... A JUVENILE WOULD-BE SUICIDE At Birmingham yesterday Joseph Baker, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Prisoner is the son (,f a greengrocer at Tipton, and works for his grandfather, who lives in the place. On Saturday he was entiusted with bedding to deliver, but on the way he put it dowØ while he played with another boy, and it stolen. The grandfather threatened to to the father, ...

... THE VICTORIA CRICKET CLUB. A meeting of this club was held on Monday last, when the following were elected officers for the ensuingseasolI :-Capta,in, W. J, Smith; vice- captain, A. T. Morgan; treasurer, P. R. Window; secretary, W. H. James, 13, Clive- street, Roath, Cardiff. Tho club would be glad to arrange a few matches for Wednesday afternoons —ages 13 to 16. ...

... DEATH OF AN AMERICAN POET. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. I I £ n Yo&&, Friday.—The death is announce 1 of John Godfrey Saxe, the American poet. ...

... Mr T. W. Evans, for 25 years the Liberal member for South Derbyshire, but now out, of Parliament, was yesterday the recipient of an lluminated address from the tenantry of his Staffordshire and Derbyshire estataa. The address testified tc* the high sense of right and hotiour Which had prompted Jklr Evans i« dealing with the interests of.the tenants,* io making percentage tetuips of rent; to ...

... SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT TREDEGAR. On Tuesday evening the body of Henry Jones, a,Lid 45, and who resided near the Nantybwcb Schools, was found in the Bryn Bach Pond. It' appears that deceased was at home until midnight onSunday,but he wasmissedfrom the house about three o'clock on Monday morning. There is not much room for donbt that he committed suicide. The cause of the rash act is unknown. ...

... It has been decided by Colonel Stracey, who will command the marching column to Dover at Easter, to form a corps of cyclists for the occa- sion, as well as the previously ordered special companies of scouts. This step baa been resolved upon in consequence of the. small number of cavalry men available, and Colonel Stracey has issued a memorandum which aska each of tho officers commanding ...

... Mr Chamberlain and the Land Bill. The Press Association says :—From certain facts which have just transpired, it appears that the Round Table Conference had practically agreed upon a scheme for dealing with the Irish question when the negotiations were: suddenly brought to an end. It is stated that the settlement agreed upon failed altogether to satisfy the demands of Mr Parnell, and that Mr ...

... At the Llandaff petty-sessions, to-day—before Colonel C. H. page and Mr J. Jones-Thomas Vick and James Green, Cardiff men, were charged with trespassing in pursuit of game on land belonging to Lord Windsor, at St. Fagans, on the 13h instant. George Pri ce, a gamekeeper, in Lord Windsor's employ, said he saw defendants, who were accompanied by a lurcher dog, beating a cover on Mr Edward Akers' ...

... The Rev. Octavios Davies, vicar of Tregaron, died somewhat f>«4deoly In Saturday morning. died somewhat MJlldeoly In Saturday morning. He was a rural dean and justice of the peace for the ooonty of Owrdigau. Outside his pastoral duties he was a most active worker, being chair- man of the board efguardians, also chairman of the school board. Hfs death will be a great loss to the place. ...

... I roup Arrests Made. I P r CENTRAL NEWS TELEGKAM.1 a, Tio-th' Tuesday.-The police have discovered (Joverer ^ankoffist plot directed against the 3?o„t nnnent. the army, and the Patriotic League, arr^pfficers ofthe Bulgarian Army have been d 1n. connection with the conspiracy. Irit- ...

... SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A I PONTYPRIDD BUTCHER. At the Yetrad police-court on Monday—before Messrs J. Davies and George Griffiths — Mrs Jane Jones, Pontypridd, charged her husband, John Morris Jones, butcher, with assault on Tuesday, the 19th inst. Mr D. Rosser defended. Defendant did not appear.—Complainant said that defendant kicked her out of bed at night and beat her as hard as he could. ...

... BREACH OF PROMISE. I .i In the Queen's Bench Division on —before Mr Justice Grantham and a jury—the case of Tripp v. Goodwin came hearing. In this case Airs Maria Tripp, a ^'1 i;ji> I who formerly carried ou business as an and French laundress in the Cla-ren' '.••>«i-sqaare, Somera Town, sued Mr f ft* win, a horse dealer, and the landlord ° ^«c Anchor pubi c-house, at Whetstone, to rfc>e/' ...