Western Mail Saturday April 24th 1926. WELSH MINERS & CANADA. Reported Immigration Scheme.-  OTTAWA, Friday. In the Dominion House of Commons to-day Mr. WORDSWORTH, (Labour) called the attention of the Government to a report published in a British periodical stating that it was intended to send 10,000 Welsh miners to Canada under a five-years wage agreement to develop Canadian mines. Mr. STEWART, the Minister for Immigration, replied that this was the first intimation he had received of any such scheme.- Reuter. There were heated passages between a Newport man and his father-in-law during  the hearing of an application for a seperation order at Newport on Friday. The applicant was Mrs. Ellen Mary BRAGG, Dewston-street. Her husband was said to be living at Southall, Middlesex. Mrs. BRAGG stated that she had visited her husband at Southall, but he refused to make a home for her. During the hearing of the evidence, the applicant's father, Arthur SPARKES, interupted frequently, and Mr. DAUNCEY (for the defendant) protested to the bench. The defendant declared that his wife's temper was the cause of the trouble. Under cross-examination he showed heat, and SPARKES interjected the remark, "Now you are showing yourself in your true colours." A wordy battle between the two ensued, in the course of which challenges to fight were given and taken up. Eventually the father left the court. The Bench granted a separation order, with maintenance at 30s. a week. The death is announced in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Major Alfred Lester LEWIS, formerly of the Ynysfeio Colliery, Treherbert. The fourth son of the late Mr. Thomas LEWIS, merchant of Abersychan, he was educated at Fulland's School, Taunton, and completed his studies as mineralogist and analytical chemist at the Kensington Laboratory and School of Mines. He afterwards joined his brother, the late Mr. Henry LEWIS, in the management of the Ynysfeio Colliery, and under their supervision the mine was largely developed. Major LEWIS married the daughter of the late Dr. EVANS, of Treherbert, who died 26 years ago, a year after her husband migrated to South Africa. Mr. LEWIS was an enthusiastic Volunteer whilst at Treherbert and held the rank of major. He leaves one son, Mr. Leonard LEWIS, of the Welsh Navigational Colliery Company, Cardiff. Mr. Isaac COHEN, house decorator, of 35, Dunraven-street, Ton Pentre, who has been in business in the Rhondda for many years, died on Thursday. Mr. COHEN, who was 56 years of age, leaves a widow and two daughters. After ailing for some time Mr. Robert WYNDHAM, of Pen-y-Bryn, Abercynon, died on Friday. He came to Abercynon from Dowlais and was employed as foreman of the smith department for some years. He was a gifted elocutionist. He is survived by a widow and son (Mr. W.N. WYNDHAM, head teacher, Abercynon). A moment after Harold SWALLOW, of 95, Cowbridge-road, Bridgend and a little girl living at the same address, had left for school on their bicycles on Friday, they were knocked down by a motor-van. The girl escaped with abraisons of the face and hands, but the boy was more seriously injured. Considerable space is devoted in the current"Drych" (the Welsh Weekly of America) to views upon the appeal recently put forth by the Welsh Natioinalist Party for support from American Welshmen. The Rev. H.O. ROWLANDS, D.D., Oak Park, Illinois, and the Rev. Morriston THOMAS, D.D., Chicago, each have an article in praise of the movement. John Patrick