... SINGULAR CASE OF BLOOD- POISONING, From Shetland is announced the death, nndet singular and melancholy circumstances, of Mr William Lawrence, who has acted as reader and catechist at Fair Isle since 1874. Some time ago, having a good deal of medical skill, be operated on a festered finger with which one of the islanders was troubled, and brought the case to a successful termination, but ...

... 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 ...

... THE MILITARY RISING IN MADRID. L DAILY NEWS TELEGRAM.] MADRID, Wednesday.—The official version the attempted military rising in Madrid barracks, on Saturday, is that at the Mordena del Principi Pio Barracks permission was refused to several soldiers of tbe regiment of Arapiles to take their usual afternoon leave, whereupon the men mur- mured, a.nd caused such trouble that it was found ...

... THE SAMPLE PARCEL POST. The sample post to be commenced on Saturday next i, as most persons are aware, no new thing. A sample post was in operation till 1872, when an important lowering of the letter rate rendered it cheaper to send samples as letters than as samples, and the special service thus came to -vtend. Tha new departure is a concession >l ysimblic con- venience, to which the ...

... A REOTOR ASSAULTS A BELL- RINGER. Another charge of assault was on Saturday preferred against the Riv Robert Gray, D.D., rector of Toller, the complainant being a parish- ioner named Barter. The latter was one of the bell-ringers, and some unpleasantness appears to have been caused by the rechr refusing to allow the bells to be rung on the occasion of a village fe;e. A tew days ago Barter and ...

... W; Last evening two youths named Halford and Exton, both in the service of Mr Stark, tenant of the Claremont Farm, Malpas, were loading a fowling piece when it exploded aud seriously injured Halford in the face. Exton had hold of the gun, and the powder had been put intj it. Halford, who had the shot in his hand, was about to put it into the gun, when it went off, it is supposed from the other ...

... On Saturday evening, a collier, named Evan Jones, aged 21, and engaged at the Ocean Col- liery, Ynysybwl, was crossing the railway line at Aberdare Junction, when he was knocked down by a train. The wheels passed over one of his legs, causing severe injurie!. The unfortunate man was removed to the Cardiff Infirmary, where it was found necessary to amputate the limb. ...

... NOVEL WAY TO BE IIID OF A HUSBAND. At Tipton, yesterday, Sarah Parkes, of Greets Grefin, near West Brumwicb, was charged with the attempted murder of her husband, a labourer, by setting fire to the bed on which he lay. The man, who was drunk, went to bed on August 28, and a short time afterwards the bed was found to be in flames, and Parkes had sustained such serious injuries that it is ...

... The Disaster at Exeter. THE INQUEST RESUMED. At the adjourned inquest, this morning, the borough surveyor said that although the town council had a bye-law regulating the entrances to and exit from public buildings, yet when the theatre plan came before the committee they wer3 advised that these bye-laws could not be enforced, the Public Health Act not giving the power t'-ie bye-law assumed. ...

... ASSAUUTNG A NEATH PUBLICAN. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE EOHO.) I At the borough police-court, Neath, to-day, John Bryant, collier, Ferndale, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour, withou the option of a. fine, for a ferocious assault upon Mr Rees, landlord of tne Tiger Inn. ...

... STRANGE DEATH OF A WOMAN AT PENCLAWDD. At Penclawdd, near Swansea, on Saturday afternoon, a married woman named Margaret Francis, aged 23 years, died under somewhat ex. traordinary circumstances. Deceased, who bad during the past few days been suffering from ill. health, was confined about one o'clock on the afternoon of the above-mentioned day. A mid- wife was promptly sent for, and she found ...

... A mass meeting of colliers engaged in the several Cwfarthfa pits was held on Monday. —Mr David Morgan (Georgetown) was appointed secre- tary.—A question arose with respect to the South Wales Permanent Fund. It appeared that one of the workmen had met with an accident about two years aero which disabled him for life. Recently the board of management at Cardiff sent up to the district secretary ...