speckle your sister." OIga obeyed, putttng up her lips for her tokiss. "How do you do, Adela ?" said she. I'm Mrs Eccleston s little girl now." Mr Eccleston looked amazed. "I thought you told me, said he, that you had no living relatives, Miss Orkney ?" Miss Orkney probably means, said his mother, that little sisers in the poorhouse don t count as relatives." And she related then and there, before Miss Orkney's shrinking self, the whole his- toryofOiga. "Quitearomance. isn't it?" said she; "andyet there are people who declaretltere is no sentiment left in the world." Little Olg-1. ran up to her sister- "Havc I done anything to vex you, Dell ?" said she. What makes you look so strange and white ?" I—that is—the room is rather close, faltered Adela, and she cook a hurried leave of her little sister and her new mother. Rodney Eccleston, looking very grave, put her in the carriage, and told the man' to drive to the Hotel de la Mer, and that was the last time she ever saw him. And there was an end of the Newport cam- paign. The Brewsters got rid of Miss Orkney as soon as they could. Somehow, shehadlostherold'.vinsome spell. People glanced askance at her, and whispered mysteriously as she passed. She went back to New York and accepted a position as companion co a dyspeptic Southern lady. In the autumn she heard of Mr Rodney Ecclestone's engagement to Rosamond Brewster and one windy October day, as she hurried along the dustiest and most crowded drive in Central Park in search of the dyspeptic Southerner's poodle dog, who had slipped his leash, she chanced to look up into the very face of little 0!ga, riding! in a cushioned coupe, beside old Mrs Eccle- ston. "Oil, look look!" cried the child; there is Dell But when Mrs Eccleston glanced around on one was there. Adela had shrunk beside !ac!):ste!of laurels. Was not this last drop the bitterest of all her cup ?

Stubborn Battie. FiGHHNG ON THE AFGHAN FRONTt&R, I Natives Repuised with Heavy Loss. BOMBAY, Monday.—Det.ula received here of the tighzing- between the YVazin tribesmen and Co). Turner's force near Wano shows that the colJflicc was very stubborn. The Goorkhas, who bore the of the witi. great gn,antry. The Brit!) loss is-J. P. F. Macau!ey. of the Survey Department, ki))ed, und Capt. Lar.g. Heuts. H''rnby. Ang",Jo, Herbert, and Thompson, and Surgeon-.Alaiur H;i,ig severely wounded. Eteven Goorkhas were kiiied and 34 wounded. The W?z"a retired, le?v?ng 100 of their numbei' dead. The British force pursued the tribesmen for some distance.—?M!r. the tribesmen for some distance.-Reuta. The following telegram from the Viceroy of Indi& wa.-i received at the India Office on Monday:—"General oiEcer commanding Waziris- taa reports that a determined attack was made onthec&mpa.c 5.30 o'clock, Srd November, by Wnzirip, who, under cover of the darknfsa and network of nui)a.h.?, made a deaperate rush pat the p:ekots on the 1st B'lttalion 1st Goorkhas, who turned out at cnoe, and, with ?rea.t gallantry and steadiness, c!ea.red the ca.mp. Also some of the enemy penetrated farther. The enemy continued fir-in,- heavijy, making repeated efforts to charge, v/hiuh were checked by our hro. At six o'clock the enemy bgai1 retirmg, aud at 6.15, when there was sut6eient daylight, the cav:Ury pursued, foiiow&d by the arti!iery and infantry. The enemy, who are believed to be Ma,houd Waziris, sutferfd severely, and !efc 103 kiUed on the ground. severely, and !efc 103 killed on the ground. Our losses Ire as foliows :—Ki!ied—Lieut. Macantey, R.E. Wounded—Staff-Lteut. Hornby, 24th Bombay Infantry, s&vereiy; 1st Punjaub C,Ivail.y-Sui.geon-M,Ijor Hai, severely; 1'jt Batta.on Ist Güùrkhas- Captain Ltng, severely; Lieut. Ange!o, da.ngerous)y; Lieut. Herbert, dangerously 20th Bengal iTtfitntry—Lieut. J. F. R. Thompson, severely. Native ranks.—Ki!)ed —lat. Battalion l?t Goorkhaa, two native ofEcers and :iine nten. Wounded :-ht Battalion 1st Goorkhsts, 32 men 20[.h Bengal Infantry, two men." A later teleram received on Monday evening savs :—The troops returned to Wauno at 4 p.m. on 5rd November. They pursued for ten tniles, dispersing the who were flyin towards Khaisaia and Sbaj<ai. The enemy's total loss prc,bz,tbly exceeds 250. Our losses are heavier t'nan nrst reported. Bri';).-<h oSScors as prev:n'lsly telegraphed. Native ranks. KiUed—1st Pun- j,mb C:tv;-tlry, 1 ht Battalion Isc Uhoork,s, 2 native otiic?-rs and 17 men. Wounded—1st, Pun- jaub Cavalry, 5 1st Battalion 1st Ghoorkhns, 32 I rank and file; 20'.h Bengal Infantry, 2 followers killed and 23 wounded.

RAILWAY PROJECTS IN THE NEWPORT DISTRICT.. We have excellent reasons for stating that the Greac Western rt.a.ilw.t.y d: rectOr,; have in con- templat.ton the doubting of their line between Newport and Cardiff, for !h3 purp('3e of accom- modating the greatiy mcreased cramo which has arisen between these two piaees. Several of the company's prinopal oiSoats are at present on a visit to the district sounding the landowners as to the terms on which the extra stnp of iand can be secured. The project of doubling the line has received added force from the great increase in the mineral frame trum the Mon'nout-bshire hi)ls since the opening of the Severn Tuune). On a recent n'.ght nu ft-wer than 170 )aden truins through clstlileJ for London and Southampton or for Newport and CM-d'rf. This traffic is not tikely to suffer diminish- ment; on the with the develol)inent of the coal industlY of it will increase III tha future in an even greater ratio than it has in the past. The point of danger at present is no doubt outside thf Gaer Tunnet, on the western stde of Newport Station. Here the main lines from Cardiff run, with the lines from the Mon- mouthshire bi!)a and those from the Alexandra Dock convM-f;int! on them as the tunnel is reached. Here, oa a Sunday morning not many years ago, two mineral tratM were wrecked in the endeavour of each to wtn the same line of raits— one comine: from the Alexandra Dock and the other from the hills seetton of railway. It is proposed to construct another tunnel, and to carry it at a lowe tevel than the present one, coming out near MiU-street Statton. In this way the minprat traffic will be dealt with, not zoir'? through Higii-street Station, which will be devoted to passenger tramc.

__d Rf?wirK's BAK?G POWDER Be?BnMMPodwer ??? R?K?-G POWDER in the \VonJ. B? ?? B? ? POWDER. Wholesome, ?? ? B??G POWDER. Pure, ?nd B?w??? B??G POWDER. Free rum A?m GENTLEMEN'S White and C.?ured S?.-t< Re. 6tt.eda.nd dressed equal tonew,s 6d Md 5?0?- E. Bobetta. 50, Duke-street, Ca-tdia. e*le I

YANKEE YARNS. 1 Poor Tom my. Be!! Why doesn'h Tommy gft mamed ? (contemptuously): C<tn't aHford it. "\Ve! he and his wife could Jiv, on'bread and etie-se and tt1ey "Yf-, they might; but T"mny :usn't been! ab!'? t,o tind ?ny ?:ri who could provide the uec'?- sary brettd and cheese as yet." Still Another. "There 5eems to be two chi'sf:s of pf-opip. in your -y," ",tid the Oil !to'tt-through the Unired States; that wRaIth and those are strugglin Irtnti- cally to g,,t it." "There' a t.hird," repJiei1 A:t payds; tlJA scns of rich men. TLn-y struggle frantically to spend it." WhyHeDian't- The tr&mp :1.pp"ched the kltch'"ll dor,r boldly hit it a with a Inuscular energy that wou!d ha.ve qwed tt cord of wood, and the tady of \V¡¡at 'iu you want ?" she :I.k,cl proiEptty. "S''t)ht[)!ngtocatn)um." Why dou'c yon work f,,r it ?" k)tlt I \V;,y nut? C-tn't yuu find wol k Yes, mum, but I Mt) so wore our and tired by the ti'.)f I tind a.nythin? to do I c?n't do it' Oa she t;xcln.ia)ed, and shnt the door on him. His8ut!et-proofShie!d. :u¡tcI aHJ aid MeanJHrinç; xvheii, in rsp\l",e to h)s request, for fo<id, she cH'-red him a pw. tin y'" rememoer It )iI' :0 wlwll ye g,we .t f(-Iler creature a pit- I l)eli"ve o." "Mtd;.m,rm?'att)n?n." "Cttud! It s;tved it-,v life. Tl!re Yris alli 'U!]fe<?)n'farmer thetH.'c(.;?'')x of taok?r?iit fur my heart M short rang.>. Ihedycrpio'jutt.oned up lIside my Vt:'st 8.1.' h.re it is-fnll 0' tacks, t:'Z ye kID set' flit' ypr"t'If. It ain't near woreont.an' I won't need auother ter t,,tice ii,s p!nee fur a year !ye: How Genera! Eutier Lost a Herse. Wiii!e in froti,. of genpull i r,"ce: n,d mrOl'ln.ttion that his favotirit- horse, I A1mon'1l<;Yè, had bpp)\ killed by I LtI!ilJ;:{ illtu a raVine. Up<>n the dep>trcnrp at hi", )nf"rmnnt, he ordered mt Irish servant to go a.ud 8,011 n I rIJ. V/htt !-< A)mond Eye den.d ?" a,-ked Pat. What's tL,t r., you ? Dd :ts I bid you, unj n.skttoqtteftif'n- P.tt: wpttc a.bout his business, and in an hour or tw" r. nrw.rl. We! Pat, wherf) havR you been all th)s iiiii, teru iy lilin ;I iid,,d Skinning the hon' yer liuiiur." D')<s it take n'r]y two bout's to tierform sud1 oOf->ration ?" yer but tlieii, you see, it 'bou:; half an hour tù catch liinj," innocently rl)"d Pat. G&T'pra! Butter ct upon his servant such a ferlJcious look ti¡at Pat thought ho'Dedicated skiniiiiig n Irishman m reveuge for the deiith or his horse. OverlheParieL!)'. Itis the worst p¡)sible arr,m1"mt it) the I world for thf-' o:d ¡>f'pe to l(ldg (l!rer:.1y (;Vê'' tho parlour, es'pecic'Hy when there is :m lo d.tnghtermthefam]!y. Itwa.squiteiateintl.p everiing, iii fact. towards thq WI),; "na' -tnd Charles ani two )over9,we[ea!one)nthepa:')ourcon)muni)!.s'nt that tender wnykn'iwn to tr.:olovi'ra, when thump, thump, thumS, was heard oil the ceiting Too lovers exch1.lIgf-'d looks of surprise and pyii Cha.les was conf(.unded :lIld Geirgi¡; was vexfd and chagrined, but ueichfr what to say. Thmup, thump, thutnp, carfe igtin, tiid t',iinffti It WM evident tha the old gent]eman was t(irii(-,ni!iliing Churlfs to gti. He had I'taYf-'d ]ftt'.e fr.qt1ntly before Wlr.flout bein.sr insulted. Thump. thun:p. thump. I ?u?s-' I'd bettf-r b? ?oi))?' sa.id Ci):tr!?. il1 what e)sf; to sa.y—!MO. thutnp.a :<r)f) the coup!e sfp.trn.tfd at the dt)or without Mxohangu]p favour, and Pl't'Clüll" And then Georgif ducted for the pa.tbncm dornnito.'y. gt'fa.y excited. Father. yon in\)1te(! Ch:ulPQ, !>;n(l you h:lVw abused me by yourirrip, I never was soont'-ap'dinmyliff?" "Why,wha,t!a the tro))b!p,o!)i!d?''inquired the old !;PIJtleman, iooking ovi: tos in stir, A pretty pipcp of I a,m sure." re- turn-"tG-'orgie.OL'y<.utodrumouthpt}')Or to send oft. as thollgh did no knuw wheu it is t:tne to leave, and as though I was a baby." Why. jnprcy on ma, g-irl," returned the o!d mar). "I never thmigh t of you aud Charl. I W<.I,,3 intprested in and my foot fel, a",lerp, and I rather think I h<tYP right to Hta.iup a iittb unrler ,;udl G,rg;na retired reheved,and the next morn- ing Ch.i.t!fs received a. note i'rotn he): XpI4iu¡ug the matter.

I SWANSEA OF AMERICA, MammathTmp!ate Works lo b.- 'ri,eof-.d, Under the above haùin the Pitisbwr!J Times :-It may posi>lbly lie a 10116' time before the extensive tm-ptatemii! winch it was re- ported were to be constructed at ApoHo by men intp,reted, 10 a nna.ncia1 way, ill the Apollo Iron and teel Company, are constructed, but: there is on foot a big tin-piate project for the Valley all the same. President G. McMurtry, ft the Apolto Iron and Steel Corn- paIY, who has just rettii-ned frum a trip says that the rejtort about a u<;w venture at A!),)Ik-) was premature. Ground wi!! be broken at New Kensinp'tr'n within a week. probauJy to-day, for the founda- tions of a tin-plate plant which, when completed, wi!it:]ssfmj, be by far tiif) lar,c,est tiii-plate works in the United States. The site of this hig is a pièce of ground pmoracing 10 ncres and adjoining the prop'rty of ch'r' Excet-ior G'Ms Company, on the All,g!ieny rivpr franc. Thu pl"Ojt-'ctOf of this new t,n t<orprise is the firm fif Go!d?m:th, Low?nber? ?nd Co., cxten?iva munu- f?cturera of r'nw:ne, of Purtia.nd. Ore.. and New city. it IS the w!!Iha,veco3tov.-r$500.COO. E"rtliLl G,,i,lsmitil, i of the firm named, has been in Pittibtirg for over three months, and in tllai; time ha.-j inspected a number of sites hereabouts, and nuaUy decided upon tie one to. The works win comprise eight hot mi!!s, the same number <jf co!d iiills, 'Diii)"in shears a.nd engine'Ss, tout' .?qu.n'Ing shea[s, 16 tinning stacks or p!ck!mg houaes. a.nd other nec"ssary machinery in pt'op'rtion. Mr Goidsmith, in an with a l'ii(LCS reporter y.,stercJay, said: The njachinery i nearly all ready ta be piae m position, :1" the contract for the samu was let .sott, time before the site was se!ectfd. The m-tn of Ferris,KiutTnjanand Company, of thisc.ty, i'rp the constructing engineers, whiie Edward has cholrge of he erection of the :0I1S. The Shultz Bridge a,nd Iron Company has the contract for ert'ct¡u all the bni!ding, and the Frank-ela.nd Manufacturing Cun.pn.ny wi!l furnish the machinery. The output of the works, it I etlma"t'd, will be 60 tun:; of tin-phttes d.i:!y, or 77j tons for ea.ch n'i)L Among the othsr maetHnesywdtbt'two56-inchro)!)<tthsa.ndthe npc'ssa,ry bar miHs tor bre<kmg down bi!]ets." Mr Go'dsmith sa.:d furthfr that the pians would been atopp)n.? nt 'he Hotel Duqubsno during his sojnnrn in th is ci ty- The official: (<f the Bi i,,i,pll Tjand Improvement Company My that a. company composed entirety of PtttsbmjST capitalists i'-ta.iiout closing a dea.1 for the purchase of a site in New Kensingcon for another plant, winch wiil be abllut one. half the size vf the one to be erected by the other The ;\Iallufactnri:lg of which of the Crescent Steel Company, of Pi't.-iburg', is the h'1S a ot kind In op..rat.ifH1, the product of which)-; 30 ton-i daily. When thi dady ouiont is :1f1ded to that of the (-other two plants, New Kf-nsmgt)n can be nttinx'iy tpflned the Swan"e;t of Arripi-lea. The cotisti-iic- I tion of the Gotd'.mtth, Lt)weiiberg, and Co. plant wiJ)bepusbed)':)pid!y.

FOUND DROWNED IN A WELL AT CARMARTHEN. On Monday Mr Thor) as Waltpr, coroner, Md ai) at Pf)urlilw F.um, Trench, on the body of Evan Jones. 59, freeho)der, WaunHwyd. It appeared that deceased had tak'-n too much intoxicating drinks .tt a sale on th', l'-t inst., and at night when he left Fenrh)W, tt:e residence of bis wtdow&d a)ster, he, instead of going home- ward. got into a Held in which a. wei), for pump- ing purposes, is being aunk. In this his body w<M found on Friday, after much searcbin elsewhere, but how be got tnto the well no one couid sa.y.— I The jury, therefore, returned} an open verdict.

LOCAL FAIRS FOR NOVEMBER L!a.nybyther. 1 I.Lmdfloy. 1 'tn.Ig.itth 2 5 5 Ij!a.nbo'ay. 5 Ha.ngyfela.ch. 6 St.C!ea.r'?. 6 Tregaron. 6 Brecon 6 Pontypridd 7 H.ha.y?der. 7 Wiston. 8 9 C?yo°.?????10 U-t.ndiL'°.?12 Newcastle Emtyn 12 Ci,,rew 12 Haveriordwest 13 Treca-stle. 13 Na.rberth ?".J"?? 14 C't.rma.rthen. ?4 Nea.th. 14 C- ,.erphilly 16 lJandovery 16 Bridcend. 17 Fish,-xiard 17 Letterston. 19 Abergavenny 19 20 Litmybythet' 21 ? <w?a.b e .myn ? Ha.y. 22 U.tndHo. 25 Pembroke 26 Crvmmych

NEAIH'S NEW MAYOR. I A private meeting of the Neath Town Council was held on Monday, the mayor (Dr. Daviea) presiding. All the members, with the exception of Counoi)!or Gta.as, werepreaRnt.—On the motion of Alderman H. P. Charles, and seconded by Councillor J. D. Llewellyn, it was unanimously resolved to invite Councillor Hopkin Morgan to take the ofHcp of mayor for the ensuing munictpal year.—Coun- cilor Hopkin Morgan expressed his thanka an<t accepted the invita.tion, addrng that on Mayor's Siindity he should be glid )f the corporation and burgesses would accc'mp&ny him to St. David's Church.

MOVEMENTS QFLOCALVE88ELS. G E Wood left Suuder]and for Cannes 3rd Dewsl;iii(I tef[. B"]fa.st for Card'rt' irtt Cil<.wec!pn left. AL'dt.n. for Rotterdava 4th Phyllis A II gel leaving 7th pilL 111[0 for slldtcr 3rd John Hyne; shcltei inp: .St. Ives Ba.y 4th Abbev 1l1'vd IGel 5th ,,r' I 'fi(ioii fiotti  211(1 pt,,se,l   for Hiill 3ra vt \Vhitby Abbey left Donlt for Mebhit 3:-d Mpirofe Abbcv a,rvd Boness 5th Mile :).rvd H:t'vre 4th Conso arvd Lisbon bth (' ariancl-, due Sulina 4tli We"t, Hartlepool früm 31'(1 arvll Antwerp troHl Loya! Britou pM.sud Gibraltar for 2ml C?t.cksMp fu'vd Hhiefds 4th LCUS arvd 3rd 'l'('l,ze left Hamburg for 4tli Cyinrthfa-Mvd St Kaz.ure 4th W onvoe LU vd all well, 4tli Sully left for 3rd left Huelva for 3nl C W Anderaoa left BitbiLO for CMctiH 4th Ma.eun.vo!i passed Constantinople fci Gibraltar Srd J.cda. ioa.d:ng n,t Huelva. tor Carditt 5th Ninjan Stuart Glasgow for Xe\vport 5th left Sulilla for Gibe tItar 4th Oswin left Multa. fo)' Gibraltar 5th alvd Cl'J,tis 5tii Witfrid left Fairwater for Ornskoldsvik ?rd RhHubioa, arvd Newport 4th [r«n«po!is left Not-<]ei<h:).mn for H!yth 5:'d Newpurt th King's Cross a,rvd Genoa. 5th Goctmuhdiu¡! left Huelva, for Rotterdam 3rt Rothes11Y passed Malta for 3rd Tucker left for \erfa. left Bre-t 4th' Penzance left; for Leith 31'(1 La,dy Ha.velock left Portland ')t.h Racine Barry 4th J oues N ""wport 3rd <M)nrodor!ou ]eft BiJbM for Cardiff 3rd '1111' for 5tii "J:a.nd Opoi-to 3ell left Huelva for Newport 3rd ).3o:I)oul expecte(I to i, rrive Dunkerque 6th Dolcoath Mvd Hamburg <ith arvd 4tli Gledhott left West Hartlepool for FIensborg 2nd hltby left Geeatemunde for Ha.rtlepool 3rd ltoxbv left Savannah for Bremen 2nct Swa.i))by parsed St Catherine's for Wilmington 2nd: Camdoc M'Td Barcelona 4th a.U weU

VVidû'NS' Rights. t,VHAT FHE M:NER8 SAY, How Grab !njures the Society. THAT SUZDAL POLICY. I The question of diversion of public subscrip- tions to the coS'rs of the Miners' Peritianent Provident. Society was, naturnHy, a genera subject of comment at the meetings of miners on thor monthly bond.: -esterda.y. 1'. is most regrettable thtt, by r< "I of its suicide poJicy in this respect, the so' /isintenstfymKthe prejudice which alre.J existed agtinst it; and is dotne; so just at a time when, by reason of the extent of its good work and of its proved v&)ue, the old prejudice m,lght have been m a fair way of dymg out. As it is, the grab-aU policy muHt be stopped. What- ever may be required to stop )t will be done; and hereAfter, when the lesson of current ex- perience has been ien,rnt and the miners have so revised the rules a.s to secure for themselves due representation and innuence on the management, the seizure of the widows' and orphans' propat.ty wiit become a thing of the pa.st. COLLIERY DISPUTE AT LLWYNYPIA. THE PERMANENT FUND AND THE WIDOWS' RIGHT. On Monday afternoon a meeting of the worlr- men of the Liwyuypia CoUiery was heid at the assembly-room of the Thistle Hote], Hwynypia,, to consider the dispute about the identity of a new seam of coal in the No. 2 Pit. It w<s agreed to refer the matter to the works committee. Then a discussion ensued in respect: to the new screens which had been erected at the coUiery. It was decided to refer this matter also to the works eomm'ttee, and that a depntat)on, con- sistiiig of Me W. Abraham, M.P., Mr W. Evans (agent of the Cambt'iRn Association of Miners). and the two checkweiKi'ers of the colliery, should wait upon the managemellt. Tiif) meettni? f)fter'.v:n-(!a discussed the question of the widows' right," and after a lengthy dolib(-.r,ttion a resoliit)oxi was passed condemnin the cuttducb ot the o!Hciata of the rermanent Fund in unsappropuat.inK a porhion of the money subscribed for the widows and orphans of the .r viettmH of the Ciifynydd disaster. MINERS' MEETING AT APER- TILLERY. THANKS TO THM SOUTH WALES DAILY NE\I,S." On Monday m;ws ii,.eet:liig of coUiety work- tm-n was held at Abertiiiery under the joint auspices of the district; emotion committee and the Monmouthshire and South Wil" Miners' A"cin,tion (a branch of the Miners' Federation of Gt-Mt: .Britain), to hear an address on "Organisation" by Mr George Whttcfieid, miners' a?ent, Bristol, and to consider the forth- coming district counei] and board of guardians ejections. Mr P. Wiison Raffin, Newbridge, was voted to chair. Mr S. MiLLS, getierat secretary. Aberbeeg, I1w\'H1 That thi3 ma.S5 meeting of miners of the A berti.llery (nstrict c-in:)ha.Hcn.tIy pro!,e.st.s ag'a.iust, H)e efforts thut. arc being iii;t(le to appro' ri:).te to the Permanent Fund the whole of the siibse, iptioiis towards the relief of the sutMi')". by the Aluion explosion, as it will dt-prive the widow-! anti orph;n>: of the benefit of the thousands of pounds contribui.ed by a geii-roiis public t''w:u\is their assMtmca; it also tenders its warmest th"ks to thd &OM<& Wales Ðaily Yews for t):e able er\l¡ce jI the of "hire and South ia denouncing the action (If the officials of the Pet-ma.uc'.tt b'tmd in "eekil! to Appro- the ill{ n(lcd for reJinf of I e wi,low. orphMis. a.iid dependents of tbo Albion Mr W. Morg¡m secDnded, and the resolution was CM'tind enti:u9i.i.stica!!y.—Resolutions wero also p3.Eed callin¡; the .tttention of those who arranged the appouitim-nts on the committee of management of t.!)G intermediate school to the fact that the iiieetii,.g was of opinion tba.t a, Labour reptesentative should have been a.p- pointed, and in favotU. of a brtllot being taken ab the various work" for or agmnst paying a dona- tio!) of one p<?nny per man for the purpose of defr.iying the expenses incur)'<?d in running the dtih'ient.Labour candidatps for the district comicti and the board of guit.rdta.ns. THE MINERS' PROVIDENT SOCIETY STRONGLY CONDEMNED. RRONDDA MINERS INDIGNANT. At a. special mect)nK of the Great Western and of miners from the 8urroundmg- dis. !,lieu;, heM on Monday at the \Vorhnen's-baIJ, Hopk'nstown; near Fontypridd, under the pre- stdenoy of Mr Fien:ming (eheekweigher). Mr Di,,vid Morgan, one of the workmen at the Great: Western Collierv, inoved That this mass meeti-'K of miners from the Great Western Colliery and surrounding dMtncts condemns the act'o)! (of the Pernu.nnm. Fund Society in appro- priating to H.'i own use the money collected at Ponty- pridd, CardiS and Liverpoo!, on behalf of the Cilfyuydd widows and orphans, and further pledges itself to use all legitimate mears to compel the society to reluru the ,.ame so the widows and orphans may receive the Ulolley which the charitable public ha.3 gi ven tlielii. In moving this resolution Mr Morgan condemned what he termed the grab-ati policy of the Permanent Society. He thought that the claims of the poor suSoriug widows and orphans shou!d have been sufScionc to deter the peop!e betongicg tu the Permu,nent Society from acting as they b:1d done, and a?a.inat their own interests. (App!a.use.) It waa high time the coiners of the district: ahonid do a)) in their pawer to stop the grabbing. (Hear, hear.) The Permanent Society was endeavouring to seizn something like j320,000 of the money intended directly for the widows and orphans—(sha'ne)—s)mp)y to strengthen the funds of their own society. If there was o-ie thirgtha.the was proud ofas a Great Western Colliery workman, 1 was the fact that this un- princtpted Permanent Fund had never been able to set its foot in their eoli)er:es. They had heard from the secretary (Mr Evan Owen) that it was i:tl to the workmen to become members of the fund, and that it was a fund cxi 'stitig wholly and -olf,ly for the benefit of the working men. He diGf'rnd from Mr Evan OwM!, as through personal experience he had found, despite what they might say to the contrary, that the Permat'cnt Fund was the means whereby the employers of Soui.h Wa!es to-day were able to do things which they would not dare to do were this fund not in existence. There were s<:me 60,000 miners belonging to the Pt;rmanfnt Society out of 112,000 miners em- ployed in the \Ve!ph coiherie. Were it not for the fact that haK their number v?re members of the society Lh"y (the miners of Wales) wouid not lose so many of their ca'-es taken under the Kmp!oyprs'L]!).bi)ity Ac'; for injuries sustained. It was on account of this society that the masters wote ab)e to bring expert witnesses to rebut the f'vidence of the workmen. (Shame.) In the Rhondda VallAY men were working ni unsheltered piaces and with defective machinery because the Permanent Fund had ahsol ved the masters from at) respons<b)))ty. (Shame.) The money collected which had been intended for the Permanent Society had been spncla))y J",bEllled wlif-ii sent to the hear)- and thu rest b,,Ic,ng(!d solely to the wtdows and orphans. (Appiause.) The soniety might juntas well try to grab the Soutk Wales Dtft'/y ;Vc:t-s fund. They woutd have had just as little right to it. (A))p!ause.) The only excuse the society had W¡.s that it was not strong enough to meet its !iabHit)es. It was said that the masters would stop contributing their 25 p.'r ceot. to the fund. He would giory in such ft thing, for the men oou!d then carry on the fund themselves, and it would he)p them to fight the masters in bringing euiployets' hab))<ty cases to a successfu! issue. (Cheers.) The 60,000 miners who were members of the fund were represented on the board of munngement of the Perir,aii,-iit Society by 13 of their number, whi)st the employera, who numbered on]y 100, h&d 10 representatives ou the board of IIjrtl!agemult. Was that tair repr¡>"entaion?: ("No, no." and c!teera.) It w.ts sa,)d that in some coiheries the men were vo!untn,)'i!y becoming of the Per- Fund, but he wished to point out tha.t Nvii(,ri,ver tlify were not forced to join by the in.L.sr<;ra. the men's interest in the fund had speedi'y died ou! (Cheers.) ?.tr WILLIAMS (oheckwe)c;her) seconded the say")g rh.t he happened to be present :T.t. the meeting in Pontyp.idd when the central fnHd was disposed of. He wn.s g!sd to second th"!rprote.tatt))a.tmeetit.g. (Appiausc.) Me WILLIAMS (oheokweiRh'T nt No. 2 cothery) SM:d he was ptea.sed to think their empioyers had not <)ttf'D)pted to force the fund upon them ftt the Gi-e-tt Western CoH)eri'='s. It had saved them a lot of troubie, for he did not think !t wou!d have succffded ha<) the mast.er, attempted )t. (Cheers.) The Permanent Fund otdy heiped the miner's t.'uni)y when the breadwinner waskdtcd. It gave !)):n !)0thing when he w.M ill or hurt by a.ccident, thoug-h they needed a"sist:1l1cø at th.tt t)meju'5t much. (lienr. hear.) The masters had created .(!i<sfundsnnp?ytosh!)-kthe]rowniiabiH(:tfs. (C')feM.) He considered that no man with the pr)ncip!e of a man in him could voltititirily becotne a. member of this cursed society. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in supporting the resolution, snidhe wns sure that every honest manwouid say tha.t the widows and orphans shoutd have thetr rights. (Cheers.) Of all peop!e who were deservong of sympathy, and praetiea.1 '-ympathy, it wa.s those who had )ost their bread-winnera. (Cheers.) His mmd went back to the time of the Great Western disaster, when the question was raised that ti),-y should put their money into the hands of the Permanent Fund but the Great Western CoUx.-rv employers said definitely that) the money should not, go the Permanent Fund if it was against the wishes of the men. (Cheers.) Thts showed that at the Great Western Collieries the master had at aU events a little bit of respect for their workmen. (Cheera.) He was not a lighting man, but he sometimes wished that he was, and that the laws of his country wou]d let him have his fling at some of those people who sat on the Pontypridd Local Board. (Cheers.) He noticed at a recent meeting of that board the question had been raised of protesting nginnst the action of the Permanent Fund, when or.e m'-mber sn.rca.sticaHy termed it an etoction dodgf. Such a,n insinuation when a man was trying to do some good was mem- ber of the board had said, even the copiers were dictating where this money should go to;" and that was a man who depended upon the colliers' vote for his seat oo the board. If the t ———————————— colliers gave h);n their vote-i next t)me they were duffer". (Cheers.) He was"' hying in afool'a parndise, and ought to get a. 'rude awakemng. Tha officials of this grab-aU f\ocibty were like th! sprpent in the of They had a nice, gent!e,harm)ess. and i 1" 11 Illuatizi.g manner with them, and wou)d come a,.)ong with their re'=o)u- tions, getting one man to pr f'pose this and another to propo-it* something else, ho thit by the tima tha was collected, thing wa." ready for it to go )nto their own eoSffra. (Shame.) The money subscribed by the public wa, j intended as an extra eonsotftcion for the widows yAnd orphans. (Cheers.1 He was gM to note that ?Mr Arthur Williams, M.P., had spoken out on the matter in saying "d  that treistirei,s wotild be liei,,  for every penny they pa)d oTfr to thqj Permanent Fund,and he hoped the pub!)c would )ust remember that— (app]ause)—a))d endeavour to make them repay every penny and a little over. (Cheers.) The resolution wa" then )Put to the meeting and ca.rriedunannnous!y. A hearty vote of t.h.tnkSj was then accorded to the proprietor; editor, \,tnd staif of the S9ttth Wales Dat/y 7Vf?os for having, M the chairman put it, "stood up so manfu'tiy to expose the potioy of the gra.b-a)t society," sir niiar votes of thanks being pas-ed to Mr A)fre'jj Thomas, M.P., for having spoken out like a m.ta on the subject, and a!so to those m nlb8rs of t-"he Pontypridd Local Board who had spoken against the action of the Permanent Society. The CHAIRMAN drew atitentton to a. sad case, which he saId they were o, 'nd-avouriiig to bring under the notice of the cc'nimittee of the Great Western Disaster Fund. It was in respect of the fa,tu)!y of the late Enoch Thomas, a minpr, who was k)))ed at the Great Wes tern CoHiery through a h()l',e and cart rlini)itig IHvay. The decoased ha.d left b«h)nd him two f sons, both pa.ra)ysd, tnd a. daughter a!so incapable of doing anyihing :uid a.s it was an excfp- t)onsd Case he tlOuht they rnivht be allowed s(,inetltin, tov;rds their support from the Great Western Funds'. -The meeting approved of the suggestion, n.nd it was resolved that a dpputAtion should waib upou the fund corn. nnttee to !<ty the case bo'fore them. The pro* Ct;ed)ngs then tern:inated., STRONG REMARKS BY MR DAVID MORGAN. At a meeting of the representatives of at) the trades in Aherdare. held on Monday at the Court-room, Abedare, Mr D. Morgan, minera' :1genl:, drew to this Mr MORGAN, in an ek.quent speech, said he was also going to make [I, sertous charge agamst the men connected with the appea!. S:c Wilham Thomas Lowis, -After the eatamity. made an appeal on behalf of the widows n.nd orphans. He made an appeal for J370,000 to retieve thosa widows and orphans. Was he justified in doing so ? He distinctty said no. Every one of those who wsre killed were members of the Miners' Permanent Society, and that society was, en the death of the tt)en. responsible to the widows and orphans. (Hear, hear.) Was the society able to pay ? H(\ ",id num'stakabJy yes. nnd he was going to prove it-. TOac sooety had at that moment a capital of £140,000, and the interest on that alone Without touching the cap(ta) wa;4 stifficient to meet the]r HabiHties from that dtsaster. (!Shame.) Supposing he (tha speaker), while he had enough property to sup- port hinisetf end h)s family, v.'<t.s to go around the country asking for hetp, wh:tt would peopte ca.)l him ? (A voice A rogue.) Yei, and a scoundre), too, and were who did it in the name of society Jess so? (Hpilr. hear.) AillicAgh Sir WiHiam asked for J370,000, Evan OWI1" rhe secretary of the soctety, only a,ked for .650,000, .'nd Mr L. Wood, of Card){f, reduced that to -640.000 but he WM prepared to prove, poor u.rit.hmeticinn as he wa?, that if the widows and orphans were not members of the fund, even thac -S40,000 wouM be amply sumcien*). (Hear. hear.) After they h&d got together all this money, what did these peopte do ? They collected it in tha name of the widows and orphans, and then turned round and tried to grab every penny of it. Last) Saturday, when they oaw that Mr AItred ThomM. M;bon, and a few more refused to hand over the widows' money to them, they suggested having a talk over it next Saturday. Ho hoped that thesa gentlemen would refuse to meet them, although they now suggested giving a trtne extra to the widows. Another point he wished t& urge most strongly on them was that the society was formed in the nrst place to contract out of the Act. Although it h&d since done a great deaJ to aHeviate suffering, still the other was the, original object, and be was decidedly atr&inst contracting out of the Ac!)—(-hear, hear)—fpB contracting out of the Act) led to negligumee. (Hear, hear). The following resolution was then Q0tnimoaa!y passed That this conference regrets th&t they have a charge to make against the conduct of the officials of tM Miners' Permanent Fund with reference to their action in capturing nearly the whole of the moneys collected to relieve the Cilfynydd widows and lefb. destitute after the late explosion at that colliery. beiieving that the subscribers were under the impres- sion when to that the said money was meant to be handed over direct to the widows and orphans, and not to the Permanent Fund. conference also suggests to the local friends of the widows and orphans at to call a general meeting at Pontypridd of their friends and subscribers at once to take th* necessary proceedings to protect the said widows' and rights. Mr D. THOMAS then said he had another resolu- tion to propose that the South Wales Daily Newl had done nobly in the mutter, and he had much pleasure in proposmg a vote of thanka to the pro- prietors of that paper for the noble stand they had taken in the matter. This was also seconded, and carried with acciamation. STRONG RESOLUTION OF THE TIMBERMEN AT ABERDARE. At the orona.ry meeting of the above Iodg< he)d on Monday ab the Albion Inu, Aberamao: Mr P. D. Rees, Aberztinati, drew attention to this subject, and expressed, in strong terms, his repro- bation of the action of the Permanent Society im trying to convert: themse,ves;ntoagrab-allsocietY; in trying- to grab an the moneys so generousy 8ub"cri)ed by the charitable public. (Hea.r, hear.) A strong resolution condemning the action ot was tbon passed. many .peaking very !<tron,?iy on the 8,,I,j,,c,, especiallY in view of the fact th:tt 'heir own clns of work' men were mostly the sufferers. The South wo-le-I -D<n7i/ Nelli. was a)so strongly eommfnded by Mr I Rees and severe! other speakers for the ncttou they had taken on the subject. y--

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RECTOR, COAL-PORTER, AND I POLICE, The Rev. Willi-,krr,. J. Jenkms. rector of Fe!- ti)'gh:<.u!. Ijiticolnshire. and a Senior FeHow o' B.d)iot Oxford, )iv<ng at 1, Grove-vil]O, M(Mwe)!-hiH, was summoned before the .Hjgtt?t? Bunch on Monday, for assaulting James M?PP' :t coat-portur. in the en)p)oy of the Coal 00' operative Society, delivering at the reverend gentiema.n's house. Mapp w out, ]a.wfut excuse. The recto'' was sumtnoHC" hy Insppctor Francis Barrett for assaulting P-0, while in the eXf>cution of his und O'Shen wa.s suntmoncd by Mr Jenkins fO :10 derfiiction or vioJatlOn of his daty as a co" stable ]n not t',Ilcillg. Mapp into custody. M:tpp said he went with c,)als lu Jenkin.s's hon"P., :tn.) ga.ve the ordt-r to t[)e housekeeper. When ? hftd shot down two s?cks Jenkina Cftmn out i?' wantf'd tbex) wfighed. and witness utiercd to wfi?h the three ?cka ?tit) in thf v.m. but he ?' not; goh)? to takfj up those he h?d shot in ceihu-. Subsequently he knocked at the dOo when Jeukins carfi,A out, shook him, :<,nd -itrlcic Itim tn the hce. O'Shea. was with him when "j returned, and Jenkins took h<m by the co)!M' ?' shook hinf.After hearit)? the evidence, Bench nned Mi- Jenkius 40s and cost', for ass??? mg Mapp, a'td 60, and costs for the assau"' ? the constable, and dismissed the two summons" against Ma,pp and O'Shea, with costs.