... A SMILING NONAGENARIAN. At Bow-street Police Court yesterday Margaret Westbrook, 90 years of age, whose head was en- veloped in bandages, was charged with dranken- neSll. A constable found her in a drnnken con- dition lying on her back in Drury-lane. Her bead was bandaged, and she appeared to have met with an accident. Prisoner Oh, that was nothing. I only fell down an area. In discharging her ...

... THE WELSH PATAGONIAN RELIEF FUND. Upwards of JE115 has been contributed to- wards .bi8 fund, which was opened in the autumn of last yiav. The fund will be closed oa the last 1 dav of next October, and It isearnestly hoped that before that date contributions will be sent from :>il chapels in Wales that have not hitherto done so. All amounts should be paid in at any of the branches of the ...

... I FALSE PRESENCES AT CARDIFF, I At Cudiff Police Court this morning Paul Krouso (28',1\ German geam-n, wan charged with obtaining by false pretences food and lodg. lug to the amount of 2s from Eiizaboth ThoJ. who keeps a seaman's boarding-house in street. It was stated that on Friday evening, 19th October, tho piinoner went to prosecutor's housu and a-slied for food and lodging until the next ...

... CARDIFF MUSEUM. Si!! ly Treasu re Trove. I A meeting of- the Committee of the Cardiff Museum was held last evening nnd«r the presi- dency of Alderman Trounce. It was agreed to hold a special meeting on the 7tb December to consider the plans for the new Museum. The Curator reported that since the last meeting 6 610 people bad visited he Masenna. MrT. H. Thomas people bad visited i he Masenna. ...

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... Barry Railway Company, j HALF-YEARLY MEETING. I ISSUE OF PREFERENCE SlOCK. Lord Windsor presided over the 32nd half- yearly nieet-ing of the Barry Railway Company on Thursday afternoon at the new office3 of the company at Barry Dock. In moving the adoption of the report and state- ment of accounts, Lord Windsor said the half- year's working had not come up to their patit expectations. The ...

... ALARMING ACCIDENT. A somewhat startling accident occuried at Ch..th-,tm last evening on the arrival of the 1st Lanark Royal Engineer Volunteers for trains in-. A military traction engine weighing nearly 20 tons, in charge of Sapper Keen, was being em- ployed to draw the bagnage from the station in trucks when suddenly the read way collapsed over a disused cesspool aud the engine toppled over. ...

... Chinese Imbroglio. TAKU AND TIENTSIN. I Telegraph Service Restored. I St. Petersburg. Saturday.—An official despatch I from Taka states that the telegraph service be- twetin that place and Tientsin has been restored. Railway commonicv.tiol1 is lso about to be re- established. HnsjÍlws and Japanese are work- ing in both directions to repair the line.-Renter LI HUNG CHANG. I Summoned to Pekin. I ...

... Wife's Sad Story. DESERTED AND WRONGED. CARDIFF STIPENDIARY'S STRICTURES. George William Grumbridge, a solicitor's clerk, | was summoned at Cardiff Police Court yester- day (before Mr T. W. Laviis, stipendiary) for de- serting his wife. Mr Lloyd Meyriek prosecuted. Mr Meyrick said the parties had been married years. After five years of unhappy life ds- iendant set up a separate establishment. ...

... THE PONTYPRIDD MURDER. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—In response to the letters which reach me by every post inquiriug for petitions by those anxious to sign, kindly allow me, as there is now no time to lose, to give a list of the most populous centres and certain persons to whom petitions have been sent Cardi-fi,-To,-in HP.11 Free Library,Revs.Charles Davies, Williamson, M.A., Seth Joshna, W. T. Lee, ...

... Cornering De Wet, j Cei;tr l News Telegram.) I CAPE TOWN, Tuesday. Despatches from the front all indicate that theie is a good prospect of cornering De Wet beyond hope of eucape. Owing to the scarcity of fodder he has left horses at fllrms dolJg his line of re- treat, and in order to lessen his encumbrances to r:i.pid movement ho has even destroyed a number of hi3 ammunition waggons. There is ...

... FLOODS IN JAPAN. « j Two Hundred Victims. i'okoliama, V,Y.ofe*d!»y.—T!ie severe drought m Japan was aucceeJed and yesterday by heavy rains, causing serious floods in various parts oi the conn try. tew details are yet to hand, but reports already received mention 200 persons its havin,, been killed. The flood,, bave occasioned considerable interruption in the rail- wa.y communication.—Beater. ...