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

John Patrick's last contribution mentioned the Rev. B. Ceitho Davies, who obviously got a write-up in the Welsh press when he got home. So I thought I'd check the Australian press, and, he got a mention there too! The Brisbane Courier, Monday 27 December 1926: "AUSTRALIA'S CURSE. CRAVING FOR SPORT. LONDON, December 24 "The Rev. Ceitho Davies has returned from a sojourn of three years in Australia for health reasons. He says that the churches in Australia are almost entirely governed by women, very few men participating in religious work. The country's curse is the craving for sport and horse racing mania, but there is little drunkenness. He is convinced that there is a tremendous future for Australia." Well, he was right on some points! Hwyl David Canberra On 10/05/2011, at 6:20, J GRIFFITHS wrote: > WESTERN MAIL TUESDAY DECEMBER 14. 1926. No. 329. > > > > 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. ... > John Patrick > > ================================