... I - 4 ]as! fF5104 OULt OWN CORltSPON3S'DEBrr1s ] 1fo ThURSDAY NcIGHT J th Lord Randolph Churchill, the newivy-1E elected president of the M:idland Conservative } th Club, at the commencement of his inaugural Id address at Birmingham last night paid hc a graceful and well-earned tribute to his of predecessor, Lord Windsor. In describing his lordship as a nobleman ardently devoted to the cause ...

... THE PRIMROSE LE4,AUE. The first annual dinner of the Primrose , League in London was completely spoiled by B the enforced absence of Lord RANDOLPH t COuncHiLL, who lost his - voice through t speaking bareheaded at an open air meeting i in Birmingham last Wednesday, and could r not venture to leave his bed. Without e him the dinner was as the play of a Hamlet with the part of Hamlet c left ...

... Considering: the lateness of the season, the attend- ance at Mr RymiU's Repository, Barbican, on Satur- day, when over 100 greyhounds were brought to the hammer, was of a representative character. The principal lots were comprised in the stud of that well- known courser, Mr T. Graham, who has given up his estate at Southport, and is removing to Cumberland. The Alec Halliday and Glen Rosa ...

... At the beginning of the present week foars were very generally entertained of a disturb- ance taking place in the neighbourhood of the Talargoch Mines, in consequence of the intro- duction into the place of a number of men from Buckley, for the purpose of making a second attempt to remove the machinery at the works. The determined attitude of the miners in opposing such a step being taken on a ...

... TREDEGAR. Poties-COURT, Tuesday.—Before Captain Wil- liam.; and the R-JV. W. Hughes: — James Leig-b, Mike Welsh, and John Landlord, three cokers, employed by the ftiiym v Iron Company, were each charged with leaving their work on Sunday night, and doing' damage to the amount of 30s each. The defendants pleaded guilty. Mr David Thomas, furnace manager, briefly stated the facts of the case. The ...

... The Press Association has received a copy of a manifesto issued by Patrick Joyce, secretary of the Fenhoi Brotherhood, and addressed Cf to all Irishmen; whtch rtaUw that the Fenian Brother- hood has good cause for congratulation and rejoicing at the utter discomfiture of John Ball and his legislation, as far as it affects the resources of civilisation. Never before had England felt the ...

... MERTHYR YALE. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A PITMAN, — Mr T. Williams {coroner) on Tuesday held an inquest at the Coffee Tavern into the circumstances attend- ing the death of William Daniel, aged 24-, of 4, Crescent-street, who was killed on Sunday by falling down the shaft of the No. 2 Pit at the Merthyr Vale Collieries. It appeared that the deceased was standing in a carriage executing some repairs to ...

... GAS AND WATER COMPANY'S MEKTING.— A meeting of the Bargosd Gas and Water Company was held on Thursday afternoon at the Bargoed Junction Hotel. Mr Lewis Lewis took the chair.— i lie directors' report extended over the years 1382 and 1833, and showed that the capital account for the year 1882 was £149 14s 9d, and 1883, £5 10s. The profits were £4- Is 6d for 1882, and £55 14-s 6 1 for 1883. Steps ...

... Sift,-It is really very pitiable to see the wriggling and twisting of the Churchmen over tl census. What does it matter to a few hundreds either way ? The broad fact remains that they are very small in number as compared with Dissenters. Whether the proportion is as one to four, or whether it is one to four and an eighth or a quarter or a half, is of no consequence. They are simply splitting ...

... ]?LECTION OF IMPROVEMENT COM. MISSIONERS. The anmnual slection of Improvement Commxis. *4aioners for. the distriot of L~landudno has once usore some ana gone. The voting papers wore ooanted s~ 9iesday, v ith the resitlt given betewi. Itis' a so3se: what noteworthy feattitre that' although this yai~r 4everything eleotoral has9 been unnsnally quiet,.-3ns voulidlscareely, knowv lip eleotion I ...

... LLANDAFF DIOCESAN COIRCH EXTENSION SOCIETY. e ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Ads The annual general meeting of the members of iU,- the Lliandaff Diocesan Church Extension To: ~-Society was held at the Town-hail, Car- h M.diffl, on Thursday afternoon. The Bishop fot of Llandaff presided, and there were also set present Canon Hawkins, Canon Bury Cape], the cf Archdealcon of Llandaff, Precentor Wood, ...

... be The Conservative demonstration which was pro- mit meted to introduce Lord Randolph Churchill to Mr. lair his newly-adopted candidature of Birmingham was her continued on Wednesday evening, when Lr the Randolph delivered his presidential address to the bin members of the Midland Conservative Club at a Lot meeting held in, the Town-hiall. He w eth accompanied by Colonel Burnaby, who also ...