... Phinel. and Ann Boden, husband and wi, were charged before the Ironbridge magistrat yesterday, with cruelty to a boy, the son of first-named defendant. from the evidence appeared that the child bad only two meals day, these consisting of bread-and-drippinf He seldom hjyg anything to drink, and it was stated was frequently illusc without any provocation. Though nearly fou years eld he only ...

... HAnHY ANDTCADOXTON LOCAL A special meeting of the above Board was held af Cadoxton on Monday atternoon, when there were present Mr Yi. D, Jotit,3 (in the chair), Rev Cauou Allen, and Messrs J. Robinson, J. Jones, P. J. O'Donnel', d- C. Meggitt, C. Morgan. W. Thomas, J. C. Pardoe (surveyor), J. Hughes (clerk), a°d C. (collector). A letter was read from the secretary or tte Barry Dock and ...

... PONTYPRIDD. FATAL ACCIDENT AT CILFTNYDD.—On Taes- day, at the B«ssetts Arm. Cdfynydd, Mr E. B. Reece, Cardiff, held an inquiry with reference to tf,e deatb of a lad named William Osborne, aged 13, who was killed at the Albion Colliery by being ttenck by a rope on Ccrwima* nigbt. Deceased was minding the rope on the pit bank, and by some means had his arm drawn into the machinery connected with ...

... l SPECIAL TELERAM TO THE RCH '1 The latest telegrams from Egypt aceived in Merionethshire state that tb county aaamber, Mr Thomas E. Ilil, still ties dangerously ill of malaria fev at Luxor. Great anxiety prevails among the on* member's friends. Miss Ellis has receive!* summons to proceed to her brother without deTi and is now route for the Nile. 1 —i Cardiff School Board Election. THE ...

... I NEW YEAR'S EVE. I CARDIFF. ew Year's Day was awaited at Cardiff with f. outward manifestations, of rejoicing. At nny cf the churches and chapels watch night svices were held, and were largely attended, bt there were scarcely as many of these devo- tnal gatherings held as usual. This is due tI te increase in the number of home celebrations. the railway lines and the docks hooters and nistles ...

... BABY-FARMING AT SOUTHPORT. At Southport, on Tuesday, W. Pearson, Eliza- beth Pearson, Sarah Frcggatt, and Julia Brade were remanded on a charge of causing the death of three illegitimate children, who ware farmed by the Pearsons. Mrs Brade was the mother of two of the deceased childreo, and the coroner's jary fouud she was accessory before the fact, whilst verdict of manslaughter was returned ...

... MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE, Tuesday.—Wind WSW, fresh. Weather cloudy. Sea smooth. Passed East- barquentine Mary, of Stavanger schooner Camwoodoi of Liverpool schooner Louise Marin ketches I'll Try and Cambria, of Barnstaple brig Eugene Gaston, of Vannes steamers Avon, of Glasgow Kilkeel, of Newry. Passed West—steamers Carnsew, of Penzance Plantaeenet, of Liverpool .Solway King, of White- haven ...

... JEN BY CANNIBALS. irices from San Francisco received at In on Tuesday state that intelligence c 1 there on December 23rd that the ot ee seamen of the British schooner rise were killed and eaten by cannibals at lond Island, one of the Solomon group, on ar 29th; and the newi of the massacre » been carried to Captain Hunt, of her pity's corvette Ruyalist,. he shelled the vil- pon the island. ...

... A horribl, been enacted at Gentillv. outside Par^ ere Madame Christophle killed her (jQ*and—a butcher—ia his sleep and then commi 3d suicide. The pair were both- young, and 1; i lately failed in business. Madame O'.ristophle two bullets in tlie temple, one of whic.. in its passage tore out an eye. Her husband b6ins had been blown out. Under the woman' body the police-inspector found a letter ...

... Mr T. Lunn has purchased a colt by Foragei out of Vetius. and entertains great hopes of ltc future career. T. P. Conneff, the well-known Irish amatent runner, is still laid up with typhoia fever in one of the New York hospitals. Ostrogoth, who couid not be thoroughly vound up last season, is spoken of as a likely outsider ta wm the Derby. While Riviera continues to do well at New market, the ...

... INQUEST AT PONTYPRIDD. Mr E. 13. Reece. Cardiff, held an inquest on Tuesday, at the Union Workhouse, Pontypridd, on the body of a man named John Canon, a ballad singer, who was found dead in the shop of a barber named Pridgeon, at Mill-street, Ponty- pridd, on Sunday last. The evidence showed that the deceased, with Pridgeon, and Jones another barber, bad been drinking together at the Blue ...

... TH I It D EDITION.| A V. S J -t L.0 . - WRJ2 Mz MASIJL Onrcz 4.30 A.aU. III E VATICXLN AND ITALY. j [,i StrUT'- t.2 'TLEG2^tA.) ROMIE, Tur.eSay. Ait *h Ct'lorv ?? yestcrday at the ela V'aticait the ...