... EDITORIAL CMMENTS. Public -authborities wtho have anything to TI do with education mnight wvith ajrvantage. . take a leaf out of the book of the technical th education bon.d of the London County wi 'Council. From the Techuical Education. so: Gazette we learn that -the 'board are now' foi offering special commercial'scholarships for. us teachers, each of the value of £160, andizsa tenable ...

... ; A genuine railway strike is surely delightful to the shade of Ruskin. The idyllic pastoral times have half returned to Glamorgan. r, In Norman times the measure for the sale of g iron in South Wales was the sum, which I. appears to have contained nine pieces. . Lord Cawdor has let the greater part of the I, Cawdor Castle moons, in Nairnshire; to Mr. l Forder, who resides at Drynachen ...

... 44,r A 2 19 00A TIHURSDAYr, AUGUST 2, 1900. SUAWMA1RY OF NITES. 'The advaltce to Peking 'has lcganm A. res- c sage from Shanghai stntes that the allied 11 forces for.'tfilg the rleotef expedition are now eight miles fr'an Tientsin. Thoy expect to Iv eaooh Peking in oa week. The telegram adds en tbiat all tue Buropeans have talo;n reuilge in bi the inner Irflscricil city. It is staltd thrat the ...

... w. ?, ?! I J , - ? - RECENT MISHAPS ON THE LINE. aE W . . rc of LORD ROBE RTS$S ACCOUNT. tc fr cc DESPERATE FIGH rT| dc AT KROONSTAD. ;! t tr Kr PRISONERS HOTLY o ENGAGED. L .IT 3BOTHA ADVANCING ON PRETORIA. Lord Roberts has sent a dispatch giving details of the. mishaps which occurred al at the beginning- of the month. tb He says that a convoy of fifty wagonpiS which was despatched from r, ...

... ; e-- mmm . V13DNE: SDAKY, APRIL 4, 190..I * SUMIfMARY OF MNBW, A further ofticial telegram from Lord of Roberts was published on Tuesday after- . noon. Ho. reports that, although there sO had been no fresbh engagement, his C troops were oonitinaouisly in touch with hl the enemy. In rega-id to the action in the ambush, he ment ons tlust many acts of So conspicuns3 gallantry were displayed ...

... TRIE MELANCHOLY END OF HISI MERrITORIOUS CAREER. I 'is a bad job. I love the Army, and yet C I have to leave it. The man was doleful, and A with good reason. For close upon six years-h the happiest time in my life, lie sighed- p 'Harry Rogers had served his Queen and country in the Army Medioal Corps, and had come to regard his career as absolutely bound up with that of Tommy Atkins. But ...

... 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. ...

... Tile Brecon and Merthyr Railway is Tery accommodative. A Breconshire rector ?? other day had time to have his hair cut whilst the tickets were being examined at one of the stations. Onucillor John Rixon, the mayor of Pein- broke, is the oldest man who has occnpied ,he mayoral chair in that borough. An ances- tor of Mr. Rixon-John Dixon-was mayor of the town in 1688. Both the representatives of ...

... HEARTY -VWELCOME AT TRIEST. ro Trieste, ,fonday.-The Anstro-Hungariail authorlties this evening, gave Va dinner in E! honour of ?? Nd.cditcrraneau Squadron. m The dining-lall was decorated with Austro- w tungarian adld British flag,s. Among those pre- g sent were Vice-admiral Sir John Fisher, with his staff and all the commanuders of the war- f ships, maksing a total of 64'persons from the ic ...

... PEKINGC 'IN TH1i MONTH OF' M itA ?? : A TALK liIT. THE LAST; TO GLOOMY TIEWS. y A student: interpreter-Mr. Graham by namc-wvho 'was, perhaps, e last, Euopean to e leavei the dooried Tlegations, has arrived ,in j Englandl_ from: Peking. : 1 l:e-:leftte Chinese capital for reasons of health on. Mfay 10 .(the latest news frora the .BrItih, Legation by lettesw being, it will? be f .remembstp :dt' ...

... BAROMETR'ICAL INDlIOAMONS., -- Apoended iee a sher of tall baromotrimal ravdings for ihe 49 hours anddd Sanditdy midnight, as ieins- tersd at the Wostori Maal Offce, .Cardlif. The instrtirnont is x33t. above seaf level. SAPURllDAl. . SUNDAY.' a e.1, Droen. I 4,n'l.Lem. X01. Jridal't. I :01 ?? -- . - 3' -- 29'5 ?? ?? - ' .- I '2 * .3 HIGH WATIER TO-DAY. Morning. rvenlor. leighlt. SNansszes 9, ...