... The Man About I own.' Mr Hob sou Maiiuhews made several capital suggestious to the Cardiff Records Committae yesterday on the subject cf the obliteration of Old Cardiff. Scon, very soon, there will be n-D Old Cardiff, not even a vestige left in its street nomenclature to recall the past. Sourie of the older inhabi- tants are anxious that the place names of the town should be preserved. An ...

... CYCLIST KILLED IN RICHMOND PARK. I Riding Without Brakes. I An authorised clerk on the Stock Exchange, named William Joseph Goodlake Reeves, aged 25, residing at 97, Ford wych-road, West Hamp- stead, was fatally injured while cycling in Rich- mond Park on Sunday, and he died in the King- ston Hospital on the following evening. At the nquest yesterday (before Mr Braxton Hicks) death was ...

... (HIS HARD-HEARTEDNESS REVEALED, Cruel Desertion at Newport. At Newport County Police Court this after noon the Newport Board of Guardians, through their warrant officer, Mr J. H. Griffiths, prose- cuted Edward James Durbin, handy man in a steel works, for deserting bis wife and five chil- dren. Prisoner was working at Nettlefolds, Rogerstone, in May, 1895, and was fetched by his wife from the ...

... I MME. BIANCHI -NI'S TRIAL. The trial of Mme. Bianchini, who had ordered some atropine for her dog, and it is alleged, administered it to her husband, has aroused in- tense interest in fashionable and theatrical cir- cles in Paris. There is a greater rush to obtain tickets for admission to the court than there was even for the Zola trial, and the restrictions im- posed by the officials are ...

... THE QUEENS JOURNEY. The Portsmouth Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of the Star, Crane, Ranger, Teaser, Flying Fish, Hunter, Chamois, and Violet, left Portsmouth to- day for Folkestone in order to be ready to convoy the Queen across the Channel to-morrow. The flotilla will to-night anchor at Dover. ...

... I Wycliffe Preacher Assaulted. To-day at Yarmouth the Vicar of Gorleston the Rev. Forbes Phillips, was charged with assaulting a Wycliffe preacher named Charles Edmund Wincott at a recent Kensit meeting, which was broken up amid uproarious scenes. A local boatman was also charged with assaulting the chairman. Wincott stated that the vicar first interrupted the meeting, and Catling then changed ...

... Dreyfus in Prison. SERIOUS MENTAL STATE. A correspondent, telegraphing from Cayenne flt Sunday, says :-In the course of a recent convert sation, ex-Captain Dreyfus declared that his re turn to France to appear before the Court of Cassation was imminent, but that for the last month he bad been without any news. Dreyfus,, I understand, has now fallen into a state of great prostration, and his ...

... ALLEGED INFAIN, i ICIDE, Condition of the Barry Girl. Beatrice Hall, the girl ftccosea in connection with che Barry infanticide case, had not suffi- ciently recovered this morniug to be brought be- fore the magistrates at the usual sitting of the Court. It is stated that sinco Saturday her conditlcn has become more serious. ...

... Explosion of a Powder Magazine. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. Toulon, Saturday. — The Lagoubran Naval Magazine, between La. Seyne and Tonlon, blew up at half-paBt 2 this morning. Every soldier on duty at the magazine was killed, and the cause of the exploaion cannot therefore be ascertained Many of the inhabitants of the quarter in which the njagazine is situated were also killed. their booses being in ...

... Rudyard Kipling. New York, Saturday.—One of the doctors in attendance on Mr Kipling made the following statement last night Mr Kipling continues to improve, and is out of danger. We cannot sav j when he will be able to go out. We only know that we will take no chances. If all goes well we ought to be able to take him into the outside air for brief periods in two or three weeks. -Beutcr. New ...

... LOCAL BILLS. THE LONDON WATER (WELSH I RESERVOIRS). As the Examiner for the House of Commons had reported non-compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament in respect of this Bill, the measure came up yesterda.y before the Standing Orders Committee. Afiir private consultation the Chairman intimated that the Committee had decided to dispense with the Standing Orders and allow the Bill to ...

... THE RALPH DIVORCE CASE, Decree Made Absolute. I In the Divorce Court yesterday (before Sir Francis Jeune) the case of Ealph v. Ralph and Conroy was in the list. In this case it will be remembered that Mr Henry Albert Ralph, inanager of a carpet beating and dye works at Pendleton, obtained in March last year a. decree nisi for the dissolution of his marriage with Mary Ann Ralph on the ground of ...