... Have yq broken your good resolu- tions ? 'No. Well, this is the second, of Jailary. Some of them have no doubt been rAt in the crucible and tested already. If good resolutions, and par- ticularly NevYear resolutions were not so easily made d much more easily broken, the world, c rather the people in it, might be refoned in a very short time. » » There is theman who would rise early and ...

... CRITICAL CONDITION OF MR DINGLEY. WASHINGTON', Monday.Mr Dinglev is suffer ing from pneumonia, and his condition is critical. --Reuter. ...

... NEW R!SHOPOF BANGOR. Dr. Williams, the Bishop-elect of Ba.ngor, preached his farewell sermon in St. Asaph Ca.thedra.1 on Sunday morning. There was a Ia.rge congrfgntion. The Dea.n, speaking of his successor, said whether he would be a Welsh- man or whether he would be a lea.rned divine from one of their a,ncient universities, he hoped they would place no obstacles in his way. He might follow ...

... - iA A YOUNG JAPANESE ADOPTS HIM AS 3o FATHER. i in Mr. Wif. J. Bryan. the leader of the great m Democratic -party in the 1tnited States, has vs had many rnsear experienecs, but he probably Fl never exp)rienced any senlsation q1uite so quceer de as on -he tdsy when a Japanese youth of high 1I degree 'adopted him, or, to express it seith to more precision, when, withaoit his own consent, to ...

... TRIALS OF PRISONERS. The Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Swansea opened on Saturday before Mr W. Bowen Row- lands, Q.C., recorder. Mr d. M. Morton Hedley was chosen foreman of the grand jury, and in his charge the learned Recorder congratulated the borough upon the fact that the cases were only of a trivial nature. In conclusion he wished thegrand jury and the town at large a happy and ...

... I'-A^CENY.—John Levi James, of Cymmer-road, Caerau, Maes tag, aged 14, collier, was summoned for stealing timber of the value of Is from the (la,erau Colliery, Maesteg. Defendant was bound over under the First Offenders' Act. ...

... .LOTNDON 0 LETTER.|I f , I I 'IRISH FACTIONS ;COMING TOGETHER.' rein 3 ?? ONE TOUCH THAT MAKES Car THEM KIN. ?? THEM YIN- ?? * - ?? han SUNDAY NceIGHT. her * ?? - When 'Parliament' meets, in the' first Se -.week in February, the Government mony hiar, -possibly ~be confronted b an Irish Yet Nationalist party united for the first time I I since 1890. This is the first effect of thc hlaY -break ...

... FIRED AT BY POACHERS. At Aberystwyth Police Court on Saturday (before Messrs David Thomas and Daniel Howell) a man named Isaac Edward Bonsall, of Brynhoreb, Gorsfach, was brought np in custody charged with attempting to shoot a gamekeeper named Fredk. Reynolds, in the employ of Mr W. Pugh Pugh, Abermaide. Mr W. P. Owen prose- cuted, and Mr John Evans defended. After hearing the evidence of ...

... A DOCTOR'S EXPERIMENTS. Dr. McDonald, United States Government scientist, of Washington, has published the result of a series of experiments relating to the measurements of pain. He finds that women are more sensitive to parn than men that American professional nen are more sensitive than Ameri- can business men, and more sensitive than English and German professionals that women of the poorer ...

... The boards of the above theatre will be occu- pied this week by La Poupee, a comic opera which probably is amongst the most original in design and the brightest and most laughter- provoking extant, rivalling even the famoas Sorcerer. The character of Hilarius, the doll- maker, is, it is understood, in the hands of the same inimitable member of the company who delighted Newport audiences on ...

... THE 80UTHERNDOWN ENCROACHMENT CASE. A Writ Served. It will be remembered that a fortnight ago, on the advice of counsel, the Rural District Council decided to request Lord Duaraven to remove the barrier which he has erected at Seamouth (depriving the public, as is alleged, of a right of way over Slade-road) within 14 days, and in default of his doing so that the Council's surveyor would pull ...

... FfRE AT BWLLFA COLLIERY. About half.pa.st six on Saturday evemng the lajTtprooiQ at the BwHi'a. Colliery, Cwrnda-re. took6i'e,a.nd PoIice-coastabIeH. Hill a.r.d oS&ciaIa were an hour and & b&lf putting it out. The Ia.rjproom &nd contents were aJjmost destroyed. ...