... A CARDIFF MYSTERY. James Elen, who arrived in Cardiff from Barrow-in-Furness on Saturday last, has mys- teriously disappeared from his lodgings, 2, Caer- r philly-street, East Moots. He left that address on Monday morning to commence work I at the Dowlais Iron and Steel Works, which place he left at 5 o'clock the same evening. From this point all trace of him is lost. Failing to turn up at his ...

... CARDIFF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The New Minister. A meeting of Paisley Free Presbytery was held on Wednesday in St. George's Church Session House, Paisley, the Rev. G. J. Tait, moderator, to dispose of a call from the Presbyterian Church, Windsor- place, Cardiff, to the Rev. Alex. Macmillan, of Free Martyrs, Paisley. The Rev. W. E. Shaw, Sir John Gunn, and Messrs Hey wood and D. Thomson were the ...

... THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, the eldest son of Lord Rothschild, has been elected to re- present the Mid or Aylesbury Division of Buck- inghamshire, as successor to his uncle, the late Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, who has sat for the constituency since 1885. The late Baron Ferdinand was the first member for the division, when the county by the Redistribution ...

... The Philippines. INSURGENTS DEFIANT. A FIGHT IMPENDING. MANILA, Sunday.—Colonel Potter has arrived here with despatches from Iloilo announcing that the situation there remains critical. The streets are barricaded, and it is reported that many buildings have been stocked with kerosene, so that in the event of the town being bombarded the whole business quarter would be destroyed immediately the ...

... COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT YNYSYBWL. A fall having occurred in the upper heading of the Ocean Company's colliery at Yynsybwl on Tuesday, which imprisoned a man named David Richards for two hours, the day shift sus- pended operations. The fall was occasionod by two pairs of timber being dislodged by a run- away journey of 20 trams, caused by the coupling chain of rope breaking. Richards was found in ...

... THE POLICE COURTS. Disobedient Seamen at Barry. Wm. Kiel, a seaman on board the s.s. Emyl. now at Barry Dock, was charged (before the Barry benchjoi magistrates) with refusing to do his doti. W he ai sea the chief officer told prisoner to assist with the sails, but he would not do so. There was a. sum of £6 due to prisoner in respect of wages. Mr Alfred Jackson appeared for the prosecution. ...

... Disgraceful Inoidant, At Ctoydon on Tuesday J. Trimley was sen- tenced to two months' hard labour for assaulting Miss Frances Hamilton, daughter of the rector of Woodmansterne, in Woodmansterne Parish Church, on Saturday. Miss Hamilton and her conkin, Miss Mabel Hamilton, were arranging the altar flowers, when the prisoner entered the church and prevented Miss Hamilton leaving. He then seized ...

... FAILURE OF A CARDIFF DOCTOR The first meeting of the creditors of Dr. James Joseph Buist, of 48, Charles-street, Cardiff (who until recently was a member of the Cardiff Council and the Board of Guardians), was con- vened for on Wednesday, but none of the creditors putting in an appearance the Official Receiver will act as trustee and wind up the matter. Debtor's gross liabilities are returned ...

... Once, on a visit to a. country house, a bore asked Brinsley Sheridan to take a long walk with him. Sheridan made an excuse of the wea- ther, saying it was scarcely pleasant enough for a walk. An hour later the bore intercepted Sheridan as he was about to escape from the house. i: I see it has cleared, he said per- sistently. Why yes, said the wit doubtfully; It has cleared enough for one, ...

... Dymunir i'u Gohebwyr Cyinxeig gyfeirin eu go hebiaethau, llyfrau i'w hadolvgu, ...

... BIG ROBBERIES. THE days of big robberies were supposed to be for ever past and gone. When the tele- graph and telephone and the railway train came into almost universal use it was generally believed that the times for big sensational robberies were gone for ever. The celebrated highwaymen of romance and history succeeded because they rode fleet steeds across lonely moors, and easily escaped ...

... PONTYPRIDD. DISTRICT COUNCIL.—At Tuesday's meeting of the above Council, Mr P. GoWan presiding, a J deputation attended from Hafod and asked the support of the Couucil with a view to getting a j bridge erected over the Taff Vale Hallway near the Great Western Colliery for the convenience of workmen employed at that and the Tymawr Colliery. It was pointed out that the workmen were greatly ...