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ftobltc &c. { Xte USX of APPLICATIONS for SHARES will open on TUESDAY, the 27th NOVEMBER, and CLOSE the SAME DAY at-4 p.m. Country Apolica- tions will be received up to the MORNING ot, WEDNESDAY, the 28th. j THE MINING AND GENERAL { JL ELECTRIC LAMP COMPANY, LIMITED. CAPITAL £100.000 in 100,000 Shares of JE1 each. < Of these 20,000 shaies are taken in part payment by the Vendors, and the remaining Shares are now offered 1 for subscription. Payable—2s on Application 8a on Allotaent; and 10s one month after Allotment. DIRECTORS. The Right Bon. the EARL of CRAWFORD, F.R.S. (Chairman of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, Limited), Chairman. "N STORY MASKELYNK, Esq., F.R.S., M.P., Deputy-chairman. The Hon. REGINALD BROUGHAM (Divector Lon- don Electric Supply Corporation, Limited). Y STEPHEN, Esq. (Late Messrs Samuel Allsopp and Sons). Dr FRANKLAND, F.R.S., D.C.L. (late Professor Chemistry, Royal SchooJ. of Mines). •DILLWYN PARRISH, Esq. (Director United Tele- phone Company, Limited). ("Will join the Hoard after Allotment.) BANKERS.—LLOYDS, BARNRTTSs & BOSANQUETS' BANK. LIMITED, 72, Lomoard-atreet: E.C. CONSULTING ENGINEERS.—Messrs#. & P. HIGSON, Manuhesc^r. BROKERS —BOURKE, SANDYS. 4 CO., 10, Throg- morton-avenue, E.C. SOLICITORS.—Messrs PAINE, SON A POLLOCK, 11, St Heien's-place, E.C. PATENT AGEKTS.—Messrs J. B. JOHNSON A co., 47, Lincoln s Inn Fields, W.C. SECRETARY and OFFICES.—F. H. i SUMNER, 43, Colemau-street, E. C. PROSPECTUS. This company has been formed for 'the purpose of acquiring from the New Portable Electric Lamp and Powar Syndicate Company, Limited, tbeir patents and system for the manufacture of (1) an Electric Miners' Lamp, (2) a Lamp for the Electric Lighting of Railway Carriages, (3) a Lamp for Domestic Purposes, and for use in factories and places where a portable and absolutely safe light is required. At the present timo probably no subject has received greater attention frora those engaged in the practical working of mines, factories, and railways, than the production of a lamp, which, for the purposes of those and similar enterpri>!es, shall combine the elements of perfect safety, awl improved illuminating power, with cheapness of manufacture and maintenance, and it has loug Iteen felt that these requirements would have to k furnished through th medium of an electric light, From the exhaustive ex nments both in laboratories and in th coal pits, extending oVr a period of two years, wliich the Vendor Company have carried out, it IS beiievrd that a solution ot the problem is now pre. sented i* the lamp, which will be acquired by this Cmpany. MINERS' LAMPS. For the purposes of a Miners' Lamp the following requirements would a ppear to be essential(1) The lamp sbould be absolutely safe under all circumstances; (2) it<< continuous illuminating power ghould be greater I than that of th oil 1 Pimps now 10 use, and should be maintained for from 10 to 12 honr; (3) its weight must aot exceed b lbs. (4) its cost must not be prohibitive, and (5) the of maintenance must compare favourably with the lamps now in use. It has been the object of the Vendors to produce a Miners' Lmr. which should fultilall these conditions, and the directors are confident that in the present laran they fulfilled. After I), series oi experiments, extending over a period ,f two years, under the superintendence of Messrs J. and P. Higson, the well-known mining engineers, of Manchester, the Directors are enabled to announce tbat the Miners' Limp (1) is absolutely Wife; (2) with a reflector it gives a lisrht much superior "0 the oil lamps generally in use, and can be maintained from 10 to 12 hours '3) its weight is a little over bibs (4) it can be sold for 20s and (5) the expense of main- tenance will not exceed 3d per week. The tests referred to were conducted by the fonowiD Companies and tirmg carrying 011 the business of colliery proprietors and managers, who received sample lamps from the vendors and placed them in the hands of the pitmen and ..uperintendents for lle :— The Wear DALE IRON and COAL COMPANY, LIMITED, I Sptl!1nymoor. The WIGAN COAL and IRON COMPANY, LIMITED, Wigan, The Pkarson and KNOWLKS COAL and I&ON COMPANY, LIMITED, Wigan. Messrs JOHN BROWN and Co., LIMITED, Rotherham. Messrs J. & P. HIUSON, 18, r.ooth-street, Manchester. SHIRE OAKS COLLIERY, near Worksop. And it is satisfactory to know that without exception the verdict of these representative persons is entirely in favour of this lamp as compared with any other electric lamp which has come under their notice. Amongst others, the following testimonials have been received JOHN BIlOWN AND CO., LIMITED (Atlas Steel and Ironworks. Sheffield,), '• Aldwarke Main and Car Houge Collieries, Rotherham. Miners' Electric Lamp. Dear Sir,—in reply to yours asking my opinion of the above for use as a Miners' I-amp, I have to state that. having had numerous opportunities of testing it —not only in an Explosive Current of Gas and Air— but lD actua, work underground, I am of opinion that It i. perfectly safe under all conditions (including ractore of the glasses) in an explosive atmosphere ,hat it gives an ample and sufficient light for mining Operations that it is very portable, and stands the Knocking about that is incidental to mining operations well, and is the best la.mp,so far as my knowledge goes, yet introduced as an Electric Miners' Safety Lamp. Faithfully yours, C. E. RHODES." THE PEARSON AND KNOWLES COAL AND IRON COMPANY, LIMITED. Portable. Hiectric Lamp This is to ce; tify thut the Llectric Lamp, which we have held here lor trial, is, in our opinion, suitable in .,ery respect for mining purposes we have given the lamp a fair test, and it burns over 12 hours.—Yours irnly (for the Company), ISRAEL KNOWLES." Crown Buildings, Booth-street, Manchester. I baTe now for some time past had a Tery intimate experience of your Portable Electric Lamp' for mining purposes, and h'ne to report that, in my I opinion, it is the best Electric Miners' Lamp that I have seen, all I believe it affords perfect safety to the miner under all conditions when exposd to the action 9f explosive atml>sphere. Tbe automatic arrangement, which comes into play in the event of the glass protecting the light being brot. at once cuts off the electric current, and se prevents any possible chance of the light igniting the surrounding atmosphere. Experiments have deter- mined this all-important point most satisfactorily. The Lamp is very light, portable, and well adapted to the miners' requirements. The light, as concentrated by the shield, possesses between a half and one candle power. "Yours faithfully, JoHM filOSON, Mem, Jrutt. Civ. Engr. The cost of the Lamp is no doubt more than the cost of the best made oil lamps, but the cost of maintenance Is much leas than 3d per lamp per week, for « The renewal of working parts is less fr The cost of cleaning is less < The charge of charging is incomparably less, be. cause there is practically 110 cost for material, much less laDour is necessary, and at a colliery the cost of the power required for charging is inappreciable. There is an imperative demand for such a lamp, and the aeenU of the Company can secure orders for large aumbers of the Lamp at a price which yields, after saying all expenses, a proiit of as per Lamp. Large orders for lamps await completion and these as they stand will be transferred by the Vendors of the Com- .y.. la addition to colliery requirements, the lamp as a safety lamp will bo found iuvaiuable in all factories whore the nature of the industry creates an inflamma- ble atmosphere, sucu as cotton mills, corn mills, JIOwr factories, and the like. And as a portable lam? tur domestic use, the Directors aeiieve that for price and efficiency it is without a rival. Ag«wu> its application to railway lighting, as herein- iftei- explained, shoud prove a most extensive source of 3iupioymeai for tae .-ysteni. in addition the protit on Teuewal work must oe cousidered this is a lare source of protit to existing lamp manufacturers, and (here can be no doubt that the profit 011 necessary re- pairs and renewal char&ea would amount to a cou- jiderable sum. Again, as the comply acquire ail the foreign patents of the vendors for the invention,a considerable from licenses to use these on royalty, or by sale them outright, should be made. In naming JQba as the price of the miners lamp, ail g for manufacture have been taken into account. It is not. however, at- present intended to erect costly 'actories for this purpose, but to enter into contracts with existing safety lamp manufacturers to supply ihe orders the company receives. Negotiations with view and of a favourable nature have alreauy been vueredupou. RAILWAY LAMPS; Besides their application to the fcwteries and lamps of the company will be suitable for lighting railway trains, whether block trains or single coaches, and whetner running at speed or at rerhe mileage per annum on the principal railways in this Kingdom ot the passenger trains is computed to be from 22 to 40 millions of miles, and. the cost 01 oil, where oil lamps are used, with such a mileage, very great, 'liie breakages are very heavy, anu1 tne ceMot labour in tiding, cleaning, aad hxing lhe lamps and removing them is also considerable. The cost 01 ligutmg by g;ts is beyond all douDt iar cheaper than oil, but the cost of lighting a train by alectncity on the present system would compare most favonrably with either gas or oil. There can be no doubt that the light Riven on the trains which already been lit by electricity is far superior to that ot any gas or oil system, and it is equally certain that the eiectric lighting ot trains would ere this have become far mure general but ior the fact that it has been impossible to light any trains except those known ac omnibus trains, or those which are never broken up. By the present system it is believed ail the previous difficulty of lighting through traffic has beeu met. The ditliculty has been to discover a plan, under which each ¡ coach should possess an arrangement enabling the lamp to remain burning in each coach, whether tne coach bit nart of or deiached from tne train, and whether sta- tionary or in motion. Here a battery is used In each carriage, and whether a ca riage be detached from a train or not. it makes no diffeience to the light, as tlfh coach possesses in itself the machinery necessary to Maintain the light. The Company propose to offer parties 111 tending to UM the lamps and batteries the cnoice of one of two courses they will be able to purchase them outright and provide their own re-charging piant, or r,his Com- pany will supply and maintain the lamps required, at a fixed charge per annum. Estimating the income to be derived from ad sources, the Directors believe the volume of business that may be anticipated will, be large and very remunerative. basing a calculation on an estimated annual sale ot oiny b0,o„0 Lamps amongst ail the collieries factories and Railway Companies of the Umfcea Kingdom (and including, •nor -uvei ,11 this estimate the torej-n user ot toe Patents as wei ). a protit of 10 per cent, per annum on the capital of tne Company Would be forthcoming. In order to test their vahdi.y as fin- as possible, the Patents CO be acquired have been ^.oroughiy examined by Messrs Jobiioon and Co.. tbe well-known P^eiit Agents, and submitted to counsel, Mi* **loulton, with a result which is entirely satisfactory. The price to be paid forjail the patents nHectmg these important inventions, not only tor the Unitea Kingdom but all foreign countries m which the them is £ b0 000, payable as to a^46,000 m cash, £ 20,000 in fuliv paid'shnres, and the balance at the option of the Directors, III or fully paid shares. The cash payment ia made to repay tha amount the V endors Lve spent and the liabilities rliey have nxurrsd in l purchasing patents and perfecting the system during the past two years. In additiou, for this sura, all expenses of the present Company up to allotmenr. will be (.ei rayed. The Miners' Lamp, alight and ready for use, may be seen at the Offices ot the Company, and at the Office of Messrs J. & P. Higson, 18, B joth-tieet, Manchester and a Model of a Railway Carriage lit by this system can be seen ai tne Office of the Company. The only contract entered into by ihe Company is one dated ,,4th November, 1888, and made between the Company of the one part and ihe Vendor Syndicate Company of the ottier pari. Ibis contract, with a copy of the memorandum and articles 01 'ssociation, can be seen at the ofli es of the Company. Arrangements for guaranteeing a subscription to the capital have been made by the Vendors, and under the above contract the Company will take over the business of the Syndicate Company, and with it certain contracts for leasing premises, purcnase of material, nire of workmen, these arrangements may technically constitute contracts within Section 38 of the Companies Act. 1867. Subscribers for shares will be deemed to have notice of these, and to waive further compliance with the statute in this respect. Application for shares should be made on the form accompanying the prospectus. prospectuses and Forms of Application can be ob. tamed at the Bankers, Brotten, or Offices of the. Company. Dated 24tb November. 1888. ftelrljr Companies, &r. '1 As evidence of the high premiums at which the £11 Shares of the Witwatersraadt Mining Companies are I now being dealt in. the following list 13 taken from the-. Financial N euJa of the 22nd inst :— W IT WATERS KAN DI MINES.—African Exquer, 14 li; Aurora 2i, 24 Bantjes 3, City and .subur- ban t. 6; Crown Beef 64, Durban-Boodept. 2 2b ¥erreira 8.. 84 Qektenbais 1J, 2.; Heriot 3t 3j; Jubilee 6i.. 64; Jumpers 7j. 7j; Knight ii, 3; Lan- giaagte 3 7-16, 3 9-16; Laagiaagte Cent. 26s, 27s Main- reef H. li Mitchell 168 6d, 17s 61I; Modderfaatem 21s, 21s 6d; Moss Rose 5, 5i; Nabob 1" 13 Neebe Syndi- cate Ii, 2; Robinson 34, 36 Royal 4> 4 j Salisbury 11. 12; Spes Bona. 21. 2i; Van Ryn 1 9-16, 111-16 Vogel- struis Ii, 2; Wemmer 6j, 7. Wolhuter 2i, 2.. THE WITWATERSRANDT CENTRAL JL MILLING AND PBOSPECIEiG COMPANY, LI.MITKD. Incorporated under the Companies* Acts, 1862 to 1888. CAPITAL, £100,000, divided into 100,000 Shares of £1 each, payable aø follows :—& per share on applica- tion, 5s on allotment th& balance a* required, in calls of not more than 5s per share, at iaten*l@ Qt. loss than one mouth, DIRECTORS. J. M. ALPROYIDGE, fcsq. (late chief of the Bay and liast African Railway Land Commission), 30, St. Swithin's-laae, E. C. JAMiSS HASTINGS, Esq. (Messrs Hasting? and Co., 80. Lombard-street, E.C.). Director of the Balaghat- Mysore Golt Mining Company, Limited. T. G. HERVEY, Esq. (Director of the Eastern Oregon Gold Mining Company, Limited). — G S ROBERT COCHRANE FORSTEH, Esq,, F.G.b. (Mining Engineer), 113, Cannon-street, SOLICITORS.—Me-srs LUMLEY and LfJMLEY, 15, Old Jewry-chambers, Bank, B.C.; and 37, Conduit- street, Bond-street, W. BANKERS. — The LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK, Limited, Lothbury, E-Cj- BROKERS.—Messrs GODEFROI BSOis., 11, Copthall Court, Throgmorton-street, E.C., and the Stock Exchange. SECRETABY AND OFFICES.—W. B. CALDWELL MOORE, P.S.A., 136 and 137. PaJmersC<pn Buildings, Old Broad-street, E.C. PROSPECTUS. This Company is organised principally to erect Custom or Central Mills and Reduction W rka in. Custom or Central Mills and Reduction W rka in. Witwatersrandt to meet an urgent want in that dis- trict of the South African Goldnelds, and h,»s, among others, the following subsidiary objects :— 1.—To establish Custom Mills and Reduction Works in other districts of these fields where desirable. 2.—To crush ores and treat concentrates for all comers. acquire auriferous properties, with a now of developing and working the same, or selling them to gub-companie3, or other parties. 4.-To prospect lands for gold, silver. Ac., on terms carrying the nght of negotiating such properties, and to form or take part in Syndicates for these purposes. 5.—To buy up concentrated taiBngs from the various Mining Companies, with a view of extracting the Gold by chlorination. 6.—To establish, in connection with the Works, & complete Laboratory, and .0 act as Assayers and Analysts. 7-—To act as Agents for the examination, sale, and purchase of Mining properties in South Africa. The establishment of Central Mills is Witwaters- randt has become a pressing necessity in order to acoommodae the many Mining Companies wch are unable to mill their own ore for want of capital, and the vast number of private Claim Holders and Syndi- cates who at present find it impossible to procure test crushings of their Ore. Some of them have been able occasionally to obtain trial crushings at mills belonging to other Companies, and the high prices paid for this service show a very large margin of protit. Owing to the presence of Pyrites and other dele- terious substances which make amalgamation in the Mill impracticable, the tailings from the Mill in. variably contain a large proportion of the aesay value of the ore—sometimes larger than is actually yielded in the MilL There are no reduction Works on the Witwatersrandt at these tailings can be treated. With proper appliances these tailings could be concen- trated from 50 to 100 tons into one. Following what has become a flourishing and profitable industry m America, this Company proposes to buy up these con- centrates, or to treat them in this works at a fixed chaige per ton. This should be a source of great profit to this Company, and means increased dividends wall the Minin" CompMlies whIch cOQICentrate tbelr disconnection with the Milling and Reduction Works a laboratory will be at once established, and the com- pany will be in the best position to conduct assays and analyses of ores cheaply, which in if will yield a good revenue. „ The official returns lor October from/ the district of Witwatersrandt show a gold production of 27,773 ounces. The average loss in nulling naay be safely put at 25 per cent., which shows how much the actual richness of these fields is under-estimated by the returns, owing t defective milling. It is proposed to erect 100 Stamps on suitable and central 8ires. with amalgamating and concentrating I appliances of the most approved typo. It is estimated that these 100 stamps will crush, at least, one and a-haif ton per day per stamp head, or 150 tons per day- The following figures snow the amount of busi- ness wllich may be ÙOIlt: on this basis, 26s pr ton being taken as the charge for milling, although 30s can be obtained, and much higher price's have been frequently charged 150 tons per 24 hours at £1 5s per ton £187 10 0 Cost of milling at 13s per ton 97 lo 0 Profit per diem £ QQ Q Q equal to per annum of 300 working days, or 27 per cent. per annum upon the capital of the Company A small preliminary plant capable of treating only 25 tons per week, either by the American amalgama- tion grinding process or by Chlorination of concen- trates, will cost about £1,000. The cost of treating 25 tons per week will not exceed E2 per ton, or £ 50 per week. Assuming that the tailings contain only 5 dwts. per ton (and it is well known that for the most part they contain more), a concentration of 50 tons into one would mean a value of 12i oz. per ton of concentrates. To the Mining Companies m Witwatersrandt this would mean an increase in their revenues of £:0,000 per annum on a supply of only 25 COD" of concentrates per week. A charge of £5 per ton for treatment would be moderate, and would yield a protit of £75 per week, or :£3,750 per annum. The total profit fnoio Milling and Reduction Works may be estimated at about £ 33,000 per aunum, equal to 33 per cent. 011 the capital ui "he Company. The Directors do not make any estimates of the probable returns from the prospecting and exploitation of properties, but it is well known that large profits are made in thÜt kind of business. <> The only contract entered into is one dated the 21st November, 18S8, between Alfred Archibald Gould of the one part, and the Company of the otb2r part, a copy of which can bu seen at the offices of the Company's Solicitors. It is intended to apply for a settlement and quotation on the Stock Exchange. If tbe namber of shares applied tar exceeds the amount of the issue, the allotment will be made strictly pro rata. and the 8Urplu1\ money paid on application will be credited towards the amount due on allotment, Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be had at the Company's banners, brokers, solicitors, and at the offices of the company. 23rd November, 1888. SPECIAL O T tO E. fJRAPNELL AND GANE, 38 & 35, QUEEN STREET, ARTISTIC AND INEXPENSIVE JJOUSE JIURNrSHERs, desire to draw special attention to their NEW BEDROOM SUITE CALLED THE BRISTOL, COMPRISING Solid Ash WARDROBE, 3ft..Plate Glass Door. DRESSING CHEST, with Glass and Jewel Drawers. WASHSTAND, Marble Top, Ttle Back, Pedesta.I., aud T, Rail com- bined. 2 CANE CHAIRS. THE WHOLE COMPLETE FOB Nothing in the trade like it at the price.; EHHIBITED at our own window 38, QUEEN-STREET, CARDIFF, for 10 Days only. rjIKAPNELL AND Q. A N.E. CATALOGUES AND ESTIMATES FREID. 1221 A YEN DISH HOUS, CHELTENHAM. HIGH-CLASS AND USEFUL WINTER GOODS NOW SHOWING. Seal Jackets, from 7 Fur-lined Cloaks, from 29 6d Fur Muffs, from £ » lid Fur Tippets, from 8 lid; Fur Boas, from bi lid Fur Capes, from 15s 6d Walking Costumes, from 29s 6d Flannel Dressing Gowns, 15s 6d; Warm Petticoats, from 6s 9d; Witney Blankets, 8s lid pair Welsh Flannels, from bd yard andUndyed Medical Wool Flannel, from Hid. Full particulars, patterns, sketches, die., sent by post. CAVENDISH HOUSE COMPANY, LIMITED CUELTEN HAM. 1279 Granted since 186bhave each year THE EXCEEDED £1,000,000 sums Assured, a result mÛntainell C4TANTIA~RXI uninterruptedly for so long a w L AJH UAKJJ neriod by no other office M the United Kingdom. POLICIES FUNDS, SIX AND THREE- QUARTER MILLIONS, in creasing annually. STANDARD LIFE OFFICE, 57, BROAD-STREET, BRISTOL 1143 JOSEPH JULER, Local Secretary. ^HAVING. KVEKYOZTE WHO SHAVES 0 SHOULD USE THE S HAVING. M 1L K AND SHAVING. SULPHUR SOAP, 1 i H A VTXli w^ich yields a firm, creamy, and WilA VIXXUr. refreshing lather, softening the beard, preventing the irritation n rr a xrT'Wrj •so o;,ten caused to delicate skins WHAVliHU. Jn shaving, and rendering the passage of a razor rapid and ClTTAVTNTr easy" ii a^To;let Soap, it is unequalled. Delicately perfumed. /VTTATrT^ Sold by all dealers in Perfumery VHAYING, in Striving Cakes and Toilet K-> Tablets. 2990 nPEETH.—Complete Set One Guinea j A Single Tooth. 28 bd. Five years' warranty. Dr Andrew Wilson. R.N., says: "They conduce greatly to health and comfort." Re-models, repairs. Painless Dentistry, Gas, <fcc, —Good^ian AND CO., 56, Queen-st "ordiff, and 1, Old Deck-street, Newport. 13041 1114 otønuttJ Cfltmcil (Elections ^LAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DIVISION OF PENARTH, COG AN, AWn LLANDOCGH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I have been selectedljy the Liberal Association of this district candidate for this division, and the selection having been confirmed at a public meeting of ratepayers, I have much pleasure in accepting the in- vitation to become a candidate for one of the two seats which has been allotted to this division. If it will be your pleasure to return me as one of your representa- tivew to the Coonty Council Board, it shall be my earnest endeavour, to the best of my ability, to serve the county as a whole, and especially the interests of the division of Penarth, Cogan, and Llaodon&b. I remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, THOMAS LEWIS. Gartba, Penartb, November 17th, 1888. 3075 COUNTY CO ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS OF PEKARTH, COGAN, AND LLANDOUGH. LAMES AND GENTLEMEN,— In January next yon will have to elect two Representatives upon the County Council. At a meeting of electors held at Andrews' Hall, Penarth, you have unanimously selected me as one of the candidates. My services are therefore placed at your disposal, and if you think my qualifications are | such as to entitle me to your confidence and support the business of the Council and. your interests shall ACeiye my best attention. t I am, Ladies and Gentlemen r Yours respectfully I:, D. T. ALEXANDER. Bryneithen, St. Andrew s, 15th November, 1888. 3066 QLAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE LLANTWIT FARDRE, LLANFABON, AND LLANWONNO RURAL WARD. LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, Having been selected as the Liberal candidate to represent the above ward, I beg to oSer you my services, and respectfully solicit your support. I have for years past had considerable experience in the management of public affairs as a member of the Board of Guardians and Local Highway Beards. If elected, no efforts shall be spared on my part to serve your interests truly and faithfully according to the beafeof my ability. I am your obedient servant, E. EDWARDS. Penlan Tlonse, Llanfabon. GLAMORGANSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE ELECTORAL DIVISION COMPRISING THE HAMLETS OF CAEGURWEN, MAWR. AND BLAENEGEL. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I seek the honour of representing yon in the Council which will be elected in the month of January next. As I purpose, in the meantime, delivering public addresses, in various parts of the Division, on the subject of the Local Government Act and on questions pertaining thereto, I need not herein enter upon detail. If you elect me, I would do my utmost to merit- your confidence. I am, Your faithful servant, E. HALL HEDLEY. Alltycham (Hamlet of Mawr), Nov., 1888. QOUNTY COUNCIL. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— Having been selected at a Public Meetin" representing the Workmen and Tradesmen of the Ferndale Electoral Division in the County Council. I have much pleasure in offering myself as your Candidate, and if elected I will endeavour to carry out the duties devolving upon me efficiently and economically, 3036 Yours faithfuUy, F. L. DAVIS. GLAMORGANSHIRE COUNTY \JT COUNCIL. TO THE COUNTY ELECTORS OF THE RESOLVEN DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— In January next you will be called upon to elect a member for our district on tte Count.: Council. Although I had no intention a few weeks ago to offer my services, but having been unanimously adopted by the different Liberal Associations of the district, it gives me very great pleasure to come forward as a candidate. Having lived in this Division for very many years, my views on public questions are pretty weU known, and are in sympathy. with those held by a large majority of the electors. I reepectfully solicit your vote's, and, if elected, al matters affecting different ;nterests concerning rate. payers in the division, and especially so those affecting I the working classes, shall have my best attention. I am, Your obedient servant, EDWARD PLUMMER. Glyncorrwg, November 22nd, 1888. 3180 COUNT): COUNCIL FOR BRECK- VV NOCKSHIRE. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE GELLY AND DYFFRYN DIVISION, IN THE PARISH OF VAYNOR. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I have been invited by an influential body of ratepayers to stand for this division. In answer to their invitation I offer myself as a can- didate, and beg to assure you that if you do me the honour to elect me as your representative, I will do my utmost to see that the affairs of the county are carried out economically and efficiently. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, WALTER M. NORTH. Vaynor House, 3205 LAMORGANSHIRE COUNTY COUN. JT CIL ELECTION. To the ELECTORS of the ELECTORAL DIVISION known as the WEST WARD of the MOUNTAIN ASH LOCAL BOARD DISTRICT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I ber; to offer myself as candidate to repre. sent you on the County Council of Glamorganshire. The transfer of power to the County Council, a body popularly elected, will doubtless add fresh strength and life to the principle of self-government, which has educated the inhabitants of the British Isles to the practice of ordered freedom, and the wise exercise of political power. In order that the new Act may be turned to the best account, it will be advisable to introduce some fresh blood, but at the same time it is most important to retain a sufficient number of those who have been conversant with the affairs of the County. I have had twelve years' experience of the manage- ment of County business, and have served on some of the most hnportaut committees. Should you do me the honour of electing me as your Representative, I feel confident that, with the experience thus acquired, I shall be able to do justice to your choice. Yours faithfully, HENRY C. BRUCE. Ynisygerwn, Neatb, Nov. 19tb. 202 3162 GLAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTH AND EAST WABDS OF THE MOUNTAIN ASH LOCAL BOARD DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. In response to the invitation of an inftuential and representative deputation of the Electors, and in conformity with the resolution of a public meeting confirming that invitation, I have much pleasure in coming forward as a candidate for the honour of representing you on the County Conncil. My long residence in the district, which has made me familiar with all its requirements, my experience on the various boards, such as the Local Board of Health, School Board, Board of Guardians, and High- way Board, which has gained for me a thorough know- ledge of all the details of Local Government, and my connection, as agent, with Messrs Nixon's Navigation Company (Limited), who are the largest ratepayers in the district, will, I trust, be considered a sufficient qualification for the office. If you will do me the honour of returning me as your representative, it shall always be my sole aim and pleasure to watch and to promote your interests to the best of ray ability. I remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, C. J. M. GRAY. Troedyrhiw Forest, Mountain Ash, 5168 November 19th, 1888. 104 QL AMORGAN~~ CCUJN T Y COUNCIL TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PONTYPRIDD DISTUICT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Having been unanimously adopted by the Liberal Association of this District as their candidate, and at the request of a large number of electors, I have con. sented to contest the Pontypridd District in the Liberal interest. I have always taken a great interest in all matters connected with the mining community, and having lived all my We in Pontypridd and the Rhondda, my political views are well known to yon, and I venture to think that they are in full acctrrd with those of f a majority of the electors. If elected, no efforts shall be soared on my part to serve your interests truly and faithfully according to the best of my ability. I shall at an early date avail myself of the opportunity of addressing yon upon the subject, and placing my views fully before you. I am, 3190 Your obedient Servant, WALTER H. MORGAN. OtonntJ1 (Iflttttril OMectians. 0 O U N T Y COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE WHITLAND DIVISION. IiADIks AND GENTLEMEN,— Since the Public Meeting held at Whitla.nd on been taken from your Division and added to Llanboidy, conse. qnently I beg to withdraw my name as A for yoursuffrages. lam, La.dies and Gentlemen, Yours Obediently, THOMAS JAMES. Ffynon Brodyr, Nov. th. 1888. MONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE ROGERSTONE DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— Having received an invitation from a con-. siderable number of the ratepayers of the above, division.I have pleasure in announcing myself a candi-: date for the honour of representing you a.t the County Council shortly to be elected. Should your choice fall upon me, I shall fulfil the duties to the best of my ability, and shall endeavour to procure the administration of the Local Government Act efficiently and with a due regard to economy. I have the honour to be Yours faithfully. EDWARD STEER. Castle Works, Tydu, Nov. 26th, 1888. ONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTY ULi. COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PONTLLANFRAITH. DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I am a Candidate for the honour of represe nt ing you on the County Council. 3063 Faithfully yours, M. W. MOGGRIDGE. MONMOUTHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. EBBW VALE, TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CENTRAL DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— Having been requested to offer myself as a Candidate at the forthcoming Election, I beg to place my services at your disposal, and to assure you that, If elected, you may rely upon my doing ihe best in my power to forward your interests in every way. I have the honour to remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, EDWIN GROVE. Stow Park. 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WISER THAN HIS MASTERS. Sir. H. BLAKE declines the honour of being Governor of Queensland. On his part this is a most judicious step. It was like her Majesty's present advisers to recommend the appointment of an obnoxious man. They seem to have made this appointment with no view but to give another kick to Ireland. They like to insult Ireland, and likewise to make an exhibition of their arrogance in the more remote colonies. They make big mouthfuls about federation and so on, but it they were to be 'allowed their own way in the direction of Colonial affairs, every considerable dependency we have would become a second Ireland, and the war of independence which disgraced the reign of that infatuated Tory, GEORGE HI., would be repeated again and again until the QUEEN'S dominion would be limited to a shred of the British Isles, Whenever it became known that the appointment was obnoxious to the authorities and to the popular representatives at Queensland, it should have been cancelled. Such offices should never be filled arbitrarily. There should always be very con. siderable deference paid even to the likes and the dislikes of those who will have to act as colleagues of the person elected to the chief office in a colony. No doubt we shall hear something about the cowardly knuckling down to Irish discontent, but we are glad that better counsels have prevailed. The Government may find an opening for Sir H. BLAKE somewhere in Ulster. His real admirers will be found in largest number there. His appointment anywhere else may be regarded as a bold defiance of the com- monest rules of prudence.

SOUTH WALES NOTES. (BY COSMOS.] 8IB W. THOMPSON'S COMPASS. THE weather which we have lately experienced turns the thoughts irresistibly to those who" go down to the sea in ships." The master mariner who is approaching land has not only the dangers of the deep to encounter, but with a sky probably clouded for days there has been no opportunity for taking a reckoning and his position, owing to the variation of tbe compuses, cannot be determined except by the meagre information which the lead affords. Take, for instance, coming across from Cape Finisterre. A slight variation will throw the ship out of its course thirty or forty miles, and, should the weather be thick ao that the lights cannot be observed, a captain is in an extremely awkward predicament. He may strike on an angry shore at any moment. In a new iron vessel the compasses obange from day to day. For a year or so they will not settle down, and, moreover, they will alter differently in different latitudes. Sir W. Thompson has invented a compass which will almost resist the attraction of an iron vessel, and be has taken out a patent for his invention. Unfortunately, though, these compasses are so expensive as not to have come into general use on board cargo boats. I believe they cost about £ 60 each, and owners do not care to embark ou this outlay, for reasons known to the outside world as well as themselves. An action has just been concluded in London, in which Sir William Thompson sued a nautical instrument maker in Liverpool for an infringement of his patent. This seems to demonstrate that these compasses can be sold at a cheaper rate than is now the case. Nevertheless, Sir W. Thompson is qmte justified in reaping the fruits of his labours, but it is to be hoped that, in the interests of poor Jack expense will not deter owners from equipping their ships with the latest and best instruments which science has produced. FOOTBALL ACHIEVEMENTS. THESE was a time—long, long, ago—when Merthyr could boast of a football team that could give somebody a beating. Lateiy, however, the local team, I am sorry to say, has been conspicuous ou account of its failures. On the first blush you would expect the young men of the hills to be just the lot of fellows who would be able to give the lowlanders—the Cardiff Harlequins or Swansea players-a tremendous thrashing. The boot is on the other leg, however, and the southerners are now accustomed to meet the mountaineers with light hearts. Mertbyr could not do less, I presume, than score nothing, as was the case on Saturday. Will the local team do better in future ? What is the matter ? Is an infusion of fresh blood required ? AN INSIGHT INTO IRISH TENANT LIFE. A PIKCK of evidence which was piven last week at the tjtate trial is well worth notice, as showing the hardships and injustice which tenants suffer in Ireland. A tenant of Lord Kenmare owed J £150. He was evicted because he adopted the Plau of Campaign, sold all his stock, removed bis bay and oats, carried away the fixtures of the farm, and then defied the agent, who offered to let biin remain if he paid £50. This is the agent's reason for eviction. On the other hand, Duggan wrote to the Kerry Sentinel. The letter complained that Duggan and his forefathers bad been tenants of the property for over 200 years under leases, that when his family went there first it was a boggy wilderness, and that they had built the house and offices. As t they had improved it from time to time, and as the leases expired, the rent was raised. So late i as 1848 his father took a new lease of the most j! stringent kind. He had built a new house at a t cost of £1,800, and had planted 72,000 trees, | with the result that two.thirds of the best land | was taken from him, and his rent was raised on t what remained from j370 to JS100 a year. Farms formerly let to the Duggans for JB70 per annum were now paying the present earl over J6500 a i year. He bad pleaded for a reduction of an | impossible rent, but with no result. His family had spent thousands on this farm, bad honestly j: paid their rent as long as they could, and £10 î was the solitary allowance made on it in 200 j years. 2 AN INSIGHT INTO IRISH LANDLORD'S LIFE. Now let us hear what answer Mr Maurice Leonard has to offer to this statement. It is true that the tenant paid £1,800, and it is also true that Lord Kenmare never spent a farthing upon that propezty. It is not true that the tenant planted so many trees as has been stated." Thus it will be observed that the Duggans have increased the rent roll of an estate from JB70 to £500, and though the best of the laud has been taken away, they are still paying £100 for the remainder. But how about the timber 1 Mr Leonard disputes the number, not the fact. Suppose we knock off one-half, and reduce the trees planted to 36,000. All the time these trees have been growing, somebody, has been paying for the space they occupied, and the Duggans were at the cost of planting them. If those trees have been planted for a matter of :0 or 30 years they would fetch a nice amount. However, let me sum up the; case in a nutshell. The tenant, after increasing the rent roll of the estate by £430 a year, is evicted because be refuses to pa.y £100 a year rent for a quarter of the holding. He says it is impossible. He would pay if he could. Any one who reads this case will say that he ought, at the least, to live rent free. That he joins Plans of Campaign is not surprising. The last straw breaks the camel's back.

WILL OF THE LATE MR OCTAVIUS MORGAN. BEQUESTS TO LOCAL INSTITUTIONS. Probate of the will dated March 13, 1876, with codicils made November 5, 1881; March 12, 1884 and September 6, 1886, of the late Mr Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, of The Friars, Newport, Mon., J.P., and D.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., who died August 5t.1I last, aged 85 years, and was from 1840 to 1874 M.P. for the county of Monmouth, hrls been granted to tbe executors, bis nephew, Mr Henry Salisbury Milman, of Onslow- place, London, barrister-at-law, assistant land commissioner, and Sir George Ferdinand Radzivil Walker, of Castleton, Monmouth, Bart., to the latter of whom as executor the testator bequeaths £200, Imd a further legacy of £250 to Lady Walker £500 and the income for her life of the testator's shares in the Monmouthshire Rail- way and Canal, with reversion thereto for bis godson, Radzivil Frederick Walker, to whom he also bequeaths £300; to General Gustavus Milman, £1,000; to Colonel George Bryan I Milman, General Everard Milman, Mr H. Salisbury Milman, and Jemima and Angelina Milman, each £500; to Viscountess Hereford, £500; and Lady Francis Conyngham, £200 and to Hugh Charles, William, John, and Angelina Owen, each £200. To the Newport Iutirmary and the Llandulf Church Extension Fund the testator leaves ;£100 each and to the corporation of Newport, for the free library and schools of science and art or museum, £200; to the British Museum he leave? his collection of curious and ancient clocks and watches, astrolabes, and dials, his collection of chamber- lain's keys and of papal riDgs. He makes many scientific bequests from his valuable collection of plate aud articles de vertu, and he appoints from a sum of £8,903, charged on the Tredegar estate, £2,000 to Radzivil Frederick Walker, £1,500 to Ivor Augustus Walker, and Devoreux Philip, Rowland Grant, Charles Leolin, aud Charles Evelyn Walker. From his share and interest in the Tredegar Wharf Company the testator appoints £250 a year each to Mr H. S. Milman, General Gustavus Milman, General Everard Milman, Miss Jemima Milman, and Miss Angelina Milman J6150 each to Hugh Charles, William, John, and Augelina Owen and £150 a year to Sir Ferdinand Radzivil Walker. All his residuary estate, real and personal, he devises and bequeaths to Mr Henry Salisbury Miiman. Th vrdue of the personalty has been declared at £68.545 7s 8d.

MR GLADSTONE'S JOURNEY TO HA WARDEN. Mr and Mrs Gladstone left London on Satur day afternoon for Hawarden, and arrived at Chester at 8.30. A small crowd assembled on the platform and cheered Mr Gladstone, who stood up and bowed his acknowledgments. The train proceeded to Sandicroft. The right hon. gentle- man remains at Hawarden till December 14th, when he will return to town, and on the 17tb will leave for Florence.

LONDON LETTER. 114111 ("BOX OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) [SPECIALLY WIRED, j LONDON, Sunday Night. It is understood that among the business before the Cabinet at the meeting yesterday was the selection of a new Commissioner of Police. Official etiquette, it is stated, prevents an announcement of the name until it has been submitted to the Queen, and thus it is that, although the matter is of such great interest to the people of the metro- polis, the decision of the Government has not been made known. There was a rumour last night that the difference of opinion amongst ministers was 80 great that no agreement could by any process be arrived at, and consequently three names were sent to her Majesty to make a selection from. This may be dismissed as an idle tale. It is generally believed that Mr Monro has been appointed, notwithstanding the physical disability under which be labours. A few days, however, will set all doubts at rest. The result of the school board election which takes place here to-morrow is very uncertain. Not- withstanding the great issues which are involved, it is surprising how few people comparatively are interested In the contest. The denominational party, or "Diggleites," as they are disrespectfully designated, have this advantage — that all the churches and voluntary schools are ready made and powerful organisations for the support of the Church candidates. The Liberal organisation seems to be defective, and many people will abstain from voting for the reason that they have not been instructed how and where to vote. With respect to unnecessary and inde- pendent candidate, both sides are about equally unfortunate. Several of these independents are likely to be returned by the process of plumping. A contest in which the public on the contrary are showing a very keen interest is that which is taking place in Holborn. It is obviously to the advantage of the Conservatives that as little time as possible should be spent over the election, and there are practioally but three days left in which to organise. The local Liberals have an unusual number of willing workers to make the best of the time. Still, the time is short, and does not give a fair chance for properly working the constituency. The indications, so far, however, are most hopeful. The boundaries of the electoral divisions in London are, in many cases, arbitrary, and the names of the divisions somisleading.thatoneof the Sunday papers has dono r-oüd service by publish- ing a map to-day indicating the main streets in which the contest is now proceeding. The Princess of Wales passed through London on Saturday for Sandringh am, where her Royal Highness on Saturday celebrated in the accus- tomed manner her 44th birthday. The chief festival in connection with the event is always the tenants' ball. For obvious reasons the Empress Frederick will not visit Sandringham until after this celebration. Her Majesty is expected to go there on the Monday following. A well-known society baronet is reported to have had a curious adventure while reconnoitring the scenes of .the late murders in Whitechapel, for being clothed in an astrachan overcoat he soon became an object of suspicion, and having been arrested was forthwith conveyed to the nearest police-station, and not until he bad fully accounted for all his recent movements was he at last permitted to leave without further molestation. The rfile of the amateur detective after this is not likely to become so general as the fashionable fancy for slumming was a few seasons back. Admirers of Mr Spurgeon will be glad to bear that his visit to the Continent has already done him good, although he left London so recently as last Monday. Writing from the Grand Hotel, Paris,"on Thursday, he stated that be was gaining strength rapidly. The party—for Mr Spurgeon has several friends travelling with him—were to have left Paris that night, and were due at Mentone on Saturday morning. He will return to England in about three weeks, if all be well, in order to join the children at the Stockwell Orphanage in their Christmas dinner. It appears that the date for Madame Patti's appearance at the Paris Opera is not yet definitely fixed. After a much too brief stay in London she left yesterday for Paris, and it will probably not be settled until to-morrow whether Borneo and Juliet will be produced on Wednesday or not. Great pains are being taken with the preparation. There is to be a private rehearsal at tbe opera, in which ontytheprincipals,includiog Madame Patti, will take part, M. Gounod of course conducting. On this occasion every person not actually concerned in the rehearsal will be rigorously excluded from the theatre. M. Jean de Rezke, who was such a successduring tbelateopeuseason at Covent Garden, was selected to play Romeo to Patti's Juliet but some days ago he was so unwell that another tenor was mstructed to under- study the part. M. de Reszke, however, is much better, and will probably be able to appear himself. It is well known that foreign powers are nearly always as well acquainted with what are supposed to be our secrets in shipbuilding and gunnery as we are ourselves, but whether the following story told by an officer of the United States navy is true or not it is impossible to say without more details as to names and dates. He says that he was recently sent to England on a secret mission. He wanted to learn some secrets in regard to the building of English naval vessels, and offered a subordinate officer employed at Plymouth a large sum for the information. The officer was poor, but he promptly replied that his position in her Majesty's service would not permit him to accept such an offer. His wife was present during the interview, and the next day a woman knocked at the door of the American, and handed him a package without saying a word. He opened it, and found everything he wanted down to the minutest detail. That evening he sent the amount which he bad offered to the officer's bouse in a box addressed to the wife. It was JB500. The narra- tive, it will' be seen, is drawn on a scale of American magnificence, but such things have been done, and not until very severe punishment is meted out to some offender will the practice be stopped.

TIN-PLATE WORKER'S UNION MEETING AT LYDNEY. A meeting of tiu-piate workers was held at Lydney on Saturday evening, under tbe auspices of the South Wales Tin-plate Workers' Union. There were about. 500 present, hailing from works at Oaldicot, Tiutern, Red brook, Lydbrook, Cinderford, and Lydney. Previously to tho meeting the men inarched through the town in procession, headed by the Lydney Town Band- The meeting was presided over by Mr Thomas Phillips, Llanelly (secretary of the union), and there were also upon the platform Mr D. RnndeH, M.P., Mr J. H. John, of the Welsh Industrial Tints, Mr Hopkins, Redbrook, and Mr B. Powell, of Abertillery.-—The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, ailuded to the absence of Mr G. Blundell Samuelson, M.P. for the division. He had just received a letter from Mr Samuelson, apologising for his absence and regretting his inability, on account of ill-health to undertake the long journey. Referring to a placard in the room bearing the words, Success to the Lydney and Lydbrook Tin-plate Co. the Chairman said that was the kind of feeling which ought always to be manifested. One of the objects of the union was to improve the relations between master and man. The motto ou the wall was a splendid indication as to the feeling which obtained at Lydney. Mr Phillips proceeded to advocate the claims of the union, which, h. said, was now 2,000 strong. In a few months they had reason to believe its numbers would double, and at the end of the second year fully £10,000 was expected to stand to their credit.—Mr Thomas Benjamin, of Abercarne, president of the Union, moved the following resolution :— That this meeting of tin-plate workers desire to ex. press its appreciation of the good work done by trades unions throughout the country. especially with regard to the great progress we have ourselves made. We take this opportunity of than Kins; Mr D. Kandell, M.P., for his valuable services in connection with the union, and we further desire to express our satisfaction at the manner in which the business has been curled out by the executive council and by the H efoA Industrial Times. Mr Hopkins seconded the motion, which, when put, was earned with acclamation.—Mr Johns and Mr Thomas having also addressed the meet- ing, Mr Randell, M.P., was called upon. The bon. gentleman observed that their aims were just and equitable, and it was not part of their creed to attempt to extort from the master a greater rate of wages than was their fair due. (Cheers.) Theirs was not an_association for the assistance of the few, but for the comfort and happiness of the community at large. Dealing with industrial legislation, he said he believed the Government were favourable to Mr Fen wick's Weekly Payment of Wages Bill, and the other bill he would refer to shortly was tho Preferential Payment of Wages Bill, which provided for payment of wages as a first claim upon an insolvent estate. This was a measure which he bad taken great pains with, and the Government bad taken it in band, but he regretted to say that a Tory member had blocked it. He would not mention the hon. gentleman's name, and he intended doing what he could to talk him round if it were possible. He bad great hopes of success. (Cheers.)—The hon. member was warmly received, and his speech was frequently applauded.

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THE HOLBORN ELECTION. MRS GLADSTONE AND EARL COMPTON'S CANDIDATURE. A meeting of ladies was held on Saturday, in the Holborn Town-hall, in furtherance of the candidature of Earl Compton for the representa- tion flf tbe constituency in Parliament. Mrs W. E. Gladstone, who presided, and who was loudly cheered, speaking in support of the Gladstoaian candidate (Earl Compton), said:—Ladies and gentlemen,—Having had the honour of taking the chair as your president, it is most cheering to me to see so large an assembly gathered together, for I take it as a sign that you recognise the national importance of the Holborn contest, and that you are determined that no effort shall be lacking on your part which can contribute to a Liberal success. I have always pointed out that if the final victory is to be won our exertions must not flag, and at such a moment as now 1 need hardly repeat this. You have a great opportunity; you have, indeed, a very great opportunity. You recognise what a contested election means at this moment, and what an advantage it is that Lord Compton should be your candidate. He stands before us to conduct the contest on behalf of the Liberal and Radical party. (Cheers.) Now, my friends, we have a great and a noble cause, and a candidate whom we are proud to tight for. (Cheers,) What further spur can we possibly need t (Hear.) And here is my dear friend Lady Compton, whoir. I am so glad to introduce to you to-day, and who heartily shares her husband's great exertions in our anxious cause. (Cheers.) You will have read — or, if not, you ought to do — my husband's letter. (Hear, hear.) In that letter you will have seen how high Lord Compton stands in my husband's opinion, and you will understand how, in selecting him for your candidate, you are helping and encouraging not only my husband, but also furthering the causa of right and justice—I mean, of course, in Ireland, and also in the United Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Aud it is that gives me courage to appear to-day and take my part in the great work which lies before us. (Cheers.)' Mr COBB moved, the Dowager Lady SAND- HURST seconded, and it was agreed :— That this meeting of Liberal desire to express the fullest confidence In Lord Compton, and, recognising the importance of the present contest ill Holborn, pledge themselves to use in the most energetic man- ner every legitimate means to secure his return as a representative ot the Holborn Division of Finsbury. A vote of thanks to Mrs Gladstone closed the meeting. -u_

ASSOCIATION OF COLLIERY OFFICIALS. MEETING AT ABERDARE. At the invitation of Mr J. L. Thomas, Bryn- awel, abous 130 managers, overmen, firemen, and other officials, chiefly from the Aberdare Valley, met at the Queen's Hotel, Aberdare, on Saturday evening for the purpose of appointing a chairman and the other officers of the association also to consider the time and place of meeting, and the amount of yearly subscription.—Mr J. L. Thomas, who presided pro tern., stated that at the preliminary meeting, held a fortnight ago, it was resolved that the association should be formed and that the Merthyr officials should be asked to co-operate.—Mr D. E. Davies (Dewi Mabon) said that he would give the association every support in his power. He thought that the overmen and. firoman would derive great benefit from joiuinc it, more so, perhaps, than by becom- ing members of the South Wales Association of Mining Engineers, where theoretical papers were mostly read by gentlemen of great ability, but lacking the practical experience in mining matters which was possessed by many present that evening. Mr John Jones (Cyfarthfa) spoke in favourable terms of the association, and regretted the absence of the Merthyr men from the meeting.—"Messrs D. E. Davies, Hughes (Abernant),land Llewelyn (Bwllfa) having spoken, it was resolved that the Mertbyr officials should again be asked to attend the next meeting.—The appointment of chairman and other officers was then proceeded with. The meeting unanimously elected Mr J. L. Thomas to be chairman, but feeling that he could be more useful in another capacity be declined, Mr D. E. Davies was then appointed chairman. Messrs Llewelyn (Bwllfa) and Howel Davies (Gadlys) were elected vice- chairmen, Mr J, L. 'Thomas was appointed secretary, and Mr W. Hughes (Abernant) treasurer. After considerable discussion the subscriptions were fixed. as followsFiremen, surveyors, book-clerks, and working mechanics, 5s per annum, payable half-yearly overmen, 7 6d per annum and managers, 10s 6d per annum. With reference to the workmen who have gained the certificate of service under the new Act, as to whether they were eligible for membership, the matter was left in the bands of the committee.

EXHIBITION OF THE SOUTH WALES SKETCHING CLUB. A SATISFACTORY RESULT. GENEROUS AID FROM THE MARQUESS OF BUTE & LORD WINDSOR. A meeting of the committee to consider the accounts of the recent art exhibition held at the Public Hall, Cardiff, was held at the society's club room, Working-street, Cardiff, Mr Edwin Seward, R.C.A., occupying the chair. The accounts showed a small balance in favour of the society, and a letter was read from Sir William T. Lewis congratulating the society on the work effected by the exhibition, and enclosing a cheque from Lord Bute for fifteen guineas. This, the secretary pointed out, had enabled them to show a favourable balance. A resolution was paased expressing the warmest appreciation of the members. A resolution was also passed thanking those ladies and gentlemen who had aided the exhi- bition by means of concerts, &0., and Mr Saward stated that Lord Windsor, as their president, bad expressed bis wish that this kind help should be specially acknowledged. Mr Seward also said he had just received a cheque for JSM from Lord Windsor, heading the list which the society had iu hand for assisting the corporation fund, and which was to be applied towards the expenses of one of their sculptor members—Mr William Gascombe John—in pursuing his art studies in Italy. Lord Windsor hadalso said, "Having accomplished so much by means of the first exhibition, I have little doubt that we shall ulti. matclj ucceed, especially as our society will now get to be better known."—Mr Parker Hagarty, R.C.A. (who was present at the meeting), kindly consented to be a visitor-member at the life class studies, which are to be held twice a week during the winter at the society's room.

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SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS- ABERYSTWYTH. The triennial election of a school board for Aberystwyth took place last Friday, when eight candidates offered themselves for seven seats. A* no contest had taken place in the town f°r. years more than ordinary interest and activitf. were displayed. Mr D. C. Roberts (ex-may°r' was the returning officer. About 11 o'clock Oil Iriday night the resqlt was declared as follows J-" William Thomas (C.M.) 812 Rev. J. H firothero (C.) 880 Kev. Preb. Williams (C.) 864 Peter Jones (B.) 841 Thomas Owen (C.M.) 8l0 Thomas Griffiths (C ) 683 John Evans (1.) 687 Thomas H. Jones(W.) 683 The first seven were elected.

THE EXPLOSION AT A WANDS' WORTH FACTORY. THE INSPECTOR S REPORT. The report of Major Cundill, one rJ. her Majesty's inspectors of explosives, on tb^ fatal explosion of amorces, or toy caps, •* Mr Cad well's Factory, Wandsworth, by wh'c" three girls were killed, was issued on Saturday' Major Oundill is of opinion that the explosion was due to the accidental detonation amorcea in the cutting shed, initi* ated by the detonation of one I or Ølori amorces containing more than the prO" per amount of explosive, that the disastrous result was due to insufficieh* attention paid to the uniformity of amorcet;.that to this extent Mr Cadwell is to blame, and that the jury's censure onMr Reid wasentiiely undeserved< He suggests that tbe manufacture and importa tion of these amorces should be stopped, as tbef are simply instruments of annoyance in the hafldC of children.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1888. THE LIBERAL UNIONIST LEADER FLAYED. LORD HARTINGTON gets the credit in a London Contemporary of having addressed a crowded meeting of "Liberal Unionists" on Saturday in the Public Hall at Hasling- den. Tell this to the marines. A certain class of disputants who had more itching for discussion than sensible topics on which to exercise their critical faculty are said to have keenly debated the question, "How many angels can stand on the point of a needle 1" but they would have found it a much harder task to deter- mine how to fill any public hall with Liberal Unionists, especially from among Lord HARTINGTON'S constituents. It is too well known for this renegade states- man's comfort that he cannot face his constituents as a body. He is bound to adopt the ticket system if he is to get a hearing. He is one of those who have broken with those fahose votes sent them up to Parliament, and he dare not venture now to face them. But why should a packed assembly of Conservatives be described as a crowded meeting of Liberal- Unionists, but to deceive dull understand- ings and persons credulous enough to believe that Mr ASHMEAD-BARTLETT is wiser than SOLOMON ? But whatever the political views of Lord HARTINGTON'S Haslingden audience may have been, he himself soon found occa- sion to knock the bottom out of the small amount of that Liberalism which still cleaves to him. He fell foul, for example, of the "one man one vote'' proposal, and, after stating that it had only recently been heard I of, and that in 1884 when the last Reform Bill was introduced it found no acceptance, he boldly added that his present opinion is strongly opposed to such a measure, believing it to be not a measure of enfranchisement, but a measure of disfranchisement. Now, it is of the utmost importance that every person who takes any interest in the party politics of this country should make a note of this fact. We have not put the knife to Lord HARTINGTON'S throat and executed for him, in a political sense, the happy despatch. He has deliberately done this himself, and with his own hand. He has avowed himself an alien from the Liberal party, not merely on the Irish question, but on the vital question of Liberal reform, the extension of the franchise, the breaking down of abuses, the giving of equal rights to all men alike. Lord HARTINGTON maintains that the "one man one vote" principle involves disfranchisement, and he is perfectly right but whose disfanchise- ment does it iiivolve '? The disfranchisement of men who have ever so many votes in different constituencies, and who swamp their humbler or, at least, poorer neigh- bours. Mr GLADSTONE and the Liberal party generally claim for every man an equal footing at the polling-booths, but Lord II ARTINGTON persists in claiming for land- owners and men of means more votingpower than the ordinary electors. But this declara- tion on his part only proves that he is getting entirely out of sympathy with the great Liberal party, and that even were the Irish question settled to-day and put for ever out of sight, Lord HAP.TINGTON would still remain standing outside the pale of Liberalism. We have always maintained, ever since the notorious Waterfoot speech, that Lord HARTINGTON has reached the end of his tether with respect to all Liberal legislation. He is no longer prepared to move on. He is virtually one of the Tories, though he hesitates to avow it. He never expresses sympathy with any of the Liberal movements of the day. But many of his admirers have been unwilling to read the true symptoms of his political failing. They struggle hard to keep him, nominally at least, in the ranks, but the noble lord has now made an exposure of himself. He has flayed himself, and we all now witness what has befallen him. The Liberalism has all gone out of his political constitution, and the tie which once bound him to the Liberal party was clean cut through on Saturday by his own hand.

LORD HARTINGTON WITH HIS CONSTITUENTS. ADDRESS TO A SELECT AUDIENCE OF UNIONISTS. Lord Hartington addressed a crowded meeting of Liberal Unionists atiHaslingden, at the extreme end of the Rossendale division, on Saturday. He said that notwithstanding the assertion that Ireland blocked the way, and tbe charge that the Government bad done nothing of a legitimate character to satisfy the wants of the people of England, Parliament had during the last session passed several measures of importance, and made some progress towards satisfying the legislative requirements of the people of the United Kingdom as a whole. There was great credit due to the Liberal Unionists, who had set apart some of their party ties aud traditions, and joined the Government in passing most useful measures, but the most important measure passed was the Local Government Bill. He did not complain of the many amendments proposed to the bill by members of the Opposition, but he must say that there seemed to be a tendency on the part of some of the members of the Liberal party to postpone useful and practical measures of a more sensa- tional character, and which enabled one class of the community to obtain triumph over some other class of thecoinmunity. The Conservative party had made considerable sacrifices in the Local Govern- ment Bill. He did not say that it was a perfect measure, but he did say that it was an honest attempt to solve a great question. The port'on of the bill referring to the control of the sale of intoxi- cating liquors had not been passed. Now he did not deny that he preferred that the licensing question should be dealt with by local bodies freely elected by the ratepayers, discharging those and other duties simultaneously, to any system which would commit legislation on the licensing question to the direct popular vote taken expressly for the purpose. But whatever system was adopted he hoped the nation would face the difficult, vexed, and perplexing question of compensation. He did not think it would be possible to escape from that question if for no other reason than that the interests involved were so vast and so powerful. It was perfectly certain that the trade would uever permit isself to be destroyed or its interests imperilled without a conflict so long, so bitter, and so doubtful as to postpone the realisa- tion of the hopes of temperance reformers to an almost indefinite time. He appealed to tem- perance reformers not to allow this subject t. be made a merely party political question. He asked them to take a reasonable and conciliatory view of the situation, and to approach the question not with a desire to ruin a State industry—a great industry—but in a fair spirit, and to lean on the side of equity. Discussing the new Liberal programme, Lord Hartington said be was opposed to the principle of one man one vote, which, be believed, would be a measure of disfranchisement rather than enfranchisement. But tbe first work of the Liberal party when restored to power would be the establishment of Home Rule for Ireland. He was astonished that the Irish members should oppose the Land Purchase Bill, seeing that it was one of the main planks in the platform of the National League. In the proposals of the bill Nationalist opinion in Ireland was certainly not disregarded, although it might suit the present political exigencies of the Parnellite members to oppose it.

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. Particulars of the wreck of the iroa barque Oot' dova, of Liverpool, have already been reported by telsgraph. Some of the erew ba-ve now arrive0 hOlDe, and give a sad story of danger and .sufferi0^ Tht Cordova was from Cardiff for Coquimbo, a was wrecked during a snowstorm at night IØ Thesis Bay, Terra del Fuego. In an hour aft" strikng, the crew twelve in numbet" left in a sixteen feet boat, the wiod freshening and snow continuing to fall heavily. S" intenst was the cold that in an hour several of tW crew bscame quite prostrate, and lay helpless*' the bottom of the boat. During the next noon a vessel was sighted, but to their dlsappOlø ment it proved to be their own wrecked barq Those who were able went on board to AA provisions, but very little food was to be obtained as the vessel was under water at hisjh tide. The?' however, secured a second boat, and that nig" landed ;n Thetis Bay, two friendly Fueged having previously come to their Sid. After a faw days the Fuegeans made the ship" wrecked crew understand that they were expectiuf a visit from a tribe who were cannlba. Sevell resolved to brave the dangers of the sea ratb than trust to the savagei, and left in one of t boats. Tha captain was among the five determineu to remain. Those who left sigh' Staten Island at ten o'clock the same uight, landed on Hew Year's Island the next day. Thert they repaired their boat, and reached St John Staten Island, the following night utterly x' hausted. Some were suffering from frost bit,, and none wete able to stand alone. They were' however, most kindly treated, notwithstanding ^a(~ °* provisions on the island. The islander5 had to live on seaweed, mussels, the flesh of sea'f and penguins. Ultimately they left in tbe liRht* house relief fiteimer. The captain and tbe r08' of the crew of the Cordova bad been picked OP by a German vessel and taken to Coquimbo.

BAND OF HOPE FESTIVAL AT NEWPORT. The Albert Halli Newport, was crowded to overflowing on Saturday ou the occasion of concluding meeting m connection with the annual festival of the Newport and District Band of lIopl Union. Mr W. A. Baker presided, and bad i°f supporters a number of local gentlemen. One ot the features of the eveninsr was a musical drill by the Alexandra Board School Band of Ilopet conducted by Miss Clara Thomas, the teacber, Mr Reynolds' boys' brigade also mustered wollf and looked almost like a cadet rifte corps as wet filed into the hall and took their position on platform. The various articles entered competition were exhibited in an ante-room, »° all tbe competing choirs at the proceeding Wednesday and Thursday sang together, led by a band of instrumentalists. One of the pleasant9 incidents of the evening was the presentation the chairman of a purse of 25 guineas to Mr Harvey, who has been connected with the loc-" Band of Hope and Blue Ribbon concerts for a dD$o years, and who has been appointed singing lDe at Muller's famous orphanage at Bristol. purse, as the chairman said, had been contribute? to by almost every section of the residents. Harvey thanked the subscribers.

MERTHYR GUARDIANS AffP SUNDAY CLOSING. A spirited discussion took place at a meeting of the Mertbyr Board of Guardians on Saturdl upon the Rev Aaron Davies's naoti" to memorialise Parliament in favour of Sunday closing in England.—Mr Thomas WillisLia seconded the motion on the ground that Sunday-clcsing Act in Wales had been of benefit.—Mr T. Jenkins (Pant) moved, and A^r' Bell(MerthyrVale)seconded,the previous qUe8tl°¡j On a division the amendment was carried by to 9, one guardian being neutral.

BIRMINGHAM.—Yeur letter is too long for our xo CORRESPONDENTS.—Numerous letters are held0" owing to the pressure upon oar space. Corre*P^- dents who write recommending, or attacking ca*-lf» dates for the County Council election, must their name A OofisrAMT HjiiOBR.—Ho must be on tho list of f* dent voters, or on the list of non-resident f0 .'J which latter list comprises those voters property within the county,and residing within mi,es, but more than seven miles from the county- C. T.—It is uncertain. Probably not before May- BRECONIAN LIBERAL.-<1) Yes. (2). bee answer to C- BILLIARDS.-The landlord can refuse if he ctooose-

MESSRS JOTHAM AND THEIR WORN- PEOPLE. # TO THE EDITOR. Sll&As some of our customers are under tb impression there is a difference with regard tG wages between our workpeople and ourselves, We beg to i say all our workpeople are working usual without any alteration in the rate of The executive of the society in Manchester requested the men to return to their work, 95 they had co just cause ot complaint against o"' firm, the wages paid being satisfactory to the executive. The public have also gauged out detractors at their right value, as the made for the last few weeks to damage reputation of our firm, we are glad to say, has bad the very opposite effect.-We are, tkc., JOTHAM AND SONS. <so and 27, St. Mary-street, Cardiff.

ALLEGED DISTURBANCE AT ADAMS- DOWN SCHOOL. TO THE EDITOR. SIB,—In the Western lutsiz cf Saturday ooctItS an account of a meeting of the recreative clasíleS, held on Thursday at Adamsdown School. I not present, but I have enquired of teachers And others who were so, aud I find that the repofC given is grossly exaggerated; "shamefully true is the somewhat strong expression used one who was—as the reporter was not-an eye" witness. The statement that I have written t" the clerk of the school board to send a to the school when recreative classes are held on0 °* those half-truths which are——but 7°^ readers can supply the rest. I wrote to the clef* before Thursday night, because I found that number ot rough lads outside the school werd amusiug themselves by throwing stones at passer^ by> by racing and shouting round the lighted building, attracted to it like moths to a candle, To my letter Mr Rees courteously replied-' "Thanks for information about the roughs at Adamsdown; the buildings and yard are too accessible, aud great annoyance has been to the school since its opening. The aid of tW pohce has been invoked, but the nuisance 9006 OD. I leave your readers to compare my ment with that of tbe Western Mail reporter. «>m, &c., CHAS. T. WHITMELL. Cardiff, 18, Park-place, 24th, Nov., 1888.

SEQUEL TO THE MISCAR- RIAGE OF JUSTICE. At the Newcastle Assizes on 8atnrda Baron Pollock—Charles Richardson and GooriV. F Egdell, of Alnwick, were sentenced to five yettrw penal servitude for tbA burglary and attemptle" murder at Edhngham Vicarage on February 7&bi 1879, for which two men named Brannagan and Murphy were wrongfully convicted and recently released.

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