Papurau Newydd Cymru
Chwiliwch 15 miliwn o erthyglau papurau newydd Cymru
4 erthygl ar y dudalen hon
Cuddio Rhestr Erthyglau
4 erthygl ar y dudalen hon
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Notes from South Wales. (From our Special Correspondent.) Swansea and the Welsh Language. There is a movement on foot in Swansea with the view of getting the Welsh language taught in the local elementary schools. It is passing strange that Cardiff should be ahead of Swansea in this respect. Swansea is certainly more of a Welsh town than Cardiff. It has a bigger Cymric population, and there is four times more Welsh spoken there than there is in Cardiff. Despite these facts, however, Welsh national interests are far more advanced in Cardiff, and, as readers of the LONDON WELSHMAN are aware, Welsh is taught in the Cardiff elementary schools. The inference is, that Englishmen who have made Wales their home, are often more patriotic than the native Cymro. It is to be hoped that Swansea will soon be in line with Cardiff in regard to the teaching of Welsh. It is a strange fact that the teaching of Welsh should be taken up with greater enthusiasm in districts largely Anglicised than in districts where Welsh is still a living language. Cardigan- shire, the most Welsh county in Wales, shows a particularly bad example. Die Shon Dafydd is particularly rampant in Aberystwyth, as anyone who has a knowledge of the town well knows. And, in Cardigan town, the aforesaid Die also holds considerable sway, although not to such a large extent as Aberystwyth. New Labour Paper. Many attempts have been-made within the last 20 years to establish a labour paper for Cardiff and the surrounding mining districts, but without success. There was the Workmen's Times, which ran well for a few years and then quietly took its departure to the realms of the departed. Then there was the Tocsin, which thundered for a few months and finally suc- cumbed. Later came the South PVales Democrat, but, alas, it democratised for a brief period only. Subsequently, we had a Labour Pioneer, but, this paper, which was clothed in a gaudy crimson coloured wrapper, also failed to bloom. Nil Desperandum. Despite these failures, however, there are still people who believe that there is an opening for a labour paper in Cardiff and district, and very shortly the citizens will see yet a new democratic journal launched upon the fierce seas of journalistic competition. But it is doubtful whether this latest labour paper is going to thrive in a locality already thickly strewn with the graves of departed labour journals. It is a strange fact that the labour classes are not very enthusiastic in supporting their OWn special organs, as labour journalists know from bitter experience. In fact, Mr. Keir Hardie's Labour Leader is the only labour paper "I Great Britain which has attained to anything like a national reputation. An Excellent Suggestion. It is satisfactory to find that the Welsh Members have decided to very cordially support a suggestion which Mr. Keir Hardie intends to ftiake at the Select Committee on Parliamentary Procedure, viz., that all Bills exclusively applying
SOUTH WALES BUSINESS NOTES.…
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SOUTH WALES BUSINESS NOTES. r T n this column it is our intention to bung before the notice of our numerous readers the features of various usinesses calculated to prove of use and assistance to nevi. Proprietors of shops, hotels, dfc., desirous of such pziblicity should compiunicate with MY. t CARDIFF.—Griffiths' Temperance Hotel, Caroline Street. C ^URGICAL APPLIANCES.—Artificial legs, eyes, ^rutches, deformity apparatus, &c. List free °m Allen Pearce, Manufacturer, 23, Charles reet, Cardiff.
OLYNYDD BRYN ROBERTS.
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OLYNYDD BRYN ROBERTS. Nid yn ami y cafodd Rhyddfrydwyr unrhyw etholaeth gymaint o drafferth i ddewis ymgeis- ydd ag a gafodd Rhyddfrydwyr Eifion y dyddiau hyn. Yr oedd 11awer wedi credu mai Mr. D. P. Williams, Llanberis, fuasai olynydd y Barnwr Bryn Roberts. Mae yn wr sydd wedi bod yn bur amlwg yn sir Gaernarfon am lawer blwyddyn. Bu adran o etholwyr Arfon yn meddwl dro yn ol mai efe oedd y dyn i gynrychioli yr etholaeth honno, ac yn ychwanegol at y pethau hyn y mae yn \vr blaenllaw gyda'r enwad sydd liosocaf yn Eifion. Ond yn eu gorawydd am sicrhau yr anrhydedd i Mr. Williams rhoddodd ei bleidwyr le i godi'r gri fod hawliau y werin yn cael sangu arnynt, ac aeth yn gymaint o helynt yn rhanau gweithfaol yr etholaeth fel y barnodd Mr. Williams yn ddoeth i anfon llythyr i'r cyfarfod o'r Gymdeithas Ryddfrydig a gynhaliwyd y dydd o'r blaen, yn dadgan ei fod yn ymneill- duo ac yn tynnu ei enw yn ol. Nid oedd neb yn disgwyl am y fath genadwri. Ond pan wnaed yn hysbys sut yr oedd y dosbarthiadau wedi rhoddi eu llais ynglyn a'r pedwar ymgeisydd y gofynasid iddynt ddadgan barn arnynt gwel- wyd fod Mr. D. P. Williams yn ddigon craff i ragweled yr hyn a gymerasai le pe gadawsai i'w enw aros. Yr oedd nifer llawer lliosocach o'r dosbarthiadau wedi gosod Mr. Ellis W. Davies ar ben y rhestr, ac nid oedd Mr. T. E. Morris "lawer ar ol Mr. Williams. Ac ymddengys mai ychydig iawn o'r ardaloedd mwyaf poblog a geid ymhlith y rhai a ffafrient y g\vr y tybid bythefnos yn ol nad oedd o nemawr ddyben i neb gydymgeisio ag ef. Bu cryn dipyn o helynt ac nid ychydig o ymgecru yn y cyfarfod pa fodd i weithredu yn wyneb y sefyllfa newydd, ond yr hyn y penderfynwyd arno oedd cael test ballot cydrhwng Mr. Ellis Davies a Mr. T. E. Morris. Canlyniad y bleidlais oedd :—Mr. E. W. Davies, 2,875 Mr. T. E. Morris, 2,503 ac felly y gwr blaenaf sydd, yn ol pob argoelion, i gynrychioli 0 y sedd fel. olynydd i Mr. Bryn Roberts. Hyd yma nid yw y Ceidwadwyr wedi penderfynu pa un a ddygant ymgeisydd allan neu beidio.
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to Wales should be sent to a committee of Welsh members, with certain additional members, and also that private bills relating to Wales should be dealt with locally by a procedure analogous to that followed with regard to Scottish private bill legislation. Mr. Keir Hardie has shown by bringing this matter to the front that he takes a real interest in the national welfare of Wales. His suggestion is a capital one, and ought to be adopted in common justice to Wales. By the way, it is extremely amusing to notice how certain members of the Imperialist party see disruption to the Empire in any scheme of devolution suggested for Wales. In the House of Commons the other day, for example, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the' ex-Prime Minister expressed the opinion that the adoption of a Welsh National Council of Education for Wales tended towards the disruption of the Empire Such arrant nonsense is too laughable for words, and it is simply astounding that a man of Mr. Balfour's education should display such lamentable ignorance. A Good Welshman. Mr. John Phillips, of Cardiff, a biographical sketch and portrait of whom appeared in the Grocer's Assistant, under the heading of Successful Assistants," is an enthusiastic Welshman, a member of both the Cardiff Cymmrodorion and Cymdeithas Cymru Caer- dydd, and a Welsh Congregationalist. Like many other enthusiastic Welshmen in South Wales, Mr. Phillips is a regular reader of the MR. JOHN PHILLIPS. ro III" LONDON WELSHMAN. As inspector ot Messrs. Bell, Liverpool's branch shops, numbering close on 20, in Glamorganshire, Mr. Phillips has n shown great business tact and enterprise. He is a native of Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire. Nonconformists' Idea of a Church. The Rev. Albert Law of Penarth's recent address before the members of the Barry Free Church Council on "The Nonconformists' Idea of a Church," was particularly instructive, and deserves wide reading. It was, said the reverend gentleman, of the greatest importance to get a correct idea of a Church. Nonconformists were really Conformists, and it was necessary to know the grounds upon which they conformed. The Anglican appropriated the word church to its use, but Nonconformists had a far greater right to the appellation. People made the fallacious distinction of saying church people and chapel people," while they should be told, and the children should be taught, that the man who entered a Salvation Army barracks was as much a Churchman as he who rolled up in his carriage and pair to the doors of a great cathedral. In the Old Testament, the word Church implied an assembly in general, and an assembly for divine worship. In reality, a church consisted of all those who truly repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in obedience to the call of the Gospel. When a Nonconformist used the word, he, therefore, meant Anglican, Roman Catholic, Greek, and Nonconformists -all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. It was only a Nonconformist who could truly repeat the words, I believe in the holy Catholic Church," because the word "Catholic" means "Universal." It was wrong to say "Wesleyan Methodist Church," or "The Presbyterian Church of Wales," because they were each a denomination with many churches. Anglicans looked with alarm at the multiplication of sects. Nonconformists did not do so, because they had only one standard by which to judge them-" By their fruits shall ye know them." Nonconformists were not enemies of the Anglican Church. They did not want to see it destroyed, or even injured. They wanted to see it strong and useful; they wanted to see it Protestant, and they wanted to set it free.. As to the ministry of the Church, all Christian believers were priests, but there was no part of the Nonconformist conception of a Church in which they found themselves more in conflict with Anglicans than in the use of this word. It was, therefore, imperative that they as Nonconformists should know their ground. A Strange Mixture. The Anglican Bishop of St. David's has been giving a series of addresses on the Education Bill lately in various towns of South Wales. The other night he visited Lampeter, and addressed a meeting in that little town. The gallery of the hall was occupied by students from St. David's Theological College—the future clergymen of Wales, and they whiled away the interval before the commencement of the meeting by singihg, Poor Mr. Birrell," and Who'll put him in the tank ? The Anglican Bishop of Swansea appeared on the platform and said that the Bishop of St. David's did not like the last song, and invited the audience to join in singing" Milwyr ffyddlon Iesu (Jesu's faithful soldiers). And, to quote the report in a local journal, "this was done with great heartiness." Need anybody wonder that the cynic scoffs and the man in the street sneers when reading incidents such as these?