... The Man About Town. The Church Congress can have nothiii, to complain of in the greeting they received as the members walked in possession from the Park- hall to St. John's Church this morn- ing. There was veiy little displa.y of bunting but there was a great conco of people, for the most part ladies. C: herbtown, in the neighbourhood •k place, was impassable, except by diversion into the ...

... HIGHWAY ROBBERY COM- MI j TED ON A DOG. Charles Reeves was found guilty at the M borough-street police-court yesterday of Ligh robbery ou a dog. Tha dog, one Ndsr. .V AB».- kriown reti 'ever who collects money for a local charity, politely begged a penny of a lady -An(i got it. Thereupon lieeves approached the collector and made overtures to the dog with a biscuit. He proposed to sell the ...

... THE LATEST PULPIT WONDER, On Sunday forenoon the Rev J chn Robertson, M'Crie-Roxburgti Church, invited his flock to a free.-and easy religious service in the church in the evening. The service would, he said, be non- canonical, so he could stand on his head if he liked. (Laughter.) Probably anticipating acro- batic feats in the pulpit, there was a mouster attendance, the church being crowded ...

... A NEWPORT SOLICITOR'S BANKRUPTCY. A Rate of interest Unknown to Jew Money Lenders, At Newport County-court this Judge Owen—Titus Henry Parker, solicitor, Newport, applied to pass hi discharge.—Mr Lewis and Mr Kmsey Morgan opposed on behalf of creditor?. — Ho Honour said he saw that the debts proved were J3747 and the assets wore oniy and expected to realize £ 6. His Honoui, reading the ...

... Sliding-Scale Revision. IMPORTANT MEETING CALLED. A special delegate meeting cf steam and bous. coal collieries is to be held at the Bute Arms, Aberdare, on Monday, July :Õ9th. The business of the meeting will be (1) to receive the report of the last sliding-scale meeting with reference to the new revised scale submitted to the employers and (2) to consider the position of affairs respect- ing ...

... THE NAUONAL PHYSICAL RECREATION SOCIETY. The annual fetes of the National Physical Recreation Society will be held at Liverpool ou the 13th and 15'h iust. Lord Charles Beresford will preside. L500 is offered in prizes, ...

... I Charlotte Johnson, the wife of a stableman, of 61, Lorrimore-street, Walworth, gave birth, on the 14th instant, to three children. Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to forward a donation of the case being a very necessitious I one. ...

... I COACHING FOR A WAGER. Mr Scott Drives from Folkestone to London and Back Under 15 Hours. Veterdpy Mr .J. P. Scotr, the well-known whip OF the Folkestone and Citattrb,Y coach, performed the utror(linary fe?t ot driving for J a waper a brake and pair of liorset-, with a full: comi-ilemont of passengers, from Folkestone to Lor!d(,n :,nd back within fonrteeu and a half hours. Scott mounted-lhe ...

... IRKCTKR'S TELEGRAM. I I VIENNA, Monday.—An explosion of tire-damp bas occurred in the Alfred Colliery, in the Resicza Banat, belonging to the Austro- flungarian State Radway. Seven miners were killed and several injured, two of them seriously. ...

... TRUE AS STEEL. It was on the night of Mrs Clairmont's party that Kate Dean took up the one great burden of her lite. Up to that time she bad been so happy that the whole future seemed to open before her like a paradise on earth-but now she bad learned that in this life there was nevermore the happi- ness for her that fell to other women. Kate was an heiress. Her father having accu- mulated ...

... The Press Association was this morning offirfallj infonned by Messrs Weatherby of the following scratching— Doncister Spring enztqenients-Zinzibar. York and Doncister Handicaps—Midstream. Stand Piute, Windsor-Admiral Bcnbow. Ail handicaps ior which weights have appeared Sweetheart. Newmarket Stakds- Van DerBerg. Southdown Pine, Brighton—Matilda IL Brighton engageiijeiits-Domiiio. All ...

... CARDIFF AMUSEMENTS- I The Theatre Royal, I it is a difficult task for a critic co exercise b>J vocation when called upon to discriminate betwefl degrees of such excellence as was exhibited in periormance, of Captain Swift at the Tiiealso Royal on Monday oveimig. It may be said iu word that no dramatic production has been duriiig the past three years with the uivfot& skill visible iu this play ...