... THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1877. During the hearing of two non-maintenance cases, at the Cardiff police-court, yesterday, it was elicited that the defendants had committed bigamy. In the first case the defendant was a labourer, named Joseph Lloyd, residing at Newport, whose first wife is now chargeable to the Cardiff union. An order was made upon the defendant to contri- bute. The defendant in the ...

... HE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) WHAT FOOLS FEAR FROM VA,CCINA.TIOlf.- De. Jenner-acy. ROYAL COMMISSION ON STOCK EKCHAXOE TRAN sAcTioNs.- Baron Roths hild's bonus on the noaat lnperial purchase ef Sues Caiial shares. STOCK EXCHANGE REFORM.—Restore the parochial stocks and also the pillory; put the greatest rotgnss amongst the stock-speculators, riggers, ringers, promoters, and bubble-blowers ...

... At the Shrewsbury p°un,ty rP°USalopesued P.Dalton, vicar A1^r r2 toafje! by bis gardener. Richard Iigs |denc0 {or the tor wrongful dismissal. il'S e ,n £ ,aee(j by plaintiff was to the effect that he was enp g the defendant to attend to his garden. g pouy, and look after the cow and pouHry, nw wages being £ 1 a month, with board an & ,g A dispute recently occurred between the p and defendant ...

... Major RAsom insisted upon the necessity for adopting special legislative or administrative measures for the exceptional agricultural distress in the county of Essex. Mr J. REDMOND moved to add to the Address the following words :— Humbly to represent to your Majesty that this House is of opinion that it is the duty of her Majesty's Ministers to declare without delay their policy with regard ...

... STORMY MEETINGS. (KKOTER'S TKLKGRAM.) ABIS, April 11.—Electoral meetings U'fire held 3rlllterday at Cateau and Hazebrouck, the pro- Ih n^*8 a stormy character. Cateau meeting was remarkablefor the fact 'ject J ota^ Boulanger's candidature was re- At Hazebrouck no speaker could obtain bearing, owing to the disorder. M. D&oulfede has written a letter in- 1 all the school teachers in the Nord • ...

... t DOUBLE BOATING FATALITY. Herbert Insle, a young man, and William Tipp, an elderly seafaring mau, were drowned off Hartlepool, on Sunday, owing to the capsizing of a sailing boat, which was carrying too much canvas. ...

... ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.—Henry Bill, O»J wi Pillowell, labourer, employed on the JoiBjj ea railway, and working on the new viadnot m pr Sharpness, met with a serious accident on co day. Whilst at his work his foot slipped,;ø.J trl he* was let down a distance of about 18 feeV ii.s falling on some iron work. He was picked aCt P; and placed in a conveyance and taken off to tH Cottage Hospital, at ...

... THE EDGAR MURDER TROUBLES. JOHANNESBTTBG, Friday.—Mr Webb and Mr Dodd, chairman and secretary of the Uitlander League, who were arrested in connection with the Edgar demonstrations, have been remanded until the 19th instant. Bail has been reduced from £1,000 to £ 500.—Reuter. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Dr. Leyds, who arrived in London from the Continent late on Thursday, said, in answer to a ...

... A 24TH MAN'S ESCAPADE. A SECOND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. At Cardiff Police Court yesterday James Verindcr a private m the South Wales Borderers stationccl at Pembroke Cock, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking oxalic acid on January 2nd. It seems that the prisoner had been a lance-corporal, but he over-stayed his leave, and on his return was reduced and confined to barracks. He ...

... IT is well now and then to show tiie tyranny under which the Irish tenant3 sufter. Within the present genoratnn the rent in Glasserchoo has been raised no lass than 200 per cent., and a case is quoted in one division of the town-land where the rent is said to have been increased by up- wards of 1,000 per cent. The rents were sus- tained at the increased figures till 1884, when the Lan4 Courts ...

... KILLED BY A TELEPHONE WIRE. [FROM OCR CORRESPONDENT.] NEW YOR*, Monday Night.-Another electric wire scare occurred this morning, which resulted in the serions shocking of two men and the killing and roasting of an unfortunate horse attached to a newspaper delivery wagon. The accident occurred at half-paet four in Fourth Avenue, near Twenty- eighth-street, where a loosened telephone- wire ...

... On Monday, 100 workmen employed at tbe Gelli House Coal Pit, Rhondda Valley, struck work in consequence of the employers having given notice to terminate the system of daily contract work now prevailing in the mine. A meeting of the men was afterwards held, when it was unanimously decided riot to resume work until the notice had been withdrawn and a satisfactory list of prices agreed upon. ...