... DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY, To-day a deputation of miners' delegates representing all the great coal-ruining centres Waited upon Mr Matthews at tho Home Office, and urged the importance of Government support of the Eight Hours Bill for colliers. The deputation agreed in representing that, owing to the vitiated atmosphere in which the coalminer Worked, his hours of labour should be ...

... .DAY'S PARLIAMENT f HOUSE OF COMMONS. I The Speaker took the chair at ten minutas past lbree ,'cl(,ck. Leave was given for the introduc- I tion of a number of private bills, and others were lead a tirs time. I VOLUNTITKIiS AND THEIR VOTES Colonel HUGHES asked the Secretary for War Whether he was aware that volunteers absent .from hoipe on duty in barracks at Easter were thereby subjected to ...

... The Murderer Still at Large. THEORY OF THE POLICE, Latest Particulars. The murderer of the girl Alice Amelia (usually known as Millie) Jeffs, whose dead body was discovered in an empty house, 126, The Portway, West Ham, on Friday, after she had been missing for a fortnight, has not yet been arrested. The statement that a man bad been seen on the night of Amelia Jeffs' disappearance dragging ...

... A telegram from a Balli correspondent announces the death, at the age of 67. of Sir Luuis Mallett, C.B which took place in that city on Saturday. Sir Louis had taken up Ins residence at Batb on account of his health. He was attacked with influenza on Tuesday last aud gradually sank. De- ceased was associated with Richard Cobden in negoeiating the French Treaty of 1860, and was weil-knowu for ...

... THE CARDIFF THEATRES. The legitimate drama season will open at the Theatre Royal to-night, and during the week playgoers will have opportunities of witnessing three works of marked merit in Campbell Clarke's Loee and BoAoicr (adaptori from the French of Dumas), The Country Girl (Wycherley's most piquant prouucticn), and The Little Viscount (also from the French, the adapter being Hermann Vezin ...

... Another wharf strike took place this moruing at Wappijg, London, when eighty Union men left work at Sharp's whart beoause nou-uuioii mea were employed. ...

... At the Penarth police-court, to-day—before Messrs James Ware and J. P. Thompson—J. liarrison, secretary cf tho Pellarth and Barry branch of the Seamen's I; won, was charged with infringing the regulations of the Briard of Trade on the 16th inst. The case had been adjourned from the last court in order that the certiticate of registration of the ship might be put in. Mr Ivor Vachell prosecuted ...

... I I Tapping a Legacy. A TRIP TO AUSTRALIA FRUSTRATED. At the Derby police-court, to-day, two boys, George Hy. Lomax and Walter Edward Pope, were remanded on a charge of stealing JB200, the property of the latter's father. The money, which formed the proceeds of a legacy, was stolen three weeks ago from a drawer. The prisoners spent jE80 in Birmingham, and bookod passages to Australia. in the ...

... The Grand Theatre Pan- tomime Company. LADIES OF THE BALLET STRANDED AT CARDIFF. The turn which events took in connection with the wind-up of the pantomime season at the Grand Theatre, Cardiff, on Saturday night, has resulted in five members of the ballet being stranded at Card iff,among strangers, almost penni- less, and without any immediate prospect of obtaining the fuuds necessary to pay ...

... Mr Holland, the gifted young minister of Bethel Church, was to be absent for some weeks. The ladies of the Sunday School contemplated the arrangement of some kind of an entertain- ment in honour of his return, and Mrs Lump, wife of one of the wealthiest members, proposed short recitations and tableaux. The idea was accepted, and Mrs Lump; was duly installed as president. She placed her ...

... MEETING AT CARDIFF.. Nearly Subscribed. A town d meutuig w.ts auuwuiicea to be held in the Crown Court of the Cardiff Town-hall, this afternoon, for the purpose of opening a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Abersychan colliery disaster but there were not more than 30 persons present, including the Mpyor (who presided), the Bishop of Llanduff, Aid. Lewis, Councillor F. Beavan, the ...

... i Col. Maciver's Divorce Suit. a STRANGE REVELATIONS. The Fraiity of Memories and Morals. In th° Divorce Court, on Saturday, the case o. Maclver v. Macl ver and Ca ...