... SHOULD THEY BE CATLLE MISS. With the domestic servant problem constantly confronting them, housewives will read with in- terest an article on Domestic Servants: The Responsibility of Employers, which appears in the Forum. The writer (Mary Roberts Smith) says it is one of the moat extraordinary inconsistencies of a democratic society that the dressmaker, the milliner, the shopwoman may ...

... GREAT IRE INMANCHESTERI THREE MANUFACTO[IES DESTROYED. NARROW ESCAPES. About two o'clock yesterday morning in- formation was conveyed to the Goulden-street Fire Station, Manchester, that an immense fire had broken out in Blossom-street, Ancoats. Chief Officer Parker and Second Officer Bayiiss at once turned out with a strong detachment of men. It was not necessary by this time to seek any ...

... ACQUITTED. At Leeds Assizes, yesterday, Samuel Holroyd, french polisher, of Sheffield, wvas indicted for the manslaughter of his wife, who, after a fortnights drinking bout, was found dead at the bottom of the stairs. Prisoner said deceased was the best of women when sober. hut she often went wrong and stayed out all night. He had vainly tried all methods to reform her. Accused was acquitted. ...

... MANCHESTER TRAMP WARD GUTTED. SSIX MEN INJURED. A fire broke out yesterday morning in Man- chester in the huge building jointly used by the Manchester and Chorlton Utisions as a test house and trimp ward. The alarm was given shortly before half-past ten, and ?? a couple of minutes a detachment from the neighbouring fire station in Pollard-street was on the scene. Word was also sent to ...

... MONOPOLY IN BREAKS IN an BARRY. REVOLT OF. THE UNLICENSED DRIVERS CONTINUED. Mr. D. W. Evans, solicitor, Cardiff, on behalf in of ten break proprietors and'drivers belong-. gi ing to the Barry district, applied to the Barry mag istrates on Monday to have the it cases against them adjourned. The men in tc question had been convicted at a previous sitting, of the court for plying for hire at ...

... |a I , I. - , -, - -- - - - - -- - I I ~~~n The old proverb that it is an ill wind that X blows nobody good has again been demon- strated by the phenomenal demand during thet wet season for waterproof elothing. The ever- increasing saes in this class of business are evidenced by the enterprise of Messrs. Ralph Grean and Co., india-rubber and waterproof clothing manufacturers, of 142, Bute ...

... The important circular which has been ,-issued by the Local Records Committee will serve a useful purpose if it does no al more than draw attention to the necessity of taking greater care of public documents which have come down to us ra from the past. The committee are . arzious to obtain from different localities ta throughout the country some definite in- it formation in regard to existing ...

... hJQUEEN AT BRISTOL-|'t I -t GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS OF LOYALTY. ce. OPENING OF THE JUBILEE Lin CONVALESCENT HOME. ied of LENGTHY SPEECH BY HER ire -MAJESTY. lit, ye A KNIGHTHOOD FOR THE. ny LORD MAYOR. zill -. [B3Y OUR SPECIAL CORRE:SI'ONDENT.] The three hundred thousand good folk who ileae up the old-fashioned city of hsy Bristol were swollen to thrica their num-, 'mt beryesterday,for on that ...

... LATE MR. D. L. MODY;| RiECOLLECTIONS OF HIS VISIT '10O CDARD)IFF. A- earrespondetlftwrites:-W~henlI read of Mr. Be Iloody's regrettable death ?? of Isis liy and Mr. Sankey's evangelistie mission in Car- Will tl;f? mnany years ag o cr~opped up vividly, no pup.) doubt, in many mindtas, as in mine. The, ser- app vices were held Iin the old! circus, which stood arti on sptwih new post-offie now ...

... THE PREVENTION OF TI?BER- CULOSIS, I - Le RECOGNITION OF THE WORK DONE on IN CARDIFF. -- lie The current number of Lancet Eays:- on The intelligent co-operation of the public is gr essential for the success of any sanitary re- form, and t-he local authority of Cardiff, recog- nising this, has adopted an 'excellent method of enlightening the townspeople with regard to the communicability of ...

... O }1EYFUS TRIAL. I -- -- - Q THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE BORPDEREALT. EXPERTS AT VARIANCE. I IV 5 ?? t QUEEN OF ITALY AND THE L EXILE. C t A ruesster's telegram from Paris on Saturday D ?? Figaro to-day pablishos the con, celuding depositions of M. Gobert, the Banl; of a France expert, together withl those of itI. A fGiry, professor at the Pahaeogralphieali, School. t Belhomnie, Couard, and ...

... REPULSES THE ENEMY AT YAALKOP. I BOERS LOSE FORTY KILLED AND WOUNDED. From the Doily Telegraph Special 0orrespont'ent. By Special Arrarqgement for Simultaneous Pubiicatiw1 in the Westerij Mail. ARCUN'DEL, Tuesday Morning. With two expeditious. on hand-one to seize Vaal Kop. the scene of esterday's affair, and the other to punish lieutenallt Collis's nssailants-matters . ave becn pretty ...