... THE VACCINATION ACT. I I Sleeping with a Smallpox Patient. I A men applied to Mr Paul Taylor, at the South. waik Police Court yesterday, for a certificate of exemption under the Vaccination Act. Mr Paul Taylor Why do you object to your child being vaccinated ? Applicant: My brother was vaccinated, and he had the smallpox. I slept with him, and although I was not vtecinated I did not have it. I ...

... Mountain Ash District Councillor and His Wife- At the Mountain Aah County Court, held on Thursday week (before his Honour Judge G wilym Williams), Mrs Eva.ns, the wife of William Evans, hairdresser, Abercynon, & member of the Mountain Ash Urban District Council, brought an action against her husbaud for maintenance under an agreement entered into by the parties when they separated in 1896. The ...

... PRINCE GEORGE- Kom £ Tu^fcday Morning.—The King has for- warded.. telegram to Prince George congratu- birn on his appointment as Governor of Crete. CC.J'i-GI News. ...

... PLU.MPrON. RACE. W I R. PRICE. Polcf;aie llurdle Uuiouisc 4 on Lu 30 a°st Uncertificated Lauy Ada i he Auove prices are identical with those published olliclally in Lbb fiaciny Calendar. ...

... The Colonies alld India says:- Mr J. J. Francis, Q.C., of Hong Kentr, can be, like Daioe's immortal creation, monarch of all he surveys when he lands upon the island of Balarn- baugan, off tho coast of North Borneo. The island was conceded ta Mr Francis during a hobday visit which that gentleman paid to Borneo last year, and is described as close upon 5C miles in circumference, aud JyinK ...

... Is this the pohce-3tatiou? que'iea a vice through the telephone the other J Yes'ra. Well, I want you to arretit my band. What fori Ife,etrry, rill on awilliast yoii erer isaw. gone out and got A crowbar, and le says i* if( t.u(h?ho!H.mycaa?ty bir'? brAiOl, B?? m:tk?n? the awfulest mntions y??? ??' ?,t.. know he mt?da to comt  afraid we can't do allythiu. ',hu\ ? ag3.« the law for a ...

... THE CHAHGE AGAINST A NEW- PORT SECRETARY. I Defrauding the National Seamen's Union, At Newport borough police-court, to-day, John Phillips, lately secretary to the local branch of the National Amalgamated Seamen's and Firemen's Union, was charged on remand with withholding 2s 4!1, the moneys of the branch, and also embezzling the same.-Mr Digby Powell appeared to prose cute on bebalf of the ...

... [OENTRAL NKW8 TELEGRAM.] I NETT YORK, Saturday.-While a freight train was passing over a bridge at Halletsville, Texas, yesterday, the bridge suddenly gave way, and the engine and carriages were dashed into the river heneatb. Six passengers were killed. while four received serious injuries. Several are still missing, and it is feared they have been drowned. This morning Commander Fiald, Staff ...

... WELSH CHOHAL FESTIVAL AT CAfiulFI-. The accommodation of the spacious Wood-street Cnapai, where for many yo .rspast the anuual fostivai ...

... u- SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT NEWPORT. Early this morning a lad named Daniel ISvans, (Joe at Bristol House, Alexandra-road, was at work at the Eastern Dry Dock, iiii clothes caught in the machinery, and be could be extricated he sustained a frac- nf the right leg and left arm. The injured ad, mi ho had a miraculous escape from death, was to the Infirmary, where he is detained. ...

... The Late Justice Manisty. A Good Judge, a Good Lawyer, and a Good Man. In the Queen's Bench to-day, there was a full attendance of the Bar to do honour to the memory of the late Justice Manisty, The Attorney- General and the Solicitor-General, representing the Bar, paid warm tributes to the memory of the deceased judge. The Lord Chief Justice, with whom were the Master of the Rolls and most of ...

... The Man About Town It may be hoped that it is too soon to say that the New Year has brought misfortune in its train to the great population interested in the maintenance of peaceful relations on the wages question between the Coal-owners and their workmen. In the happy agreement of the Aberdare Conference there seemed to be a bright prospect, and so far as the colliers were concerned there was ...