The Glamorgan Gazette

MISCELLANEOUS. 15 Words, 1 Insertion, 9d.; 3 Insertions, 1/6. A WONDERFUL egg-producing discovery is Karswood Spice containing ground ihsects. -2d., 6d., D. JeSreys, Lion Stores, Lower Cwmturch. 8959 JS Spice harmless? Yes—if it's Karswood. Contains ground inserts, not cayenne copper, etc.—Evans & Hughes, Albany Stores, < J yocuigrcymmer. 8958 1 5 '/jflUiCK Sales depend on merit. Karswood J Poultry Spice, containing" ground,insets, is best by test. 2d., 6d., 1/Walters & Son, 2, Park Street, Bridgend. 8844 SOME beginners are getting 5 eggs from each bird every week by using Karswood Poultry Spice. Packs 2d., 6d., 1/Griffiths, 43 Com- mercial Street, Maesteg. 8907 COME beginners are getting 5 eggs from each ° bird every week by using Karswood Poultry Spioe. Packets 2d., 6d., Bros., Railway Stores. Bridgend. 89oti. TEN Eggs daily were collected from 12 hens fed on Karswood Poultry Meal (Sussex i 'feround), 9kl. Bags, and Karswood (harnalem) I poultry Spice, 2d., 6d., 1K paqkets.—Prom 'Williams and Sons, Grocers, Wyndham Street, Bridgend. 8647 13 TliiES its cost is usually returned in eggs to poultry-keepers who use Karswood Poultry Spice, containing ground insects, "B UTgess, Chemist, nature's own egg producer—J Burgess, Chemist, Terndale, South Wales. -_u- LOST AND FOUNDj STRAYED from Moorshead, a Cotswold Ram Lamb; expenses paid.—W. Thomas. 8937 L OST,-A Sheep; marked G.T. on loin; also red mark on back of neck. Finder suitably acknowledged-Na-uty mot-] -Co-oWrative Society. NOTICES. W ANTED,"he present address of Catherine Ann Rees Shellard, daughter of William John Shellard (who died at Bridgend, April :20th; 1866); or proof of her death.-F. A. Baxter, Carlisle Terrace, St. Ives, Hunts. 8946

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES DEATHS. DEATHS. DA VIES.-Oct. 22nd, 1916, at 10 Junction Road, Newport, Jessie, beloved wife of Charles Davies, and eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Morris, Bridgend, aged 45 years. 8923

NOTES & COMMENTS. At the Ogmore and Garw Tribunal on Mon- <lay, a licensee was asked, "But is not your work much lighter since the restrictions?" No," was the reply, "we are selling as much as ever. -1 1 Considering the enormous reduction in the hours during which drink may be legally con- sumed, this is a reply which "gives furiously to think." For the case cited is by no means en isolated.instance. r Quite tlUe averse. It is, of cdufse, true f riat t here Are probably more miners in Ogmore Vale just now than I before the war, and that they are working at high pressure. But when all allowance is made on that and- fcther accounts, the fact, remains that as much liquor is being con- i sumed in this particular house in five hours as was previously consumed in fourteen. This is a wholly lamentable fact. And if, as seems -to-he the case, it is a fact that can be matched on every hand, one can only call it a very farming and disquieting fact. No wonder that serious people of all shades of political, colour are uneasy and pessimistic as to the future of the drink probleip, and are seeking -et-ome other remedy than that of "restriction." 1 1 1 We congratulate the Commoners of Coity Wallia on 'having brought to a successful issue I • "their-long fight to retain their own property an their own keeping. As our contributorl Silurian" points out in another ool-umn, Common rights in the full sense of the word have been secured for every commoner with- out invidious distinctions of any kind," and. the control of the Common is vested in a body, elected by and amenable to the commoners. All who care for the retention of these ancient Tights and privileges in the hands of the people, and who know something of how, under one pretence or another, they have been filched from them in the past, will rejoice in • "this consummation, and be heartily grateful -to those doughty warriors who have so stoutly j ;and successfully fought what at one time i eemoo to be a losing battle. I ? ? 1 'The slippery state of the tar-sprayed roads again mentioned at the Penybont Coun- s-cil meeting on Saturday. Mr Salathiel .cpointed out that there had been two fatal ao- j < £ i<tent» at tPenooed directly due to the Blip- TTT,, state of the roads. The surveyor inti- mated that he was "gritting" the roa-jls—! sprinkling them, presumably, with grit—and this may meet the, immediate problem. But to a layman it does not look as though it, can "be the last word on the question. To us it seems a very make-shift way-though, no ,-doubt, for the moment the only possible one— of meeting a difficulty which will jultimately, "n'o' doubt, bring its own remedy. ■ a 111 W. are glad to welcome the first serious ^prt we have yet come across to deal seri- ously with the milk problem. We refer to •the boycott (reported elsewhere in our columns) at Bryn, near Port Talbot, in conse- quence of the failure of an appeal by the in- habitants to the local dealers to reduce the price of milk from 6d. to 5d. per quart. 1 H ill -True, this effort to; deal with the problem is on a very small and insignificant scale, but at least it is a start. And in a thing of this J^ind the start is half the battle. One thing is certain, that failing Stté intervention in this matter of high food prices, the boycott is the only weapon left to the commuinty. Women, children, and invalids must have milk. Let them have it. Adults can get ] along on little or none. Let them do so, and I see what the result will be. Let us make up our minds to do without milk and cream, as most of us have had latterly^ td do without i I eggs. For many of us it will not be a light or I pleasant sacrifice. To consume the matutinal I porridge, or the morning or afternoon tea or [ coffee or cocoa without milk; to aschew milk I puddings, etq., etc., will for many of us be extremely distasteful. But it will not be a I matter of life or death, or even of impaired I health or vitality. And it would inevitably serve its purpose of bringing down the price of milk-always providing one thing, that the renunciation is virtually unanimous. I A 1 1 For it goes without saying that isolated action is quite useless. Any steps that are taken must be taken by the community as a whole of they are to have the slightest chance of success. When the community is unani- mous, or anything like unanimous, in a matter of this kind, it can usually get what it wants. But not otherwise. If the commun- itv is really bent on bringing down the price of milk, and has the sense to go about it the right way, it can do so. And the right way, the only way—but also the infallible way—is, the boycott. We hope the example of Bryn will be taken up all over the district.

DEATH OF MAJOR J. L. LAMBERT, I BRIDGEND. j BUSY CAREER CUT SHORT. I Profound regret is evoked in Bridgend dis- trict at the death in hospital at Amiens, France, of Major J. L. Lambert, of the Army Service Corps, son of Mr. F. G. Lambert, architect and surveyor, and Mrs Lambert, of Park Street, Bridgend, with whom much sym- pathy is felt in the loss of one so popular and ( beloved. In his last illness deceased received assiduous and skilful attention, and he was laid to rest at Amiens amidst unmistakable manifestations of sorrow, and sympathy. Major Lambert, some twelve months a go 1 ;1' North Wales, was laid aside with double pneu1- monia. His last illness may be briefly sum- marised. He was taken suddenly ill on the Sunday, on "Monday lie was conveyed to hos- pital, and on Thursday was operated upon for The Late Major J. L. Lambert. I appendicitis, to which he succumbed. Major Lambert joined the Army Service Corps two years ago at Porthcawl, when the Welsh Army Corps was in course of formation. He had been on active service in France since March, 1915, and up to the time of his illness was in command of his unit. About four months ago he was at home on leave. He was for many years surveyor to the Wimborne Estate in South Wales, and practised pri- vately as a surveyor and valuer.' He had taken a great part in the "development of Porthcawl, where he owned considerable pro- perty, and occupied a seat on the Council for nine years, being chairman of the Council for twelve months. He was also for some years overseer of the parish of Newton Nottage, and for two years was its chairman, and was a co-opted member of the Glamorgan County Technical Education Committee. For many years he was a member of the Ogmore Small- pox Hospital Committee, and likewise of the Bridgend Isolation Hospital Committee. He was a life member of the Old Boys' Associa- tion, Taunton School (late Independent Col- ledge) also president of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Branch, O.B.A. Major Lambert was an ardent Conserva- tive, and a powerful and convincing speaker. He was a far-sighted and shrewd man of busi- ness. For ten years he was a member of the Glamorgan Yeomanry, in which he held the rank of squadron sergeant-major, but retired about four years ogo. Major Lambert, who was 38 years of age, was married in 1913 to Miss Mary Elizabeth (Pat) Parfitt, daughter of -Mr. and Mrs. Richard Parfitt, of Porth- cawl, formerly of Newport. Deceased's younger brother, Captain Harry P. Lambert (who was an auctioneer at Bridgend at the outbreak of the war) is serving with the A:S.C. at the front. Deceased was a staunch Churchman, and attended the services at Newcastle.

LOCAL NEWS. I D. Thomas, Decorator, Nolton Street, Fine Art and Antique Dealer. Best Prices Given. HERMON C.M.-Preacher next Sunday, the Rev. Wm. Edwards, MjA., Llantwit Major. Morning, 10.30 (Welsh); Evening, 6 o'clock (Welsh). 8934 The Celebrated Lipton's Teas and Provi- sions may be had of the Agent for Bridgend- T. Woodward, near The Bridge. First Aid Classes will commenoo on Thurs- day Next, Nov. 2nd, at 5 o'clock, at the Nol- ton Institute. Fee for the Course, 2s. A free of 6d. extra will be charged for expenses. j 8945 Rev. George. Neighbour, of Mountain Ash, will preach at the Old Meeting House, Bridg- end, on Sunday,1 October 29th, at 2.30 in the afternoon. 8901

'?? ? -?. ,I TT"—rv-! ?T )"t 7 1 A. 1. m ?- BRIDGEND MILITARY "TallauffjLL. SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS." ■ Is I f MADE A N0T £ ? f I i r: i ?.?'i ?i?'' ? "í' At Bridgdæ Mitt?? M)? ?n' Mnn-s- day night jbst week, Mr. HenryAbbott pre- sided, and there were present: Messrs. George Bevan, J. T. Hitt, W. Jones, Morgan Stfad- ling, George. Harris, and J. G. Jenkins, wiiki Mr. J. M. Randall (Military r^)resen,tative), the clerk (Mr. J. T. Howell), alid the deputyj clerk (Mr. Ivor M. Howell). PERSONAL APPEAL—READY TO PLAY THE MAN. William Kilsby Phillips hasprevioualy ap?- peared before the Tribunal, and now he t1 newed his applicationi-wliiel ke wished to em- I phasize was a personal appeal, and not an, ap- peal made on his behalf by the Insurance Com- pany with which he is associated. Mr. Phillips resides at "Wainfelin," Ewenny Rd., Bridgend, and is district superintendent of the Royal London Insurance Office. If forced" to leave it would, he represented, mean a per- manent lass to him, though he wisheÇ to matte it plain that he was "ready to go and play the man; in fact he offered himself twelve months ago." 6n the last-oec&sioh, he explained, he asked for six months' exemption, and the Tribunal gaVe him- three, and he asked now for further time in which to "clear up his ac- counts" and; put himself right. The Tribunal allocated one month. 'I IN CAMERA. On the, application of his solicitor (Mr. Wv M. Thonaas), the case of. Julius Michael, of Russian na^o^lity, 34 (married), picture framer and oredst draper, Norton Street, wae heard in camera, and at the close two months' exemption was grant. William. John, Davies (24), hair dr"ri, Wood View, QuareUa -Road-, Bridgend, -whofimp, plea was serious financial hardship, struoted to put in Am appearance before the Central. Medical Boajrd. HOTEL DIFFICULTIES IN WAH TIME. Fred Wood t(0) nfiarried, employed at the; Dunraven Hotel, Bridgend, and of St. Mabyn, Esplanade Avenue, Porthcawl. With the ap- plicant, who is in Chast :B2;.wú<b.Î$ emoloyAwt. Mr. Thomas Morgan, and Mr. W. M: Thpfcittfe (solicitor) appeared for both. Mr. Morgan stated that Wood was his ot? resl)onsibl,e man, and he considered it would be a financial hardship to lose him. For nearly twenty years he had been engaged upon com- 'mercial and luggage work, in addition to heavy cellar work. Mr. Morgan exjAained that he was, sorely iu need erf other menj in addition to Wood, and had advertised and taken every conceivable means with a view of getting men above military tage, hut he had failed absolutely. Moreover, he. r.had b&n rejected by the Medical Board .on the grOOM' of extreme deafness, and for other reasons, and if he were to be called up, the conse* quences would be serious. A woman could JJieiJP1 ( possibly discharge the duties, and the o who worked in the stables, had been rejected. Application refused, in spite of the financial and domestic hardship which it was said would be inflicted. Frederick Henry Taylor, married, boot and shoe repairer, Adare Street,, being in a eerti- fied,, occupation, was, released- from, the obliga- tion to- serve. William Lewis Lewis (Class-Bl)j j £ 4, single, who assists his father (Mr. WilUam Lewis) in the management of a grooery business, at Park, Street, Bridgend, claimed absolute ex- emption, owing to the exigencies of business, and especially for the reason that the father, through infirmity, is unable to carry on the business alone. Mr. George Bevan pointed out that there was something mysterious about this case. The son was allowed two months' exemption last February, and the fact that he was not even yet in the Army was much commented upon in the town. People were asking why this man had not .been called up, and what there was to differentiate between him and others. Mr. Randall, .as Military representative, undertook to call the attention of the Advi- sory. Committee to the case. Mr. Morgan Stradling, speaking for Mr. Lewis, senr., said the latter had only one leg, and in consequence of that infirmity, the son was the main support of the business. The Chairman: Who is going to support the Government, which is calling for more ityen ? Mr. Morgan Stradling: You shouldn't send away business men, without. whose rates and taxes the war could scarcely be carried on. He moved exemption for three months, fso as to give the father an opportunity of finding someone over military age to take his son's place, and follow in his footsteps. The Chairman: But he hàaalready had six months, beyond the three, granted to him last February. Mr Morgan Stradling: It is hard to get men these days! The Chairman: It is very hard—if you don't try! Mr. Stradling'^ resolution, seconded by Mr. William Jones, was put and lost, and by a majority, the application was refused. The application for exemption by Sidney Cartwright, sculptor, representative of the firm of Mossford and Co., Bridgend, who is in indifferent health, was Tefused.

.BRIDGEND POLICE COURT. I Wgdpesday.-Before: Mr. D. H. Lloyd and Dr. E. J. Parry. Harold Powell, collier* unmarried, no; fixed place of abode, was charged under the Mili- tary Service Act with being an absentee. Inspector Reep Davies said defendant was brought to the' Police Station that morning by Sergt. Neal. He had been discharged from a colliery, and arrested at Bridgend, said he was willing to join the- Army. The Chairman (to defendant): You now have the opportunity. You are handed over to the Military Authorities.

r a :—» a t k jrc BRIDGEND WESLEYANS AND MIS- I I SIONSANNIVERBKRY. CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THE NgGRO f RACE. I Local Wesleyans have just been holding the foreigii iøOOns anniversary, and the pro- oeedings have been characterised by an en- couraging re-awakening of the missionary spirit, and a wave of interest and sympathy, jfrhieh it is to -be- hoped, ma-Y, be taken as an -augury of still further activities. The public meeting on Tuesday night was rather sparsely attended, though the speeches that were delivered, and the studious atten- tion of those presen' left nothing whatever to be desired. The cv-iir was taken by that wali friend arid supp^-ter of missionary en- terprise, > Mr. F. W. Hutchins (Cardiff), and were: Rev. Charles R. Trance (West Indies), who attended as a depu- tation; Revs. A H. Hopper, T. Biltcliffe, and A. C. Dawkins. The latter submitted thennhncial report, which pointed to a total income of £ 163,000— the highest on record, and £ 1,000 more than that which followed upon. the Nottingham Conference. -Bridgend last^year contributed £ 82, or 4s. per member, or which was an in- crease throughout the circuit of ls.\4d. The Chairman, in a stirring address, said that what was wanted in these days were real live. men, full of missionary zeal and enthu- siasm. Other nations were alive, and would • leave us behind, if we, too, were not awake. Rev. C. R Trace (who has laboured 16 years in the West Indies), in the brief time at his disposal, gave a most interesting account ° of the conditions and needs of the oldest mis- sionary field" with. it community of 250,000, its 50,000 communicant members, and its 40,000 Sunday School scholars. Numbers constituted one of the greatest difficulties, and the rank and file at home did not give as ,they should. Speaking of the characteristics of; the negro race, he said they had (amongst other things) an intimate sense of God's pre- sence, which would be a great gain to some of them here at home, if they. couldget it back again. The negro could be brought to pro- gress and improve as a citi-n, p-d a Chrfs- tipn. Some sneered at the, black, but these did not .know him, or, if they did, they were people who would despise anybody, white or black, whom, if they could, they would get into their power,, and make money out of them. The negro had gone .through so maqh, had been so much hindered, and 60 little helped, that he could not be expected to have attained to his .full manhood. Yet he was not to be despised, and apart from the Chris- tion Church, which teaches us to regard all men as brothers, he had shown a capacity for intellectual, moral, and spiritual advancement of which no one need be ashamed, and of which everybody ought to be proud: They had to make these children men—truly a difficuit task, which only time, and much patient toil, could be expected to accom- plish. The negro was religious. His con- science was very fitful. He was not quick to apprehend 'the hatnre of sin, but he would heartily repent. He was susceptible to good influences, and they had to show him that he must be pious as well as religious. "—————————

I)ECTDE!! !-TTave you yet decided upon the purchase of your Winter Suit? You'll want it Tailor-made, of course? If so, under no cir- cumstances neglect the opportunity of seeing our new cloths.-H. Levine, Tailor, Market Build- ings, Bridgend. 8955

) SMALL TALK. t i The straw hat is still with us! I 1-11 There were laid to rest in Flint Cemetery, North Wales, on Saturday the remains of the lev. Evan Jenkins, M.A., who was a native of Bridgend. Deceased was 85 years of age. He was the oldest clergyman in the diocese of St. Asaph, and the first clergyman to be buried in Flint for nearly 100 years. Ill At a Bridgend Church, on a dark Sun- day night, it is almost as difficult to find your way out as it is to get the generality of people to enter any place of worship whatso- ever. Ill Whilst many were hurrying from their Sun- day morning devotions, the proud young family man was energetically painting the front door, and with many flourishes "grain- ing" some really artistic designs. Oh my; and on a Sunday too! May the poor mis- guided man never live to "rue" the day! Ill A Newport chimney sweep has been ordered to pay the costs for asserting his rights as a man and a sweep. 1-11 Whilst the war is on, anyway, isn't it about time we rose above the little niceties of eti- quette and many of the snobbish pre-war re- strictions, which are as unnecessary as they are, to many, most irritating? Ill The men at the front don't stand on cere- mony, ajidj^j^Usmljl we? ( lit Here was this Newport knight of the brush charged with "carrying a bag of soot and [ chimney bwuehes over the footway of Newport Bridge, to the inconvenience of passengers!" Poor passengers! Why not be a little patient, and thus enter into the daily life—and suffer- ings, of the men at the front; and then go a. step further, and ponder over the fact that if once the kultured Germans got a foothold here we should have something more to go on with than a few smuts from the brush of an honest sweep, or a few particles of dust. Ill When the police officer called upon him to "walk off the pavement," the Newport sweep replied, "Not me; I'm a ratepayer, and have a right to walk on the footway." There's the spirit for you! We may expect to see some "nervy" hypersensitive sort of souls soon running away from their own shadows! Ill Most Tribunals must now be familiar with the dangerous vagaries of the Military Medi- cal Board. Several members of the Ogmore and Garw Tribunal were roused to indigna- tion on Monday by a case that came before them of the now familiar kind. Ill The applicant pleaded, and put in a private medical certificate to show, that he was pecu- liarly subject to catarrh, etc., and had been rejected when he tried to join the Army in tlte,early days -of the war. Yet he had now been passed into Class A. I Ill I I Scandalous!" was the comment of one I member as soon as the applicant had retired. One night in the trenches would finish him."—"He'd never reach the trenches," said another. Ill It is now said to be the intention of the Y.M.C.A. to build a refreshment hut for soldiers outside Bridgend Railway Station on land which is being lent by Lord Dunraven for the period of the war. Soldiers returning home on leave to the Llynfi, Ogmore, and Garw Valleys frequently arrive at Bridgend after the last valley trains have gone. Bridg- end Free Church Council, assisted by churches and clubs in the valleys, have done their best to provide the soldiers with refreshments, and have hired motor-cars to carry them to their homes. 1 1 The work has, however, been carried on under considerable difficulty owing to short- age of funds, and occasionally tired soldietrs have had to wait miles, as the funds would not admit of cars being hired. If sleeping ac- commodation as well as refreshments were provided at the hut (as is done at the Soldiers' Rest in St Mary Street, Cardiff) stranded soldiers might spend the night there, and get on to their homes by the first trains in the morning. i S i A great man once told us that the songs of a nation are the best criterion of the charac- ter of a nation.! Ill We have few songs now, and the songs we do sing are pitched in patriotic vein, and we hope will soon be attuned to the key of vic- tory. Ill A favourite song (be it ever so popular) has its little day, and is succeeded by another favourite, as quickly as, in the ladies' world, one mode of fashion is succeeded by another. [Note the fashion plates, and in particular the fabuloub prices ladies are jumping over each other to pay for furs—even now, when, ac- cording to Mr. Hall Caine, ladies' work and sacrifice at home, is as great, and not less valuable as an end to winning the war, than the heroism and undaunted valour of the Tom- mies in the trenches.] Ill That by the way. As with the songs we sing, so with our "hail-fellow-well-met" salu- tations, through the medium of which men in the street convey the unquenchable spirit of comraderie. Ill The old "wheeze," It Go to Coventry," one rarely hears-in Bridgend never. It is lack- ing in forcefulness, and has gone by the board! 1 1 Even the familiar "Rats"-implying in- j credulity or contempt-is a word well nigh defunct, superseded in the local smart set by I the even more expressive monosyllable, Rabbits," or in a more compendious sense, Rabbits to you; Rabbits to all of you." The origin of the word "Rate" ma a figure of speech is unknown. Not so with "Rabbits," for thereby hangs a tale--known only in exclusive local circles, by the very elect, who are just now bravely doing their little bit to preserve peace both at home, and abroad, and who are much to be commended for their combined and well-directed activi- ties in getting men, and still more men, for the Armies of the King. Ill 1 The question arose in Bridgend County Court yesterday of the exact position of a certain hostelry. The solicitor in the case said it was a large house, and His Honour must know where it was as he would have passed it that morning on his way from the Station to the Court. His Honour, with a sniff, said he was not so familiar as all that with public-houses! 1 1 His Honour had little time, and was in no mood to listen to a woman with a temper— and a tongue. One lady in a judgment sum- mons (when it was all over) cast flashing eyes at one of the officerr, of the Court, and said with a snap, Oh, you bad man to put 'em in again! The Judge: If I have another observation like that I'll fine you. I apn not going to listen to your bad temper h«e! Ill Strange how rapidly men change from grave to gay. The P-enybont Council were in seri- ous mood, their sanitary inspector having just reported on a serious case of overcrow ding at St. Bride's Major. "Where," asked fter. T. D. Bevan, in sepulchural tones of Mr. Simon Davie6, "is the cottage?" -••Mr. Sinson' Davies: Weller-you know the Fox and Hounds, sir?" liev. T. D. Bevan (promptly): Yes. The readiness of the reply, considering whom it came from, sent the Council into a roar of laughter, in which the rev. victim heartily joined. One would have thought this would have taught Mr. Bevan caution. But no I Before long he was confiding to an us Council (apropos a discussion on the slipperinesc of the roads) that he himself had found the road slippery "just near the Pelican." This, of oourse, was merely asking for it, and it duly came in the shape of another roar of laughter, and a sly query from Mr. W. A. Howell as to whether it was going to, or re- turning from, the Pelican that Mr. BEwan-or rather his pony-found the road so treacher- ous.

BRIDGEND BELGIAN FUND. To the Editor. Sir,—On behalf of the Belgian Fund Com- mittee, we beg to thank you for the promin- ence you gave our appeal last week for funds to replace the furniture, clothing, etc., des- troyed by the recent if-e. The list of con- tributions is now as follo:ws:- Previously acknowledged xio5 0 S. H. Byass, Esq. 5 0 0 Mrs. A. J. Williams < 2 2 0 Rev. Father Campbell 1 1 0 W. Johnson, Esq. (per Mrs. M. Davies) 1 0 0 The Committee would be very grateful for further help in money or in kind. We are, on behalf of the Committee, Yours faithfully, S. H. STOCKWOOD, Chairman. J. T. HOWELL, Hon. Secretary. 8944

THE BIBLE AT THE FRONT. ENTHUSIASTIC BRIDGEND MEETING. A well-attended meeting in furtherance of the circulation of the sacred Scriptures—free and unrestricted, and without any note or comment-was held in Bridgend on Wednes- day in the Free Library Hall. It was the annual meeting of the local auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society,, whose watchword, and guiding principle, is that the Bible, jand the Bible only, is the greatest earthly boon and blessing to mankind. The chairman was the Rev. H. E. Rogers3 B.A., and the principal speaker, Rev. W. Crwys Williams (Swansea), district secretary for South Wales; whilst a collection was taken up towards the provision of Testaments and Gospels to sick and wounded sailors and sol- diers, and to prisoners of war. The speakers all spoke of the Bible as a precious heritage, and the comments of all were perhaps best summed up in the saying of Rev. W. Crwys Williams that The Book before the war was the greatest in the world; in the war, is the mightiest; and after the war, will be mightier still. Mr. V. A. Pearcy (a Nonconformist, nomi- nated to the position by the Anglican Church), as hon. secretary, made a gratifying statement of the progress made, and the con- tributions raised. The Chairman agreed that the report was very encouraging as affording an indication of the reality of the work in Bridgend during the last twelve months. They should be thank- ful to the secretary, especially for his energy as an organiser during his first year of office. The speaker was glad the local collections during the year reached JE30 18s., and failed to see why the amount should not be JE88, as it was at one period in their hostory. The Society had made great strides since its foun- dation in 1804, and it was consoling to reflect that the great international catastrophe had not retarded its operation, but, if anything, had increased its activities. (Hear, hear.) No fewer than 4i million of Testaments and portions of the Gospel had been supplied to soldiers and sailors of all nationalities, on the battlefield and in training camps, to prisoners of war, to refugees, and to aliens. It was also worthy of mention that the Bible, or portions of it, had been translated into 25 new languages since the commencement of hostili- ties. (Hear, hear.) Rev. W. Crwys Williams, in a comprehen- sive survey of the evangelising propaganda, said our soldiers read the good Old Book, with much greater joy and avidity than did we in the peace of our own homes, and in the sano tuaries of this highly favoured land.