The Cardiff Times

NONCONFORMIST DISABILITIES. Attempt to Seize a Chapel. "nln Wednesday's GenccU Cymreig appeared Ca<i account of what is likely to prove a t "e .°f considerable importance to Noncon- *ddTt*tS' an(^ to aff°rd Mr S. T. Evans an "°.aal argument for passing his Places of giv^h.p Enfranchisement Bill. The facts, as 'n the Genedi, appear to bo these:—In Mrs Seymour Da vies, then of Highmead, jv« ^^rthenshire, but now of London, granted a Bo t T years to t^ie Galvmistic Methodists at t>la ~^unt>rynmair, Montgomeryshire (of which %r fhe was a native), for land on which to l je:r chapel. A twelvemonth ago it was jv. 'ye<i to rebuild the chapel, and the monthly J»l„ ",no authorised an expenditure of £ 900. Us were drawn, subscriptions to the £ 700 were promised, and Vrb con tract was about to be given Sev t'le trustees received a letter from Mrs the |DCRlr Dav'es » solicitors, informing them that On- granted them 32 years previously was m- The letter stated that Mrs Seymour fcra l*"8 s mar"age settlement only enaljled her to }jajU a tanse for 21 years, and that, as that term already expired, the trustees were now hrvt; y y^rly tenants, and subject to six months' fe°quit-. ,u6,Preiutl'oing their rights, the trustees °r fc 10 r? for a renewal of the lease, ^onso ^ejn^ss'on to purchase the freehold. She On t to ?rant a new lease for 21 years, bub On ST* -w'llct' the trustees could not accept. Notice September last a formal the 9tuvTas served upon them to quit on ^riod ^arc^ following. During the notice had to run tho meeting appointed a deputation ft. W*n^ of MI E Iward Davies, Llandinain T8' solicitor, Newtown and D. Witfj tL8' ^lanbrynmair, to wait upon Mrs Davies, tha* ,VljW arriving at som« compromise, •8 lady declined to receive the deputation. Hapri^ w^en the notice expired, Mr tativr"5' W acted as Mrs Davie-'s represen- I3aair t' up from Carmarthen to Llanbryn- ^^linj possession. The trustees, however, fnvr! up possession, maintaining that tirtn,- a]fle8 no power to re-enter before the ^jjstp 0n °f the Wase. We understand that the **>omC? are feting under instructions from the In meeting of thvj connexion." upon these facts, the Genedi snfj 0w Nonconformists mast submit to It i1P~rea^er "'Abilities than other worshippers ? the vr?8! LUnbrynmair Methodists to fight ^ernTi to tl:e fitter end if need be, not for i alone, but for the rights of Noncon- throughout the kingdom.

UNFENCED COLLIERY SHAFTS I IN DEAN FOREST. Coleford petty-sessions on Tuesday— tsalok n.'r J«nes Campbell,Col. Davies, Messrs Blandv. and C. T. Palmer— hr- c'1. Langham, of C/oleford. and the pro- ^ag or of the "Speedwell" Colliery, West Dean, «hnfin,DQCme^ ^or ueg'ecting to cause the top of i? *tthat works to be securely fenced.—Mr t. • Carter, solicitor, Newnham, appeared fi'^fr'?eCUte on behalf of Mr J- S- Martin, J)- luspeeU r of Mines for the South-western Oai(.r,Ct'—A similar charge was preferred by Mr Alh»e^ T?ainst William, Edward, Shadrack, and •v- Hughes, brothers, of Berry-bill, and joint W Pf'r^0178 of the ''New Found-out" Colliery, W Pf'r^0178 of the" N:ew Found-out" Colliery, ar>, for neglecting to cause two shafts at flgjj be fenced.—After hearing the evi- ^orfc' Chairman said the mere fact of not fcno °r even of abandoning a colliery was n..t w/r; Mr Langham must pay a fine of £ 2 10s j5*!818' The Hugheses would be fined 5s hroncosts each. If other cases were i J "?tore them, much more severe pi-nalties would be imposed.

ÐEATH OF MR R. W. STONE- HOUSE, OF CARDIFF. W^J?aue to record, the death of Mr R. ■ in wt!° formerly carried on business mei-coamY^ ExcllanSe. Cardiff, as a pitwood well cr The deceased gentleman was also health fnr n m ^wp'Jrt. He had be^n in ill- timB» and a iovf months ago *-iy «v. business. Death took place on Mon- wu-S at his residence, Penarth,

SOUTH WALES MINERS' 1 PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Eleventh Annual Meeting.' The eleventh annual general meeting of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Miners' Per. manent Provident Society was held in the Angel Hotel, Cardiff, on Tuesday. Mr E. Jones pre. sided, and there were present 13 honorary mem- bers and about 100 ordinary members. ACTUARIAL REPORT. A special general meeting was first held, at which Messrs Neison and Schooling's actuarial report upon the quinquennial period ending December, 1890. was presented. This showed an accumulated deficiency of £ 25,928, and an accru- ing deficiency in a mean membership of 55,000 of JB456 per annum. The actuaries recommended that contributions and benefits remain as they are.—The Chairman said he was disappointed the actuarial report came out as it did, but it yet showed there was much room for congratulation. It must not be forgotten that during the five years ending December, 1890, there had been three great calamities to meet—the National, the Llanerch, and the Morfa. Two notices from agencies had been received, the purport of which was to increase bent-fits and reduce contributions. In f1,ce of the report, how- ever, be thought the meeting should be adjourned to give the members an opportunity to study the report.—The suggestion was agreed to, and it was decided to discuss the matter at an adjourned meeting to be held on May 16th. THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. A proposition from Agency 105, to render ordinary members ineligible for re-election on the Board of Management until 12 months had ex- pired, came up for discussion, and was agreed to. REDISTRIBUTION OF VOTING POWER. Mr W. Jones (Merthyr Vale) proposed, on behalf of Agency 11, "that the voting at the general annual meeting be computed at the rate of one vote for every 500 members or fraction of that number, aud not one vote for each agency. One member is to attend the annual general meeting, as at present.—Mr Cottrell seconded.—Mr Campbell (Parliamentary and consulting secretary) said that the system might be wrong in princi pie, but it had the advantage of securing reasonable repre- sentation not only to the large collieries, but to the smaller ones. On being put to the vote, 53 voted for and 48 against the original motion. ANNUAL REPORT. Tne annual general meeting was then held. Councillor Evan Owen, general secretary, then laid before the meeting the annual report of the Board of Management for the year ending December 31st last. This stated that ou Decem- ber 31st, 1890, the society had enrolled 52,774 members. At the close of the year 1891, the members numbered 57.590-an increase of 4,816. During 1891 there were 8,591 cases of dis- ablement amongst the members, and 126 fatal accidents, by which 130 members were killed. These fatal accidents placed on the funds 65 widows and 115 children and at the close of the year 474 widows and 953 children were in receipt of annuities from the Society. During the year the sum of JB21,457 had been invested. The report was unanimously adopted. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. Mr EVAN OWEN next read the statement of accounts for the year ending December 31, 1891. The total receipts for the year were £ 6>,744 2s 7d, of whicfi £ 6,291 10s 7d was balance brought forward. J340,414 19s 6d had been contributed by members £ 10,104 10s 4d being miners' percentage! the remainder being made up in various minor ways. The amount distributed in relief had been j628,030 lis; the local management expenses come to £ 2,156 2s 9d the general management expenses to £1,651 14s lOd; there had been invested £21,457 19s 6d; conference and Parliamentary expenses were £ 289 16s. The amount of the benefit fund at the end of the year was £ 96,846 8s 6d, and of the management fund BS.595 8s 6d, making the total amounts at the end of the year JB105,459 17s. (Applause.)—The accounts were immediately agreed to. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Mr Louis Tylor proposed, and Mr D. R. Lewis seconded, the re-election of Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn as president.—This was unanimously agreed to, —Mr E. Jones and Mr D. Thomas were also re- elected vice-presidents.—The following were elected on the Board of Management:—Ordinary No. 1 district (Monmouthshire)-Messrs D. Alsopp and H. Beddoe No. 2 district (Merthyr and Aberdare)—Messrs W. Jones and J. Treharne; No. 3 district (Rhondda and West)- Messrs T. M. Walters and T. Richards. Honorary: Sir W. T. Lewis, Messrs J. T. Green, W. Jenkins, W. Thomas (Brynawel), and G. W. Wilkinson. Mr Grove (chairman of the Monmouthshire County Council) was elected an arbitrator in the place of Mr C. H. James, deceased. Votes of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.

CARDIFF ASSIZES. Cause List. The assizes of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery for the county of Glamorgan will be held at the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Satur- day, the 2nd of April, the judges being Mr Justice Charles, who will preside over the Crown Court, and Mr Justice Vaughau Williams, before whom the cases in the Nisi Prius Court will be heard. The civil business will be taken on Mon- day. the 4th inst., and succeeding days. The following is a list of the causes entered for trial from the Cardiff district CAUSES ENTERED FOR TRIAL BEFORE JUDGE ONLY. No. PLAINTIFF. DEFENDANT. 1.—The Compagnie des Manasseh, Angel and Cbarbons etBriq uettes de others. Blanzy et Ouest. 2.—Ebenezer Rowland The Burry Tin-plate Com- Thomas (trading as pany, Limited. Thomas Bros) 4.—John Fish (t,rading Isaac George and Thomas as John Fish & Co.) Hisgrove. 5.—Franklin Jackson LaviniaBaskerville, widow 7.—James Richards and Tudor Crawshay and Isaac John Richards Davie z. 8.—Jlargaret Griffiths William Rees. 9.-000. W. Rutherford William Thomas and Co. and Co. 10 -The County of Glon- Robert Wood. cester Bank, Limited 11 -The Villiers Tin- D. MR Davies and Co. plate Co., Limited 13.—.Varcus Moxham tra- Rice Morgan and others. ding as Marcus Mox- ham and Co.) CAUSES ENTERED FOR TRIAL BEFORE JUDGE AND JURY. 1. Ebenezer Morris. John Jones, and Mary his wife. 2. Louise Addis (widow). Charles H. Marks. 3. J. W. Bevan. William Jones. 4. Thomas Thomas & Sons The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough Haverfordwest. 5. Lewis John. Edward Jones. 6. Samuel Shipton. Hams Barnett. 7. Charles Arthur Mizen. John Stewart. 8. Jonathan Rees. David Evans. 9; Henry Moxdale(special Williams, Foster & Co. jury). 10. John Jones (trading as The Swansea Smelting and John Jones and Co). Reduction Company. 11. William Sheaf. George W. Roberts. 12. The Burry Tin-plate Ebenezer Rowland Company, Limited Thomas (trading as (special jury). Thomas Bros. & Co). 15. John Lawrence and The Scottish Accident Elizabeth Jame-i (execu- Insnrance Company, tors of John Taylor Limited. James, deceased)(special jury). 14. Samuel Aitken (special James Sydney B&tchelor. jury)- 15. John Bovey (special J. T. Buxton. jury). 16. Caroline Hughes. The London, Edinburgh, and- Glasgow Assurance Company, Limited. 17. Eran Ivor Williams Jonathan Edwin Billups. (special jury). 18. Peter Jos. O'Donnell. George Garnett.

ANCIENT. ORDER OF FORESTERS The Annual Report. The annual report of the Ancient Order of Foresters, which has been prepared by Mr T. Saltan Stead, the permanent secretary, shows that on the 31st December last the membership of the society reached the gigantic total of 830,720, composed of male adult benefit members, 704,660, widows contributing for funeral allowances 15,505, members of the juvenile societies (male and female) 92.554, and honorary members 18,C01. These figures show an increase during the year of 11,155 adult benefit members, 7,429 juvenile members. and 455 honorary members. The total funds of the Order on that day amounted to J34,877,852, made up as follows Court funds, j34,140,005 district lunds, £550,752; juvenile societies' funds, £ 113.335; High Court Relief Funds, £ 26,425 and widows' and orphans' funds, £47,315, The increase in funds during the year waa £149,053, of which Court funds in- creased £120,712, district funds £18,080, juvenile society funds £7,536, and High Court relief funds £ 2,725. There was a decrease in the widows and orphans societies of 1,584, and JB8,451 in funds. During the year 49,781 persons were initiated as members of the Order, being a de. creaso of 1,677 on the previous year; 8,272 members died, an increase of 594 28,414 left through non-payment of contributions and other causes, an increase of 2,787 and 5,324 members' wives and widows died, an increase of 465. The juveniie Forcsterh. societies increased during the year from 1,436 to 1,507, and 18.544 new members were initiated into these societies, an increase of 599 over the previous year 4,982 members were transferred to adult courts; 287 died, being a decrease of 45 and 6,227 left through non-pay- ment of contributions and other causes.

"TRUTH" says A speech delivered by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford at a temper ance meeting at Aehton-under-Lyne was so sensible and moderate that it deserves notice The Bishop suggested that whilst strong beers should be taxed, the sale of light beers not above a certain minimum strength should be encouraged by being freed from duty. This is a doctrine that I have always preached. It is indeed a pity that more temperance reformers are not as reasonable and as practical as the Bishop of Salford." A large measure of the success of the Golden Sun light Ale may be attributed to the facfthat it is brewed on these lines, and will compare favour- ably with the ordinary high coloured strong, heady ales. It is brewed from malt prepared from tho finest Herefordshire barley, andFtnost delicately flavoured with hopd, called "Wor sters," but really grown in the rich fertile valleys of Herefordshire. Messrs Watkins and Son, of the Hereford Brewery, are the only brewers of this famous ale, and it is sold by over 200 agents in the North, South, East, and West of the British Isles. South Wales office, 94, St. Mary-street "tores Westtrate-street. Cardiff, 13409 1921

INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION CONFERENCE AT NEWPORT. A conference of representatives of the various public bodies in Newport, and of those interested in higher education, was held at the Town-hall, Newport, on Wednesday, for the purpose of receiv- ing evidence or representations with the view of ascertainingtheprecise requirements of the county borough in the direction ot intermediate and tech- nical education, so that the committee appointed under the Welsh Intermediate Act might be placed in a position to prepare and submit to the Charity Commissioners a complete scheme to meet such requirements. Mr M. Wheeler, chair- man of the Intermediate Act, presided, and was supported by the Hon. Mr Bruce (Assistant Charity Commissioner), Mr T. Jones (chairman of the Technical Instruction Committee), Mr L. B. Moore (vice-chairman of the Newport School Board), Mr Arthur Evans. J.P.. Mr H. Phillips, Mr W. E. Heard, and others. There was a good attendance.—The Chairman explained that the object of the Committee was to receive evidence, and that the Joint Committee desired to occupy a completely neutral ground.—The Hon. Mr Bruce was invited to give an outline of the general scope of the Welsh In ermediate Education Act, and said the terms intermediate education and technical education were sometimes a. little mis- understood in Wales. It was competent for local authorities to give technical education under the Act as well as intermediate education, and that intermediate education was not any particular kind of secondary education, but really covered all the ground between elementary schools and the Welsh University Colleges, or the older Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Although the definition was so wide, it was not advisable that any school should en- deavour to embrace the whole range of what might be called the curriculum, but a selection of the most suitable subjects for the children of the particular district.—Mr \V. J. Lloyd pressed the Chairman to give an outline of the ideas which the committee had formulated on the subject, but the Chairman replied that the committee came with an open mind to obtain assistance and in- formation. The amount of the grant from the Customs duties was £ 1,200, and with tho £ 500 from Howell's Charity and the £500 from the halfpenny rate, there would thus be £2,200 at disposal. It was not the intention or wish of the committee to devote any part of this fund towards any Higher Grade School which the School Board might bring into operation, with the object of relieving the rates, but to devote the whole sum for the purpose of promoting education. The points on which the committee desired information was as to the number of pupils, the subjects to be taught, and what relation should exist between intermediate schools and the elementary schools and the University College. Rev O. D. CAMPBELL, then, at the invitation of the chairman, expressed the views of the Newport School Board on the subject. He thought pro- vision should be made lor 160 boys and 140 girls, of the age from 12 to 16, that the constitution of the governing body should number 20 or 21, and should consist of representatives of the School Board, Chamber of Commerce, and the Trades Union. There should be no workshops, because there was already a. technical school in the town, and the School Board in- tended to provide workshops, the grant for manual labour being given only for children on the rolls of the elementary schools. He would, however, like to see a central laboratory, to which all schools might have access. The foreign languages should be Spanish, French, and Ger- man and there should be 40 or 50 scholarships to enable lads to work their way to the universi- ties. In reply to Mr Bruce, who pointed out that the cost of the building would be about JB20 per head, or J66,000 for a school for 300 scholars, the speaker said the question of site just at present was a difficult one, because the chief landowner (Lord Tredegar) had given a piece of land for a park but he believed the educational enterprise of the county borough would do muoh in the way of voluntary effort to increase any subsidy which might be voted by the Town Council. Mr H. PHILLIPS spoke of the experience of managers of the British School Trust Fund. Mr C.\MP3> £ LL said it was the intention of the School Board to apply for the transfer of the trust, which amounts to £2,000. Mr J. R. STONE. manager of a voluntary school, thought the provision of an intermediate school would obviate the necessity of a higher grade school, and agreed that provision should be made for 300. Mr BltUCE expressed the opinion that 300 waa too high an estimate, especially as nearly every other part of the county was bestirring itself in the direction of providing increased facilities for higher education. At Swansea, with a much larger population, only 350 had been provided for. lie thought a laboratory advisable, but that it might be erected to be used jointly by other schools.—After hearing several other opinions, the conference closed.

THE BURGLARY NEAR PONTY- PRIDD. Alleged Confession, At the Pontypridd police-oourt, on Wednes- day—befora Mr Ignatius Williams, Mr T. P. Jenkins, Mr D. W. Davies, Mr Marchant, and Aldertnan H. N. Davies—Robert Pngh, a native of Pontypridd, and described as a tramp, was charged with burglariously entering the Windsor Hotel, Ynysybwl, near Pontypridd, and stealing thereform £ 120.—Superintendent Jones, Ponty- pridd, conducted tho proseoution.—It appeared that the alleged burglary and robbery were com- mitted in September last, and shortly afterwards the accused was arrested at Cardiff, and eventually tried at the Assizes, and was dis- charged. The accused, it is alleged, admitted after he had been released that he was guilty of having purloined the money, and consequently he was again arrested upon the same charge. Mr William Russell Beltb, mechanical and mining engineer, residing at Cardiff, who, in September last, was the landlord of the Windsor Hotel, Ynysbwl, having given evidence, Testyn Williams, relieving officer of the Pontypridd Union, stated that on December 15th last the prisoner applied to him for admission into the workhouse at Pontypridd. Prisoner said his name was Thomas Jones, and produced a medical certificate bearing that name, from Dr Jenkins, medical officer of the district. On the following day witness saw the prisoner at the workhouse, and remarked that he identified him as Robert Pugh. and that he had known him since he was a child. He had a conversation with the prisoner about the burglary, and asked him why he had given a wrong name. Prisoner made no reply. Witness inquired of the prisoner the reason why he had been discharged at the Assizes. Prisoner replied that it was because he would not plead guilty. Wet!, are you guilty ?" asked the witness. He said "Yes." Witness then asked where was the money or the B120 stolen from the hotel. Prisoner answered that it was generally understood he had hidden it. He then hesitated, and remarked that he had concealed the money in Llan Wood, at Darenddu, near Pontypridd. He remarked that if witness went to a certain spot in that wood, be would find the money. Mr Groves (master of the workhouse) and himself went to the place described by the prisoner, but failed to find any money. Prisoner pretended to be sur- prised on hearing that they had failed to discover the stolen gold.—Sergeant Llewellyn, Ynysybwl^ deposed that he arrested prisoner in a lodging- house at Cardiff, and formally charged him with the burglary and the robbery.—He pleaded Not guilty," and was committed for trial to the Assizes.

WELSH UNION OF WOMEN'S LIBERAL ASSOCIATIONS. Meeting at Aberystwyth. A meeting to inaugurate n. Welsh Union of Wo- men 6 Liberal Associations was held at Aberystwyth on Tuesday evening, when there were cfelegate3 present from nearly all the 30 Associations in the Principality. In the. absence of Mr W. Abraham, M.P., Mrs Maelaren pre- sided, and read a telegram from Mabon, in which he said he had an important Sliding-scale meeting on the morrow. The majority of Welsh members were heartily in sympathy with the movement, and wished it every success. Mr Bowen Rowlands was en- gaged at Chester Assizes, and Mr Lloyd George's ab-ence was not accounted for. Letters sympa- thising with the movement were received from tho following members of ParliamentMr Stuart Rendel, Sir Hussey Vivian, Mr Alfred Thomas, Mr W. Davies, Mr Arthur Wil- liams, Mr Lloyd Morgan, Mr David Randell, Mr Abel Thomas, Mr Bowen Rowlands, Mr Pritchard Morgan, and Mr D. A. Thomas. SIr Edward Reed regretted his inability to attend. Mr T. Ellis, M.P., Mr Lloyd.George, M.P., Mr Bryn Roberts, M.P., and Mr Hanbury Tracy, M.P., personally expressed warm sym- pathy with the work. The Rev Ellis Edwards, Bala; Mrs Norman, Cardiff; Mrs Wynford Philipps, F. Llewellyn Jones, Denbigh; Vaughan Davies, Tanybwlch; Mrs Hum- phreys Owen, Glansevern; and Mr J. Gib- son, Aberystwyth, took part in the pro- ceedings. The meeting unanimously approved of the tormation of the Union, pledging itself to support it in procuring, by organised political endeavour, the triumph ot Liberal principles, mcluding the enfranchisement of women, and the incorporation of those principles into law.—The meeting also expressed confidence in Mr Glad- stone, and recognised his magnitieont work in the cause of progress, pledging ifeself to support him in carrying Home Rule for Ireland and other reforms m the Liberal programme.—The third resolution called on all Welsh men and women to devote special attention to the crying needs of their "own country, and to press forward the demand for religious equality and Disestablishment, and for wider measures of local self-government In the Principality. |

AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK AT ABERCARN. The neighbourhood of Abercara was thrown into a state of excitement at about l.«50 on Satur- day morning by what has since transpired to be an earthquake shock. The shock was felt more forcibly in the Cwmcarn Valley. In an inter- view with some of the residents in that particular district, our Abercarn correspondent learns that the movement took place atasnear 2.45 as possible, und was followed by the crashing of ornaments and pictures, which were thrown from the wails of the houses in the neighbourhood. The shock was such as generally follows a mine explosion, and naturally the first impression in the minds of the people at the moment waa that an explosion bad occurred. Great excitement consequently prevailed until the re^l the .disturbance wis made known.

BY A LADY JOURNALIST. A Pretty Reception Dress Is the subject of our first illustration, and will show you how much moire is utilised in Paris, as I mentioned to you last week. This is a really picturesque dress, and one that would not be very expensive. The back is of white moire, made as you see quite plainly with a, slight train. (By- the-way, trains are made more pointed than they were.) The front of bodice and skirt as well as the sleeves are all composed of a soft heliotrope silk that falls in delightful folds. The collar- band, girdle, and bag are all of silver passe- menterie. This is a particularly useful model, because the same design can be reproduced in so many different materials, and as I often point out it would lend itself extremely well to the re- arrangement of half-worn dresses with another choice of colours, and a gold, or even jet girdle I and bag. At this season of the year it is just a little difficult to lay down any very hard and fast rule as to ostume, for it really follows the weather so m' and that is so c^able that weather so m), and that is so c^able that nothing quite fixed can be declared till a. closer approach to summer will warrant the appearance of the novelties that are prepared for it. You may read in many a soi-disant fashion paper that this, that, and the other is the fashion," because, probably, the principals of certain shops have thus informed the lady journalist who sought the information there. But it is only those who watch from week to week, sitting, as it were, with their hand on the pulse of the fickle goddess of Fashion, and hear directly from her, who know exactly how far such statetfunta are to be depended upon. It is my great privilege, I am very pleased to tell you, to be able for the next few weeks to give you sketches of costumes from one especial, great, and well- known house in Paris. Thus you will know, that whilst having the opportunity of following thoroughly-good and correct models, you will also see costumes which no one else has obtained permission to prodnce. Blouses Are garments that are far too useful to pass out offashion just yift^anAin, JParis the mania for Russian things has given a name even to these useful articles. They are made in a variety of ways; for example, they may be in real shirb fashion, loose all the way down, and drawn to the waist by a belt or band; or the upper or bodice part may be quite tight-fitting, just like that of a dress, but with a long tunio-like basque that can be added quite separtely, and is often opened in front with revers like the lapels of a coat. Thus you see the word "blouse" is used very widely, and does not at all always mean only the neat little shirts we have been accustomed to wear hitherto. Today, however, I am not going to give you the design of a blouse russe, as it is called, but one of the shorter sort, also a French one. It is often nice to have a little garment that will make one's toilette look dressy, without actually wearing a regular evening costume, when it is necessary to smarten it up a bit, for instance, like going to an evening concert, a quietdinner, or the theatre. For such a purpose I think you will find the blouse in my second sketch everything you can wish for. This blouse is worn with a black satin skirt, snd is composed of a pretty shade of pink satin dotted all over with tiny beads of jet. It is very simply trimmed round the sleeves, neck, and down the front with handsome jet passementerie, and con- fined to the waist by a Swiss belt of black velvet. Room for All Should be the motto of the many who have railed, and with good reason, at the paper on "Ritual- istic Sisterhoods lately read by a Mr Walsh at the Yarmouth Church Association. It is quite refreshing to see how widespread is the feeling of tolerance now found amongst the thinking and intelligent public. The only thing of which they are intolerant is bigotry, and that, I deeply regret to say, still exists amongst a few sections of the Church of our dear country and certain sects. I am truly glad to see that a lady writer, for whom I have the utmost veneration and respect, as one of the most philanthropic of women --Miss Emily Feithfull -has levelled the shaft of her clever pen against the harsh words used about Ritualistic sisterhoods. Now Miss Faith- full is ne mora a Ritualist than I am, but she has the good sense-that most splendid quality, common sense-to see and to know that you can- not fcroe everyone into the same groove. The old adage, What is one man's meat is another man's poison holds good in nothing so much ap in matters of religious opinion. It always struck me when I was a little girl and often used to hear religious discussions, that the very thing that was taught people to make them good seemed the one cause of the most bitter quarrels, and that there must be something dreadfully wrong in this somewhere. Narrow-minded people cannot understand that, as Miss Faith fall so wisely says, different natures have different needs," for then, are few so irreligious as the bigoted professing Christian. Why cannot we let alone those who find peace, contentment, and a life of constant and often great useful- ness, though it may not be done exactly in our way. Though there may be, and doubtless are, many a-buses of the sisterhood system, that is no reason that all should be bad. Not every woman that enters a sisterhood is forced into it, and I cannot help thinking that if they go in at all, and yet do not mean to obey the rules, it is their own fault if they are in trouble. When one sees the quiet way in which these gentle-faced women go about amongst the poor, and the good they do amongst the worse dens of our great cities in the most unostentatious way-places in which even a policeman is afraid to venture- I think it ill becomes those who do not worship quite after the same pattern as they do, to rail at them. Far less does it come well from a man, in whom one should at least be able to find a little ohivalry for those of the opposite sex. Spring Cleaning is upon us, and already thousands of houses are pervaded with a mingled odour of whitewash, soap suds, and bees' wax and turpentine. One of the very first things to do is to have all the chimneys swept, and there is an art in doing this. People don't often think about interfering with their chimney sweeps-but, indeed, they just want looking after as much as any oiher of the pro- verbial British workmen." Do not be satisfied till the sweep gets his brush well out of the top of the chhrney. Of course, in towns it is impossible for you to see this, but in the country you can stand a little way off the house and see the wheel- like brush come out. Whitewashing is another feature of this dreadful business, but it is worth the trouble for the fresh, wholesome sweetness it brings. Walla must be washed down that are painted and glazed, beginning at the top, and carefully brushed when papered, with a broom wrapped in a cloth, or a succession of feather brooms. Carpets should always be taken before all this is begun, and when in the country should be taken out, and turned face downwards on the grass, and well beaten, after which they must be thoroughly shaken. Curtains also should be treated to thorough shaking and brushing, floors to scrubbing and polishing, and books taken down, beaten, and their shelves cleaned out. In fact no good housekeeper will be satisfied unless every bole and corner is well routed out. I would pursue the subject further, but that a correspon- dent has asked how to make Jellied Marmalade. I cannot think that his suggt-stion of its being done by the great makers with tapioca added to the preserve can be correct. I gave this time last year a recipe for making marmalade which pro- fesses to be the original Dundee method, but for that I cannot vouch. It certainly contains a large amount cf gelatinous or mucilaginous matter which is drawn from the pips or seeds-not the skins-of the Seville oranges, and which greatly goes to produce the jellied part of the marmalade. I venture to repeat the recipe mentioned above, for the benefit of those who did not see it last year, and of my correspondent, who, if he will have the patience to try it, will be amply re- warded in having a preserve of very fine flavour and consistency. There two corrections in it that I should like to make first, that if less peel is preferred, half the quantity should be omitted, and secondly, it should be boiled a very little longer than the recipe says. Here it is. Take the weight of a hundred Seville oranges in loaf sugar. Then grate off the yellow of fifty, putting the gratings into a basin. Cover thsm with boil- ing water, pour it off then cover them again, letting the water stand on them for a little while, then pour it away this takes away the extreme bitterness. Divide all the oranges into quarters, and separate every fraction of skin and pips from the pulp. throw away half the rinds left by the grating of the outer rinds. Boil the remaining half (twenty-five) till sufficiently soft to force through a sieve. Those quarters that have the rind still on must be boiled till quite tender, then take out the white pulp with a spoon, taking care not to break the rinds, which you cut into wafer thin strips with a knife. Beat this pulp just taken out of the rinds in a mortar. In separating the fruit pulp from the inside skin and pips, put the two latter into cold water, they will yield considerable gelatinous matter. Add the juice of twelve sweet oranges to every hundred Seville oranges. Put gratings, strips, fruit pulp, white pulp, the strainings of pips and skins, those rinds forced through a sieve, the juice of the sweet oranges, and the sugar in a preserving pan, and boil for twenty-five minutes. Too much boiling darkens and hardens the marmalade, which may be eaten three days after making, but is better if kept longer. BUSY BEE. RULES FOR CORRESPONDENCE. Letters for inquiry on fashion or other matters, should be addressed to "BUSY BrE," care of the Editor, and will, if possible, be answered in the following edition. If an earlier answer is required, a stamped addressed envelope must be enclosed. Paper patterns of any designs giwn can be supplied on She faUawing terms French English Patterns Patterns 11,5 Bodice „ „ 2/- 0/9 Short Ikfttntle „ 2/6—1/0 LongMantto 11 11 4/ .1/9 Each application must have postal order and stamps for postage enclosed. Ladies are re- quested to cut out and enclose the picture of the garment required,, and the pattern shall be forwarded in about a week's time. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LAUNDRY.—The cause of the frothy substance is that the sides of the boiler cannot be clean. They ought to be thoroughly scraped and scoured with sand and soft soap after use every time. If there is any grease m the clothes you boil, that would help to cause the dirt to adhere to the sides. A.D.—You will get all the information you require at any patent office. I only know of such in London. Probably the Editor of this paper would be able to tell you of one nearer. A. SOOT.—You will see I have replied to your queries in my letter above. M. FBASER.—To knit the knee double you must use double wool. RAIN.—The only chance your plush has is to first brush it, then hold it over a jet of steam, straining the material tightly, and afterwards passing it over a hot iron, which must be held or placed bottom upwards. GOBDON.—I should advise you to send your cloak to the cleaners, they will make it as good as new. Soft-soap washing, and afterwards rub- bing with a chamois leather, will clean your belt. Or you might try one of the many polishes sold by bootmakers for reviving leather of that description, Russia Cream," for instance, which is used for reviving the Russian leather tan shoes and boots.

JUVENILE HOUSEBREAKERS AT JNEWPORT. aA-t the Newport police-court on Wednesday, Messrs A. J. Stevens and T. J. Beynon, the magistrates, had to deal with Henry Gunter, 11, Jacob Hutin, 12, and Edward Morgan, 13, three precocious youngsters, who were charged with breaking mto the building yard of Messrs Morgan and Roberts, Crindau, and also with breaking and entering the Steam Laundry, Cr indau. It appears that the lads first visited the builders' yard between Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Morgan and Hutin helped Gunter to scale the yard door, and the latter obtained admission to the yard, and then opened the door for the other lads. All three obtained access to the workshop, and decamped with a hammer, two chisels, and a gauge. Thus i armed the youngsters proceeded to the Laundry Works, smashed oneof the large panes in an out- side window, and then scrambled in through the aperture. After ransacking various rooms, the lads repaired to the office, to which they obtained access by breaking the window. The ladg then pro- ceeded to force open the deaks and cupboards, and finding nothing of valne except a few postage stamps, they transferred their attention to the safe. But here they met their match, and although they considerably damaged the outside they failed to open the strong box." The youngster, after trying their 'prentice hand3 at lock- picking, gave up the task and left, taking a popket-handkerohief, a muffler, and the postage stamps. The latter the lads converted into cash, selling the first 14 for Is, and the last four for lVpd. They first denied all knowledge of the affair, but in Hutin's pocket a handkerchief with a tell-tale mark was found, and the purchasers of the stamps came forwwd and identified Gunter and Morgan. The lads then made a clean breast of the matter, and owned that they had broken into both premises. Head-Constable Sinclair, now handed to the magistrates the police records, which showed that Gunter, the eleven- year-old lad, had made six previons appearances before the court; Hutin had been thrioe pre- viously; and Morgan, four times, once on a charge of housebreaking.-The Bench now told the lads that they appeared to be quite irreclaim- able, and sentenced all three to 14 days at Usk and four years in a reformatory.

HEALTH OF THE LARGE TOWNS Local Statistics. The return of the R«gi3trav-General for the week ending Saturday last, 26th March, shows that in 33 of the largest towns in England and Wales, each containing 80,000 persons or more, and of which Cardiff is one, there were registered 5,995 births and 4,348 deaths. The deaths corresponded to an annual rate of 22*3 per 1,000. 'Kie rates of mortality m the several towns, arranged in order from the lowest, were as toitows:— Brighton 9"9 22*6 CroyUoo 12*8 Rjrkenhead 22*7 Derby. 13-6 Birmingham 22*4 Hujl 16'3 Sheffield 22-8 Plymouth 17-0 gurnl«y 23"0 Portsmouth 17"8 Nottingham 23"° Kewcastlfron-Tyne- 17"9 24-5 Blackburn 18*8 Wolverhampton 25'0 Gateshead 19*4 Swansea 26 5 Sunderland 16*6 Liverpool 26 8 Bradford 197 27*5 West Ham 19'9 Manchester 29-2 Leicester 20*6 29-6 Bristol.. 21*0 31-0 London 21 "3 Oldham 55.3 kNorwieh„ 21 "8 Huudergficld 37 2 Bolton 22*0

Mr Wilmot Inglis. Jones, of Derry Ormond, High {Sheriff of Cardigans/1'r«i has left .his seat for a tour in Spain of about two months.

CHILDREN'S HOUR I AND ORDER OF THE ROUND TABLE. I COLUMN FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. By Maggie Symington. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to Inwer, Comes a pause in a day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. —Longfellow. Do you know what Pope Gregory said when he saw some English chiHren for the first time ? He said Not Angels (from the land of the Angles, Angel-land) but angels." Your history books hkve, something to say about this consult them if your memory fails yon. Well, all my little angles, or angels, or whatever you are, I have some pretty pickings and tellings for youthis week-a fine budget of the very sort of stories you love, so I will just spread it before you without any cbatteration. Four Hundred Years Ago something happened of vast importance to tho whole world. You will be able to guess what that event was, and also feel more deeply inter- ested in it, after reading this story. It happened about forty years before the date I speak of. A little Italian boy, born of honest but humble parents, was possessed by a strong desire to go to sea and so, when he was about fourteen years of age, he made his first voyage. Of course, this boy had to go in a sailing ship, steamships not having been invented. A happy little mariner was he when he sailed away. But trouble came. The ship caug'it fire. The hoy sprang overboard, but fortunately caught hold of an oar, and with the help of this determined to swim all the way to land. It was a hard tussle with the waves for a lad of his few years, to swim all the way to land. It was a hard tussle with the waves for a lad of his few year.?. but he would not say die, because he seemed to have an instinct that there was work waiting for him to do in after years. So he swam on a mile, then another, another, and even yet another, and so, persevering manfully, he accom- plished the sixth mile, and reached the land in safety. That was a boy after my own heatt-I wish there were dozens of him at the Round Table. He had grit, and resolution, and he could not easily be beaten. No wonder he made the date I speak of, world famous. His name was Christopher Columbus. The General's Bird. The General had lost a leg, and, moreover, he was exiled in the island of Cuba., and there he had a. wonderful pet. Children were never tired of peeping over the wall or through the gate of his residence to see the old man walking with a strange and beautiful bird. Its back and wings shone with mingled green, and red, and gold on its head was a crest of red and yellow its eyes shone brilliantly, its tail had long plumes of green and gold. The bird and the man were wholly devoted to each oth^r. Amongst those who were readiest in climbing walls and trees to get a glimpse of the old soldier and his pet, was the little son of the English oonsul, a boy of great beauty and courage. A pretty picture he made as he stood on the highest part of the wall to view the man and bird. Once the General looked up and gave him a friendly nod, then he sent a servant with a ladder to invite him to come down. What a visit that was Only the bird did not approve of it. He sat on a tree and watched them, now and then uttering a cry of remon- strance. The next time the boy came to visit the old General, he brought some sugar-plums with him to propitiate the bird, which, however, refused every overturn friendliness. "He is jealous," said his matetsr. Aftser that the old man and the boy becatCfi great friends, and the host used to tell wonderful-stones of past doing-? to his guest. One day, in ane excess of interest, the boy took a seat on the knee of the General, who put his arm caressingly about him and fondled his golden curls. There was a. shrill cry and flapping of wings, and in a moment the bird flew at the boy, fastening its beak in his hair, its claws m his throat. The General and his servant beat off the bird before the boy was seriously hurt, and after that the bird was missing. Search was made, a great reward offered, but to no purpose. Weeks passed, the General fell ilL One day as the doctor came out of his room, in flew the bird and perched himself on the pillow of his master, sorry and repentant, for he never afterwards showed jealousy, though the boy still visited the old soldier. The Great Planet Jupiter. This giant of the worlds takes eleven years, ten months, and seventeen days to complete its journey round the sun. So this is the length of its year. But its day and night are much shorter than ours, being not quite ten hours in all, because Jupiter revolves upon its axis with very great swiftness. If there are jpeople living on Jupiter, and if they go to b°df every night and get up every morning, it must be all going to bed and getting up with them. A day of five hours seems hardly worth while getting up for. "If," says a wise man, "a child on Jupiter should die. having lived only one of that planet's years, it would be as old as one who should die on our globe at the age of nearly twelve years, and this although the earth-child would have lived a very great many more of Jupiter's days than the Jupiter-child would have done of our earth-days." This is curious, is it not? I do not mean to say there are any Jupiter-children; nobody seems to be quite sure about this, A Letter from Natal. Many mothers write to me at different times to tell me of the joy of their children in belonging to the Round Table, and of how it stimulates them to strive after right and noble things, but I never had a more touching letter than one which reached me the other day from Natal, S. Africa. I have taken a great interest in your Children's Column, and have intended writing you for some time," the writer says, been-use I had a dear little lamb who would have liked to join your Round Table if you did at think her too young. She was four years and Iseven months old. She was called to the Good Shepherd's fold on New Year's Day. A happy day for her, but oh to us so sad a one. We went to the bejich for a pic-nic, which is usual here—a family gathering—in an ox-waggon. We had just got there, and were going to out-span- (which means, take the oxen out, I believe A.M.), when the waggon moved on, and little Meenie must have stood np or moved, for before anyone saw her she fell over. She was in front, and the hind wheel caught her. We heard her call Mama,' but all too late. I picked her up, she was hurt intensely, and only lived a few moments. My little Meenie We took her home, and she was buried the next day. She was a pet with everyone, and I know she would have been faith- ful to the Order. When I feel equal to it I will write and tell your little people about the lovely birds and flowers here, and some snake stories, quite true. I hope to gain you some little mem- bers here in Natal." You little folk must remem- ber that the weather in South Africa is very different in our mid-winter time from what it is here. I talked to some young people last autumn from Port Elizabeth who had never seen any snow. and were looking forward to experiencing an English winter Shall We Ever Fly. Yon and I have asked ourselves that question before, and the reason I put it to you again is that I have another opinion to give you on the subject. "Yes," says an eminent authority, "progress is rapid now, especially in invention, and it is possible—it seems to us even probable— that before the century closes we shall see this road of the all-embraoing air travelled in every direction, with an effect upon some of the con- ditions of our existence which will mark this among all the wondera the century has seen." Tha latest news on the flying question comes from Coventry. They have just concluded a flying machine there which is a gigantic affair. The principle of it is copied from the flying fox. Immense winge. tail, a box with electric motors, the whole tiirning the scale at 700ibs., and costing £ 1,000. So if you want to fly, you cannot do it for nothing. For my part, I am watching the doings and discovermgs of a man of science across the herring pond (as irreverent people call.the Atlantic) who will be answering the question in a very unexpected and far more practical way than this. Those who live longest see the most, so get yourselves ready, mjr chicks, for the marvellous days coming, by acquiring goodness of heart. Nothing can bring them so snrely and so swiftly as the worthi- ness of people to receive them. In Trust. No, I am not going to tell you of any little dog who has learnt the trick of not snapping at a biscuit after the above word? have been saicb until it is paid for, although I know more than one who can do this. You will find my story altogether otherwise. Until lately there was a great astronomer on earth who discovered a family of 22 asteroids (small planets). They were the companions of many a lonely night spent in gazing above and beyond the sleeping earth into the depths of the starry sky. So much inter- ested in them was he that he adopted them after a fashion, as his children. When be died he left a trust fund by will to the American National "Academy of Sciences with directions that they should look after his asteroid children. So tfce paths of these dear little planets are to be watched, and their comings and goings noted. I wish I had known that astronomer. My Scrap Bag. ANCIENT FISHES.—In the Royal Aquarium at St. Petersburg there are some fishes whose ages range from 100 to 150 years. A WIZARD PEN.—That belongs to Jules Verne, as all boys know. You will like to hear that he writes his extraordinary stories in a little room crowded with charts, electrical apparatus, and scientific instruments, for he likes to work out as far as possible the things he describes. MAKING LMHTKIN&.—You have heard of the rain-makers ? Well, a certain American elec- trician (not our dear doll-making Mr Edison) claims to have discovered how to make light- ning. If he and the rain-makers ever enter into partnership, the S. B. will order a few thunderstorms. THE FIRST STEAM This was built 150 years before Christ by a Greek named Hero. It had a boiler, and was able to do work by means of a shaft and belt attachment. Had James Watts ever heard of Hero, do you think ? A CURIOUS BIRu's NEST.—It is made of cotton in the shape of a bellows by a tiny bird, smaller than our wren, that lives in the heart of Africa. The most wonderful thing about the nest is that, under the eave close by the entrance, the male builds a watch tower. He never goes inside the nest himself, but sits inside this tower and keep-; guard over his little wife while she lays and hatches out her eggs. Wild Flowers at the Round Table. It was suggested to me to send my little people out flower-gathering this year, to make a collection of farmliar blossoms and label them with their common, botanica', and also local names, in order to give an object to their country walks. So I have promised to give a prize-book monthly for the best specimen flower peculiar to the month. This proposal and prize offer have found great favour with readers, and I have already received many letters upon the subject. Next week I hope to enter more fully into it, and also to give especial instructions how to gather, press, and mount sjiecimen flow?rs. Easter Egg Gathering. This is a competition now going on, in which I have offered a number of prizes to consist of Easter Eggs (not laid by hens, but each and all of them works of art), for the wisest, funniest, most curious facts about eggs, collected from anywhere and everywhere. These facts must be written on one side only of a sheet of paper, be signed with name, age, and full address of com- petitor, and sent to me on or before the 14th day of this present month (April). Eggs-amine every book you can, egg-stort facts from your friends, and don't eggs cuse yourself from sending me at least one eggs-traordinary anecdote. No com- petitor may be over seventeen years, and each anecdote, &c., must be told simply, briefly, -e. brightly, and absolutely in your own language. You must state also where, or how, you have obtained your fact or anecdote. A Wonderful Menagerie. A little while ago I set the wits and the pencils of my little people to work to invent some animals. The result was one of the most extra- animals. The result was one of the most extra- ordinary collections ever heard of. I said then, and f repeat now, that I have been to the Zoo and the Natura Artis in Amsterdam—two of the finest collections in the world-but the ammals in them are not to be compared to these originals. You shall judge for yourselves. Here is the animal that won the first prize :— Made-up Animals Competition. THE PRICKLY-HEADED YOU-ALL. By ETHEL FRANCIS (First Prize). This animal is peculiar to the Himalaya Mountains. Its food is the snow, which it finds on these lofty summits all the year round. The cnrious construction of its hind legs enables it to bound up the mountains at an immense rate. It descends on its head, the spikes on which prevent it slipping or coming down too fast. So Many Things. I have had so muoh to say to you to-day on bebalf of new little readers, as well as old, that I have no space left for any of our Round Table doings. I shall hope to make up for this omission next week. Neither can I stay to take even so much as a. peep into my Letter Box, which is brimming over as usual. Do you -know why this letter box of mine is like thfe purse of Fortunatus ? Put 011 your thinking caps and tell me whilst I give my mind to examining this big budget of letters in time when I do get a chance to speak of them. How to Join the Order. Any little reader wishing to join the Round Table may do so at once, and be sure of a hearty welcome from me. I should like to suggest to all new applicants for admission that they en- close six postage stamps in their first letter, then a book of the Order and a copy of the song of the Round Table will be sent with their Cer- tificate these will give them all the information they need, whilst saving them both expense and trouble. Rules, Prayer or Name List (which are always sent with each certificate), may also be had separately from me, free on receipt of addressed halfpenny wrapper Book of the Order, l%d post free of tho Round Table (full music size, with tonic sol-fa in addition to the ordinary nota- tion), 3%d per copy, post free six copies, Is 8d. Address all communications to AUNT MAGGIE SYMINGTON, Hunstanton.

CLEVER CAPTURE BY THE POLICE AT MORRISTON. As Police-constables Johns and Thomas, of the Borough Police, were on their night patrol on Friday morning, and when going through the yard of the Dyffryn Works about 1 a.m., they heard some money falling. They made a search, and crouched in a corner near tho Midland f-ntrance of the works they found a young man concealing himself. When questioned as to the money, which was some 10s in coppers, ho did not give a satisfactory reply, and they arrested him. Thinking of the Market Potato Stores as the piacd where probably the money had been ab- stracted they examined the place, and found the desk broken op-m, and some £ 3 missing. The prisoner gave information to the police regarding an accomplice, who was employed at the stores, and he was consequently arrested. At Swansea on Monday, D. Jones, a labourer, of Fisher-street, and W. Lewis, of Morns-street, were charged with breaking and entering Mr H. John's potato stores, at 48, Market-street, and stealing £ 3 10s 3d.-J ones was found near the premises under suspicious circumstances. On being arrested be made a statement which compromised Lewis.—They were committed for trial.

THE WEEK'S MARKETS. cons. CARDIFF, Saturday.—English and foreign wheat -slow sale at nominally lite prices futures less depressed and dearer. Flour same as last. Oats firm. Other articles same a- last. GLOUCESTER, Saturday.—The supply of English wheat being quite small to-day, prices were the turn only in favour of buyers. Foreign, Is per quarter lowet without attracting attention. Grinding barley and American maize were sold at 6d decline. Oats unaltered in value. NEWPORT, Wednesday.—A moderate attendance, bnt business was dull. Wheat and other grains showed a drooping tendency. Oats firm. Maize quiet. CATTLE. MONMOUTH, Monday. — At the fortnightly stock market there was a small attendance, and trade in store sheep and cattle very dull. Store pigs sold quickly, and pnme beef was in fair demand. Quota- tions were as follow :-Best beef, 6*jd per lb; other qualities from 5d wether mutton, 8d ewe do., 7l/*d veal, 9%<l lamb, Is 2d. Fat catUe sojjji the, hammer of Messrs Nelmes osd Poole realised from E14 to B18 fa.t ewos, from 53s to 45s; calves scarce, £3 tojMICN. UOATH (Cardiff), Tuesday. — There was a very moderate supply of cattle en offer at our market to- day (chiefly Irish) of a middling description. Sheep were more numerous, and trade was good for any- thing choice. Calves were a good show, and there was a plentiful supply of Dorset lamb*. Pifjs were a short supply, and prices harder. Quotations Cattle—be.* quality, 60s to 60s per cwt. secondary lots, 56s to 58s per cwt.; inferior cows and bulls, 48s to 52s per cwt. Sheep—prime quality, 8lAd to 8l^d per lb., small weights making 8%d per ID. heavy sheep and ewes, 7d to 7%d per lb.; Lambs, lid to Is per lb. Pigs —bacoiws, 9s 6& to 10s 3d per score porkers, 10s 6d to lis per score for prime small pigs. SALE OF FAT SHKEP AT CARDIFF.—Messrs Got, Waltt, Bowring, and Perry, the well-known Cardiff auction eel s, acting under instructions from Mr W. Thomas, The Cog, Sully, sold by auction at Roath Market yesterday (fue?d*y) 300 fat cross-bred sheep. There was an excellent company present, and traae was very brisk. The sheep, although not large, were nice weights, and realised as high as 42s 6d per head. The principal buyers were Messrs Poole, B. Kyte, Morgan, Chamberlain, Bellamy, Batten, Winn, and Hayrnan, of Cardiff Messrs Wadley and Cooksley, of Penarth Thomas, Whitchurch Shepston and Wood- ward, Llatidaf? Puwell, i erndale Thomas, Aber- dare and others. NEWPORT, Wednesday.—There was a good supply, and business being brisk, but little remained unsold. Prices were the same as last we.k. but there a ten- dency to give a slight advance for wether mutton and best veal. Porker pigs in good demand at late rates. PROVISIONS. MONMOUTH WEEKLY PROVISION MARKET, Saturday. —The market- was well attended farm produce scarce. Quotations :-Fresh butter, Is 4d per lb hen eggs, 16 for Is. Dressed fowls (very scarce), &t from 9d to lOd per lb Butchers' meat;(pri!i!e joints)-beef and mutton, 8d to 9d per lb veal, 9d to lOd per lb pork, 8d per lb. Fish—Wye ,-almon, 2s per lb soles, 2s; lemon soles, 8d; turbot, Is 2d halibut, 10d plaice, 5d per lb oysteis, 16 for Is.

ALLEGED ROBBERY OF STAMPS. Charles Ampman was committed -for trial at Bow-street,ion Tuesday, charged with being oon- cernpd in stealing stamps value £ 1,400 from the steamer Astrea.

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I atèended by one of the most prominent physicians in Liverpool. who failed to core, or even help me* I aÍterw3 rd;; tried several remedies which are advertised to cure rheu ati-m, but f. und them useless. and became completely discour&lted, feeling that I should never be able to walk again. I procured a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil from my chemist, Mr B. Cluett, 95, St. James -street, which I have used with the most happy results. I have since procured two m*re bottles from Mr Cluett, which I have nsed a.nd the result is that I can now walk as well as ever and am in perfect fiealth. I owe my return to health and my present happiness all to St. Jacobs Oil, which I shall never be withc-ut as long as I live." ST, JACOBS QIL. ST. JACOBS QtL. gUFFERED TWELVE MONTHS. gUFFERED TWELVE MONTHS. Mr W. MASON, Editor of the Retford and Gains- bormlgh Ifcws, Retford, writes I had suffered fram a sprained knee for tw eive months, without being able to obtain relief from the pain, when I rubbed the knee thoroughly for twenty minutes with St. Jacobs Oil. That night I travelled 200 miles by railway, the next day I walked 25 mUes, and the pain had entirely dis- appeared. I have never had the slightest return of it since." Price Is llhd and 2s 6d. JpiLES.—" PILANTRA," Pile Cure. Immediate relief and.. permanent cure guar- anteed. Sample free postage 3d.—Address The Geddes Manufacturing Company, 249, High Holbom, London. 14437 ^TARNER'S "SAFE" CURE FOR ALT. KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES. "^TARNER'S SAFE CURE FOR GENERAL DEBILITY U AND ^RIGHT'S DISEASE. JLF BACKACHE, DROPSICAL SWELLINGS, FICKLE APPE- TITE, PALPITATION OF THE HEART, ABNORMAL APPEARANCE OF THE FLUIDS PASSED, FEMALE IRREGULARITIES, General LASSITUDE AND WEAK- NESS, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS ARE BUT SYMPTOMS OF DISORDERED KIDNEYS AND LIVER, AND QUICKLY YIELD TO WARNER'S SAFE CURE. WE DO NOT OVEESTATE THE CASE. ITS CLAIMS ARE UNIMPEACHABLE. THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS PROCLAIMING ITS MERITS ARE ON FILE AND MAY BE EXAMINED. ASK YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGH. BOURS ABOUT IT. SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS AND MEDICINE VENDORS. PAMPHLET MAILED FREE ON APPLICATION TO H. H. WARNER & CO. (LIMITED), 86* CLERgENWELL-ROAP, LONDON, E.C. JNFLUEN ZA. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. In Warding off this enemy the great thing is to avoid a child. J^LLCOCK'S PLASTERS afford a Wonderful Protection from Colds of Every Kind. The REV MARK GUY PEARSE says.—"I find them a vary Breastplate against Coughs and Colds." J NFLUENZA Attack can be modified and quickly Cored by the use of BRANDRETH'S SUGAR-COATED PILLS ^LLCOCK'S PLASTERS. See that you get the Genuine. 14637 As gOOD AS GOLD. BRANDRETH'S TpiLLS. SUG 4.E BRANDRETH'S OILLS. JL. roATPn JJRANDRETH'S JpiLLS. HEALTH, STRENGTH, FRESHNESS OP COMPLEXION. AND CLEARNESS OF VISION. ALL RESULT FROM THE USE OF BRANDRETH'S PILLS. I THEY PURIFY THE BLOOD, CLEAXSE THE LIVER, ANn INVIGORATE THE WHOLE SYSTEM. THERE IS l'i0 REMEDY OF TO-DAY THAT CAK APPROACH THEM FOR TRUE EXCELLENCE OP QUALITY. ASK FOR BRANDRETH'S SUGU-COÂTEÐ PILLSfc 40 IN EACH BOX. AGENTS W. PBGLER AXn SON. The Cross, Pontvpool; 227, High-street, Swansea; and The County Stores, Merthyr. 14636 DR. LAL0R'S P^hodyne For THIRTY YEARS has maintained its WORLD WIDE reputation as the ONLY SAFE, RELIABLE PHOSPHORIC GUK.E for Brain Wreckage, Paralysis, Sleeplessness, Harassing Dreams, Premature Decay of Vital Power, and all Functional and Diseased Condi- tions of the System dependent upon the Deficiency of the Vital Forces. It Cures Dyspepsia, Nerve and Heart Disease. Cures Kidney and Liver Complaints. Cures Depression and Loss of Appetite. Cures Consumption and General Debility. Checks all Wasting of the Vital Forces From whatever cause arising. The effect of this Standard Phosphoric Remedy ill Nervous Debility and its Kindred Evils is immediate and permanent, all the Miserable Feelings apd Pis. tressing Symptoms disappearing with a rapidity that is REALLY MARVELLOUS. DR J^ALOR'S JpHQSRHOPYNE. Its energising effects are shown from the first day of its administration by a remarkable increase of nerve And intellectual power, with a feeling a CCntT*fft, strength, aud comfort. Digestion is invigorated. The appetite increases \underfuI!r. Sleep becomes calm I and refreshing. The face becomes fuller, the lips red, the eyes brighter, the skin clear and healthy. Thousands of unimpeachable Testimonials from all parts of the world, and from the highest Medical Authorities. Sold in bottles at 4s 6d, by all chemists throughout the world or sent free per Parcel Post (plain wrap- pers) in Great Britain on receipt of P.O. DR LALOR'S PHOSPHODYNE LABORATORY, HAMPSTEAD. LONDON, N.W. TRADE MARK—"PHOSPHODYNE." 14598 rpOBACCONISTS AND PUBLICANS. Rag, 3s 4d; Irish Twist, 3s 4d Pigtail, 5s 4d; Bird's Eye. 3s 5d Light Returns, 3s lOd; Cut Cav., 3s 5d Navy Cut, 3s 6d; Yankee Blnaier, 4s 6d; %d cigars, 3s Id cigars, 4s, 4s 6d, 5s 6d 2d cigars, large, 7s 6d to 128 6d per 100 3d cigars, l2s 6d to 30s per 100. Packet tobaccos of all makers. Fins, 4s 6d; courts, 5s6d per 100 cigarettes, 5s 6d per lb %d clsys, Is 9d groM tyd, 2s Id French assorted, 7s 6d vulcanite stem pipes, Is 4dper dozen; Id wood Dipes, 5d dozen; 2d do.. Is 4d; 4d do., 2s 6d dosen 6d, 4s dozen; Is, 7s 6d dozen. Pouches from 9d dozen India rubber, from 3s 6d fancy, 4s 6d dozen aud upwards. Common clays, lOd gross. Send for what you want. Will be carefully packed and selected.—Money orders payable to E. Gibbs, Tobacconist, Sundryman, 33, Castle-street, Bristol. Established 1845. 14741 I CURE FITS. I have made a life-long study of the disease of Epilepsy, or Falling Sickness, and when I say CURE. I do not mean merely to stop, them for a time and then have them return again, T,mean a Radical Cure. I have known my remedy to cure the worst cases. Bepause othen; have failed to cure you is no reason why yo., should continue to suffer. Send ax once for my TREATISE and a. FREE BOTTLE of medicine. It cafe you nothing for a trial, and IT WILL CURE H. G. ROOT, Esql, 2S, Ensieigh-garclens, fuston-road, London, N.W. 14644 ISusimsa ]U>ftrgssig, J^AZAWATTEE -Jy/JAZAWATTSB J^jTAZAWATTEE AZ A W ATTEE jyjAZAWATTEE ]^j[AZAW ATTEE AZAWATTEE "JjTAZAWATTEE HIGH-CLASS TEAS HIGH-CLASS rjlEAS HIGH-CLASS TEAS JJIGH-QLASS rpEAS Nothing of late years seems to have escaped thecraJft for cheapness at the sacrifice of Real Quality. TEA has been singled out ag fair game for the OD- sfwght of advertisers, who have vied witb ea.ch other to deprave the taste of the public by appealing to their pocka^ at the expense of their palates. Tbe public, nauseated with the rubbish that has been so persistently forced upon them, have bailed with gratitude the advent of the M AZ A W A T'l FtK TEAS. These iHiph-class Teas have met a loncr-ieit want, and is universally acknowledged that they RECAJJL the DELICIOUS CHINA TEAS RECALL the DELICIOUS CHINA TEAS RECALL the DELICIOUS CHINA TEAS RECALL the DELICIOUS CHINA TEAS OF THIRTY YEARS AGO. OF THIRTY YE.ARS AGO. OF THIRTY YEARS AGO. OF THIRTY YEARS AGO. AZAWATTEE l^JAZAWATTEE jyjAZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE jyr AZAWATTEE lyj AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE ^AZAWATTEE "The standard brand for fine quality. Distinctly Tea of the highest character," elevating the public taste. PRICKS-Is lOà, 2s, 2" 4d, 2s lOd, and 4s per lb. in 1-1 b., %-lb., and %-lb. PMkete and alsó 3-lb. iad ó-lb Tins. BOLD BY CARDIFF. Stranaghan and Stephens, 9, Castle-street. do. do. Household Stores, 5&. Queen-street. GLAMORGANSHIRE. CARDIFF—G. Dawkins, 90, Cowbridg;e-road. do. J. B. Fletcher, Woodville-road. do. Goldsworthy and Sons, 5i, James-street. do, J. VT. Heale, Salhbury-road, do. J. Hunter and Son, 79, Broadway, do. D. Jenkins and Son, 46, Harriet street, do, D. Price, 62, Tudor-road, Riverside, do. W. 1\1. Thomas, Cathays-street Stores, do. S. Williams and Co., 145, Clifton-street. ABERAVON—T. Llewellyn, 43, High-street, do. T. Richards, Eagle Shop. do. Taylor & Co., Ltd., Carnarvon-road, do. 00. Bridge-street. ÂBERDARE-D, Davies, 2, Canon-street. A BERG WFNFI—David Price, Lower Jersey-street. ABKRKENFIG—Nicholas & Rees, Central Supply Stona, BARGOED—Lewis Lewis & Co. BARRY—C. J. Thomas & Co.. 92, High-street. BRIDGEND—W. H. John. Dunraven-place. BRITON FERRY—H. Gower, Villiers-street. do, Phillips & Young, Supply Store*, do. T. Thomas, 147 & 149, Neath-road. CADOXTON—C. Whaler. 50, Main-street. Cadoxton. do. Griffin & Davies, The South Wales Previ- sion Stores, Vere-street. do. Thos. Walters, 17, Main-street. CAERPHILLY—John Williams, Bridge House. CiLFwrni)—J. Thomas <fe Co., Hong Kong-street. CoCKETT-H, Howard, St. Pe&er's-road. COWBRIDGE—P. Griffiths. CWMAVOS—T. Phillips. CHIMER-Griffiths & Sons. FERNDALE-E. T. Evans, Duffryn-street. GLAIS—J. Jordan. GLYNCORRWG-D, Matthews. GLTN NEATH—T. Parry, Post-office. GORSEINON—David Jones, High-street. LLANDAFF—W. Evans. LLANTWIT MAJOR—Mary Williams. LLANTWIT VARDRE—Thomas Lewis, Tea Exchange. LLA.NSAMLET—L. G. Carter. LLANTRISSANT—John Thomas, Post-office and 0|yB* terrace. MAERlIY-Jones A Co. MAESTEG—W. Rees, Garnlwyd. I MAESYCWMMER—Thomas Jones, Manchester Saaat. MERTHYR TYDPIL-G. M. AR, Gunson, 68, High-street, MORRISTON—Geo. Evans, Victoria Buildings. MCMBLES—John Evans. do. Yeo and Davies, The Duns. do. Richard Rees, County Tea. Stores. NEATH—J. D. Llewellyn, 5 and 7, Wind-street. do. M. E. Booth. 25, Queen-street. NELSON—T. <fc D. navies, Post-office. PENARTH—Stranaghan & Stephens. PENTRE RHONDDA-N, Skyrme, Post-office. PENYGARN-W. Evans. PENYGRAIG-H. sheppard. PENTYRCH-J. David, P.O. PONTABDAWK—David Lewis. PONTARDULAIS—D. Williams, Post-ofliee. POKTLOTTYN-M, Griffiths & Co., The Royal Stores II the Square. POKTTCYMHER—Evan Price, Liverpool House, Oxford street. PONTYPRIDD—R. Rogers, The Silver Teapot. do. T. Davies, 2, Mill-street. PORTH-M. M. Jones, Gladstone House. PORTRCA WL-G riffith Griffiths, The PorthcawlDrapMJ and f revision Supply. SKETTY— Mrs Glyn, Post-office. SWANSEA—Taylor & Co., Ltd., Carmarthen-road aaC Walter-road. do. Webber & ."■ou, 17, Union-street, do. J. W. Evans, a), College-street. do. Isaac Gale, 18. High-street. tto. Lewis & Son. Walter-road. do. 8. T. Savag*, 4, Beach-street. TAFr's WELL—William Evans, Post Office, Junction road. TAIBACH—Taylor < £ Co., Ltd. TON PETTTRE—D*vid Holmes, Post-offiee. TKEROES—A. ITaceis. W A U N ARLWPD—Tho mas Phillips. VNYSMCDW—William Jones. jyj" AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE lyjAZAWATWEE BRRCOy SHIRR. BRECON—W. T. Evans, 11, High-street. do. John Powell, Cavendish House. BBTSMAWR—H. Connop and Son, PeafMB House. CRICKBOWELL-S. Jarrett. GLASBCRY -R. T. Gwynne. HAY-.James Morris. BUILTH-David Powell, Commerce House. SIRHOWY—Thomas Lewis, Emporium. I AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE jyjT AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE CARMARTHENSHIRE. AMMAVFORD—W. Jones. CARMARTHEN—W. S. MoniB, 24, Builth-street. FERRYSIDE—Jonah Thomas. KIDWELLY-David Gr.ffiths, London House. LLAXELLT—W. D. Evans, 13. Market-street, do. W. Walters, Park House, (to. E. Williams, 30, Ann-street, do. H. Williams, Albion House. LLANDOVERY—X. and W. Williams, London House. LLANSADWRN—D. Griffiths. LLANSTEPHAN—John Da.vies, The Stores. LAUGHARNE—B. R. Thomas. PEMBREY—D. L. Rees. ST. CLEARS—D. Thomas & Co. jy-AZAWATTEE MAZAWATTBB M AZAWATTEE 7^ AZAWATTEE CARDIGANSHIRE. AMMANFORD-W. Jones. CARDIGAN—Bowen Bros., Market-square. MAZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE MAZAWATrEE AZAWATTEE PEMBROKESHIRE. ASIJIOTH—J. Richards, Post Office. CAOBW—E. PALMAR, GROW Stores (OPPEETTE Caatta^ CLARjM-STox Iio±D—Uarri«>> AND Evans, Post Office. FISHGUARD—John Griffiths, Castle Stores. HAVERFORDWEST—J. Bees and Sons. MILFORD HAVEN-W. H. Davsh. NARBEJBTH—T. E. <fc E. S. Morgan, tfigb-«tr«at. NKYi»ue&—F. Beddow, High-street. PFUBROKE—Win. Powell, Brick House. PEMBROKE DOCK-W, T. Smith Sons, Bush-street. ST. DAVTD'WL. R. Owen & Co., Malta House, New. street. SACNDERSPOOT—T. Mathias. jyjT AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE MAZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE MONMOUTSHIRE. ABERBEEG-E. Edmunds. ABERCARNF,—George Jones, Victoria Honsa. ABERGAVENNY—Wm. Davis, 7, Cross-street. ABERTILLERY—Titus Phillips. BLACK woon-Richard Morri". BLAENAVON-Davis Bros., Broad-street BLAINÄ- B. A. James, High-street. C'AKRLEON.—S. and C. Matt-haws, High-street. CHEPSTOW—T. S. Davies. St Mary-street. CWMTILLERY—F. Fielding and Co., Post Office. ERBW VALE-E. Phillips, Brierly Hill, do. Davis Bros. FLBUR-DE-LIS—W. Nash. LLANHLLETH—James Mead, Llanhileth Grocery Supply Stores. MACHEN—Evan Jones and Co. I MONMOUTH-Wm. Hall, Agincourt-square aad Church* street. NANTYGLO—John Jones, King-street. NEWBRIDGE-Price Bros., Beehive Shop. NEWPORT— E. R. James, 193, Commercial-road. W. F. Leonard &Co., Alexandra-road, do. J. t C. Sankev, 141, Commercial-street, do. C. P. Simmonds. Maindee. do. J. Thomas, 41, High-street, do. W. Turner, 159. Commercial-road. PONTYPOOL-Davies Bros., George-street. B>AGLA £ I—W. B. Williams. RISCÅ-E. A. Taylor. RHYHKEY—Phillips <fc Co.. Lombard House. ROGERJSTONE—J. Watkins. TREDEGAR—T. Price, Circle USK-W. It A. Hobbs, Bridge-street. jyj AZAWATTEE AZAWATTEE J^AZA WATTE AZAWATTEE