... About eight o'clock on Monday evening, two men, armed and disguised, entered the house of James Curtin, Coom, neai Castle Island, by the back door. Anothe.r man kno. kod at the. rout doer, and was admitted by the first two. Curtin and his wife wer,1 sitting before the kitchen fire. She gave him the child for protection, and stood between. The men charged Curtin with refusing sites for ...

... THE EXPLOSION FUND.—At a meeting of the committee of management of the above fund, held at Newport on Saturday, Mr T. Cordes pre- siding, it was reported that the number of widows and orphans remaining on the fund was sensibly decreasing. Two or three years since the weekly amount distributed was £4-2; now not more than j325 was needed for the weekly payments. Ihe treasurer had remaining in ...

... The New Zealand Shipping Company's steam ship Tongariro arrived at Plymouth on Wednes- day, after an unprecedented passage of 37 days 20 hours and 32 minutes, from New Zealand, steaming time, This is tho fastest passage on record. ...

... THE FALL OF BERBER, GREAT MASSACRE. DONGOLA TO BE INVESTED, A Haifa telegram in the second -edition of the Times of Thursday, says :—The Berber garrison fought till the ammunition was exhausted. The rebels then entered the town, and massacred nearly all the soldiers and inhabitants. Hussein Pasha Khalifa, Governor of Beber, and the chief of the Fagara tribe, are badly wounded, and are ...

... j AFFAIRS IN ZULTJLAND. [RF/CTEUV TELEGRAM.] CAPETOWN, May 21st (vol Plymouth,)—Contra- j dictorv reports are current regarding the state of affairs in Zaluland, but it is, officially admitted that the situation is serious. General Sir Leices- ■ ter Smyth has left Maritzburg for Ekowe, and it is understood he has instructions that ali at Ekowe are to be kept under arms. The Colonial Government ...

... OUTIl WALES COLLEGE iM lIE CAIiDlFF CORPORATION 5 GRANT. E. J. REED'S MOTION IN iH THE COMMONS. » COMMITTEE EMPOWERED TO [d INSERT CLAUSE IN THE BILL. i> RESULT OF THE DIVISION. 'd s'16c'a^ correspondent, telegraphing from |( *,House of Commons, says Independently of lSt and sectarian considerations, the inhabi- }i J^of Cardiff generally will hail with satisfac- «t the announcement (which I ...

... SWANSEA HARBOUR TRUST. The monthly meeting of the Swansea Harbour Trustees was held at the Town-hall, on Monday afternoon. Mr G. B. Strick presided, and there were also present the Mayor (Mr R. D. Burnie), Alderman Thomas, Councillors B. Bath, J. Cady, Daniel Jones, and E. H. Bath Mr J. Crow Richardson, Mr J. Clarke Richardson, and Mr F. James. FINANCE. The financial statement, a summary of ...

... MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—In consequence of the death of Mr George Arthur Rees, an election of a councillor in his stead was fixed for the 1st July. The last day for nomination was on Tuesday, and Mr Win. Harries, of Gloucester House, who has issued his address, is the only candidate in the field. ...

... LOCAL POSTAL ARRANGE- MENTS. We are requested to state that Treharris, Quaker's Yard, and Navigation sub-offices, for- merly served by Pontypridd, are now served from Cardiff, and to prevent delay, letters posted locally should be addressed Near Cardiff. ...

... The following advertisements, which appear in the London papers, seem to relate to the accident reported as having occurred to Lord Aylcsford on the evening of the i.'erby Day :— Any person who witnessed the assault by a railway official on the Earl of Aylesford, at the London Bridge Railway Station, on Wednesday evening last, about 11.30 o'clock, will oblige by communicating with the ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, Monday Morning.—The dynamite ex- plosions in England have produced an impression that outrages of a similar character may be attempted in this country. Extra guards will therefore be detailed, and the police will keep a sharp look-out to prevent the importation of dynamite from America, where the advanced Socialists of the empire have settled io large numb ...

... At the Cardiff police-court on Tuesday—before Alderman Jones, Mr Rees Jones, and Mr J. W. Vachell—Carl Stilander, a Russian Fin, the chief officer of a Russian vessel, was charged with at- tempting to commit a criminal assault on a married Woman named Grace Light. Mr Hancock ap- peared for the prisoner, by direction of the captain of the vessel to which the prisoner belonged. It appeared that ...