... CHRISTMAS BEER AT THE WORKHOUSE. TO-MORROW the Guardians of the Merthyr Union will be called upon to make arrange- ments for the Yuletide festivities at the Workhouse, to decide the momentous question as to whether the special annual Christmas feed shall ...

... SAD FATALITY AT THE WORK- HOUSE. CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. A very painful accident occured at the Union Workhouse on Wednesday evening last. It appears that a little girl four years of age, named Mary Jane Keith, was deserted by its mother two years ago, ...

... THE NEW WORKHOUSE INFIR- MARY AT MERTHYR. Working Men and the Guardlaiu. Deputation to the Board. At a recent meeting of the Merthyr Board of Guardians the tender of Messrs. Thomas Watkins and Co., of Swansea, was accepted for the New Workhouse Infirmary ...

... Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, on Monday, a young inmate of the Stourbridge Workhouse named Priscilla Bache was sent for trial on a charge of attempting to set are to the workhouse. It is alleged she placed shovels of lighted coals and a quantity of lamp ...

... majority. next matter was the question of Indies visiting the workhouse.—-The Board bad passed a resolugion in December allowing some ladies from Tredegar liberty to visit the workhouse once a week.— Mr. Allan now proposed that the resclution be rescinded ...

... and subsequently became an inmate of the Kensington workhouse, whence she was transferred to the Staines workhouse. Defendant said he was not iwarc ul1'i! four days ago that his wife was in ) workhouse, He had looked after her in every pos- sible way, and ...

... A MERTHYR CENTENARIAN. There lies in the Merthyr Workhouse an aged bed- ridden inmate named Martha. Lewis. Mrs. Lewis, who is in her 105th year, having been bwn in Septem- ber, 1791, is a Carmarthenshire woman, her parents, John and Ann Davies, being ...

... inentlier of the Board of Guardians, has kindly undertaken to twos ide an entertainment for the children of the Merthyr Workhouse on New Year'• Day. ...

... F. T. James (clerk). THE OFFICIALS AND THEIR CHAMPION. Mr. T. Pylo advocated the grant of an extension of an hour to the workhouse officials. such evenings as they were off duty for two or three months during the summer. He con- sidered it hard lines to ...

... GELLIGAER AND lUIIOOS RURAL COUNCIL. A meeting of the above Council was held at the Boardroom of the Workhouse on Saturday. Mr. M. Truran, J.P., presided.—On the motion of Mr. William Davies, it was agreed that the meeting of the Council be held alternately ...

... Ithytuney. Printed Forms of Tender may be had at my office, or of the Master of the Workhouse ; and Samples of such articles a, admit of it must be forwarded to the Workhouse by Ten o'clock in the Morning of the 17th of December instant, and no 'render will ...

... some other means of subsistence, and it was decided to stop Rich's pay. A NEW USE FOR THE WORKHOUSE. A young looking man whose wife had been taken into the workhouse, as she was suffering from a chest affection, also one of his {children, offered to contribute ...