... LOSS OF A MM!. STEAMER. I New York, Wednesda-F.-A telegra,m from Managa states that the Pacific ma.il steamer Starbnck sank on Tuesday afternoon 12 uailtM from Aniapala. No lives are reported lo-t Beuter. ...

... LICHFIELD WIFE MURDER. I Death of the Assailant. I The blacksmith Edward Green, who was yes- terday arrested on his own confession charged with the murder of his wife at Wcodhouaes, near Lichfield, died last night at the police atation. Throughout yesterday he was continually retching, and was visited by the police surgeon, who prescribed for him. A constant watch on the prisoner moreover was ...

... Official Starting Prices. I (As published in Racing Calendar and Sporting Life.) KEMPTON. RACE. RUi.NF.r.S. WIXXEB. PISTCB. Hounslow 8 Merry Mood 7 to 2 a March 9 Sweet Charlotte. 7 to 2 ag Middlesex 7 Cherry Heart. 5 to lag ...

... ELLIS DAVIES think no trouble too great to Mttefy the public taste ia tea. And t&ey succeed. ...

... HIS CONDITION CRITICAL. AN UNSATISFACTORY BULLETIN. MESSAGES OF SPMPATHY. New York, Tuesday, 3 pjn.—Mrs Kipling has sent to the newspapers a note in which she ack- nowledges, with grateful thanks, the many letters and telegrams of sympathy, to which she cannot reply individually. A friend of Mr Kipling this morning said the patient had passed a favour- able night. There had been no freeh ...

... LIZARD SIGNAL STATION. The Lizard, Tuesday.-N%li dS.E.,Iight. Weather fine. Sea. smooth. Barometer 30-54, steady. Passed East-Hamburg, from Laguna; ...

... we!t its cure is not given to every medicine there is none so pleasing as eatifornis, Syrup of Figs, which at the same time has no equal as a laxative remedy. It acts gently and soothingly on the kidney*, liver, and bowels, cures constipation, headache, indigestion, feverishriess, and so cleanses the whole system in a natural way that A feeling of perfect health and exhilaration is the. ...

... THE PA VON I A. HOW THE LINER WAS RESCUED. I Graphic Account of the Towage. I The steamer Wolviston, from St. Michael'e, bound for Copenhagen, which towed the disabled liner Pavonia. to the Azores, arrived at Dartmouth this morning, and in an interview with a repre- sentative of the Press Association Capt, Snowdon gave a graphic account of the towage. The Wolviston first sighted the Pavonia on ...

... j na SERIOUS CONDITION OF THE ~ ves CZAR, to . e LICENSING COMMITTEE IN A b any PUCKER. air, Iall sits A FRENCH PAPER AND THE u )me QUEEN. q ;till il 10, WHITEFRIARs-STREETn, FLEFT-STRMET, z i l LONDON, TUESDAY NIGHT. ?? at Information has reached me from a high b authority which confirms in many respects I t le the serious news of the Czar's critical state. t ?? from the Continent have ...

... FUNERAL AT LLANDAFF. The funeral of Mr Jonas Watson, of Llandaff, took place in the Cathedral graveyard on Tnea- day morning. The ceremony, in accordance with the wishes of the family, was a quiet one, but there was a large attendance of well-knawn local gentlemen. The cortege left the house shortly after mid-day, a detachment of the Glamorgan constabulary (Mr Watson being a justice of the ...

... TBY OUR WELSH CORRESPONDENT.] London, Tuesday Night.—The cold under which Mr Thomas Ellis is suffering, althoagh not serious, is sufficiently severe to confine him to his house. He will therefore be unable to attend Speaker's dinner to-monow night, tor Whiftfc to had accepted an invitation. Major-Wyndham Quin, looking sunburnt Mid well from his sojourn in Southern dimes, put ia an appearance ...

... LECTURE BY MR W. EDWARDS, B.A., AT SWANSEA. On Monday a lecture was delivered at the Royal Institution by Mr W. Edwards, B.A., headmaster of the Gowerton County School, on Myths, Folklore, and Legends. The lecturer ascribed the origin of myths to the unbounded curiosity and unscientific credulity which are the characteristics of primitive man. The influence of ancestor worship of the powers ...