... are in Ferndale till Christmas, and then we go to Treorky. If there are any of our friends pur- pose going to South Africa after the war, I can give them some good kfomation.- Yours faithfully, FRANK AYLMER. With Williams' Auction Mart, Ferndale, late ...

... PONTYPRIDD BAKERS' WAR. To the Editor. Sir,—There is a saving that its an ill-wind riieh blows nobody any good. The war now waging in Africa is altogether a very lamen- table affair, but no doubt. many will make a pile out of it. But my object in ...

... in compliance who may belong to the lodge who are called up as Reservists to ioin their colours oil account of the war in South Africa. ...

... Lord Tredegar on the War. Speaking at the 19th annual dinner in connec- tion with the Newport Cabmen's Sick Benefit Scciety, held at the Newbridge Inn on Mon- diiy evening, under the presidency of the Mayor ot Nlewport, Lord Tredegar, who responded tJ ...

... (Cheers.) I feel proud as I have sai l of the War Office and Ctuntry that it was able to send 105,000 sol- diers to South Africa in such a short period as that which had elapsed since the tircaration o? war. (Cheers). There is no other country in the world ...

... on 'the military operations in Sooth Africa. It is inevitable, after what has hap- pared and is taking place, that this amount should be forthcoming. But where there is difference of opinion is as to whether the war was inevitable. Mr Chamberlain, in his ...

... Hill says: We are expecting war, and crowds of people are leaving here everyday for the colony. It has now become a very grave matter, the question of the Transvaal power in South Africa. A week later Mr Hill writes: The war business is becoming more ...

... Government prior to the commencement of the war, but the -present was not the time for criticism. That would come later. They should at present show a united front to the world and bring the war in South Africa to the only conclusion pos- sible. (Applause) ...

... RESERV- ISTS' FAMILIES, OR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN. PRACTICAL SYMPATHY. ONE GOOD. TURN DESERVES ANOTHER. THAT FATEFUL WAR. If the war in Africa, into which un. happily lis is country hH,.J been plunged by bung- ling diplomacy, sliotU4 iifc ve liodt-lier good ...

... Library, has just received the follow- ing letter from him this week 'Gunner John Hughes, G Battery, R.H.A., Field Forces South Africa | Nov. 24th 1899. Dear Parents,—Well, at last we have arrived at the Caps after three weeks on the w^ter with- out a sight ...

... present. Mr Edwards then favourably criti- cised the action of the present Government in declaring war, and expressed an opinion that it was a just war, whereupon ex-Councillor R. Morris, who was seated in the body of the hall got up on his feet and stated ...

... few weeks, and could not now be ob- tained for shipment abroad during the next few months under El per ton fo.ob. The war in Scuth Africa had, no doubt, helped to raise prices by coming on top of the already strong demand, but this demand for Welsh coal ...