... A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. On Tuesday the Italian steamer Caffaro C., of Genoa, 1,808 tons register (Capt. Morcenaro), was towed into the Roath Dock, Cardiff, by the Cardiff tugs Retriever and John Lawrence in a terribly battered state about the decks and with one man killed and three injured. Her arrival in the Roath Dock shortly after 11 o'clock was witnessed by hundreds of people. The unfortu- ...

... INQUEST ON VICTIMS. An inquest was held at East Wittering by Mr Arnold, coroner for West Sussex, on Tuesday, on the bodies of six of the crew of the sfeam collier Arno, which foundered off Nab Lightship on Saturday night. The bodies, which were washed ashore during Sunday night along the coast to the west of Selsey Bill, were those of Rowell, chief engineer; Rawlin- son, second engineer; ...

... EXPLOSION AT BARRY DOCK GAS IN A STEAMER'S HOLD. TWO COAL TRIMMERS INJURED. At an early hour on Tuesday an explosion of a serious nature occurred in the hold of the ss. Avonmore, whilst the steamer was loading be- ntath No. 3 tip in Barry Dock. It appears that the loading operations had been almost com- pleted, when it was found necessary to remove some of the coal in No. 4 hatch for the ...

... LION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Mr Thomas Webb, director of the Barry Rail- way Company and Ooean Coal Company, Limited, has joined the board of the Lien Fire Insurance Company, Limited. ...

... The return of Mr Penley to the stage is an event of considerable importance at a moment when we are somewhat short of born low come- dians, and especially as it is coincident with the final bow of clever Edward Rigbton. who all too soon has passed through the Dark Valley. Mr Penley, it may be remembered, grew tired of assuring his audience that he had just arrived whence the nuts come from, ...

... PREVALENCE OF THE DISEASE AT CARDIFF AND SWANSEA. The medical officer of Cardiff (Dr. Walford) has just issued his report for the last quarter, which shows that during that period there were 1,327 births, equal to a rate of 29-9 per 1,000, while the deaths numbered 593. This corres- ponds to a death-rate of 13*4 per 1,000, which is low when compared with other large towns. Scarlet fever, which ...

... CARDIFF RECORDS. THE NEW VOLUME. READY SALE. MORE COPIES TO BE PRINTED. CONTINUATION OF REVIEW. We yesterday gave the opening part of a review of the first volume of Cardiff Records issued by a special committee of the Corporation and have now to continue the notice by mention ing details of life in mediaeval Cardiff disclosed by the minister's accounts. In the year 1315 the DAILY WAGE OF A ...

... SUDDEN DEATH OF A CANON. At Newark yeaterdav Canon J. M. Dolphin, vicar of Long Eaton, died unexpectedly of bronchial pneumonia. He was 61 years of age, and was on a visit to Mr Hodgkinaon, & rol&tire, at Newark. Deceased held an honorary canoury in Sonthwell Cathedral. ...

... LLANTWIT LOWER SCHOOL BOARD. LETTER FROM THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Ihe Rev. R. O. Evans has definitely with- drawn his resignation of membership cf the above named board. The following is the text of a letter received from tho Education Department by the clerks to the Llantwit Lower Board (Messrs Cuthbertson and Powell), and a copy of which was also forwarded by the Department to Mr D. H. ...

... STRIKING SPEECH BY THE EX- MAYOR. A meeting of the Tramways Electric Lighting Committee of the Swansea Corporation was held yesterday afternoon, when correspondence with the Board of Trade was read. Estimates of the cost of the electric lighting scheme were being read when Mr Skidmore inter- posed and asked if the figures had been considered by the special sub-committee. The Chairman (Alderman ...

... A FRENCH DISASTER. POWDER MAGAZINE EXPLODES. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. Toulon, Saturday. The Lagoubran Naval Magazine, between La. Seyne and Toulon, blew up at half-past 2 this morning. Every soldier on duty at the magazine was killed, and the cause of the explosion cannot therefore be ascertained- Many of the inhabitants of the quarter in whidi the magazine is situated were also killed, their ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. At Menston Asylum near Leeds, a patient named Mary Ann Clayton broke an aiticle of crockery, and with one of the fragments gashed her thropt. Despite raedical attention the woman died. ...