... LICENSING COMMISSION. The Press Association understands that at Tuesday's sitting of the Royal Commission on Licensing it was decided to meet in future three days per week in the hope of expediting the issue of the report. It is understood that those members of the Commission who represent the temperance view are disposed in the main to accept and support the recommendations tained in the ...

... THE ROYAL VISIT TO TENBY. The Duke of York will be grainted the freedom of Tenby when he visits the borongh on May 9th to open the new pier. ...

... MENAI BRIDGE ON SALE. The Board of Works have offered to sell the Menai suspension bridge, which connects Anglesey and Carnarvonshire, for about X15,000, The gross rent of the structure is stated to be XI,700, there being an annaal profit of something like X400 after paying all expenses. The proposal was made to the Menai Bridge District Council, and was referred to the Anglesey and Carnar- ...

... SMOKE LAMBERT AND BUTLEB^S FLAKED GOLD LEAF HONKI DKW. in pakcts and tins, of all Tobacco- nists and dealers throughout the Kingdom. 9076-18e A Triumph of the Tea Blending Art-Phillips's Is Sd Tea. HaTe you tried it ? It is distinclty superior to the so-called finest teas You WOULD NOT COUGH if yoa were to use Fargher's Balsam of Mulberries, 7id and 10id pea bottle. Of all chemists. 609e Dr ...

... A Telegraphist in Custody. At Bow-street to-day Henry Feaver (33), telegraphist, Wolverhampton, was charged with conspiring with Henry Ives and others in custody to defraud bookmakers by means of forged telegrams. It was stated that the other men were before the Court on Friday last, and as the evidence then went to show they must have had an accomplice in the service who supplied them with ...

... CARMARTHENSHIRE ASSIZES. These Assizes were resumed at the Shire Hall- Carmarthen, on Monday morning. ALLEGED FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY. William Richards, grocer and wine and spirit merchant, Station-road, Llanelly, surrendered to his bail on indictments for fraudulent bank- ruptcy, in which were included the charges of removing, concealing, failing to discover, and not delivering up goods to the ...

... M3fETvOROLOGIOAL NOTES. . - SO'tOT WILES TIDE TABLE. 'Iuea- il3dr',le 4 216 21 26 3a9 331 ?? . Lp u .; 329i 3 1 3 241 4 12 414 Fob. 7 lueitrhr 30 32 31 27 10 26 9 26 0 Wed- NDora' 4 6 3 4 4 3 4 58 5 0 nesdaiy, E 21 4 36 5 29 631 Fob. _ _ _ _ _ 80 12 5 2'9 8 29 2 Il ot1i tl3so-nig s 11 l 431 5 6 6 5 63 day, hy m l z. 5 401 5231 534 6 26 628 Feb.9 91.ll4i; 154 1 130 4133 033 1 32 8 Friday, Bfor ...

... STILL QUARRELLING AT I LLANT WIT LOWER. .ANOTHER LIVELY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. THE CHAIRMAN TAKES A FIRM STAND. L A special meeting of the blantwit Lower School Board was held on Tuesalay, under the presidency of the Rev.. W. oaorge., T he other memoers present were Messrs. Edmund Law i(viee-chairnian), David flees, and the Rev, E. O. Evans. At. the outset of the meeting the C'hairman addressed ...

... it LVONIA AND BULGARIA STILL MISSING ,SPATCH OF A TUG FROM LIVERPOOL. to a late hour on Wednesday evening no u had been received either of the Cunard liner Pavonia or the Hamburg-American Com-. pany's steamer Bulgaria. The Cuaard officials, jiowever, decline to admit that there is any grouand for alarm as regards their vessel, though they have despatched a powerful tug to the Azeres to search ...

... . A PLEASANT RlUNION. The annual reunion of Channel Islanders resi- dent in Cardiff took place at the Park Hotel on Wednesday evening. Mr. C. M. Bailhache, barrister, of London, presided over a small, but exceedingly sociable, gathering. A letter was read' from the mayor regretting his inability to be present, as he had been obliged to go to. Spain. Hb wished them a . pleasant evening, and ...

... , The proposed London Welsh, water scheme has- found one supporter, i at least, in Wales. He is Mr.: Peter Jones, of Aberystwith., who, nearly exhausted - his eloquence in favour of the project at a meeting of the Cardigan County Council yesterday. t] Mir. Jones sees in the scheme the germs of: a] great advantage to Wales, and especially p to the centre of his universe-Aberystwith. a: The ...

... ' 10- v, LORD SALISBURY ENTERS , HIS 70TE YEAR. p- e- RADICALS ABOUT TO FACE It TTHE MUSIC. it e.: ae 10, WsITER IARsisTZSawsr, FerzT-ST T.'rzz i- LONDON, FRIDAY NIGIT. Of The vexed discussion as to whether the ol twentieth century will begin in the year 1900 or the year 1901 has, possibly, turned se the heads of son11 London editors; at any ie rate, they are booming to-day Lord Salis- a- ...