The London Welshman

Home News. BRECON. A convention for Wales, under the auspices of the National Council of Free Churches, for the deepening of spiritual life was held at Llandrindod this week. Two hundred delegates attended. Dr. R. F. Horton was one of the speakers on Monday. The Trevecca College Committee will shortly fill up the vacancy on the staff caused by the death of Vice-Principal Edwin Williams, M.A. A pro- fessor is to be appointed to the Chair of Church History and the History of Christian Doctrine, at a salary of £ 150, with house, or ^25 in lieu thereof. The appointment will be made by the College Council at the June meeting. CARDIGAN. On Friday this week the Court of Governors of the Aberystwyth College will appoint a Registrar in succession to the late Rev. J. Mortimer Green. Two London candidates, Mr. W. J. Evans, County Council Office, and Mr. J. A. Davies, M.A., Lincoln's Inn, are in the final selection. About midday on Friday last a sad bathing fatality took place in the River Teify, at Cardigan, resulting in the death of Master Glyn Evans, eldest son of Mr. Jonathan Evans, postmaster, a bright boy of about eleven years of age. The deceased was bathing with other lads at the time. CARMARTHEN. The proposed plebiscite of the Llanelly and Car- marthen Liberal electors will not take place. The two candidates, it appears, cannot agree as to the terms on which the vote should be taken. On Monday last, Mr. Thomas Walters, borough -coroner, held an inquest at Paxton House, Priory Street, Carmarthen, on the body of Evan Owen Lewis, the South Wales Training College student who was drowned in the River Towy on Saturday. Principal Brown was present. Edgar Rees, a fellow student of the deceased, said that, seeing deceased in difficulties, he swam towards him, caught one of his arms, and lost his grip. Dr. Parry, medical officer to the Training College, said that the collegians continued Sylvester methods, and did it excellently for half-an hour after he got there. After another half-an-hour at the method witness thought it was evident that Lewis was dead. Death was due to drowning. The jury found in accordance with the medical testimony. CARNARVON. The prospects of the 1906 Eisteddfod at Carnar- von are not very promising. Not only the pre- liminary committees are at loggerheads but the Pavilion Company, it is stated, are asking very heavy rental for the use of the place for the event. In a statement to a correspondent on Saturday last, Mr. W. J. Parry, the general manager of the Co-operative Quarries at Bethesda, said :—" I shall be putting on at Pantdreiniog on Monday probably fifteen additional hands. Fresh capital has been obtained, and additional shares have been and are still being taken up. This enables us to proceed with the development of the quarries, temporarily suspended a few months ago purely from lack of capital. For several weeks past capital has been coming in at the rate of from £ 400 to £800 a week, and it is still coming in. Although the slate trade is very bad just now, we have a constituency of our own, and we have just taken steps which will ensure a regular market for the bulk of our output." DENBIGH. Early on Monday near Old Colwyn station, Mrs. Brayford, of Rocklands, Stoke-on-Trent, was found on the line in a dying condition. She had evidently been struck by a passing train. Mrs. Brayford went to Colwyn Bay on Thursday last, and attended service at church twice on Sunday, but did not return to her rooms in the evening. She has shown signs of depression. Some sensation was caused at Llangollen on Tuesday night by the discovery of a tin trunk in an untenanted house in Oak Street, in the centre of the town, from which a powerful stench proceeded. On being opened it was found to contain a hard substance enveloped in sheets, which two doctors pronounced to be human remains. According to medical opinion the remains bad apparently been in the box for some years. Startling developments are anticipated at to. day's inquest. GLAMORGAN. The Mayor of Cardiff and Mr. James Howell have agreed to guarantee the raising to ^39,000 of the Cardiff fund for the National Museum and Library, so as to secure the £ 1,000 promised by Sir W. T. Lewis. The Rev. Father Fitzgerald, of Swansea, has publicly denounced those who have taken part in the disgraceful scenes in the Irish quarter. He averred that drink was sold freely on Sundays, and threatened to denounce the offenders to the authorities. A further meeting of the Cardiff Health Commit- tee to investigate matters in connection with the scavenging stores department was held on Monday. There were more allegations of extravagance and waste, and the committee also declined to pass an account sent in by Mr. Farr Jones. The Mayor of Cardiff (Alderman Robert Hughes) is approaching the Admiralty with a view of getting a couple of warships in Penarth Roads on the occa- sion of the Prince of Wales's visit to the town. If his worship is successful he will propose that the officers and men shall take part in the procession. Speaking at Porth on Monday last, Mabon," M.P., said that the minimum wage was in danger and the Federation must be strong enough to fight for it if necessary. He defended the Parliamentary levy, on the ground that it secured the due repre- sentation of Labour interests in the House of Commons, apart from the usual party question. On Monday afternoon a sad fatality occurred at Swansea Public Baths. A man named James Webborn, of Mumbles, a member of the Mumbles lifeboat crew, and who had been employed for the past few weeks as a supernumerary driver under the Swansea Tramway Company, was seized with a heart affection whilst swimming under water. He was got out of the water, but efforts to restore animation failed. At a coroner's inquiry at Swansea into the cir- cumstances attending the death of the Rev. Evan Davies, aged 71, formerly vicar of Clydach, it transpired that deceased, who had apparently died from natural causes, had, on the night of his death, written and posted a letter to the coroner announc- ing his intention to poison himself because of con- tinued worry and unhappiness, which had made him worthless in every way, so that he could not help taking cyanide of potassium to end his troubles. The subscriptions towards the National Eistedd- fod, 1905, to be held next August at Mountain Ash, total more than £ 1,000. By the way, the com- mittee's oft-expressed determination to keep the Eisteddfod proceedings within three days is likely to be abandoned. The entries in some of the com- petitions are exceedingly heavy. It has already been decided to hold the brass band contests on the Monday, and it is now suggested to devote the whole of Friday to the male voice choral com- petitions. An interesting instance of the biter being bit has just been witnessed. A Liverpool Welshman ad- dressed a letter in Welsh to a friend in Cardiff, and, as he expected, the missive was returned to him as being insufficiently addressed. Upon this he triumphantly forwarded the envelope in another envelope addressed, in English, to Cardiff, with the cutting remark, "Call you Cardiff a Welsh town? Why, an envelope written in Welsh is not under- stood by your postal authorities." Close examina- tion of the offending envelope proved. it had been returned by the Liverpool and not the Cardiff postal authorities. The Cardiff Welshman had therefore the last shot with Call you Liverpool the capital of North. Wales ? Had your Welsh-addressed envelope reached Cardiff it would undoubtedly have been delivered promptly. Go to and teach your officials Welsh, as we have done at Cardiff." At Merthyr Police Court on Monday Michael Carey and John Sullivan were charged with being drunk and disorderly in Thorn Street, Dowlais, and also with assaulting Police-constable Jones (183) whilst in the execution of his duty. For the first offence they were fined 10s. and costs, and for the assault 40s. and costs, or a month. John Dranan was also charged with being drunk and disorderly at Dowlais Top, and with assault- ing Police-constables Thomas (150) and Jones (183). The prisoner, and four other men who got away, set about the officers with belts, and the constables were obliged in self-defence to use their truncheons. For the drunkenness Dranan was fined IOS. and costs, and for the second offence ^10 and costs, or two months. MERIONETH. The nineteen Sunday schools of the districts of Dolgelley, Barmouth, and Harlech, belonging to the Congregational Churches, held their annual musical festival at Dolgelley yesterday. There was a large assemblage of choristers from all parts of the district. The singing at the evening meeting was remarkably good, supported as it was by an amateur orchestra. Mr. Harry Evans, Dowlais, was the conductor. The Rev. Dr. William Sanday, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, has promised to deliver this year's collegiate address to the students of the Bala Theological College in connection with the annual meetings of the institution to be held in July. Dr. Sanday, who is a Churchman, made the promise through Principal Fairbairn, D.D., of Mansfield College, Oxford, who recently visited Bala on behalf of the Theological Board of the University of Wales. Mr. Haydn Jones, secretary to the Merioneth- shire Education Committee, on Monday accepted the position of chairman of the Welsh National Education Campaign Committee. This completes the list of Executive officers, thus :—President, Mr. Lloyd-George chairman of Executive, Mr. Haydn Jones treasurer, Mr. S. N. Jones, Aber- tillery, Monmouthshire secretary, Mr. E. R. Davies, Carnarvon. A campaign fund account has been opened, and it is officially announced that subscriptions may be sent to either the treasurer or the secretary. The Merionethshire Emergency Committee, acting upon instructions from the central organisation, is busily making arrangements for the immediate establishment of emergency schools. Twenty-two students leave Bala College at the end of the present term, and the following have accepted calls from the churches :-D. E. Jones, Llandegfan, to Dwyran Griffith Owen, Penygroes, to Llanfachreth, Dolgelley; J. E. Roberts, Dolgelley, to Bettws (English), Montgomeryshire H. Levi Jones, Glynceiriog. to Croesor, Festiniog H. Hughes-Jones, Pennal, to Nerquis, Flint H. P. Roberts, B.A., Egremont, to Coedpoeth J. Foulkes Ellis, Glynceiriog, to Rehoboth, Corris T. J. Jones, B.A., Ceunant, Carnarvon, to Bethania, Corris H. Jones Davies, Llanarmon, to Bethel and Carmel, Llanrwst; J. Foulkes Roberts, Anglesey, to Rhyd- ach, Pwllheli O. G. Griffith, Talysarn, to Dolwydd- elan J. W. Jones, Rhosgadfan to Pantglas a Bwlch- derwyn, Carnarvon E. J. Jones, Rhostryfan, to Llangerniew; R. Ernest Jones, Llanfihangel, to Two Mills and Saughall, Chester H. C. Lewis, B.A., Wrexham, to Beaumaris and Theophilus Lewis, Rhosllanerchrugog, to Bethel, Dolgelley. PEMBROKE. Whilst conducting a service at Tabernacle Con- gregational Church, Milford Haven, on Sunday, the Rev. Benjamin James was seized with paralysis, and the service was turned into a prayer meeting.