... ABERDARK CHAMBER OF TRADE.. The monthly council meeting was held at Mr Dance's assembly-room, on Tuesday afternoon, under the presidency of Mr Evan Thomas. In reply to the representations made as to the dan- gerous level crossing at Cwmanian, a tracing of which had been forwarded to them, Mr Grierson, of the (Jreat Western Railway Company, replied that he would draw'the engineer's attention to ...

... A statement appeared in the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday morning th,)t warrants had been issued for the arrest of a clergyman whose wife is the principal of a boarding-school in the neighbour- hood of London, on the charge of having cor- rupted several girls in his wife's school. The Press Association learns on inquiry that the statement is substantially correct. The warrants have not yet been ...

... A QUARREL AMONG PROFESSORS. Professor Nanson, of the'Melbourne University, has been fined £50, and Professor Elkington has been suspended for a month from his duties and emoluments by the Council of the Umversity, on account of a fracas arising out of the election of president of tho professorial board. Professor Nanson, who was accused by Professor Elkington of voting unfairly, called the ...

... HORRIBLE iNlUTILATION.' BY A HINDOO. On Saturday night, as two professional singers, natives of Bombay, were playing banjos and singing in the Lloyd's Arms, a public-house in one of the lowest districts in Leeds, a labourer, named James Hoban, criticised their performances, and said they ought to be ashamed of themselves for ekulking about instead of working. James Miller, one of the Hindoos, ...

... THE POLITICAL WISDOM OF WTOODSTOCK: WHEN the Conservatives of Woodstock in public meeting duly assembled, under the presidency of Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, declare that HER MAJESTY'S Government have hitherto failed by their measures in re- storing law and order in Ireland, they amuse themselves with a mere farrago of historical platitude, and enlighten nobody. The pro- position is one on which ...

... the '^■8sociation is informed that the t' about to be published by t ^el is Urcat Britain and Rome of England to hold diplo- the Sovereign Pontiff? ...

... At Wandsworth policecfJurt, on .[onday, -Ta: Charles Gurney, who was described as a soUcitor, residing in Temperley.na,J, Baiham, was charged with being-drunk and assaulting P.O. Hayes, 179 V,whi]e in the execution of his duty. -The evidence showed that on Saturday evening the constable was called to the Balham Hotel to eject the pá,(lner from the private bar. The prisoner struck him on the ...

... On Thursday John Trevitt, landlord of the British Queen Inn, Wolverhampton, was found by his wife drowned in a tub of pig food. His head and shoulders were immersed. He had lately been drinking freely. ...

... The case of Eliza Daniel, who some time ago was charged with attempting to commit suicide, came on for final disposal on Friday, at the Neath police-court. The Superintendent of Police re- ported that the woman had not repeated the act complained of, and was now under the care of the husband, who worked in the village of Glynneath. The offence having been committed when the woman was certainly ...

... TuE LizARD, Sa.turda.y.—Wind E, moderate. Weather I)a.zy. East-Greek steamer Cephalonia., forFahnouth; Earrington, of New- CRstle Burlinton, of Ha,rtlepo')t AIne Hoime, of of schooner Devon, of Plymouth. IFeat— Ocean Line steamer of Li ver[Jool ste..nners Upt)p:t, f Cork; Port de Rouen, of Rauen; of Avoc1\ of lin Buccntaur, of Newcastle; three-masted schooner Sunbeam; ship BIrna.ui Wood, of ...

... J IRE. A.bout eleven o'clock on Friday evening the inhabitants of Cwmavon were disturbed by the ringing of tlie fire-bell, and it was afterwards found that one of the furnaces of the tinworks had set fire to an adjoining stack, and the fire ex- tended to the roof of the works, and would have proved serious but for the tiin-dy assistance of Sergeant Lougber and his staff, who soon got the ...

... T::K TRANSVAAL BOKR WAR SIEGE or PRKTOKIA.—.Re?. Goo. Weavind hasbeen nine years ia the Tno'.svaai as a We'eyan Missionary. lie Lectures to-niorr e.v at 8 p.m. Assembly Koooa Is. oi. and Is ...