... ts.] THE BETTERMENT OF MERTHYR. TO THE 1DITOB. Snt,-I read with very much interest, your very opportune leader in last week's iggue of the Merthyr Times, in which you strongly advocated some scheme for the betterment of Merthyr. I refer to the leader ...

... doubt that Merthyr, in the past, had been neglected, but they were alive to the necessity of sanitation, and were moving in the matter as rapidly as possible. It was all very well for Mr. Lewis to speak about the slums in Merthyr. They had slums also in ...

... such societies in Cardiffand Merthyr as that of the Metropolitan,— the object of which is primarily the improving of the dwellings of the industrious classes—an improvement which all who are acquainted with the slums of Merthyr and Cardiff (so graphically ...

... RAGGED SCHOOL. Santa Claus has not confined his beneficence to the children of the well to do. He has been round the slums of Merthyr, and made the hearts of many little half-starved boys and girls to dance with joy. On Christmas morning, for instance ...

... A MERTHYR MYSTERY. CHILD'S BODY FOUND. 0. Tharnisy, Yr ftesaili Alai Ina. IL 3. held imam epos tin Soiy a sidle Wad es the 'slid* sip, Plymeth. Gesso Theme he them • WAS, e.d hiessited his Millie se • the side et the tie Whom Ott be seam! at 6a the at ...

... FAREWELL SERMON AT MERTHYR. At Market-square Church on Sunday evenine the Rev. J. G. James, M.A., who is leaving Merthyr Tydfil for Yeovil, preached his farewell sermon after a ministry of 11 years. His subject was Merthyr, and the text em- braced the ...

... Council in sending a deputation to ask the Lighting Committee to increase the lighting accommodation in the back streets and slums of the town as a check to crime and immorality. Mr Stead says that some years ago, when he was editor of the Pall Mall Gazette ...

... olm Gal)e refused,—his original plan being granted. HT i1? foll°wing letter was read from the Hector of Merthyr Tydfil :— Gwaelod-v-Garth, Merthyr Tydfil, Nov. 5, 1833. blR, I shall feel obliged it you will lay this letter before the Board of Health of ...

... THE MERTHYR TYDFIL RIFLE CORPS. Merthyr is slow in originating, and still slower in imitation. Yet, when the impulse does seize the good town, and the ice becomes broken, very rapidly, and, on the whole, suc- cessfully, schemes and plans are carried out ...

... their God and to their brother man. Some men were food of asking what would Merthyr be but for the ironmusters I But he would ask, what would the ironmasters be but for Merthyr! They withhold wat-r from the town; but not only that, they would sell the ...

... will be given in our next. MERTHYR POLICE COURT. SATURDAY.—(Before the Venerable Archdeacon, Campbell, and D. Evans, Esq.) AN OLD PRACTITIONER.—Sarah Janes was charged by Mr. Thomas Roberts, shoemaker, of Victoria street, Merthyr. with stealing from his ...

... and Merthyr Railway Offices, at Dowlais, and stealing therefrom the sum of 6e 7d, monies of the said company: Mr Lewis (Smith, Lewis and Jones) prosecuted, and Mr Plews (Simons and Plews) defended. Isaac Thomas, a clerk under the Brecon and Merthyr Railway ...