... The annual meeting of the Royal Cambriin Academy was bold recently at Plas Mawr, Conway, the annual report presented indicating that the academy's affairs, financial and other- wise, were in a very satisfactory condition, over L2,000 value of the members' works having been sold at the two past annual exhibitions. The old mansion of Plas Mawr had been found admir- ably picturesque, but ...

... SOUTH WALES NOTES. [BY COSMOS.] TREES FOR DINNER. THE latest discovery will be disastrous to the price of beef and mutton, for no leas an eminent authority than Victor Meyer, of Heidelberg, has announced that we may reasonably hope that chemistry will teach us to make the fibre of wood a source of human fond. The ceilulin is to be changed into starch, which, together with theenfored increase ...

... The coroner's inquiry into the Llanereh disaster will be resumed to-day (Tuesday) at the Town- hall, Pontypool. Several of the workmen, including those who worked in the mine the night before the explosion, have been informed that their attendance will be necessary. Mr Joseph Morgan, the manager, who played such a heroic part in rescuing the injured, and whose praise is on every tongue, is ...

... CARDIFF GAS WORKS. THE PROPOSED PURCHASE. VIEWS OF A COMMERCIAL MAN. This idea of buyiug the gas woiks mustn't ba entertained for a moment. The speaker was one of the leading busiueq men or C'rd ff; and It addressed his remark to a South Wales Daily News, reporter. Why askeu tbe prt!8man. It tsn r, good enough. Why, these men on the Town Cuuuoil talk of half-a-million as if it were a ...

... PONTARDULAIS. VKSTRY.—At a vestry meeting held at the Board Schools on Thursday evening, Mr J. Roberts, of the Board Schools, was nominated in the place of Mr Thomas Williams, Castelldu, the retiring overseer. The following were also named for selection by the magistrates :—Messrs Samuel Williams, J. Gape, William Harris, and D. Thomas, Pentie. ...

... THE PARNELL COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. So far as the Report of the PARNELL Com- missioners has reached us, the forebodings of the timid and the hopes of the Unionists have been entirely crushed. Mr PARNELL, aio all events, comes out clean handed. Whatever con- spiracy there may have been was only the legitimate conspiracy of a trades union. It was conspiracy to protect the poor, the weak, the down ...

... EXCISE PROSECUTION.—On Friday-before Loru Hereford aud Mr Edward Butler-John Jones, the Lodge, Trawscoed, was charged with keeping a dog without a licence on the 16th Sep- tember last. Mr D. T. Jeffreys, solicitor, Brecon, appeared for the Excise, and Mr D. Evans, soli citor, Brecon, for defendant.—The case was dis- missed, defendant to pay the costs of the court, not including witnesses. ...

... EOARD op TRADE PROSECUTION.—At the Cardiff police-court ou Saturday—before the Mayor (Mr William Sanders), Sir Morgan Mor- gan, Alderman J acobs-a sailor, named Jumes Gracia (35), was charged on a Board of Trade warrant with wilfully and fraudu- lently making a false statement of tbt name of his last ship and as to his own name.- Mr Vanderpump appeared for the Board ot, Trade, briefly stated ...

... CAPTURE OF DICK LLANIDLOES. A few weeks ago a member of the Cardigai ■hire constabulary, stationed at Absrystwytli visted a common lodging-house ill this town, with the intention of apprehending Richard Jones, alias Die Llanidloes for non-payment of an old fine. Oc the constable making his ap- pearance at the lodging-house, h Dic made bit escape through a back transit, and jumped into the ...

... [BEUTER'S TELEGRAM.] NEW. YORK, Saturday.-A farmhouse near Westport, New York, was entered last night by burglars, who killed a woman and fatally wounded her husband. ...

... THE DARLINGTON SCANDAL. A DEFICIT OF £ 45,151. BOGUS DEEDS AND NOTICES. The Darlington, Echo ot Saturday states that the deficit in the accounts of the Onward Building Society has been discovered to be £ 4-5,151, of which 27,000 was abstracted in cash from the till between January and March last year. A repre- sentative of the journal named bad an interview yesterday with Mr Councillor Mossom, ...

... •GREAT BOXING MATCH. The great boxing matoh between Charlie Mitchell and Jem Mace for j6500 a-side attracted a large and enthusiastic audience to the Gaiflt.y Theatre, Glasgow, on Friday night, fully 2,0C0 people being present. The guinea stalls, winch bad to be extended owing to the demand for accommodation, were crowded, many distinguished patrons of the ring being present. The half-guinea ...