... UNEXPECTED END IN THE UNITED STATES. TWICE LORD CHANCELLOR Tlhe Press Association regrcts to state that news' was received in London on Wcdnesday of the sudden death at Washington of Lord Herschell, a former Lord Chancellor. The first official ?? of the sad event reached the Foreign Oilice in a cablegram fromn Mr. Cart- wright, secretary of the High Commlission which has recently sat at ...

... I TH1JRSY -MARCH, 16, -i899. SUMMAR---Y -NES. SUMALLY~ -.NEWS. . A, Washington dispatch taates. 'the Russian f Government is eeeinlg to arrange a reciprocal t commercial treaty with the United States. The- National Zeitung (Berlin) says the report as to an agresment on the subject of Samoa. is premature: . r TheHonse of Commons on Wednesdayhby 244 , votee to 159 rejected the Petroleum Bill, ...

... I . d According to a Penarth paper, there i' E. g 'Ohamben of Music Society over there. r, Once more a tin-plate strike has been. e settled at Llanelly. The next is due about. Lr midday. Y Lord Bute will he the Commissioner for n Rothesay at the meeting of the Convention of Royal Burghs to be held in Edinburgh in April_ Only two Welsh members voted for Mr. Johba ?? amendment. As might have ...

... ICORRESPON1)ENCE. All, cerc'eapondcnta must writo on One Side of the paper only, or their aettirs dill be, rejected. Oorrespondents are advised not.. to send criginzil documents with their letters. *We b decline to be rcspoxisible for them in any way: The Editor cannot undertake to return ?? fol oonkmunicatious under any circumstances. 0 N.B.-We do not answer correspondents th throagh the ...

... i PRESENTATION - TO MR. S. H. . JONES, WBITCHURCH. The succes which has attended. the efforts was of the officers of the Loyal Treoda Lodge of and Oddfellows (Manchester Unity), Whitchurch. boro during the past few years in considerably im- of L proving the status of the lodge was celebrated their on Saturday evening in the lodge-room, when vert4 the members and a number of friends partook ...

... 1| A OOUNQMLOR'S LUCK AT ROAT LAKE. I Th& great disciple of Izaak Walton in the Cardiff Corporation is Mr. Charles Waring. FrL- dlay was a good day with the councillor devotee of the gentle art, 'a-nd it was to have been a greater Mr. Waring has for some consider- C able tim e exercised his piscatorial zeal upon if trout and their culture, the multiplication of the' favoured finned species in ...

... I Our appeal to tin-plate makers to at t least attend and hear Mr. Siaith, of Bir- J L mingham, on the important question of t L the possibility of effective combination in r the tin-plate trade did not meet with quite the success we anticipated. We t regarded the tin-plate makers of South Wales as reasonable men, willing to listen to common-sense, and to make a cast for t fortune at last. ...

... BRIT - O ~ I . .1 I I -- , . Great Britain's enemies, who base their t.calculations upon their hopes and wishes, draw anything but an inviting picture of the future of this country as the result of the present war. Frenchmen and Aus- trians especially, whose attitude is most . inexplicable, consider the conflict with the Is Boers the beginning of the end, the !e first step in Great ...

... P i. POLITICS OUT OF PLACE y l _ ?? 1 s: 1___ ?? -- - X Vly1 ' IVIt M. uV sR be During the festive season which has just iai a gone by several eisteddfudic. gatherings e of co S. have been held in different parts of Wales, ml; al both North and South, the latest being thb that held under the auspices of the Good I ay Templars at Newtown on Monday. There wI he was an afternoon and; an evening ...

... - ?? TRIENNIAL BEPORT. to t From the portion of the triennial report of ths Cardiff School Board which has tome to LII hand, it appears that the school sites purchased and the amounts paid for them during the past three years are as follow: -For Marlborough- road School, 9,177 square yards, £2,855; for Be Virgil-street School, 1t acres, £2,400; for Glad- spec stone School. 15 acres, £5.445, ...

... I . ?? BOND GAINING IN MR. RHODES'So ABSENCE. 2 '5 The Press Association says:-A Cape Town telegram to the Outlook on Friday states: The absence of Mr. Rhodes is severely felt in the political crisis through which Capes. politics are passing, and the Progressive organi- sation is a hopeless' failure everywhere. At L Humansdorn and Josenville, where the Bond have secured very large ?? ...

... DIFFICULTY OF REDUCING e LICENCE S. t d DETAILS OF THE RIVAL r SCHEMES. d_: . In correction of the erroneous versions hither- d to published of Lord Peel's proposals and these a of the majority of the Royal Commission re- y garding the reduction of licences, the Press Association is enabled to furnish an authentic . outlios of the two rival schemes. Instead of proposing, as had been stated, ...