... LOCAL. CHAPEL DEBTS. THE Nonconformists of Wales have often been tunted with the alleged magnitude of their chapel debts. It has been asserted by those not favourable to the spread of Dissent that chapel-building is taken in hand as a speculation pure and simple, a speculation that often turns out a poor one. Can any of the rarious sects of Nonconformists be blamed if, when they see a number ...

... MANSLAUGHTER AT LIS- WERRY. INHUMAN PARENTS SHOCKING REVELATIONS. An adjourned inquest was held at the King of Prussia Inn, Liswerry, near Newport, on Thurs- day morning, on the body of Rose Emma Bennett, an infant 20 months old, about whose death allegations had been made of neglect on the part of the parents. The coroner for the district, Mr W. H. Brewer, opened the inquest a week since, but ...

... THIRD CARDIFF STARR BOWKETT BUILDING SOCIETY.—The fifth appropriation meeting in connection with this society was held in the Swiss Hall on Wednesday. Mr R. Y. Evans presided. The register number drawn was 065, which en- titles the holder, Mr W. Sheehan, North William- street, to the advance of .S400 free of interest. ENTERTAINMENT.—The Boys' School-room, :at Canton, was crowded with an ...

... INQUEST.—On Tuesday afternoon Mr T. Wil- liams, deputy-coroner, held an inquest at the Bush Hotel touching the death of the lad Morgan, who, as reported in Monday's issue, died at the hospital from the effects of a blocking whu;h he received at the works. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death. ...

... THE RESULT OF NOMINAT- ING A GUARDIAN. At the Cardiff police-court on Wednesday, before Mr R. 0. Jones and Mr A. Hood, Christo- pher Williams, farmer, Llandaff, was summoned by James Hill Harding, farmer, Maindy, for an assault. Mr Ensor appeared for plaintiff, and Mr L. T. Reece for the defendant. It appeared from the statement of the complainant on the evening of the 1st April both parties ...

... SUPPOSED MURDER ON A CARDIFF LADEN SHIP. Intelligonce was received in Sunderland on j Wednesday night of the supposed murder of George Dunn, mate of the barque Squando, of Liverpool, whose body was washed ashore at Guano Islands on the 20th February last. The captain and steward of the vessel have been arrested on the Peruvian coast on suspicion. The Squando sailed from Cardiff for South ...

... 147 PERSONS TAKEN ILL. A correspondent from Inverness telegraphed on Saturday afternoon as follows:—Excitement still prevails in Inverness, in consequence of the poisoning of a number of the townspeople by means of hot cr.)8S buns. The nature of the poison cannot be discovered until the substance in which it is supposed tp have existed has been analysed. From the symptoms it would appear that ...

... At Sunderland police court, on Wednesday, Thos. Fury, a convict, undergoing fifteen years' penal servitude for attempted murder in Norfolk, m August, 1879, was remanded until Friday, charged with the murder of Maria Fitzsimmons, in February, 1869, at Sunderland. It is stated that the prisoner had confessed to the Norfolk authorities to having committed the murder. The chief warder is a witness ...

... CARRIAGE AcciDENT.— A very serious carriage accident occurred on Thursday at Pontypridd. Just before noon Dr. Leckie and his coachm&n were driving up the Tumble, near the railway station, when, just at the tramroad, on the rails, the horse slipped, and there was a. crash. The doctor and the man were both pitched out head- long, and both the carriage sh&fts were broken? Fortunately the two ...

... PROPOSED RETURN OF THE EX- KHEDIVE. PARIS, April 9.—The question of the return of the ex-Khedive's family to Egypt seems likely to be troublesome. Two years ago the ex-Khedive wrote to the Sultan, as Caliph, to solicit permis- sion for his family to return to Constantinople. He received word that it was admitted that the ex-Khedive's family, especially the female portion of it, could no longer ...

... At Salford on Wednesday, WilUam Hardicker, late secretary of the Preston branch of the Amal- gamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, re- ceived iour months' imprisonment for embezzle- ment. ...

... EXTRAORDINARY FIND OF PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS. At the excavations necessary for laying down a drain in the centre of the city of San Francisco, near the church, the Antiquary says perhaps one of the largest finds of pre-historic bronzes ever made was unearthed. At a small distance below the surface, under a stratum :of ashes and charcoal, the pick and shovel laid bare one of those immense ...