... lamps is not in lieu of ventilation, but only a safeguard in such cases as may be exceptional, as Mr Jones admits was the case on the occasion of the recent explosion at the colliery. Firedamp has been occasionally met with in the workings for some time past, showing that in any temporary obstruction of the ventilating current, firedamp may be expected to accumulate more or less. Under these ...

... SECOND DAY. The Inquiry was resumed on Wednesday morn- ing, when the re-examination of Ashman, the fire- man, was proceeded with. There was again a large attendance of parties interested and of the general public. The Foreman asked for production of the report book. The Coroner said Superintendent James had been checking the entries in the book relating to the finding of gas, and the book ...

... Before Colonel H. C. BYRDE (in the chair), Dr R. EDMUNDS, and Mr I. BUTLEB. SCHOOL BOARD CASE. Joseph Griffiths, Pontypool, was summoned for not sending his two children regularly to school.—Mr H. Bythwav represented the Trevethin School Board, and Mr F. Kelly gave evidence.—Defendant was ordered to send the children regularly to Park-terrace School. TRANSFER OF LICENCE. Mr L. E. Webb applied ...

... THE SAD DROWNING CASE AT PONTYPOOL. Mr Batt and a jury, of whom Mr John Howells was foreman, held an inquest at the Town Hall, as tl the death of Albert William Smith, aged 10 years, sou of Mr George Smith, gamekeeper on the Pontypool Park Estate, whose body was found in a pond in the American Gardens under circum- stances reported in our last issue. Mrs Susannah Williams deposed to seeing the ...

... BLACKWOOD POLICE COURT. FRIDAY. Before the Rev M. W. MOGG&IDCE (in the chair) and the Rev J. GRIFFITHS. ANNOYING A FARMER. ■Henry Stephens, toollier, was charged with doing malicious damage to fencing, to the value of 2s 6d, the property of Jacob Edwards, farmer, Cwmcarn, on the 3rd instant.—Defendant strongly denied the charge.— Complainant stated that on the day in question he saw defendant ...

... CONCERT AT SKBASTOPOL. A highly-successful concert was given in the National Schoolroom on Monday week, to an audience that completely filled the room. The vocalists were Miss Pollie Rowlands, Pontypridd Miss Maggie Protheroe, Ebbw Vale; Mr John Thomas, Blaenavon; and Messrs Lawrence and Edmunds. The popular H Caller Herrin, sung by Miss Rowlands, was, as usual, heartily received; and Miss ...

... Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, Sebaetopol School, next Wednesday and Thoreday. ...

... ADJOURNED INQUEST AT PONTYPOOL. The inquest into the circumstances attending the dreadful calamity at Llaneich Colliery on Thursday, the Gth instant (by which 176 men and boys lost their lives). was resumed at the Town Hall, on Tuesday morning, by Mr J. B. Walford deputy-coroner. Three casesiwere taken as represen- tative of the whole, the inquiry being held relative to the deaths of Joseph ...

... MEMORIAL SERVICE AT THE WESLEYAN CHAPEL, ABERSYCHAN. A memorial service was held at the Wesleyan Chapel, Abersychan, on Sunday evening, with special reference to the loss the church had sus- tained by the removal of twelve of its members, workers and adherents, by the explosion at Lian- erch Colliery. The pulpit was draped with bhck cloth, and in the congregation the presence of so many ...

... Mr Francis Brady, C.E., engineer-in-chief of the South Eastern Railway and Channel Tunnel Companies, claims to have discovered, on Satur- day week, the existence of a seam of coal at Shakespeare Cliff, Dover. The coal was reached at a depth of 1,180 feet. It is singular that Mr Prestwich, when before a Royal Commission in 1871, expressed the opinion that productive coal measures probably ...

... RELIEF LIST. PONTYPOOL SUBSCRIPTION LIST. Mrs Llewellin, Baglan Hall, Neath £ 50 0 0 Collected at Waterloo Road Chapel, per Mrs Tatlow 14 0 0 Mr W. H. Rosser Abergavenny 5 5 0 Messrs Crowther Brothers, Kidderminster 5 5 0 Sparrow, Hardwick & Co. 5 5 0 Mr D. Parry, Leeds, per Mr T. Fletcher. 5 0 0 Rev J: C,Lf.,W.ui. 5 5 0 Mrs Daubeney, Penbydwl-Fandy 5 0 0 Collection—Wesleyan Chapel 3 11 0 Mr ...

... IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AT PONTY- POOL. On Saturday last, a joint-meeting was held at the Crown Hotel, Pontypool, of the members of the Board of Management of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Miners' Permanent Provi- dent Society and the Abersychan Relief Distribu- tion Committee. The object of the meeting was to consider applications on behalf of persons other than widows and children who ...