... The improvement in the copper trade at the end of last year was fully maintained during' the past month, and smelters advanced their official rates £ 5 per ton. The exports from Chili for the past year reached 48,750 tons, showing decrease of 6,800 tons as compared with 1870, and of 16,050 tons as compared with 1869. The stocks left on the Chilian coast at the end of the year amounted to 8,708 ...

... 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 ...

... TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION FORMED. A meeting of teachers was held in the Copper Works Schoolroom on Saturday afternoon, at which it was resolved to form an association, to be called the Llanelly District Teachers' Union, and having for its object to promote social inter- course amongst teachers, to hold collective examinations of pupil teachers every three months, and to take action on anything ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SAD CAB ACCIDENT—A sad and painful incident oc- curred on Saturday last about mid-day on the Market- square, which indicated, on the one hand, great negligence on the part of a cab-driver, and on the other hand, a remarkable and almost miraculous escape from immediate death to a much-respected gentleman now on a visit in the town, Captain Smyth, of Narberth, an old Peninsular officer, eighty ...

... 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 ...

... VESTRY MEETING. -A vestry meeting was called of the ratepayers of the parish of Bedwellty at the Castle Hotel, on Friday evening, to consider the propriety of providing hospitals for the reception of persons attacked by the small-pox, which direful malady seems to be gaining ground throughout the parish, no^ fewer than about 1,500 persons having been attacked since June, and of this number 169 ...

... At a special meeting of the Labour Representation League recently held at Cockspur-street; Mr. R. Marsden Latham, the president, in the chair, the follow- ing resolution was agreed to :— That this League views with strong dissatisfaction and profound regret the il- liberal policy announced by her Majesty's Government with reference to the retention in their proposed electoral reforms of the ...

... There are now undeniable proofs that the fire which was discovered raging in the Darfield Main Colliery early on Sunday morning last, by which fully 700 hands have been idle, was the work of an incendiary, and so strongly was that feeling expressed by Mr. Wardle, the Government Inspector of Mines, Mr. Smith, and others, that on Friday morning placards were posted throughout the dis- trict ...

... 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 ...