... Latest Bulletin. New York, Friday Morning.—The report this morning is that Mr Rudyard Kipling is holding his owu. The physicians declared late last night that his left lung was perfectly sound, only his right long being affected. They are hopefal of his recovery.-Central Nem. ...

... A singular is reported from Hargrave, Northamptonshire. A three year old child named Frank Mitchell in February last year accidentally swallowed a halfpenny, and all efforts to remove the ooin failed up to a day or two ago. For 355 days he had lived on liquid food, and at times suffered terribly. The child has rapidly improved in health since the removal of the coin. ...

... I VACCINATION AOT. I Newport Director Prosecuted. Mr John Edgar Baker, one of the directors of W. A. Baker and Co., Limited. Newport, who resides at Caerleon, has had the doubtful honon r conferred upon him of being the first person to be prosecuted in the Newport Union since the pass- iog of the new Vaccin&tiou Act. Mr Baker ap- peared at the Ca,erlcou Police Court to-day for having disobeyed ...

... I Excitement at Willesden. I Attempted Capture by a Boy, A lion escaped from Sanger's Circus at Willew den yesterday afternoon. The grooms and labourers gave chase, while a crowd rapidly gathered on the railway bridge near by. Presently the lion became frightened, leaped from the embankment on to the railway, and fell into a manhole. He was pulled out by ropes, and sub- mitted quietly to being ...

... A novel project is now bring promoted the colliery workers ol East Durham. A com- mittee, with Air Jobn Wilson, M.P., at its bead, has decided ...

... THE NEW JUDGE. Mr Cozens Hardy, the newly-sppoictou Judge in tho loom of Mr Justice Homer, translated to She Court of Appeal, took his seat in court No. 3, Chancei'y Division, this morning. ...

... I MAN UNDER THE BED. I A Newport Landlady's Pluck. airs Gordon, the landlady of the Britannia, beerhouse, North-street, Newport, received quite a shock just after closing time yesterday after- noon by discovering a man's pair of boots on the floor in one of the bedrooms. Mrs Gordon called to her husband, and the couple made search together, and in the bedroom adjoining the one in which the ...

... #1 NEWPORT MAN 3 DISAPPOINTMENT, Frederick Sims, a railway porter, told the Newport borough magistrates at their sitting to- day that on Sunday morning last he went to get his Sunday suit from his box, and that he then found that his nether garments and vest bad dis- appeared. Subsequently it was found that toilet cover and a nightdress had also dis- appeared, and inquiries resulted in ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...