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    1. [MON] News Items APRIL 1st to JUNE 30th 1926. Number One-Hundred-five
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3. Western Mail Wednesday April 21st 1926. At the Angel Hotel, Abergavenny, on Tuesday Mr. Montague HARRIS (F.A.I.) offered for sale the freehold farm known as Little Llandilo, Llantilo Pertholey, 37a Or 29p, with possession on completion, tithe £4.4s.7d. The property was sold to Mr.T. LEWIS, Lower Pant, for £530. Messrs. GABB, PRICE, and FISHER were vendor's solicitors. Messrs. T.J. YORWERTH and THOMAS, auctioneers, Cowbridge, offered for sale by auction at the Duke of Wellington Hotel, Cowbridge, on Tuesday the freehold farm known as Saers Farm, St. Mary Church, with vacant possession. The farm house, buildings and land, containing an area of 105,181 acres, was withdrawn at £3,500; the freehold accomodation field and closes of land known as Barons Pit, containing an area of 7,317 acres, was withdrawn at £230; the freehold land known as Ysgubor-y-Sais, containing an area of freehold land known as Crooklands, containing an area of  65,167 acres, was sold to Mr. Wyndham JAMES, Tyntranch, Ystradowen, for £1,050; the freehold accomodation pasture field, situate opposite the Lake Farm, was sold to Mr. L. GRIFFITHS, Barry, for £85; the freehold cottage and forge known as Forge Cottage, St. Mary Church, was sold to Mr. BAKER for £220. There was a good attendance at the Gwyn-hall, on Tuesday night when Councillor Bart CRONIN, Swansea, a recent convert from Labour to Conservative, gave an address on the Conservastive Trade Unionist. He said he left the Labour movement to start with for religious reasons. Dr. Llewelyn LEWIS presided. There was a considerable element of opposition, and a number of questions were asked. " A very able and ingenious argument" was the description applied by Mr. Justice ROMER in the Chancery Division to the submissions of Miss Robina STEVENS, the Swansea lady barrister, who represented certain parties in a summons taken by a Harrogate lady for the decision of a question arising under the will of her husband, a worsted spinner. From the Western Mail, April 21, 1876.  (Fifty Years Ago). Mountain Ash Centenarians.- James JONES, of Mountain Ash, died on Friday aged 106 years, at 8, Ivor-street. His mother is said to have been 102 years old when she died.  (still 50 years ago). National Union of Miners.  The Monmouthshire and South Wales branch of the National Union of Miners, who are sitting in conference at Aberdare, have adopted a petition in favour of Mr. MacDONALD'S Compensation Bill, which is now before the the House of Commons. Mr. William ABRAHAM, of Lougher, was elected president; Mr. David POWELL, Old Tredegar, vice-president; Mr. Edmund WILLIAMS, Bute Arms, Aberdare, treasurer; Mr. Samuel DAVIES, Aberdare, secretary; and Messrs. W. BEVAN, Maesteg; J. CONNICK, Merthyr; H. MITCHARD, Blackwood; J. WINDSOR, Neath; H. ROWLANDS, Rhondda; and David POWELL, Old Tredegar, as members of the central board. News in brief. The Rev. B.T. JONES, pastor of Bethlehem Green, Neath, who has been ill for some time, is recuperating at Porthcawl. Mrs. Ellen HARRIS, an ex-chairman of Swansea Board of Guardians, has been seriously ill, but now is recovering at Llanwrtyd Wells. The condition of Mr. T.H. MALLETT, the father of Tom MALLETT (the former Welsh Rugby Union referee), was very serious on Tuesday evening. The Rev. W.J. PHILLIPS, pastor of the Unitarian Church at Nottage, Porthcawl, has returned home, but is not yet fit to take up his  ministerial duties. Mr. Gethin LEWIS, J.P., Cardiff, who has been confined to the house for a month with influenza, is now much better, and has been able to sit for a few hours for the past few days. John Patrick

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