... -letters and other communications intended for publication in this journal should be authenticated by the name of the writer, and addressed to the EDITOR. Rejected MS. cannot be returned. Orders for advertisements or copies of the paper, and other strictly business communications, should be addressed to the MANAGER, SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS Office, Cardiff. -Post Office Orders should be made ...

... THE LORD LIEUTENANT has appointed Mr. R. G. Thomas a deputy lieutenant of the county. GRAND CONCERT.—Mr. John Jones, the able instructor of the Carmarthen Volunteer Brass Band, gave his annual grand concert at the Assembly Room, on Friday evening. Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, there was a good attendance, including a large number of ladies. Mr. 3 onS was efficiently assisted on the ...

... A FORTUNE-TELLER AND HER DUPES. A fortune-telling case came before the Birraingha Bench of Magistrates a day or so ago, which ended in th fortune-teller being sent to prison for six weeks. Selin Smith, a hawker, called at a house in Wellington-road, and asked a servant to have her fortune told. This having been done, a fellow-servant had her fortune told, and then the prisoner asked one of the ...

... MR. SONLEY JOHNSTONE AND THE MER- THYR SCHOOL BOARD. To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS. SIR,—Mr. Johnstone having been unsuccessful in carry ing the motion on Friday, the majority having voted in the teeth of the great majority of the ratepayers, I am pleased to think it now rests with the Board of Guardians to follow in the wake of the Town Council of Birming- ham, by rejecting the ...

... Mr. Walter Montgomerie Neilson has been elected to the chairmanship of the Technical College for Glasgow; and a public meeting has been held under the presidency of the Lord Provost. £50,000 will be required to start the institution, and to establish chairs in connexion with the principal industries carried on in and around Gfasgovv. The Joiners' Company has placed at the disposal of the ...

... 5 EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. A soldier named Michel, of the 6th Cuirassiers, famous for its charges at Reischoffen, has been tried by a court- martial at Vincennes for returning to barracks drunk and after hours, and insulting and threatening the adjutant, who seatenced him to 15 days' imprisonment in the guard- house. The case was very clearly proved, but Michel was lucky enough to produce ...

... To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS. SIR,—Thanks are due to you for publishing articles and letters condemning the want of action of the authorities in various parts of the Principality, in the way of using means for the prevention of small-pox, &c. In this district, and especially in this town, small-pox is spreading very rapidly, and the condition of the streets, as regards ...

... FAMINE IN PERSIA. The Persian famine still continues, to a most painful 'extent. The latest telegrams from Ispahan state that ten thousand poor are on hand of the English Committee, which has funds for six weeks, but requires money for four months, until the summer crops are available. There have been severe snow storms—the heaviest for seven years, and the sufferings of the poor are ...

... -We have received a report of the proceedings at the Merthyr School Board last Friday, and the speech of the Rev. S. Johnstonej but as the communication did not arrive until two days after the meeting was held, we cannot find room for it in our columns, occupied as they necessarily are with the current topics of the hour. While we regret the circumstance, we desire to impress upon our ...

... A FOOLISH FREAK.—NARROW ESCAPE.-Four gentle- men of this place, who came up in a trap from Ponty pridd, had a narrow escape on Saturday. They met the Dinas dentist opposite the Dinas house coal level. They were all pretty hilarious, and one suggested that the mare suffered from tooth-aahe, and asked the dentist to extract her tooth. That gentleman being anxious to practice his art upon every ...

... ENTERTAINMENT.—On Thursday evening an entertain- ment was held at-the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. The chairman was the Rev. Thomas C Phillips accompanist, Mr. James James The following was the programme :— Address, the Chairman glee, the Choir; recitations, children; address, Mr. W. Williams; song, Ring the bell, watchman, H. Sage; dialogue, L. Davies, E. Phillips, D. Amos a round song, ...

... PETTY SESSIONS.—At the police court, on Friday,before Messrs H. Gwyn, J. H. Rowland, and W. O. Struve, two youths of respectable appearance, named Wm. Rees and Thos. Griffiths, were charged with being drunk and re- fusing to quit the New Inn, at Resolven, on Sunday afternoon, the 4th inst. The landlord was summoned to prove the case, and defendants were fined 10s. each and costs.—Rowland ...