... BY VIATOR. By all means go and see Strata Florida I I do not refer to the railway station of that name some five miles beyond Tregaron, on the route from Carmarthen to Aberystwytb. The Strata Florida to which I refer may be conveniently reached from that station, as it lies only two or three miles off, and conveyances are usually in waiting to oblige those who prefer driving to walking. The ...

... OSSIAN'S SUCCESSOR, The Rev William Pierce, pastor of a large and prosperous church at Birmingham, has, by 252 votes against four, received a call to the pastor- ship of New Court Congregational Cburcb, Tollington Park, the late pastor (the Rev Ossian Davies) having to remove to Bournemouth on account of the state of his son's health. ...

... STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. Mr Albert Backert, chairman of the White- chapel Vigilance Committee, writes as follows:- As chairman of the last formed Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, I have been questioned by a large number of people about to-day's discovery. From the time our committee was formed my colleagues and myself have done all in our power to discover the ...

... EXPERIENCES OF A DETECTIVE. BY JAMES M'GOYAN, ~^UTBOR of BROUGHT TO BAT, HUNTED ^OWN, STRANGE CLUBS, and TRACED AND TRAOnD. No. XXXVI. A STOLEN HOARD. £200 is Rood sum to lose by robbery, bat in this Case the person robbed was a woman, and it Aktizoed the importance of £ 200,COO. When I got Mie place—a main door house in Rankeillor- jfceet—in response to the urgent message, I Mrs ...

... Dewisol lu'r bydysawd,—a pherlau Hoff ariuu y creawd; Claer eu gwsdd, rhyfedd en rbawd,—heulogblanl, Breiniol gwympant ar wyoraool gwmpawd. Trecaatell. D. JEWBKYS DAVINS. ...

... A CHILD'S SINGULAR ADVENTURE. One day this week, about seven o'clock in the evening, two ladies from Leicester, walking on the beach about two miles north of Skegness, met a little girl trudging along the shore alone. She appeared tired and faltering in her gait, and on being questioned she said she had come from Mabiethorpe, and that her name was Rose. The ladies took the child to Inspector ...

... The Church Congress I at Cardiff. PROPOSAL TO GIVE AN OFFICIAL RECEPTION. The Corporation Decline. A meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Cardiff Corporation was held yesterday in the Town-hall, there being present Alderman Taylor, M.D., in the chair; Aldermen Jacobs and Carey Councillors Sanders, Sir Morgan Morgan, Riches, Mildon, Hopkins, F. J. Beavan, A. Rees, Jotham, Carr, ...

... FIRST TBAMP (to his, pard)-Did you tell the mistress of the house that we are Johnstown sufferers, washed out by the floods ? SECOND TRAMP-I What did she say t She sud we looked as though we hadn't been washed in ten years. ...

... EXPERIENCES OF A DETECTIVE. BY JAMES M'GOVAN, .Author of BROUGHT TO BAT, HUNTED '• SIBANGE CLUES, aud TBAOKD AND TBACKKD. No. A DUPLICATE DOOR-KEY, going home one uigbt in August, I wa8 *oned on from the other side of the street by a councillor, whom I just knew by sight as « owner of a large drapery shop. He was above a bachelor, and well known as a kind master a krge-souled citizen. I ...

... Dymuniri'n gohebwyr Cymreig gyfeirio eu goheb- iaetbau, llyfrau i'w badolygu, &0., fel ycanlyn Dafydd Morganwg, Morganwg Bouse Uantwit- street, Cardiff. ...

... From our own Correspondent. POLITICAL—SOCIAL-LITERARY J. WBLSH MBMBBBS DURING VACATION. The vacation is as yet hardly over, and our Parliamentary representatives are not much en cadence. Between this and Christmas, however, e may expect a very fair show. Sir Hussey ivian has been showing bow robust he can be on occasion. Those of us who have watched his recent career in the House can see a ...

... On Tuesday afternoon, Mr Edison, the American electrician, and Mrs Edison paida visit of courtesy to tbe Lord Mayor and MJ0 Lady Mayoress at the 'Mansion House, were entertained at luncheon. They wero accofltt panied fey Miss Miller (Mrs Edison's sister Sir John Pender, K.C.M.G., Sir Anderson, Mr Tait, Colouel and Gourand, Mr Layland, and Mr J. S. Forbes* Among those asked to meet them at ...