... I TO-DAY'S MONEY. I I [SPECIAL I STOCK KXCHANGTC, LONDON, OPENING. 11.20 A.V. Although no fresh failures are'announced in con- nection with Australian crisis, still a very uneasy feeling prevails financial circles, approching almost to distrust, as further disasters are appre- hended. Unders these circumstances bankers and others are keeping their balances well in hand for any emergency that ...

... I District intelligence. I I CARIDIFF. ST. ADRTtW'S C. E. T. 8. An excellent in connection with this vigorous branch of thil Church of England Temperance Society was held at Cathays National Schools on Monday evening* The Rev. G. S. Tudor Evans presided. The vocalists included Misses Collins, Ba,ltie Edwards, 1L Roonev, Mr Williams. Mr W. Hill, and Master Sargent, and recitations were given by ...

... In answer to the advertisement of D.' fn the Tinus of to-day, a widow and her sister offer the accommodation required. No other lodgers. There that will do, I think, solilo- quised the scill pretty Mrs Westerley. re- reading the missive just penned. Now for t ...

... Bodies Washed Ashore. Tne steamer ino, of btavanger, sailed from Ardrossan on the 17th inst., for Stavanger. Within the last three or four daye a quantity of wreckage was washed ashore on the coast of the Orkneys, as also were dead bodies, supposed to be those of foreign seamen. On one of them a letter was found addressed to the captain of the above steamer. The bodies found had life jackets ...

... The coal exports for the week ending last (Wednesday) evening were 55,767 tons, and four cargoes (weight not given) 33,207 tons being foreign experts, and 22,560 tons, four cargoes exported coastwise. The other exports for the week insluded :—Iran, 60 tens steel rails, 1,214 tons tinplates, 170 tosis and 12 oargoes (weight net given); tin, 50 tons and one cargo • Ferro manganese, 20 tons; ...

... NEWPORT SHOPKEEPERS AND THE WHITSUN HOLIDAYS. TO THE EDITOI OF THE SOUTH WALES ECHO. I SIR,— Your paragrah in last night's issue re the above must come as a great surprise to every one of your readers, and more especially to those of them interested in the welfare of our assistants. The imposition of a few hours' extra labour is a small matter in itself, but when one comes to consider why ...

... An application was me to Justices Hawkins and Cave to-day on bth(f of Mr Alfred Arnold, the unsuccessful Conserktive candidate at Hali- fax election in February last, for permission to withdraw the petition artinst the return of Mr William Rawson Shiv. Justice Hawkins characterised the petitiu as frivolous and vexatious, and refused application with costs. ...

... MEETING OF COLLIERY HAULIERS IN THE RHONDDA. Resolution to Join the Federation. LRPKCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] This afternoon a mass meeting of underground hauliers employed in the collieries in the Rhondda. the Og'more,and the Garw Valleys was held on the hill side at Treorky, under the presidency of one of the men. The Press was not admitted. It was resolved, after a lengthly deliberation, ...

... ARBITRATION IN THE BOOT AND SHOE TRADE. At a cn?f?.??? ? tv,p National Union of B..ot At 1\ confl'f>nc of thp Nation! Un inn of B,'ot and Shoe ) 'p?r?tivt-s at L?'epste), to-day, d ele gates ...

... I ANOTHER SERIOUS JfFRA Y AT I THE DOOKS, I An Arab Seaman Beats Beilerman. I This afternoon another serious fracaR occurred in Dudley-piace, near the dock?, Srditf, the row this time being between an Ara, seman and a boilermaker. It appears that the ty0 men met in Dudley-place, and the allegation oltiae part of the injured man is that the foreigner attacked him without justifiable grounds, ...

... A TERRIBLE CALAMITY II COLLAPSE OF THE WAR OFFICE AT WASHINGTON. I Appalling Loss of Life. THE WORK OF RESCUE. NKWYOEK, Fnd:iy.—An occurrence is reported from Washington to-day which, it is feared, will prove an almost unprecedented calamity. Three whole floors of Ford's old opera-house in Washington, the building in which President- Lincoln was killed, collapsed to-day without the slightest ...

... AMUSING DIVORCE CASE. In the Divorce Court yesterday, the hearing was resumed by Justice Barnes, of the case of Townshend v. Townshend, which was a petition by Mrs Susannah Townshend for a dissolution of her marriage by reason of the cruelty and miscon- duct of her husband, Frederick William Towns- hend, clerk to a firm of Colonial brokers, but formerly employed as dock foreman at Wapping ...