... I GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. I Sir Daniel Gooch's Successor. The Central News learns that Mr Saunders, formerly secretary of the Great Western Railway. Company, was on Thursday elected chairman in* place of the late Sir Daniel Goocb. ...

... CRICKET AND iTS ORIGIN. The toast of Cricker, at the annual dinner of the Cobham (Surrey) Cricket Ciub, laiit week, was entrusted to Mr Sam Bircham, the well-known member of the committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club, and in proposing it he gave some interesting particulars regarding the origin of cricket. It could not definitely be said when aud where cricket was first started, but Lie ...

... Another method haa been adopted by the Danish police with a view to putting au end to drunken- ness. Every time a man is found in a state of intoxication in the streets or in a public place, be is, at the instance of the police, put in a carriage and taken home. In case a man is not able to give information as to his residence, be is kept at the police station until sober. Then the publican ...

... Owing to the overcrowded state of the Protes- tant cemetery at Mallow, county Cork, the Local Government Board held an enquiry, and subse- quently issued an order prohibiting further burials except by certain specified persons who had exist- ing right to interment. The order omitted a number of persons who claimed to have such right, and it was openly threatened that the order would be set at ...

... THE GLAMORGAN VOLUNTEER81 1 SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO _THE ECHO. I- I The Glamorgan Volunteers, Capt. Goodwyn, 2ud Battalion Welsh Regiment, at Cork, will shortly leave Ireland and proceed to Wales for duty as adjutant of the 2ad Volunteer Battalion the Old Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers be relieves Captain Foley, who rejoins his corps, the Middlesex Regiment, at Buttevant, in Ireland. ...

... A ROMANTIC INCIDENT. One night young Boulanger, whilst going his rounds to all the. sentry posts, observed a woman glide furtively iuto the camp. On making enquiries he discovered she was the fianc#i of one of the natives who had been takeu prisoner the nrevious evening. Ordering the girl to be arrested and brought before him, the young i fficer enquired the reason of her visit to the Freuch ...

... TO-DAY'S SHIPPING. Lloyd's Casualty Telegrams. A telegram from Batoum states :-Very bad weather pvevailsli^ve. 'fhe Italian hri Covbello has sunk, with a cargo of sulphur; the Greek baique Johannes (empty) is totally wrecked, but the crew were saveo and a Turkish sailing ship, ashore on the coast, will be a tutal loss. The British barque Martha, from Victoria to ifolig Kong, has put into ban ...

... AN ABSENT MINDED WATCHMAN.—A day or two ago the policeman on oeat, at Foxhole found a man named John Handcock lying in a deep cutting and suffering from injuries on the head. It appears that he is the watchman stationed at the cutting to prevent people from falling into it, and he actually foil in himself. Printed an.l Published by tbe Proprietors, DAVID 1 DUNCAN & SONS, at 103, St Mary-street ...

... l'hia space is left ;'cr any special « this edition is being printed olf. ...

... k|>o £ km 0^ Atianr- ti-  t  I I TO THE ECHO. at eleven o'clock last night, the Cu ..mer Umbria arriv-d from New York, a very fast passage. The passengers landed report that a series of robberies occurred during the homeward pass;,ge f,,1Q t, t »-u i u 00 gentleman stating that he felt convinced that „ t „ u lnat a numoer of picic- L°nter w x°n b°ard* A «Hoon pas- to trJ ? °f £ W■ A11 ...

... ANOTHER CLUB RAID. The G Division of Police yesterday afternoon made a raid upon the East Einsbury Club, iu Goswell-road, London, and seized quantity of betting books and other materials used in gam- bling. There were seventy in the club,all of whose names and addresses were taken; Frank and Edward Grimm, keepers of the club; William Brook, club clerk David Crick, bar keeper and Joseph Mauning ...

... A HIGH DAY AT MALPAS, Disciplinary Power of School Teachers. Thomas William Rees, head teacher at Malpas Church Schools, was summoned at Newport county police-court, this afternoon, for assaulting Joseph Eves, a schoolboy 13 years of age, at Malpas, on Tuesday last. Toere was a free tea to the poor of the parish on the day named, in connection with the harvest festival, and the defendant ...