... NECESSITY OF A JOINT COMMITTEE. The chairn an of the Cardiff Tramways Com- mittee, which body met yesterday and devoted the greater portion of its sitting to a discussion of the article in Thursday's South Wales Daily News commenting on the slow progress of the committee in providing electric tramways, said they courted fair criticism. Nothing be- yond fair criticism was attempted in that ...

... CHARGE DISMISSED. T An assistant schoolmaster in the Melincrythan Day School named Edwin Morris waa summoned bv the parents of a boy named Conwill for com- mitting an assault upon the lad by thrashing him xvith a cane. Mr A. J. Jeffreys prosecuted, and Mr E. Powell defended. The evidence went to show that the boy's back bore marks of the severe castigation lis received, but in the end the ...

... A colliery accident, attended with fatal results, occurredat the-AlbioTrColliery, Cilfynydd, on Thnrsday evening, when a hitoher, named Richard Roach, was struck on the head and fatally injured by a falling lump of coal. He expired two hours later. ...

... TO THE EDITOK. Sir, —In thanking you for the very fall reports of my late husband's death and funeral, may I at the same time be allowed the medium of your paper to sincerely thank the many hundreds of friends in nil parts of VYalfts and the North of Englacd who have sent letters of sympathy to me and my family in our bereavement ? I should like to be able to thank all individually, but it ...

... A meeting of tho Cardiff Fiia Libt&ries Com- mittee was held at the Central Library on Tues- day evening under the presidency of Councillor Edward Thomas, J.P. Mr Ballinger (chief librarian) reported tha.t he lutd been invited to attend the opening of tha library which Mrs Rylands was presenting to th? people of Man- chester in memory of her husband. He stated that he believed the invitation ...

... MOTHER AND CHILD KILLED AT PONTARDULAIS. Mary Jones, wife of Edwin Jones, a collier working at the Birchgrove Colliery, Pontardu- lais, went on Tuesday afternoon with her daugh- ter May, two years of age, to fetch water. She had to go through the tunnel leading to the colliery. As she was returning with cans of water in her hands and the child on her back, an engina and trams from the colliery ...

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... THREATENED RISING OF NATIVES. RENEGADE IRISHMEN'S THREATS. Cape Town, Wednesday.—There are evidences of unrest among the Griquas, Pondos, and a sec- tion of the Bechuanas and Matabele, and fears are entertained that they will break out in revo- lution in case of war with the Transvaal. Advices from Johannesburg show that many Irishmen and a few adventurers, who are British subjects, intend ...

... PADDOCK GOSSIP. Newmarket, Wednesday.—Therain cakme down heavily and the light utterly failed just as Mit- cham won the October Handicap in excellent style, and this will have a very serious effect on Grodno's chance for the Ceaarewitch. He was de- cisively beaten by a celt who will be meeting him on some pounds better terms a fortnight hence in the big race. The latter course is six nrlongs ...

... C. B. TINCLER AND H. CULLUM. Tincler declines to make Cullum any allow- ance (says the Sporting Life), but is prepared to run him any distance from 1,000 yards to three miles, both off a mark, for £50 or £100 aside. A reply from Cnllum will lead to business. ...

... LONDON, Wednesday. Business has continued quiet in the Discount Market, and brokers have quoted rates from at 3f to 3% per cent. for three months' bills, owing to the uncertainty respecting an ear!y rise in the Bank rate to 4 per cent. and the demand for gold for New York. From the fact that the Bank of England has again done larger business in discounts and charged 3^2 per cent., it is ...

... PENSIONER OR PAUPER ? THE LATEST MOVEMENT TO SECURE PENSIONS FOR ALL. As we briefly announced on Saturday Mr Frederick Rogers, the organising secretary of the movement for securing a free State pension for everyone, has been in Cardiff with the object of securing the sympathy and assistance of the local representatives of labour. In order to assist readers in understanding the movement, one of ...