... PENARTH DOCK AND RAILWAY COMPANY. Half-Yearly Meeting, The half-yearly meeting of the Penartb Harbour, Dock and Railway Co. was held yesterday at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff. The directors present were-—Iiieut.-Colonel the Hon. J. H. Windsor Clive (in the chair), Mr David Evans, Mr Henry Jones Evans, Mr Thomas H. Insole, and Mr Evan Lewis. The shareholders were represented by Messrs R. W. ...

... COLLIERS' MEETINGS AT MER- THYR AND MOUN rAIN ASH. A meeting of the workmen engaged at the Plymouth Collieries, Merthyr, took place on Tuesday evening at the Temperance-hall to consider the offer of the employers of five per cent. advance. Mr John Jones presided. The attendance was not large. The unanimous feeling of the speakers was that the offer should be accepted, but a great deal of ...

... WELSH NOTES. THE ItISTEDDVOD AND LOCAL HISTORY. Anyone accustomed to act on eistedd vodau com- mittees is familiar with tbe dearth of new sub- jects for literary competition, and yet there is a wealth of material to draw upon that may prove invaluable to the future Welsh historian. These remarks were suggested by a few observations made by the Welsh bard Gurnos at tbe Black Mill Eisteddvod ...

... Welsh Members' Record. THE TITHES BILL. In the House of Commons on Friday, Mr LABOUCHEBE asked Had the First Lord received two memorials—one from either side of the House—asking that the Tithe Rent-charge Bill should not be proceeded with this session, and did these memorials in any way serve to modify the intention he expressed yesterday in regard to the bill? (Hear.) Mr W. H. SMITH said he ...

... INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION IN WALES. In the House of Commons on Friday, Mr T. E. ELLIS said that he desired to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will direct the preparation of a Welsh version of the measure dealing with intermediate and technical education in \ValeF, and if so, whether steps can be taken to have it published before the date of the ...

... A grand eisteddvod was held on Bank Holiday in a field near Cadoxton Common. The gather- ing was well patronised, and the proceeds were in aid of tbe Bryn Sion Congregational Chapel, The eisteddvod was in every respect an undoubted success. The following were the eisteddvod officials:—Conductor, Rev C. T. Thomas (Groes- wen); adjudicators—music, Mr .Dyved Lewis, R.A.M., London; poetry, essays, ...

... THE TITHE QUESTION IN PEM- BROKESHIRE. The Chief Constable and Mr A. J. Williams, M-P. We have received from Mr Arthur J. Williams, M.P., the following correspondence for publica- tion Pembrokeshire Constabulary Headquarters, Haverfordwest Castle, 30,u July, 1889. Sir,—My attention has been drawn to the South Wales Daily News of ihp. 20oh inst., where, under the heading of lithe Question in ...

... Notice for an Advance to be Given, We understand that it is intended by the workmen employed at the various large iron- works on the hills to give notice demanding an advance of 10 per cent. in their wages. Steelworkers in Conference at Tredegar On Saturday, a mass meeting of tbe steel- workers representing the following works, viz., Cyfartbfa, Dowlais, Tredegar, Ebbw Vale,Rbym- ney, and ...

... A mass meeting of the colliers engaged at Dow- lais, Cyfartbfa, and Plymouth was held on Monday morning, at the Park Theatre. The attendance was small. Mr D. Morgan, miners' agent, spoke, and said the colliers were entitled beyond question to a substantial advance in wages but it was useless to ask for it unless they showed the masters that they were serious and resolute.—Mr Davies, of Dowlais ...

... WELSH NOTES, TOO YOUNG FOB OLD CARDIGAN. The announcement made by the Pall Mall Gazette of a coming Tory candidate to oust Mr Bowen Rowlands, M.P., is rather amusing. Lord Lisburne, the hero whose advent is heralded, we are informed, is a young man full of go, and pos- sessed of J312,000 a. year, but he will not go in the right direction, nor is he possessed of what is more highly valued than ...

... ANTI-VACCHNATIONISTS AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff police-court on Satnrday-before Mr T. W. Lewis (stipendiary), Dr Paine, and Mr J. le Boulanger—Benjamin Gadfield, of 8, Olive-street, Canton, was summoned tor refusing to have his child vaccinated. The defendant said that be bad a lad at home, twelve years of age, who bad been vaccinated.and had'never been well since. It was, indeed, improbable ...

... The Liverpool Mystery, TRIAL OF MRS MAYBRICK, The last act in the case known as the Liver- pool Mystery commenced on Wednesday in the Assize Court, Liverpool, when Mrs Florence Jbilizabeth Maybrick, widow of the late Mr James Maybrick, cotton broker, Liverpool, was indicted for the wilful murder of her husband by the alleged administration of arsenic. The case excited the greatest public ...