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fathered from Gwalia )lUN<¥ PARAGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPALITY. Column of Notes and TTews of Persons and Places of Interest and Instruction for Old and Young. The Bishop of London during his visit to jWxnsea. was the guest of Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn Penllergaer. Among the things expected at the Cardiff County Council on Monday is a big debate on the question of the site which the new Town- hall committee now suggest should be obtained in the Cardiff Arms Park. One of the biggest of Maori schools—they are all maintained by the State-has a Welsh- man in charge. He is Mr. T. Morgan, for- merly master of the National Schools, Llanelly. Fifteen hundred Maori pupils answer to his call. Principal Rhys. of Oxford, enjoyed a drive through Gower on Thursday, and afterwards rooke highly of the scenery. Speaking of an rrid cromlech down there, he referred to the 7 BUDerstition that St. David had split it in two with his sword to show that there was nothing in it to inspire worship. When an alderman's son was "landed" by his father at the Swansea, Baths on Thursday night with a ten-foot rod he said he felt like a fish out of water. It was said that they Quarrelled over the old saying about there being "a fish at one end, &c." because they couldn't settle amicably which was the fish. The Swansea bakers on Monday last raised the price of bread jd. per loaf, and the same day a thrifty housewife sutured a baker's shop and a-sked for a 41b., for which she put down 4d. On beinsr told that bread had risen £ d. cer loaf from that day, she mildly asked for one baked on Saturday, thus (remarks the "Post") evading the advance. In going to the Chester teetotal conference to talk facts Mr. Marchant Williams poked his stick into a hornet's nest, and the buzzing about hi.; ears now must be deafening. Nonconformist ministers and other abolitionists, as well as the vernacular papers, are scolding him with all the vigour and picturesqueness of k language of ail irate fish woman on market f day. One of the most successful disturbers of the peace of the football world lias again started on his work of prophesying in the columns of the London '"Star." This prophet of good and evil says that Newport to-day will play Moselev blind, that Cardiff will roll over Glou- cester, that Penarth will mNeath feel ill, and that Swansea will put Llanelly out of >-■ eight. r- Mr. J. Jones Pughe, of Pontypridd, the successful candidate for the post of solicitor to the Welsh Baptist Union, is a native of Maobyn.IM'li, Montgomeryshire, and a nephew of the Rev. Evan Jones, of Carnarvon, the well-known pulpit orator. Mr. Pughe was educated at the University College, Aberyst- wifh, and he may be added to the premtv long list of energetic young msn that institution has produced. Had Will Brvan, of "Rhys Lewis" fame, been in the Dr. Parry concert at Maesteg, he would have shouted out his familiar phrase, "True to Nature." Miss Cemvven Jones, R.A.M., London, and Mr. John Lewis, Cardiff, dere singing, to the delight of the large and respectable audience, "Oh that we two sat dreaming, and "Cochfarf," J.P., was sitting asleep against the Hon. Anthony Howell, American Consul, Cardiff, who presided. In the "Working Day" competition of the "New Age," which, by the way, had become tfhe property of Mr. Fletcher, late editor of the "'Daily Chronicle," and named as Radical candidate for Cardiff, the prize for the best article descriptive of shop life was divided between Mr. T. Spencer Jones, chair- man at the Cardiff Shop Assistants' Union, and another writer. The competition, says the editor, was an exceptionally stiff one. So good, indeed, were the papers sent in that he had muc-h difficulty in jud'gin.g their merits. A well-known Welsh football referee has told a Swansea "Post" man many stories, of which this one is a sample:—Scene: St. Helen's Ground; even and exciting game. One player to an opponent: "Look here, if you do that again I'll kick your stomach out for yolk." Opponent (defiantly): "Come here; repwt those words in the presence of the referee." First player: "Yes, I will" (and does so). Second player (to referee): "Now, you have heard the threat. What are you going to do?" Referee (coolly): "After he has carried out the threat I shall order him off the field, and not before, because there's no rule dealing with such a threat as that." A long and discriminating and sympathetic) article on the Llanelly Eisteddfod finds a place in Le Menestral," a'Paris pa.pe". It is written by M. O. Berg-ffrueu, and it contains a perfect curiosity, namely, a French translation of the Welsh Marsellaise/' Hen Wlad fy Nhadau 0 pays de meg peres, o pays des hommea libres, Que tes poetes et menestrels sont doux! Tes guerriers courageux, obeissant a la Liberte. Sont) tombes dans le combat pour leur vieux pays. Galles, Galles! Je t'aime, o mon vieux pays! La mer est un rempart autour de ton sol, 8i longtempe que ta vieille langue sufcsiste! 0 cherg rochers des Cambriens, pays du barde, Chaque vallee, chaque montagne est chere a mon cceur, Le bruit des rivieres qui coulent vers la mer Est une melodie chantee par des langues d'or. Galles, Galles &c. Malgre lea ennemis qui noug ont enehaineSi Notre belle vieille langue toujours. Le barde ne s'est pas tu sur l'ordre du tyran, Ni la douce harpe natale. Galles, Galles! &o. A pathetic incident was witnessed on -he Great Western Railway platform at Cardiff last night. A man, well-laden with liquor, was trying hard to get on an automatic weigh- ing-machine. He could see the foot-stand right enough, but he always managed to shoot about two feet wide. After skirmishing round for a few minutes he paused, rested one hand on the machine, and vainly tried to put a foot on the stand, but it came down on the railway platform every time. Then he grasped the machine firmly with both hands, and laboriously clambered to his place. But he couldn't for the life of him drop the penny in the slot. There were slots all over tie machine and half-way up the station, but, somehow, he couldn't get the right one. Then, calling to someone in the crowd which stood around, he said, with much difficulty and many pauses, punctuated by hiccups, "Ere, pud this benny in yh sblot. Wani t'know what I weigh when I'm fu>U. Welsh mountain 3 have lately been scaled by One of the notable mountain-climbers of the piesent time, namely, Mf. Haskett Smith, and tt3 has written a very interesting book about it. Of course, he deals with the black lis* of catastrophes, and relates the mysterious disaster which overtook Mr. Kendal twenty years ago. He left Gwynant Valley to ascend Snowdon. Nothing was heard of him, but a pair of boots containing stockings marked with his name "was found nearly three weeks afterwards on the edge of the lake Llyn Llydaw, which is, of cr-urse, considerably distant from and beneath the summit. Ten days later his body was found, uninjured, on the ridge called Crib-y- Ddysgl. It was not precisely stated on what part of Cnb-y-Ddvsgl the body was found, and rothing transpired as to tho condition of the feet; but it is simply amazing to anyone familiar with the character of the ground that a hare-footed man should ever have got so far. Why he did it aad how he did it will always remain among the mysteries of Snowdon-" The lot of a Glamorganshire county coun- cillor may be honourable, but it is not always a happy one. To attend meetings members often have to travel many miles and pay for their own refreshments, except at Bridgend Lunatic Asylum and at Howell's School for Girls at Llandaff. At a meeting of the governors of this school on Thursday, Alderman Aaron Davies (who was in the chair) suggested the discontinuance of the use of beer, the account under this head amounting to £ 40 a year, or :£2 for each of the twenty officials. Sir George Walker and other members pooh-poohed the suggestion, considering that the payment was extremely reasonable. The teetotal alderman refused to be mollified, and although he dropped the subject for the day he threatened to bring it on at the next meeting. A feature of the affair is that the members ait these Llandatf meetings always have a recherche luncheon and drinks ad lib. (including wines and spirits), alnd they do not know who pays for them. A ember confessed after the meeting that this hospitality, for all he knew, might have come the E40 a year. I

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