... f FEDERATED CHAMBERS OF TRADE. South Wales Water SUDD!V. The annual ffi6ei;ns of the Federated Chambers of Trade was held on Thursday afternoon at Coombs' Restaurant, Pontypridd. Mr Donald Rees. Poutypooi, presided. COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICES. Mr George Upham. Mertbvr (hoc. secretarv), announced that the clerk to the Gla-morcan County (Mr Franklen), in a letter of October 19th. had replied to a ...

... WELSH RAILWAY CRISIS. SHADOW OF A BIG STRIKE. I Decision of the Men's Executive. j A crisis of a serious character is impending in Wales which will affect the Taff Vaie, the Rhymney. the Barry, and the Cardiff Railways, On Thursday Mr R. Bell, the general secretary of the A.S.R.S., issued a statement in which be cays The executive committee of our society are now in session, ard amongst the ...

... BARRY. Musical Suces3. -At the examination,held Cardiff recently in connection with the Rovai College of Music, Miss Lottie A. Thorns, The Pharmacy, Barry, a pnpil of Mr E. P. Mills:, I i.A.R M., succeeded in gaining the bigner divi- I sioji cciiiJticate in pianoforte playing. ...

... Official Starting Prices. (As published by Racing Calendar and Sporting Life,) NOTTINGHAM. Trer u Steeplechase ...

... YOU CAN PROVE THIS. BECAUSE IT HAPPENED HERE IN CARDIFF. If it had happened somewhere else you might believe it, but yon could not prove it, and that makes all the difference. Yoa must have seen many such statements before, but you took very little notice of them because you neither knew tbe pers ...

... A Piece of Land from Swansea. Mr Justice Darling and Mr Justice Channell, sitting as a Divisional Court in the Queen's Bench Division, gave judgment to day in the appeal by Sir Robert Morris against the judgment ob- tained by Mr Graham Vivian at Swansea Courty Court respecting a piece of land nearCline Wood, Oystermouth. which both parties claimed. Then Lordships held the case had Dot been ...

... QUICK WORK. An inteifating insta.Qce of rapid printing has been ahown in the CMe of the third edition pf Red PottELge. which was burnt while atpiesa on the mornin of Sa.tard9.y, December 9, and the platss hopetessty d&ma.Ked. Within three hoars of the news being received by the pub- lisher, Mr Edward Arnold, 16 compositors were at work at Messrs Billing's, Gaildford, resetting the type, and ...

... At the Llanbaddan Petty Sessions on Thurs- day John Rowlands, Gogiaan, sanitary inspector to the Aberystwyth Rnral Council, was charged with indecently assaulting and llltreating one Evelyn Hope, a single woman, of middle age, re- siding at Goginau, on the evoning of October 11th. Mr W. P. Owen, Aberystwyth, prosecuted, and Mr A. J. Hughos, Aberystwyth, defended. In opening the case Mi W. P, ...

... RA:LWAYMEN'S MOVEMENT. Mr Mawie'y Gives Advice. No poiuô oi with reiereuce to the ou the of the membcr3 of the employed 0:1 Tab', the Birry, the Hhymev, s.cd ths Cn.rdiS' Ratlw:>.y Comp,JÎe systems for improved condirioos. The Executive of the 80cietv of Ssrnnts f'.viites Mr James Mawdeaiey in the Snn.lay hp.3 ag,iii been a resolatlou œf!rettiu t!!a.t cex:a.!Q railway co-ripa.mee bn,vc uot ...

... The Man About Town, I like to let in each month with a seasonable note but here is the fourth of December, and my attention has only just been called to the passing of the month of fogn and frosts. A more pleasant gloomy month I don't remember—but that is by the way. My object in emphasising a note on the Calendar is simply to call the reader's attention to the joys and pursuits of the ...

... TO-DAY'S WEATHER, THIS MORNING'S FORECAST. The following forecast was issued by th oteorological Office at 10.30 o'clock to day DISTRICTS— 0. Scotland, N. t South-westerlv and southerly 1. Scotland, ) winds; cloudy; some scow. O i7 MP ) South easterly to variable  f breezes unEetled; so?l- j.Eu?nd, L. J snow, 4. Mid. Counties..) Southerly to variable breezes; 5. Eng. S. (Lon. J some snow ...

... Mr Thomas Widger. who received a nasty fat while schooling a horse on Thursday, is modi improved, and quite out of danger. Air E. Corngaa, one of the most prominent men in California, intends to send over a select string of horses to race in England next season. Everything points to Mr Whitney's racing ia tngiacd being conducted upon a very big scale, and it is moieover said tbat he will ...