... 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 ...

... | I NCL TIIE ORDERS FOR SUPPLYING THE CRAY CANTEEN. WIDENING OF CASTLE-STREET SATING OF RILWVAY A*ND OTHER COMPANIES. The quarterly meeting of the Swansea Count Borough Council was heold on Wednesday after nooen, the mayor (Ar. R. Moartin) Presiding- The Mayor at the outset moved a vote of cordo lenco with tice family of the late Mr. Thomas Phillips, speaking of the high iflauence wieldwj in ...

... TOSSING THE PA.CA E. A TIME-HONOOURBD CERE3ONY. The ancient Shrovetide ceremony of tossing the pancalke was duly nbherved cit Wes3tminstor School on Tuesday. A fe' minutes before half-past twelve the big halt w-as empty, save for the presence of a. fewr cisitors. At the strobe of the clock the porter entered with at bell, which he rang with magical efrect. for ice at moment doors were flung ...

... TMETEOROLOGICkL NOTES. SOUTIT WALES TIDE TABLE. °K u T .111r Mboili'ig 10 lO I AO 1 11 10 7! 1O ]0 7 10 59 Ioy h Iv.,9ulL it, 10 30 I io 19 1 10 27:11I 14 11 16 Feb 16 ?? 15 128 11 130 2 22 0 31 2 Fd (30001010 10 61l 10 39. 10 47 11 333 11 35 Friday, | ei ' 1114 '111 4 11 10 ,11 55 1167 Feb. 17 (1eight 29 6 26 4 27 10 2 9 27 19 Satur- Mor ig 1142 l t3i1139 - - day,l E I~vemi'g - l -- l - t12 ...

... 1, ~ I I I Of the several speakers who addressed the meeting held under the auspices of the Evangelical Free Churches in Cardiff last night there was absolutely not one of them w ho had anything fresh to say. Those who.attended at the Park-hall expecting to receive some new revelation or visionl went away disappointed. Not even the Apollos of the meeting (the Rev. Sylvester Horne) and Mr. ...

... ' According to an American paper, the stepfatber of Mr. H. M. Stanley, the famous explorer, 2has died,: at the ageof, seventy-two, at Homestead. His name s is given as Wathin James, and he is said a to have been a native of Carularthenshiro, A the very county in which one enterprising c biographer proved, at least to his own o satisfaction, Mr. Stanley's father lived. c But we are not going to ...

... PORT TATLBOT 'RAILWAY AND DOCKS. EAL-.TEARLY fMEETING. The ninth half-yearly ordinary general meet- irg of the Port Tihebot flaihway and Docks Com- paly seas held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, oendon, on Wedlneaday, Colosel Jr R. Wright,. ?? depinty-chairniall, presided, ile the absence abroad of Lord' Dueravon.-The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said that since they last ...

... ]SUBMALRAINE BOAT TE!STS.| SIR WILLIAM H. WHITE NEARLY LOST TO US, In the course of an article on submai'jne boats the Westminster Gazette relates ?? following story:-A few years ago a gentlemfian invited a number of officials and speoialist.t down to one of the London docks to see a newt submarine boat, which, like so many gons before, was to achieve marvels. There were: novat men and ...

... ADJOUiNFI) AlEETING OF THE . CARDIFFk COU-NCIL.- DtPORTl.AN'i STATEMENT BY THE I TOWN-CLERK. InI Tl1ERE il- AN O ]Ei I THJIJ o COUTRT. cli A stterial ?? nicctilug, of theIN Ceortlt b 'lown Council sease held nit Weilnecdt.'noi icy, toi tleo ulnipose of coniuttlity17 the ?? let t over. frau ino3niday. Aldertitlaii TI. WinIsod5O Jacobs was voted to thle chair-, inl thle abseitee so of tilie ...

... INTFIRMARIES AND THE RATIlES. VIEWS OF CARDIFF COUNCILLORS. t TRADES COUNCIL AND THE t CARDIFF INFIRMARY. - . C Cardiff cauncillors have so long had mind and v eye filled with enterprise of gigantic propor-S tions that they find it difficiut to gain the toeusr of such a comparatively small matter as the i . needs of the Cardiff Infirmary. Consequently, r efforts to ascertain opinion on the ...

... |1M1. MACLEAN IT INDIA -I - I CORDIAL WELCOME AT BOMBAY. SPIRITED SPEECH BY THE MEM- BElR FOR CARDIFF. We learn ?? the Times of India that at few days after his arrival at Bombay Mr. J. Af. Nlalean wiais a )welcome visitor at the brilliant ceremony of opening the neoy Brokers'-' tal:l in that city, at which there was it repre- seitative gathering of European pnd native merchlaits, banliers, ...

... IA. RISINCIN WELSH TENOR.I HIS W FIRST APPEPRANCE AT CAR- I D)11F1? IN CARM'EN.' III Canllel,' at tile Grand Th'iitre the Carl I Io~a Operat Companliyl introunliiod for tile first I time to Cardiff II Welsh tenor who nte10c1e i ls ,11am110 o1ng clgo il'l'wansa and mnelly, and t ths wide distl ict iaoUind, attd who has silce T becoise it tonldoil idol ill opera tnnd oratorio- prinocipially ...