The London Welshman

IIADVENTIIRF" SERIES. STORIES OF THE COAL MINE, By FRANK MUNDELL. Cr. 8vo., cloth boards. 'I is. 6d. post free. HARRISON & SONS, 45, St. Martin's Lare W.C.

MONMOUTH. Morgan Harding, one of those injured in the Clydach Vale colliery explosion, has succumbed to burns and pneumonia. The total of deaths is now 33. Harding was a married man. Lord Tredegar is not narrow in his religious sympathies. He has given an acre of land to Bethel Baptist Chapel at Bassalleg, near Newport, for an extension of the burial ground. Similar gifts have been made to the Congregationalists at Rhiwderyn, and to the Baptists at Risca. At the last meeting- of Newport Trades Council it was reported that at a mass meeting of Newport dockers a resolution was passed supporting the efforts of the Trades Council to secure Mr. Ben Tillett as Parliamentary candidate for the Mon- mouth Boroughs. Between 60 and 70 persons at Newport appeared at the Police Court on Wednesday, to show cause why orders should not be made against them for payment of the whole of the recent Education rate demanded. The majority of the Nonconformist ministers in the town are among those served with summonses. At Ystrad Police Court, when the name of Richard Pugh was called to answer a summons for keeping dogs without a licence, Superintendent Cole informed the Bench that Pugh was one of the unfortunate men injured at the colliery explosion at Clydach Vale. He asked that the magistrates would allow him to withdraw the summons. The Bench agreed. MONTGOMERY. The Newtown Co-operative Society has ad- dressed a communication to Mr. A. C. Humphreys- Owen, M.P., and Colonel E. Pryce-Jones, M.P., protesting on behalf of 766 persons against the operation of the Sugar Convention. The Lord Chancellor has appointed the follow- ing gentlemen on the Commission of the Peace for the borough of Welshpool :—-Mr. John Morris, the Foundry, Welshpool; Mr. William Humphreys, grocer and provision dealer, Egremont, Welsh- pool and Mr. Joseph H. Davies, tailor and draper, Welshpool. The first two are Conserva- tives, and the last is a Liberal, The terrific storm experienced throughout Mont- gomeryshire early last week had one fatal result. About 3 a.m. on Wednesday Ann Williams, widow, 60 years of age, living at the Fron, Berriew, was awakened by the fury of the elements beating against her small hillside cottage. She screamed for her daughter, moaning that she was too frightened to sleep amidst the wind and thunder. Shortly afterwards she succumbed to shock. PEMBROKE. A boat bearing the name Cambrian Hills, Liverpool," has been washed ashore near Solva, in Pembrokeshire, and it is feared that a vessel has foundered off the Smalls.

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The Chancellor's medal for English verse has been adjudged to Arthur Conway Osborn Mor- gan, of Trinity College, Cambridge, a nephew of the late Sir G. Osborne Morgan, Bart. The sub- ject given out was Michael Angelo." The proposal to start a service of motor omni- buses between Llangollen and Oswestry has caused general satisfaction in the district concerned. In a fortnight or three weeks the cars will begin running, and will depart from either place every hour. The charge will be a penny a mile, with a substantial reduction for return fares. Dr. W. Williams, who has just been appointed Director of Education for Swansea, is a native of Llanrwst, and is at present a lecturer at Swansea Technical College. He was educated at the Uni- versity College of North Wales, Bangor, and the Royal College of Science, London. He has written several valuable original papers in science, the result of which have been embodied in standard text-books and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica." FLINT. On Saturday afternoon, whilst in the act of throwing rice at a newly wedded couple, Mrs. Field, residing at Spring Street, Wepre, Connah's Quay, dropped down dead. Daniel Bagshaw, a workman at Messrs. Walker, Parker and Co.'s lead works at Bagillt, whilst un- looping some waggons last Friday afternoon was knocked down and three waggons passed over his legs. He was conveyed to Chester Infirmary, but died at six o'clock the same evening. On Saturday, at Mold, Police Constable Abraham Roberts was charged with absconding from the Flintshire police force, and with not handing over certain articles of police clothing. The Chief Con- stable explained that he was not anxious to press the charges, but he wished the case to be a warning to others. The defendant was fined £ i and costs, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. GLAMORGAN. There were no prisoners for trial at Swansea Quarter Sessions last week. Cardiff Town Council at their last meeting made a grant of £ 200 to the funds of the local infirmary. Swansea Town Council have decided to ob- literate' all betting news in public library news- papers. A band of Welsh Revivalists left Cardiff last Friday for Glasgow to conduct services over the week end. Margam District Council, on Monday, decided to support the claims of Swansea for the establish- ment of the National Museum and Library. Merthyr Urban District Council have deposited a petition in the Private Bill Office of the House of Lords in favour of the Bill for the incorporation of the borough. Harriet Harries, an inmate of Swansea Work- house, gave the Guardians £8 six years ago for the cost of a private funeral. She has died, and the Guardians have acceded to her request. There are only three licensed houses at Aber- gwynfi for a population of over 4,000, whereas Glyncorrwg, close by, has six licensed houses, with less than half the population of Abergwynfi. Two new mills are about being added to the tinworks of Messrs. Lewis Brothers at Gorseinon. The mills will be capable of turning out about 224 boxes of plates per 24 hours, and will employ some 70 men. Found guilty of attempting to murder Morgan Crowther, an ex-pugilist and owner of racehorses, Charles Thomas, bookmaker's clerk, was at Glamorgan Assizes, Cardiff, sent to three years' penal servitude. The copper works, Briton Ferry, are idle in consequence of a wages dispute between the refiners and the management. Upon the refiners handing in their notices the management decided to close the whole works. The Bishop-elect of Llandaff has received over 400 messages congratulating him upon his appoint- ment. A large number of telegrams and several letters are in Welsh, and Mr. Hughes expresses pleasure at the fact that, being addressed in Welsh, they should have reached him so piomptly. A Wesleyan chapel in Arcot Street, Penarth, near Cardiff, was destroyed by fire last week, only the trust deed documents being saved. The building, which was erected about forty years ago, was the first Nonconformist structure erected at Penarth. A bazaar had been held a day or two previously for the purpose of obtaining funds for alterations and improvements to the building.