... Telegraphic communication is still proceed- ing lietween the parties to the engineers' dis- pute an the Clyde, with a view to the fixing of a date for the joint conference, but nothing is \et settled. It is understood that a definite basis of settlement, drawn up by the outside parties who have brought wbout. the preeent negutfttitons, .will be vut before the conference. ...

... XMAS IN THE SHOPS. (Fifth Notice.) Messrs DOWN AND SOK, the well-known house furnishers, who take pride in the fact that they have furnished, in not a. few in- stances, two, and even three, successive generations, are, as urual, well to the fore with everytuing tkat can tempt the eye and please the pocket. They have a grand show of every description of household furniture, far the most part ...

... ALLEGED DRUNKEN. BONA FIDES AT LANDORE. THE CASE DISMISSED. Elizabeth Davie^, landlady of the George and Dragon Inn, Landore, was summoned at the Swansea Poiice-tourt this (Tuesday) morning, before Messrs J. Coke Fowler (stipendiary) and L. Tulloch, with permitting drunkenness on her premises ou Sunday, December 15th. Aid. J. Viner Leeder defended. The evidence given by P. S Parry (6) and P ...

... THE alost marvellous pennyworth of news and lotion pubUshecl is to be found in the Cardiff Tima Ind,louth Wales Weekly News. All the best and fors. toMt novelists of the day have contributed to its Order a copy at 0000- ...

... I CONFERENCE OF MASTERS AND OPERATIVES. A joint conference of Clyde and Belfast masters and operative engineers met at Glasgow to-day, Lord James of Hereford taking the chair at a quarter-pasb 11. There were about 30 delegates present at the commencement of the conference, which is expected to be prolonged. Considerable crowds of engineers have assembled outside the municipal buildings, but no ...

... Dr. Dougall is relinquishing the breeding of thoroughbred horses. It is rumoured that Mr G. Misi«rman has another jumper in his stable a» bold and as useful as Comic Opera. The amateur golc c amp'on'h'p. which is to be played on the lints of the St. George's Club next year at Sandwich, bus be.. J fixed to take place in the third week of Hay, 1896. Never since toe dr v. of Kyshworth and Chandos ...

... I OPINION, BOLDLY It is for this reason that an assertion like thfr following sticks up above the dead level of stupid talk, and becomes noticeable Wheo saw how paze I had grount I said to myself, if becausc something had gone out of my blood. There that is a statement with the sea idea in it. Suppose we follow it up by the rest of the letter which contains it. In December, 1890, says the ...

... PANAMA SCANDALS, I Dr. Cornelius Herz's Case, I An application for a rule to show cause why a writ of habeus corpus should not be issued commanding1 the Governor of Holloway Prison to bring up Einile Arton, that he might be die- charged from custody, was heard on Saturday before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Wills and Wright. Counsel contended that the offence of falsifying accounts and ...

... FRAGMENTS FROM JUDGE OWEN'S COURT. Not a Peer of the Realm, I His Honour Judge Owen sat at the Newport I Cotin:y Court to-day, which, fortunately for a|! oncmed. was lighted by the electric light,and his Honolr was therefore ab!e to get a clear view of the many impecunious folk and pressing creditors who demanded his attention. The list was shorter than for many months past, and was speedily ...

...  *N )NSPiRED -N INSPiRED ? ?' BLUNDER. I;e ,4 i? A p8 ? You see only one type in these State suburban villages. It is along I t transcontinental railways that the f t X phenomena of human history pre- f 3d by these gentlemen of the road may tEJ be studied. graduated in this branch of knowledge: Wigwam, a small station three miles from i Rosa, Colorado, where I replaced the Section boss ...

... THE NEW COAL CHARTER, j  Meetings of Cardiff Freighters and j Charler8. Since the respective Associations of Cardiff Charterers and Freighters have had under their consideration the new form of coal charter the li dc-liberationsof these bodies have been confined to themselves, the Press being excluded on each occasion. A meeting of the combined organisa- iions took place on Thursday at the ...

... I Attempt to Quash a Conviction, The application in the Divisional Court to quash Jabez Balfour's conviction and sentence of seven years' penal servitude on the second count has been adjourned until Friday, The Lord Chief Justice, to whom the application was made to-day by Mr Ruegg, Q.C., said be did not think it was right that he should form part of a Court to hear the motion because the ...