... I ?? atottru mils. I- I WEDINESDAY, DECEMBEB 24, 1879X ?? A meeting of coalmnaers and men belong. ing to the South Wales coal fields was held 4 -, fl.- . . h~f.tV;# k Ihnf. A.'t - fl fJ *V W - - -U f C- W- LV- L W -_ on Tuesday, at Cardiff, but the men's repre. , sentatives could not treat for the re-ostabliah. iL ment of the sliding scale. d At the Aberdare police-court, on Tuesday, the ...

... iDR. OGE tA , I TE D THE DEGB l 0 - | IA ieting of getlemnemnwas held on Wednes. day, -atheCameonr Armsnotlw, Swnseafotbhe purpose of tak&ing'such steps as. may bedqeeed desiable for preenting Dr, Rogers with the dl~loni of ALD., recent conferrd-o him by hi grabe the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Jobn Joner Jenkins (mayor) presided, and there were also present-lr. J. C0.Fowler, Alderamn ...

... MURDERS IN BURMAH. Executions continue iu the palace of the King of Burmah. Five princesses were recently murdered on suspicion of being in correspondence with Prince Nyoungyan. ...

... THE LANCASHIRE OPERATIVE SPINNERS. DEMAND I OR WAGES ADVANCE [SPECIAL TKLKOBAM.J At the quarterly meeting of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Spinners, Winders, and Twisters, of Lancashire and adjoining counties, held, in Alanchester, on Sunday the question of making a general application through the whole of the spinning trade for a 10 per cent advance in wages was discussed. It was ...

... ILLNESS OF PLUNKETT. M.P. It is reported that Mr Plunkett, the tive member for West is lying at his so ill of low fever that M.. Loudon physician has been telegraphed for. ...

... THE SALVATION ARMY AT GLOUCESTER. At the Gloucester police-court, on Monday, Mr C. Overthrow, a resident of Longsmith-street, made an application to be protected from the nuisance created at the Wellington Hall, by the people calling themselves The Salvation Army. For the last four Sundays he had not been able to have any rest indoors in consequence of the dis- turbances that were created. He ...

... PONTYPRIDD. THE FOG.—All almost unprecedented fog set in on Tuesday in this locality. Towards nightfall it became extremely dense. ...

... LOCAL LIQUIDATIONS. FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE, David Jone;, of Kinif's-court, in the village and pal-iollof,it.Iley, Carmarthen, draper, grocer, and ironmonger. William Thomas, Market-street, Pontypool, Mon., beerhouse keeper. Choirles Welsh, Poutypool, grocer. ...

... A COLONEL ON NATIONAL PUGILISM. Colonel Knight, M.P., speaking at a dinner at Kidderminster, on Tuesday evening, said there was only one road to national greatness, and that was to be able t,, fight and take our own part. However insignificant England might look on the map, she had risen in greatness because she had bred a race capable of fig::ting auy other nation. The volunteer movement made ...

... A SUSPICIOUS MOVEMENT. A suspicious movement is going on, proceeding from Afghanistan. From the frontier, Afghani in small parties are travelling to different parts of India and every train for the interior takes from 20 to 40 members oi this warlike nation. Th authorities are on the alert and will carefully watch these travellers. ...

... THE PURCHASE OF THE CARDIFF WATERWORKS. The Cardiff W .terworks undertaking passed on Wednesday from the Cardiff Waterworks Com- pany to the Cardiff Corporation. It had been arranged that this event should take place on the 24t1J, but the Waterworks undertaking actually passed into the hands of the Corporation on the 29ih of September, although the Act did not cive the Corporation the power to ...

... PONTYPRIDIFBOARD OF GUARDIANS. THE DEFALCATION OF AN EX- RELIEVING OFFICER. lhe meeting of the Puntypridd Board of Guardians was held on Wednesday, under the ppresidency of the Rev. D. W. Williams, Fair- field.—The Chairman drew attention to the claims sent in by tradesmen for goods supplied to pnu- pers on the order of the Ystrad ex-Relieving Officer (D. S. Davies.) He (the chairman) had ...