The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-05-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DISTRICT ITEMS.  The Taff Vale Railway Company's workmen are about to start an insurance fund. The Working Men's Club at Llandaff have established a cricket club. About £25,000 has been raised as a guarantee fund for the college of North Wales. A further sum of £lO,OOO is required. The Rev. J. R. Evans, of Michaelstone, has accepted the pastorship of the Baptist Church at Rhymney. A married woman, named Rachel Stradling, of Lougher, is in custody on the charge of attempted suicide.  Professor Rudler, F.G.S., delivered a lecture on "Wales in the Great Ice Age," before the members of the Cymmrodorion Society last week. Mr F. Price, the Duke of Beaufort's Glamorganshire agent, died at his residence at Liensamlet on Saturday. An old woman, named Ann Edwards, of Butestreet, Aberdare, was burnt to death on Saturday. It is supposed that she had a fit and fell on the _ . .  It is rumoured that Mr Davies, eldest son of Mr David Davies, M.P. of the Cardigan Boroughs, will contest one of the seats in Parliament for the county of Monmouth, at the next election. In the "Scholar" writing competition, the first prize of one guinea has been awarded to Master John Hopkins, a scholar in the Board School, Penclawdd. He is the only successful competitor in the Principality. The annual meeting of the United Counties Hunters' Society was held at Carmarthen on Saturday, and certain alterations in the rules were made. The show for 1883 was fixed for the 24th of August. The Merthyr Guardians have petitioned against a Bill about to be introduced into Parliament allowing a pauper to gain a settlement in England and Wales after 12 months residence, the Bill being obviously for the benefit of the Irish. The Daily News states that the attention of the Home Office has been directed to the formation of what are known as "clubs" in Wales, notably in Cardiff, since the Sunday Closing Act has come into operation. Drink is supplied at these clubs. Mathern Church, Chepstow, was re-opened on Tuesday, after restoration, when the Bishop of Llandaff preached. The vicar, the Rev Watkin Davies, formerly held the living of Pyle. The "Press Association" states that on Tuesday afternoon, the Prince and Princess of Wales were insulted in the streets of London. A man persisted in requesting cheers for the Republic, but the crowd instead, cheered their Royal Highnesses. On Whit-Monday a foot race took place at Treforest, in which the stakes were £25 a side, and the competitors, " Shonidal," Llantrissant, and Jethro Davies. The latter won by several yards. The excitement was intense. . .  An eisteddfod on a large scale was held at Treorky on Monday, and a suggestion was thrown out that the colliers of South Wales should emulate their brethren in the north (who had decided to raise 1.3,000 among themselves for the North Wales College) by raising a similar or much larger sum for the South Wales College. The anniversary services of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, held at Liverpool, have been a great success. There was a monster attendance of Welshmen, and twenty-five of the leading lights of the denomination preached in the vernacular, the veteran Edward Matthews, of Bonvilstone, among the number. The attention of the Home Secretary will be called to the fact of a portion of the Rhos cemetery having been consecrated by the Bishop of St Asaph (father of the Hey J. P. Hughes, of Newcastle, Bridgend), contrary to the resolution of the Burial Board and the vestry of the parish. It is right to say that the Bishop was kept in ignorance of the facts of the case.