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Mauasing Director OSWALD STOLE, j TO-NIGHT. rJpHE rjp\VO ^|oNA( (;IfT<;NS, The Quaintest Couple on the Stage. STEVE MCCARTHY, Comic Singer. MISS ALICE LLOYD, x The Petite and Charming Comedienne. IKE SOOTT AND SON, C()ln.;>diauy. THE EIGHT ELDORADO DANCING GmL". MISS DULCIE I.AING, Vocalist and Dancer. BRETT AND ORFORI), In a Musical Playlet. MI.-S CORA CASKLLI, The Most E.vtraorilinarj- of Let-mania Danccro. MISS MARIE KENDALL. Art..).u)arSin?rof!'ot.u)?rSou? JTl. ° PvMorniaiKM Xichtly. Karly one '???u'?-??-<-???'? (10(ik and U ^0XOtlH-e Op,,? Daily (with ?''<'P"?n "f ,,r d ?k Va!) II a.in. to 4 p m. ik iid 7 to '.0 I, I I ?? to 2 p.* PLlfl of 4,rLiiid Circle.'?o B?kng F?c?. ii?.'??_?_  L!76JO NE\Y POI1T. "V E W P 0 R T E M pIRR" ?' CHA):LESSTR);m'. t „ l1i",<:t< CRWALD STOLL. v TilfVliv!1ri1,M1 l-lrv ,•-AR, L HERTZ, in Magical in which he is •O,. U 1 M v t,u' charming and T)c!t ArfM^e ?.?'?:Y ')'?. v Vocaljgt. '?''???''? '?'?? lcll! ° The IH'JL\R THIO!  yr'?!? 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BAUOMETRICAL INDICATIONS. Apremled in a churl, of tho birom^trioal re:¡r]icf" f., -tb 40 hours entleil SIIIKUT midnight, mri1*- "I At the li,.? t??'? y.,¡ ()iU!t' Cardif. Tho in?trumi,.iif is "!t.

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YESTERDAY S TEMPERATURE. iomperatura a. regIstered ? t Cwrt-y-Vil, I icimrih, for rh) TWELVE h.tirs ENDING nine o clock I t ni:;ht:- I :1\fn:r. Min. !!e, &UA4AT 6J 54 5°.5

""r,lèK'S TEMTERATCIIE AN PI RAIMPALL. Th« followinj table GIVEE tb» temperature and -?-if?t) at Cwrt?y-Vit. P<-nxrth. for 24 hours, AO rep;«tered at nine a.m. AU^ entered the preceding day:— M. RUi entered I IULNRIM. DATE. I liIu.x. "Iin.-l It.uyr.u.r.. 28'? 71 59 -I¿š-ó" ?:.dty 29 70 S.I 64'5 '07 MONDAY I 30 71 '556 i 3 ? 666.111''5 -4I3 TlIPR(h'131 71 5 61: -OR; WEJIIESAAY 1 71 5! OL'5 -43 TBURSDIY 2 66 5)?0 -? TRIDNY 3 F3 43 5?'5 o)

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SUMMARY OF NEWS. Ian Hamilton ccntimicil the movement on August 2 towards Ruitenliertr. turning the enemy off Malksberg Hange. The enemy lost several iirisoners. horses, aud wagons. Hunter reports that 3,3-18 men had urrendered 1,11' to August 3. Ho .LIS-? securcd 3.043 horses and three gauo. General Knox report. that he has eurrcssfully tngaued the enemy at Blienostsr Kop. Lord Roberts rcport3 that th Boer commandant Olivier, who brolia away when Primloo surrendered, is beinsf pursued by Bundle. It is oticially annottneed that tho Admiralty LMVD reeeverl A telfigrram from Viee-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour Atatiug that he had seen, the Viceroy of Nankin an the 2nd inst. Tho Viceroy wis very friendly. and seemed anxious to maintain peace iu thl" Yangtse Vaney, He arecd w the- ',wdk1g of a force OF 8,000 British troops for the defence of Shanghai. The V reroy returned the admiral's visit on the 3rd inst., and renewed his aS8urances of friend- ship. An agreement was arrived at as to arratisKinents for maintaining order on the Yangt30. It is reported at Shanghai that Li Hun' Chang has eommiUcd 9uicide, Salson lias dectared that he wished to kill the Shah because he was a great ruler. HE maintain. that he bad no accomplices, and that be belongs to no Anarchist group. The examining magistrate oil Saturday paid a visit to the Shah, who remarked that his assailant was simply a fanatic,. Palson will be examined by experts in m?ntal disease. ¡'):t: -,n;axe;re;h" f!tnrai of the lt-c KIOC Humbert., which will take place in the Pantheon. nOmf. Brcsci still maintains :> cynical al titude. Nnm9rf):ls arrete nav? bc-TI made at Milan an,1 It') I fnneral of the late Duke of Pa".('ohnr and Got ha took pl?" tt on Saturda:. A telegram has LIO-rm received from General U,, b" ithe Philip!1ineA) attacked fifteen cT1gine" undor a lientcmant, and killed, wounded, or captured the entire party. The premises of Mr. S. Leighton. watchmaker and jewellei. Lanca8ter. were broken into early on Saturday morning atad proptrty valued at I n early C3,000 was carried off. ny Et::r ;;U;Lo()d and Lady Rad- nor. Lord Manners, "md 9cveral cfflcers and wen-known war corrslJDnd{lT! :8 arrived in Eng- LAND on Saturday from South Africa. Stanstead House, on the borders of SUSSEX and Hants, C-ne of the largest, n,"n8011. in tilt two counties, was completely destroyed by fire during Friday night. SeYe"1 meetings of railway-men were held in the South Wales district on Sunday, espe- cially of mn on tie Taff Vale Railway. ho Barry Railway, and the Great Western Rail- way. Tin each case demands for improyed con. ditions were formu1:.ted. At a meeting of the Western Miners' Associa- tion, held at. Neath on Saturday, Mr. John Williams reported that ho had obtained A total of X495 15s. in compensation for several men under the Workmen's Compensation Act. A new 1!ding-seale with a till fl1rt.r ar1- vance for the Routh W,1l')Q colliers is prophesied h" :1 writer in tho "Iron and Coal Trado, Review,"

Kruger and the Boer commandants are incurring more and more responsibility every day the war is prolonged, and they will have a long account to settle tvhen it. is over. It is clear that the Ooers are not in a position to hold British soldjpl's prisoners, and should deiiyer them up to Lord Roberts. AVe learn for instance, that those in the hands of the enemy at Machadodorp are without hoots and in a pitiful condition. Kept without proper or sufficient food, amid surroundings in which the most elementary laws of sanitation are ignored. British officers and men have a bad tiii-.o of it among the Boers. Their captor., however, look on with a light heart. Kruger goes round the burghers in their laagers at Middelburg exhorting them to fight until their last cartridge il spent.

According to a tram from General ? ?I'Arthur. the embers of insurrection are still sinoiilderii,g in the Philippines, and the insurgents give tho American soldiers something to do. Three hundred of the insurgents in Luzon have attacked a party of fifteen Engineers, capturing tho whole lot. The enisode is of interest to the British Government, for it shows what may occur in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony unless the Boers he entirely deprived of all power to do mischief- The thorough pacification of the two States, it is to be feared, will ba a s low process, and will necessitate clo»a vigilance on tho part of the British autbo- rities, especially in view cf the facilities afforded at Lourenco Marques to import rifles, guns, and ammunition.

To-day tlie custom known as the "Fiitch of Bacon Trials" takes place at Dunmow. in Essex, two couples having txpressed their intention to enter tho lists- Given fine weather, it is expected that a very large gathering of villagers and visitors will assemble to witness this Essex "eisteùdfod." The custom is a very old one, the records showing that it v.ns in vogue in 1415, when one Richard I Wl'iglt won the flitch of bacon. The "court" did not use to sit every year; at any rate, there are many breaks in the records. It was allowed to fall into abey- ance for about a hundred years, until it I was revived by Mr. Harrison Aiusworth j in 185-j. The jury is composed of young Imen and maidens. Most of the interest! of the proceedings consists in the mock I solemnity of tlic, trials. Would it not be possible to establish something of tlie kind in co:ineotion with the Eisteddfod, or in Cardiff ? It would be an immensely popular institution.

In the "1,1w Magazine and Review" for August there appears a timely article deal- ing with the treaties which have been made between Great Britain and China. The first dates from 1842. rnd allowed British .-Itil).iec-ts to trade in China, but only I in spoeified ports, including Shanghai and Cow! 011. In that ,I car Hong Kong was! ceded. A supplementary treaty was made ill 184:¡, which provided that British sub- jects should be oil the most favoured ration footing. This was followed by the nccea-Tigrh Convention of 1810, and the Treaty of Tientsin in I808, which con- firmed that c-i 1"42 and allowed Great Britain to appoint Consuls and British subjects to travel for pleasure or trade in the interior, except at Peking, with pat-apart*. British merchants were now allowed to trade on the upper Yazig-tse. In 18G0 was signed the Treaty of Peking. .After this we had the Chefoo Agreement. of 1876, when more ports were opened to trade. This has been lately augmented. Ten years later an agreement was signed by which Great Britain guaranteed the integrity of Korea. Two years ago an extension of Hong Kong territory was granted, and Wei-hni-Wei was leased to us for so long a time as Port Arthur was j leased to Russia. Last year Great Britain and Russia mutually agreed not to interfere with each other in the Yang-t;e Valley and the territory of the Great Wall, the former J¡"ing reC01;llised as the. British spVre of influence and the latter as I Russian. The treaties between China and other nations are to the samo effect, the policy of the "open door" being observed in all ca. es.

THE THREATENED RAILWAY STRIKE. Once more differences have arisen between the railway men and their em- ployers in Cardiff and the. district, and, judging by the tone and attitude of the former at their meetings yesterday, thero i.s trouble ahead. It is very much to be regretted from an points of view that t hese labour troubles should spring up from time to time. If the evil conse- quences attendant upon strikes and lock- outs could be confined to the parties at issue alone it would he easier to bear with them. But that is impossible. The com- munity is one large family, the members being related to and interdependent upon one another, so that a dislocation of labour in one trade or industry affects directly or indirectly all other trades and industries, and this a railway strike does in particu- lar. It touches the community at all points, Modcwn life is so bound up with the rail- way system that a strike is a very serious matter and causes great inconvenience and irritation all round. With one rotable exception the local railwaytrouhles have generally been smoothed over just in the nick of time, and all that the public can do is to hope that a way out of the present difficulty may be discovered without resorting to extreme measures. The issue a.s between parties is definite and clear enough; on that point, at any rate, the men's demands are not weakened by ambiguity. What is equally clear is that this is about as inopportune a time to ask a railway company for better conditions could well be conceived for the great increase in the price of coal has played havoc with railway dividends. This will probably not weigh with the men. They have established their right to sell their labour at the highest price they can get, and that. is what they arc doing. Capital will be no less backward in driv- ing a bargain, and while the fight lasts the unfortunate public, which is compeUed ??o share the disadvantages but not the beneuts nfastrike-if there are any will have to be cuntent with grinning and bearing it.

MR. JOSEPH LAWRENCE AT CARDIFF. COMMENCING HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN. Mr Joseph Lawrence commences the actual i work O f his eatapaigu during TIE coming week with two public meetings. To-morrow (Tues- day) he will deliver an address in the Adams- down Bard School. and on the following enn-I ing will visit the Canton district, with a meet. iug in the Severn-road Board School.

STRETCHER BEARERS FOR THE WARS. VOLUNTEERS FROM SOUTH WALES. Intimation has been received at the Yolun. teer camp on Salisbury Plain, from t]?? War AnthoritiM.tha.t stretcher-bearer: a.rpnMdeJ for China and South Africa. The War Omre invited \'oluntecn from the South  Wa]s Br?ade Bearer Company. The 2nd V B Welsh Eegimtut Bearer Company at. once made ;oya; ant rtiiponge, in(i iti e fillowil)g, all from Aberavon, offered their Be;fi<'e?-?an? corporal T. Jones. Privates Albert Thomas, l'.van Thomas. C. Cuss. D. Hopkins. E. Leys- turn. Morris, R. Morris, T. Leatheren, and R. Polev. Colonel Homfray was mneh pleased at the response, and eent the names in to headquarters on Thursday.

  A B17TY i?ii-NIEWS DEATH. 1 T%E? adjourned inquest waa resumed at Bary I otr::fau:n 4,'¿n31'a to whoBe death .las. Partington stands remanded. The men were on the best of terms. and left a pnblic-hou?e on Wednesday for the accused's hrm, taking with them a pint, of whisky. NEXT morning Partingt-on informed another farmer that a man representing himself as I Biitwistle had come to rob him. and that in the struggle the man fell downstair;. The man proved to be Entwistle. A verdict of Death by misadventure," WAS returned.

I J}sTfl:¡)erm&æk ec f:'I;1 I LEY'S HOP BMERS. Note the labelf THE I only guarantee of purity. Of Grocers. Wmo Merchan to. and B??ttlers. even-where. L17207—14

LONDON LETTER. I MORE LETTERS ON THE WAY I FtlOM PRETORIA. GERMANS LOSING THE LEADI PENCIL TRADE. .30, BOUTKRIK-STRSltr, E.C., LOXDO, SUNDAY NIGHT. THE APPUOI'ltlATION HILL. There is only one more opportunity for debate ere the session closes on Wednes- day. It will bo of a general character, on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill on Monday. Members may then talk on almost ever\T conceivable subject- Very few members are left in town, and as all the subjects of the day have been dis- cussed it is unlikely there will be a pro- longed debate on Monday. Moreover, there are seven Bills in front of the Appro- priation Bill, and five of them are for tho consideration of the Lords' amendments. MORE QUESTIONS ArOUT THE UELIEF }"OUU; -.1. bucking to his guns. Sir El!ts Ashinead- I Bnrtlett will once more ask Mr. Brodrick on Monday for information as to the advnnvo of the relief forces towards Peking, a!so with regard to tlie present pc tion of the Ministers and other foreigners in Peking. The answers Sir Ell? may obtain have been anticipated b? news that reached London 011 Sa<ordav? night, to the ('foctt)Mt the B-,iti ?, Americans, and Japanese were making the advance, and that the Russians and French were guarding the li'ies of com- munication. This information is more likely to be authentic in that it confirms the information I hid last vreelc. THE l'ltO-DOKU COTlltKSI'ONDENCE. JixFraordinary Tumours are curi?ent con- Mrn! g the correspondence with the t enemy of whieh several British members]' of Parli^ament-, have been guilty. Mr. Sec- rotary Chamberlain's opininn that the cor- respondence is not treasonable does net cover several letters now on the way home, which he has not seen. It is said that in these letters are several very grave matters which may possibly call for prose- cution. Among other rumours current is i one coming directly from Pouth Africa to the effect that there are in existence papers showing that previous to the Jameson Raid the Transvaal Government had been preparing for war. It is said that the Boer delegates now in Europe had succeeded in carrying away these papers. Mr. John Brigg, the member for the Keighley Division, is on Monday going to 11<1. Mr. Chamberlain if he has any knowledge of these matters. Mr. Brigg is not the man to ask such a question lightly, and Mr. Chamberlain may pos- sibly he able to throw some new light on the situation. THE FIRST ARMY CORrs. That, nebulous quantity, the alleged First Army Corps, is again to be brought under the notice of Parliament. Sir Howard Vincent thinks the Army Corps might be made a concrete fact, and has put down iiotict- of a motion, which, no doubt, will re-appear next session. The motion declares that the First Army Corps for foreign service ?bo-,i](I 'I)c knpt at AJdprshot coiip!et? in t he proportion of arms, guns, horses, ambulances, wagons., &c.. ready for immediate embarkation. The motion also declares that the general officer commanding at Aldershot, with the staff of that district, should proceed with the Army Corps on its being ordered on active service, and likewise the brigadiers, with their respective brigades. Also that, 'll1Pon mobilisation the Second Arm' Corps. with its staff, should re-place the First at Aldershot. WAR OFFICE ACCOUNTS. the clumsy wav in which thp War Of!iCf' IIcco'l!l'h al' Iœpt present us with ?tili, anomah". that. whereas the tota) eo--t of diP war i,p till February 1 next is est i- mated at sixty-nine millions, it appears from the provision made all if the cost were eighty-one lyli Ilion t is to sav. the Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken borrowing power for fiftv-six millions, of which he has alread' y availed himself to the extent of forty millions. Added to the fiftv-six millions is an amount of twenty-five millions defrayed out of taxation, namely, nine millions from the surplus of last year and sixteen millions from taxation in the current year. But of the fiftv-six millions which the j Chancellor may borrow sbe or seven mil- lions is a margin in excess of his estimates, and several millions are for expenditure not directly due to the South African Wa r. Deducting twelve millions for these I two items, we get the sixty-nine mil- lions which the war is estimated to cost, and of which twenty-five millions are to be defrayed from taxation and forty-four from loans. A LOST LEADER. General Christian de Wet, whose death is reported from the effects of sholl firo was tho most brilliant, daring, and suc- cessful of the Boer generals. He was a descendant of the famous De Witts who made a great deal of history in thp seven- teenth century. One of them was an admiral, and vied with De Rnyter and Van Tromp in the eourage and dash of his attacks on the British fleets, Thp report of De AV et's death is unconfirmed a, I write, hut in anv case the days of his marauding are numbered, for Lord Kit- chener has been told off to wind up his account. It was De Wet who caused so much suffering to the irniv in its advance on Biocmfont?in via Paardeberg bv his dashing .?'uro of the ?rpat convov. Since th"n D" Wet has p?'-iodicaHy raided the British communications or dashed at isolated Dm?ts. a]way to our great ]os,. THE LEAD FEXCTT, TRADE. I Hero is an interesting note in the diplomatic return issued this morning on the trade of Bavaria concerning the pencil trade of Germany. It appears that the pencil export trade, in which Bavaria, with her important, pencil factories in Nuremberg, is largely interested, has of late suffered severely froni the competi- tion of large American pencil-makers at New York and elsewhere, some of which turn out from 12.000 to 18.000 gross per wep!t- 1" spitf of efforts in Germany to cheapen the nroductic n, so as to counteract the effect of heavy import duties in foreign countries, the common and medium qiialiti? of German pencils are said to be aliu(wt driven from the field. The in"nions I;iboiir-?av?ng maC'hinNv of the Ameri- can factories and their large scale of pro- duction. and especially the cheaper price at which they can supnlv themselves with cedar wood are the chief causes for the failure of German makers to hold their own. The fact is that Germanv is prac- tically d,>penelent. on the United 'States of America for her supply of suitable cedar wood, and has to put tin with what she can get, the Americans keening the best, for themselves; thpn again comes the cost of transport of the timber and an import duty on arrival in Germany. Tn 1898 1.332 tons of cedar wood, worth £235,000. were imported. COMPRESSED TURF AS FUEL. In the present high price of eoal it might be worth fli, of merchants to turn their attention to the desirability (If pui chasing some of the compressed turf of which there are inexhaustib'e ouantities on the extensive moors in Rllr1!Í-;n. In Germany and other places this compressed turf LS largely used' for firing in private houses, as well as wood, instead of coal or coke. The only English eoal regularly imported is anthracite, which is used for the so-called American self-regulati'lg stoves, burning continuously day and night. Certainly, if thp price of coal con- tinues to increase as it is doing at th" present time, wn" slid, substitute will hare to be provided for the household.

CARDIFF ON ITS LEGS—ATTEMPT TO DEPRIVE IT OF ITS SEATS-MRS. G RUXDY OX FITZHAMON F,MB A NK- MENT. SEE "EVEXIXC EXPRESS" SPECIAL TO-MORROW ITUESDAV'. ;=: entirely free from kola. malt. hops, al itli. or any foreign admixture. Caution! The public Kould insist on having CADBURI- racket* and Tins~aa other Cocoas are often substituted for the sske of extra proAL

A NEW SLIDING-SCALE. I REMARKABLE ANNOUNCEMENT ON I THE SOUTH WALES COAL THADE. A MINIMUM MAY BE CONCEDED, WITH AX ADVANCE. A remarkable article appeared in the "Iron and Coal Trades Review" of Satur- day. It was said to be "from a correspon- dent," but bore, evidence that it wa' written by someone well acquainted with the condition of the South Wales coal trade. The author prophesies a con- tinuance of the prevailing "good times, and deals with what is likely to be done by the coalowners so far ahead as two years hence. The following are the mosr remarkable paragraphs in the article: "Probably at no period in the history of the South Wales coal trade has the pros. pect been so chcering as at the present time. The price of coal is steadily advancing, and there is an almost absolute certainty that this state of things will continue for months. The rice 'i the price of eoal in 1873 was soasnodic. ihe boom only lasted a short time, and, when over, prices fell more rapidly than they advanced. This is not likeiv to be the case now. as there are few colliery owners of any pcsition in South AVales v.hose books are not filled with orcier.? that will require aini(??t their entire output for months. The 1-??t Admiraity order, lcr 20'),0JO tons of South Waks steam coal, will be spread over several firms, as no one or two eoalowr.ers could execute the orders in time. Contracts also are new being offered the completion of which will extend to the end of Deccmbev, J 001. clearly showing that foreign merchants anticipate, in the near future, a still further advance in the price of coal. "The audit on Tuesday, coming imme- diately after the miners' holiday, giving all advance cf 5 per cent, on colliers' wages, making them 532 above the standard of 1879—a higher rate of waees than was paid in 1^73, when the highest point reached was .572—has caused some of the older colliers to consider whether their position will be improved by joining the Federation. There is also an abso- lute certainty of another adv.nce of 5 per cent, or more at the next audit, as the old contracts are now rapidly running out-contracts made at 1 h, and 12s. per ton to bo succeeded by others at 22s. and 23s. The present posi- tion of the South Wales colliers is not- only better than it ha., ever been. but there is every probability that at t,,? ter- mination of the present sliding-scale and)]pr sCRIp more advantageous to the colliers will he offered by the employers. "Daring the strike of 1^98, the coal- owners prepared a scale which thev offered to the men, but which the men refused to accept. This scale, which was posted up at every collierv connected with the Ion- mouthshire and South Wales Collieries' Association, offered to give 7\ per cent, on the shilling advance in the average splling price of coal, when that price was below 9s. per ton 8. per cent, on the shilling when the average price was above 9s. and under lis; 9j per cent, when the, selling price was above lis. per ton and under Vis. There the scale stopped, as there was no idca. at that time that coal would advance above 1.)s. per ton, but it was intimated that should the price of coal advance above 15s. per ton. a still higherl percentage would be given, probably 10 per cent. Had the colliers accepted the scale offered by the masters, their wages would now have been 59 per cent, above the standard so that the owners' scale w? a bettor one than that which they preferred. The rate now paid, 58J above the standard, shows that the average sell- ing price of coal during the past two months. including old contracts, was ] h. d. per ton: at the last audit it was 14s. At the next audit the average sell- ing price will be found to be over 1.)s.. and then the men under the masters' S'a le, would be paid] O} per cent, on the shilling instead of 81, as at present. "This scale will. it is stated, be again offered to the colliers when the present one terminates. The principle commends it.seif to the coalowners, and should also to the men. as a profit-sharing agreement in which the colliers partici- pate more and more ao the price of coal goes up. Among the South Wales coal- owners the claims of the Miners' Federa- tion make no impression, and, with yery few exceptions, the masters are as oetpr- mined now as they were during the strike of 198 to maintain the slidingscale intact, "At all the mcetingq recently held in connection with the Iiners' Federation, resolutions were passed that a minimum wage-rate be insisted upon in all future negotiations with the employers. To this the coalowners will not object. All the older scales had a minimum, but should the masters require a maximum, then the advantage to the collier, under existing circumstances will not be very great. ''The new South Wales Miners' Federa- tion claims to have 103.000 members out, of a total of 120,0"0 colliers in South Wales and Monmouthshire. There are, therefore, nearly 18,000 colliers who have not joined the Federation—most of thplll are old and experienced colliers—and should the present high price of coal con- tinue many coalowners anticipate that at the end of 1902, when the struggle between the Federation and the sliding- scale, it was said, would commence, the position of the South Wales branch will not be so strong as it is to-day."

TYPHOID AND DIPHTHERIA IN BRIDGEND DISTRICT. DANGEROUS WELL., Diphtheria, typhoid, alld otber epidemics are breaking out. n the distrjpt around Hri(lg. end. The inspector of the Penyliont Hural Dis- trict. Council reported several cases at a meet- ing of the couueil held on Siturday. pome ,f nhieh wcrj in (-101Je proximity to Bridgend, others at ABP'kenflg. Kenfig Hill. Corrielly, and Manolam The ..t?y analyst .who wa, recenUy appointed, helped the council to partly solve tlie rau-e of this extensive outbreak. It APNEUI-JJ that. THE county medical officer sent, t,) the medical officrr of the Penybont Council a few days ago for ha'.f-a-dozen samp'e-S of water from various- wells in his district to be onalyse.1. The anaJY18 was received M Satur- day, and fhowed that wells at Kenfig Hill, Cornelly. and Maudlam were "dangerous" for oonsumpt on.—The Rer. Eynom Lewis moved tpat the inspector report on the condition of these wells, as unless the pollution could be remedied it was evident they should be closed frrthwith-Thj8 wag eecccided by Colonel Turbervill, and carried unanimously.

WILL OF THE LATE MR. ROBERT II. GOLIGHTLY. Letters of administration of tho personal estate and effects of Mr. Robert Horelev Golijhtly. of the Hereford Arme. Newport Monmouthshire, who died on or since the 5tli of August, 1899. the place of his cieatli being unknown, have been granted to his brothers Mr. Henry Golightly, of the Tinsley Park Cob lieries. Shefdeld. and Mr. John Shields Golightly, of the Liswerry Hotel. Newport, and Mr. George Shields Golightly, of the Hereford Arm,. Monmouth. The estate of the late Mr. Robert Golightly has been valued at £ 3.050 19.. gross, and £ 7.297 14s. 6d. not. Mr. Gol ightly. it may be remembered, was MISSED from a passenger steamer whilst coming from Ireland to Holyhead.

sorTH WALES BRASS BAND ASSOCIATION. RENOUNCE KEXT YEARS NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. At a meeting of the South Wale? and Mon- liicu'hshire Brass Band Association, held at it association should have nothing whatever to do with the National Eisteddfod to be held at Merthyr next year, and an int. ma tion to this effect was ordered to be sent to the general secretary of the eisteddfod, Mr. Sandford Jones, so that the authorities might know that they could nf.t, rely upon any assistance from the "80clat1011.

DECLINE IN THE STEEL TRADE. Som of the largest steelworks in Sheffield hare closed until Moflday week. II) normal time, only two days holiday is taken in the first week of AU?u«t, NND thip LENGTHENED mop- page HAS been decided upon with the objsct of reducing the consumption of coal, and thereby easing price*. 1,, also indicates a very serious decline in the teel trade, A* THE rhuH of dear rl.

WALES DAY BY DAY No FEWER t1" nine of the Cardiff teleera* phists sent out t,) SOUFH Africa are at KIM- L-criey. Lord Avebury (better known a Sir JOHN Lubbock: and his family are MAYING at Tenbv Sir Jumes Hills-.Tohres is now on hs WUY home from Pretoria. It is stated tliat the IB.000 WELSH cCf]lilr" ,,o lemain 01tf.side the ;.Œr8' Federation are the R.MEST and most EVPERIENCE.L of the 130.000 miners in the coalfic-id Many people had to return from Porthrawl on Saturday .J8 there was NO board ng aceom. modatico to spare. It IS nearly alwtyb T>,J| way in Porthcawi about Bank Holiday. lir Joseph Lawrenoo is visiting the wards in alphabetical order. Thus Adams. d"wn comes first. to-morrow Dight; Canton follows, and the rest according to the CAPITA] letter. A t-c:e;rr:;m which Mr. Robert Fcrreet has received from Major W>ndham-Qum sÍlow that t" Glamorgan Yeomanry helped to con. vince Commandant Prneloo that the game WAS up. The passenger eteumor Britannia failed TO get through the gale to Efracombe on Fridav This hu induced a disappointed tripper from Caerphilly to write to us to say "Britannia failed to rule the >*&ves to-day." A letter from the Kev. J. C. Scott Darby, the rector of MACHOS, brings a denial that he ever made the statement that when in his youth he played cricket in Nwport a box-hat was AS essentia 1 as a bat d ball. The rev. gentle- man says he was nerer in Newport- in HIS life till he WNS considerably over f,)rty years of ugo. The present Lord Kensington was the first of General Hunct_e'8 staff to enter Foutieobnr, on the Ba.-uto border. HE has written home to say that Rundle's army has had a hard AND trying experience. Lord Kensington APPLIED for leave to go to Llocmfcntein to see h:s brother's body, but pressure of military DUTIES made permission impossible. S,mlhodv is ALWAYS discovering steam CAL equal to th;, lt e<¡)Ortec! from Wales, yet ilie price of the latter keeps "swellin" wisibly." The lat(>t competitor iJõl a reputed coalfield at Dover where a "EEAM of navigation coal has be-en found, which analysis has shown to h. equal to the finest Welsh steam coal. There is talk—in the newspapers—of N'5en-;ng this coal for the Navy, and side by side with this suggestion comes the statement that a large 1 interest in the colliery is owned by a French syndicate. August is a favoarite month for RAILWAY strikies. Locally the men are giving way to tb" summer fever; and a look into the diary the past, shows that it was in August that the big local railway strike of 1890 occurred, and the Midland strike three years earlier aiso in the warn month. On the whole this is not surprising. If we were to strike at all we should prefer stopping work on the hot days of August than at any other time. This suggests a good subject for an eisteddfod priz essay—" The Influence of the Weather au Strikes." If Messrs. "Mabon" and Ben Tillett intend continuing the hilrhJy.jnteres1Ínlr correspon- dence which seems to have been started on the serial story system, they ought tn give all undertaking to the different newspapers TH^T in possible libel actions the publishers will HE exonerated. Both send their letters to the press, and. fair play to the labour leado. they reckon up ca.ch other with the same degree of frankneft that, they apply to employers. IT will be no discredit to the raijwaymen who met at the Colbourne Hotel, Cardiff, on Sunday night if we say that there were a few thirsty souls among them. In f;¡,¡:.t, there was evidence of it in the remark that was whis- pered by one to another, "This is where your Sunday Closing COMES in, Bill. Here we are, with a full oellar underneath ns. a bar down- stairs. and not a drop of anything to drink. I never wa-8 SO near and yet so far. If Mr. Ebcnezer Beavan had entered the room at that moment he would have been scorched by the eye-glares. Railwaymen occasionally have an odd "'3)" of settling their little differences. At tho Colbourne Hotel mooting on Sunday night it was agreed to submit, the men's demands t;) the Taff Vale Railway management on the 6th inst. lto-dayl, but there were diverse opinions as to the date for handing in notices. Some were for the 13TH fa week henoe\ ADD others for different dates. A witty signal- man clinched the discussion by saying. "Make it the 16th, and then you will have only to fill in the figure 1." The humour was appreciated, but the snggestion waa not adopted. "Peo,)]e," WTitee 1m old colliery manager, "who talk of the exhaastion of the world n ooal supplies, snd believe in the development of powers to re-place those of steam generated from ooal. don't know what they are talking abont. Welsh ooal is virg" over half THE tract from the Monmouth hills to Ogmott>, and thence to St. Bride's Bay, and will Inst many hundred rears; and. a8 regards the rest of the world, we have the land of the Yellow Fiend. China, with its 400.000 SQUARE miks of coal, some. as at Peking. 90ft,. thick; 59.000 square miles in Germany. Sweden. Den- mark, Siberia, and other districts; Auatria., Spain, Poland, Portn¡p.I, Gree>oe, Italy, and Turkey, 39,000 square milea; AND India, w th ITS 35.OW square miles, LIVEN little Japan has six thousand square miles: South Africa is only just beginning to work an enormous coal. field; and what of Brazil, which most of fi8 Vnow a. only produc ng nuts, hnt which has VAST tracts from 17ft. TO 25ft. in thieknees?" SO what S Air. D. A. Thomas worrying for? Under the heading of "A Colliers' Church." the "Morning POST" on Saturday contained the. following:—"The village, of Beaufort, on the border line between Monmouthshire and Breconshire. de8pite its attractive title, is hot a poor colliery vill?ile, WIt h NOT, er@n tl", a\'an:u;e of pictnrepque SURROUND IRES. BLEAK hJlh and smoking furnaces 611 the LANDSCAPE round the straggjinc village peopled bv tiç" thousand oul8 dependent {I""r bodily suste- nance on the surrounding wimnc industries. Their spiritual need* are well looked after by the vjrar of the parish church, the Rev. V J. Llewelyn, and the clergy of two MINION churches. St. ANDREW'S m;8,;on, tinder th" charge of the Rev. Hugh Phillips, HAS H*EN 00 SNCRE.B^FU] that it lias been found NECESSARY !-O enlarge the church by the addition of a chan- cel and to ]1roid A parish room for SOCIAL and other gatherings, In order that there might be no delay, the curate in charge invired the male portion of his flock to prepare the way by digging out the soil for the founda- tioll. The appeal met with a ready re>ponse. and (or wrnl! weeks they have devoted F'^R hours every evening to the work after their return from the pits, the cerate sharing their labours. Th,) aerage attendance each even- jnC" W8 thirty, anri eventually about 2W ton, of rocky TOIL vere removed, a portion being utilised in levelling the churchyard. On the completion of the task the workers met together for worship and a social evening. Building operations will be commenced as soon as funds are provided, and HAVING already done so much themselves the people of Bean- fort may well look to Churchmen more fortu- nately circumstanced for pecuniary help. It was at this church that the colliers assembled at two a.m. one morning to give thanks for the reiief of Mafcking." An irreverent ?cribe on tho "Midland News" thus trifl-.S with a pathetic story told 'n this column ast week:—"Now is the time of sea- serpents and big gooseberries—and also of ancient geee, The Western Mail' has dis- 0\ cre;j a very Methuselah amongst geese, which iuu just come to a SAD—one can hardly say untimely—ond, on a farm rejoicing n we address 01 Oefn, (ri>ll1gaer. a "ome which so old a goose could hardly be expected to remember. The bird wa. forty-one last spring but wa not latterly usually referred to :18 a SPRING chicken. L'p to ten years 3O she Had laid regularly, and had brought up hundreds of goslings, who are all doing well for themselves—or HAVE done well for othtr L eople. 'For some time 11', v.' ;t is interesMP* to rend in our contemporary's leelin??' written obituary notice, 'she had not mixed with ( r taken any notice of the other geese, and the solitary journey of the poor old thing towards the erd of its long and useful life was pathetic to behold.' The wonderful part of this little story is that the poor old thing ever found its way back to CJlfa.h-aen, AFL. IT might have ehokod trying to aok the WAY. If the ancient one had not died a natural Gealh. ite career of usefulness might only iust have begun. It could have been served up perpetually at a restaurant; jt, "Would HAW been perfectly steeKresist-ing, and WITH fr gravy and the ROUGH edg"« taken off tbe KNIVES WU!D have beon served Dn again nest day. Then might We have wntten for HER the epiUiph—almost as ancient as herself— Peas to ITS remains