... WELSH STREAMS RUN LOW. An expert correspondent sends to a London contemporary the following piece of information Last year, it will be remembered, the Usk, Wye, and other Welsh rivers were not so much affected by the drought that then prevailed as the English rivers generally. Occasional showers, and even aoniet.imes a, good downfall oi rain, kept them from falliDg to a very low point. This ...

... As we pointed out the other day, the new police order about the removal of dead bodies from the Thames is a piece of very silly officialism. After a long ihuceossion of scandals, a practice bad become established whereby the palice removed to the nearest mortuary all cases of Found drowned. The new order lays it down that the overseers, not the police, must re- move the bodies in future. The ...

... A. middle-aged man named David Davies, employed as a waggoner by the London and North-Western Railway Company at Carmarthen, was engaged in the shed on Thursday morning, when he was caught between a pig truck and a loaded flour waggon, and terribly squeezed. Fortunately the pressure was almost immediately removed, but the poor fellow had to be conveyed home and attended to by a. doctor, and it ...

... BOER IMBROGLIO NEW DEVELOPMENTS. A SCORE FOR BRITISH DIPLOMACY. KRUGER IN A DILEMMA. PORTUGAL CHANGES FRONT. MUNITIONS FOR PRETORIA RELEASED. (Press Association Special Telegram.) Pretoria, Thursday,-The accounts of the new developments in the situation published in the local Press coincide with the particulars con- tained in my telegram yesterday. A summary of the recent negotiations, which ...

... AFFAIRS IN PARIS. GUERIN'S LITTLE GAME. Paris, Tia(irsday.-During the night three drunken men were arrested in the vicinity of the Rue de Chabrol for shouting, Long live Guerin down with the Jews. M. Guerin appeared on the roof of the Anti-Juif buildings at daybreak as usual.—Reuter. Patis, Thursday.—The evening and morning* passed very calmly in the Rue de Chabrol, and as the police placed ...

... As briefly announced in Thursday's issue, the death took place that morning of the Rev. E. Rowe Evans, of Neath, the well-known Baptist minister and lecturer. As reported in our columns the reverend gendeman was some days ago regarded as in a mast critical condition, but hope was still cherished that the sufferer might rally and possibly recover. These hopes were strength- ened when it became ...

... SWANSEA v. CARDIFF. I Played at the Swansea Baths on Thursday evening before a capital crowd of spectators. The visitors came down two men short, but their places were filled by two good substitutes. The teams were :-Swpnsea-H. Mills, D. Sutherland, G. Jones, W. Doherty (captain), T. Francis, H. Russell, and Shaw. Cardiff—F. S. Coppock, H. Roberts, D. Morgan, A. E. Howarth (captain), F. S. ...

... MASS MEETING AT CWMAMAN. Alderman David Morgan, Aberdare, miners' agent, addressed a. mass meeting of the Cwm- Mnan colliers on Wednesday night. The meeting was convened to consider the question of the No. 3 book and also that of sub-contracting, which is said to be on the increase in the colliery. Several of the colliers having explained the grievances which they complained of, Alderman David ...

... RESOLVEN. Presentation.—On Wednesday, at the Board School, Resolven, special honour was paid to Mr and Mrs David Williams, of Isycoed, the retire- ment of Mr Williams from the post of cashier at the colliery of Messrs Cory Brothers and Co. (which post he had held for 24 years) being marked by the presentation to Mr and Mrs Williams of life-sized oil-paintings of them- selves and an illuminated ...

... At the Merthyr Police Court on /before Mr North and Mr Joseph Owen) Mr William Jones, Dowlais, grocer, &c was stun- moned for selling adulterated tho substance sold to Inspcc™ £ SSsrfc «> ...

... SOUTH WALES FINANCE. (Cardiff Account Day, August 31st.) Thursday, August 31sfc, 1899. The local market, in sympathy with London, remains in a quiet and unsettled condition, and the outlook for the New Account is not particularly rosy at present. Besides the uncertainty felt as regards the iirend of South African affairs, a good many local people are either com- pleting their holidays or ...

... The biscuit workers of Reading number four 7thrussrd, and a statement by one of Messrs. (B llatloy arid Palmer's men in the Reading *8tndard discloses particulars affecting all Wenrls. The matter is put forth with the. greatest candour and detail, the full name aisd fo ilddresvof the speaker being published-Ir. no eorgB Hollick. 7, W~eldale-street, Reading. He de s au intelligent, good ...