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decision come to yesterday by the
Coal Owners association.
NOTES OF INTEREST.

The difficulty which recently cropped
up in connection with the forthcoming
chief choral contest at the Newport
National Eisteddfod, and which threat
ened to, result in the withdrawal Of
the Merthyr and the Pontypool and
Abersychan choirs from the competi-
tion, has been agreeably settled.
Gwala's sons and daughters. She
says: II have found the people, in
general, not only more refined than in
many of the counties of England, but
also better educat ed. The manners Of
the Welsh peasantry, even IL they do
not understand you, are never un-
couth; they are even courteous and
obliging..
Rev. L. T. Hughes, late Of Canning
ton, Somersetshlre, who sailed for
America on April 7th in company
with the Rev. w. r. Edwards, late Of
Brynmawr, has declined an invitation
to the pastorate of Wiliamstown,
Pennsylvania, but has accepted a
unanimous call to the English Con-
gregational Church at Algeats, Ver-
mont, New York.
On Tuesday afternoon. July 20, a
| terrific thunderstorm passed over
Rhymney, accompanied by heavy rain,
which caused the flooding of several
houses and the tearing up of some of
| the roads. When the storm ceased
news arrived that lad named Willie
| Moseley, son of Thomas Moseley, New
town, had been killed while haymak-
| ing on his grandmother's farm at
| Blaen.
At a meeting of the Llandyfodwg
school board, held at Nantymoel, Og-
more Valley, on Monday, July 10, a
long and heated discussion took place
on the desirability of having Welsh
taught as a specific subject in the
Board schools. NJ. J. Baker moved O
resolution, which was eventually
carried, that it be compulsory on head
teachers to teach the language to al
the children in the upper standards
whose parents desired it.
The South Wales Musical Review is
the latest addition to the periodical
literature of Wales, and all eistedd.
fodwr will accord it a hearty welcome
1t is published by the Principality Mu-
sic Publishing company, 9, Senghen.
ydd- place, Cardiff, and is excellently
printed on good stout paper. The
present is the third number. A very
effective setting of Burns's 20, Vert
Thou in the Cauld Blast" for -four
voices, and printed in both notations
forms the supplement. 1t is being
praised by the critics.
"The only Welsh book" writes g
correspondent who delights in bio
graphy, printed by Mr.. Raikes, the
founder of Sunday schools, was g
tracslation of a letter by the Bishop
of London against Whitefield and the
Wesleyan Methodists. This was trans
lated into Welsh by the Rev. Theophi-
lus Evans, the author of "Drych y
Prif Oseoedd," and printed in 1740. Ir
the same year Mr.. Whitefield's reply
to this letter was translated into
Welsh, and printed at Pontypool,w where
a number of Welsh books were printed
in the last century"
What can Mr.. owen M. Edwards
mean in the July number of Wales by
suggesting the passage from Shakes
peare's Tempest" Hence, bashfu
cunning, and prompt me, plain ant
holy innocencew as "a motto for {
Welshman?" We have heard of thu
deep" Welshman, and have protested
against the epithet as slander; anC
the ignorant have supposed that there
is less innocence and virtue in Welsf
rural districts than in other parts OF
the kingdom. Wales is accustomed