... BAND OF HOPE UNION. Public Meeting at Cardiff. Under the auspices of the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union a public meeting wnb held last niyht in the Park Hall, Cardiff, Ald. Sanders presidiug. There was a crowded audience, which included the Revs. Canon Barker, B. J- Gibbon, London; Alderman Clegg, Lord Mayor of Sheffield Mr Lionel Mandy, Rev. and Mrs Canon Thompson, Revs. J. R. Buckley. J. ...

... PONTYPRIDD POLICE COURT. Unregistered Lodging-house. I This nnmirtj* at the Pontypridd Police Court, (before MBBSTS Richard Lewis, R T. Richards, and E. Edwards, Mrs Williams, High-street, Llangannab, Pontypridd, was fined 10s and coats for keeping an unregistered lodging-house. There were five persons lodging in the house on the day in question, and the defendant and a prostitute were lying ...

... FACTS AND FANOES. In the proper cycling costume controversy the short skirt has the long end of it. Tom: After all. what are kisses good for?— Kitty (demurely) Their fa.c3 value. Woman, says a wit, isn t always backward in her speech, if she does have tha last word. FiroA:lt.-IllissJones-aw-sE6,vs she doesntplay golf, don't you know.—Second It: Aw—how de- lightfully clevah. The author who ...

... Scapegoats Wanted. I Madrid, Saturday Morning.-The.Pablic Pro- secutor charged with the prosecution in the case of the surrender of Manila has, after lengthened investigations, presented his provisional findings. He demands the imprisonment for life and dis- missal from the service of the officers responsible for the surrender. The public trial of General Jaudenes will take place on the 1st of ...

... I THE LANGUAGE OF THE SEA. BOARD OF TRADE OFFICER ANu THE SKIPPER. Yesterday at Barry Dock Police Court (before Mr O. H. Jones and Dr. Neale) Captain Wildon, of the ketch Lena, was summoned foi obstruct- ing Mr R. Blake, a surveyor of the Board of Trade, on the 22nd July. Mr Robertson (Messrs Vachell and Co.) appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Lean (from the office of Messrs Vaughan and ...

... SUDDEN DEATH AT LUNTWIT MAJOR. Mr Chrisiophar Panter (63), of Pleasant View, Llantwit Major, died somewhat suddenly last night or early this morning. Yesterday he was at Bridgend, and appeared in good health when he returned. After supper he retired to bed, and this morning he was found dead. Mr Punter was an old resident of Llantwit Major, and in his walks was invariably accompa,nied by a ...

... DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT. Young Lady Struck by a Cricket Ball. Yesterday afternoon a lady's companion named Miss S. Patten (36) met with a serious accident, necessitating troptm,nt at the West London Hos pital. It appears that Miss Patten was accom- panying a lady, who was riding in an invalid chair, across the road leading by Kensington Palace to Church-street, Kensington,when she re- ceived a ...

... Another example of magisterial leniency shown by Messrs T. H. Stephens and John Jenkins at Cardiff Police Court to-day. A sturdily built fellow of 27. giving the name of Richard Lock, was charged with being drunk and refusing to quit the East Dock Inn, Bridge- street, and asaulting the landlord, Oliver Adams. He was further charged with assaulting Chris- topher Phillips and P.C. Paisley. It ...

... THE PARAFFIN LAMP. Terrible Accident. AL Halesowen to-day a boy named Wilfred Price met with a horrible death through the up- setting and bursting of a paraffin lamp. D. ceased's clothes became ignited owing to the lamp exploding after being accidentally knocked over on the table ...

... Employees Meeting Arranged, THE MISSING LETTER DISCQVERED. The missing letter has been discovered. Mr. Thomas Richards, the secretary of the South Wales Miners' Federation, wrote to Mr Gascoyne, Dalziel on the 17th inst. askidg that a meeting of the Sliding Scale Committee should b8 convened at once to consider the workmen's request for the withdawal of the new register, the introduction of ...

... I LEAP FROM A TRAIN, Yesterday afternoon a, girl named Annie Qil- raour, residing at Linlithgow, jumped from a passing train between Dalmeny and Winchburgh, and was injured in such a. terrible manner that her life is despaired of. The girl bad left her parents' house last Friday, and was traced to Dundee. Her mother and two brothers went and induced her to return, and they were in the com- ...

... TO THE EDITOR. I Sir,—I notice in your issue of Saturday a letter from a correspondent who subscribes himself Honour First, contradicting certain state- ments conta,ined in a letter of the 30th ult. Now sir, in the first place I wish to state that the letter did not emanate from the management of the Cardiff Railway Company, but that I myself am the absolute author. Furthermore, I publicly ...