... Terrible Boating Fatality at Lavernock. SEVEN VOLUNTEERS DROWNED. On Wednesday evening a teirible fatality took place near Lavernocktinvolving the death of seven volunteers belonging to the 3rd V.B. Welsh Regiment, which is at present in camp near the Point. It appears that ten men belonging to the Merthyr Vale detachment finished tea about half-past six o'clock, and determined to walk down to ...

... A charge of ontraging a girl, under very revolt- ing and brutal circumstances, was heard on Mon- day at the Penarth police-court. The prisoner, John Smith, was a tall young fellow, aged about 25, and a rope-haulier by trade, and be was charged with having, in company with some other men, outraged Florence Kate Smith on Thursday evening last.—Mr Steel, from the office of Mr T. H. Belcher, ...

... At the Central Criminal Court on Satnr- day, a young Welsh g-irl was iuaicted for the secret disposition of the body of her child. Mr Poland .prosecuteri, and Mr Hutton and Mr G. Bettesvvortli P.gg'ott defended. It appeared that the prisoner was in service at Lmdshiproad, Stoke Newington, and that ou Sunday, the 1st IIf July, she gave birth to a stillborn child, and it was subsequently found ...

... SIR E. J. REED AND THE DillON DEMONSTRATION. Edward Reed, in acknowledging receipt of i letter from the Dillon Demonstration Committee,' ihankmg him for his encouraging and appreciative .elegram of the 27th ult., has replied to Mr F. L. Short, hon. sec. of the Cardiff Junior Liberal Association, as follows Grand Hotel, Royat, August 2nd, 1888. ? My dear Mr Short,—I hardly know how to thank ...

... Aax for 'SILVER Eagle. Best value 3d cigar. ...

... WALES TO THE RESCUE. WAEWIR BAtrotJR Keep those——Welsh fellows out, Smith They're Dillon s cousins, you know They'll spoil our little game 1 MBS SMITH Certainly. Now then, really, you know, you cannot come *?.re/7»- e kav nt time to listen to you. We've lots of work to do, fitting up tbe Times defence commission, and all that, and want to set off on our holidays. ™ Mr DlLLWTN Duty first, ...

... WELSH NOTES. A NEW WELSH BOOK ON IRELAND, Bdverting to the Baptists yesterday bringb to mind some happy remarks made by the Rev B. Thomas, editor of the Seren Oymru, at the outset of his address on the Baptists of Cardigan when be incidentally adverted to the newly published work of the Rev G. Havard, Whitland, on the Irish question. The author being a Radical in both politics and religion, ...

... Mr John Moriey on Ireland, | GREAT SPEECH AT NOGTON PARK. On Saturday a great Liberal demonstrati.: held in Nocton Park, near Lincoln, the sewt ol I the Marguis of Ripon, who occupied the chak, and introduced to the meeting Mr John Morley. Mr MORLBY said it was not to be denied that in the crash which overcame the Government in 1886 the crash was nowhere more severe than in Lincolnshire. In ...

... THELAtiDORE STEEL WORKS. It is understood that these works will remain closed till. at least, the company has been re. constituted. This statement as to the probability of a recon^ strnction of the Landore SiemensSceelCompany is to some extent borne outbyacircular justtssuedby Dr Siemens, informing all the customers of the company that, under tbe will of tbe late Sir William Siemens, the ...

... At the Swansea police-court on Tuesday—before Messrs J. C. Fowler and T. Phillips—four littler boys were summoned for damaging Dyfatty School last Bank Holiday. Mr H. F. A Davis, who prosecutedj said tbere bad been a certain dimculty in bringing the defendants before the bench on account of their extreme youth. But although they were small boys, tbey had managed to do a great amount of damage. ...

... WELSH GLEANINGS. By Lloffwr. A correspondent has sent me a copy of a highly interesting letter recently received from a Welsh emigrant, one of the band of pioneers in the Welsh colony of Patagonia.. As the letter is evidently written in all good faith, and contains much infor- mation of the interest to the general reader, I gladly comply with the request to give extracts from it. The writer ...

... Successful Meeting at MiskinPark. An eminent philologist, with the assistance of tome curious contortions, connected Miskin with the haunt of butterflies; but possibly Maes Gwyn, white meadow, is nearer the mark. Anyhow, the spot on which the eisteddfod tent was pitched on Monday was more in harmony with tfye latter than the former designation. In short, if the rain continues to pour with the ...