... Adjournment of the Court. The Special Commission continued its sitting* on Thursday, this being the 112rh day. When, the court opened the attendance of the public waf very small. The examination of Mr Hardcastle, the countant, was resumed. Sir H. James at this point said he had received instructions to reply on the case, and under such circumstances he applied for an adjournment. Seeing the ...

... At the fortnightly meeting of the Pontypridd Board of Guardians, held on Wednesday, the acting chairman, Mr J. Lewis, observed that a letter bad been received from one of the relieving officers complaining that the clerk had requested him to prepare another list of voters, which, the officer said, did not form part of his duties. A similar request, it appeared, had been made to each of the ...

... ( By Lloffwr. OflBT)? the Most hbpeful sifcns of' the tiwes as regards the future of the Cymric race is the rapidly increasing interest shown in ijome affairs by Welsh colonists and residents in foreign countries. Thiar interest is by no means limited to any one glass, but is-as evident among the leaders of thought, among meu occupying the most. prominent positions in the land of their ...

... Outspoken Pronouncement on Disestablishment* Mr W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., addeneeed meeting of his constituents at the Oddfellows1 Hall, Dowlaia, on Saturday night. Mr Josepb Owen, Taff Vale House, Merthyr, occupied tisb chair. Tbe attendance was large. Mr Isaac LEWIS proposed, in Welsh That this meeting emphatically condemns the stitutionai action of the Government with reference.. the ...

... THREE PERSONS iDROWNED. ON Saturday the annual regatta of the Warring- ton Sailing Club took place. A number of boats left Widnes on Friday night in preparation for the event. One of them, the Sarah Ann, containing nine persons, was caught by a gust of wind, and the sails being made fast she capsized. Three of the occupants, Elizabeth Taylor Jones (aged 13), George Unsworth (14), and Thomas ...

... CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. A speoial meeting of this councii was held at Carmarthen on Wednesday, Mr W. Q. Brig- stocke presiding, theie being 44 members present. THE BUDGET. The CLERE brought up the budget for tbe coming year. The first portion referred to the Exchequer contribution account, oa which there was to be ex- pected an income of £16,373 and an expenditure of £10,264 13, 4d, ...

... SHOCKING AFFAIR IN PARIS. A shocking drama was enacted on Saturday in Paris. Some time ago a bookmaker's assistant, name Yacberesse, boited with the sum of J360, which his employer bad won at the Autenil Races one fine afternoon, and succeeded in baffling all the attempts cf the police to discover him. Yacberesse had travelled with his mistress, one Sidonie Caby, who is not yet sixteen years ...

... PROFESSOR STUART'S PROSPECTS. Great interest ia being taken in the probable result of the meeting of the London County Council to-morrow, when a suocessor to Mr Firth aa deputy-chairman, and practically the town clerk to the board, is to be elected. The Daily News some days ago indicated that the choice of the Progressive party would probably fall on Professor Stuart. The Standard does the ...

... 10 .bis presidential address at the Church Con- gress on Tuesday, the Bishop of Llandatf, dealing with the question of the Welsh Church, aaid :— This subject is one which was very ably dealt with at last year's Congress, yet not so ex- haustively, in my opinion, as to have left nothing that is interesting or instructive, to be said con- cerning it. I venture to express the bopethatwben it is ...

... Musical and Eisteddfod Notes. By Maelgwyn. IN MEMORIAM-William Parry, .Birkenhead. By the melancholy suicide of Mr William Parry, of Birkenhead, Wales loses one of the most sue cessful choir leaders of the century, and one who was for a long time one of the :most prominent figures on the eisteddfod stage. Mr Parry was a native of North Wales, but the present generation remembers him only as ...

... We regret to have to record the death of a venerable champion of Welsh Nonconformity, in the person of the Rev. William Thomas, Rock, Cwmavon, who passed away on Sunday night, at the ripe old age of 75 years. The deceased gentle- man was the oldest minister connected with the Welsh Congregationalists in South Wales, and was held in the highest respect not only by the members of his own ...

... The Melbourne Telegraph in a recent issue says! —We are living In an tge of miracles without bein-- aware of it. Within two hours of the tialo of the first innings of the Oxford cricket matelt closing, the Itaily Telegraph, recording the event, was sellidg in the su-eeia of Melbourne is a feat of telegraphy that probably beatt all former records, and is worthy of note, by the way, as a ...