... I PENARTH PROMENADE PIER I Resuscitation of the Project. We understand that the moribund Penarth Promenade Pier and Landing-stage is about to receive an accession of strength in a form that will probably lead to its ultimate com- pletion. Mr F. Edwards, of tbo firm of Edwards, Robertsou, and Co., is contemplating the furtherance of the project, principally on behalf of the passenger steamers ...

... The Man About Town. The Rhontlda, Valley is capable of any number of new developments, but one of the strangest is the meeting of the Glamor- ganshire Agricultural Society at Treorky to-day. I have the fortune, or the mis- fortune, to remember the Khondua alley as a past-unl district, before it assumed the great airs it wears now as one of the chief producing places of the famous steam coal of ...

... THE LIVERPOOL POISONING j — MRS MAYBRICK ON HER TRIAL. Opening Proceedings To-day. Extraordinary Public Interest. SCENE IN COURT. [SPECIAL TEL KG UAH TO THE ECHO.] The thai of Mrs Maybrick for the murder of her husband, Mr James Maybrick, by arsenical poisoning, was commenced at Liver- pool Assizes this morning, before Mr Justice Stephen. Extraordinary interest in the case was manifested. The ...

... HISTORICAL FETE AT CHEPSTOW. A grand historical fete and fancy fair was opened on Tuesday in aid of the restoration fund of the parish church. Some time ago,the vicar, the Rev E. J. Hensley, brought before the parishioners the unsatisfactory state of the church, and after several public metings, it was decided, if possible, to restore the old edifice to its former state. With this object the ...

... The Murder of Elizabeth Jackson. ADJOURNED INQUEST AND I VP-RDIC F. The adjourned inquest on the remains sup- posed to be those of Elizabeth Jackson, late of Turk's-row, Chelsea, found in a mutilated con- dition at Battersea and Chelsea, was held to-day at Battersea. Inspector Turnbridge de- tailed the result of the investigations of the police, and said it haa been clearly demonstrated that ...

... SAD PLIGHT OF THE DERVISHES I STILL WITHOUT WATER. I [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] I CAIRO, Saturday Afternoon.—The position of affairs at the front has not materially changed since yesterday. There have been some feeble attempts by the dervishes to reach the river, but they utterly failed owing to the merciless fire maintained by the infantry. There are many people here who regret the necessity ...

... SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE RECTOR OF CANTON. The shockingly sudden illness of the Rev Vincent Saulez, rector of Canton, was made known yesterday to the different congregations in that large and populous parish. Mr Saulez was at the Cardiff Board of Guardians meeting on Saturday afternoon, and appeared then to be in his usual state of health, which was not robust, for be has not been in good health ...

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... CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. At the Cardiff police-court yesterday—before Mr Liwis (stipendiary)—Mr R. Worthy Biake, solicitor, prosecuted, on behttlf of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Cliristopher L. R;c,e and Charles R;ce, 21, May- street, Cathays, for cruelly killiug a do at Cathays on the 21st, May last. The case had been adjourned for a month for defen- dants to appear ...

... Lord Randolph Churchill has, it is stated, agreed to contest Central Birmingham at the next general election. The local Conservative leaders have declined to accept advice from headquarters. They are determined to have a Tory candidate,, and Lord Randolph has consented to stand. What is to become of Mr J. A. Bright, M.P., is not known,but :t seems to be expected that a seat will be found for ...

... Considerable public annoyance has been caused at Tregaron, Cardiganshire, by the discovery that some person or persons have put lime into the river Brenig, which runs through the town, thereby killing fish big and smali for a consider- able distance. Not a fortnight ago the same thing was done below the town in the same river, but this time the mischief has been perpetrated a little distance ...

... HEAVY FIGHTING 570 Kiiled and Wounded. ENGLISH OFFICERS WOUNDED, [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] ALEXANDRIA, July ord.—iNews has just reachec this place that Col. Wodehouse, with his Egyptian troops, has engaged the Dervish boat undet Dad-El-Lejoomi at Arquin, and defeated them after severe fighting. The Egyptians behaved admirably, but the Der,ishe fought with all that reckless indifference to ...