... - - ?? a2 I mfoxDY, Tuhr 21, Mn At a meeting of the 'prepsentatives of the workmen upon.the sliding scale committee, at .-.1 . ?? . ..a - ?? A Pontypridd, on Saturday, it was decidedto four, a new Union for the miners of South c Wales and Monmouthshire, and it was re. tl commended that evidence should ba given by v theworkmen before the, _Royal CoRxion ?? with regard to explosions, &c., n ...

... A deplorable taste is that which leads some people to take a delight in listening to, and gloat. ing over, the discomfiture or misfortune of others. Some little time ago the Press was loud in its denunciation of the custom, which became fashionable even amongst ladies, of attending the various courts in the Metropolis when it was known that disclosures of a peculiarly objection- able kind were ...

... COMMON SENSE OF UNSETTLED QOESTIC No l,-HOME RULE. Indefiniteness is, perhaps, the most serious oi the hindrances to just reasoning in politic? certainly there is no question of the day indefiniteness has done so much harm t Home Rule question. Here, however, the is not wi ll the public it is solely of those who have put it forward as a c, Ireland. Mr Justin McCarthy, the lively picturesque ...

... The fortnightly meeting of this Board was held on Wednesday, when the members present were—Messrs George Martin (in the clair), T. Williams, J. Gabe, T. Lloyd, J. Bryant, J. Price, J. Jenkins, J. Ross, T. Jones, David Price, B. Kirkliouse, R. T. Griffiths and J. Probert. THE PROPOSED BORROWING OF £2,700. The minutes of the former meeting having been read and confirmed, the Clerk informed the ...

... To the Editor ot the SOOTH WALES DAILY NEWS. SiN -The announcement in your columns this morning, that the Executive Committee of the Liberal Association had agreed to submit to the General Committee of 200 the names of Mr E. J. Reed and Mr Samuel Stitt, has been received with almost universal satisfaction at the Docks. While either (,f the gentlemen named would be a credit to any constituency, ...

... THE STAR OF WALES LODGE OF ODDFELLOWS (Manchester Unity), held at the Cambrian Hotel, had a turn out last Saturday, led by Bro. Jenkius, N.G., at Mathry. The procession, miinbeang about 34, marched through Middlemill and Whit- church to the vicarage, where all the brethren were hospitably entertained. A vote of thanks was proposed by the Noble Grand of Mathry, seconded by Bro. Morgan of ...

... NOTICE.—Mr T. J. Hughes, 59, Rickett-street, Pontypridd, is the reporter for this paper for the Pontypridd, Rhondda Valley, and Llantrisant dis- trict, and it is requested that timely notice of forthcoming meetings, &c., be sent to him at the above address. 42583 DROWNING OF A CHILD.—On Saturdav as a bov, 10 years of atre, son of William Wat kins, sinker, residing at Navigation, was plaving ...

... BY ADFYFR. The discassions which have taken place during the last two or three months respecting the pro- posed extended application of the Jesus College, Oxford, endowments, have served at least one ex- celleut purpose—they have shown the strength and depth of the patriotic feeling which still exists in the Principality. The con roversi J frays have often waxed warm, and issues which could ...

... A LIVERPOOL DIVORCE CASE. In the Divorce Division, on Fri iay afternoon. Sir it. J. Phillilwre had before him the Biiit of Stafford v. Stafford, which was the petition of the wife for judicial separation on the grouuu of her husband's infidelity. I he respondent, it will be remembered, was recently tried, and sente-lee I to five years' penal B rvitude for ab-conding from Liverpool with £ 15 ...

... A mysterious tragedy has occurred at Toulouse, Three bodies, that of a man of 40, covered with wounds, that of a woman of 35, and that of a young man of 18 or 20, have been found in the canal. A card found on one body and an initialed handkerchief indicated that the victims were Auguste Combeu, a corn merchant at Beziers, and his wife and son, and it is feared that a child aged seven and the ...

... FOREST OF DEAN. AT LITTLEDEAN POLICE-COURT, on MondaY David Pritchard, a collier, of Nailbridge, wa. charged with having, on the night of the 7th July been on premises at Flaxley for an unlawful^ ur pose. Prisoner was caught by a police officer in a yew iree belonging to a Mr Palmer in which fowls were roosting. Two other men were near. and, on finding that their comrade was captured, they ran ...

... The Bedwellty Agricultural Society, the ope- rations of which embrace the parishes of Bed- wellty, Mynyddislwyn, Bedwas, Llanhilleth, and Aberystruth, in Moumonthshire, Gellygaer, and Llanfabon, in Glamorganshire, will hold their an- nual show at Blackwood, on the 11th September. Mr W. Rees, Llanfabon, is the president, Mr L. Lewis, Glanyravon House, is the vice-president. Mr D. Lewis, ...