... !COLLIER-HAULTIERQuEITlON JMIOR[ANT CA81!, AT PONTYPRIDD A Case was heard before Judge awilym MWil- liams at a special sittingr of the P'ontypridd Couuty-oourt oil 'tuesdat.y in which ml inspor- tant principle was involved-whether an emn- ployer has the right to send an tan who had sig1ied On as a collier to do the duties of a hautier when it is thought essential. The plain- tiff Novas one ...

... GLAMORGAN RIFLE ASSO- 'CIATION. 4 ANNUAL MEETING. d . Captain the Hon. Odo Vivian presided at a meeting of the Glamorgan Rile Association held at the Cardiff Towu- b Sj hall on W Wednesday afternoon.. The C annual report and the minutes, having 'h ). been presented, were adopted ofter a, few t slight alterations., The committee had recoin: ! 4mended that the shooting at the June c l meeting ...

... MIE0 LAWRENCE AT CARDIFF, P HOUSE DINNER AT TUHE CON- it SERVATIVE CLUB5 S SPEECH BY THE UNIONIST th CANDIDATE. Es~ SATISFIED WITH THE PRlE- jil0 LIMINARY CANTER, n11 Bi A heuse dinner given by the chairman, dirc- at tors, and members of the Cardiff Conservative ha Club to Mr. Joseph Lawrence, Unionist cisudi- th date for the united boroughs of Cardiff, Cow- Po bridge, and Lliaitrislant. held ...

... | CORPORATION CONTRACTS. DEPUTATION FROM CARD= WORkMEIN. OBJECTION TO A LOCK-OUT CLAUSE. At the monthly meeting of the Cardiff Cor. ii poration on Monday, the mayor (Mr. 8. A. h Brain) presiding, a deputation-some 40 d strong-representing the sevoral sections of b labour in the building' trade, attended to v protest against the proposal to insert a lock. il out clause in corporation contracts. ...

... p . . AyrsW--Ms=t; OPENING PlROCEEDINGS TO-DAY. The British Association of Waterworks Engineers will commence at Cardiff to-day (Tuesday) their fifth annual general meeting. The proceedings extend over four days, and the business portion will be lightened by excursions to various works and places of intercest in Cardiff and the neighbourhood. Judging by the applications for tickets, the ...

... ' TEE - BRITISH. AT I I DORDRECHT. HOW THE BOERS TREATED o THE: RESIDENTS, f RE-OPENING OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION. DORPREOCT, Monday (By Dispatch-rider to Bird's River). The occupation of Dordrecht is fnow coom. plete. Our.campwaspitched in the town this k morning, and we are In pospession of all the strong ?? previously held by the enemy, t Our patrol6 are right on the mountain tops, a ...

... : ti - - , - , I1 THI, WELSH SETTLERS IN PATAONI A. IMPROVED PROSPECTS. i - dc According to the latest intelligence i received from the Chupat jralley. in Pata- LI gonia, where a, colony of WelThmen havez settled, the prospects of future prosperity l d are becoming more satisfactory The Yi Chpiiaissioe appointed by the Argentine M Republic to repair the damage caused by Sd last year's floods ...

... 'o FREE STATE . - BOE~iJ86d IS, ( ' -- v * )le, li- MAiE A DASH FOR iel . ld iKROONSTAD. issi he ee lio !ar 3it FRENCH CUTTING Nic hie F THEM OFF, Lot lie try- he he IMPORTANT COUP nd EXPECTED. ird to as GOOD W AORK B Y GATACRE. F (From the Dkily Teegraph D , War Uorrespondent.) ly Special W Ar gemelnt for Simltaineoea Ptbildation in thie W stern Mail BLOEUMFONTEINj Thursday nd (4.5 p m.) ...

... CO R R ESPONDENCE, Bicyclo Accident.-Justice D. O.-We think that 13, hlavlig boen obviously in the wrong. -boiauli pay the costs of mending A's mnachiRe, aiml ehoald he made to ti so,. You should immediately isrue a summons in thre ?? agalilnst him. 'Jaryinalsi ?? privilege oi aeting as a common juryinan ista iportion of the psies whlicle we pay ior oar heritages as Englislmnen or Welshmeni ...

... nl SA;Ah MaA-- A -A1- -; C.- .. South Africa' has not shown from thle tf commencement of the war such activity as it t does at present. There is movement 'every- It w rhere. General Bullcr-ie hghve 6 at l stv on the authority of the War Office-has left p the Tugela behibd him, and is IIow march- e inguponLadysmith. Thiswasthesubstance r a of a' message which came to the public as a ( - welcome ...

... MR. SAMUI. SMITH ON THE . 'STAGE, hU mr. Samuel Smith, likc the Knighlt of rl Ilt 'I1lan f, h5s a mission in life. The ra enorgotie Spaniard unlclertook the task of cu demolishing tbe windmills of his country co b nt et svit little success. Tbere they at rem~ill to this day grim monlmenlts to th r the nemor1v of the manl who tilted at to them in vain. The ]nember for Flint cni , does not couch ...

... AN AMATEUR CLOCKMAKIIRl. Lord Grimithorpe, who has resigned the poee- A tion of Chancellor of York, which he has held since 1877, is, perhaps, the most distinguished J amiateur clockmaltcer in this counitry. HIe has aid olne of the most aoinplate workshops in thle FPlN world, regularly employing several aceom- Blt plished journeymen to carry out the rougher 49. work of his experiments. Before ...