... EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. ICENTUAL NEWS TELEGRAM. I BERLIN, Thursday Evening.—A telegram from Stadefurt, in the Prussian province of baxony, states that there was a tremendous fail of rock in a mine at that place yesterday. A large number of miners were buried, 18 being killed, and many Others seriously injured. ...

... PEMBROKE DOCK HORTICULTURAL SHOW, Aug. 15th. 1888. Schedules on application to the Hon, Sees., Messrs J. H. Bowling and J, Lawrence. 9^69 ...

... SPEECH BY SIH. MORGAN MORGAN. Favoured by brilliant weather, and attended by thousands of persons from all parts or the surrounding country, the eisteddfod held on Whit Monday in the open air within the romantic and historical walis of C '.stell Senghenydd, generally yclept the castle of Clerphi¡¡y, was a SUccess from every point of view. The piace of meeting was in the quadrangular court, ...

... HOW THE HOLIDAY WAS SPENT. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL FESTIVALS. EISTEDDFOD AU AT CAERPHILLY, BURRY PORT, YNYSHIR, &c. Accounts received from correspondents throughout South Wales show that Whit- Monday was spent this year under the most advantageous conditions in respect to weather. The climate being genial, out-door recreation was very generally indulged in, the public taking full advantage of the ...

... SUCCESS OF A LOCAL MUSICIAN.—We under- stand that Mr Tom Price, A.C., has passed the sscond examination cf M.B., Toronto, at London, with first-ciass honours. ...

... THE ALLEGED BURGLAKY.— At the Penarth police-court on Monday before Messrs J. S. Corbett, J. Warn, S. Batchelor, and V. Trayes— James Joseph Hoult, labourer, a navvy on the new Barry and Cadoxton Railway, was charged on remand with bur- glariousiy entering tbe house of Thomas Turner, 1. Foster-street, Cadoxton, fin the night of the 21st inst. It will be remembered that prisoner lentared the ...

... THE WRECK OF THE BRITISH PRINCESS. CONCLUSION OF THE ENQUIRY. Mr W. H. Neate, an inspector of tbo Board of Trade, concluded an enquiry at the Docks, CardiB, on Monday, into the loss of the eailing ship British Princess, of Port Glasgow, wbtoh WM wrecked at Caminha, Portugal, oaf the 29h of last March, while on a voyaga-irom Cardiff to Rio de Janeiro, with teal.— Mr Waldron appeared for the ...

... Mr Chamberlain, M.P., in opening a new board school in Birmingham last night, said it was rumoured that the majority of the R,) al Com- mission on Education intended to report in favour of changes which were aimed against the very principles of the Act of 1870. Parliament would never allow such assistance to be given from the rates as was proposed without imposing conditions which might not be ...

... Mr C. F. Sanders writes that the promoters of this petition are now making arrangements with a view to its being forwarded to Sir Edward Reed to-day (Saturday) for early presentation to the House of Commons, The signa- tures already in hand number over 12,000, and it is expected that they will be considerably augmented before the petition is despatched These figures are exclusive of many ...

... BLOODSHED IN BULGARIA. [CENTRAL NEWS T.TLEGIUM.] VIENNA, Friday.—A telegram from Belgrade reports that in the (ii^ricts of Viiayet, Mona- ltir, and Bitolia bloody COldlctB have Jccurred between the Greek, Servian, and Turkish populations, and that in consequence of the disturbed state of the district the Porte has decided to at once despatch troops to the spot. ...

... Captain E. It. Owen, the popular a,1I¡\I(;ur rider mlio sustained a broken collarbone at J.udlc %v Steeplechase 011 Thursday, through the falling of PI*tsy, the horse he was riding the Kernley Hall :etHllecllase, b gres-ing favourably. lid left Ludlow yea-^erduy morn- ing foz LondlJu. ...

... WELSH CONGREGATIONALISTS AND THE GOVERNMENT. A quarterly meeting of the southern dvig,n of the held on day at Z )r, Iaesteg, The Rev J. Fouikes, Aberavott, presided, and there was a. large attendance.—The Rev W. R. Bowen, MaesteK. proposed, and Mr Moreen, seconded— That this conference (le.-iires to express its deep regret and that the Local B)]J, recently introdncel1 in'o P.rklment, did nat ...