... SHIRT STEALING AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff police-court to-day—before Mr T. W. Jacobs—Edward Payne, a laci of 15, was charged with stealing a shirt, value 2s, fram No. 91, May-street, the property of William Allen, on the 5tb instant. Prisoner had been twice before charged with offences, and was now sent to gaol for seven days. ...

... At a monthly meeting of the Baptist Churchet of the -Aferti-iyr district, hld at Carinel, TroGdy. rhi\v, on Monday, under the presidency of Mt D. Da,vics, ]Merthyr. The following resolutioa wa.s unanimousiy parsed :— we heg to encer our most sincere and solem protest tg--Linst the inhuman practice of rabbit cours- ing so prevaleiit in this neighbourhood. The brutish and manner in WhIcn these ...

... THE CARD SCANDAL CASE. The Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., MP., has been retained on behalf of Sir Wm. Gordon Cumming in the forthcoming action which that gentleman is bringing in connection with what is known as the card scandal case. The action, however, is not likely to be ready for hearing for some time to come. ...

... ACTION BY A MINISTER'S I DAUGHTER. At tho Cardiganshire Assizes yesterday,M ary J. James, wife of David James, Tregaron, saught to recover £155, balance of wages due to her from the defendant, Morgan Morgans, farmer, Esger Fafm, Tregaron. Mr Griffiths Jones, instructed by Mr Hugh Hughes, was for the plaintiff, and Mr Abel Thomas, M.P., instructed by Messrs Roberts and Evans, for defendant. ...

... THE EVILS OF MODERN SOCIETY. The consecration of Dr. Perowne, dean of Peterborough, as Bishop of Worcester, and of Dr. William Walsh, prebendiary of St. Paul's, as Bishop of Mauritius, took place to day at Westminster Abbey. in the presence of a large congregation. Arch- deacon Farrar, who preached the sermon, dwelt strongly on the evils of modern society, severely rebuked narrow intolerance ...

... THE TRA)TOR. I One bitterly cold winter's evening, toward the close of the year 1887, nve men were seated together in a small room in a, house situated in the Jewish quarter of a busy and largely-populated Russian city. The ap- pearance of the room was as wretched as the sxtemal aspect of the house itself. The solitary window was totally concealed by a heavy faded curtain, depending from the ...

... We understand that Mr Joseph Henry Jones, solicitor, of Cardiff, reccived instructions on Thursday to prepare and serve the necessary statutory notices prior to issuing a¡writ upon Head Constable William Mackenzie, of Cardiff, the Head Constable of Liverpool, and P. C. Stracey, of the Royal Irish Co'tstabulary, in connection with the arrest of Mr Patrick O'Brien, M.P., at Cardiff. ...

... Cwmbran Centenarians. TO THE EDITOR. bis,—some time ago reference was made in your columns to the fact that thero were two centenarians—man and wife-living at Cwmbran. Since then the old lady has quietly passed away. Her death took place at her residence in Foundry- row, on Monday morning, the 19th ult., and remarkable to say, she was in full possession of her faculties nearly to the last ...

... I TO-DAY'S WEATHER, 4.30 P.M. ...

... At the Newport Town-hall, to-day, O'Niel,boarding-house keeper, wassummoned with assaulting John Metealf. Complainant described himself as a fireman, and said he wont down to the Alexandr a Dock Pierhead about three o'clock on Friday morning to see. about his steamer, the Everest. Defendant came to him, asked him if he was with Shoey in the King's Arms on the previous evening, and then ...

... Mr Justice Stephen and a Junior. Barrister. Extraordinary Incidents. At the close of the criminal business at Surrey Assizes at Guildford yesterday, twy young fellows were indicted before Mr Justice Stephen for housebreaking. One of the witnesses was giving evidence when counsel, a, junior barrister, believing he was speaking too rapidly, said G,) slowly, watch his lordship's pen. This was ...

... LICENSING OFFENCE AT SWANSEA. At the Swansea police-court, on Thursday, Wiiiiam Marker, landlord of the Royal Exchange public house, Strand, was summoned for harbour- iug women of illfaine, and supplying drink to a drunken person.—Mr Edwin Davies defended.— P.C. Burnett said that at 10.30 en the evening of the 19th inst. he visited defendant's house in con- sequence of seeing a woman of ...