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FOR PRINTING TRY THE "County Observer" Office. Memorandimi Forms 3XTote Paper Envelopes B1.11head.s Counter Bills Friendly Societies' Members' Cards Rules Forms Balance Sheets Programmes for Concerts Balls Sports Fetes &c. AW jflLtlxletlo Clutos' Fixtures Fosters for Auction Sales En. terta:Lnzn. n:ts Flower Sliows &0., in one or more colours— laold., attractive Sale catalogues Iiitnograpliic Flans Particulars of Sale Visiting and. Trade Cards Memorial cards Menu Cards Receipts Assistant Overseers' ReQLulsites TRY THE County Observer" Office FOR PRINTING. JOHN H. BENNIK Member of the Auctioneers Institute by Exam- ination.) AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL AUC- TIONEER, TENANT RIGHT & TIMBER VALUER, SURVEYOR, LAND AGENT, HOTEL AND INSURANCE BROKER Newport. Usk, 8f Chepstow Districts. Sales of Fat and Store Stock in NEWPORT, fISK, and CHEPSTOW CATTLE MAKKETS on Market Days. Horses in NEWPORT MARKET monthly. Chief Offices and Sateroom 6 and 12, SKINNER STREET, NEWPORT. Nat. Telephone, 339. Telegrams, Rennie Auction Fixtures. 1907. Apr. 15-Anniial Spring Sale of Fat and Store Stock at Raglan, after Usk Market in the morning. 17-Valuable Builder's Yard, Villa Resi- dences, Dwelling Houses, in Newport, by Order of the Court, in re D. W. Richards, Limited, at the King's Head Hotel, Newport. April-Early date—Household Furniture and Ef. fects, at Grosmont, for F. T. Wood- cock, Esq., leaving. 18-Valuable Live and Dead Farming Stock, at The Green, Raglan, for Mrs Wadley (leaving). 22-Live and Dead Stock, at the Cairn Farm, Devauden. 25-Valuable Household Furniture and Outside Effects, at "Edlogan," Sebastopol, for Richard Wilding, Esq. (who is leaving). Early date-Valuable Freehold Accommodation Pasture Lands, at Goldcliff, Nash, Bishton, and Newport, re T. J. Jones, dead. Early date—Property at Nash. Early date-Ditto at Poatymister. Early date-Important Stock Sale. Particulars and Catalogues to be obtained from the AUCTIONBBB, 6 Skinner Street, Newport. By Messrs. MARFELL & POOLE. Tyrmonach Farm, Bryngwyn. Midway between Monmouth and Abergavenny, and 1 mile from Raglan. IMPORTANT SALE OF Live and Dead Farming Stock, which MESSRS MARFELL & POOLE are favoured with instructions from the REPRESENTA- TIVES of the late MR DAVID EVANS, to SELL BY AUCTION, on the premises, as above, on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH, 1907, and which comprises- 18 WELL-BRED HEREFORD CATTLE; 8 YOUNG UPSTANDING CART HORSES; 6l FAT and STORE SHEEP; 1 A PIGS; together with a Collection of AGRI" lU CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, a portion of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, DAIRY UTENSILS, and EFFECTS, the whole fully described in Catalogues. Luncheon at 11 o'clock, by ticket. Sale at 12.30. Auctioneers' Offices-The Willows, Usk. Usk Fair, Monday, April 15th, 1907. MESSRS. MARFELL & POOLE are instructed by MR. STEPHENS, Bittia Farm, to OFFER BY AUCTION, in the Cattle Market, at 11 o'clock, his upstanding Entire Shire Horse, t Sire, Hendre Conqueror," 17,385, black, 5 years old, 17 hands high. Full particulars at time of Sale. Wern Farm, Llansoy. TO BE SOLD BY TENDER, 13 Oak Timber Sticks, 5 Elm ditto, and 3 Ash Sticks, all felled by experienced workmen, Spring, 1906. To view, apply, MR. 0. ANSTEY, Lower House Farm, Llansoy. Tenders to be received by him on or before the 27th April inst. Highest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. Village of Llandenny. TO BE LET, with early possession, BRICK COTTAGE.—Apply, E. WADDINGTON, Usk. Established 1849. NEWLAND, DAVIS, & HUNT, Auctioneers, Valuers, Surveyors, g. Land Agents. Sales of Fat and Store Stock at NEWPORT Cattle Market every Wednesday; CHEPSTOW SEVERN TUNNEL, and LYDNEY, fortnightly Offices: 19, COMMERCIAL STREET, NEWPORT, and WELSH STREET, CHEPSTOW. Chepstow Statute Horse Fair. FRIDAY, MAY 24TH, 1907.-Attention is called to the above Fair and Sale, which will be held in the Market, Chepstow, on the above date.—Entries should be forwarded at an early date to the Auctioneers, Messrs Davis, Newland, and Hunt, 21, Welsh Street, Chepstow. u Printing of all descriptions at the. Office of this Paper. Notice of Audit. To the Ratepayers and Owners of Property in the Urban District of Usk, in the County of Monmouth. WHEREAS W. G. COX, Esquire, the District Auditor authorised by law to Audit the Accounts of the Receipts a"d Expenditure under the Public Health Act, 1875, of us, the URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL for the above-named District, has appointed 11.30 o'clock in the Fore- noon of THURSD AY, the SECOND day of MAY next as the time, and the TOWN HALL, USK, as the place, at which the Audit. of the said Accounts for the year ended at 31st March, 1907. will be made: WE, the Raid DISTRICT COUNCIL, hereby GIVE NOTICE, in pursuance of the said Act, THAT the Audit of the said Accounts will be made at the Time and Place so appointed an aforesaid THAT any Ratepayer or Owner of property in the said District may be present at the Audit, and may make any objection to the said Accounts before the Auditor; AND THAT a copy of the said Accounts duly made up and balanced, together with all the rute boo s, account books, deeds, contracts, accounts, vouchers, and receipts mentioned or referred to in such Accounts, will be deposited in our Office at the residence of the Clerk, Twyn House, Usk, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of April, and will be open thereat, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. until the said day of Audit, to the inspection of all persons interested, who will be at liberty to take copies of or extracts from the same without fee or reward. Dated this Tenth day of April, 1907. ARTHUR F. LUCAS, Clerk to the District Council. To be Sold by Tender. LOT 1.—8 Elm Timber Trees, 25 Oak, and 1 Ash, situate on the TWYN FARM, CLYTHA. LOT 2.-83 Oak Timber Trees, and 47 Larch, standing in COED-Y-BUNNETH WOOD and the BRAKE adjoining, and 17 Larch, standing near FORGE MILL. LOT 3.—31 Oak Timber Trees, standing in the Wood adjoining TROSTREY COURT FARM. LOT 4.—2 Oak Timber Trees in the Lane leading to CLYTHA HILL. LOT 5.—The Fallage of COED ADAM WOOD. Tenders to be sent to ILTYD GARDNER, Abergavenny. Hunting Appointments. MR. CURRFS HOUNDS will meet on Monday, April 15th Llanishen At 9 a.m. Friday, April 19th Piercefield Park At 11. Mr. Clay's Subscription Otter Hounds will meet next week (water permitting) Tuesday, April 16th Cefn Tilla, near Usk At 10 a.m. Saturday, April 20th .Woolaston Station At 10.30 a.m. 4th Volunteer Battalion South Wales Borderers. G COMPANY, USK. Orders for week ending 20th April, 1907. On Duty:- Lee.-Sergeant Clift. Corporal Sweet. Bugler Price. Tuesday, April 16th-Band Practice at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 17th.—Company Training, plain clothes, belt and frog, 7.30 p.m. Thursday, April 18th-Band Practice at 8 p.m Friday, April 19:h.-Recruits' Training, 7.30 p.m. It is requested that Members will make every effort to attend the drills now being carried out in the Armoury. By order, H. J. WILLCOX, Captain, Commanding G Company. County Courta in Circuit 24. COURTS will be held at tbe several Court-town on this Circuit, before His Honour JUDGB OWBN, the Judge thereof on the days and at the timehereunder mentioned:- Time, a.m. Apr. May June Chepstow 10 22 — 3 Barry 10 23 7 4 Cardiff 10 3 8 5 I 10 4 9 6 „ 10 5 10 7 10 6 11 8 Abergavenny 10 16 10 Blaenavon 10 13 — Tredegar 9.30 16 14 11 Pontypool. 10 17 15 12 Newport 10.30 18 16 13 „ 10.30 19 17 14 Monmouth. 10 20 18 18 Ross 9.30 13 I Crickhowell 11 12 17 Usk 11 11 19 .d APPOINTMENTS, &c.. FOR WEEK Ending April 20th, 1907. April. Sat. 13-Pontypool Petty Sessions Football-Usk v. Llauhilleth, at tian- hilleth. Sun. 14—Second Sunday after Easter. Mon 15-Utk Fair. Sale of Entire Shire Horse, by Messrs Mar fell and Poole. (SeeAdvt.) Pontypool Rural District Council Meeting. Chamber of Agriculture Meeting, Three Salmon's Hotel, Usk. Tues. 16—Abergavenny Market. Wed. 17-Newport Cattle, Corn, and Cheese Markets. Abergavenny Petty Sessions. ImoTtant Sale of Live and Dead Farming Stock, at Tyrmonach Farm. Bryngwyn, by Meters Marfell aud Poole. (SeejAdvt.) Thuru 18-Usk Petty SessIOD". Sat. 20—Pontypool Petty Session*. Cyclists, Light dp! Saturday, Apr 13th. 7.49 Sunday, 14th 7.51 Monday, 15th 7.52 Tuesday, „ Ifith 7.54 Wednesday, 17th 7.56 Thursday, 18t.h. 7 58 Friday, 19th 7.59 Saturday, 2uth 8. 0 Being One hour after Sunset. Higher Grade School, Usk. Next Term Commences Mondtty, April 15th, BOOy, 4 N EXAMINATION for TWO SCHOLAR- T\ SHIPS in the GIRLS' SCHOOL will be held at the School, on SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 13TH, 1907 For particulars please apply to the HEAD MASTER.
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Births, Warriasfts, & Deaths. Announcementsundert his heading are inserted at a uniform change of I /-each, unless such words as I' No Cards," No Flowers," d;c., are added, when the charge will be 2/6. All Announcements must be authenticated. Postage Stamps may be sent in payment. Lists of Wedding Presents are inserted at the rate of 1/6 per inch in depth. DEATH. ACTESON.—On Sunday, April 7th, 1907. at Old Market Street, Usk, Margaret Acteson, in her 21st year.
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USK. I Agent-Mrs. E. K. Jones, Stationer Mn WILLIAM SMITH'S AFFAIHS. -The adjourned examination of Mr W. Smi: h, late proprietor of the Thrpp Salmon's Hotel, Usk. should have taken place at Newport Baukruptcv Court, on Tuesday, but, Mr F. Gardner (the official receiver) said he understood Mr Smith was travelling in Egypt or some where for the benefit of his health. He asked for an adjournment until they got hold of him, and the Registrar sanctioned it. PRESENTATION.—On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, an entertainment was given in the Bap- tist Schoolroom, principally by the Sunday School children, in aid of their funds, and the attendance was very good, especially on the second night, when, in a eulogistic speech, the Rev. H. B. Robin- son (pastor) presented Miss Agnes Thomas with a. gold watch, inscribed Presented to Miss Agnes Thomas, as an appreciation of her services, by the Usk Baptist Church." Mr. S. A Hiley, J.P., and Mr F. Jennings also spoke of the recipient's good work, and alluded to the long connection of her family with the Baptist cause in the town, special reference being made to her grandfather, the late Mr Wm. Thomas. Returning thanks for the handsome gift, Miss Thomas said what she had done for the cause had been a real pleasure to her, and she hoped she might be spared for many years to continue to do what she could. PROPOSED MEMORIAL.—A movement has been inaugurated to erect a memorial to Private Thomas Bayliss and Trooper Osmond Haggett, Usk men who fell in the South African War, the one dying of disease and the other from wounds. The first, meeting was held, under the presidency of Mr J. Maitland Watkins, at the Golden. Lion," on Monday, when Mr Bert Thomas was appointed hon. sec., and it was proposed that the memorial should take the form of a drinking fountain, the cost of which it was decided to ascertain. Sub- scription forms were requested to be placed in the local Banks and public places, which has been since done, and the Secretary was able to announce that several pounds had already been promised.— The Committee consists of the Chairman, the, .Rector, Messrs. R. St. John Beasley, H. Freeman. E. W. Waters, J. Hennessey, W. Marfell, C. N. Doubleday, W. Workman, R. A. Rogers, W. W. Gibbon, and F. Jennings. OBITUARY.—On Sunday morning the death took place at the residence of her uncle (Mr Oliver Preece), Old Market Street, of Miss Margareb Acteson, in her 21st year. She was a pupil teacher at the Usk Boys' School, but for the last six months had been too ill to attend to her duties, and had been an inmate of the Weston Sanatorium* returning a couple of months ago to gradually fade away, notwithstanding the efforts of her relatives and the kind attentions of her girl friends in order to prolong her life. The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon, in pouring rain, and it was very largely attended, amongst the mourn- ers being her former pupils. The floral emblems were numerous, and included several from the: scholars and staff of the Schools. The Hector officiated Mr F. H. Stockham carried out the funeral arrangements. The coffin was of polished oak, with silver-plated furniture.
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———.——————————— \/1 R. and MRS. 0. PREECE desire to express I their sincere THANKS to all friends who were so kind to Maggie in her illness, especially the young ladies who took her out to enjoy God's fresh air when alive, and also those who kindly attended the funeral and sent wreaths, crosses, and flowers. Usk, April 11th, 1907.
Usk Vestry Meeting.
Usk Vestry Meeting. The Easter Vestry this year was of more than usual importance, and the fact of its being attended by a larger number of parishioners may be taken as an indication of increasing interest i i Church matters. Moreover, it is satisfactory to note that although several tlit-rii subjects came under discussion, and the financial statement showed a deficit, yet the general character of the meeting was harmonious. The ques- tion of the proposed heating installation for the Church occupied chief attention and elicited various opinions. For some years it has been felt that the stove placed near the west door was totally inadequate for the beating of the whole Church, and the low temperature registered within the building during the past winter has undoubtedly contributed largely to diminished congrega- tions, especially at the Sunday morning service, and to the FILLING OFF OF OFFERTORIES. By means of a bazaar and various sub- scriptions last year a sum of about L104 was raised, but this is not sufficient for either a low or high pressure system-the former being estimated to cost about £ 206 and the latter from tl50 to £ 160. 1:1 either case the balance required should not be an impossible one to collect if Churchpeople would set to work earnestly and in unison to achieve the objects which they all desire more comfort and less danger to the worshippers and the greater preservation of the fabric when next winter comes round. We understand that when the Restoration Committee completed its work some few years ago, there re- mained a surplus of from X20 to £2.1, which was banked. That Committee, so far as we know, has never been disbanded, and the thought naturally arises whether it would be possible for the present Financial Committee, composed of the Rector, church- wardens, and sidesmen, to approach the Restoration Committee and, by an amalga- mation of forces, effect an arrangement whereby the fund for heating the Church may legitimately be benefited to the extent of the amount now standing to the credit of the Restoration Committee. This would go a long way towards making up the balance required, and would give an impetus to the remainder being gathered in.
I The Flaniielette - Danger.…
I The Flaniielette Danger. I An inquest was held on Tuesday, at Cardiff, on Elizabeth Northmore, 60, widow. On March 20th, deceased was about to go to bed, when her nightdress was accidentally ignited from a candle that was standing on the table. Deceased's niece with assistance, put out the flames. Dr Biggs said deceased was badly burned, and death resulted from the burns In answer to the Coroner, the niece said deceased's nightdress was of flannelette, and the Coroner said if it had been made of something else the fire probably would not have burned so fiercely. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned.
Markets.I
Markets. I MONMOUTH, CATTLE, Monday.-Supply small, but trade good in veal, wether mutton, and pigs. Messrs. Nelmes and Poole realised the following Trices at auctionBullocks, £ 16 12s 6d to 921 heifers, L15 58 to 917 10s; fat calves, 48s to 90s, store calves up to 30s; wetiters-in wool 499 6d to 60s out of wool, 42a 6d to 50s, ewes from 30a to 42s 6d, lambs 218 to 41d piga -porkera J61 18a to 95 Os 6d, baconers 61s to 64s. The poundage prices were :-Best beef 6fd to 7d per lb, secondary gorts 6gd to 6d veal, Sid to 911 wether mutton, 2 go to 8d, ewe ditto, 6id to 7d. larob., h Ofd to In 2d.; porkers 10a to 10a 6d per score, baconers, 9s j to 9s 6d.
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THE IRISH QUESTION. I VIII. IS IT PEACE I" I By IAN MALCOLM, EX-M.P. FOR THE STOWNIARK-PT (N.W.) DIVISION. OF SUFFOLK I i FTER Mr James Bryce had been appointed British Ambassador to the United States of America he made a number of partisan poli- tical speeches in England and Ireland. For- ge'ting, let us hope, that he was no longer the Home Rule Chief Secretary for Ireland, he delivered an oration in Dublin which fore- shadowed the destruction of Trinity College and the erection of a Roman Catholic College— a proposal which the whole of educated Ireland received with dismay. It was the wrong plan proposed by the wrong man at the wrong time. He also went to Newcastle (January 15, 1907) and, after presiding at a dinner of the Glad- stone Club, res onded to the toast of his health in a speech adorned with all the inaccuracies which distinguished the patron saint of this Newcastle society. His knowledge of Ireland will be easily discerned by contrasting the fancies of the speaker with the facts of the case. For instance •' The disorder of which you hear so much has now practically disappeared in very nearly the whole country." SOCIAL TYRANNY. Can he have known the number of innocent men who are now under boycott" at the instigation of the United Irish League at the present moment men who cannot get the necessaries of life from their own villages, who are under police protection, next to whom no man or woman will sit in chapel ? Or, is not this "disorder?" One week, after Mr Bryce spoke, a farmer in Monaghan claimed for damages for the malicious burning of a range of out offices and the destruction of fourteen horses, three cows, three heifers, a bull, and a quantity of hay and other effects. The evi- dence disclosed that the applicant took, some years ago, I he grazing of some evicted farms in the neighbourhood, and had ever since been subjec'ed to much annoyance He had received threatening letters in connection with his oc- cupancy of the evicted land, and on several occasions when making hay hundreds of pieces of wire were found stuck in the ground, to the considerable injury of his mowing machinery. The fire which demolished his buildings, and which had so cruelly destroyed his valuable live stock he attributed to malice. A police ser- geant. in corroboration of this theory, produced a small bottle containing blasting powder, with a fuse attached, which he had found beneath one of the windows of the premises. After a patient hearing of eight hours, the judge decided that the fire was malicious, and gave a decree for £ 1,151, which he ordered to be levied off the district in which the burning had occurred. This is no exceptional case, and every land- agent in Ireland can produce instances in which men are at this moment suffering bitterly for disobedience to the orders of the United Irish Leagne. May I call attention to one more case under this head ? BY ORDER OF "THE LEAGUE." At Mr. John Dillon's great Nationalist meet- at the Market-square of Ballinasloe, on Sunday, January 20, a large grazier whose case had become notorious by reason of his repeated denunciation by the loca League branches, and by the chasing of his cattle all over the country, as well as by pending prosecutions in connection therewith, suddenly appeared, and "submitted" to the law and the demand of the League. He sought a happy issue out of all his afELictions- not by depending upon an unreliable Dublin Castle, but by mounting Mr Dillon's platform and promising to give up the lands which he had purchased some time ago in the open market at an expenditure which ran into four figures. The meeting." states the Freeman's Journal" report (January 21), "was of great dimensions, and a fine spirit of earnestness and enthusiasm was displayed. Not the least remarkable feature of the demonstration was the public surrender by Mr John Beirne of the famous Tonlagee grazing ranch, situate in the County of Roscommon. Mr Beirne announced that he had surrendered his interest in the Tonlngee farm out of respect to Mr Redmond, Mr Dillon, and all the Irish party." A different sample of disorder reaches me from another and perfectly reliable quarter. In the summer of 1906, in a small inland town of Ireland, the owner of some premises occupied by a general trader having in vain sought to procure peaceable possession from a tenant whose tenancy had expired, and who was over- holding, obtained a decree for possession. The writ was placed in the Sheriff's hands, but exe- cution (except by a continued display of force) was impossible, because the overholding tenant barred all means of access to the premises, and fortified the house with a large stock of defen- sive and offensive missiles' So at 5 a.m. on a summer's morning a special train steamed out of one of the Dublin stations, bearing some bailiffs supplied to the Sheriff by one of those agencies which exist in Ireland for the defence of property, and to perform tasks whose diffi- culty no one can appreciate unless he has moved in the thick of agrarian disorder. By the same train there travelled 100 men of the Royal Iri-h Constabulary. Arrived at their destina- tion a surprise was effected, and the premises were captured. The bailiffs reported that the extent of the preparations indicated an inten- tion to offer a riotous and possibly murderous resistance. And so the King's writ ran, but only because a force sufficient in numbers and armament to capture a whole town was sent by stealth in the small hours of the morning to capture a house and out-offices. 0 With these samples of law and order be- fore us it is hard to see where Mr Bryce finds any credit for his Irish administration. "PEACEFUL" IRELAND. Again Mr Bryce boasted that we have not had to proclaim a single meeting." Has he forgotten that in County Sligo a meeting was proclaimed in April 1906, and over a 100 police were'drafted into the district to preserve order ? Has he forgotten his suppression of a meeting j in Roscommon which was held in obedience to the following summons — A Call to the Nationalists of Kilbride.— Men of Kilbride, come in vour thousands on Sunday, the 11th inst.. and show by your pre- sence and determination that you are pre- pared to support the claims of the several evicted tenants of Roxboro' Lands that no grazier will, with honour and security to himself, lay claim to the lands from which your fathers and their predecessors were ruth- lessly evicted without knowing that a united, determined, and a never-flinching people are prepared at any sacrifice to have the lands which were theirs before cringing slouth of foreign origin, or manufactured lickspittleslor heelrubbers of our own ancestry, learned how to sell Ireland and Erin's children.—God Save Ireland! The exigencies of space, but not of material drawn from reports taken from Nationalist papers, prevent my multiplication of these instances for the information of English and Scotsmen. Then, said Mr Bryce, We have not prose- cuted anyone for any speech, because we have not found any harm in those speeches." In Ireland men wonder what Mr Bryce would consider a harmful speech. Certainly not Mr Conor O'Kelly's utterance that a certain grazier should be treated as a grabber of the worst possible kind, and Sligo wauld become too hot to ho hold him nor all the seditious obser- vations which are recorded daiiy from meetings of the" 8inn Fein" and Dungannon Clubs, which are enthusiastically cheered by their adherents and aee not repudiated by that. Constitutional" association, the United Irish League. DEVOLUTION" FOR REBELS Once more, Mr Bryce asserts that The county councils have given us encouragement to believe that larger powers of self-government woul not be abused." Let us take note of the action of the General Council of these same county councils- At the outset they deter- mined that no political matters should be dis cussed two years ago this resolution was rescinded and the Loyalist minority most pro- perly retired from its deliberations. On October 18, 1906, this Council— formed for- the sole purpose of administering local affairs- passed the following resolution :— That the Irish people are a free people, with a natural right to govern themselves, that no Parliament is competent to make such laws for Ireland, except an Irish Parlia- ment, sitting in Dublin, and that the claim by other bodies of men to make laws for us to govern Ireland is illegal, unconstitutional, and at variance with the rights of the people." If this is not abuse of their powers the English Language has lost its meaning. And yet Mr Bryce can find it possible to say-in the teeth of the foregoing resolution, passed by the representatives of a popularly elected body, that Those in Ireland who desire Separation are an insignificent minority Why, at the very moment that he was speaking, an election. 11 placard was posted on the walls of Dublin, signed by twelve members of the Dublin Cor- poration seeking re-election, in which they claim that they have hitherto been elected "to forward the Sovereign independence of the Irish Nation." SEPARATION IN SIGHT. Finally, Mr Bryce as late Chief Secretary, booms the advantages of the Gaelic League and Sinn Fein when he re ers with admiration to the new burst of patriotic feeling which is very encouraging," and says that "One of the most wholesome crusades is the movement in the direction of temperance Yes, whole- some and encouraging indeed, if the energies of their founders were confined to securing these excellent results. But when we read the state- ments, frankly and fearlessly made in every newspaper in the country, by men who glory in their desire for separation from England, and declare that this is the consummation of all their desires as members of these leagues, then I can- not help feeling that temperance and true patriotism are not the most powerful of these Irish Ideas. But the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr Birrell, is to be responsible for this new scheme of devolution which is to lead up to the larger policy" of Home Rule or Separa- tion. Do the foregoing arguments and quota- tions give us any hope that if we wish to secure Ireland as an integral and prosperous part of the Empire, if we wish to save Ireland from the clutches of hot-headed agitators, we shall be justified in handing over her destinies to the tender mercies of the Gaelic League and Sinn Fein ? Every evidence we can collect from purely Nationalist sources goes to prove the falsity of Mr Bryce's declaration that the Devolution policy will bring peace. If the Separatism accept the scheme at all it will be because it will bring not peace but a sword.
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ANGLING. The river continues in very good condition for trout angling, and the spotted bea ities are rising well. Some very fine baskets hive been taken, Captain Phillips, on the upper water having had particularly good sport, in two successive days killing 55 trout. Mr Hiley, of Gilwen, an t Mr W. G. James (the old Newport footballer), have Rho taken baskets -of over 20 on the same water. After the recent heavy rain storms, the river haa ilsen, and salmon anglera are now likely te meet with Fome sport, as one or two fresh run salmoitb have been seen. A good cast for the coming week would be the, March brown with orange body, orange-bodied dun, and th Granham. The following are the, kills reported April 3rd—Mr L. R. Lucas, 3 brace; Mr T" Thomas, 2.