... I 'In the last century coal in South Wales was disposed of by the chaldron-thirty-six E bushels. A Methodist deacon in Cardiff is having a vkarm time. His wife has definitely told him that she will never go to chapel again except A in a Sunday 'bus. It is, announced that Mr. 'Pryce-ones, M.P., is the authority on coloured waistcoats in the House of Commons. In the spring (says the London Sun ...

... COLLAPSE OF THE BUIILDING A FEARED LOSS OF 25 LIVES. A Reuter's telegram from New York on Friday A: says:-A fire broke out in the Windsor 3 Hotel, in Fifth-avenue and Forty-seventh- 3 Street. this afternoon. The flames spread with - I great rapidity, and. the entire building, which l occupies the eastern side of Fifth-avenue, l between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets, was soon in a blaze. ...

... NEW OFFICIAL RECEIVERI AT CARDIF. : PRESENTATION TO AIR. GEORGE 'bDAVID.. Advantage was taken of a luncheon given by the Mayor of Cardiff on 'the occasion of the opening of Cathays Park on Wednesday to make a presentation to Mr: George David, who until his appointment as Official Receiver was one of the members for the $oath Ward. His worship presided, and nearly. the whold of the members of ...

... LOCAL NEWS PARAG9APHS. ug, Dinl ule ess Mt. ?? on- fit- liss ,Ice tle, eet aer or, reb Ve, for :Mr: Colston Higgs, groder and Mr;. Thormas Jordan; farmer, have been elected members of the Lydney District Council as representatives for the parish of Woolastoen. I'Mr.; Adams, 'of the' Higher Gdrade E'School Portsmouth, has been selected as headmaster of. the Pembrroke Dock 'Highir. Grade School ...

... UNEXPECTED END IN THE UNITED STATES. TWICE LORD CHANCELLOR Tlhe Press Association regrcts to state that news' was received in London on Wcdnesday of the sudden death at Washington of Lord Herschell, a former Lord Chancellor. The first official ?? of the sad event reached the Foreign Oilice in a cablegram fromn Mr. Cart- wright, secretary of the High Commlission which has recently sat at ...

... I TH1JRSY -MARCH, 16, -i899. SUMMAR---Y -NES. SUMALLY~ -.NEWS. . A, Washington dispatch taates. 'the Russian f Government is eeeinlg to arrange a reciprocal t commercial treaty with the United States. The- National Zeitung (Berlin) says the report as to an agresment on the subject of Samoa. is premature: . r TheHonse of Commons on Wednesdayhby 244 , votee to 159 rejected the Petroleum Bill, ...

... I Our appeal to tin-plate makers to at t least attend and hear Mr. Siaith, of Bir- J L mingham, on the important question of t L the possibility of effective combination in r the tin-plate trade did not meet with quite the success we anticipated. We t regarded the tin-plate makers of South Wales as reasonable men, willing to listen to common-sense, and to make a cast for t fortune at last. ...

... 5licttcs at 01nilt LAST week we published a map showing the situation of Muscat, which has been brought into prominent notice lately by the threat of Admiral Douglas to bombard the town if the Sultan of. Oman did not cancel his concession of a coaling station to the French. Our illustrations of Muscat and its inhabitants are from photographs brought to us by a correspondent who has recently ...

... . SOUTH WALES TIE TABLE. 'I I ITues- (9luring F7 49 7 42i 6 8 44 d 8I46 day, Evenin 8 8 6 2 9 4 Mar.14 Heih 35 56 34 .2 i 36 0 l3810 38 2 Wed- DlotiMt'g 8 271 8 191 8 24 9 211 9 23 nesday,4 liv',eing 8 45 837 8143 4 939 9 41 Mar. 15,1 }feitrht 34 3 32 9 34 7 37 2136 6 'I ?? I9 5 l8 656 I9 2 1 956 9 58 day, h, Js jn lg, 9 241 9 15 9 21l10 13 10 16 Mar. 16 LIeehat 32 103' 9132 6134. 8133 11 ...

... LOVE LEADS TO SUICIDE. I At Sedglsy, Staffordshire, to-day, a young lady named Hannah Flavell was charged with attempt- ing to commit suicide owing to disappointment over a love affair. The prisoner had been courted by a young man for six months, after which he suddenly broke off the engagement. Prisoner afterwards became very depressed, and cut her throat. Subsequently she stated it was owing ...

... ENGLISH OHURCH UNION I In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr S. Gedge gave notice that on that day four weeks he woull move an Address calling her Majesty's attention to the memorial recently put forth by the English Church Union, and praying that her Majesty would not appoint to any office in the Church any member of that Union unless he formally dissociated himself from that memorial. ...

... CARDIFF DIVORCE SUIT. Butchart v. Butcliatt and Hill. I In the Divorce Division tc-day further evidence was taken in the Hutch art divorce suit (before the President and a common jnry.) The petitioner, Mr James William Butcbart, manager to a firm at Cardiff, sued for a, divorce from his wife, Mrs Alice M. Bufcchart, residing at Bristol, on the ground of her alleged adultery with Mr Erne st ...