... THE SOUTHERNDOWN ENCROACH- MENT. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-As one who was a member of the Peny- bont Rural District Council when the questions of encroachment and right-of-way at Southern- down were first brought before the notice of that authority, and as one who took, and still takes, great interest in the development of the ques- tions at issue, allow me, sir, to thank you most heartily for the ...

... A SATISFACTORY YEAR'S WORKING. The returns of shipments of coal and coke at Barry during the past year were made public gn Thursday morning, and contirm the figures already published in the South Wales Daily News. The figures are as follow Tons. Cwt. Half-year ended June 30th 1,967,943 15 Half-year ended Dec. 30th. 2,399,765 0 Total in 1898 4.367,708 15 To this total there are yet to be added ...

... We have scarcely time to think of dress at this season of the year, so busy have we been planning out our Yuletide gifts for relatives and friends. But we must not entirely lose sight of sartorial details, qr assuredly we shall not enjoy the fes- tivities as we ought and hope to. In this regard, we must especially consider the children. Parties will be the order of the day for some weeks to ...

... HEALTH OF THE LARGE TOWNS. LOCAL STATISTICS. The return of the Registrar-General for the week ending Saturday last (December 31st) shows that in 33 of the largest towns of England and Wales, which include Cardiff and Swansea, and contain each upwards of 88,000 persons, there wors registered 5,467 births and 4,105 deaths, The deaths corresponded to an annual rate of 191 per 1,000 persons living ...

... WORKING ARISTOCRATS. The report of the prizes gained by Princess Victoria of Wales in bookbinding haa, writes a Paris correspondent, caused an inquiry to be made as to the ability of French ladies in various handicrafts. The Duchess of Chaletres paints fans very artistically. Mme. de Cumien practises the art of minatures. Several prominent ladies are expert lace-workers. Mme. de Riencourt is a ...

... An inqnest at Winchc^mbe, Gloucestershire, on Tuesday on the illegitimate child of a married woman named Ellen Ourtia, who died from ex- haustion and starvation, caused by wilful neglect, xeftoltea in a vwdict of manslaughter against the mother. Deceased, who was insured, was de- Itcribed as being nothing but skin and bone. It weighed only half the normal weight, Hid wm coverea wiih sores, ...

... A CARDIFF TRADER'S REPORT. A despatch received by mail from Boston, U.S.A., dated January 8th, and dealing with the recent Atlantic storms, says Another transatlantic liner to feel the effects of the recent bad weather was the ElderDempster liner Memnon, Captain Cross, which arrived at Hoosac Docks yesterday. She left Cardiff on December 21st, in ballast trim, and encountered a series of ...

... ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. EAST CARMARTHENSHIRE. The dearth of Parliamentary candidates does not seem to be confined to the Liberal party. At a recent meeting of the Unionists of the East Carmarthenshire Division it was announced that Mr J. W. Nicholas, author of the Devil's Caul- dron and other popular works of fiction, in reply to a deputation who had waited upon him at his Llandilo residence, ...

... LAMBEKT BROS. v. TEE HESPEBXDES COAL COMPANY.—This case on Tuesday came on again for hearing in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court before Mr Justice Kennedy, sitting without a jury.—Mr Newton Dunn, a partner in the firm of Lambevt Bros., of London and Cardiff, was again called and cross-examined by Mr Hamdge at length as to the details of certain cargoes of coal, the Judge ...

... WOMAN CHARGED WITH SACRILEGE About 1 o'clock on Taesday a Belfast police- sergeant arrested a woman whom he found push- ing a bundle down a sewer trap. Lifting the grating he found a gold chalice monstrance and a considerable quantity of broken gold. At the police office it was discovered that the prisoner was Mary Watters, who with her husband was arrested last week suspected of bnrglmg and ...

... SCHOLARSHIP.—Miss Jane Mary Davies, 12i years of age, daughter of the Rev. Mr Davies, pastor of Hebron Baptist Chapel, Ton, Pentre, has won the Lloyd Roberts's Scholarship 0f £ 20, tenable for two years, at Dr. W illiams's Endowed High School, Dolgelly. She was a pupil at the Ystrad Higher Grade School before she left for North Wales. ...

... TRIALS OF PRISONERS. The Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Swansea opened on Saturday before Mr W. Bowen Row- lands, Q.C., recorder. Mr d. M. Morton Hedley was chosen foreman of the grand jury, and in his charge the learned Recorder congratulated the borough upon the fact that the cases were only of a trivial nature. In conclusion he wished thegrand jury and the town at large a happy and ...