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Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth Local Board Bill. Legal matters. D. A. Thomas wishes D. Lloyd George to go to Merthyr on Saturday. The Tithe Bill is to be debated that evening; '... That is my game - obstruction'. The Bishop of Llandaff is in the Commons.
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth foreshore question; has seen Stafford Howard that day. Outlines the steps he has taken and the progress made.
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth case. The victory of the Porthmadoc people; 'M: & I are quite hungering for all the details. Tell Uncle that I am very anxious to hear more all about it'. Is to speak that evening on the Local Government Board Vote. 'Welsh M.P.s given up the game. Surrendered altogether. Poor creatures are they not. They haven't the courage of even such poor convictions as they possess'.
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth case; saw T. W. Russell that day. 'Pubus is the obstacle'. 'Brot Home Rule all Round before the Radical Comee. today. Dillon & Labby [Labouchere] very favourable ... Morley wants me to speak for him'.
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth case. Presented, with Bryn Roberts, the memorial to the Lord Chancellor today. Tom Ellis and William Jones agreed to sign.
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth case. Legal matters,
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth case; has placed the case before T. W. Bursell at the Devonshire Club. Had a conference with him and Tom Ellis that day. Is to see Stafford Howard the next day about Woods and Forests. Family news.
Written at House of Commons. The Barmouth case. Has been in conference with Beriah Gwynfe Evans, Herbert Lewis and Alfred Thomas. Has received a promise from the Board of Trade on Barmouth. The election of the Speaker is in progress. 'Very exciting debate. Harcourt simply sat upon Balfour'.
Written at House of Commons. The Baptist World Congress meeting was great,
Written at House of Commons. The attack of the Obrienites that day very mild. Is skimming along. Relates a story told him by Sir Mark Sykes, MP for Hull.
Written at House of Commons. The assistance given by Jonathan and Rieland Davies at the election. William George should not write the following week unless it is essential.
Written at House of Commons. The Ashton case,
Written at House of Commons. The Ashton case. Is determined to go to Bangor although 'the bulk of the leading Liberals are strongly opposed to a meeting at this juncture & they entreat me not to go. Ond ni wrandawaf'. Outlines his reasons for his determination to go. 'If the Association still deprecate meetings I resign my candidature as I cannot hope to succeed if I am shut up'.
Written at House of Commons. The arrangements for the Caernarvon demonstration: 'It is of pressing importance that it should be larger than the church gathering'. Could William George communicate with Brynsiencyn?.
Written at House of Commons. The appointment of trustees. Lewis Jones and his wife have been to tea; Nanney is pressing on him to come out - 'That must be stopped somehow'. Rumours of a dissolution in the spring.
Written at House of Commons. The 'appalling news from Muriau. ... An old & feeble man like poor Mr Watkin ought never to have thrown himself into work which involved violent excitement. And one knows how thoroughly excitable he was'. Cannot attend the funeral. Was sought out by the Speaker's Counsel that day. His speech in that day's Western Mail and South Wales Daily News.
Written at House of Commons. The amendment he proposed. The debate in the House. A suggestion as to the dissolution of Parliament.
Written at House of Commons. The aftermath of the Education Bill. 'Rhaid ymladd yr Arglwyddi. I have always foreseen that - said so in Liverpool beginning of the year'. Has secured his Welsh Department for the Board of Education, and has sent for Henry Jones to see if he is interested in the post. Leaves for Biarritz on Saturday.
Written at House of Commons. The adjournement of the House and his army estimates. Proposes another trip to Genoa in August.
Written at House of Commons. The account of the St Albans meeting is 'a gross exaggeration. I wasn't hit at all. I never knew about the eggs until I read of it this morning in the papers'. Describes proceedings in the Commons: 'Balfour is really unwell - not dangerously - but generally bad & would not be sorry of a break-up in his absence. Anything may happen'.