... OARblPF SCHOOL BOARD. The monthly meeting of this Board was held at the Town Hall,on Monday, Mr John Batchelor in the chair. There were also present Mr L. Williams (vice-chairnjan), the Revs J. Waite and Father Hayde, Messrs T. Rees, J. Cory, and T. Evans. MR EVANS'S EXPLANATION. Prior to the commencement of the business of the meeting, Mr THea. EVANS said that he observed on the agenda paper ...

... THE EXPLOSION A.T YNISFEIO COLLIERY. On Wednesday, at the Treheibert Public-hall, before Mr Thomas WilUams, deputy-coroner, and fourteen jury- men, the inquest was hela upon the bodies of John D. Thomas and David Lodwig, who were killed by an explo- sion which happened at the Ynisfeio Colliery on Monday, the 23rd ult. Mr T. E. Wales was present. The particulars of the catastrophe have already ...

... MISADVENTURE BY A QUACK NEAR LLANELLY. Aa inquest was held on Saturday evening, last, at the Smith's Arms, Penceiliogi, before the district coroner. Mr J. Rowlands, and a jury of which Mr Frith, landlord of the Nortbgate Hotel, was foreman, to investigate the circumstances which surrounded the death of a child fourteen months old, named John Jones, son of Henry Jones, a labourer, of the same ...

... NEWPORT. horse was drowned at the Newport dock, on Thurday. It was yoked to a cart, and when near the dock side it backed the cart into the water. It belonged to a milk-seller, named Greaves. The horse and cart were got out of the water. PRESENTATION TO THE REV. JANSEN DAVIES.—A public meeting was held at the Tabernacle Independent Chapel School-room, on Thursday evening last, at which about ...

... THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT T.. PLYMOUTH. It is now ascertained that of the fifty-two Royal Marines who were on board the lighter which sank in Jtiymouth harbour, ten are missing,and are,without doubt, ~fp'raed% None of the bodies have been recovered, tbe strong tide which waa running at the time having doubt- less carried them out to the Sound. An inquiry was opened at Plymouth yesterday. ...

... FUNERAL OF MR DAVID ROWLANDS. — On Saturday last the mortal remains of this esteemed young man were buried at the Aberdare Cemetery. At Treorky a pro- cession was formed as follows :—The teachers of the Rhondda Valley Association, of which the deceased was a member; the managers of the Treorky United Col- lieries School, followed by the children of the boys, girls, and infant departments, ...

... SIB, I wish Mr Halliday to answer three questions :— 1st. What was your intention when you left Merthyr on Monday ? Was it not to pursuade Aberdare Valley to submit to Lord Aberdare's advice ? Did not you say so at Merthyr before you started for the delegate meeting at Aberdare ? And were they not your words to the dele- gates ? Before you announced the public meeting, was it not the pressure ...

... Sir Charles Lyeli died on Sunday in London, after an illness of several weeks. At the Rotherham Police-court on Monday, 41 colliers were summoned far absenting themselves from work afc the Rotherham and Holmes Colliery. The defence was that the men had tone on strike because the pit wu un- safe and ill-ventilated. It was shewn that the piT was cooler than many in Cornwai), and the majoiity of ...

... THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. The Oxford crew were out for a couple of spins yester- day, and were coached by Mr Darbyshire. The rowing gavejgeneral satisfaction. Toe Cambridge eight took n row to lock journey under the superintendency of Mr Goldie. Another change in the crew, it is said, is not unlikely. ...

... TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE AT ABERDARE. A conference and public meeting was held at the Tem- perance Hall, Aberdare, on Wednesday, under the auspices of the South Wales Permissive and Prohibitory Association and United Kingdom Alliance. The Rev. T. Hutton, M.A., rector of Stilton, attended on behalf of the Alliance, and the Revs. Thos. Johns, Llanelly, D. Icoung, and Thos. Rees, Merthyr, on behalf ...

... A KNOTTY POINT. A case, involving the question of the right of magis- trates to exclude attorneys from practising in police- courts, has just occurred at Millom. West Cumberland. In consequence of some language used by Mr Clarke, a solicitor of Lancaster, the Millom bench, which in- cludes Lord Muncaster, passed a resolution disallowing him to plead in their court until be apologised. The ...

... DR. KENEALY. Mr Bradlaugh has written the following letter to the editor of the Newcastle Chronicle:—Sir,—Hearing that Dr Kenealy has been invited to attend the Northumberland miners' fete, I beg to state that I refuse to be on the same platform with him—I am, &c., CHARLES BUADLAOGH. London, May 22, 1875. Dr Kenealy writes the following letter to the Times Sir I should have hardly supposed ...