... HORRIBLE MUTILATION OF A CHILD. A garden6r employed at a large house at Sodenbalfc, Surrey, yesterday found in the shrubbery a parcel containing the body of a female child terribly mutilated. The police surgeon examined it and found that the head, legs, and arms had been severed—the latter at the elbow- and were missing. The missing members have Dot been found. ...

... A Cake and Wine Banquet. Mr Balfour, the Irish Chief Secretary, was entertained at a cake and wine banquet to-day in the West of Scotland Imperial Union Club, Glasgow. Sir Edward Cole- brooke proposed Mr Balfour's health.- Responding, Mr Balfour said the difficulties of his officu lost all their sting and bitterness in the face of the heartiness of the union support. When the evils were of ...

... A Strike Probable. I On Monday all the mechanics, enginemen, blocklayers, carpenters, and-other,3 emplpyed in the engineering department of the Tredegfcfr Iron and Steel Works, numbering betweeu 600 and 700 men, handed in their notices to tefpiinate their engagements with the company at tb9 expiration of twenty-eight days unlpas an advance of 15 per cent. was conceded. A deputa- tion waited ...

... MERTHYR AND ABERDARE COLLIERY OFFICIALS' ASSOCIATION. The ordinary meeting of the members of the Merthyr and Aberdare Valleys Colliery Officials' Association was held on Monday afternoon at the awembly-rooms of the Bush Hotel, Merthyr, under the presidency of Mr D. E. Davies (Dewi Mabon), Cwmaman, Aberdare.-Mr R. Snape, Merthyr Vale. waR elected president for the en- suing year Mr Howell ...

... THE ACCIDENT TO A OARDIFF CONTRACTOR. I The Inquest. On Friday evening Mr E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquest at the Infirmary on the body of Mr Sheppard. The evidence bore out the facts as to the accident above stated. It appeared that some bricks were being hauled up the scaffolding at the time of the accident. Each time a load goes up the outer plank is shaken slightly, and it was 80 in ...

... Lord Jersey went through the Rhondda Tunnel on the Rnondda and Swansea Bay Railway .wa-f rdav w.i.t4..t.t. --inear and eontrastet ...

... Gossip of the Day. I I From To-day's London Letters. CANADIAN BUFFALOES. The Marquis of Lome has resolved to import some Canadian buffaloes, not merely to preserve specimens of a race of animals that are rapidly dying out in their native land, but to mingle with his Scotch cattle, which, he thinks, would be strengthened by crossing with the American breed. -0-- I A LIST OF BANKRUPTCIES. The ...

... In anticipation of the vacancies in the East and boutii Wards, created by the expected operation to the aldermanic dignity of Mr J. W. Jones and Mr G. Hoskins, the wlri L:oeral Associations have selected Dr Garrod Thomas for the Est Ward and Mr J. A. D. Whittaker for the South Ward. Both gentlemen will go the poll should a contest be forced by the other side; but after the decisive figures iu ...

... MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT SHEFFIELD. Serious Allegations Against a Soldier. An inquest was opened and adjourned at Sheffield to-day, on the body of a young woman named Harrison. She went to Manchester on Bank holiday and afterwards died from injuries she said were caused by a soldier. ...

... SUICIDE AT BRECON. i On Monday a man named William Price, shoe- maker, residing in Llanfaers, Brecon, com- mitted suicide by cutting his throat, Price. who had been given very much to drink, was living in a cottage by himself, his wife, through his conduct towards her, having left him. About six o'clock in the evening Price's daughter went to the house, and, discovering what had occurred, ...

... DANGEROUS LARKING AT NEWPORT. At Newport borough police-court, to. day, Hannah Canfiold, a girl of 18, was summoned for assaulting Edward John Parry, and breaking a square of glass. The complainant is a shop assistant to Mr Evans, proprietor of the Temple of Fashion, and last evening, as he was on a pair of steps outside, taking- in the coats, the defendant pulled away the steps, and Parry ...

... r REGTb;R'S TJLI(GRAJ\r) CHERBOURG, Victoria, itccompcuiied by IjViucess Beatrice find suite, arrived here this morning by special train from Biarritz, the Royal party being received by the port officials. Troops lined the approaches to the dockyard, and the band played God Save the Queen. Her Majesty thauked the authorities and the council for the cordial reception extended to her. fhe Queen ...