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124 BYE-G0NE3. May 26, 1897. proposed by the Hon. Sec. Mr T. J. Bradshaw, seconded by the Rev Norman Ogilvy, and carried unanimously, and Mr Nicholson responded. Meetings were also held on April 13th, when Mr T. H. Hignet, read a paper on Parasitic plants, and Mr R. 0. Wynne Roberts, one on bactereological purification of sewage, and on March 9th, when the meeting was of a preliminary character. The Rev C. Bowlker presided on April 13. The Late Captain Hayhurst-Fkance.— Probate of the will, dated Dec. 20, 1895, of Capt. George Henry Hay hurst Hayhurst-France, of Ystym Colwyn, Montgomeryshire, justice of the peace, who died on March 2nd, aged forty-two years, son of the late Captain Henry Hayhurst- Hayhurst, has been granted to the testator's sister, Miss Edith Anna Hayhurst of Melyniog, the Rev Charles Swainson of Old Chorlton, Kent, and George Devereux Harrison of Welshpool, to each of whom the testator bequeathed £100, to his bucler £100, to his other servants each one month's wages, and to his son Atherton Henry £2,000 and his Elate and plated ware. Captain Hayhurst-Francs equeathed certain pictures of horses to devote as heirlooms with the mansion house of Ystym Colwyn, and he bequeathed his furniture and household effects to his wife. He devised his real estate and bequeathed his residuary personal estate in trust to pay to his wife £350 a year during her widowhood, and, subject thereto, to hold the residuary estate in trust for his son George Frederick, or in the event of his death for the testator's son Atherton Henry, or on failure of this trust for any other children of the testator as tenants in common; or, in default of issue, for Mrs Hayhurst-France during her widowhood, and ultimately for the testator's said sister, Miss Edith Anna Hayhurst. The personal estate has been valued at £42,216. <3Elie ICat* U*b Canon glirharoson of $orthop. The death took place late on Friday night, May 14-, at Northop Vicarage, of the Rev Thomas Richardson, vicar of Northop, at the age of 71. He was born at St Dogmell's, South Wales, and was the eldest son of the Rev Peter Richardson, vicar of St Dogmell's. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and took his degree in 1848. For a short time he was private secretary to the late Lord Ebury. In 1849 he was ordained deacon, and in the following year priest, and took orders vnder the late Bishop Wilberforce. He was curate of Fishguard from 1850 to 1852; vicar of the same place for the two following years; from 1854- to 1867 he was minor canon (or bishop's vicar) of St David's, and head master of the Cathedral School, and for the following ten years he was vicar of Bayvil-with-Moylgrove, Pembrokeshire. For the next sixteen months he was vicar of Ab°rdovey, and left to become vicar of Rhyl. In 1890 he was offered the vicarage of Northop, which he accepted. He was an evangelical Church¬ man. He thrice married, and leaves a large family, including Dr T. A. Richard¬ son, Croydon, Mr C. Morgan Richardson, Cardigan, the Rev Edwin Richardson, vicar cf Raglan, and Mrs A. G. Gristock, St John's Vicarage, Upper Holloway. The funeral took place on Wednesday, the remains being interred in Northop Churchyard. Wxz l£at* ^i«-$riuripal of gtms QtoiltQt, (Dxforo. Wa regret to announce the death of the Rev Llewelyn Thomas, Vice-Principal of Jesus Col¬ lege, Oxford, who died on Wednesday, May 12, aged 56, at his residence, Cartrev, South Parks Road, Oxford, after a short illness. Mr Thomas was the son of the Rev Thos. Thomas, for many years Vicar of Carnarvon, afterwards Canon Residentiary of Bangor Cathedral and Vicar of Llanrhaiadr. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School, where he was a contemporary of the present Bishop of Chester. In 1860 he gained a scholar¬ ship at Jesus College, and in 1862 was placed in the second class in Classical Moderations. The following year he gained the Newdigate Prize for English verse, the subject being "Coal Mines," which he recited before the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Sheldonian Theatre when they visited Oxford at the Commemoration in the year of their marriage. In 1864- he gained a third class in the final classical school, and after this worked as classical master at Rossall, Llandovery, and Jesus College, where he was tutor and Welsh reader until 1880. In that year he went to the College living of Nutfield, Surrey, which he resigned be¬ fore the expiration of his fellowship. In 1881 he Teturned to the College, and since that date has been Vice-Principal, Chaplain, and Lecturer there. He had a large circle of acquaintances and friends, and will be long remembered by Jesus men and all others who were brought into contact with him for his hospitality and genial manners. He pos¬ sessed a keen literary sense and great taste, es¬ pecially in certain kinds of poetry. He contri¬ buted the article on the history of Jesus Col¬ lege to the history of Oxford Colleges edited by the Rev Andrew Clark, and conferred a lasting benefit on Basque scholars by publishing, with an excellent preface, a MS. by d'Urte, con¬ taining a Basque translation of the Book of Genesis and part of Exodus. Mr Thomas was engaged in a similar work when he died of pneu¬ monia, after a few days' illness. He had been recently appointed to a canonry of St. Asaph Cathedral, but had not been installed. Mr Thomas was unmarried. The remains were interred at Llanbeblig, Carnarvon, yesterday week. JUNE ?, 1897. NOTES. SHROPSHIRE WORDS (March 27, 1895).— Week—"Week" in the sense of the complaining cry of animals in pain or distress,was occa«ionally used in Cardiganshire in the doggerel rhyme