... TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Those who had deferred their visit to the Bath Show at Newport until the last day succeeded in getting the best of everything. The day was delightfully fine, there was a cool air blowing, and the going under foot, to use a sporting phrase, had become marvellously changed for the better. Then the officials and implement exhibitors had profited by ths cessation afforded by ...

... At the Llandaff police-court, to-day—before Cols. Page and Woods, and Mr Chas. Thompson —three navvies named James Bowden, Thomas Smith, and Frank Turner, all residing at Caerau, were charged with assaulting George Dribble, gamekeeper to Col. Hill, on the 4th inst., at about two o'clock in the morning.—Complainant stated that he saw the three men named and a dog near the garden. Witness ...

... THE LICENSING CLAUSES. I What is the Ministry Going to do ? CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS. I The announcement published in our Saturday's issue to the affect that it is the intention of the Government to abandon the licensing clauses of the Local Government Bill receives addi- tional confirmation. A telegram received on Sunday night says :—The Press Association has authority for stating that the ...

... 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 ...

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

... The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says :-A daring highway robbery was perpetrated at the hour of eleven o'clock on Wednesday night in the Avenue do l'Opera, one of the most brilliantly lighted and most populous thoroughfares of Paris. The victim was an elderly gentleman, who was stopped near the Th^atre-Fran§ais by two well- dressed, perfumed, and polite highwaymen, who first ...

... At the Wandsworth (London) police-court yesterday, a young man applied to the magistrate ior his advice. He said he accepted a position of irust, and was induced by the gentleman who engaged him to pay 210 in the form of a premium. -Mr Montague Williams interposed and asked the applicant what he wanted.— Ho replied that be had received notice to go, and wanted bis money back.- Mr Williams told ...

... At Barry on Thursday morning a labourer named James Richards was killed by being caught between some trucks. The same day a lad of 15 years, named Edward Taylor, a wagon greaser, Was killed while sheltering from the rain beneath a truck. The truck formed part of a train, which, being suddenly moved by an engine,led to Taylor's being thrown on the rails, and then being run over by several of ...

... Bonaparte, who ia iiow rising tea years of age, has ended Im racing career, and Will font to tlm sftTd, ...

... The Compensation Clauses. LETTER FROM SIR E. J REED. We are requested by Sir Edward Reed to state thar. he is receiving from Swansea a largo number of letters from licensed victuallers, calling his attention to the agitation ogainst com- pensation, and concluding with the following words, which are alike in all cases May I remind you that the capital invested in my business has been so ...

... SUNDAY DRUNKENNESS AT PONTYPRIDD, THE STIPENDIARY MEMORIALISED. At the Pontypridd police-couri, yesterday, the Rev. W. Parry (B.) and the Rev. J. Pugh (C.M.) attended before the Stipendiary (Mr Ignatius Williams)—who was supported on the bench by Mr Blandy Jenkins and Dr Jones with a petition signed by most of the leading inhabitants of the town, urgiug his worship to exercise the authority ...

... ABSENTEE WORKMEN HEAVILY FINED, Ai Stockton-^u-Tees to-day three ironworkers vera each fined 210 for leaving work without uotice, theieby throwing a number of men idle. Defendants had struck work for less than a farthing par day. ...