... A HEAVY LOSS OF DIAMONDS. Bills offering £ 500 reward were circulated in London to-day, for the recovery of a packet of diamonds valued at £ 6 000, which was lost on Thursday evening by Mr Field, diamond-merchant of Hatton-gardens. Mr Field states that he was taking the packet home with him to Highbnry, riding on the top of an omnibus, and that as it Was raining when he descended he ran to his ...

... TWO LOVERS DROWNED. Ât1 At, inctuest was opened yesterday at Conway on °°dies of Florence Emily Brewerton and Tu ^'agentreiber, visitors to Llandudno from Retitle Wells, at which place the deceased for maQ was a curate. Deceased were searching on Monday afternoon, and were sur- yc by the incoming tide and drowned. The lady was twenty years old, and they were adj3*61* married. The inquest was ...

... THE MANUFACTURE OF PETITIONS. One of the witnesses called before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Coal and Wine Dues Petitions stated that he had paid 9320 and obtained 90,000 Signatures in favour of the continuanco of the dues. Mr Lloyd, secretary of the London Municipal Reform League, said that 250 petitions, containing 20,000 signatures, had been presented against the ...

... A Collision Anticipated. I The proposed anti-coercion meetings in Jster are causing great excitement through- ^t the province, as the Loyalists declare they will hold counter-demonstra- tins in each town on the same day as the Nation- |sts. The proclamation of the Armagh meeting, ? °h was to have been held to-day, by the ord-Lieutenant has been followed by the ^Qtiouncemenfc of similar ...

... Shocking Discovery at Cardiff. j A WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH. On Monday night as PoLc-serpeant James was- passing through Craddock-street, Riverside, shortly before twelve o'clock, his attention was called by suttir of the neighbours living in Craddock-street to :« strong smell arising from something burning, and whilst searching to fino where the smell came from, a man living at No 86 called the ...

... £15,000 Damages. A fire of considerable magnitude broke out in an old quarter of Nottingham last night, resulting in the complete destruction of an extensive timber yard. Several small tenements adjoining were also consumed,and a complete panic set in amongst the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who hastily removed the furniture from their houses, which at one time appeared to be doomed. A ...

... At Belfast to-day a labourer named Watson Spence and his wife were fully committed for trial, charged with the murder of their child, whom it is alleged, after being beaten in a barbarous manner by the male prisoner, was dashed by him into a vessel of boiling water. The child, which was entered in burial society, died a few hours afterwards in terrible agony, and the ease was reported to the ...

... [OBTAINING A,C0FFIN BY FRAUD. At tbe police-court on Tuasdxv—before Dr. J. D. James and Dr. Brown—Ellen Roach, an elderly woman, was charged with obtaining a coffin, value £ 1 0s 6d, from the Bedwellty Board of Guardians, by fraud, on 26th tilt.—Mr J. A. Shepard prosecuted on behalf of the guardiano. The facta of the case were these:—On 26th July defendant went to the house of Mr Phillips, the ...

... GHASTLY DISCOVERY ATGLYN- NH. A ghastly discovery is reported from Glyn N ii. A nu in tier of boys wre nutting near a disu-ed quarry at Pontneath-Vaughan, wnau one of them noticed the body of a man lying near. Believing he was asleep, the lad went up to the man and touched bis f'nee. To his horror the heari rolled away. Frightened almost out of his wits, the hid fled from tile spot,and ...

... ALARMING FIRE AT WEST SILVERTON. 10,000 Paraffin Barrels Destroyed The Manhalton Wharf, West Silverton, used for the storage of empty and full paraffin barrels, has been, during the whole of last night, the scene of a most destructive con- flagration. The wharf is surrounded by a number of buildings, in which manufactures of a dangerous nature are carried on, and is con- nected by a wooden ...

... AUNT HILDA. I She is only a little old lady, with a BWFTEFC, patient face and a pair of sad gray eyes, which are gazing with a far off, wistful expression through the neatly curtained window at the win- ter landscape without. Could Aunt Hilda's many friends have seen her thus, great would have been their surprise. Fifteen years ago she. came to this small, inland town, and her quiet, kind ...

... I AN INUNDATED COLLIERY. The serious occurrence at Exhail Colliery, tear Nuneaton, whereby three hundred miners have been thrown out of work, through an influx of water into the shaft, has now developed into a disaster of no ordinary character, the water hav- ing extended to the workings, and rapidly rising. The management are doing their utmost to over- come the difficulty, but it is feared ...