Western Mail Thursday May 27th 1926. Nine colliers, who took possession of a small colliery at Abertillery, were fined 10s. each and £2. each costs, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment, at Abertillery on Wednesday. The men, Albert BULLOCK 23, George BROOKS 36, Albert BROOKS 26, Frederick BROOKS, 30, Stanley GREENAWAY 20, Elijah GREENAWAY 16, Richard GOULDING 18, William CROSS 20, and Reginald BRAIN, 24 were brought up on remand and charged with stealing from the Redash Colliery coal valued at £5 on May 17, Mr. Horace S. LYNE prosecuted. Police-constable DAVIES said that with other constables at 11.30 p.m. he saw between 30 and 40 men carrying sacks and mandrills into the colliery. He sent for reinforcements, and about two a.m. BULLOCK and another man came out of the level each carrying a sack of coal. He caught Bullock, but others got away and ran into a level. Police-sergeant JONES and other constables entered the level, and saw a number of men cutting coal from the face. They scattered in all directions, but witness and Police-constable BENNETT chased the defendants, with the exception of BULLOCK, into an old working. In addition to the 62 bags of coal, six mandrills were found in the level, one of which was claimed by Frederick BROOKS. Charles Henry HAM, part proprietor, said a tram of coal had been brought to the mouth and carried away. The roof had been left in a very unsafe condition and the value of the coal he saw in 62 bags was about £5, but the total amount of coal taken away was considerably more. He estimated the damage at about £20. The magistrates decided to treat the case as one of larceny and dealt with it there instead of sending the men for trial. OBITUARY. Mr. George JENKINS, J.P., of Abersychan, one of the founders of the Eastern Valley District of the South Wales Miners' Federation, and secretary of the Llanerch and Blaenserchan Lodges since their foundation 27 years ago, died on Wednesday at the Pontypool and District Hospital, of which he was the founder, and of which he had been a vice-president since its erection in 1904. Mr. JENKINS was born at Littledean in 1851. In 1876 he became a colporteur evangelist under the late Mr. C.H. SPURGEON, and after four years of mission work in Bristol was attracted to Pontypool. Since 1891 Mr. JENKINS has been a checkweighman at Llanerch Colliery. He was the first secretary of the Eastern Valley District of the South Wales Miners' Federation and on his retirement in 1915 was presented with a gold watch. Last year he received an illuminated address in appreciation of his 26 years' service as lodge secretary. Mr. JENKINS was a member of the old Trevithin School Board, and since it was disbanded in 1902 of the Eastern Valley group of school managers. There are four surviving children. The death has taken place at St. Helen's, Jersey, of David WILLIAMS, 56, son of Mrs. Mary WILLIAMS, of 42, Dumfries-street, Treorky. Mr. WILLIAMS was formerly manager of the Ferndale Workmen's-hall, Rhondda Fach, and left for Jersey ten years ago to take up the position of manager at the Alhambra Theatre. The death occurred on Wednesday of Mrs. Mary NASH, Fleur-de-Lis, widow of the late Mr. W. NASH, and mother of Mr. W.S. NASH, J.P., O.B.E. She was the oldest inhabitant in the town. Mrs. NASH went to live at Fleur-de-Lis in 1863. The funeral of Mrs. MACKADAM, who from 1868 to 1902 was the headmistress of St. Mary's Infants' School, Cardiff, took place at Cardiff Cemetery after a service, which was largely attended at St. Dyfrig's Church. Her husband who predecesed her, was headmaster of St. Mary's Boys' School for over forty years. Bath and West Show- awards Deane DRUMMOND Cup for best Gloucsetershire Old Spot Boar: F.H. TURNBULL, Llantwit Major, "Llantwit Baron", who also won Silver medal for Aberdeen Angus Cow or heifer in milk "Black Bana" Edward  HIGGS, aged 19, of 6, Paget-place, Penarth, collided with a motor-car while riding his motor-cycle at Dinas Powis on Wednesday night received a compound fracture of the leg. John Patrick