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THE CHURCH GUILD AT MERTHYR

... I my: ' OIIURVH GUILD AT MXERTHYR In tho Hlgh.stroee of Merthyr, hiding itselW partly away from view under the shadow of St. David's Ohlrch, ae ?? schools, wherein evere genertions of lads and lasses have bean trained, but which now, by the inexorable law of necessity, go into the hands of the School Boad. Cloe by -the sohools again in a small house, or.. ?? intended by the primitive ideamenof ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

General News

... 03flural qefm Another snowstorm has passed over Scotland and seriously impeded traffic upon the railways. The definitive treaty between russia nd Turkey has been ratified by the Sultan. A Constantinople telegram contradicts the rumour that the plague has broken out at Eskidje and Senikhova. Severae cases of spottod typhus have occurred at Dunse' Parish Church was completely destroyed by fire ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3739 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: News 

Local Intelligence

... , , I a IcIU exe. ..I .. . ?? l f l ,~ , ROYAL INSTIToTeOe.'-Oig Saturday,- at 4three o'clock, Tlbomnas Hairison, Esq., ?? of. the.Post Office Telegraphs,, will lecture on Sir Charles Wheatstone as an electrician (with experiments). Mr. Robert Carriok, of Hedoss, who passed-his final examination at the Incorporated Law Society's Hall in November last, was on Saturday last admitted a solicitor ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4278 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

THE CONVICT PEACE

... THE ALLEGED CONFESSION OF MURDER. Excitement prevails in Manchester concerning the alleged confession by Peace of having murdered Police-constable Cock. Habron.who was sentenced to penal servitude, resolutely denied all knowledge of the crime. The county police are instituting searching enquiries. The Central News special reporter, Leeds, referring to the above, telegraphs that no such letter ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY

... The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT. Mr HIBBERT gave notice that he would call attention to the working of the Married Women's Property Act, and move a resolution. THE PERSIAN ARMY. Mr OSLvW gave notice of a question with respect to the employment of Russian officers in drilling and organising the Persian army. THE TREATY OF PRAGUE. Mr COWEN gave notice ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2387 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ABERDARE

... VXSTRY MEETING.—On Thursday morning, a numerously-attended meeting of parishioners was held at the Old Church, the Rev. J. W. Wynne Jones, vicar, presiding. The meeting had been convened for the purpose of electing three mem- bers of the burial board, in the place of the Rev. J. W. Wynne Jones, Mr J. Johns, and the Rev. D. Price, deceased, the members whose term of office expires this year.—It ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GEXEROVS GIFTS TO LLAKELL Y

... Mr W. Thomas, of Wellfield House, New-road, Llanelly, has presented the trustees of the above cemetery with a cheque for 1'213 12s 4d, which clears the debt incurred in the purchase and lay- ing out of the land. The.cemetery, which is about seven acres in extent, was purchased by the Non- conformists of Llaneily, a chapel and house being built at the entrance. The whole work cost £1,500, and ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE PROPOSED MINERS' EMIGRATION SCHEME

... To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS. Siit,-In your valuable publication of the 18th is a communication signed W. Abraham, relating to a certain Texan emigration scheme. Now I have not the slightest doubt on my mind but that Mr Abraham is perfectly disinterested, and that his intentions are quite honourable, but is he per- fectly satisfied in his own mind that the scheme he ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NOTES

... THE PBOPOSED RAILWAY STATION AT YNYSOWEN. THE intelligence which reached the Merthyr Board of Health last Wednesday, that the Taff Vale Railway Directors would reconsider the Board's suggestion for the erection of a railway station at Ynysowen, formed a pleasant surprise. The Taff Vale Company have rarely, if ever, shown a want of sympathy with public wants, and their secretary, Mr Marwood, ...

THOMAS

... J. M . B EGS respectfully to inform the inhabitants of Carmarthen and Neighbourhood that he has RE-OPENED THE ABOVE ESTABLISHMENT ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Carmarthen Weekly Reporter
County: Carmarthenshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 22 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

1•LI OP

... VALUABLE FREEHOLD PREIIIBEB. NIR. DAVID THOMAS is inetrueted to offer for See by Public Auction, at the half Moon hotel, Carmarthen, on Monday, the 24th day of February Instant at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, AR those FOUR FREEHOLD HOUSES AND PREMISES, in the occupation of Mrs. Mary Jones and others, being Numbers 8,8, 10 and 11, Mill-street, Carmarthen. The Premises, which are at present let ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Carmarthen Weekly Reporter
County: Carmarthenshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

YORKSHIRE JOINT TARIFF COMMITTEE

... y0opKSH'IlE JOINT TARIIFF COMMITTEE. I A ume'tidn of tie Joint Tariff Committee of tie York- ' a - tremaiw),rs ot Commer!e wvas i,eld in tie roorms of thie r ?? C; ( ani/ er, iii th- Exceange, yestcrdtiy. rJ. c .rr~Ni'(Preselout) oltdie coat:, tnt WAs eiippl~rted ut if. Bitchelltra tor i; !iessrs. E. Wadsiworth, I Law. and John Giil, Cleckheaton; Mr. W. LIX -es .L s Mesiri. Somi.tI h Hr , try ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News