... The Punch Bowl at the Grand I On Monday evening the Grand Theatre, Cardiff, was opened in its new character as a home of the legitimate. The intorent generally felt at the success of Mr Day in securing his license was manifested by a house filled to excesti by a de- cidedly sympathetic audience. The Grand. certainly looked its best, and prhved beyond doubt its adaptability to the purposes ...

... THE MISSING CURATE OF MAINDEE. The Bishop of Llandiff has prohibited the Rev. Geo. Lewis, curate of St. John's, Maindee, from again'taking part in any services in the diocese. Mr Lewis, it will be remembered, left his corgre- gation in the lurch 011 the last Sunday in Apriln and has not since been heard of. ...

... Newmarket Training Notes. (BY OUR NEWMARKET CORRESPONDENT.) I NKWMAIIKKT, Monday.—On the Bury sidp, Jewitt's Seabreeze, Devote, and Toscano galloped one mile and a quarter Castlenoek did useful mile work Satiety and Torquay went six furlongs. Chaloner's Bloodshot and Jersey Lily were sent a mile and a half. Golding's Albertus negotiated a mile Tamberlik went six fur- longs. Hayhoe's Cotillon ...

... THE COPLE-STONEEXHJBITIONS The trustees of the Copleston Exhibitions able to offer two exhibitions for competition, of the value of L38 per annum. The candidates must be sons of clergymen, who are or have been beneficed or licensed in the diocese of Llandaff for five years. Further particulars will be given in the course of a day or two by advertisement. The trustees are the bishop of the ...

... The Man About Town. What a jolly timd we are having is the gleeful message from a chorus of Cardiff voices which an imaginary telephone brings from Westminster to my sympathetic ear. From recent reports in the newspapers, it might be inferred that the Mayor of Cardiff had taken up his residence in the other metropolis, and the Town Clerk had become a neighbour of the junior counsel of the ...

... (When a man wants to find fault he will do so he has to spend all his time looking for it. ...

... Gossip of the Day. From To-day's London Letters. Mr Wemyss Reid's Life of Mr Forster. Much interest will be excited in political circles (says the Birmingham Daily Post's London corres- pondent) by the promised biography of Mr Forster, by Mr Wemyss Reid, which is to be forthcoming within the present month. Biographies are, usually, laudatory, and this one will certainly prove no exception to ...

... SHOCKING MURDER IN IRELAND James Quiua, a bog-ranger, 60 years of age, found yesterday murdered at Laugbtie, near ,!Will-street, Couuty Cork, there being three J uliet-wounds in his body. The deceased was alone, his family having emigrated to ^erica. He had been threatened with death if did not abandon his occupation, No arrests a,Ve yet been made. ...

... ITS DELIGHTS AND DANGERS. It is announced that Parisian ladies are shortly to be provided with a club, the counterpart, in most respects, of those to which their husbands, brothers, or other male relatives belong, where they can chat and read, write and gamble, dine if they choose, and spend their hours of leisure after shopping and visiting are over. This is an innova- tion which is ...

... THE TRIAL OF MR O'BRI EN, M.P. In the case against Mr O'Brien at Loughrea, to- day, a witness stated that the meeting was promoted by the Town Commissioners. ...

... [RECTER'S TELEGRAM.] I BERLIN, Tuesday.-T'J-day's bulletin says the Emperor passed a somewhat less satisfactory night. Fever has slightly increased, otherwise here is no essential change. ...

... IMPUDENT THEFT IN THE IMPUDENT THEFT IN THE RIIONDDA, I A Boy Stealing a Pony & Milk-cart I At the Ystrad police-court, on Monday, a lad 11 years of aR, named Thomas Emanuel, of Llwynypia, was charged with having stolen a quantity of milk, thfl pt ...