... 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 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, ...

... THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION. A RUPTURE DEEMED INEVITABLE. New York, Saturday.—A Washington despatch states, on the authority of a Canadian member of the Joint High Commission, that the negotiations have reached their crisis. No further discussion is probable. The Commissioners will early next week agree upon a treaty, or finally break off the negotiations. It is believed that a rupture is ...

... Mr E. B. Reece (coroner) held an inquest on Saturday, at the Cardiff Police Court relative to the death of John Wells, aged 34, of 222, Clive-street, who met with his death as the result of an accident at the Oil Storage Yard, Ferry- road. Grangetown, on the 13th inst. Wells was a. boilermaker, and was employed by Messrs Frazer and Frazer, Limited, on the erection of a tank for the Mineral ...

... Dazing the hearing of a case at Bloomsbnry County Court, in which a tailor sued his late .employer for wages in lieu of notice, the man, a foreigner, kept constantly saying, Nein, it vos not Mr Metcalfe, it vos ze Captain. (Metcalfe being the name of the employer.) Judge Badon Who is this mysterious cap- tain he keeps referring to Counsel: Oh, I thought your Honour, with your intimate ...

... SUICIDE AT BRIDGEND ASYLUM. Early on Monday Catherine Davies, an iø- ma.te of the Acgelton Asylum, Bridgend, aged 49, was discovered dead in her bedroom by the uigut nurse, Emma Griffiths, h&ving aoparaxtly ioto^r^deb,6te,kng^o5u ill tQ be ...

... TO-DAY'S WEATHER.4.30A.M TO-DAY'S FORECAST FOR JtNGLAVD. S.W., ANJJ SOUTH WALES. Issued at 8 o'clock last night. Westerly or north-westerly winds, Ught; fine; colder; not settled. GENERAL.—Some further dis- turbances from the Atlantic are probable in the west. WAKNINO.—The south cone is up in districts 0,6, 9 and 10. ...

... Washington, Thursday.-The action of the House of Representatives in sustaining Mr Hopkin's decision regarding Mr Hepburn's motion to pass his Nicaragua Canal Bill as an amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriations Bill has settled the fate of the Canal Bill for the present Session of Congress.- Beat--r. ...

... Madrid, Thui-sclay.-Yesterday, when the car- nival festivities were in fall swing, a lieutenant of gendarmerie, offended by attentions paid to his wife by a stranger, fired two revolver shots at l him, woundincr him seriously. It was subse- quently ascertained that the victim was ■ a weU- kaowo Madrid ...

... CADBDBY'S COCOA has a world-wide reputation is delicious, strengthening beverage, and a vltlnablf) nutritive food. The La*uset says it represents tlie standard of highest purity. Always insist on li&YH. A Cadbury*s—sold only io Packets and Tins—as other Cocoas are often lubtftatetd lor the sake of enrli. 1mb j ...

... MILLWALL DOCKS. WARRANT OUT FOR THE CHAIRMAN The Press Association states that up to noon Monday no information was forthcoming as to the whereabouts of Mr Birt, chairman of the Millmail Dock Company. His disappearance is now beta* investigated by the police, who, armed with a warrant for his arrest, are maki inquiries is various districts. NATURE OF THE CHARGE. Mr Blunt, of Messrs G. Blunt ...

... APPEARANCE AT CHELTENHAM. This glee party journeyed to Cheltenham from Brynmawr on Monday morning to fulfil an en- gagement for the Corporation. On arriving they were met at the station by the chairman of the County Council, who conducted them to the Winter Gardens, where they held a short rehearsal before a select company, whom they electrified by their beautiful singing. After the rehearsal ...