... I A £ 20 Fine. The Wolverhampton stipendiary to-day fined a Widow named Clarke £20 and costs for selling milk adulterated with 16 per cent. of water. This was her third conviction. ...

... Mr Arthur O'Brien. Jones, surgeon to tha metropolitan police (Epsom division), has been found dead in his bed with a phial of prussic acid by his side. Ic is reported that he left a written statement explaining bis reasons for committing suicide. Mr Jones was 76 years of age. ...

... [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE BOHO.1 At a meeting of the Merthyr Burial isoara to-day, Mr E. P. Biddle moved from the chair that three paupers be buried in a grave at Cefn instead of one. This was seconded by Mr David Davies, Aberavou, and agreed tc, One thousand four hundred graves will be available each for two fresb burials under the operation of this motion. ...

... THE RECENT SUICIDE AT LLANTARNAM. With Reference to the painful death of a married -OlCan at Liantarnam, we are desired to state that the deceased was not suffering from religious kania, nor had she ever been an inmate of the 44YIum at Abergavenny, ...

... We regret to announce the death of Mr John Bra.ier, which took piace on Thursday at the age of 69 at his residence at the Mumbles. Mr BraUer was head of the well-known firm of Brader and Sons, of the Musical Instrument Warehouse, Wind-street, Swansea. He served his appr,-ntice.,I)it-, it and then came to S 'Uth Wales, settling at Swansea in resoonse to a pressing invitation from people of ...

... I Newmarket Training Notes. I (BY OUR NEWMARKET CORRKSPONDKNI ) NEWMARKET, Wednesday.—On the Bury side, Ban- bridge's Doric went six furlongs, Chaloner's Rigadoon and Barkham were sent a mile. George Daws«n's Ayrshire, Johnny Morgan, Editha, and St Patrick did a imilar gallop. J. Da won's sen, M.P. and RobtOrto galloued a mile and a quarter. Evans's Ginestraand Signonna went six furlongs. ...

... They say 7,000 book keepers are idle in New York. Bradford, jConn., has a seventy-year-old tele- graph messenger boy. It is witb -ancestry as with antiquity-nations are proud of bUe one, and individuals of the other. We wonlA like to see your mother, if she is not engaged- Seven-year.old Engaged! long ago, andgot married before I was born. Conversation warms the mind and enlivens the ...

... SINGULAR CASE OF DESERTION AT HAVERFORDWEST, Two Children left on a Door-step. At Haverfordwest petty session, held on Monday, Sarah Warren, a single woman, was charged under the Vagrant Act with deserting her two children. Superintendent Williams informed the bench that late on Saturday night he received information to the effect that two children had been discovered on the doorstep of the ...

... nd )rr OBRLEN AND SHONI ENGINEER to MEET AT LAST. an he NINETEEN ROUNDS FOUGHT, lin of The long t alied c-f fight between Shoni Engineej ;in and J. O'Bren came off on Wednesday mtorrtig at Marsbfied, near Cardiff. Thin mnitc was !o ltave lits aken place at Brecon the prev.-rus day, but tie :ei- po.ice got sceat of the affair. The I fiasco however, proved an exclient red ite,.ring, [fifor ...

... WALES. FRE2?iASONRY IN 8OUTH AN &NUAL FSTIVAL AT CA2LrIFF. is' oh The annual meeting of the Grand Provincial re6O 3S Royal Arch Chapter of Freema~sons for the Eastern lfl s& Division of South W~ales was beld at the M!asonic- Fe he ball, Cardiff, on Thursday afternoon^. There wasqu he a good attenwdance, BrO. Mi. Tennan t, Grand a ll- Saperintendent, presided, and there were also pre- r ?? ...

... GRATIFYING.—Master Alfred Evans, aged 12, son of the late Rev T. Penry Evans, Pontardulais, was elected last Tuesday on the foundation of the Congregational School for the Education of Sons of Ministers, Caterham, Surrey, at the head of the poll. The appeal senr. to subscribers on the boy's behalf secured him 1.355 votes. Mr Alfred vi66 {I-iAmpteau) and Mrs Houty iiiobard were instrumental in ...

... THE SARSFIELI) BRANCH IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE. At a well-attended meeting of the Sarsfield Lodge of the Irish National Lengue, held as usual on Sunday evening, Mr William Kingston in the chair, the following resolution was unanimously adopted Tiia.t the members of the above branch do their utmot to secure the return of Mr ISoah Rees, and call upon their countrymen of the West Ward to show by ...