... LONDON LETTER. LONDON, Monday Night. LIBERALS IN HIGH SPIRITS. Liberai members seem to have been surprised f their own unanimity at to-day's meeting in the Reform Club. The first man I spoke to after the meeting was a leading Welsh member. I invited him to give me bis impression of the pro- ceedinRs in i sentence. Oh, he replied, I should say it was a Bannerman boom. We were all delighted ...

... SUFFOCATED BY GAS. THREE VICTIMS AT OLDHAM. A sensational discovery was made in Old. ham on Sunday, when three persons were found suffocated in a house in Heywood-atreet. William Elliolt (43), Eliza Ann Buckley (33), and Annie Blythe (26) had been to a part;y on Saturday evening, ad returned to the house early yesterday morning. As nothing was seen of them during the day a constable entered ...

... EGG AS A BIRTH CERTIFICATE. A singular birth certificate wa3 submitted at a Meeting of the School Attendance Committee of ^nion on Saturday. A widow named J had been called upon to prove that her ? e* had reached school exemption age. She ™?J*U egg beautiully coloured in purple, wim-JIv.*1 cream, whereon, in almost copper- p ate characters, the name and date cf nativity were picked out in ...

... THE LYCEUM, NEWPORT. The new comic-opera The Belle of New York, which has been pronounced to ba one of the best of good comic operas, was produced on Monda.y evening at the above theatre before a highly-appreciative audience. The secret of the plot ia well hidden until nearly the end of the pretty bewilderment. The opera has been described as a dream of fair women in charming frocks. The ...

... CAPBDBr's Cocoa is absolutely pure, being entirely free from kola, malt, hops, alkali or any foreign admixture. Caution! The public should insist on having Cadbnry's—sold only in Packets and Tins-as other Cocoas are ofteu substituted or the ease of extra profit 1133d Phili.tps s Is 6D Tba i » Triumph of the Tea Blending Art. It is distiuLti v a rior tQ he so-oalied ...

... CRICKET. LORD HAWKE'S TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA. tPRESB ASSOCIATION SPECIAL.J JOHANNESBURG, Monday.—There was a fair attendance here this morning when the match between Lord Hawke's team and a representative eleven of the Transvaal was resumed in glorious weather. The giound and pitch were in perfect order, and Mitcheii and Tyldesley,whobad raised the score to 83 on Saturday, were in rare form. ...

... MADAME PATTI AND BRECON. At the Brecon Town Council meeting on Taes. day, Alderman de Winton presiding in the unavoidable absence of the Mayor (Colonel Morgan) through ill-health, a letter was read from Baroness Patti Cederstrom warmly thank- ing the Mayor and Corporation for the hearty 1 welcome they had accorded her and Baron Cederstrom on the occasion of their marriage, and especially ...

... THE VACCINATION ACTS. The Central News saysThe National Auti- Vaccination league is making arrangements for a 3erious and thoroughly organised crueade against the system of vaccination. General Phelps, president of the league, will take part in an international conference to be held in June in Berlin, at which America, England. Hol- land, Sweden, and other countries will be represented. Mr ...

... COOL. On Friday at Wigan William Roper, a foreman painter in the employ of ths London and North- western Railway Company, and residing at Leigh, was summoned for deseitiug his wife. Complainant's solicitor stated ths.t the parties were married in 1882. A few weeks afterwards he suddenly disappeared. Two years later she received a letter from him stating that he was spending his money in ...

... THE PLASTERERS' DISP UTE MEETING OF THE CARDIFF MEN. A meeting of the Cardiff branch of the Plasterers' Association was held at the Wyndham Hotel, Cardiff, on Saturday evening, Mr J. G. Barr, president of the local branch, occupying the chair. There was a large attendance. The meeting was called for the purpose of considering the ultimatum of the master builders in reference to matters in ...

... THE ROYAL VISIT TO TENBY GIFT BY THE MAYOR. Mr Clement J. Williams, the Mayor of Tenby, has signified his intention to sabscribe 10G gaineas towards decorating the town on the occasion of the Royal visit. On Saturday the Landing Stage Committee decided to construct a permanent approacn to the new pier immedi- ately. Some time ago financial considerations determined the Council to postpone any ...

... THE MILITIA TRAINING. WELSH ARRANGEMENTS. The Secretary for War has sanctioned'the fol- lowing arrangements for training the Welsh Militia this year:—Glamorgan Artillery—preli- minary drills to-commenco April 10th at Swansea, training June 12th to July 8th, at Fort Hubbor- stone. Carmarthen Artillery—preliminary, March 13th, at Carmarthen training. May 15th to June 10th, at Fort Popton, ...