... THE VALUE OF A WIDOW. A Clerkenwell man is in queer trouble. He married a widow with four children, and was happy. Both the widow and his ready-made family were all his fancy had painted. Ignoranoe being bliss, be made a fool of himself by going and discovering that she was not a widow, and never had been a widow, because she never had bad a husband, though her claims to the children were ...

... THE CATHAYS CRUSADERS woul;I like to ud match lor Ohii-tuias i-ay and B-xins Far h ine. Uave several open dates besides. Average ii lb.-Apply Secretary A. Weston, 4J, Humei-treet, Oatlinys, PONTNEWYDI) Bl-ACKWATCH T. PONTYPOOL WHITB STARS. — Played at P .ntypool, and resulted in a WiD fur the P. ntnewydd Biackwatch by 2 tries, 4 minors 1 try, to minors. HARTON-STREET RANGERS would like to ...

... E>UNNT IN HARBOUR. 1, 1 [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM,] COPENHAGEN, Tliur.i:i)-Tiie stelnor Kieg, belonging to tho United Steamship Compaay, bound fri'inthe Mediterranean to Russia with a cargo of fruit, wine aud cork, was burnt last even- ing whik lying- in the inner harbour here. For- tunately ilio damago was confined to property, and no lives were lost. ...

... GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY CO. AND CARDIFF. A letter from the secretary of the Great Western Railway Company, read this morning to the Cardiff Council, stated that not having been able to settle terms with the Marquis of Bute for the acquisition of land on the south side of the station at Cardiff, they had in- cluded in their Bill a reference to it. Several members commented on the fact that the ...

... THE FEELING IN THE HHONDOA. j I (FROM A I The manuesto issued by the workmen's section of tha eliding-scale committee, intimating the failure of their negotiations for a new scale, his been eagerly discussed during the last few days among the miners ot the Ehondda and,although there is a divergence of opinion as to the best coarse to adopt in view of these altered circum- stances, it is pretty ...

... SLAVIN BOUND OVER. I Publicity given by a, section of the Presi3 to this affair on Friday had the effect of causing the authorities to bestir themselves. 011 Saturday afternoon Inspector Barnett arrested Slavin, the Australian champion, at his training quarters at Margate, and touk him before the local magistrates, for the purpose of being bound over to keep the peace towards Jem Smith and all ...

... friva the following under reserve. In a Royal smoking-room the other day the conversation turned upon the protests which some of my Radical contemporaries have made against the appearance offthe Duke of Fife upon Unionist platforms. Very stupid pf the Ratis, said one distingui8hedp ...

... It is stated that the Queen this morning sent an expression of her deep regret at the death of Dr Charles Mackay. ...

... Rev Morris Morgan, secretary of the Soutb Wales and Monmouthshire Temperance Associa- tion, requests that aii future communications be addressed to his present residence, Irvouia, 71 Gorse-lane, Swansea. ...

... James Meredith, carpenter, with a 40year unblemished record, was summoned at Newport borough police-court, to-day, for assaulting his wife, E;ztbetli Meredith. The lady said she was a widow when she married defendant twenty years ago, and he was a widower with several sons. Oil Saturday week he knocked her down in the gutter, and she cried murder. He then hut her into the hou;ri, and ...

... Other engagements prevented me from attending the dinner of the Institute of Journalists at Merthyr on Saturday night. I can. therefore, the more freely congratulate the Cardiff members who had the pluck to set out on such a disagreeable evening, and also to offer my felicitations, for what they are worth, to the Merthyr journalists, who so successfully arranged the happy gathering. Merthyr ...

... MR BALFOUR'S RETURN TO LONDON. Mr Balfour, who has been staying at Stanway, Gloucestershire, on a visit to Lord Elchu, M.P., left Evesham for London this morning by tho 10.26 a.m. express. ...