... WELSH GOSSIP. The Western District Association of Colliery Workmen now numbers over 8,000 members. It is suggested that a memorial fund should be opened to perpetuate in some suitable way the memory of the late Rev. Elias Owen, the well- known Welsh antiquary. The Globe has perpetrated the following :— Among the birthday honours we see that Mr H. M. Stanley has been made a G.CJB. It is alto- ...

... MR T. J. BUCKLEY AND THE ABER- TILLEKY FREE CHURCH CO UNCIJj. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-The attention of the above Council having been directed to a letter of Mr T. J. Buckley which appeared in your issue of the 15th inst., in which the truthfulness of the Council in general and of Mr John Davies in particular was called in question, we, the undersigned, were appointed to investigate the ...

... A QUESTION OF PROMOTION. The appointment of an electrician at the Cardiff Electric Station occasioned & warm dis- cussion. at the meeting of the Electrical Com- mittee on Tuesday morning. Councillor W. Evans presided. At a former meeting the com- mittee recommended that the most experienced fitter at the station should be promoted, but the Council referred the recommendation back to the ...

... SWANSEA, Tuesday. The attendance on 'Change to-day Nas fully up to the average. Several buyers from London, Liverpool, apd the Midlands were present, and appeared to be busily engaged in transacting business in the various branches represented. Pig iron warrants continue to move upwards, an advance of lid per ton being shown in Scotch, 3s per ton in Middlesbrough, and Is 5d per ton in hematite ...

... YOUNG LADY SERIOUSLY INJURED. Miss Florence Adams (19), the young woman who had such a narrow escape on Sunday after- noon on the occasion of the 'bus accident in Castle-road, seems to have been more seriously injured than was at first reported. It will be remembered that when the horses bolted she jumped off the tail board and received a severe shaking, bruising her knee and shoulder. She was ...

... Relying, as he modestly expressed it, on the, absolute excellence of his cause rather than.on his powers of advocacy, Mr Long spoke at some length in support of the Bill, but failed apparently to make the least impression either on the minds of his opponents or his friends. Subsequently he was genially chaffed by Mr Birrell, who congratu- lated the right hon. gentleman on the warmth with which ...

... Itwill be recalled that at a largely-attended meeting of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners' Association on Monday, arrange- ments were made for the admission into member- ship of the Association of the Bwllfa and Merthyr Dare Collieries Company, Aber- dare Valley (of which company Mr Arnott is the chairman), upon an output of 500,000 tons per annum and also for the admission of the ...

... IT makes one almost despair of the final supremacy of truth, in this world of hallucination and error, to discover at the close of the nineteenth century that there is a majority of the Cardiff Board of Guardians which fails, like their ancestors in the darker ages of the past, to distin- gaish between religion and creeds. If there be one truth more emphatically insisted upon by the GREAT ...

... CAMPANIA SINKS A STEAMER. Lloyd's agent at New York telegraphed on Saturday that the liner Campania had sunk the steamer Fletcher. No other details were given. New York, Saturday.—An immigrant transfer steamer, with only her crew on board, attempted to cross the bow of the Cunard steamer Campania to-day, but was struck by the liner and sank. There was no loss of life. The Campania sus- tained ...

... THti KENT MARTYRS. LORD G. HAMILTON ON CHURCH DISSENSION. The Kent martyrs' memorial was unveiled at Canterbury on Saturday by Lord George Hamil- ton, who spoke of the benefits which had resulted to the National Church from the sacrifice of their lives by these British martyrs. Referring to the present da,y differences on religious questions, lie said he trusted that the outcome of those ...

... Grangetown Conservative Club v. Grangetown. -At Grangetown on Saturday, and resulted in a, win for G rangetown by 99 runs. Scores Conservative Club—totals, 12 and 30 Grange- town-totals, 41 and 100. ...

... CHARGES AGAINST WOMEN. Vienna. Wednesday.—To-day there began (be- fore the Hungarian Criminal Court at Temesvar) a sensational trial. Fourteen women from Zsbely are accused of poisoning their husbands, and in some cases also their children, with arsenic, alleged to ha.ve been furnished by A tradesman named Korin. The authorities were informed by anonymous letters, aud ordered sixteen bodies to ...