... ANNUAL DINNER OF RAIL- WAY OFFICIALS AT BUILTH. The tenth annual dinner of the employes of the London and North Western, Mid-Wales, and other railways, was held in the Assembly-room, Builth, on Friday evening. The dinner, pro- vided by Mr Philip James, of the Lion Hotel, was laid out in his well-known style The spacious room had been nicely decorated for the occasion by Messrs Tranter, ...

... 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. SWANSE A BANKI. - b>ANNUAL ME§ETING. The anndual meeting of the shareholders in the. L Sw ansea Banking Company (Limited) was held at 9 the Bank on Monday, Mr. Morgan B. Wliasms, the S chairman of the directors, presiding. 2 Th report was taken as read. O Th e OsBMAN, in moving the adoption of the S report and statement of accounts for the year end- 4 ing December 31, 1681, said it was ...

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... CABINET COUNCIL. THE NEW COMMONS PROCE- DURE RULES. LONDON', Monday Evening.—A meeting of the Cabinet Council, the third within a week, was held this afternoon, at two o'clock, at the official residence of the Prime Minister at Downing- street. All the Ministers were present, except Earl Spencer Lord Hartington and Mr Dodson being the last to arrive. Mr Forster, who was prevented by official ...

... AN IMPORTANT POINT OF LAW. In a case which was heard on Saturday, at the Chester county police-court, the magistrates gave an important legal decision.—Thomas Edwards, late overseer of Ince, Chester, who recently un- derwent three months' imprisonment for having embezzled £ 191, the money of the Chester Boara ( of Guardians, on the prosecution of the public auditor, was now charged, at the ...

... CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT'' AT WORK. A FARMER ROASTED BEFORE HIS OWN FIRE. I On Saturday night Captain Moonlight and a number of armed men broke into the house of a man named Michael Connor, on tho plains of Boyle, and made him swear to leave the employ of the Rev. F. Burke. A tenant farmer, named Patrick Guisheen, of Keadive, near Boyle, was taken out of bed by a party of disguised men, and held ...

... SPEECHES BY PUBLIC MEN. Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., addressing his con- stituents at Exeter Hall on Monday night, remarked that in March, 1880, Mr Gladstone, at Edinburgh, described the condition of Ireland. What was its condition now ? The Land League had filled the land with outrage, misery, dis- affection, and every form of trouble and sorrow. His complaint against the Government was that they ...

... FOREIGN MISSIONS, CHINA.—The Rev. David Hill preached two sermons yesterday, at Broad- way Wesleyan Chapel, to large congregations, on behalf of foreign missions. This evening he will speak on mission work in China, appearing in his Chinese costume. Mr Hill has not only given himself, but his fortune, to this mission for the last 16 years. THE NEW IXRINJIAIIY BUILDINGS.—The new infirmary ...

... LIFEBOAT.—The annual meeting of the local committee of the Penarth Lifeboat branch was held on Saturday morning, at the Cardiff Cham- ber of Commerce, Mr W. J. B. Fry in the chair. The accounts presented showed a balance of about J3100 in had. It has been customary for the Penarth branch to remit about JE25 annu- ally to London towards the expenses of some of the stations that are not so well ...

... MONEY MARKET. [SPECIALLY TELECJ11APHED.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. Thirty-six thousand pounds has been with- drawn from the Bank to-day for Paris, and as the Exchange remains flat at further sums are expected to follow. The advance in the Bank rate to six per cent as a precautionary measure ia coming into more prominent notice. Discount rates are firm in consequence. Three months' bills were ...