... MINERS AND THEIR WAGES The miners in the Bristol and Radstock dis tricts are acting in a body in demanding that tb terms agreed upon at the recent conference Manchester shall be conceded, viz., a five P* cent. advance in July, and another in octobe, It is estimated that in the Radstock district 2,56 notices to discontinue work on the 29tb, the advance is made, have already been sent in. ...

... LONDON LETTER. (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) SPECIALLY WIRED. LONDON, Monday Night. BUSINESS IN THE COMMONS. It is a fresh sipn of the parliamentary tinVss- that the House of Commons commenced public business to-day at a quarter-past three. means that the pressure of private business is also falling off, and that a moiety of the half-hour which has hitherto been set apart for its consider- ...

... SWITZERLAND AND THE POWERS. GLAND WILL NOT JOIN THE UNHORY ALLIANCE. lCENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] anNI, Monday.—I am authorised to give an tic denial to the report that Mr Scott, the ish Minister here, had joined the Russian Austrian Ministers in their representations 9 Federal Government in regard to the right 111m. Mr Scott has made no communica- whatever upon the subject, either directly ...

... THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. A CHANCE OF REDEEMING HIS POPULARITY. The Duka of Cambridge (says a contemporary) has now oue of those opportuuitien which the acute popular instincts of the Royal Family must render e-pecally evident to himself. His R')yal '»•* f.v j'cutB 1UUIU i.U»u £ 19.000 a year from public fuids, besides being provcted with a fine London house. A hundred aud eight members of the ...

... TREFERIG. SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. The triennial election took place last Friday. Seven candidates had been nominated for five seats. The results are appended William James (Baptist), 126 votes; Richard W. Lewis (Independent), 124; Wi Ili ain Garland (Baptist), 122 Thos. Garknd (Ohurch), 116; John Mitchell (Church), 104; John Jenkins (Independent), 105 Moigan Morgans (Church), 79. The first five ...

... SPEECH BY LORD DERBY. Speaking at the first annual meeting of the Women's Liberal Unionist Association, held in London on Thursday afternoon, Lord Derby said he was weary, and he believed the public were weary, of argument upon the Irish question. He would like to hang up the subject for a year, but he was afraid that could not easily be done. For his part he was ready to make fair bargains ...

... MR GLADSTONE ON THE GOVERNMENT. LETTER TO THE MIDLOTHIAN LIBERALS. Mr Gladstone, in a letter read at the annua meeting of the Midlothian Liberal Association, wrote under date 22nd inst, Mr dear Mr Cowav.-I thank you for the invitation you have Bent me and for the draft report of the Midlothian Liberal Association. It is drawn in that practical spirit which has—at least within the term of my ...

... The Press Ass ociation was yesterday offioially infolmed by Meiiars Weatherby ot the following scratchins- Four Oaks Park enMewerkts-All Mr G Cleveland's horses. .Sandown Park engt tgemeas-KiU&Ioe, Ctapatee, and GagouL ...

... STATEMENT BY THE MUR- DERER'S SON. HOW HIS MIND BECAME AFFECTED. The following story was told to a reporter on Saturday afternoon by the son of the murderer, Nathaniel Charles Hammond Curragh j— I have been employed by the Crayford Waterworks Company for about 12 years. I bave been troing to and from Wilmington and Crayford since Christmas last. I returned here about six weeks ago. My father ...

... A SINGULAR SUICIDE. DR DIPLOCK ON THE POLICE. On Saturday Dr Diplock held an inquest at the London Apprentice Tavern, Isleworth, on the body of Harry Hunt, a single man, 36 years of age, whos body was found in the Thames on Thursday morning. Adelaide Winslett, a labourer's wife, of 1, Lower Mortlake-road. Richmond, said the deceased, a confectioner, who lodged there, left there on the 15th ...

... SAD FATALITY AT TENBY. On Saturday afternoou a little boy was drowned at Coppit Hall, a short distance from Saundersfoot. The family of Mr George Saus, Manchester Warehouse, Teuby, were staying at the place for a chauge. Ou Saturday, the eldest boy, Giendower, aged about nine years, went into the sea to bathe with other children. Whether seizod with a fit or other illness is not kncwn, but the ...

... MAGISTRATES FOR ST. CLIDAHJS, A public meeting was held at St Clear's on Friday evening to consider the desirability of petitioning the .Lord-Lieutenant of Carmarthen- shire (Earl Cawdor) to appoint new magistrates in the St Clear's division. Mr County Councillor T, Evans,Treyeuty, presided, and in the course of the proceedings said that there was now no magistrate resident within five miles ...