... SALARIES OF TEACHERS. The monthly meeting of the above board how just been held at Pontypridd. Notice of motion was given for the discussion at the next meeting of the advisability of reducing the salaries of the board head teachers. It transpired that the Education Department had declined to recognise the Treforest Catholic Schools for grant pallo poses. ...

... UNITARIANS IN CARDIFF T> the Editor of tht> SOOTH WALES DAILY Nicwee I i\vlllll,u1^ a„11 .deference and respect submit to Perplexity the clear statement of the Apostle John, as to what Unitarianism is (Vide 1 John ii. 23). 44 Whosoever demetll the Son, the same hath not the father. Who, therefore, pronounces Unitarianism to be Godlessness ? JOHN. ...

... On Saturday night two men entered the shop of Mr Burkle. pawnbroker, Treotky, with a piece of cloth, wishing to pledge it for 25s. The j awn- bi oker offered 15a, which was scornfully refused, and the clothes taken away. In about three minutes the men returned, accepted the offer, and had the money. The pawnbroker later on went to look at the cloth, and to his surprise found that the good ...

... SPOHR'S ORATORIO TIlE LAST JUDGMENT. As will be s,n by an advertisement in ou' columns, the above-named masterly work will be performed on Wednesday evening next, at the Drill Hall, by the Cardiff Choral and Orchestral Society, assisted by well-known artistes, including Ma lame Alice Barth, of Her Majesty's Opera, this being her first appearance in the Principality. Madame Barth comes to ...

... The awine fever has broken out at Lilling- bourne and Shootlands, West Surrey. Several pigs ave died, and the remainder are to be destroyed by order of the local magistrates. ...

... PROFESSOR BOYD DAWKINS AT CARDIFF. On Thursday evening, and in connection with the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, Professor Boyd Dawkins, of Owen's College, Manchester, lectured in the Assembly-rooms, Cardiff, on Our early British ancestors. Mr Henry Heywood, the president of the society, occupied the chair. At the outset of his lecture the Professor, who was frequently applauded, said there ...

... CARMARTHEN. NON-MAINTENANCE CASE.-On Thursday morn- ing James Ho u ells was brought up for not main- taining his wife and two children. On the 1st May, 1876, the ber-c-i ordered defendant to pay 10s a week. The Town Clerk, however, said that defendant left the town when the order was made, and it was not possible to serve him with a minute of it. A month after that the relieving officer laid ...

... THE COST OF THE ZULU WAR. A correspondent of the Westet-a Morning News in South Africa writes:—A cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, but portentous, is noticed. The Natal Government knows it must make a f beginning somewhere, and at some time some at- tempt to contribute its mite to the cost of the war, and on the 1st of Januaiy, 1880, the first step will be taken towards increased taxation. ...

... TARAXACUM AND PODOPHYTTTV FLN;J DVSDFEFLIA mi; F al'd Calomel for the cure of of thi^l i'vor i6??' a symptoms of congestion shnnliW^ II j V are Ceneralbr pain beneaih the shoulders. Headache, Drowsiness, no appetite, furred tongue, disagreeable taste in the morning, giddiness, disturbance of the stomr.ch, and feeling of general de- pression. A dese cf Taraxacum and Podophyllin sets the ...

... THE FIRE AT LLANSAXNOR FARM.—A corres- pondent write, ahout Le above fire. staging that tht: cause of the affnir should be inquired into aud suggests that £200 rew rd should be offered to any person wi.o g ve the name of the carty who committed the deed. ...

... PONTYPOOL. AT THE POLICE-COURT on Saturday (before Colonel Byrde aud Air E. J. Phillips) Timothy Reardon, Daniel McGuire, jun., and Jeremiah Minahan, for assaulting Martha Jones on the 18th inst., were ordered to pay a fine of 10s each, or seven days' hard labour.—-Francis Watson and Alfred Smith, for trespassing on the property of the Blaenavon Iron Company in pursuit of game, were fined, the ...

... PORTHCAWL, AN INQUEST was held on Tuesday on the body of Cradock Burnell, an old resident, 70 years of age, who was found in the dock on Saturday night. He is supposed to have fallen in acci- dentally. A verdict of (Found dead was re- turned ...