... A RAILWAY STATION MYSTERY AT HEREFORD. [SFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] I An inquest was held at Hereford to-day touch- ing the death of an unknown female child. A porter went into the waiting-room at the joint station and noticed a brown paper parcel behind the door. He carried it to the left-luggage office, where, at first, it was thought to be meal. At last it was opened, and then it WM ...

... I The Voice of Truth.' It Professor Huxley, who is now s^ay114 Bournemouth, has been seriously ill dunnf? spring, and he has been ordered to Switzerland for the benefit of his health as 8 as the weather becomes fine and settled. *• # ft'ft Mr James's celebrated herd of Guernsey Ca which has secured so many prizes of late ye*'e' to be sold off at Bournemouth curing & and West of England Show. ...

... A LOVER'S FRENZIED ACT, The other night a youncr man named Thomas Carmyllic, employed as a gardener, and residing at Fort-street., Brought-y Ferry, attempted to commit suicide in his lo-loring* hy catting his throat with a razor. At an early hour in tho evening C irmyllie emered a oloset, and, as he was rat seen for several hours, his land- lady began to think something was wrong, and entering ...

... The Kentish Observer has received an interesting explabation of the caterpillar visitation which ig proving so destructive to the fruit and nut crops in Kent. It states that a farmer who has beau making an investigation into the subject has co-eta the conclusion that the spawn which produced the caterpillars was deposited by the swarms of but- terflies which swept our coasts last autumu, find ...

... Mr Fred Vokea, member of the well-known family of comedians, died on Sunday last. ...

... THE SELEC r COMMITTEE ON PILOTAGE. The Case of Cardiff Cited. The Select Committee of the House of Com- mons on Pilotage assembled yesterday, under the presidency of Lord Claud Hamilton. Mr R. S. Liversage, secretary of the Liverpool P.lots' Association. gave evidence with reference to the system of pilotage in Liverpool, where the various funds were under the admirlistration of the Mersey ...

... MEETING OF FOREST OF DEAN MINERS. The annual demonstration and gala ill con. Section with thalocal miners' union was held on Saturday at the Speech House. The different lodges formed into a procession and, headed by the brass bands of the district, marched to the Speecli ouse, where a great public meeting was held. Mr John district presicieiit, tl)B clitir,Ilr j. Baldwin ivioved tile first ...

... I [SPECIAL TKLKGBAM TO THE ECHO. I The London correspondent of the Dub- lin Evening Mail says party feeling is very strong in London It is whispered that two M.P.'s, one a Nationalist and the other a supporter of the Government, met at a well- known restaurant in Piccadilly on Saturday night, and got to such hiph words that the Parnellite aimed a blow at the other and they had to be forcibly ...

... Gossip of the Day. i From To-day's London Letters. I The National Association of Journalists. Journalists in London, as elsewhere, are looking forward (says the correspondent of the Bristol Times and Mirror) with considerable interest to the forthcoming conference of the National Association of Journalists, which opens at Bristol on Saturday. It will be a very important meeting, for the ...

... The Central in Trouble. I WHAT BECAME OF THE 6d ? A Fine of X50. At the Cardiff police-court to-day—before Mr Goodwich (deputy stipendiary) and Dr Paine— Charles Hardy, of 72. James-street, Docks, was charged with selling by retail beer and spirits without a license. Mr Beer, Inland Revenue, conducted the prosecution, and Mr Barnett defended. The maximum penalty for selling the spirits was £ ...

... Another London Mystery GHASTLY DISCOVERY IN THE I THAMES. A profound sensation was created late on Tuesday afternoon by the report that another fiendish murder bad been committed, this time in the western part of London. There is, unfortu- nately, too much reason to believe that the report will prove to be absolutely correct, and already the police are pursuing enquiries based upon this ...

... r> A Man Killed. f last Mj a Cl^sh at Shrewsbury railway station, 'hingf^John Harrison, of Harboriie, Bir- kjjjgj ^ ...