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MR'S:'GR UND Y'S' JOTTINGS.

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MR'S:'GR UND Y'S' JOTTINGS. More than ever the earnest wish of the towns- people of Barry is God Save the King!" III Mr and Mrs F. P. Jones-Lloyd, Barry, are spending a fortnight's holiday in Paris and the North of France. The Principality would have been represented in the Coronation Choir at Westminster Abbey on Thursday by Mr Ben Davies, the celebrated Welsh tenore. I have already, on more than one occasion, had the pleasure of referring to the gratifying success of Mr Alcwyn Jones, son of Mr John Jones, 153, 'Holton-roail, Barry Docks, as a student of St. David's College, Lampeter. As the result of the June examination at Lampeter College, Mr Alcwyn Jones took his B.A., degree with honours in class 1 (classics), and was also again awarded the classical prize. Mr Jones' scholastic and collegiate career has been one of exceptional distinction, a fact all the more gratifying, inasmuch as Mr Jones is not yet 22 years of age, and will not attain ordination age until he is 23. It is the lot of but few. people to read their own j obituary. This, however, has been, during the past week, the position of the popular Barry solicitor, Mr Alfred Jackson, but fortunately he was not privileged to see the guinea wreath which « Prince John intended placing on his coffin. What a wealth of blossom there is in the country lanes this year Not for many seasons, I should say, has nature provided such a profuse display of flofal beauty in the hedgerows. Lilacs have been breaking down under the excessive weight of bloom the gorse never looked better, while the show of May. or hawthorn, is in many parts superb. In the fruit gardens, too, the blossoming, I am told, has been on a heavy scale. Does this portend a long and bitter winter ? The rights of women, what are they? I witnessed an amusing incident some years ago at a women's political meeting. A number of ladies were discussing the question of women s rights, -and one of them. a London reformer, was declaiming, in a rather dramatic manner, on the necessity for women taking courage, and insisting on ranking on a level with the opposite sex. It was just at that moment that the mischievous mouse began to disport itself at the rear of the room. In less time than it takes to tell half the audience were on their feet, one woman was in hysterics, and a dozen others were tumbling over each other in a wild rush to escape to the doors. Brigadier-general Sir if- Henry Fletcher, C.B., M.P., the successor to the Aubrey Estate at Llantrithyd, near Barry, Glamorganshire, will ride in the Coronation procession as the repre- sentative of the Volunteers. He commands the Sussex Volunteer Brigade. » ♦ Mr J. E. Rees, headmaster of Hannah-streeb School, Cadoxton, was the examiner in the senior division of the Cardiff Sunday School Union examination last week. 9 In connection with the magisterial famine at Barry, the Western Mail of Friday last published the following lines in its Day by Day column There's a neighbouring district called Barry, Where magistrates loiter and tarry Not coming to court As in duty they ought, So justice doth often miscarry. Councillor J. Milward. Penycoetre, Cadoxton- Barry, has remitted a week's rent to his tenants in the Barry district by way of celebration of the -intended Coronation. Mr J. Arthur Hughes, the chairman of the Barry District Council, in his capacity as commanding officer of the Severn Division Submarine Miners, was to take part in the Coronation procession in London on Friday. It is rumoured at Cadoxton this week that the Bishop of the Diocese has expressed a desire that the new Rector of the Parish shall be a Welsh- speaking clergyman. f In the House of Commons last Monday, Mr Balfour stated that the Government proposed an additioni d6900,000 to the :£860,000 already given in aid of Voluntary Schools Necessitous School Boards, • -A, It was the intention of the publishers of the Barry Dook, News to issue a special Coronation number to-day containing several interesting and enterprising features, but at the last moment, owing to the lamented illness of the King and the consequent postponement of the Coronation, these arrangements had to be cancelled, and other preparations hurriedly made for the ordinary number. mm Another proof of judicious advertising. A Barry councillor inserted an advertisement in the Barry Dock News the other day. and straightway he received more than fifty replies, The subscriptions to hand in aid of the fund to wipe off the debt of £1,000 on the Victoria Jubilee Nurses Home, Barry, amounts to £570.

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