Barry Dock News

MRS. GEUNDY'S JOTTINGS I specially appeal to the generosity of the public "Of the Barry district for contributions of articles, <&c., towards the annual sale of work to be held in October for the benefit of the funds of the Nursing .Association. Bachelordom in the Barry district is rapidly dying out, and the survivors, like the maids of <Lee, are still hoping. j It is "galling to notice the large number of trimmers and other dock workers who come daily to Barry by train to work from Cardiff and else- where. -s s t) I am glad to leam that the Barry Garrick Dramatic Society and the staff at Cadoxton Rail- way Station are vieing with each other as to which 1Vill give the best present to Mr D. W. Howell in honour of his recent marriage. S* Two noteworthy weddings have taken place in the Barry district during the past week, a gentle- man of 65 being married to a blushing damsel of 24. The second was a wedding in which the joint ages of the contracting parties did not exceed 32. » We hear that a new ecclesiastical parish is to be formed at Penarth. It will be associated with the new church, towards which Lord Windsor vras a munificent donor of iand and money. Mr William T. Lee, late of Penarth, now secre- tary and registration agent to the Breconshire Liberal Association, was, at the meeting of the examining board of the Certified Society of Liberal -Agents held in London last Saturday, admitted a bellow of the society, and received the degree of It. C. S. L. A. ,Ie I have gool reason for believing that Miss Gertrude Jenner, of The Typicca, will be a candi- date for election on the new system of district and Parish councils at Wenvoe in October, and there is a considerable feeling in her favour in the district. Two Penarth ladies were discussing a recent divorce case, and one said, "That sort of cases should be heard in camera." Said the other, Confidentially, "lean never make out how thab is done; by the aid of photography, is it not? » The trains between Cadoxton and Barry Dock stations ran over a single line last Sunday, traffic "Qer the up line having been suspended. That tantalising joke about the new prince ^hich appeared in this column last week is be- aming infectious. Mr F. (who is a bit of a wag) niet his friend Jones, and they travelled together from Barry to Cardiff last Saturday. On the way. the following conversation took place :—F I sup- pose you have heard that the little York prince has not all his fingars on the one hand J. Bless e, no I am so sorry !—F. No, they are on two hands The train narrowly escaped going over. There are now nearly a hundred navvies engaged ttPon the new dock works at Barry, but a large ^cession will be made in a week or two. « The Barry Town Association Football Club have submitted themselves for competition in the round tor the South Wales Junior Cup, and as the Barry and Cadoxton Association Club will also compete therei, there is an excellent chance of the coveted tropby coming to the Barry district. The following students successfully passed the certificate examinations of the College of Pre- ceptors, Cardiff Centre, held the second week in -June, at Cardiff, conducted by the Rev E. Morgan, B.A.: Second class, first division, Miss M. A. Ritchings, St. Audries, Penarth second class, second division, Miss E. Ritchings, St. Audrie3, Penarth third class, second division, Mis? E. M. Cooke, Cowbridge third class, third division, Miss J. Thomas, Miss F. Huddy, Miss H. Joies, and Miss F. M. Rowe, Cowbridge. If the Penarth Local Board would leave Sunday golfing and Sunday boating (suggests our contem- porary, the Western JIail), alone and devote their attention to the work of scavenging, which comes directly under their control, both residents and visitors would be more pleased. The beach, strewn, as it is, at neap tides with paper and all sorts of rubbish, is a disgrace to any sea-side resort. The Barry Railway Company have widened and considerably improved the road leading from hear the entrance to Barry Railway Station in the direction of the Ship Hotel. A correspondent writes asking what was the ^ount collected by the Barry Dock Town Brass laa7ad in aid of the Albion Fund last week? I tnust confess I da not know. Mr R. G. Morris, late head-master of Cadoxton dammar School, on his return after a month's holiday in Switzerland, is spending a few days ^th his brother, the Rector of Cadoxton-Barry. Messrs Edwards, Robertson, and Company's Pleasure boat, "Bonnie Doon," ran a trip to Ratchet and Minehead last Wednesday afternoon ftotn Barry Dock. The members of the Burry Docks R.A.O.B. ^istitute have this week forwarded a cheque for ,:@oS for the benefit of the Albion Colliery disaster Widows and orphans' relief fund. tie The Cadoxton-Barry Histrionic Society are also tabled to forward a cheque for £ 10 towards the Western Mail section of the same fund. There have been hundreds of visitors to Barry nd every day this week. # The Royal National Lifeboat Institution have tkCided nofc to e8tablish a 8tation at Barry for reception of the "John Wesley" memorial eboat until the new dock works in course of have been completed. The members the local lodges and institute of the Order of have also offered to provide a public ^hoat for Barry in the event of the John project not being realised, • The marriage of Mr Bees Phillips, a respected townsman of Cadoxton-Barry, will take place next Monday at Cardiff that of Mr F. P. Jones-Lloyd, solicitor, Barry Docks, on Wednes- day at Innellau, Scotland; and that of Miss Blanche Alexander, Bryneithen, Dinas Powis, to Dr Spencer, of Honiton, Devon, at St. Andrew's Church on Thursday. The anthem, Come, praise the Lord and Saviour (Tom Price), which was sung at Bethel Chapel, Cadoxton, Sunday school anniversary is the test selection for juvenile choirs at next year's national eisteddfod. Mr Lewis W. Jones, manager of the Barry Dock and Cadoxton branches of the Metropolitan and South Wales Bank, has kindly expressed a desire to contribute ten guineas towards the fund for providing a hundred guinea challenge cup in the event of a race being arranged between the royal yacht, Britannia, and the American yacht, Vigilant. ° The general annual licensing sessions will be held at Barry Docks Police Court on Tuesday, the 28th instant. In the House of Commons last Monday the Barry Railway and the Taff Vale Railway Bills were ordered for third reading, as was also the Elementary Education Provisional Orders Con- firmation (Barry, &c.) Bill. On Tuesday the latter Bill was read a third time. The corn harvest is well in hand on the farm of The Hayes, Sully. Lord Windsor, the chairman of the Barry Rail- way Company, and lord lieutenant of Glamorgan- shire, has received a communication from the Queen stating that her Majesty will be happy to patronise the fine art, industrial, and maritime exhibition at Cardiff next year. » The export and import shipments at Barry Docks during the past week amounted to the satisfactory total of 106,172 tons 6 cwt. '• It is now claimed that the oldest tenants on the Wenvoe Castle estate are the Harry's of Southra, Dinas Powis, the eldest son now living, aged fifteen, being of the fifth generation. There is a police constable near Penarth who calls regularly upon the village cobbler. He prides himself in a fine flowing waxened imperial. In the early part of next month the nuptial benediction will be proclaimed, probably at a Holton-road chapel over two couples resident on the Cadoxton outskirts. The brides are sisters, and the grooms "—one a pastor, the other in the employ of a local company—are well- known in the district. # The "horidity of old maids and the oddities of fashion formed the subject of a spirited gossip, delivered at the rate of about 600 pounds to the square inch, by three young ladies as they journeyed from Penarth to Cardiff by the noon train on Monday. What a thoughtful miss. How good of her Last Friday evening a young lady, residing at Cadoxton, sought the assistance of her elderly mother in completing her toilet by placing a pin in her waistband. This being accomplished, the sweet one, brimful of expectations, asked "Are you sure, ma, that it won't hurt Jack's arm ?" Telling silence followed, whilst the old lady's thoughts fled back to the happy days of long ago. Mr D. Lewis, Barry, took third prize in the 120 yards flat handicap at the Cardiff Infirmary sports last Saturday. Mr R. Percival also won his beat in the 440 yards flat handicap at the same meeting. There will be no police-court at Penarth next Monday, being Bank Holiday. Captain Hamilton Murrell, of Barry, has just sold his yacht to a Tenby gentleman, and she has been entered to compete in two of the races at Tenby Regatta a fortnight hence. The Cadoxton Choral Union will not compete at Llantwit-Major Eisteddfod next Monday. What a small world we live in. On two succes- sive evenings last week Dr Neale, J.P., Dr O'Donnell, Captain H. Murrell, and Mr J. C. Pardoe, all of Barry, accidentally collided with each other in a fashionable quarter of the metropolis. Mr Philip Morel, junr., of Penarth, ran a successful trip with his new half-ton rater prize modelled yacht from Penarth to Barry last Satur- day afternoon, and landed off Whitmore Bay after a very pleasurable sail. i I have been requested to ask why our local inspector of factories does not pay a surprise visit to a certain workroom in the Barry district, and whether he has read Hood's "Song of the Shirt" Work! work! work! till the brain begins to swim, Work! work work till the eyes are heavy and dim, Seam and gusset and band, band and gusset and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep and sew them on in a dream. Mr Rudyard Kipling, the great novelist, has expressed a desire to have a run across channel to Barry during his present stay at Ilfracombe. After the recent Barry Dock Shop Assistants' outing many of those who were there are at logger-heads over a sum of eighteenpence and a couple of lady assistants. couple of lady assistants. The British Society of Mining Students paid a visit of inspection to Barry Docks last Wednesday afternoon. Last Friday night an employee of the Barry Company, colour-blind for the nonce, got knee- deep into a heap of mortar in Dock View-road, and after making desperate efforts to extricate himself found that his trousers and boots had assumed the attributes of the chameleon, and a claim for damages is threatened. There are three things for which a Cymro should be willing to die-his country, his goed name, and the truth. Two young ladies in the scholastic line at Barry appear to have been very industrious at Llanwrtyd Wells while on their holidays last week. Behold the fruit of their most painful endeavours In the stillness of the night We decided to get tight," But a man did come along And he sung a funny song. But this man was very bold And we saw he had a cold, And we asked him with our thumb Will you have a glass of rum ? Miss Lily T. Oram, of Newport, Mon., who, it will be remembered has conducted mission services in connection with the Bible Christian Church at Barry Dock, is, with other ladies, can- didate for the full work of the ministry. Mr J. Westall, of Cadoxton-Barry, informs me that two Severn Tunnel heroes are resident at Cadoxton. They were the first to go down the shaft to the rescue of 250 men who had been im- prisoned in che workings some years ago by the inrush of a tidal wave and fully a dozen of the rescued men also live in the Barry district at present.

THE PROPOSED RAILWAY TO BARRY ISLAND. To the Editor of the" B-LRRY DOCK NEws." DEAR SIR,—Having been resident in the Barry district for some years, although now a consider- able distance away from the British shores, I naturally feel a large amount of interest in the I progress and welfare of the new town. This being so, I confess I was very much surprised to read in the Barry Dock News a few weeks ago a report of a meeting of the Barry Chamber of Trade to the effect that they had decided to delegate their presi- dent, Mr Alexander, to give evidence in favour of the Barry Bill in Parliament. This Bill providsd for the formation of another dam across Barry Harbour, to enable a railway to run from the present terminus to Barry Island. How the Chamber of Trade could have approved of the scheme I do not know. They surely did not consider that the project is one which will injure the trade of Barry Town very much, although it means, of course, the making of Barry Island. Pleasure-seekers coming to Barry when the rail- way to the Island has been formed will never think of alighting in the town when they can go through to the Island, and, therefore, the people who at present leave the train at Barry Dock Station or at Barry Station, and benefit the town to some extent, will not think of coming back to the town once they have got to the seaside. I do not suggest that the Island railway is to be formed at the expense of the Barry Company for the benefit of Lord Windsor, but I do suggest that this railway will prove the making of Barry Island at the expense of Barry Town. Thanking you for giving this insertion.—I remain, yours, &c., AN OLD BARRY RESIDENT. Buenos Ayres, July 3rd, 1894.

BARRY NEW DOCK WORKS. Buildings are being erected along the site of the proposed new dock at Barry for the accom- modation of machinery, plant, &c.,and excavations have been undertaken by a staff of fully one hundred navvies. A large number of additional hands have arrived in the district, and the work- men's houses, at Cadoxton especially, are rapidly filling up. It is expected that the contractors, Messrs Price and Wills, will have about 500 men at: work on the contract in the course of a fortnight Steam navvies are arriving daily, and active pre- parations are being made to push on the work energetically forthwith. A subway is also being formed near the signal cabin, below Cadoxton Station, in order to enable the contractors to remove a portion of the embankment on the upper side of the line, now used as garden plots, and utilise the same as ballast, &c., on the new works.

NEW CONSERVATIVE CLUB AND INSTITUTE FOR BARRY. The directors of the Barry and Cadoxton Con- servative Club and Institute are taking steps to secure a most desirable plot of land in the im- mediate vicinity of Barry Docks for the erection thereon of new buildings for the purposes of their club and institute. The institution is at present carried on in temporary premises in Holton-road, and the organisation having proved exceptionally successful, having secured a membership of be- tween 500 and 600-mainly of the working classes —during the past three or four months, the pro- moters are impelled to provide permanent and more commodious premises without, delay.

BARRY NEW MAIN SEWERAGE WORKS. THE OPENING CEREMONY TO-DAY (FRIDAY). I The ceremony of formally opening the new main sewerage works from Barry to Coldknap will take place to-day (Friday), and will be performeel by Dr P. J. O'Donnell, chairman of the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board. The contract, which has cost about P,17,000, has been carried out by Mr G. Rutter, Barry, the engineer being Mr Charles R. Walker, M. Inst. C. E., of London.

THE CHURCH CONTROVERSY STILL WAXES WARM. MR. ROSS RETURNS TO THE FRAY. To the Editor of the "BARRY DOCK NEWS." SIR,-In his letter of the 9tk February, my "Undivided" opponent said that no breach had been made in the Catholic body by the Church of England refusing to be governed by a foreign bishop. This was the statement I challenged. I say a breach was made in the faith of the ancient Church, in the worship of the ancient Church, in its ministry, and in its headship. In all other points I have followed ray leader," myself introducing no new questions. Elizabeth was crowned as a Catholic sovereign, and took the oath to defend the Catholic faith, but immediately after this she perjured herself by forcing a new religion on an unwilling people by a most bitter persecution yet, not long before, in the life time of her sister Queen Mary, she had prayed that the earth might open and swallow her if she were not a true Catholic." In Westminster Abbey, in 1559, there stood on one side the bishops of the ancient Church, on the other the new sectaries. The bishops, as faithful shepherds, would not betray their trust, seeing the wolf coming they stood firm in defence of their flock. All were deposed, save one traitor, Kitchin, of Llandaff, the scourge of his see." Their last survivor, Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York, deposed 1559, died 1579. Then Elizabeth erected her new Church, and part of the old Catholic endowments were given to it, to which endowments it had no more right than it has to (for example) the property of the Baptists. It is one of the ironies of fate that a time should come when the descendants of Elizabeth's church founders pose as Catholic priests to defend their unjust possession of Catholic property. Pilkington, the Elizabethan Bishop of Durham, would certainly not have agreed with them, for, speaking of the hierarchy of the ancient Catholic Church, he said: We do not count such superstitious idolators to be our fathers in religion." If my opponent had read the first part of the Pope's encyclical on the study of the Bible, the historical part, he would have seen how the Church has, in all ages, promoted the reading and study of the Bible. The very name Vulgate shows that St Jerome translated the Scriptures into the vulgar tongue, and he did so at the desire of Pope St Damasus. After mutilating the Bible, depriving the people of entire boons of the Bible, and corrupting the meaning to suit its own pur- poses, the Church of England would arrogate to itself the glory of the Catholic Church, which con- sists in having preserved the Bible for 1,500 years before the Church of England existed to abuse it. The Catholic Church had caused numbers of trans. lations of the Bible into vernacular tongues to be made before the so-called Reformation. I think it is 63 which blessed Thomas More gives as the number he knew of. James I.'s Protestant trans- lation was found to contain so many errors that it Was the cause of the recent revised version being undertaken. I wonder which of these is held by Anglicans to be correct? and how an unlearned man, who only knows his mother's tongue, is to decide between them? and, also, why it was still found convenient to suppress whole books and passages, e.g., II. Maccabees, 12 chap., 46 verse ? It is, therefore, holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." My opponent, who offered so fervent a prayer for the soul of Lord Howard of Effingham, would not approve of this. As to Lord Howard's religion, I have searched every history which was available, and also the town library, and every historian who mentions his religion at all says he was a Catholic. It has been suggested to me that the documents quoted by A. A. Fowler refer to his son, who succeeded him as Lord High Admiral, Queen Elizabeth having made the father Firl of Nottingham after the Armada victory. But whatever his religion, it does not alter the argument that, as the Protestant Stowe says of the Armada, "NO difference could be observed on this occasion between Protestants and Catho- lics." How different was the conduct of Protes- tants in the beginning of Mary's reign, in Scotland Under Mary, Queen of Scots, in England under James II. ? In all these cases, rebellion against the Crown followed revolution in religion. That it Was for religion Catholics suffered under Elizabeth, I will give one quotation from Protestant Stowe to prove On Palm Sunday, 1574, there was taken saying of Mass in the Lord Morley's house, within Aldgate of London, one Alban Dolman, priest, and the Lady Morley, with her children, and divers others, were also taken hearing of the said Mass. There was also taken the same day and hour, for saying Mass at the Lady Gilford's, in Trinity-lane, one Oliver Heywood, priest, and for hearing of the said Mass, the said Lady Gilford, with divers other gentlewomen. There was also taken, at the same instant, in the Lady Brown's house, in Cow- lane, for saying Mass, one Thomas Heywood, priest, and one John Cooper, priest, with the Lady Brown and divers others, were likewise taken, being hearers of the said Mass, all which persons were, for the same offences, indicted, committed, and had the law according to the statute in that case provided." As to Queen Mary, the Protes- tants rose in arms to proclaim an usurper, Lady Jane Grey, who was supported by Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, Rogers, Jewel, and by the whole Council who had effected a change of religion under Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Within six months another Protestant rebellion broke out against Queen Mary. In such circumstances it is difficult to separate politics from religion. In those sad times the various sects of Protestants persecuted each other, Protestants persecuted Catholics, and if Catholics retaliated, it is but another proof of the truth of my statement that the modern Church of England is not the old Church, but a new sect entirely differing from and entirely divided from it.—Believe me, truly yours, A. E. P. ROSS.

ROMANISTS AND THE BIBLE. To t7te Editor of the BARRY DOCK NEWS." SIR,—Is it honest to say that the Roman Catholic Church prohibits the use of the Bible ? Hear what some of her popes, saints, cardinals, bishops, and priests say upon the bible (not Pro- testants) :-In his Encyclical, Nov. 13th, 1893, Leo XIII., in urging his priests to study the scriptures, writes that No one is permitted to expound the scriptures in a fashion contrary to this meaning (i.e., the exact sense with which the Church has regarded such ') or the unanimous Consent of the Fathers," and refers to the decrees of the Council of Trent, one of which is :— Whereas it is manifest by experience, that if the Holy Bible translated into the vulgar tongue be allowed indifferently to anybody, then on account of men's rashness will arise from hence a greater detriment than advantage. If any one without a license presume to read or keep by him the bible, he shall be disqualified to receive the absolution of his sins till he deliver it up to the ordinary." Clement VIII. confirmed this rule. Alphomen a Castro, who had been one of the members of that assembly, says expressly that one of the parents and springs of heresies was the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the vulgar languages, and, therefore, bestows great praises on the edict of Ferdinand and Eliza- beth, King and Queen of Spain, by which they had forbidden, under severest penalties, either to translate the Holy Scriptures into the vulgar languages, or to keep any translation made of them translate the Holy Scriptures into the vulgar .ra languages, or to keep any translation made of them under any pretence whatever." Sixtus Senesis says plainly that "to allow shoemakers, fullers, &c., to read the Scriptures is to give that which is holy unto the dogs, and to cast pearls before swine." In 1816, Pope Pius VII. issued his bull against bible societies, addressed to the Primate of Poland, in which he represents the circulation of the scriptures by bible societies as a crafty device by which the very foundations of religion are undermined. The hostility expressed by the Church of Rome to the circulation of the bible is well illustrated in the following extract from the Catholic Times of 26th May, 1893—" Money thrown away. We confess we are surprised to find that the British and Foreign Bible Society still wastes its subscribers' money in printing and throwing away-there is no other word for it-copies of the Holy Scripture." Cardinal Bellarmine writes :— We maintain that the scriptures ought not to be read publicly in the vulgar tongue, nor allowed to be read indifferently by everybody." Dr Cahill, Irish Roman Catholic priest, declared that he would rather a Catholic should read the worst works of immorality than the Protestant bible- that forgery of God's word, that slander of Christ." Cardinal Wiseman, writing on "The Catholic Doctrine on the use of the Bible," says Years of experience and observation not super- ficial, have only strengthened our conviction that this course must be fearlessly pursued. We must deny to Protestants any right to use the bible, much more to interpret it." I am afraid I am taking up too much of your valuable space. I can give more Roman Catholic evidence if the above facts are not sufficient. Protestants say God's Holy Word, the Bible. should not be with- held from the people, but diligently searched and read."—Yours faithfully, A. A. FOWLER. Lawn House, Sidney-road, Forest Gate, July 29, 1894.

ALARMING INCIDENT ON BARRY ISLAND. A BURNING CHILD RUNS INTO THE SEA. I DEATH OF THE UNFORTUNATE VICTIM. On Monday afternoon last, Sarah Jane Edmunds, aged thirteen, daughter of Mr Charles Edmunds, ballast man, living at 86, Morel-street, Barry Docks, was endeavouring to light a fire on the beach at Whitmore Bay, when her nether garments accidentally became ignited, and she was almost instantly ablaze. The little girl at once ran towards the sea, and plunged into the water, but not before she was pitifully burnt about the legs and other parts of the body. She was carried back in a precarious condition, and Dr Kelly, of Barry, was sent for, who ordered the child's removal home, where she lay in a dangerous state, and her recovery was despaired of. Great praise is due to Mr Alfred Barnett for the valuable assist- ance rendered by him in extinguishing the burn- ing clothes of the child. On Tuesday morning the child was still in a critical condition, and lingered in terrible agonies till towards midnight the same day, when death put an end to her suffer- ings.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THREE WOMEN FROM DROWNING. Whitmore Bay, Barry Island, was the scene of another sensational incident on Monday afternoon last. Three ladies, one the wife of the captain of a ship lying in the dock, went for a bathe. The tide was incoming, Out owing to a difficulty in getting the baithing machine ashore after the ladies were dressed, some delay took place. The boy who attended the machines for some reason or another could not be found, and Mr W. Hopkins,! the boats and bathing inspector, at once went to look for the horse. He found the horse and harnessed him, and having attached the animal to the machine he could not drag the machine ashore, and after repeated attempts broke the traces. Seeing the ladies were getting frightened, and that they were in danger of being drowned, Mr Hopkins went into the water up to his waist, and carried them out. One of the ladies fainted away on reaching the shore. The disgraceful conduct of the lad in charge of the machines in leaving the machine in question while in use ought to be a subject of investigation by the local authorities.

GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING NEAR BARRY. PLUCKY CONDUCT OF A LOCAL BOARD I OFFICIAL. On Saturday morning last a plucky rescue from drowning took place at Barry. As Mr William Hopkins, inspector of pleasure boats and bathing under the Local Board, was walking towards the Pebble Beach at Barry, he heard cries for help proceeding from the water. He at once rushed to the water's edge, and a lady pointed out a boy in imminent danger of drown- ing, the top of whose head was just above water. Mr Hopkins immediately dived in and rescued the lad, who was in twelve feet of water. The boy was very weak when pulled out, but under the care of his rescuer he revived, and was sent home, his name being Thomas Jones, aged 14, residing at No. 10, Ivy-street, Penarth. Praise is due to Mr Hopkins for his prompt action in saving life on the occasion.

CRICKET. DINAS POWIS v. BONVILSTONE. Played at Dinas Powis on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for Dinas Powis by thirteen runs, the following being the Rcores :-Dinas Powis: T Alexander, b Thomas, 14; H Alexander, c Bird, b Graham, 41; H Waters, b Thomas, 8; ELF Jones, b Thomas, 1; H Miles, b Graham, 2; L Gibson, not out, 17; T Sessions, run out, 1; T Collins, c Hopkins, b Graham, 3; 0 Evans, c Crabb, b Thomas, 0: R Blake, b Graham, 3 E Cule, 2 extras, 6; total, 98. Bonvilstone: T Graham, b Waters, 17; E Deere, b Alexander, 5; J H Bird, b Waters, 11; F Hopkins, c Evans, b Waters, 3; C Thomas, b Waters, 0; W Fitzgerald, b Waters, 0; W Farmer, b Alexander, 13; T Crabb, b Waters, 0 R J Holley, not out, 10 A Henn, b Alexander, 1; A Allen, b Alexander, 1; extras, 3; total, 85.

BARRY 2ND v. PENARTH 2ND. This match was played at the Buttrills, on Satur- day last; and after an exciting game, result.3d in a tie, both teams scoring 30 runs. Appended are the scores :-Penarth 2nd: G. Thomas, c and b L Willett, 4 Ashmore, b Lewis, 4; T Dewar, b L Willett, 1; E Kirby, run out, 9; Shimeld, b Willett, 0; G Shephard, run out, 9; T C James, b Nicholls, 0; H Bishop, b Nicholls, 0; A H Lee, c Murphy, b Nicholls, 0; J. Cant, b Nicholls, 0; Price, not out, 2; total, 30. Barry 2nd: F Bray, b Dewar, 0; J Lewis, c Dewar, 5 W Murphy, b Shepherd, 5 J John, b Shephard, 2; P Kavanagh, b Shepherd, 1 T Jones, run out, 0; D Edmunds, b Shepherd, 1 L Willett, c Thomas, 1; W Nicholls, not out, 4; T Wilson, I b w, 9; W West, run out, 0; total, 30.

TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES. BARRY v ELY COURSE.—To be played at the Buttrills. Wickets pitched at 3.15. Barry team:— W West (captain), T Lewis, H Tilston, T Wilson, 0 Lewis, W Morse, W Ingram, J John, W Nicholls, and W Meredith. Reserve, F Bray. BARRY CONGREGATIONAL v ST MARGARET'S.— At Cardiff. Leave Barry 2.25 p.m. train. Congrega- tional team -W Ashmore (captain), R Miles, A Mein, T Davies, W Holloway, W Williams, Garner, F John, P Kavanagh, B A Willett, and another. Reserve, W. Evans.

PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION executed with neatness and dispatch at the Barry ])oe Netts Offices, Vere-street, Cadoxton-Barry.

THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN RAILWAY. COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONTRACT. The contract for the construction of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, tenders for which are to be in hand by Thursday next. the 9th inst., will be commenced by the 1st October, and with this ebject in view the working plans, &c., are being- completed by the engineers. Messrs Forster Brown and Rees, Cardiff, and Mr J. W. Szlumper, London. It is a singular fact that. although it was reported that applications were made for fully four timas the amount of capital available, no announcement has been made as to who are the fortunate holders of stock in the undertaking, and it is believed that the whole of the capital is being held for the present by the directors of the Barry Railway Company and their friends, and will, by-and-bye, be converted into debentures. It is also reported that Colonel North, one of the directors of North's Navigation Coal Company, applied for 4100,000 worth of stock, and Mr J. Cory, J.P., Porthkerry, for 430,000.

CORRESPONDENCE.. The Editor desires to state that he does not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by correspondents.] "Give me, above all other liberties, the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscienoe. "-John Milton,

THE BEHAVIOUR OF VOLUNTEERS IN THE RANKS. To the Editor of the "BARRY DOCK NEWS. DEAn SIR,-I was very sorry to see the remarks you chose to make in your last issue on the above subject, and cannot help thinking it was a very isolated case, or it certainly would not have escaped the eye of such an experienced officer as Colonel Allen, R.A., our inspecting officer, who expressed his satisfaction at what he saw, not to say anything of such keen volunteer officers as Colonel Hill, K.C.B., M.P.. Colonel Fisher, Captain and Adjutant Eyre, R.A., and others, either one of whom would have done whatever was necessary to put a stop to such conduct as you impute, and, bear in mind, these officers were in closer contact with the men than it was possible for your reporter to be. Volunteers and their officers do. not claim to be all saints and if any of them did swear, I don't think it would take my breath away altogether, especially under such conditions as many of them were at the time-wet through to the skin—and I should like to say, after sixteen years' service in the Artillery Volunteers, that I never met with anything but the most gentlemanly conduct on the part of our officers under the most trying circumstances.—Thanking you, Sir, in anticipation, I am, yours respectfallr, H. HOLLAND, Sergeant 2nd G.V.A. 43, Kingsland-crescent, Barry Dock, July 31st, 1894. Sergeant Holland fences very prettily, but his defence is weak. What does he mean by the term wet through to the skin ?" There was not a single volunteer on the ground who was not as "dry as a cork.ED. B.D.N-.

THE PROPOSED ROYAL YACHT RACE AT BARRY. To the Editor of the "BARRY DocK; NEWS." SIR,—Being an old yachtsman myself, and re- siding on the cost of the Bristol Channel, I would be delighted to see the proposed Royal yacht race take place in Barry Roads. But the idea, to my mind, is entirely impracticable, because, as those who arc interested in local seafaring are aware, the current in this part of the channel is too racy for craft, like the Prince of Wales's Britannia and ,Mr Gould's Vigilant, to compete with anything like fairness and safety. Besides, something more than a one hundred guinea challenge cup would be required to make the event a success. Prizes amounting to between £ 200 or £ 301) would have to be offered, and events arranged for other than the big race. Then, again, Barry, Penarth, and Cardiff do not possess a yacht club. and with- out a yacht club no arrangements for a Royal race could be satisfactorily carried out. If it were possible in any way to induce the Prince of Wales' yacht to come to Barry I would be very happy to supplement Mr Lewis William Jones' ten guinea donation by a similar amount.-Yours, &c., Penarth. WELL WISHER."

THE FIRE-EXTINGUISHING APPLIANCES IN THE BARRY DISTRICT. To the Editor of the BARRY DOCK NEWS." SIS,,—May I ask under whose responsible con- trol are the fire-extinguishing appliances in the Barry district ? And is it true that a non-reei- dent gentleman receives 210 a year from the Local Board for doing absolutely nothing thereto ? —Yours, &c., HEAVY RATEPAYER.

BARRY BUFFALOES AND THE PROPOSED NEW LIFEBOAT. To the Editor of the" BARRY DOCK NEWS." DEAR SIR,-As several subscriptions have been solicited and promised on behalf of the fund for a lifeboat for the district which the local Order of Buffaloes were desirous of establishing, perhaps you would be good enough to publish the enclosed correspondence, which we have per- mission to use, so as to show the would-be donors that it is through no fault; of the Order that the R.A.O.B. Lifeboat will not be placed at Barry.— Yours faithfully, Barry Dock, J. J. TAYLOR. [COPY.] Barry Dock, July 21st, 1,894. DEAR SIK,—I am instructed that the Order of Buffaloes are anxious and prepared to place a lifeboat at Barry on the Bristol Channel. There are already one or two R.A.O.B. boats on the coast, and I under- stand that Barry is on the list for a rrew boat, and that some suggestion was made some time ago with regard to the "John Wesley," which it was proposed to place here as soon as possible. Without in any way wishing to interfere with that movement, the, local Buftaloes, who number very strong, and who arty nearly all connected with the eea and port, feel that they have first claim, and should, if possible, be allowed to place their boat here. I should, therefore, be glad to hear from you as to how the matter stands re the" John Wesley," and that there is nothing to bar the way of an R.A.O.B. boat being placed at Barry, and which I understand would be done at an early date.—Yours faithfully, Charles Dibden, Esq., F. P. JONES-LLOYD. Secretary, Royal Lifeboat Institution, London. [COPY OF REPLY.] John-street, Adelphi, London, 23rd July, 1894. DEAR SIR,—I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, and, in reply, hasten to explain that my committee will not take steps to form a lifeboat station at Barry until the works now being carried out there are completed; and, further, that they are already pledged to the donors of the John Wesley" Lifeboat to appro- priate the station to that boat. My committee very highly value the warm interest taken by the Order of Buffaloes in the case, and are at all times anxious to carry out the wishes of their friends. You will, however, I am sure readily understand that they could not possibly break their promise in the matter in question.-I am, dear Sir, faithfully yours, CHARLES DIBDEN, Seeritary. F. P. Jones-Lloyd, Esq.