... The Kail ;>• Haddington has determined u relinquish public coursing, and bis kennel will hfi (old About tbe middle of SeptMfat Bitfi ...

... FRANCE AND THE NEW HEBRIDES. rREUTJiJR'S TXLNGRAM.1 I PABIS, Monday.—Semi-official contradiction is given to the report that the French Government bad intimated to the British Government its intention of establishing a protectorate over the New Hebrides. M. Waddiugton, on the con- trary, is stated to have repeatedly declared that the measures taken by France were of a tem- porary character, ...

... Much excitement has been occasioned in the neighbourhood of Kineton, Warwickshire, by the elopement of the late rector of an adjoining parish with a domestic in his household. The couple took apartments in Warwick, and there remained for some days, but their whereabouts being suspected they removed to Leamington. The girl's friends communicated with the police, and while passing subsequently ...

... A CARDIFF SHIP ON FIRE. A fire broke out in the hold of the British tteamer Richard Cory, of Cardiff, fi-oiri Cataiiia, at Lisbon, whilst discharging her cargo of sulphur into lighters. The fire had not been extinguished at 8.15 on Sunday morning. The managing owner of the Richard Cory is Mr D. Jones. ...

... DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUIClDf. The quiet little village of Hall GreeN. near Birmingham, was on Saturday afternoon the scene of an appalling tragedy. The wife 0\ a labourer, named Taylor, was left at home wit-¡ two young children, her husband having gone to work, and tbe other five children to the neifcli- bouring village. On the return of the latter, shor.My after two o'clock, the eldest ...

... VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE. I MERTHYR SHOOTING CLUB. I A spoon competition took piace on Saturday at the Merthyr range, with the following results Mr Darke, 57 (spoon) Private T. G. Jones, 57; Sergeant Siedle, 52 Corporal Robert David, 56 Col.-Sergeant Lockyn, 52 W. Morgan, 51 Private Dennis Downing, 51. ENCAMPMENT OF THE 4TH SOUTH WALES BORDERERS. On Saturday the Newport Corps of the 4-th ...

... SLEEP-WALKING. Sleep walking or somnambulism is explained on the hypothesis that the sleep is partial in its area portions of brain which are usually involved in the physiological condition peculiar to sleep remain exempt, so that the sleeper exhibits powers which sleep usually annuls. The individual appears to possess an unusual power of calling his muscle# generally into activity in response ...

... UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF KORTH WALES. Miss Hughes, sister of the RJV H. Piice Hughes, of London, the well-known Wesleyan minister, has beeu appointed to the principalship of the Ladies' Hostel, which has been established in connection with the University College of North Wales, Bangor. ...

... Mr Chamberlain apparently thought it wisest not to leave Swansea by train for Llaneliy, but drove all the way from that place to Llaneliy. Mr J. H. Rogers pre- sided at the Llaneliy meeting, and though the tent was filled, there were not two thousand people present. In opening the proceedings the chairman was greatly interrupted by loud cheersfor Gladstone. Mr Chamberlain, who wore a blue ...

... I A CASE IN POINT. Young Johnny Jarpley was inclined to be a good boy, and his mother spent much time in instructing him in the enormity of the sin of telling falsehoods, and, to impress it upon him, wound up by telling him that people who told lies cboked to death. When the Rev Mr Muckle and his wife were taking dinner at the Jarpleys' on a return call the next day, Mrs Jarpley asked her ...

... COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN THE ABERDARE VALLEY. Two Men Killed- A very sad accident occurred at the George Pit, Cwmpennar, on Monday morning. Edwin Tudor, Cwmbach, and a, fellow workman wera clearing a fall, when the roof fell on them, and both were killed. ...

... John Harrington, 15, was charged nat the Merthyr police-court on Monday—before Mr Mertbyr police-court on Monday—before Mr North, Mr W. Harris, and Mr W. Smythe—with indecently assaulting Catherine Ann Rees, a little girl, eisrht years cld, on Thursday. From the evidence it appeared that the boy, who lives in the same street as complainant, saw the child near the Morlais brook. He threw her ...