... MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. SUGGESTIONS FOR A SITE. THE TEMPORARY WORK OF THE COLLEGE. A meeting of the council in connection with the University College of South Wales and Mon- mouthshire was held at the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Monday. Mr Alfred Thomas, ex-mayor, presided. There were also present Mr J. T. D. Llewelyn, Penllergare, Swansea Mr B. T. Wil- liams, Q.C., Mr J. Llewellyn, the principal ...

... PONTYPOOL ROAD, Thursday, 5th July, 1883 — Trial of Pony Hunters and Polo Mateh. Commence at 3 p.m. Admission one shilling. ;see advert. 63721 ...

... [SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] ST. PETERSBURG, WEDNESDAY. The Minister of the Interior has forbidden the sale in the streets of the Gfazetle Galztouk. After May, 1889, no lotteries for benevolent purposes will be allowed in Russia. An excep- tion, however, is made in favour of that got up for the benefit of tho St. Petersburg prisoners, they being allowed another three years of licence. ...

... The following important resolutions have been adopted at a mass meeting of the men belonging to the Bilson and Crump Meadow Colliery :— That we, the workmen employed at the Crump Meadow and Bilson Colliery assembled at this meeting, offer our united protest against. the tyrannical action of the managers in attacking the men's wages by an underhand policy which is an indirect breach of fa ...

... APPEAL AGAINST A STIPENDIARY'S DECISION. At the Glamorganshire Midsummer Quarter- sessions, on Tuesday, before Mr R. O. J ones, the chairman, an appeal was heard against a decision given some time ago in the Merthyr police-court, in a case where a haulier, named David Hum- phrey, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for an infringement of the special rules for the con- duct of the Dowlais ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] IJ, PARIS, TUESDAY. e Council of Public Health has given orders, ter^n ^^rstanding with the Minister of the In- 5 fern>F> ^16 population of Damietta shall be teilf from their dwellings, and scattered in vS and wooden structures, and that the infected JER.F J °f the town shall then be partly disin- e and partly burnt, rj,, ALEXANDRIA, TUESDAY. w, 6 nuiQher of cholera deaths ...

... We are glad to find the names of the following students of the a.bove college among the successful candidates at the recent -examinatioo of the sena- tus academicus of the Associated Theological Col- leges of England and Wales Messrs T. Powell Wilhaius, Peter Roberts, Thomas Edmunds, and ilham Morgan. This reflectsespeci.al credit upon them, as the conditions of success were more onerous than ...

... THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT RHYMNEY. CORONER'S INQTJi ST. Me Thos. Williams, the coroner for North Glamorganshire, resumed an adjourned enquiry at the Blast Furnace Inn, PontJottyn, on Wed- nesday, on the bodies of Elias Thomas, David Evans, and John Roberts, who were killed in an explosion in the New Duffryn Colliery, the pro- perty of the Rhymney Iron Company, on June 25th last. Mr R. ...

... The is every probability that the Gellygroes pits, which were sunk some 10 years ago, will be again re- started shortly. Last week Mr T. Beynon (ex-mayor of Newport), Col. Lyne, Mr P. James (Abercarn), and others visited the workings and examined things carefully. This place is well suited for a colliery dis. trict, as there is convenient railway communication with the shipping ports of ...

... LATEST HOME TELEGRAMS. The Cannock Chase miners struck on Thursday against a reduction under the sliding-scale. Earl Spencer,, replying on Thursday to a pri- vate deputation, who urged the Government to give time for the Irish Sunday. Closi Bill, pro- mised to lay their views before the Ministers. Mr Robert Collier, son of Sir Robert Collier, was on Wednesday night selected by the Chat- ham ...

... THE WELSH EDU C ATI ON BILL. Mr Gladstone, acknowledging the receipt of a resolution passed by a meeting at Carnarvon on the question of education in Wales, writes that if the Government should unfortunately have to postpone tba, bill on intermediate education in Wales, the act will only be due to an overpowering neceesity. Our Gallery correspondent, telegraphing on Thursday sight, says :—The ...

... (Before Lord Justice LINDLKY.) A SHIPPING DISPUTE. Leonard v. Giimore.—Mr George Leonard, of Swansea, claimed from the defendant, Mr John Giimore, of Liverpool, the sum of £ 84, commis- sion on the sale of a ves ol called the Adeline. Sehull; and defendant set up a counter claim of £ 87 as commission ft'or chartering a vessel named the John Burberry. Mr M'Intyre, Q.C., and Mr Brymnor Jones, ...