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BARRY COMPANY AND CADOXTON COMMON. IMPORTANT MEETING OF COMMONERS. MISS JENNER AND THE CHAIR- MAN. On Monday evening in pursuance of a notice which was published in the South Wales Stat-j-a meeting of commoners and others interested in commonable rights was held at the Royal Hotel, Cadoxton, for the purpose of appointing a com- mittee to treat with the Barry Company for the price to be paid to the commoners for a piece of land, about 20 acres, forming part of the lower common at Cadoxton, to be taken over by the company under the provisions of the Lands Clause Consolidation Act, and of their Act of 1883, for the purposes of works. Mr. D. T. Alexander presided, and there were also present Miss Jenner (Typicca, Wenvoe), Mr. Williams (representing the Barry Land Syndicate), and Messrs. Griffiths, Jenkin Brock, Samuel Brock. Gilead Brock, G: McG-ill, Howell Thomas. David Spickett, John Spickett, and E. David (representing Messrs, Spickett), Messrs. George Thomas and J. J. Williams (representing the Barry Dock Town Syndicate), Messrs. Oliver Jenkins, S. Barstow. Lloyd, Meyrick (representing Mr. Barstow), Mr. Lewis Lewis (representing Mr. David Jones, Dow- laia). John Evans (Merthyr), Mr. W. E. Brock, Mr. W. H. Lewis (Cardiff). and Mr. J. J. Handcock cl (Downing and Handcock) representing the Barry Company. Mr. Handcock read the notice convening the meeting In doing so he said the meeting was called to appoint a committee to negociate with the Barry Company under the Company's Act of 1888. In that Act power was gi ven to the com- pany to acquire certain lands in the parish of Cadoxton, amongst others, common lands, known as the Moors or Lower Common, and under the Lands Clause Consolidation Act it is provided that a meeting should be called of the persons having commonable rights for the purpose of appointing such committee. The number should be five, and this committee should treat with the Barry Com- pany as to what compensation should be paid for the extinction of such commonable rights. The Chairman, who said he was there as the representative of Mr. John Cory, Messrs. Cory, Moxey, and Alexander, and General Lee, said the business of the meeting was for thc:n to appoint a committee out of their number, a com- Z, mittee which would have to negotiate with the Barry Docks and Railways Company. for the price they were to pay them for the land they require. If that committee oottld not. arrange matters satisfactorily, tli*j viiill(I appoint a gentleman as arbitrator to meet an arbitrator I appointed br the Barry Company, and in the event of their failing to agree, an umpire would be appointed. The money agreed upon will have to "be paid into a common fund, which would be dis- tributed to the parties who had a ngnt to it.- Mr Llovd Mevrick I suppose all nore have equal rio-h+3—Miss Jenner Oh, dear, no.—Mr. Alexan- der • 'Will vou be quiet, Miss Jenner?—Miss Jenner 1\0, Sir, I will not be driven. I Mr Alexander I never attempted to drive you, nor am I sroinff to now. I should have a rather hard ta«k—Miss Jennar I am going to ask certain questions. I should like to know whether certain partly were summoned here .(Laughter.) i\Xxss Jennor was still standing, and Mr. Alexan- der rising asked the commoners to proceed with the'election of a committee.-Mr. Williams I beg to propose you, Sir.-Mise Jeaner (under tke im- pression Mr. Williams had proposed her ): les. cer- tainly Thank you, thank y ou,very muoh.(Laughter.) Mr David went to the Chairman, and engaged in a private conversation.—Miss Jenner Mr. Chair- man are you allowed to have a private conversa- tion with a legal gentleman .Will you read out a section 3 of the Land Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. (Laughter.^—The Chairman Our business here is not to read sections of any Act, Miss Jenner, only to appoint a committee.—Miss Jenner Which is not in the advertisement. Has this notice been published on the Church doors, then (Laughter.) Mr Handcock Yes, Miss Jenner.—Miss Jenner For three Sundays ? (Loud laughter.) — Mr. Handcock I think so, Miss Jenner. But why the three Sundays ?—Another consultation took place between the Chairman and Mr. David, and Miss Jenner loudly exclaimed, I do not like these private discussions between the Chairman ahd a legal gentleman. What does Mr. David want here, I should like to know ? (Laughter.) Does any one represent Mr. Jenner. There is something wrong here to-night. I should like to know it the Wenvoe Castle estate is represented at thismeeting" —The Chairman (impatiently): I do not know. You are not representing the estate. If you want to be appointed on the committee you had better elect yourself and keep quiet.. (Laughter.)—Miss Jenner • No Sir. I should not care to take the responsibility. (Laughter.) This is a very serious matter. As Chairman, it is your duty to invite discussion. (Laughter.)—The Chairman: The business is to appoint a committee, not to in- vite discussion.—Mr. David, on behalf of Mr. Howell Thomas, proposed Mr. D. T. Alexander, Mr. David Spickett, Mr. John Spickett, Mr John Jenkins, and Mr. Jewel Williams as the committee.-Mr. McGill seconded-The Chairman then proceeded to put the names selected to the J' meetiflff and they were appointed unanimously, Miss Jenner exclaiming, This meeting is precisely what I expected."—The Chairman thanked those present forthoirconndenceinhim.andsaidhewould do his best for them in their interest.—.Mr. George Thomas proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman f and it was carried—Miss Jenner It is quite a new thing for me, and a solicitor from Cardiff is here to represent the Yi envoa Castle Estate at any rate —Tho Chairman There is no one here doing anything of the kind, Miss Jemner.—Miss Jenner Shame, shame, shame, upon you I am here. This was followed with roars of laughter, and the meetin" terminated.-The Chairman then invited the committee to stay behind to discuss certain matters. but Miss Jenner declined to leave the Toorn. The meeting of the committee was then held in an adjoining room. In the course of a conversation with our repre- sentative, Miss Jenner protested most vigorously against the manner in which the whole proceed- ing had been conducted. The chairman, she asserted, had first of all wished to commence the business before the arrival of the solicitors he had subsequently refused to have quustions put to him as to the bona fides of those present who claimed commonable rights and the powers of the com- nattee to be appointed he had refused to read the section of an Act of Parliament which defined the objects of the meeting he had allowed the busi- ness which was supposed to be transacted in public to be disposed of by private consultations amon"- the solicitors and himself and, finally, it was not proved that the meeting had been properly convened, or that sufficient notice had been given. On these grounds, it is Miss Jenner.'s inten- tion to seek means to upset the decision arrived at by the meeting. LETTER FROM Mies JEXXEE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTH WALES STAR. <- In the matter of the Barry Dock and Railway Act, 1388—Lands required." &c. gT11 J attended tha meeting advertised in your columns, under the abova heading last night, at 6 P.M., at a public hotel at C^doxtoa-juxta-Barry, and if the way of procedure indulged in there by the auctioneer who occupied the chair, and of the solicitor, whose office u in St. John-square, Cardiff, and of tho solicitors for the Company who were present, is a. fair specimen of how legal business is transacted at Cadoxton-juxta-Barry and at Barry, these late years, it is quite sufficient, I allege, to account for the depression of trade that now exists there, and the number of empty and valueless houses that one's eyes meet with in all directions. In the Liberal press printed at Cardiff on Satur- day last I see a report (which revealed a good deal) of a meeting at Barry Dock of the Barry Railway Company the previous day. and the proceedings," it states. subsequently as usual were conducted in private," and then it proceeds to say "that plans and notices had been served upon various parties to attend the said meeting at the Royal Hotel, Cadoxton-juxta-Barry. on Monday, giving the name of an imaginary "Lady of the Manor, who was wise enoughi not to -run any risk under an Act of Parliament, and was to be seen driving towards Cardiff aa I set out walking to Cadoxton for the said meeting. s I very greatly appreciate the confidence placed in me at the meeting by some of the old common- ers in wishing me to form one of the five on the committee, but, inasmuch as the trio I have speci- W&ktedulged in several conversations in whispers, to each other, and which I protested against at the time, it was clear to me that anyone-acting upon that" committee" would be taking a step in the the dark—whilst, on the other hand, I felt than the touto ensemble, as the French would say, so undignified and so unlike business under any circumstances, but especially under an Act of Parliament, that in all probability we shall find, on investigation, some flaws which will render the proceedings invalid, and necessitate the meeting being held over again. It was quite clear that my presence created a flutter in the camp of the trio I have specified during the twenty minutes such important busi- ness was supposed to be transacted in—but they will ne doubt find that extinction of all common- able and other rights "is not to be obtained by chicanery and legal dishonesty of mind and action. I declined to vote at all.—Yours &c., Oct. 11. GERTRUDE JENNER.

BARRY AND CADOXTON LOCAL BOARD.

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