... New York, Monday.—A despatch from Havana states that a strike of serions proportions has occurred on the Havana Railway. Two thousand employees were out on Saturday. The manager at Havana has cabled to the chief offices in Lon- don that the men's demands mUF!t be conceded or the company ...

... Chipping Ongar, a little Essex town, with a population of abort 800, appears to be specially favoured in regard to the longevity of its inhabi- tants. Dr. W. C. Clark, who has been personally iuvestigatiug the facts bearing upon this theory, has found that in the one street of which Ongar can boast there are now living twelve persons, four of them ladies, whose united ages total 1,032 years. ...

... LOVE LEADS TO SUICIDE. I At Sedglsy, Staffordshire, to-day, a young lady named Hannah Flavell was charged with attempt- ing to commit suicide owing to disappointment over a love affair. The prisoner had been courted by a young man for six months, after which he suddenly broke off the engagement. Prisoner afterwards became very depressed, and cut her throat. Subsequently she stated it was owing ...

... ENGLISH OHURCH UNION I In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr S. Gedge gave notice that on that day four weeks he woull move an Address calling her Majesty's attention to the memorial recently put forth by the English Church Union, and praying that her Majesty would not appoint to any office in the Church any member of that Union unless he formally dissociated himself from that memorial. ...

... CARDIFF DIVORCE SUIT. Butchart v. Butcliatt and Hill. I In the Divorce Division tc-day further evidence was taken in the Hutch art divorce suit (before the President and a common jnry.) The petitioner, Mr James William Butcbart, manager to a firm at Cardiff, sued for a, divorce from his wife, Mrs Alice M. Bufcchart, residing at Bristol, on the ground of her alleged adultery with Mr Erne st ...

... CAPPING QUOTATIONS. John Wheeler, a tramp, 50 years of age, • with begging at Lynn, told the Bench hat the Bible laid down that if a man hungered he was to be of his neighbour. The Mayor, who Presidedi replied that the Bible also said that if a an did not work neither should he eat, and sen- tbe P^oner to ten days' hard labour. He artieiA^f r!IBOVed t0 the cells,where he tore every c ^^nghe ...

... J a. Crosfield, an alderman of the Man- U ^ter City Council, died to-day at Manchester. lJjj)^llsaccessfully opposed Mr Balfour in the Ca' 'nterest in East Manchester in 1886. ...

... CHESHIRE CLERICAL SCANDAL The Charges Declared Unfounded. The hearing of the allegations of immorality against Hey. Charles Edvvyn Jackson, M.A., rector Nantwich, was resumed on !>.uurdav at Chester Consistory Coitft, before Chancellor spi.1 -,iad assessors. As soon as the cas reopened, The Deputy-Registrar read the evidence taken on commission the previous day of Mrs Blanche Hope, wife of ...

... GIRDS IN A DUEL. An extraordinary scene has been witnessed in the grounds of Milton Park at Peterborough. A. heron, which had been patiently fishing in a pond near Milton House, captured a fine fish, which it brought up in its long bill, when another heron which had been watching matters from the shore, plunged into the water and tried to take the fish away. A desperate combat ensued, as both ...

... In all diseases consult the eminent specialist Dr Bridgwater M.D. U.S.A. Custom House-sf-reet. 'ELLIS DAVIES think no trouble too great to f satisfy the public taste in tea,. And they sroceed.127 ...

... No Heavy Blows to Be Allowed, New York, Wednesday.—Mr Davery, chief of police, states that the first bea.vy blow in the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries contest will be the signal for the police to stop the fight.-Heater. ...

... Mr Austin Oa tea, private secretary to Cardinal Vaagijan, hae bauu ç.lUpelle\i tHuguglI ill-health -1 ...