... AWFUL FATALITY AT LL AN TRI > S ANT. On Saturday, Mr E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquest at Llantrissant on the body of Thomas Evuns, who was subject to fits. On a recent evening he was seen to sit on the hedge of a hill above the town, and afterwards he was missed. At night his father and others instituted a search for him, but failed to Had him. Next morning another search party went to ...

... At the Cardiff police-court on Tuesday, before Mr A. Thomas, Mr Q, Bird, and Lieut.-Col. Hill, John Davies, a yttung man, one of a gang of gipsies on the Ely Common, was charged with assaulting and wounding Police-Constable Geo. Harbottle, by striking him on the head with a stick on the Ely-road on Monday night. The constable said that he saw the defendant on the Ely-road late on Monday night. ...

... WYLLARD'S WEIRD. A NOVEL, BY M. BRADDON. Author of LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET, PHANTOM FOBTUJJK, &C. CHAPTER XXIV.-AN ELOPEMENT ON NEW LINES. Mademoiselle Duprez occupied a first floor in an airy terrace of houses overlooking the Hoe. She was the kind of little woman to whom eating and drinking and fine dress are matters of very small- moment, but who could not have endured to live in a shabby ...

... A LLANDISILIO SURGEON'S j. PETITION FOR DIVORCE. In the High Court of Justice (Probate and Divorce Division), on Saturday, before the Right Hon. the President and a special jury, the case of Davies v. Davies and Tomney came on for hear- ing. The petitioner, Henry Ellis Davies, a sur- geon, practising at Llandisilio, near Carmar- then, prayed for a dissolution of his marriage with Elizabeth ...

... An influential meeting of delegates, elected by vestries of the 14 parishes in the union, was held at the Assembly-room, Aberayron, on Saturday, to consider the resolution recently passed by the assessment committee, and subsequently ratified by the board of guardians, to appoint a public valuer to re-assess the whole union; aud to en- deavour, if possible, to devise some method of averting ...

... Scene—Scotch board-school. Small boy, to officiating''teacher Awanttae jine the book- keeping'clas Officiating teacher The junior class, I suppose—not the advanced ? Small boy; A t'hink a'll jine the advanced. Ma Blither h«s A t'hink a'Ii jine the advanced. Ma Blither hIlS a k>dger, an' a keep his book. ...

... HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER. SLEEPING WITH THE CORPSE. CONFESSION OF THE CRIME. John Wright, aged 53, of Orelton, Hereford- shire, gave himself into the custody of the police on Wednesday for the murder of his wife, Eliza. He was brought to Leominster and remanded. The prisoner, who is a saw sharpener, states that on Tuesday his wife came home and threatened to cut his eye out with a knife. He took ...

... A 9.m AFFAIR.—Au inquest was held before Mr W. V. James, coroner, on Tuesday, at the Landshipping Inn, upon the body of a child, aged 21 months, the son of James Jones, an army pensioner, residing at King-street, who lost his life by burning onSaturday night. The mother left the child with her husband, who was sitting on the bed, when she went out shopping, and upon her return shortly after ...

... Owing to complaints of the excessive cost of proceedings in bankruptcy through heavy fees allowed to official receivers, the 6 per cent, granted under the new Act will shortly be re- duced to 1. ...

... CARDIFF, Saturday. — English wheat firm; foreigi dull, and in buyers' favour. Flour unchanged. Onti Is per qr higher. Maize firm. Barley 6d per qt dearer. Other articles same as last. CARMARTHEN, Saturday.—(William Pugli's Report.)- A small market, and very few offers of grain, conse- quently prices remain much as follow :For wheat, from 32s to 35s barley, 30s to 32s white oats, 19s to 21s ...

... EXTRA PRECAUTIONS AT THE CARDIFF TOWN-HALL. Intimation has been given that by reason of the recent dynamite outrages in London, special precautions are to bs observed in reference to the; Cardiff Town-bali. An old order, more or less in abeyance, that disused rooms shall be locked, has been resuscitated. A uniformed polioeman is stationed about the Town-ball, and the passage through the ...

... Lord Absrdare (the president of the Royal Geographical Society), the Bishop of SaIforJ, Mr Jacob Bright, M.P., Mr A. Arnold, M. P., and Mr Henry Lee, M. P., were present on Tuesday night at tne inaugural meeting of the Man- chester Geographical Society. Lord Aberdare moved a resolut on declaring that the establish- ment of the society would aid very largely in the advancement of science, ...