... PENARTH. Penarth is rapidly improving as a watering place. Hundreds of visitors from Cardiff arrive there daily, but more particularly on Wednesday afternoons, and take advantage of the opportunities afforded for a few hours' recreation. The. new Gardens on the hill plope, near the Esplanade, are a source of attraction, and on Wednesday evenings the Penarth Vclunteer Artillery band is present ...

... FACETLFC. bE beehive is the poorest thing in the world to fall back on. A LONDON tradesman advertises Ladies' shawls for dinner and breakfast. A MAN. cares little for his wrongs when getting his funeral rites. THE man who dreamt he dwelt in marble bails woke up and found tbat tbe bedclothes had tumbled off. THE earth is a tender and kind mother to the husbandmen; and yet at one sea on he ...

... iie en ADOPTION OF THIE GREAT SENWAGE as SCHEME th FOR TILE RIIONDDA VAILL. . a - vs RESIGN.XTION OF TILE CHAIRMAN. a; On Friday the usual monthly inreting of tle ed abov ...

... CRE&4TION OF SHARE OAPrCAL. a11 EMPLOYMENT OF SiR JOHN HAWK- qy SHAW. Iit S On Tuesday morning a special general meeting by of the proprietors of Whe Penarth Harbour, Dock, ...

... ft y ,JL 12, 1S . - -- ?? T UEnSDA Y JUjL lo1, 18,31. FRAN5CE AND TUNIS. As the Tunisian embroglio now threatens to lead to serious complicatfions it will not be uninteresting to examine the statement ...

... - THE LESSONS OF THE WBIBLEDON l [ MEETING. . . That the Volunteer Ride Meeting at Fo .0 pan Wimbledon has lost much of its interest for the public can hardly be doubted. The dis- set of closures of l ...

... THE WATER SUPPLY OF CARDIF.M There can be no question of more impor- I Gla tance to a town than its supply of water. asi especially when the population, as in the case me of Cardiff, is increasing wit ...

... A RELEASE FROM PHISON. A notice has been received by the Governor of Shrewsbury Prison from the Home Secretary ordering the release of two lads named Ham- mond and Woodcock, of Wolverhampton, who had been sent to prison for one month by the Shrewsbury magistrates for loitering in the public streets for the purpose of committing a urglary. :Since their incarceration the lads' master seiit 'a ...

... FORTHCOMING SUNDAY SCHOOL TREATS. Mr J. S. Corbett on Tuesday met the super- intendents of the various Sunday Schools at a meeting arranged to be held at the Crown Court. About 40 schools were represented. Mr. Cor- bctt was voted to the chair. Mr L. V. Shirley read over, for the considera- tion of the :meting, the proposed programme, which, with some slight modifications, was adopted, those ...

... The report of the Education Deiiartment for -880-81 was issued on Tuesday, but the. statistics f1 A vari°us schools are given only up to tlie end ot August last. During the year ending on that ate the Government inspectors visited 17,614- ay-schools in England and Wales, furnishing thcomodation for 4,240,753 scholars, having on the registers the names of 3,895,824 children, and n average ...

... AN excursion in connection with the Pontar- dulais and Teilo Tinplate Works, left this place for New and Old Milford on Saturday. A] very large number of the workmen and families, as well as outsiders, availed themselves of the very favourable terms which the promoters (the pro- prietors of the works) had obtained from the Great Western Railway Company, to enjoy a day's outing. Under the able ...

... PONTYPOOL. STEALING A SEWING MACHINE.—At the petty- scssioll.3 on Saturday—before Col. Byrde, Mr C. J. Parkes, and Mr A. D, Berringtoll-Enos Cable v.'as charged with stealing a sewing-machine be- longmg to Alfred Davies, of Pentrepiod, on tha 9th instant, and George Macdonald was charged with receiving the same. It appeared that Daviec owed Macdonald some money, and asked Cable to go to him ...