WESTERN MAIL TUESDAY DECEMBER 14. 1926. No. 329.
WELSH LADIES HOCKEY TEAM TO PLAY SOUTH AFRICA.
The following team has been selected to represent Wales in the ladies hockey
match against South Africa in January.
Miss GOODE (Glamorgan), Miss M. ORSMAN (Glamorgan), and Miss GOODWIN
(Flintshire); Miss G. WILLIAMS (Glamorgan), Miss LOCKLEY (Glamorgan), and Miss
M.JAMES (Glamorgan); Miss C. DAVIES (Monmouth), Miss LUDLOW (Glamorgan), Miss E.
HARRIS (Carnarvon), Miss N. DAVIES (Carnarvon), and Miss E. FOULKES-ROBERTS
(Denbighshire).
GIRL LODGERS' THEFT-Dress And Jumper From House At Newport.
Elizabeth REED (19) of Pontypridd and Betty JENKINS (21), two neatly-dressed
girls, pleaded guilty at Newport on Monday to theft of a dress, a silk jumper,
and other articles of wearing apparel belonging to Kathleen AHEARN, of
Dock-street, Newport.
It was stated that the two girls had surrended themselves at Cardiff when they
heard there were warrants out for their arrest. They had lodged with AHEARN.
They were each fined 10s.
MADE HIMSELF AT HOME.-Pontypool Man Enters A House Uninvited.
An amazing case came before the Newport Police-court on Monday when James
SWEENEY, of Pontypool, was charged with drunkeness in Bream-place, Newport last
Saturday.
It was stated that SWEENEY was helplessly drunk. He walked into a house and
sat by the fire. The woman occupier of the house was not at home, and a
policeman removed the man before she returned. She told the constable that she
would have been "frightened to death" had she found the man there.
Defendant was released on payment of costs.
TWO MEN KILLED-Tragedy Of Pit Fall At Bryncoch.
John PHILLIPS, 6, Rosser's-row, Neath Abbey, a married man, aged 52, with four
children, a colliery repairer, and William WHITE, 14, Cecil-street, Neath, a
married man, aged 38, a labourer, were killed at the New Wernddu Colliery,
Bryncoch, near Neath, about 8.30 on Monday night, through a heavy fall of roof
about eight tons in weight.
The men were completely buried and it took two-and-a-half hours to get them
out.
They were then dead, the injuries being broken legs and fractured skulls.
It appears that ten men, who were working at the level, had gone outside for
food, and these two men and a boy returned before the rest, and the fall caught
them about 200 yards from the opening of the level.
The boy saw the fall and ran back to inform the others that the men had been
buried.
Dr. STEPHENS, of Neath, was in attendance.
RECENT WILLS.
REV. DAVID PHILLIPS, RADYR.
The Rev. David PHILLIPS, M.A., of The Rectory, Radyr, who died on October 24,
aged 71 years, left estate of the gross value of £5,630, with net personalty
£5,131. Probate of the will has been granted to his sons, Mr. John Leoline
PHILLIPS, of Christ College, Brecon, and Mr. David Rupert PHILLIPS, of Greenway,
Radyr, coal exporter, the surviving executors. His wife having died in his
lifetime, testator left specific bequests to his children and grandchildren, and
the residue of the property to his sons John Leoline, David Rupert, and Morgan
Hector, or their children, in equal shares.
MR. S. J. KING, NEWPORT.
Mr. Samuel James KING, of King's Lynn, 148, Caerleon-road, Newport, for many
years chief collector and assessor of income-tax at Newport, who died on
November 7, aged 69 years, left estate of the gross value of £506, with net
personalty £284. Probate of the will has been granted to Mr. Vernon William
WOODCOCK, of 30, Rugby-road, Newport, clerk.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth ROBERTS, of The White Bear, Mancott, Hawarden, Flintshire,
who died on September 12, a widow, left estate of the gross value of £5,720,
with net personalty £5,334.
WELSHMEN OVERSEAS.-Rev.Ceitho DAVIES Back From Australia.
The Rev. B. Ceitho DAVIES, who has been on a health trip to Australia, has
arrived at Tilbury. He has travelled 40,000 since leaving Wales three years ago.
Interviewed by a Western Mail correspondent, the Rev. B. Ceitho DAVIES said it
was a pleasure to him to be able to take part in the great reception accorded
his fellow-countrymen during their visits to Australia, notably Mr. T. J. REES,
conductor of the famous Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Silver Band, who adjudicated at the
Queensland band contests; Sir William DAVIES and Lady DAVIES, members of the
Imperial Press Delegation, and Dr. J. T. WILLIAMS, M.P., a member of the British
Parliamentary Deputation.
Cymric clans gave these friends a good time everywhere. There were very
flourishing Cambrian societies at Melbourne, Ballarat, and Sebastopol
(Victoria), Perth (Western Australia), and Brisbane and Blackstone (Queensland).
On St. David's Day the Rev. Ceitho DAVIES was honoured by being the guest of
the Victoria and Melbourne Welsh Society, when he addressed a gathering of 2,000
Welshmen on "The Mission of Wales"; and again last year he attended the Brisbane
Welsh Society's celebrations at the Albert Hall, and his address on "Why is the
Welsh Nation United?" was broadcast throughout Australia by the Queensland Radio
Service. A membership of 500 can be claimed by the Blackstone Wales Society, of
which Mr. R. H. LEWIS, a native of Dinas, Rhondda Valley, is the president.
The Welsh people of Australia greatly appreciated the kind greetings sent them
by the Gorsedd of the National Eisteddfod of Wales of which he was bearer.
John Patrick