... I C 0 UR) LONPN COMRPONDMITCE. I F j ~~Losroose, Morn.mkv Ermsss. The: old year is dying quieitly, amlid gentl r moaning froni a ?? east irind. With the end aiof the Christmas season lhas come the dulness , which alziost invariab ly precesdes the new rear. ;;Nothing sees t be ov.ing exme~pt the clock. Even business is not mrovring to-day. The Stock ?? s nearly idle, and most of the shops 1 ...

... I THE YEAR 188. 1 SUMMARY OF EVENT. | ,a few houZ the year 1884 will havc 1 completed a not exceptionally eventful exist- f rnceo. Although there may never occur a anything absolutely new, each period of t tvrelve months discloses special features q rnwich, al all events, serva to mark it in c history. Conspiracy is as old as hunan ¶1 society, but we shall hereafter have to recall -. that in ...

... D13DSTRIf NLWS. Ann1 s-iS'li,- j Wvwors0 qU-01ArrXl-FF'w. Aider- Su-ocor -areiss Il fr Frday d meeing of the Waeteworks Suh-Cna;, ttil for fldr tile presidency of Mi-. A. T!iomine,~ imilar `A=DBXET..On Friday montfing at itO vly zinuti I and oorgeDutcii. la, of 9, D-.avie.-sares-t, wais keil in5 hard1 ?JarOongi on or, -oftdie liueine ls, when ire a. .reox, th lig bythe cr'n id severely iujur ...

... Sparse as was the attendance at Brredon i yesterday to consider the advisability of form- ing a County Scholarship Scheme at the UniversityCollege of South X ales and Man- b moutbhhire, we do not think that those who *h were present at the meeting will have n the slightest cause for regret when c they coma to tell up the results. One 5 satisfactory feature of, the proceedings was e the ...

... CAGRDiI'i. G^Garson'ow AND Doc.;s I2sX~D.ATION Foxn,- . Thesubscription list for the above fund will be Z Ciusai on Jl arv 31. All firms w. hor have not yet returned their subscription books, and any intend- ing. subicribers, are requested to send their sub- ,scriptions to the hion, secretar-, Mr. D. Lloyd Louglier, Manor House, Car-diff, rt thleir earhaist .convenience before tha~t date. ...

... MR. HENRY GEORGE AT CIRTDIFF. I . . CONFERENCE ON THE LAND QUESTION. 3 Mr. Fenry George met about twenty gentlemen as and two ladies at the Swiim-hall, Cardiff. on Thurs- day afternoon for the purpose of discussing ' The I Vital Question of Land Refnrrm in its V>arious . Amses. Anongst those present were Dr. Milward, Mr.J. C. Thompson, Mr. F.S. Johnstone, Mr. Chad- wick, vIr. Hughes, Mr. E.W. ...

... -W2EMH PARLIAMENTARY NOTES. I maFOX Og LOBBY coaassopiml a There can be nQ doubt that during the session a which has just opened many questions of distiae' L tively Welsh interest will be discussed. Whether . these disowssions willabar fruit, whether they will 0 end in acts, or whether they will be productive a merely of words, are questions which time only can solve. It would be folly at this ...

... FORECAST OF 'IHE GOVERNMENT PILOTAGE BILL. a I- d The Bristol Zfmes has been favoured with a fore- It h cast of Mr. Chamberlain's proposed Bill dealing e *t with pilotage on the British coast. The probable r h amount required for the purchase of the present f. boats and compensation to the older pilots is set II b down at £3,000,000. The future action in this a direction is, we hear, of the ...

... The report which the direetors of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Company will present to the proprietors at the third half-yearly meeting on Monday, the 18th inst., states that Very con- siderable progress has been made with the works between Potrhvdyvfen and Cymmer during the past six months 'the whole of the permanent way materials for re-laying the Cwmavon Railway ,have been ...

... THE FORTH90 NGj FEANCHIS. BILL. se The electoral statistics ordered by the House of E a- Commons last session to be printed in view of the oh contemplated Parliamentary Reform next session t of be were issued on Wednesday, and we are enabled to e present them to our readers this morning so far as I 'l they affect ?? and Wales for the c g. counties, and Monmouthshire and South Wales for c tsthe ...

... IMR. RENRY GEORGE AT CARDIrIF. I LEC0TURE OF PROGRESS AND POVERTY, air cl Mr. Henry George, the author of Progress and 001 It Poverty, visited Cardiff on Wednesday evening, WC rat and addressed a meeting held in the new Public- Is ha]!, Queen-street. This gentleman's reputation PMa1 I'had gone before him. His views are revolutionary of TYand utopian, but they are original, and in some c ...

... SOME SVNDAY CUSTOMS IN MUNIO, |I I .I- I(ET A CaAnrDr RESsrnxSI OF THEi CITY.) ?? at the many, branches of-the Much agitated& ~jquestion of the ob~servance of Sunday has recently C 2!f beeir discuissed bvthe Munich Chaimber dt Corn- old a- marce. A prdpesdl wad' introduced to mike the f is closing of shops during the afternoon Fours of In Snasadfsials compulsory. Hithierto the bee' leia has ...