... THIEVES AT PKNYLAN.—At the Cardiff Police Court 11 Monday morning Edward Payne (21) WAS brought up before Mr W. J. Trounce, Mr E. Beavan, and Mr Louis Samuel on A charge of stealing nine keys, valued at 63 9J, the property of Mr C. J. Jackson, barrister, from a potting shed at Birchwood Grange, Penylan, on the 24th of last month. A police constable having given evidence of arrest, prisoner, ...

... TO THE EDITOR. SIR.-I have no desire to prejudge the result of the investigation into the charge of excessive punishment bv a head mistress to one of her scholars, but I deem it absolutely essential for the future welfare of the community of Cardiff, being a seaport town, that she should at the earliest possible opportunity be invested with full powers appertaining to her position. The wisest ...

... BOMB EXPLOSION IN PARIS. PARIS, Thursday.—Considerable alarm has been created here by a bomb explosion which occurred on the Boulevard Haussmann early this morning not far from the Opera House. The bomb was composed of several small shot cartridges and a quantity of loose gunpowder, the whole being tightly pressed a large cocoa tin. In addi- tion the fuse had been saturated with turpentine to ...

... FRENCH NAVAL ARCHI- TECTURE. SERIOUS DEFECTS IN OONSTRUCRION. TOULON, Thursday.—Serious defects have been discovered in the newly-constructed battleship Carnot and the second-class cruiser Pascal, both of whtch are now fitting out for their preliminary trials. It is reported that although the Carnot has still from 500 to 600 tons to take on board in the shape of men, stores, and animunition, ...

... SHADOWRD FOR LIFE, a soldier's story, by Dr Gordon tables, R.N., is commenced in the Cardiff -Times and. Wales Weekly News of this week A. magazine and newspaper fniHiwfl turjlf*™? ...

... A VERY BAD COMBINATION. The Lord Chief Justice and a special jury on Tuesday bad before them an action by Mrs Edman, the wife of,the vicar of Thornton-le-Moor, claiming damages against the Bishop of Lincoln for an alleged libel contained in a letter signed by the Bishop to the effect that she had not expended the money allowed for dilapidations in con- nection with Fillingham Farm, of which ...

... OUR IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES. SOME days ago the Daily Chronide stated that the German iron and steel trade was beating the British iron and steel trade in the open market. Commenting on this statement, the Saturday Review showed its protectionist leanings by the retort that this supremacy of the German trade in neutral markets could not be attributed either to lower wages than those earned by ...

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... NEATH. Mr A. B. Davies, auctioneer, Swansea, sub- n-.ittpd for public sale at the Castle Hotel, Neath, on Tuesday, a leasehold property, consisting of 18 dwelling-houses, 33 years of leaae ianexptred, and yielding a net annual rental of fclia Bs. xne property is situated in Commercial-street and AlletaVcourt, The Green, Neath. A sale was not effected, the property being withdrawn at Messrs ...

... MABON, Maelgwyn, Oadrawd, Dafydd Mor ganwRjMynyddwr, all write for the Cardiff Timet and South Wales Weekly News, which is a magazine and a newspaper in one. The best and brightest pennyworth j of fiction, gossip, news, and sponial articles dealing with Welsh subjects published. Order a copy to-day I and read the opening chapters of Miss Bradaon's last ...

... NEWMARKET TRAINING NOTES. [BY OUR NEWMARKET CORRKSPONOKNT.] NEWMAHKKT, Tuesclty. On the Racecourse side, Marsh's Eclipse and Florizel II. galloped two miles Thais, I-gly, Lady Sophie, Perfect Dream, Ghislaine Muslay Chief, and Bar.'bbas went six furlongs. Can- non's Opera Glass, Boxer, Contract, Stowmarket, Mondaine, Indulph, n.nd Leouatus covered a mile and a quarter. Sadler's Ulterior, ...

... VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, accompanied by Sir Dighton Probyn and Si; Charles Cu6t respectively, and a few specially invited guests, left St. Pancras on Tuesday tr attend the Royal show at Leicester. Mr G. Tamer, general manager of the Midland Railway, traveUed down in charge of the special, anc among the few privileged fellow-passengers of tbl. ...