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OUR SHORT STORY 't THE CHORD OF LOVE. Miss Yau Cortland drew tho small tea table re-ai-navrfod. tho dainty cups with that trembled in spite of btrself. 011 she danced at the clock on the mantel —-n&rvonslv, rxn^-tanlly. to think—to think of biffi, of the ywrs Sown shK* thp>r inet.' aftap voars, had written to W *1* bo would Xt tfU{ like ih6 She looked *ougr!rt#uUy cc.r's in the ^,e" gRif h„r How would he 1°<*? W he stiH She ^ped riot, for a **»< of ail Oiiags; 31,(1 then Tbore "l CI ri-R :t1 th- itr. Sho ro«). Btood(befiHe rmi-vor that Ining above the 0A(i hewif. 'imo had deal|t gmtiy wiO» W, '4-t th.-w #he only ei«?ht a/ W, fa, w a knock-on <*» door, ai»ddo4.v, and n«anl Parkar". b3%na, ftodifard to P J you, Bhw l KtCMr.liiin upt" -w ■■ # ? b.?. and ih? curtain -f.1J j^bmd i v 'fUanct wtxve tki* wao. 1*> •" i'jk* b>w, iod hfvrfirds ti»» door, 8M btw she oouni L'. 8(' calm. ttta ? iM'rrowRiw a feaif an how "1'0 had an Hit, J-* dut •*« h«4 ocvo^ed • •• W"* mm B'tfe fan glwa.1 It was more cozy than the library, less formal than the drawing-rooni. A figure stood with in the doorway for a moment, passive, still, until Parker had announced him, and left. Then he advanced out of the shadow of the curtain, went straight to her, and took her hand "Eleanor!" was all he said. It was only one word, but in spite of the control he had put upon himself, there were in it all the agony and regret, the passion and the love, of a life- time. "Eleanor!" he repeated. "It io good to see you again-ten years is a lonjr while for friends to be parted," she said quietly. Her tone and gesture were cordial, birt that was all. He oould hardly have ex. pected anything different, and yet- "Sit down bore." she went on, "and tell me all about yourself. What have you been doing? "Whore have you beem living ? And your wife -1 hear you are married." "Ye5, I am married," he said. "But you are Miss Van Cortland still. Why?" I •1, JEJleanor looked aA him. and a slight flush rowto her face. I.' "Oh you see, I am such an old maad now, one will have me." "Nonsense," he replied, seriously. After a moment's hesitation, he went on "We are old fi ion flu old friends; will you not tell me the real reason? Is it because you once Iflflpedf and-—-and it ended ? iviqot, ah* aaod. MMtJoaofr wiAhoui emotioai. Goddard toyed with a cup and saucer on the table. Miss VaJi Cortland oo.ntinued:- "It is only in novels that men and women rc-n ain single all their lives, mourning for am early love. It is not so in real life." The man dropped his eyes befcre her steady gaze. You see that sort iof thing is romantic—and unnatural," she added. Is it?" he asked, absemtly. There was a long silence. Miss Van Cortland lighted the little aUcchod lamp beneath the copper kettle. You must have a cup of tea, she said. ftemoon tea is such a sociable custom. Don't you think so?" Goddard did not answer. He rose, went ewer to whsre she sat, amd laid one hand gently on her own. Eleanor," he said, why keep up this farce? I have oome to see you, to taik about yourself, myself, tho past. You must listen." Geoffrey "—it was the first time that after, noon that. she had called him £ 0 oh, GeofFrev, can't you see it is not rightt for you to do this? Your wife She does not love me," he replied. I do not love her. We are wretchedly, miser- aNy unhappy. I love «nly you, Eleanor. I have Laved you all my life!" The woman rose and faced him. There was a touch of soom in hor voice. And yet you left me for her?" yes, I was mad, blind!" The woman looked into the fire. She spoke softly, as if to herself. "That summer-you and I-the little rmg! Where is it now?" he aaked. "Locked away," she said gently-" looked away with the other ^bildiah tilings I have out- growa." You did wear it, then—after I went away 1" For a time, yes." "Then did you care?" Eleanor rested one hand on the table and looked down upon it. No. I did not care," she said. Care' is too slight a word. I loved you as I thought no girl had ever loved before." There was a silence. The faint humming of the little copper kettle was the only sound that broke the stillness of the room. We knew each other always," she went on but somehow I never thought of you as any- thing more than a friend. You were more like my brother until that summer." Goddard bowed his head. He did not speak. He could not. The woman's voice went on- so low, eo tender, yet without a note of passion or longing in it. "And then my heart awoke and it was good to live—to live and love. You went away, and I waited for you to oome back. Every day 1 learnt to love you more. But you, man-like, forgot." Goddard's face was pale and drawn. "And you have no reproof for me?" he asked. "Not now." He went up to her and caught her in his arms. Not now he repeated. Does that mean that you no longer care? And you said you loved me. Can euoh love die? Teii me it is not true. Tell me you love me yet!" Eleanor wrenched herself free. How dare you?" she said. "Forgive me," ke said humbly. Yee-this once I will forgive you. "Will you answer me one question?" he asked. "I will try." "If I were free ajrain, and I oajne to you to- day and asked you to be my wife, what would you say?" "If you were free and should come to me to-day," she answered gently, "and ask me to be your wife, I should say no." "Are you sure, Eleanor?" "Yes, quite sure. In the first months of your married life, when I schooled myself to do without you, I did not learn the hard lesson in vain." "Then if some other man were to come, and you found you loved him, you would many him ?" "Yes." -And the reason you have remained single is be-use he has not come?" "Yes." "I hope. for your sake, he may soon be here," and he stooped and kissed her on the forehead jjently, tenderly, reverently. I" another instant he was gone. Elea-nw went back into the empty room, and stood gazing thoughtfully into the dying em- bers. Then she "crossed ihe room and ex- tinguished the little lamp. Happiness may come to him yet, but love is not for me," &he said. From a distant cor- ner a photograph looked down upon her as die spoke. It was a man's likeness. Was it but the flickering of the dying firelight, or did it really smile? A year rolled round, and lo! a master hand came and struck tho efoord of love, and its music wag more mellow and more eweefc for lying mute so long.

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PUNCH AND JUDY. "There is one good fchinsr about mv line of business," sa^d a Punch-and-Judy man "and that is that the public never seem tired of the old familiar tihow, and my chief and best patrons are grown-up people. Elderly gentle- men quite commonly stand and see the whole sfcow through. The business is a profitable one, and even about the streets of a large town I think I have done badly when I only take 30s. in a day; but. of course, I have an assistant to pay. I use no instrument in my mouth, and you would be surprised how firing the rendering of Punch's squeak becomes. Sometimes, by the way, I can hardly help squeaking even when I want to t;> k in ordinary tones. In the summer season, and at the seaside, I esti- mate my earnings at quite £ 8 to J310 a week clear. In the winter I earn very much less but I then rest and take engagements at chil- dren's parties, and 60 on. I have to renew the puppets frequently, for Mr. Punch, as you know, batters them about terribly, but I make them myself. and this saves expense." ■—n

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.?- SLOW AND UNSURE. Eritous who complain, and often rightly so, of the slowness of justice in the courts, and point to suits which have dragged their way | along from motion to motion and from plea. to plea for a space covering ten or even fifteen years, would be surprised, perhaps, to leairn that such cases ace promptness itself compared with certain famous processes on the Continent. A lawsuit has just been brought to an end in Hungary, for instance, which had been on trial for just four hundred aDd seventy years. This was an older lawsuit by some seventy years than one which has just been settled in Poland. In the year 1490 a farmer in that country laid claim to the ownership of a piece of uncultivated and unused land, about fifty acres in extent, of which another farmer was in nomine 1 possession. The dispute was taken before the court. There it remained, and the usual postponement and arguments took place- The original litigants died; their descendants inherited the suit, and bequeathed it to their heirs. In the year 1889 it was still on the doc-ket, undecided, and apparently with no proepeet of decision. The litigants, therefore, came to the conclusion to celebrate the four- hundredth anniversary of the suit by compro- mising it. They reached an amicable agree- ment on the point at issue, and put an end for ever to the long wrangle.

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MXTSIC-HAIiL AGENTS. The music-hall agent is the middleman between managers and performers, taking upon his hands *he securing of engagements for the latter, and drawing for his services t e nomi- nal sum of 10 per cent, on an engagements effected by his means. But this commission has grown to be a mere force, for the agent generally contracts also that al'l engagements for a term of years shall yield him commission, whether the performer go to another agent during such term or not. And by means of mark- ing special contracts with young people anxious for a London "show tne a.gen.t. often secures as much as from 30 to 50 per oent. When he is "well in" with managers, he let# people on his books outbid each other in the way of oomnvlsmon, <* <># the inferior performer who offers the biggest percentage gets the best engagements. ril. writer knows "artistes" for whom managers aro paying nity pounds a week who outly really receive ball the sum, the balance goiug to the agent, who, as a fact, only wrote a few letten for his money. There wss OIl the Loudon boards not long ago one notorious oa»>—tliat of an artiste who made a tremendous hit a yew or two ago- where the perforjuer got thirty yoands a week as his share out of eighty!

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A FIRST-CLASS BORE. Probably you have met the man who WM always there, directly or indireotly ? No mattei whether the occasion was felicitous or otherwise ht was either participant or had au intimate friend who was. The fellow is a study. He has been playing the pa.rt so long tha* be imagines himself one of the confraternity of immortals. I met such a one the day after 81 railway smash, and he informed me that ha bad just been over to the house of the family of one of the victims. "r know him," he said, "quite intimately, "d was often at his house, and I used to tell him that some day ha would die in a peculiar way, but he always laughed at iny notions." That is only a sample. He bag a bost of illustrious friends. nhink T never hceni him mention the name of any remarkable man or wona.ll that he didn't speak of him « her as people with whom he was intimate, tad at whose house he was a welcome guest. I never meet him that he isn't on the way to keep an engagement with "my friend Field-MarA»l This or Cabiivet Minister TbU."

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? 4- PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. 1 CARDIFF. rjlH EATRE O Y A L I JL SL?? Jjttete and Manageress .1.1fs EDWARD FLETCHER. COMMENCEMENT OF THE DRAMATIC SEASON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 1897. AM) DURING THE WEEK, Elaborate Scenic Production of the Quaint American Whirlwind Cbmedy Drama— bE }-'AST IVI AIL. TOID IN FIVE oURrS. Under the Direction of ALBERT STEELE. A Complete Paraphernalia for the proper giving of taeb fciid every effect, including the rattle and clatter a Police Patrol Wagon coming down the street, the Nowe, Whistles, Bella, &c.. of a large Mississippi Steamboat leaving the Wharf. Moonlight Effects on the River, the Glowing Furnaces of the Boat, the terrific Explosion and Breaking Up of the steamer St. Louis, the wonderful Railwav Scene, with its 20 Realistic Effects, the Boiling Foam, Rising Mist, ana Distant Roar, presented in the beautiful N agara Scene and many others. All perfect in themselves, and lor ahead of anvtiiing ever given. COPY OF CABLEGRAM. "January 9th, 1393. "Albert Steele, Theatre Royal. Cardiff.—'Fast Mail' w-ptodueed here (Chicago. America) to-night—Glorious SucoeM—Lightning Fact Mail created a greater sensa- tion than ever.—DOUGLAS." FRIDAY February 12th, Grand Fashionable Night, w>der the distinguished patronage of the Right Hon. iffd Tredegar, Lascelles CSarr, Eeq., J.P.. the Cardiff £ **ball and Catford Cycling Club#. BENEFIT tf Mr W. T. BENJAMIN (Acting Manager). The Night of the Season. 36 well known ÃJtiateø. .KCl)(fay Next, February 15th, 1897, Return Visit of the Kienomena] Suoceao»W. S. PBWLEY'S 00. in CHARLEY'S AUNT. Be- may now be Booked. Early Doot 6.15, Ordinary Doors 6 45, Commence at Seven. Phoeo 6d. to C2 2a. Children Half-price Ho Seats Guaranteed. Booking Office*: Messrs Thompson and ShackelTs {Limited), Queen-street, from Ten till Five. Tele- phone. 521 50206 rjl H E A T R E O Y A l7 FRIDAY NEXT, FEBRUARY 12th, ANNUAL BENEFIT OF MB. W. T. JgENJAMIN (Acting Manager). The Night ot the Season. Under the distinguished Patronage of the Right Hon. Lord Tredegar, Major-general H. H. Lee, J. M. Maclean, Esq., M P., lascelles Oarr, Esq., J.P., Arthur J. Gould. Esq. (Our Captain), Cardiff and Newport Football Clubs, Catford C.C. Enormous Attractions. Gigantic Programme. 30 well. known Artistes. Increased Orchestra. Doors Open at 6.30. Commence 7.0 sharp. Prices as usual. Tickets everywhere. See Bills. Booking Offices at Messrs. Thompeon aDd Shack ell's (Limited), Queen-street, for Stalls and Circle Tickets only. Telephone No. 521. 50348 'i R A N D H E A T R B GRAND THE ATRE Leasee and Manager Mr CLARENCE SOUNES. TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, Special and Expensive Engagement, of Mr. ARTHUR BERTRAM'S No. 1 Company, in too Screaming Farcical Comedy, THE NEW BABY, From the New Royalty Theatre, London. Preceded Each Evening by the larce, MAY AND DECEMBER. Doow Open Seven; Commence 7.30. Box Office Open Daily at Theatre from Ten to FOOT. Telejxioae 725. Prioes from 6d. to £ 1 la. Monday next, February 15, Important Engagement, tor Three Nights only, of MB. AND MRS. KENDAL And their London Company. Seats can Now be Booked at the Theatre. 50344 ARDIFF ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY. t PATRON: The Most Hon the Marquew ct BUTE, K.T. JUBILEE CONCERT, PARE-HALL, CARDIFF, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17th, 1837. Vocalisto: iiise MAGGIE DATIJ5S, and Kr. ANDREW BLACK. Sato TMtneeUo: Mr. W. H. SQUIRE Unit oBonsanu OF TO wsrfobmers. Conductor: Xr. J K. DEACON Beaamd Sea., 3m. 6d. each; Unreserved Seats, 2a eed Is. Plans at Mr Wm Lewis". 22, Duke-ntreet, (kr- dilf. Doers opem 7.16, Cbmmenee at Bight. Carriages 10.15. Special Train to Llanishen and Caerphilly, leaving Cardiff a* Eleven p.m. 80084 Tu not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more-dellerve it." THE TQ M p 1 R E If* caging Director OSWALD STOLL TO-NIGHT I With New Pictures, THE ORIGINAL LUMIERE c INEMATOGRAPHE, Under MOM. Trewey, From the Empire, Loadoa. 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It required to be sent by post, too stamps must be en. closed. The above obarges apply only to consecutive ln- Durr.ons of tite following claos of advwtisements: — Situations Wanted or Offered, Apartments, Money Wanted. Partnerships, Lost and Found, Miscellaneous Wants, Businesses. Houses, Shops, Offices to Let or Sell, Spcciflo Articles for Sale Privately. Name ana Address to be counted. Orders sent through the post to be accompanied by Postal Ortler or Halfpenny Stampe. Cheques, Postal and Post-office orders should be crossed and made payable to Mr. D. Watkin Thomas. If the insertions be not consecutive, or if payment be nc/t made previous to publication, the credit rates will be charged Advertisements are received also at the following ffub-offic,u NEWPORT TltEDEGAB STREET. SWANSEA CASTLE-STREET. MERTHYB ..VICTORIA-STREET. PONTTPBIDD 4a, TAFF-STREET. HEAD OFFICES. CARDIFF: ST. MARY-STREET. PERSONAL. Advertiser (29, Christian), desires marriage. Will Christian person or widow (business, independent, or domestic) pleaee write E 10, Western Mail. CSar- difl. e9861p8 À-W8 DOGS. Ite Lpver Retriever for Sale, cheap; thoroughly bred, partly broken, excellent watch and water dog; also kennel- beper.-1, Glamorgan-street, Barry. e9859p8 BUSINESS FOR DISPOSAL. Drapery.—To Let, 25th March, as a going concern, an old-established business; capital required about JB600, with or without stocL-Ap ly, for particu- lam, Be-ta MqEp- newBacent. Pontypridd. eM6opll MISCELLANEOUS SALES. Poultry.—If you want your birds to pay you write for prices and samplee of food to Noah Rees and Son, Hay. Com, and Seed Merchants, Cardiff. e5229 1,000 Business Cards, Memorandums, or Billheads, 3s.; 10,000 Useful Handbills, 2s. 6d.; samples free. -Fisher and Co., Machine Printers, Broad mead, Bristol. 84419 BICYCLES. Advertisers ore Cautioned that Postmasters are not allowed to Deliver Letters Addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names at any Post-office. Letten addressed to" Initials or Fictitious ITames bNIt bear the AddrMi of the Advertiser or one of the oflcea of the Western Mail. Morris Bros., Cycle Works, Pontypridd.—Immense Bargains to personal callers. It will pay you to oooflult us before purchasing. Over 100 Machines to select from. Repairs promptly, skilfully, and effectively attended to at Trade Prices. New Maps and Lists. 4d. stamps. el947 DBESSMAKINO. Dressmaking.—Ladies Costumes, Evening Drasses, Onjes, Ac.. Made in the Latest Style. Fit guaran- teed —Address Lewis and Evans, 133, Cowbridge-road. Cardiff. i58So Wanted, First-hand Dressmaker; able to manage email workroom; must be good fit and style.—Buck- land, Draper, Barry. 883pl0 Milliner.—Smart, stylish Hand; town experience.— State salary and particulars, first instance, D. Evans and Co., Drapers, Wood-street, Cardiff. 800p8 Dressmaking.—Wanted, Indoor Improvers; business thoroughly taught.—Apply 2, Mountjoy-place, New* 343p3 MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisers are Caationed that Postmasters are No* Allowed to Delivei Letters Addressed 10 Initials or Fictitious Names at any l ost-office. Letters addressed to Initials or Fictitious Names must bear the address of the Advertiser or one of the Offices of the Western Mail Tobacconists Commencing see Hid. Guide and Cata- logue (259 pages), M.-Tobacoonista' Outfitting Co. 165, Euston-road, London. Manager, Hy. Myers e5792 Is To-i7 Watch Wrong? The Best and Cheapest Shop in Cardiff for the Repair of Watches of every d^ption, Englii-b or Foreign, is 38. Castle Arcade, (third shop from Castle-street), by James Kclr. fot ten years with Mr Spiridion. Clocks and Music Hexes Cleaned and Repaired. e4209 ? MONEY. WALLACE and CO., 98. QUEEN-ST., CARDIFF ACCOUNTANTS -25 to £ 1,000 ADVANCED DAILY PROMISSORY NOTES ACCEPTED AS SECURITY. TOWN OR COUNTRY. IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. W.B.—Look for name on windows over shop. <006-1 A NT> Friends Depart when you are short oFReady M°ny—Then orr tall on Wallace and uo., 98, Queen-street, Cardiff. e59T6-2 iiïfn. L. REED, 56, Railway-street, Moors, Cardiff .1'? Advances from 22 to 920 Borrowers receive courteous and prompt attention e5906-3 £ 250.°r» to Lend.—Thome in Want of Oaah ÎD Sum. of £ 10 to ^500 are Recommended to apply to the Provincial Union Bank 1, Queen-square, Bristol- or to E W. Webber, 3, Workinir-etreet, Cardiff. e55$ff -? apabtkents. Lodgings truit resectable ouiet Young Man, with quiet couple room tc hims^f —9, Invemese-place (off Albany-road), Ros^h. CardifT e9848p8 R^Snoccrr^dT Cardiff^-Well-furnished Front IMderatejmdJncJusive 1131p13 road, Roatti^ CarHiff 1055pl2 13, r ApartniMTtTto LetT 13, De Burgb-etreet, Cardiff, witn Widowed Ladv- hot "nd cold water; pianoj_no children; m^Uie. !■ 21pl2 A large Front Sitting-jxi^TOne or Two Bedrooms, = CLERKS AND MANAGERS. CLERKS AND MANAGERS WANTED. Cautioned that Postmasters are not ehver Addressed to In-tiala or f aui?s at any Post-cfflce. Letters addressed Fictitious Names must bear the Address Mail rtlser or one of the offices of the Western T^ffi< £ Wanted in Colliery Office.—Apply at ten li, burner and Co., 56 Mouut Stuart-equare, Bute Docks, Cferdiff. ? 1079p8 Wanted immediatelyTjunior Clerk; must be good y=s Prt;er PhUggW a Se g't0 tw^e, O. (W. 11. at OJerk. Apply a tores, Nept, )4,w. 1117 Oordeys Stores, Newr>o^Hrin •* 1117pl0 .8n?!lrt' ^tworthTToueb in Merchant's O^toAssist in Book^k^iBgawl Solicit Order. must ^renoes -Apply, rtgmg salary required, E ^Westera a sniart, intelliJSST Bo* tor an ufflce; Q^dig^ shorthaad-Apgg D WesUtrn^U Spcre Hours Either Sex øendJn¡r self-addrcased eIlvelo to T. Smith &nd C». 9 B). 79 St, North London, W. L13)6! CLERKS AND MANAOEng WANT PLACES. mental-51' ^^iSTduri^J^ay, Desires Employ- maS^8^vr T^ree a Week; would keep trades- (A-^in,f„^r5hit^cfc a"d~Surwror's Assiftant Desires a^ntki^ i*1; aeafc draugh^n. colourist, tracer, Ma.iT rZdiH. 866p9 Deares BeengS^rrrr*"louble-entry, book- 1^*68 to be Articled ter^-I^g^^Auotion^^ate AGE'Nts AND tbavellebs. ? I^veliJCH8. AUE?rn>, &c.. wanted Allowed tc Dehver Letters AAiraM^d to Initials or Fictitious N&mes at any Poet-o^s Letters addressed Uotl8 Name« mu«t bear the address of^toe Advertiser or one of tli Offices of the Western a vacancy on ttieir staff, Would be Glad to Hear from a capable some exD^ieoce as a Collector, Willing to Work, who can croJuoe trustwortliy refe- m«<»8 and eeourity—Apply firing fnll particulars, w* SL J^qtriredf in' (^letter, to E 28, Western Mail, Cardiff m 1137pl0 Wanted, Commission Amst °r Traveller for Glamorganshire for the FkmrTrad*.—State age, ex- particulars in E 21, Western Mail, Cardiff. 80 • 60338 n Tea Trade —An old" Pit^'Would Treat with a Gentleman Now CWlin^ npon (frooera, and who has ft sound connection tc add to one ttreadv establkhed, for the Sate of Noted Packet and "Blended Teae; guarantee required through /pciety.—Reply, giving full particulars, to E. B. Horwjod and Co., Stationers, 30. King WlKao-atrcet, Londua, E.C. 1103pl0 Mesrrs. B. W. Miller and Uo. (Limited), Stokes- croft Brewery, Bristol, are Prepared to Appoint Pur- chaeing Agents in Cardiff, Newport, and Swaaaea for their Celebrated Prize Medal Ales and Stout in Cssks, from 41 gallons, must he in established busi- newes and good localities; liberal terms to large buyers.—Apply as above; to the Cardiff Storeø, Albion Brewery, Bute-street; or to Mr. Jackson, 40, Han- over-street, Swansea. 44216 "Hypatia," the New Toilet Soap. Tbis Soap t. nsaet -vceptable to all. Being a new soap, most «• ceptional tenne will be given to the first 300 Agents Appoin*«d.—Perfumers and Chemists are invited to communicate at once to the Manager, Huggins' Soap Works (Limited), Grave send. Kent. L13828 ^Wanted, a Brewer's Traveller for Cardiff and Dis- trict state experience, salary required, and enclose copies of three testimonial*; security must be given. —Apply E 8, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 982p8 Wonted, respectable, industrious Man to Call upon wie Clergy and best-clase Families in South Wales with Few Samples of genuine Wearing Apparel; good com- mission paid regularly.—State experience to Depot, 72, Pool-road, Newfoundpool. Leicester. 724p8 WantedT a Gentlctaon who has a Connection with Wine and Spirit Merchants and Hotel-keepers to Represent, on Commission, in Cardiff and District, a Firm of Cordial and British Wine Manufacturers — I Apply JD_99. Western MaU, Ordiff.. _960p8 A Firm~of~51 iliere and"^™- Seed, and Manure Merchants Require a IùlddSit Acent in the Brecon District; liberal commL<«ion.^Addresi<, with full PM- ticulars, to E 3. Western M»»l._Cardiff 50282 Agfinte (Cycle) Wajited.—-First-class Firms to Sell the 'Howard" Cycles, made by the Howard Watch Company, of the snme high Krade ec their watches tr'l.' standard Timekeepen America).—Write the Wholesale Agents, the Ufli0" Machine Company, Leicester. L13879 Yoimg Man Wanted, in near Cardiff, to Repre- sent Old-cstablinhed Company .doing ino.*»a«ing busi- good referenoee and ability as anva«ser in- d'speneable.—Address Box D Western Mail. Car- 921pl0 Messrs. Mackenzie, London Publishers, would be glad to meet with Several intelligent and trustworthy Men to Push the Sale of their New Copyright Works: applies hone invited from ^ansea, Merthyr, Md Rhondda Valleys.—Apply 29, St. Mary-street. (hr- foff JP' ."rl" -J 810p9 Agents Wanted, to Retail Ceylon and Other Teas in Packets, from Is per lb.; cash termfc; pushxe pecple meaning business will please send envelope for price 11st to Select Oeylon Te6 Agency, 39, Lime-street. London. L138B2 Agents Wanted, to Sell our teJchrated Packet Teas, French Coffee in Tina, and Coooa; particulars free.— Oliver Oliver, and Co., 283- Southgate-rood. Lon- don 1401d Tl^AVELLEKS, AGENTS. *c.. WANT EMPLOT- MENT. Gentlemen of experience Desires Employment as Agent, Manager, or Any Position of Trust in connection with Land or Pitperty of Any Description; has thorough knowledge of honsea and si! lire stock, also the leather trade Addrets D 84, Western Mail Office, Cardiff. 846p3 Wanted. Situation as Traveller, pood firm Whoie sale Grocers; eicht years' grocery, provicion, and tea tra^e experience; aged 23 —Addreta D 70, Wesiern Man Office, Card'n*. ?i'6p8

Counsel For and .Against ^fr- GOOSEY: I contend, your -worsluip that the defendant, with the aid of Limestone, is responsible for the bad: condition of the Cardiff roads. Mr. HARFUR: And I contend, your worship that it is Gravel, and not the defendant that is the cause; in fact, the defendant might do more than he has done, with admntage. L