The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

WOOL A. & J. Macnaiighton, VOOLLEN MAHUFASTURLRS, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Hare bean AWARDED a PRIZK MECAXi for tbcto Woblleii M»naf*cturM in lh* EBINBUROU IXTKB- NATIONAL EXHIBITlvE, leAII. Tbay pay oMT ityeot Wooi iws» to ttwto«m«mtaotaa» Into tbeir oelebratad RTL0CHRY TWEEDS. 0^8$TKHEEDS, BLARKETSK BU6S. ftc. •nJofinoM from tti« LiMdlag Jouraala. Pit> ttfM. Charges, aod full Ptytiou',sre as to time twqt<M<, d tiold,of Woot, te:. on appli .itioo u above. Ptrtiea wi^hinrto buy <r<nuin«> Tweea., (■ writing us tor Paltonu, W4 H for varabMt. ADVERT IS K .) M«r: h/ia i LnB mi ow «oh!i>puo nf.l i* .-n-ivolloU eili loi von or.)iJ:uviH j I)II« (;IA,uw KOJ^CLE c

I r n v: E u :i o r K A :T S I T U A T I O N. PAUIS. '« 1. a cdiPVitfmTrn-Tr <>f "t !re (ii-sree 'c\*>n;rin«» I by A in i':uis, fllr all foreiirnoM onl.c-rin/ (;upu.UlY .vi.i ■.N.teo-l.orniiite, tho Eailuiri lutilvvay of ias ui i^ani/.fil ;i spc-ial .-orvice eiiiJbliu^ pa^.sen^et s ■r SwiUorlaiul an 1 An«tria-Hunwary to proceed r t.lurAr11:or^, and t,ho*o t'lvr Italy iti Hi.-4ioirkHiH^y ■ iiiis avoiiliiii.' i;ro-sin^ .1.<:0, lie cnll"eqllellL :iiiin>yanue of having I lnjir passports vi.^e d ill i'at i-1. K<t t rBnc.tin Us npcui t.ho Fioii(dr;Oif»\'et'ri!nenfc t«r uLli^e Ccnnans enl erinj* France Lo lwi^e ()iiasi>orkii* as a mea.-uro of reLalitliioil. VIENNA. The French tlirenfc to reply to M. Tisz;s speech by instituting a campaign against Hungarian iionLes, stocks, and the natural products of the ■ :T HI II try, besides breaking otf commercial relations jLh Hungary, lias not had the slightest effect ipon the Vienna and Peat Bourses, and is almost gnoted by the newspapers. On the other hand, \l. TisziiV observations have evidently been laiil to h) u t by flie manufacturers of Hungary, as out of who had announced their intention of taking part, in the exhibition of next year, about 20 have iio\y**w'TUiilrawn. The jjgjeneral Opinion, however, bo that the.incidenti will be attended Uy no further consequences, but will bd quietly allowed to drop, although M. Tisza will probably make a statement very shortly^ to the effect that lie had no intention of wounding the eusceptibili- Kies of Franco by what ho said in the Hungarian Diet." CONSTANTINOPLE. The ;P<$irt9 recently addressed a circular note to the different Embassies here concerning the privi- lege of free importation of goods enjoyed according to the capitulations by, monasteries and religious corporations leading a monastic life. This privi- lege having been lately much abused, the Porte -JMshes to detine precisely all objects pertaining to monastic life, and tq exclude all ordinary articles of t rade not thus specified. In Turkish official quarters no apprehensions are entertained Jn reference to the recent formation of small armed bands in Albania and Macedonia, principally in the district of Pristina, to oppose the solfoi-tion of taxes,. Similar incidents occurring pcrihdicaHy and creating no difficulties for the authorities. ROME. At a sitting of the C?haniber of Deputies, Baron NTiculora brought forward a motion inviting the Government to present a bill for adequately forti- tying the maritime towns, among others Naples, Leghorn, Messina, and Salerno, which, he declared, were exposed to the attack of an enemy. Ceneral Bertole Viale, Minister of War, in reply, ,aid that the problem of maritime defence had been studied by the most competent men, and the lecessity had been recognised of limiting defensive jvorks to the most important points and of increas- ing the TTavy." The greater part Of these Opera- tions had* been executed. There might, perhaps, remain something more to be done, especially at Naples, but a decision upon this matter could not be arrived at by the Chamber as satisfactorily as by the technical committees. The Minister, in conclusion, said that he could accept the motion of Baron Nicolera only as a general recommendation to study tho question and to propose only that which the Government might consider necessary. The motion of Baron Nicotera was then modified in this sense and approved by the Hou=e. CETTINJE. Repelling a recent attack made by the Pester Lloy l upon Prince Nicholas and the Montenegrin Government, who were charged with covertly fomenting insurrection in the Herzegovina, the Montenegrin Press declares that the prisoners whose e-cape was alleged to have been connived at by the Montenegrin authorities, were all Albanians, and that four of the ringleaders of the gaol breakers have since boen captured. The supposed Incursion into Herzegovina was undertaken, it is declared, by eight discharged workmen, five of whom were unarmed, and the fact of their having crossed the frontier was communicated to the Austrian authorities by the Government of Prince Nicholas.

THE NEW ZEALAND BUDGET. WELLINGTON. In the sifting of the House of Representatives, 3ir Id. A. Atkinson, Premier and Colonial Treasurer, introduced the Budget for the year 1888-1889. The Minister stated that the expenditure for the past year exceeded the revenue by £ 382,000, which amount, added to the deficit in the preceding year, nade a total deficit for the two years of £ 528,000, .f which amount £,1:00,000 were provided for last -ossion. The reductions effected in the public ex- penditure amounted to £ 233,000. The estimated evenue for the ensuing year is set down at £ 4,01G,000, and the expenditure at £-1,,061,000. It is proposed to levy a special primage of one per sent, on all imports for two years, the proceeds being devoted to meeting the unfunded deficit of last year, and also to raise extra revenue to the extent of jE173,000 through the customs. Among the measures to be taken in order to economise, the Premier anuounces that the Native Depart- ment would be absorbed into that of the Colonial Secretary, and also that a separate department for public works would be abolished.

THE UNITED STATES. NEW YORK. The Governor of Massachusetts has given his signature to a bill providing for a State Naval Reserve. The principal object of the measure is to organise a trained force of volunteer seamen as au organise a trained force of volunteer seamen as au auxiliary to the National Navy. The Assembly of Preabyterians at Philadelphia has been closed. The improvement; in General Sheridan's con- dition continues, and there are now no disquieting symptoms.

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. NEW YORK. Mr. Blaine has w^ijkt^p tq Mr. Whitelaw Reid, from Paris, reiterating the declaration contained in his Flcrdncoilcttirrofi Juru 17i,. thmt hoi ctumot conseufc to, become a candidate fyp nomination at Chicago 'therefore -j&BAniiftidnailf ■faitbholcls The fsational Convention of the Prohibition party to 'nomittate candidates for* Llie posts, of President and Vice-President of the United States met at Indianapolis. There was a full attendance, and much enthusiasm was shown. Having pro- visionally completed its organisation, the Conven- tion adjourned.

THE AUSTRIAN REICHSRATH. VIENNA. In the sitting of the Lower House of the Reich sj-atbdibo Gweru.inent brouglitin a bill authorising the provisional imposition, of an additional duty on dLstillecl" k' £ irit'mV»4 1ft] noi a, ritvd; 'tleeided; by i-ilW against. 113 votes ,Lq pt<>qe#d .\yfyh .Lljip 4wifu,ssionr,Qf, the clauses of t!io measured Tlie Up[>er HoMSe mluplod tho bUt for imposing a tax on sugar, and then proceeded with the elec- tion ofmem bel's of their House to serve in the Austrian pelegation. Tlie House reinserted in the Budget Bill for 1888 the item for the Secret Service Fund which it had struck out, but which was restored by the Upper Housd in its pitting. The Budget Bill has time been liiiaHy passu.1. > -8J

THE AFFAIRS OF MOROCCO. PARIS. M. Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has re- plied to the circular of the Spanish U'tvernmcnt inviting the Powers to take part, in a conference in ■the affairs of Morocco. The in a^reoing to the Spanish proposal, declares that France has hlivay-i -been' in favour of t be of an 1" t cr. ■iiajt .it if ml eoiiforenttj om I In* sjmcial fjucHl.ion u[ |<rn. tei'tiun in Morocco, but w'ax ilfsirmis of coming lo an u'Kder^tandiMg willr tlin Np:tnish nnn'Mfc reU'jrd^1,1^ l,he proposals U> l;e siilimit twd for dis- 'tiuksioii. !■ f'.lli V.I .■t'ii.il' i<l ■->

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J ViOTl JV {''|J;. ::■■■ ■: ;-J J ,>-j VI. ofc .|4rty.V(beJ, wife «.f,Sir, ♦wrusk AWI, at llvthn. fiicnillieii, ltuW itceH|»io4 kilo HxinjMr IVCAII-, i>0 railtM t;nnfc of Kwrovko, by order ui Gcutiial ttr P. Gronftjll. I Miss Fannie Leslie is going on a long touring engagement to America and Au.«t ralia. A says :—According to a telegram >iit)tisfied*Uy"tTie" JofirMat the vh-T-tei-- boat Elan has foundered near Dunkirk. The crew ^were saved. I Duko ilavimiliiin of Bavaria, father of ^heim- press of Austria, has had a fit of apoplexy, and his condition is .so s-erious as to cause great anxiety at "The Vietiiia 'Cburt. The fire at, Messrs. Bass & Co.'s large maltings, i' Burton-on-Trent, has consmned about 1,500 ^uart ers'of tifialt7and gutted a baTl-ey^acH^r. ar-The latnage. is co>nsiderable. '*■ s u f Mr. Richard I>. Price, Of RliiwIaS Haf, ^ala, lias granted a Vent abatement of £ 1,S60 his ti "ants. Mr. Price lias also made a permanent re- daction in the farm rents, and pays all the tithes. A duel has been fought.near Paris, between the Prince de Valori and the Marquis de Villeneuve. The Prince having been slightly wounded in the arm, the surgeons put all end to the combat. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon isstill sobering severely from the eifects of a chill, contracted about a fort- night ago, and there is lit tle likelihood of his being able to resume his ministerial fuuetious for some time longer. The Maharajah of Oodeypore offers six lakhs for the defence of bite frontier, together with the service of his troops. Dn the question Of the utilisation of this otrer the views of the Lieutenant- Governor are awaited. A sinker named William Abbots has been charged it the Hanley Borough Police Court with drunken- ness, and also, under the Vagrancy Act, withJin- iecency.—He was committed to prison for a month with hard labour. News has reached Durban that Dinizulu has 'outed Usibepu, and subsequently had a skirmish .vith the dragoons, two of whom were killed. Keinforcements are being despatched from Pieter- .nari tzbu rg. A great tire broke out the other evening at th. pood* station of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterra eaii Railway, abNismes. The platforms used for j jnloading goods were destroyed. The damage <• considerable. The Queen is about to carry out extensive im jrovements at Birkhall, her place on the Muick, tear Ballater, which she purchased a few years ago, -vith its estate of 6,000 acres, from the Prince of Wales, for whom it was bought; by the Prince Consort. Information has been received at Lerwick that a small fishing-boat belonging to Dunvarness in the south of Shetland, has been missing some days, and it is feared that she has been lost with her, crew, The crew consisted of four bands. The inquest on the body of James Lake, wh; shot himself after attempting to murder his wife at 36, Truman's Place, Stoke Newington. has taken place. After hearing the evidence the jury i-,e. turned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of Unsound mind. The firm of Mauser, which is under contract be—- Bapply Turkey with .ET2,000,000 worth of rifles, • has given the Porte notice that it will not com- j mence manufacturing them unless full guarantee < 4 are provided, notwithstanding that a sum o 1 £ T400,000 has been paid on account. A story comes from Bordeaux that Mdme. Cor nelie Fauvelle lately celebrated her eightieth birth 1 day by playing the same soubrette part in whicht -j she made her debut three-quarters of a century ag(J.i tec In the audience where her children, grand children^ — and great-grandchildren. The Society for the Repression of Immorality if). Liverpool held a public meeting the other day, and passed a resolution calling upon the Muuicipa^ Council of that city to free themselves from the, c. "crying evil and shame "of being the owners.q$»r?r?» houses knowtt -and acknowledged to be used for immoral purposes. At Plymouth, a middte aged woman, named Grace Stephens, was walking along a bridge con- necting two houses when it col-lapsed, and she was precipitated to the ground below, a distance of forty feet, and was killed immediately, the htead and face being terribly smashed. The woodwork was rotten. By desire of Bishop Wilkinson, the Rev. W. H. Heclder, chaplain of the British Embassy, in Vienna, has gone to Budapest t" arrange for the establishment in that city of a resident Church of England chaplain. The chaplain is to be appoint ed and paid by thp Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. An inquest has been held at Wolverley, near" Kidderminster, on tlie body of a boy, apparently between four and five years of age, which has been found in a well near a secluded cot tage. As there is every reason to believe that the child has been murdered, the inquest was adjourned after foriiial evidence as to the recovery of the body. The value has been declared at 914 4s. Id. of the personal estate of the late :\11', Samuel Wood, of Talbot House, Glossop, Derbyshire, who (lied on the 8th of April last, two months after bhd deabh of his brother, tlie late Mr. Daniel Wood, of Moor- field, Glossop, who also left personalty exceeding half a million in value.. ¡¡If The London correspondent of the Ilaneh^ter'^ Guardian hears that the bill dealing wi(,)) tmnLed liability companies, in which Lasca-diire people are largely interested, has been drafted by the Lord Chancellor, and is to be introduced into the House of Lords. It will no doubt in due time come down to lhe Commons, but it cannot be passed this sessions. Another instance showing how tho picture buyers of to-day are reversing the judgments of their pre- decessors was recently shown a',Christie's, when t he t picture of The Messengers Returning to Job, which at the disposal of Lord Northwick's colice. tion in 3859 brought £ t>40, and in 1881 was re-sol I for 700 guineas, was knocked down a few days agi''r' for 84 guineas. A large plantation and game preserve near'I Thurles, county Tipperary, managed by the trus- 9 tees of the late Mr. Smith, was found to be on fire the other morning. The fire continued to spread until .nine o'clock, when a breeze started up, and rain began to fall, causing its gradual extinction. Twenty acres of trees and a valuable preserve were destroyed. The origin of the fire ii unknown. 'At the County Petty Sessions at Taunton, Sara^ Jane'^io^nrds, a youilg wojriAn, wlrosel froiri^'fa Ml Pitney, New LfingjAir^, wft§-;(>robghfr upv'ehtti-ged /■ with peing a Wandering r!uri¡\tic.' On pfev'ioufr night she was founcl under a hedge at NfaHhOepcy, afid made desperate' efforts to strangle herself Xvddh xoY1 a necktie. An order was :uadeiur her removal t(> the county lunatic asylum. •Great alarm has been caused by the outbreak of smallpox at Hereford. The disease has now spread to thecampof the Hereford .-hi re militia, near the city. The men <haye been jy consequence strickly con- fined to camp, and strangers are rigidly excluded therefrom. Miss James, one-of the nurses at the qity infirmary, has succumbed bo the diaeaao. The; »- infirmary fs cloaed against all but smallpox patients and the most ee*io>u« accident ^ases. í" ( i 1 'j. Mifes^ BeflrtticO Cliirgston, hgtxl 61 yeaca; ioundeg U' of the Dunoon and KirkutjtiHocJtt Cbttvole^oenfi. Homes has been found, dead in bed at,Jier tei»ia\ porary residence, 3, Arran Placcf, Ardrossan. ^ThO; deceased was left by her attendant.and-retired tQ; rest about ten o'clock at night in her usual health* For fifteen months Miss Clugston has been in,, Ardrosean, enjoying rest fi-oii) her philanthropic labours. Hoi- death is attributed to heart disease.. At the War Office the Commander-in-Chief has in t,heta"t few days called attention to the mor- tality of young soldiers in India. He has al^uys been opjHjsed to sending out lads under twenty, and now more than 3,000 go to India every year at t hat age. Recent retutns show that they are peculiarly liable to fever, and the mortality of 1x80 shows 8'1;3 per 1,000 from that disease, as against only 3*31 per 1,000 in tS77, when so Ipany very young soldiers were not sent to India. At Derby, an elderly man named Samuel Thomp- son, who said he belonged, to Dewsbury, was sent iii gaol for four teen days for, vullecting alms under fake pretences. Ho had boen going about obtain- ing relief from Good Templar lodges,l>y pfeteiuling. to"be a member of the ortler. W hen ai rested, his beard and nioustachies wore dark, but. in the dock they were quite -lie admitted having blackleadtrd Ihùfll to iuipHl b<bo liiiaself a UMJpe jtiveuile wppiai ance. A serious occurrence took place at Loyfcon, whitiit t.110 annual church parade of the local court ofue 'Ancient Or dor of Forresters \*HJ being held. The procession-was panning Ka'1i Hill, when a ftonj- cart conluhiing four inen; aurl Iriveii at a furicfes m<e by Fre<lerick Poster, a dealer, dashed into the crowd which fdllowe-1 the proceMion. Several persons were knocked dówu. and four boya were ierioualy iujared. Foster was at OUOQ takeu into cuetody.