... PROPOSED NEW THEATRE FOP CARDIFF. -1 It is reported that the place of entertainment in Crockiierbtown which was formerly known as Levino's Hall has been secured by Mr Oswald Stoll, of Liverpool, and that it is intended to apply to the magistrates for the necessary license for the building to-morrow. It is proposed to Call tue place the Queen's Theatre of Varieties. ...

... ELECTION EXPENSES. The total expenses which Mr Edmund Bulnois, the Conservative candidato, incurred in winning the seat vacated by Lord Charles Beresford in Klst Marylebone are returned at JB476 148 6i. Thoso of his opponent, Mr George Leveson- Gower, the Gladstonian candidate, amounted to JB652 08 6J. ...

... THE SHAH A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY. The Shah of Persia is evidently responsible (says a Paris correspondent) for the lunacy of a poor fellow who walked up to the bouse of the station-master at Asmieres, outside Paris, late on Sunday night; awoke the official with a thundering noise. and demanded in stentorian toties five hundred tickets for Teheran. The station-master dressed himself quickly ...

... FATAL FIRE AT EXMOUTH. Four Persons Burnt to Death. I A distressing scene was witnessed at Exmouth ,-on Monday morning, when a mother and her three children lost their lives in a fire. Theflames broke out in a shop, forming the lower portion of a house in Chapple-streefc, nsar the market. The shopkeeper, named Gidley, with his wife and five children, redded on the premises, and at the time of ...

... The National Eisteddfod. DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH, [BY MAELGWYli.1 The absence of the Prince of Wales from the national festival of Kymru was more than com- pensated for by the appearance of Madame Patti. For the first time in its history has the Eisteddvod of Wales secured the invaluable assistance of the finest singer in the world and although iry countrymen are by nature proud and self-reliant, ...

... [GLAMORGAN ASSIZES. ii Absence of Crime. HEARTLESS BREACH OF PROMISE OASE. 1A Carmarthen Married Man Courts a j Domestic Servant. [special telegram to THE KCHO.] In ctMr#m £ the Grand Jury at Swansea to-day Justice Mauisty expressed pleasure at the remark- able absence of crime displayed by the calendar, which contained only 13 cases and 15 prisoners. In-the Nisi Prius Court—before Justice ...

... KLSIE'S SPECIAL W IEES —The only safe method of v.innnig 011 tlie turf 1 to follow these most success- ful sel ctions. Goinl winners sent every day at remu- nerative prices. D 11.;y and S.andown ne>rt week 5 nays cost of wires. 2s 6d. No other cbtlrge what ever mile is sati-lied.—J'. Elsie, Post-office, Derby. 813 ...

... Williams v. bhrapneil. Tiie hearing of the :>eto>n Drought at the Swansea Assizes-, before Mr Justice Ipdd, by Mr G. G, Williams, Pendragon, a journalist, funnedy f Cardiff, and now of Manchester, against Philip Sbrapneli, the proprietor of the exhibition held at Cardif flast year, for the mcovery of £ 446, money aileged to be due for work done, was resumed on Monday. The judge summed up in ...

... RELIGIOUS FANATICISM IN AMERICA. A wave of religious excitement is sweeping over certain sections in the south, and the desire to become a martyr or to perform some trying practical test of faith is paramount within many a dusky bosom. In Upper Alabama there is an ancient African named Toby Jackson, who rejoiced greatly iu his local reputation of being the materialisation on earth of the ...

... Another Prize-Fight near London. Is A prize-fight for stakes of L20 a side took place yesterday morning, shortly after daylight, in a sccluded spot near Brentwood, between Joe Hayes, of Birmingham, and Harry Flude, of Bethual Green. There was only a limited number of spectators, as the promoters of the fight had kepI; the affair as quiet as possible, being desirous of preventing any ...

... Or.6 Law for the Rich and another for the Poor. A Palpable Travesty of Justice. Universal Celibacy. Tue man in the street (says a writer in a London contemporary) had only oue topic of conversation, and that was the commutation of the Maybrick sentence.The street hawkers discussed tbesituation on Thursday evening, and came to a practically was utterly indefensible, and oae that any blokei ...

... THE SHOEBURYNESS MEETING. At the National Artillery Volunteer Meeting at Shooburynes8 on Tuesday, a severe galo and storm were experienced. This interfered with the firing. In the competitions for prizes offered by the Artillery Association, with 10-incb guns, the results were not made known, but one detach- m3nt scored 54 points. In the shell competition, with 64-pounder gun, between ...