... HOW THE EVIL SPIRIT WAS LAID. Ere closing this letter, I would put my whole heart into an entreaty that you wiil come and spend September with me. My parents will then be absent on a long visit, and I shall be left with the care of the house. Brother Will has promised to come home tor a whole fortnight, and you must kuow Will be is ouiy two years my senior, and my masculinized counterpai r. So ...

... A CARDIFF DIVORCE SUIT. In the Divorce Division of the High Court ot Justice, on Wednesday—before Mr Justice Butt —the case of Evans v. Evan Evans was beard. This was a wife's petition for dissolution of marriage on the ground of her husband's alleged cruelty and adultery, Mr Duncam, who appeared for the petitioner, stated that the petitioner, Eliza Evans, was married to tha- respondent, ...

... In the course of an address at the Asstfmbly- rooms, Lydney, on Wednesday evening, Mr God- frey Samuelson, M.P., in the chair, Sir CHARLES DILEE who was received with loud cheers, explained that, having alreadypoken fully upon domestic and industrial topics on the previous day, be intended on that occasion to address himself to matters which concerned the imperial position of the United ...

... Death of the Chief Con- stable of Cardiff. It is with deep regret we have to announce the death of Mr Walter Hemingway, chief constable of Cardiff, who passed away quietly at his residence adjoining the Central Police Station at seven minutes past eleven this morning. The deceased gentleman's health bad for a long time been such as to involve his being confined to the ( house. For some reason ...

... THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS. I | KKUTKlt'3 TKLKGRAM. | THE IlAGUK, Thursday.—At a plenary sitting to-day of both Houses of the States General it was unanimously re.rolved that the Kng bo invited to resume the government of the country, Three cheers for the Iving followed the adoption of the resolution. ...

... THE BIRCHGROVE COLLIERY I ACCIDENT. Application for a Summons. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE KOBO, I I At the Swansea police-court to-day, Mr Henry Davis applied on behalf of Mr Robson, her Majesty's inspector of mines, for a summons against Phillip George, manager of the Birchgrove Colliery, for committing a breach of the Mines Regulation Act. Mr Davia said the bench would remember that a few ...

... Bitorlo, who as a two year old was trained at Newmarket by James Waugb, aud tuoutrht to possess an outside onauoe tvr the Austrian Derby, to be run this broke dowo at exercise in Vienna oa Monday last. ...

... SHOOTING A FARMER'S WIFE. An Arrest at Queenstown. I Jergmiah Lane, a youug farmer, was arrested at Queenstown this morning when about to embark for New York on a charge of shooting and seriously wounding Mrs Larkin, wife of a farmer at Brosna. He was remanded by the magistrate. ...

... AN AUTOMATIC GAS-METER. At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Gasfittings Company, held on Tuesday, it was stated that the company were about to try the experiment of uaing an automatic gas-meter. It was an apparatus of recent invention, and had been successfully tried in Birmingham. The consumers, by putting a penny in a slit in the apparatus, could obtain a supply of 25 cubic feet of Ras ...

... Tiie will of the late Mr Heury Wat,kins, of the city of Hereford, brewer, wuo died at Lugwardine, on December 30 last, has been proved by the executors, his brothers Charles and Alfred. The testator bequeaths the furniture aud household effects at Bewell House to his mother, and certain tfther specific legacies. He devises and bequeaths all his real estate aud the residue of his personal ...

... I YANKEE YARNS. I MARK TWAIN'S STORT. No, said Mark Twain a week or two ago as he sat in his room at the Murray Hill Hotel and dreamily watched the smoke from the pipe which he WAS puffing, No; I would not say that it was the best thing that I ever wrote, but I remember that I was pretty proud of it at the time and was decidedly disappointed when it didn't come out tha npxt day; I didn't ...

... At yesterday's meeting of the Llandudno Improvement Commissioners it was resolved to memorialise her Majesty to visit Llandudno (hiring fcer stay in North Wales, and to open a park which has been presented to the town as a jubilee gift by Lord Mostyn. It has been proposed that while at Pale Hall the Queen should proceed by train to Berwyu Station, and there entering an open carriage, proceed ...