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A NOISY NEWPORT SHOW. At the Newport Police-court on Monday- before Messrs T. P. Wansbrough, H. A. Huzzey, and J. Moses, magistrates-Mr A. A. Newman, town clerk, appeared to prosecute Wm. Davies and Mary Ann Johnson for using a yard in Clarence-place for public music and other public entertainments, without a licence. The Town Clerk explained that the defendants were the owners of some travelling shows, and had tem- porarily taken the yard, which belongs to Messrs Davies, Loudon Wharf, each having a steam organ in connection with the show, and the playing of this organ was a great nuisance to the residents of Clarence-place, and frequent com- plaints had been received by the police. Inspector Winmill said that he cautioned the men against playing the organs when the shows were going into the yard. The organs were driven by steam, and could be heard a considerable distance away. When the Sea on Land," the organs, and steam, hammer for testing strength were all going together there was a perfect din, and conversation in the region could not be carried on. The music, the officer considered,, was an essential portion of the entertainment, and but for the organs the shows would not attract one-tenth as many people. Mr Charles Williams, who resides in Clarence-place, also gave evidence. Witness had heard the organ two miles off from Clarence-place. On Saturday week the organs started at three o'clock and kept on until after half-past eleven. The same tune was played for two hours. "You are a musical man," said the Bench to Mr Williams, who is a well-knowi. amateur. "Yes," said witness, "but I should like a change of tune if I might have thechoice." —Mrs Johnson, a widow, stated that she had received no complaint from the police, or she would have left towm.-Davies states that his tenancy had expired, and his vans were at the railway station awaiting removal.—The Bench fined defendant Davies 20s and costs, and Mrs Johnson 5s. Davies then like the proverbial Englishman, grumbled, but paid. The Bench were of opinion that the owners of the yard ought also to have been proceeded with, and the Town Clerk said that they were equally liable.

LADY DILKE IN DEAN FOREST. Lady Dilke opened a bazaar at Coleford on Thursday afternoon week, in aid of the Wesleyan Chapel at that place.—Rev J. P. White, circuit minister, briefly opened the proceedings.—Lady Dilke, referring to what had fallen from Mr White with regard to bazaars, said that if the founder of the Wesleyan body had discovered what good things bazaars were, undoubtedly he would have had no objection to them. There were lots of people who could assist through a bazaar that otherwise would not be able to afford help. Lady Dilke remarked that as a Church- woman she felt she had as much right as anybody to be proud of Wesley, who in the 18th century did so much to awaken the consciences of his countrymen. Lady Dilke then declared the bazaar open.—The Rev R. Stephens, in moving a vote of thanks, said he was sure Lady Dilke, not less than her husband, had the interests of the Forest close at heart. He was net going to talk politics, but he must say he hopedana trusted that as long as Sir Charles Dilfce had a seatf in the House of Commons it would be as the repre- sentative oi the Forest of Dean.—Mr John Adams seconded, and the motion was carried with applause.

PRIZE FIGHT IN THE RHONDDA. -7 At the Ystrad Police-court on Monday (before Mr T, P. Jenkins and Mr 1) W. Davies), Henry Phillips, David John Powell, and John Evans, colliers, Heolfaeh, were charged with aiding and abettii-g m a prize fight on Sunday morning week. The evidence shewed that the police had been apprised that a prize fight was to come off somewhere on the mountain, and on the morning in question Inspector Jones, Pentre, despatched Police-constables Evans and Walters in plain clothes up the hillside, near Pcntrhondda. Be- fore the officers got close up to the crowd some- one shouted "Bobbies!" and the ring was broken lip, and the principals, Wm. Llewelyu, alias Will Catws, arid John James Hughes, and the defendants bolted away, followed by the police and a large number of the spectators. Several rounds had been fought, but neither of the combatants had been badly marked. Evans acted as referee, and the other two defendants as seconds. The defendants were each bound over in the sum of 1:5 to keep the peace for six months, and ordered to pay the costs. The principals had been bound over to keep the peace at the previous court.

PROHIBITION & TEMPERANCE NOTES. (From a Special Correspondent.) June 13th, 1893. THE demonstration in Hyde Park on Saturday, in support of the Local Veto Bill, was magnin- cent. The perfect weather completed its most perfect organization. No demonstration of such immense proportions has ever before taken place in favour of temperance legislation in this coun- try. The procession with more than one hun- dred bands of music, one thousand banners, and 1,200 brakes, took four hours to pass through the gate at Hyde Park Corner. Gathering on the spacious embankment the demonstrators much more than covered it, •verflowing on to the .bridge and along several great thoroughfares. The Vanguard of the procession, entering the park at twenty minutes to five, the rear bad, scarcely left the embankment at twenty minutes to.seven. Eloquently and ably addressed from twenty platforms, a resolution welcoming the Bill was simultaneously submitted to the vast audiences, and carried with almest perfect unanimity. It was nearly nine o'clock before the park was cleared of demonstrators, but the dispersal took place with as much-quietness and good order as had marked the arrival. T AMONG the banners displayed at the demon- stration were many which had been specially de- signed for the occasion. The inscriptions upon these were mostly of a religious character, but a goodly number expressed in terse sentences the views of the demonstrators on the drink question. Ononeoftbe wagons was a gibbet from which hung a great black bottle bearing the words The devil in solution." This is Bung's funeral procession" was the motto of one, and others were inscribed with such sentences a's Give us our annual 60,000 victims," "Kilburn says Beak and Bung ha'7e been boss long enough," "Oh, the public-house is the poor man's club, is it? Then give him the key," No compensation for England's ruin," Our action to-day is England's hope," "Bung fears the people," "The people want the Veto, so Bung will have to go," and "The Veto Bill is the poor man's protective Bill." The Daily Chronicle said that the demonstra- tion was the greatest, the most orderly, and the most enthusiastic gathering that has been held in the Park since the memorable franchise demonstration," while the Daily News said that "Saturday has, we hope, put an end to all idea of dropping the liquor bill—if, indeed any such idea was ever entertained." That Journal, indeed had said, several days before this, that Sir William Harcourt would spare no effort which the Bill might call for, and that the friends of temperance had had experience of the force and skill with which he was able and willing to serve the cause of temperance reform. Sir William took occasion to see for himself the ex- tent and character of the demonstration, by visiting the embankment and the Park, in both of which places he received great ovationq. IN the course of his speech at No. 1 platform, Sir Wilfrid Lawson caused great diversion by prophesying what the relative attitudes of the London dailies would be to the demonstration. The Daily News he expected would say, The democracy assembled in their thousands." The Times would say, Tempted by the fine weather a number of sightseers assembled in the park. The Telegraph would say a few hundreds of gloomy fanatics gathered round the platforms, and the Morning Advertiser, the barrel-organ, would say "Sir Wilfrid Lawson, on Saturday afternoon in Hyde Park, addressed a handful of of women and children." This was very shrewd on the part of Sir Wilfrid and would undoubtedly disconcert the conductors of these journals. At all events each paper took care that the prophecy should not be fulfilled, how- ever well it hit off their past treatment of such occurrences. The Standard minimised the event as much as it could, while The Times was careful not to commit itself. THE Morning Advertiser was constrained to say of the demonstration-one of the gteatest in fact of modern times-that it was "a very pretty shoW," but that it would not in the smallest degree affect the condition or prospects of the Bill." The 'Tiser's man, engaged to describe the demonstration, thus regaled his readers: The family of the Phoenix, and its congeners, succeeded in bewildering sightseers, blocking the streets, paralysing the traffic, and perturbing the police of the Metropolis for several hours on Saturday "afternoon." All this in a Journal which was prepared to see in a miserably organised demonstration against the Bill in Trafalgar Square, the ieiiberate ex- pression of the only public opinion worth heeding. According to this highly moral, just, and liberty- loving organ, the beautiful banners in the pro- cession had upon them life-boats on intoxicated ieus, tombstones in watery cemeteries, sick men preached to death by smugvisaged visitors, sor- rowing widows consoled by large cheques from Benefit Societies, &c." This kind of writing but illustrates the absolute indifference with which the trade generally looks upon its victims. A great demonstration in favour of the Veto Bill is also to take place in Manchester next Saturday. (June 17th.) There will be six plat- forms from which addresses will be given, and the following members of Parliament will take part: Sir Wilfrid Lawson, MessrsC. E. Schwann, W. H. Holland, T. Snape, and Jacob Bright. Alderman Ben Tillett, and Mr James H. Raper will also speak. The chairmen of the various platforms will be Messrs W. J. Crossley, Alder- man J. H. Crosfield, J.P., Alderman A. Forrest, J.P., F. H. Smith, J.P., and li. B. Harrison, J.P. Processions will start from numerous centres, with nearly thirty brass bands, for a iaqe field in Greenheys, and if the weather is onlyNvöurable another important expression of public opinion will undoubtedly be given. Tbbilgh the temperance party, as )compared with the liquor party, were considerably later in beginning to send up petitions to Parliament in support of the Bill, those in its favour now far exceed those against it. Up to June 5th, this excess was 1,837 over 5,709 presented against the Bill. It is true that there are still three times as many signatures on the petitions con- demning the Bill as upon those favouring it; but that is easily understood when it is stated that of Officially-signed ]petitions- wiiich means those coming from public meetings signed oniy by two or three-the liquor party have only 128 altogether, while the temperance partv have no fewer than 3,989. Taking the last single week's petitions recorded, there was an increase of 300 officially-signed ones from the temperance party as against an increase of only thirty from the opponents of the Bill-the total increase for the week showing 725 petitions for the Bill and 140 against it. THE State Department of the United States has been consulting its Consular representatives in various countries as to the liquor traffic and its results. In the report received from the Consul located at Copenhagen, it is stated that the relation of intoxicants to poverty, immorality and crime in Denmark is very marked, when, with a total population of 2,200 000, the consumption of intoxicating drinks per head of the population is five gallons of dis- cilled spirits and eight gallons of lager-beer." In Sweden, where Local Option exists, the quantity consumed per head of the population is only one and three-ninths of a gallon of spirits. It might also be noted that before the change of the law in Sweden it was quite as drunken as Denmark. IN the report of the Urfited States Consul from Belgium it is stated that the population of BelgiuLU "is 6,000,000; number of voters, 750,000; of which 200,000 are proprietors, managers or agents of drinking-saloons, a per- centage of one saloon-keeper to every four voters." This statement surely requires verifica- tion. Certainly no country can long remain prosperous and maintain such a terrible army of unproductive workers—one-fourth, indeed, of the electors of the country. I

PIERRE AND BAPTISTE. I once knew two industrious mechanics named Pierre and Baptiste. They dwelt in a ram- shackle tenement at Sault aux Belceuil, where each had half-a-dozen children to support, besides their wives who, it is grievous to relate, were drones. They were only nominally ac- quainted with that godly art commonly asso- ciated with charwomen. Pierre and Baptiste were hard workers. They worked far into the night and, occasionally, the thin mists of dawn had begun to break on the narrow city pavements before their labours would cease. No one could truthfully say that theirs was not a hard-earned pillow. Sometimes they did not toil in vain. It depended largely upon the police. It was early one November that this horny- handed pair planned the burglary of a certain safe located in a wholesale establishment in St. Mark-street. On the particular evening that Pierre and Baptiste hit upon for the deed, the head bookkeeper had been having a wrangle with his accounts. "I can't make head or tail of this I' he declared to his employer, the senior member of the firm, yet I am convinced everything must be right. An error of several hundred dollars has D6e £ i carried over from eacli daily footing, but where the error begins or ends I'm blessed if I can find out." if I can find out." The fact was that the monthly sales had been unusually heavy, and a page of the balance had been mislaid, i'he head bookkeeper spent up- wards of an hour in casting up both the entries of himself and his subordinates after the estab- lishment had closed its doors for the day. Then he went home to supper, determined to return and locate the deficit, if he didn't get a wink of sleep until morning. Bookkeepers, it must be borne in mind, have highly sensitive organisms, which are susceptible to the smallest atom reflecting upon their probity or skill. At half-past eight the bookkeeper returned and commenced anew his critical calcu- lations. He worked precisely three hours and a half; at the end of which period he suddenly clapped his hand to his forehead and exclaimed Idiot! Why haven't you looked in the safe for a missing sheet ? Ten chances to one they, have been improperly numbered! He turned over the pages of the balance on his desk, and, sure enough, the usual numerical mark or designation in the upper left-hand corner which should foileweleven was missing. Page twelve, in all likelihood, had slipped into some remote corner of the safe. The safe was a large one, partially receding into the wall, and containing all the papers, documents, and several day receipts in cash and drafts of the firm. The head bookkeeper, in his efforts at unearth- ing the lost page of the cash balance, was obliged to intrude his entire person into the safe. Fear- j ful lest the candle he held should attract attention from the street, showing out as it did against the black recesses of the safe, upon entering he drew the door slightly ajar. As he stepped in the tail of his coat caught on an angle of the huge riveted lock the massive gate swung to as if it weighed no more than a pound, and the bookkeeper was a prisoner. He heard a resonant click—that was all. His candle went out. The bookkeeper at the outset lost his presence of mind. He fought like a caged animal. He first exerted almost superhuman strength against the four aides of the iron tomb. Then his body collapsed, and, not for an instant losing con- sciousness, he found himself sitting in a par daily upright posture, unable to so much as stir a muscle. It was almost at the same time, although hours seemed to have passed, that the drum of his ear, now abnormally sensitive, was almost split into fragments. A frightful monotonous clangour- rent the interior of the safe. The bookkeeper used to observe afterwards that a single second's deviation of characteristic thought and he would have gone mad. Stronger minds in a parallel situation would have indeed collapsed. But a weaker man can never confront the inevitable, but clings more stubbornly to hope. They are only weak individualities who, m the act of drowning, catch at straws. As the bookkeeper felt. himself gradually growing faint for want of air to breathe, his revivified hope led him to deliberately crash his fist in to the woodwork with which the interior of the safe was fitted, in secretaire fashion, one drawer being built above another. This gave him-a few additional cubic feet of air. AS may be conjectured, the noise which smote the bookkeeper's ear was that of a drill. Although acutely, discerned within, the sound was practically smothered on the outside of the vault. _.h At one end of the drill was a cavity, rapidly growing larger, in one of the steel panels. At the other end was a heavy, warty fist part of the anatomy of Baptiste, the industrious mechanic. Baptiste held the drill while his comrade, Pierre, pounded it in. Soon the burglars became aware that some sort of animal commotion was going on witbin the safe. It nearly drove them into <^vulsio of astonishment. Baptiste was so astonished that he dropped the drill. "It is a ghost," he said. Baptiste was for throwing up the job uncom- promisingly on the spot, but this proposition met with obstacles. His fellow workman, who was of stiffer courage, rejected it with scorn, as savouring too much of the superstitious. Pierre had a large family to support, he argued. He spoke frankly. They could net afford to throw away the opportunities of Providence. To his friend and co-labourer, the burden of his remark was:— Ldche i Go hon! You make me tired wiz yer ghosts an' tings. Let's not have no beast footin' -see? De job is commence Allons The upshot of this was that Pierre and Baptiste went back to work. At the third crack at the drill, Pierre crossed himself, and said :— ".Baptiste1 dere's a man in dat safe." Both men grew pale as death at the sugges- tion. Baptiste, for instance, was so frightened he couldn't utter a syllable. His tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. However, Pierre, as usual was the first to recover. lIe applied his ear first to the lock and then to the drill-hole. "Hey, in dere!" he cried, yet net so loud as to be heard on the side-walk. To this there came a faint response—a very faint shout, indeed r it sounded as if it were a mile away :— For God's sake give me air 1 am lacked in here. Try and burst open the safe 1n The two burglars, did stop to talk, but went at once to work, fIos if their own lives de- pended on the resu):" instead of the life of the mysterious occupant of the vault. In less than four minutes tP.y had a hole, somewhat smaller than the business end of a collar button, knocked into the parael of the vault. Then, Pierre and Baptiste paused to wipe the sweat from their brows. The man inside breathed. It was now that the pair began to muse on the denouement. Could this be a member of the firm or an employe ? This hypothesis jeopardised the success of the night's adventure, unless, when they had, permitted the prisoner to emerge they bound and gagged him into silence. On the other hand, this course would have an ugly look. If he resisted it might<mean murder in the end; whereas, it they did not let him out at all, they would stand no chance of profiting by the pecuniary contents of the sate. Besides as the man could scarcely live thus until the morning, they would be respensible for his taking off. 'rtius reasoned Pierre and Baptiste. These were not highly comforting reflections;* but there was still another and ,a better in reserve. What if, after all, the man were him- self a felon? Might h$flpt be a companion1 crib-cracker ? In "mat case they ^^14 mer»?- have to dl:dle the spoils. wAY j^^erre, suddenly struck ymm 19 de wmbinSJhofto safer" Fifteen—three—seventy-three!" came back in sepulchral tones. I It was evidently growing harder and harder to draw breath through the tmy aperture. k" Thus it transpired that at the expiration of fifteen seconds the lock of the vault gave back the same resoirant click it had rendered eight minutes previously. Thanks to the timely advent of Pierre and Baptiste, it opened as lightly, as airly, and as, decisively as it hgd, closed 480 seconds before on the unhappy accountant The head bookkeeper gasped once or twice, but without any assistance stepped out into the free air. He was very pale and his dress was much rent and disordered when his feet touched the floor. But this pallor quickly made way for a red flush at perceiving the two burglars, with the implements of their profession strewn abound them. Meanwhile Pierre and Baptiste themselves stood transfixed by the sheer novelty oi the situation. Without any kind of speech] or warning, or without making any attempt at bravado, the bookkeeper walked deliberately to his desk and rahg an electric call for the police. Simulta- neously it seemed, for so rapid and quiet was the action, he opened a draw, took out a small revolver, and covered both burglars with a fatal precision. As he did so he uttered these remark- able words "Geemen I would, indeed, be the basest I of men, if I did not feel profoundly grateful for the service you have just rendered me. I shall always regard you as any right minded man should regard those who have saved his life with I imminent peril to themselves or, which is just m the same, to their liberty. Any demand in reason you make of me I shall make an effort to per- form-but my duty to my employers I regard as paramount. I have accumulated a little money, and, with it I propose to engage the best counsel in your defence, which is certafcly marked by mitigating circumstances. If, on the other hand, you are convicted Here the of justice entered, having broken open the deor with a crash. |=

Pentypool Permanent BUILDING SOCIETY, PONTYPOOL. PROSPECTUS. TRUSTEES. (For the purposes autno by the Act of Parliament and 38 Hct s. 25 and, 28). Mr. William Collins, Mr. Edward Jones, J.P., Mr. Edwajr James Phillips, J.P., Mr. Alfred A. Williams, J.P. DIRECTORS. Mr. A. A. Williams, J.P., Maesderwen, Chairman Directors. Mr. E. Fowler, Pontypool, Vice-Chairman of Directors. -L.iem.-coi. j. IEL Wright, J.P., Gowerton. Mr. Isaac Butler, J.P., Panteg. Mr. W. Collins, Pontypoel. Mr. W. H. Davies, Abersy- chan. Mr. C. Davis, Pontypool. Mr. H. Feather, Griffiths- town. Mr. E. B. Ferd, .Pontypool. Mr. J.Goodenough, Panteg. Mr. W. H. Haskins, Ponty- pool. Mr. J. Morgan, Pontnew- Mr. H. A. Mr. D. E. Williams; PtSSwr Mr. J. W. Upstone, Ponty- moil. Mr. W. R. Williams, Ponty- pool. Mr. J. Stafford, Griffiths- town. Mr. R. Stephens, Griffiths town. BANKERS. Lloyds Bank, Limited, Pontypool. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Lo Brasaour and Bowen, PontypooL SECRETARY. I Mr. John Walters, Griffithstown. TREASURER. I Mr. William Collins, PontypooL ARBITRATORS. i Colonel Byrde, Goytrey. Mr. W. L. Pratt, J.P., Pont- newynydd. Mr. David Williams, Mold. Mr. LI. Llewelyfl, Aberay- chanj Mr. D. M. Llewellin, Pontv pool. OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY: To offer a means of investing large or smal sums by monthly subscriptions, or othcitrise, at a good rate of interest; and To lend the monies so accumulated for the purpose of purchasing or building houses, redeeming mortgages, &c. MONEY NOW READY TO ADVANCE. For further information, reports, &c., apply to the SECRETARY, or to the MANAGER, Lloycfe Bank, Pontypool. -idiy i .A f; 22"LI Q.OULD, WHEELWRIGHT, CARRIAGE BUILDER AND GENERAL SJUTH. '1 All kinds of Vehicles Built, Repaired, Painted, &c. SHOEING AND SMITH-WORK IN ALD ITS BRANCHES. '.tr Good Seasoned Materials and experienced Wort men kept. ELI GOULD, PONTNEWYNYDD. ————

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ULSTEI* WILL FIGHT 170 000 MEN READY TO DO THE BIDDING OF THE CLASSES. Open Oi ganisation of an Army of Bigots Backet.! by Contributions of a Quarter of a Million of Money. There j.. a curious conspiracy of silence in the London Press with regard to the preparations for revolut, n in Ulster. The Ulster Defence Union is really revolutionary body. It was formed early iu year, and issued a manifesto on St. Patrick's Day. The Ulster Convention League, which continued to exist after the famous Ulster has joined with the union in organis- ing the members. The enrolling of men has been going on steadily for the past few months, and the lists cl..sed ou the 1st inst. The total number of men enrolled is 169,870. The members are now electing their CENTItAl, ASSEMBLY" OF 600. The first elections have been held during this week, East Tyrone, the birthplace of the "Volunteers," leading off. The lists of the candidates include retired Army officers and shoals of magistrates. The practice at the elec- tions is modelled on that adopted at Parliamen- tary elections, but the ballot is not secret. In lnc,t cases the candidates are unopposed, but there a,e also numerous contests where opinions diifer as to the fitness of the candidates. The "Central Assembly will meet on 15 July to formulate the policy to be pursued by the Unionist Party ia Ulster in opposition to Home Rule, and a council of 40 will be appointed to carry out that policy. The members of the "C.D.U. represent the whole strength of Ulster Unionism. North Derry takes first place in respect v, numbers enrolled, and East Belfast comes second. In West Donegal, where the Unionists are scattered widely apart, EVERY AVAILABLE MAN is registered. Only one district (situated in fcouth Down) stands aloof. In the Ulster Press notices of the elections appear, drawn up in the form used at Parliamentary elections. We append a copy:— ULSTER D.EFENCE UNION. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION OF ELECTIONS TO THE CENTBAL ASSEMBLY. NOTICE OF ELECTION. I hereby srive notice, that I will, at-on the 10th day of June, 1893, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock. proceed to the nomination, and, if there be no opposition, to the election of delegates for the several electoral districts set out in the schedule at foot hereof. Forms of nomination may be obtained from Mr repstrar or the honorary secretaries of the Ulster Convention League, 11, Lombard Chambers. Belfast. Every nomination paper must be signed by two registered electors. as proposer and seconder, and by at least 12 other registered electors as assentors to the nomination. Every nomination paper must be delivered by hand, or by post, to the returning officer, on or before the above date, and before the first hour aforesaid. Should the election be contested, the time and place or places of polling will be duly announced. Signed at -st, Belfast, this day of June, 1393. —————————— Returning Officer for the Parliamentary Bivitrion of- There is no doubt that the whole movement is being run bv the merchants, manufacturers, • lords and lawyers. But the bigotry of Ulster has made its people an easv prey for these classes, and it is probable that history will pre- serve its continuity. Those who know the I ro- testant populace of Belfast cannot blink the fact that there is in nearly every man and woman BITTER RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HATRED towards their Koman Catholic countrymen. if an organisation with 170,000 men on its books, pledged to respond to any call, should enter on a struggle with the new Irish Executive, there would be incalculably bloodshed. With these facts in view,-is not the presence of such a body in Ulster illegal ? Would it not be well to stamp out incipient insurrection ? That is the question which Mr Morley and the Government must face and answer. An organisation which has raised a quarter of a million, which it expects to increase to at least a million, is quite different from the ordinary political league. It will hardly spend a million in postage stamps and itinerant lectures. What is the money meant .for ?- I'h, Star, June 12.

XRCHGEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES NEAR CHEPSTOW. A large camp, not set down in the 25-inch ordnance map. was a few weeks ago discovered by Mr W. H. Greene at Tutshill, near Chepstow. He has again been fortunate in his explorations, and on Saturday, June 10th, discovered another larse and very important camp on the promon- tory which forms the isolated parish of Llancant, almost completely encircled by the river W ye. fronting the far-famed Wyndcliff, and command- ing the larger of the two camps in Pierceneld Park on the Monmouthshire side of the river. The -configuration of this camp, which is repre- sented on the ordnance map by a solitary bit of atone rampart locally known as The Soldier s Grave," will be mapped out a few days hence. The unmortared walls were of great size, laid with nice regularity, and some of the stones were a yard long. The ancient well which supplied the entrenched army still yields a never-failing supply of water, or the wood above the ruins of Llancant Church and the ap- proaches to it are also of massive stone. The greater portion of the ramparts are, however, composed of ordinary size. 1 hey may be traced beneatn the famous great elm tree, which was 105ft. high before tue upper part was blown down to the farnr-oeeapied by Mr Hy. Rymer, where there is a bit of what looks like a well- preserved Koniau road, in lines and terraces fronting the larger of the two camps in Pierce- fieid Park on the Monmouthshire side -of tna- river, and along tite summit of the Bannagor Craigs. In the Parliamentary Civil Wars, ir John Wintdur, cue Royalist leader, who had been chased to this place by Colonel Masseys soldiers in October, 1644, entrenched himself in this ancient c¡.mp in February, 1645, and on the 24th of that month Massey again routed him, and drove him away. In this engagement Captain Poore, the Royalist governor of Ber- keley, was kiieci, and he was buried at Chepstow.

THEFT FILOM BRY^AWR RAILWAY At Brynmawr Police-court, on Monday, Wm Baker, a collier, belonging to ^antygi°, w charaed with stealing a box containing bread, rueaf. ana cutlery, valued at £ 5, the property of Wiliiam Booth, refreshment stall-keeper, Woi- ▼erhaiupton, on the 23rd May.-Booth, who had At.t.eiidt-d Brynmawr Fair on the 22nd ult., packed up tbe remainder of his stock in the tin box pro- duced, and took it to the London and North- Western Railway Station about 1 a.m. on the 23rd. leaving it on the platform for early dispatch that monling. About an hour later P.C. Kees, of Naiuvgio, saw prisoner and William 1 nomas el (who was committed at the last court) making off with the box, which they dropped, and pro- ceeded to make good their escape. Baker suc- ceeded, but on Friday last he was handed over to P S. Wlliiams (Brynmawr) by P.C. Powell at New Tredegar. Last Saturday evening pnsoner wrenched a tay which held the warming flue in his cell, and with it proceeded to displace the cast-iron casing of the cell door. In answer to the caarge prisoner had nothing to say, and was committed to take his trial at the next quarter sessions.

THE STRIKE AT TUMBLE COLLIERY NO HOPE OF SETTLEMENT. The efforts to close the unfortunate labour dispute at the Great Mountain Colliery, Tumble, owned by Messrs R. Waddell and Co., were 1, renewed on Saturday, when the anthracite miners' agent, Mr W.Abraham, M.P., paid a visit to the colliery. The colliery has been idle for several months past, the management claim- ina reduction of over 30 pel cent, in the wages of°the men. We regret to report that the inter- view between Mabon and t.-d management was a fruitless one. The management have not abated anything of their claim, and the hopes of settlement are remote. In fact, speasinfc to our representative, Mabon said the prospects of a settlement appeared hopeleas. -0 4-

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THE CONFIDENCE TRICK. EXTRAORDINARY UREDULITY AT CARDIFF. At the Borough Police Court on Monday (Sir Morgan Morgan and Mr J. H. Cory on the bench), two stylishly-dressed females, named respec- tively Evelyne Hudson (27) and Josephine (iriflfin were charged with obtaining by means of false pretences the sums of £1 each from Thomas Foster, Frederick Joseph Phillips, and William Gay, at Cardiff, on the 10th of June, with intent to defraud. Mr Arthur Rees defended-the pri- soners.—The prosecutor, Thomas Foster, said he was in the Hayes on Saturday afternoon, and saw the prisoners standing on a carriage. They were then throwing shillings and sixpences and threepenny pieces away.—Sir Morgan Morgan Did you get any of it?—Witness No. Hudson said she bad a hundred pounds to throw away at 2.30 and two hundred at 6.30. She said she didn't come there to sell, she came to give and to advertise. Continuing, Thomas said there were about 200 people gathered round the carriage After the scrambling for money, the elder pri- soner offered that if any respectable man would lend her half-a-sovereiga she would reward him. About half-a-dozen men handed her a half- sovereisni each, and she rewarded them with a Canadian gold chain and a -hilling. Hudson then put up a number of watches, which she said were made of Canadian gold, were worth 15 10s, and would last them 50 years. She then asked for the loan of a sovereign, and said she would return the coin to the lender, together with a reward. Ten or a dozen men handed her sovereigns, and being tempted and having no suspicions, witness also handed her a sovereign and received a watch and chain from her.—The Clerk: And you thought you had an excellent bargain ?—Witness Well, she said it was worth 15 108. (Laughter.)—You were not satisfied then ?-She told us she would give us our money back.—Did she say when ?-iNo. (Laughter.)— What did you expect you would get for your sovereign ?—I expected I'd get my money back and a shilling and the watch.—Cross-examined by Mr Rees Witness said he did not want the watch, but would have given it back had the pri- soners asked for it.—But what made you take it if you intended giving it back ?—It was the way the woman was enticing people. (Laugliter.)- And when she said she was coming back at 6.30 to give two hundred pounds away, did you believe it ?- Y es everybody believed it. (Re- newed laughter.)-At this stage the proceedings were adjourned for a week, prisoners being ad- mitted to bail, themselves in £ 50 each and sure- ties to a like amount.

MONMOUTHSHIRE COLLIERY WORK- MEN'S FEDERATION. The monthly meeting of the Monmouthshire District of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Colliery Workmen s Federation was held at Brynmawr on Saturday. The dispute at Henllis Colliery, respecting timbering and yardage and the substitution of looked lamps for naked lights was considered, and it was resolved IO give relief to the men pending the decision of the sliding-scale committee. A report was submitted by the deputation appointed by the sliding-scale committee, to meet the management with refe- rence to the cropping of the bounty turn paid to the Blaina night men. The representatives, having failed to come to any agreement, the matter was again referred to the committee. It was decided to impose a sixpenny levy, consider- ing the disputes pending in the district. The question of organisers for Monmouthshire was discussed at great length, and was adjourned for a month. Several questions were asked, altera- tions and additions suggested to the new organi- sation scheme, and it was decided that these should be laid before the conference to be held at Aberdare next week. I —

MILITIA CAMP AT BRECON. The 3rd South Wales Borderers assembled on Monday for the annual training at the Camp, Brecon, under the command of Col. W. Jones Thomas, A.D.C. The permanent staff and over 400 "recruits had seme 14 days prior to the arrival of the oH bands," pitched the tents and taken possession of the camp—which is situated in one of the prettiest spots in the Principality. The band plays on Sunday afternoons in the drill- field, and large numbers of visitors are attracted thence. The comfort of the men is well looked after, and in addition to the sergeants' mess and canteen, there ate provided, coffee palace, a reading and recreation-room, gymnasium, cricket, quoits, and football. The regiment has now a strength of over 1,000, the past recruiting season having been an exceptionally good one.

SUMMER CIRCUITS IN WALES. The following is a list of the commission days xed by the Judges for the ensuing sumnief assizes in Wales:—South Wales Circuit (Mr Justice Charles). Haverfordwest, Wednesday, -July 5; Lampeter, Saturday, J;uly 8; Car- marthen, Tuesday, July 11; Brecon, Saturday, July 15 Presteign, Thursday, July 20 Chester, Safurd!ay, July 22 Swansea, Saturday, July 29. North Wales Circuit (Mr Justice Wills) :—Sew- town, Thursday, July 6; Dolgelly, Saturday, July fc t Carnarvon, Tuesday, 11; Beaumaris, Friday, «I^y l|; Ruthin, Tuesday, July 18; Mold, Thursday, July 20; Chester, Saturday, July &tttrgay,-1uly. t t t

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PANTEG LOCAL BOARD. The ordinary meeting was held at the School. Pontymoil, on Tuesday evening. Present: Messrs A. A. Williams, J.P., H. J. Parkhurst, J. Burgoyne, J. Jenkins, H. Knipe, J. C. Eley, T. Carter, W. Sandbrook, D. Jones. T. Williams (clerk), and J. Wallace (surveyor). The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A QUESTION OF DRAINAGE AT GRIFFITHSTOWN. Mr Carter, Griffithstown, complained of the drain being put in at Railway Terrace, Griffiths- town only a 6in. pipe was being put in, and he could not connect to that. He allowed that drain to last three months, and then it would be ehoked up. The Chairman: Are you prepared to drain? Mr Carter: I am prepared to drain if a proper drain is put in. The Chairman: The Board must take that responsibility. Mr Carter: But the pipe is not large enough. I should like some members of the Board to come down and inspect it. The Chairman: Very well. We have h ard what you have to say, and the Board will give it attention. Mr Carter having retired, I The Surveyor said the reason why a 6in. pipe was put in was because he had to put in a 9in. pipe to within 40tt of the houses. In his opinion the 6in. pipe was quite sufficient. The Chairman That's your opinion ? The Surveyor: Yes. The Chairman Something was said about the fall. The Surveyor That is 1 in 90. That is en- tirely his own fault. He refused to give me permission to go through his ground, and hence I could net get 6he fall more than that. In replying to a question, the Surveyor said he had served Mr Carter with the usual notice to connect. The drain near was in an awful state. He had n. le;s than three letters of complaint in reference to it on the night before. The Chairman said the surveyor must do the work and charge Mr Carter with the cost if he did not obey the notice. In reply to the Chairman, the Chairman said the slaughterhouse at Griffithstown, which was complained of last month, had now been finally closed. THE HYDRANT QUESTION, The Chairman aid he had seen Mr Pearson, the secretary to the Gas and Water Company, who stated that the company had resolved to fix the hydrants near the Union as required. The Chairman said the matter arose through the Union authorities calling upon the Board to put into operation the power vested in them of asking the Gas and Water Company to put new hydrants down, as the present ones would be found unsatisfactory in case of tire. That the Board had done, and the company had agreed to it. PURVEYOR S REPORT. The Surveyor's report was read as follows :— Gentlemen,—I beg to report that during the past month the sewer all New Inn Has been completed, and the owners of the houses have made heir con- nection therewith (except Mr Phillips's two cot- tages). I am having the two houses belonging- to the Merthyr Building Society on the Railway-terrace, Griffithstown, drained and connected with the mam sewer. The two houses belonging to Mrs Carter re- main unconnected. As requested by you at your last meeting, I have had the walls on the side of the Machine and Cwmyniscoy roads limewashed. I have also had a portion of the channelling done at Griffithstown. Sanitary matters are receiving my attention. Six cases of scarlet fever have been reported to me at Mount Pleasant and Upper Race, and have had my attention. „ a j The sewers of your district have been well flushed, and the usuallscaveng-ing- has been carried out. I beg to inform you that I caught a young man extinguishing one of the street lamps near Maesder- wen. I at once reported it to your shairman, and a summons was issued. The particulars of the case are in the hands of your chairman. I am pleased to inform you that no further damage has been done to the lamps in your district. .„ I beg to recommend that the lamps and pillars should receive two coats of paint, and also that the upper portion of the footbridge at Pontyvelin be painted and the lower portion be tarred. I have prepared the general district rate fot each ward to be signed and sealed by you at this meeting. Plans of a villa residence to be erected at Ponty- moil for Mr T. M: Wintle are before "you for your approval. Your obedient servant, June 13,1893. JAS. WALLACE. SANITATION AT NEW INN. With reference to the two cottages complained of as being unconnected at New Inn, The Chairman asked if there was any objec- tion to the work being done. The Surveyor said he was not aware of any objection. o The Chairman It will be done then? The Surveyor Yes; I expect so. Mr Carter said he should propose that notice be served on Mr Phillips to connect. There was another thing he had had a complaint about, and that was a drain on Mr Eley's property which had not been connected yet, and which was a nuisance to the neighbourhood. He had also been told by a gentleman that there was a drain on Mr Burgoyne's property which had not been connected, and the gentleman said that be did not think that a member of the Board should be allowed to get off in that way. He told the gentlemen that Mi Burgoyne had asserted at a meeting of the Board that it was connected, and thought he had made a mistake. Mr Burgoyne: If it's not connected, it's un- known to me. Mr Eley said that two cottages in which his name had been associated were in the bands of the mortgagee. He had spoken to Col. Hair, who said he would get them done as soon as possible. Mr Burgoyne seconded Mr Carter s proposal in reference to serving a notice upon Mr Phillips, and it wa.s carried. PAINTING STREET LAMPS., After discussion, it was decided that this work should be done by the lamplighter under the supervision of the survey, Mr Sandbrook thought that for a month or so shortly there was no need to light the lamps at all. At Abersychan he believed they did not light at all for 3 months in the summer. Mr Knipe It's only burning money. Mr Eley said he was out sometimes very late at night, and found the lamps of great benefit. He thought to extinguish them altogether would be very much against the interests of the rate- payers. GENERAL DISTRICT RATES. On the proposition of Mr Sandbrook, seconded by Mr Parkhurst, general district rates at Is. 3d. in the i for Panteg, Is. 8d. for Griffithstown, and lOd. for Llanfihangel-Pontymoil were con- firmed and the seal of the Board affixed thereto. LLANVIHANGEL-PON TV MOIL LIABILITIES. A. letter was read from.Mr T. Watkins. stating that as the appeal of the Rural Sanitary Authority against the surcharge of the auditor had been successful, there was nothing to prevent the agreement of the Local Board and that authority, in reference to the question of the liabilities of Llanvihangel Pontymoil, being carried into effect, and asking the Board to expedite matters as much as possible. Letters on the same subject were also read from Messrs Le Brasseur and Bowen, and Mesbi-s Collins and Ward, the latter stating that the Local Government Board did not, as had been contended, consider their sanction to the agree- ment necessary. The Clerk said his instruction was that the sanction of the Board above was necessary, and so far it had not been granted. The matter was thereupon left in abeyance. LIGHTING OF PICTON-STREET, GRIFFITHSTOWN. A letter was read from Mr T. B. Pearson, secretary to the Gas and Water Company, stat- ing.that the distance it was proposed to be fixed from their mains would not admit of the com- pany erecting a lamp in Picton-street. They were prepared, however, to erect two. Mr Sandbrook said there was a lamp at each end of the street now. Several members thought they were too far apart te be of service. It was decided that a committee should visit Picton-street, and report at the next meeting. PIRE BRIGADE APPLIANCES. A letter was read from Mr Evan Jones, clerk to the Pentypool Local Board, stating that that Board was prepared to sell the manual fire engine, with appliances, for £ 80, the whole being in fint-rateeondition, and the engine in perfect working order. The Chairman said he could not look upon the proposal with favour. The manual engine would require some 26 tnen to work it, ana it would only be of use where the water mains of the company were not present, becau&they could get a much greater force from the water mains if they should happen to be within easy distance. It would really only be of service in the 4 country at a farmhonse ot other building, and then they would have & difficulty M getting men to work it. He thought it woAld fce much wiser to continue tnear-fangemetit with the Pontypool Loeal Bo^rd.and pay them an annual sum for which they would have authority to use the steamer when it was required, Mid be able to force the water to any height needed, it they went in for the manual, he did not think they would have the power to force the water to the height necessary. He did not 8ty that it would be in his opinion an unwise invest- ment, and that they had better stick to the old arrangement with the Pc ntypooi Lot&l Mr Carter said lie was very glad to hear the chairman speak as he had done. A manual engine in Llanfihangel Pontymoil would be of no earthly use. There they had no water to quench a candle, much less a fire and he thought it would be much better to pay the Pontypool Local Board for the use of their steamer than to go in for a manual. Mr Parkhurst: We might subsidise them to the extent of fJ2 10s a year. Mr Jenkins said they had been dependent upon the Pontypool Fire Brigade, but having formed their own brigade they would not be dependent upon them to the same extent again. Mr Carter You'll have to take in Llanfihangel now. You hadn't that to do before. Mr Knipe said tl2 10s a year would pay the interest on the cost of a steamer of their own. Mr Sandbrook said he quite agreed with what the chairman had said. Mr Burgoyne thought that they might con- tinue the arrangement, but that the Pontypool Local Board should be asked to reduce their charge. Mr Jones thought it was very necessary that the men should ha* e hose, &c., with which to prac- tise. Mr Parkhurst said that the hose could be fixed to standpipes for practice. Without the hose the men were powerless. The question was ultimately referred to the fire brigade committee. PLAN. A plan of a villa residence for Mr T. M. Wintle was laid upon the table. The Surveyor, in reply to a question, said the villa was to be erected above the wharf at Ponty- moil, upon some land which adjoined the path leading from Pontymon to the Clarence Station. There were no draiffi. in existence, and Mr Wintle was in hoposthe Board would carry out their scheme of drainage up to the West Moa- mouth School. The Chairman That's hanging fire. In answer to a question, the Chairman said it was proposed to make a path 15 feet wide through the field leading to the station. On the proposition of Mr Jenkins, seconded by Mr Jones, the plan was passed, subject to the bye-laws being observed. THE ROYAL WEDDING THE PROPOSED FETE. Mr Sandbrook said he understood that, thanks to Mr Hanbury, the Pontypool Chamber of Trade had obtained the loan of the Park for a fete in celebration of the Royal wedding on the 6th J uly. He thought the Chamber of Trade were to be congratulated upon the energy they had d splayed in the matter. A band, and pro- bably a choir, would be in attendance, and it was hoped the event would be a most successful one. He hoped the movement would have the sym- pathy and co-operation of the Board. Mr Farr, by permission of the chairman, re- marked that as yet he did not exactly know the turn the affair would take, but there would be a special meeting of the Chamber of Trade on Friday evening, foi the purpose of making arrangements, to which the members of the Board were cordially invited. He might add that the Chamber did not desire to make any profit out of the fete, the object being to enter- tain the townsfolk at home and any proceeds which might accrue would probably be devoted to a public object. The Chairman thought the Chamber of Trade were to be commended upon having taken the initiative in that matter, and for affording the inhabitants an opportunity of expressing their loyalty upon such a happy occasion. He trusted the secretary would convey the thanks of the Board to the Chamber of Trade, and hoped the Board would do all they could to promote the o Jject in view. The Board then went into committee.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A THEATRK. In Dublin on Saturday night an unrehearsed scene occurred at the Gaiety Theatre during the performance of Faust up to Date. A party of gentlemen in evening dress, occupying one of the large boxes overlooking the stage, indulged in loud conversation audible on the stage and in the auditorium. The house hissed. Miss Augarde, playing Marguerite, looked distressed. She complained of a remark addressed to her. Mr Louis Kelleher, who was Valentine, dropping his acting, looked daggers at the occupants of the box, and told-them to "shut up." They retorted. He squared himself in fighting atti- tude. The gallery gods threw coppers and paper pellets on the stage, and the discord had reaehed a iclimax when the appearance in the box of a police-sergeant sufficed to disperse the authors of the disturbance. It is stated that they were officers. i >.f\1

BAPTIST UNION. The Reading Baptist Churches have cordially invited the, Baptist Union to hold its Autumn Assembly in that town on Monday, 2"d October, and following days. THE AGED POOH COMMISSION. The Royal Commission for inquiring into the relief of th" aged poor met again at the House of Lords, on Monday. Lord Aberdare presided, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was also present. Mr Charles Booth, one of the Com- missioners, was examined as to his old age pension scheme. AN INTERESTING CEREMONY.—An interesting ceremony was performed at Nether Stowey, Somersetshire, on Saturday, a tablet being affixed to a cottage recording the fact that it was the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, 100 years ago, when he wrote his most famous poems, including The Ancient Mariner." A paper was read by the poet's grandson, Mr Ernest Hartley Coleridge. A committee was formed to acquire the cottage. The Rev Dr Shiells Ratcliffe, who has latterly held an ecclesiastical appointment at Hastings, has seceded from the Church of England in con- sequence of the Lincoln judgment, and has accepted the pastorate of a N onconformist church at Ashford, Kent. The rev. gentleman was for many years British chaplain in South America, and afterwards held the living of Long Compton. MAGISTRATES WANTED AT BRYNMAWR. Several cases were adjourned at Brynmawr Police-court on Monday through the want of a second magistrate. One case was that of assault- ing the police, in which Mr Daniel Evans, of Brecon, defended four young men.—Mr Evans, in addressing the bench, isal-Ld the action of gentle- men who took upon themselves the responsibility of administering justice in not attending must be strongly condemned.—The Rev A. Griffiths, the only magistrate present, concurred, and thought if a stipendiary were necessary the public should take the matter up. Great surprise has been expressed by profes- sional gentlemen in the medical world through- out the kingdom at the wonderful cures effected by WEE E. COOPER & Co.'s RHEUO in cases of long-standing rheumatism, where all hopes of a cure had long before been abandoned. The great success attending the sales of Rheuo—which are the largest of any patent medicines for rheu- matism only, in these parts—may be accounted for by the fact that it is not offered to cure every complaint under the sun, but rheumatism only in old and young. Taken internally at regular intervals it quickly subdues the pains, and gradu- ally but surely restores the sufferer to a healthy state. DAVIS BROS., Grocers, Pontypool, and H. M. DAVIES, Chemist, Blaenavon, are the local agents, and one 2s 9d bottle will care most cases also bottles, Is lid and 4s 6d. Sent post free by the above agents, or from The Laboratory, High-road, Edmonton, London, on receipt of the above amounts. "WHTE SOFT HANDS.Atter washing, rub lightly wifh a Sulpholine HandTablet, when Cnaps, Roughness, Abrasions, Discomfort, quicklydisappear, Ie a ving a Beautifal Delicate Hand in any weather. SulpholineHand Table t4 Threepence everywhere. LIVER COMPLAINTS.—Dr. King's Dandelion and Quinine Liver Pills, without mercury, area potent remedy; remove all Liver and Somacn Complaints, Billiousness, Headache, Sickness, Shoulder Pains Heartburn. Indisresfcioa G^tStilw^ft To OyEr.eCME WjflAKri^s.—Pepper's Qumina iri'i fro IT. Life, Health, Strength J iuu aving Pepper's Quinine

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