... Pretoria Trials. The Treatment of the Prisoners. I Pretoria, VIA CHARLESTOWN, May t.-The progressive party among the Burghers appears to be unanimous in the desire that lenient treatment should be accorded to the prisoners. They con- sider that banishment and a small fine would be sufficient punishment. The influence of the Hollanders on the Doyper party is causing difficulties. The sanitary ...

... PRINCESS HENRY OF BATTENBERG. I This morning Princess Henry of Bablienberg left Windsor Castle and proceeded by the 10.40 train en route for the Isle of Wight, where her Royal Highness will reside until Saturday and then return to Windsor. ...

... GOLF. Ladies' Cliampioiiship. The second aud third rounds in this tournament were played yesterday ab Hoylake. Twenty- eight couples started in the second round, and at the close those remaining were :-Miss Pascof, Wimbledon Miss Starkee Bcnce, Eastbourne Miss Welch, West Lancashire; Miss Nimmo, West Lancash're Miss Latham, West Lanca- shire Miss Konnon Siow, Wimbledon Miss May Rowley, Chc ...

... DEMONSTRATION IN PARK HALL Mr D. A. Thomas, M.P., presided over a public meeting held in the Park Hall in the evening. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said it hardly required the proof of that great meeting to show that Cardiff, the Metropolis of Wales, was sound to the core upon the education question. (Hear, hear.) Not long ago Lord Salisbury declared that the object of the Tories ...

... FACTS AND FANCIES. I THKIB DAINTY LITTM Fmrr.-Il Are there many poor people in Chicago. Well, all the girls have visible means of support. Miss Gush I admire dear Dr. Depew so'much* He is such an original humorist !-Cynicus Er. yes-his jokes are primitive. HE WAS A JOKE WRITER.—Fencer A penny for your thoughts.—-Penser I'll go you. That's higher than the average editor's valuation. His ...

... A MONMOUTH PUBLICAN'S LICENCE I ENDORSED. At the Monmouth Borough Police Court on Thursday-before Messrs G. Griffin and T. James-Richard Hughes, landlord of the New Inn, St. James's-aquare, was fined 20iC and 6s costs and his lioence ordered to be endorsed for a broach of the licensing law in permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises on the 11th May. ...

... Miss BRADDON'S complete story, The Dolls Tragedy will appear in the Cardiff Times and South Wsvhjg Weekly Wews of Saturday, May ...

... BARRY PLASTERERS' STRIKE.' About Sixty Men Affetted. This morning the plasterers of the Barry dis- trict, to the number of about fifty, came out oo strike, owing to the inability of their representa- tives to come to terms with their employers respecting regulations to govern their hoursi of labour, and other matters. Notice of these Cdtiges had been given three mouths ago to the employers, ...

... Official Scratchings. I (SUPPLIED BY MESSRS WEATHERBY.] Epsom Derby—Chief Baron. Kpsom Ock-Gollen Star II. Flying Dutchman's Handicap, York—Fealar. Stock bridge Foal Stakes Evadne. Hertfordshire Handicap, Harpenden-Golden Ensign. Barpenden Town Haiidicap-Cliasseur. Rothampstead Stakes, Harpenden-Delene. Harpenden engagements—All M. Lehaudy's horses. Hampton Court Plate, Hurst Park-Delene. All ...

... Murder of a Missionary LATEST DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDIES A correspondent has been furnished by Mr H Glenny, hon. secretary of the North AfriO( Mission, with the following particulars d tit murder. The first news of the tragedy received in London by Mr Glenny, on Wednesdai evening, by means of a telegram from Mr Mitchell, one of the missionaries of the Nortl Africa Mission in tho city of Tunis, ...

... Much interest is being shown in Tory circles in th approaching visit of the Duke of Devonshire to Swansea on the 20th in-it. Among the distin- guished visitors exp-tcted to be present are the Earl of Dunraven, Viscount E nlyn, Lord Trede- gar, Lord Windsor, the Maiquis of Granby, besides the Welsh members and the unsuccessful Welsh candidates. The Duke will arrive at Swansea nn the 19th inst, ...

... EXCITING CAPTURE OF A BURGLAk. Desperate Encounter. At Nantwich, Cheshire, yesterday, David McKendriok, of Glasgow, alias James fjfonderaon, was charged with threatening to milder John and Alfred Ridgway, and with burglary at Alderley Edge (Cheshire) railway startloe. Prisoner stole a gold watch frow Mr Broody's i shop at Crewe. and, being chased, ptoduoed a revolver and threatened to murder ...