... PROPOSED RE-OPENING OF THE WIND-STREET STATION. On Saturday morning Councillor Maliphant and Mr D. P. Jones, representing the tradesmen of Wind and the adjacent streets, waited on Mr Henry Lambert, general manager of the Great Western Railway, at the 'l\hclnvorth Hotel, with the object of urging on him the necessity for re-opening- the station at tha bottom or NVind- street.—Mr Maliphant ...

... The London Gazette of Tuesday night contains the WAR OFFICE, Pall Mall, January 10th, 1888. LINE BATTALIONS.—R >yal Welsh Fu>iiinr.>.— Supernumerary Major Compton Norman to be major, vice C. G. A. Mayhew, retired. ...

... THE BANKRUPTCY AI.T. DISCUSSION AT MERTHYR CHAMBER OF TRADE. The Merthyr Chamber of Trade met on Tues- day night at the Bush Hotel Assembly-rooms. Mr R ig-er Edwards presided. The discussion on the working of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. intro- duced by Mr Peter Williams, was resumed.—Mr Rowlands, referring to a speech by the Official Receiver at the last meeting, said even supposing the ...

... Under this title, Dr J, B. Daly contributes a short paper to The IVelromr on the story of the electric telegraph as embodied in the eariy strug- gles of Morse to get his invention introduced to the commercial world. The hardships Morse had to undergo wiil be understood by the following anecdote of Strother s. It seems Strother was a pupil of Mor.re, paid Ins dollars in advance, but owing to ...

... A telegram from Birr announces the arrival there, by the midday train on Monday, of Mr Wilfrid Blunt, Lady :nne Blunt, Mr Evelyn, M.P., and Tiie Macdermott, Q.C. They were met at the railway station by a large crowd of people with the town band. An address from the towns- people was presented by the Rev. Dsnis Sheehnn, and the party proceeded to the Parochial HOUSE, where they were entertained ...

... THE W AVE OF PUGILISM REACHES CARDIFF. VISIT OF KILTTAIN AND MITCHELL. It would appear as if the Welsh metropolis were to be given over entirely this week to the pugilistic and prize-fighting fraternity. John L. Sullivan, the Boston rjet, as has been already announced, is engaged to appear at one of our music-halls for several nights, but he is not to be permitted to star alone, Mr Watts, ...

... LLANDOVERY. REMISSION OF RENT.—Tho rent audit of the Llwyuoiain estate was held at the White Hall Inn in this town on Wednesday and Thursday last, wheu tha landlord, Mr Carbery Vaugh&U- Pryse-Rice, again granted a remission of 10 par cent. to all the tenants. The rents received, as usual, by Mr John Thomas, town clerk. ...

... THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. [FROM MONDAY'S MARK'LAF.: The old year na.s closed with seasonable weather. The frost has not been severe, and has been unac- companied by biting easterly winds, so that the position of growing crops has been thereby im- proved rather than otherwise. This moraine there was a rapid thaw with the prospect of ram. The state of wheats and all other autumn sown crops ...

... BY SENTINEL. WHY DON'T THE MEN PROPOSE? THIS question, so often asked by parents and spinsters at Swansea, and so rarely satisfactorily answered, has at length been taken up by the public journals, and the most conflicting answers imaginable have been given by the batchelors with which the town abounds. Well, the reason, so far as I can see, is, and is not, the fault of the spinsters. Why it ...

... MERTHYR. LooAI. BOARD.—At Wednesday's meeting of t'rs board, uuuer the presidency or Mr Thomas Williams, J.P., the resignation received of Mr T. Havard, who had held the office of book- keeper under the board for the long period of 18 years. The resignation was accepted with regret. —The board resolved to petition in favour of the abolition of turnpike tolls.—The Cierk submitted a draft of a ...

... On Wednesday afternoon, February 1st, a conference will be held in the schoolroom of the Congregational Church, Charles-street, under the auspices of the Cardiff branch of the Liberation Society, when a paper will be read by Mr Pedr Mostyn Wil'iams, of Rhyl, on the tithe war in Wales. In the evening the annual meeting will take place in the Colonial Hall. Mr John Cory has kindly consented to ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A WOMAN AT FERNDALE. HUNG WITH AN A PR OX STRING. On Saturday, Elizabeth Jon' s, aged 37, wife of William Jones, living at 8, Rhondda-road, Ferndale, committed suicide in a most determined aud remarkable manner by hanging herself with an apron string. It appears that, the unfortunate woman had been unwell for some months, and cam to Ferndale on leaving Merthyr ...