... WORKHOUSE MASTER WANTED. nVfOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Guardians J3I of the Cardiff Union will, at their Meeting to be held on the 22nd January, 1870, proceed to ELECT a MASTER for the WORKHOUSE. Salary, £ 67 10s. per Annum, with the usual rations (including Beer), Furnished Apartments in the Work- house, and Washing. Candidates must be Single Men, or Widowers without encumbrance, and ...

... ABERDARE MARKET AND SLAUGHTER- HOUSES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Thirty- 11 fourth HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEET- ING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the Aberdare Market Company will be held at the Directors' Room, in the Market House, on THURSDAY, the 13th day of January, 1870, at Twelve o'clock at noon. By order, THOMAS EVANS, Secretary. Aberdare, Dec. 28, 1869. [4644 ...

... PRINCE .ALFRED'S VISIT TO CHINV —The China papers state that the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Hong Kong was marked by a number of amuse- ments, among which was a cricket match between eleven of the United Service and eleven of the Hong Kong Cricket Club, in which the latter were worsted. A match at bowls was also played between the Duke and the officers of the Galatea and the Hong Kong ...

... (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, THTTRSDAY. An English summer is said to consist of three fine dayh and a thunderstorm. An English winter may be defined as three days' frost and a gale. We have had real winter weather in London since Christmas Day, though the cold has not been nearly so severe as in the Eastern counties, or even in generally mild Devon and Cornwall. Our snow-fall, too ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY. (Before Mr. R. 0. JoNES and Mr. W. ALEXANDER.) NIGHT CHARGES.—William Harris was charged with being drunk last night in Edward-termce, where it appeared that he was very hilarious under the vinous inHuences of the festive season. When asked if he was guilty, the defendant said that he believed so. Discharged with a caution.—Jane Biown, charged with a ...

... -'FRIDAY, DEC. 31. fahristmee , wih it .,happy associations and reunicsoI' has come and gone, Long wyas its festival Cui~p t -?h a bow tmansient piovea %hraitbj dhow'sooh, ý'P. te IL wt5u 6a Wbii 6 sdji'M bi:eathdd arnd the me su'she oo olr remoriee newed? tan that 1einecrablo ec ?? farewell h0 to be* ruing. ?8P e Passing on to district go?sip, I may 10'ntiou that the me ,e Wednesday of ...

... FRESH DISCOVERIES AT FOM?EII. of neaw ,te A correspondent, writing to the Athenaeum, under date Mr. ai. December 18, says :-b Op Artistic and antiquarian news is brought up to me from Gre n Naples by our southern winds. It is not much, but will in- wee no terest your readers who may have visited Pompeii. Only grer & i fortnight has eolapsed sines I reported important die- men ks coveries that ...

... The monthly meeting of the board was held yesterday. 0 The Mayor presided. Aldermen Pride, Reece, Alexander, and Bird, and Co'dncillors Nortli, Bird, Lewis, Evans, Flint, M'Connochie, 1di,-en, 'Jones, and Elliott were-also present. The minutes were read and. confirmed. CO LLECTORS' STATEMiENTS. The collector for St. John's repoided that the amount col- eacted to the end of November was £1,265 ...

... CHURCH APFOINTMENT.—We are glad to learn that the Rev. Edward Jones, of All Saints, Cardiff, has been appointed to the living of Bedwellty, in the room of the Rev. J. R. Morgan, deceased. This appointment will give universal satisfaction, as Mr. Jones is an effective and energetic clergyman. ...

... A VILLAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.-The village of Sardon, in France, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. The inhabitants are in the greatest misery. THE SUEZ CANAL FETES.-It is estimated that the ftte8 at the opening of the Suez Canal have cost the Khedive £ 1,320,000. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—On Tuesday as the Rev. Mr. Bicknell, vicar of Salhouse, Norfolk, was composing a sermon, he ...

... t-ATEST INTEILLIGEN?CE ROUMANIA. T1 BUCHAREST, Dm. 30. M. Zulanfauscl'ial, diplomatic agent, h an- nounced to the Government of Prince Charles tue that Austria has proposed to the Porte the recog- th nition of the title - umilnim Prineipalities. Ji In the Ronumnian Chambers an exciting debate W ,rose on the ?? in reference to the oti Jewish quest'o, and the Goveinuient declined of to adopt ...

... Politic* in Texas make more additions to the lan- f roage. The papers there talk of White Cameiias, Black Cameiias, and Burnt Cork. For example, the Gftoeston Bulletin says:— To be a White Camelia, tike Fulton, is bad enough to be a very white one, -fca w Wheeler, is worse. But to be a very white one, attratted all over with the burnt cork of the Royal League, is simply intolerable. A Vienna ...