Welsh Journals

June 7, 1899. BYE-GONES. 181 annum was subsequently voted for the mainten¬ ance of the same institution. Since that time, however, instead of there being one school, there were as many aa four schools, viz., three Board Schools and the National Schools. That being the case they thought it only fair that the money should be utilised for the maintenance of all the schools alike.—The Commissioner said that could not be done without the authority of the Charity Commissioners, who would have to prepare a scheme, and all they could do there was to dis¬ cuss it among themselves. Generally speaking, the Charity Commissioners were not very willing to divert a charity, or to spread it out among new schools which might have sprung up, espe¬ cially when the founder of the charity had one school only in hia mind.—Canon Jones said if they took this money from them they would not be able to carry on the school.—The Rev R. H. Evans: What about the subscriptions, and the aid grant?—The Commissioner said the subscrip¬ tions, as a rule, were not very high.—Canon Jones: Especially in a district like this.—The Commissioner asked Canon Jones whether they could not manage with £20.—Canon Jones said no; they had the greatest difficulty in carrying on the schooli now. They had to seek the assist¬ ance of bazaars, etc.—Mr Lloyd Jones said the School Board would willingly take the school over.—Canon Jones said the buildings belonged to the Bishop and churchwardens.—Mr Lloyd Jones: Could not they transfer them?—The Com¬ missioner said the National Society would not do that as a rule. He did not believe in distributing the money to other schools, except in the way of scholarships. The Charity Commissioners might say that £15 at all events should be appropriated as a nucleus for scholarships, open to all children in the parish. He thought it would be a great advantage if they had a scholarship fund to assist the best boys and girls to go to a better school for a year or two. He would lay the petition before the Charity Commissioners.—Canon Jones said they made very good use of the money, for they had earned the highest grant possible, and had been exempted for years from the annual ex¬ amination, while they got from the Diocesan In¬ spector last year the mark "Excellent."—The Commissioner said he thought all National Schools were understaffed, and he thought the money would be well laid out if it were used for the pur¬ pose of strengthening the staff. He visited the Llanfyllin National School that morn'ng, and found it in very good order, but undoubtedly it was understaffed. He durst say they got good results, which went to show that they had good teachers. In regard to the distribution of the doles, the Commissioner said when he came there, knowing no statement of accounts had been sent to Lon¬ don since 1892, he expected to find things at sixes and sevens, but he would say this that Canon Jones had kept the accounts uncommonly well— (hear,_ hear)—and they were perfectly free from anything like irregularities. The statement was very fully set out, and was certainly a credit to him. The Commissioner commented on the un- desirablenegs of distributing small sums to a large number of recipients. It would b8 very much better to give £2 to one deserving person than sums, such as 6d, to a large number of people.— The Rev R. H. Evans asked that it should be an instruction to the trustees that the charities should be distributed at other places besides the National Schools, as when they were distributed at the National Schools it looked as if the money came out of the pockets of the trustees.—Canon Jone3 said he had no objection to that, but a majority of the trustees were Nonconformists..—The Rev R. H. Evans asked what was meant by the word "poor." He understood there were some wives receiving charity whose husbands earned about 30s a week.—The Commissioner said the list was submitted to the Parish Meeting, and why not criticise the action of the trustees there? He hoped, however, that the trustees would carry out the intention of the donor. In regard to Edward Morris's charity, the Commissioner said there was no distribution of coal since 1897, and they had had no accounts since then. In 1896, sixty loads of coal were dis¬ tributed among the poor, and he should want the trustees to send him a list of the recipients; other¬ wise he would have to make a special inquiry into that particular charity. The money was about to be transferred to the official Trustee of Charit¬ able Funds, and then there would be a fixed in¬ come for distribution in coal. Canon Jones said when the Local Government Act came into force, which gave the parish power to elect two trustees, they sent the names of the newly-appointed trustees to the Commissioners, who replied stating that they were to be elected as heretofore by the inhabitants of the old ecclesiastical parish of Llanrhaiadr. He should like to ask whether the parish of Llanarmon, which was separated from the old ecclesiastical parish in 1750, was included.—The Commssioner : I should say not. The inquiry shortly afterwards closed, and, on the motion of Canon Jones, seconded by Mr R. Jones, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the Commissioner for his courtesy and patience throughout the inquiry. JUNE 7, 1899. NOTES. WEATHER LORE.—I heard the following the other day for the first time :—" It is going to rain, for the cuckoo stammered last night." VV.A. Y MEDDYG TEULUAIDD (THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN).—This was a Welsh publication issued in 1829 by Evan Davies of Diuas in the Rhondda Valley. It was issued in parts. Three numbers only appeared. Dr Davies was surgeon to the Dinas works, then owned by Mr Coffin, and died of cholera on October 22, 1850, aged 49. This work does not appear to be in the Welsh Library at Cardiff. D. M. R. A CENTENARIAN OF SHROPSHIRE.— The following ia from the obituary of the Worcester Herald of November 10, 1798 :— Saturday, at Hopton Wafers, ia Shropshire, th«