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... TTIR REASONS. FOR the last fortnight they have be^n h raided forth by a hired penry trumpet. Bus} hands have been at -»rork. Brains teeming.with. thoughts too liiuj forutt-er.mce have bceu'taxir their utmost mgonuitj The fabled mountaiv. has been illlitoour, finilo it has brought forth a very little hing, ° The first reason is no reason ai all but a common place statement with two or tfe; ...

... [corr.J Resolved—That Mr Saunders, Mr Crawshaw, Mr Hallam, 11 Mr Stanley and Mr Holmes be appointed a School Com- mittee for the ensuing year. With these facts before you, you are at liberty to contradict, re-affirm, explain away, or repudiate the following paragraph, as may best serve the interests of your paper. Mr. Stanley shewed last week that he knew nothing about Education Acts, when he ...

... ALETHOGRAPHIC SHORTHAND. To the Editor of the RHYL ADVERTISER. Mr EDITOR,—As this subject has awakened a general interest in consequence of the discussions carried on in various newspapers during the last nine months, perhaps you will be kind enough to allow me a little space for the first time to lay before your numerous readers some general facts in connection with this useful science. The ...

... REPORTED WRECK.—About 8 p.m. on Tuesday last a vessel was obeerved to be ashore off Plastirion, about 300 yards of the wreck Raven, in a very dangerous position. About 10 o'clock the Rhyl life- boat was launched and proceeded to the scene, when it was found to be the screw-boat Glenokum, from Belfast to Liverpool, Capt. Harris, loaded with iron ore. The wind at the time was blowing from the ...

... PLAYING WITH FIGURES. We have been requested to publish the following letter which has been sent to our Tory Contemporary. ...

... To the Editor of the Rhyl Journal. SIR,-Your correspondent Elian accuses me of uttering an assertion averse to truth, by stating that the School Fees at Llanelian and Llysfaen National Sshools were 3d. per week for all the children. I did not say so. What I did say was, they were asked to contribute as high as 3d. per week. I ought to have said 4d. per week. I did not know what they were ...

... main adopted. A rate of 5d. in the pound is made to produce £ 830. This gives £ 166 for every penny. We only claim £160. Now it is idle to make these random, rhapsod- ical statements. The Education Department stated, less than nine months ago, Il1 a letter, c°Py of which we have before that the ac- commodation. in the Rhyl District was about 120 in excess of the census rf 1871. Quite lately ...

... ST. ASAPH. PETTY SESSIONS.—December 26th, before Major Birch, and G. A. Cayley, Esq. P.C. James Griffith, Bodfary, charged William Jones, alias Slanger, of Denbigh, labourer, who had escaped from Ruthi n gaol some time ago, with committing an offence under the Poaching Prevention Act.-P. C. James Griffiths, sworn, said he found prisoner near the rail- way station at Bodfary, and found upon ...

... RHYL PETTY SESSIONS. MONDAY, Dec., 30th.—Before T. G. Dixon, Esq., (chairman), Major Conwy, Rev. Dr. Butterton, and W. P. Jones, Esq. The court was very small, hardly any buisness to dispose of, there being only one or two drunken cases. A SOLICITOR MAKING USE OF HIS TIME. Edward Williams, bricklayer, Wellington Road, Rhyl, was summoned at the instance of Mr E. H. Edwards, solicitor, with ...

... RHYL. SATURDAY EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS.—Last Satur- day another of these delightful and mtertesting enter- tainments was held at the Town Hall, when our worthy Chairman of Commissioners (Mr Rhydwen Jones) again presided, apdto whomin a great measure, the success of these meetings are due. The programme on this occasion wasan excellent one, in which the following took pg-t :-David Owen and party ...

... MR J. M. STANLEY, V. A SCHOOL BOARD To the Editor of the RHYL ADVERTISER. SIR, -What a pity-Mr. Stanley has gone from bad to worse: he has forsaken the diction of Billings- gate and now uses the slang of the Jingoes and the refinement of Blackguardism, and publishes his abuse in the only journal which would admit it to ornament its columns I have nothing to do with his quarrels with The ...