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LLANDILO SCHOOL BOARD J ELECTION.

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LLANDILO SCHOOL BOARD J ELECTION. The result of the last triennial election of this Board, as reported in another column, cannot but be gratifying to the Conservatives of the district. They succeeded in putting their three candidates on the Board. The Right Honorable Lord Dynevor ran third on the list. His Lordship headed the poll by a very considerable majority in and around Llandilo, and it was only reduced by the voters in the most distant parts of the School Board area. Mr Herbert Peel and Major Thomas polled remarkably well, while their political opponent, Mr Gwynne Hughes, who was second 1* on the list in 1888, met this year with an abrupt fall, and was defeated. We regret the Radical Party have been so ungenerous to one of their best friends, and believe the interests of the Board would have been better served had Mr Hughes been returned instead of some of their other pets. But our opponents are blind to personal qualifications and experience even in their own men. They care but little about the proper and effectual discharge of the duties of members as long as they can place their particular horses in harness. We understand that some of the most intelligent members of the Tabernacle Chapel at Llandilo have been so disgusted with the treatment accorded Mr Hughes, that they have severed their con- nection with that body, and have gone ever to the Church, worshipping for the first time at St. Teilo's last Sunday. Much hostility was shown by the Nonconformists of Cwmamman against the candidature of Mr J. B. Morris, who had left their communion and joined that of the Church. Every effort was made to defeat him, but so firmly rooted he was that he not only ran fifth, but polled 400 more votes than in 1888. We regret Mr Ivor Morris was unsuccessful. We believe he would ba an acquisition to the Board, as he is well conversant with the wants aud wishes