Barry Dock News

THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN RAILWAY. # EXTRAORDINARY RUSH FOR SHARE CAPITAL. SUBSTANTIAL PREMIUM ALREADY OFFERED. CONSIDERABLE satisfaction has been felt this week in the Barry district at the fact that the prospectus of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company has been issued, the list opening on Tuesday and closing on Thursday, the number of applications, it is understood, far exceeding the amount of authorised capital, namely, £360,000, distributed over 36,000 shares of £10 each, a third of which, re- presenting £ 120,000, has been applied for by the directors, who comprise Mr Archi- bald Hood, Cardiff, deputy-chairman of the Barry Railway Company, and managing- director of the Glamorgan Coal Company (chairman); Mr Edward Davies, Llandinam, managing-director of the Barry Railway Com- pany, and chairman of the Ocean Coal Company (deputy-chairman) and the follow- ing directors of the Barry Railway Company —Messrs John Cory, Cardiff; Robert Forrest, St. Fagan's; T. R. Thompson, Cardiff; and F. L. Davis, Ferndale; together with Mr E. L. Evan-Thomas, The Gnoll, Neath, one of the directors of North's Navigation Colliery Company. The bankers, as announced in our last issue, are the Metropolitan Bank of I England and Wales, Barry Docks branch; Mr J. Wolfe-Barry, C.B., M.C.Inst.C.E., London, being the consulting engineer; and Messrs Forster Brown and Rees, Cardiff, and J. W. Szlumper, C.E., London, the engineers; with Messrs Downing and Handcock, Cardiff, as solicitors and Mr W. Mein, Barry Docks, secretary. As our readers are already fully aware, the proposed Vale of Glamorgan Rail- way will run from Bridgend to Barry Docks, providing a new and more direct access to the sea-board from the Llynvi, Garw, and Ogmore coal districts. The line will be worked in perpetuity by the Barry Railway Company for 60 per cent. of the gross receipts, the shareholders of the new company to be guaranteed a dividend of four per cent. upon the ordinary capital. The Company have entered into contracts, mostly based upon output, with owners of collieries guaranteeing j to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway a mineral traffic, which, together with the arrangement entered into with the Barry Company, in the opinion of the directors make the present issue of capital a most desirable investment. In ¡ addition to the export mineral traffic, the import traffic in pitwood, iron ore, and general merchandise in connection with the collieries and ironworks is expected to be very con- siderable. The line, which is twenty miles in length, and extends from the town of Bridgend to Barry, passes through a rich agricultural district, and now that the Barry Company exercises its running powers into Cardiff, will become the main line between Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. The j local traffic also promises to be important. Means of communication by railway between Cardiff, Barry, and the Vale of Glamorgan are greatly needed, and the directors feel confident that a considerable passenger traffic will be carried on the railway of the Company. The coalfield with which the Vale of Glamorgan Railway communicates is reported by Mr Forster Brown to- Contain upwards of 1,500 million tons of coal, and, therefore, more coal than the Rhondda Valley district, out of which, at the present time, between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 tons of coal are produced annually, chiefly for export. The district, being further away from a good port, has not as yet been developed to the same extent as the Rhondda Valley district, and until within the last few years the upper bituminous seams of this district were chiefly worked for ironworks and local purposes. Latterly, however, the steam coals, which lie deeper, have begun to be de. veloped, and the outputs last year were about 2,000 tons, showing an increase in output of over 60 per cent. in the last seven years, whilst further large developments are in progress, comprising two new pits in die Afan Valley, three new steam coal openings upon North's Navigation property, approaching completion, and a new steam coal colliery at Garth, and, when the new develop- ments which are now in progress are completed, the output of steam coal will be increased by up- wards of three-fourths of a million tons per annum, and practically the whole of this increase will require to be exported. After a further period of years the output will probably be in- creased by about another two millions a year, bringing up the ultimate approximate estimated output to about five million tons per annum. The Prospectus Association states that the importance of Barry as a place of shipment for Welsh coal has been fully established by the results of the first five years of the Barry Railway Company's working, coal being now shipped at the rate of between 4 £ and five million tons per annum. Barry Dock is 73 acres in extent, with deep water, and its existing value will shortly be much enhanced by the deep water lock which has been con- structed and is rapidly approaching com- pletion. This lock will enable vessels to enter and leave the dock at all states of tide, and will thus afford facilities for despatch r. which are not possessed by any other dock in the Bristol Channel. The Barry Railway Company are about entering into a contract for the construction of a new dock, and it is believed, with the additional accommodation and facilities afforded, the trade will be largely increased. The directors are advised that the line, which presents no engineering difficulties, can be completed and opened for traffic in about two years. It is gratifying to add that I the whole of the available capital was ap- plied for at the bankers of the company before noon on Tuesday, and it is reported that in some instances a premium has been offered upon the shares at par value. Up to Thursday afternoon the applications, it is stated, amounted to two-fold the available II capital.

BUFFALO LIFEBOAT FOR BARRY. WE are pleased to be able to announce that there is some probability of the early develop- ment of a movement for providing and en- dowing another lifeboat under the auspices of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. The Order has already provided the country with one public lifeboat, and funds are being raised for the construction of another, and there is a strong feeling in official circles that, recognising the fact that Barry has provided the largest quota of membership of the Order in the country, and Barry Docks having sup- plied the first institute ever established in connection therewith, Barry enjoys a pre- eminent claim for the establishment of the proposed second lifeboat. The claims of Barry are accentuated by the fact that most of the members of the local institute are either seafaring men, or are employed in con- nection with the docks, and that there is at present no lifeboat along the coast of the Bristol Channel between Penarth and Porth- cawl. There seems but very small probability of the John Wesley Lifeboat becoming an actual fact, so that we welcome the steps now being taken by the benevolent institution of Buffaloism throughout the country to aid the cause of humanity in this plausible direction. J

COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF SULLY PARISH. Too great an emphasis cannot be placed upon the importance of the subject raised by the clerk to the Barry and Cadoxton, Local Board at the last meeting of the Public Works Committee. We do not wish to charge the Glamorgan County Council with being guilty of jobbery in the least, although the circumstances in connection with the late public inquiry with regard to the re-arrange- ment of Sully parish seem very much akin thereto. A certain scheme was drafted with ) the view of annexing to the parish of Barry a I portion of the parish of Sully, to wit, Barry Island, and the annexation of another portion of the same parish, forming part of the Moors, to Cadoxton parish. To secure the necessary sanction, and to give effect to this re-arrangement, a public inquiry was called under the provisions of the Local Government Act, the notice convening the same containing an explicit definition of the Council's proposals. In the meantime, how- ever, for some reason or other, a new scheme was formulated, providing for the inclusion in the parish of Cadoxton of the whole of the parish of Sully proposed to be annexed. Of this no notice whatever was given to I the public, neither was any explanation offered at the inquiry to the gentlemen representing the different public bodies of the Barry district by the commissioner (Mr J. Blandy Jenkins, J.P.) who conducted the proceedings. As Mr Hughes very significantly told the Public Works Committee, the inquiry, therefore, was a mere farce, and was conducted on lines which the Local Govern- ment Board would naturally resent as de- cidedly irregular, and until a proper explana- tion of the circumstances is given the public have a right to question the straightforward- ness atid integrity of the County Council in the matter. The public will also concur with the suggestion of Mr Hughes that, whenever County Council hold an inquiry in future, it should be held in the district directly interested therein, and not, as in the present case, at the Cardiff Workhouse, at the unreasonably early hour of half-past nine in the morning.

It has been decided to re-open the dairy class DINAS POWIS DAIRY at Dinas Powis National SCHOOLS. School, when there will be cheese demonstra- tions besides the usual competitions in butter-making. Applications to be sent to Mrs Alexander, Bryneithcn, Dinas Powis. The exhibition will be held on the 28th inst., at the National Schools, under the supervision of Mrs Alexander and Major- General Lee, J.P., The Mount.

PROPOSED INCLUSION OF DINAS POWIS IN THE BARRY DISTRICT. -1 THE RATEPAYERS OPPOSE THE SCHEME- The ratepayers of St. Andrew's Parish* have just- held a vestry meeting, at which full consideration was given to the proposal made by the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board to include Dinas Powis within the area of their jurisdiction, but after due discussion, it was unanimously resolved not tO accept the proposal

BARRY DOCKS POLICE-COURT. THURSDAY.—Before Colonel Guthrie and John Lowdon. Mr A. Seig applied for attendance orders against Oliver Heades and Thomas Moon, for PO sending their sons regularly to school.—Granted.

OFFENCE AGAINST THK BARRY LOCAL BOARD'S BYE-LAWS. James Jones, greengrocer, was charged by the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board, represented by MrJ. C. Pardoe, surveyor, with not complying with the bye-laws in relation to laying the down- pipes to the regulation depth. Mr Pardoe said there were two down-pipes on Mr Jones' shop- 64, Holton-road. One of the pipes was too shorl; by one foot eight inches, and the other by a foot. and notice had been served to lengthen the —Mr Jones said only one pipe belonged to him. An order was made to lengthen the two pipes.

GAME TRESPASS AT SULLY. Joseph Woodfield and Albert Chapman, both of Cadoxton-Barry, were charged with trespassing iJI pursuit of game on land held by Mr W. Thomlloi, The Haves, Sully. Mr A. Jackson, solicitor, Bar Docks, appeared for defendants. Mr Thomas said on the evening of the 15th ultimo he found twC wires set for the purpose of snaring rabbits in 0- corn field. He watched the place from 7.30 tO 7.45, in company with Police-constable Griffith Williams, and saw the defendants go to the wirCt' but finding nothing in them they then went towards the seashore. Police-constable Williams arrested df fendant, and had them searched, but found nothing upon them. The men also game wrong addresses' —Police-constable Williams corroborated, and de- fendants were fined A I and coats each, or 14 day3 hard labour.

MORE SHEBEEN CASES. The charge against Patrick Sullivan, Elizabeth Harvey, and Annie Hardy for shebeening oø Sunday, the 1st inst., at Gueret-street, Barry Docks, was adjourned for a week for the appear' ance of defendants' solicitor.

THE DRINK AGAIN. Samuel Seymour and Thomas Armstrong, Wb& pleaded guilty of being drunk and disorderly j the 30th ult. at Barry Docks, were fined 5s and costs,—James Sullivan was sent to prison for seveØ days with hard labour, and Selina Coates, against whom several previous convictions were read, was sent to prisou for 21 days for the same, j offence.-Bridget Foley was sent to prison for | fourteen days Selina Wright was fined 5s an4 costs; Mary Bailey 10s and costs; and Jane Ano* and John Anot, 2s 6d each.

QUARRELSOME NEIGHBOURS. Mary Ann Squires, 16, Richard-street, Bar.r^ J Docks, was charged by Catherine Hall, of j same street, with a breach of tho 3 dismissed. j

A VICIOUS FEMALE. C*' i Jane Pennetage was summoned by Richa* *fj Lenning, boarding house-keeper, 'A, Barry smashing 14 mugs and five panes of glass on the 26th ultimo. Prosecute said defendant had been in his service, and oø the afternoon in question he dismissed her. she afterwards came back when he was out, and smashed the things stated, the value of which be estimated at 30s.-Defendant said she had been dismissed without the usual week's notice, and did the damage to have, her revenge. Fined 1 5s, and 25s damage, or seven days hard labour.

GRAND TEMPERANCE CONCERT J AT BARRY. M Judging from the reception given the Bar*5 Temperance Choir at the Market Hall, Barry, 0& JW Wednesday evening last, it augurs well for 11 success of the new organisation. The conce* • was in aid of the choir fund, in connection witIJ the visit to London to take part in the great teir, perance choral concert to be held IJJ., the Crystal Palace on Tuesday next. hall was well filled, and Alderman § C. Myggitt occupied the chair. Amongst f C. Myggitt occupied the chair. Amongst those present were—Captain and Mrs Lewis, Mr and F. Inglis, Rev J. Howells, Mr and Mrs E. Rees, E. T. Williams, Misses E. and J. Bassett, Miss S' Rees, Mrs J. D. Jenkins, Mr J. O. Davies, Mr 0, Farr, Mr J. Murphy, Mr D. Iestyn Jones and ^*2 Jones, Mr F. Collins, Mr Wallace Davies, J. Davies, Miss Miles, Mr J. Eva»9' D. Howells, Mr Jones-Davies, Mr E. Jones, &c' The following programme was gone through Pianoforte solo, L' Argentine "—Fantaisi* Mazurka, Mr A. J. Rees; madrigal, Who sha** win my lady fair," Choir; song, "The Holf City (encored), Miss Lizzie Griffiths: soofr When the heart is young," Miss Florrie Halle^' song, The ship and the lighthouse," Mr Thomas; chorus, What a merry life we gipeleØ lead" (encored), Choir; song, ."Bedouin 1°* song," Mr Frank Howells duett, The bells" (encored), The Misses Griffiths; g^' 14 Foresters sound the cheerful horn," Choir soD?' "By the side of Euphrates" (encored), Miss Griffiths; song, The deathless army," Frank Howells duett. Flow, gently (encored), Messrs Thomas and song, An old garden/' Miss Florrie Hallett, song, Captain of the lifeboat" (encored), Mr F. Proud anthem, "Praise waiteth for thee," Cho* The singing of the Misses Griffiths, of the Ribbon Choir, Cardiff, was much appreciated, encore being demanded each time, The What a merry life we gypsies lead," in wbi^ the solo was sung by MrJ. Petty, Barry was rendered in an excellent manner, and vigorous applause of the audience for anotbS rendering showed that the choir's efforts during tl'o six weeks at its disposal had been entirely ful. The singing of Mr J. F, Proud, the conduct^ of the Cardiff Blue Ribbon Choir, Miss Flor*1 Hallett, Mr Frank Howells, and Mr J. Thofl** also deserves special mention. The chairi»*^ gave a short address, in which he said that he glad that Barry could now boast of a temperap^ choir, composed only of people from the He hoped the committee would continue the they had so nobly started after they came ba from London, and that the residents of would rally round them and give the cominibtee all the aid possible. The conductor of choir is Mr J. Hicks, of Barry, who worked most energetically with the meHib^ since the formation. Votes of thanks accorded the chairman, the accompanist (Mr A» Rees), and those who had come from assist, and the meeting terminated with the 81 ing of God save the Queen." The choir pro" to London on Monday next with the 5.1 train from Barry, to take part in the concer the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, and all infori»» may be had of the secretary, Mr C. H. Jacobsef.

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