... 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. ...

... The Barry Dock directors have not moved a moment too soon in asking their share- holders to use all their powers of persuasion on their Parliamentary representatives in support of the Bill which comes to its crisis on Tuesday next. From a private source of information I learn that the respon- sible representatives of the company are not at all afraid of the sudden and in- siduous opposition ...

... Roundabout Papers. A CHAT ABOUT CYCLING.1 ? I [BY OLD STAG IB.] ...

... MEETING OF COLLIERS AT BEDWAS. Yesterday morning a meeting of colliers (a section of the Caerphilly Miners' Association) was held on the Nursery Grounds, BedWas, and was presided ever by Mr John Jamas. Those present discussed several minor disputes, and decided to refer the grievances to the management committee. The necessity of making weekly payments a subject of legislation was discused at ...

... A Romantic Love Affair. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] American mail news to-day says:—A year ago Jacob L. Dotey was transferred from the consulate of Bermuda to that of Tahiti, Society Islands. Dotey has fallen in love with a Princess Polina, of Tahiti. His love bas been reciprocated, and the pair will soon be married. The Princess is a very beautiful and accomplished lady, 18 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. ...

... Starr-Bowkett Bui Iding 1 Society. SECOND NEWPORT DISTRICT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTH WALES ECHO. SIR.-I am a number of the Second Newport (Mon.) and District 431st Starr-Bowkett Building Society, holding a group of four shares on which I have paid L25 7s, and on the 1st September, 1887, I gave the usual three months' notice to with- draw, After the notice had expired I called upon the ...

... Mrs Chamberlain has not yet made much progress with the task of softening the asperity of Mr Chamberlain's political manner. Here, for instance, is bis letter about the Welsh Noncon- formists, in which Mr Chamberlain wails aloud before a derisive audience over the way in which they have treated him. They also covered with obloquy and personal abuse long-tried friends of their cause, who, like ...

... A strong feeling seems to be rising in Middles- brough acrainst the adoption of cremation in the town. The vicar of All Saints' addressed a meeting on Christian Burial v. Cremation, after which a resolution condemning cremation as an anti-Christian and an unnatural practice, and calling upon the town council to rescind its declaration in favour of cremation, which was an outrage on the ...

... A Lloyd's telegram from Ducgeness to-day sajr a collision occurred this morning betweaq the steamer Baumwall, of Hamburg, and the brig Corwena, of Carnarvon. The latter vesse! was badiy damaged, and, while being towed to Dover, she foundered off Sandgate. A telegram from Lloyd's signal-station, Prawle Point, reportr that the steamer Auricula of Sunderland, signalled, I have been in collision; ...

... Sums CBKE.—Amateur Hubert: Me lud, five kuoori; were seen to-night. four fixed, and the Other did whirl. Mulled Toioa from the faience: Did jover—hiu— try bromider, ...