... [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. ...

... 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 ...

... I MR CARNEGIE AND ABERDEEN, PUBLIC LIBRARY. In GIFT OF £1000. ; be At a meeting of the Public LibrarypNew Building ag Fund -Sub.Committee, held yesterday afternoon, the fir following letter fromA Mr Andrew Carnegie to the id Lord Provost was submitted to New York, April 12, 1889. Of To the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, ad My Dear Sir,-I have your favour of the 18th &l March, telling me about the ...

... ABERDEEN CHORAL UNION, The annual meeting of the Aberdeen Charal Union 1 was held last night in the Round Room of the Msicioi Ihil Buildinggs. There was a good attendance. Mr Pi J. Mlurray Garden, advocate, tile president, occupied Be ihe chair. b mr A. M. Byres, the secretary, having read the a Mninute3 of last meetingv, submitted the report of the hi cwnoinittee as follows:- The session ...

... I I -- ?? M. ^ FROM OUR GOOR9SPONDENTS. EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY. THREE MEN KILLED AND EIGHT INJURED. BanarN, WgDsu ^ys AFTESRN'OoN.-A terrible explosion Of fire-damp took place yesterday in the Reckliughausefl Colliery, near Dortmund. Three men were killed outright, and at least eight were seriously injured. ARRESTS IN ST. PETERSBURG. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.-Later ile. spatches received ...

... °'verhampton correspondent telegraphs y^0td^9- new scheme was presented to the 8 M'&e8 Drainage Commissioners on by their engineers for the winning of ?({,, '°Us of eo»l. It involves the unwater- ande Weduesbury mines now flooded. Three acres are embraced, and half a million i!0l*ed k0 rai3od P«r annum. The expenditure Vy°u^ be £ H,000, and the works would kNin Ut,dergrouud levels to connect ...

... DEATH OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP. The Rev Dr Higgins, Rnman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, died suddenly at Killarney on Wednes- day. He was noted as a man of moderate opinions, and took little part in current political questions. His lordship, who was 60 years of age, was ordained priest in 1851. and was Archdeacon of Kenmare and Dean of Trales. Dean Cofney will act as vicar capitular until a ...

... THE MAR VELLOUS MODERA TION OF MR. PARNELL. MR. BALFOUR, speaking yesterday at Manchester, referring to the Special Commission, asked:- If the Liberals think the Commission is competent to elicit the troth upon the comparatively minor question ?? of the authenticitylof those letters, why should they say we doubt that it is equally competent to elicit the truth with regard to those far more ...

... THE TITHE CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH WALES, Lively Scenes in Cardiganshire. I NEWCASTLE EMLYN. Wednesday. This morning, shortly alter eight o'clock, Mr C. V. Stevens, agent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with his emergency men, escorted by constables drawn from Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire, under the command of Chief Constable Major Bassett Lewis, Deputy-chief Constable Lloyd, of Aberystwyth ...

... MONMOUTHSHrRE COUNTY COUNCIL. MONTHLY MEETING. F monthly meeting of the Monrnouth.Rgf County Council was held at the Town.hsnl, New. port, on Wednesday. Mr. E. Grove, chairnmn presided. Them were 58 members present. TRH GRANOT TO X&tI5N ROADS. Ld The Deputy-clerk (Mr. H. S. Gustard) said nothing had been paid by the Government in respect of the maintenmnce Of the main roads in vihi the county ...

... TERRIBLE CHARGE AGAINST AN OLD MAI*. At the Newport police-court on Wednesday— before Messrs R. G. Gullum, and T. J. Beynon, magistrates——John Aplin, an elderly man of 56 years, labourer, 8, Granville-street, was charged under the Criminal Law Amendment Act with attempting to have knowledge of Saiah Ana Hill, aged 15, who resides with her parents at 28, Granvilie-street. Tbe prosecutrix stated ...

... MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE, Wednesday. —wind SSW, fresh. Weather cloudy Sea moderate Passed Ea8t- steamers St Decuman.?, of Cardiff: Jane Ihcon. of Liverpool; Georgette, of Dieppe; Avilesino, of Aviles; M01 fa, ot Swansea Soiway and Dunrobin, of Glas- gow; Wiltshire, of Newcastle; ship Hannibal, of Liverpool. Paused West— schooners I'll Away, of Fowey; Eugenie, f Plymouth; steamers City of Bristol, ...