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paCKERS' DISPUTE. Cessation ef Work on Saturday. The conference of directors held on Saturday, and reported above, did not include in their official report any reference to the dockers, confining their announcement solely to the position of the railway employ^. The question was necessarily raised, but the intimation of policy which has been given by the notices pested at the docks, holding the men to agreement for a month's notice, is all that is yet allowed to transpire. The arrangements made for .the cessation of work at the various coal tips at the Docks ot five o'clock oil Saturday were so complete that when the clocks in the neighbsurhood gave out the hour every man was on his way home, and the small groups which had assembled within the precincts of the docks felt soinethibg of disappoint ment that there was so little stir, or even evidence of real action. Early in the day it was apparent that the merchants or shippers had framed their arrangementlv, so that at five o'clock a much smaller number of men than usual was engaged at the tips; but those who bad got away early assembled to await the climax, and there was a good deal of quiet, motnal congratulation • as the men moved towards the town to enjoy their first Saturday evening off." In an interview with a reporter an official of the Dockers' Union stated that the men ridiculed the threat of Sir W. T. Lewis to prosecute them unless a month's notice was piven, remarking that 1 the Bute Dock Company first broke the agree- ment by requesting the men to work until four '.o'clock «n Sunday moraing. They were, however,, • pulled off labour at ten o'clock on Saturday night at the time they were coaling a ship, which otill wanted 200 tons putting in. The men simply want their Saturday night off, aod will return to -work at six o'clock on Monday morning." In conclusion the oScial said, We have no fear about the matter. They will all, to a man, came out at five o clock, and Mr Ben Tj.Ustt agid others wiil be ibere-to receive them." Dockers Resume Work. In view of the puhlished intimation froln Sir W. T. Lewis that he would pro-i secute all men who abandoned their, work at the docks on Saturday evening, much? curiosity prevailed at the turn, which events-f would take when the men presented them-! selves for work on Monday. A fews minutes before six o'clock the various y gansrs were aboard their respective vessels ia| readiness to resume operations and sharp to the hour the shoots were lowered, and the shooting coal was resumed where operations ceased on Saturday evening. Almost every tip was in use,. and work went briskly on without incident, beyond the apparently aimless iwanderilliI in thet., vicinity of the quays of groups of men who ■ had lookad forward to a lock-out, and were pro-' bably desirous of being in at any fun," There is now considerable speculation as to the course which Sir W. T. Lewis will pursue; but so far as regards the docks everything presents its normal appearance; tidings from Barry and Penarth were that similar smoothness prevails, and that everything was going on as usual.

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SAD DEATH OF A BARRISTER.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.!

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