The County Echo

ECHOES. The London and Provincial Bank has dec- lared a dividend for the half-year ended Dec- ember 31st, 1909, at the rate of 18 per cent per annum, free of income tax. The humorous story concerning the berth- ing of Cunarders alongside the Ocean Quay resembles the putative aunt of the immortal Charles (surname unknown), inasmuch as its still running." As one daily discovers it in some fresh paper one is tempted to endorse Carlyle's analysis of the population of the British Isles. An explosion at Portsmouth has drawn attention to the fact that the Royal Navy contains a vessel entitled Fisgard I." It would be interesting to learn the derivation of the name. At the last Fishguard Petty Sessions a lead- ing legal luminary expressed his intention of calling evidence to prove that a practice had existed from time immemorial! If Fishguard possessed an unemployment bureau its officials would have found plenty of scope for their duties by visiting the Town Hall on the occasion of the Brewster Sessions. Fishguardians have long regarded the local ) police court much in the light of a theatre, but when they indulge in conversation to an extent only tolerated in the concert room it is carrying matters a trifle too far. The" Mauretania" was officially due at Fishguard at 5 o'clock on her last visit, and arrived almost to the minute. If you see it in the Echo it is so The London Gazette contains an order which states that from April 1st dogs in the county of Pembroke must wear a collar with the name and address of the owner. The order does not apply to packs of hounds or dogs used for sporting purposes, the destruc- tion of vermin, or the tending of sheep. It looks as if an Agricultural Party were to be formed in the House of Commons. Over 60 M.P.'s have promised to attend a Parlia- mentary dinner which is to be given by the Central Chamber of Agriculture and the Far- mers' Club. This dinner is intended to pave the way for the promotion of a Parliamentary party directed in defence of the interests of agriculture. An unknown species of fish was landed at Milford Haven on Friday from the trawler Vinca which had been fishing off the coast of Morocco. It had a head like a fox and a body like a snake. Efforts are being made to fix a meeting of the Welsh Church Commission for an early date, but considerable difficulty is being ex- perienced in arranging a day to suit all the members of the Commission. It is expected, however, that a sitting will shortly be held. The use of Welsh in the elementary school was punishable years ago. Mr Acland was the first Education Minister to place Welsh on the code. He was a friend of Mr Ellis and lived in Wales, and saw the absolute absur- dity of the position. A few days ago the Western Afail referred in its Parliamentary report to AIr Owen Philipps At last week's meeting of the Haverford- west Board of Guardians, the Northern Sani- tary Inspector (Mr D B Phillips) reported that his district was free from infectious disease. It is said that there are 300,000 acres of waste land in the six counties of South Wales. Of this area Pembrokeshire, we should imagine, is possessed of more than her fair share. I The Honourable Lloyd George, according to the San Francisco Argonaut," is hardly able to recognise his portraits in the French papers, which describe him as the yelling Apache of the British crisis." This is one of the quieter paragraphs in Figaro of Paris: —" The eye of Lloyd George shoots out flames. It is with the innate majesty of a king of speech that he treads the platform, roaring, stamping, yes howling, while he shakes the mass of his long, black hair."

DOAN'S INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUED PEMBROKE DOCK WOMAN COMES FORWARD. Our recent announcement, that we were arranging to conduct an enqiry into' Doan's numerous local cases, has met with the wide- spread appreciation of our readers. To-day a well-known Pembroke Dock resident comes forward and gives her personable experience, which she authorises us to publish for the benefit of others. Mrs L Johns, of 34, Front-street, Pembroke Dock, says :—" My back used to be so painful that when I sat down in a chair I was unable to rise for a time. The pains were very sharp and often I had bad attacks of dizziness. Black specks seemed to float before my eyes, and at times I was obliged to give up my work and rest a while. At night it was sometimes hours before I could get off to sleep I arose in the morning feeling unrefres- hed. "From the time I began using Doan's backache kidney pills, I obtained relief. They gradually sent away the pain, and made me feel brighter and better in every way I highly recommend Doan's pills for what they have done for me. (Signed) Louisa Johns." Nearly four years after her cure Mrs Johns said:—" My health has been so good that I have rarely had occasion to use Doan's back- I ache kidney pills since I gave my testimony for them." Doan's backache kidney pills are two shil- lings and ninepence per box, or six boxes for thirteen shillings and ninepence. Of all chemists and stores, or post free direct from the Foster McClellan Co., 8, Wells-street, Oxford-street, London, W. Be sure you get the same kind of pills as Mrs Johns had

SCLEDDY. A very interesting debate took place at the Reading Room on Friday evening, the nth inst, the subject being "Should the House of Lords be abolished." Mr W Morris, Letterston, took the negative and Mr Joel J James, (Pantyphillip) the affirmative. Mr Morris was supported by Mr Charles James, Pantyphillip, and Messrs J Reed Edwards, Parkyllyn, and T Rowe, Llwyn-yr-yscaw, spoke in support of Mr Joel James. Both papers read were very interesting and instruc- tive and showed considerably ability and ceseaieli in their preparation. The large audience present voted, with two exceptions, for the total abolition of the second chamber. Miss Edwards, Pareyllyn, presided in a very able manner. The usual votes of thanks were cordially given.

SOLVA. Constabulary Changes.-Constable James will, at the end of the month, be transferred to Jeffryston, being succeeded locally by Con- stable Bassett, who is now stationed at Ney- land. Storm Havoc.-As a result of the storm, several houses in the locality have been ■jjtfHfeied of their roofs, it being dangerous to ■^Brthe streets at night. St. Bride's Pay presented a spectacle unprecedented in recent years, the water being practically a seething mass of surf.

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. (ONE OF THE CONSTITUENT COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES. Prefident-The Right Hon. LORD RENDEL Principal—T. F. ROBERTS, M.A. (Oxon.). LL.D. (Viet.) Students are prepared for Degrees in Arts, Science (including the applied Science of Agriculture), Law, and Music. Sessional Composition Fee, R,10, with additional Laboratory Fees for Science Stu- dents. Registration fee, tl. Men students reside in registered lodgings in the town, or at the Men's Hostel—Warden Professor J W Marshall, M.A. Women students reside in the Alexandra Hall of Residence for Women— Warden Miss E A Fewings.—For full parti- culars respecting the General Arts and Science Departments, the Law, Agriculture and Day Training Departments, the Department for the Training of Secondary Teachers, and the Hostels, apply to J. H. DAVIEJS, M.A., Registrar

Fishguard, s Fleet. Some Farther Particulars. In our Mauretania Souvenir Edition we published a special article entitled Fish- guard's Fleet," in which, whilst reviewing all the vessels utilising the port regularly, we dealt particularly with the quartette of Saints." We are now in a position to supplement our references at that time to the other craft, plying to and fro between Fishguard and the Emerald Isle, our information being gleaned from an admirable paper read before the G.W.R. (London) Debating Society in 1905 by Mr T E Williams, Chief Clerk of the Mar- ine Department. The Pembroke" was built by Messrs Laird Brothers in 1880, being at that time a a paddle steamer. She was a very graceful vessel and made some very fast passages. A rather serious mishap occurred to her machinery in 1895, and, upon placing the steamer in Messrs Laird's hands for repairs, the directors decided to have her converted into a twin-screw boat. Her dimensions etc, are as follows :-Length, 254; breadth, 30; depth, 15 passengers 635 cargo, 352 cattle 420; gross tonnage, 977 and speed, 16 knots. In 1901 the directors placed on order with Messrs Laird for two twin-screw steamers of the latest type for the trade. These, which were delivered in 1902, were the "Great I Western and Great Southern respectively, and are fitted with every modern convenien- ience for the comfort of passengers, with the added advantage that this accommodation is all on one deck, there being no below-line cabins. Their dimensions, etc., are as follow Length, 275 breadth, 36; passengers, 684 depth, 15 cargo, 465 cattle, 700; gross tonnage, 1,339; and speed, 16 knots. Mr Williams drew particular attention to the marvellous regularity of the passages of these latter boats, mentioning that, during the summer of 1905 their average arrivals at New Milford over a period of two months varied only by four minutes, which he char- acterised as a truly wonderful performance when all things are considered. Serious accidents on the Waterford service have, happily, been very rare, and, with the exception of the machinery smash in the Pembroke' already referred to, there is only one other to record, namely when, during a thick fog, the same vessel ran upon a small rocky island off the Wexford coast in Feb- ruary 1899. She was, however, successfully towed off by a Cork salvage company, beach- ed in Waterford River, and temporarily re- paired to enable her to be taken to Birken- head and subsequently put in good trim once again by Messrs Laird. It is interesting to learn that the Palmer- ston, now general utility boat at theHarbour, was at the time of Mr Williams' lecture, occupied in towing outside the three-mile shore limit the barges into which the dred- ger had previously dumped the accumulations of many tides in the company's docks at Briton Ferry and Llanelly, and at the var- ious wharves at New Milford. As regards the Cork Company's steamers, the Inniscarra which was placed upon the service in 1902, is a fine example of the ship- builders' art, and steams sixteen knots, hav- ing at the date of the lecture reduced the journey from London to Cork by between six and a half and seven hours, thus-fostered by the (Great Western Company trebling the passenger traffic, and providing a direct service to the Southern Irish City second to none.

The New Parliament. Position of the Parties. Tha third Parliament of King Edward's reign, which was opened in state by his Mai- esty on Monday, is constituted as follows :— Liberals 275 Unionists I.. I 273 Labour 40 Nationalists 82 At the dissolution the totals were Liberals.273 Unionists 168 Labour 46 Nationalists 83 The Unionists have thus secured a net gain. of 105 seats, the Liberals are 98 below their dissolution total, and the Labour party six less than formally, while Mr Redmond's followers have lost one seat to the Unionists, and have eleven Independents with whom to share the representation of Ireland The total number of votes cast throughout the United Kingdom was 6,620,402, the largest on record. The Liberal-Labour, Nationalist, Independent Nationalist, and Socialist major- ity over the Unionists works out at 400,192. The Unionist majority over the Liberals, exclu- ding the other parties from the calculation was 248,527. The party totals were as follows :— Liberal 2,861,578 Unionist 3,110,105 Labour 593.745 Socialist 18,316 Nationalist (including indepen- dent Nationalist) 126,658

DIOCESE OF ST DAVID'S. The Bishop of St David's presided at a Consistory Court in St Peter's Church, Car- marthen on Tnursday, when Rev T R Wal- ters, M.A., R.D., Carmarthen, and the Rev Morgan Jones Powell, D.D., Aberystwyth, were re-appointed proctors to represent the clergy of the diocese in Convocation. Mr Walters, in acknowledging the compliment paid to him for the sixth successive year, stated that he was averse to the revision of the Prayer Book, and thought it should re- main as it is at present. He thought this was an inopportune moment to interfe re with it, as it was a bond of union between all clergymen and Churchmen. Mr Powell mainly agreed with these observations.

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I FISHGUARD AND NEYLAND PORTS. G.W.R. POLICY ATTACKED. Shareholder's Complaint of Ex- travagant Attention. L. AND N.W.R. CRITICISM. The last few minutes of the half-yearly meet- ing on the 11th inst., at Paddington, of the Great Western Railway Company were unusu- ally animated. The attention given by the directors to Fishguard was criticised, and the chairman's ruling on a question touching the election of directors evoked some protests, one of the shareholders saying it was scandalous and "worse than the House of Lords." Vicount Churchill presided, and there was a crowded attendance. In laying before the meeting the report and statement of accounts, his Lordship said first- class passengers had decreased 117,358 in number, and increased in money £ 20,490; second-class decreased in numbers 960,357 and in money £ 160,570; third-class showed a de- crease in numbers of 3,019,042 and an increase in money of £ 41,344. Season tickets showed an increase in numbers of 7,644 and in money an increase of Z6,219, the total decrease in money being £ 83,517. SOUTH WALES TRAFFIC LOSS The decrease shown in the accounts was accounted for chiefly by the loss of traffic in South Wales owing to coal trade disputes, and, there having been no real summer, a decrease in excursionists to London. There had been an increase in wages and salaries under Mr. Duke's award; and expenditure on the bridge over the River Towy in Carmar- thenshire was another item he considered sufficiently important to notice in passing. Running expenses, he said, showed a decrease of Z20,309, due to the decreased cost of coal and fewer engine miles run. The percentage of expenditure to receipts for the half-year was 60.969, as compared with 61.084 in 1908, and 61.370 in 1907. A serious decline had taken place in mineral receipts. This was due to the operation of the Coal Mines Regulation Act passed in 1908-what was known as the Mines Eight Hours Act. That had resulted in a restriction of output in the South Wales coalfield, and the loss to the Great Western Railway during the half-year alone was iE70,000 in mineral revenue. There was also a loss of Z35,000 in passenger receipts as compared with the corresponding period. In other words, the total loss from this cause alone for the half- year was £ 105,000. And the loss sustained by the company from this cause was really greater, for had it not been for the Act with all reasonableness they might have expected the same normal increase in receipts in South Wales as had been happening for some con- siderable time past. Therefore the E105,000 did not really represent as much as they Had really lost from this cause. Whatever opinions might be held as to the effect of the Mines Eight Hours Act in regard to the restriction of output, it certainly had given rise to contro- versies and difficulties in South Wales, which were said, on the very best authority, to have brought them within measurable distance of a strike. In what way the situation created by the Act was to be corrected it was impossible for him to say. But from what he could gather from that district he thought he was right in saying there was a very strong feeling growing in favour of the Act's repeal. (Applause.) At the time the Bill was before Parliament it met with the strongest opposition from a very large portion of the mining population and the consuming interests. And it was always very debatable as to what necessity existed for such legislation seeing, as he was bound to admit, that the colliers' Trade Unions and associations had usually been quite successful in making their own condi- tions so far as hours of work were concerned without any statutory intervention at all. (Hear, hear.) Another aspect of the Eight Hours Act was that it seemed probable that the price of coal would be very largely in- creased during the present half-year, and as the company consumed about H million tons of coal a year an additional cost of 6d. per ton meant no less than 435,700. ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SOUTH- WESTERN. With a passing reference to the satisfactory progress, being made with a new line between Swansea and Llanelly, he went on to speak of the several friendly conferences he had had with the chairman of the London and South- Western Railway, and he was hopeful that during the current six months arrangements would be made which would be of mutual advantage to the two companies. (Applause.) He was very pleased to say that since the chairman of the London and South Western Company had spoken he had had a further interview with him, and they had carried the matter a little further. (Hear, hear.) Any arrangement that would be made would be in the very best interests of the proprietors and the public. But at this stage, when negotia- tions were' going on, it would be most impolitic to go into any details. (Hear, hear.) They hoped by their Bill to be relieved from the obligation to run passenger steamers from Waterford to New Milford. The excellent service from Fishguard to Rosslare had practically put an end to the carrying of passengers other than by Fishguard, and they thought the time undoubtedly had come to ask Parliament to relieve them of the obliga- tion. They would continue to run boats for the conveyance of cattle and merchandise from Waterford. The works in the Bill he had referred to involved no serious outlay, the Parliamentary estimate for the whole being only £ 118,000. And they were not including any additional capital powers in it. "EXTRAVAGANT ATTENTION" TO FISHGUARD. Mr. W. R. Lawson, a stockbroker, said Fishguard was a difficulty in the way of agreement with the London and South- Western. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) No doubt the greater part of loss in revenue had occurred in South Wales. But it was not due solely to the Eight Hours Act. A great deal was due to the Fishguard Railway and the extravagant attention which had been given to that scheme. (Hear, hear.) Local traffic was sacrificed and local business had deteriorated very considerably. ("Bosh.") He related an experience of his going to Haverfordwest where the carriages were crowded and people waiting at stations. He had made it out that the company had only lost E42,000 in miAerals. The could have made a perfect harbour at New Milford. They sunk li millions there and now they were going to sink another 1* millions at Fishguard. The Rev. Mr. Scott (a well-known railway expert) said our grandchildren might see Fishguard a greater port than Liverpool. The chairman of the London and South-Western was "a man of war from his youth," and one wondered whether the Great Western chairman was altogether equal to holding his own. i"Titne, and laughter.) One shareholder hoped there would be a limitation of rivalry between Fishguard and Holyhead. The Chairman said the figures showed that many who used to travel second-class now travelled ,first. As to Fishguard, that service had not entered into the discussion of the London and South-Western agreement. The general manager was making some arrange- ments with the London and North-Western. SUMMARY OF THE REPORT. The directors reported a net decrease on the half-year in regard to receipts and expenditure of 30,117, the balance available allowing of a dividend on the Ordinary Stock at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum, leaving k98,875 to be carried forward, as compared with 7 per cent. in the corresponding half-year with a carry forward of £ 86,998. The construction of the Swansea District Railways had been well advanced; the erection of coal tips and hydraulic appliances at the King's Dock. Swansea,w as making good progress, as was also the doubling of the Newport tunnel. Votes aggregating Z470,000 for various works were passed, but no v<)te was asked for this half-year for South Wales works. FISHGUARD'S FUTURE. G.W.R. COMPANY'S INTENTIONS. "I am not aware of any circumstances in any possible arrangement which this com- pany might make with the London and South Western Company which would operate against the maintenance and development of the port of Fishguard." This was the answer given to the London representative of the "South Wales Daily News" by Mr. J. C. Inglis, general manager of the Great Western Railway, in reference to the possibility, under the London and South- Western arrangement of steamers being diverted from Fishguard to Southampton or other southern ports. Viscount Churchill (chairman of the -reat Western Railway) says the name of Fishguard has not even been mentioned in the negotia- tions for agreement between the two companies. L. AND N.WN SHAREHOLDER'S ATTACK. NOT MERELY COMPETITION. "ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MONEY." The Great Western Railway Company's enter- prise in making Fishguard one of the lead- 'mg ports of call was the plaint of a share- holder at the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the London and North-Western Railway Com- pany at Euston on Friday. Mr. Lawson, a shareholder, said he not only objected to the Great Western Railway making a shorter line than theirs to Birmingham, but there was another matter which would require the united support of the North-Western and all other shareholders of railways. That was the policy initiated at Fishguard, which was a very bad one. It was not simply railway com- petition—money had been spent to build miles of railway to get the Irish Channel and the Atlantic traffic. It was a very serious matter. One and a half millions had been spent at Fishguard, and it was not merely a question of competition-it was an absolute waste of money. There was only a certain amount of Irish Channel traffic and only a certain amount of other. If more capital was thrown into that it was ,simply waste. (Hear, hear.) The London and North-Western was the premier railway in the country, and had always been fair to its rivals. The Chairman, in reply, said he could only refer Mr. Lawson to the words used by Lord Stalbridge, chairman of the London and North- Western, at a previous meeting I would again point out to you what I have so often said—that ours is a policy of co-operation, and we have not been content with talking about it, but acting upon it. That was hardly an answer to Mr. Lawson's point, but it was getting at what was at the back of it.

WELSH DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- CULTURE. The Glamorganshire Chamber of Agricul- ture on Saturday considered the proposal to establish a Welsh Department of Agriculture. Mr. Noah Morgan proposed the following re- solution: That it is desirable that a Welsh Board or Department of Agriculture similar to the Irish Department of Agriculture, and proportionately as well equipped with funds should be instituted in Wales, and this cham- ber, in conjunction with the Cow,bridge and County Farmers' Club, should bring the matter before other agricultural chambers, clubs, and societies in Wales and Monmouthshire, with the object of arranging a conference, with con- joint action." Mr. Morgan quoted figures which showed that other countries were more favoured than Wales in this regard, and ad- vocated the appointment of a Welsh depart- ment, with a Minister, on similar lines to that which Ireland enjoyed. Alderman Illtyd Thomas seconded, and tie resolution was carried nem con., and a com- mittee was appointed to further toi'sider the matter. Mr. William Hopkins moved:— That this chamber is of the opinion, that it is both advisable and necessary in the interests of agriculture that the council of the University College for dcubh Wales ai d Monmouthshire at Cardiff should organise a department of agriculture in the college, to- gether with an experimental station, or f&rm, so that the same facilities may be piovidcd for the farmers of South Wales at Cardiff as are provided at Bangor a;ii Aberystwyth for the farmers of North and Micl Wales. A letter was read from Princioal E. H. Grffiths, who was unavoidably absent staging that it would need an income of Z700 or E800 to establish an experimental farm, and that a grant should be obtained from the Board of Agriculture for this purpose. The motion received general support, and was unanimously carried.

"A RUINED HOUSE." HISTORIC BUILDING IN PEMBROKE- SHIRE. In the course of an article in the "Church Family Newspaper," entitled "Along the Road," Mr. Arthur C. Benson dilates on the pleasurew ith human beings take in contem- plating a ruined building, and concludes that the whole sentiment for what is old and ruin- ous is a modern one and a tender one, good for heart and mind. I have been spending some days," writes Mr. Benson, "in Pembrokeshire, that marvel- lous bleak., wind-swept land, with its winding sea-creeks, its fantastic cliffs, its rocky islets. There is a paradise of romantic buildings! Valley after valley has its bastioned feudal stronghold—Llawhaden, Carew,- Manorbie?—the very names have a thrill! Hamlet after hamlet has an ivy-clad, stone-vaulted tower—one can hardly conceive what conditions of life should have produced such a proximity of stately guarded dwellings. On hill after hill there stands some low-arched, thick-walled church, with a great loop-holed tower, corbelled and machicolated, the high walls inclining gently towards the top—' battering' is the technical term—which gives them a marvellous grace of out-line. Here on a still winter afternoon, with a pale gleam of sun, we came suddenly on a place, Lamphey by name, of which I had not so much as heard, which seems to me one of the most incredibly beautiful things I have ever had the delight of seeing. It was one of the seven great houses of the Bishops of St. David's, but it was alienated from the see to Henry VIII. by Bishop Barlow. He dis- mantled the palace of St. David's, and sold the lead of the roof; Lamphey he parted with to the King, in favour of a godson of his own, a Devereaux, who was the founder of the house of Essex. Down in a pleasant valley lies the great ruined house, by the side of a rapid, full-fed stream that runs through wooded hills, by sedge-fringed pasttires and copse-clad dingles- The air is soft and sweet. Big palms grow in the open air by the ruined walls, and the ivy sprawls over the parapet with incredible luxuriance, The plea.sance is now a big walled garden, in the centre of which stands a tower of exquisite proportions, with a charm- ing arched loggia at the top, a favourite de- sign of Bishop Gower, the fourteenth century Bishop of St. David's, who left this beautiful feature of his art in most of the palaces of the see. The building, which is wonderfully com plete, stretches away beside the stream in two vast blocks of masonry, of all sorts of dates and designs, with its towers and bastions and gables and buttresses all wreathed in ivy, with a great profusion of ferns and creeping plants, the cattle stalled in its vaults, the garden im- plements tored isn its stately chambers. Here, in its green solitude, with the stream swirling at. its foot and the wind whispering in the thickets, it crumble^ slowly to decay,"

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