... IAPEt 1PARiLAMCT I (Mass ABS00aATIO0. tSLOR.Xi ROUSED OF LORDSN.-MODATr. -CONSOLIDATED FtND BILL. T rrdehips met at haltpast ten o'clock for -the pui(pose `of reding this Consolidated Fund (No rem Bil asco d time, and Passing it through ThLs being dbne, the cpitiug was suspended till fvoclc .a h etn a n EVENING SITTING. The Reuse resumed at five o'clock. CONCLUSION OF PEACE WITH YAKOOB Lord- ...

... in t~he ('ardiff County Court, on Tbun-sdq,y, Daniel Gethin, blaeksmith, brought an action I eorll f T TAC- W- 1W- A SIS ?? 21w. v. J. Jackson, builder, Cardiff, to recover £50 as damages for alleged false imprisonment. From the evidence it appeared that at the instance of the defendant the plaintiff was apprehended on a charge of stealing certain stocks, dies, and tap, an subsequently ...

... IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL AT CARDIFF. THE IMPENDING CRISIS. An important meeting of the Council of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Collieries' Association was held at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, on Thursday. The meeting was one of the largest that has been held in connection with this associa- tion for a long time. All the principal colliery proprietors were present, and who were ...

... A uispute has arisen at the Mountain As the men's terms were not accepted they gave a day's notice to leave. Two of them, however, went ou as before, and to show their disapproba- tion of those two men's conduct some unknown persons, on Saturday night, smashed the uiadowa of tneir houses. P.C. Smith lias been trying to find them out. but his efforts hitherto have been in vain. On Wednesday ...

... THE OPENIXG MATCH OF THE DUKE-STREET CRICKET CLUB (employes of Messrs Smith and Co.) was played in the Cardiff Arms Park on Wednesday. The sides were—Secretary v. Treasurer, 10 a Rirle. The game was decided in favour of the treasurer's team, on the the first innings, by 33 runs, the c' .ief contributors to the score being Messrs Garrett, and H. C. JoneF. The bowling of Messrs Davies and Butler ...

... The Standard correspondent writes :— King Cetywayo is reported to have sued for peace, offering to accept almost any terms. Lord Chelmsford sent the messenger back, as not being of sufficient status to treat. Great efforts are being made to overcome the transport difficulties which stand in the way of an early advance. Large parties of Zulus have burned the grass between Ingenia and the Black ...

... TREFERIG YAXLEY RAILWAY- The Bill for authorising the construction of this short, but much needed line of railway, has been read a third time in the House of Lords and sent to the Commons. It is hoped that there will now be little delay before the Bill becomes law, and the line is constructed. It will open up the great coal deposits in the Treferig Valley, and be ot vast benefit to the ...

... Perhaps the most crowded and, as it has proved, certainly not the least interesting, of the May meetings hitherto held in London, was that at Exeter Hall on Thursday night, under the presi- dency of the Lord Chancellor of England, in con- nectiou with the East End Juvenile Mission, under the honorary management of Dr Barnardo. T ie platform was well filled with a large number of influential ...

... A FAMILY QUARREL AT PONTY- POOL. At the Pontypool police-conrt, on Mondav, Amos Gardener was charged with being drnnk and assaulting his wife and P.C. David, at Ahar- syohan. S rah Gardener deposed that her bus- band came home drunk, and ati-tick her in the face. In reply to the bench, witness stated she did not. kn uv the cause. She was perfectly sober. P.C. David stated .that he saw the ...

... A milkman at Brighton has been fined £2 for watering the milk given hiui by his employers, A murder and suicide took place, Monday, at a cottage at Sheustone, about four miles from Diciifield, the habitation of a couple named Free- man. The husband is 60 years of age, aud had lately ahewn signs of jealously of his wife, t\ ho is iSO vears his juuiar. At nine o'clock the report of a gun was ...

... AN AGRICULTURAL AWAKENING. THERE are signs that a great defection from the old Tory party is about to occur. The Tenant Farmers, who in a great majority of cases have ever taken the Conservative land- lords as their political leaders, begin to evince signs of dissatisfaction at the direc- tion in which they are travelling, and a movement for securing the rights of genuine agriculturists, begun ...

... WARNING.—RECKITT'S PARIS BLUE.—The Man- ufacturers beg to Caution the public against Imitation square Blue of very inferior quality. The Paris Blue, squares (used in the Prince of Wales' Laundry. Sold ia wrapper* bearing their oaiue aad Xrftde Aiark IWi ...