... [CENTRAL NKWS TELEGRAM.] BFRLIN, Thursday ZSiciit.—C 'mmenting upon European politics, the Pest says France would have long ago become reconciled to Germany if Russia was not in the world. Germany's friend- ship would be useful to France in many places but Russia would not become recouciied with Germany even if France were sunk in the earth. This article, which bears traces of inspiration from ...

... [REUTER-S TELKGPAN.] I MADRID, Thursday.—A serious fire broke out at Malaga this moruing in the luggage room of tiie Argentina emigrant steamer Pacifico, which was about to sail for Buf-rioi Ayrc,; with a number of emigrants. It was found necessary to send the emigrants ashore. The fire was finally extin- guished, the damage being confined to the luggage. ...

... FOIIESTERS' HIGH COURT. On Saturday, at the closing meeting of the High Court of Foresters, seventeen cities and towns were proposed for the high court msetingi of 1891, but the following were withdrawn:- Burton-on-Trent, Derby, Dundee, Hereford, Norwich, Rochester, Exeter, Nottingham, Plymouth, and Cardiff. The votine resulted thus :—London, 128 Bristol, 80 Ipswich, 73 j Cambridge, 31 ...

... DISGRACEFUL DISTURBANCES AT CARDIFF. On Saturday night a somewhat serious fracas occurred in Mary Ann-street, Cardiff, which has been accurately described by an inhabitant of that neighbourhood as a bombardment. The street has earned a peculiar reputation for all kinds ol disturbances, and, just as warriors dis- play scars as proof of their valour, so does each house sport broken windows and ...

... SNATCHED HIS BETTING TICKET. At Brighton, yesterday, John Morris was charged with stealing a ticket to recover a bet of £ 14 from Sir Richard Mausell, Bart., on Race- hill on Weduesd.,iy.-Tlio prosecutor said be took a bet of JB12 to £ 2 about Kaikoura with a bookmaker in the enclosure, grand stand, and received a ticket. The horse won, and when ho presented the t:cket to get the money the ...

... I FURTHER RISE IN IRON PRICES. Our Wolverhampton correspondent telegraphs -On Thursday a further rise took piace in Staffordshire iron. The hoop and tuiu strip iron manufacture advanced prices by 10 ...

... COACHING ACCIDENT. Several Persons Injured. A serious co:u hn'g accident oecurrcd between Canterbury and Hertiu Bay last night. Mr Thomas LurrQii, t iiieiiiler of the Canterbury Corporation, who for some years has driven a coach between the towns named, was journeying to the seaside on Tuesday evening, when the team took fright and bolted. One of the passengers—a clerg-YlIlan-hact his collar ...

... A Terrible Riot. 600 PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED. Mail advices received at Queenstown on Tues- day night from Japan, via au Francisco, by the steamer City of Paris, report a terrible riot between two factions cf Chinese coolies at Lang- kong, Siam, on Juno 30cb, in which 203 persons were killed and 400 wounded. The coolies were under the influence of drink. The Siamese troops charged the ...

... Sixth Half-Yearly Ordinary General Meeting. The sixth half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the Bute Docks Company was held at the company's offices, Westminster, yesterday, Mr Frederick Pitman, deputy halrm.\lJ, in the chair. From the accounts submitted, it appeared that t he balance available for dividend amounted to £ 102,529 164 41, and that after providing for interest on debenture ...

... A MAN WITH A WOODEN HAND. A Native of Cardiff. On the arrival of the steamer Circassia off Moviile, a man named Morris, describing himself as a steamship agent, has been arrested by Irish officers, from information received from New York, for forgery. He was describes as having a wooden hand, and this assisted his identification. On being searched only £5 was found, but subsequently it was ...

... I A liARE PLANT. The gardens and hothouses at, Hamilton Palace are among the most extensive in the kingdom, and possess some very rare specimens of plants and flowers. The grandfather of the present Duke, as was the custom in Scotland among the great magnate* iu those days, had agents all parts of the world who from Lime tu time sent rare and beautiful plants to their employer, Hamilton Palace ...

... I-he Jtibiiee 'Hunger's Book. X-250,000 SQUANDERED IN TWO YEARS. The confessions of the Jubilee Plunger, -by Mr Ernest Benson, have jutbeen published by Messrs Triscnier and Co)., under the title of How I lost £ 250,000 in Two Years. His Minority, Mr Benz-m gives a gloomy account of this, and I especially of the discomforts which, ho says, he endured as a ward in Chancery. When he first ...