... Official Scratching. I [SUPPLIED BY MESSRS WEATHERBY.) I Bushey Plate, Hurst Park-Boaz, ArdwelL Carlisle engagements-Whiteboy II. Worcester engagements-All Mr Taylor-Sharpe's horses. All engagements-Ella Tweed, Pennyless. All engagements before September 30th-Barwig. Prix du Conseil Municipal, Paris-Raxwig. All handicaps for which the weights have appeared —Instep. ...

... Armenian Distress. I APPALLING RfcPORTS. STARVATION WORSE THAN MASSACRE I Quarter of a Million Doomed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday.—The most appal, ling reports regarding the condition ot fchi Armenian people are coming in from all parts oi Anatolia. The deaths from starvation and diseases occasioned by want of proper food mort than double the losses by massacre. Subscriptions to the Rehef Fund are ...

... Starting Prices, GOSFORTH PARK. PRICKS. -40* OF SACK. RUNNRS. WINNIIR. Ivortswmn.,qp' -,tinq rJfe Scurry 10 Bob Gould 4 to lag 4 to 1 ag Camperdown 11 rlint&StaeL Evens Bvens Newcastle. 7 Brittles v. 10to lag 10to lag Seaton 9 Fiorini 5 to 4ag 5 to lag SANDOWN PARK. Hampton 7 Whitsuntide.. 5tolag 5to 1 ag Wellington.. 5 Tudor 11 to Ion lite Ion Clarence.. 6 L. Frivoles 8 to 1 ag 8 to 1 ag ...

... An accident of a kind rare in Birmingham occurred !aat night near Broad-street corner. At about half-past) 10 an ommbus, which belongs to the Central Tramway Company, and which had been used for an afternoon drive to Bartley Green, was returning, when it was upset. The passengers, the greater part of whom were ridiner on the top, numbered 26 or 27. The driver, Arthur Evans, who is said to be ...

... EXTRAORBtNARY SEQUEL Suicide of a Witness. On Saturday afternoon an inquest was opaned on the body of the widow named Hat), but George Perrin. who was employed by the deceased as bttcer, and who was ordered to attend Satur. day's mquest), failed to do so, and later in the day he was found with his throat cut). He died after his removal to the hospital. Perrin waa; found on the beach with his ...

... ANI I-VACCINATORS. How Smallpox was Spread at Gloucester. Edward Amos Love, of Somersot-road, and Thomas Horton, Liswerry, were summoned to appear at the Newport Borough Polioo Court to- day for not having transmitted certi- ficates of the vaccination of their chil- j dren. Horton was represented by his brother, who he declared was an opponent of vaccination. Alderman H. J. Davis referred to ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MALICIOUS DAMAGE. Cardiff Free Library Disfigured, It was discovered in the end of last week that a large part of the plinth and main coin of the Cardiff Free Library had been seriously injured. This part stands about three to three and a half feet above the ground, and the chief portion damaged is that on the Trinity-street front. At intervals of a few paces bits of the ...

... MASHONALAND REV LT. Safety of Port Victoria. Beuter's Agency has received the following. private telegram from Porb Victoria, Mashona- land, dated 22ad, 3 p m all right, no danger. ...

... PENARTH FREE LIBRARY. The Circulating Library in connection with the above will be open for the issue of books on Monday, July 29th. The Librarian, Miss Kate E. Jones, has had the valuable assistance of Mr Ballinger, Cardiff, in compiling the catalogue of books, which number upwards of 2,000. The secretary, Mr James H. Qumtrell, announces that application forms for borrowers' tickets may be ...

... APPRENTICE CHARGED WITH MURDER. At Accrington on Monday Ohristopher Hindle, aged 15, was committed to the Lancashire Assizes on the charge of murdering Sarah Coates, aged ó3, on Tuesday, the 9bh inst. Prisoner was an apprentice in the employ of deoeased's husband, and, according to his account, the crime was oammibbed by a stranger. When formally charged be replied, I am innocent; that man did ...

... South Wales Notes, t OOtnlDSY IN QABDOrr OOTJNOO. The Cardiff Tramways Committee did ita: obvious duty on Monday in adjourning its meeting for the presence of Councillor Robinson. To send out notices on a Saturday sibermon of a Corpora tion meeting on a Monday morning is an extra- ordinary procedure, and suggestive of a desire to rush business. Councillor Andrews, in making known to the ...

... Welsh Character Vindicated. LORI RENDEL'S DEFENCE. What Wales has Lost and Why. [BY A CORRESPONDENT.] Hardly a day passes but that some fresh evidence is afforded of the interest taken in and the importance which is attached to the forth- coming Royal visit to Aberystwyth. The, installation of the Prince of Wales as the first Chancellor of the Welsh Univer- sity appeals alike to the sympathies ...