... A meeting of the Waterworks Committee ot the Cardiff Corporation was held this morning, there being present Alderman Lewis(in the chair), Alderman Jacobs, Councillors Sanders, Mildon, Sir Morgan Morgan, Carr, and F. J. Beavan, Mr J. L. Wheatlsy (town clerk), Mr J. A. B. Williams (waterworks engineer), and Mr F. R. Greenhill (borough treasurer). The question of letting the Llwynon Farm, in the ...

... I Alarming Outbreak of Diphtheria, The fortnightly meeting of tbe Tredegar Local j Board was ueld ou Wednesday evening. Mr D. | W. Phiilms presided.—The medical officer repor- i ted that 57 births wer^ reg.stered during the past j month, 32 males ami 35 emtles. During the same period 34 deaths occurred — r,he rate being 19.30 per 1.000 per annum. E ght of these deatns were uue to diphtheria, ...

... An Unfortunate Attach- ment. WHO IS THE CARDIFF LUDY P A painful circumstanoe has coma to light in connection with the suicide of a Worcester com- mercial traveller, Mr G. F. Woodwarcl, who on Thursday last shot himself at Clifton, near Rugby. The deceased bad been strange in his manner during the last three or four months, and when his dead body was found, and his pockets were searched for ...

... Instead of a Year in Jail He May Get a Term in Boston's Common Council. A Boston telegram says:-Jobu L. Sullivan't friends, recognising that he has no political train- ing or experience, propose to give him at leasl one year in that great school, the Common Council. He will be a candidate from Ward 19, where his home is at present. One of his friends said that Sullivan would not ally bimself ...

... DEATH AT THE WHIST TABLE. Mr John Bowen, a Leamington magistrate, died suddenly last night when playing whist. ...

... GLAMORGAN COUNTY COUNCIL. United Action by the Rhondda Members, 1n view ot the meeting of the Glamorgan County Council to be held on the 17th proximo,at which several matters of urgent importance will be discussed, there is, we understand, a movement among the Liberal members of the Rhondda district to form themselves into a separate and active b ...

... STRANGE DEATH OF AN ACTRESS. Dr Danford Thomas, coroner for Central Mid- dlesex, held an inquest on Monday night, at St. Pancras Coroner's Court, concerning the death of a Gaiety actress named Flera Ann Lauracroft, aged 30, lately lodging at 242, Tottenham Court- road, London, who, it was alleged, bad died from the effects of an illegal operation. From the evidence adduced it appears that ...

... I NEWPORT POLICE-COURT, I The Magistrates' Clerk Complains that j Police-officers Mumble their Evidence; j and Suggests that they Should Take I Lessons in Elocution. The magistrates presiding at the Newport borough police-court had a slack period to-aay. The veteran temperance worker, Mr II. Pnillips, together with Mr O. Goss, were the representa- tives of the great unpaid in attendance. Tho ...

... THE LATE MR HOWEL GWYN. Unveiling a Memorial at Neath, Tho statue of the laia \Ic Hovvol Gwyu, of Duffryn, which has been erected by public sub- scription, was unveiled at Neath on Thursday afternoon. At half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon the members of the corporation, including the Mayor (Mr J. Bevan Davies), the Town Clerk (Mr E. C. Curtis), and the officials, formed inta procession at ...

... Maindee a Ward of the Borough. I At the monthly meeting of the Newport Town Council, held to-day, the Towu Clerk pre- sented tL-c repoi-t of Mr Archibald Beuce Jones,barrister, the commissioner appointed by tlie Home Office to fix the boundaries of the diffeient wards, and allot the number of councillors to each. Tile Tuwu Cuuncil at the inquiry submitted a draft scheme by which the town was ...

... At a meeting of Liverymen of the city of Loudon at the Guildhall to-day Mr Henry Aaron Isaacs was unanimously elected to the office of Lord Mjtyrrj ( ...

... INSUBORDINATION IN THE ARMY. Artillery Drivers On Strike. come excitement has been caused m the garri- son at Woolwich by the insubordination of all the drivers of the 6th Field Battery Royal Artillery, late S Battery Second Brigade, quartered at the grand depSt barracks, it appears that some dis- satisfaction has existed among the drivers, who allege that they are unnecessarily harrassed ...