... PKNTM PoucK COURT. On Monday—before Mr Gwilym Williams, stipendiary magistrate— William Hobbs, John Jones, John Churches, William Grimths, and Thomas Smith, colliers youths residing at Treherbert-were remanded for a week on the charge of wounding Isaac Edwards and Daniel Bevan on Saturday night. All the parties, it appears, had been drinking, though not together, or at the same public-house. ...

... A CHINESE MURDER CASE. A horrible story is told in a recent number of the Pckin Gazette. There was a young man of so bad a disposition that his father compelled him to fen chin (set up a separate establishment). One day the old man came to the son's house intend- ing to pawn one of the young man's coats in order to gamble with. The son. re fused, objecting also to give him a pair of stockings ...

... AT EIN GOHEBWYR. Dychweiiad y Gog. Dau gyfansoddiad. Ymddangosant, ond rhaid dweyd y galiesid canu yn well ar y testyn hwn, fel y cewch weled. Y Bore Olaf. -Cymeradwy fel barddoniaeth, er nad ydym yn credu yr athrawiaeth a osodir allan yn rhan flaenaf y darn. Eiliad. -Englyn glew iawn. Rhiban GIas. -Penillion llithrig iawn. Diwydrwydd.—Credwn y buasai y darn hwn yn well pe gadawsid y ...

... MATRIMONIAL COMPLICA- TIONS AT TREORKY. There was some excitement in the neighbour- hood of the police-station, Treorky, on Wednes- day, the cause of it being the arrest of a collier, named William Edwards, for deserting his wife. It appears that some months ago the man Edwards lodged with a person named David Williams, who then lived in Bute-street, Treorky. Williams had a wife and one child. ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. -TIE[UMDAY. The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. DISTURBED ZULULAND. Mr R. FOWLER (C., London) asked if the Government had any information concerning the Daily News account of the disturbed state of Zulu- land. Mr COURTNEY said the telegram published from -the Daily News correspondent was dated the 25th. A telegram had been received at the Colonial Office from Sir ...

... 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 ...

... DELEGATE MEETING OF STEAM COAL COLLIERS. THE AMENDMENTS IN THE SLIDING SCALE. THE APPOINTMENT OF AN UMPIRE. A general delegate meeting of the steam eoa! coHiers of South \Va!es and Monmouthshire WM hold at the Bute Arms, Aberdaro, on Niouday, when the workmen of various districts were very brgely and generally represented. The ob- ject of t!io meeting was to receive the reports of the ...

... V. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. NEW PEER, Their lordshiris met at four o'clock, when Mr ^Baroii Bramwoll took the oath and his seat as Lord Bramwell. He was introduced by Lords Coleridge and Penzance. k The Lord Chancellor presented commissions signed by her Majestv appointing-Lords Cork and i Derry, Lathom, Hawarden, and Monson Speakers of the House in the absence of the Lord Chan- Icellor. ...

... THE NEXT-OF-KIN FRAUDS. AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCU- MENT. ARREST OF ROGERS. At Manchester, on Tuesday afternoon, Arthur Mackenzie and W. H. Shakspeare were charged on remand with conspiracy to defraud. Mr Cobbett, who prosecuted, stated that Mackenzie had formerly been a clerk in the service of a barrister of some eminence, and Shakespeare was a solicitor on the Rolls, and had been in practice at ...

... THE PROPOSEO-DISFRAN- CHISEMENT OF GLOUCESTER. TItB Mayor of Gloucester has received an autograph letter from the Premier, acknowledging the receipt of a petition against the proposed dis- franchisement of that city. Mr Gladstone begs the Mayor to accept the assurance of the groat regret with whi)ch the Government an-ived at their decision, and added that that decision was adopted in a ...

... CHARGES AGAINST A CAR- DIFF CAPTAIN. On Wednesday, at the offices of the Local Marine Board, Bristol—before Mr Charles Hill (chairman), Captain Thompsou, and Mr Herapath —John Morgan, of George-street, Cardiff, was charged that whilst acting as master of the barque Redesdale, on a voyage from Cardiff to the West Indies, and thence to Havre, between the 18th day of August, 1881, and the 30th ...

... The operatic and ballad concerts which have now for several years been given at Cardiff, under the auspices of Lieut.-Col. Hill and the officers of the Glamorgan Artillery Volunteers, have done much to cultivate a taste for a higher class of music than is usually heard at concerts in provincial towns. Had it not been for these concerts, few if any opportunities would have oc- curred to the ...