... KXIGHTOX. LOCAL BOABD ELECTIOx.-The result of this election is as follows — Mr J. R. Bache, 136 (elected) Mr J. Clee, 180 (elected) Mr J. P. Davies, 171 (elected) Mr G. Green, 140 Mr J. P. Meddicott, 117 Mr R. Hammond, 93 Mr R. Woodhouse, 4. The three retiring members were Messrs Deacon, Baldwin, and Davies. Mr Davies was the only retiring member who sought re- election, and, as will be seen, ...

... CARDIFF TOWN COUNCIL. The monthly meeting of the Cardiff Town Council was held on Thursday, in the Council Chamber, Town-hall. The Mayor (Mr Alfred Thomas) presided, and there were present Al- dermen Daniel Jones, T. Evans, J. Winstone, and Taylor; Councillors Waring, W. E. Vaughan, P. W. Carey, Evan Jones, Morgan Morgan, Valentine Trayes, Henry Jones, E. Beavan, W. J. Trounce, J. G. Proger, ...

... PENARTH DOCK. ACCIDENT.—As a telegraph messenger named Conybeare was proceeding on board the ship British Army, lying under one of the ballast cranes, the lad's foot slipped, and he fell from the ladder on to one of the booms which was lying alongside, a distance of twelve feet, and sustained severe injuries. He was promptly con- veyed home III a spring trap, and medical atten- dance was at ...

... On Thursday nig-ht Mr John Roberts, M.P., speaking at a Conversazione and Art Exhibition at Mold, in aid of the reading room and library, spoke of the value of such institutions in connec- tion with the great work of national education. What elementary schools did for the child, and what higher education —soon he hoped to be very much advanced in Wales—did for older boys and girls, that they ...

... WRECKS AND CASUALTIES. [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS FROM LLOYD'S AGF.NTS.) A telegram from Malta states that the British steamer Kremlin, from Cardiff, has been lifted to repair propeller shaft. The schooner J),nid Jenkins, of Swansea, from Ireland for London, which got ashore on Wednes- day on Maplin Sand, has been assisted off. ...

... A MUNIFIEENT GIFT. NEW YORK, Thursday.—Mr John F. Slater, of Norwich, Connecticut, one of the leading cotton manufacturers of the country, has decided to give a million dollars for the education of the coloured people of the Southern States. He proposes to put the fund in the hands of ten trustees, includ- ing ex-President Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, and prominent men. The fund will be ample ...

... For what I am going to state now I have to thank my son-in-law, Mr Charles Hancock, who travelled last summer with my daughter in Wales. During his repeated and careful investigations, several tales about mermaids, sea-sprites, or fish- men, and sea-horses, were told to him by George Thomas, an oyster-dredger, aged 81, who was born five miles from Tenby, and is the oldest among the fishermen ...

... On Tuesday Morgan Walters, haulier, aged 25, living at the Graig, Rhymney, was- accidentally killed upon the Rhymney Railway, being knocked i down by a passing train. Deceased was going over the railway, where no one was allowed to pass, from the Sebastopol beerhouse to his residence, he being ...

... PONTYPOOL. THE BLUE RIBBQN MOVEMENT.—The first of a series of gospel temperance meetings was held on Tuesday night, at the Park-terrace Chapel. The chair was occupied by Mr E. B. Ford, and two able discourses were given by the Revs. A. T. Reeves, of Merthyr, and Joseph Evans, of Trede- gar. FOREIGN MISSIONS.—The annual meeting of the Wesleyan foreign missions was held in High- street Chapel, ...

... NEWNHAM-ON-SEVERN. COUNTY COURT.—On Wednesday, before his Honour Judge Sumner, the case of William Trafford, of Bream, v. Col. Kingscote, M.P., Lord Moreton, and others, was heard.—This was a claim remitted from one of the inferior courts to recover £20 odd in respect to services at the West Gloucester election in 1880; £9 KM 6d had been | paid to plaintiff. Mr J. James was for plaintiff, { ...

... Iz - (( CENTRlAL NEWS TELIGM,) HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDA, Their lordships formally met at a quarter-past , ten this morning. TEE DUKE OF ALBANY'S ESTABLISHIMLENT BILL. The Duke of Albany's Establishment Bill was read a third time. At four o'clock their lordships re-assembled, when the Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Duke of Albany's Establishment Bill. * The Royal Commissioners were ...

... ISECOND EDITLO? Ii ,. j .~ , - a. a ASm .Ad ' I t WESTRsxMN. OFFICE, 4.30 FAX. of FOREIGNITLLIGENCE. h no The Roinam71l, commenting on the Danube ques- ar- tion, says that Roumania wvill never agree to the Cr to latest propositions, but will rather offier an armed X( tet'resistance. Ia ug The Paris correspondent Qf the Daily ti17'eaicie a- says -It is the intention of the French Government st ...