... Master Mason, by Zeal, out of Miss May, won the Badmington Handicap at the Bath gathering, but it was something like a shave to secure the sill right on weighing in, as the bridle was necessary to give the scale the required indication. Lady Muneaster, it is now clear, cannot stay, not even a mile, in good company. I begin to think, says a correspondent in the Sporting Chronidet that what 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. ...

... This afternoon William Reed, a labourer, aged 73, living at 22, Evelyn-street, Cardiff, was crossing the line near the Tyneside Engineering Works, where be is employed, when be was knocked down by a passing engine. His right leg was severely crushed. He was conveyed to the infirmary, where be was attended by the bonse-surgooo, His leg will faava to be putaicd, ...

... HANGED IN A PRISON CELL. The circumstances of a death by suicide were investigated in Northampton Gaol yesterday afternoon. A prisoner named O'Neill, undergoing imprisonment for deserting his children, hanged himself with a cord made of bits of oakum. He had attached the cord to the ventilator. Having suicidal tendencies, deceased was visited night and day every ten minutes, but, despite this ...

... CURIOUS FIND OF GOLD. Whilst a number of workmen were engaged, on Wednesday, digging the foundations for the new military barracks in Dublin, one of them came upon a parcel of sovereigns, thirty-five in all, which his spade had disclosed. The other work- men claimed shares, but the finder declares the money is his, and he will not part with it. ...

... :IMPORTANT ACTIONS PENDING. I According to the Nottingham Daily Express we have not yet beard the last of the alleged abduc- tion of the little girl Plessy Brinniloy, at Notting- ham, or of the demand made by the local priest for the custody of her young brother, who is now an inmate of the Gordon Boys' Home. The Rev. Canon Douglass, who claims to be the guardian of the younger children of the ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes to-day :-A terrible case of mutiny has occurred in the Paris Opera-House, of all places in the world. A youthful coryphee, who was going through a rehearsal under the careful superinten- dence of the dancing-master attached to the establishment, suddenly grew mutinous because the choregrapbic professor bad found fault with some of her ...

... FEARFUL SUICIDE OF THE EX-CONVICT BENSON. [OKNTEAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] I NIW YORJt, Thursday—Benson, the notorious convict, who has been involved in many big swindling transactions, and whose latest venture was the fraudulent issuing of » large number of tickets professing to be bona fide admissions to Madame Patti's concerts in Mexico, bag committed suicide by throwing himself from a staircase* ...

... I Training Accidents. I Verdigris, by SpringUeld out of Griselda, broke her leg while at exercise at Newmarktt this morning, and Trenton, by Pellegrino out of Quern Esther, who was purchased by Captain Machell at Mr Benzon's sale on Wednesday, and cubsequently sold to Mr Leopold de Rothschild, split his pastern. ...

... District Intelligence. I CARDIFF. I EONGCROSS-STEKET ClilpLL.-The Rev H. E. Stoijt). tii NotLiugiiaiii, who is on a short visit to Cardiff, will preach at Longcross-street Baptist Chapel this (Thursday) night at 7.30. Mr is one of the most popular and successful Baptist ministers in the Midlands. PEOPIIRTR SALE.—Oa Wednesday afternoon, at the Queen's Hotel, St. Mary-street, Mr W. H. F. ...

... The Accused Committed for Trial. [ The charges against Chesnufcte Smyth, Dr J. C. Smyth, Robert Dunlop, and J. Spiers Orr, in connection with the Belfast insurance frauds, were further investigated yesterday at Belfast. The greater part of the day was occupied by Mr O'S laughnessy with a speech in defence of the priHoner Dunlop, who, he contended, had merely committed an indiscretion in ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A FATHER. WIFE BEATING AND ATTEMPTING TO DROWN THREE CHILDREN. At Dundee Circuit Court, yesterday, James Young, labourer, Breohin, was charged with assaulting his wife in a house in Bridge-street, Brechin, and attempting to drown his three children, aged nine, fi ve, and three years. He pleaded guilty. On the evening in question prisoner went home late the worse of ...