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University College of Wales. SIR A. L. JONES' SCHOLARSHIPS. SIR ALFRED L. JONES has intimated his intention to give five scholarships of the value of £30 per annum for three years, in connection with the University College of Wales. The scholarships are intended for the encouragement of technical education. The arrangements for the award of the scholarships will be considered by the Coun- cil at its meeting on July nth.

North Wales Undenominational Schools Association. Meeting at Rhyl Education Bill. THE North Wales Undenominational Schools Association has held its annual meeting of the governing body at Rhyl, the Rev. J. Hughes, Holyhead, presiding over a large attendance of delegates. The Rev. J. Hughes, Holyhead, was re-elected chairman for the ensuing year, Mr R. Jones, Pendireas, vice-chairman, Mr C. H. Darbishire, Penmaenmawr, hon. treasurer, and the Rev. E. T. Davies, Old Colwyn, secretary. The following grants, recommended by the Executive Committee, were allocated to the different schools :-Holyhead (505 average at- tendance), 6Si Bethesda (297), £60; Cefnfaes (173), £45; Llanllechid (140), £35; Dwygyfylchi (136), £ 20; Rhyl Christ Church (487), £85; Rhyl Emanuel (143), £35 Llandyfrydog (48)^18 14s 6d; Llanfihangel, T.B., £ 30; Dolwyddelan, Blaenau (30), ^15; Dolwyddelen, Cyffing, £18; Llanengan (92), Z24; Llaniestyn (77), £ 20,- Holt (144), nil; Llangerniew, Blaenau (64), £ 20; Ewlor Green (88), £ 20 Ffynongroew (203), ^'32 Gronant (46), £18; Rhuallt (42), £18; Carmel (52), £ 16; Lexivin (63), £18; Trawsfynydd (101), Z25; Llanbrynma'ir (92), £16; Llanbrynmair, Pennant (19), ZicT; Llanbrynmair, Wern (48), £ 20 ;Llanwrog, Caersws (145), ^45 Montgomery (27), £ 13; Aberhosan (37), £13 14s 6d; Tre- ffynnon (21), £10. The Chairman stated that the surplus grant would be larger than usual this year, and a sub- committee was appointed to allocate it, with a request favourably to entertain the applications of the Bethesda and Ffynongroew schools. Strong Disapproval of the Bill. The secretary read the following resolution which had been passed by the Executive Com- mittee :That the Executive Committee of the North Wales British and Undenominational Schools Association expresses its strong disap- proval of the Government Education Bill now before Parliament on the grounds, (1) that it does not provide absolute freedom from all religious tests for scholars and teachers (2) that it does not provide entire public control of all State supported schools and colleges by a public body expressly elected for the purpose by the rate- payers and constituted in such a manner as to secure a thorough representation of the rate- payers and sufficient supervision of the schools." The Chairman asked the association to confirm the resolution, and said he felt very strongly against the Bill because it was entirely contrary to the principles which they held as representing British and Undenominational Schools. He felt sure that all present were in favour of a national system of education. They were hoping that something on these lines would be introduced. But so far from the Bill doing anything in the way of nationalising education, they found that it went to the other extreme and denationalised it. (Applause). Some of them had been in favour of municipalising education. But this Bill did not even do that, for the County Council was empowered to do nothing more than pay the Bill. The Bill did not, therefore, nationalise or municipalise education. (Applause). The Bill was bad from an educational point of view. It did not, educationally, even profess to be an improvement upon the present state of affairs, and considering the clauses in the Act of 1870, which it repealed, it would put them education- ally in a worse state than the country had ever been in before. (Applause). As a body of educationists, it was their duty to express their strongest possible condemnation of the Bill. (Applause). Mr R. Llewelyn Jones (Rhyl) seconded the resolution. The Bill, he said, was intended to promote sectarian education at the expense of the nation. He himself did not believe in the local authority that it proposed to establish, and preferred direct representation and direct election. (Hear, hear). They had had lately the bishops of the several dioceses going about the country singing the praises of the Bill where it suited them and condemning it where it did -not. The whole object of the Government had been to pander to the denominationalists, to propitiate them in every instance. The effect of the new proposals was that the poor man would pay more in the form of indirect taxation. The attitude of the Irish members in regard to this Bill was very bitter to those of them who had stuck to them for 16 years, and who, through sticking to them, had been relegated to the cold shades of opposition. (Applause). Perhaps if this Bill compelled Ireland to pay for education in England and Wales it would make Irishmen hesitate before extending any further support to this unjust Bill. (Applause). Irish Party and the Government. Mr J. W. Jones (Rhyl), in supporting the reso- lution, said he did not begrudge the assistance they had given to their Irish friends, or the sacrifices which they as Nonconformists had made on behalf of Ireland, but they had a right to complain that after all the sacrifices they had made for the last 16 years the Irish Party had not hesitated to help the Government to inflict this injustice upon them as Nonconformists. (Applause). They were tired fighting the battle of those who in the end turned around on them in the very place they would feel it the most. (Applause). Mr G. W. Parry supported the resolution, but differed from the views expressed in regard to Home Rule. Home Rule was given as an act of justice to Ireland, and he was not going to abandon it simply because the Irish members were adopting the tactics which Mr Jones wished Nonconformists to adopt. Mr Peter Roberts (St. Asaph) spoke, and after some further discussion the resolution was car- ried, with an addition recognising the value of the new financial proposals. The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

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Baronetcy for a North Wales Landed Proprietor. Sir Charles McLaren, K.C., M.P. A Coronation Honour. Sir Charles and British Industries. INTENSE delight was experienced amongst the residents and tenants of the Prestatyn and Bod- nant Hall Estates, in the Vale of Conway, when the newspapers announced that his Majesty the King had conferred a baronetcy upon Mr Charles B. B. McLaren, M.P. The new baronet is well known and highly popular in North Wales, where he possesses con- siderable landed property in the two districts referred to, and the honour conferred upon him may in some respects be regarded as given to the Principality. It is also interesting to observe that this honour has been recommended by Lord Salisbury at the head of a Conservative Government, although Sir Charles has been by birth and family con- nections, as well as by conviction, an ardent member of the Liberal Party, of which he is at the present time an active supporter. Sir Charles has received many warm-hearted congratulations from his friends and tenants on the Golden Grove and Bodnant Hall Estates, who are proud of the distinction paid to their just and generous landlord. Interesting Career. Born at Edinburgh in 1850, the subject of this sketch is the son of the late Duncan McLaren, M.P., of Edinburgh, his mother being Priscilla, daughter of the late Mr Jacob Bright, of Rochdale, and sister of Mr John Bright, whose name stands for all that was pure-souled and dis- interested in the political life of our country. Sir Charles was educated at Edinburgh University (where he took the M.A. degree with first-class honours in 1870), and at the Universi- ties of Bonn and Heidelberg. In 1877 he married Laura, only daughter of the late Mr H. D. Pochin, of Bodnant Hall, Denbighshire, and Goldon Grove, Flintshire. He is a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, having been called to the Bar in 1874, where he enjoyed for many years a large practice as a mercantile, joint stock company, and railway lawyer. In 1897 he took silk, and became a Queen's Counsel, and then retired from practice in order to devote his whole time and energies to the great and many commercial undertakings, in which he is very largely engaged as a capitalist, and which are associated with his name. Sir Charles' Political Life. A Liberal in politics, he was twice returned for the borough of Stafford, and has represented since 1892 the division of Leicestershire, for which at the last 'general election he was returned for the third time and unopposed, and in which he is a large employer of labour in connection with the Croft Granite Quarries and Adamant Works, of whch he is the owner. Sir Charles as a Capitalist. Sir Charles joined Palmer's Shipbuilding Com- pany as a director in 1885, and in, 1897 he was appointed chairman. But the Jarrow works alone, with their enormous output of Admiralty and merchant tonnage do not represent the extent of his connection with the trade of the country. He is greatly interested in the steel, iron, chemical, and colliery industries. He is chairman of the Tredegar Iron and Coal Com- pany in South Wales, as well as director of the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company, and other Midland colleries; deputy-chairman of Messrs John Brown and Co., the armour-plate makers of Sheffield, who, it will be remembered, are now the owners of the Clydebank Shipyards and only recently he was appointed deputy-chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company, of which he had been a director for some years. He has also in connection with the famous shipbuilding firms alluded to, added to the Royal Navy more battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, than any other man. British Industrial Supremacy. Sir Charles, though at the head of concerns which are amongst the largest employers of | labour in the country, has always taken a deep interest in what may be called the men's side of industrial questions, being fully alive to the im- portance of an amicable relationship between capital and labour In the general interests of the trade of the country. He has found time to devote considerable' attention to the controversies on the question of British industrial supremacy, and is convinced that, so long as the British manufacturer and the British workman are pre- pared to adapt their methods and rules to the conditions of modern trade, there is no fear of our losing the position we now hold in the world's market. Like so many steel and iron men in this country, he has visited on the spot the principal steel-making concerns in the United States, and in common with all who have done so, is impressed by the superiority of American methods to those in vogue over here. He sees no reason why our trade should be handed over to the Trusts across the Atlantic so long as we can make use of their ideas. No pains have been spared by him in all the metallurgical undertakings, with which he is connected to in- troduce machinery of American design, and American ideas of work management. His Welsh Connections. Though Sir Charles is a frequent visitor to his Welsh estates he spends much of his time at Hilders, his country seat in Surrey, which affords him every week a period of repose after his Parliamentary labours. Sir Charles occasionally finds time to indulge in cycling, forestry, and photography. Lady McLaren takes a very active share in the management of the Bodnant and Prestatyn Estates, and she also entertains the chief mem- bers of the Liberal Party not infrequently at Sir Charles' town house in Belgrave-square. His eldest son, Mr Henry Duncan McLaren, recently attained his majority, which was celebrated in a very hearty fashion by the tenantry and friends of the family at Prestatyn and Bodnant. It is understood that the heir to the baronetcy, who has just completed a distinguished career at Eton and Oxford, is strongly imbued with his father's political opinions, and our readers may probably hear before long of his entering the political arena as a candidate for Parliament. Mr J. B. Linnell, the genial agent of the Prestatyn and Bodnant Hall Estates, has re- ceived many congratulations upon the great honour conferred upon Sir Charles.

Sad Suicide of a Carnarvon Youth. THE Coroner for Carnarvonshire (Mr J. H. Bodvell Roberts) held an inquest touching the death of Alex. Rees, eldest son of Mr Daniel Rees, editor and manager of the papers pub- lished at the "Herald" Office, whose dead body was found in the Seiont river. Evidence as to the identification of the body was given by R. H. Rowlands, cashier at the "Herald" Office, who said that the deceased had been employed at the office for three or four years, latterly in the composing room. He was of a reserved disposi- tion and occasionally subject to despondency, but apart from this he was a most amiable and intelligent lad. Witness last saw him about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. He came to witness and asked' him somewhat abruptly for the loan of 4s, which witness gave Tiim. Reply- ing to a juror, witness said that the deceased would not tell him what he wanted the money for. Mr Thorman, ironmonger, Carnarvon, proved that he sold the revolver (produced) to a young man who was unknown to him on Satur- day afternoon. He did not even know that it was the deceased. Richard Jones, Coedmarion, produced the revolver, several cartridges, and the deceased's hat, which he had that day found on a rock higher up the river than the spot where the body was found. The hat was penetrated at three places, and there were blood marks on the rock. Sergeant Rowlands, who searched the body after its recovery from the water, said all he found upon him was a pair of coloured spectacles and a small tract. Further evidence was given to the effect that deceased had been suffering from insomnia for some time, and had been peculiar at times, probably as the result of continued ill-health and the insomnia. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while temporarily of unsound mind." The Foreman of the jury, on their behalf, ex- pressed the deepest sjimpathy with the family of the deceased.

Llanrwst Horse Repository. THE attention of agriculturists, &c, of North Wales is specially directed to the first of a series of sales to be held by Messrs Marriott, Whittaker, and Co., at the Victoria Hotel Yard, Llanrwst, on the 17th inst. About 136 horses are already entered to be disposed of, and they comprise heavy and light animals, whilst a number of ponies, together with several carriages, harness, &c, are to be placed under the hammer. This firm offers special and valuable prizes to be com- peted for by the owners of animals for sale, and consequently much interest is being evinced in this repository, the needs of which will un- doubtedly be appreciated. +

The Luxury of Motor Boats. Profit and Pleasure. The Motor Useful for Coast work. THE revolutionising influences brought to bear upon propulsion in various ways are becoming more manifest every day, and with the scheming devices of the mechanic we observe that the motor is evidencing a powerful agency amongst pleasure crafts on various rivers. For instance, they are utilised in some of the finest craft on such renowned pleasure rivers as the Thames, Dee, &c, but the utility of the required motor can be demonstrated in other degrees. Unlike steam machinery it occupies considerably less space, and those of the Mitcham Motor Company, of London, are especially adaptable to all sizes and description of boats. A launch so fitted has been recently acquired by the Chester Waterworks Co, for inspecting the Dee and its tributaries, and the completeness of the vessel and the comfort afforded is greatly admired. The Mitcham Motor is described as the simplest marine engine built, possessing as it does the very minimum of working parts; and those who have had the privilege of witnessing the mechanism marvel at its compactness. The little engine produces sufficient power to propel a boat through the water at a comparatively high rate oi speed. Another advantage or boon in connection with this particular motor is, that a reserve of petroleum may be carried, thus rendering it unnecessary to have accumulators recharged at the conclusion of a long or short run. The motor under notice, can be fitted to different size boats, and no doubt these would be exceedingly useful on the North Wales coast-line, and the seaside resorts, for cruising parties as well as for carry- ing small quantities of goods from one place to another. An inspection of the motor is invited. Messrs Cook and Arthur, boatbuilders and proprietors, The Groves, Chester, act as agents in Chester and district for the Company, and at their establishment the motor-boats can be seen.

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National Eisteddfod of Wales. Mr Balfour's Patronage. WRITING to the secretaries of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, which is to be held at Bangor in September next, the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Lord of the Treasury, states "I fear that the multitude of my engagements make it quite impossible for me to be present at your great gatherings in September, but if my name is of any service to you I shall be glad to have it associated with so interesting an occasion." The Bishop of Hereford, the Hon. Mrs Bulkeley Owen, Tedsmore Hall, Oswestry, and the Rev. Chancellor Silvan Evans have also accorded their patronage to the Eisteddfod. Other Distinguished Patrons. Messrs Downs and Parry, the local secretaries have received a letter from the Duke of Cambridge granting res patronage to the Eisteddfod, and expressing the hope that it would be successful in every way. The Archbishop of Canterbury has also written, according with great pleasure his patronage. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Mayor of Conway (Mr Albert Wood), and Mr J. Bryn Roberts, M.P., have assented to their names being added to the list of patrons. The Hon. Thomas L. James, ex-Postmaster- General of the United States of America, has written thanking the committee for inviting him to be present at the gathering, and also to deliver an address. He was most grateful- to the com- mittee for this evidence of their high regard, and he begged to state that he accepted with pleasure their invitation, which he regarded as one of the most gratifying distinctions of his life. +