... PENARTH LOCAL BOARD. At a meeting of the Penarth Local Board on Monday night Mr c. W. Ingram preaided, and there were also present Messrs W. Shepherd, T. H. Belcher, G. PUe. and Beavan. The paving of James-street waa discussed, and the Surveyor waa instructed to prepare estimates of the cost of egectmg P'Tvate imnrovements m both James- etraet &nd Brootnoeld-pIace.—The Clerk read a etgned by ...

... ,f A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT. H. SMITH, in reply to Gen. Goldsworthy, that the intelligence department was now and considering reportsrtwhichihad been r°eived at the War Offifca on the .state of j^Pment and readiness for service of the two ^/army corps. He was not at present in,a 8ltioa to make any statement oa,the subject. THK LBNACT LAWS. j,:ir MATTHEWS, in reply to Mr WillianrCorbett, t-^that ...

... YANKEE YARNS. HARD LUCK. What is the matter? Why do you weep? asked a kind-hearied gentlemen of a woman who was mopping her eyes. To-day is an unlucky day with me. My hus- band has been arrested for the thirteenth time this year for drunkenness. WHAT HIT RIM. Young Binks takes his country cousin, who is in the city on a visit, to see a baseball match. Ball hits C. C. in the eye. Gosh all ...

... Condition of the Building. A meeting of the committee was holu on Tues- day at the Guildhall, S-vansoa, Mr Sidney Hart- land presiding. Some discussion took place with reference to the condition of the library building. —Councillor Mason described its condition as disgraceful.—Mr. Wm. Richards sugaested that the attention of Captain Colquhoun, the chief constable, should be drawn to tne ...

... A sad accident, which terminated fatally, befel a child about fonr years of age, named Daniel Thomas, son of Joseph Thomas, 1, New-houses, Pontygwaith, between 10 and 11 o'clock on Wed- nesday morning. In the back of the house there was deposited an old tar cask, which contained soma shavings. The child got into the cask and set fire to the shavings. He was soon enveloped in fbmes, and when ...

... After the lapse of two months, during which time the services have been held in the recently built schools adjoining, the Roatb-road Wesleyan Chapel was re-opened for public worship on Sunday. The Rev Thos. Cook, one of the five ministers appointed by the Wesleyan Conference for evangelical work, preached two eloquent sermons to very large congregations. When the organ-pipes, which been re- ...

... The committee of the Aberdare Hall of residence have appointed Miss Hutchias lady principal in the place of Miss Don, who has resigned. Miss Hutchins assisted Miss Clough, the principal of Newnham College, Camqridge, from time to time for abouc two years uuring the building of the south and north halls, now respectively named the Old Hall and the Sidgwick Hall, by undertaking the charge of ...

... Through Nonconformist Spectacles. FINAL ECHOES OF THE CHURCH CONGRESS. Our weekly contemporary,the Nonconforinfstand Independent, contains in its last issue an exhaus- tive review of the Cardiff Church Congress from a Nonconformist standpoint. There i»JB»je^fcempt to veneer the proceedings. The selecti&^Car- diff for the Church Congress meetings of 1889 was not, it is remarked, without special ...

... CARDIFF MUNICIPAL EXPEN- DITURE. The discussion at Monday's meeting of the Cardiff Town Council should not only create general interest in the question of municipal indebtedness, but should also lead to consideration of the right method of relieving the rates without in any way hindering the execution of the necessary works by which the outlay has been caused. Such a method exists, and seeing ...

... Addresses by Dr Enoch Davies and Mr Lloyd Morgan, M.P. At the Liberal Club, Swansea, on Monday evening, a meeting was held for tbe purpose of hearing addresses from a deputation from the anti-tithe-payers of Cardiganshire and Pembroke- shire on the persecution the farmers of those counties are subject to at the hands of emissaries of the Established Church. Mr T. Phillips, jun., presided, and ...

... NEWPORT BOARD OF GUARDIANS, At the ordinary weekly meeting of this bO tblt on Saturday, Mr T. Duttield presiding. industrial schools committee increase of salary to the clerk to the super'^bd dent, and during a discussion 00 childfe jtft were sent out to service from the W. H. Brown said many children were edera, and clothed at the expense of the gai* whilst their parents were outside tb ...

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