... AFFAIRS OF A NEWPORT PROVISION DEALER. The first meeting of creditors to the estate Wm. Morgan, provision dealer and commission agent, ot Skinner-street, Newport, was held to-day at noon at tho offices of the Official Receiver. The gross liabilities were 21,996 13', bukmore than half this amonnt was stated to be secured. and only j6884 13 61 was expected to rank for dividend. Toe assets were ...

... TO-DAY'S MONEY. lSPECIAL T15 LEG RAM. ] IPM. Both Indian Exchanges, 1« 6 7-161 Honít Kong, 3' 4| 1; Shanghai, 4^ 9 £ At the Bank of Eiiglaii. i h« following Allotment* ...

... SIR JOHN PUtESTOW M;P., AND WELSH CONSTITUENCIES. The Central News says Sir Johu Puleston, ALP., has written to the chairman of his-com- mittee notifying his intention of withdrawing from the representation of Dovonport at the close of this Parliament. Sir John says the task of representing Devcmport is one which must excep- tionally tax the energy and the time of its repre- sentative, and be ...

... Mr W. M. Low bas given the nasato-of Gey Minstrel to bis two year old colt by Gatlisrd out of Tabor. ...

... u_- BRITISH TRADERS AMD THE TARIFF BILL. Extraordinary Activity in Manchester, Our correspondent telegraphs :-The volume of trade between Manchester and the United States has been quits phenomenal of late. The first ruab of shipments occurred between the end of, Jane and the middle of July, the cause of tb9 activity being a Customs Administration BilL This measure was calculated to place a ...

... CARDIFF LIGHTING COMMITTEE Apparent Collapse of the Gasworks I Purchase Scheme. A meeting of tue above Committee was held to-day at the Town-hall, under the presidency of Councillor V.iughan, tho other members present being Alderman Cory (who only stayed a few minutes), Councillors Brain, Mildou, Jotham, Trounce, A. ltee, Ramsdale, and P. Morel. In answer to Alderman CORY as to whether the ...

... STRIKE OF SPIP-51 CAR- PENTERS, I [RKUTER'S TKLKGKAM. I STHTTTK, Tuesday.—The snips carpenters AMP'I(,Yeci ill -Lli the ya?-fleu -Stettin have gone out on sttikc. ...

... The Australian Strika. i rS EFFEOIcj UPON LONDON. The strain of the Australian strike is beiri severely felt in London by shippers, shipowners] and mure than all by stevedores. The present is usually the busiest part of the year in the colonial export tradp, and all the bertha in the South, West, and East India Dicks are generally takll up. Now, however, many berths are vacant, and the ...

... Explosion in a Skittle Ailey. 27 PERSONS INJURED. PARIS, Saturday. —A terrible explosion occurred in a skittle-alley at Soignolles, Seine et Marne, yesterday. The force of the explosion was so great that 27 persons who were in the place at the time, were thrown down and severely borht. No one was killed outright, but four received such serious injuries that their rewvery is regarded as hopeless. ...

... The Tipperary Tnais. DISAPPEARANCE OF MRW.O'BFHEN ANDMRDiLLON. MISSION TO AMERiCA. TjrPERARY, Friday Evening. Of all the surMnsus which have marked the p,grc-ss of the Tipporary trials that of to-day was the most dramatic. Ih was not until a few miuutef before the sitting of the courc that the I pwsecution became aware of the absence of the two principal defendants, and the attitude of Mr ...

... Suffer in silence from diseases of the nervous systein. If there is anything more distressing among cnronic diseases, mcdical literature has not yet revealed it. A newspaper is no place in which to describe the particulars of this agony. Every victim knows it for himself, but every victim does not know what thousands have testified to—that when all other remedies fail they have been restored ...

... [REUTJmLEGRAM.] -1 ST. PETERSBURG, Thursday.-The Bourse (Jaz mentions a report that the Bank of England has proposed to the Russian Finance Department that the latter should deposit with the bank for a oertain period, at a proportionate rate of interest, the amounts at present held by Baring ...