... MR F. J. BEAVAN ON LOCAL POLITICS. The usual meeting of the Junior Liberal Association was held at the Gordon Coffee Tavern on Wednesday night. Mr W. Johnston (vice- chairman of the association) occupied the chair. Mr F. J. BEAVAN, who was cordially received, after a brief reterence to the work and the future of the Junior Liberal Association, proceeded to deal with the condition of losal ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, Sunday.—Lawrence Donovan, the man who jumped from Brooklyn Bridge, under- took a still bolder feat to-day, jumping from the Suspension Bridge at the Falls of Niagara. He was slightly injured. ...

... RETURNING-OFFICERS' COSTS TAXED. HisjHonour Judge Jones was engaged several hours at the Newnham County Court, on Wednes- day, in taxing the charges of Mr Alfred Sartoris, high sheriff for the county, in the matter of the late election for the Forest of Dean. division, when Mr Thomas Blake (G.L.) defeated Mr Frederick Louis Lucas (U.L.). Mr Blake con- ducted his own case, and Mr M. F. Carter, ...

... SAMBO PROVES A TARTAR. Thomas Simmonds, a good specimen of the English seaman-, was charged at the Newport borough police-court, on Wednesday, with fighting at the Shipping Office. Mr T. Porteous, local superintendent, said that a crew were going intoa room tosign articles on Mon- day afternoon. One of these was a coloured man named Mansfield, who had walked from London to get a berth. ...

... The steamship Amo, of Sunderland, was towed intoFalnouth on Wednesday in a disabled condi- tion, having broken her mainshaft off Cape Finis- TERR ...

... h RUSSIAN ULTIMATUM. OPENING OF THE SOBRANJE. ■ RUSSIAN FLEET ORDERED TO VARNA. THE VACANT7 THRONE, IBEETXB'S TELEGRAM. I TIRNOVA, Saturday. General Kaulbars despatched an ultimatum to the Bulgarian Government this afternoon com- plaining of the treatment of Russian subjects in Bulgaria, and of the general system of terrorism employed by the Government, and threatening that if in three days' ...

... Oes wedd le ryfeddach,-a'i anndl Yn wenwynig niwlach? Halogir, beichir Taibach Gan dewfwg bynod afiacb. CTN FFIG WTSON. ...

... FUNERAL OF THE REV. J. S. ADAMS, AT LLANDDOWROR. The funeral of the Rev, J. S. Adams, of West Exeter, Otsega Co., New York, U.S.A., took place at Llanddowror on Monday afternoon. De- ceased, who was a. native of Llanddowror, went to America from Beaufort, Breconshire, about 37 years ago, and successfully ministered to the Calvinistic Methodists in that country for 36 years. He travelled ...

... At the Rbondda miners' meeting on Monday, Mr Abraham, M.P., referred to the decision given by the magistrates at Ystrad, last week, on the outb Dunraven Colliery litigation. The case was one in which a workman had claimed certain allowances for clod-cutting, the ground of action being that an official of the proprietary bad sanctioned certain rates of payment. The bench (the stipendiary was ...

... At the Newport Borough police-court on Wednesday William Crane, hobbler, was charged with violently assaulting P.C. James. On Monday evening the officer, who has been in the force only seven weeks, was called in by the landlord of the Royal Oak public-house to remove the prisoner. The officer got thrown, and both he and another policeman were badly used after they got prisoner out of the house ...

... THE LATE MRS E\RAN DAVIES GARNDIFFAITH. BEQUEST'S TO RELIGIOUS & INSTITUTIONS. The late Mrs Evan Davies, of Garndiifaith,near Pontypool, whose death we reported a day or two ago, was buried on Tuesday in the graveyard attached to Pisgah Baptist Chapel, Talywain. Mrs Davies was held in the highest respect, and her funeral was attended by a large concourse of people. Services were held both in ...

... SUPPOSED LOSS OF A VESSEL AND ALL HANDS. A Lloyd's telegram states that theTorbay Lass, of Brixham, arrived at Bristol 011 Tuesday night, and reported that on the 9ch inst., in 44'33 N., 9 20 W., she sighted a steamer, schooner rigged, heavily laden, either leaking or with a broken propeller. Heavy seas were breaking over her. She was suddenly lost sight of, and it is feared that she foundered ...