Western Mail Friday April 23rd.1926. Mr. and Mrs. James LILLEY, 3, Upper Arrael-street, Six Bells, have celebrated their golden wedding. They were married at the Buckhorn Weston Parish Church, Dorset, in 1876. Mr. LILLEY is 73 years of age and his wife 75. They have resisted in Six Bells area for nearly 40 years, and for 34 years Mr. TILLEY has been an ostler at the Six Bells Colliery. They have four daughters, one son, and eight grandchildren. Married at the historic Baptist Church of Blaenau, Gwent, on April 22nd, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel WILLIAMS, of 14, Cromwell-street, Abertillery, celebrated their golden wedding on Thursday. Their descendants comprise four sons and three daughters, twenty-one grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. A son is Mr. James WILLIAMS, Abertillery, a member of the Monmouthshire County Council and ex-president of the Western Valley Miners' Council. Stanley PRITCHARD, The Faldau, and James PREECE, Nanty, pleaded guilty at Penybont (Radnor) to doing malicious damage to the extent of £4 to a gate, the property of Lord ORMATHWAITE, on Brynthomas Farm, Penybont, and were fined 5s., with £2 each by way of damage. A suggestion that the screen of a motor-lorry was misty from falling rain when a young man was knocked down by the lorry was held to be no defence by Judge Hill KELLY at the Newport County Court on Thursday. If, said the Judge, there were such a hindrance, the screen ought to have been removed and the driver ought not to have continued to drive under the circumstances. The case was one in which Grovenor JENKINS 20, a shackler of Risca Colliery, claimed £14.16s. damages on account of injuries sustained through the negligent driving of Henry MAYBERRY. Mr. Charles JONES (Messrs. Lyndon MOORE and Co.) appeared for plaintiff. His Honour gave judgement for plaintiff for £12. Judge Hill KELLY, at Newport County-court on Thursday, approved a composition in the respect of the affairs of Harry Graham BELL, of Newport, against whom a receiving order was made in November last, his Honour adding that such a course would be to the advantage of the creditors as a whole. It was explained by Mr. Ellis OWEN (the official receiver) that the creditors' petition had been presented at the instance of a firm of stockbrokers. A deficiency of £4,130 was increased by £500, claimed in respect of the bank, and the assets were only £480. It had been represented that a deficiency of £3,900 was due to a differance in the value of shares on the Stock Excchange. This was the cause of the failure. Mr. Tudor WILLIAMS (F.A.I.), Pontypridd, offered for sale by auction at the Bridgend Hotel, Bedwas, two cottages known as Nos.2 and 3, Alma Cottages, Bedwas, held by lease having about 38 years unexpired. The properties were sold for £217.10s to Mr. HILL, Bedwas. Messrs. ROSSER, DAVIES, and HOPKINS, solicitors, Pontypridd, acted for the vendor. The considerable alarm was caused in High-street, Bargoed, on Thursday by a gas explosion at the premises of Mr. Tom ADAMS, butcher. Mr. EVANS, one of the oldest tradesmen, had a providential escape from death, sustaining only slight burns about the head, which were caused by the fire which followed the explosion. Mr. EVANS was serving a customer, Mrs. ROWLANDS, of Bargoed, when the explosion happened, but she also escaped injury. A little girl passing the shop received slight injuries about the face through fragments of glass which burst from the window. The explosion shook the whole of the premises, the shop window being smashed, the flooring blown up , and the ceiling of the kitchen in the basement underneath crashed down. The fire which resulted from the explosion was speedily extinguished. Mr. EVANS ascribed the accident to a damaged gas main near the meter, which was in the basement. John Patrick.