... SCENE AT BLACKPOOL PIER. The extraordinary scene at Blackpool on Thursday had a sequel in the Police Court yes terdfly, when Miss Livingstone, styliahly attired, and Nurse Todd were charged with attempting to commit suicide. The Chief Constable said Miss Livingstore and Nurse Todd belonged to Birkenhead. They had been staying at Lytham, and the previous day they wont on the Central Pier at ...

... THE WINE DUTIES. I A Bordeaux correspondent writes Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's proposals for the increase of the duty upon wines imported into England have caused a very bitter feeling here. I find that the following represents the general opinion. The extra duty on botcled wines will now mean 6d per bottle. The ordinary cheaper class of wine from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Moselle, etc., will not be ...

... COURT CIRCULAR. I CIMIEZ, Saturday The Queen went out yesterday morning with the Princesses. The Duchess Dow?.ger of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha lunched with her Majesty. The Queen drove in the afternoon accompanied by the Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Henry of Battenberg. The Bishop of Gibraltar and Mrs Sandford and Mr Victor Drummond, her Majesty's Minister Resident at the ...

... DENYING A CHILD'S PARENTAGE Sad Case at Merthyr. At the Merthyr Police Court this morning John Mitchell and Catherine Mitchell were charged with being drunk and disorderly in High-street, Merthyr, and with cruelty to ta child, p C. Hughes said that on Saturday night he saw pi-isonres drunk, and they refused to take a child whihc was being offered them by a young woman, who said it was theirs. ...

... RIOTING AT BELFAST. Stoning the Police. I On the return of the Nationalist band from Londonderry to Belfast last night somewhat serious rioting took place. The members started playing against the constabulary orders, atici vigorously attacked the police with stones. The latter, about 150 in number, were driven back, so violent was the fusilade, and two of them were seriously injured. In the ...

... Is there a growing dislike on the part of the average Englishman of physical exer- cises or bodily exertion ? To put it another way, Axe we getting lazy (or should it be lazier) ? The weather may have not a little to do with it, and the enervating situation of Cardiff may have something to do with it, but unmistakably that greatest and best of all exercises, walking, is rapidly becoming very ...

... Tne town of Helensburgh was plunged into oitrkuesis at the busiest hour of the evening on ofttarday owing Lo some water getting into a valve at the gasworks. The streets were thronged and shops busy, and great inconvenience was caused • until oil lamps and candles could b« procured. ...

... YANKEE YARNS. Iieportorial Rivals. A reporter named Jones, on a daily in St. Louis.vas detailed to interview the governor of another State, who hkcl slipped into the city on a secret political mission. He learned to his dis- gust that .Jackson, the star reporter of a rival sheet, was on to the fact, and proposed to call in an hour. Acting on inspiration, he sent up a card bearing Jackson's ...

... VICE-CHANCELLOR OF CAMBRIDGE, Mr W. Chawner, master of Emmanuel Col- lege, was to-day elected Vice-Chancellor of Cam- bridge University, ...

... NEWPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. At the monthly meeting of the Newport Chamber of Commerce, held on Wednesday at the Town Hall, Newport, the president (Mr T. Parry) in the chair, the Secretary reported that Mr Spicer, M.P., had attended as a deputation to Mr Hanbury re the proposed purchase of the National Telephone Company's system by the Government, and was thanked by the Chamber for having ...

... XO-DAY'S FORECAST '■on RNGIAff,9. S.W.. Issued at S o'clock last night. North westerly winds, light, fine, but not nettled backing to south-west later less fair. General.—Fine weather is pro- bable in most districts to-morrow, hut an early backing of the wind to south-west in Ireland is antici- pated. ...

... The Glamorganshire Assizes concluded on Tuesday afternoon, and as their Lordships arrived as longfago as the 27th of July the Assizes may be regarded as the longest ever held at Swansea. It is noteworthy that while on the opening day Mr Justice Bruce at the request of his brother Judges gave the Swansea Council a solemn warn- ing that if the Assizes are to be continued in the town new courts ...