... GRIEVANCES OF THE TRADE. The half-yearly conference of the council of Licensed Victuallers' National Defence League opened at Yarmouth yesterday. The President. Mr C. J.Long, of Maidstone,said that teetotalers were using every effort to curtail the privileges of the trade and injure it at every vital point. He urged the trade to secure the support of members of Parliament, so that legislation ...

... BRISTOL MONEY-LENDING CASE An aged couple, named William and Bertha Hale, of NC'Nnhttm, Gloucestershire, were sued at Bristol Comity Court yesterday by Abraham Lazarus, money-lender, of Bristol, trading in the name of Masters, for £ 10 bpJanee on a promis- sory note. They borrowed iE25 from Lazarus, who advertised in the mm of Masters. The agreement was to pay nine payments of J2 each and a ...

... VAGARIES OF ELECTRIC The electric light has catiscd a good deal of trouble in Manchester and Salford. On several evenings it has broken down either partially or entirely owing to accidents at the generating stations or in tbe mains to the serious annoyance of consumers. In one instance the central por- tion of the city was plunged into darkness until the ga-i lamps could be lit, whilst at ...

... SUNDAY DRINKING IN WALES. At the Conway adjourned Licensing Sessions on Monday Mr Trevor Lloyd appeared in support of applications for the renewai of the licences of the Erskine Arms, the Harp, the Blue Bell, an3 the Junction Hotels, in the borough of Conway. Mr David Owen opposed on behalf of the Arfon and Vale of Conway Temperance Society on the ground generally that the houses named wore ...

... In the repoit of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Sooieties allusion is made for tbe first time to tha work done under Section 3 of the Workmen's? Compensation Act (the contracting oat section},' and seeing that thig report only deals witb th« work nnder that section for the siz months to the 31st December, 1899, the resnlt is by no means! unsatisfactory. The first step taken by the Chief ...

... RHYDDHAD DREYFiUS fir - l-. Hi r - Ad -- . El VMADAWIAD DIRGELAIDD 0 YMADAWODD y Cadben Dreyfues o'r carchar mllwrl yn Rennes, am dri o'r gloch boreu ddydd Nlercbe diweddaf. Yn gynnar yn yr hwyr, nos Fawjth gal,, odd cyfalll ir carcharor gyda pherchenog ?? cerbydau ye y dief, gan ddyweyd y byddai Mario ldien benthyg landau rywbryd ar clde2 cr h noson bono. Tua Ealth o'r g!rob, daeth yn ei ofyn ...

... BEGISTEBED AT THE GBNBRAL POSI OFFICE AS A NBWSPAPER. MEDI 27AIN, 1899, Digwyddladau yr Wytwhnioz CARTREPJOL. WBTN anerch cyfarfod o'i etholwyr yn Nhredegar, ar yr 20fed cyfisol, cyfeiriodd Syr WILLIAM HARCOURT at y sefyllfa bres- ennol yn Neheu Affrica, a'r perygl o ryfel rhwng y wlad hon a'r Transvaal. Yr oedd ef yn foddlawn cymmeryd ei ran o'r cyfrif- oldeb am y cyttundebau a wnaeth y Llyw- ...

... flkffiotn. FEL y Mae pob edefyn u aur yn werthfawr, feliy y mnle pob munyd o ameer. NA fwriwch ddim baw i'r ffynnon a roddoddl ddwfr i chwi pan oeddych sychedig. BTUASAI gwirionedd yn boblogaidd gyda ni pe& na buasai and yn unig yn cynuyg i gywiro beimu, eraill. NA ddisgwyliwch ddim cynnorthwy neu ddy- ddanwch yn eich augenrheidiau gan gymdeithion, y diotta. Y MAE dynion s n trealio en bywydau ...

... - .- C CLIKASTICA .: ?? The Baptist Union. The autumnal assembly of the Baptist. Union of Great Britain and Ireland was resumed at Leeds-yesterday, the day being devoted to ser- vices and meetings in connection with- the' Baptist Union -missionary Society. - Sermons were preached to young men and young women in Burley Road and North Street Chbpels: by the Revs. J. M. Logan (Bristol) and G. ...

... 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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