... On the report stage of the Weights and Measures Bill, Mr Chamberlain will move a new clause providing tbat nothing in the act shall render any baker or seller of bread liable to forfeiture or penalty for omitting to weigh bread in the presence of the purchaser, unless he is requested to do so by or on behalf of the Sarehaser. ...

... The Agreement with the Newport Corporation. A meeting of the Mamdea Local Board Was beld on Tuesday evening, Mr J. Harris pre. siding. The clerk read the agreement which has been drawn up by the board's solicitor and the Newport town clerk on behalf of the board and the Town Council. The Newport Corporation agree to carry out improvements on the Chepstow and Duckpoot-roads and Victoria- avenue ...

... The Sunday-Closing Commission. CARDIFF TO BE VISITED FIRST. Date of the Meeting. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, chairman of the Royal Commission on Welsh Sunday-closing, states that the first sitting of the commission will be held at Cardiff on th$d$tb of June, and that Merthyr, Swansea, and Carmarthen will be visited on subsequent days. The commission will sit continuously throughput Whit-week, ...

... FURTHER COERCION. It was evident from the attitude of the Irish members at question time that they had been deeply stirred by some recant events. Since tbe House met after the Eastar tedbss they have been remarkably quiescent, taking but small part in the question hour, and thereafter practically disappearing from the scene, That there was no premeditation in to-night's demonstration was ...

... Thrilling Record of Hardship, Pluck, and Endurance. The steamer Para has landed at Plymouth Captain Stewart and the survivors of the barque Gettysburg, of Aberdeen, wrecked near Jamaica on March 30tb. She was bound frem Monte Video to Pensacola, and struck on a coral reef outside Morant Cayes. Falling over on her side the vessel immediately began to fill and break up. Two apprentices, John ...

... hEWPORT BOARD OF GUAR- DIANS. At the meeting on Saturday, Colonel Lyne presiding, the report of the building committee was presented. It stated that if the board were prepared to build a new lodge far the porter and turn the porter's present quarters into rooms for aged couples the plans submitted by tbe architect might be approved. Mr W. H. Brown suggested the feasibility of utilizing the ...

... At Newport Town-hall yesterday,another port-born citizen received a testimonial humanity to the crew of a foreign at sea. The recipient of a handsotj* telescope, awarded by the Government of Netherlands, was Mr Henry Rosser, holding mate s certificate. The service he performed daf back to May, 1887. and the acknowledgment tardy only because Mr Rosser has been on voyage in Australian waters. ...

... MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG LADY. Young Lochinvar has been bufiy in the Marais district of Paris. It is reported that a young lady who was married against her will, on Wednesday day, was carried off three hours after the ceremony by a former lover. It appears that when her parents told her that they bad found for her an eligible match she placidly agreed to be led to the altar but when ...

... An ordinary meeting of this board was held on Friday, Alderman Davies, M.D., presiding.— A letter was read from Mr Pugb, the secretary of the Ogmore and District Chamber of Trade, soliciting the co-operation of the board in getting the Great Western Railway Company to extend the Great Western Railway Company to extend the local train service. The members present were of opinion tbat a midday ...

... MATRIBIDE AT BATH. At Bath on Sunday night a woman named Ann Paul, whose husband lives at Camden Town, was killed by her daughter, a woman 30 years of age. They quarrelled, and the daughter is said to have struck her mother on the head with a poker. Mrs Paul was takeu to the Royal United Hospital, but she soon died from her injuries. The daughter, who is stated to have been in a lunatic asylum ...

... A SEAMAN DROWNED AT NEWPORT. fie body of a man, supposed to be a seaman, 1*8 seen floating in the Alexandra Dock on **°nday evening, and was conveyed ashore, and y™aoved to the Pill Mortuary. The remains are j. much decomposed that identification is ^Possible. It is suggested that the body is that of some vessel which left without fating the loss of one of the crew. •'he remains removed from ...

... A 8«rio«a accident occurred late on Sunday 2*«ht at Penarth to Captain Robertson, of Lord- Jr?et, Penarth. It appears that a lady ■'esiding next door had gone out :'ln the evening, and, having forgotten take her latch key, was unable to obtain admis- on her return. She consequently sought the Kwtance of her neighbour, Captain Robertson, who procured a ladder and tj^ed it against the sill of ...