... Tuesday-Before Mr REGISTRAR I-ANGLKY. RK THOMAS Joirs.DeLtor was a, grocer at Bridgend. Examined by the Official Receiver, he said his principal creditors wereMessrs Beavan and Lloyd, who held policies of insurance on his and his wife's lives for £600. He had entered those as being worth £ 300.—'TheQfficial Receiver remarked that they were not worth £ 1. and as this affected the entire ...

... Yma'n heddweh uthredd y mynyddau, Yn ddiddig y bugail dreulia'i ddyddiau; Gwrendy gerdd mwyn gwlad y bonciau, A ieir mwynaidd yn clegra'n hemynau, Glan ei glod, gwylia'n glau—°i braidd cynes Yn swn a rhodres y syn raiadrau. Cynwyd. EDKANT. ...

... The Marquis of Lome, in opening a Welsh bazaar in Manchrster on Thursday afternoon, de- clared that history showed the Scotch had got the best of the English. They had only to look at the present time in the House of Common! and they would find the leaders on both sides were pure Scotchmen, and this happy condition was due primarily not to Scotland, but to Wales, for the leading hero of ...

... There is an interesting interview with Mrs ^tary Davies in the Young Woman Diet, Mrs Davies, should be perfectly wholesome 'l1d natural, but one can't lay down any special es. It is necesssry, of course, to study diet in eVery profession, but more particularly In singing fUd in acting.—And practice ? That must be pretty incessant, though nob too iucessant. Intelligence is required as well ...

... A few papers, however, unhesitatingly condemn the selection. The Cyrnru says :— The origin- ality of the selection must be admitted. Who but a genius would have ever thought of the vast majority of the members ? Every one of them appears as some wondeiful discovery for this work. The two landlords and the two tenants are perhaps least surprising though not muoh is known of them outside their ...

... Mr Gee prints his Disestablishment scheme in the Baner this week in English, and promises to discuss it in forthcommg issues. The Tyst com- mends Mr Gee. for attempting to deal with the question, hut is unfavourable to his scheme.— he Oenedl devotes its first leading article to con- sider the propriety of chairmen of county councils being re eleoted after their first year's service. It is in ...

... The Good Citizen does not keep a dog. lie does not. wear side-wiskers. He keeps his children in tiie country or in th ...

... William Thomas, a Newport workman resident at 26, Upper Lime-street, has an evident aversion to deposit his hard-earned savings in other hands than hisown. Th^reforeit came about thatonSatur- day last he had £ 68mgo)d ma l»ox in his bedroom, j and on counting his coins on the succeeding day he found that two sovereigns had vanished, the drawer and box having been tampered with. Alice Ebzabeth ...

... DEATH OF JOHN ROBERTS, SEN. John Roberts, the elder, who, in his day, was ahnost as far ahead of all his competitors in world of billiards as his famous son, John Roberts, jun., is of his rivals at the present cime, died on Monday afternoon at his residence, near•' tho R;1 ford.road. Though of recent years Roberta* had practically dropped out of billiards, and wae- altogi.r ber astranger to ...

... A LOCAL COMPENSATION CASE. £300 Damages. On Monday, at the Bristol Assize—before Mr Justice action was tried of Pring v. Watts, Ward and Co. The Hon. Bernard Coleridge, Q.C., M.P., and Mr W. H. Roberts were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr Bullen, Mr Radcliffe, and Mr Garland were counsel for the defendants. The action wag to recover damages for peisonal injuries. Tue case for the plaintiff, ...

... The following is communicated by the British South Africa Company to Reutei's agency, being an extract from the Company's Capo office mail letter just received :— Rations for 800 men for three months have been despatched to Buluwayo. A portion of these must have already reached there, and the balance is well on the road. In addition to these supplies Mr Rhodes has despatched from jTule meal ...

... On Tuesday, about midday, a. man named John Morgan, of B»aufort-hdl. engaged engme-driver under the Bhbw VALE Company, lost his life. The engine which he had chArge over was standing near the stores of tha blast fnrnac-s, and deceased proceeded to oil While he was thus engaged some trucks ran wild down tho incline from the oinder tip, and overturned the engine, the unfortnnat* man being ...