... HOylE RULE FOR WALES. To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEws. SIB,—I agree with Taffy who writes in your issue of to-day, that a Welsh party is wanted in the House of Commons, and that Welsh members would do well to meet and see what measure could be adopted to drive the Government into giving us justice. Which is to suffer ? the dignity of Parliament, or the most important interests of ...

... CARDIFF. SnND MEMORIAL FOND.—We wish to ell at- tention to the&han l Memorial Fund to pay otf the mortgage of which over £ 400 have been eol- fee ted. It is urgently requested that those who Can will at once contribute, an the entire sum of has to be paid off on Thursday. TROTTING MATCH.—A trotting match took place on Tuesday for a-side, between Mr Wiltshire's mare, Kitty, an' Mr Richard ...

... rONTYPBIDD, MONDAY. The engine which rolled down the embankment on Saturday was raised six feet to-day from the side of the embankment, and it is anticipated that the whole work will be completed by to-morrow night. The trains run over the rails through to Cowbridge to-d iy all right. The persons shaken and contused by the concussion continue to pro- gress well. Miss Daniels had not, however, ...

... GREAT PERU, AT SEA. About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon five boys belonging to Swansea engaged a boat and went out for a row. About five o'clock, when the sea. was very t'seen to be in distress, when sev n ftad a boy volunteered to go to their rescue, „ ^^n Edwards, John Cornelius, Thomas Thomas, John Banks, Alfred Teesdale, George George, Jem Davies, David Davies, and Thomas Richards, ...

... I9PEC1AL TELEGRAMS FROM LLOTD'S AFIENTS. I The steamer W R Rickett-, of ^Cardiff, from C'ronata-.it, with rye, went aM.ore at Ossley Island, near Calmar, and is full of water. Efforts wIll be made to save the cargo. The vessel sunk off the North Foreland is re- po.ted to be Burry, of Llanelly. iNo account of the ci ew. Tile Lauche-ter s, of Sunderland left that har- bour at 1 .m August 15, ...

... THE RADNOR BOHOUGHS. Captain Cecil Ot .vay, of T. e Grove, Presteigne, Radnor, has issutd his address to the electors of the Radnor Boroughs as a Liberal-Conservative. ...

... LOCAI, IIOUIDATIONS. [FROM FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.] James Rogers, of Newport, Mou., earthenware dealer. Sydney Meaker, of Aherca ue, builder. Dav'd Jenkins, of Maesteg, Glamorgan, green- grocer. Ci^anes Thimas, Fox and Hounds, Wat ton, Brecon, innkeeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Shaw, J. Spence, and J. Dixon, at Cwmavon, Glamorgan, iron n anufacturers -and colliery owners, under the style ...

... INTERNATIONAL LAW CONFER- ENCE. Before the ordinary afternoon business of the International Law Conference was resumed, the following report of the committee on weights and measures W; iead :—The committee unanlmousy favoured tLe introduction of the cental, of 1001b, in the United States and the United Kingdom and having reg- to the extended use of the metric system of weights and measures, ...

... THE LIZARD, Friday.—Wind and weather— calm and fiue to S, moderate, and rain. Baro- meter, 29'7. Passed East-morning-steamers Re- covery, of Liverpool; Dodo, of Cork Uganda, of Middlesborough. Afternoon-Nellie Martin, of Liverpool, from Baltimore for Rouen, all well Hampshire, of Southampton Boston, of London, for Dieppe; Whimbrel and Quail, of Cork H.M.S. Valorous, towing a lighter. Passed ...

... The Pentre colliers are still out, and so far no arrangement has been arrived at tending to an adjustment of the existing difficulties. At Dinas a circular haa been issued on behalf of the colliers on strike, signed by two of the men, appealing for general aid to resist the action of their employer. The men appear to be deter- mined not to work under Mr Galloway, and here, too, there is no ...

... At Tredegar county-court, on Friday—be- fore Judge Herbert—an important point at issue between a section of the Ebbw Vale colliers and their employers was decided. It appears that a large number of colliers took objection to the recent notice for 10 per cent reduction being enforced before the expiry of the term of the slidin cale committee. Notices were posted up in the works that on and ...

... MR GEORGE SMITH AND THE GIPSIES. Mr George Smith, of Coalville, whose efforts to better the condition of our canal population have met with deserved success, draws attention to the state of another neglected class. Parliament, he says, which has lately been reforming many things, would have done well to consider the case of the gipsies, our roadside Arab. Of the idleness, ignorance, ...