... MARSEILLES, Friday.—An important resolution has been adopted by the Congress of Master Printers which has been sitting here, and which has decided to discuss with working printers the organisation of mixed conferences. This is the firsb time that the masters and men in France have organised a discussion of their respective interests on a footing of equality. A national congress of workers in ...

... Shtrt Supply of Water. BOBDHACX, Friday Morning.—Shortly before midnight a serious fire broke out in the Exhibi- tion in the pavilion devoted to machinery for the production of the eleotrio light. The alarm was soon given and swarms of people gathered on the river front to watch the progress of the flames, which assumed menacing proportions before the arrival of the fre brigade. St was then ...

... SUCCESSFUL MUNICIPAL MONT DE PETE. This week's London, in an article on public work in Lyons, describes the municipal pawnshop of that town. It is under the direction of an administrativa council, of which the Mayor is the president. Last year it advanced loans on 400,000 articles, charging interest at the rate of 5 per cent. on loans under 8 and 8 per cent. on loans above that amount. The ...

... I PRINCESS BAP FLSED, COPENHAGEN, ThursdaY.-The infant daughter of Prince Waldemar of Denmark was baptised to- day according to Roman Catnolic rites, under the names of Marguerite Francoise Louise Marie.- Renter. ...

... OUTBREAK OF FIRE AT NEWPORT. About 9 o'clock this morning a fire was dis- covered in the underground kitchen at 23, Clytha- square, Cardiff-road, Newpoit, the tenant of which is Mr S. Davies, retired road surveyor. An alarm was given, and the borough polios were promptly on the spot, followed by several mem- bers of the Newport Fire Brigade. The fire had made some headway, and burnt through ...

... The Staffordshire and Worcestershire small chain makers l»-day decided to strike at oncerfop- ftdvuiwe of «boot 20 per cent. ...

... DISORDER AT LIMERICK. The rioting over the result of the Limerick City election was resumed late on Saturday night. Between 600 and 700 people of the lower classes were engaged in the disturbance, and the police bad to make repeated baton charges before they could separate the contending parties, who engaged in stone throwing. Three soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment are reported to have ...

... Presentation to Capt. Read, About 400 persons were left behind at Ilfracombe to-day, the Cambria taking 800 with the Barnstaple foocball team to Cardiff. During the last cruise of the Brighton from Ilfracombe to Swansea to-day the passengers presented Captain Read with a purse of gold as some acknowledg- ment of his kindness and unfailing courtesy to the passengers generally during the past 25 ...

... The Man About Town. I With tropical heat, a Summer sky, and dazzling sunshine, the weather is playing us strange capers. The atmospheric conditions of the past few days have been more suited to the beginning of a glorious summer than the fast disappearing days of an altogether pleasant season. Only the waning days and the long-drawn out evenings correct the impression that Summer is still with ...

... CARDIFF 10i MILES ROAD RACE The Welsh Record Broken. I Yesterday the members of the Cardiff 100 Mile Club rode their annual race, the route being twice round Llamshen, via Newport, Usk. Kaplan, and Abergavenny to Bwlcb Pitch, Breconshire, returning via the Cham Bridget, Usk. &o. There were 15 entries, and the result was: 1st, H. Jones (lOmin.), 6hr, lornin. 2nd, A. Thomas (38min.), 6hr. 41min. ...

... Collision with a Threshing Machine. Early this morning a passenger train from Hull to Leeds, due at Selby at 6.37, ran into a thresh. ing machine aboub a mile west of Howden Station. The man in charge of the threshing machine was badly injured, and lies in the Hull Infirmary in a precarious condition, but none of the passengers in the train were injured. The brain itself sustained only slight ...

... TIED HOUSE QUESTION. The adiourned licensing sessions for the borough were held at Aberystwyth on Wednesday. It will be remembered that at the previous hearing the renewal of the licences of the .tied houses was adjourned in order that the magistrates might have an opportunity of inspecting the agreements between landlords and tenants. It now appeared that only three of the houses were let on ...