... Councillor Edward Thomas this morning pre- sided over a meeting of tho Cardiff Records Com- mittee, when the Town Clerk reported that the number of subscribers for the complete records now reached 13S. ...

... The Russian cruiser Kieff belonging to the Volunteer Fleet has left Sebastopol with a cargo of steel rails for the Chinese railway. An Odessa correspondent telegraphs that a fur- ther party of the Duciobortzi, numbering about 1,500, have just embarked at Batoum for Canada The newly-appointed Judge, Mr Justice Buck- nill, will be sworn in before the Lord Chancellor in hi private room at the ...

... MR WH)T)NG AND MARY ANN. By RtCHARD MARSH, Aathor of The Crime and the Cri.mma.l. The Beetle A Mystery, &c.. (&'c. JCOP\'RMHT.! I did not msan to kiss her it was a. pure acci- dent. Her face was elosf to mine,or my face was close to hers and then her lips cams into contact with my tips or my lips came into contact with her then &t that moment her mother came into the room, t.nd she.said. Mr ...

... Death of the Child. I The child stolen from its parents, Mr aud Mrs Loasby, of 14, Wadcroit-f.trees, Kettering, last November, by a young woau,n who is now under- going four months' hard labour for the theft, has succumbed to the complaints it coptvaoied during the month it was absent from its home. The child —which was only five months old-was, it now transpires,carried by the prisoner late ...

... South -Eastern Corrects Its Dividends. I 6X, NOT 634 ON THE UNDIVIDED. Considerable excitement was occasioned in the Stock Exchange yesterday by the announcement of amended dividends on South-Eastern Rail- way Undivided and Deferred Stocks for the period to December 31st. The dividends as originally announced were 6i per cent, per annum on the undivided ordinary, and 2 per cent. on the ...

... Hockey Notes, r y CANTAB.J Respecting the vvales and western Counties match Mr Harold Wood writes :— Dear Cantab,—Will you kindly announce in your Hockey Notes this week that the match South Wales v. Western Counties has been can- celled ? The match had not been definitely fixed, and I heard from Mr F. Richardson, the hon. sec. of the Western Counties Hockey Association, that they could not ...

... Recent figures show that the National Debt of the United States on December 1st • £ 207,200,000, or about a third what it was at the cuose of the Civil War, while the interest was then four times greattr than now. The per capita debt is less than £ 3, while the security for lts Payment is increasing, so that it compares m?te than favourably with some European coun- tries, whose debts are from ...

... THE BELLE OF TIEW YOR( AT DINNER. Last night Messrs Williamson aid Mnsgrove, the proprietors of the Belle of few York [ Co., which has opened itgtour at the Theatre Royal under remarkably Î succes/Ql r&usDices, entertained all the members to tfnner at the Esplanade Hotel, Penarth. Dariyg the evening Mr Alcock, ihe manager, was prnted by Mr Shepherd, the musical director, in the name of the ...

... An inuegtwtus held at Lancaster Infirmary on Witia-a Clark, a joiner, 56 years of age, of Lancar, who died through being run over by a trained between Lancaster and Morecambe. The medicl evidence showed that deceased was in such 11 alcoholic state that an operation was im- possille. A sober man would have recovered. A verd-At of Accidental death was returned. ...

... TRIPLETS. An application has been made for the Queen's bounty for the wife of Mr A. Lloyd, a provision merchant's assistant, of 6, Havelock-road, Blytha- road, West Kensington-park, who on Wednesday last gave birth to triplets, all boys. Dr. F. V. Denne, of 69, Brook-green, W., who is in attend- ance on the mother, is supporting the application. On Saturday one of the children died, but the ...

... heYstmd Police Court to-day James Green, Owen. Arnold Harding, and Richard jung, lads liviog at Clydach Vale, werp- ed with breaking into a carpenter's shop at 4o,ch Vale, and stealing some tools valued at cn the 30th ult. Green was fined £ 1, which ,)aid, and Owen £1 or 12 strokes with the h rod. The other two were dismissed. Owen hot pay the money, and consequently had to ive the birch. £ ...

... I THE GHOST IN THE PHOTOGRAPH. I A remllorkable story is agitating a section of society just now. A young lady of rank, who is eng&ged to be married to an officer serving in India, recently had her photograph ta.ken by, a leading London photographer before going out to India to be married To her horror, when the photographs were sent home there was plainly to be seen sttmdmg behind her, in a ...