... MR. W. LEWIS, Treharris, has a theory that Pontypridd might be supplied with water from the Merthyr system. When the new reservoir is completed, we shall have a million gallons a day, so to speak, for sale to the highest bidder. This quantity would be sufficient for a population of 50,000, and would supply Pontypriddand the Taff Valley down to Llandaff, together with Llanbradach and ...

... Leaves from the Merthyr Telegraph. VI. 1862.—The casual and uninterested reader of these records will note with pleasure the appear- ance, from time to time, ot the names of many who were prominent in the district at this time and who are still with us, or are represented by worthy successors. Perhaps one of the best- known of this period in our district was Mr. David Williams (Alaw Goch), ...

... DK. DYKE, in his annual report, says Cefn ought to be a haven of health. So it ought. But it isn't. There were 128 cases of infectious diseases reported there in 1895. This gives a proportion of one in every 23, the population being 2,880. In the Merthyr district the proportion is one in 123, and one in 48 in Gelligaer. Cefn is thus, despite its natural advantages, very far from being a ...

... .James Walsh, the husband of the woman, Ellen Walsh, who died at Dowlais under strange circumstances, as already narrated in the Marthyr Times was brought up before the magistrates at Merthyr, on Thursday, but no evidence was offered against him, and he was then discharged by the Bench. ...

... The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Duke of Cambridge, and the other Elder Brethren of the Trinity House were entertained at luncheon on Monday after- noon by the Lord Mayor of London at the Man- sion House. The Prince of Wales afterwards attended a special meeting of the council of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund, held at the Mansion House, on ...

... A STRIKING SCENE. At seven o'clock on Sunday morning 350 of the Roman Catholic s>i!ors of the Mediterraneaa Squadron, with some 50 ollicers, arrived from Civita Vecchia ai, the Tra-itevcre railway-station, in Rome. Here they were received by a deputation of the Anglo-Roman Committee, which, under the preii- dencv of Mgr. Stonnr, and with the assistance of the Duke of Norfolk, had organised the ...

... At Aberdare School Board on Friday, Rev. D. Griffiths moved that Mr. David Morgan (miners' agent) and Rev. D. M. Davies should sign the cheques.—Mr. David Moigan I move that Mr. Heppell and Mr. Railton should sign them. They are better educated than wo (laughter).—Rev. D. M. Davies I won't give in to that (laughter).—Mr. D. Morgan But they are colliery managers (laughter).—It was ultimately ...

... Cyfcirier pob gohebiactli Gymreig ar liynciau dyddorol, lleol, ncu weithfaol, yn ngliyd a'r farddouiacth, i'r swyddfa fel y canlyn lORWERTH, Merthyr Times Office, Merthyr. COLOFN Y BEIRDD. CROESAW l'R GOG A'lt WENOL Doed y gwcw, doed y wenol, Adar mudol man, A fu i mi'n hen gymdeithion Lawer gwaith o'r bla'n Gyut yn nyddiau fy ieuecntyd, Disgvvyl a wnawn i Am i'r gog a'r wenol ganu Gwew a ...

... SIX I.ivf. LOST. A collision which resulted in the loss of six lives occurred on Sunday off Southwold, between the steamer Claverlev, of London, in ballast from Hamburg, and the steamer Hertha, of Middlesboro', on her way to that port from Bilbao. The collision occurred shortly before eleven a.m. The weal her very fotjjjv, and the boatswain of the Claverlev says that his vessel was going all ...

... [BY JOE HAMMERSMITH.] I have read Dr. Rogers' adjudication on the chief choral at Porth, and speaking as a lay- man, I am very far from being satisfied with it. The Doctor speaks of time and tune, intonation and colouring, balance and con- ductorship. These things are no doubt essential, and cannot be ignored. Still they are only the mechanical part of music, and with such choirs as those of ...

... DOWLAIS NOTES. The annual report of the Merfchyr General Hospital was recently issued, and the state- ment of accounts shows that during last year the following sums were contributed from Dowlais :-DowI;us Iron Co., R12) 19s. od. Dowlais colliers, (is. (xl. Dowlais iron- workers, £ 43 (is. (id. The Dowlais members of the ladies' committee, namely, Miss Cresswell, Miss Jones, Galon Uchaf; Mrs. ...

... Chief Choral Contest.—Dowlais Victorious.- Death of Mr. Harry Evans' Sister. On Monday the Dowlais Philharmonic Society, conducted by Mr. Harry Evans, A.R.C.O., journeyed to Brynmawr to take part in the chief choral contest. They were labour- ing under serious disadvantages. The pre- vious Monday they had competed at Porth on a different test-piece, and it will be remembered that they came off ...