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THE CONTINUITY QUESTION.

OUR MEMBER AND DISESTABLISHMENT.

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THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF…

SEQUEL TO THE VISIT OF LORD…

"IT TOUCHES THE SPOT."

THE BARRY COMPANY AND COAL…

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THE BARRY COMPANY AND COAL FREIGHTAGE FROM HAFOD AND TREFOREST. A correspondent writes:—"I find some mis- conception prevails respecting the effect which the alteration of Clause 23 of the Barry Railway and Dock Act of 1888, as sanctioned by the Lords' Committee, will have upon the rates to be charged in future to the Barry freighters for the carriage of coal from their collieries to Hafod and Treforest. When the news was telegraphed to Cardiff on Thursday it was stated that, as the Barry Com- pany are confident of carrying their Bill through the Commons' Committee now it has received the sanction of the Lords, an increased charge must be made for coal carried by the Taff to Penarth, the great rival to Barry, or a reduction must be made in the charge to the Barry freighters from their collieries to Hafod and Treforest, and then the Barry Company can increase their rates from Hafod to Barry, or carry coal at a less rate than it can be conveyed to Cardiff and Penarth, either of which courses would be highly injurious to the Taff Vale Company. The Barry freighters are now so confident that they are right that, under legal advice, they will not pay more than the lowest rate,' according to their view, which means dividing the total sum charged by the Taff Vale Railway Company by the number of miles between Hafod and Penarth, and not, as now, between Hafod and Cardiff, in order to get at the rate per mile. This is the bone of contention between the two railway companies. As the alteration is not made retrospective, the sum now due by the Barry freighters to the Taff Vale Railway Company must be paid, but, as the Barry freighters have resolved to refuse to pay it in future, legal proceedings will in a short time be commenced again by the Taff Company to recover the balances arising from the difference in distance between Cardiff and Penarth, and these proceedings will be defended by the Barry freighters, which they have now power to do under the altered clause. To the Taff Vale Com- pany the point is one of almost vital importance, and the Barry Company may use an adverse decision to them as a lever to put into operation their running powers over the Taff Vale line. Should the decision be against the Taff Vale Company they can put in force their running powers at once. The point in dispute, therefote, becomes one of great importance to both com- panies." The Railway Times, referring to the same matter, states that tha decision of the Lords' Committee is something very like a legislative absurdity. Specific rights which were given to a specific railway company six years ago, in lieu of certain running powers which were demanded; are now interpreted as the heritage of the whol community, and although the Taff Vale Railwa Company, as against the Barry, has, under the latter company's Act, the right of cancelling these rates regulations by granting running powers, it will have no such protection against the Barry freighters, who, after all, are only the Barry Railway Company under another name." UL !———

A WOUNDING CASE AT CADOXTON-BARRY.

TO THE GENTLE SOUTH.

BARRY CHAMBER OF TRADE.