... NEATH FOOTBALL CLUB. Annuat Meeting. The annual general meeting of members of the above-named club was held at the Town-halt, Neath, on Tnesdn.y, when over 300 assembled. The Hon. H. C. Bruce presided, and among those present were Messrs L. C. Thomas, A. Russell Thomas. Walter E. Ree? (hon. sec.), Dd. Rees, Fred. Kempthome, D. J. Price, and M. Wbit- tington. The balance-sheet, which showed a. ...

... | WIFE DESERTION IN CARDIFF. An Increased Maintenance Order. At the Cardiff Police-court to-day, Thomas j Brind, Wood*ide Far! Trellech, near Tintern, appeared to resist an application made on behalf of his deserted wife to increase a maintenance order. In August, 1.891, an order was made against him to pay 5s per week, the fact of his wife receiving at that time the rents of two houses in ...

... Sutherland Family ) Dispute. I The Action by the Dowager- Duo hess, JUDGMENT TO-DAY. 1 Mr Justice Romer delivered judgment to-day in the action brought by the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland against the present duke to recover possession of Tittensor Chase, dismissing the action wlfch costs. His Lordship, in announcing his decision, said that in his judgment the leases which were the subject of ...

... SALVATION ARMY ,T ABERDARE j The Charge 0; The Aberd; re ponce or, Sv urday,acting on the complaint of the resident i• ,i(lwm«n around Com- mercial-piace, endeavoured to move oa the Salvation Army, who were stat-ed to be causing an obstruction. The of the army tefused to move, and their names were taken. On Tuesday the magistrates issued .summonses against seven of them for obstructing the ...

... I Here and There. A circular city railway is to be constructed in Mr G. J. Goschen, who was born in 1831, cele- I brated his birthday yesterday. Charies Lamb declared that it might sweeten a m'.m's temper at any time to read The Corn- Angler. If the besetting sin of boys is activity in the wrong place—called mischief so the besetting sin of giris if often extravagant emotionalism—called ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTH WALES ECHO. Sift,-After the long and continued effort to arrive at an amicable settlement of the Bodrin- gallfc Colliery Nine-feet Seam dispute, everything has failed and last Saturday the men atfooted- who number about 70—brought out their tools. Their action has been fully approved of by their fellow-workmen in the other seams, who pledge themselves to support the ...

... TO TIfR JftJCTOH OP THE SOUTH WALES ECHO. SIR,-Tlie workmen who are members of theSouth Wales and Monmouthshire Colliery Workmen' Federation, and who were thrown out of work in consequence of the stoppage of the five-feet seam at Risca and Abercarn collieries, are being paid to-day relief money to the amour t of 10s per week and Is per week for each child, and wilJ continue to receive this ...

... A STORY OF SOHO —complete—by Geo. R. Sims, .Il appea.r in the Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly Hews of next week. ...

... At Newport Town-hall to-day, Andrew What- cott, a fresh-looking, respectable lad of 13, was charged with stealing two boxes of chocolate creams, the property of Wm. Pell, confectioner and sweet manufacturer, Commercial-road. On Monday evening the prosecutor's son heard a noise in the shop, and running to see what was the matter he saw the prisoner making off with a large wooden box of ...

... AN M.P. IN THE DIVORCE COURT. Brigstock v. Brigstock and Pearce. FULL REPORT OF THE TRIAL. The Press Association has been authorised to publish a fu li report of the proceedings as taken from the official shorthand-writers' notes of the above case, which has excited so much comment through the co-respondent's proper name and title not having been divulged. It is now admitted that the Mr ...

... SPORTING ITEMS. I It having been found impossible to train pender. last year's winner of the Royal Hunt Cup, he is to be sent to the Cheveley Stud. Caider rode a smart race and scored his first winning moan1; for the season on Lady Aldyth in the March Two Year Old Stakes at Liverpool yesterday. Simon's Bay. the winner of the Molyneux Shkt's at Liverpool yesterday, is the highest- priced foal ...

... CARDINAL VAU6HAN. I VIEA. Thursday.—Cardinal Vaughan left htre to-day on his return to England. It is staled that the object of his visit to this c ty was to induce the heirarohy of Austria to sanction the so-called Catholic Socialism propaganda, which the cardinal hopes to see spread an over Europe, and by means of which he trusts to bring about closer relations between the working classes ...