... To-day is Infirmary Saturday, and the Committee which has for several weeks actively pressed its labour of love, at ends the Cardiff Town Hall to receive the subscriptions which have been made by the working men of this locality. The Infirmary Saturday move- ment is supported mainly by the working classes, and the hearty manner in whieh theynsually respond to this annual call upon their ...

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... THE FREE LIBRARY QUESTION AT CARDIFF. The Free Library quetiun, as it lias familiarly been termed in Cardiff, for several years past, is now being soh-ed in a practical manner. Frequent complaints have been made as to the inadequacy of the building known as the Free Library, St. Mary Street. The several rooms at this institution have been overcroAvtlecl, and the fact that the Christian Young ...

... alib etterirfj. Ladies will appreciate the railway facilitios between Cardiff and Penartli all the more wher the passenger guards put out the smokers, or deruand that the smokers put out their pipes. This is not a chivalrous age, and it is desirable that the guards should be up and at 'em, I mean the smoker's in ordinary carriages. The battle will begin, but, let us hope, not end in smoke. I ...

... 51 Voirr from tlir Dorks., 1—— I It it popularly believed that the pnots have shown themselves to be better masters of the situation, in regard to the Pilotage Board election, than the ship- owners. The former selected two candidates, viz., Messrs. W. Richards and Tamplin, who will be elected in the ordinary course, but the shipowners who were the very parties to agitate for the alteration in ...

... H3u:tf)S, iflatnatjes, antf HBeatijs. No announcement will be inserted under this heading unless authenticated by the name and address of the sender, and accompanied by a remittance for J s. for 25 words or less, and od. for each additional words. BIRTHS. IIOL-,IES.-On the 28th ult., at 6, East terrace, Cardiff, the wife of Mr. Albert Holme, Compositor, of a son WALTEKS. — On the both ult., ...

... [special Mr. R. Griffin, of the statistical and commercial de- partment, Board of Trade, states in his preface to tho Agricultural Return-, of Great Britain, 1880, That the area returns as under cultivation has increased bv 126,000 acres since 1879, and the total increase in the ten years since lSGO is no less than 1,094,000 acres, or a greater area than the whole of Devonshire. Of this ...

... Horal fletos. GALLANT RESCUE BY A POOR MAN.— On Sunday after- noon, a gallant rescue of a drowning lad was affected at Cardiff on Sunday, by a seaman named Henry George Dunstan, of Newport. About half-past two o'clock in the afternoon Dunstan, who had come to Cardiff in search of a ship, was sitting on the canal bank, when he heard a splash in the water, and looking in the direction he ...

... THE CARDIFF BOROUGH AlDIS. y PAPER BY MR. PETER PRICE. At the last meeting of the Cardiff Naturalist's Society, held under the chairmanship of Mr. Hey wood, C.E., Mr. Peter Price read a very interesting paper on the Borough Arms. He said :-Thero was a remarkable history connected with the subject. The arms were tm- blazoned on the front of the Town-hall gallery, and to those he would draw the ...

... THE IRISH QUESTION. The condition of Ireland is most unsatisfactory, and the necessity for the adoption of reformatory measures cannot be denied. Once more agitation is going on in a manner which proves that dis- affection is ripe to an extraordinary extent, and the prospect before the sister island during the Avinter is by no means of a pleasant nature. Landlord shooting has come to be quite ...

... T MR. HEMINGWAY AND THE CARDIFF FIRE BRIGADE. The Fireman this week gives a portrait of Mr. Walter L. Hemingway, head constable of Cardiff and Chief of the local Fire Brigade, and says Mr.Hemingway commenced his police career in Liverpool, in the year 1859, under Major Geig, C.B., the present respected head constable of that city. He served as a fireman in the Police Fire Brigade. In 1862, Mr. ...

... paper, to otter ilt (lie out to I an excuse fur of iis appearance, as it only too frequently happens that they arc neecssaiily conscious oi the fact that their undertaking is simply a, commercial speculation, or a party venture. Rut on the present occasion there is, as vre respectfully sub- mit, no apology needed. The South Wain Echo has been called into existence by a general ex- pression of ...