Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-11-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JAYNE ON WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.  The Chester Diocesan Conference opened at Chester on Wednesday, when Dr. Jayne delivered his presidential address. After a iew Preliminary remarks, his Lordship proceeded to notice some of the more urgent of those problems upon the successful solution of which the future, not only of the Cis urch,but of tile nation, so largely depended, The Bishop then said the Church in England must refuse to regard the Church in , Wales as anything less than a vital and absobluely inseparable part of itself. To put things plainly, he believed that should a serious attack be made upon what was loosely termed the "Welsh Church," it would be the duty, and, therefore, the wisdom, of the Church in England to make it quite clearto assailants and onlookers that disintergration and partial disestablishment would not be tolerated, that the who would reckon with a part mast be prepared to reckon , with the whole, that nothing short of a comprehensive scheme for the disestablishment and disendosvmeut of one ancient and indissoluble Church could be contemplated and expected. The only real hope of the enenies of the Church lay in the Church weakly consenting to be taken in detail htud pbuidered by instalments. It need not be said that the policy of disintegration was abroad, and they were being taught that it was a part of the highest statesmanship to watch the seething cauldron of Welsh controversial life if, haply, from its boilings and bubblings and strangely mingled ingredients there might rise the apparition of the child " Disestablishment" crowned as for sovereignty, and bearing in its Viand the uprooted tree of the Welsh Church. The Bishop then spoke of brotherhoods in the Church end concluded with some references to the diocesan institutions.  A Central News telegram from Berlin on Tuesday, says: Or. (loathe, professor of literature at Halle, has committed suicide. _ _  Many of the irieods of Mr. Ben. Beyrion, of High-street, will be pleased to hear that he has been successful in his examination at Bloomsbury-square, London, which took place last week. Mr. Bey-non, although :a very young man, is now a qualified chemist and druggist, and he is to be congratulated on his early success. Mr. Beynon is a nephew of the Rev. Mr. Gibbon, of Gowerton. . .  It is a generally known fact that for sonic time'past, there has been considerable difficulty experienced in Swansea iu obtaining firewood in small quantites, and that many house-wives .aye been placed in a mighty dilemma because : they knew not where they might obtain timber wherewith to kindle their morning fires. So general and so well-known was the clifficulty, that a little while ago the Board of Guardians I introduced wood chopping into the workhouse, I not as a pastime a 111 Gladstone, but as a light labour to be imposed on paupers who!were unable Ito participate in heavier work. 'the efforts of the guardians tended to minimise only in a very small degree the inconveniences caused by the scarcity of handy fuel, and the complaints of the domestics were still constant, loud, and long. We have heard of the last of them now, though, for there has just been established at the instance of the Swansea Firewood and General Stores Supply Company a business which will be able to turn out sufficient neatly-cut and tidily-bundled wood to supply Swansea, Llanelly, PTeath, and the intervening districts uow and fer ever. The manufactory is situate in the Cremorne Yard— or garden as it used to be called—and covers a surprisingly large area, upon which machinery of the most modern type has been erected. The Company's employees are now engaged in sending out in bundles the old Lruldore Bridge, and the process through which it goes before it i delivered to the shopkeeper is most interesting. The balks of timber are first takerCito a large saw-bench and sawn into chunks which urethen conveyed to a machine somewhat similar in appearance to a steam hammer, but having in place of a crasher, a set of knives. The knives are attached to rods propelled by horizontallyplaced eccentric wheels, and work after the manner of a gulls tine. To the right of the machine is a huge blade which chops the chunks into 6inch blocks, obviating the necessity for a great deal of sawing, and to the left are two blades fixed at an angle of 45 degrees. These are capable of splitting 12,000 bum:ilea per day. —and although they are not yet taxed to their fullest capacity, the manager of the company, Mr. Hastie, is more than satisfied with the amount of business that .has been transacted. After being split the wood is taken to a spacious workshop upstairs, where it is bundled through ' the medium of compressors worked by boys. packed into baskets of 50, and sent out for I distribution amongst the shopkeepers.