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CARNABVONSHIRB ASSIZES. I…
CARNABVONSHIRB ASSIZES. I CARNARVONSBIRE ASSIZES. On Fridav, these assizes were again resumed at rfM-uarvon, before Mr Justice Denman. I>I8RUTK ABOUT A WILL. Thh was an action in which John Morria Jones, T'? JoM.. Ellen Williams, and Jane Griffith,  plaintiffs, and Richard Hugbw detend?nt.- M- \!?)coim DoactM?d Mr G. H. Anwyl Evans /Ltracted by M? R. Ivor Parry, Pwllheli) ap. ?dfortb.?intiff.ndMrC. Higgins, Q.C., d?fE.H L'o?("'?°??*'y?"??°?y"'? '?)bert< Halifax) for the defendant,-The plaintiffs ii.imed that tbev were entitled to the "session of messuage, tenement, and lands, called Pwllmelyn, in the parish of Aberdaron.—Mr Douglas said the laintiffs claimed as heirs-at-law and co-heiresses. Hugh Griffith (the teotator) died in 1819, leaving a will in which he devised the said messuage, tene- S ment and ii"'? to the churohwardens or overseers of the poor of the pariah of Aberdaron, or their ,successors, in trust towards the use, olothing, and IDaintenance of his daughter, Jane Haghee. who weB an imbecile. After her death his will was I that the said tenement should go and devolve to his daughter Elizabeth, if then living, for her life. After the death of his daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, be bequeathed the tenement and lands to his arandsous. Hugh and David Roberts, share and _L..o IikA or to the survivors of them for the lives of them and the said survivor; but Hugh Griffith otherwise died intestate. Hugh Griffith died leaving issne Lowry Hughes, who married John Morris, aDd the plaintiff was her heir-at-law Aune, who inarried Lewis Jones; Jane, an imbecile, who died unmarried; and Elizabeth, who married Robert Griffith. Hugh Roberts and David Roberts, who were the two graudsona named in will, took a like interest. The eldeat 80D of the marriage between Klizabeth and- Tinhert Griffith WM Griffith Roberts, through ?n the plaintiffs Ellen Williams and Jane Oriffith claimed their third share of the estate. ii,„w this will, first of all, Jane, the imbecile, •nioved a life interest in trust. After her came Elizabeth followed by Hugh and David Roberts. David lioberts was the youngest of the two brothers, ,nd died a bachelor in 1825. Hugh Roberts died on the 19th January, 1882, leaving four sons, of whom-defendant was the yonngest. What they said was that the effect of the will was that Hngh and David Roberts between them took a life interest ill., ■ and after their death the estate passed to the beiis:at-law of Hu,,Iii Griffitb.-Mr A. D'Oyly Watkine, one of the officials at the Bangor Probate Otlice, produced the original copy of the will in nneation -Mr R.Ivor Parry,sohcitor,Pwllheli, said he had beers acting for the pJaintlff. On the 2nd -3_ 10.- Novembcr last vear, ne saw 1118 aeiemiaut IU nis house at Aberdaron, and, on behalf of the plaintiff, demanded powewion of the premises, which he reftised-The various certificates of births and marriages were produced, and evidence for proving -be pedigree of the persons mentioned in the will was given by the following persons :-Ellen Parry (73) Anne Jones (82), Robert Parry (69), Anne Robert? (67),and Ellen Williams.—Mr Higgins said if his lordship thought desirable he was qnite prmared to argue the matter now but they on)y ?i?hej !o pre?nt the necessary facts and have the matter argued in London, if desirable.—His Lord- ship adjourned the case for further consideration. ACTUS FOR LIBEL AOAINST THE OWALIA IIEWSP,\PF.R. In thi-s action the plaintiff was the Rev. Robert Hushes, UwchIFtw'rffyil on, Llan&elbaiarn, a d the defendants were the Gu-aha Newspaper and Printing Company Limited. The Plaintiff illtoed" that he had been libelled in certain letters which appeared in the Goocclia, aud claimed £100 damages. Mr Clement Hic'ins, Q.C., and Mr A. J. H. Williams (instructed bv Messrs Turner and Allanson, Car carvon), were for the plaintiff; and Mr E. Sweteuha°.n, Q.C., M.P., and Mr Maloolm Douglas (instructed by Mr George Owen, Carnarvon) defended. The case was tried before a special jury.-Ir Hiseins, in his opening statement, said that the plaint iff, Robert Hughes, was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, who for the last 55 years had resided at a place called Uwchlaw'rffynon, in the parish of Llanaelhaiarn. There was another old person named Thomas Williams, living in the same parish; ttntl these two geutlemen lived together upon very friendly terms. On the high road between Llanaelhaiarn and Nevin was the house where the minister lived, and about half-a-mile from it was the place Thomas Williams lived. Thomas Williams had a daughter named Margaret living with him. Thomas Williams died in 1883 at the ase of 83 years, and his daughter died an old t'aid a little before him, at the age of about 50 years. He might tell them further that Mr Robert Hughes was kind and neighbourly towards them, as., sometimes visited their house as a neighbour to lee the old man and his daughter. He would now we them to the libel. On the 12th January of the present year, the Rev. Robert Hughes oalled at the shop of Riclurd Ellis Owen,bookseller.Llanaelhaiarn, when the latter drew his attention to the Gtoalia newspaper which had just come in; and pointed oat to him the two leter, which e(,ntai!?d the alleged libel. They were written under the heading or" The Llanaelhaiarn GhOÐt," and the first read in English as follows:—" Ati auswer to the question in the Gtcilia :-To the Editor.—Sir,—I was travel- line a thort time ago from Nevin to Llanaelhaiarn on a cold and frosty night, when the snow covered the earth, and as it was full moon, every objeot conld be decerned as if it had been daylight. By the tiire I had reached Llithfaen, it was drawing neat eleven o'clock, and although I was by myself I was neithf r afraid nor timid. Directing my steps towards Liinaelhaiarn and passing a small and poor looking hut, I turned my head and found an oM nun of about 8U years of age following me. 1 knew the old man when alive,and I reoognised him. Now I began to dread and perspire. I hurried on until I oame above Uwchlaw'rffynon, the old man still following me. To my great surprise and con- sternation, behold an old maid, tall, very thin, and somewhat ugly in appearance, met us. I reoognised her alw. I knew both well. I was never afraid of ther.1 be/ore; but now, standing between the two, v:,e on the right and the other on the left of me, lod I in the centre, I did not feel my feet under Nt. I felt my hair standing on my head, and the coll sweat running down my back. Somehow or other I determined to speak to them. I asked them in the name of God what troubled them ? and why they appeared to the living ? The old maid filled that she would teU the reason on two oondi- viz., that I would never disclose (1) their lames, and (2) the name, residence or occupation of the person or persons whom she ould mention. I oomplied, and she went on say- is "When on earth, we lived together for many JWrs, ana lived sparingly so as to collect a little fJ?De"V' to end our days without asking help r?m Pari3h or parson. We collected bont 91?0, v'9'torB came to us on false pretences. They took advantage of our ignoranoe, and stole our "My and that, in short, is the cause of our visit to yon. We are determined that those «j* sons BhaU not die like other men unless ""? eonfm their eins.-(Bigned). TRAVELLm.-Mr 0».n ,bpn he read that letter, knew to whom t -tf '? he drew plaintiff's attention to it. link "?°P??er followed this further state- ?Ont, ■! traM)ation of which was :—Corrobora- I"e ?Ir Editor -What" One from AnotW pt* heard is perfectly true, and I &\? °' # "h? I h?eseen and heard, that there irA in ♦v?m hftve Been an<* heard, that lore in tbi etish a great number of ghosts, I T ciiaii 'k^ them all one by one into light, that oth. K, the inhabitants of this parish knna, L 'L a?( ?' ??' The ODe I am #owg to  '"?'?? which my old wife aNndOne night when coming home from KKin? ?' ?*ery late, and the old woman entirely l.ii., .?? 'P pace with me, therefore I p Paoe w,th me, therefore I **>aii'tl«!v J of er, But oh! when I was "WtbeW,?s'h.??n. a little above that I be- held sometk- 8 the shape of a man coming '"wsrd o e, carrving a lamp in one band, and in th I ot er a i,ei that which the oolleotors of laratice onies --ive, I stayed at that plaoe ttntil the old 07Jln came to me, and I asked her "?? YM u tbt ?——'?" "Yes," she replied. i?rr??'"? y ?'?tened m.. too. He said "vd iMr S SM, y "ened me, too. He said "m"thiar b?,,t ??"6y that WM lost." come On, I ,id," and don't say a word ."and we dI'rect'li nn/ ? ? homewards hastily. The old "?'a ha "'fted h ? "'? u if she had only just "?M fro?m b?\'? she kept '? of me Ji'il we reached ?v, house. After a cup of tea our '"? 'eft M .? fear left what » I?"! spirits were restored. We 0tbad t;sen, and this old woman '? Prett?y m?'). ?e history of everything ?'hMh. -4 & ?°o"t fifty years. She II "M&Me At?oM? n)?.' '?'?''y what we saw that }bl. Aft" I nw "1 the the question of ?'" ?o? \???<'S?!.<. th. question ot ?'?h,.iM ° ?JM'.?." we htve trrivedat I ? ??t ? the Mme one ts ''? which h?  heard about but that it ?edin ?°?,°' On th.i night, and I 'huld b I V,rv Iad to g,t rid of this ghost, fearing ?b?e,Ky? °?? ?? 'st. 't..ring J*? carrying water f "°'"? '? the children ? ??'???? ?w? ?? '?' the we)). beoMM m?y ot ll, tav without T,trhe wtell utntil tit w' ,b.,Ylate. I be, love if number of the ??of?' ? ?) ? ?' me, and One from ^ari»h °U ,,catcfl him, chMn him, ati lt%ke him efap«Ttive. We might convene a ?'"?'??n ?'' ? °"ht convene t bit threu, -rneting and Pit him to death, and then ln4ke a biR 1)??titi,)n as long as the speech of 'vOQ'te of disBltablishmon' made ? uf the classical ifmffe that the Church is like a eat in the organ," then, after reoeiving enough of signa- tures, present it to the parish parson, and ask him would he be so kind as to allow us to open the large grave in order to lav there side by side with all the things that are already there, the ghost whioh disturbs some old man, according to the idea of one who is troubled with this gbost, We think it would be well to bury in thi new style, like bury. ing a dog, and if One from another" Parish" does not object, we would ask the pastor of Babell to say a word on the occasion. We shall do the thing as quietly as possible. It will be a private funeral. You shall have more of its history again. (Signed) ONE FIIOM THIS PARISH. The defendants, first of all, admit that they published the letters, but they denied that the statements referred to the plaintiff. An Act of Parliament provided a coane which the defendants might have adopted. They could have printed an apology in their newspaper. They could have pleaded that it was put in their newspaper without any malicious inteatiou, and paid a nominal sum as damages. If they had done so, they (the prosooution) would have been in this position; they must have accepted that money in satisfaction of the libel, or they must have proved that what they did was done with malioioua and gross negligence. This course the defendants had not chosen to pursue. The defend- ants were a limited company, and the capital was subscribed by persons who, probably, agreed with the opinions 9 x pressed in the paper; It was Well" known that this newspaper was a strong Cown,?., vative organ; and, on the other band, the plaintiff was a strong nvocate of disestablishment aDd a prominent Liberal. Defendants defeuded their action and tried to escape the responsibility. If they did not refer to the plaintiff-hecause this was not put in without referring to someone-whom did they refer to ? He would draw their attention to another question. Unfortunately it happened that Margaret, the (laughter of the old man, became insane about the year 1881, and became exceedingly violent during the period of her insanity, so much so that it necessitated her removal to Denbigh Asylum.-Mr Swetenham objected to the introduc- tion of this matter. They were not affeoted by anything said by an insane woman at Denbigh.— Mr Higgins: It is a story to which the paper refers, It got abont the parish afterwards.—Continuing, Mr Higgins said after the year 1881, and during the period of this woman's insanity, a story had got about the parish of Llanaelhaiarn to the effect that £120 had been stolen from the house of Thomas Williams, and that story was con- nected with the name of the plaintiff. It had since died away, until its reproduction in a public news- paper for the whole parish to read. He did not hesitate to say that this was the worst possible kind of libel, because it raked up an old story which had died out and which noootly believed. They often heard it was for political purposes these things were reproduced. He need not say this was a most cowardly thing to bring a matter like this before the public. He would oall witnesses, all respectable persons, who would prove that the letters were understood in the parish to refer to Mr Robert Hughes. The learned counsel then referred to the points in the letters which connected them with the plaintiff. A reference was made to the pastor of Babell," and that was the natne of the chapel at which the plaintiff preached. Plaintiff had also been lecturing in favour of disestablishment and had at one time in his speech made use of the words that the church was like a cat in an organ." WILLIAM OWES EVANS, a clerk of Messrs Turner and Allanson at Pwllheli, testified that he had made a translation of the letters published in the Gicatia. -By his Lordship: Is that a correct translation ? It is substantially correct ROBERT HCOBES, the plaintiff, said he had lived in the parish of Llanaelhaiarn Bince 1846. He bad filled several offices there as overseer and guardian of the poor. He knew Thomas Williams and his daughter. He was on very friendly terms with them, and scarcely ever passed their house without turning in, Thomas Williams kept a small farm, and was also a weaver. He died in 1883, and his daughter in 1882. He never in any way obtained from him £ 120 but on one occasion,when he was going to pay the rates, he borrowed about £ 3 from him,which he afterwards repaid. This was about 35 years ago. He had on several occasions lent Thomas Williams money, which were also repaid. Some three or four years ago there was a rumour concerning him in the parish to the effect that the daughter of Thomas Williams, whilst insane, had declared that he had taken her father's money. He rever heard any specifio sum mentioned except in the Gwalia. It was untrue that he had ever taken any of the old man's money. His attention was first drawn to the articles in the Gwalia by Robert Ellis Owen, a bookseller at Llanaelhaiarn, and he reoognised that they referred to him.—Cross-examined: He officiated as a minister at Babell obapel. He did not recollect that his solicitors had shown him a letter which they had received from the secretary of the Gwalia Company, in which they offered to give the name of the writer of the letters and to publish an apology, but disclaimed any intention of libel on their own part. lie was not bringing this action upon the understanding that if he should lose he was not to pay any solicitor's costs.-By Mr Higgins: He saw a letter from the Gwalia Com- pauy dated the 16th March, 1387, giving the name of the writer of the letters in question. It was David P. Thomas, whom he thought now lived at Llantair- feohan. Ho had been a pupil teacher at the Llan- aelhaiarn Board School, and used to read the lessons in the church. RICHARD ELLIS OWEN, bookseller, Llanaelhaiarn, remembered selling copies of the Gwalia of the 12th January, and recollected seeing in them the letters headed" The Llanaelhaiarn Ghost." He knew at once they referred to the Rev. Robert Hughes. He usually sold three copies of the paper every week, but that week he sold five copies. -Cross-examined: He never believed that the rumours previously circulated about the Rev. Robert Hughes were true. He knew that the words pastor of Babell" referred to plaintiff. THOMAS HCOHES, olerk to the Welsh Granite Company, pointed out several portions of the letters which convinced him that the person referred to was the Rev. Robert Hughes. Corroborative evidence was also given by John Jones, Evan Evans, Dr. J. W. Rowlands, Evan Williams, Dr. O. Wynne Griffith, and John Jones, Cae'rwrach. Mr SWKTENHAM submitted that there was no case to go to the jury on the ground of the decision in the oase of The Capital and Counties Bark v, Henty." It was necessary for the plaintiff to prove that the facts should be known bcth to the person who published and the person to whom it is published. The plaintiff had not gone further, and proved that the publisher must have known that these facts were true at the time he published them. The first question for the jury was, whether this artiole would be read in a defamatory sense by a person of ordinary reason, If, in the opinion of the jury, it would be so read; there was a further question, if there was any evidence upon which it could be raised, whether they were facts known to both the person who framed the alleged libel and to the persons by whom they were published. His LORDSHIP said the case of The Capital and Counties Bank v. Henty was wholly inapplic- ilble here, No one oould say that such words as "stolen our money" were not libellous if they referred to the plaintiff. If defendants published this thing written by someone else, they did it at their peril. The question for the jury was to say whether the person referred ID as having stolen our money was the plaintiff. Mr HIOOINS, addressing the jury, commented upon thef actlthat the editor of thenewepaper and the writer of the 'letter had not been put into the witness-box. He thought it would be safe to presume that the editor knew from whom these letters oame. The cist of libel was the Recusation of having stolen some money, and the jury wonld not hesitate to say that that was a libel. The next question for them was, whether those word? referred to the plaintiff. There were two letteM-one under the beadig of "The Hacae!haiara Ghost," and Bigned Travel- ler," the gist of which was a charge of stealing some money. The second letter was headed «orr^" rative Evidence," and which identified the Rev. Robert Hughes. First of all, his residence, and then he was desoribed as an advocate of disestab- lishment," who made use of the classical simile that the ohuroh is like a cat iu the organ," an ex- pression which he did make use of as testified ?.. ? ?f t).< witnesses. If the rep rod n etiun of an old story oonoerning the plaintiff was done for politio.. puposes, it was unworthy of the party who did it, and would be far more damaging to them- selves tbu to the pMtytowh.ohthep?mtiSbt ,?<? If this was 1 libel, and referred to the n?titf he thought they would all be of opinion 1?? ?wM of ? very serious mtnre. He would not Isk h? to award e.tr.vMant damages, but .u.h ? sum as would show their sense of the MnoaaneM 0f the libel. ° ???ENHAM for the defence, contended that there was no intention on their part to ATT&OK THE plaintiff. Nothing in the world wOl1ld be further '??' ?i  of the Couservativ.ar,ty, who  ? cut t. Thev bad given up the name of the I  8 apology In the paper, bt tha did not Beem to SUit plain- in the paper, but {aint;ff's object was to clear tiffs solicitor. j not to extract money from the  would ?" InMyflleared by the publish ing of any reasonab] al apology in the paper, an offer which was refused. He contended that plaintiff's charaoter had not suffered in any way, as they had evidence showing that the story was disbelieved by the neighbours. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said the defendants were charged with publishing two libels. If a man was libelled in a newspaper, he had a right to ask for damages against the proprietors, even though they bad never heard his name before, nor had any personal spite or malice against him. Indeed, our characters would be in danger continually if that were not so. Newspapers now-a-days were not too unwilling to publish spioy letters concerning persons. Putting these two letters together, it would seem that they meant to impute to some. body that there bad been a gross misdealing with money. Mr Swetenham had addressed them as if in this case it were a matter of great importance that the defendants knew nothing of this when they published these letters. That had nothing to do with the case. Plaintiff did occasional duty at the chapel of Babell, and some of the witnesses who attended that chapel say that these letters would not apply to anyone more properly than to the plaintiff. There was not the slightest evidence on the part' of the defence that they applied to someone else. If they were satisfied that these words were written concerning the plaintiff, then came the question of damages. It had been strongly suggested on the part of the defence that this action had been brought in order to pot money into the plaintiff's pocket; but if the name of the writer was given, and it was found that seeing the newspaper pro- prietors who chose to put these letters in their paper was more satisfactory, then a man bad a per- fect right to do so. He entirely agreed with Mr Swetenham that a newspaper would not publish soch trash in order to put down political opponents. It was no defence to say that the publishers had no libellous intentions when they published these letters. Mr Swetenham Jiad truly told them that the plaintiff had not haJ any actual pecuniary loss in this matter; but if a man felt that his feelings had been hurt and his character disparaged in the eyes of his friends and neighbours, he had a perfeet right to ask for damages. The jury then retired, aud after an interval of a quarter of an hour, returned into court and pro- nounced a verdict in favour of the plaintiff, award- ing £10 damages.
I ANGLESEY SUMMER ASSIZES.…
ANGLESEY SUMMER ASSIZES. The Hon. Mr Justice Denman arrived at Bean, maris 011 Saturday afternoon, and proceeded immediately to break the commission at the Shire Hall. On Sunday his iordship, accom- panied by the High Sheriff, Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, Bart., and the Under sheriff, Mr John Stewart Laurie, attended divine service at Llanfaes Church, where the service was conducted by the rector of the parish and chaplain to the high sheriff (the Rev. T. Warren Trevor, M.A.), who preached from the 130 Psalm, 3rd and following verses. At ten o'clock on Monday morning the business of the Assize was begun, when the court ¥as unusually crowded. THE GRAND JURY. ) The following gentlemen were empannelled as the grand juryCaptain Edmund Hope Verney, R.N. (foreman), Major-Geoeral Robert George Hughes, Messrs William Massey, Thomas Fanning Evans, William Humphrey Owen, Captain Francis Mansel Morgan, Warren Edward Evans, Hugh Edwards, Hugh Bulkeley Price, Elias Jones, Major Thomas Edward John Lloyd, Harry Clegg, Hugh Roberts, Richard Reynolds Rathbone, Henry Herbert Wil- liams, David Hughes, Thomas Owen, Hugh Lewis, Colonel George McCorquodale, David Morgan,Chris- topher Fern Priestley,and EliaB Owec. The following magistrates were also in attendance, although they did not act on the grand juryDr. John Roberts, Mr John Morton Pritchard, Holyhead; Colonel J. H. Marshall, Mr Thomas Owen (Rhyddgar); Dr. Wil- liam Evans, Llanerohymedd Mr Griffith Roberts, Trefarthen; Mr Samuel Taylor, Chadwick, Haulfre; Captain H. B. Mitchell Llewelyn, Mr W. C. Cross, Red Hill; Dr. G. B. Denton; Mr J. R. Jones, Bod. feirig; and Mr R. Jones Edwards, Holyhead. THE CHAROS. His LORDSIUP, in charging the grand jury, said he did not intend to address them but for a very few minutes, because he knew many of them, owing to their long experience, required very little guidance from him. He never saw a grand jury assembled under greater discomfort than they were at that moment. He only wondered how they came there Assize after Assize to stand in suoh an uncomfortable position as they were then standing, He was afraid that this Assize was rather of a more serious charaoter as regarded the charaoter of the crime than had been the case at previous Assizes held in that island. He had heard from his brethren on tho benoh, who had been on the North Wales circuit, that they had over and over again como into that county onAssize work without there being a single criminal case to be tried. The calendar on this occasion, however, contained a charge of a very serious character-no less than a charge of murder. The circumstances of the case, which lay within a (small compass raised very strong suspicion against the person charged. The case was that in which a person named Elizabeth Owen was aocused of causing the death of her illegitimate onna. xne prisoner naa nau iwu illegitimate children. The evidence showed that she had great affection for the deceased, but at the same time she coupled with her expressions of affection an expression as to the preferable con- dition of the child if it would cease to live. On the day upon which it was alleged that she murdered the child, the prisoner said that she iutended going to a certain place where arrangements might be made for the nursing of the deceased. She, how- ever, returned the same day, the child being in her arms. The clothes of the child were in a wet con- dition. In the course of her statement, the accused said that whilst stooping down to a pool of water to get a drink, the child tumbled into the water and was drowned. There was in the case, however, a difficulty. Upon being requested to point out the place where the child fell, the prisoner pointed to a small pool on the roadside, where the water was very clear, and so clear and so shallow that it would have been a very easy thing to take the child out again. But that was not all. When the child was examined, its mouth was found to be full of mud, weeds, and other matter, which would not be the sort of matter which would come into the child's body or mouth at the place pointed out by the prisoner. The accused afterwards altered her story, for it appeared from the depositions that she told the polioe constable that the child had not been drowned, but that it had died in her arms. There was, therefore, a case of very strong suspicion against the prisoner. His Lordship concluded by a brief reference to the other oases in the calendar. A YOUNG SCAMP. John Edward Williams, 17, labourer, pleaded guilty to having broken and entered a oartain build- ingwithin the curtilage of the dwelling-house of John Oliver, Beaumaris, and stealing a silver lever watch and silver oh&M, the property of Edward Õ: Prisoner also admitted having °tnd I victed of felony, in 1881, at Llangefni, when he was sentenoed to undergo three days' imprisonment and receive strokes from the birch rod.—The Judge, in passing sentenoe, said he was very much Bhooked to see a lad o the age of the prisoner, who had already been warned by imprisonment, before him. He would give him more strokes with the birch rod if he was not too old, and that made it necessary for him to give him a longer term of hard labour. He would now be sentenced to four oalendar months' imprisonment.—Mr E. H. Lloyd prosecuted. A BAD CAREER. Daniel Rowlands, 28, labourer, pleaded guilty to having broken and entered the dwelling-house of Richard Hughes, and stolen therefrom a light-grey double-breasted jaoket, a double-breasted waisteoitt, a pair of trousers, a double-breasted jacket, a pair of dark-brown moleskin trousers, a black waist- coat, a woollen shirt, a home-made cotton shirt, a fancy light-brown muffler, of the value of £ 4 10s, the property of Richard Hughes, of Llanrhwydrus. The JUDGE, in sentencing the prisoner, said his history had been a bad ote. He had been im- prisoned for two months for assaulting a female; one month for house-breaking, and six months for stealing some money-not to mention a conviction for vagrancy. The sentenoe which be would have to pass would be a heavy one but should the prisoner on any future occasion be oonvioted, he might be quite sure that he would have to go to penal servitude. The sentence of the Court would be that the defendant should undergo ten months' imprisonment. ALLEGED PERJURY. Ellen Jones, 39, a married woman, was indioted for jomitting wilful and corrupt perjury m the testimony which she gave upon oath as a witness upon the hearing of a certain appeal, wherein William Owen was appellant and Ellen Jones res- pondent, at the Quarter Sessions, Beaumaris, on the 29th June of the present year.—The jury found the prisoner not guilty," and she was dis. charged. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A FARM LiBOBRER. Owen Williams, 22, labourer, living near Holy- head, was indicted for committing wilful aLd oorrupt perjury in evidence given at the Petty Sessiona held at Valley on the 9th May, 1887, during the hearing of an affiliation case. Mr Clement Lloyd prosecuted, and Mr Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., defended the prisener.—The jury found the prisoner not guilty and he was discharged. ALLEGED WILFUL MURDER BY AN ANGLESEY WOMAN, Elizabeth Owen, 25, farm servant, was indicted for feloniously, wilfully, and of malice afore- thought, killing and murdering a female illegiti- mate child at the parish of Llangwyllog, on the 27th April, 1887. Mr J. E. Bankes and Mr E. W. W. Edwards prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury, and Mr E. Honoratus Lloyd (instructed by Mr W. Huw Rowland, Bangor) defended, Mr BANKES said the charge which the proseontion made against the prisoner was one of the gravest possible character, and for that reason he asked the jury, most earnest and careful attention to the faots which would be detailed by the witnesses that he intended to call before them. The prisoner at the bar was a young woman who had been the mother of two illegitimate ohildren. The eldest was a child about two years old, and in April of the present year that child was being rearod by the prisoner's mother. A woman of the name of Ann Roberts, the nurse at the Valley Workhouse, would prove that the younger child, whose death they were inquiring into that day, was born in Feb. ruary last at the workhouse. She was there some time before her eoofceenseat, and it was a material fact that the prisoner took a very great dislike to the institution. Some time after the birth 01 her child the prisoner ran away from the workhooee and went to her mother's home at Glan'rafou. Daring the time she was in the work- house prisoner apparently spoke of the child with affection, bat they would have it in evidence that on one occasion she said it would be better if the poor little thing died and went to heaven. She remained with her step-father and her mothernntH Apnl,when,ou the 22nd of that month, she appeared to have had a quarrel with her stepfather because ne toia ner ne ceuia no "Bp ner any longer and she most return to the workhouse. Prisoner ap- peared to have been very angry. She left the house with the youngest child with the intention and objeot of trying to tind some person with whom she could leave the child and rear itforber. It appeared that she had got an engagement to- go into ser- vioe on the 11th of May following. That wasa-material faot to remember, because they would see that it was absolutely necessary that she shonld get somebody to take charge of the child. On that day she was out all day with the child, but she did not succeed in getting any one to take the child. A Mrs Rowlands recommended her to return to the workhouse till the time at which she was- expected to enter upon her duties as a servant. Prisoner then said the workhouse was a very hard place, and she did'nt get half enough to eat. The learned counsel then proceeded to give an outline of the subsequent proceedings of the prisoner, and to call witnesses. JANE PARRY, examined by Mr E. W. W. Edwards depoad that the prisoner was oontiued at Valley Workhouse on the 9th February of the present year. The prisoner appeared I very fond of the child, and on one ocoasion said The child is a dear little thingand she could not make out how women oould do anything to children because they were such dear little things. She added that it would be a mercy if the little thing was to die and go to beveu. ELLEN ROWLANDS, examined by Mr Bankes, said she lived at Gwyndy Bach, Llandrygarn. Oil Tuesday, the 26th April last, prisoner came to her house %bout ten o'clock at night. When she arrived she said she had been seeking for someone to look after the child, but she had not been success- ful. She (witneab) suggested that she should take the child to the workhouse, when prisoner replied: It is a very hard place." Sho gave the prisoner some refreshment for herself and ohild. Cross-examined by Mr LLoYD: It was a cold night. Prisoner warmed the child at the fire, and said she would take it to the workhouse, but it was a very hard plaoe, and she didn't get enough to eat. MABY ROBERTS, wife of Owen Boberts, living at man raion, Baia ttiia tne prisoner was her uaugnter. On the 27th April the prisoner left her house about nine o'olock, taking with her the child. She said she was going to Rliosytneirch to get someone to attend to the child. About four o'clock her daughter returned. She sat on a seat near the fire, and said, Mother, don't be frightened. Something has occurred to the little girl." She didn't say what it was. Subsequently her husband went for a police- man. When the policeman came the child was un- dressed. Cross-examined by Mr LLOYD During the time that the prisoner and her child lived with her she heard her say that she preferred it to her other ohild. The ohild was well nourished and attended to. Her daughter was subject to fainting fits. Re-examined: When the prisoner came into the house on the 27th April, prisoner placed the child on the settle. She could i.ot say in what condi. tion the ohild's clothes were. P.C.WILLIAM EvANsgave evidence as to hisvisit to the prisoner's step-father's house. The body of the child was on a bed. He examined the child's clothes. The skirt was damp, but the upper portion was dry. Jane Williams and Mary Roberts undressed the child, There were no exter- nal marks of violence on the body. It looked healthy and well nourished. He went to the prisoner and oharged her- with killing the child, and told her not to make any statement unless she chose to do so. She said I started from Glan- 'rafon about nine o'clock. I went through Llangefni and on the way not far from Llangwyllog station I turned to the side of the road to get water to drink. I got the water up with my hands, and whilst I was getcing the water up the child fell into the water, and was drowned. He took her into custody. Cross-examined by Mr LLOYD The body of the child was warm when he arrived. It seemed a healthy and well-nouriehed child. JAKB ELLIS said she questioned the prisoner as to what she had done to the child, and she replied, nothing." The child's body was resting on the settle. After the arrival of the policeman she un- dressed the child. The lower portion of the child's clothes were wet; the upper portion dry. She corroborated the policeman's evidence as to the state- ment made by the prisoner when charged with causing the death of the child. She (witness) was present when a quarrel occurred between the prisoner and her step.father. Her father wanted her to go to the workhouse. Prisoner said she would not go. Cross-examined: Prisoner seemed very sid when she brought the child home. OWEN ROBERTS, step-father to the prisoner, said the young woman had lived with him since she left the workhouse. He told the prisoner she must return, whereupon she got into a terrible rage. He wanted her to go there till the 1st May, when she had arranged to enter a situation. He would not have asked her to do this, only he was out of work. He gave corroborative evidence as to the, prisoner's attempt to obtain some person to look after the child. Cross-examined: Had heard his step-daughter say that she preferred the deceased to her other child. JANE JONES, living at Glan'rafon, said On the 27th April, she went to the prisoner's house, where she taw the dead body of the child. She took hold Of the prisoner and said, "Where did yon drown it ?" She said, In the Dolmeini river." She said the child,when she was returning home, was alive when she wis passing Tyddyn Bach. CATHERINE JONES also went to Owen Roberts' house on the 27th April lasv. She was accompanied bv another woman. She saw the child on one of the women's knee. Jane Jones asked the prisoner where she drowned the ohild, and she said in Dol- meini river. Witness was so shocked that she left the house at once. P. Sergeant GRIFFITH JONES, stationed at iliavi- gefni. On the afternoon of the 27th April there was a severe snow storm in the neighbourhood of Llangefni. On the 28th of that month ho went with Inspector Ed. Hughes and P.O. Evans to the road near Llangwyllog Station. The prisoner accom- panied them. Prisoner pointed out a stream of water, and said the child fell from her arms into the stream whilst she was getting a. drink of water. The soil round the spot waa soft. There were no marks of feet near this spot. His feet made an impression. The depth of the water was three inohes and the width nine inches it was a little pond. The water was clean. The bottom of the pond was rook. There were reeds growing raund the pond. The Dolmeini river was 250 yards from that spot. The width of the river was about four yards rnd the depth probibly a yard. At that time of the year the character of the river was ilirhv This nart of the river was about three miles from the prisoner's home. Llynfaes was about a mile from her home. After he had examined the spot he took the prisoner to Llangefni Polioe Station. At Llangefni prisoner sent for him and said I want to tell you that the little girl did not fall into the pond, but it is true that she died in my arms between Tyddyn Bach and Llynfaes. She was alive near Tyddyn Bach, and she died as I was passing the wife of the black- smith at Llynfaes." He went to the step-father a house, and took the ohild's olothes (produced). Crosa-examined Had refreshed his memory by a note he taade on the day the young woman was arrested, Inspector HUGHES, examined by Mr Edwards, said he was stationed at Menai Bridge. On the 28th April last he accompanied the last witness and the prisoner to Ll vucwyllog, where the prisoner pointed out a little pond inio ."ich she said the child fell. There were no footmark's around the pool, although the ground was soft. The dimensions of the pool were the same is those stated by the last witness. Mr WILLIAM E. JONES, county surveyor, said he accompanied Sergeant Jones, who pointed out the pool. He made a plan. The ditch averages nine inches wide, and when he was there the water was nine inohes deep. By the JvDas The diameter of the circular part of the stream averaged about eighteen inches. cross-examined He made the plan on the 20th May. The ground would be much drier then than on the 27th April. Re-examined by Mr BANKES There-was no defined bank to the pool. By the JCTIKJE There were not reeds over every part of the stream. Dr. HUGH PaRDY JONES, Gwalchmai, deposed to having made a pott mortem examination of the body of the deoeased. The body appeared to be that of a well- nourished female child. It weighed twelve pounds, and was twenty-five inches in length. He at. tribnted the cause of death to suffocation by drown- ing. He fotmd small masses of earth and vegetable matter in the wind pipe; also what appeared to be the head of a beetle. On examining other divisions of the wind-pipe he fotmd a quantity of mucus of a frothy but muddy character. In the stomach he found half an ounce of blaokish vegetable matter. The JUDGE Was the matter yon fonnd in the atomaoh of the child more than what would have got there by one or two gulps?—My opinion is that the mud must have been in a diluted state. The quantity of mud that was in the stomach might have been swallowed in one gulp. Mr BANKES Did yon form any judgment as to how long a time the child mast have been in the water ?-It might have been a second or two, or a minute or two. If a body was wrapped up as described it might have kept warm half an hour or an honr. Cross-examined by Mr LzoYD If the body of the ohild bad been held in the water he should have expected to find external marks of violence. He found no external marks of violence. Mr WILLIAM FOULKES LOWE, pamic analyst for the city of Chester, deposed that on the 2od of May he received the stomach and wind-pipe of the deceased child, which he microscopically examined. In the wind-pipe he found a quantity of small water plants, also the head of a small beetle, about the size of a good-sized pin-head. In the stomach there was half-an ounce of blackish matter, chiefly com- posed of minute water plants, and a few rather larger water plants, about a quarter of an inch in length. He also discovered some sand. Mr E. H. LLOYD made an impassioned appeal to the jury to find the prisoner 11 not guilty," arguing that if the prisoner had purposely killed the child there would have been, all the doctor said, external marks of violence. The death of the child was far more consistent with accidental drowning as alleged by the mother. He asked the jury to dis- miss from their minds the horrible suggestion that the prisouer undressed the child, held its head under water and when it was drowned re-placed its clothing and carried it home. The learned JUDGE, in summing np, compli- mented Mr Baukee and Mr E. H. Lloyd upon the able way in vhiob they bad conducted the can The learned counsel for the proaeoution had not urged a single fact against the pri- soner unduly, whilst the counsel for the defence, charged with the solemn duty of defending the young woman, had not said a single thing which was not worthy of the considera- tion of the jury, so that they had the best possible means of deoiding whether this was a case in which they ought t3 find the prisoner guilty. The jury were absent from court abont ten minutes, and when they returned they said they found the prisoner Not guilty." The prisoner was instantly discharged. This concluded the criminal business of the assizes. CIVIL BUSINESS. Owen v. Owen.—This was a will case in which Ellen Owen and William Owen were the plaintiffs, and Catherine Owen the defendant. Mr Malcolm Douglas (instructed by Messrs Hughes and Pritchard, Bangor) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr Mr E. H. Lloyd (instructed by Messrs D. Owen and Griffith) defeuded. Mr DOUGLAS said the plaintiffs, who were the executors appointed under the will of Ellen Owen, of Trevor Plas, Llanaadwrn, asked the Court to decree probate of the will dated the 17th October, 1886. The defence was that the will was not duly executed, that jthe deceased was not of Bound mind, and did not know and approve the contents of the will. He did not think it necessary to open the will, but wonld oall Mr ARrnun D'OYLY WATKINS, who said be was an official in the Probate Register, Bangor, pro- duced the original will of Ellen Owen, of Trevor Plas, Llansadwrn. The Rev. RICHARD HUGHES WILLIAMS said he was rector of Llanaadwm, and knew the late Mrs Ellen Owen, widow, who lived at Trevor Plas. In 1884 she requested him to prepare her will, which he did according to her directions. She died on the 17th October, 1886. The document was executed in the presence of Mr David Jones, who lived in the immediate neighbourhood. Testatrix was per- fectly intelligent and knew what she was doing. He did not believe there was any truth in the sug- gestion that the woman was of unsound mind. She was 80 years of age when she died. Cross-examined by Mr LLOYD: The will was in English. He thought the testatrix understood English. He read the will to her in English and Welsh. He did not think she made any remark. Ellen Owen and Mary Owen, daughters of the testatrix, were present when the will was read. At that time tha testatrix was 78 years of age. She was a bright, intelligent woman. His LORDSHRP What was done with the will after it was executed ? WITNESS: I kept it UP to the time of her death. Cross-examination (ooutinaed): He never heard that the testatrix contemplated making another will. He believed the testatrix's daughter, Catherine, was not always on good terms with her mother. DAVID JONES gave oorroborative evidence. He was convinced that Mrs Owen, when she made the will, knew what she was about. Mr DOUGLAS asked his Lordship to certify that the will had been proved. Mr LLOYD pointed out to the Judge that the evidence was not particularly clear. The clergy- man who made the will was not quite sure when the will was read, whilet the other witness was under the impression that nothing was read at all. His LORDSHIP I think one must judge by the probability of accuracy, which I think is far more in favour of the person who drew this somewhat business-like document, whioh is in very ship-shape forlll for a clergyman and I think I ought to act upon it. I therefore .find that the will was properly executed, and the testatrix was of sound mind at the time the will was executed. Mr LLOYD asked that the cost shouli be allowed out of the estate. Mr DOUGLAS said the estate was only originally worth 2400 or E5W, and he understood after all the debts had been paid only;C200 would remain. Jones v. The Dorothea Slate Quarry Company, Nantlle Vale, Carnarvonshire.—This was an aotion in which the plaintiff, Mr John Lloyd Jones, Pen- ybryn, Carnarvon, olaimed from the defendants the sum of E261 17a 2d, arrears of rent due for water supplied to them under certain written agreements dated 17th January, 1871, and 19th July, 1876. Mr Marshall and Mr Malcolm Douglas (instructed by Mr Ivor Parry, Pwllheli) appeared for the plain- tiff, and Mr Herbert Williams and Mr E. H. Lloyd (instructed by Mr C. A. Jones, Carnarvon) were for the company. The cause was heard before ft special jury. Having heard evidence, the jury weredismiBsed by consent, the auestion submitted to his lordship being whether the plaintiff, as lessee of the Nantlle Mill, bad a right to demise to the defendant oom- pany Buch water has poured on the land for a further time than that during which they held the lease.-His lordship deferred judgment. Jones v. The Pmybryn Slate Quarry Company.- The facts of this oase,in which damages amounting to £ 206 were claimed, were similar to those in the pre- vious aotion,the only difference being that the plain- tiff had agreed with the old Penybryn Quarry Com- pany to let to them so much of the waters of which he was entitled in respect of his tenancy of Nantlle Mill for a rental of C7 7s per annum. The old Penybryn Company ceased,and i new company was formed. The water was supplied to the new com- pany, the same amount of rental being paid.-The defence set up was that the new company was not bound by any agreement which the old company might have entered into; and further, that no evi- dence of such agreement had been put ia.-Rio Lordship said he wonld reserve judgment.
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! THE NORTH WALES SCHOLAR-jSHIP…
THE NORTH WALES SCHOLAR- j SHIP ASSOCIATION. The seventh annual meeting of the abeve associa- tion was held at the Queen's Head Cafg-, Bangor, on Monday, the chair being taken by Colonel the Hon; W. E. Sackville West, the president of the association. Amongst those present were:— Colonel the Hon. W, E. Sackville West, Captain and Mrs Verney, Revs. Ellis Edwards, T. J. Wheldon, Professor Ellis Edwards, Professor Gray, Dr. MoGowan, Dr. Price, Dr. Rewland Jones, Councillor D. Cameron, Messrs John Price (Normal College), Henry Lewis, J. Glynne Jones, R. Grier- son, W. Richards, R. Jenkins, Rd. Davies (arohi. twct), etc. The HONORARY SECRETARY (JUr W. uaawaiaar Davies) read the report and statement of accounts, which were as followsThe committee have much pleasure in submitting to the members an account of the work of the association during the seventh year of its existence. In September the committee met to consider the report of Mr R. W. Phillips and Mr Edward Roberts on the written and oral exam- ination of the candidates presented by ths ele- mentary schools of North Wales. It was gratify- ing to find that the examination gave evidence of better work and improved teaching, and also that the candidates were largely drawn from districts which had not previously been reached by tho association. WiLh a maximum of 340, the follow- ing candidates obtained the number of marks attached to their respective names, viz.(I) Edward Taylor Jones, National School, Denbigh, 276; (2) Herbert H. Davies, British School, Wrex- ham, 255; (3) Thomas Prichard, Deipiolen Board School, near Carnarvon, 247 (4) Charles Griffiths, British School, Wrexham, 224 (5) Mary Williams, Board School, Futhin, 212; (6) John Richard Jor- dan, Vron Board School, Llangollen, 202 (7) John W. Wilcock, British School, Wrexham, and Robert John Williams, Park Board School, Holyhead, 188 (8) Thomas Jones, Board School, Carnarvon, 186 (9) Howel Harris Hughes, Tynygongl Board Sohool, Anglesey, 182 (10) William H. Dodd, British School, Wrexham, 177. Awards of scholar- ships were made to the six who stood highest on the list, as follows :-Association scholarships of 420 a year to E. T. Jones, Herbert H. Davies, Charles Griffiths, and J. R. Jordan Mr Samuel Morley's Village School Scholarship of E25 a year to T. Prichard and Mr John Roberts, M.P.'s Girls' Scholarship of £30 a year to Mary Williams. Pass certificates were awarded to the other candidates in the above list. E. T. Jones is now at the College, Merthyr Tydvil; H. H. Davies and C. Grifhths are at Grove r irk School, Wrexham; J. R. Jordan is at the High School, Oswestry T. Prichard is at Friars School, Bangor; and Miss Marv Williams is at the Camden School for Girls, London. Satisfactory reports on the conduct and progress of these and the other scholars of the association have been received. During the year six scholarships expired, and the holders were examined competitively for a further scholarship of £20 a year for three years, which was awarded to T. Hudson Williams, Friars School. On the recom- mendation of the examiners (Rev. D. W. Thomas, Professor Mathews, and Professor Henry Jones), a prize was awarded to Henry Williams, Grove Park School, Wrexham, The committee desire to place on record their indebtedness to Mr Edward Roberts and Mr R. W. Phillips, in connection with the 'general examination, and Ie the Rev. D. W. Thomas, Professor Mathews, and Professor Jones, in connection with the special examination, for their valuable services, rendered gratuitously, as examiners. The association, in common with other educational movements, sus- tained during the year a serious loss in the death of Mr Samuel Morley and Mr Hugh Pugh, two most liberal contributors to its funds. The financial position of the association is a subject of grave con- cern, and the committee invite the earnest attention of the members to the accompanying balance sheet. It will be seen that the balance at the disposal of the committee for the pavment of scholarships and current expenses was reduced during the year from P248 19s 9d to R106 2s, although the donations included £50 from the trustees of the late Mr S. Morley towards the village scholarship already Rwaraed. The balance also includes the Bum of £61 16s 4d paid the previous year by Mr C. W. Rathbone, and carried over towards his Nantlle Vale Scholarship. The sum expended in scholar- ships and prizes daring the year was S324 5s, and in premiums to teachers who presented successful candidates £25, whereas the annual subscriptions, practically the only source of income, amounted to only ilCO 15s 6d, showing a falling-off on the previous year. The Wrexham Committee remitted 24 Ils 6d in subscriptions, and El 15s in school- fees. With only the scholarships to which the association is already committed, the committee will be obliged to incur a deficit unless additional subscriptions are immediately forthcoming. Under these circumstances, the friends of education throughout North Wales, especially those who have not already contributed to the funds of the association, are earnestly appealed to for help. The committee would point with emphasis to the fact that the association is the only agency which endeavours to grapple with the great problem of Welsh education, the filling-up of the serious gap between our elementary schools and our grammar schools. The Bills promoted by Mr Mundella and Mr Kenyon for dealing with Welsh Intermediate Education both acknowledge the supreme impor- tance of this work, and if either wore to pass the continuance of the association would no longer be necessary. But there is no immediate prospect of the passage of either of those measures, and mean- while the association is bound to provide for the growing number of clever boys and girls from the elementary schools which present themselves at its examinations. It is interesting to observe that the association, during an existence of seven years, has been able, without any endowment, to award (in- cluding those for 1887) 38 scholarships and prizes, amounting, with the scholarships awarded after the close of the financial year, sums still due on scholar- ships current, and premiums to teachers, to ft total of 21822. Only in one year, 1884.5, were the com- mittee unable to award any scholarships on the ground of insufficient merit in the candidates and since then the quantity of the work has steadily im- proved with the increase in the number of candidates, and with additional funds the committee would feel perfectly justified in awarding additional scholar- ships, It may alsobe stated that from thedayon which the late Sir Hugh Owen threw out the suggestion which led to the establishment of the association, not a penny of its funds has been spent on adminis- tration, the only expenditure up to the present day, besides scholarships, prizes, and premiums, having been that on account of printing, advertising, pos- tage, and the hire of rooms, so that the candidates from the elementary schools, in most case belong- ing to the poorer classes of the community, enjoy the full benefit of the funds of the association. The balance sheet for the year showed receipts amounting to R482 5s 5d. The expenditure amounted to £376 3s 5d, thus showing a balance in hand of £106 2e. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and balance sheet, said that daring the seven years of its existence this association had dene a great amount of good work, and had helped con- siderably to fill the gap which now existed between the elementary ard the grammar schools. He hoped before long they would see suoh an Inter- mediate Education Bill passed which would meet the views of all parties (cheers). He was of opinion that they ought to make a more determined effort to increase the funds of the association, to enable them to award scholarships to deserving boys and girls (hear, hear).—Thia resolution was seconded by Mr EBENEZER MORRIS, and carried unanimously. Captain VERNEY proposed 11 That this meet- ing desires to record its sense of the great impor- tance of the work carried on by the North Wales Scholarship Association, and trusts that the friends of education will enable it to carry on its operations until the Government establishes a com- plete system of scholarships between the element- ary schools and the grammar or intermediate schools." He thought they all ought to make it a personal matter to do all they could amongst their friends to further the interests of the association, They saw that, as a rule, all positions of trust were filled by Englishmen and Scotchmen, and that was because they bad received a good ednoation, but that was not the case with Welshmen, although they had genius and aspira- tions of which Englishmen were devoid of. He thought he never addressed a meeting of Welsh- men npoueducation without receiving somereaponse, but he had addressed Englishmen on several occa. sions without receiving any response whatever. He then referred to the great good resulting from having technical education in Switzerland and other places, the people thus being able to 11.:1 better positions than the English or Welsh. The resolution was seconded by the Rev. ELLIS EDWARDS, who referred to the great need for educational advantages in the Principality, and the great difficulty under which many of thA students at the colleges laboured, owing to their means not allowing them to enter upon their studies in their younger days. He thought they would have an Education Bill before long, whether it be Conservative or Liberal, which would please both parties (hear, hear). They would have it in a year or two (cheers). On the motion of the Rev. T. J. WHELDON, seconded by Mr S. D. ORllE, it was resolved, "That this meeting appeals to the managers and teachers of elementary schools to bring the scholarships of the association under the notice of boyi and girls of more than average ability, and to assist to izig all the elementary schools of North Wale. into union with the association." Ifpon the motion of Mr JOHN PRICE, seconded by Mr D'. CAME Ron, a vote of thankt was passed to the officers and committee for their past services, and the, following ladies and genttlemen were re- quested to act as a eommittee during the ensuing year :-President, Colonel the Hon. W. E. Sackville West; vice-president, Captain Verney, R.N. Miss A. J. Davies-, Liverpool; Miss Dilys Davies, Lon. don Messrs Cadwaladr Davies, Banger f C. Dodd, Wrexham W. Ellis, do; Miss Edwards, Board Sohool, Carnarvon: Mteews J. Lloyd Griftb, M, TTnlvhead G. Jones. Penygelli Professor Henry Jones; M.A., Bangor Messrs IVéherd Jones, Dolgelley; R. A. Jones, B.A., Liverpool; Rev. W. Morgan, B.A., Carnarvon Messrs W. S. Ebenezer Morris; Menai, Bridge; S. D. Orme, M.A., Beaumaris J. Hopley Pierce, Wrexham John Price, Bangor; J. E. Powell, Wrexham; H. Bulkeley Price, Menai Bridge; Mrs Pugh, Carnar- von; MrWilliam Rath bone, M.P. Principal: Boichel, M.A., Bangor Mrs Rhys, Oxford Rev. D. Row- lands, M.A., Bangor Rev. D. W. Thomas, M.A., St. Ann's Mrs Thomas, do Mr J. Thomas, B.A., Bangor; Mrs Verney, Rhianva Rev. T. J. Whel- don, B.A., Blaenau Festiniog Messrs G. Whrte- houae, Brymbo; W. Glynn Williams, M.A., Ban- gor; T. Marchant Williams; B.A., London W. Williams, M.A., Aberystwyth. Upon the motion of Mr HENRY LEWIS, seconded by the Rev. J. P: Kirigsland, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to Colonel West for acting as president during the past year, and that. he be requested to continue in office for the ensuing year, and also that he be thanked for taking the chair at this meeting. Colonel West being obliged to leave the mooting before its termination, the chair was taken for the remainder of the time by Captain Verney, whose name was conpled with Mr Henry Lewis' motion, which was carried unanimously. Certificates were then awarded to the success- ful candidates at the examinations of the associa- tion by Mrs Verney, and the meeting then termin- ated.
THE BYE-ELECTIONS OF THE WEEK.
THE BYE-ELECTIONS OF THE WEEK. BASINGSTOKE. The polling for the vacanoy caused in the Basing- stoke Division of Hampshire by the elevation to the Peerage of Mr G. Solater-Booth (uow Lord Basing) took place on Monday, the candidates being Mr A. F. Jeffreys (C) and Mr Richard Eve (G L), with the following result A; F. Jeffreys (C).3158 R. Eve (L).2426 Majority 732 BRIXTON (LAMBETH). The polling for the Brixton Division of Lambeth for the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr Baggallay (C) to a stipendiary magistracy took place on Tuesday, the candidates beiug the Mar- quis of Carmarthen (C) and Mr Hill (G L). The following is the result Marquis of Carmarthen (C) 33U7 Mr Hill (G L). 2569. Majority 738 In 1885 Mr Baggallay was returned by a majority of 665 votes, the figures being:-Mr Ernest Bag, gallay (C), 3427; Dr W. Blake Odgers (L), 2?? Laat year Mi Baggallay had a majority of 1414 over the Gladstonian candidate, thus :-Mr Baggallay (C), 3300; Mr M. Cookson (G L), 1886. HORNSEY (MIDDLESEX). The polling for the Hornsey Division of Middle- sex, for the vacancy caused by the elevation to the peerage of Sir James McGarel-Hogg (C) took place yesterday, the candidates being Mr Stephens (C) and Btr Bottomley (G L). The result was declared as follows:- Mr H. C. Stephens (C) 4476, Mr H. W. Bottomley (G L) 2488 Majority 1988. u. In loos Kir James aicuarei-itogg won me sea,, with a majority of 1320, the figures heing :-Sir J. McGarel-Hogg (C), 4619; Lord Kensington (L), 3299. In 1886 the Liberals did not contest thedivision.
THE WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING*
THE WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING* Lieutenant Warren, 1st Middlesex, is the winner of the Queen's Prize. His score was 274, in the three stages. He gets the Gold Medal and 9250. Armourer-Serjeant Hill, 5th Lanark, was second with 268, and he gets 960, while Private Bain, 5th Durham, is third, with 266, and gets £401 The win- ner was presented to the Prince of Wales, who, with his sons, watohed the close of the competition. Subsequently he was chaired and oarried round tie camp amid a cheering throng of people.
SILVER ON THE BRAIN.
SILVER ON THE BRAIN. Senator Fair, one of the richest men. in the Senate of the United States, being worth over one hundred millions of dollars, is ft man of marked peculiarities. He- is, largely interested in silver mining, and in more senses than one may be said to have silver on the brain," for about the com- mencement of his anocesaful oareer he received a blow, which fractured his skull, and was only saved from death by the operation of; trepanning-that is to say, a plate of silver was inserted in the top of his head. He is stilt a young man, and though his hair is not "silvered," bis skull is; thus differing from many men and women, who have no silver on their brain, but a large supply of it in their hair. People turn gray much earlier in life than formerly; Such being the case, it is surprising that they do not take better care of it. The hair is a vegetable, and may be cultivated, its growth strengthened, and its texture improved by cure, attention, and the ap- plication of the proper fertilizing properties. That this is the case has been amply demonstrated, and therefore no one need have thin or gray hair, or a coarse and wiry stubble, provided they will use the proper care. The preparation most in vogue for this purpose ia undoubtedly Mrs S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer, which never fails of arreat- mg the falling out of the hair, or restoring gray hair to its original colour, strength and glossy luxurianoe. It is besides the moat delioate and delightful hair dressing in the world. It may be purchased of any chemist or perfumer, in any town or city.
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