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THE PORTHCAWL PILOT: n" iI.VTED AEROW. -0$- jjO Vv ERS. "The gi.; tuon have always thoughi much of Luther always kept a flower in L en his writing table. Lord Bacon has a itiful passage about flowers, As to Sua! < > t >xlie is a perfect Alpine I valley—he > 1 jh of fiovrers: thej spring, and blossom, and ware in every cleft of his mind. Witness the Midsummer Night's Dream.' Even Milton—cold, serene, and stately as ha is—breaks forth into exquisite gushes of ten- derness and when lie flowers, as in Lycidas and C'o, — (H. B. Stowe). 30. There is no mistake about it. Mr. R. E. Jones asks for nine hundred and fifty pounds for the strip of land which must be taken in when the extension of the Esplanade is car- ried out. Modesty forbids my dilating upon t the fact that I v. as the first to give to an eager public the information as to that por- tion of the demands of Mr. R. E. Jonas, which related to cash down. We will dis- miss that after I have again given an assur- ance to the public that whatever the aims and desires of others might be. my one controll- ing passion is not to make money, or to rake in money, hut to spend myself in the public service. A man who does this is worth to the community quice as much as say a.stript of land three hundred feet in length. MIGHT HAVE ASKED MORE. Two or three of the Oracles of Portheawl agreed the other evening that Mr. R. E. I Jones might have asked for more than U);jO, and that it was only his well-known generos- ity that had kept him back from demanding four figures. I readily allow that the figures might have been higher. Once a start has been made it is so easy to ascend quickly— that is to say, on the part of the seller, but usually the buyer has some opinion of his own on the matter, and must not bo left cut of consideration. Or- FICI-KT, DELAY. The Rev. Tuckwell (the Radical parson) givea in his Reminiscences the following example of official delay: — "A clerk in the Birmingham Post Office —(so told me once its accomplished chief, Mr. Walliker)—"wearing, unlike his comrades, a tall hat, petitioned the postmaster that a suitable peg might be put up for its accommodation. In accordance with rule the postmaster requisitioned the surveyor, who designed the peg, and wrote to tfie secretary to the Post Othce. ihe secre- tary communicated with the Board of Works: the Board of Works referred the business to their surveyor: he wrote approvingly to their clerk of works, who employed a contrac- tor to give an estimate. Finally, peg and estimate travelled back through all these media, to find that during the two years' delay the clerk had left, and the peg was no longer wanted." On my own account I will add the query that if it took two years to get a hat peg, how long would it take to get a Post- Office.9 Here at Porthcawl we hope we shall, in the fulness of time, have a new Post Office, fur- nished wfrh hat pegs and other devices, to make up for our long waiting. Iz, 11 NEW POST OFFICE. Since writing the foregoing a special courier, or whatever else you might term him. has reached me in a breathless condition with the intelligence that the Post Office for Porth- cawl is to be begun forthwith. In most dra- I matic fashion, I was informed that before this present week has rolled itself off, stones which will form part of the noble and much- needed structure will actually have been em- bedded in mortar, or in other words that work of laying the foundations will have been t started. Once the contractor (Mr. Bevan. 9( p(marth) is allowed to get at the work, all go well, we may be sure. J NEWTON \OTTAGE OXEN SOXG. Mrs. Catherine Hopkin. of Tv Talbot, Xot- tage, not only remembers o: ,eing used for ploughing in the parish of ton Nottage. but she recalls the words of > of the Oxen songs. She gives the following as a fr<f> translation of the Welsh of a sotlg which she had heard ploughmen sing melodiously to their team of lour oxen whilst at work in Newton -Nottage parish;— Talk all over the country, I Newton ottage parIsh; Talk all over the country, I Of the windmill at Xewtou. There are four white wings Turning on the mountain." IMPROVED TRAIX R VICE. With all the glory of a handbill printed in two colours, the public are informed of the improved train service between Xewport and Portheawl, which started on July 1st. It is doubtless most admirable—I mean the train service but one is inclined to ask why is at- tention given almost entirety to the "Cardiff side, whilst the teeming populations west of py le, summer and winter alike, are given so little consideration ? If the Chamber of Trade of Portheawl really has some influence with the railway authorities in making their summer arrangements, how came they to overlook the reasonable requirements of vast areas, due attention to which would yield golden results to the Great Western Railway Company and the town of Porthcawl alike r An important group of railway officials and a group selected from within the Chamber of Trade met at Porthcawl a few days ago, and there was a due exchange of compliments. Each group was favourably impressed by the other, and on the Portheawl side great things are expected, amongst these being a doubling of the rai! track to Pyle, at a cost, so an ex- pert says, or £ 20,000. SEA AND LAM). IC I I The attention of the proper authorities is urged to the hackney carriages, and the poor beasts which furnish the motive power. Car- riages which are licensed to carry five per- sons, sometimes have nine packed in them. It is to be hoped that with the prospect of a plentiful grain harvest right at our doors, a In handful or two extra of oats might be spared to the all-essential horse, without which a hackney carriage would be a hollow mockery. I am asked who is the Council's inspector of boats.* Please give me time to make en- quiries. I OUR COUNCIL. The talk of the impending resignation of Councillor John Lambert is, to say the least of it. disquieting. There are serious prob- lems looming before our Council which it will require men of experience and sagacity to solve, and it is the general opinion that those who now constitute our representative body ought to at once drop personal matters and petty irritations, and apply themselves Whole-heartedly to the work which the rate- payers expect them to do. The withdrawal of Mr. Lambert at this juncture would aggra- vate the difficulties of the situation. I am sure that he would do much to prevent this, and I join with others in asking him not to take too seriously the annoyances incident io public life, but 'to apply to them the useful sponge of oblivion. Ths work before the Council is great, and it is certain that for the last three or four months only the fringe of it has been touched. It is time for the new Council, as it is called, to address itself ear- nestly to its work, and do it. WADBROGFv'S. This entertainment has been, and is being, well patronised, the charming politeness of ) the attendants contributing in no small degree to its success in the all-important ¡ matter of public support. Inside and out- side the exhibition, it is the same. Every Ynqxtiry is treated with the most patient and polite attention, with the inevitable result I that everybody is pleased. There was some- thing anomalous in the last degree in the pre- vailing good feeling and refinement being dis- turbed at one of the performances by the in- trusion of two ill-manna red curs who,' not cont'Mit with forcing their way into the middle of the audience, there started chal- lenging each other, and finally engaging in deadly combat. The horror-stricken attend- ants found difficulty in removing the fcrocious creatures. The entertainment at Wad- brook's is excellent. Finer living pictures have never been seen. have never been seen. LAST SUXDA V. J The police discipline and alertness were frdly maintained on Sunday, and in P en"] itself, or Portheawl proper as some might term it. there were very few glaring ¡' examples of disorderly conduct. Irregular- seems to have been to a large degree brought to a focus in the outskirts. The police made in all Id arrests. I.a the 14 were some palpably "lewd -follows of t;10 baser j sort," but there were others- for whom none but unmixed pity could he Mt. Who could not feel sorry for those who, when being taken to Eridgend on the following day. stumbled along doing their utmost to hide J their fa Ct"i so ashamed were they of their position ? THE NEW CHURCH. I have every desire to welcome correspon- dence, but does noiJ tho contributor of the following think that ke had better improve some otne.r He gays his object is good, and that he has made his meaning so clear that he cannot fail to be understood, and asks me, with great directness, what more do I want. I do not. good friend, want any more—not even of yonr verses. The fol- lowing are my contributor's—not mine, please remember: — Little drops of water. Little grains of sand, Make the t beach. By gentle breeaes fanned. If All Saints' congregation, Would join tho shilling band, Our darling church would soon become A thing we've got in hand. WHAT PJ-ET THI-NKS. I oft* n refer difficult questions to Phil. Ho has had muck experience, and knows how to ztdv 'se-g' ves advice with tact and discretion. 1 In a word, Phil has all his buttons on, and there are good shanks on the buttons, too. I asked Phil how it was that some persons got drunk so soon after they arrived at Porth- eawl. and he answered: Drunk, how do they get drunk I' They don't osrr drunk. They're always drunk." STORM SIG.XAL. Portheawl has suffered from storms of vari- ous kinds, but the one that is coming will shake it to its rery foundations. Considera- tions of public interest restrain the writer from giving full particulars, but publicity I cannot long be prevented. Portheawl resi- dents and Portheawl public men will be able to piece together the story if they would bring into the orbit of their mental vision the fol- lowing:—A cricket hold and an urgent call to a town official, who leaves the field hur- riedly. A visit by that official to a distant part of th. parish. A diseovezy on Sandy Beach, where odours of Araby the blest" are floating; about. The successful capture of some of the ocloiii-iq. and the passing of a I number of pointed questions to persons at a of some of the odour*, and the passing of a number of pointed questions to persons at a distance from Porthcav, 1, who are quite cap- able of answering them. I n, As I have said, a storm is coming, and we I shall have to duck our heads. Let this suffice for the present.

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