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MONMOUTH NEW HOSPITAL. BAZAAR OPENED BY LADY LLAN- GATTOCK. <40 Tile fundq of the Monmouth new hospital will, it seems certain, be very much enriched by the bazaar, chiefly promoted by Lady Llan- cattock, which was opened at the Bolls-hall, in the county town, on Monday. The amount of 17,625, which has been estimated as the full sum required for the work, includes the cost of not only furnishing the hospital, but also of laying out the grounds. Towards the full earn there is still required a matter of i2,6OO to keep the project free from debt, and it was with a view to aid in the raising of this amount that the bazaar, which opened voder auspicious circumstances on Monday, was taken in band. Lord Llangattock has already subscribed £ 2,000 towards the fund. The Mayor requested Lady Llangattock to declare the bazaar open. Lady Llangattock, who is developing quite a fine faculty for public utterances, said: I feel that I am rather out of place in per- forming the duty that devolves on me to-day in opening this bazaar—("No, no")—as I have had so much to do with the organisation of it; but at our last committee meeting my kind friends paid me the compliment of pressing me fo perform the ceremony, and, therefore, with pleasure I acceded to their request, and for one particular reason. I am very glad to be here on this occasion, as it gives me an opportunity of publicly thanking my co- workers and all those kind friends who have responded so generously to my appeal, and who have supported me in my efforts to raise a sufficient sum of money to finish and furnish the hospital, and also to lay out the grounds attached to it, and for this reason the bazaar we now see before us has been organised. It would, indeed, be sad if this splendid hospital, which is so greatly needed in this town and neighbourhood, should not be satisfactorily completed through lack of funds. (Hear, hear.) My sincere thanks are also due to those ladies and gentlemen who have so very kindly given their services and enabled us to arrange the two concerts, which I know will give us all the greatest pleasure, for good music has always the great charm of helping to pass the time agreeably, and listening to its strains will lighten the arduous work of the stall-holdez-0 and their helpers. I most heartily trust that our exertions and endeavours may be attended with successful results, and that we shall be able to hand over to the hospital committee a very sub- stantial sum. As you all know the great interest I take in this bazaar and the excellent object that it is in aid of, I now with much pleasure declare it open, and wish it with all my heart every possible success. (Hear, hear.) EXPECTED ROYAL VISIT. It is quite expected that Princess Christian will visit Monmouth some time in November, on a date hereafter to be fixed, to perform the opening function of the new hospital.

EISTEDDFOD AT TREDEGAR. The third annual eisteddfod promoted by the Tir Phil and New Tredegar Male Voice Party was held in a large pavilion at Elliot Town, New Tredegar. en Monday, in lovely weather. The proceeds are to be devoted to the Cottage Hospital Fund. The follow- ing were the principal awards:— Juvenile Choirs^—" Flag of England Old," Four choirs sang, in the following order: Abersychan (conductor. Mr. D. T. Evans); Rosebud Juniors, Pontnewynydd (Mr. A. L. Edwards); Carmel Band of Hope (Mr. E. George); and Wesleyan Juveniles (Mr. D. R. Davies). The last-named was awarded the prize Chief Choral (not under 40 yoicH). I will praise Thee, 0 Lord." Prize, 915. and a silver cup to the conductor. The 1 following choirs sang, in the order I given: —Troedyrhiw United Choir (Mr. Henry- Smith), Pontlottyn United (Mr. J. "Williams), Abersychan (Mr. D. P. Evans), Rhymney Choristers (Mr. A. Perkins), New Tredegar Abersychan (Mr. D. P. Evans), Rhymney Choristers (Mr. A. Perkins), New Tredegar Primitives (Mr. C. Hill), and Cor-y-lan, Dowlais (Mr. M. WorganI. At this juncture some delay occurred tfwough part of the platform giving way. The prize was awarded to the Young Choristers, Rhymney, and the con- ductor was invested by Mrs. Dr. Davies. Male Voice -Competition. Son of God" (D. Jenkins). Only one choir competed, viz., Beaufort (Mr. Joseph Price), and the prize was awarded. Brass Bands.—"Gems of Welelt Melody": Set. Great Western. Pontypridd; 2nd, Lewis. Merthyr, Hafod; 3rd, Fochriw.

AGRICULTURE IN WALES. The agricultural returns of Great Britain for 1903, compiled from returns collected on June 4 last, are now to hand. They show that the acreage under wheat in the twelve Welsh counties was, in 1903, 43,197, as compared with 48,323 acres in 1902. The figures for barley respectively were 98,080 and 101,326; oats, 213,266 and 210.153; potatoes, 30,197 and 31,446; elovei and rotation grasses (for hay), 203,423 and 208,798; ditto (not for hay), 182.593 and 196,792; permanent grass (for hay), 487,100 and I 473,894; ditto (not for hay), 1.451,635 and 1.450.473. The number of horses in 1903 was 157,264, as eompared with 154,114 in 1902; cattle. 7114166 ¡ aDd 721,847; sheep. 3.511,424 and 3,462.698; pigs. 943,961 and 215,283.

POLITICS AT ABERDARE. MR. D. A. THOMAS DEFENDS THE FREE TRADE POLICY. A public meeting was held at Siloah Chapel, Aberdare on Thursday evening. The Rev. D. Silyn Evans occupied the chair; and the speakers were Messrs. D. A. Thomas, M.P.; William Jones, M.P.; and Frank Edwards, M.P. Mr. D. A. Thomas, who was well received. said, if the intention of Mr. Chamberlain in plunging the country into a controversy over his fiscal fallacy at the present time was to divert attention from the injustice of the Education Act, it would not succeed, for in the main the fiscal and education questions interested widely different sections of the people, and the only result of the Colonial Secretary's action was to thro* a fresh apple of diWswd into the already distracted and discredited ranks of the Tory party. It was pitiful to see the predicament in which Tory members of the type of poor Colonel Wyndham-Quin were placed. He felt sorry for them. The gallant colonel had no mind of his own on the fiscal question, and would say nothing about it until he knew what the Prime Minister thought. Until then "he was going to nail his colours to the fence." What had really happened was this. The fence upon which the member for South Glamorgan was sitting was one of barbed wire—(laughter) —and when he wished to get down he found there was a danger of leaving his seat behind him. (Loud laughter.) So he hurriedly deter- mined to sit still for the time, notwithstand- ing the discomfort, and this he enthusiasti- cally called nailing, his colours to the fence. "Those members of the House of Commons who had declared themselves either way on the fiscal question had acted somewhat prematurely and injudiciously," said Colonel Wyndham-Quin. He (Mr. Thomas) had made a life-long study of such questions, and, as a business man, had had the advantage of being able to test the principles of Free Trade in their practical application to the trade of the country. He required no assistance from Mr. Balfour or Mr. Chamberlain to form an opinion on a subject to which he had prob- ably given far more attention than had either of those gentlemen. However, he congratu- lated the gallant colonel on the frankness of his utterance. The electors of South Glamor- gan would now know that their representative in the House of Commons had no mind of his own on a fiscal system which was of such vital interest to them, and which had been in operation in this country during the past 50 years. That being the case, he did not pro- pose consulting the wishes of his constituents, but was supposed to say "ditto" to whatever the Prime Minister might say. It seemed almost a pity that our constitu- tion could not spare the member of South Glamorgan the trouble of studying the speeches of Mr. Balfour, and allow hint to sign a proxy in favour of the Prime Minister once and for all. They did not yet know precisely the details of the Colonial Secretary's scheme, but it was not necessary to know the ingredients of a quack remedy before declining it. Mr. Frank Edwards referring to Mr. Cham- berlain's fiscal proposals, said that Mr. Chamberlain was the strong man of the Government—a political Sandow. (Applause.) But it was necessary to remember that the Colonial Secretary had got up his muscles in the Liberal school. He nad, however, become somemat flabby through having lived too long in the lap of luxury. He (Mr. Chamber- lain) was once a Free Trader (even before the late Mr. Gladstone became so), but he had now become a fiscal reformer—that was to say, a Tory, or Protectionist. The Colonial Secretary had thrown a bomb into the Tory party, and he (the speaker) hoped that the bomb would blow up the Tory party. Mr. Wm. Jones, M.P., said that the Colonial Secretary had ignored things at home in con- nection with his scheme which was strenu- ously oopposed by four living Chancellors of the Exchequer, among whom was Sir William Hareourt. (Loud cheers.) Germany taxed food, but with what result? Three-fourths of skilled German craftsmen worked for L49 a year on an average, while they worked 29 days longer than the British workman. A resolution was carried expressing confi- dence that the policy of Free Trade had nothing to fear from an inquiry, and that Imperial interests and unity would suffer if any change in that policy was made. A meeting was also held at Cwmaman, where similar speeches were delivered.

LICENSING OFFENCE AT DOWLAIS. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday William Lewis, landlord of the Vulcan and Friendship Inn, Dowlais, was summoned for selling intoxicating liquor on Sunday, the 6th inst. Mr. F. P. Charles defended.—Police-constables Clynch and Evan Jones proved seeing a woman named Carroll coming from the front door of the defendant's house about four p.m. in the afternoon of the day in question. They stopped her, and found upon her two bottles of whisky.—The defence was that the whisky was served to Mrs. Carroll by Mrs. Jenkins, a lodger, upon her representation that she wanted it for a woman who had just been confined, and that it was supplied with- out the knowledge of either the defendant or his wife.—The bench, however, convicted, and imposed a be of 40s. and costs-

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COCHFARF'S NOTES. EISTEDDFOD AT L'ORIENT, BRITTANY. The enthusiasm of the meetings held at L'Orient in celebration of the birth oi Brittany's chief bard De Brizeux is a striking evidence of the failure of the Parisian Government to crush Breton national ardour. The celebration is not held in an out-of-the-way place in the peninsula of Arfor (which is the anc ent Breton name of the Latin Armorica). The gatherings are held in a town where the official element is entirely French, and where the Breton tongue is seldom heard, L'Orient being one of the large naval centres of the French Government. It has all the conditions which tend to adversely affect sentiments other than those of the dominant partner. It is said that if you scratch a Russian you will find a Tartar, but a tantalising operation upon any L'Orient citizen will bring conviction to an inquirer that he is a Breton in his heart of hearts and from his "talcen" (forehead) to his "sawdl" (heel). This does not prevent any of them being ready at all times to fulfil the duties of French citizenship, for the Army finds among them some of its best soldiers, and the Navy is manned to a greater extent by them than by any other subjects of the Republic. Their seagirt land favours their being bom.sailors, and every family, from St. Malo to Cape Finisterre, and from Quimper to St. Nazaire, can boast of its sailor boy, and many show relics of those who have braved the wild ocean to help the scanty home earnings, but who will never return to their loved ones again. The "Fetes du Centenaire de Brizeux" commenced at the L'Orient Theatre on Saturday in the form of a soiree, at which M. Theodore Botrel and Mme. otrel, fresh from a triumphant visit to the Frenchmen of Canada, had charge of a programme of Breton melodies, and Mme. Blanchet-Bringer, artiste lyric, Professor de Chant,and M. Royer-Dubail, the pianist composer, were responsible for what may be described as the morEr classical items. And here comes the difficulty of being both chronicler and performer. Sufficient for the time, however, is to say that the presenoe of the Mayor and Mayoress of Cardiff to represent the "W elsh- Brr I as" (Breton-Gallois) was an incident that gave unbounded pleasure to their patriotic kinsmen, who packed the large building from floor to ceiling. Scarcely had the audience settled down after its first (demonstration of enthusiasm than a familiar strain reached our ears. The stage was partly occupied by an excellent orchestral band, and—there was no doubt about it—it sent out the first notes of the Welsh National Anthem, "Hen Wlad fy Nhadau." And why ? We were informed by the intrepid M. Fustec, the "Gwilym ap Ivan" who was one of those admitted to the Gorsedd at the Cardiff National Eisteddfod, that the. playing of "The Land of My Fathers" was the particular greeting of L'Orientians to their visitors. Time passed quickly, and a reminder of the Cymno Eisteddfod came when M. de Kerviler read the adjudication of the jury which decided to whom Madame Mosher's 1,000 francs' prize was to be awarded for centenary poems on De Brizeux; but I shall not particularise now beyond stating that M. Jaffrenou, Brittany's youngest and best living poet, carried off the prize for a composition in the vernacular. M. Jaffrenou ("Taldir") has now completed his term of military training, whioh is com- pulsory upon every lay male subject of the French Republic, with a few insignificant exceptions, and he has come to the end of a course of studies in the University College at Rennes. For these reasons he I has been absent from Breton gatherings for a considerable time, but his appear- ance on the theatre platform gained ¡ quick recognition. He was re-called again and again, but he reserved his speech until the procession that followed the meeting visited the Brizeux Monu- ment in the public gardens near by. Four years ago, when Dr. J. LI. Treherne, Mr. Charles Morgan, B.A., and the writer visited the literary and musical gathering at Vannes, there was a wide margin left for improvement in vocal music. The Breton delegates had only just returned from the Cardiff National Eisteddfod, and there had not been sufficient time for them to put what they had seen and heard in Wales into practice in their home assemblies. It was with keen delight, therefore, we witnessed the appearance of a male voice choir from Vannes at L'Orient soiree on Saturday. With a full recollection of the crude efforts of four years ago, we noticed with some apprehen- sion they were to sing accompanied. Our fears were soon dissipated, and we were thrilled with a most dramatic rendering of Les Bretons," one of Brizeux's poems, set to excellent music by no less a com- poser than BourgaIt-Ducoudray-a name familiar in Parisian musical circles. M. and Mme. Theodore Botrel caused laughter and tears to alternate with their humorous and pathetic folk songs. Dressed in native costumes, and being highly trained dramatists, they played t upon the feelings of their audience with inimitable effect, and their re-calls became so frequent that we trembled for the! chances of the remaining programme of the celebration. The curtain dropped upon them at last, in spite of a persistent stamping of feet that reminded me of the "Kentish fire" which is heard under similar circumstances in the Midlands. When the curtain rose again the stage had been cleared of its earlier contents, and there sat behind a table a row of sober-faced gentlemen in evening dress, j evidently bent upon unbosoming some; weighty orations. At a small table to the left of the president sat a fresh-com- plexioned individual whose counterparts can be seen at many a farmhouse in Wales when dressed in their Sunday best to attend a cwrdd mawr," a funeral, or an Eisteddfod. When he stood up to speak he disclosed a pair of eyes that could flash fire. His thick-set frame and his firm-set head betokened a strength of character that could command attention or hurl defiance just as occasion would require, and before he had spoken many minutes he exercised both. There sat in a box overlooking the stage on which he stood General Reverard, the commander of the French troops at. L'Orient, and the official representative of the French Government at that particular meeting. The speaker I have referred to was no other than Professor Loth, the doyen of the Faculty of Letters at Rennes, an erudite scholar of European repu- tation. He spoke of the hardships im- posed upon France's peaceful subjects i!1 Brittany through the refusal of the Presi- dent of the French Council of Education to favour the exercise of the Breton lan- guage, and he gained a thundering response from his auditors when he called upon Bretons not to rest until such a Government was turned out of office.

FAMOUS BATTLESHIP SOLD. At Chati am Dockyard on Tuesday the battleship Inflexible was brought under the auctioneer's hamper, having been condemned by the Admiralty as unfit for further service. The vessel cost nearly a million sterling to build. 22 years a go, and was knocked down for £20,100. The Inflexible took part in the bombardment of Alexandria. A considerable number of foreigners who had come down to attend the sale were refused admission to the dockyard. The purchaser of the Inflexible was Mr. J. Ward, of Sheffield. The battleship Neptune. originally built for the Brazilian Navy, but acquired by the Admiralty, was knocked down for £18,000, about one-fortieth of her cost. The harbour vessel Enterprise and torpedo- boat 72 were also sold.

A GALLANT SURGEON'S DEATH. Staff-eurgeon Maillard, V.C., whose death at the early age of 40 is announced, won the Victoria. Cross for his gallantry in Candia in 1898. A party from the Hazard was landing, and the officer ran back from a place of safety through a perfect deluge of bullets (so the official record runs) to the boat to rescue a sea- man who had fallen back into it wounded as the others jumped ashore. He failed to bring him to shelter becanse the boat was adrift, and could not lift the man, who was almost dead; and Dr. Maillard returned to bis post with Ms clothes riddled with ballets, thoach he himself was unhurt. He only retired last sear.

DROWNED IN THE USK. CAERPHILLY GIRL'S INEXPLIC- ABLE SUICIDE. The suicide of Mary Elizabeth Osmond, aged eighteen years, the daughter of a labourer, of Bromfield, Caerphilly, which occurred on Wednesday night by jumping over the Newport Bridge into the River Usk, was inquired into on Friday by the Newport deputy-coroner (Mr. Digby Powell) at the Town- hall. Her mother stated that the girl left the house about 8.20 on Wednesday night without saying a. word. Next morning witness received a letter from Newport in these terms:- "Dear Mother.—I am writing these few lines to wish you all good-bye, as I cannot stop at home to face the disgrace. I know it will break your heart, but never mind; I hope we shall meet in Heaven. Tell Era that he did no harm; so good-bye.—From your loving daughter, SISSY." At the end of the letter there were crosses, indicating kisses. A postcard was also received wishing her mother and her friends good-bye. The Coroner asked the mother if she knew what her daughter meant by not stopping at home to face the disgrace. Mrs. Osmond replied that she could not understand it, as there was, so far as she knew, no disgrace. Her daughter never went for a walk without she told witness of it afterwards as to where she had been and with whom. She had suf- fered a good deal with her head, and seemed like one who had lost her senses entirely. Three years ago she suffered from typhoid fever and influenza, which left her very weak. She was quite unable to account for the letters. The relations between her daughter and the young man she was keeping company with were perfectly agreeable. He used to come to her house, and he was treated as one of the family, and she used to go to his mother's house in the same way. Ernest John Goodman, aged nineteen, living at 59, Mill-road, Caerphilly, said deceased was his sweetheart. They had been courting for fifteen months. He went for a walk with her on Wednesiay night, when she said she had a funny feeling, but did not say that she was ill. He could not account for the statements in her letter. There was no quarrel that night or at any other time. The Coroner: Oan you give any explanation as to what was meant by the letter—" Give my all to Erne. Tell him he did no harm. No. When you left her she seemed perfectly well, rational, happy, and contented?—Yes. Have you ever quarrelled during the fifteen months you have been keeping company?— No, sir. And when you left her on Wednesday even- ing she was perfectly well and happy?—Yes. Did she ever complain to you of her head? —Yes, she frequently said her head waiP bad.- When you left her that night did you make an appointment to see her again?—Yes, her last words to me were: Don't forget to be there at half-past -even on Friday." You helped in the search for her that night?—Yes. You were called, and got up and helped the brothers to look for her, but could not And her?—Yes. The first you heard of her being missing was when you were called on Wednesday night?—Yes. What time was that?—About one o'clock (on Thursday morning). Who called you?—Her father. You came down to Newport by the first train with the father and brother?—Yes. You also saw the body?—Yes. The Foreman: You had no quarrel with the girl that night or before?-No, nothing whatever. Miss Ethel Woodcock, 16, Grafton-road, em- ployed at the London House, stated that she was coming over the Newport Bridge at 10.45 on Wednesday evening. When she was about in the centre of the bridge, walking on the right-hand side towards tows, she saw a young woman climb the parapet of the bridge on the other side. The woman sat on the top for a second, seemed to adjust her hat, and then, lifting her arms, dropped over. It all happened in hardly a second, and witness had no opportunity to attempt to stop her. The woman jumped over underneath a lamp-post. Witness heard the splash and then two cries. Witness told two gentlemen what had hap- pened, and they saw a hat floating down the stream, but could not see anyone. The Foreman of the Jury asked that Good- man should be re-called in order that a ques- tion might be put to him as to why he took the girl home so early that night. Goodman replied that he was not feeling well himself that night, and wished to get home. He was rather surprised that she was willing for him to go so early, but she seemed quite content and quite happy. A Juryman: Did she say anything about coming to Newport that night?—No. You never heard her say anything about that?-No. How far is the station from the deceased's bomeJa-Two or three minutes' walk. The Father: You can get there in a minute and a half. Inspector Brooks: There is a train down at 8.40. Evidence was afterwards given that the body was discovered on Thursday afternoon near the same place. A verdict of Suicide during temporary insanity was returned.

MORRISTON MAN'S NEGLECT. FED HIS DOG WHILST THE CHILDREN STARVED. At Swansea Police-court on Monday Lewis Gray and his wife Sarah, living in Wychtree- street, Morriston, were charged with wilfully neglecting their five children. Mr. Viner Leeder prosecuted.—Inspector Pearse. of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, stated what he had observed on his visit to the defendants' "home," which was a filthy garret at the top of the bouse. The children were dirty and ill-nourished, there was only one bedstead in the room, and there were holes in the roof. The man had been working at Messrs. Rees and Kirby's, but had just been dismissed for his bad conduct. He kept a rabbit-coursing dog in the house in excellent conditon. The man admitted that he earned more than El a week, and promised to give up sport. The wife had complained of not getting money to keep the family.— Two women, Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. French, bore out the case, and were thanked by the Bench for attending.—Mrs. French said she had seen the children picking up and eating food in the road hardly fit for fowls.—The Chair- man. addressing the male defendant, said: "How could you have the heart to look at your wife and children starving; yes, that is the best term that can be used. It is brought about by your drunkenness and idleness."— The prisoner was sentenced to two months' hard labour, the wife being discharged.

PICK-POCKET AT~NEATH. At Neath Borough Police-court on Monday, Alfred Thomas, an elderly man, of no fixed abode, was charged with attempting to steal a silver watch, an albert chain, and a Kruger sovereign from the person of Isaac Thomas, Bank-buildings, Ystalyfera. The prisoner at a special court on Friday pleaded guilty to another charge of attempting to steal the sum of 2s. lOd. from the person of Mrs. Anna Williams, of 82, New-road, Skewen, on Septem- ber 10 last year.js-Mrs. Williams told the bench that she felt the prisoner's hand in her pocket, and on her taxing him with it he took hall-a^crown out of his pocket, which she took. Later he met her in the town, and she asked him for the 4d., and he handed it over to her.—Prisoner was arrested by Police. constable Morgan.—At Monday's court Isaac Thomas said he was at the Blue Bell Inn on Fair-day (Thursday last). The prisoner stood in the doorway, and as witness was taking a tray of glasses into the room he felt someone try for his watch. It was the prisoner who made the attempt. He caught the prisoner by the collar, and prisoner raised his hand above his head and said he had not got any- thing.-Police-constable Morgan deposed that prisoner, when charged, said, "I hope they will not find out my previous convictions. The Bench sentenced prisoner to three months' imprisonment with hard labour in each case, the sentences to run consecutively.

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CARDIFF ELECTRIC LIGHTING. The question of the electric lighting of some of the main streets of Oathays was raised at Tuesday's meeting of the Cardiff Electrical Committee by Mr. A. Good, who suggested that the lighting be continued from St. Andrew's-cresccnt along Salisbury- road and thence to Woodville-road. Mr. Ellis (electrical engineer) said the com- mittee decided some months ago not to lay the electric light at Cathays. The cost of laying the mains alone would be £7?JJ. Alderman Bamsdale: Oh, that's nothing for Cathays. Mr. Ellis continued that the total cost of illuminating Cathays by electricity would be L460 per annum above the cost of gas.. Mr. Lloyd Meyrick said he and Mr. Cross- man were there to urge that Cathays be electrically lighted. but the majority of the committee were against the proposition at present. Inasmuch as a cable is laid along Wood- ville-road. however, it was decided that that thoroughfare should be electrically illumi- nated. Mr: Arthur Ellis electrical engineer and manager, reported that there were 868 pri- vate consumers connected with the mains, which was equivalent to 87,416 eight-candle power lamps, showing an increase of 58 per cent. in the total connections, as compared with the same time in the previous year. The estimated revenue in July was for street lighting, £ 400; private supply, Ll,295 lis. 4d., and in August street lighting, £ 420 3s. 8d., private supply, EI,384 3s.

BRUTE SENT TO PRISON. At Chepstow Police-court on Monday Thomas Langley, labourer, of St. Aryan's, was charged with committing an aggravated assault upon Jessie Deane, single woman, of Cheltenham, on the 12th inst.—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and the evidence was taken shortly, and was to the effect that at a quarter past six on Saturday evening oomplainant. with a companion iaxmed Florence Watkins, of Pwllmeyrick, with whom she had been staying for the bene- fit of her health, were returning from Tiden- ham. through Chepstow, to Pwllmeyrick. When near High Beech Farm on the high road she noticed defendant coming behind. Seeing him quicken his pace, she ran and dodgea in front of her companion, but defendant ran after her. As he got close she turned round and faced him, and he caught hold of her round the waist, got her on the ground, and got on the ground himself at her side. She screamed, but he held her down for about four minutes. Florence Watkins tried to get him off, threatened to strike him with her um- brella, and shouted, and. said a policeman was coming. Defendant released her, and she, ran towards Chepstow. Defendant ran across the road and got over the wall, and said, I'll have you yet." She saw a man with a cart and sent information to the police.—Defendant said he was very drunk, and was sorry for what he did.—The Bench said it was an abominable thing that a young woman could not go along the highway without being inter- fered with by a brute like defendant, and they sentenced him to two months' hard labour, hoping that it would be a warning to him.

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