... I H. Cullum v. J. Fielden. I I Another Victory for the Cardiff Man. j Since Harry Cullum, of Cardiff, joined the professional ranks he has bad a fine innings, for in addition to beating E. C. Bredin for the half- mile championship he has defeated Bacon at two miles, and also won a mile handicap with only ten yards start from Baccn. G. B. Tinoler, who ran such a great race against Bredin in ...

... A New Adjutant. I Lieutenant G. EL C. Wilkins, oN. 8 Company Eastern Division Royal Garrison ArLillery, has been appointed to succeed Captain Dent as adju- tant 2nd Glamorgan Volunter Artillery. Lieu. tenant Wilkins is 25 years of age, and was pro- moted lieutenant in Jane, 1896. Daring the greater part of the time he has been in the Army be has been on foreign service, and is at present at ...

... diphtheri. a u„0 ta\{en a very severe course at D-?..p-n?C.yemn.m? ?er ?Y?ny? ? ?d the nei?hhounnR lorth, and Dr. rt Jones, ? Rhondda district, • jssae(j a circnlar to all medical o?cer.?s S ?aed a, circuit to ?1 the superintendents o? ? 5 unday schools in the district askin them to co-operate with him in ??r.ct ?km,th? gcourge from .pr?dinp trying to stop ?P?? inQuenti? meeting of further. At ...

... Thomas Rowan, labourer, cf 27, fIewertson. I ?00 d in the ( oc k it ti)'? street, Newport, who stood in the dock at the Uskside Borough Police Court to-day on a charge of theft, failed to convince the magistrates that he took a fancy table mat from an Algerian, who was vending them in a public-house, as a joke. Kowau said that he retnrned to the public-house aud offered the mat to the little ...

... WEALTH AND SUICIDE. A melancholy story of misapplied wealth reached its climax in the Coroner's Court at Eaat Ham yesterday. Albert Edward Redalgh, aged 35, lately living at Studelfy-road, Forest- gate, received a legacy some time ago of X700 Thereupon he threw up his appointment as a stockbroker's clerk, and lived in idleness. He openly avowed that as soon as the money was gone he would put ...

... A GAM E OF 61 LLIARDS By ARTHUR MORRISON. COPYRIGHT. A stranger merely hearing bis name will not inow whether to believe llr Frank Garside or not. If he read the story that Frank Garside tells he will decide off band to believe none of it. And yet I know that Garside is no habitual liar neither is he habitually drunk-indeed, I never heard of his beina drunk even once unless the reader, in his ...

... COURT AND PERSONAL. BALMORAL, Friday. The Qaeen went out yesterday morning,accom- panied by the Hereditary Princess Hohenlohe. In the afternoon her Majesty drove to the Glassalt, accompanied by the Hereditary Princess and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, where Princess Henry of Battenberg and her two younger sons joined the Queen. Lieutenant-General Chapman, C.B., command- ing the ...

... CARDIFF COAL FOR HER FIRST RUN. j I Ocean Company Have the Order. I The Ocean Coal Company, Cardin. have been selected to supply the coal required for the run of her Majesty's new yachi from Pembroke Dock to Portsmouth and are to-day sending forward their best steaming quality to the Western port. Naturally much importance attaches to the first run of this magnificent new vessel and both the ...

... Helping Him Out of a Difficulty. I Grocer (to shopman): Peter, I owe about three hundred pounds. Yes, sir. I have two hundred pounds in the safe but the shop is empty, I think it is the right time to fail. That's just what I think. But I want a plausible pretext for my cre- ditors. You have plenty of brains; think the matter over to-night and to-morrow morning. The clerk promised to think ...

... A NEW ILLUMINANT. A number of people assembled at Hunmanby, a village just outside Filey, yesterday' at the in- vitation of the Scarborough District Lighting Company, Limited, for the opening of works and an exhibition of the new electroid gas. Hun- manby is the first place in England lighted with the new illnminant. It has been installed in the church, and at Hunmancy Hall (ohe reaidenoo of ...

... I Conference at Cardiff, NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE. Serious Outlook. 20,000 rdEN AFFECTED. On Thursday another and an acute stage was leached in the negotiations following the long- continued efforts of the enginemen, stokers, and outside fitters of the Monmouthshire, Merthyr, and Dowlaia colliery districts to secure au advance of wages by a process of levelling-up of standards to the rates ...

... A REPRIEVE. Francis Smith, the young sailor lying nndar sentence of death at Durham for murdering Henry Ceeley, has been reprieved, sentence being commuted to penal uervitnde for life. Smith since the crime has become entirely paralysed, and was carried into court at his trial ou an ambu- lauce. ...