... It is stated that the winner of the first prize is a Parisian tramway conductor. The prize consists of a magnificent silver dinner service, supplied and exhibited in the recent Exhibition by M. Odiot, jeweller, of ...

... LEAVING HJ WIFE CHARGEABLE. Jonathan Jones was charged with leaving his wife chargeable to the paiish. Complainant stated that defendant had left her for six weeks, and had not contributed anything towards her support during that time. Ordered to pay 5s per week. ...

... AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT. The winter is an tmmttally wrar* one in France aa well u elsewhre. A natural consequence of the txoessive cold is to embolden the woltai which iafest certain districts in the provinces, and to induce them to prowl about in dangerous proximity to villages or bamlets in search of feod. In the department of the Haute Marne they appear to hare become singularly audacious ...

... THE PERCH In an article on Perch Fishing in Winter, the writer A few words; in conclusion, as to the culinary merits of Perca fluviatUis. The perch fairly stands at the bead of all coa.ae fish, gudgeon excepted, gastrono- mically. As the chub is the worst of this class, so is the perch the beBt-i e, a river and not a pond perch. Perhapa this is ope reason why he is suoh a favourite fieh with ...

... value in 1872. fftisallanmts Jnicllxgmct. HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. A LARGE SALMON.—A monster salmon, measuring 4ft. 5in. in length, has been presented to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's-inn- fields, by Mr. Frank Buckland, to whom the fish had been sent from Hampshire, where it was found in a dying state a few days ago, lying in a drain. The salmon had evidently ...

... POLICEMAN SHOT AT CARDIFF. On Thurday morning, as P.c. Rowe was on his beat on the Newport road, Cardiff, he thought he saw something suspicious at the back of a villa, and went into the garden, when he was confronted by a burglar, who ordered him to stand. The officer bravely seized the man, who at once shot him, the policeman receiving serious wounds. The burglar escaped. ...

... The Evening Standard of Tuesday publishes the following from their Special Correspondent with General Roberts's C jlumn:— MATOOND, Sunday. Yesterday General Roberta held a Durbar, which was at- tended by all the headmen of the villages in the valley. General Roberts informed them that he had called • them together to speak to them upon the occasion of the withdrawal for the present of the ...

... INQUEST.—An inquest was held last Monday at Pengroes-sopped, by ElTD. Batt, Esq., coroner, on the body of the illegitimate child of Elizabeth Parry, of Penystar Farm. It appears that shortly before the death of the child, Elieabeth Parry had been in a neighbour's house and confessed to being enceinte, and stated her intention of going to her father's house in Breconshire, in order to be ...

... LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS. MAN MISSING.—On Tuesday last, about 10 a.m., Mr John Jones, Tamplin's Farm, near Griffiths- town, left his home, and has not since been heard of by his friends. The last known of him is that about 1 p.m. on the same day he was trying to sell some straw to Mr Sewell, Clarence Hotel, Ponty- pool. SUCCESS IN BUTTER MAKING.—At the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Show ...

... Tne rut liliZQ in diamonds of Benchers, lJ,o,, f the 5th series j) the thirds a river of diamouds by Foutenay, (No. 1/73,582 ilth series ;) the fourth, a nvttr cf diamonds by Dumout, {024-.613 let series.) ...

... The ordinary general meeting of the London and Provincial Bank (Limited) was held on Wednes- day, at the Cannon-street Hotel, London. Mr C. E. Lewis, M.P., chairman of the board of directors, presided. The Chairman, in the course of his speech, said that the capital had not increased in fair propor- tion to the business. Their reserve had largely increased, but it was necessary that, having ...

... Mr. Frank Buckland publishes in Land and Water an account 01 a living beetle woru as an ornament by a lady at General Grant's recent reception. He says The fortunate possessor of this new-fashioned living ornament is Mrs. Randolph Clay. She carries the beetle about wrapped up between two pieces of flannel, and that a¡;.in encased in two pieces of coloured cloth. The first sight of this captive ...