... At the Llandaff Police Court to-day Eliza Chippline was summoned for being disorderly at Pontcanna. P.C. Chant stated that defendant was having an altercation with another person and behaving in a very disorderly manner. When warned by the officer she turned round and threw the contents of a beer jug all over him. Fined 10s and costs. John Chaplin, husband of defendant, was afterwards charged ...

... About 11.30 on Friday night the driver of a light engine noticed the planks supporting the rails of Kilkewydd Bridge spanning the river Severn, on the Cambnau line, between Welsh- pool and Aberystwyth, on fire A few buckets of water apparently extinguished the flames. On Saturday uaornidg. however, as the North-Wes- tern mail from London to Aberystwyth crossed the bridge it was seen that fire ...

... THE COMPENSATION ACT. Employers and Medical Certificates. (BY MABON.) Notwithstanding the fact that up to now in this coalfield we have, in common with some other districts in England and Scotland, with very little friction indeed, been able to settle amicably a much larger percentage of claims under the Workmen's Compensation Act than was at first contemplated that we could do, yet there ...

... The Man About Town. I What a c; rush of events, a plethora of engagements face one for the coming week. The week beginning on Saturday promises to be one of the busiest on record, even in the history of Cardiff. The business is the engagement in pleasure, for all the doings I have in mind are connected with holiday-making and sight-seeing, and whilst business is undoubtedly behind some of it, ...

... TO-DAY'S MONEY. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.} LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Opening, 11.20 a.m.—Stock Marketsjqaiel and prices ,how irregular tendency, without special feature. Consols dull, being & lower for money. Rupee Paper firm at 4 advarce on purchases. In Foreign Bonds French Threes weak at J decline, whilst Paris Bourse is closed to-day owing to the national fete Turkish Third Group and Portuguese ...

... r YANKEE YARNS, A Great Business- You look as if you had prospered while you have been away? tentatively remarked a vil- lager, addressing a friend of other days who, aa a tricky, wide-awake boy, had run away from the hamlet, and had now returned, a man with a sanctimonious smile and a calculating eye-also another eye just like it. Yes, I have done well, said the visitor. You are not in the ...

... Rejoicings in Wales. I There was no celebration in Birmingham on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Helen Chamberlain, second daughter of Mr A. Chamber lain, of Moor Cieen Hall, with Mr G. Beesly, on Tuesday, but there were rejoicings on the Welsh estate belonging to Mr Chamberlain. The arrangements were made by Mr Davies, the superintendent. The tenants and workmen, with their wives and ...

... KEIGHLEY LIBEL SUIT. CARDIFF PALMIST'S ACTION. Mr Justice Wills and a special jury continued the bearing the action of the alleged libel brought by Mrs Edith Valentia Keighley, of Cardiff, against the Clements Printing Company aud Mr Cair, printers and publishers of tfociety/Piaintiff ave evidence to the effect that she was married in 1890, and in that year comraoactd to practice palmistry, ...

... EARLY CLOSING IN CARDIFF. I REVERSION TO LONGER HOURS. I A Serious Outlook, I A private meeting of the Shop Assistants' Association was held in Cardiff on Tuesday to consider action taken by the two chief drapery and furnishing firms-IL-isrs Howell, of St. Mary-street, and Messrs Morgan, of The Hayes- in keeping their premises open later each even- ing. It is explained in the following ...

... RAILWAY WORKERS' I GRIEVANCES. Meeting, at Port Talbot I For some time past been a movs- monfc on ioot on the Port Talbot Railway for better conditions of service. Up to the present, the management, it is alleged, have declined to recognise the principle of Trade Unionism, and the workmen refuse to appear before them with out an official of their society. A mass meeting of the employees was ...

... The Transvaal. SCENES IN THFC CAPE ASSEMBLY. The: Cape Town representative of the Times Reports an extraordinary scene in the Cape Assembly with regard to the aecond reading of the Rhodesia Customs Bill. Mr Schreiner apologised for Mr Merriman's having unintentionally misled the House by in- cautiously stating that the Transvaal had abol- ished special duties on colonial products. Duties still ...

... An open competition was held at the Lake on Saturday under the Jioath Park Club Rules. There were 19 models entered, including six from Swansea. Tha first heat brought out nine, and the boats left on a broad reach in a fresh W. breeze. At the turn for home the wind headed them off slightly. and they came back close hauled. Gloria and Utopia, of the Roath Park, and Ladv of the Lake, of the ...