... CHINA, I Pekin, Wednesday.—Mr Pritchard Morgan's agent states that the final contract for the Su Chuan mining concession has been siguecl- Reuter. ...

... SIR THOMAS MOREL. To Be Entertained by the Cardifi Corporation. A meeting of members of the Corporation we convened by the Deputy Mayor (Alderman Trounce) and held at the Town Hall this morning to consider what steps should be taken to recog- nise the knighthood conferred upon the Mayor (Alderman Thomas Morel). The Deputy Mayor first congratulated his colleagues upon the Council whose names ...

... SUNDAY CLOSING IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. Amongst the many points of agreement between he majority and minority reports of the Licen- sing Commission it must afford special satisfac- tion to the upholders of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act to note that brewers, teetotalers, partials and inipartials. all with one voice call for the inclusion of Monmouthshire. Once again a Royal Com- mission which ...

... Peter Rupert White, an ingenous. looking Austrian lad of 18 years, appeared at the Cardiff Police Court to-day in answer to a, charge of stealing silver Geneva watch, value 6s, the pro- perty of one Joseph Boirnetti, oa the 4th icst. Prosecutor stated that prisoner came np to him in the street, asked to see his watch, and then walked away with it. Prisoner's version of the affair was that ...

... LETTER FROM EMPLOYERS.! Holiday no Precedent. Mr T. Richards, secretary of the South Wales Miners' Fedfration, hi? received the following letter from Mr Dalziel with reference to the miners' holidays this week The Monmouthshire and Sonth Wales Coal- owners' Association, Cardiff, 3rd July, 1899. Mr Thomas Richards, Secretary, Workmen's Representatives on the Sliding Scale Com- mittee, Beaufort. ...

... At Yarmouth yesterday an attempt to arrest the Hull steamer Monica furnished an amusing incident. The Monica had ran down the smack Endeavour and landed the smack's crew. During the morning the Endeavour's owners swore affi. davits and obtained a writ of arrest, S,700 being claimed. The tug Gleaner went out in the after- noon with the documents, solicitor's clerk, Customs House officer, and ...

... THE 90TH AITJOARA.VCI:.— Johu Lea.ry, alias Water Dog, appeared before the Swansea magistrates on Monday for the 90th time on a charge, not the usual one of being drunk and disorderly, but of absconding from the Work- house with the Union clothes. He was sent to prison for a. week. Tas ORANGE GIRL. Sir Walter Besant's new and charming Romance of Loadon Liie, ts now appearing in the Cardiff ...

... f ^NEFACTIONS TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSiTV. — —• I nt benefactions to the Cambridge Univer- ,rielude £ 1,000 iroxn Lord Iveagb and £ 500 11'0%0 a friend of Mr .Balfour. ...

... Accidental Death. I The Southampton Coroner held an inquest to- day upon the bodies of two of the Stella victims brought from Dieppe yesterday. The body of Herbert Edser was identified by his brother, and the body of Ernest Alfred Roome by his father. The evidence of the second mate, Reynolds, pre- viously Kiven, was read over, and a verdict of Accidental death was leturned. The jury ex- ...

... THE LATEST SPY TERROR. I Frenchwomen in Germany. I The Berlin correspondent of the Daily iVttcs writes :-A new foe is at the gates of the Empire. Here, however, is no question of mailed fist, but of soft white hand in soft kid glove. The German Army had hitherto sought its hereditary foe in he stalwarts of France. Now the fearful dis- covery has been made that the fair sex of that fair land, ...

... ACTRESSES AND LANDLADY. A Swansea Incident. Three stylishly-dressed young actresses entered the Swansea Police Court on Wednesday, and through Mr David Seline, solicitor, asked the Bench to compel a Mrs Kelly, 8, JDynevor-place, to return them their boxes. Thoy engaged rooms with Mrs Kelly on Sunday, aud on Monday night she told them she could not have the door un locked after 11 o'clock, but ...

... SIR FRANCIS JEUNE'S RECOVERY. Sir Francis Jenne WitS sufficiently restored to health to return to his court to-day. He received the hearty congratulations of counsel in hia court. The President thanked the Bar for their welcome, and also returned thinks to Jastio* Phillimore for the assistance he had rendered to the division for the last two or three weeka. ...