... D0CK-8TREET FACADE. This afternoon bis worship the Mayor of New- port will be called upon to perform one of the pleasant and important duties of his position. Perhaps the opening of a new provision market, the cost of which has run into over forty thousand pounds, is one of the important during a civic year. On the occasion Mr Faulkner will be surrounded by a goodiy number of the other civic ...

... ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. At tho Pontypridd police-court on Wednesday —before Mr P. Jenkins—two Irishmen, named Michel Horror,:1IJ and Timothy Wheelan, were cliarg. d with iiaving on S iturdav evening last waylaid, assaulted, and rob lied one J, Jodiuaii, on toh tramroad side,nnd stealing silver %vatch and [I fhrin was proceeding homewards on the night in question pri»nnctv? jumped at hiui ...

... THE HAVANT MURDER. Inquest and Verdict. The inquest ,on the body of the boy Searle was resumed at Havant yesterday, when a boy named Clark declared- that Husband ou the night of the murder pointed a knife at him. Professor Tidi expressed the opinion that it would ,ctraraely difficult to suppose that the fata: wound cqwd be inflicted without the hands and clothea j-Jaeing blood-stained. Robert ...

... At the Worcester police-court on Saturday,Tow Osborne, 38, formerly well known as a jockey, and lately of Pittville-gates, Cheltenham, tenced to a month's hard labour for stealing 4 postal order for 21 belonging to E. Niabolle, furniture dealer, at Worcester, in 1885. It wal proved that the atolea order was cashed by tha prisoner, who, having also borrowed from tht prosecutor, disappeared, ...

... Parliamentary Retupn. SUNDAY DRINKING IN WALES. According to a Pailiamcntary paper issued yesterday, there were in England and Wales during the tiires years 1885-7 442.736 convictions for drunkenness or offences arising therefroir, and of these 4-0,584 offences were committed on Sunday. It would appear that the proportion of Sunday offences is ratller greater in Wales than in England, for in ...

... SINGULAR CHANGE A G A INS T A BECTon. A Disgraceful Comparison. I At Herefordshire Shire hall, on Saturday, the Rev Charles Burrougls, of the rectory, Eaton Bishop, was charged with assaulting Mr Washing- ton Taylor, people's Warden, in his parish church, 011 Sunday, Novefhber 4th. Thfe case excited great interest. CoÜiphiiratit.. a gentleman farmer, i xpiained that oii the dny named, with a ...

... The Parnell Defence Fund noW awounts to nearly £ 23,600. ...

... I THE ZULU CAPTIVES. The following account of the journey to Elshowe, of Dinizuiu, the yonng chief of the TJsutu bouse, is given in the Natal Mercury of the 23th of November He was escorted from Bohd's Drift by Commandant Manseli and Sub- Inspector Marshall and six men of the Zululand Mounted Police. Dinizuiu was conveyed to Verulam by train, and thence to the borders of Natal by cart, in ...

... I FACTS ANP FANCIES. MADE OF ALL WOBK.—Some women's liTes. MILITARY TOOLS.—Files of soldiers. Why is ice that is on the thaw like true generosity ?—Because it gives in all directions. Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the hearts of the most lovable. A compliment is usually accompanied by a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it. The dishonest butcher is always ready to meat his ...

... f Fireman and Stoker Killed. A fireman and stoker working on tha Ship Canal Works at Thelwali, near Warrington, were killed on Saturday night. They were running the engine into the shed when the locomotive over- turned. ...

... NARROW ESCAPE OF 25 WORKMEN. On Saturday evening a dam at the New Tower Bridge Works in the Thames suddenly burst, and the water rushed into the shaft with a tremendous roar. The workmen (25 in number) had just left the shaft and gone to supper. ...

... MR BRIGHT'S ILLNESS. Mr Bright slept five hours last night, and his condition to-day is similar to that of yesterday. ...