... Condition of the Building. A meeting of the committee was holu on Tues- day at the Guildhall, S-vansoa, Mr Sidney Hart- land presiding. Some discussion took place with reference to the condition of the library building. —Councillor Mason described its condition as disgraceful.—Mr. Wm. Richards sugaested that the attention of Captain Colquhoun, the chief constable, should be drawn to tne ...

... After the lapse of two months, during which time the services have been held in the recently built schools adjoining, the Roatb-road Wesleyan Chapel was re-opened for public worship on Sunday. The Rev Thos. Cook, one of the five ministers appointed by the Wesleyan Conference for evangelical work, preached two eloquent sermons to very large congregations. When the organ-pipes, which been re- ...

... The committee of the Aberdare Hall of residence have appointed Miss Hutchias lady principal in the place of Miss Don, who has resigned. Miss Hutchins assisted Miss Clough, the principal of Newnham College, Camqridge, from time to time for abouc two years uuring the building of the south and north halls, now respectively named the Old Hall and the Sidgwick Hall, by undertaking the charge of ...

... Musical and Eisteddfod Notes. By Maelgwyn. IN MEMORIAM-William Parry, .Birkenhead. By the melancholy suicide of Mr William Parry, of Birkenhead, Wales loses one of the most sue cessful choir leaders of the century, and one who was for a long time one of the :most prominent figures on the eisteddfod stage. Mr Parry was a native of North Wales, but the present generation remembers him only as ...

... We regret to have to record the death of a venerable champion of Welsh Nonconformity, in the person of the Rev. William Thomas, Rock, Cwmavon, who passed away on Sunday night, at the ripe old age of 75 years. The deceased gentle- man was the oldest minister connected with the Welsh Congregationalists in South Wales, and was held in the highest respect not only by the members of his own ...

... The Melbourne Telegraph in a recent issue says! —We are living In an tge of miracles without bein-- aware of it. Within two hours of the tialo of the first innings of the Oxford cricket matelt closing, the Itaily Telegraph, recording the event, was sellidg in the su-eeia of Melbourne is a feat of telegraphy that probably beatt all former records, and is worthy of note, by the way, as a ...

... STABBING CASE AT NEWPORT. At Newport police-court, on Wednesday, Daniel Haley, babbler, was chStfced with cutting and wounding Thomas Dowling, another labourer. On Monday evening the men were in the Rising Sun beerhouse, Piil, and the conversation turned upon politics. Catherine McCarthy, the landlady, told the court she beard Haley say to Dowling, You have annoyed me before, and now you will ...

... Dr C. G. Furley, in an article in The Hospital on Sir James Y. Simpson, says Simpson never claimed to have invented' or discovered' chloroform. Various attempts have been made, and articles written, to take from him an honour which he never sought. Chloroform,' he says, was first discovered and described at nearly the same time by Soubeiran (1831) and Liebig (1832); its composition was first ...

... The hat found on the Clifton Suspension Bridge on Saturday night, shortly after the disappearance of a man who is supposed to have committed suicide from that structure, lias been identified ail belonging to Joseph Siilick, labourer, who had been lodging at 2, York street, Bristol. Sillick has been missing from his lodgings since 8 p.m on the 266h lust., and is believed to have bfln the person ...

... | SINGULAR POISONING CASE. k0eo ,le'd -it Eastcott, near year! it1 tbe body of ElJith LUy Cook, ?ged II fast the oH?J)peare^.t'iat after Partaking of breok- but SOOM m°r\UD* the- went to school, brother also h tlome ljl1- The fatber and the girl 18 unwell,,but ^covered while •KSSr «»d, V A„ ex,nation Vhonj'oru, de;tb teifran pjisoiouc by appeared 'th.f Inf»u,r,«8 made, and > breakfast on ...

... HIS FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW FOUNTAIN. TTNCLE ZES (very near sighted): Well if that's not the funniest boss ever I see'd. ...

... THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW. The fortieth annual show of fat stock opened on Saturday at Bingley Hall, Birmingham. The cattle form a larger and better shew than for many yearf, but the sheep and pigs show a falling off. The -Queen has first and second prizes for Hereford eteers, two seconds for sbortborn steers, first for Devon ox, second for Devon steer, and first for Devon cow and heifer. The ...