The South Wales Star

BABRT AND CATIOXTOli LOCAL BOARD. EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS IN SHOPS. THE SHOP HOURS' ACT, 1892. THE attention of Proprietors of Wholesale -1. Shops, Markets, Stalls, Warehouses, Licensed Public-houses, and Refreshment Houses, in which young persons (i.e., persons under the age of 18 years) are employed for hire, is called to the pro- visions of the above Act, whereby it is made illegal for the future to employ young persons for a longer period than 74 hours, including meal times, in any one week. The employer is also required to keep a Notice exhibited in a conspicuous place referring to the provisions of this Act, &c. Contravention of the Statute is punishable by a fine not exceeding One Pound for each person. employed contrary to the provisions of the Act. A Print of the Notice to be exhibited can be obtained on application to the Inspector of Nuisances, Local Board Offices, Vere-street, Cadoxton. By Order, J. ARTHUR HUGHES, Clerk.

BARRY AND CATIOXTON LOCAL BOARD. THE ACCOUNTS of the RECEIPTS and EX- PENDITURE of the above BOARD for the year ending 25th March, 1892, will be AUDITED on FRIDAY, the 3rd day of February, 1893, at the OFFICES of the above Board, at Vere-street, Cadoxton, commencing at 10.30 o'clock in the Forenoon, and the said Accounts will be deposited as required by section 247 of the Public Health Act, 1875, at such Office for seven clear days before the said 3rd day of February, 1893. By Order, J. ARTHUR HUGHES, Clerk. Local Board Offices, Vere-street, Cadoxton. 18th January, 1893.

NOTICE. ALTERATION OF BUSINESS. Hairy Dock Chambers, Barry Dock. THE BUSINESS CARRIED ON by MR. JOHN YOUNG, AUCTIONEER, ESTATE AGENT, &c', will henceforth be CARRIED ON BY MR. C. C. THORNE (LATIS MAMAGEE TO THE ABOVE), Who will Receive all Moneys due to the Firm, and also Pay all Debts. MR. YOUNG will CONTINUE his BUSINESS' at 7, Tredegar-flace, Newport, Mon, Dec. 21st. 1892. EDUCATIONAL. npHE COURT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, -1- CADOXTON. PRINCIPAL MISS SMALL. Assisted by Trained and Certificated English and Foreign Governesses, and visiting Professors. Prospectus on application to the Principal. Private Lessons given in Drawing, Painting, Music, Singing. French, and German. Pupils prepared for the Local Examinations. Class for Little Boys, .r 423 Next Term begins January 16th, 1893. SCHOOL ADVERTISEMENTS. — Principals oi Private and other Schools will do well to adver- tise in the South Wales Star, which circulates very largely in the South, East, West, and Rhondda Di- visions of Glamorganshire. Quotations for a series may be had en application to the Manager, at the Office, yere-street, Cadoxton, Barry, or of the local representatives. _m_ PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS. BMry Agent Irs. 0. Green) Beer Dealer. PALE ALE-S. I s IN 4.GALLON CASKS FROM lOD. PER GALLON. 2 PORTER AND STOUT FROM Is. PER GALLON. CARDIFF STORES: 9. WORKING-STREET. NEWPORT STORES: COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS. CHEPSTOW STORES: BEAUFORT-SQUARE Cadoxton Agents: South Wales Provision Stores. H. J. OWEN, ( demist, Yere-street, Cadoxton. 1 PATENT MEDICINES AT STORE PRICES. PURE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. GARDEN SEEDS in great variety direct from the Growers CHEST PROTECTORS and COUGH REMEDIES a Speciality. f474 MESSRS. CHAPPELL & MORRIS, Ilife and Spirit IfepekBts, il, THOMPSON-STREET, BARRY DOCK. Agents for the Celebrated ANGLO-BAVARIAN BEER CO. ALL* ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED. THE EMPIRE PALACE OP YABIETIES, CiEBIIT. .t. S Two Complete Performances Nightly. Early one 7 o'clock to 9, late one 9 o'clock to 11. ALL ARTISTES APPEAR AT EACH PERFORMANCE, OSWALD STOLL.P68

LOCAL NOTES. -+- THE NEW HOME RULE BILL. The communication which we print on another page relative to the provisions of the new Home Rule Bill may be implicitly relied upon. The correspondent is a well-known politician, and he is rarely caught napping. From the details he has given it would appear that those direful prophets who have for the past few months or so been prophesying the speedy downfall of the Government on this Bill, are wrong in their calculations. The measure proposed la not one to cause a moment's uneasiness. It recognises the fact that Ireland has been mis-ruled for a century, and it is an heroic attempt to regain the affections of a spirited and a loyal people. The antagonists of the Government, who are ever ready to throw stones will assuredly pick flaws here and there but there is not a single law on the Statute Book which can stand this criticism. THE ROCKS AHEAD. The financial propositions and the representa- tion of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament are the principal rocks ahead. Several of the litigious and termagant spirits of the Irish Parties are trying to have all their own way in the matter, and some have even gong so far as to demand that Ireland shall be exempted from taxation for the ensuing fifty years. Such a demand is childlike, and Mr. Clancy, when he demonstrated its fairness to his own satis- faction, must have known all the time that the English taxpayer would certainly not consent to it. The British public, thanks to the energy of the Liberal Party, have now been educated up to believe that it is safe and politic to allow the Irish to govern themselves. For ourselves, we have never contested the proposition indeed, the Welsh, the English, a.nd the Scotch are also entitled to a measure of home rule, confer- ring greater powers upon the electorate than they now possess. Therefore, it would he un- wise to risk the prospects of a Home Rule Bill by even proposing such a suggestion. On the question of representation, even Irish Parties themselves will abide by the proposal that it shall be reduced when the vexed land question is settled. The measure, prognosti- cated by our correspondent, is certainly one that will meet the wishes of the Liberal Party, and all patriotic Irishmen. THANKFUL FOR SMALL MERCIES. The Conservative Party at Cadoxton are evidently thankful for small mercies. They go to the trouble and expense of calling a meeting, and get the Grand Council of the Primroso League to send them downian orator (?) and they are satisfied with a gathering of forty, of whom one-third at least are ladies! To cover their discomfiture Mr: O. II. Jones arrogantly argues that if the quantity is bad, the quality is good. This may or may not be, but the politician knows that it is votes which count at a general or bye-election, and not tho quality of the Yoter." This contention is nothing less than following out the old policy of setting class against class. But this the Tories strenuously deny in face of facts OPTIMISTIC LOCAL TORIES. I Captain Morgan Lindsay and Dr. Treharne are undoubtedly well able to discuss social ethics, but in political matters they did' net argue consistently. The gallant Captain evidently thinks he is an arithmetician, and is quite proud of his knowledge. To this he adds an optimistic vein which is quite charming. If the electorate were gullible enough to believe it, Mr. Arthur J. Williams' return to Parliament, when he has to again con- test the seat, is more than doubtful. In the Captain's opinion, "they have not got to con- vert a single voter they have only got to persuade those voters who did not poll last time to come forward and record their votes. To get these lazy ones to vote is a laudable endeavour, but Captain Lindsay is too sanguine when he says that they are Tories. Besides, how do the Tories like the compliment ? AN INSULT TO THE WORKING MAN. The address delivered by Mr. Anthony, of London, was an insult to the intelligence of the working man. Dr. Treharne may-be correct in his asseverations that there are many work- ing men Conservatives in Barry, but we confess- that as yet we have not the honour of their acquaintance indeed one of them we should regard as a vara avis But the paid lecturer of the Primrose League should be careful of his facts. To calmly state that the Conservatives (or as they magniloquently call themselves, Unionists) have passed the majority of the measures which have benefited the working man, is begging the question. Rhetorically it sounds well, but in fact it is all nonsense. Then, again, Mr. Anthony had a sly hit at the work of the Trades' Unions. He shot at Mr. John Burns, M.P., and, as usual, missed his mark for the dockers' strike has admittedly benefited these poor toilers. But Mr. Anthony offended still further. That he- should threaten that if Home Rule were passed there would be a revolution shows that he is the merest tyro in politics. The Ulstermen will not fight, for the simple reason that, their rights being guarded, they have no occasion to. THE NEED OF A COTTAGE HOSPITAL. The accident which has occurred at Barry Dock this week emphasises the need for a Cottage Hospital in the district. Here is a poor working man, accidentally injured in the course of his employment, so severely hurt that it was necessary that he should be taken to a hos- pital at once. Yet the fact remains that he had to wait nearly two hours before an am- bulance could be procured, and then he had to face the journey to Cardiff. The distance, short as it is to those I.. in excellent health, is terribly long to those who are suffering. There are only few in these luxurious days who can stand pain without a murmur and though it is best that there should be this endurance still it is not always wise to trespass upon it. The working men in Barry have the matter in their own hands. If they are determined to have a hospital erected there will be little or no opposition. The building is urgently needed, and in their own interests they should a gitate till it is built. BARRY RAILWAY BILL. It must not be too readily assumed that the opposition, if there is to be any, to the proposed Bill of the Barry Railway Company has beeit abandoned. The real fact of the matter is that at the preliminary stages of the Bill, before the Examiner, there will be no opposition from anyone. But it is to be borne in mind that the date for the opposition of public bodies, the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board for instance, has not expired and that they have still the power to contest the Bill. Whether that will be done remains to be seen, for up to the present the Board have not come to any definte decision-in public. THE PROGRESS OF THE DISTRICT. Barry is evidently advancing. The returns of the population which we publish this week, show a grabifyihg increase. Only eleven years have elapsed, and a village which then boasted of 500 inhabitants now possesses a population of no fewer than 14,500. This is gratifying but like young Oliver Twist, we are desirous of more." And more we shall have in the near future, for already there is a rift in the dark clouds, and signs of increasing trade are evident. The number of houses vacant at the present time is certainly not, considering the rapid growth of Barry, la ge. It is only 837. Still it would be better if they were occupied, That they will be soon is the hearty wish of everybody concerned.

THE FORTHCOMING HOME 'RULE BILL. SOME OF ITS PROVISIONS. [SPECIAL. BY OUR GALLERY CORRESPONDENT, j Notwithstanding the almost superhuman efforts which have been made to keep the draft of the Home Rule Bill secret, the main facts of the- measure are now combion property to the select circles in the London Clubs who are ardent poli- ticians and do not fear any expenditure so long as they obtain the news they desire. It can be dis- missed at once as fallacious that it is the intention of Mr. Gladstone to bring in a measure which will divide Ireland into four self-governing and separate provinces. The vital principle of the Bill, of course, is the retention or exclusion of the Irish members. This has been decided in what appears to be a satisfactory manner. The Irish people will be represented at Westminster until the Land Ques- tion is settled, or finally handed over for comple- tion to an Irish Parliament,and the proportion until then is not to be reduced. But after that the great principle of the Liberal Party, representa- tion according to population will be enforced. It will be remembered that in the Home Rule Bill of 1883, Mr. Parnell accepted an arrangement whereby Ireland was to pay one-fifteenth towards the Imperial Exchequer. Mr. Timothy Healy, one of the mouthpieces of the Anti-Parnellite Party, has declared that even this is too much, while Mr, Clancy in an article in the Contemporary Bevieio asseverates that Ireland ought not to pay anything into the Imperial Exchequer for the next fifty years as a kind of compensation for the extent to which she has been plundered since the Union. This of course is ridiculous. What Mr. Gladstone proposes to do is that they shall pay one-fifteenth, and as in 1886 the Irish people will be permitted to levy their own excise duties. The subject which will doubtless cause much comment is the proposal that there shall be be two Legislative Chambers. Where are the materials to come from ? The Irish Peerage is not constituted like our own House of Lords, and even, if a body similar to that of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada was appointed, the chances are that it would be as inefficient and as ineffec- tual., Then there is the question of the Veto. This is a part of the Constitution which (as the "impired lea.der" in the London Daily News) pointed out is an important part of the Constitu- tion. It cannot be got rid of. The present sug- gestion, however, is that the power to advise the Sovereign.shall rest with the Ministers. It will. ohus be seen that Mr. Gladstone's Bill is of such a comprehensive nature as to .meet the wants and the wishes of those most interested. At the present moment the opposition will certainly be on the representation clauses, and the financial position. But even these need not cause much alarm. Meanwhile the Cabinet met yesterday (Thursday), and I am assured that it again discussed the de'ails of the Bill. It isprobable that Mr, Asquith in his speech this (Friday) evening at Liverpool may enunciate the Government views, but it is doubtful.