... SECO ND EDI1TION,~ i -l- 1 .. . . . I. f. f_ a =A L ±'eI ! wh 'EbTERXax MAIL, O5TtcF. 4.30 A.U. rig TI-lTE IBATTLE AT h'tan TRINKITAT. rea v ?? DEF:EAT OF THE ah' ARABSe anc gur STUBBOP2N RLESISTANICE OF THE co ENEMSY. and C1ALLANT CONDUCT OF THE !q.-p BRPTISI-1 TROOPS, and sire wit TNCiDENTS OF TIHE FIGHT, ei the! THIE ENGLISH LOSS, tior hom G REAT CAPTURE OF STORES AND end AK'UIUNI'IIOiN. ...

... RlEWARD FOR SAVING LIFE. is/e EXCITING SCENE AT A WRECK. A I John Wilcox, seaman, now living in Evelvn- v L' street, Cardiff, was on Saturday presented with a l ue diploma for saving life, at th e Board of Trade tl ilk Mercantile Marine Office, Cardiff. Mr. turner, I w of chief superintendent, handed him the diploma, L re- stating that he was instructed by the Board of m st Trade to do so. ...

... ?? ,f IFRIDA , Z.ARCH 7, i84. ., _ r At last there appear to be distant possibiities c . asettlement of some description being arrived at :_ - L C t_.- I. .AsrvA in the Soudan. There are symptoms of disaffec- tb tion among the Mahdi's followers, and in an Su engagement with friendly Arabs some of his troops n hav-e sustained a repulse. Tn consequence of dis- quieting rumours from Upper Egypt, ...

... I ad HOUSE OF LORDS-Tussnny. as Their Lordships met at a quarter past four he o'clock. to REFORMATORY SCHOOLS. I ;h- Lord NORTON inquired whether the Govern- ha ment were taking any steps preparatory to legis- tol lation on the subject of the report of the Royal U: ad Comission on Ind-usialandReformatory Schools. Qi he Eaci GRANVILLE replied that the important DI subject was under the ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. J BERLIN, Monday.—Prussia has proposed, in the Federal Council, the prolongation of the anti- socialist law for two years. At the opening of the Reichstag, next Thursday, Herr Von Boetticher, Secretary of State, will represent the Emperor. It is understood that in a speech from the throne special stress will be laid upon the importance of legislation connected with social ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF AWARDS BY THE PRINCESS OF WALES. On Monday her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales personally presented to two coxswains of the National Lifeboat Institution rewards for their gallant services in saving life. The cere- mony took place at Marlborough House, in the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Colvillo of Culross, Colonel Stanley Clarke, ...

... NEWPORT. BUILDING SOCIETY.—At the annual meeting of the depositors and investors in the Newport, Pillgwenlly, and Maindee Building Society, the Chairman stated that 30 new houses per month were being erected in different parts oi the town, and although only a young society, being esta- blished in 1877, it had during last vear advanced nearly L5,000 on house property. The report, which has ...

... At the meeting of the assessment committee of the Bedwellty Union, held on Wednesday, Mr W. H. Powell presiding, Mr F. Vaughan, New- port, representing the South Wales Culliery Company, Cwmtillery, appealed against their present assessment on the ground that the Home Office having imposed upon them the necessity of using locked lamps, which necessitated the em- ployment of extra men, they were ...

... TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—Many thanks to you for your timely article in to-day's paper on Liberal organi- sation in South Wales, especially C- iiganshirc and Carmarthenshire. I can answer for Car- marthenshire that we are very backward. We Liberals have an existence here, but existence without organisation. Where are the Liberal committees? Where and how did your Carmarthen reporter come to know of ...

... COLUMN FOR GJRLcl AND BOYS, BY MAGGIE SYMINGTON, Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation, That is known as the Children's Hour. hongfell«w, TItI QUEEN'a BOOK—AT MONAWWE SURN— DROWNED !— S¥MPATHY~A PITEOUS SIGHT — DEATH FOR THE FIRST TIME—FOUND—PRE' TAUINO THE CHOCQLATK-A MONJfY STORY— TOO PERSONAL — CHOCOLATE CREAMS — THE ...

... Our London correspondent telegraphing at 11 p.m. 011 Friday, says :—The House has been wait- ing in intense anxiety for news from Suakim. At nine o'clock a telegram from aile of the news agencies was posted in the Cloak-room announcing that fighing had been going on since seven this morning, the result being undecided. The fact is the b.oltle has been postponed, and may possibly not be ...

... PORTRAITS sketched in and painted from life without any photograph. Harris, Merthyr. 53857 ...