The Carmarthen Weekly Reporter

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Our Ambitions. A DREAM DREAMT NEAR THE NEW TOWN HALL. April, 1906. At a meeting of theUrban District. Council it was decided that something really must be done to give Llanelly a status. We won't be happy till we get it. May, 1906. Another meeting of the Urban District Council held to consider the question. It wias decided to try to get the A-sizes to Llanelly. June, 1906. Five more meetings held, and five miles of wire pulled to try to get Boimething or other to Llanelly. July 1st to 10th, 1906. Twenty more meetings held with the saime object. July 11th, 1906. The Carmarthen Town Council held a meeting to see if they could do something to thwart ua. Could anything be more disgrace- ful P Everybody can see what they are up to. They are not at all impartial, disinterested, and immaculate—as we are! August, 1906. Decided to establish the county offices at Llanelly. Estimate £ 5,000. Probable coet £ *,000. September, 1906. Our now Townhalll has been handed over to the County Council. The fact is we have n6 e-artilly use for it, and we were only too glad to get somebody to adopt it, and it. is an ex- pense. October, 1906. Decided tjiii-t the Quarter Sessions shall be held at Llanel.y twice, Llandilo once, and Carmarthen onice. By putting it in that way, the upper part of the county voted for it. November, 1906. Heiiided over our old tramways to the County Council, kindly allowing 5 per cent, off coot price, which is very generous con- sidering that they are less than a century old. April 1, 1907. We were lgradiously pleased to hand over the new Dook to the Carmarthenshire County Council. The County Council passed us a vote of thanks, and we heaved a sigh of relief. July, 1907. It has been found perfectly ridiculous to convenient place for Quarter Sessions. It is out of the way and inaccessible. Resolved that three metings -be held at Llanelly, and one at Carmarthen. September, 1907. Paid £1,500 for a Bite for county offices. Carmarthen members (raised a fine rumpus with their usual narrow-mindedness. They, cannot nee that as Llanelly contains 25,617 people out of a totail of 135,328, it ought to Tuile the roost. January, 1908. It has been found perfectly ridiculus to hold one meeting of the Quarter Sessions at Cainmarthen and three at Llanelly. To make a cotart migratory is infra dig and suggestive of a travelling circus. Resolved that in future the Quarter Sessions be held at Llan- elly. August, 1908. Reootlved that in future all meetings of the County Council and of its Committees be held at LlaneIly. March, 1909. It has been found t'hat the members for Uandovery, Whitland, Carmarthen, and Newcastle Emlyn do not attend as regularly as the LLanehy members. It is, therefore, useless putting them on the committees. June, 1910. Paid the contract-or £ 6,500 for the now county offices as per contract, and £2,300 extras. This with the price of the land brings the total up to £ 10,300. It is univer- sally admitted to be a good job. Decided to provide, furniture iand heating -apparatus at a cost not exceeding £ 2,000. November, 1911. It was unanimously agreed that the name of the county be changed 100 "LIajiellyeihiM." We never can have a status so long as the county is named from that decayed village on the Towy. May, 1912. Several complaints received that the roads roads are not properly looked after in Tre- lech, Gaio, and Pencader districts. Seeing that the members from the outlying districts do not attend, lilt is to be saruamed that they do not ake any interest in the business and want nothing. 1915. The new footpaths on each side of the road from Llanelly to Pontardulais have now J been constructed. Resolved that electric lights be placed there at intervals of 100 yards as also on the pavements- between Llanelly and Kidwelly. 1916. Merlin's Hill has just been removed to the flat ibehind the town, and we begin to feel bbat we are really gettng 18. status. 1917. The inhabitants of the wilder parts of the county hold mass meetings to protest against the protpoaal to spend 2150,000 on a. school of mining at Ammanford. Nothing else could be expected from the jossers. 1919. I School of Mining finished. Cost £ 230,0001 Oversees of Mydriim and Conwil refuse to collect the rates. Commitment orders ap- plied for. 1920. St. Peters Ohurch has been successfully removed ;to,& convenient place near the Town Hall. Decided to whitewash it as it looks ridiculously old. Tomb of Rhys ap Thomas a bit antiquated, 80 it has been replaced by the masoleum oi Ianto bach, the famous half- back. 1925. School of Metallurgy established with 500 schoilairships of £75 a year each open to resi- dents within five miles of the Townhall. 1927. Serious disturbances at Llandyssul And Llanddeuaant. Farmers still object to rates which have now 'been reduced from 476 6d to 38s 6d in the £ 1928. Answer received from the Lord Chancellor who maintains that the Assizes must be held at the most convenient place in the county. This court is stitl held at Carmarthen. It is scandalous how little attention the Crown lliuthoritiespay to local influence. Here we do not consider convenience or justice. All we bother about is status. 1931. l'he development of the Canadian tinplate trade has x-oduced our population to 14,531. The discovery of the new coalfield in the upper part of the county has lately had such an effect that the papulation of Llanarthney is now 35,000. A strong effort is being made to get the county offices, etc., to Llanarth- ney. Such impudent upstarts must be taught their place. Population and rateable value have nothing to do with it. The case must be decided on its merito-nost by counting noses. This isn't what we &aid 25 years ago; but we are getting wiser and older now than tfe THBI6 in tfUir mdi y th r

The Crisis in the Ohnrch. To the Editor Carmarthen Weekly Reporter. Sir,—I think it will be agreed by all im- partial aurthor.iities that a great mistake has been tmade in the appointment of the Church Commission. I do no object to a few Dis- senters being allowed on it. But I maintain tha* the Church has not been properly repre- sented on the Commission. There are men whose knowledge of Church affaire is much greater than that of any of those appointed. Modesty forbids me to say more. But when they come round to Llettypenwoig, I hope to be able to give 'the Coonmissioner8 a few points which will startle them. I am not a betting man, but -if I were I would be pre- pared to lay odds that the attendance at the Llettypenwag parish church will be very good for the next six months, and will &how well in the statistics. Nobody can expect me to give my secrets away. I have no objections whatever to Com- missions. If the report is favourable, we can make the most of it; and if it is unfavouralble we are already prepared with the arguments to discount its findings. There are influences in favour of the Church of which the Com- missioners will never have adequate know- ledge. There are coals, soup, blankets, and flannel 6khawls and caddies of tea. I do not suggest that our squire is in any way actu- ated by religious feelings. He cannot give something to an the poor of the parish during the winter. He does not know them all, and it is only natural that he should collsider those as having the first claims on his atten- tion whom he sees in their places on Sunday or who are recommended to liiim by me. There has been a lot of fuss too about the Ritual Commission. They have decided that there are many illegal practices carried on in the Church. I am not particularly strong in the ritualistic line myseltf. I had a curate a few years ago who was always trying on ex- periments with the latest things in ecclesi- astical dress making. I mean that they were the latest things to me; but he was always talking about them as fourteenth century albs and thirteenth century copes, and fif- teenth century stoles. He is a vicar now and has given up that kind of thing. He finds it quite enough to keep his wife in twentieth century gowns without worrying albout vest- ments for himself. IMrs Laud Davies in- formed me in confidence of the ultimate fate of a thirteenth century cope, but I will not betray confidences. It. will be gathered that the cope has been converted. Still I am quite prepared to maintain its essential con- tinuity, and to prove that it is the same thing all the time. There is ia good deal to be said on both sides as Sir Roger de Coverley says. It would be revolutionary to iint-roduce incense into my church. Its fumes have never been smelt there; but I must admit that I cannot say as much of the fumes of peppermint and various other creature comforts. There is a good deal to be said against having candles on the altar. But after all, there ought to be light on the altar, if you cannot get mudh light in the pulpit. As for the other goings-on, we not to be too hard on the clergy who intro- duce them into the programme. It is neces- sary in some places to go in for striking novelites to induce people to oomie to church. The Commissioners think that there should be greater elasticity; many of the old rubrics were tor-med at a time when there was not such appreciation as now of the historical continuity of the ohurch. Td you came to think of it, it a a turns on the continuity question. If it is the same church to-day as in the days of Stephen Langton, the case is altered. Then all the beliefs and all the ceremonies whidh have not been specifically abolished are still legal. On the other hand, if the Churoh -is a new establisment, nothing is legal except it is specifically prescribed in the Prayer Book and the Canons. Is the Prayer Book a manual complete in itself, or is it merely a table of "errata" to guide us in dialling with the older practices. -The posi- tion is a most difficult one. For my own part, I am quite willing and anxious to stand tip for the Church, but I really oan't find out What tlic Church is. It is a regrettable fact bhat there seems to be no agreement as to the spiritual aspect of the Church, and I am sometimes inclined to .think that the tithes and the endowments are really the Church, for that is the point on which we are all agreed—however much wo may differ about such trifles as Creeds, and Ritual, and Rubrics. Whilst on the topic, I might mention a striking instance of the continuity of the English Church. I refer to the conquest of Ireland. This was the work of Pope Urban IV. He M an Englishman, and was oalled Nicholas Brpa-kspeare when hp was at home. He was a kind of ecclesgia^tii^l Joseph C'hltm- berlain, who went in for a spirited foreign policy and the extension of the Empire. The Irish did not pay Peter's Peneo in those benighted days. They had a chronic objec- tion to paying Peter's pence—or anybody else. So old Nick issued a bull authorising his faithful son Henry to conquer Ireland and to make the Irish good Christians. The Irish in their flannel wiaistcoats could not stand up to the Norman knights in the cast-iron overcoats, and civilisation won the day. I iregrot that I have not been able to find any record Of Henry sending the money to the Pope. He collected it right enough, but it never seems to have reached Rome. Perhaps it Was all used up in ex- penses, or was lost in the Post Office. I hope this will be sufficient to prove that the Eng- lish Church was the same in the twelfth ctn- tury as it is to-day. There is a remarkable similarity in the way we always conquer the natives for thpir own good and to civilise them. rather Himon, oito of the chaplains of Edward I., was a fine old Churchman 'and patriot. He tdkt the Normans that it was no siii whatever to kill a native, and that he would say Ma-sa right away after killing an Irishman. The principles of Jingoism are much older than we fancy. Father Simon was assasinated eventually; the Irish were always a bad vindictive lot, and never loved their enemies ias they ought to do. The moral of this anecdote will, I hope, not be thrown away. If Henry II. had had nothing to do with the Pope, we should not have had the misfortune tp annex Ireland, from which poor Old England has not been able to get free to this day. I hope this w .i convince all good Church- men of the absolute necessity of education being kept in the hands of the Church. It is necessary that history be taught in the pro- per way, hy teachers who will teach it so as to bolster up our Church Detfence theories. A good deal of the dangerous ideas which are now prevalent are due to the fact that the young people have not been taught their his- tory by teachers who have not had it disin- fected by a course Of Church Defence pam- phlets. I remain, etc., T. LAUD DAVIES, B.A. Llettypenwag Vicarage, Coedsych, R.S.O.

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Archaeological Miscellanies. No doubt many of you thought that I had gone cut of the business 'altogether. In some cases the wish was father to the thought. It is easy to understand that a profound scholar like myself cannot exhibit -^5 erudition with- out causing a lot of jealousy amongst people of provincial reputations. The fact is that I have made up my mind never to say anything except I have something to say—a rule which I hope to see some day more generally adoptou. WERE THE ANCIENT BRITONS CANNIBALS? Professor Cummerbund, of Buda Pesth, writes to ask me if I can give him any infor- mation showing whether the Ancient Britons were cannibals or not.—This is a subject to which I ih-ave given a good deal of attention. I received the gold medal of the Anthropo- logical Society off Berlin for a paper embody- ing the results of my iivsearches on the sub- ject. "Brut y Tywysogion" is silent on the point, and the Myvyrrian archaeology is not particularly explicit on the subject. The evidence of Grufydd ap Cynon is completely demolished by Dafydd ap Gwilym as well as Rhodri ap lorwerth. Some valuable hints will be found in the poems of Ceredig ap Sis- yllt. I daresay you never heard of these authors before. That is because you have not got my profound acquaintance with Celtic literature. Some sidelights on the subject will be found in the fifth volume of that immortal Gaelic writer Turlough Mac Lachlan The weight of evidence is against the alle- gation. But I wish I could say truly that the modern Weloli are free from all complicity in cannibalism. They certainly make tin- cans for the Chicago packers, and must there- fore be held to be accessories before the fact. PEDIGREES. Evan Rees, who lives. in Cardiff, writes to ask me if I can make him a pedigr-ce proving him to be a descendant of Rhys ap Thomas. Of course I can. I can make you a pedigree showing you to be descended from Llewelyn ein llyw olaif or Owen Glendoweror Twm Shon Catti or anybody you like. Once I have drawn it out nobody can prove that it is not true. It is an extraordinary thing that everybody is a descendant of Rhys ap Thomas J or of Rhodri Mawr, or some of these big guns. There were plenty of tinkers, and farmers, and thieves, and thatchers, and car- penters and Shoemakers in those days; but it seems to be taken for granted that these had no descendants. Weil, perhaps you are right. As you had four grand parents and each of them four grand parents and so on, it follows that you are descended from thousands of different people who lived in the Middle Ages. So you may as well fix on the most respectable one you can think of. Now most of these people have thousands of descendants awve to-day. King Edward III. has been proved to be the ancestor of 40,000 people, who are "alive to- day. They comprise English Dukes and Irish fenians tramps and railway directors, lawyers and parsons, American bosses and Welsh farm labourers. This is the best argument in favour of the Brotherhood of Man. If you only jump back to the Con- queror, you would have to count millions I instead of thousands. That's the reason why I am a supporter of the Royal Family. J always like to stand up for my relations— especially those who are a credit to me. LLYN-LLECH-OWAIN. Several correspondents have begged me to say a word or two about Llyn-llech-owain, a pool near Llanarthney. There is a "beautiful legend" connected with this lake. It is said that it was only an ordinary well at one time. A certain prince was out hunting and went to get a gla of witter from the well. He was so worried by hi. hawk and hound that lie did not replace the stone on the well, with the result that the water flowed and flowed until it covered the whole valley and made the magnificent lake which is to be seen there. This is said to be a beautiful legend. When- ever there is a yarn told labout something ten or twenty centuries ago, it is called a "legend." If you make up stories about things that liappened yesterday they would call them lies and suggest that you would be a valuable acquisition to the staff of an even- ing paper. It is a beautiful legend in its way. It is peculiar that exactly the same legend belongs to Lough Neagh in Ireland- although there the damage was done by a woman who ran because she heard her child crying. This is a valuable aid in studying the customs of the past, because whether the story is true or not, it proves that in the age when it was composed babies used to cry and mothers used ito get flustered with their cry- ing. There a.-re three lochs in Scotland, four lakes in Switzerland, and i-een in Russia whicjh originated ii} (more or Ipsa tlie spime fashion, It is '(astonishing how careJess people used tp be about putting the stopper on wells, although they must have been con- tinuially in the papers, about the terrible disasters which were occurring on account of the recklessness in this respect. There were no District Councils in those d&ys to enforce proper regulations. There are wicked people who suggest that the Celts— who were champions in 'the legend business- wicked people who suggest that the Celts- who were champions in 'the legend business- had two or three stories and that when they shitted from one place to another they applied these stories to every landscape they saw. It is strange, by the way, that the same good stories which are now told cf Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Mr Gladstone used to be told of Dean Swift and Sir Thomas Moore and Simon de Montfort and Julius Ctesar! It is wonderful how great men under similar c«i cumstances always seem to say the same things. Indeed I have a suspicion that Steele or Bacon or Chaucer or Cicero may have written exactly the s^m§ things tftut I am writing now, • & -««v A RARE BOOK. Jack o r Pent re sends me a rare book wihich he says belonged to his grandmother, and which he says has been in his family for; over two hundred years. He wishes to know what I think of it, and whether I can give him an estimate of its approximate value According to what you teN me. Jack, this is a most wondjrfu ,boOk. It was printed at Carmarthen m the year 1868. Seeing that it was in your family a hundred ftnd fifty yeans .before it wias printed, your edition must be rather ,an eady one. There is in the work a ballad on the opening of the railway Carmarthen, which as it wias penned a couple of conttiriet% before it happened, is something I miraculous. As to the value of the book that all depends on the purchaser. Jf you come a,Kr°Txt05neb?c'y ho does not know much fJs&SnATyou migbt set as for it. TAFFY-FLAT LANE. 1 kwladgai-w-r'' asks if I can give him any clue to the origin of the name Taffy-flat Lane" which he has heard of in Carmarthen. ri /? ls a interesting relic of the Goldelic occupation. The Goideki were called the <;Padis," and the Bi^t were called^he <"Taffis" in the local vSnacS fcfra f? B.u. the Brythons came here, and after several tremendous battles they drove the Goidels out into the wilds and Carmarthen became a Brythonic stronghold L0llZlRlaUt « i T*unt of whole affair m the Black Book of Carmarthen—for it was a black day for the Goidels. As the flat countiy round about Carmarthen became the ^T«fF°v fl the 1 Y £ XI. X ^1G still clings tp one part of the town an account of the fact that a celobrated fight of fifteen rounds took plpoe there between Haffy ipp Jones, and Padi 0 Ha It a, a celebrated Goidelic chieftain in the third century. The fight was undetpi&ive hp- cause the polupe interfered. If you or anybody edw want information come to me. You will never find any qu- tion I can't answer. I need scarcely inform you after this that I have a lot of valuable information never before published, KRASMUS.

Lady Graduates and the Franchise in tile Coll't of R,t, Edinburgh on m a Sa^esm, refused a decree in M 4 4r°Usllt hy Miss Margar. Nairn, M.A., of Abercomby Place, Edinburgh. and other graduates of the Lniv^rs'.ty of Edin- burg aud St. Andrew's, to d4,c;tpe the question whether, under the existirg Franehi.se Acts, wiey were entitled to vote for a representa- feve xn Parliament for these universities, ws lordship refused to accept the argument that tho word "person" in the Franchise Act, mc!udt>a both J

Whitland Intermediate School. MEETINu OF MANAGERS. A 'meeting off the new managers of Whit- land Intermediate School was held at the Secretary's office, Whitland, on Friday, 6th July, at 2.30p.im. There were present: Mr H. J. H. Lawrence, Laanpeter House; Mr D. Evans, Manordaf; Mis Silvan-Evans, Ty- gwyn-ar-daf Miss Saer, Biewgyd Mr John Soourfield, iilaenwernddu; Mr P. N. Owen, Medical Halil; aiid the secretary, nir J. Griffiths-Rees. Mr D. Brains moved, Mr Soourfield secon- ded, that Mrs ouvan-Evans take the chair pro. tem. Carried. Mr D. Evans moved, Mr Scourfield secon- ded that Mr H. J. H. Lawrence be re-ap- pointed chairman for the next three years. Mr Evans, in proposing said Br Lawrence had so successfully piloted their ship though the troubled waters of tlic, post that they could no possibly have a better chairman at the Jlolm in the calmer waters which he trusted now awaited them, since the County Council had increased their representation on the management; they would also increase their grants to meef the requirements of the school (cheers). Dr Lawrence in returning thanks for the honour they had against bestowed on him, in once more re-electing him as their chairman; he trusted the same co-operation would be extended to him in the future as in the past, so that they may manage the school to the best interests of the children. He submitted that the best thanks of the managers was due to Mr Evans, Manordaf, for the able and successful manner in which he always repre- sented their interests at the County Council and the Education Committees. It was to Mr Evans's influence and efforts that they were indebted for the t75 additional grants that had been granted them (cheers). Mr D. Evans moved, and Miss Saer sscon- ded that Mr J. Scoui-field be re-appointed as vice-chairman for three years.. Mr Scoui-field proposed Mr Evans, but Mr Evans pressed his motion, which was carried. On the motion of Mr Scourfield, seconded by Miss Saer, te following were appointed as the Finance committe for the next three years: Mr H. J. H. Lawrence, Mr D. Evans, and Mr P. N. Owen. It was proposed by Mr D. Evans, seconded y Scourfield that the three lady members ~~<Mis Si Ivan-Evalis, Miss Saer, and Mi's ihomas— be appointed a committee to visn, the pupils' lodgings in the town, and to select the best and most suitable lodgings such as they could fully recommend. The Seoretary gave a summary of the pro- vision sof the irules made, re pupils lodgings, which had been submitted for the approval of the Central \\elsli Board, which had not vet been returned, the subject still being under that authority s consideration. The Secre- tary was instructed to bring them into use as soon as approved, and printed. Mr Scourfield moyed, Mrs Silvan-Evans seconded, that the managers, at the Head- masters request, should conduct the C.W.-O. examinations this year as usual, and that the Secretary fill up any gaps in superintending same as hitherto, should any of the managers not be able to attend.—Carried On the proposition o Mr D. Evans, secon- VT ,y,M.1??.,8aer> ™ decided that the school buildings be spring cleaned, etc. dur- ing the holidays. Application; for increase cf salaries from n t iV the mistress and Mr D. 1. Evans, B.Sc., were nio.-t favourably considered, both being fully entitled to it and had been promised it as soon as the funds would justify it. The following resolution was carried on the proposal of Mr Scourfield, and seconded by Mis^ Saer, "That we approve of the mistress and science master's applications tor increased salaries to which they are justly entitled, and strongly recommend them for same, both being :most suitable for the school ,and district, and are undobutedly the most underpaid teachers holding such positions in the whole county, and that we ask the County authority to suggest what salaries they are to be paid in the future, and urge that they be pa.id the same salaries other similar teachers in the county." The Secretary was instructed to forward copies of the teachers applications, with the resolution, to the County authorities. The annual statements of the school accounts to the 31st March. 1906, were pre- sented by the secretary, and signed by the managers, showing a balance to the good on the three combined banking accounts of L74 os lOd. The Secretary had also prepared a balance sheet Of the school accounts to --Ie 30th June, being the end of the School finan- cial year, which showed a balance at bankers after pavmoijf all cheques issued that day of £ 38 1/ 7d between the Maintenance scholarships and bursaries and the Repair and Improvement Fund accounts. „ J1*0 Secretary presented the re^ilt of the VjV examination, held 011 the 20th May. 4he Secretary reported that five candidates, two Whitland and three at the St. Clears centre, sat for the P.T. entrance examination held on the 9th June, 1906 15 candidates sat for the entrance scholarship examinations on the 30th of June, namley 11 at Uhitland centre, one of whom was dis- qualified being over age, and four at the St. deal's centre. Three boys from Trelech who competed for the Davics Charity scholarships also sa at that centre, but the four girls en- tered were reported to have sat at Carmar- then, he silibiniitt-ed that since the County authority had granted special permission for them to sit at St. Clears that they should ail do so in the future. i he Secretary presented the correspond- ence he had submitted to the. County Educa. tion Committee, who had confirmed his deci- sion re the two candidates he had disqualified I?1 o'n!llg.-at-tIle t'nt.1'anco examination on the 60th of June, owing to age and certifi. oates, At 4 p.m., a special meeting to meet Mr Uucn Owen Chief Inspector of the Central 2.W1 wu ^'n'\ lu;ld ,at the Intermediate School at the end of the triennial inspection Off the school, Avhen various subjects of inte- rest to the school were discussed with the managers.

Carmartbenshire Recbabites. The Recha&Htes of Carmarthenshire held their annual district council on Saturday the 30t.h ult., at Salem Chapel, Llandovery. Re- presentatives from 42 tents were present, togethei with the members of the executive *nd several visitors, the meeting being con- ducted by Mr John Jones, Pencader, D.C.R. A very gratifying report of the year's work was read by Mr W. David, D.S. Seven new tents had been opened. The membership had increased by 437 and the funds bv £ 1,260 lhe following were elected officers' for the coming year: Chief ruler, Mr D. C. Evans, St. Clears; deputy ruler, Mr James Knoyle, Llangathen; past chief ruler, Mr John Jone", pencader; superintendent of juvenile tents, Mr Thomas Fletcher. Ammanford secretary, Mr W. David, Llanelly; treasurer. Mr T. Gee Llanelly; auditoi^, Mr D. Evans, Newcastle Emlyn, and Mr D. J. Davies, Gwaencae- gurwen,, Messrs G. J. Hodges (Carmarthen) Thos. r letcher, and W. David, the delegates from he district to the High Moveable Conference at Aberdeen last August, rendered very vivid and graphic accounts of the business trans- acted and the pleasures enjoyed at that con- erence. x,The Rev Stephen Thomas, Penybank, and K)C'r° l>resented with a Collar S? aMhefr JSSr™ Nra$n°V"¥" out of offices. New Tents in the dis. (Sd."mnllT '? •* thS district fuml deposited altogether in the Carmartti ^^tant motions from the CounHl wero rejected by aSS i I'he prizes offered for ^petition among juveniles were awarded to D Wil- hams, Llanstephan, and Tom Morgan, Llan- elly. The Shield which is awiarded to the lenc which shows the highest percentage of inorease was taken by the Gwaencaegurwen Tent. Splendid arrangements for the entertain- ment of the delegates and visitors were made by Mr W. Thomas, Monumntal Mason, the secretary of the local Tent.

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