... The annual moveable committee held its third sitting at Reading on Wednesday. Mr Bennett, ot Chester, the Grand Master, again presided. SUB-COSIMlTTEE'ri RRFOttT. The sub-committee .submitted their report re- viewing the proceedings of the directors daring the past year. Having expressed gratification at the numerical and financial progress of the order, they stated that the redistribution of ...

... POLICE.—At the Llandaff police-court on Wed- nesday—before Mr R. Rickards and Dr. Paine— Daniel Thomas, Whitchurch, was summoned for keeping open the Masons' Arms Hotel on Sunday during prohibited hours. He was convicted, and fined 10s and costs.—Evan Deane, John Hamer, Thomas Mills, Isaac Caviell, and John Francis were brought up in custody charged with being drunk and riotous at Whitchurch ...

... NEW KNIGHTS. Mr Bruce Lockhart Burnside, Q.C., Chief Justice of Ceylon, who has just received the honour of Knighthood, is the second son of the Hon. John James Burnside, late Surveyor- General of the Bahamas, and was born in 183o. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Easter Term, 1856. Mr Burnside was Solicitor- General of the Bahamas from 1864 to 1875, and Acting Attorney-General in 1865, ...

... About eleven o'clock on Sunday evening those inhabitants of Whitchurch who had not retired to rest were startled by the yells of about a dozen young men who, it seems, had been indulging in a Bacchanalian spree in the neighbourhood of Tongwynlais. At first no notice waa taken of th« hubbub, because it was thought it was only what is generally expected when the youth of the period get half oeas ...

... MIDDLESBOROUGII, Thursday,—The pig iron trade ha-, been in a firm s^ate turougnout the week. There has been rather more animation -About the market, although there is not much more business being done than was lately the case. Buyers are still rather cau- tions, and will not purchase long forward, still the makers are well soul for the next few weeks, and at the oresent time p'g irun ssems to ...

... ,PAM. 9.4ne 7. -The Senate to-dair Adopte-d by 136 vete* toli5 the 6rat readnmr a V# .bill for rerestaMiahhig diyorce in France. ...

... The Presa Associafcioa is informed that the committee of the Aborigines Protection Society, at a meeting at the Mansion House, on Saturdav at which the four Maori chiefs were present, passed a resolution to the effect that when tlie Maori deputation was ready for presentation, the committee would ask Lord Derby to grant an in- terview to the king and ohitif*. Owing to indis- position, King ...

... R. I [BY ObB. I .^r.^ vtzst+zt—n»r«o«- ss OF iI t«» TRi,T w: 1 of I 0t-^ «•• OF • £ caa, mi. iasi. >TTO H*L A R*A>VH. ...

... BARRY DOCK BILL. CONTINUATION OF THE EVI- DENCE FOR LORD BUTE. HousE OF COMMOS, Monday.—Our special correspondent writes A noticeable daily pre- liminary to the Barry Dock inquiry is the examination of the contents of the numerous boxes which contain the documentary part of Lord Bute s case. In these days of dynamiters the policemen on duty within the precincts of the House are unusually ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] PARIS, Friday.—In diplomatic circles here it is asserted that an arrangement has been arrived at between the French Government and the Prince of Monaco, by which the prince, should the sup- pression of the gaming tables at Monaco become inevitable, would cede the principality to France, obtaining in return a civil list for his own life and his son. ...

... BLACKWOOD. POLICE COURT.—Friday, before Dr. J. D. James (chairman) and the Rev. Rees Jones,— T. Godwin, of the Foresters' Arms, was summoned for selling beer after hours on the field where the Blackwood pic nic was held on the 2nd instant. His special license was only until 8 p.m., and be sold until 8.45. Fined 20s.—James Dowell and Joseph Tilney, colliers, were fined 10s each for sleeping in ...

... THE LOSS OF AN ATLANTIC LINER. BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. The two days' Board ot Trade inquiry at Liver- pool into the loss of the Transatlantic liner Illyrian off Cape Clear on May 15th, on Friday resulted in the captain being commended for watchfulness, but censured for omitting certain essential points for safe navigation, and not using the lead when so close to land. The state of the weather ...