----- Forwarded Message ---- From: J GRIFFITHS <griffiths780@btinternet.com> To: glamorgan@rootsweb.com; griffiths780@btinternet.com Cc: dyfed@rootsweb.com; monmouthshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 21:21:30 Subject: News Items October 1st to December 31st. 1926. No. 292. WESTERN MAIL MONDAY DECEMBER 6. 1926.  No. 292. LORD MAYOR'S FUND CARDIFF. Mr. W. R. HANN, 54, Bute-street, Cardiff. £2.2.0. Mr. E. A. LAWMON, Bonchurch, Pencisely-road, Cardiff. £1.0.0. Mr. G. L. ROBINSON, 46, Kimberley-road, Cardiff. £1.0.0. Mrs. T. F. NORTH, 33, Palace-road, Cardiff. £1.0.0. Mr. G. I. GARD, 7, Glynrhondda-street, Cardiff £1.0.0. Mr. and Mrs. William PERKINS, West Mays, Church-road, Whitchurch. £1.0.0. FORMER CARDIFF DOCKSMAN-Death Of Mr. JAMES  W. TAYLOR. Cardiff Docksmen learned with great regret of the death on Saturday of Mr. James William TAYLOR, who for many years was a local director of William Cory and Sons (Limited), Mann, George and Co. Ltd, and J. H. REA (Limited), at the Cardiff Docks. Mr. TAYLOR, who was 61 years of age, retired some years ago and went to Lynton, where he became proprietor of the Imperial Hotel. Previous to his association with Mann, George, and Co. (Limited) he acted for many years as salesman to the Lewis-Merthyr Collieries (Limited) at Cardiff, and prior to that he represented the company at Watford. He spent practically the whole of his business career at the Cardiff Docks. He was the son of the late Mr. J. TAYLOR, rate collector at Cardiff for many years, and was a widower, his wife (formerly Miss Edith MORGAN, of the Clive Hotel, Caerphilly), having predeceased him about 25 years ago. His only daughter is Miss Dorothy TAYLOR, who resides at Lynton.   The funeral will take place at St. Martin's Church, Caerphilly, on Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock. The body will be brought from Lynton by motor-boat to-morrow (Tuesday) arriving at the passenger pontoon, Cardiff Docks, at three o'clock. DROWNED IN BROOK-Steel Smelter's Fate At Landore. A tragic discovery was made by two men, William James THORNE and Fred STEPHENS, of William-terrace, Landore, Swansea. Whilst passing a brook at Cwm Pit, Landore, they observed the body of a man lying face downwards in about 2ft. of water, apparently drowned.   The police were called, and when the body was taken out of the brook it was recognised as that of  James Alfred SANDERS (52), of Siloh-road, Landore, a steel smelter, who had been missing from his home since the previous night. His wife and son, James Alfred SANDERS, last saw him about 8.45 on Saturday night, when he said he was going for a little walk. FELL UNDER DRAY-Crumlin Man's Death After Alleged Fight. Garbutt SULLIVAN (28), of 17, Rectory-road, Crumlin, who was admitted to the Royal Gwent Hospital on the previous Saturday suffering from internal injuries and several fractured ribs , died at the hospital on Saturday morning.   It is alleged that on Saturday night SULLIVAN and another man quarreled on a remote part of the mountainside at Cefn-y-Crib, above Hafodyrynys. High worda were followed by a fight , and SULLIVAN, it is alleged. fell under a brewer's dray, one of the wheels passing over his body. John Patrick