... CARDIFF MUNICIPAL' ELECTIONS. I SIR E. J, REEI), MP., ON THE LIBERAL VICTORIES. A telegram having beea despatched at one a, m. to Sir Edward Reed, conveying to him the news of the Liberal gain (our seats on the town council, Mr R. N. Hail, secretary of the Cardiff Liberal Association, received by the following Liberal Association, Cardiff.—Have watched municipal contests with intense interest, ...

... SEQUEL TO A BRISTOL ASSIZE TRIAL. Yesterday, for the second time within four days, the attention of the Taunton magistrates was occupied with a complaint arising out of a trial at Bristol assize last week. On Saturday a man named Yarde was sentenced by Mr Justice Wills to 18 months' bard labour for an offence under the Criminal Law Amendment Act against Eliza- beth Burford, the daughter of a ...

... THE POISONING OF A WED- DING PARTY. In connection with the poisonous'wedding cake at Jarrcw, from the ili-effects of which 20 people are now known to have suffered, the report of the county analyst (Mr Stock) has been received. It states that the icing on one of the cakes contained 22 per cent. of arsenic. The baking powder, lump sugar, and castor sugar obtained by the maker of thecake, and ...

... SPORTiNG ITEMS. Robinson bad sucb a tough seat on Gipey Kiftll in the opening race at Brighton, on Tu-sday, that he declined to ride again during the aflernoon. A fine race was witnestied for the Hassocks Plate at Brighton yesterday, Attila securing verdict a bead in advance of Roodee and who ran a dead beat for second place. Tonans, after having been at his owner's place in Northamptonshire ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENTS AT CARDIFF. Early this morning a carpenter named Den Keeney, azed 39, and living at 36, C iancery-lane, Grangetowu, was crossing the railway line in that neighbourhood wbou an engine, that was passing at the time, knocked him down. His ribs were fractured, and his right ankle badly injured. He was conveyed to the infirmary and detained. About the same time a labourer named ...

... John L. Sullivan, the champion pugilist, is en route to this country by the Cunard steamer Cephalonia. He has with him for exhibition the old be't presented to him as a mark of esteem by; the citizens of Boston, U.S. It ia chiefly-com- posed of gold, studded with diamonds, and as the Board of Customs will not allow it to be delivered without payment of duty, which would amount to over one ...

... THE ALLEGED OUTRAGE AT WASHINGTON. An Imaginative Penny-a-Liner at Work. jCKNTRAL NKW3 TELEGELAR.1, NEW YORK, Friday Afternoon. The sensational bory of au infernal machine having been sent to Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme Court, turns out to be the work of an imaginative and unscrupulous penny-a-liner named Sherburne G. Hopkins. This individual, Suding news somewhat slack at Washington ...

... The Conservative Party Forrr^- lates a Plan of its Own. Tha Preenvan's Journal has received frtn its London correspondent, who has himself Rd the document from what he states is an ir ortant eouns, Copy of a memorandum of aJcheme, proposed by certain important member of the Conservative party, for a settlement question. Although the corresponded does not say that this scheme has been brouh ...

... THE MUSICAL NEEDS OF1 WALES. the LECTURE BY DR. PARRY AT peen - CARDIFF. sam who The meeting of the Cardiff Cynamrodoriou Society held on Friday at their hall in t. Mary- sed street, Cardiff, was a successful one in every andrespect. The was a larg attendanc, the cow- Zg-party including Msajor Jones (presididng), Dr. ally Parry, Mr. D. Emlyn Evans (DyfedII Mr. B. n ?eGwvnfe EvansD (eecretawy ...

... MRI G06CHEN AT BATEL to -- in AN ENTHUSIASTIC DEMNONSTh ?? cea ice TIOMN iin __ are A PROTEST AGAINST PARNELLITE he ROWDYISM. die A Unionist demonstration was held in the Theatre Royal, Bath, on Frid'ay, when several thousands of D people assembled to hear an address from the ?? Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, U.P. The chair was tig taken by the Marquess of Bath, us Mr. Gosecss, who was very warmly ...

... THE ATTEMPT ON EX-MARSHAL BAZAINE. TRIAL OF HILLAIRAND. (CENTRAL SKWS TELEGRAM.] Friday Afternoon. — The trial of HiiUiraud, the Frenchman who attempted tc itiurder ex-Marshal Bazaine, was resumed to-day. The Public Prosecutor informed the court that he ail instructed to demand a sentence of eight »ea rs' liaiJ labour, and it is believed the sentence • Woot La much less than that. ...

... Tnjs Hacdx, Friday.—Che police yesterday two men and aa whom they iteve to be dangerous forming part ot European Tba represented them- 1>. traders in M,.iarascar produce. ...