(Applause.) The meeting would remember the assistance
rendered in the terrific storm in February. Even the ladies came out and
helped the people in their distress--(loud applause)--thereby setting an
excellent example to the women of Borth. (Cheers.) They had not only
worked as hard as they could, but subscribed money among themselves which
they distributed to the most needy of those who had sustained loss by the
storm. (Applause.) The money then distributed would pass into other
hands in a short time, but the kind feelings the act engendered would
last for ever. (Applause.) He only hoped that each and all connected
with Uppingham School would enjoy long, prosperous, and useful lives.
(Loud applause.)
Mr. JONES, The Baths, expressed the fears he once entertained, in common
with others, that the Uppingham School would take Borth by storm, an
opinion he had to change entirely after the boys had been there a week,
for instead of laughing at the quaintness of some of the Welsh costumes
or the peculiarities of the nation, they had obtained the goodwill of the
inhabitants by their gentleness of demeanour, and completely won their
hearts on that memorable day when masters and scholars, young and old,
turned out to assist in reducing, as much as possible, the ill-effects of
the storm.
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