... CYCLING. Half-Mils Championship ef South Wrilss. Tho foiiowing have entered for the half-mils bicycle championship of South Wales, which is to be run c-ff at the Newport Athletic Club Meet- ing on Whit-Monday afternoon First heat, Eddine, Raymond, Prickett, Baker, and Toombs (Mountain Ash) second heat. Weeks, 0. E. Barrett. Price, Parker.and W. E. Kennard third heat, G. Barrett, Clav, Lang, ...

... THREE MEN DROWNED, The tnwler Bonito arrived at Yarmouth lasfc night, and reported that three of her crew h'?c-n drowned in the North Sea. ...

... I Sir Henry Fowler on the Situation. Last night Sir Henry Fowler presided over the Midland Counties house dinner held at the National Liberal Club, among the guests being Earl Carrington, Sir W. B. Foster, M.P., Sir W. H. Wills, M.P., Mr F. A. Charming, M.P., Mr Pirie, M.P., Mr R. Y. Price, M.P., Sir Robert Head, Sir Clarence Smith, Sir T. Wemyss Reid, and Mr Donald Murray. The following are ...

... Among the applicants for relief to the S, Alban's Guardians yesterday was the widvjw ox a Crimean vsteran who recently died in indigent circumstances. The woman acted as nurse throughout the Crimean campaign,and her father was for 25 years in the English coastguard service. The board granted relief the chairman ana ssveral members expressing the opinion that it was scandalous for the country ...

... Fire in Hungary. 200 HOUSES DESTROYED. Fourteen Persons Burned to Death. VIENNA, Friday.—A despatch to the Nene Freit Press states that a great fire has broken out at Nagylodrog, in Hungary. Two hundred houses have been destroyed, and 14 persons burned to Neics. ...

... SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE. THE ENGINII:Ili)EN'S ASSOr-'IATION. It will be recollected that the negotiations be- tween the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal- owners' Association and the South Wales Col- lieries Enginemen's Association for the adop- tion of the agieement proposed by the former fell through, the engine- men rejecting the proposed agreement, more particularly on account of Clause 2, ...

... 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, ...

... A QUEEN WITHOUT COUNTRY. The Queen of Hanover;who reached her eighty first birthday recently, is the oldest Queen in Europe, uoL excepting our own Queen, but like several other Qneens in exile she possesses a title only, and has no position as a ruling Sovereign. Although the Queen of Hanover has now been expatriated for 33 years, she never permits her- self to speak in an unkind or harsh ...

... The wife of a labourer named Charles Reader asked, at Stratford on Saturday, for an order for maintenance on tbe.grl)und of her husband's i cruelty and desertion. Mrs Reader, after giving-her evidenceirepeatedly interrupted her husband when he was entering upon his defence, and at last Mr Burnett Tabrutn (the chairman) exclaimed, Oh, do hold your tongue-il,you,oan. I know it is a hard thing. ...

... DISTURBANCE AT PENYDARREN. When P.C. Woods was on his beat in Peny- darren on the 3rd inst. he was disturbed by the tippearance of a large crowd, some scores of men sitting on the walls. He then saw twwo men, George Williams and Cornelius Hart, fighting. The latter appeared to-day at the Merthyr Police Coatr and admitted there had been a disturbance, bat drew the line at fighting. Defendant* ...

... TO-DAY'S MONEY. [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.] LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Opening, 11.20 a.m.—The Stock Markets arc quiet in view of the near approach of the fortnightly settle- ment, which ivill begin to-morrow in Mining Shares and on the following day in other securities. Con- sols steady. liupee Paper firm at advance. In Foreign Bonds Spanish, Cedula A. and Italian firm, being i to 1 better on purchases ...

... Leisure and I, John Wesley is reported to have once ga-d have long been strangers to each other. Btrt for the efiect of the Bank Holiday Act that would be the compulsory fate of thousands who are now enabled to enjoy the leisure, if it can be designated leisure, of five days a year 1 There never were such times as these for leisure.seeking and holiday-making. Train and steamboat companies ...