The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1892-02-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WEEK BY WEEK.  Monmouthshire will elect the new County Council on the seventh of March.  Sir John Llewellyn, Bart., and family have gone to Egypt. The Blaina (Mon.) Tinworkera have had notice to end contract&  An eisteddfod will be bold a Bonvilstone on Whit. Monday.  Swansea police are prosecuting local bakers. for selling bread otherwise than by weight. A funeral at Llanelly on Tuesday consisted altnost entirely of women. There was no hearsti, and the weaker sex assisted in carrying the bier. Mr W. T. Crawshay, of Cyfarthfa, has decided not to again come forward as County Council candidate for Breconshire or Glainorganshire. For robbing his father and brother of some watches, Frink Powell, Penydarren, Merthyr, has been sentenced to hard labour for eight months. Newport police are " down " on margarine, but an initial prosecution this week collapsed for want of evidence of sample. Annie Marie Stacey, 28 years old, has committed suicide at Bryumill Like, Swansea, through mental depression. She was a waitress.  Henry Warren Williams, the person charged with having attempted to shoot his wife at Swansea with a revolver, has again been remanded by the justices. Miss Mary Grenfell, the sister of General Grenfell, needs no introduction to South Glamorgan or Mid-Glatnorgan readers, who will learn with regret that she has been prostrated by influenza.  The Anthracite Colliers of Glamorganshire and the a.ljoining southern counties, have had a. general wage reduction of seven sal a half per cent., and agitation is proceeding for a separate sliding scale. At Cardiff, Charles Foster has been fined Oa and costa, or a month's hard labour, for illtreatment of a mare. The animal had, it was said, been starved to death.  Lord Aberdare 6.4 written a letter strongly protesting against the importation of a policy of favouritism at the Home Office in the appointment of mine inspectors.  Mr Stranaghan, one of a leading firm of Cardiff grocers (Stranaghan k Stephens), has succumbed, in his 43r.1 year, to failuro of the heart's action, .luc to fatty degeneration of the heart.  It may not be generally known (writes a contributor), that Mr.lohn Davies, the treaeurer of he Bridgentl and llibtrict Liberal Association, is a broz.hor to Mr Davies, M,P. for Pembrokeshire.  Notices have boen posted at the Blaine Tinplate Offices to terminate all contracts four week hence. Should a redwAion of wages amongst the general body of wet kmen be contemplated, it is stated that it will be resisted.  Mr Joseph Barnby, who will conduct Cardiff's first musical festival, is one of the candidates for the post of principal of the London Guild-ball School of Music—the largest musical institution in the United Kingdom. The commercial failures in Wales and Monmouthshire during 1891 numbered 33, against 32 in 1890, and 28 in 1889. For the same area, the bills of sale registered come to 5:3 last year, against the corresponding periods of 42 and 46. Mary Rees, wife of Samuel Reim, mason, Merthyr, has dill under suspicious circumstances. There had been a scrimmage, in which her husband and another man figured, but Rees denies having quarrehed with his wife. A post-mortem will take place. For " turning a donkey into a church in Llanergrod, North Wales, four ladies have been summoned. The ease was not proved, but the Bunch learnt, before dismissing it, that the youthful defendants had celebrated part of their Christmas Day inside a public-house, and censured the habit.  Tito International Colliery Company have resolved to declare an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, free of Income-tax, ag-oinztt an interim dividend last year of 15 (and final dividend of 20) per cent. per annum.  Local Post Office officials will learn with no ordinary interest that the fiat has gone forth at the General Post Office that whenever a man shows that he has the slightest symptoms of influenza, he is at once to have a week's holiday. The South Wales and Monmouthshire steelworkers' sliding scale is trembling in the balances The boiler-makers take stroug exception to certain of its provisions, and a readjustment is advocated as immediately necessary.  Madame Patti has just made further presents of jewellery to Swansea amateurs. Each one who took part in the recent opening of the theatre has just had "something to wear" from the Queen ot Song. The chief prize at the National Eisteddfod, to be held at -Pontypridd next year, will be 200 guineas (f 210 This was the sum given at th, Liverpool Eisteddfod, and no eisteddfod committee has up to the present been found apeculative enough to go beyond it. Llanelly and Carmarthen Borough Parliamentary differences are to be settled by the arbitrament of the Liberal leaders; the conflicting aspirants for the honours of representation are Mr Lewis Morris, the poet, and Major Jones, Ex-American consul, at Cardiff. Llanelly favours the Major, and Carmarthen the prospective Lau' e tte. The 112th half-yearly report of the Taff Vale directors has just been issued. The balance of the net revenue account enables the directors to recommend a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum on the Ordinary Stock (equivalent to .51 per cent, per annum on the old Ordinary Stock), payable (less income tax) on the 12th inst.  Sitting on a friend's hat is not the easiest way of cementing ancient ties, and yet this was what Mr Arthur IN'iWarns accidentally did at Monday's South Glamorgan Meeting at Polityclown, and the delegates roared when Mr Bland), Jenkins (whom Mr Williams had just been eulogising) rose and disconsolately exclaimed, " This is the way I am treated !"