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CONWAY. Parish Church (Sunday Services): 8.0 a.m. Celebration of the Holy Communion 9.45 a.m. Welsh service 11.15 a.m English service 6.0 p.m Welsh service. 10 30 a.m daily. Matins. St. A 6.0 p.m. English service Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. — fKnelish ServieesV— Next Snudav: Morning 11.0. evening 6.30, Rev H H. M'Cullsgh, B.A Colwyn Hay. A GOOD PLACE FOR BOOTS.—For the best and cheapest of all classes of Boots and Shoes go to Joseph Jones, Berry Street, Conway. Best Shop for repairing. adv. ioq— A VOLUNTEER COMMISSION FOR A CONWAY MIXICIPAL OFFICIAL.—The "London Gazette" of Friday night, July 3rd, contains the following — "War Office, July 3rd, Yolunteer Rifles, 2nd Volunteer Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers,— Thomas Booth Farrington, to be quartermaster; dated the 19th of June last." A FORTHCOMING GARDEN PARTY AT DEGAXWY. —A garden-party and sale-of-work to be opened by the Mayor and Mayoress of Conway, will be held, in aid of the Deganwy Church and Schools Building Fund, at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 17th, in the Deganwy Castle Hotel grounds (by kind per- mission of Mrs Tritton). The St. Tuddo Brass Band has been specially engaged, and there will also be miscellaneous entertainments. For further particulars, see our advertising columns. HISTORY OF THE CONWAY "GORSEDD EISTEDD- FOD." Of the many who had heard of the "Gorsedd Eisteddfod held in Conway in 1861, few knew anything of its proceedings it was, therefore, a pleasant surprise to find the following passage (giving the history of this memorable gathering) in an Eisteddfoclic article in the Liverpool Daily Post, dated June 29th, 1896 "Gwilym Cowlvd, Chief Bard Positive, in a letter now first published, writes The throwing open of the Chair prize to an awdl or a pryddest at the Rhyddlan Eisteddfod in 18 50 caused great commotion among the bards, and much bitter controversy. But nothing historically valuable was brought to light even by the supporters of the awdl. Not one of them brought the real fact to light and the irregularity of the Rhydd- lan Eisteddfod passed by without anyone being thoroughly convinced whether it was right or wrong, injurious or beneficial, to tinker with or alter Eisteddfodic rules. The old bards of the time, as Professor Morris Jones very appro- priately puts it, knew but very little of history. They knew from tradition that the bardic chair

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Local Welsh Place-Names. Presiding on Friday, July 3rd, over the morning meeting of the National Eisteddfod. Professor Rhys touched new ground, and as a Celtic scholar interested greatly a large portion of the audience in a notice of some of the local place-names. He said, at the outset, that it was not an easy matter to talk sense at an Eisteddfod at any time, but it was to him a physical impossibility to shout sense to an audience situated as many of them were. They were met, he went on to say, in a part of Carnarvonshire called the Creuddyn. What the name meant he did not know; but there was another Creuddyn in Cardiganshire, and that was otherwise called Crouddin, or Croyddyn. The name looked to him like that of a stronghold or fortress in the first instance a name in fact which, if it occurred in Gaul. or the ancient France of Roman times, might be expected to have been written in Latin Cragodunum, or Crogodunum, or else Cravodunum, or Crovo- dunum. which might have possibly meant the dun of the huts, or what Welsh archaeologists had of late been inclined to call somewhat too indis- criminately culiau givyddelod, or Irishmen's huts. They might see specimens on the cliff over in the old fortress on Penmaenmawr. He might mention that there was apparently an older form of that name Penmaen Mawr, "the great penmaen," for the maen seemed to have been introduced in the way of popular etymology to make Penmaen mean the top of the stone, where you wanted a word for rock or cliff. At all events, the older name seemed to be Penmon Mawr, with Pen-mon as in Anglesey. What sense that made no one exactly could tell till somebody discovered what the word lI-fôn meant. The meaning of that had been lost, probably with the druids of the Mona of Roman historians. But they would want chapter and verse for his assertion that the more genuine name was Pen-mon-Mawr. Well, he could not give them the chapter, but here was the verse- Mae geny' iar yn g-ori Ar ben y Penmon Mawr." For calling his attention to those soothing lines, he had to thank a former pupil of his, the daring spirit that had sinned against the Gorsedd, Pro- fessor John Morris Jones. [Laughterj. He would not point to him lest the multitude should stone him at the end of that meeting. [Laughter]. He felt that would be rather an extreme measure, but he (Professor Rhys) was not without a grudge against him as a researcher. Professor Morris Jones ought to have made his researches into the history of the Gorsedd sooner, at any rate before Sir Watkin and their humble servant had joined the Gorsedd on one memorable morning a few years ago at Wrexham. [Laughter]. A professor had a sort of vested right to be instructed by his pupils, and he felt he ought to have been warned of his ignorance. Passing on to discuss the name of Llandudno, Professor Rhys said that the place was named after a Saint, Tudno, whose history was almost wholly lost. He took for granted, however, that he lived in the sixth or fifth century, when almost everybody appeared to have been a saint or a king. The distinction was a very sharp one the saints were very saintly, and the kings were very wicked but the kings did not seem to have dabbled in the practice of writing; that was left to the saints. One of these last was Gildas, than whom no other saint had a more tiresome command of the language of abuse, which he bestowed freely on the princes of his time for, when he exhausted his own vocabulary, he had recourse to the storehouses of the Hebrew prophets. Modern commentators were sometimes inclined to think that one of the Princes whom Gildas thought fit to scold lived near Llandudno. He spoke of a certain Prince as ursus, a bear, and some thought that they detected in that bear an allusion to Arthur, as the first part of his name coincided with the Welsh arth, a bear. However that might be, the place mentioned was desig- nated receptaculum ursi, the stronghold or refuge of the bear, which he should put back into archaic Welsh as Din arth," and into Goidelic as Dun aitt. It happened that they had a name

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Llandudno Royal National Eisteddfod. Continuing our notice of the above-named assemblage, upon the same lines as in our issue of July 3rd, we give the following, not as an exhaus- tive or descriptive report, but as items singled out for special mention. On the Thursday morning, the Gorsedd pro- ceedings included the offering-up of the Gorsedd prayer by the Right Rev the Lord Bishop of Bangor (Dr Lewis Lloyd), and the initiation of the successful candidates for Gorseddic degrees, among these being the Rev E. Hughes (" Ieuan Enlli "), of Talybont. At the morning Eisteddfod meeting, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn in the chair, Mr Ffrangcon- Davies brought down the house with his Eisteddfod song. "Bugail Aberdyfi." The -1-25 prize for an oil painting was awarded to Mr E. A. Krauze (of Conway), whilst Mr Clough (of Glanconway) was awarded for a water-colour a Cis prize not included in the programme. In the course of the chairing of the Bard, this year's winner being the Rev Ben Davies (of Ystalyfera). an interesting incident occurred, thus described by the Western Mail Among the Bards on the right of the chair, and slightly in front of them, robed in white, and wearing his medals, like a veteran of the Court of Ceridwen, otherwise Athene, was "Gwalchmai," Llandudno. who has entered upon the ninety-fourth year of his age. The aged Bard was heard saying something, and the vast audience became hushed. Then the venerable sire cried out, in tremendous tones, Heddwch (" Peace "). It appeared as if the venerable and distinguished poet desired to impart his blessing ere his final exit to the assembled literary and musical fraternity of his native land. A general murmur of his word echoed responsively." For a prize of one guinea offered for the best englyn on The Mirror," Ap Cledwyn (of Glanconway) was declared the best out of 55 competitors. At the joint annual meeting of the National Eisteddfod Association and the Gorsedd, the Archdruid (" Hwfa Mon ") presiding, it was decided, by 61 votes to 9, to hold the 1898 Eis- teddfod at Festinicg.

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Welsh National Testimonial to Mr Gee. Mr J. Herbert Roberts, M.P., has been appointed Chairman of the Committee of the Gee Welsh National Testimonial fund"; Mr Samuel Moss. Hon. Secretary and Mr Elias Jones, J.P., A.C.C., Hon. Treasurer. Among a large committee of representative Liberals, appear the names of the Rev. Thomas Parry, J. P., A.C.C. ;Mr Joseph Jones, J. P. and Mr O. Isgoed Jones, J. P. The subscription list will remain open for a period of about two months only, and a meeting of subscribers will be called to decide upon the form which the testimonial shall take.

Riviere's Opera House, Llandudno. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of next week, the Royal Swann Serenaders will appear at this well-known place of entertainment, of which Mr W. H. Leeman is General Manager and the Band of the Royal Engineers, on Saturday, July 18th. Mons. Jules Riviere's Season com- mences on Saturday, August ist.

Principal Edwards of Bala. In the current number of The Young Man, appears an article by the Rev T. Wynne-Jones on Principal Edwards of Bala A study in Welsh history." The sketch, so far as it goes, is inter- esting, but it is far from constituting an adequate record and estimate of the work and character of such a man as Dr Edwards. If the writer had omitted his sweeping and often quite unnecessary generalisations, and such passages as the gushing eulogy of Aberystwyth's charms, there would have been a better chance of doing justice to the subject of the article. The paper is illustrated by some excellent photographs of Dr Edwards, the Colleges at Aberystwythand Bala, and the statue of Thomas Charles which stands in front of the Methodist Chapel at Bala.

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which looked like a compromise between those two forms in Dinerth or Dineirth the place was now a farmhouse, with ancient remains over the hills in the parish of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, and that was possibly the receptaculum ursi, to which Gildas referred as the refuge of "the bear." Among other ancient names there might be men- tioned Bod-vs-gallen and Gloddaeth, borne by two of the charming residences of the Mostyns. He had no idea what Gloddaeth meant, but possibly it referred to the cloddio, or digging for copper, which Lord Mostyn had mentioned to him as dating, perhaps, from Roman times. They knew the Romans mined for copper on the Gogarth. Bod-vs-gallen looked more transparent the "bod" commonly meant the home or residence of somebody, and it was usually followed by the name of a person, presumably that of the owner some time or other. In this case the latter was Ys-srallen. which recalled the Welsh word ysgall, thistles, and the story of a certain Prime Minister —it would be safe to say It was Lord Palmerston- who declined to give a certain Scotchman the Order of the Thistle, as he would be sure, he said, to eat it." [Laughter]. He was inclined to think vsgallen was a modified form of the Goidelic personal name Scanlan, of which they had another variant in ysgolan, the name of one who was treated in Welsh literature as a Goidel. Another important name ot a place was Deganwy, on which they saw extensive remains of a Castle, which plaved such a part in history some time after the Norman Conquest that the late Professor Freeman made a pilgrimage there, when, as he had heard him say, he was engaged in writing concerning William Rufus. They could trace the history of the fortress, however, in the chronicles much further back. Twice in the first quarter of the ninth century it was mentioned first under the name of Decantorum. which he would like to emendate into Decantorium. as that word would correspond exactly to the later Deganwy, or rather Degannwy. The earlier mention of the place simply recorded its being burnt down by lightning while in the second entry, some ten years later, thev read of its being destroyed by their neighbours the Saxons. In this instance it was called Art Decmtorum, the acropolis or ^stronghold of the Decanti. a people of whom they knew nothing beyond the bare fact that the name of Deganwy seemed to commemorate their exist- ence. There was, however. a people of practi- cally the same name living in another part of the island, namely at the very extreme of the north of Scotland and the post-Roman inscriptions of these islands enabled us to trace the word as a personal name in Devon, in Anglesea, and in the south of Ireland. These carried us back only to the sixth or fifth century, while the mention of the Decants of Scotland came in a geography dating from the early part of the second century. Pro- fessor Rhvs went on. speaking now in Welsh, to say that the Roman form of Conway was Cano- vium, or Canovis, as spelt on an old Roman milestone found about eight miles from Caerhun, which was supposed to be the station called Canovium. the real name of Conway being Aber Conway.

At Thursday evening's concert, the Rev Dr HerberEvans J. P..presided,and the principal vocal ists, Madame Belle'Cole, Mr Ben Davies, and Mr Ffrangcon Davies, were in their best form, and secured enthusiastic recalls. At Friday's Gorsedd, a number of honorary degrees were conferred, among the recipients being the Lady Augusta Mostyn (" Rhian y Gloddaeth "), Mrs Ashurst Morris ("Gwenrhian Clwyd "), Miss Gertrude Hughes (" Eosia "), Alderman the Hon. H. Lloyd-Mostyn ("Gogarth"), and the Hon. Mrs H. Lloyd-Mostyn (" Telynores Creuddyn "). At Friday morning's Eisteddfod meeting, Pro- fessor John Rhys gave a very interesting presi- dential address on Welsh Place-names." Miss Nellie Edge (Llandudno) was declared winner of the prize offered for two-hours clay-modelling of a head from life in the presence of the adjudicators. The Crown was withheld, from lack of merit in the nine compositions submitted. The audience unitedly sang, for the delectation of American visitors, the hymn 0 fryniau Caersalem to the tune Crugybar." On Friday evening, the Pavilion was packed at the rendition of the Messiah by the Eisteddfod Choir, under the baton of Dr Rogers. The full orchestra assisted, and the solo parts were taken by Miss Maclntyre, Madame Belle Cole, and Mr Lloyd Chandos, and Mr. David Hughes. In the absence of Lord Mostyn, the presidential chair was occupied by Professor Alfred Hughes, of Cardiff. Saturday's proceedings mainly consisted of the Brass Band contest, in which the first and second prizes were respectively won by the Besses o' th' Barn and Gossage Bands. The members of the two victorious Bands afterwards played selections of music in the grounds, and were entertained by the caterer (Mr Medlicott, of Liverpool), who throughout the Eisteddfod provided amply and excellently. The train-service was well arranged and carried out during daylight, but on one occasion, at least, the Llandudno railway-station was a scene of confusion in the evening, crowds vainly trying to get past the barrier to their train, which even- tually went without a great number of passengers who had booked, and who waited an hour for a relief-train for the Junction and Colwyn Bay. Thanks to the able arrangements of the railway- detectives, the Liverpool detectives on the steamers, and the large force of Carnar- vonshire Constabulary (under Supintendent Rowlands and Sergeant Rees), pickpockets were notably absent from the crowds thronging the streets, station, pier, and Eisteddfod grounds. During Eisteddfod week, Deganwy was lavishly decorated with bunting, Venetian masts, and mottoes, among the latter being "Welcome," "Success to our National Eisteddfod," Deganwy the Beauty of Wales," God Bless the Prince of Wales," etc., etc.

THE ENGLISH CONGREGATIONAL THREE-DAYS BAZAAR. On Tuesday afternoon, July 7th, at the Public Hall, in the presence of a good and representa- tive assemblage, Mrs Nunn opened a three-days 1! bazaar organised for the purpose of raising the ^475 necessary to clear away the debt remaining on the new organ and class-rooms at the Hudson Memorial English Corgregational Church, the Bazaar Committee being officered as follows :— Rev. Thomas Lloyd (Pastor), Chairman Rev. George K. Walker, Hon. Treasurer and Messrs James Lever and Frederick Bateson, Hon. Secretaries. The stalls were mostly named after some mountain, a framed picture of which, specially prepared by Miss Holmes (Science and Art Teacher at the Colwyn Bay Board School) and Mr Henry Jefferies, being displayed,together with the mountain's name and height (prepared bv Mr Fielding), and a motto selected and arranged by Mr James Lever. The framework of the stalls were erected and draped by Mr Chaplin, and decorated with ivy by Miss Holmes and friends. The list of stalls and stallholders was as follows :—Snowdon, — Mesdames Thomas Lloyd. Icke, Lancashire, and Fielding, and the Misses Lever (2), Daisy Holmes, and Bayne (2) Penmaenbach, Mesdames Allin, Greenfield, Holmes. Williams (Bod Fair), and Lester, and the Misses K. Southall, Baker, and Phillips Moel Siabod,—Mesdames George K. Walker, Bateson, Cartmell, Hulme, Hirst, and Waters, and the Misses Dennis, Barnes (2), and Byatt Penmaen- mawr, — Miss Williams (Manchester), and Miss Hall (Sheffield); Little Orme's Head (Fancy Stall), -I iss Ward and Mrs Clegg (Manchester) Sugar Loaf Mountain (Gentlemen's Stall),— Messrs Holmes, J. Jones, Lever, Greenfield, Fielding, Hulme. Cowley, Cartmell, Bateson, Lancashire, Fred Bafeson, Percy Kay, and Bowen Refreshment and Flower St;tll, Mesdames McKeevor, Fox, Conway. Blud, and Bowen, and the Misses Icke, Murray, Sager, Moore, Ankers, Burrow, Wright, Eardley, and E. Luscombe Christian Endeavour Stall,—Miss Holmes (Superintendent), Mr W. Greenfield (Secretary), and the members Flower Stall,- Miss Lilian Barnes and Miss Pattie McKeevor Book Stall and Electric Battery,—Mr W. Green- field Gallery of African Curios (lent by the Rev. W. Hughes, F. R.G.S.),—Mr J. Glynn Lawson (one of the Congo Institute Afiican Students) Bran-tub,—Miss Lily Greenfield, Master Leonard Fielding, and Miss Carrie Fielding. During the evening, musical selections were given from programmes arranged by Mrs Thomas Lloyd.— On the second and third days, the openers were Mrs Icke and Mr Frank Allmand (Chairman of the North Wales English Congregational Union). —The first day's takings amounted to £ 120, and the second day's to C,75, the total of the two days'sales thus being only ^5 shoit of ^200. COLWYN BAY AND THE PWLLYCROCHAN WOODS. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL. On Tuesday, July 7th, a special meeting of the Colwyn Bav Urban District Council was convened bv a requisition, signed by Councillors the Rev V. Williams, G. Bevan, and John Roberts, "to consider the urgent question of renting or pur- chasing the Pwllycrochan Woods." The Council- chamber was crowded with ratepayers, there being upwards of a hundred leading townspeople present, including Canon Roberts and many ladies.—The Clerk (Mr James Porter) having read the. notice, Mr Blud asked the Chairman (Rev T. Parry, J.P.) whether he had acceded to the request that a special meeting be held.—The Rev W. Yenables-Williams: It is not necessary.— Mr Blud: I shall call upon the Clerk to read the rule that gives power to call a special meeting.— The Clerk read the rule that a special meeting could be called on a requisition from three members.—The Chairman But the matter was referred to the Highway Committee to meet this morning. I rule that this meeting is quite out of order. [Sensation. ]-The Rev Y. Williams I rule it strictly in order and in compliance with the Standing Orders. [Loud applause.] The Clerk has so ruled.—The Chairman: Oh, no, he has not ruled. -The Rev V. Williams He has given it as his opinion that this is a legal meeting.—The Chairman here rose and left the meeting, and was followed by Mr W. Davies, Mr Blud taking a seat amongst the general public.—The Rev V. Williams thereupon moved, and Mr Bevan seconded, that Mr J. Roberts take the chair.— Mr J. Roberts: If the members all disappear it is no use. [Laughter.]—Mr J. Porter: There is a remnant left.—Mr Williams: If they still like to make fools of themselves, let them do so. [Hear, hear. I This is apparently a design, and pre- arranged. The Chairman here re-entered the room to fetch something. — Mr J. Roberts: Are you going away, Mr Chairman?—The Chairman: Yes this is quite out of order.-I,Ir Williams: It is quite in order. [Applause.] —Mr J Roberts then took the chair, and said that he was sorry to see members leaving the Council-table.— Mr Williams We will put them under the table. [Laughter.]—The Rev J. G. Howarth regretted that such a state of things had come to pass in Colwyn Bay. There was no need for it. They were trying to do what they could for the good of the town and for a mere stranger like himself to stand there and the old inhabitants to leave the table troubled him more than he could tell. Mr Williams explained that he took steps to call that meeting because of the general outcry from visitors from all parts of the country against the Woods being closed, and because the people who made their living in Colwyn Bay during the summer were suffering severely. [Applause.] He considered it the bounden duty of the Council to listen to the influential deputation present that day, after Mr Bevan had presented the numerously signed petition urging that the Woods be opened at the earliest petiole moment.—The Chairman said it nas not now a question of renting the Woods, but of purchasing them. [Cheers.] They had met recently to discuss the conditions of sale, about which there had been a great deal of talk. He regretted that thev, as a Council, had not yet sent a deputation to the directors of the Estate Company about the purchase of the Woods. [Hear, hear.] He was in favour of appointing a deputation to wait on the Company and offer them £ ,7,000 for the Woods. [Applause.] Dealing with the question of title, Mr Roberts said that it was 31 years since Lady Erskine sold the Pwlly- crochan estate to Sir John Pender, who twenty years afterwards sold it to the Estate Company. Since then several other Companies and persons had bought some terms and conditions, which any solicitor would tell them gave a very good title. [Hear, hear.] As to the clauses respecting the mines, there was nothing in that it was inserted into every agreement to purchase land as a matter of course. With reference to the drainage the Public Health Act would compel them to carry out all the drainage necessary [Hear, hear], and of course they could get a loan for that purpose in the ordinary way. [Hear, hear.] He hoped that, for the sake of Colwyn Bay, the Council would decide to purchase the Woods, and between that meeting and the Local Government Inquiry the ratepayers could discuss and make up their minds on the question. -Ilr John Porter, proprietor of the

SPECIAL SESSIONS. CONWAY, TUESDAY, JULY 7TH.-Before Coun- cillor Dr R. Arthur-Prichard (chairman) and Owen Rowland, Esq. SENTENCES ON A COMMON-LODGINGHOUSE KEEPER. Alfred Ccoper, common-lodginghouse keeper, Conway, was fined 10s and costs for being drunk and disorderly the previous evening, and ^1 and costs for assaulting with a poker a man named John Jones (Rosemary-court). DEATH OF MR. S. SIDLEY, R.C.A. R.B.A. The announcement of Mr Sidley's death will be received with surprise and regret bv a large circle of friends in this district. His death took place at his London residence, Kensington, on June 29th, and the funeral took place on July 4th. Mr Sidley resided during the last two summers at Bryn Gwylan, Conway. He was a portrait, painter of considerable ability, and executed many important commissions in London. Many fine examples of his work have been seen on the Royal Cambrian Academy's walls at Plas Mawr, of which Society he was a prominent member. He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He was a native of Hyde, near Manchester, and it was in the latter city that he received his Art education, being introduced to the Manchester School of Design by H. Clarence Whaite, P.R.C.A., R.W.S., &c., &c. Mr Sidley was in his 67th year.

Pwllvcrochan Hotel, said that this time last year he had thirty visitors staying at the hotel, now he had only seven and as he had of course to keep up his usual staff of servants, he was losing monev. He therefore felt for his fellow-townsmen and townswomen. who last year were taking pounds where they were now only taking pennies. He hoped that the Council would be truly patriotic, and not nersist in the higgling and pig-gling- which had marked their proceedings on this question in the past. [Cheers.]—Mr Bevan presented a peti- tion, signed bv 200 representative ratepayers, in favour of purchasing- or renting the Woods, and called attention to the large and influential depu- tation present, who wished to trv and persuade the Council to adopt the motion in favour of the purchase of the Woods.—Mrs Fletcher (a member of the deputation, who informed a reporter that she was a relative of the late General Gordon, and had Gordon's spirit, which would sooner die than be beaten) next addressed the meeting. Fii-st- of all she read the following document "This denutation waits upon its representatives in Council assembled, and begs to solicit their votes in favour of the purchase or the renting and immediate opening of the Woods, and the inser- tion of an official notice in the leading papers to the effect that the Woods are open to the public. The deputation have not troubled the Council on a light matter, but upon one of such seriousness that it cannot be over-exaggerated. The deputa- tion especially wishes to petition the aid of the Chairman (Mr Thomas Parry), praying him to give his casting-vote in the interests of the trade of the town bv supporting the purchasing- or the rental of the Woods." Proceeding, Mrs Fletcher said that that petition was of course intended for all the members of the Council, but the Chairman (Mr T. Parry) and others had g-one away, which was very cowardly of them. TCheers.] A woman would never have run away like that. [Cheers.] The seriousness of the question could not be exaggerated, and the ladies hoped, had the Chairman remained, to have persuaded him to give his casting-vote in favour of the prosperity of Colwvn Bav. [Cheers.] She had had several letters from intending visitors, saying that unless the Woods were opened thev would go to LJan- dudno. ["Shame."]—The Chairman pointed out that a rate of 3d in the pound would realise a large sum. and, as their rateable value was troing up. it would not be felt if they got the Woods. [Hear, hear.]—Mr John Porter moved, and Mr Bevan seconded, that a deputation consisting of the Rev W. Yenables-Williams, the Rev Thomas Parrv (the Chairman of the Council). Mr John Roberts, and Mr Robert Evans. be sent to the Estate Company to arrange terms for the pur- chase of the Woods.—On being- put, the resolution was unanimously adopted, amid the frantic cheers of the ratepayers present.—The Rev W. Venables- Williams said that a great deal had been said from time to time about putting the Land Clauses Act into force for the purchase of the Woods. He. however, was persuaded that that could not be done. He had written to the Local Government Chronicle on the question, and thev replied that the Woods could be purchased by the Council as a recreation-ground by agreement, or under a Provisional Order. The Chairman of the Council had bought several plots of land on the same conditions that were proposed to be enforced now, and if he had done that himself, why should he object to its being done on behalf of the rate- pavers? [Cheers.]—Mr E. H. Davies (a leading tradesman, and a member of the deputation) said that Colwyn Bay never was so empty as now. He strongly denounced the action of the Chair- man of the Council and other members, in running awav from a representative meeting like that. [Applause.] He considered it scandalous conduct. and hoped that the ratepayers would remember it at the next election. [H ear, hear.]—Mr G. J. Lockyer (a hotel-keeper) said that he had only seven guests in, and last year at this time he had 27. He had letters everv day, complaining that the Woods were closed, from Birmingham and other towns.—Mrs Grove quoted the W idnes district as one from which she had received letters, complaining that people would not come because they had seen in the papers that the Woods were closed and the shore like a quarry.— Another lady ratepayer said that the ladies should call a meeting and bring pressure on the Council. They believed that there were only two or three obstructionists in the Council.—Mr Bevan would like to refute the statement that the Woods would cost much more than £ 8,000. The road-making would onlv cost about £100, and the drainage was onlv about 600 yards, whereas the Chairman of the Council had said that it was two miles. thus making a gross mistake. He argued that the Council should not hesitate in the matter.— The Chairman remarked that Colwyn Bay would double Llandudno and Rhyl. They need not be afraid of building too much. — The meeting closed with the expression of a firm determination to obtain possession of the Woods as soon as possible.