... 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. ...

... 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A meeting of the men was afterwards held, when it was unanimously decided riot to resume work until the notice had been withdrawn and a satisfactory list of prices agreed upon. ...

... RABBIT COURSING. A rabbit coursuiK match came off on Monday, the Pontyg* indeg Estate, C erphilly, for F,10 a-sidc The contestit. s dogs were brought from the Rhondda and there waa a large crowd of the sporting fraternity The conditions were The first doc to catch seven ou of 13 to be the *'inner. Brindle, of Ynysybwl prove* the victor. His opponent (Monk, of Hufod) cansh only three. A second ...

... JUSTICE STEPHEN. Mr Justice Stephen denies the statement that he is seriously ill. ...

... THE ANCHOR LINE AND BARRY. TO THE EDITOR. SrR,-Iteferring to a paragraph ia thd Echo of the 7th and Daily News of the 9h. statiu that this company is about to enter iutn an import trade in connection with Barry Dock, as the paragraph referred to contains misstatements, we take this opportunity of informing you that there is no truth in the report, and also that we are under no promises to ...

... COLK v. SWANSEA Co OPERATIVE BUILDING SOCIETY.-In the Queen's Beuch Division of the High Court of Justice, London, on Saturday, the case of Cole v. Swansea Co-operative Building Society and others cainci before Mr Justice Cave, on the report of the official referee, to whom had been referred certain questions all to the business of the society, and how the moneys lent or de- posited with the ...

... ELECTION OF ALDERMAN.—The contest to fill the vacancy caused at Carmarthen Town Council by the retirement of Mr T. Thomas is to be very close. At the council to-day (Tuesday) the can- didates are Mr J. Lewis, Commerce House, and Mr W. Morris, gas collector. The question of -politics has been almost wholly eliminated, and the contest runs on the lines of tbe gas question. ...

... CURIOUS APPEAL CASE. An important appeal case was deoided by the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved, on Saturday. A youth named Brown was convicted at Chelmsford Assizes of an attempt to commit a crime. The Judge, who was the Lord Chief Justice, afterwards, found that a Court of Criminal Appeal bad decided in another case that a man could not commit au offence which it was not ...

... A meeting of the Liberal workars ot Grange- town will be held to-mght at eight o'clock, in the Baptist Schoolroom, Clive-road. All Liberals able to assist; are invited to attend. The candidate and Messrs Vaughan, Mildon, and RamsdaJe will speak. ...