... Brutality to an English t G i d. NICK, Jan. ló-A case of brutal ill-treatment of an English girl by her employers, which ha* arroused much interest among the English rcsi-y^ dents in Nice, was with by the policeiS authorities yesterday. The girl, whose name is Katv Ammalier, is the daughter of a factory hand at Wolverhampton, and was induced by a lady residing in that town to come out here in ...

... FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE IN LONDON. Foot-and-mouth disease has again broken out in North London. It was discovered on Sunday, and reported to the Board ot Agriculture, who ordered the immediate slaughter of all animals which had been in contact with the animals affected. Nine were killed last night, and thA officers of the B-lard are expected to-day at Islington Cattlo Market, but what will be ...

... I SIR .CHARLES EUAN SMITH. It 18 understood that in view of certain forth. coming diplomatic changes, it is probable that Sir Charles Euan Smith will be appointed to a. more important post than Tangiere. ...

... MfSSMG WORD DIFFICULTY. Appointment of a Receiver. The Exchange Telegraph Company understands that upon further application Mr Justice Gorell Barnes, M vacation ju-ig^, on Saturday appointed a receiver in the action of Davis v. Pearson. This was the action arising ont of the notorious missing word competitions, and relates to what is commonly known as the ostrich problem. The urgency of the ...

... A STEAMER WRECKED. A Lloyd's Cherbourg telrgram states that the j steamer Luchann, from Glasgow for Cherbonrg, is ashore at Cape La Hague, and will probably bs a total wreck. Tba crew wero saved. ...

... Sudden Death of a Boy, ( At the T:wn-ba!), Cardiff, en Saturday even- In?, Mf E- K Rccf, t.he district coroner, heH three inquests. The c'rcnn' ...

... SERVANTS' UNION. Progress of the Movement. The movement to found a Servants' Union for Cardiff and district as the outcome of the meeting held in the Colonial H-tll, Cardiff, in the end of last week, proce da apace. Already over 100 servant girls have given in their names to Mr a.nd Mrs Parker, of 238, Cowbricga-road, who have charge of the matter, and the work is being vigorouslv and steadily ...

... Swinton v. Newport. THE MATCH ABANDONED. [SPECIAL TBJ.KfiRAM TO THK hX'FTO.] The Swinton v. Newport match has b ...

... I DEATH OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE I OF VIC FORIA. The death is announced of tho Hon. George Higinbotham, Chief Justice of Victorlll. The deceased, who was born in Dublin in 1827, went to London in 1843, and In tha following year became a rejiorter on the Morning Chronicle. After having baen called to the Bar m 1853. Mr Higinbotham emigrated to Melbourne. In 1856 he accepted the editorship of the ...

... ALLEGED THEFT FROM A SHIP AT BARRY DOCK. William Kiel, a fireman, was charged on rertiandat Penat-th police-court, this morning, with appropriating to himself a bag of clothing, valued at 10s, belonging to a fellow-fireman named John Jones, from tha s.s. Wave, lying at Barry Dock, on the 29th ul titno. -Prosecutor said he went to Newport on the Tuesday and left his bag of olothes on board the ...

... THE BEGGING NUISANCE. I Before Mr J. P. Thompson and M:ijorThornl*y -rtt tho Penarth police-court, thii iic)rnitig-a sickly-looking man named Thomas Jones, hailing from Cardiff, WAS brought up in cusfody charged with begging frmn door to door in Windsor-road, on Saturday evening. P.C. D. Evans said he arrested the accused in the act and took him to the btatian, where, in answer to the charge, ...

... DaringOutrage in Ireland COURAGEOUS YOUNG LADIES, I fSPECIALTELEGBAM: TOTRE ECHO.] A daring outrage is reported to-day from Clonmore, Tulla, County Clare, at Grove Villa, the residence of four young ladies. orphans, whose father, Mr E. Burke-Browne, J.P., a landlord, died last year. At present there are ejectment notices out against some of the tenants on the property, and the man-servant of ...