... MR GLADSTONE'S BIRTHDAY. An Appreciative letter. Messages and telegrams congratulating Mr Gladstone upon the anniversary of his birthday continue to arnve at Hawarden Castle, among the senders being the Ki¡;g of Belgians, Princess Louise, the Mar- quis of Lome, Mr and Mrs Asquith, and many Liberal associations and private friends. Mr Gladstone this morning wrote, whilst the Press Association's ...

... The Queen has been pleased to confer the honours mentioned in the appended list Peerages are bestowed upon Sir Joseph Lister, Bart. (president of the Royal Society), and Lord Kinnear (of the Scottish House of Sessions). I OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. The following are to be sworn of her Majesty's Privy Council: The Hon. St. John Brodrick, M.P., and Sir John Kennaway, Bart., M.P. BARONETCIES CONFERRED ...

... A Nnw ,;xriss OF SHORT STORIES is nl'VV i appearing in the Cardiff Times awl South Wales it eeklj Vews by George K. Sims, Adeline .Sfrgeam, S. 11. ...

... BEATH OF A PONTARDULAIS CENTENARIAN. The death is announced of MRS A. Thomas, FTK I Cefn Drim, Pontardulais, in her 102nd year. ...

... EDIlORIAL COMMENTS. The fle4er vieh we publieh today from .Mrs. Vaughan of Llandaff, will be read 'with a feehlin of ?? and gratefulnesa by the public, for there are few men who have endeared theraelves so much to the people of this countraya Dean Vaughan. The whole nation sincerely eympatbised with him in the long and anxious illes bthoughi which he hban ' passed, and Mra. Vaughan's letter to ...

... I The Crew Saved. NEW YORK, Friday.—The three-masted steel screw steamship Warwiok, of Glasgow, hAs been totally wrecked whilst making for port here, the vessel crashing upon a ledge whilst under a full head of steam. All those ou board were saved.- Central Nevis. ...

... The Newport Chamber of Commerce are endeavouring to induce the Great Western Railway to confer a boon on the travelling public of South Wales. The particular thing they are pegging at is dining facilities for third- class passengers on the express trains. The Chamber resolved not to be solitary in its action. and invited its colleague Chambers of Cardiff and Swansea to lend a helping hand. The ...

... THE RU13SIAN ROMANCEO. At Worvhlptreet Polie3souutt -Lodon, ?? The young Bn.luWie, ?? go nane of Al;on. Kovinvld1 who had beentWWA at bqtore e court ohaxged wit i Nltokn about ;618 in ?? and Oerteain MAtiolai of ,;h jewillery, the goods of Geta K'eaow, war in. gain brought up, fr. Ogle (Abbo=t an4 Co.) OR, proecutWd, and hr. 'Mrgettm ?? )re will be remembered tba th girl said thk soner, her ...

... ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE EDUCATION QUESTION, The Tablet to-day says We publish an article from the pen of the Rev. M. F. Glancy, in which strong expression is given to the bitter and angry disappointment which is beginning to be felt by Catholics all over the kingdom at the present attitude of the Government towards the education question. For ourselves we have hoped against hope, and shall ...

... Whatever shortcomings may be laid to the door of 1896. its worst detractors cannot deny ib one merit, viz., that for sport and recreation it holds the palm against many, IF nob most, of its im. mediate predecessors. Never was cricket so closely followed. A second season's trial of the NEW; first-class counties showed how thoroughly they de- served to be elevated into the list, Essex, ...

... CARDIFF SATURDAY POPS. The admirable band of vocalists calling them- selves the Welsh Prize Singers are responsible for the entertainment at the Cardiff Park Hall to. morrow night, and a first-rate concert is assured. It is assured for two good and sufficient reasons. In the first place they are excellent artistes, every one of them in the second, they may be expected to surpass themselves ...

... The police have effected two more arrests in connection with the poaching affray on Lord Dunraven's estate at Coity. A man ntuned Thomas Gould was arrested at Pontycymmer, whilst Henry Miller, who had been working in the Gaiw, was secured at Axbridge. Somersetshire. The two men were brought to Bridgend, and wore identified by the two keepers and the constable assaulted. The men were brought up ...