Weekly Mail

WEEK BY WEEK. "Harnett among tiie hornets," is the sum- mary of Cardiff football on Saturday. There were nearly 60 applicants for the poet of chief-inspectorship of Welsh, intermediate schools. A former member of a Penarth church choir is now one of Arthur Roberts' company at the Prinoe of Wales Theatre, London. "Any port ;n a storm," as Mr. Harnett, the referee, said Oil .Saturday dodging a kick and lulling into the Cardiff Police-station. Nancy Mostyn. the fairy queen of the BrisMfl pantomime1, is a. Cardiff girl whoee voice has often delighted tho souls of CODcert-gocn". An answer has now been found for the ques- tion, "What's in a n:¡,me!" namely, nothing, unless there's a tajl. A Welsh Methodist rhapcl, in Castle-square, Carnarvon, boasts that during forty-one Sundays this year its pulpit ">ui be occupied by degree men—thirty-nine of h-m M.A.'a. According to Mr. Joseph's paper in the 1 rarsactions of the South Wales Institute," V ol. VII., explosiona of tire-damp are stated to have occurred at a. small colliery worked near Pentrebach, Merthyr, in the years 1805— 1615, almost every Monday morning during tha whole time. In the January number of the "Idler" Mr. Joseph Hatton, the well-known writer, con- tinues his interesting "Revelations of an Album," and gives his recollections of the late Mr. Thomas Purnell, who was a native of Haverfordwest. The article is illustrated by a portrait of Purnell. who was a distinguished litterateur. Among the papers which the Cardiff Conser- vative Club decided on Saturday to send to the workhouse or infirmary are the "Sport-man," ^porting Times," "Financial NEws," and financial Times." It was suggested that these papers might have been the means of .Srincjing some of the inmates of the workhouse to their present position. Mr. 0. H, Jones, who is a bachelor, caused much laughter at the Glamorgan Hunt meet- ins: on Saturday by prefacing his remarks with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen," when there were no ladies present. He explained that he was so accustomed to see ladies in the hunting field that he forfrot for the moment that they did not attend the meetings. A widow for 31 years! Poor old Mrs. Jenkins was the oldest member of the Wood- street Chapel. Cardiff, congregation. Within three years of being a. centenarian, she was on Saturday laid in a. grave which had for 31 years been occupied by her husband. It was a long terra of widowhocd. but it has been exceeded by five years by the Widow on the English Throne. An organ recital was given at a certain chapel down west the other day. Two men were engaged to blow the organ. After the recital not perceiving any inclination on be- v deaco..s to pay for their services, thsy sent the following* note to tbo organist: "Sir,—-We blowed foi you on Tuesday. Is we to be p:ud ? And who ie to pay us?—Yours The Blowists." Lhvynypia still march on triumphantly, adding every Saturday a. fre-h notch to the rrewh 'Why doesn't Llwynyoia play Cardih? asked someone in a Taff Yale traih yesterday. "Deuce, man, what if it was!" etclaimed a Llwynypia man in tho corner, "there's a dav it would be. There wouldn't be a soul left in the Rbondda that day. Why blame me, if all Lie littlo birds wouldn't be down to see it." One of the most valued antiquities in the possession of Mj. W. R Powell, of Xanteos. is the pedigree of that ancient Welsh familv. written on parchment bv tho celebrated genealogist, Thomas Jones, better remembered as Twm Sl.on Catti." The most striking features of the parchment. which, of course, u added to since "Twm's" time, and is nbout 14ft. in length, are the different arms, whkh are. emolazoned with many rich colours. 'ias DPt 0Dty Printing press, but its magazine also. It is the most repre- sentative of all Welsh publication.'?, and brings ■w ittnn its erope in a very practical wav the old divisions of Powvs. Morganwg, and Dyfed. The editor-in-roief (Dr. Pan .jor.et-:) ^ves in Flintshire, the poetry man's dwelling-place is at Llansamlet. near Swansea, whereas the printer set* his machine going- at Llandvssil. J^r-TXTi «*>?*&■ an excellent 'photo (witxi sketch) of the late Dr. Enooh Davies. There is a family of four living between Car- diff and tin Fitting sun who have only one sound leg between them. The father had both his legs injured on the line. and amputation b{.(":rme necessary. The mother wa« mad a a cripple for hfo some yerrs ago by becoming entangled in the spindle of a threshing machine. J h.* son falling from a ladder, sprained his right and left pedals, and both were cut off -The daughter four years ago trod on a nail winch penetrated the heel of the right foot, in juring the bone, and she now goes on crutches. Perhaps the weightiest Methodists in Wales are a pious middle-aged pair who worship m one of the chapels of the Rbondda. Between them they weigh thirty-six stone, and are always accompanied to chapel by a dog so enor- mously fat that it can only move with diffi- culty. It is a sight to see the three waddling along *idp by side to the chapel door, and then in fingle tHe to the pew. Here thev all go to sleep, and have to be awakened at the cl^e of the service, when, having recovered from the fatinrue of the walk there, they start the waddla home again. More coincidence?. During the visit of the Acn:rolog;cal Association to Wrexham a. few ago. a. correspondent informs the "Ulobe," the names of the curator, ticket collector, and secretary of the local museum were Lamb, Kidd, and Crowe. Another correspondent a lady interested in parish matters—tells ue how, on hoiajf asked by a Brighton clergvman many years ago. to procure a nurse for an urjrent fever case, she presented him, as the result of her researches, with a list comprising the names of Mrs. White. Mrs. Grey, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Pink, Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Red man. In the notes and queries column of the Oswestry Adwrtizer" it is mentioned tha.t :1 memoir of "The Litt.-c Preacher" (the Rev. D. v-M/i Ten' Rhv'lyblew, Mon.), published in 1c.t4, contains the following passage, ,which refers to the preacher's early days in Pem- brokeshire :—"My father \1;;ed to read a chapter every night, putting out the candle, and then ta.u? with some one in the dark." A foot- note says, "'It is the prevailing custom of the Welsh peasantry when having family prayer bv candie-lignt to put out the light durinsr the prayer." Is this custom known in North Wales or the border counties ? ihe Mayor of Tenby received the following letter the other day:—"Dear Sir,—We have in our possesion a punch bowl and jug presented to the Mayor and Corporation of Tenbv in th*> year 1737. It was presented to a. relation bv the name of Chipp. We have it to dispose of"; it was valued in London at £20. We thought if.there was a museum or the corporation TTucnt l^ke t.o piirch-^?e it could be sent on &Jprovd. The inscription inside the bowl is; Uiven to the Mayor and Corporation of Tenby, 1737.' I hope you will pardon the libcrtv T have taken in writing to you. Yours obedientlv. K. C. KIGTIT. Putcher, Spilsbv. Lincolnshire." The curious thing ie that the town-clerk of Tenbv mn find no record in the minute-book for 1787 cf any uuoh presentation. We hope half the stories told about the Bishop of Chester are true. It is said he is as good a football player as he is a bishop, and that he often plays a game with his sons in the palace srounds at Chester, on the banks of the Dee. His lordship is 52 years of age, having been born on the 1st of January, 1845, at Pantv-ibailea, near Abergavenny. At Rugby yom<r Jayne evinced extra, ordinary powers, both physically and mentally. At school he had no superior as a footballer, and as an oarsman at Oxford he was in the front rank. Bishop Selwyn, master of Selwyn College, Cajnbrid<sre, is a first-class all-round athlete. He skatee well, ie a good cricketer, and an active football player. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is an excellent cyclist, skateT, and billiard player. A contemporary eays that the Earl of Dudley owe,* his position to II, chance customer at the chop of one of his Mr. William WaTd, goldsmith, of Lombard-street. As far br-.ck as the reign of Charles I. a jailor •nho had jusit come ashore offered to sell Ward what proved to !x> a parcel of uncut diamonds. A J>»rgain Wlio:1 struck, and next dav the sailor brought htm another lot. which he aJso pur- oh.vcd. Tn time his stock of diamonds pttnirted t he attention of Queen Henrietta Marin, and his fortune was mad«. The most interesting pari of the story remains to be toM. A Lord Dud lev of that day. benng in want of a gi')d round sum, aprdiod to Ward for a lean. Tho ni'inoy wns forthcoming, and the security given was the Lvxl of Lord Dudley's prand- d-ug'htor. who was subsequently married to TTs'a'j son. Who phall say that Wftlsfcmen are lacking ?itber in humour or in ingenuity? An eistedd- fod held in oonnection with the conversazione o.f the Bangor Students' W t'llsh National Society th. other week was a pre-assumed success, if only on account of the originality and novelty of some of 'the contests and the prize awards. For the ben essay, open to men and women students. "How to Furnish the Men's Common Rr>o;n on £10," the prize was a photograph of this year's football team, the winner to wait until the tesm is taken. A copy of "-Brad- fhaw" was the inducement held out for the "best illuminated rollegetime-table," whilst in the violin competition, the prize to go to the poorest plaver, provided he or she be not too poor-vide the program me*a piece of re>in was an appropriate acknowledgment of ability. Another decided innovation crowned wiih KUCC'CAs was the cigarette-rolling competition for the best .5;:< cigarettes rolled at the time. >1axb competitor was required to bring his own tobacco, and the most deft-fingered of the con- testants took all tho cigarettes rolled as his reward. A prize of 10s. was offered for best collecre song, in Welsh or English, suitable for rendering in anv college function. There was a si.Tnificant stipulation respeoting th:s event, that the words could be aaapted ti any woll-knowii air other than that far-famed plain- live melody, "Sospan Each." Chanoellor Lias haa just published a new work on "The Nioene Creed." Twenty years ago to-day Christ-church Parish Church, Newport, was burnt down. The "fighting dean" is now a bishop, and instead of one fighting bishop there are two. 1 "Y Marchnatty Abertawe" is the Welsh I inscription to be placed over the central entrance to the new Swansea Market. The new Bishop of St. David'e bad a most successful Oxford career, and took three seconds, two in mathematics and one in classic's. Bishop Jayne—many years ago—predicted a. bishopric for Prinoipal Owen, who. he said, was "one of the ablest men he had met in Wales." t When Father Ignatius delivered his lecture on "The Sorrows of Satan" in London Marie Ccrelli was, unknown to him, one of the most attentive listeners. Barry received its first cargo of iron ore on Saturday. It was quite involuntary. A i reach steamer wa$towed jn, atter a collision in the Roads. "Satisfy me that you weren't drunk," said the Merthyr magistrate this week. "Yes, sir," replied the defendant; "1 couldn't be drunk, for I was able to say 'Good-night' to the police." In his elaborate new work on "British Dogs ^fr- Hugh Dalziel says in the chapter on the .hngiish setter that Lord Bute had twenty years ago a.t Dumfries House, near Cumnock, a strain of jet black settera, kept pure for at least half & century. Lieutenant E. L. Colquhoun, third lion of Captain Colquhoun, Swansea, has just been gazetted captain in the Army Service Corps, stationed in South Africa. Captain Colquhoun now has three sons captains in the Army—in Asia, Africa, and America. respectively—and deserves the thanks of his country for pro- viding such good officers. It is reported that the party of Welsh travellers who are now on a. vioit to Egypt and Palestine have been more fortunate than Mark xwain s band of pilgrims, for they have actually fallen in with real live Bedouins, who proved themselves to be true children of the desert by relieving Mrs. Evans (wife of the Rev. John Evans, Eglwysbach) and others of their super- fluous valuables. Few men were better equipped than the late Mr. Harry T. Pearce to move through life with the ease and gaaety of a happy and successful man. Possessing a good preec-nce and a. charm- ing manner, a delightful and varied oonversa- tiianMist, a gifted musician who had a. superb voice and who sang with perfect taste and played with much skill and finish, an enthu- siastic) sportsman, and a. most engaging per- sonality in the drawing-room—what a rare com- bination to end at thirty-two! A letter recently posted in London to the secretary of the Newport) Literary and Scientific Society was first sent by the Post Office to Newport in Shropshire, then to New- port, Islo of Wight; thence back to the sender, and it got to the proper addressee eleven days after postage- Now, imagine the Welsh Uni- versity offices at Newport, and Treasury grants and the like careering round the country in search of acceptors. This should be included in the statement of claim for Cardiff. So quiet was the wedding of Mr. F. T. Howard and Miss Praen James that when the announcement wao; brought in on Sunday night it was quietly put aside as one of the many hoaxes which people like to play on news- papers. Mr. Howard, who waB till recently science lecturer at the South Wales and Mon- mouthshire College, is now one of her Majesty's inspectors of schools, and there is something of scholastic fitness in his taking for wife a daughter of the registrar of the University of Wales. Dowlais is waging such deadly war against. iron and steel made in Germany and other "furrin" lands that the feeling has extended to concert programmes. A brisk and bright smoking concert was held in the Constitutional Club the other nicht, and six of the items on the programme were the work of Mr. Lesley Powell, a member of the olub, and formerly a pupil of Xaver Scharwenka, the Polish pianist. These included a pianoforte solo, a. descriptive recitation, a musical sketch, and four songs, and every one of them was received with tumults of applause. Dowlais wants to know what other clwb can equal this performance. Mr. Stephen Rees, of "Y Felinuchaf, who contributes to the current issue of "Cymru" one of the most interesting articles in the whole number, enters somewhat late in life on his literary career. Though on the verge of his seventieth year, and more accustomed to the wielding of heavier implements than to the pen, he, nevertheless, writes as though to th? manner born. The literary genius eo long .dos9!f*ai •"in the father has, however, broken craV 'in a. virulent form in the eons, one of whom is engaged on the office staff of a Liverpool daily pa.per, and another edits half a dozen Welsh and Etoglish newspapers in North Wales. The spirit of rivalry between Cardiff and Abertawe it fast verging on to a. vanishing point. Swansea has long held the palm for feminine inebriety, but she is now fast losing even that 1ut vestige of superiority. Ellen Sweeney having passed away, there are now only one or two Swansea ladies with anything- like a record, while Cardiff, ever in the van of progress, has quite a crop of damsels making paces towards the century of convictions which others have loaig since passed. Take Florence Jones, for instance, as a record-breaker. She was up again at the Cardiff Court on Wednes- day. and convicted for the one hundred and forty-gecond time in Cardiff, while appearances elsawhere make up the respectable total of 300. Why is this woman not kept cut of the whirl 01 every-day life? lifte the little busy bee of Dr. Watts, a well- '•Mo^viSiynmawr lawyer, having to wait for a trajii aft Newport, improved the shining hour. He turned in to a sale of books, and pur- chased for a few shillings four or five books, the binding of which was itself such as to give them a valae as ornaments. When they had adorned the office shelves for some time, he read an advertisement in the "Law Times" offer- ing J520 for two volumes of Moxey's La-1\" Reports, wanted to make up a. set. Later on he discovered that two of the beaks he had oougiit were the very volumes wanted, and further inquiry revealed the fact that these were the identical numbers, which had once belonged to the firm of law booksellers who advertised, and which had somehow got astray. The lucky attorney took out the £20 in new law books. Thus does Fortune help to keep Brynmawr up to date. A rather serious accident occurred about a quarter past ten on Saturday night in Rich- mond-road, Cardiff. One of the outeida pee- seiigers on a. bus was a gentleman possessed of pronounoed opinions and an obtrusive smell of alcohol. These opinions he was prepared tc substantiate. The principal one was a con- viction that the sidewalk was level with the roof )f the 'bus. Having this conviction, a.nd tho courage of it. naturally the next thing was to prove its truth, and this he proceeded to do. Owing to some defeot in the stage manage- ment, he dropped about twelve feet, arriving with an emphasis that Ehook the bottom out of his argument and seriously disturbed the neigh- bours. "It was hoped for some litHe time." writes the correspondent who tells the story. "that he had killed himself fatally, but the arrival of a medical man dissolved the hopes that were brightest, and when the 'bus drove off the ma.n was still unconscious, but fears were entertained that he might recover." Only bishops and Welsh bards and singer;, have the distinction of taking their names frcin the namea of the places over which they exer- cise authority and influence. The way that bishops sign their names is well known. Examples of bardao titles from place-name^ from departed ones would be "loan Ceifiog," •'Ceiriog," and "Gwalohmai," and examples from living bards are "Llew Llwyfo" and "Dyfed," while the nightingales ("eos") from Eoe Eryri—the highest place in Wales—to Eos Cwmlios would more than fill this column. It is a relief to find an odd man amongst the bishops, bards, and singers, for this gives lay men a. chanoe of getting into the charmed circle. The largest schools in Maeeteg have just beer built by Messrs. Jenkins and Rattray. Mr Jenkins is 303 thoroughly Welsh as Adam or "Morien," while Mr. Rattray is Welsh on Ire mother 6 aide and Scotch on his father's side taking his name from Rattray, a. small towrl on the east of the county of Aberdeen. The foregoing is from a correspondent, who has sent ue 1,999 folios of similar matter. This onlv do we insert without charge. Mr. Owen M. Edwards, who '8 one of the seven selected candidates for the Chief Inspec- torship of Intel-mediate Schools in Wales, ha* had a remarkable career. The son of a Merionethshire peasa.i.t, he knew no English before he was thirteen years of age. His extraordinary powers only revealed themselves when he was a student ut th-* Aberystwith Uni- veisity College, where he took a brilliant degree at the London University, and carried off the ch.ipf honours in English literature. After spending a short time at Glaegow, Mr. Edwards proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford. While an undergraduate his ca.reer was a suc- cession of triumphs. In 1884 he gained the Brackenbury History Scholarship; in 1886 be loarried off the Stanhope Prize for an English essay; in 1887 he took the Lothian Prize and a first class in the History School; the follow- ing year h? took the Arnold Prize for an es«ay on "The History of the Protestant Reforma- tion in France," thus performing the unpre- cedented feat of winning the three great his- tory "blue ribbons" of Oxford. In 1888 be was elected Fellow and Tutor of Liacoln Col- lege—a position which he has filled with con- spicuous success. It is not, however, ap a brilliant student of history (says the London "Star'") that he is known and loved in Walffi, but as the leader of the literary revival which has been so marked a feature of Welsh life during the last ten years. Mr. Edwards is the proprietor and editor of five macrazines—four of which are published in the Welsh .1:tngualle. He haa bfen busy bringing out edition after 'edition of Welsh classics when he has not been publishing delightful descriptions in idiomatir Wekh of his own travels in Brittany or Italy or Switzerland, and last week saw the publica- tion of his fine edition of the works cf 'Islwyn," whom Mr. Edwards considers to be the greatest Welsh Tjqetof the century. Sir John Llewelyn ha4 joined the Church Reform League. Mr. Edward P. Martin, J.P., the chief manager of the Dowlais Iron Company, is on a visit to Brussels. A house in Castle-road, Cardiff, was sold last night for JB720. Seven years ago the saiue property could have been bought for £450. Notwithstanding the demand for eiectric light, the business of the Cardiff Gas Company is increasing more than ever. A movement is on foot to establish a ladios' cycling club in Cardiff. Tbe eplit is likely to occur on the question whether the members should wear rafcionals or ottarwiee. "The bottom of the ship and top of the earth have come in contact, that is all," was the explanation of a wag on board the vessel which went ashore on Swansea, flats tbe other day. Tho Rev. T. Edwards, M.A., of Bedwas, who has just been promoted to the living of Llan- ferres, is as much at home in the Latin and Greek tonguej as he is in his native Welsh. He is an old Ystrad Meurig boy, and that explains all. Justice Grantham knows nis Bar. "What are you?" aeked Mr. Bwen Rowlands at the assizes. "A gas producer," said Witness Jones, and the Judge remarked to the row of counsel, "Gentlemen, can you stand this little Welsh- man as a rival?" Lord Bute's label for his Caste 11 Oodt wine was reproduced in last week's "Daily Graphic," and Mr. T. H. Thomas, who sent it, says that the prevalence of the place-name "Gwinllan" (vineyard) in Wales shows tha.t grapes were largely grown in South Wales. A correspondent last week described a. portion of Roath Park as a "turnpike road," and now Councillor Allen designates it "a quagmire." Even taking the quagmire and the turnpike together it seems rather a small return for the £54.,000 spent upon the park. A resolution passed by the Court of Governors of the Cardiff University Cofllege in February, 1895, has been rendered invalid because it was confirmed in 364 days, whereas a whole year should hare elajpsed between the first adoption of the resolution and its confirmation. Mr. J. E. Boundy, J.P., of Stouthall, Gower, will shortly be removing to Mcorcroft, near Monmouth. a residential estate which he has recently purchased from the late owner and occupier, ihe Hon. Arthur Lowther Pelham, brother of the present Earl of Chichester. According to Mr. G. T. Clark, the Corporation of Cardiff bad a. fine portrait of the Arotic explorer, Sir Thomas Button, of St.. Nicholas, but in the course of the last century it was aitered to represent Mr. Justice Hardinge. a veil-known and eccentric South Wales judge! Mr. C. B. Fowler, of Cardiff, will contribute a full account of the various antiquarian dis- coveries that have been made during the re- storation of Llanblethian Church to the next number of the "Archaeologia Cambrensis." The paper will be fully illustrated by plans and drawings prepared by Mr. Fowler. According to a note in the "Manchester Guardian," the late bard "Gwalchmai was born at Llanerohymodd. If it was so, he took hM bardic title from Gwalohmai, another village in Anglesey. But the fact is, his birth took place so very long ago that nobody seems to be able to remember where the event took place, and it is quite certain that the bard himself could not. A strong sense of security is growing at Llanishen—security from plague, pestilence, and (not famine—'that in India is enough) fire. An elaborate drainage scheme is being oarried out, and an efficient fire brigade has been organised. The men have been provided with uniforms and all the necessary apparatus. The only thing now needed is a rattling good blaze to test of what stuff they are made. The Forestfach jury who expressed the opinion on Tuesday that a. footbafll referee should huve power to stop the game if it daould become dangerous probably does not know the powers with which referees are already invested. It u a nice point, however, to put to a referee. Our leading clubg. can play a bashing game occasionaily, but when it should be stopped— ?T • 1 's ,™e question. "Before anyone ia killed, is the vague reply. In the "Cambrian Journal" of half a re",turv ago it is stated with confidence that the objec- tion exf the governing authorities to appoint \\el8hm€nto Wekih bishoprics arose in the time i.? William, who had a strong impression that Welshmen were more in favour of the Stuart than the Hanoverian succession. The peasantry on the hills of Glamorgan, a large number of the gentry, and a considerable number of North Walian gentry were popularly credited with favouring the Jacobites. According to the LIaneiUy "Celt." the late "Gwalchmai" was one of + he best speakers of his time, his ^uuncia; on being per' feot. At the Liverpool National Eis- teddfod, where the audienoe waa immense, and Kilaby Jones and "Hwfai Moo" cculd mt make themselves understood, "Gwalohmai" stepped to tho front of the plat- form and addressed the throng in a quiet, leimjrefly manner. Without any effort his voice reuohed the reroiotetffe corner of the pavilion. Almost a forgotten incident is touched upon in the "Star of Gwent's" answers to corre- spondents. An inquirer is informed that the match by electric light between Newport and Cardiff was played on the Rodney-parade Grounds on Monday, December 16, 1878. This was the first time the light was seen in New- port. There were four lamps, the current being supplied by a Siemens machine, driven by 8-h.p. portable engines, lent by Mr. C. D Phillips, and a battery. The illuminating- power pro- duced by the latter was 600 candle-power, and the former 1,200 candle-power. In an interesting illustrated article on "Ladies of the Opposition" in the current issue of "Pearson's Weekly Mrs. Brynmor Jones finds a place. Mrs. Brynmor-Jones, says the writer, may be said to represent Wales, for her husband and his distinguished brothers are well known for their love and devotion to the Principality. Nee Miss Florence Cohen, Mr*. Brynmor-Jones was a first cousin to the late Lady Roeebery, and 60, even before her marriage to the then member for Stroud, she took a considerable interest in Liberal politics. During tho past few years Mrs. Brynmor-Jones has been a very active worker for the "cause." She founded nine or ten Women's Liberal Associations in Mid- Gloucester. that at Stroud being one of the largest in the kingdom. One of the most interesting old buildings in the county of Somerset-the venerable land- mark near Weston-super-Mare called Wood- spring Priory—has, says the "Property Markets Review," narrowly olcaped destruc- tion by fire, after an existence of nearly seven hundred years. This ancient priory is now, and has been for many years, used f-t; a farm- house. It was erected in 1210 bv William de Courtenay, a relative off the De Tracy, one cf the murderers of Archbishop a Becket. Although the sheep bell has re-placed the vesper bell of old, portions of the original edifice still remain to .testify to the grandeur and massive character of the structure. The tower retains much of its original style, and the ruin '8, in consequence, a source of considerable attrac- tion to visitors to Weston. Two young men. whose clothes were sveh ss to make it probable th.1.t they would a. any minute fall into picturesque attitudes and exe- cute a song and dance, stood watching a bia; building that was nearin-g completion. "It's a great piece of work," commented on9 of them. 'Taint anything else," was the reply. "I wonder who'e the chap that gob it up. He ought to have his name to it," "I teekon he has somewhere. When a feller makes a hit like that, it's hard luck if he doesn't get his name on the programme. What does that say up there?" His companion flowiy read dIe letters "MDOCCXCVI." "That's it!" he exclaimed as soon as he had spelled it through. 'That's what ?" "The name of the gent that designed the stone pile. I suppose he's some Russian or Welshman that's just starting busi- ness in this place. I never heard of him before, but he's good." A Cardiff medical gentleman, Dr. J. A. Phillips, Carlisle-street, is naturally: a friend if progress, but his impressions of the motor-car have not been of the most pleasant character. A couple of mornings ago the doctor and his groom were driving over the small bridge which spans the canal between the Canal-parade and the East Wharf, "when," he says. "a motor- car ran into us just On the summit of the bridje, which is only protected by a small wall, about eighteen inches in height, and as far as a safe- guard goes is a. farce. Witnesses of uhe occurrence say it was miraculous the trap, horse, and occupants were not precipitated into the canal. The buggy was extensively damaged and the horse injured severely about the lees, and, whils trving to get out to seize the animal's head, I got violently thrown out." The doctor adds that he fovls certain that Mr. Carr, who had seen the turn-out recently, would not have recognised i ¡¡. If a French expert's view of football is cor- rect, it is no wonder that "Cynddylan" and the Rey. John levies (Cadle) rail at the game. This is the ^French description —Everybody knows that the game of football consists of pro- jecting » ball about as large as an apple through the space between two posts about six yards high, which are placed not more than one yard apart. The ball may either be kicked or 'iirown. No player may grasp an adversary round the body. but everything else is allowed, even trippm? UP or the most brutal blows. When one considers that the pitch is of very limited dimensions—twenty yards by twenty- five and that the number of players is forty- two it ie eitsv to imagine the danger run by the atMpte" who indulge in football. All the players hurl themselves ait the one who hns possession of the ball. In the middle of the ground is a stand for the umpire, thi^ being necessary so that he shall not be f.u ff oca ted iu the man 7 crushes which occur. 'Candles' (pro- b'.iblv mer-.i.ing when the ball is in touch) form the principal part of th-e game. This is what is infnnt by a candle: A pflayer takc^ the ball •m.l throws it a* high as he can into the air. When it comes down everybody kicks at once. Thus it very frequently happens that a 'foot- baller' receives a kick in his face and departs minu« an eye. So tto?re is always a doctor in attendance. Every year the victims of the football association are numerous."

CHILD MURDER CASE AT ABERCYNON. PATHETIC STORY TOLD TO FHE CORONER. VERDICT OF "WILFUL MURDER" AGAINST ACCUSED. The inquest upon the body of the child drowned in the Glamorganshire Canal at Aber- cynon on Thursday last, of whose murder Eliza- beth Carpenter, a single woman, of 11, Beckett- etreet. Mountain Ash, stands accused, was held on Saturday morning at the Nav.gation Hotel, Abercynon (before Mr. R. J. Rhys, coroner). Mr. '1'. W. Jones was chosen foreman of the jury. The unfortunate mother was present in custody, having been brought down froll, the Xreharrm Police-station by Police-sergeant Danes. She eat on a chair in front of the fire, with her back to the court, and paid no heed whatever to the .t proceedings. Superintendent Thomey watched the inquiry on tho parr of the police authorities, Inspector JJavd, of Mountain Ash, being &.180 in attendance. li'z:ank Hopkins, lime burner at the Dowlais CollIery, said he lived at Park-street, Carne- .,wa,J. Abercynon. The limekiln was on the eide of the towing path of the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon. Ho was at work on JLiiursday last, and saw a woman carrying a baby pass by the limekiln, about five o'clock. it was dayl.ght, and ho could plainly see the walked in the direction of Cil- tynyaa. She had no basket on her arm. What to bfT rLhr0m™oanyilg appeared to him a bab}. Ihe woman present was tihe limekiln with the baby, j 6 e passed him noticed her going iler tn^. by the canal side, i in the water. The spot where she did this was about 50 varrv Lelow the Taff Vale to LIan- caiacn. He noticed some clothes near her on the bank and thought she was washing her hands. She got up, and he then sa v h. r ¿ hrow several stones into the water. She did this for fieveral mmutes. She afterwards picked the clothes up. and put them under her arm. He saw her throw the clothes dowa and again t rfown into tha water. Believing that there was something the matter he walked towards her. and when *he saw hun she walked up the bank towards Lim. When he mot her he asked her what she (tad been doing. and she replied that she had not done any- thing, and witness added, "I believe you have, from what I have seen of you." She made no reply to. this, and walked on to .the /ond near the colliery. He followed her back, and a policemai being near, he jrave her into cus- totVr rr^ not 2° t(? .see 'yhat was in the water. He saw something floating on the v ater. and he sent a young man to find out what it waa. The Coroner: Why didn't you go at once ai1W„ Ld° P* °'Jt yOU answer. befow tk»t "!°n 1 "00"° *bo:" P1"" The Coroner. When was it you !Îr'3t thought it was akely she had dene somethi.i^- tc her b& by ? n Witness: When I saw her throw stones into the water and pick up the clothes. M «p the empty clothes?—Yes. That s all. I wanted to know what acted on your nund at tho time. The Foremai: Had the child bera W in the water? The Coroner: He cannot answer that, Mr Jones- Edward Bowen, canal labourer, Feeder-row Abercynon, stated that, with others, he was bringing a boat up the canal on Thursday evening, and, from what he wae told by a young man, he Haw the body of a child floating on the water. Ry the means of a boo,t;wok he got the body out. The young man ran for the policeman. The bodv was quite warm, hut there was no sign of life in it. He rolled it in tne grass, but failed to restore life. The policeman came in about ten minutes. Police-consta.ble Henry Evans deposed that he was stationed at Ahearynon. Hopkins first spoke to Kim about the matter on Thursday, about 4.45 p.m. In consequence of what he told him, he went to the canal bank, and there eaw Elizabeth Carpenter. He noticed her carrying the child's jacket and hart; (pro- duced). He cautioned her before he asked her u qU^ IM1*' ,her wllat had become of her CMS, and she made no answer at first, but she afterwards said, "I have done nothing. It <? not my child. Witness told her be would detain her, and he took her into the colliery office, and put her to t"it down. He Drooeedpd back along the canal bank, and met the youna man referred to, who aaid the bodv had wt, taken out of tfcfe canal. He afterward* saw it with Edward Bowen. He examined it and found it to be warm. He afterwards took it to the police-station, and it was that bodv that the jury had viewed that day. The spot where the body was found could be seen from the limekiln. The towing path wa» practically a puuiio thoroughfare, as people were continually parsing op and down. There are no houses overlooking this particular apot, Witness subsequently cautioned Carpen- ter, and charged her with the wilful murder of her child by drowning it in the Glamorganshire Canal. In answer she said, It is not my child." She afterwards said "It is my child. I fotched it from Cardiff from Mrs. Wilkins. 18, Salisbury-road. I did not know what to do with the child. I thought to take it to the union workhouse. I didnt do it wilfully." He lodged her that evening at Treharris Police-station, where she had been ever There she furthertold hurn she had come from Cardiff with the two o'clock train, and that she had spent a. long time in the railway station at Abercynon. Letters were then produced by tho witness, who said they had been given him by Mrs. Carpenter at her house at Mountain Ash on Frioay even- ing. Police-sergeant William Davies, stationed at Treharris, said he rcoeived the woman Car- penter into custody at ths station at seven o'clock on Thursday night. He charged her with the wilful murder of her infsnt child by drowning it in the canal at A.^x-ynon that day. He told her to be carcful. us that what sho said would be given in evideno^ ng-ainst her. She said: "I did not do it wilfullv." Wit- ness then asked her if she wished then to com. miimcnte with any of her relations, and she said. Yes tell my parents." She afterwards made the following statement:—"I wag eon- fined of a child, a. Erirl. on the 8th of Novem- ber. 1895. at Cardiff Workhouse. My father knows nothing about it. My mother does, and agreed with a Mrs. Wilkins, 18. Salisburv- read. Cardiff, to take the child for £15. Mother had paid her £10. The other £5 was to be paid the «Mid of this week or the beginning of next. This morning mv mother received a letter from Mrs. Wilkin* to say that ilIa could not keep the child unless she agreed to pa" more than £15. In consequence of that letter I went to fet-h the child. My mother did not know I went for it." The Coroner (to the accused): Have you any- thing- to a.sk the sergeant? The woman in a sobbing voice replied in the negative. y Dr, Alexander Jamea GptfEths. Abercynon. *a.id ho flaw the child at a nuarter to six on Thursday evening, at the Abercynon Police- station It was the body of a female child. apparently about fifteen months' old. It was a. small child *ot its age. It had been fairly well nourished, and there was no sign of emaciation. There were no marks of violence on its bodv showing that it had been struck by stones. The cause of death wae drowning. The Coroner: Is it a fact that sometimes mothers eet into such a rtate that they get rid of the thing they are fondest of? Witness: Yeg, it does happen, sir. The Coroner: It 18 a question for another court, but still I think we should ask it. as it may play an important part in this case. Ro!>11v, it is a form of madness? Witness: Yes, wir; it is. The Coroner: Suoposing Hopkins saw the woman stoop down by tho canal bank five or six minutes. Suppose the child was in the water that time, that would bring about its desth? Eliza Wilkins. wife of John Wilkins, 18. Salisbury-road, Cardiff, said the baby 6he had seen that moraine' was "her dear little Ada." The Coroner: How do you identify it, you sa.v? Witness (sobbing): As mv dear little baby. She advertised on the 18th of February last wishing to adopt a. child. In consequence of that advertisement she saw Mrs. Carpenter, and nsrreed to take the child if paid a premium of £15. She fetched the child from the Pontypridd Union on a Wednesday, and thp mother and her sister came with her to Cardiff and had tea at her bouse. The womam present—Elizabeth Carpenter—wae the mother of the child. She c-tiled her child by the name of "Ada The mother fetched the child away on Thursday morning. When che called at the house she was very much surprised to see hor call. Since she had adapted the child she had received JE5, jB4, and £ 2—total. £11. a"d she intended to have the child "signed off" this month, when the remaining £4 was to be niid. Witness meant to do well by her (the child), the mother being a healthy woman. The child was delicate, and oost her more than she expected in medical attendance a.nd food. Witness did not intend to press for the money, but as the mother was a strong and healthy woman she thought she could pay a few more pounds. A letter was rea.d, written by Mrs. Wilkins to Mrs. Carpenter, which would have reached Mountain Ash on the morning the child was fetched away, in which the writer pointed out that the child wanted considerable medical at- tendance, and that, under the -.ire iiusmu-sqr, she eongidercd ",b.a oug-ht to have a few pounds more before the child was "rigned off." A second letter, dated February 11, written by Mrs. Wilkins to Mrs. Carpenter, mentioned how the accused had come to her 1:WU.B sr.d taken the child, presumably to tie union Witness, in further examination, said the accused did not appear strange when she called at her house. Miss Carpi-nter persisted in taking the child away, and eaid that her father drank a great deal, and her mother could not afford to pay any more for her. Witness asked to be allowed to change the child's clothes, and the accused replied that the child would not want clothes where it was going. The Coroner in summing up said the story the jury had heard was a very sad one. Some- t;*nes it was a difficult thing for a single young woman to get on with a. baby, but, unfor. tunately, there were plenty of people like Mrs. Wilkins, who were prepared to take children if they were paid to do so. There was no sug- gestion that Mrs. Wilkins did not do her dirty towards the child, for the doctors had said that, although it was undersized, it had not been in any way starved. He had not a. single word to say against Mrs. Wilkins personally, but he did say that temptations were put in the way of people by commercial transactions of this sort. The jury had had ample evidence to show that the child was put into the water by the mother, but it was no part of their duty to ascertain whether she was in such a. state of mind at the time as to know what she was doling. They had to say whether in their opinion there was a. prima facie case against the woman of wilful murder, and, after the evidence, he did not think they would have any difficulty in arriving at a. conclusion. The jury, after a. short consultation, returned a. verdict that the child was drowned by its mother, adding a rider that, taking all the circumstances into consideration, they were wishful to recommend her to mercy. The Coroner: With regard to that recom- mendation, I am. sorry I cannot not upon it- I have nothing, to do with the subsequent pro- ceedings in this case—but, perhaps, the pro^s may mention it. In coses of this sort people's sympathies always are with the mother. The coroner then issued his commitment ngajnst the accused on the capital charge. She was afterwards conveyed to Merthyr Police- station by train.

ACCUSED BEFORE THE MAGIS- TRATES. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday Eliza- beth Carpenter, aged 19, of 11, Beckett-street, Mountain Ash, was brought up (before Mr. T. Williams, Mr. C. Henry James, and Mr. A. Truran) charged with killing and slaying her illigitimate child, about sixteen months old, by drowning it in the Glamorganshire Canal at Abercynon on the evening of Thursday, the 11th. inst.—The prisoner, who appeared' to be in a very weak state, was allowed to be seated in the dock. The first witness was Elizabeth WOkins, of Cardiff, the woman who adopted the dhlTd. She gave hor evidence with considerable emotion. She deposed to the circumstances under which the prisoner came to fetch the child away on Thursday, and said that the child was naturally delicate. About a month ago it was poorly, but it was getting better again. The prisoner asked no question of the witness. Agnes Moore, pupil teacher, of Abercynon School, and living at Mountain Ash. who was not called at the inquest, said that she saw the prisoner coming from the railway station, pri- soner carrying the child, as Elhe was going to catch the 5.20 train hoime. She spoke to the prisoner, whom she knew, and said, "good evening." Prank Hopkins, the lime burner, gave pre- cisely the same evidence as he had given at the coroner's inquiry as to seeing the prisoner on her knees bending over the canal, and throwing stonea into the water, and as to noticing that she had done away with the child which he had previously seen in her arms when going down the bank, past the kiln where 1 he was a.t work. The prisoner, in cross-examination, asked: "Did you se-a me throw the chivi into the water, and the witness answered, "No." The ] prisoner further asked Hopkins if he saw her throw stones, and he repeated that he did. The prisoner, frrcly, "Well, I contradict that wholly; wholly I contradict. If I had any intentiou of throwing my child into the water would I pay £ 15 to have it reared up?" The Magistrates' Clerk remarked that that was not a. question which could be addressed to the witr.ess. Prisoner • I was on the public road, and do vou think, if I intended to do away with my child. I would go on the publio road to do it? Witness, in answer to the magistrates clerk, eaid he believed the tow:ng pat,i was private property, but the publio had fiee access to it. William Blake, a. collier, proved finding the body in the canal, as a result of what n opsins told him, and Edward Bowen, canal labourer, fJpckt" to getting the body out with a boat hook. The Magistrates' Clerk (to prisoner): Do you want to esk Bowen any questions. Prisoner: No, bÏr; only I don't remember seeing Idm anywhere. .i. once-constable Henry Evans related his story of encountering the prisoner, carrying the baby's jacket and hood, and of the removal of the corpse to the old school house. He set out the statements made by the prisoner when he first accosted her, and, subsequently, when she was charged with the wilful murder of the infant. Two letters written to the prisoner's mother in reference to the child were put in, but the magistrates' clerk advised that they could not be admitted as evidence. Police-sergeant William Davies, who received the prisoner in custody at Treharris Police- station from Nidhdills, also gave the statement which was made by her when charged by him. He added that after the inquest the prisoner denned throwing, any atones into the canal. M1"II. Wilkins, re-called, said that one of the letters asked -few- a couple of pownds more than' had been agreed upon for the child, and the other informed Mrs. Carpenter of the prisoner having fetched the child away. When witness was asked to identify the jacket and hood. ( she burst into tears.. Dr. Griffiths gave evidence of his first exami- ( nation of the body, and detailed the results of 1 a post-mortem examination made an Sunday. when he said he found a, contusion on the 1 aoalp, which might have been caused by a 1 blow, and traces of previous congestion of the lungs. The child, he said, was of normal 5 height for a baby of its age, but it only I weighed 13pb. In bis opinion death was due to drowning. The prisoner wai then formally f-n&rged by ( the magistrates' clerk with the capital offence. In reply, sho eaid:—"I wish to say that I did 1 not throw my child into the water. I went in half-way up my legs myself. I was on my 1 way from Cardiff, e.nd_ the child fell in. I 1 tried to *ave her, but it was impassible. She 1 had gone too far. The Magistrates' Clerk: What vou want to say is that the child fell in accidentally. PrMoner Yes, and I had a narrow escape of 1 my own lifo. The prisoner was then committed to taxe J her trial at the next assizes. The prisoner waa removed to, Swansea. Gaol bv the tJiTpe o'clock train, her conveyance to the railway-station Jrom the police bifldiug 1 l>eLn.(V eff-ceted in a cab. A large number of 1 people assembled in the street for the purpose of seeing the unfortunate girl, in the expecta- tion that ehe would be taken with the rest of the prisoners on foot, but onlv a few persons < were able to catch a. glimpse of her as she leaned baok in the vehicle, one window of which was hidden by a rug hung from the roof and drawn inside.

WELSH CENTRAL BOARD CHIEF INSPECTOR OF INTER- MEDIATE SCHOOLS. A meeting of the executive committee of the Central Welsh Board was held at Shrewsbury on Friday. The time of the committee was mainly occupied in considering applications for the pc^t of chief inspector, of which there wera 55. This number was reduced to seven, who will be invited to meet the committee at their next meeting, to be held on Thursday, the 18th 1 inst., when the final selection will be made and submitted for ratification to a meeting of the full board. The neven gentlemen selected are:- 1 Mr. S. T. HuckwelJ, its, JJean s-yard, Wesu- minster. Mr. O. M. Edwards, Oxford. Professor Spenoer. Bangor. Professor Powell, Cardiff. Mr. Griffith, School House, Tonbridge. Mr. Owen Owen. The High School, Oswestry. 1 Mr. Roberts, of Bath College, Bath. 1 Amongst other business, it was decided to aslf Mr. T. E. Ellis, to give evidence before the Departmental Committee now sitting on the subject of the education of pupil teachers in Wales in the intermediate schools. The meet- 1 ing was presided over by Mr. A. C. Humphreys- 1 Owen. M.P., and there was a good attendance of moBibers.

ABERYSTWITH PAUPER'S DEATH. The circumstances attending the sad death of Cbas. Thomas, a pauper, who died within a few hours cf his admission to. Aberystwith Workhouse on a tecent date, were agajn brought to the notice of the ciiirdiADS at the meeting of the board held on Mon- day bv a further letter, addressed bv Tom Bubb, of Pa'lmerstone-RTOve, Wimbledon, Surrev, "the lea<lfr of one of the largssb Trades Unions in the United Kinc- di-vn." Tn the cov-se of h's lengthy epistle the writer rirevested against the autocratic manner in which his first, letter was rewived, and honed thev had not caught the- Penrbyn feTer in Aberystwith The writer in conclusion, commented upon the conduct of the relieving officer, and asked, "fA it not the duty of a. relievinsr officer, in any case coming under hig notice, to Faiilfv himself that it is a. proper case for admission into the house, and not leave tickets for anybody 'o call for them at public-houses?" He also asked for a replv to his request fo:- an inquiry. so that he should know what- course to pursue.—Mr. Salmon re- marked that the writer of the letter was a more suitable candidate for a lunatic- asylum than the office he was supposed to hold,-The board allowed the letter to lie on the table.

CARDIFF ST. DAVID'S DAY DINNEE. The Cymmrodorion Ci-.erdydd have arranged for a dinner to be held at the Park Hotel on St. David's Day (Msroh 1). The gather ng will b? presided ever by the president (the Rev. J. Morgan Jones), and the toast of the evening will' be proposed by Major Jones, ex-M.P. for the Carmarthen Boroughs. Tickets may be obtained from Mr. J. A. Jenkins, at the uni- versity college.

PROPOSED PURCHASE OF CARDIFF TRAMWAYS. QUESTION AGAIN ADJOURNED. On Monday afternoon a meeting of the special tram. committee of the Cardiff Coi-poration was heid under the pres.dency of Mr. Jamts I Tucker. At the outset Alderman David Jones desired to know whether the committee and the corporation were prepared to purchase the tram- ways and depots by agreement, provided satis- I factory terms could be obtained. Unle-s the principle of purchase was affi1 med, it was simply a waste of time to consider terms. Mr. Wm. Evans said he was not opposed to the purchase, but he contended that Ae terms submitted to the general purposes committee were not satisfactory. Mr. Robinson asked whether the company were still prepared to negotiate. The CSiairman understood that they were. Mr. Robinson remarked that he understood they were not prepared to negotiate further. Ihe Town-dark. in answer to questions, said that, in order to finally settle the purchase, 't was necessary, first of all, that two-thirds of the members of the council should be present, and then that there should be a majciity of those present in favour of it. Alderman David Joneis moved: — it ia desirable, in tha it terests of the cor- poration and the public, tha.t the purchase of the tomways shall be effected, subject to the terms meet- lIlg with the approval of the corporation. Mr. Andrews seconded. Mr. Goad then proposed: — That the purchase of the tramways for the pur- pose of leasing them to the company has not the confidence of tne council, and is also opposed to the general wish of the ratepayers, and that the con- sideration ot the question be deferied until the expi- ration of the present lease. Mr. Crossman eebonded. A question was raised whether this wag an amendment, and it was pointed out that the views of the council and the ratepayers had not been tested. The Chairman, however, accepted the amendment, and, after putting it to the meeting, declared it to be lost, seven voting for it and eight against. Alderman Jones's motion was then agreed to. A discussion thex took place as to the best means of re-opening the negotiations, and the Chairman incidentally remarked tha.t he had before him a verbatim reporb of Mr. Evans's remarks at the town council meeting, and Alderman Jones said a copy had also bean gent to him. Alderman Sanders: You are better off than some us. Have you given that Mr. EnLIlB ? Mr. Evajis: No, I have not. I have a. private letter from Mr. Glenn, which I think i shall now be perfectly justified in reading. It is a strange thing thait ser- taxu members of this committee are getting information from Mr. Glenn, and being coached In the terms thait are put be tore the committee. Mr. E. Thomas then moved that the ver- batim report be submitted to Mr. Evans for revision, printed, and forwarded to t'vny mem- ber of the council, and that the meeting be idjourned for that purpose. Alderman David Jones seconded, aid the met ion was agreed to. The Chairman said he would not like the meeting to conclude without hearing the letter Mr. Bvans liad received from Ur. Glenn, if any overtures had bee.i made to Mr. Evans it W3, right that the committee should hear what they were. Mr. Evans said he would read the letter. Whatever part he had taken it wa", not right that he ehould receive a letter of that charac- ef^i av.111 i,'r' ^e?11 Ho then proceeded to rea<l the letter, which was as follows: _r ,n arrallged to have a verbatim leport taken ot the meeting of the council on Monday last, and on rtadmg over your statement with regard ne5°tiauons for the purchase of the lines depots of the Cardiff tramways by the corporation I notice that you are under a mis- with regard to several points, sure you will permit me to point tW +if t already been understood that the tramway company were to pay the ground rente of the depots, in addition to the interest upon the purchase money. Secondly the term equal to new' is, as you say ridiculous and it appeared for the first time in Councillor Illtyd Thomas's resolution. The term used throughout the negotia.tions has been tha.t the lines should be put in a perfect state of repair. Thirdly, the understanding with regard to the lines from Oakfield-street to Beres- ford-road, and from Llandaff-road to Clive- road, a8 well as the line from Queen-street to Crwys-road, which are constructed with box rails on wooden sleepers, is that they are to be re-constructed with girder rails, although the present rails would last another ten years at least. Fourthly, the corporation would, un- doubtedly. have the power to re-construct at the cost of the company any of the lines which require re-oonstruction. (See draft lease and agreement.) Eifthly, you are quite mistaken with regard to tne London County Council and the North Metropolitan Tramway Company. Litigation has been going on between tohem. for the put four yearns, and it was only on the council passing. a. resolution to 'negotiate' to purchase and lease -that the litigation: waa stopped, without prejudice-to ttfe company*! right to go on with their appeal, if necessary. Sixthly, the depots are to be kept in repair brtbe company. (See draft agreement and 1 cr.ee.) Seventhly, with regard to the company tr.irrg the xmncil into their confidence, I can only say Lhat the company did not Geek to sell. but the corporation sought to purchase, and the direc- tors have endeavoured to fall in with their ricnv*. At a meeting of the council held on April 22, 1895, it was decided that a draft igreement and draft lease should be prepared md submitted to the tramways committee. this was accordingly done hy the company's solicitors, but, so far as I can ascertain, the ii afts have never been laid before the committee, I have, therefore, had them printed, and I here- ivith enclose you copies, which I have marked where they treait upon the poinit s in your {State- ment which I have referred to. Tno purchase negotiations have now been going on |or over two and a half years, and I am 'afraid the matter has developed into a party question, as seme members of the council appear to 1, -ypp^so every suggestion without giv ng any ralid reason for so doing, and although I feel ?ure the directors, in the interest of tho ph?re- holders, could not accept in its entirety the proposal you shadowed on Monday, I can issure you that they would gin) very careful [consideration to any businesslike proposal which was laid before them, as they are anxious to work in harmony with the local authority." Mr. Evans, in commenting upon the letter as he read it, said rt had been distinctly stated by the chairman of the committee that the corporation would have to pay the ground rents. Alderman Dajid Jones said the whole of the points m the draft agreement could not have been In the chairman's mind. Mr. Evans also said that he knew nothing <tbout the draft agreement up to Monday's meet- ing. Alaerman David Jones said he could see nothitisr offensive in the letter. The Chairman: I don't think there is any- thing for you to get in a temper about, Mr. Evans. The Town-clerk said the draft agreement had been in hi" hands for a. couple of years, and bad been produced to the committee. Mr. John Jenkins moved that the companv be offered £50,000 for the tramways and depots, that they be granted a lease- of seven year*, and that tb-ey pay 10 peT cent, on the outlay during the period. (Laughter.) The Chairman pointed out that it had been ) greed to adjourn the consideration of the ques- tion. and, therefore, be could not accept the motion. The meeting then adjourned.

SUICÏDEAT SKETTY. A great sensation was caused at the Tillage ol Sketty. near Swansea, on Monday even- ing by the news that a well-know^ man, Lamed Masters, who had up to recently been butler to Lady Swansea, was lying in a house in the village with bis throat terribly cat. The news proved only too true. and jfc was soon clear Wt the injuries had been self-in- dicted. It appeals that Masters, who has Seen residing in the district since leaving ser- vice at Singleton, had been in a. bad state of health for the past month or so. He was set-n at Sketty Green m the afternoon, after which he appears to have made his way to Exhibition Cottage, where a friend of his, Mr. John Rees, lived, and, strange to. say, there committed the deed. Deceased was un- married, and was about thirty-seven years of age-

ASSAULT ON THE HIGH SEAS. At Barry Police-court on Friday (before Mr. O. H. Jones, Colonel Guthrie, and Alderman J. C. Meggitt) Captain Edwards, master of the steamship Bdisihopsga.te, was charged with assaulting an able seaman, named John Dree- berg, on the -high, seas, on the 14th of October last. Mr. F. P. Jones-Lloyd, solicitor, Burry Docks, appeared for the prisoner, and Mr. A. Jackson, solicitor, defended.—The evidence of the prosecutor and two of his mates waa to the effect that on the morning of the day in question, while the steamer wm in the Bay of Biscay on a voyage from Cardiff to Santos, defendant went to complainant^ hunk and dragged him by his legs out of bed on to the dcck and ordered him to work. He was not able'to obey, he had been injured on the previous dav by mate'3 violence.—- he Bench were of opinion that there had been a technical assault, but the case was not one which called for a. penalty, and dismissed the case.

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IiLA.N'DAFF MYSTEB* ik" SOLVED. X IDENTIFICATION OF ø DECEASED. k ———— fg Mr. Charles Cross and his sister. > came down to Cardiff from the k day, and on Saturday morning Llandaff, w'here thsy saw oertain of the person who was found deadfpa Wood's house at Llandaff last Moo^WjjT | The greater portion of the things be' toe deceased were at Cardiff Pol''I rj ljuj but from what they saw but little doubt in their ftp that the deceased was their brotheftj 1^4 name was William Cross, and who ^<5 jCS1 engineer on a North Country boat. k IVr little time past he has been out of effP yj fj ar.d Mr Charles Cross acoounts for My ( sence in South Wales by the fact ^r, IS-1 came to Cardiff to look for a boat. *%{ ftl J».L ■well-educated perron, about 30 year? Jrfo and was in excellent health. The cannot account for his strange doiOffS^ v WwPake's, except by the fact that Jt "bluff" that lady. K Ine relatives of tho deceased cent upon the matter, and for some refused to say anything. We learH) that deceased was most respectably. • 1 and, it is stated, was the son of a, L the Inner Temple. Upon consulting w? 1897, we Sndthat there is a tf of the same name as deceased—Mr-- Cross, of 3, New-suare, j this gentleman is the father of the not can ortfy be surmised from the k the relatives. Late inquiries 6hoW *2^ fcbyj deceased's brother 'lives at U sk-street-jj C*. in Yorkshire, and his sister, who J- him to Llandaff, has been for past staying with vj« 1 at Lincoln It is, probably this fact that the deceased visit Uandaff, for the friends with Smi Cross is staying have c-Mldreo. oh V K^Vand h » possible that 'Vi, diff. Deceased came to Cardiff Ptr, otfj Country boat. The brother refu8^ t > nam", but said it not h>nt Q It seems when he arrivad he 6 S ostrich feathers home with an intiw^y. he was writing on the following letter, however, was received. 9Jhht made hie head-quarters at Wbitby England. The brother told our repj^ there was no doubt in his mind • io Mr. Charles Cross and Miss Cross rJvjj o Whitby at mid-day on Saturday. i less to 6tate that both were greaw «, bv the s«d occurrence. ntf i Superintendent Giddings, of the1 C< '• v Division, told one of our & dece-ised's brother, L^harles Cross, a at "Whitby, with his sister, came to Saturday morning, and identified and effects of deceased as those of tbp1^ jW. 1 (ecen.sed leaving a clue as to his forfl,e gtlP^\|/ residence, and that of his tendent Giddings oommunicated j oonf-'tablo of York, who, ascertaining^ brother and sisters had left, wired, d W'oitby. The relatives having id. clothes and effects returned home. onlv came from see recently. j/ "■ v From another source we gather. ™ father of the deceased wa^ a ban*^ v tising on the Northern Circuit, who "i CV- years ago. when about to be prom0 Oi county-court judgeship. He left a gcfiMk five children, of whom only | Whitby, who is a banker's clerk- i daughter, who ia at present residing n coin, ai'e alive. j DEPARTURE OF MR v There was a numerous and gathering of teachers, members of tb board, and general public of tlie W at Holton-road Schools. Barry V?# M' V Mondny, under the ohairman-. K Mr. I. Higman, headmaster of the boy^-jjejtfJ O* ment of Holton-road Schools, and VI the Barry District Association of h Union of Teachers, the occasion being? additionally interesting by the vj an eitremefly handsome, costly, it rately-worked album, containing a KJ minated address, which, after V higheat appreciation for Mr. Whif1,jJit on to gay:—"It is of interest to note firat Visit to Barry was in October, 1' ^0*^ the only school then in existence was ton, with an accommodation for 73; -cjrU. now (1897) the Barry School Boar^^jji^i V contains fire schools in twelve dePf^p. iT'' V with acoomimodatioo for 4,977 includes an estimated pofpuflation °*ijptrZi Then foUowed the signatures of the 5L and mistre«8eB and members of thej V staffs at Cadoxton, Barry, HoJtwnjy^#^)' I Romilly-road board sohools, with S> I 0 Roman Oath olio School (Barry ■. Jjj Eulogistic addree-sqs were delivered chairman, with Mr. J. Lowdon, J man of the school board; Dr. P. J- Y drtft J.P., on be-half of the Roman OaithoJ^ Wp and other gentlemen, the miade by Miss E. Y. Llewellyn, mis*r g^^ » iiifante'* depai-tmenrt of Holton-rca*1 tha oldest head teacher of the girl* the district, and Mr. Whatmdll mflo" response.

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