... RHONDDA AND SWAN§tfj& £ ^AT RAILWAY. MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS* THIS DAY. A Special meeting of the shareholders in the1 above-named railway was held to-day at the-officcs in Fisher-street, Swansea, at which the director a 1 recommended that the section of the Bill now being promoted in Parliament, which applies ifor powers to connect the new pits being sunk Cyminer by the North Navigation ...

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... CHICAGO, Monday. Tha Executive of the Irish National League in America met yesterday and expressed regret at. the failure of the last summer's mission to Ireland They urged Irishmen to organise to secure the relief of the evicted tenants and the release of Irish prisoners. ...

... ng to the unsettled Btate of v a moderate number of the weekly meeting of the ion at the Albert Hall on though the audience was meeting was by no means iscKiu^ tu eutiiusmsni. The Rev. D. Xnomas pi e- sided, and was supporter by thetItevvCefil Butler, Messrs. Llojr3, Eynon, Jo in Morgan, and others. After the singing of the hymn Ten thousand times ten thousand, and devotional exercise, a. ...

... THIS DAY. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Swansea1, Harbour Trustees was held at the Guildhall, on Monday, the following being present: Sir John Jones Jenkins, who presided, Alderaaro Chapman (Mayor of Swansea), Ajdermln Mason, J. Richardson Francis, T. Glyn Price, Griffith Thomas, Edward Daniel, James Jones, Thomas Elford, Morgan Tutton, Col. Pike, Thomas Glas- bi-ook, David Harris, ...

... THE HOME IlULE BILL. » PUBLICATION OF A STOLEN 1 COPY. KJiVV FEATURES OF THK SCHEME. The Independent pi-ints to-day a forecast of the •Ionic Rule Bill, purporting to be based on the text of the Bill itself. One of the most important of the new features is a clausc giving the Crown the right to veto all Bills of the Irish Legislature, subject to any instruction which may from time to time be ...

... A GHOST MACHINE. Mr. Steed is havnig a spirit-writing machine invented for 'him. The invention works upon the spirit-rapping and table-turning principle, being a magnetised dial-platcfwhich communicates by wires with a new form of typewriter. The niedium places lai*. hand upon tfte dial, and the spirit. infiueotjes him tp spell out a message on the typo- writer. We would rather imagine anyone ...

... | MINJytfS' REDUCSHbN IN SCOTLAND. A-GSasgow telegram states that the Scoteh Coal (Owners, to-day, agreed to reduce miners' wages ten per cent. which is equatto sixpence per day. ...

... To-day in the Roman calendar occurs the feast of St. Valentine, a Romish priest Vi h,) suffered martyrdom in tiie-year 270. In olden times the day was a popular festival. On the previous evening a coterie of young unmarried people would assemble and inscribe upon little billets the names of au equal number of maids and baeindors. Those would be mixed togctli-cr in a common receptacle and ...

... FREE LIBRARY. — LECTURE BY DR. R. E. ELSWORTH.—On Saturday evening on of the most interesting lectures from the commencement of the series was delivered at the Free Library by Dr.R.E. Elsworth, his subject being The way we breathed which was illustrated with diagrams. The chair was taken by the Rev. J. Phillips, Hebrew minister, Swansea. Dr. Elsworth gave a minute and graphic description of ...

... rrssik An important decision was arrived at to-day b the Manchester Master Cotton SpinSer*^ Associa- tion with a view to cutting off the suppfJes of the Operatives. There are eighteen million spindles under the authority of the Federation, and of these fifteen millions are already fleeted by the struggle. It'is announced that two millions more will stop' on the 24th inst. and that the ...

... NOTES ON NEWS. The miners' delegates who SLIDIKG SCALD. met yesterday at Cardiff must be congratulated on their wisdom in determining to re-open negotia- tions with the employers for making another agreement. Very possibly the representatives of the miners will not bo able to command such good terms as were possible even three months' ago but there is no doubt that, by mutual concessions and ...