... Yesterday Mr Clner applied to Mr Justice K -kewich, on beba!f of the plaintiff in the action of Walton v. Carpenter, far the release of a lady who was committed in October last for contempt of court to Stafford Gaol. The plaintiff in the action sought to set aside a mortgage to defendant of cer- tain freehold property belonging to her, and situ- ate at New Brighton. T4e plaintiff alleged that ...

... COMPENSATION FOR MRS MARTIN. A cheque for ;64,000 has been issued from the I Donegal County Treasury, payable to Mrs Martin, widow of the late District Inspector Martin. ...

... HORRIBLE MUTILATION OF A CHILD. A garden6r employed at a large house at Sodenbalfc, Surrey, yesterday found in the shrubbery a parcel containing the body of a female child terribly mutilated. The police surgeon examined it and found that the head, legs, and arms had been severed—the latter at the elbow- and were missing. The missing members have Dot been found. ...

... A Cake and Wine Banquet. Mr Balfour, the Irish Chief Secretary, was entertained at a cake and wine banquet to-day in the West of Scotland Imperial Union Club, Glasgow. Sir Edward Cole- brooke proposed Mr Balfour's health.- Responding, Mr Balfour said the difficulties of his officu lost all their sting and bitterness in the face of the heartiness of the union support. When the evils were of ...

... A Strike Probable. I On Monday all the mechanics, enginemen, blocklayers, carpenters, and-other,3 emplpyed in the engineering department of the Tredegfcfr Iron and Steel Works, numbering betweeu 600 and 700 men, handed in their notices to tefpiinate their engagements with the company at tb9 expiration of twenty-eight days unlpas an advance of 15 per cent. was conceded. A deputa- tion waited ...

... MERTHYR AND ABERDARE COLLIERY OFFICIALS' ASSOCIATION. The ordinary meeting of the members of the Merthyr and Aberdare Valleys Colliery Officials' Association was held on Monday afternoon at the awembly-rooms of the Bush Hotel, Merthyr, under the presidency of Mr D. E. Davies (Dewi Mabon), Cwmaman, Aberdare.-Mr R. Snape, Merthyr Vale. waR elected president for the en- suing year Mr Howell ...

... THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT i NEAR DOWLAIS. Death of Miss G. Davis. I LBPIiOIAL TELBGRAM: TO THIC ECHO.] I Miss Gwenny Davis, of Merthyr, who met with a serious accident on the railway near Pant itation, Dowlais, died at one o'clock to-day, after t month's lingering illness. ...

... We understand that a London firm has pur- chased the pontoon which has been lying in the mud outside Cardiff for a year or two past, and the Dumfries Works and another attempt will be made to complete and set this place going. It is hoped the new enterprise will meet with suc- coss, as the history of the company up to now has been most regrettable, nearly £ 100,000 having been sunk in the ...

... I hear through private sources of a new Cardiff Brewery enterprise This time it is not a question of converting an old concern into an all-absorbing limited liability com- pany. It is a new creation, in a new dis- trict, and at the fou ntain of what may be called new water, though the spring is as old as the hills from the bosom of which it flows. On Monday the first sod will be cut of the ...

... John Elvira, do you love me or is it coy money ? Elvira John, I love you both. Although coal is high, the workingman may comfort himself with the thought that wages is hire. Among the many things, good bad, and indiffer- ent, for which the Eiffel tower is responsible, are the following additIOns to the French vocabulary: Tcureiffelomauia. :> toureiffelesque, and toureiffei^e. King of the ...

... The Citation not yet Served. f The Freeman's Journal states that no attempt has beeu maae to serve the citation either on Mr Parnell or Mrs O Shea, although a week has elapsed since the petition alleged to ha%e been 1;lIted, and the practice is to serve citations immediately when possible. Mr Parneli's solicitors (Messrs Lewis aud Lewis) are ia- structed to ascertain whether a petition has ...

... THE PRICES OF BREAD AND COAL There is much grumbling in the East End of liondon at the increase in the prices of bread and coal. The former has risen a penny and three-halfpence per quartern loaf, and the latter fourpence and sixpence a hundredweight. Consumers declare the masters are tbus making people pay the workmen's increase in wages. ...