... SENSATIONAL ARREST IN SOUTH AFRICA. CAPE TOWN, Friday, Noon.—An in'snce forma- tion has been caused here, both in social and political circles, by the arrest of Mr .James D. Logan, of Matjesfontein, a member of the Legis- lative Council, on a charge of criminal assault-, It is alleged that the outrage was committed in one of the hotels owned by him in this city. He was brought before the ...

... A correspondent writes:— Mr Richard White- head, an officer of H. B. M.'s East Africa Protec- torate, near Mombasa, has recently had a narrow escape from a man-eating lion which had killed and devoured many coolies employed in making the railway from Momb&sa. Hearing that this notorious lion had been seen at Tsavo, through which place the railway is being made, Mr White, head proceeded there ...

... I THE TURN OF THE WHEEL. I Ur A. H. Spokes, recorder lor Reading, Was at Reading County Sessions, held on Saturday, fined Is and$$6d cofcts for riding a bicycle on tlie footpath at Tilehurst on the previous Monday. He had cat at the Reading Quaxtor Sessions the samp day. ...

... Board of Trade Report. I AN OVERWORKED DRIVER. I Yorke's report to the Board ° m*Lr railway accident at Brechin on No^e *nd ...

... SUPPLER PNEUMATIC TYRE CO. a special extraordinary meeting of the ra%er Pneumatic Tyre Coinpany a resolution Copied that the share capital of the com- P311? increased by the issue of 10,000 ten per ceiU-*umBlative 8hares of £ 1. ...

... A FIREMAN'S DIVERSION IN THE TRAIN I John Nelson, a. Sweedish fireman, was pa.id off at Cardiff, then liquored up not wisely bnt too well, and afterwards took train for Newport, and when entering the station at the TJskside borough he smashed three of the windows in the compart- ment in which he was travelling, doing damage to the extent of -11 2s 6d. Nelson, who had been lodged in the cells, ...

... BATI-LESHIP IN COLLISION. A Devouport correspondent telegrapns alarming iuciclnnt occurred in Dcvonport Harbour on Monday afternoon. The battleship ,ouing- wood proceeding from the Sound into iheUh-inoa.ae collided with the training cruiser Curacao. The ewsh was distinctly heard aebore ...

... THE AMERICAN NAVY. I WASHINGTON, Tuesday Night.—The House of ^epresotitativea to-night piwwed the Naval Per- nnel Bill, which raises the e»tabli«h^^« *>e GS ti! 6'°°°— News. ...

... ASSACLIING IHE POLICE.—On Wednesday (be- fore Dr. R. W. Jones and Mr Morgan Morgan) Thomas Vaughau was fined 10s and costs for being drunk and disorderly at Abercynon, and he was further fined a similar amount for assault- ing Police-constable Joseph Davies by striking and kicking him whilst in the execution of bis dnty. AFAINTENANCE. -Mark Barwell, Hussey's- court, Pontypridd, was summoned ...

... LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR CARDIFF. Alderman Wakerley's Position. I Alderman Wakerley in an interview denies that there is any truth in a paragraph published in the Nottingham Express stating he did not visit Cardiff with a view to standing as their Liberal candidate. He added he was bsing pressed by the Melton Division Liberal Association for a decision as to his attitude with regard to the next ...

... GUNNERY EXPERIMENT. New YORK, Thnrsday Morning.—The new Gatling rifled cast steel gun, which was Vising tested yestorday,which the inventor believed would revolutionise the construction of this class of gun in the future, burst during the trials. It was being fired at the time under only noymm pregsimre. No one was hnrt.—Central News. ...

... Yeovil glove factories employ no less than 4,000 hands. Within the last quarter of a century the borough has grown wonderfully, and it would be difficult to find a more flourishing or go-ahead place. Houses and new streets have sprung up where only yesterday, it seems, were green fields and one of the most pleasant parts of the town, Pen Mill. is an almost entirely new district. Ten years ago ...